Entering the underground second floor of the ruins, Rennes discovered that the air on this floor was filled with an extremely uncomfortable smell of death and rot.
Under the influence of this smell, even Rennes, with his strong physique as a half god knight, felt an inexplicable chill, it was as if countless souls were wailing in his ears.
"Based on my previous investigation, this place has a history of at least a hundred thousand years."
"Even after such a long period of time, the smell of death in this space has not dissipated."
"There must have been many deaths here, and many legendary, even half god Grade powerhouses."
Thinking of this, Rennes instantly became more alert, for such a strong smell of death, it was simply a perfect breeding ground for undead creatures.
If his guess was correct, there were probably many powerful undead creatures on this floor.
Sure enough, after walking just a few steps, Rennes encountered a legendary-level undead creature.
Normally, undead creatures of this level already possess high intelligence.
However, this legendary-level undead skeleton behaved like a wild beast, it only had the instinct to attack the living. As soon as it saw Rennes, it rushed towards him without hesitation.
In response to this, Rennes raised his hand and a beam of bright sword qi completely shattered this legendary undead skeleton, and it was like poking a hornet's nest.
In the next second, more undead creatures attacked Rennes from all directions, each one emitted a legendary-level aura.
However, just like the first undead skeleton, these undead creatures had no intelligence, only instinct to attack, and their combat power is relatively weak, so no matter how many there are, they couldn't pose a threat to Rennes.
After half an hour, Rennes easily cleared and killed all the undead creatures on this level, and without these troublesome monsters, Rennes then began to search for treasures.
Although the space on the second underground floor is much larger than the first underground floor, there are relatively few independent "rooms", therefore Searching was even simpler.
After spending half an hour, Rennes easily searched through all the rooms, he found quite a few good things. A warehouse full of advanced magical metals, as well as a legendary magical crystal ball.
As for magical plants and potions, even if there were any, after enduring such a long time, they would have long since decayed and deteriorated.
He threw all the advanced magical metals worth billions of gold coins into the spatial ring.
Then, Rennes used a spell to identify the legendary magical crystal ball.
After a few seconds, the result came out.
This legendary quality magical crystal ball is a device used solely for auxiliary recording.
"To use a legendary quality magical crystal ball as a recorder."
"It's really extravagant."
While Rennes was amazed, he was also curious about the information stored inside, after all, using such precious magical materials for storage, the information inside must have great value.
After confirming that this magical crystal ball did not carry any curses or dangerous magic, Rennes did not hesitate to activate it.
In the next second, magic power surged on the magic crystal ball, automatically releasing a projection magic, outlining a substantial light screen in the air.
On it appeared a type of special characters never seen before, if it were an ordinary person they would probably be completely confused, with a bewildered expression, but Rennes possessed the talent of understanding languages, even for characters he had never learned, he could automatically "understand" their meanings.
He then roughly glanced at it, by combining the interpreted information above with his own knowledge, Rennes gained a more detailed understanding of the origin of this ruin, and just as he had previously guessed, this ruin was a "research institute" specifically dedicated to studying the mysteries of gods and deities, it was built by an ancient wizard empire called Tivann.
In ancient times, the cultivation system of the Roland Continent was not as sophisticated and diverse as it is today.
Mage, elementalists, warlocks, and other magic-based professions had not yet appeared.
As the original spell casters, the wizard civilization established a vast empire, researching all things in the world, pursuing the truth of the world, and as their power grew stronger, the ambitions of the wizards also continued to expand.
Eventually, their gaze turned to the gods, they initiated a crazy plan called "Artificial God". Attempting to create gods under their control through sorcery.
For this insane research, they expended countless resources and plotted against the hunting goddess Artemis, who possessed weak divine power at the time, so they captured and sealed her within this ruin for research.
However, an accident occurred halfway through the research. During an experiment, the hunting goddess Artemis suddenly broke free from her seal, and at the cost of sacrificing her own divinity and life, she released a god's curse. Cursing this land to forever be dry, with all living beings turning into mindless undead, trapped in eternal suffering. (Damn!)
In the face of the deadly curse unleashed by the sacrifice of the goddess, the wizards were powerless to resist, and the entire army was annihilated, even the territory of the Tivann Empire turned into the Cardora Desert.
Until now, it remains a barren land, the flourishing wizard civilization who had just entered its peak, became history like this, a lost civilization.
This "research institute" that conducted this forbidden research was naturally buried forever under the yellow sand, it was only excavated by Rennes today.
"Sure enough, you won't die if you don't seek death!" (True.)
Rennes felt speechless in his heart, these wizards were simply the mad scientists from his previous life's movies. Without absolute strength, they dared to play with fire recklessly, and in the end, they burned themselves, completely burying the thriving civilization. Saying they deserved to die would not be an exaggeration.
After sighing with emotion, Rennes didn't dwell on it for long.
After all, these ancient stories had little to do with him, just enjoying the show was enough.
The research data in the magic crystal ball and the treasures in the ruins were what he should focus on.
"According to the information in the magic crystal ball, the underground third floor is the core research area, where the hunting goddess was imprisoned."
"If there are really divinities and divine artifacts in this lost civilization, there is a high probability that they are in the underground third floor."
Thinking of this, Rennes put away the magic crystal ball in his hand and immediately headed towards the staircase passage.
While heading to the underground third floor of the ruins, he had a feeling that the most valuable things in this ruin were all there...
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