Chapter 332: The Alarm Bell Rings
Walking down the streets of Ambo, the noisy bazaars on both sides of the streets are gone, and the shops are crowded, some of which are even closed for business.
Mia and Evis walked together, and Adès followed as a messenger of flowers, and as they approached the Temple of the Sea Goddess, all three of them slowed down and focused their attention on the temple.
Mia stared at the emblem on the marble column, half-turned her head and said to Adès: "Young master, the aura on the emblem is already very weak, I don't know if I did it on purpose or if I am really about to lose the favor of the gods. ”
Basically, each deity will hang a holy emblem on the outside of the temple to indicate its affiliation, and the light on the emblem will also show people the strength of the temple and the favor of the gods.
The brilliance dissipates, which proves that the temple is not under the gaze of the gods, of course, this is not necessarily the case, and there are many times when the temple will automatically reduce the brightness of the light in order to keep a low profile.
Ades replied in a low voice: "Don't go over, let's turn back." ”
They didn't come to enter the temple to test the reality, but they just wanted to explore the terrain on the periphery, the temple of the Lord of Storms had already seen it, and now they came to see the goddess of the sea.
"Mia, where did you buy that shell necklace you gave me before?"
On the way back, there was nothing to see on either side, and Eves was bored and remembered the old necklace.
"Huh?" it had been years, and Mia didn't remember it for a while, but it took a while to remember that she had indeed bought some shells and made them into necklaces for Eves and Yunnie.
"I don't know what happened to the little girl who was picking up shells, if she lived in the suburbs......"
Recalling the situation at that time. The kind-hearted Mia suddenly remembered the tragic situation in the village on the outskirts of Ambo.
This made Mia hate the methods of the Storm Lord even more, it was too cruel. Those ordinary villagers will not have any effect on them, so why should they be exterminated?
Don't let her get a chance to meet those crazy people. Otherwise, we must seek justice for the villagers.
"The patriarch will be arriving in Ambo in the next few days, I don't know what he will do to those madmen, if the conditions allow, can we join forces with him and kill those madmen first?" Mia grabbed Evis, waited for Adès to come up, and asked in a low voice beside him.
Adès glanced left and right, and Shen Nian also paid a little attention, and saw that there was no one next to him. Then he said softly to Mia: "It's hard to estimate, it depends on how many people the patriarch has brought, and the information is not clearly stated." ”
The intelligence officer in Chavyudat is just an ordinary professional, and for the patriarch who consciously hides the strength of his team, it is too simple to deceive these people, so there is only about the number of people who come with the ship, but how many of these people can fight, this is really completely unknown.
"Let's find out the situation first, Mia, don't let the situation affect your judgment. Eves tightened Mia's hand around her arm as she spoke.
Adès took the initiative to come to Ambo this time, but he was not completely clueless. You must know that when the demons were annihilated on the volcanic island, the priests of the previous generation left the scepter of inheritance.
After the identification and judgment of Yunnie, Cardinal and others, this is related to the scepter and the divine array in Ambo's Temple of the Sea Goddess, and it is likely to be an amplified magic weapon.
And because of that. Adès didn't dismantle the scepter, otherwise he would have used it as a material to make a new one for Molly to use.
Since you have such a thing in your hand, come to Prologis to see if there is a chance to pit both sides once. It's a logical fit.
After surveying the terrain, the three returned to Golden Amber and continued to await the Patriarch's arrival. Only he came, and the contradiction was aroused. in order to find the opportunity to start in the contradictions.
In the open sea, a luxurious merchant ship was sailing on the sea, and the Patriarch was looking out from the window of the upper class, getting closer and closer to Ambo, and his calculations were getting more and more, although there were many people in the temple of Tsavudat who opposed him, it was a difficult thing to pull him from the position of the Patriarch.
Although the Patriarch's mission to investigate Truda was a failure, there was a way to excuse his own mistakes, and the simplest thing to say was that the team members who went to investigate first did not reflect the real situation to the church, which caused this mistake.
The scapegoats are......
But the number of combat teams that he originally controlled by himself has decreased, which is the purpose of his coming to Ambo this time, as long as he controls Ambo Port, then he will have a lot of manpower and material resources to rebuild the combat team in the future.
