Chapter 576 577. The Secret in the Temple
Under the illumination of the holy light, more words appeared on the stone wall.
Lines of handwritten elven writing began to appear on the originally uneven stone wall. Roy learned one thing from the written records on the wall.
In fact, the bishops of the Temple of Liberty have no intention of ending the expedition plan of the Temple of Liberty into the Dark Land, which means that the exploration of the Dark Land is endless.
The expeditionary force originally formed by the Temple of Liberty was a group of priests with firm beliefs. With the blessing of the Statue of Liberty, they possessed powerful power of the Holy Light. Unfortunately, when the Holy Glory of the Statue of Liberty no longer descended, the power possessed by these priests also declined. Weakening a little bit.
They are the believers who are most eager to find the Statue of Liberty. This group of priests formed the first expeditionary force and entered the dark place through the Dark Portal.
In fact, the first expedition was quite successful. After the priests' expeditionary force entered the dark land, the dark creatures were completely unprepared. The power of holy light possessed by the priests was very capable of restraining those dark creatures, so the expeditionary force marched all the way in the dark land. It was a pity that the priests had no experience in expeditions. This led to frequent problems with the logistics supply routes of the expeditionary force. As a result, what held back the first expeditionary force was the long supply line.
The priests are eager to find the whereabouts of the Statue of Liberty, but after they enter the dark place, because the holy light in their bodies cannot be replenished, the priests' combat power becomes weaker and weaker.
Finally, the dark creatures coming from all directions finally stopped the expeditionary force.
The second expedition was still satisfactory. Because the priests obtained information about the fallen plane of Liberty from the mouth of a terror, the first expedition was unable to take another step forward. The bishops of the Temple of Liberty immediately organized the second expedition. Two expeditionary forces.
This time, the Temple of Liberty could only dispatch some priests with outstanding abilities and firm beliefs from the Elf Continent and various temples. It also spent a lot of money to hire 200,000 mercenary soldiers from the Mercenary Guild, and assembled a first force with a total strength of 800,000. The Second Expeditionary Force surged into the dark land again.
Because nearly a quarter of the Second Expeditionary Army are mercenaries, and these mercenaries are not restricted by the divine power, the Second Expeditionary Army once again advances into the depths of the Dark Land...
This expedition of the Temple of Liberty has no end. They have only one purpose, and that is to rescue the Statue of Liberty who is trapped somewhere in the dark place.
This expedition lasted for a long time. The Second Expeditionary Army rushed left and right in the Dark Land and once occupied a large area of the Dark Land.
But the vastness of the Dark Land far exceeded the expectations of the Archbishops of the Temple of Liberty. Not only did the second expeditionary force not find any news about the Lady of Liberty, they also exhausted the expedition by establishing countless material transfer stations in the Dark Land. All reserve forces of the army.
The second expeditionary force opened up several large battlefields in the Dark Land, requiring the Temple of Liberty to continuously invest troops in the Dark Land.
At this time, the Temple of Liberty on the Elf Continent had actually transferred all its elite priests to the Dark Land.
Golfito's Temple of Liberty began planning to form a third expeditionary force, and began to frantically dismantle the Temple of Liberty on the Elf Continent.
Since the expeditionary force was composed of priests from all over the Elf Continent, and the abilities of the soldiers in the expeditionary force were uneven, the third expedition was relatively unsuccessful. These priests supported various battlefields in the dark land, but they did not change the situation of the major battlefields...
When the elven writing on the wall reached this point, the handwriting seemed particularly sloppy, and every line was filled with doubts about this expedition.
However, this priest is also looking forward to the glorious results of the Goddess of Liberty Temple Expedition on Roland Continent, because according to his description, the number of priests and believers in the Goddess of Liberty Temple on Roland Continent is at least ten times the number of priests on the Elf Continent. , even dozens of times...
Roy had a hard time imagining the size of the expeditionary force on the Roland continent.
Roy squatted next to the stone wall, holding a ball of soft holy light in his hands. Under the illumination of the holy light, these words were slowly revealed. When the holy light moved away, these elven words carved on the stone wall had a very magical effect. Completely gone.
He continued to look down, and the words on the stone wall were full of uncertainty, and even a section of text was daubed.
