Edessa stopped at the dark entrance of the hole, held his breath, and trembled slightly with the bow and arrow drawn in his hand, and began to look at the large hole that suddenly appeared in front of him.

In front of Edessard was a three-meter-tall gray boulder statue. The serpent statue snaked up the boulder, opening its huge mouth above the forest ranger's head, and the two pointed teeth glowed with a blue glow, and the forest ranger seemed to hear a hissing sound, maybe it was the sound of the wind blowing through the stone, but here, the slightest movement would make the nerves flutter with nervousness.

With a whoosh, the bow and arrow in the ranger's hand flew into the distance, and he hurriedly stepped back, and with a bang, it was mounted on a stone behind him.

Clanging, a few glittering black spikes emerged from the ground in the darkness. Then he shrank back as quickly as he could.

"Trap!" Edessa exclaimed, and he quickly pulled a familiar arrow from his waist, and in an instant he pulled the short bow out, and searched around on tiptoe.

Wow, suddenly a crow's cry came from the woods behind the boulder statue. The ranger bounced off the ground like a rabbit. While he was still in mid-air, a terrifying sound came from under his feet.

"Not good!" Edessa felt a sudden chill appear in the remainder, and his waist twisted violently, and his entire upper body moved a position to the left.

Ah, a scream from the depths of the forest. The Ranger's right foot was pierced by a black several, a finger-thick hole. A faint smell of blood spread. Edessa looked up with a frown, red eyes twinkling in the dark forest. He knew that injuries in this strange environment were fatal at this time, and he had to get out of here immediately. But before leaving, he had to figure out what the hell this was.

The stones scattered among the fallen leaves and weeds are square, with patterns and words faintly carved on them. The erected stone that the ranger had accidentally touched just now should have been a tombstone.

"Is this a cemetery?" Edessa was about to continue observing when a rustling sound came from the dark entrance of the cave. The forest ranger was shocked, he quickly took off the long sword at his waist with the scabbard, and used the scabbard as a crutch in his right hand, limping away from the purpose. Not long after he left his purpose, a large group of bats with red eyes the size of a palm flew out of the hole. They hovered over the entrance of the cave for a while before heading towards the mountain peaks to the north.

By the time the rangers returned to Ashfurnace Village, it was already getting dark.

"Are you hurt!" Merlin interrupted Edessa, who was panting and about to speak, "I'll go find the priest!" the lord of Ashfurnace Mountain left a word and hurried away.

"This lord seems to be different from other Northland barbarians!" the forest ranger's cold heart was touched slightly, "I'll give him a good time then!"

When Merlin dragged Father Yuri off the table, he endured his nagging all the way through. "Your Highness, as a nobleman, how can you disturb the priest while he is eating to enjoy the gift of the Heavenly Father!"

"Someone's hurt!" Merlin said lightly.

"It is disrespectful for Heavenly Father for His Highness to withdraw from the meal in the middle of the meal!" the priest paused, folded his hands in front of his chest, and began to ask for his forgiveness.

"Shut up, when Heavenly Father is saving people, he can even stop the sacrament, and now it is not the sacrament at all, and you actually ate meat today, you are the one who disrespects the Father. Merlin snapped, and in his eyes, Father Yuri's favorability had dropped to a yellow 20, even lower than yesterday's.

"No, I didn't, I didn't eat meat today!" the priest's face flushed. "I didn't eat meat just now. ”

"I saw it just now, but you ate that piece of meat. Merlin looked at the black-robed priest in front of him with a smirk, "Or we can have another divine judgment and see what the gods think." ”

"No, no, I don't need the judgment of the gods, in fact I just ate meat, it's just a little bit, I can't help it. Father Yuri bowed to Merlin, "Dear lord, it's sad that you know that our priests are only allowed to eat meat forever on Sundays. So I only ate a few today. ”

"I know, I see it, and I'm sure you didn't mean to break the precepts," Merlin's tone softened, if it weren't for the fact that he needed to grow the population of Ashfurnace Mountain to 200 people now, he really wanted to drive this uneducated guy out of his territory right now.

Merlin was almost angry with the priest this afternoon. He took a group of men to work in the bean field all afternoon, and then came back and told Merlin that he did not know how many hectares the bean field had, and swore that the field was immeasurable, because it was not at all irregular, it was not any rectangle or triangle at all, it was a collection of circles and rectangles.

By the time Merlin led Father Yuri to the hut, many people had already gathered in the hut. Bill, the chief of Ashfurnace Village, along with Tom and Jerry, two of Merlin's bodyguards, and Augustine, the new clerk of Ashfurnace Village.

"I can't treat this," Father Yuri said as he turned Edessa out of his wound and examined it carefully, then slurred.

"Doesn't the priest heal the wounded?" Merlin's tone couldn't help but rise a lot.

"Yes, yes," said the priest, shuddering, "the normal wound is fine, but the Ranger has a wound that is poisonous, poisonous, so it cannot be treated. ”

Merlin turned his gaze to Augustine, and now he could only hope for the elders of the Arian Academy, and he hoped that Augustine would not be like the priests of this church.

"I have a way," Augustine said again, "but it will take the holy water of Augustine's Academy, and it will only be available in Hippo." And it costs a hundred gold coins each. ”

"Well, what can be solved with gold, that's not a problem. Tomorrow I'll let Jerry go to Hippo City and dig up some more bamboo roots to come back. On the way back, Merlin began to fight the idea of the Nanzhu behind Michel Abbey, and he had chosen all the places, and he was going to start building his castle in Ashfurnace Hill in a few days, and there was always an awkward feeling in living in someone else's house.

"Okay, I'll write a letter and ask Jerry to take it to my teacher, St. Thomas, and he'll take care of everything. Augustine said.

That night, Jerry leaves Ashfurnace Mountain with Augustine's letters.