Chapter 65: The Veil of the Pious

Kelly pretended to have the courage to look down, and sure enough, there was more than one body in this room. In the empty hall of the room, the corpses of two female elves lay alongside, weathered by time.

On the beautiful faces, there were still a drop of tears before they died, and one of them opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but his heart had stopped beating before his thoughts.

The female elf near the gate was hit by an arrow in the back, and the arrow pierced her chest, and she was almost killed on the spot, as if she was about to close the stone door when she was attacked and died unguarded.

The other female elf carried a strangely shaped elven battle axe in her hand, and an elven short sword was pierced deep into her chest, the wooden hilt was exposed, and with the obliteration of time, it had almost turned into a dark mass of unknown substance, which could only be recognized by the little exposed metal part.

From the messy, knocked over brazier and scratches on the stone table, Kylie's high-speed brain recreates the scene from an unknown number of years ago.

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Today is a coming-of-age ceremony for the elven nobles, and each adult elf has to find something "worthy" or kill a feared monster in order to show his outstanding strength.

Three young men don't hunt for prey like the others, and they discover a mysterious pyramid that is heavily guarded by humans early on, and the eldest of the three, the patriarch's son, Karin, is sure that there is something "precious" there.

With Diane and Lynn, who grew up together, the three lawless elves rushed into the strange black pyramid guarded by the human kingdom.

"What people! Uh-"The humans in charge of guarding are highly alert and seem to be elite troops, but the combat effectiveness of the three adult elves in the forest is far from being measurable by humans.

An arrow pierced the guard's delay, and before the man's cry could be heard, the owner of the voice could no longer speak.

"Kill them!" Humans are alert, which reinforces Carlin's point that there is a problem here!

The three elves, Carlin is a powerful ranger, and the shortbow and elven sword in his hand unleash a gorgeous killing storm in the crowd; Diane is the daughter of the Elven War Sacrifice and an excellent protector of the jungle, and the ancient tree battle axe in her hand can even shatter a boulder. And Lin is the best elven longbowman in the entire young faction, and the great bow [Heart of the Pine Forest] inherited from her mother will take away a seemingly powerful human warrior every time she opens and closes.

An hour later, the three elves stood in the zombie-strewn pyramid, and there were no scars, obviously more than 300 human warriors had just fought with them, which showed the strength of the golden age elves.

"Phew—let's go!" Wiping his blade, Karin looked at his two friends and walked up the stone steps first.

At the end of the road was a heavy stone door, tightly closed. Carlin fiddled with himself for a long time, but couldn't find a way to open the big bulky dick.

"Get out of the way!" Diane has always been a female man who is not very angry, and she pushed Carlin, who was still swinging blindly, and the tomahawk in her hand stuck into the gap on the side of the stone door, tried to pry, and then suddenly "opened——! ”

"Click——!" There was a sound of something breaking, of course, it would not be the elven artifact [Divine Axe] Rita, but the bolt of the stone door, and then the stone gate was kicked open by Diane with a roar that was enough for several people to pass through.

"Let's go. Let's go! Karin, who was not yet accustomed to his companion's strange powers, which did not match his slender stature, went into the gap first. Holding the short sword in his hand in front of him, alerting against a possible threat, he slowly touched the room.

There were two strange braziers lit in the room, and the flames were blazing on the brass braziers, and there was nothing underneath, and the flames burned out of thin air, sending chills down the spine.

The room was large, with an old altar in the very center, on which something shone a little in the firelight.

"What did I say, there was something good!" Karin walked up in a few steps, ready to see what kind of treasure awaited the three of them, worthy of hundreds of human beings to find.

"Lynn, close the door, I'm afraid that someone will come in at this time, the light is too dark, and it is not good for us to have a conflict here" Lynn who was not familiar with tactics and strategy skillfully, Diane chose to look at the words on the wall that she seemed to be able to understand first.

"Okay—" Lin seemed unhappy that she had been allowed to do all this errands again, but she still shook her hand and walked to the hidden stone door, ready to close.

Carlin had seen the artifact, it was a white mask, a large gem set in the center, and nothing else.

Diane's interpretation did not go well, she was not a descendant of a high-ranking sacrifice like Lynn after all, and she was very uncomfortable reading these obscure frescoes, and some of them were still difficult to read.

"Here—the burial, great, Akhan, and his—the supreme treasure, how to pronounce this, I'll see, well, [Veil of the Pious], what a strange name—"

As if attracted by something, there was no movement on Carlin's side, and he just looked at the mask on the altar in silence, his face becoming cloudy in the flickering of the firelight.

"King, choose death by yourself, all intruders, vainly trying to use the veil will bring—hey! Lynn, how do you pronounce this? ”

There was a bottleneck in decipherment, and Diane looked back at Lynn who was trying to push the stone gate.

"Huh?! Ah, I looked, it seemed to be- ah, yes, Dad told me that the serpentine sign represented the curse! Looking back, Lynn seemed familiar with the text.

"So, that means—"

"Ah————!h

Diane's mind began to ponder the meaning of this so-called curse, but the sound of a bowstring pulling and Lynn's dying screams were heard.

"What people!" The tomahawk in his hand was raised, and Diane subconsciously thought that it was another attack by humans.

However, Lin, who had already fallen to the ground, had already penetrated her heart with an elven shortbow arrow on her body, and this beautiful future elf sacrifice died almost instantly.

The direction of the arrow rushes inward, and it comes from inside the door, and it is a special arrow that can only be used by the elven shortbow, that is-

Whether it was her fighting nature that made her feel threatened, or whether it was her natural nervous sensitivity that drove her body to act on its own, Diane rolled directly on the spot, and an arrow flew by her hair and nailed to the stone wall behind her.

"Carlin! You are crazy!? Diane leapt to her feet, her folded shield unfurling, covering most of her arms, her tomahawk held high above her chest, looking warily at the source of the arrows—Carlin, who was standing behind the altar with a gloomy face.