Roy could feel how hesitant and restless the recorder felt when he wrote this passage.
His faith is still there, but the god to whom he prays has disappeared.
Without the blessing of the Holy Glory, the cultivation of the priests of the Temple of Liberty will stagnate, and even the sacred power in the bodies of many priests will slowly begin to diminish...
Three consecutive expeditions depleted the last treasure of the Golfito Temple of Liberty. In order to find the whereabouts of the Statue of Liberty in the dark place, the bishops of the Temple of Liberty chose to make a desperate move. They decided to abandon everything and go with all the priests. Dark place.
Before entering the Dark Land, the priests were also worried that dark creatures would slip into the Elf Continent through the Dark Gate, so the priests thought of a way. After entering the Dark Land, they planned to seal the Dark Gate from the inside...
'I don't know if I can be guided by the Holy Light to find the goddess lost in the Dark Land this time, but I know better in my heart that if we choose to stay in Golfito, I'm afraid we will never have the chance to find it. Goddess, so I went without hesitation this time. ’
‘If anyone happens to read this paragraph of mine, then please understand that we, the priests of the Temple of Liberty, are unswervingly fighting for our faith even in such adversity! ’
‘We took a boat across the vast endless sea and came to the Elven Continent from the Roland Continent, spreading the glory of the Statue of Liberty here. ’
'We are the spreaders of the Holy Light...'
The writing stopped abruptly here.
Roy sat in the stone chamber, unable to say anything for a long time. Apparently, High Priest Reed was now in a dark place and his whereabouts were unknown.
Moreover, the expeditionary forces that entered the Dark Land this time were far more than just the three expeditionary armies of the Temple of Liberty in the Elf Continent. There were also troops from the Temple of Liberty in other continents that entered the Dark Land.
The Dark Portal of Golfito was left to the Silver Moon Elves to manage, and it was planned by the priests before they entered the Dark Land.
The priests gave up everything in Golfito, even the majestic temple.
Roy stood in front of the stone wall for a long time. It wasn't until he noticed that his legs were a little sore that he woke up from his deep contemplation.
After walking out of the stone chamber, Roy became more and more curious whether there were any similar written records in the stone chamber behind him.
Almost no one comes here. The passage made of broken wooden boards is covered with dust, and even makes some creaking sounds when stepping on it.
There are no plants growing in Golfito Canyon. Only the lush lawns and shrub walls can be seen in the temple's front garden, but there are already signs of withering in some corners.
There were no birds or animals in the canyon, so Roy walked forward along the passage.
The stone chambers in front are also places for ascetic practice. These priests pray and meditate in the stone chambers. Some stone chambers are empty, but there are also some ascetic priests who write their thoughts on the stone walls.
They did it very obscurely. Without the power of the Holy Light, there is no way to see the elven writings carved on the stone wall. Roy even learned about some of the wars between the Naga Sea Tribe and the elves from the texts recorded on the walls. Although the elves won the war in the end, the war lasted for a long time, whether it was the elves or the Najas. The Jiahai people all paid a heavy price.
In a stone room, Roy let the sacred gleam float above his head. Under the sacred radiance, rows of densely packed text were revealed on the surrounding walls. These texts recorded some of the experiences he gained while learning divine arts. .
The priest who came here to do penance was probably a second-level battle priest. He described the magical arts introduced to the Elf Continent in a lengthy manner on the wall, which can be roughly divided into five categories: blessing, judgment, holy seal, and treatment. , to exorcise evil spirits.
In fact, Roy learned six blessings from High Priest Reed, but High Priest Reed said that the blessings he learned were not complete. As far as he knew, there were two blessings that even he didn't know. He taught The blessing spells given to Roy are:
Blessing of protection, blessing of strength, blessing of king, blessing of wisdom, blessing of light, blessing of freedom.
He also handed over three divine spells of judgment, Hammer of Punishment, Hammer of Judgment, and Hammer of Sanction.
Roy currently masters a healing magic, the Holy Light Technique.
There are two kinds of exorcism magic, the low-light illumination technique and the purification technique. The former can find the undead creatures within the scope of the holy light, and the latter can purify the weak undead creatures.
In addition, High Priest Reed doesn't know the Holy Seal, so Roy doesn't know the Holy Seal magic either.
