Chapter 50: Behind the President's Orders
"Break your leg and wait. Lina mended the large and small blood holes on her body for indulgence, looked at the cross-section of her thighs, put her aside, and walked over to Marcia, who had pierced her chest and abdomen. Indulgence also understands, it's not that Lina deliberately increases her pain time, but that the injury is always urgent, and the treatment should also be ordered, even Lina herself, although she used magic to relieve the damage of muscle soreness, but her flattened legs remained unchanged without treatment.
"How did you get here?" Catherine was able to relax only then, lying bored next to Indulgence waiting for her turn to be treated, and asked Passion and Indulgence, "You're here to complete the commission?" ”
"It's such a coincidence. Enthusiasm habitually maintained an indifferent expression, but his eyes and voice were soft: "But it's not a commission, it's an order from our assassin leader to come here to destroy the ritual of this group of cultists." What about you? Listen to the commission you mean to come here?"
"Well, it's a commission, but not for this temple. Catherine patiently recounted what had happened before, "So, we were very surprised when we found this temple. If your president gives the order, you should know more about this temple than we do, and if it doesn't involve issues that must be kept secret, can you tell us about it?"
"There's no such thing as confidentiality. Indulgence rested on his passionate thighs, with a very comfortable expression, squinting and replied, "But where to start...... To put it simply, the president suddenly called us over one day and told us that there was a sacrifice here that was a very serious problem, so we should destroy it at all costs, and appointed grace to assist us. ”
"Elegant?" Catherine asked in surprise, "Is that the captain who had the deepest connection with this group of cultists before?"
"No, you see him. Enthusiastically sneered: "The one who is called No. 3 is him." His characteristic is mysterious, and no one knows who he will be dressed up as or in what capacity. This time, he didn't feel good either, and wanted to take the opportunity to kill the two of us, but in the end, after Pannis and I worked together to hit No. 4, he couldn't touch Pannis's hole cards, so he took the initiative to kill No. 4, which can be regarded as a sign of admitting defeat. ”
"You guys. Catherine frowned, as a knight she hated the Shadow Hand style, but as a friend, she knew that this was the way of life that thieves had long been accustomed to, and she couldn't say anything, so she could only sigh: "And then?"
"And here we are. "But it was found outside the temple, and it went all the way here, and then you all saw it, and we were seriously injured, and they were all destroyed." ”
"You did it on purpose. Catherine rubbed her eyebrows with a headache: "Your narrative method is basically equivalent to saying nothing. ”
"That's why I said I don't know where to start. He smiled indulgently, and suddenly looked around and asked, "What about Pennis, why did he disappear after a while?"
"Huh?" Catherine had just found out that Pannis was missing, so she searched around at random, but she didn't find it, and after thinking about it, she said, "I guess I'm going to the place of worship, we still have a few members there, he should be looking for them." ”
"He is so relieved to you. Indulgence pouted and said, "Aren't you afraid of a few more enemies?"
"You two Legendary-level thieves and assassins are not ornaments. In the corridor outside the room, Pannis's voice came from afar: "And Catherine and the others have not completely lost their combat effectiveness, so what do I have to worry about? Besides, even if the enemy really comes out, my small silver rank will not be of any use." ”
"Snort. Enthusiasm and indulgence couldn't help but sneer at the same time, and indulgence rolled his eyes and said, "You just continue to pretend, don't bother to say anything...... Uh, I have to say, Catherine, the interests of several of you are truly unique. ”
Such things are said because Indulgence has seen Panis. Pannis walked back in the dim light of the bricks on the top of the temple, holding a delicate moving skeleton hand in hand on the left, holding a death banshee on the right, followed by five giant silver wolves more than half a human in height, in general, none of the members left behind by Catherine were normal humans, so that Indulgence could only sigh like this.
"Lina wants to heal everyone, and it won't take six or seven hours to finish, and Vivien doesn't know when she'll wake up, so she can't interrupt now. "So I guess we're going to spend the night here tonight," Pannis explained, and I was afraid that the two little ones would be worried, so I went and brought them in." By the way, as I guessed, after the necromancer's ritual was broken, the fawn was no longer afraid to enter here. ”
The little skeleton looked around curiously, born in the grassland, she had never seen this kind of stone building in her life, and felt that everything was fresh along the way, until she saw enthusiasm and indulgence, and immediately hid behind him with Pannis's thighs, took off her head and stretched out from Pannis's back with her hands, carefully observing the two strangers.
