240-Chapter 19 The Black Gold Age
Chapter 19 - The Black Gold Age
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Princess Xue'er grabbed her hand on top of a handle next to the door and pulled it outwards, followed by a 'click' sound, the mechanism inside the wall made several consecutive sounds of turning on each other, and then the entire stone door slowly opened from the middle.
"There's actually a door with this kind of old-fashioned mechanism ah."
While the door was open, I approached the doorway to take a closer look inside.
Unfortunately, I couldn't see anything from inside the gap, mainly because it was too dark to see basically anything.
"This kind of mechanical structure... It always feels like it's not something that should have existed in the age of magic."
"Does it mean it was before magic appeared? How long ago was that supposed to be?"
I shook my head when I heard Bai Yueguang's words.
"Impossible, there are historical records of the magic world that are over ten thousand years old, and there are words of the existence of ancient ruins... There is a history of magic that is conservatively estimated to be within a hundred thousand years."
"That long... then this thing..."
"Of course, the situation you described is not impossible, but if it is indeed as you say, the history of the existence of this entrance's mechanism can be traced back to a hundred thousand or more years."
"Maybe..."
Suddenly, Hill himself pronounced a few words.
"What's wrong Hill?"
By the way, one of the reasons the people who made Hill made her was so that she could spend almost endless years recording everything that happened...maybe she's already recorded some very important information too.
"Although it was supposed to be a confidential matter, it might help us escape from here now so I'll just say it. According to incomplete records, the Age of Magic began precisely 113,834 years ago, and although this world had an element of magic from the beginning, the creatures that had just appeared in the world were unaware of it. They started out slowly mastering nature and developing their abilities from simply using the power of nature. At that time, the creatures mainly used both mechanical and alchemical powers, and that era was called the [Black Gold Age]."
"Black gold... it's probably the various metals that represent machinery... wait a minute!"
Suddenly remembering something I turned around to the door and took out my dagger and stabbed at the stone door!
Ding!
The sound that came out was indeed the sound of metal colliding!
"It's not stone, it's oxidized metal!"
Almost fooled by the rough outer layer, it turned out to be metal!
In other words... the ruins underneath the academy were still a thing made of metal!
But the ancient ruins we went into before, the things there were magical...which means...there are two ruins above this land, representing two bygone eras?
And they still overlapped each other in everything, and historically speaking, it's very likely that the ancient ruins were still built on top of the metal ruins, and the entrance to the metal ruins wasn't everywhere like the ancient ruins, but only like the academy....
I now want to find out how many years old Grey Academy is...it seems like the people who built it in the first place weren't simple people either.
And.....
It always felt like that metal age and our world were... somehow the same.
I looked at the same white moonlight, and he had a tense look on his face, and when he saw me looking at him, he came over and whispered.
"Hey, you've noticed it too, that [Black Iron Age], there's something wrong about it."
"It's similar to our world isn't it?"
"Yeah, maybe..."
"No, this is definitely not our world, as we extend out in other directions."
"Other directions?"
"The information network. According to the so-called [Black Gold Age] concept, I feel that's closer to a steam punk kind of worldview, and ours is different from that..."
"That..."
"Let's just deal with the problem at hand for now, let's not think about this worldview level."
"That's right."
But despite saying that, the worry in my heart was even higher.
Because, if we appear in this world according to this situation... No, I don't think so, that would be too scary.
Forget it, it's better to find a way to get out first, after all, this isn't the time to fool around.
"What are you guys whispering about?"
Princess Xue'er over there asked dissatisfiedly.
"We're speculating about the possibility of other exits from this ruin, because it's a very old ruin, right?"
"Well, what do you guys think?"
"I think it's... very possible to channel elves or orcs or even dwarves in the territory.
"Eh?"
Everyone's face showed a look of panic.
"Why... would you say that?"
"For you see how such ruins are repositories containing the crystals of past times, and those elves who like to study and make dwarves have so much information in their hands that they may have found it from within the various ruins. Orcs aren't good at either, but some of them are better at digging holes, though."
"That...should be possible."
Ciel said without hesitation after closing his eyes and thinking about it.
"But there are actually quite a few exits on our human side."
"Eh?"
"According to the distribution location Wigo Empire, Aes Empire, Chelfa Kingdom, and Witt Empire have all discovered the entrance to the underground ruins, which are probably connected to it."
So someone already had the location of the underground entrances? But....
"The entrance to the ancient ruins connected by the underground passages of the Chelfa Kingdom after the start of the magic age is not the entrance here."
"Really?"
"Well, I've been sneaking around down there, though."
"Then we should be able to leave this ruin soon, too!"
"Aren't they all products of the same era...but something like walking a maze should be similar, right? Well, we can't find any answers here, so why don't we just keep going, maybe after all we've said, it's possible that the exit is actually very close."
"En!"
Everyone nodded.
"Flash!"
I pointed forward and a ball of light appeared in mid-air, then slowly drifted inside.
"Come on, I don't think the lights down here... have been maintained."
