Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1069 1051. Tomb

 The Rudolf Plateau is the collective name for a large area.

If there is no one who knows the way, it will definitely not be easy to find the tomb where the Witch King of Angmar is buried in this large area.

Since entering this desolate and gloomy land, Lann has automatically slowed down the Qilin and fallen behind Radagast.

Let the scruffy old wizard lead the way in a rabbit sleigh.

 “It’s right in front!”

On a piece of gray-black land, an abrupt and steep mountain peak rises from the ground.

This mountain peak stands alone on the plateau, completely inconsistent with geological movement.

Considering the geological history of the world of Arda, this may be a mountain that the ancient Valar could have created directly out of thin air when they raised mountains and planned rivers in Middle-earth.

This mountain is not high, but it is about 700 to 800 meters. The strangest thing is the appearance.

It is very sharp and sharp, just like a pile of huge rock pieces stacked together and then standing on the plateau.

 The overall appearance is a smoky black color.

This black color is by no means natural and has nothing to do with the local soil and rock quality. It is more like it has been infected by something over time.

 “It is an evil force.”

 After reaching the foot of the mountain, Radagast asserted.

He stepped off the rabbit sleigh and tapped the rock wall of the mountain with the wooden wand in his hand, grinning in disgust and disgust.

 “You can’t go wrong!”

Lan En also asked Qilin and the big rabbits to go aside, and he jumped down with the flannel ball.

The witcher looked up and saw that the sky in this area had never cleared up and was always cloudy.

 This sharp mountain still retains the snow from last winter.

“Tomb.” Lan En frowned slightly, his eyes scanning back and forth on this weird mountain. "Where is the tomb?"

Although this mountain is only seven or eight hundred meters high, it is still a mountain and it is huge.

 “Just follow me, come on.”

Radagast also frowned and looked at the mountains in front of him, but unlike Lan's searching eyes, he was mainly remembering.

 “First count twelve rock fragments to the east, and then… Hmm!”

The old wizard muttered as he took off his hat and let the three birds nesting in his hair fly out to find and determine the route for him.

 Radagast stepped up, the skirt of his tattered gray robe swaying, and waved his wand behind him without looking back.

  Meaning to tell Lan En to stop talking nonsense and just keep up.

 “Well, I don’t think he is reliable, meow~”

The flannel ball jumped to the ground, and as he walked forward, he raised his head and asked his boss worriedly.

Lan En shrugged: "After all, he is an old wizard who has lived for who knows how long. Is it okay? It should be."

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 This mountain is very difficult to climb.

  This is the case even in the eyes of Flannel Ball, who has surpassed Lan En in the [Light Body Technique] due to his size and weight.

 The rocky mountain has few places to stay.

It seems that it is precisely because of the characteristics of this mountain that the Northern Kingdom, which was responsible for burying the Witch King of Angmar, chose this place to avoid anyone coming into contact with the tomb.

Radagast finally found the way up relying on his vague memory and the detection of birds.

Those are many stone steps artificially installed from the rocky mountain.

These stone steps are unobstructed and stick out from the mountain, making people's hair stand on end.

 Two people and one cat started to climb up the stone steps.

It has been so long since the tomb was built that even the stones have become crispy in the wind and rain.

 The originally continuous stone steps have been disconnected in many places.

Fortunately, the people who came up were not ordinary people. Even Radagast looked sloppy and old, but he was stronger than the strong young man among ordinary people.

The stone steps zigzag back and forth until they reach halfway up the mountain, more than 300 meters away, before finally opening a hole in the flake-shaped mountain.

There is a corridor in the cave, which is as wide and narrow as the inside and outside of the cave entrance, which is much narrower than the shoulder width of ordinary people.

 It can only accommodate one person walking normally.

 For Lan En, it was narrow and cramped, and he had to lower his head and move sideways when moving forward.

 But after walking through the corridor, it was still not stable.

There is no stable ground at the end of the corridor, but a square, bottomless hole. It is estimated that it was dug directly to the bottom of the mountain.

 On the opposite side of the square hole, there is another doorway.

There is deep darkness inside the door, making it difficult to see clearly.

 “Show some light, Radagast.”

Lan En still doesn’t know exactly what kind of magic the wizards in this world use, but the flash spell is very reliable.

Like blowing out a candle, Radagast blew twice towards the crystal tip of the wand, and then the crystal lit up with a gentle light.

This light can radiate very far.

 The scene in the doorway opposite the underground cave was also illuminated.

There should have been an iron gate at the door. The iron bars were strong and thick.

 But now, the iron gate is broken open from the inside.

A powerful force, like tearing apart a curtain, turned the iron gate into a bag opening that broke outward.