With the strength in his hands, then the right to speak in the temple will naturally return to his own hands, which is the natural privilege of being the patriarch.
"The most hateful thing is those old guys, wouldn't it be better to die early and go to the kingdom of God early, what are you doing with such a long life?" the patriarch said to himself as he stared at a merchant ship outside that met his fleet.
In gold amber.
"Young master, look at the messenger plate. "In the hotel, there are many items that usually need to be exercised, and there is no space for the three professionals to go to activities, so they can only read books and be in a daze.
When Mia was immersed in reading, she saw the messenger tray on the table next to her glowing slightly, and hurriedly shouted to Adès, who was closing her eyes on the bed.
"Black Iron Offshore Sea...... Two days...... Meet...... Approximate shipping schedule......"
"This is information from Anna that someone has met a special fleet off the coast of Black Iron. Adès looked at the message tray and spoke the message to the two followers beside him.
"Is it the Patriarch's fleet?" Mia asked quickly.
"I don't know if it's or not, but the people who met them told Anna that it was a fleet they hadn't seen before. ”
"Anna judged the Patriarch?" asked Evis, who listened as she listened.
If it weren't for this judgment, Anna wouldn't have sent a message to Adès, which is not difficult to understand.
"Well, that's how Anna judged, they really met in the open sea of Black Iron Harbor, and estimated the speed, and there were about three days to go before Ambo. Anna told us to be careful. Adès read all the information on the information tray and told Yvis and Mia all of them.
"It doesn't matter how many days it takes. Anyway, everything that should be arranged has been arranged, and it depends on whether they will fight first or go to the temple first as soon as they go ashore. ”
Adès smiled and said, "I must go to the temple first." It was only when we gathered the men and horses that we could deal with the madmen, and the patriarch was not a fool. ”
Seeing that her opinion was refuted by her own young master, Mia snorted a few times and continued: "That's not necessarily, you don't allow others to come up and make a surprise attack, so that you can take advantage of their unpreparedness, and you still teach this truth." ”
"Don't make a noise, and don't let people read books?" Evis interrupted the two of them by rolling her eyes, these two people were really boring, and this was also easy to argue.
"There are three days to go. It's boring......" Mia was reprimanded by Yvess, lowered her head to look at the books on the table, and slammed her head on the table.
"Deacon, now that the strongholds on the outskirts have been uprooted by us, otherwise we will take advantage of this opportunity to simply drive the group of people on the opposite side out of Ambo. ”
In the Storm Lord's council chamber, the group of young men who had done great service to the temple were urging the deacons to act decisively.
"Don't worry, there's no one in the temple over there, wait until you're all rested. We're doing it. The deacon also knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
There are less than fifty people in the Temple of the Sea Goddess, and if the temple's defensive magic array is raised, a few relatively high-level priests must be left in charge, and there are even fewer people who can fight.
"Deacon. We've all been off for days, and we're not going to do anything, if we let the people over there get in touch with some other forces. Then it will be late. ”
The deacon of the Storm Temple looked at the few young people in front of him who were risking to act alone, and his heart was really hated and loved. If they hadn't weakened the power of the Temple of the Sea Goddess, there would have been no good chance now.
But the relationship between the two sides was directly severed. If Amberi goes to Taboris to complain in the future, although Tajres will not return Amber to Ambery, they will be in danger of taking the initiative to provoke the war.
The Lord of the Storm had already peeked into the priesthood of the Goddess of the Sea, and he would definitely not turn against Ambori because of this matter, he must have appeased the Goddess of the Sea, so ......
The deacon couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the Storm Lord's brutal nature, this matter was not easy to settle.
Whether to accept it when it is good or to kill it all, the deacon has not really made up his mind yet.
"Deacon......
Outside the hall, the voice of a subordinate reported to him.
"Deacon, news has come from the caravan that has newly joined us during this time, and has encountered a luxurious fleet of unknown origin in the open sea of Black Iron Harbor, which is sailing for Ambo. ”
The deacon frowned, and said in a somewhat impatient tone: "Isn't it normal to have a fleet on the route?"
"It wasn't a merchant ship, it wasn't an ordinary armed clipper, it looked like a ship for the big guys. The subordinate was frightened by the deacon's impatience, and quickly knelt down on one knee and continued to explain.
