Chapter 13 The Last Human in the World
"All the 'beasts' in the ruins have been cleared away, but we cannot ensure that there are no beasts that can hide their life breath."
Killing the "beast" that looked like a scorpion but was three stories tall in front of him, Du En let out a heavy breath when he heard Mashu's voice in his mind.
"This is the seventh place."
It has been more than a month since he arrived in this world, and twenty days have passed since he arrived on the mainland. These days, Du En has been trying to find traces of human existence. Du En does not believe that there is not even a single person in this world.
However, the area explored has exceeded 500,000 square kilometers, and more than seven urban ruins left by humans have been found, and Duen has not seen even a single person.
At this point, no matter how unwilling Du En is, he can only accept the fact that humans in this world have perished.
Human beings may not be that fragile, but they are not as strong as imagined either.
All Duen can do is to accept their legacy so that their civilization and technology will not be completely lost.
With these days of digging, Du En's understanding of the world has gradually become deeper, but with it comes more doubts.
No matter where the ruins are, the human history records of this world seem to stop at the year after the Star God's crusade ended, and all records after that ended abruptly.
Yes, the humans of this world challenged the gods and won, "killing" the Star God who was said to be immortal at the expense of the sacrifice of Lilia Asprey, the 20th generation regular hero.
Then, human history stayed forever in the year after killing the Star God.
Due to the lack of too much information, Du En did not presume to speculate on the cause of humankind's demise, but it should be related to the sudden appearance of these beasts.
Hundreds of years ago, there were all kinds of creatures living on this land, but "beasts" did not exist.
It has almost eternal life, does not need to eat, and does not kill each other. It only harbors malice towards things that have "life".
Dune didn't even know how they survived without a food source, relying solely on the magic that permeated the air?
Hating life and detesting life, these "beasts" reminded Doon of the creation god Tiamat who gave birth to eleven monsters in Babylonian mythology in order to resist the rebellion of the gods as his descendants.
The principle of "return" of symbols, as the second "beast" of human evil, is there any connection between Tiamat and the "beasts" of this world?
Du En didn't know, and he was too lazy to think about it so much. If there were really no living people in this world, he would leave when Chaldea's charge was over.
No, I need to brush up some legend points before leaving. No matter it is fifteen or sixteen beasts, the legend points given are quite a lot. The third beast has more legend points, a full 50 points. After this village, there is no such shop.
After just ten days at sea, Dune's legend level has skyrocketed to thousands of points. If he kills all the beasts in the sea, he probably won't have to worry about the legend level issue in the future.
It is a pity that the beasts on land are not as good as those in Shanghai. The average strength is only from tiger level to ghost level. Du En wandered for three weeks before he met a beast that was comparable to dragon level, which brought him 20 points.
Legend.
"The 'beasts' on land are not strong enough."
While sighing like this, Du En searched for a new holy sword in the ruins.
After searching the previous six ruins, the number of holy swords in Du En's hands has exceeded 10, and two of them are high-level holy swords with specific functions.
The functions of low-level and mid-level holy swords are mostly to enhance the user's physical fitness and strengthen the user's magic power. Magic power that is difficult for humans to use can be mobilized through the holy sword.
The person holding the holy sword only needs to use one part of the magic power to wield a sword energy comparable to three or four parts of the magic power. This is the function of the holy sword, and it is the most basic function.
The actual use of the holy sword is to absorb the magic power from the enemy at the moment of collision, and then counterattack it.
It is by borrowing this technology that human beings can fight against all kinds of powerful enemies and win.
Then, on top of this, there are exclusive abilities that only holy swords above the middle level have, which are the so-called "characteristics."
For example, the two holy swords collected by Du En have the characteristics of "destroying demons" and "transforming into beasts".
The former can break through magic barriers and magic shields, and invalidate a certain level of magic. It is simply an offensive version that strengthens magic defense (against magic).
The latter is a weapon that can only be used by humans with orc blood. By awakening the sleeping orc blood in the body, it can greatly improve the various qualities of the body. However, the body will also be damaged and collapsed as a result, so it is absolutely necessary unless it is absolutely necessary.
means that cannot be used.
However, both holy swords are almost damaged, and using them forcefully will only increase the burden on both the sword and the user.
Even the mass-produced holy sword is more durable than Dune imagined. As long as the magic lines connecting the rune fragments are not completely broken, it can continue to be used.
But in this way, the burden on the user will also increase. A guy with weak magic control ability will probably die of exhaustion after fighting with the holy sword for one minute.
The magic in this world is not a friendly thing. To force the magic to activate is like hanging yourself by putting a rope around your neck.
Du En doesn't care whether these holy swords can be used or not. He needs more holy swords to deepen his impression of rune technology. Perhaps by collecting five ancient holy swords, his rune magic can be upgraded to level A.
Even the original level.
While thinking, Du En did not forget about business.
"The sixth one?"
He picked up the low-level holy sword that was broken into two pieces on the ground and whose curse lines were dimmed and could not be seen at all. He did not know what kind of battle he had gone through before his death. The rune fragments that made up the sword's body were scattered on the ground, and even the complete shape was missing.
I can't put it together anymore.
After walking through so many ruins, this is the first time Du En has seen a holy sword that was damaged to this extent. How messy was the owner who used it during his lifetime?
Moreover, there are more than one such holy sword, all of which are scattered at the bottom of the huge circular pit where the ruins are located, and are deeply buried in the soil.
"This used to be a battlefield."
In her mind, Nobunaga's voice sounded. When it comes to war, no one is more familiar with it than her.
He seemed to be reminiscing about something. After thinking for a while, Du En finally remembered that he had found battle reports and the like in a certain ruins church. This place seemed to be the home of the Brave Man and the Black Candle Lord, one of the Three Earth Gods.
A place of fighting.
King versus king, the general, Lilia Asprey, who is a regular warrior, went to defeat the Star God, so naturally the Earth God under the Star God could only be left to others to deal with.
The holy swords that were still well preserved were probably taken away by the people who were cleaning up the battlefield behind them, and all that were left behind were low-level holy swords that were looked down upon.
Generally speaking, it would be impossible for a quasi-brave who can only use low-level holy swords to appear on such a high-end battlefield, right?
The changes in the terrain caused the real battlefield to be covered by mud and turned into a huge underground cave. The temperature here was lower than Du En imagined, and all the water in the cave froze.
Although the ground less than two hundred meters away from the cave was still as hot as a fire, the cave was filled with ice and snow.
The deep pit hundreds of meters wide is filled with hard ice, like a huge ice chamber.
Then, near the edge, Duan saw a person, a stone statue of a young man frozen by ice.
Chapter completed!