Chapter 45: The Temple of Shadows
As the most important building in the city of Futarazi, the Temple of Shadows is naturally located in the heart of the inner city. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Gothic spire architecture and dark tones make this artistic temple as eerie as a vampire-inhabited castle. However, this is probably because of Alvira's unique aesthetic, the goddess of killing, abuse, and torture, who has always liked this luxurious and gloomy architectural style.
It is said to be a temple, but it is actually a castle-like complex.
In addition to the necessary prayer and evangelistic halls, the temple also has a priest's ashram, a training ground for warriors, and a canteen and lodging place.
However, this is also the general layout of large temples, not to mention the small and artistic size of the elven temples in the water capital, it is just that the church has to compromise for political reasons. The temple is a sacred place for the gods to be on earth, so large temples are generally military fortresses that resemble castles.
The temple in the city of Photarazi is similar to the foundation of the Molten Iron Castle, which is built on a hard, moderately weathered rock formation, but beneath it lies a vast cavernous abyss. The temple's builders didn't anticipate this at first, until decades ago, someone discovered the abyss of the cave beneath the temple and transformed part of it into the temple's chambers.
These were all recent news from Charlotte, and although he had been mentally prepared for a long battle from the beginning, he was still anxious about the progress of the spy that had barely progressed for several days.
The gloomy experience of the past few days had made him realize that Adams' status in the Shadow Temple was pitifully low at the moment. He wasn't even allowed to enter the confines of the priest's ashram, let alone the forbidden areas of the temple.
What's even more troublesome is that not only the priests and instructors are extremely insulting to him, but even the soldiers of the same period are very unfriendly to him. In his opinion, Adams's popularity is really bad, even in Charlotte's most naughty and deadly time, he can proudly claim that he is a hundred times better than Adams's popularity.
Of course, it is more likely that no one dares to offend Charlotte because of his noble status. However, a self-feeling mage naturally does not have such a self-awareness.
Unbeknownst to Charlotte, this was because Adams had proudly rejected the pastor's invitation to the banquet and had been ostracized as an outlier.
At this moment, Charlotte is engaged in military drills with a group of Templar warriors who have recently joined the Temple. The training area is the warrior training ground inside the temple, and the training square covering an area of two hundred acres is enough to meet the general needs of the warriors of the temple.
It must be noted that in the social system of the Drow Elves, the highest status that a male Drow can obtain is the Martial Skill Leader of the Seven Ruling Families and the Battle Leader of the Temple Warriors, among which the Martial Arts Chief of the Fortarazi Family has the same status as the Battle Leader, and the rest are ranked in order of the influence of the ruling family.
And Adams was able to become a member of the Templars, which also meant that his own talent was indeed good.
But compared to Charlotte's talent, he's a scumbag!
"I've been putting up with you for a long time!"
I got a hard kick in the ass!
"Did the Minotaur girl squeeze you dry?! The posture is completely wrong! I have even forgotten the basic starting style of the Shadow Sword Technique, except for physical fitness, where do you stupid dog look like a three-ring warrior!"
The slender warrior instructor spat behind him, scolding and slapping Charlotte on the back of the head as Lolita did with Adams.
"If it weren't for your good behavior a while ago, I would have kicked you out of the temple! If you couldn't learn this martial art in three days, I'd cut you to pieces and throw you to the ogres to eat! Do you understand? Do you understand......
Every time he said 'do you understand', he slapped Charlotte on the back of the head, and the dignified master of the seven rings was slapped by this five-ring warrior.
Charlotte's hands clenched. No one has ever dared to insult me like this!
"Yo, you're still not convinced!Come!" the instructor pointed to his seemingly thin but muscular chest, and grabbed the blade of Charlotte's sword and faintly aimed it at his chest, "Come on!
Charlotte lowered her head and didn't speak, but the muscles in her whole body were trembling faintly.
Another slap on Charlotte's head almost buried his already low head in his chest.
"Maggots, waste, ......"
The Templars at the training ground were in an uproar. Some of them screamed in fear, some of them gloated, and only a few of them were rather cold bystanders.
Without hesitation, the sword pierced the instructor's chest, and the instructor, who had just been arrogant, pointed his finger at Charlotte, his arrogant and frightened expression mixed into a comical abstract painting.
Charlotte looked up, revealing the swarthy and handsome face that belonged to Adams. He smiled sincerely, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth.
"You asked me to stab you!" he affirmed, "you said that the instructor's orders must not be disobeyed! To be honest, I have never heard such a request be made!"
"You, you, you......" The instructor looked angry, and he reached out to draw the sword at his waist, but felt a sharp pain in his chest.
Charlotte stirred her sword and kicked the instructor into the air.
On the edge of the training ground, a group of groveling Templars changed color. In the center of the group of warriors, a silver-haired girl in leather hot pants and a cropped Western-style vest (Ah, Moon Lake girl, the drow elf you want makes a cameo, I hope you don't get the stab me...... He had an interested expression.
Charlotte had noticed the situation early on, which is why he was distracted in training. Of course, a genius like him would never admit that his current martial arts skills were a mess!
Charlotte felt that if he stayed like this, it might take him years or more before he was qualified to spy on information. At that point, he may be able to regain his status as a melee master thanks to the Klayderman's extraordinary bloodline.
Isn't this a joke! Unless he is crazy, he will put down his great future to retrain his martial arts, and when he has that time, he may be able to hit the legend.
So when Charlotte noticed the girl, he was always thinking about how to get her attention. Although he didn't know the Drow girl, he knew the male Drow who groveled beside her, and that guy was the leader of the Shadow Temple, Bray, and the woman who could make Bray grovel must be one of the core figures of the Seven Ruling Families.
It just so happened that this unfathomable instructor died, so Charlotte could only be merciful to fulfill him. As for how the situation will develop next...... It was really the worst, Charlotte made up her mind, and when the time came, she kidnapped the girl and left. As long as he retreated quickly, he really didn't believe that anyone in this temple could stop him.
Charlotte's thoughts raced as she watched the young girl, and he noticed that the Templars, led by Bray, were firmly surrounding him. Bray, the seven-ring-level drow warrior with his hands on his chest, looked him up and down with a sinister look.
"Very good, you bed bug!" Bray's already dark skin was about to drip water, "I'm going to ask the third lady for instructions, the launching ceremony will transform you into arachnoid drow!"
"The instructor told me to do this. Charlotte pulled a sword flower, but there was obviously a shadow of the Clayderman family's sword skills in her movements, "I'm just obeying orders, Lord Warlord!"
"Really?" the warlord's thin lips curled, "Then now, I need you to obey my orders!"
As soon as he said this, a five-ring warrior strode towards Charlotte.