"Da, da, da, da"

Accompanied by the sound of Eleven's footsteps walking forward on the dark, waterlogged road, there are basically two blue wall lamps that automatically light up every ten steps, not counting dim lights that can illuminate the way forward for Eleven, but after carefully studying those beautifully shaped wall lamps, Elevenn chose to cover his nose and mouth with a black silk scarf, and then continued to move forward. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

As for the reason, because when he first tested the substance, Agate found that the swarthy lamp oil in the wall lamps that were almost as old as the mural was strange, and the smell of the strange aroma made Elavin a little dizzy, and he immediately took out the silk scarf with the purifying effect that he got at the Wojin Church in Bordeaux City and blocked it on his nose and mouth, and after a few minutes, the dizziness that seemed to be dizzy after taking drugs was gone, and Agate had already analyzed the substance attached to the lamp oil.

"It's mermaid's fish oil, one of the top psychedelic substances in the Seven Star Domains, but you don't have to worry about the after-effects of this psychedelic effect, this specially treated fish oil is generally used in the prayer room of the temple, and it is said to be able to better communicate with the gods they believe in, and there are no side effects. ”

"Mermaids?"

Curiously, Elivan took out a small test tube from the storage ring, fished out some swarthy lamp oil and stocked it up, and then asked as he walked,

"Can they use it to boil fish oil? Sounds disgusting. ”

Agate's answer was straightforward,

"Fool, Isasina and Faraki are authentic Krakens, in terms of relationship, they are quite close to the Nagas of the Titan Star Field, but the mermaid is another creature, that is, the kind of creature with a human body and a fishtail in those myths and legends in your head, and the so-called mermaid's fish oil is also a general reference, in fact, these aquatic female creatures more or less have some natural skills similar to "natural charm", and the mermaid's "sea elf" It is one of the most domineering effects, except for those creatures that are born chaotic and some vicious guys, almost no one will hurt a harmless mermaid, and these fish oils are made of the remnants of snakeskin-like fading that they faded off during their growth, so they can't be called evil at all, and it is precisely because of this that this top-level psychedelic substance can be put in the temple in a grand manner, you know, no matter where the "gods" are, they all have to be faced. ”

"I see!"

Elivan sighed as he continued to walk forward, and with the passage of ten minutes gradually coming to an end, in addition to the wall lamps that kept appearing on both sides, something else finally appeared on the empty wall, which were some exquisite murals, Elivan looked carefully, and found that they were all epic stories that sang the praises of the gods, and they were all similar to those stories in his memory, nothing more than the stories of mortal warriors who defeated evil through many difficulties with the help of the gods they trusted.

It's old-fashioned, but Eleven's eyes are relished, and he finally understands where he is.

"In other words, this is actually a temple that praises the "Sixteen True Gods"?"

He patted the Book of Ten Thousand Laws hanging diagonally on his body and asked in a low voice, the latter was silent for a moment, and then replied affirmatively,

"Yes, I compared the text on these frescoes with the text in Rodnal's cemetery, and the most repetitive of them are the phrases "Sixteen True Gods" and "Darkness and Eternal Silence", so I can preliminarily conclude that this must be hidden somewhere on the El continent, from a temple in the middle and late Second Age, and from the current ruins, we can infer how majestic this temple was in its heyday. ”

"Darkness and eternal silence, tsk"

Elivan shook his head, no longer paying attention to the murals, he muttered something, and continued to move forward, after a few minutes, he finally came to the end of this dark road, looking at the two corners in front of him, Elivan touched his chin, and looked back with some invigoration, only to find that the passage that should have been bright all the way had become dark again at this time, like a giant beast with an open mouth, full of ominous feelings.

"Looks like I can't go back!"

Elivan smiled bitterly and walked to the left, only to be stopped by the Book of Ten Thousand Laws,

"Stop, do you know what's going on over here?"

"Nonsense, how can I know what will happen here? According to probability, no matter which way you go, the chances of dying and surviving are the same. ”

The young man rolled his eyes, and then he heard Agate's angry scolding of hatred of iron and steel, "Hell it, don't you want to see what is carved on the stone wall in front of you? See clearly! You are walking on one side of "courage" and the other side is "wisdom", as a mage, which path do you think you should choose?"

Elivan didn't speak, he really didn't notice the stone wall that Onyx said just now, because the stone that was about to be cut into a flat surface was completely embedded in the stone wall that served as the end of the passage, and the color was particularly similar, so in this dim situation, even with the help of the second vision of the night function, he still couldn't find that thing.

And after Onyx's reminder, Elivan walked towards the stone wall step by step, and suddenly, he looked back behind him, and only turned back after more than ten seconds and asked,

"What is the psychedelic effect of the lamp oil just now?"

"What?"

