Chapter 80: The Temple
"Uncle, you said you spent the night here?" Kane was surprised.
"yes, what's the problem?" Cassadine turned to look at Kane.
"No ......," Kane twitched.
Seeing that he had nothing to say, Cassadine turned back to look for the mechanism.
The two of them swept away the dust and saw some words, which probably meant "the Sun Dynasty is glorious for eternity", and did not say how to open the stone door.
Looking at these words now, Kane suddenly felt a little ironic, because the dynasty had been in decline for three thousand years.
But he immediately pursed his lips again, and his face was solemn.
If no changes are made, it may be another five years, and the dynasty will really recover.
"Found it!" Cassadine threw the trap from the sand beneath his feet.
He pulled the mechanism directly, and the stone door rose with the rumbling sound of a boulder grinding, drawing Kane Kesha's attention.
"There's really something!"
The sunlight from the staircase slanted into the temple, and you could see an altar surrounded by an abyss, and on the stone platform in the middle of the altar was a piece of magatama that radiated a blue light, like a tear.
"It's really this......" Kane twitched at the corner of his mouth. I thought, little yellow hair, you don't have a chance.
"What is this?" Keisha asked.
"The Tears of the Goddess, a magical artifact with great magical power, with the help of which mages can cast spells frequently." Kane added, "It's in the tower's books. ”
"Then you're welcome."
"Wait!"
Keisha pushes Kane to step into the temple, but is abruptly stopped by the latter.
"What's wrong?" Cassadine asked.
"There's a void creature inside! And there are a lot of them! Kane pointed to the bottomless abyss next to the altar: "They lurk below, and if you take the treasure, you will alarm them." ”
"Do you still take it? Or just leave things here? Cassadine didn't know what the situation was, so he didn't dare to be too aggressive.
"Take it, but let Keisha get it alone, she's fast, and we'll stay at the door to answer it."
Kane thought that if he didn't take it, he might kill Little Yellow Hair for nothing, so he decided to take it.
Cassadine glanced at the thickness of the stone door that had shrunk into the ceiling, and felt that the Blade of the Underworld could be sliced open, so he had no objection, but asked Keisha to be careful.
"Keisha, run out as soon as you get something." As she was ready to do it, Kane patted her lightly on the back.
"Okay." Keisha nodded, and then walked to the altar with a solemn expression.
The light in the altar was dim, and Keisha walked straight to the edge of the abyss to look down.
It was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.
Several pieces of carapace cover the face, stacked on top of each other to form a helmet.
By switching visions, Keisha sees what is hidden in the darkness.
A strange and terrifying carapace body, hooked blade feet hooked to the edge of the abyss, the top of the shell open with dark eyes, hanging all over the bottomless rock wall.
Keisha's eyes narrowed, for the first time she had seen so many ethereals entrenched in one place.
She came up the altar through the stone steps of the abyss.
As Kane said, without touching the Tears of the Goddess, it would not alarm the swarm, and the ethereal spirits still hung quietly on the rock wall.
If you were an ordinary person, you might not have noticed them entrenched in the darkness below.
Keisha did not doubt him, and walked to the stone platform by stepping on the masonry of the altar.
She noticed that the stone platform was constantly absorbing the magic of the Tears of the Goddess, and the mist containing the magic power turned purple in mid-air, and was sucked into the stone platform like a note.
It's time to get your hands dirty.
Keisha glanced at Kane and saw him nodding to herself at the door, finally grabbing the Tears of the Goddess.
After she did so, the purple smoke all burrowed into the stone platform, spreading rapidly downward through the lines hidden in the masonry.
The purple light briefly illuminated the abyss, and all those ethereal spirits were alarmed, their eyes lit up with purple light, and they swarmed up to the altar.
When the thing arrived, Keisha immediately ran to the exit.
She sped into a sprint, leaping over the abyss.
The ethereal spirit flew towards her, but it couldn't reach the corners of her clothes, and she writhed her limbs and fell into the abyss.
Keisha landed lightly and ran towards the gate, the ethereals couldn't keep up with her speed, and the task was an easy one for her.
At this moment, the stone gate rumbled and began to descend.
Keisha was stunned, if she let it come down and violently break the door with a plasma bomb herself, it might be too late.
However, Kane, who was guarding the door, was prepared, and he pressed his hands against the heavy stone door to buy Keisha time.
The stone gate weighs a thousand pounds, and the power of the mechanism is constantly oppressing, no matter how hard Kane tries, he can only delay the time for it to fall.
His knees were bent and the door was getting lower......
But that was enough, and Keisha slid sideways, quickly slid out the door, and retreated with the Tears of the Goddess.
Kane let go of his hand, and the stone door crashed down, blocking the boiling torrent of fangs and claws that were about to strike.
"I've got it for you." Keisha exhaled and shoved the Tears of the Goddess into Kane's hands.
"Well done." Kane complimented her severely.
"Won't they rush out?" Walking up the stairs, Cassadine looked back at the stone gate.
Now, he finally realized how dangerous it was to hide in the door for the night. If the Ethereal Worm Swarm had rushed out and drowned him at that time, he wouldn't have seen Keisha again.
"There are too many ethereals, and we're having trouble solving them. If you can close it, close it, and if you can't close it, stay away. ”
The three of them walked away, and then they heard Keisha say, "Kane, I think there is something strange about this altar. ”
"What's the matter?"
"When I got closer, I saw that the altar was actually absorbing the magic of the Goddess's Tears and transforming it into Void Energy."
"You mean someone transformed it and used the Tears of the Goddess to feed the Void?"
Kane held up the stone he was holding, his skin armor eager to devour the magic within, but he pressed it down.
"Well, that's pretty much it." Keisha nodded.
"It should be the Prophet's cult that has done its work in the Temple of the Sun and transformed it into a void sacrificial ground." Cassadine clenched his fists: "Those brutes, sooner or later I will have to throw them down to feed the Void!" If they continue like this, there will be more people killed! ”
Keisha had never seen her father so angry, and quickly grabbed his arm. Cassadine looked at her daughter's nervous look and touched her hair to hold back her hatred.
Kane felt that it was inappropriate to throw the cult to feed the Void, they deserved to die, but throwing it to the Void was increasing the dark power of the Void.
But when it comes to it, Cassadine gets angry, and he doesn't talk much.
Cassadine is just talking angry, and he will be measured when he really starts.
"It's not far from our village." Cassadine was silent for a while, then suddenly turned to Keisha and said, "Let's go back, go back and see your mother, and then we will start again along the water source." ”