Chapter 31: The Man Who Stands Still
The atmosphere in the room suddenly changed, and everyone except Karil didn't expect it to be like this. Even if www.biquge.info note is nothing, but the tone of this sentence made a group of bishops suddenly a little hairy, and they couldn't figure out what Karil was about, and then when they looked at Karil in a daze, their eyes were a little subtle, but fortunately, a group of people thought about it, and there didn't seem to be any attitude problems along the way in just now, but it should be fine.
"Where is he ......" Carlil put away the message and put it back in the box, not messing with the dial, and placing the box directly on the table.
"Hmm...... Tower of Atonement," the archbishop was stunned by Karil's question, and then quickly said, "If it's convenient, I'll take you there." ”
Just kidding, what kind of person is the person who can make Pope Angelo Bloomer, who was at the pinnacle of the Holy See at the time, just a cute fox demon girl on the surface.
While thinking in his heart, the archbishop quickly exchanged glances with the others, and a group of people hurriedly took the three of Karil directly out of the stream, from the Temple of Radiance to the Tower of Atonement.
"What the hell is going on," a bishop slowed down, deliberately falling to the back of the line and saying to his companion, but there was only confusion in his tone.
"How do I know, Pope Bloomer didn't tell me again" The other party replied a little angrily, "I'll see later, anyway, the Tower of Atonement is not far away"
"Well, that's right"
The bishops don't know how long they haven't felt this way now, and many years of papal life have made them develop a calm and calm mentality, and the last time they muttered like this was how many years before they became bishops.
The bishop of the older generation who walked in front leaned over slightly and glared fiercely at the two juniors.
According to this posture, is it true that Pope Angelo Bloomer's final "listening to God's will" is just listening to God's will, and not returning to the old man of the God of Light? Is Pope Bloomer really waiting for that man in the Tower of Atonement right now?
The last bishop was glared back by the seniors with a few words, but what he was thinking about would not stop, and he looked suspiciously along the crowd towards Kaliel.
It's just a fox girl wearing blue clothes, with long pale blonde hair and a pair of pointed ears, and a long tail, as if there is really nothing special about anything else, there is no special breath on the body, not particularly close to the light or the dark, except that the magic seems to be good, there are really not many characteristics.
What will happen......
A group of people walked suspiciously in the inner aisle of the Holy See leading to the Tower of Atonement, the atmosphere was a little strangely silent, Kahlil followed the archbishop at the front of the line, no one could see what her expression was now, Qing Xi and Red Lotus followed, almost blocking Karil's figure.
Starting from the Temple of Radiance, a large part of the city area is the Holy See's own complex, and the Tower of Atonement is in a vacant lot in the middle of it, which was originally a sacrificial tower, but was gradually abandoned after the Holy See continued to expand, until Angelo entered it, and was cleaned and cleaned by the Holy See.
This tower is old, far less magnificent than the towers and temples of the Holy See today, only the scratches and precipitation left by time on it.
So when the crowd unconsciously walked to the Tower of Atonement, the bishops finally came to their senses.
"Can I go in?" Kahlil asked, knowing without asking...... What's more, even if the Holy See doesn't let it, Karil will kill it.
"Yes, of course" The archbishop nodded hurriedly, "Please, at any time"
In fact, they also wanted to go in and see what was going on, and even if there was nothing inside, it would be a great attraction to visit Pope Bloomer's final refuge.
But they weren't invited, and it was not good for a group of people to follow up like this, and the archbishop considered it again and again, and finally gave up the idea of being cheeky enough to go in and have a look.
"Well, they can come with me," Karil asked, and that was really the question to ask.
"This ......" The archbishop also hesitated, looked back at the group of bishop friends, and was collectively blocked back by their "you handled it yourself" looks.
"Alright then, yes," the archbishop touched his beard helplessly.
"Let's go"
Kahlil beckoned lightly, beckoned Qing Ci and Red Lotus to follow, and finally glanced up at the Tower of Atonement, and led the two of them to push open the huge tower door and walk in together.
As if no one had ever moved, a huge amount of dust rose with the door and quickly drifted into the air, irradiated by the air leaked by the hollow carving, forming a criss-crossing column of light in the tower.
Sticking to the inner wall of the tower, a spiral staircase leads upwards from the ground to the top of the spire.
Similarly, the other spiral staircase leads down to the very bottom of the Tower of Atonement.
