Chapter 575 576. Text on the wall
Captain Malthus and Roy climbed up the long steps outside the Temple of Liberty side by side. The steps were paved with white granite strips and engraved with non-slip patterns. The entire building The Temple of Liberty has gone through thousands of years of wind and rain, but the gaps in these steps are still very tight. It is difficult to insert a skinning knife into the gaps.
The statues on both sides of the stone steps are no longer priests, but angels with folded wings. Some angel statues have their hands on their shoulders and bend their knees to pray. Some angel statues are holding giant swords with both hands and looking up to the sky. Some angel statues are holding the Holy Grail and looking down. Put your feet down...
The Temple of Liberty in Golfito is a large complex of buildings.
In addition to the main body of the temple, more surrounding buildings are the living areas for the priests.
This time, Captain Malthus took Roy outside the main temple. They were going to attend the Silver Moon Elf Officers' Meeting. They walked into the magnificent arched door outside the temple, and an extremely gorgeous courtyard appeared in front of Roy. .
In the courtyard are some corridors paved with marble. The areas not paved with marble are covered with green grass. In the middle of the courtyard is a square pool with a fountain and a waterfall. The clear water in the pool almost overflows from the pool. , a clear waterfall caught Roy's eyes.
Just in front of the waterfall, there is a statue of the Statue of Liberty covered in gauze. She is half lying on a boulder, reaching out to stir up the clear water in the pool.
In the past, Roy had seen the Statue of Liberty holding the sacred scepter and the Holy Grail of Wisdom...
Only the Statue of Liberty in the vestibule of the Golfito Temple of Liberty looks more like a beautiful human girl. Even the happy and shy expression on her face is clearly displayed. Roy can even learn from her. He heard her murmuring voice from Kai's lips.
Some Silver Moon Elf officers stood in the courtyard in twos and threes. When some officers saw Captain Malthus, they even greeted him familiarly.
Captain Malthus nodded repeatedly and responded to the officers with a smile, but did not join them. He led Roy into an arched corridor with walls on one side and arched Roman columns on the other. The walls are inlaid with some exquisite reliefs.
“I have always thought that some of the buildings in Buenos City are too exaggerated, and I wish I could carve out all the stones. I didn’t expect that the reliefs in the Temple of Liberty are no less impressive. I don’t know how much effort it took to create this mural. Carved out..."
After Captain Malthus finished speaking, he smiled to himself.
Roy thought of the Temple of Liberty in Castletown. Before that temple was abandoned, the courtyard in front and the statues in the main hall were also very exquisite.
"Each temple is said to be a residence prepared for the goddess to come to the world. In the past, these temples would often send down the goddess's blessings and holy light. Occasionally, a ray of the goddess's divine thoughts would possess the great priest, often in the temple. Hanging out, so as believers of the Statue of Liberty, they naturally have to spare no effort to build these temples magnificently! Having said that, if they were willing to use this money to subsidize the lives of poor mixed-race elves, their number of believers would at least increase! Double!"
Roy couldn't help but complained beside him.
Although he is a great priest, he is not a believer in the Statue of Liberty.
So when I stood in the temple and complained about the Statue of Liberty, I felt no pressure...
Captain Malthus smiled, and as he spoke, the two of them arrived in front of the main hall of the Temple of Liberty. The tall dome almost pierced the sky. The atmosphere created by these tall buildings was as if the main hall was reserved for gods to live in. residence.
Follow Captain Malthus into the main hall. The luxurious dome is decorated with exquisite paintings. The paintings on the dome seem to describe the battle of the gods. There are countless angels surrounding the Statue of Liberty.
Roy passed by the side hall and looked inside through the open door. This should be a side hall used for baptism and blessing.
The holy pool in the innermost part of the room had long since dried up, and the high platform on which the Holy Grail was placed had long been empty. The benches in the room were still arranged very neatly.
Roy was more affectionate towards the side hall where holy water was distributed. His original responsibility was to stand on a high platform and use a silver spoon to distribute a cup of holy water to every goddess believer who came to pray.
