Chapter 281 Emerald Amulet
Being guided inexplicably is usually not a good thing. Many evil creatures will do this to attract unlucky people to take the bait.
But God’s guidance is another matter.
As a mage, it is difficult for Aldai to become a devout believer. She looks at everything with a critical eye. In her opinion, God is just a powerful creature, worthy of respect and not worthy of belief.
So her piety level is always 10, never higher.
But this does not prevent her from following the guidance of the Holy Emblem.
Walk to the deepest wall. There is nothing there, but the holy symbol hidden in the clothes is getting hotter and hotter. Tell Aldai that you are looking for the right place.
She stretched out her hand and placed it on the wall. As she stroked it with her fingers, she felt a tiny crack on the wall that was difficult to discern with the naked eye.
Almost at the same time she hit the crack, the wall in front of her opened with a swish, revealing a half-meter square hidden compartment.
There is only a bright silver metal box inside, which looks seamless and has no place to open it.
It is incredible that the age of myth has been thousands of years ago, and the box itself does not show any traces of time. It seems that there is a powerful spell protecting the box from being annihilated by time.
When Aldai picked it up, the integrated box suddenly opened, revealing a round, talisman-like thing.
Its outer ring is wrapped with a layer of iron, and the inner ring is an emerald. When the box is opened, the amulet makes a whirring noise, like a strong wind blowing through a mountain stream, or like the low horn of an army setting off for battle.
But when Aldai took out the amulet from the box, the sound disappeared, and at the same time, the hot holy symbol on her chest gradually cooled down.
Aldai turned the amulet over, and on the back was engraved the Holy Emblem of the Old Demon King. When she touched it with her finger, the Holy Emblem was twisted again and turned into the shape of a slightly spread palm.
"What is that? Baby?"
The sound made by the amulet also attracted other people who were searching for loot in the room. The dwarf Drage, who was most sensitive to gems, stretched his neck to see the emerald inlaid in the middle of the amulet.
"It's a magic item, but I don't know what its use is yet."
Identifying magic items takes time, and the length of time is related to the strength of the magic item.
Usually Aldai can know the approximate capabilities of magic items just by looking at them, but this talisman is different. It is too complicated and requires time to study.
As soon as they heard it was a magic item, everyone lost interest. According to the agreement, the magic items found in the ruins belong to Aldai, and conversely, all the gems and gold coins belong to them.
Nemea, who was about to turn around to see if there were any missing gems, turned around and vaguely saw several blue-green bright spots outside the door.
"There's a situation! It's like a monster!"
These words made everyone look towards the door, and they all drew their weapons and got ready for battle.
Several bright spots emitting blue-green light in the darkness swayed left and right, and it could be seen that this thing was approaching.
At this time, the sound of heavy footsteps entered everyone's ears. They might have been blocked in the room by some kind of large monster.
After a while, the bright spot approached the magical light source in the center of the room, and the owner of the bright spot emerged from the darkness.
It was a lizard as big as a cow. Its head was covered with dark red barbs. Its chin had crocodile-like hard skin folds bulging out. Although its mouth was short, it was full of fangs.
The scariest thing is actually its eyes, a pair of 'bright spots' that emit blue-green light.
"It's a basilisk! Don't look at it!" After seeing the appearance of this thing clearly, Perrin warned.
The four of them quickly turned away and tried to look at the basilisk with their peripheral vision, without looking into its eyes.
Basilisk monsters are not high level, but their abilities are very disgusting.
Any creature that looks at it may fall into petrification and turn into a stone statue from head to toe. If you see lifelike animal or human statues in the wild, there's probably a basilisk nearby.
This is also a common monster found underground, and they likely have caves that lead to the surface.
There are two basilisks near the door, but there are more behind.
The two basilisks roared from their throats and approached cautiously, as if to warn everyone.
"Stay where you are and don't move."
And just when a battle seemed inevitable, Aldai walked towards the basilisk.
The basilisk immediately lowered its body, and the blue-green light bursting out of its eyes with the power of petrification seemed to be stronger, burning like a flame.
Aldai has level 45, which is already a very high level, especially for basilisks, which are actually only around level 20.
When Aldai approaches, it will put a lot of pressure on the sensitive basilisk. This is why few monsters appear along the way. Only the greedy guy like the shark lizard is not afraid of death and insists on it. Come up and bite.
Aldai did not use spells or wave her staff. She just kept a speed that did not irritate the basilisk too much and approached step by step.
When the distance was about three or four meters, and when the basilisk would go crazy if it got closer, Aldai raised the amulet she had just found.
The basilisk, which had been vigilant and even furious just now, immediately relaxed after seeing the amulet, and even completely lifted its alert state.
Both the basilisks at the door and those outside the door lowered their bodies, lowered their heads and closed their eyes, like devout believers kneeling in worship.
What they obey is not Aldai, but the talisman in Aldai's hand. It can also be said that they obey the will of God...
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Basilisks are magical beasts, but their intelligence is only at the level of beasts. They are unlikely to understand what faith is.
But the fact happened before their eyes. After seeing the Holy Emblem of the Demon King, the basilisk immediately knelt down and walked backwards into the darkness as if it had done something wrong. By the time the four people came out of the room, the basilisk had completely disappeared.
For the adventurers, it was certainly a good thing to have fewer fights. They did not see the holy symbol on the amulet, and they only thought that Aldai might have used some spell.
After all, she is the youngest high-level mage in the academic city. It is not surprising that such an old man can do any magic.
After leaving the rune room, everyone continued to move forward, this time it seemed to be very long.
They didn't see anything suspicious, nor any monsters. If it weren't for the slightly different dents left by kneeling on the floor, everyone might have thought they were spinning in circles.
There are too many unreasonable things about this ruins. It is a bit like an underground palace built by a mage, but it is also more like a temple. What is even weirder is that all signs indicate that this is a temple of the Demon King built by humans.
What is the relationship between humans and demon kings and gods in the mythical age?
Why was it later sealed on the other side of the Great Rift Valley?
What role did the seven apostles play in this?
Aldai felt it and touched the cover of an ancient secret. She couldn't wait to open the book and see what happened.
(End of chapter)