Shall we go to open up the wasteland together tomorrow?

The next morning, the snake cave tomb passage.

From the map, the tomb is divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower.

The place where Ethan found the guard sculpture before was the top layer of the tomb.

The main feature of this layer is that the tomb passage is relatively complicated, somewhat like a maze, with many designs that interfere with the sense of direction in the middle.

It is indeed difficult to get out without a map.

The goal of the Fairy Tail team is to enter the main tomb part of the bottom layer through the upper layer.

So first of all, we must find the entrance from the upper layer to the middle layer.

This time, Ethan did not choose to enter from the gap in the snake cave, but explored along the marks on the map.

The map in Ethan's hand is very detailed, so detailed that the special patterns painted on the tomb passage have clear markings.

In fact, this map comes from a fragment of the design draft.

Later, it was obtained by a thief, who once used this map to reach the end of the first layer, where the guard sculpture was located.

Unfortunately, the tomb chamber had been occupied by a group of snakes at that time, so the thief had to return empty-handed.

However, he distinguished from the patterns and structure of the tomb passage that this was the tomb of the Red River Emperor.

So this map was sold at a high price, and finally it was circulated to the group with the eye in the palm symbol.

Following the route on the map, Ethan and his group came to the other side of the mountain.

The entrance that was originally blocked by a thousand-pound boulder has been moved away at this time, and the surrounding area is full of broken rocks.

It is estimated that it was done by the previous group of people, and they probably spent a lot of effort.

The tomb passage is very dark, and there are faint drops of water falling.

Fortunately, everyone brought lighting crystals before, so it was not affected.

The tomb passage is spacious enough for three people to walk side by side.

Ethan and Nicole walked in the front, followed by Lisa and Bingo.

Clark, Robinson and the electric car brother and sister were in the middle of the team, and finally Adam and Norman.

"Hey, what is this?"

Bingo pointed to a mural on the tomb passage.

Murals are not uncommon in the tomb passage. These murals record the whole process of the Red River Emperor from reclaiming the land to accumulating power step by step.

But the one Bingo pointed to was a little special.

Because in the mural, there are several demigods among a group of humans. They are dressed differently and look calm, as if they are accepting the welcome ceremony of humans.

"This is... dwarfs?!"

Ethan widened his eyes. Under the illumination of the lighting crystal, the mural became clearer.

The group of halflings looked very similar to humans, but they were shorter, and they were undoubtedly dwarfs.

Could it be that the Red River Emperor had ever received help from dwarfs?

If so, it would explain Ethan's doubts.

According to historical records, the Red River Emperor founded the Goxia Dynasty, and the place where he made his fortune was the Red River Valley, which was known as a wild place at the time.

There are thousands of miles of wilderness here, and it is located in a remote area. A red river flows continuously. In such a wilderness where few people go and there is no grass and trees, how did the Red River Emperor conquer the entire continent?

Ethan had thought about this question before. He originally thought that the Red River Emperor did all this with a Ten Commandments ring, but the more he understood that period of history, the more problems Ethan found.

Seeing the mural at this time, Ethan was somewhat enlightened.

The dwarves have a strong technological foundation, and it is not difficult to dominate with their help.

Suddenly I remembered that the Red River chariot that frightened the enemy in the army of the Goxia Dynasty was made by the dwarves?

This requires further exploration.

"There is another one here."

Not long after encountering the first mural, another mural of dwarves was found.

A huge windmill was erected on the Red River, and some of the surrounding humans raised their hands to pray to the sky, and some knelt on the ground to thank the dwarves.

This windmill is most likely one of the dwarfs' technologies.

Soon after, the group discovered several murals with dwarves.

There were altars, mechanical devices, muskets, chariots, etc.

This undoubtedly confirmed Ethan's guess.

But why is there no relevant record of dwarves in the historical records of the Red River era?

Because there is a map in hand, the exploration of the first level of the maze is smoother than expected.

In the center of the entire floor, Ethan found the entrance to the second floor.

And then comes the real land reclamation.

Because the map in their hands only has the maze of the first floor.

There are very few markings on the second floor and the third floor at the bottom.

But from the clues on the map, the second floor is full of traps, and the third floor is where the tomb owner is.

That is to say, entering the second floor, everyone will really face danger.

The entrance to the second floor is very hidden.

In the center of the entire maze, between the shadows of the two walls, there is a well that can only accommodate one person.

"I'll go first."

The person who spoke was Nicole.

Ethan thought about it, and did not refuse, and agreed to Nicole's suggestion.

This is determined by Nicole's ability.

The talent Nicole obtained through baptism is "strike the oar in the middle of the stream", which can see the short future carried by the long river of time in some way.

And her blood talent, that is, the ability of telekinesis itself, is also extremely special.

Humans who are cursed by the "nebula chain" have two characteristics when the curse is lifted.

That is to say, any offspring of the combination of the Twelve Genesis families will be cursed by the ‘Nebula Chain’, and once these people are freed from the curse, they will gain dual telekinetic traits from both the paternal and maternal lines.

For example, Nicole’s first telekinetic trait is separation, which is a telekinetic trait from her paternal bloodline and a characteristic of the Cancer family in the Twelve Genesis families.

Separation, as the name suggests, is to separate matter, such as separating a very small amount of helium from the air, in other words, it can ignore defense and separate targets.

And her other telekinetic trait comes from her maternal line, which is the sublimation of the telekinetic characteristics of the Aries family.

Sublimation is also a step in alchemy.

Generally, it only appears in the process of ‘solid-liquid-gas’ transformation.

And Nicole’s blood power ‘sublimation’ gives her the ability to atomize, which means that her body can directly turn into mist.

Separation belongs to the strengthening system, while atomization belongs to the medium system.

Under normal circumstances, the two characteristics cannot appear in the same person.

But the blood combination of the descendants of the Twelve Genesis families has both of these characteristics at the same time.

If the twelve families are allowed to combine freely, then there will definitely be a descendant among their descendants who has the twelve alchemical characteristics.

And this person has the ability to create everything like the God of Creation.

This supreme power may bring new prosperity, or it may bring new disasters.

So the God of Creation left the curse of the "Nebula Chain".

When Ethan knew that Nicole had two kinds of mind characteristics, he also thought about the characteristics of his own mind power.

So far, he has only discovered one kind of "condensation", what about the other one?

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