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There were intermittent arguments in the main hall of the Temple of Liberty. Before entering the main hall, Captain Malthus showed a look of helplessness on his face.
"In the past half month or so, they have argued countless times in the main hall. Every time I walk into the main hall, I get a headache!"
Captain Malthus complained in a very low voice.
Roy stood beside Captain Malthus and looked curiously into the main hall.
Captain Malthus signaled Roy to stop, stood at the door of the main hall, took a deep breath, tightened his abdomen and straightened his chest, keeping his face expressionless, and walked into the main hall of the Temple of Liberty with a straight face.
Roy stepped back half a step and followed Captain Malthus. He also restrained his curious eyes and stepped in...
A group of magisters from the Magic Guild and the high priest of the Moon Temple stood on the left and right sides of the hall, and the atmosphere seemed tense.
A dozen elf knights were sitting in chairs on the high platform, and a group of officers were standing in the area near the entrance of the hall. Captain Malthus took Roy to sneak into these officers. Roy knew that his half-elf identity might cause some trouble. Some mixed-blood elf officers were disgusted, so he stood at the edge of the crowd.
The magisters of the Magic Guild, as the leaders in sealing the Dark Portal, want to have the power to guard the Dark Portal.
However, the Moon Temple wants to build a moon well outside the sealing circle to attract the power of the Moon God to completely suppress the Dark Gate.
But here's the problem. Once the Moon Well is built in the Moon Temple, it means that a Moon Temple will be built here. They don't want the magisters of the Magic Union to live next to the moon well for a long time.
This argument lasted for a long time, leaving Roy standing in the hall with his legs a little sore...
He saw some Silver Moon Elf officers coming out of the main hall from time to time and taking a breath in the front garden. Then he said hello to Captain Malthus and slipped out through the side door.
Captain Malthus also knew that Roy must be a little bored standing in the hall. Unfortunately, he could not talk in the hall, so he could only make a few simple gestures to let him breathe in the courtyard outside and signal him not to wander around.
Roy actually wanted to find a toilet, so he walked along the side corridor to the backyard.
Although the Temple of Liberty has been occupied by the Silver Moon Elves, there are actually not many guards in the main hall.
Roy followed the cloister to the right side of the main hall. There is a beautiful inner courtyard. There is a library on the left side of the courtyard, and a plaque for the weapons depot hangs on the building on the right.
Roy was a little curious about the library of the Temple of Liberty, so he followed the steps to the door of the library.
The door of the library is also open, but only the layout of the first floor hall can be seen from the door.
There are many books neatly arranged in the hall. Most of the books have been emptied, and the remaining books are scattered on the books and the ground, and no one pays attention to them at all.
Roy stood outside the door and did not step in. He peeked inside...
I happened to see a Silver Moon Elf guarding the corner of the door. When he saw Roy, his eyes were suspicious and he kept looking at Roy. The Silver Moon Elf didn't speak, and Roy quickly retracted his head obediently.
To be honest, he was startled by the Silver Moon Elf guard at the door. When he patted his chest, Roy realized that he was wearing the badge of the Silver Pegasus Legion on his chest.
It is estimated that this Silver Pegasus Legion badge saved him a lot of trouble...
Roy continued to wander in the inner garden and heard Captain Malthus say that the Dark Gate is behind the main hall of the Temple of Liberty. The door behind the main hall is the only passage leading to the Dark Gate, so Roy was not too worried. Worry that you will stray into a restricted area.
He was very interested in the buildings of the Temple of Liberty. Sneaking out of the inner garden of the temple, Roy had left the main hall of the Temple of Liberty.
The houses and streets in front of me have undergone great changes. Many houses in this area are connected together.
Roy guessed that this should be the living area of the priests. This area seemed relatively large, and the entire building complex looked like a compact small town.
Walking on the old streets, there are a lot of messy things scattered on the messy streets.
The Silver Moon Elf warriors did not live in the living area here. The entire living area looked very depressed, and there was not a Silver Moon Elf in sight. Roy walked on the street as if he was in a long-abandoned city.