"Go up? Or go down? What are you looking for? Red Lotus asked, she saw Kahlil standing in the hall a little distracted, and couldn't help but step forward and pull Karil's sleeve.
"Ah, I'm sorry" Karil rubbed her hair, "go down, he's down there"
With that, he led the two of them down the spiral staircase.
There is a magic circle built above the Tower of Atonement, which can slowly absorb magic power and use it to supply the operation of the tower, and when the three of Karil walked down, the blue crystals on the wall slowly lit up, illuminating the entire closed spiral passage.
For decades, no one had ever stepped in again, and the dust that had accumulated was on the ground, and the walls, carried up by the footsteps of the three men, floated gently in the air, and then fell on the clothes of the three men.
"Now, how deep are the stairs......
This secluded closed spiral passage made Red Lotus feel very uncomfortable, and for a moment she felt that she shouldn't be curious about what was inside.
"I don't know, but it won't be long"
Kahlil replied without looking back, it was the first time she had entered the tower, and she didn't know anything about the tower, the only thing she knew was Angelo's habits.
"Soon to be ......"
Kahlil couldn't tell if she was looking forward to it now, and she wanted to hurry up and get there quickly, but she was afraid that if she faced the grief of her friend's body.
Although she didn't know anything about the tower, she knew Angelo's habits, so as Karil replied, it wouldn't be too deep.
It's just that in this claustrophobic environment, it makes people feel that time is slow.
Just when Red Lotus couldn't help but want to say something more, Kahlil stepped on the lowest level of ground first.
The spiral staircase, over.
The crystal on the stairs behind him faded away, except for the part at the end of the crystal, which was still illuminated, illuminating a heavy wooden door at the end, and a lock on the door.
Kahlil suddenly felt the urge to laugh, and she wanted to say "It's time for you to play with this thing for me", but no one around could understand what she was saying.
This thing is not difficult at all, it doesn't need a password, it doesn't need a key, you know the steps, just disassemble the locks like building blocks, it's not difficult for Carlil at all, and the password disk is made by the same guy, and appearing here at this time makes Carlil feel that when something big happens, the other party will give you a little joke without heart.
But it did make Kahlil relax a little, but the air in it was really bad, and she couldn't relax.
The trap lock is quickly unfastened, and it falls to the ground as a pile of parts.
Karil took a deep breath and pushed open the dusty door with both hands......
Not at all like something that hadn't been touched in decades, the wooden door was easily pushed open.
The last few crystals outside the door went out, and the crystals inside the door slowly lit up, illuminating the basement about the size of a classroom.
On the leftmost wall was a huge map of the world, a mess of instruments and alchemy supplies stacked in the corner, a large number of books and manuscripts in the opposite corner, a messy table with parchment and ink already covered with dust, and finally in the middle of the room was a beautifully decorated chair, on which a man sat with his back to the door, his head beaten, his robe stained gray with dust, as if he had been dead for many years.
Do you want to go in?
The glow of the crystal was not enough to fully illuminate the room, and nothing could be seen clearly.
Karil took a few steps forward and stepped into the room, the sound of crisp footsteps being particularly loud in this extremely quiet place.
Like a bell that wakes up a man who sleeps.
"You're finally here"
The sound of dryness, as if a dead branch being crushed, suddenly startled both the red lotus and the Qing ceremony, and reflexively pressed his hand on the weapon, and withdrew his hand.
But Kaliel, as if relieved, breathed a sigh of relief, stopped, and stood quietly.
"I'm sorry, I've been waiting," Carlil replied softly, "Looks like you're having a good time."
She struggled to separate the sentences and make herself appear calmer.
"I knew you'd be back, but I didn't expect it to last so long"
The back moved slowly, like a corpse that had just been resurrected, stiffly moving its arms, turning its back to the three people, raising its head, shaking off the thick dust on its body, and trembling and standing up from the chair.
"It's been too long since this mistake was made......"
His voice was full of vicissitudes and pain, and he said that he was moving his body hard, and turned to face the direction of the three people. Unlike him, who appeared to be like a dead man, his face was nothing more than that of an old man with some dry skin.
"Let's fix this mistake quickly."
He walked over step by step, a little stiffly, and as he spoke, he walked up to Karil, and suddenly fell to one knee in front of Karil as if he had fallen, opened his mouth, and said a word in a rough but somewhat irrepressible voice.
"-Let's do it!"