The unidentified attacker, the emblem of the power that appeared on the enchanted weapon for nearly two hundred years, was obviously different from the physique of ordinary people.

In short, there were so many oddities about the attack that it took place on this night that one could not help but feel uneasy.

Therefore, even if nothing happened in the second half of the night, it would not be strange that no one among the traversers could fall asleep peacefully.

Fortunately, such a night of insomnia has almost negligible impact on everyone today, otherwise dragging the sleepless body to reluctantly carry out the next day's expedition plan, the degree of danger is not much different from sending death.

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In the ruins of the castle of Bartori, the church of the former Karo God Church.

Although the church looks like a church with crooked ceilings, sloping walls, and slanted doors, overgrown with weeds and vines from the inside, this building is one of the most well-preserved buildings in the entire castle. Although it was damaged by a major war, it was not further damaged. It seems that the Tristram army, who had stormed the castle of Bathory, still had some leeway when they set foot on the castle, and did not destroy the church as well. As for the reason, it is nothing more than the power of the various church organizations in the world of Iber.

The world of Iber is both a world of swords and sorcery, as well as a world of religion and kingship. After all, in the primeval period before the rise of human beings, even the Titans, who claimed to be the overlords of the Iber world, worshipped and believed in the upper realm species called 'gods', and these 'gods', as they were called, had the ability to change the stars and destroy the world with the snap of their fingers. Although many of the 'gods' have disappeared after a long period of time, even when the 'demons' appeared and invaded the world of Iber, the 'gods' did not appear, and only occasionally miracles showed that they still existed. But that doesn't mean that the 'gods' won't pay attention to the world anymore. Therefore, despite the endless internal and external strife between the various forces in the world of Iber, they all tacitly agree to be friendly to the churches that worship the 'true gods' (referring to the 'gods' that did exist in the primeval period), and unless the churches act in violation of the scales that they must not be offended, they will not carry out a violent purge of the churches within their own forces, and at most they will be 'sent out of the country'.

It is for this reason that the 'churches', which provide these churches with places to spread their faith and absorb their congregants, have been nicknamed "sanctuary" in the various spheres of influence of the Iber world. Few would dare to hurt anyone here, because that would be considered by the Church to be the greatest disrespect to their gods. Offending the church in a world where there is a true God (or at least there was) is not something that a sane person would want to do.

However, on the other hand, even the churches, which are in a position of superiority compared to the secular forces, do not easily oppose the aristocracy, so they are often in an absolutely neutral position in the armed disputes of the aristocracy. Unless they have made up their minds to support one side or the other, they will simply stay away from it if it is really difficult to neutralize. Just like during the Battle of Bathory - the priests and priests of the Church of God Karo retreated from the church before the crusade of Tristram could reach the city, leaving the defenders of the Duchy of Bathory alone at the time with only one cathedral almost emptied.

The dilapidated statue of Lord Carlo was covered in a creeper, and the one-eyed view of the empty church prayer hall on the only remaining half of her cheek looked so ironic.

Even so, the travelers who came to explore here found something out of the ordinary.

"Do you feel it?" Fu Bin asked casually while looking at the dilapidated hall.

"Well, yes." Yang Qianyu casually squatted down and brushed the ground with his hands, and then twisted the dust stuck to his fingers. "There's a lot less dust here than anywhere else."

"Is there no one living here?" Zhao Ke said as he wanted to move a chair next to him, but as soon as his hand touched the back of the chair, the already decayed chair shattered into a pile of waste wood with a bang.

"Of course it's not residential," Yang Qianyu shrugged when he saw this, "You also saw that there is no trace of human habitation here." The fact that there isn't much dust accumulation here only means that people often travel here, so it's difficult to gather a lot of dust - even if you don't keep it clean, the dust accumulation is not the same in a place that has not been there for a long time compared to a place where people have been there occasionally. ”

"Why, then, would anyone travel back and forth to such a deserted place so often?" Zhao Ke wiped off the sawdust residue on his hands and asked.

Fu Bin opened his mouth and was about to answer, when there was a sudden noise from the side of the hall, and then a figure appeared at the side door.

"Come on, everyone." The figure that appeared was Zheng Kaidong, and I saw her greet with an excited expression: "We found something in the Confessional Pavilion. ”

"Oh? Let's go. After Fu Bin responded, he beckoned the people searching in the prayer hall to go to the church's confessional cabinet.

The so-called 'confessional' is a place for believers to confess their sins to the clergy of the church, to express repentance for the sins, and to swear to change. Generally speaking, if the believer commits a minor crime, as long as he confesses to the clergy here and expresses that he will be reformed, the church will usually intervene with the victim and settle the matter. So in a way, it's also a place where believers seek comfort in their faith.

The Confessional Pavilion is a relatively remote nave (after all, people who have sinned rarely tell their sins in a big way), and inside is a row of double cubicles set up against the walls of the hall, these cubicles have no windows, and the doors and walls are thick, so that the conversation in the cubicle will not be heard by outsiders, thus ensuring the privacy of the conversation. Those who come to confess will confess to the listening clergy in these cubicles.

Zheng Kaidong led everyone straight to the second compartment on the left hand of entering the hall, where several companions were already waiting.

"What the hell did you find?" Li Xiang asked impatiently.

"That's right," replied Shen Huan, who had been waiting in front of the cubicle for a long time, "Sister Fei and I (Song Fei) were inspecting this cubicle when we accidentally touched a mechanism, and we found this-"

Saying that, Shen Wan also made a demonstration, only to see her raise her hand and stick it to a pattern on the wall on one side of the compartment, and then Song Fei also raised her hand to stick it to a pattern on the wall at the other end, and then the two nodded tacitly and pressed against the wall at the same time. At the same time, I heard the rustle of the masonry rubbing against each other, and the wall of the hall next to the compartment slowly descended, opening a staircase passage that extended downward and could accommodate two people walking side by side.