"I mean, a professional like me, who has been walking in that concentration of psychedelic for ten or twenty minutes straight, can he still tell this slate at a glance when he arrives here?"

"Uh..."

Onyx was silent for a while before he said, "Judging from the psychedelic degree of mermaid fish oil, not to mention you, even the Arcanist and the Sword Master with a slightly weaker perception will enter a strong state of excitement after walking for twenty minutes in a row, in that case, not to mention this stone slab that is only larger than the palm of the hand, even if the entire stone wall is engraved with these two words, they may ignore it, as for ordinary people, it is estimated that after inhaling so many hallucinogens in a row, it is impossible to say whether they can come here alive." ”

Elevenn put his hand on the stone slab and asked slowly,

"So now do you still think it's a hint?"

After speaking, without waiting for Onyx to answer, he continued, "Admittedly, I believe that if there are a lot of people who try, there will indeed be guys like me, who came here without completely avoiding hallucinogens, and saw this stone tablet again, so the choice of "courage" on the warrior's side and "wisdom" on the mage's side is "wisdom", but how much is this choice different from those guys who rushed to a certain passage casually under the influence of hallucinogens? As I just said, from the perspective of probability, a mage, regardless of whether he has inhaled hallucinogens or not, comes here, the probability of entering the cave of "wisdom" is 50%, this so-called "hint" slate seems to increase this probability to 100%, but on the other hand, this is not a kind of misleading, from the beginning of our entry here, but there is no information telling us that the mage must choose wisdom and the warrior must choose courage, all this is our own guess!"

Onyx's reaction was quick, and as soon as Elivan finished speaking, he immediately filled in the words he didn't say, "You mean, this slab was added by the owner of this temple to give these testers more understanding?

"Of course"

Elivan smiled and tapped on the stone slab, and the muffled sound from it brought the silent three-way intersection to life," Regardless of whether this place was set up by the fanatics of the Second Age, I have to admit that the man is definitely a guy who has an extremely good grasp of the changes in people's hearts, starting with psychedelics, then to this stone slab, and the understanding of the profession derived from this intersection, it seems to remind the trialists of the true purpose of this trial, but in fact, all of this is to cover up the real truth, if we are not mistaken, these two paths will definitely not be a dead end, but a real path of trial, but unfortunately, it is not the path that the designer really wants the trialists to achieve。 ”

"But the problem is, even if what you say is very reasonable, there are only two paths here, either wisdom or courage, and there is no third way!"

"No, it's always been here!"

Elivan took a deep breath, the frequency of this movement was so slow that if someone around him was watching, I am afraid that Elivan was going to suck all the air from the entire three-way mouth into his lungs, and with this long inhalation action, Eleven's chest also bulged, and after a minute, the air that his lungs could hold finally reached the top, and then, a phantom of a black dragon dragon head that looked like a TEDA appeared behind Elivan, and with the dragon dragon head making a spitting motion, Elevenn also spewed out all the air stored in his chest in one breath。

But what came out was no longer air, but black, like a scorching flame like a real fire, no, it shouldn't be called a flame, that kind of attack range of 180 degrees, strong impact, and super high temperature and additional attacks like tarsal wounds, in short, this is already a shrunken version of the black dragon's breath.

This is also the first time that Elivan has tried the new ability he has obtained since he woke up, Dragon Breath Technique, a super attack skill that is said to have its derivative version in the Seven Star Domains, but for the current Elivan, this attack method is still too physically demanding, after only one and a half minutes of breathing, he almost collapsed to the ground, this terrifying consumption, no wonder even a genuine dragon will not use Dragon Breath too many times in a battle.

However, the attack was clearly effective, and after half a minute of burning by the black shadow flames, the slate had been wiped off the surface of the stain and camouflage, and with a single blow of Eleven's cane, the solid rock was peeled off like a chocolate wrapper, revealing what was hidden within.

It was a bronze button, and the size only allowed one palm to pass through, Elevenn whistled, seemingly proud, but in fact, he really wiped a handful of sweat in his heart, if it wasn't for the previous life, these researchers would often be arranged to do this classic anti-logic test, if it wasn't for the previous life he was very interested in this kind of problem, then now he has definitely walked into "wisdom" under the prompting of Onyx He was in the middle of the trial, but the question of who set these things up and what they were designed for was more and more interesting to him.

"Can you scan the structure behind this key?"

Elivan patted the Book of Ten Thousand Laws, and Agate reluctantly drove the iron box book to float into the air in front of Elivan, and a touch of blue light was projected from the gem on the surface of the book, and after scanning back and forth several times on the small stone hole that only allowed one palm to pass through, Agate's surprised voice sounded in Elivan's mental space,

"It can't be scanned, there's something deliberately obscuring it... If I'm not mistaken, it's..."