The iron bars were torn and broken, and rust could be seen when they were turned outwards. It seemed that the door had been broken through for a long time.

And continue to look in along the light on the wand

"Fluttering!" Lada Gaster's birds came out of the dark and flew over to the old wizard.

In that corner that was illuminated by light for a moment, there was no tight seal

The lid of the sarcophagus, which was about a punch thick, was completely broken!

The thick iron chains that originally tied the sarcophagus were also hanging limply on the ground!

"This is.!"

　　Radagast was also stunned by the sight in front of him.

There was a circle of loose stones around the edge of the hole where people could stand. He quickly raised his wand to illuminate it and moved towards the door opposite where the sarcophagus was placed.

He held the torn and overturned iron bars of the iron fence with one hand, and looked at the surrounding rock walls with the light shining on them.

 “This is wrong, this is wrong! It shouldn’t be!”

The old wizard spoke tremblingly, his old and crazy voice echoing so deep in the deep darkness.

 “This place is full of malicious spells! Ancient and full of hate!”

“How could the people of the Northern Kingdoms use such a spell to bury the Witch-King of Angmar?! Are they driven mad by hatred?”

 “This is an evil servant!”

"You don't know?" Lan En asked Radagast at the door of the corridor.

 “I don’t know! I wasn’t there when they buried people!”

The witcher rubbed his back teeth and said, "Then is the Witch King of Angmar the only one here? Only him?"

"No"

　　Radagast said in a daze, his face turned dull.

As he spoke, he stretched the lighted wand tip to the hole in the ground and motioned Lan En to look down.

 Under this deep underground cave, there are many levels.

 Each floor has an iron gate that has been torn open from the inside and turned outwards!

　　Radagast raised his head and looked directly at Lan, who had just stretched his head and looked down through the hole.

The sloppy old wizard's eyes were trembling in panic, and he was mumbling.

“The Witch-King of Angmar is one of them, and the total number is nine!”

 “Do you have to read poetry at this time? Oh my God!”

Lan En pinched his eyebrows with a headache.

At the same time, the witcher nodded towards the Elcat behind him.

 The calico kitten gave a serious and solemn "meow".

Immediately afterwards, it nimbly and lightly rushed past Lan En, who was squatting.

After escaping from the corridor, he jumped directly down.

Elu Cat, who has practiced the [Light Body Technique], is extremely light. Its claws can be used as a leverage point when stepping on the small cracks in the rock wall.

 In the deep square hole, kittens were seen jumping back and forth, observing each iron gate that had been torn apart from the inside.

Radagast also directly picked up the wand upside down and pointed it at the hole to provide illumination.

 “This layer of coffin is already broken, meow!”

 “This layer is also broken, meow!”

As the flannel ball observed and reported, Radagast's face became increasingly ugly.

His hand held the wand harder, and the light on the wand also intensified, following the fluff ball going down layer by layer.

Lan En remained in a half-crouched state, his eyes following the dancing figure of the velvet ball, and his fingers stroking the rock wall of the corridor.

How much effort did the people of the Northern Kingdom spend in building such a terrifying tomb?

They had to dig out the mountain wall, dig a tunnel inside the mountain, and transport the huge sarcophagus in through the narrow tunnel and seal it.

There is magic in this world, but based on Lan En’s rough understanding of magic in this world, their magic is not very capable of doing things that are convenient for people.

 For example, in the field of architecture, there is little achievement.

 In this case, what did the Northern Kingdom pay to build such a mausoleum?

 Lan soon found out.

The flannel ball flexibly explored the nine-layered caves below. It was easy for a kitten whose racial talent, [Light Body Technique], could already compete with the leader of the ninjas of the Lone Shadows.

But when Ellu cat stepped on the lowest level of the burrow, the sound it made was not the slight sound of the flesh **** of its claws stepping on the rocks.

But there was a clanging sound of metal.

　　The light that Radagast held downwards from his wand also extended to the lowest level.

"Meow!"

The flannel ball screamed in surprise.

The bottom floor of this square cave has been covered with a layer of corpses. Because the cave is actually not big, it is estimated that there are only about ten people in it.

These corpses were wearing rusty and dusty armor. The style and shape of the armor were different from what Lan En had seen so far in this world.

 “It’s the bones of soldiers from the Northern Kingdom!”

　　Radagast recognized the armor immediately.

“They paid with their lives for the construction of this tomb!”

 With insufficient technology, it is normal for human lives to be lost in large and difficult projects.

Considering the spells that Radagast had discerned before, and given the Northern Kingdom’s hatred of the Witch-King of Angmar, it is normal to sacrifice one’s life in order to seal the tomb.

 But the problem doesn’t stop there.

After the screams of Ellu Cat, a slight sound came out again from the already silent pile of bones.