Chapter Twenty-Six: Running to Destiny
The mystery is.
He was here when Linko woke up.
It is a huge temple, with towering* stone pillars and richly shaped statues, all revealing that it is an outbuilding of a typical religious temple.
The forms of the statues are different, there are gods with hideous faces, and there are also fairies with high-spirited and sacred postures, vivid and exquisite, but maybe no one has cleaned them for too long, and some of them are dusty.
The wide walls around are painted with various mythological stories, and it is surprising that the whole wall painting does not have the brilliant color of the Western church in Linko's previous life, but is mostly gray and black, which makes the whole hall look a little gloomy.
Through the thin curved dome made of unknown crystals, Lin Ke saw that the sky was dark, and the clouds were surging, and only a faint light passed through to tell him that it was daytime.
Lilith was still lying beside him, breathing steadily, which reassured him, but she never woke up, which made him a little worried.
The big black horse has already woken up and looks very energetic, pacing slowly in the hall, very comfortable, after finding that Lin Ke woke up and trotted over with a cheerful neigh, it was only at this time that Lin Ke was surprised to find that the big black horse whose back was originally slightly higher than Lin Ke's shoulders now has completely exceeded Lin Ke's height, and its body has strangely expanded more than one circle!
Behemoth!
Lin Ke gently groped the big black horse, and the latter lowered his head comfortably and arched Lin Ke's shoulder, yawning comfortably, but Lin Ke was even more surprised to see that the big black horse's head and forehead were raised in the middle of two sharp horns that were ten centimeters long and shot straight ahead!
Is it still a horse?
"Essentially, it's still a horse," an ethereal voice echoed through the main hall, echoing through the empty hall.
Lin Ke turned around quickly and looked around, only to find that a bald middle-aged man in a pure black robe had appeared on the seat not far behind him at some point.
The bald middle-aged man has a huge nose that is unforgettable at first sight, and at this moment he is easily crossing Erlang's legs with a cynical smile, without the slightest demeanor that he should have as a strong man, but Lin Ke knows that this person is probably amazingly strong.
"Don't you have anything to say, I got you out of there, oh, of course, and your little lover, and your horse, well, though I don't think it's an ordinary horse," the bald man chattered a little, but found that Lin Ke on the other side was still silent and a little bored.
"Hey, say something, kid, say something and ask me not to kill you or something, or ask me why I brought you here, what are you doing here?"
"It's been a long time since you've spoken to someone like this?" said Linko.
"Huh?" The bald head really didn't think that the first formal conversation between him and him would revolve around such a topic, "Maybe, it's not very long, maybe three years or five years?"
Lin Ke bowed respectfully, "Thank you for saving me from a desperate situation of death, what do you need me to do for you?besides, why can't my companion wake up?"
"Why did you decide to speak again?" asked the bald head curiously.
"Because I think that someone who can answer a question like mine after thinking about it seriously will not kill me easily, and may be willing to answer my doubts," Lin Ke said calmly.
"Well," said the bald head after pondering for a while, "I need you to do something, some of which may be dangerous and troublesome, um... If you don't get it right, it will affect your family, and of course, you will get a lot of benefits. ”
"Can I say no?" asked Linko.
"Of course not," the bald head glared, and then there was some silence, "If it were in the past, I wouldn't be interested in forcing anyone to do anything, but now the situation is a little different, some things must be done," the bald head stared at Lin Ke and said seriously, "This is our fate, no one can hide from it." ”
Lin Ke was silent for a long time, "So can you tell me what you want me to do?"
"Of course," the bald man laughed and stood up and walked in the direction of the outside of the main hall, "come with me, I think I should show you something amazing, and then tell you this story slowly, it's very long, oh yes, your little lover will be there, the floor of this hall won't let her catch a cold, she's fine, but I don't want her to wake up too soon." ”
Lin Ke hesitated for a moment and still didn't choose to oppose the bald man's decision, took a deep look at Lilith's peaceful sleeping position, tore off a thick tablecloth from a table in the main hall, shook off the dust on it, and carefully covered her body, and then ran quickly outside the main hall, behind him, the big black horse trotted all the way to follow.
One man and one horse, galloping towards an unknown fate.
As soon as Lin Ke came out of the main hall, he couldn't help but stop.
The miracle in front of him completely shocked his heart!
A huge curtain of light shrouded the ground like an inverted eggshell, covering a radius of several kilometers!
Outside the light curtain, the hurricane swept the immeasurable sea water, soaring into the sky, straight into the sea of clouds!