"Divine power?"

Eleven's clothes straightened out, and he pointed a finger at the bronze button, "I remember you said that only divine power can break the link between you and me?"

"Yes, that's right, but this power always feels a little familiar to me. ”

"Then there's only one way left. ”

Elevenn smiled and exerted enough force on that finger, and the bronze button echoed downward, until Eleven's entire hand was deep into it, and there was a mechanical click behind the huge stone wall, and Elevenn listened carefully, and could even hear the familiar sound of the cogs colliding, but that was all.

"That's it?"

Onyx said with some disappointment.

Of course, not only that, as soon as Agate's words fell, a touch of darkness like a predatory poisonous snake quickly spread from Elivan's finger that probed into the stone hole, but before Elivan could pull out his finger, the black suddenly expanded, enveloping his whole body, including his clothes and the Book of Ten Thousand Laws, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the time in it was an instant.

"Detection... Arrive... Vehement... Rattle... Space quack... Undulation... Quack..."

Onyx's warning voice became mottled at this moment, like the distorted sound of a communication device in a state of strong magnetic field that Elivan had often seen before, and just two seconds later, even this distorted sound disappeared, everything became dark, even with Elivan's sight and the second horizon that opened at the moment, the whole world was swallowed up by darkness at this moment, that feeling, at this moment Elivan wanted to be next to some sleeping beast, that terrible breathing sound, that sense of oppression, but it was only for a moment。

When his vision returned, he found himself in a large square, no, it was somewhat inappropriate to say that it was a square, it should still be in the temple just now, but it should be a banquet hall or something, because as far as he could see, countless pure white candles were lit at the same time, revealing nine chairs directly in front of him, each of which had a black figure sitting upright, but Elivan also noticed that the figures on the eight scattered on both sides were extremely solid, but the figure on the chair in the center was quite illusory。

"The Dark Nine Patriarchs?"

Elevenn asked in a loud voice, he hadn't expected an answer, but to his surprise, just as his voice echoed through the large hall, another voice rang out,

"Congratulations, our successor, for passing this little trial perfectly!"

"Which one are you?"

Elivan turned his head to look behind him, and then pulled out his red makeup to block it in front of him, he couldn't even hear where the response just now came from, although it was a little unlikely, but his reason told him that the one who made the sound should be one of the nine shadows in front of him, although in the observation of the second horizon, these nine shadows did not even move, but after experiencing so many strange things, Elivan did not dare to use what he saw as the basis for judgment.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

An extremely low and chaotic footsteps came into the ears of Elivan, who was all soldiers at the moment, he immediately waved his hand to make up a layer of frost armor for himself, and the spell model of the fire explosion technique had also appeared on his arm, as long as he saw something wrong, Elivan was ready to fight hard with the other party, anyway, Elivan, who had a chance to teleport to the Titan Vault, had no worries at all, it was a big deal to change the star field and start anew, and when it became really strong in the future, he would find a way to return here to find a way to get back to the field.

Of course, he wouldn't do it as long as it wasn't a mortal occasion, after all, there were still many people and things in El that he couldn't let go of, and in the end, this guy wasn't a ruthless person.

And about a few tens of seconds later, a group of dressed guys, tall, short, fat and thin, all kinds of guys walked in from the black passage directly opposite Elivan just now, and the two groups of people were stunned in place first.

Elivan saw the black mane in the team, so the person who came must be the real Dark Nine Patriarch, and who was the figure sitting on the chair?

And the reason why the Dark Nine Patriarch was stunned was that this guy quickly passed the last test before becoming the Patriarch, although everyone knew that it was just a small joke between companions, but this speed was almost the same as that of Rodnar, who made the fastest progress that year, but Rodnar cleared the customs so quickly because of his own special bloodline, could it be that this guy is the same as Rodnar, and also has the blood of the Aumans?

I have to say that in short, Elivan used such an incident without knowing it to leave a deep impression on the hearts of the eight patriarchs.

"Eliven Mogedin, under our witness, you will be the tenth patriarch of the sixteen true gods who remain in the world, you will be one of the few seekers of truth in this ugly age full of lies and fools, you will shoulder the great responsibility of restarting the glorious era, you will be regarded as a rebel by the whole world, they will call us "evil" arrogantly, but only we know what a great and difficult path we are walking!"

A few minutes later, when the eight patriarchs were seated, their figures and the shadows on the chairs became one in that instant, and the original colorful armor and robes turned gray at that moment, and all of them were like characters who had come out of the fading of time, the vicissitudes of life that did not belong to this era were enough to make even the immodest Elivan remain serious on this occasion.

