Chapter 3577

"Coffins of the Fourth Era usually have the holy emblem of the god the deceased believed in carved on the side, in order to pray that the soul after death can be protected by the god... See? Those coffins have the holy emblem of the Old God 【Winter Maiden】. In the middle of the Fourth Era, the Fatu people's faith was actually not the Snow Mountain or the snake, but this one."

And as they got closer to the deepest part of the mausoleum, some identifiable murals finally appeared on the walls of the tomb passage.

The content depicted in the murals was a group of people coming by boat from a distant place and encountering a terrifying monster on the sea. The monster dragged several large ships into the seabed, but in the end, the remaining people still successfully defeated it and arrived at an island that was clearly Fatu Monster Island.

Xi Wei said:

"Could what is mentioned here be the story of the Fatu people migrating to this place? Didn't the Fatu people themselves say that they had been living here at the latest by the beginning of the Fifth Era? It is known that when the Prophet Society moved to its current headquarters at the end of the Fourth Era, it had already encountered the Fatu people, so it is normal for the Fatu people to have arrived in the middle of the Fourth Era."

This is a reasonable speculation, but this also means that the migrating Fatu people were really believers of the Winter God before establishing the faith of the Snow Mountain or the snake. Combined with the fact that Miss Ai Si Bo Ge and Claire both said that the decorations in this mausoleum were related to their own tribes, an interesting conclusion had already arrived before their eyes.

The follow-up of the murals was that the people who migrated by boat settled down on the island and soon gave birth to more members. The content of the murals ended here; it looked like a successful pioneering story.

And at the end of these murals, the tightly closed main tomb chamber gate was waiting for the arrival of the group. Bella said that this tomb chamber was the passage to continue toward the "Star-Falling Beast," and the main tomb chamber of the mausoleum must also have the answers they were looking for.

Xia De still opened the door, and then Vanessa and Miss Ai Si Bo Ge followed him into it, and only after confirming that there was no problem did they let the others follow.

The main tomb chamber was unexpectedly large, but also unexpectedly empty. In the room about half the size of Saint Deran Square, there was only a stone coffin placed at the end of the wall facing the gate, and the size and style of the stone coffin were no different from those everyone had encountered along the way.

And apart from that stone coffin, there were not even murals here, and even the walls were uneven rocks.

However, in front of the stone coffin facing the gate, there was also a stone high-backed chair that looked very old. The chair was almost leaning against the stone coffin, and a half-person-high candlestick was placed on the left and right sides. After everyone entered here, the candles on the candlesticks lit up with a ghostly blue light, and in that light, a violent blizzard for no reason attacked this dark room under the seabed.

The flying snowflakes quickly constructed a transparent human figure on the chair.

The other party was wearing some kind of traditional clothing, and the bull-horned hat on his head reminded Xia De of Elder Harald. Miss Ai Si Bo Ge and Claire both felt that the other party's attire was familiar, but neither of them knew the other party.

"Ghost?"

Xia De frowned and asked. The figure who opened his eyes while sitting on the chair was a middle-aged man. After he stood up, he made a virtual grasp to the right, and the falling snowflakes constructed a phantom of an ice-blue long-handled hammer in his hand. The outsider had never seen anyone use this kind of strange weapon before.

"No, my soul has long since walked toward that cold end. As for what I am, the two ladies beside you should be able to understand."

He did not open his mouth, but everyone could hear his voice. The language he used clearly belonged to the ancient Fourth Era, but this sentence was quickly repeated a second time, and at this time the language had changed to the Carsonrick common language.

It's just that the answers given by Miss Ai Si Bo Ge and Claire were different.

"You have integrated yourself into the memory of snowflakes?"

"You let the Holy Mountain record your echo?"

The middle-aged man wearing a bull-horned hat was taller than Xia De, and he looked at the two female sorcerers with quite a bit of emotion:

"At the beginning, we made a contract at the temple on the top of the Snow Mountain. The Snow Mountain protected us who came from afar and let us take root at the foot of the Snow Mountain, and we would help the Snow Mountain do some things. I am the first-generation Fatu elder, guarding the road here, and will only appear when encountering people of the same clan.

I didn't expect that the people of the same clan who finally appeared, one came from our hometown that we couldn't return to, and the other is our descendant."

These words completely confirmed everyone's previous conjectures, and Vanessa couldn't help but ask:

"You mean, the Fatu people actually come from the Jibei Ice Cap?"

"Fatu people is a new name we took for ourselves, as for the Jibei Ice Cap... that's the saying of your era, right? We call our hometown the 'North of the World', which is the kingdom of winter and ice and snow.