In fact, when Roy stepped into the Temple of Liberty, he clearly felt that the Temple of Liberty was filled with a lot of sacred aura.
When he walked into the Temple of Liberty, the Tree of Holy Light in his body had been awakened, and a huge holy storm emerged around the Tree of Holy Light. These holy breaths swept in from all around, surrounding him without a trace. scattered.
The sacred tree quickly absorbs the power of the holy light in the Temple of Liberty...
Roy felt like his body was like an inflated balloon, as if it might be burst by the holy light at any time.
As a large amount of Holy Light power poured into Roy's body, Roy found that the seal for promotion to the eleventh level began to loosen. It seemed that there was only some chance before he could be promoted to the eleventh level Great Priest.
And when he read the information recorded by many other priests in the mountain wall stone chamber, the feeling on the eve of a breakthrough became stronger and stronger.
Finally, a ray of holy light passed through the shackles, and a beam of light penetrated in. Immediately, a second ray of light came through, and the opening became wider and wider.
After a while, the tree of holy light in his body suddenly grew a lot, and some flaming buds appeared on the flower of light on the tree of holy light.
It seems that his breakthrough at the level of the Great Priest is basically to make the tree of Holy Light in his body more lush and store more power of Holy Light.
A soft ball of light appeared between Roy's hands. Roy finally figured out one thing. It turned out that the way to make himself stronger was not only to purify the undead, but also to recite prayers in the Temple of Liberty full of sacred atmosphere. Words can also allow him to break through the shackles and advance smoothly.
Roy felt that he had stayed in the stone room for long enough, so he walked along the wooden passage to the exit.
Instead of coming the way he came, he tried to walk out from the other side of the passage.
Roy kept walking far away, and soon he discovered that he had walked out of the area of the Temple of Liberty. The passage built with wooden boards against the stone wall had not yet reached the end.
The end of this passage built with wooden planks is a very remote mountainside in the canyon. From here, walking a little further west, you can just return to the military camp of the Second Silver Pegasus Knights.
Unexpectedly, I walked out of the Temple of Liberty like this...
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Now that Roy has walked out of the Temple of Liberty, he has no intention of returning to the hall of the Temple of Liberty to listen to the quarrels between the magisters and the high priests.
There is no stream in Golfito Canyon. The Second Silver Pegasus Knights never use the water condensed from the magic rune board to drink water for these Silver Pegasus. They will ride the Silver Pegasus to the outside of the canyon and let them drink water. Drink water at the lake.
Recently, the Silver Pegasus knights discovered that there is a clear mountain spring opposite the lake, so they often take Silver Pegasus to drink from the spring water.
Roy walked to the lake. This time he came to the magic airship as a routine to inspect the situation here.
Nine magic airships were parked side by side by the lake. Only some crew members were scrubbing the decks. Viscount Felek looked helpless and decadent. He put his arms on the side of the ship and stuck his head out of the ship, staring at the clear lake water. .
On the shore not far away, a group of Silver Moon Elf guards stood quietly under the shade of the trees, staring at Viscount Feilek quietly.
Seeing Roy walking along the forest road to the lake, a guard captain hesitated before walking up and asked Roy very politely:
"Captain Roy, your mine guard team has successfully arrived at Golfito, so Viscount Felek's guide work can be considered over. Can we bring Viscount Felek back to Muraayaki?"
Roy was stunned.
This kind of thing should not be asked to his head in any case!
But since the other party asked this, Roy stopped. He looked at Viscount Felek on the boat and said casually: "Currently, the mine guard group has received a new task of transporting military supplies, and they may travel back and forth frequently. Between Golfito and Mulayaki, until this mission is over, Viscount Felek will stay here as a guide to lead the way."
The guard captain's face turned very ugly and his brows knitted together, but he did not have a quarrel with Roy.
At this time, all the mixed-blood elven crew members on the nine magic airships ran to the deck and kept looking here...
Roy ignored the guard captain and walked along the sampan set up on the simple pier to the magic airship.
He ignored Viscount Felek and went directly to the captain's cabin to chat with a half-blood elf captain about the armaments and supplies on the ship that had not yet been emptied.
(End of chapter)