1507. Frescoes
The wind at the top of the mountain was very strong, and the snow particles that blew up hit the face and hurt it very much.
With every breath, he felt like his lungs could inhale some ice chips, and Surdak wanted to cough when he breathed.
If it weren't for the Sheft Stanbu armor on his body, maybe he would have been killed by the demon leader with a heavy fist when he lay in the ice pit.
As the Guardian of the Temple of the Egrod Clan, Delia knew about this.
However, he never thought that the temple of the Aigorod clan would be hidden in the mountains at the northern foot of Moyun Ridge, let alone that this temple would be hidden on the top of the mountains in the form of a dislocation space.
He stood dumbfounded outside the temple and watched as Delia stepped through the folded door that looked like a giant mirror.
The so-called dislocation space, in layman's terms, means that there are more than two overlapping spaces in the same space.
This spatial overlap cannot be understood in terms of three-dimensionality, it is more like the beginning or end of a four-dimensional world.
In other words, this is the Warsaw plane, and the secrets of this plane are hidden among the mountains at the northern foot of the Moyun Mountains......
It's a world of ice and snow, with all the buildings hidden on top of the ice peaks, and there are broken bricks and tiles everywhere you look.
It was slightly different from what Surdak had imagined, and seeing that Delia had already stepped in, Surdak hurriedly followed.
As soon as he walked into the mirrored world, the mirror-like door disappeared into thin air.
At this time, the Headless Horseman was still a few hundred meters away from this side, and it had seen the mirage-like complex a moment ago, and even felt a source of power that it had longed for, but as the two people on the snow peak disappeared one after another, the mysterious construction industry disappeared with it.
The Demon Leader limped in pursuit, standing where the two of Bingfeng's footprints had disappeared, trying to feel the fluctuations in power here.
Then he sat down on this ice peak, and let the snow fall on him, first smoothing out all the crevices and sheltered places, so that the footprints here were lighter and then disappeared......
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It is an extremely magnificent Basilica of the Holy Light, and it sits right on the top of this mountain.
And in this dimension, there is no huge glacier on the top of the mountain here, only the black rock that is exposed, and the temple is built on this peak.
Surdak was standing outside the church gate, and the stone steps on the hill stretched from the entrance of the cathedral to the west of the foot of the mountain, but they were so badly damaged that almost half of them began to crumble into shale-like shards.
On both sides of the entrance to the Cathedral of Light are two giant statues of angels with a height of 100 meters, the winged angel on the left is holding a ribbon in his hand, surrounded by countless flowers under his feet, and the angel on the right is holding a huge scroll tightly in both hands, and the head of this archangel is actually looking up at the sky.
Standing on the steps at the entrance of the temple, Surdak was already very shocked to see the angel statue that looked like a skyscraper, but the angel statue on the right he could only see the back of his head, could it be that if he wanted to see the whole picture of this angel statue, he had to fly up to the sky to look down on it?
Surdak sneered in his heart.
The two angelic colossias were covered with mottled cracks, even the giant stone platform beneath their feet was mottled with cracks, and many of the foundation stones began to crumble.
The colossus of angels can only see the whole picture, for example, the right arm of the angel on the left is broken, and the angel wings on the right side are also broken in half, and the rubble is piled up at the foot of the statue, making the two stone platforms look like ruins.
Surdak wondered how the original builders had managed to erect this 100-meter-high colossus on the summit......
Although his 'potential' is an angel phantom, he doesn't know much about angels, only that he can still see some angels in the Silver City......
The stone statue does not have the coercion of a strong man, but the magnificent building will inevitably have a kind of awe-inspiring momentum.
Standing in front of the ruined temple, Surdak was inevitably a little agitated, and he didn't even feel the accelerated healing of the injuries on his body for the first time.
It was obviously not the first time that Delia had been here, but she stood on the steps and saw Surdak looking up at the colossus angel, so she took a few steps back, followed Surdak's gaze, and when she saw him looking at Oriel, the Angel of Hope, she explained to him:
"That's Archangel Oriel, and the ribbon she holds in her hand is Soomeysh the Hope, and I heard that the healing power of the Light comes from this artifact."
Surdak couldn't help but stretch out his hand, and a ball of holy light came out of his palm, the originally soft holy light was like a candle flame, but at this moment, in Surdak's palm, this holy light actually emitted a dazzling light flame.