In this city where only priests live, many buildings have the symbol of the Statue of Liberty.
Roy discovered that the Statue of Liberty was scattered all over the streets and alleys, like shrines built in the city.
The bishop of the Temple of Liberty once gathered hundreds of thousands of the Holy Expeditionary Army in Golfito Canyon, and made three expeditions to the Dark Land. All war expenses were borne by Golfito alone, which shows how strong the Temple of Liberty is!
Unfortunately, many of the Statue of Liberty statues in this living area have begun to become broken, and the broken limbs are scattered on the stone slabs...
Roy walked around the living area until his feet were a little sore before he stopped.
I found a bench and sat down, originally thinking of returning to the main hall to meet Captain Malthus.
When Roy stood up, he realized that he had walked to the edge of the temple's living area. His location happened to be near the canyon wall. There was an unusually simple corridor near the mountain wall. This corridor was only attached to the mountain wall. on the wall.
Many places in the corridor have collapsed, and many stone chambers carved out of the mountain have been exposed.
Those stone chambers didn't even have doors, and it was pitch black inside.
Roy tried to take two steps up the dilapidated corridor and looked at a stone room at the edge.
This stone room is literally what it means. The space inside is less than two square meters, and a normal-sized elf cannot even stretch out in it.
The stone chamber only has a door, not a single window, and even the door is just an empty frame...
Roy looked at the stone chambers, which were slightly more cramped than the toilets, and found that there were statues of the Statue of Liberty on the walls of some of the stone chambers.
The walls of some stone chambers are painted with random patterns.
I heard from High Priest Reed that there are many ascetic priests in Golfito who will dig a cave on the cliff and then live in the cave. In addition to two meals a day, these ascetic priests eat nothing. Prayers are made to the Statue of Liberty all day long.
Roy suddenly became very interested in these stone chambers.
He skipped the first few stone chambers, which had few carvings on the stone walls, and walked up the passage that could collapse at any time. The further inside, Roy found that the stone chambers inside were getting older and darker. As expected, there are many patterns carved with sharp tools inside.
Roy stretched out a hand, and a ball of holy light emerged from his palm.
The soft holy light made the stone room much brighter, and the patterns originally hidden in the darkness gradually became clear before Roy's eyes.
Roy walked through more than a dozen stone rooms in a row, and finally in one stone room, he saw many elven inscriptions written by a priest while praying. These elven inscriptions almost covered the left wall.
Roy raised the holy light in his hand higher. He approached the wall and carefully observed the words. He found that these elven words were not complaining, but recording something.
Here it is written that a priest could not feel the sacred glory of the Statue of Liberty during his years in Golfito.
This made him feel desperate...
He even felt abandoned by the Statue of Liberty, so he lived in pain every day...
Before he entered the stone chamber to pray, he was at a loss for a long time. He traveled to countless places just to find the Holy Glory of the Statue of Liberty. He even captured some little demons through summoning rituals and conducted rituals on these demons in private. Soul interrogation, but even so, no information related to the Statue of Liberty was discovered.
He once visited the great magician of the Astrologer's Guild and asked him to find the current location of the Statue of Liberty through the stars. Unfortunately, the great magician gave him a very vague answer, and he could not understand many words.
He also found a prophet to predict Lady Liberty, who only told him that Lady Liberty was trapped in a place without any light.
He cast a forbidden spell, summoned a terror from hell in a hidden place, imprisoned it in a prison, and tortured the terror with holy light every day.
In this way, he would use the summoning technique to summon demons from hell every once in a while, and finally obtained useful information from a demon:
Lady Liberty is imprisoned somewhere unknown in the Dark Lands and has fallen into a deep sleep.
It was this news that made the priests in the Temple of Liberty extremely panicked.
Then several archbishops of the Temple of Liberty began to plan a war...
So the priests began to send an expeditionary force to the Dark Land, and a large number of priests followed the expedition into the Dark Land.
(End of chapter)