"Don't be afraid, fawn. Catherine sat up and beckoned to the little skeleton: "The two of them are friends, don't be nervous." ”
The little skeleton immediately took his head back to his cervical vertebrae, ran to Catherine's side with a snap, hid in Catherine's arms, stared at enthusiasm and indulgence, and said in a thick voice that had been disguised before: "Are you also intruders who have broken into this king's territory?"
"Don't be naughty, my sisters are talking about business, and I'll play with you later. Catherine tapped the little skeleton's skull amusedly, restrained her laughter, and said solemnly: "Since you don't know how to say it, it's still the same, I ask, you answer." ”
"It's fine. Indulgence nodded, "If you have any questions, just say it." ”
"First of all, you said that it was instructed by your president. Catherine's first question was to the point: "How did he find out about the ritual in such a secret place, where no one had discovered?"
"No, absolutely not, otherwise Passion and I would have known in advance. Indulgence shook his head affirmatively: "The elder didn't tell us explicitly, but according to our guess, the lord has his own news channels, and most importantly, he should have been secretly tracking down this group of people for several years." Before, this group of cultists was also unlucky, and they actually wanted to put their tentacles into the city of innocence, but they didn't expect to be targeted by the elder, although they were all killed by you in the end, but I guess the adults still found some clues from those people, so they quickly locked here. ”
"Okay, so the next question, since he said that this matter is a very serious problem, why don't you solve it yourself?" Catherine asked suspiciously, "It's better for the demigods to solve it themselves than the two of you." ”
"A demigod assassin crossing the territory of several countries will drive a lot of people crazy. Indulgence smiled proudly: "Especially with the 'Thorn' president who is the best at assassination, even if he just passes by, it will make people in many places scared and afraid to sleep." Although this is interesting, after all, the authenticity of this clue has not been fully determined, and sending us here is also to sabotage the ritual on the basis of determining the authenticity. ”
"Can't be sure?" Catherine nodded to acceptable, "Then the third question, this group of cultists of the Servant of God, what exactly are their rituals? And what is going on with this temple, which suddenly appeared?"
"These are two questions. Indulgence muttered, but replied, "I don't know everything about this, but I'll summarize what we know." ”
"Let the enthusiasm do the talking. Lina dragged her broken leg and barely jumped over, and ordered in a cold voice with a straight face: "You are not allowed to speak now, it is your turn." ”
"Huh?" Indulgence was taken aback by Lina's indifference, although she also knew that Lina was changeable, but it was the first time she saw Lina show such a character: "Won't you deal with your own injuries first? ”
"If you delay a little longer, you won't need me to treat it. If you still want your old leg, just shut up. Lina was expressionless, but her words were rather merciless: "Do you prefer a few years of rehabilitation after the regeneration of a severed limb?" Or do you prefer to run around with a limp?"
"She ......" indulged in crying and laughing, and looked at Catherine pleadingly, Catherine could only smile wryly and make a helpless gesture. Fortunately, Indulgence also understood that Lina just changed into such a unique personality and did not have any malice, so he could only sigh and say, "Okay, I'll shut up." ”
"Let me summarize. Enthusiasm didn't like to talk for a long time, and said a little awkwardly: "We estimate that the cultist's ritual is divided into several steps. The first step was that they needed this temple, which should have been built a long, long time ago, and over countless years, gradually covered with earth, and what they had to do was to pull the temple up from the ground. I don't know what method they used, but it seems they succeeded. ”
"Well, it worked. Catherine thought of the discussion before everyone entered the temple and nodded, "And then?"
"Then there's the second step. Enthusiasm continued: "They used the magic circle of the temple to expand the death energy in this area, so that the area shrouded in death became wider and wider. Because the range is wider, more death energy is generated, and then they do a third step to that death energy. ”
"Is the third step to collect compression?" Catherine asked, "Judging from the way the ritual was destroyed just now, it should be like this." ”
"Yes, the third step is to collect more and more death energy, and then purify and compress it. Enthusiastically said, "They should be using this high-purity death energy for their own purposes. ”
"For what purpose?" asked Catherine.
"I don't know exactly what it is. "But I've heard the elders talk to themselves about it when they talk to themselves, and it has to do with reopening a door. ”
"When. Pannis, who was tidying up the crystal energy stove to prepare dinner, dropped a spoon in his hand to the ground, but Pannis didn't notice it at all, turned around slowly, and asked with a strange expression, "You say...... What?" (To be continued.) )