Chapter 212: Entering the Temple
The back of the Heavenly Veil Behemoth is covered with a large number of trees, even within the GBL Sect. At this time, Nia and the others walked in one of the woods. Fortunately, Vader, a local person, led the way, so that the team safely avoided the many protective traps hidden by the GBL Sect along the way. Of course, the reason for this was attributed to the fact that Vader had already carried out the probe before.
The mercenaries brought by Nia this time, except for a few people who were responsible for controlling the Dornier airship, the strength of the rest of them was above the second-order sixth. As for the rest, Nia simply left them all in the camp. After all, based on previous combat experience, these mercenaries can be said to be useless. But even so, the number of people accompanying him this time was nearly 100.
After marching for more than two hours, Nia and the others finally reached the end of the woods. Along the way, Nia and her party did not encounter any obstacles. Come to think of it, those GBL cultists had already shrunk into the interior of the temple at this time.
Here, the surrounding trees suddenly disappeared, and a temple with the characteristics of the GBL Sect appeared in front of the team.
The shape of the building is approximately triangular, about twenty meters high, and the area occupied is unknown, at least from the entrance of the temple, the end of which cannot be seen. The entire temple is made of earth and stone, and on the walls of the temple, there are a large number of GBL reliefs, most of which are badly worn, and obviously have gone through extremely long years.
At the entrance of the temple, several unidentified birds, apparently uncontrolled, were pecking at grass seeds on the ground. It wasn't until they were alarmed by the sound of the mercenaries coming out of the jungle that the birds scattered with a hula.
"Is this really where Lotus is hiding? Not to mention that we didn't encounter any obstacles all the way here, and even when we reached the entrance of the temple, we didn't see a single GBL believer. Filled with doubts, Nia pulled Vidar aside and whispered.
"I guess so...... The central shrine of the GBL is indeed here, yes. "The temple seemed so peaceful in the eyes of everyone that even Vader became a little uncertain at this point. After all, from the outside, it is clear that this temple has never been damaged, and even the damage on the reliefs outside is only caused by the erosion of time.
"Anyway, let's go and explore first, maybe we can find some clues." Now that she had brought the team here, she couldn't just turn back, and after thinking about it, Nia finally made a decision.
Asking the mercenaries to retreat dozens of meters and be ready to fight, Nia put on her shield and walked alone towards the temple gate. Naturally, there were scout-like characters in the team, but without being sure if this was Lotus's hideout, Nia decided to go there herself, so as not to cause trouble because there was nothing here.
Nia's consideration was obviously unnecessary, and as soon as she put her hand on the door of the temple, a sense of crisis appeared in her heart. Since becoming a battlemage, her sense of crisis has been able to warn of crises in advance every time.
"Doesn't seem to be in the wrong place." The corners of her mouth curled slightly, but Nya opened the door more cautiously.
As the temple door was opened a gap, inside the pitch-black temple, a 'circular dart' suddenly shot rapidly towards the door of Nia.
Instinctively, Nia jerked her head to the side, and the next moment, the dart swept past her forehead. In the afterglow, Nia recognized it as an octopus the size of a palm.
Her hands snapped into force, and Nia jerked back to the side. Under this force, the door of the temple, which had been opened by a gap, suddenly opened, and the scene behind the door became unobstructed in front of everyone's eyes.
After seeing the inside of the temple, most of the mercenaries' faces became ugly. At this time, in the temple, there are more than 100 octopuses, these octopuses are of different sizes and colors, and the only similarity is probably only on the bodies of these octopuses, and there are still some remnants of some clothes that belong to the GBL cultists.
These octopuses are all made by GBL cultists.
The little octopus that rushed out of the temple easily died under the mercenary's blade, but the mercenaries surrounding the outside became nervous, judging from the speed of the small octopus explosion before, each of the octopuses in the temple at this time had at least second-order high-level strength, if these octopuses gushed out, even if they could win, the mercenaries would definitely suffer heavy losses.
But soon, the mercenaries noticed a strange situation, and the octopuses simply crowded into the doorway and stopped advancing. It's like I'm afraid of something.
After observing the door for a while and making sure that these octopuses could not leave, the shooters in the mercenary team suddenly became excited, and they all opened their bows and arrows to shoot at the octopuses crowded at the door.
Although the entrance to the temple is not small, it is crowded with octopuses at this time, so that the shooters can hit even with their eyes closed.
After two rounds of shooting, the octopuses were visibly aware of their decline. After leaving over thirty octopus carcasses in place, the octopuses retreated to the depths of the temple.
The depth of the temple was clearly beyond everyone's expectations. Soon, the octopuses were out of range of the mercenary shooters.
At the same time, a question was put in front of the mercenaries. If they enter the temple and pursue, Nia and the others will have to face a large number of octopuses. At the same time, the Dornier airship they brought this time would be useless, although the temple was twenty meters high, but it was several floors high, and if it was just a single layer, the space inside it would not be enough to support Dornier's activities.
"Why don't you just destroy this dilapidated temple." In mid-air, a mercenary piloting the Dornier airship shouted. With that, he pulled down Donier's attack stick.
"Don't!" Noticing Dornier's attack, Vader shouted out in a hurry, "The temple has a self-defense barrier, and launching an attack on it will touch it!" ”
But Vader's shout was a step too late, and as a series of cannonballs bombarded the outer walls of the temple, a layer of azure film suddenly appeared on the outer wall of the temple, which had been broken. The film shuddered and then returned to its original form, and then a burst of light burst out from the relief on the temple wall. In an instant, the light struck the airship that had attacked earlier. After a burst of explosions, the place where the airship had been built turned into a large area of wreckage that was scattered downwards.
After a moment of silence. Looking at the dilapidated temple in front of him, the frightened emotions in the eyes of each mercenary could not be concealed.
In addition, the way they looked at Vader was noticeably different. Although Vader's job is to probe, it is clear that the information that Vader has just shouted is unusual.