I don't know how high it is, and I don't know how much it is thick!
And the center of this huge and immeasurable tornado is this small island at the foot of Linko!
Lin Ke raised his head stiffly, and only a dozen meters beyond the light curtain above his head was already a dense cloud layer, which was not transparent at all!
The vision of heaven and earth like the waves of doom crashing into his face made Lin Ke stand still, his heart trembled, he was terrified, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
At this moment, he felt extremely strong that he was insignificant, the sand and the sea of dust, a drop in the sea was indescribable!
He saw a huge beast in the sea that was dozens of meters long and hideous, but at this moment, it was also like a leaf in the wind and water curtain, and the weak roar seemed to penetrate through the unshakable light curtain into his heart!
I'm afraid there is no living creature in this world who can not tremble from the bottom of his heart in front of such the power of heaven and earth, Lin Ke thought silently.
"What's the view of this empty island?" the bald head quietly appeared beside Lin Ke.
Lin Keran nodded, he was still a little stunned.
Wait!Sky Island?
Lin Ke came back to his senses in an instant, staring at the bald man with wide eyes, "You say...... Sky Island?!"
"Yes, Sky Island," said the bald head with an angry smile on his face, "an empty island that moves with this seaspout in the center of the Storm Ocean. ”
Linkemuran, Sky Island, Seaspout, Storm Ocean Center.
He was a little confused.
"Hahaha," the bald head laughed smugly, laughing until he couldn't stop coughing, "Alright, the view is almost over, let's go to the central hall," he said, turning and walking towards the center of the island, where a towering spire almost broke through the light curtain and rushed out of the main hall outside.
Lin Ke nodded blankly, and followed behind the bald head in a daze, as if he was thinking about something, but in fact he didn't think about anything.
It wasn't until he walked into the central hall that Lin Ke came back to his senses a little, and at this moment, when he looked at the hundreds of meters tall mountain-like pillars in the hall, he was somewhat indifferent, but he still couldn't close his mouth.
There is only one word in his heart, and that is that manpower is difficult to do!
The bald man walked to a high chair in the deepest part of the hall and sat down, before casually pointing to a position not far away for Lin Ke to sit down.
Lin Ke sat down without thinking before realizing that something was wrong.
In the depths of the main hall there is a gradually rising platform, a total of six floors, each floor has more than a dozen seats, and the highest point here is only three in total, the bald head sits in the highest and middle position, the seat on the bald side is vacant, and he sits in the first position of the bald head.
He thought about it for a moment and was about to stand up, but was stopped by the bald head waving his hand.
"There used to be a strict hierarchy here, not to mention those who were not qualified to sit in a higher position, even if they just touched the next step without authorization, they might be thrown out of the light curtain, but that was thousands of years ago, if it was placed in the past, I am afraid that I would not even have the qualifications to touch this step, but now I am sitting here," the bald man sighed, "Don't talk about this, I'll tell you the origin of this place first." ”
"Tens of thousands of years ago, this was the holy place of the Dark Church that only the most devout dark believers on the mainland were qualified to worship, a place of inheritance of faith that has existed for countless years," the bald man's voice was flat and low, but he said something that shocked Lin Ke very much.
Dark Church !!
Lin Ke learned from Cohen's memory that now in the First Empire of the continent, the strongest force of the human race was founded on the Church of Light, and the Church of Darkness he had never heard of, but even if he just heard the name, he knew what the situation was.
The bald man ignored Lin Ke's secret hesitation and continued, " The Dark Church was originally a big force that could compete with the Church of Light, but tens of thousands of years ago, well, I need to explain that it was not that I intended to cover up anything, but that it was too long, so long that even the inheritance of the Dark Church has no exact record of how many thousands of years ago, but in short, it will not exceed 100,000 years, back to the topic, tens of thousands of years ago, the world suddenly underwent some changes, the dark believers lost contact with the gods, people began to be confused and afraid, a large number of believers began to lose, and the dark church began to gradually decline, until thousands of years agoHe was my teacher, he found me at the end of his life, and he spent some years teaching me so that I could go further on the path of dark magic, and then he died," the bald man continued, after a moment of silence, Since then, the Dark Church has become my Dark Church, my own, and I vowed to bring the Dark Church back to the mainland, to have believers again, to reconnect with the gods, to regain its glory, and I have worked hard all my life like countless sages, only to find that in the end, it was just another failure. ”
"The world has changed, and the forces of darkness are like lost children who can't find their way home......"