Chapter 53: The Blade of Alysh
Descending the spiral staircase formed by the black stone steps, when approaching the bottom floor, Fei Yue found a strange belief on the stone wall as black as the staircase, this belief seems to have been formed very old, but the time experienced by the relief does not seem to be long, and most of the pictures on it are pictures of some giants fighting with humans, when the land was still barren, it was a war that only the beginning of the world would have. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
There were few stone chambers to be inhabited on either side of the place, but on the opposite side of the path, before reaching the ground floor, before entering the wide hall through the cracked path, there was a sacrificial room so low that one had to bend down to enter, and in it lay some shriveled corpses that had been made and an altar dripping with crimson blood, and a dying human man nailed to the wall, the source of the blood was his wrist, which was smeared with a medicine that would not heal until the blood was drained, and he could not receive a blessed death until the blood was exhausted。
Fei Yue, like an archaeologist, bent down to observe around in the small sacrificial room, not caring about the filth scattered everywhere, as if these had nothing to do with her at all, just blindly paying attention to the reliefs that continued from the spiral staircase to here, different from the reliefs of the previous battle, here is a description of a strange ritual, which looks a bit like a certain ritual of the Cthulhu evil god belief, but Fei Yue did not pay much attention to these myths in her previous life, and she still knew some about the summoning rituals of the gods, and even some of the rituals of witchcraft, Fei Yue also knew some, but the consciousness on this relief was completely different from what Fei Yue knew。
First of all, judging from the reliefs, it was a simple animal sacrifice, and it was carried out in the open air, not much different from the regular large-scale sacrifice, the ointment of pigs, cattle and sheep and the fine wine that could ignite the fire, the scantily clad maiden, and the naked muscular man, and the priest wearing a strange carved pattern and a huge fanged mask, all gathered together, twisting the body into an unimaginable F-shape, but this was just an ordinary religious ritual, and Fei Yue knew more about it.
Then, the direction of the ritual began to become strange, a huge head can be seen in the picture, this head is like a grassland hill for people, people pry open the skull of the skull, and eat its spinal cord, because it is a mural, so Fei Yue did not feel so disgusting, of course, if it is in front of it, I am afraid that I will have to vomit more than once, but this relief is the only relief of Fei Yue to see the rune, and Fei Yue also knows this rune, the meaning of the rune contains both giving and giving, and is often used as an occasion for living sacrifices。
This is already half of the relief content in the sacrificial stone room, and the third step is what Fei Yue sees now, using human blood to sacrifice alive, and under the blood trough of this altar, there is also a huge stone house, in the stone house is the giant who was eaten the spinal cord before, and the rune in the relief has been engraved into the soul of the giant, as for why there is so much human blood, I don't know if I want to resurrect the giant or what.
The meaning of the last stone sculpture is the simplest, that is, humans drive the giants to fight for themselves, so according to the meaning of this relief, the front is to control the giants, but even so, Fei Yue still can't understand why so many human blood is used as sacrifices, and the sacrificed people are unbalanced compared to the rewards they get, after all, even if the giants are resurrected, they have no wisdom, while humans can create infinite possibilities.
In the end, Fei Yue returned her gaze to the blood-soaked altar, there was indeed a water tank under the altar that could make blood flow to the bottom, but the black stone steps did not continue to lead to the road below, so now Fei Yue could only guess that the road to the bottom was at the end of the hall on the other side of the narrow corridor, but just as Fei Yue was about to leave, she saw a symbol, the original form of this symbol Fei Yue had seen, it was the dagger of Mourning Song, if Fei Yue did not guess wrong, Mourning Song, Mourning Song, and Lamentation's dagger capital is the same shape, then, the organization that Fei Yue is in now is probably not a bandit, but an organization that completely serves Alish, and this organization Fimi calls it the Blade of Eishi, but Fei Yue has never cared about state affairs, and Fei Mi has no definite evidence, so he did not explain it to Fei Yue.
During this time, Earl and Hotaru retreated to the outside of the sacrificial stone house, the strong smell of blood inside made the two dizzy, and to their surprise, Fei Yue was able to stay in it for so long as if nothing happened, of course, the two of them would not know what Fei Yue did when she was an undead, maybe Hotaru knew some, but not much, after all, everyone did not want to mention the past.