A patriarch dressed as a troubadour stood up, briefly expounded the thoughts and themes of the darkness, and then took out a crown of thorns and a one-handed sword with sheaths and purple diamonds from the void, placed them in his hands, and motioned to Eleven, who was standing in place, to come forward,

"So, Patriarch-Elect Eleven-Mogedin, are you willing to dedicate the rest of your life to this great thing?"

Elivan knelt in front of the unknown patriarch with an expressionless face, the reason why he was so obedient was because after knowing that he had inexplicably a trace of dark faith in his body, Elivan was already in a state of breaking jars in this regard, and on the other hand, because the black mane sitting next to the unknown patriarch glanced at him vaguely, although the relationship with this blade man was not deep, but Elivan was sure that this guy would not take the initiative to harm him at least.

And in the face of this question, Eleven's heart already had the answer, in fact, when he first met Blackmane, that guy had asked the same question, so Ellevin replied without pressure,

"Yes, I do, the dark faith guides my destiny, the shallowness and ignorance of the Third Age have disgusted me, I will devote all my life and strength to overthrowing this absurd era and bringing the truth back to this world!"

"Very well, then, in the name of the god of endless darkness and eternal silence, and by the hand of my Fifth Patriarch, Vasadine Bordeaux, bestow upon you the laurels and blades of the Tenth Patriarch, and welcome you, my brother!"

"Bang!"

When he heard the name of the Fifth Patriarch in front of him, it was as if a dozen bombs had been thrown in his head, and with a bang, all his sanity was blown away to an unknown place, Vasatine Bordeaux, oh my God!

Friends should still have the impression that in the old town of Bordeaux, where Eliven stayed for five years, there is still a sculpture in praise of this legendary troubadour, although no matter how Elevan imagined, he could not believe that the troubadour who left a huge page in history was actually a member of the thief ship that he was forced to walk on by Blackmane and Rodnal, and it seemed that his position was not low, at least he was a first mate.

Elivan took the sheathed blade like a puppet, and let Vasadine put the not ornate, but heavy crown on his head, and his eyes only looked straight at Vasadin's face like a merry middle-aged man, and he couldn't say a word.

"What's wrong?"

Vasadine, who was gray and white, looked at Eleven, who was stunned and looked straight at him, and couldn't help but let out a chuckle, and asked, "Will Mr. Eleven, who can make such a sensational and peerless song, also show such a shocking expression?"

"You... You... How do you know!"

Elivan only reacted at this time, his cheeks became red, he finally plagiarized for a while, but he didn't expect to fall into the eyes of this person, thinking that it seemed that he was under the sculpture when he sang to Wendy, Eleven's intestines were repentant, and it would be nice to change places at that time.

In fact, the Nine Patriarchs of the entire El Dark World are not as gloomy and old-fashioned as the legend, which can be seen from the few guys who have now started to judge the new Patriarch of Eleven, in fact, Eleven's guess is that if it weren't for the fact that this promotion ceremony was to be carried out under the gaze of darkness, these guys who didn't care at all might just send someone to bring them these two things to finish it, and at this moment, it completely subverted the heavy and vicissitudes of darkness in Eleven's heart.

"Yo, little brother, you still look like a wild mage, are you interested in going back to St. Baishi Fort with your sister to become an official mage? Let me tell you, the treatment and benefits of the Baishi Society are quite good!"

The Third Patriarch - Toxin Witch - Sharloin Stone, a mature woman commonly known as the "Great Alchemist" in the outside world carried a purple wooden staff on her back, with a pointed hat full of stars, and lightly stretched out a finger, provoked Eleven's chin, and smiled at him "tempted", while Elevenn stood in place without moving, and drops of cold sweat dripped from his forehead.

This is different from the introverted Rodnar, eager to make a clear coercion known to everyone, in short, under this pressure that is not much weaker than Teda, Elivan gave up the idea of struggling from the beginning, and the elven lady who followed Sharon also looked Elivan up and down with scrutinizing eyes, this attitude was definitely not friendly.

On the other side, the Second and Fourth Patriarchs, who had not spoken since the beginning, the tall knight in armor and a minotaur in rough leather armor stayed on the other side, bowing their heads and discussing something, while the black-maned man he was most familiar with and another scruffy fellow dressed as a ronin, and a down-and-out knight with a grass-roots in his mouth stood not far from the passage, grinning and talking about something interesting, not at all to help Elivan.

And after Sharon teased for a while, he looked at Elivan, who was unresponsive, and lost interest, and with a cold snort, he disappeared with the elven lady in a light representing teleportation, and the blackmane came over, and the two patriarchs who had been chatting happily with him disappeared.

"Thank you, if Rodnar was here, Sharloin wouldn't dare be so presumptuous. ”

Blackmane sighed and patted Elivan on the shoulder, "Let's go, I'll tell you these things slowly on the way." (To be continued.) )