The war disturbed the peace of our hometown. Faced with a disaster that could destroy the entire tribe, the tribe decided to split up voluntarily. Some people continued to stay in their hometown to fight against disasters and wars, while some people came here according to the direction pointed by snowflakes, and landed on that island after encountering a great enemy."

He looked at everyone here:

"I really didn't expect that not only have our descendants lived at the foot of the Snow Mountain for a long time, but it turns out that our relatives in our hometown have also passed down their heritage."

"So, Miss Ai Si Bo Ge and Claire and the others are actually people of the same clan from the Fourth Era?"

Xia De thought with some surprise in his heart, and then thought of Stella's story:

"In this way, aren't Stella and the Fatu people also... After she was expelled from the tribe for touching the holy relic, she met Claire, who was of Fatu origin, in the city of Winter Castle, and was guided by Claire to embark on the path of ice and snow... Why is there a sense of destiny?"

And that Fatu person who left power in the ancient era certainly didn't know about modern things:

"The road I guard here leads to the deeper part of the seabed, where the beast from the stars sleeps. It is the embodiment of fate, and it was its power that kept us who fled our hometown away from war and pursuit. We encountered it on the sea, and one-fifth of our clansmen died because of it, but it was also because of it that we found that inconspicuous island.

After landing on the island, the snowflakes guided us to the top of the mountain to see the Old God temple, and we also obtained the power to suppress that star, that mass of fate, in the temple. Then this mausoleum was built to guard the road and wait for someone who could truly solve this matter to appear."

He shook the long-handled hammer in his hand:

"I have information about that beast of fate here. Defeat me, and I will let you continue forward and tell you the information. Come on, let me see what kind of power the descendants have now. No matter who comes out, I will maintain a similar level of power."

He was clearly not issuing an invitation to Xia De; no matter what the outsider's origin was, he was definitely not a descendant of the Fatu people or the Jibei tribesmen.

Miss Ai Si Bo Ge was about to step forward immediately, but was stopped by Xia De:

"Let Stella come."

She then understood Xia De's intention, and then looked at the white-haired girl.

Claire was also very surprised that Stella and herself still had such a distant connection, but she still said softly to Stella:

"Go."

Stella nodded gently, and then passed everyone to walk toward the empty field in front. The six-ring fate ring appeared in the steam mist. It was absolutely impossible for people of the Fourth Era to have seen a fate ring, but the middle-aged man holding the long-handled hammer did not raise any questions, but also walked toward Stella.

The blizzard that had already subsided blew up again in this huge space at this moment. When Emilia curiously followed the source of the snowflakes with a slow-motion perspective, Stella and the ancient Fatu elder had already entered the field at the same time.

After the witch apprentice chanted softly, she immediately hid her figure, and the man holding the long-handled hammer didn't bother to look for her at all. He held the hammer with both hands and slammed it into the ground. Amidst the loud rumbling sound, a huge rune ritual base array spread out with the position where the hammer head touched the ground as the center.

The ritual base array flashed by, but all the snowflakes in its coverage area gathered toward the same position at this moment.

The snowflakes passed through the transparent figure like blades, and Stella exclaimed and was forced to reveal her figure. With a wave of her right hand, she condensed snow into ice to block those violent snowflakes, and the trajectory of the snowflakes sliding down let her see the reaction she should make.

The ice shield in her right hand swung forward, and amidst a muffled thud, it blocked the flying hammer. Although the ice shield shattered because of this, at least she blocked this blow intact; the other party was really using power equal to hers.

The blocked hammer head flew back into the hands of the middle-aged elder. Stella knew that even with equal power, she would not be an opponent of someone with such rich life experience as the other party with her level of learning, so she did not go to dodge or defend, but took the initiative to counterattack.

She called the flying snow around to be temporarily under her control, forming five thin swords above her head. After her left hand buckled the gemstone she carried with her, she let those snow swords fly toward her opponent together.

The long-handled hammer swung and shattered those flying snows, and Stella took the opportunity to activate the gemstone she had made:

"Sorcery - Ice Grasp."

When storing power in a gemstone to activate and use, there is no need to consume extra spirit, but if one is willing to consume extra spirit, one can even enhance the power of the sorcery.

A phantom suddenly appeared in front of her right hand stretched forward, and then the giant hand in the form of ice grasped toward the hammer-wielding middle-aged man. While he swung the hammer head again to shatter Stella's sorcery, the chill that suddenly rose under his feet turned into a second giant hand and grasped him in its palm.

Taking advantage of the sorcery taking effect, Stella hurriedly mobilized the fate ring behind her. With the help of the insights and gains on the island over the past month, at this moment she even vaguely felt that she was resonating with the chill in her chest:

"Sorcery - Ice Explosion!"