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Princess Xue'er grabbed her hand on top of a handle next to the door and pulled it outwards, followed by a 'click' sound, the mechanism inside the wall made several consecutive sounds of turning on each other, and then the entire stone door slowly opened from the middle.
"There's actually a door with this kind of old-fashioned mechanism ah."
While the door was open, I approached the doorway to take a closer look inside.
Unfortunately, I couldn't see anything from inside the gap, mainly because it was too dark to see basically anything.
"This kind of mechanical structure... It always feels like it's not something that should have existed in the age of magic."
"Does it mean it was before magic appeared? How long ago was that supposed to be?"
I shook my head when I heard Bai Yueguang's words.
"Impossible, there are historical records of the magic world that are over ten thousand years old, and there are words of the existence of ancient ruins... There is a history of magic that is conservatively estimated to be within a hundred thousand years."
"That long... then this thing..."
"Of course, the situation you described is not impossible, but if it is indeed as you say, the history of the existence of this entrance's mechanism can be traced back to a hundred thousand or more years."
"Maybe..."
Suddenly, Hill himself pronounced a few words.
"What's wrong Hill?"
By the way, one of the reasons the people who made Hill made her was so that she could spend almost endless years recording everything that happened...maybe she's already recorded some very important information too.
"Although it was supposed to be a confidential matter, it might help us escape from here now so I'll just say it. According to incomplete records, the Age of Magic began precisely 113,834 years ago, and although this world had an element of magic from the beginning, the creatures that had just appeared in the world were unaware of it. They started out slowly mastering nature and developing their abilities from simply using the power of nature. At that time, the creatures mainly used both mechanical and alchemical powers, and that era was called the [Black Gold Age]."
"Black gold... it's probably the various metals that represent machinery... wait a minute!"
Suddenly remembering something I turned around to the door and took out my dagger and stabbed at the stone door!
Ding!
The sound that came out was indeed the sound of metal colliding!
"It's not stone, it's oxidized metal!"
Almost fooled by the rough outer layer, it turned out to be metal!
In other words... the ruins underneath the academy were still a thing made of metal!
But the ancient ruins we went into before, the things there were magical...which means...there are two ruins above this land, representing two bygone eras?
And they still overlapped each other in everything, and historically speaking, it's very likely that the ancient ruins were still built on top of the metal ruins, and the entrance to the metal ruins wasn't everywhere like the ancient ruins, but only like the academy....
I now want to find out how many years old Grey Academy is...it seems like the people who built it in the first place weren't simple people either.
And.....
It always felt like that metal age and our world were... somehow the same.
I looked at the same white moonlight, and he had a tense look on his face, and when he saw me looking at him, he came over and whispered.
"Hey, you've noticed it too, that [Black Iron Age], there's something wrong about it."
"It's similar to our world isn't it?"
"Yeah, maybe..."
"No, this is definitely not our world, as we extend out in other directions."
"Other directions?"
"The information network. According to the so-called [Black Gold Age] concept, I feel that's closer to a steam punk kind of worldview, and ours is different from that..."
"That..."
"Let's just deal with the problem at hand for now, let's not think about this worldview level."
"That's right."
But despite saying that, the worry in my heart was even higher.
Because, if we appear in this world according to this situation... No, I don't think so, that would be too scary.
Forget it, it's better to find a way to get out first, after all, this isn't the time to fool around.
"What are you guys whispering about?"
Princess Xue'er over there asked dissatisfiedly.
"We're speculating about the possibility of other exits from this ruin, because it's a very old ruin, right?"
"Well, what do you guys think?"
"I think it's... very possible to channel elves or orcs or even dwarves in the territory.
"Eh?"
Everyone's face showed a look of panic.
"Why... would you say that?"
"For you see how such ruins are repositories containing the crystals of past times, and those elves who like to study and make dwarves have so much information in their hands that they may have found it from within the various ruins. Orcs aren't good at either, but some of them are better at digging holes, though."
"That...should be possible."
Ciel said without hesitation after closing his eyes and thinking about it.
"But there are actually quite a few exits on our human side."
"Eh?"
"According to the distribution location Wigo Empire, Aes Empire, Chelfa Kingdom, and Witt Empire have all discovered the entrance to the underground ruins, which are probably connected to it."
So someone already had the location of the underground entrances? But....
"The entrance to the ancient ruins connected by the underground passages of the Chelfa Kingdom after the start of the magic age is not the entrance here."
"Really?"
"Well, I've been sneaking around down there, though."
"Then we should be able to leave this ruin soon, too!"
"Aren't they all products of the same era...but something like walking a maze should be similar, right? Well, we can't find any answers here, so why don't we just keep going, maybe after all we've said, it's possible that the exit is actually very close."
"En!"
Everyone nodded.
"Flash!"
I pointed forward and a ball of light appeared in mid-air, then slowly drifted inside.
"Come on, I don't think the lights down here... have been maintained."
--- Seven Nights' announcement ----.
Monthly tickets, praise and clicks.