Fei Yue's face was not very good after walking out of the sacrificial stone room, and it was still a little terrifying under the background of the torch in the narrow crack, the two had never seen Fei Yue's expression so gloomy, but thinking about what they had seen in the stone room before, they took it for granted, not to mention that Fei Yue had been in it for so long, and he must have found something more unpleasant.
The silent Fei Yue nodded slightly to Earl and Hotaru, indicating that she had no problem, and walked to the narrow crack on the other side, the fire at the end of the crack was bright, and the sound of wailing and crying was gone, and in Fei Yue's opinion, the wailing and crying she heard before was probably coming from this sacrificial stone house, there were too many dead people here, and the souls of the dead who had nowhere to go could naturally only wander in this small corridor and hall.
Entering the hall, it was an empty hall like a refugee camp, and there were some members of the Blade of Alysh whipping slaves, but the number was much less than that of the slaves, and even the ratio of ten to one was probably not reached, and when they saw Feiyue, Earl and Hotaru enter, the members of the Blade of Alysh were stunned for a moment, and before they could react, Hotaru's dagger had already reached their throats, and then, like the souls of the revenants who had been liberated by the wind, they turned into a pile of dust, and there was nothing left.
"As you can see, the people I killed ended up like this, so you haven't seen a single corpse since you came in!" With the help of Earl and some strong slaves who tried to resist, it didn't take long for all the members of the Blade of Alysh to be emptied, and the deaths of these members were all reduced to dust.
Feetsuki turned her gaze to the emaciated slaves, most of whom had no light in their eyes, curled and prostrate in the light of the fire of the stone chamber, holding their heads and looking at Feetsuki, Earl and Hotaru with cowering and resentful eyes, all those who had stood up in rebellion, muttering some ugly curses as if they were going to rebuke them.
Earl frowned and looked at the picture in front of him, this is not hell but it is comparable to hell, or this place is worse than hell, a stench more disgusting than sulfur lingers under his nose, curses and vicious words swirl in his ears, these enslaved people have lost hope and kindness in the long beating and torture, and more of them have a cunning gaze like a demon.
The rebels eventually converged in the center of the hall, most of them newly captured slaves, all of whom had some wounds on their bodies, and with the help of a huge bonfire, some of them recognized Fei Yue and immediately fell to the ground, weeping bitterly at the arrival of Fei Yue, and also grateful for their new life and salvation.
"What are they holding you here for?" Fei Yue asked the young man who took the lead in the rebellion, this young man was nearly two heads taller than Fei Yue, so he could only kneel down on one knee to talk to Fei Yue, and when he stared at the other party, Fei Yue realized that there was a light like a flame in the young man's eyes, "Say, nothing can frighten me!"
"Yes, my queen!" the young man bowed his head in respect to Fei Yue, and then, with Fei Yue's permission, crossed his legs to the ground, Fei Yue asked Hotaru to take out the last of the food for these poor and heroic people to enjoy, and while enjoying it, he told himself all the stories.
"At the end of this sunless hall, there is a spiral staircase that is the same as when we entered, and we have been there in the past to avoid reproach, because it is an area where even the guards are not allowed to enter, or rather, the guards seem to have been cursed to turn into a cloud of ashes if they enter without permission, and we have not!" the young man took a sip of the spirit, took a deep breath, and said slowly, " I don't recommend you to go there, it's full of shriveled corpses, and a huge head, about one and a half as tall as me, and like the shriveled corpse, the huge head is also shriveled and dented, but I am a child of the steppe, and I can feel that the owner of the huge head is not dead, but slowly recovering. ”
"Looks like we're going to have to make a trip!" After listening to the young man's brief account, Fei Yue said to Earl and Hotaru, "but I think I can go alone, you two arrange for these poor people to leave, and as for those who don't want to leave, let them be!
With that, Fei Yue crossed the blazing bonfire and began to walk towards the dark end of the hall, where there were no torches, no light, not even a shrunken body, just a dark shadow, the depth of the shadow is invisible to the human eye, the area that is darker than the shadow, even Hotaru and Earl cannot fully see it, as for whether Fei Yue can be as normal, it is unknown.
When it was not in the shadows, Fei Yue did not use any light, and in the eyes of the onlookers, it was not Fei Yue who entered the shadows, but the shadows that swallowed the Fei Yue, and the Fei Yue walked in the shadows without fear in her heart, and here was the same as when she entered, it was a fissure as if it had been split by a sword, and at the end of the fissure was a dark spiral-shaped stone staircase, and there were neither reliefs nor stone chambers on either side of the stone steps, but a simple road.