"Big shots?"
The goddess of the sea is different from the lord of the storm, in all the ports on the mainland, there will be believers in Amberi, if some ports do not have shrines, then there will be some small altars or something, and even set up a room on the ship as a prayer room to worship the statue or emblem of the goddess of the sea.
As for the Lord of the Storm, except for some remote places or dangerous areas where there will be temples, there will basically be no temples in any city on the continent, except for Ambo.
Therefore, if a ship comes here, in addition to looking for the leaders of those caravans or nobles, then it is someone who comes to find the two temples, and the chance of coming to the temple of the Lord of the Storm is even more remote.
The deacon squinted his eyes, could it be that this is the foreign aid found by the Ocean Temple?
You must know that all the way to the west, Valan, Tsavyudat, Beruya, and Kesir all have temples of the goddess of the sea, and the temples of the goddess of the sea are different from the temples of the Lord of the Storm, they are much more united than themselves.
The deacon gritted his teeth and kept doing it, rather than beware of them coming to foreign aid, it was better to kill them now.
"When will that fleet arrive?"
"There is no news of this, and the caravan does not dare to approach, let alone ask where they are going, so it is impossible to estimate the speed, but according to the speed of ordinary ships, they will reach Ambo at noon tomorrow at the earliest, and the night after tomorrow at the latest. ”
After a moment's time, the deacon stood up and said to the young delegates, "Go back now, eat and drink enough, and then go to the idol to pray for the restoration of the divine magic, and I will mobilize the others." ”
The young men looked at the deacon with joy and stood up to salute and receive the order.
"Hey, look at the Storm Lord's Temple!"
In a small courtyard where the back door of the Storm Lord's Temple could be seen from afar, two servants dressed up noticed something unusual.
"Do you want to report to the priest?"
"What's the use of reporting it? Don't forget that when the villages on the outskirts were in disaster before, didn't they come to report it, did the temple go out of the city to save them?"
The subordinate who first discovered the anomaly hesitated a little after listening to his companion's words.
"Don't be stupid, report now, if the people on the other side of the Storm Lord's temple just come and go normally, we will be punished. Seeing that he was still a little hesitant, his companion hurriedly warned him.
The subordinate who first noticed the anomaly squinted his eyes and stared at the person who came out of the back door of the temple from a distance and said, "You won't be fully armed when you enter and exit normally, right?"
"If you want to go, I'm definitely not going, my wife's family has died in the suburbs, and I don't plan to serve the Ocean Temple anymore. ”
"If we don't go, then we have to leave immediately, and if the temple is fine, we will be held accountable for not reporting it, and neither you nor I can escape. ”
When the companion heard this, he was shocked, and he was right.
"We're out of town?"
"It's a sure thing to get out of town, but what about when we get out? ”
"What then?"
"Let's go to Estuary!"
When the subordinate said this, the whole person relaxed from the tense state, and his body was a little weak.
His companion was a little skeptical at this time, knowing that going to Kawaguchi was a very sensitive topic now, and there were no believers in the goddess of the sea.
To go there is to be converted.
"Neither you nor I are priests, even then, it won't hurt anything, if you don't want to give up the power in your body, then you can believe in the Verdant Lady, she can also provide the magic of the water system.
If you dare to completely abandon the water element, then there are more choices, how about it, dare to go?"
The companion gritted his teeth: "Just go, anyway, there is no room for development in Ambo now, and it's not bad to change places." ”
"Then let's go in the opposite direction. ”
The Temple of the Sea Goddess has finally tasted the consequences of not providing support when the village on the outskirts is slaughtered.
The rebellion and the separation.
On the lookout of the Temple of the Sea Goddess, an apprentice knight also spotted an anomaly.
Squinting and seeing a group of people coming straight to the temple in full armor, there was also a familiar armor style inside, and after being jumped, he suddenly reacted, stretched out his hand and pulled the rope beside him, sounding the alarm bell.
Wow...... Wow......
The priest was doing his evening service in the temple, and when he heard the alarm bell, he immediately threw himself forward, stretching his hands forward, trying to touch the altar under the idol. (To be continued......)