Surdak's chest, which was originally somewhat collapsed, was healing rapidly under the irradiation of this holy light, which was visible to the naked eye.
He was taken aback by the healing power......
Then he felt that his breathing became much easier, and the pain in his chest disappeared, Surdak glanced at Delia's unnaturally drooping left arm, although the wound on the arm had been wrapped with a hemostatic bandage, it seemed that Delia's left arm was completely powerless.
And her collarbone near her left shoulder seemed to be shattered, and she couldn't figure out how she could still walk on a steep hill full of rubble with such a severe injury.
Surdak placed the dazzling light next to Delia's left arm, and under the light of the light, Delia's gaze began to change significantly.
She stood there obediently, letting Surdak linger on her left arm and left shoulder with the light for a moment, then directly pressed her wound with her right hand, then patted it gently, and finally felt like trying to move her left arm.
At this time, she did not forget to introduce Surdak to the angelic colossus opposite:
"That's the archangel Isseriel, and the scroll he holds in his hand is the Scroll of Destiny Talusal, and it is said that he can see some visions of the future from the Scroll of Destiny."
Surdak listened intently to what Delia had to say.
The two of them walked up the stone steps to the temple gate, a row of arches, the central arch had completely collapsed, and the left and right arches were only a few broken walls, and Delia led Surdak through a hidden path in the middle of the ruins, where the rubble seemed to have been cleared.
"I haven't been here for a long time, since the Demon Legion occupied Moyun Ridge, there is a Demon Legion stationed in the North Mountain Pass, which is the only way to come to the Temple, it is not easy to sneak under the nose of the Demon Legion, those guys' eyes can see the surrounding scenery even at night."
Delia sighed as she walked.
The two walked through the broken gate into the antebule of the cathedral, a vast garden-like courtyard with a large pool and statues in the middle, surrounded by countless stone carvings and gardening.
Now, the pool looked completely dry, and almost all of the statues had only a few pedestals left, at most feet or a thigh, and the rest was rubble.
As for the green plants, they all withered completely, and only a few dead branches covered the broken walls.
Several large trees in the courtyard seem to have been knocked down, only two dead trees are only more than five meters tall dry trunks remain, the rest of the branches are not even visible, the main trunks of the two trees still have some traces of knife and axe chopping, maybe the wood is too hard, no one can take it away.
Seeing that Surdak looked a little carefully, Delia stood aside and smiled awkwardly.
"It's usually hard to get the materials to make a fire here, and it's better here at the temple, but on the way back to the tribe, we have to walk a bit of ice, and every time we come here, we bring a little bit of fire materials with us when we return."
"These two trees are very special, you can pick up a branch and use it as a torch."
"The elders said that these two trees were left by our ancestors to make torches, and I remember that when I was a child, there were still two dead branches here......
Surdak walked over and patted the trunk of the tree that was almost petrified, the hardness of the material was not comparable to that of ironwood, and the two trees in the courtyard were not really very large, at least much smaller than Surdak had ever seen.
Yes, Surdak didn't know many plants, but he had seen them before.
This kind of big tree is also very famous, and it can grow so big that the largest trunk can turn into a mountain, and there is one such in the Valley of the Dark Worm - the World Tree.
And Delia's so-called torch material happened to be the branches of these two World Tree seedlings that had completely died.
This is a magic material that many magicians in the Grimm Empire can't ask for, and it is an excellent base material for making high-grade wands, but here it is just a torch in the hands of the guardians of the Egrod Clan's temple......
"This kind of wood is very expensive to sell in the Grimm Empire, and it's just like that......"
Surdak gestured his hand a foot long, then stretched out his little finger and shook it in front of Delia, and then said:
"At most, it's as thick as a little finger, and you can probably get a magic crystal."
Recently, the warriors of the Knights have often exchanged their private weapons for magic materials and magic crystals with the natives, so most of the natives, including Delia, now understand the purchasing power of those magic crystals that have not been punched.
Five magic crystals can be exchanged for a very delicate magic sword......
Delia looked at the two bare tree trunks standing in the courtyard in a bit of a daze, thinking about how many magic crystals her predecessor and her former temple guardians had burned over the years.
Delia thought that it was 'without contact with the outside world, the serious lag in information' that would cause these precious materials to be seriously lost.
But now it was better, and while the Egrod clan was on the verge of extinction, a great witch who had received some inspiration from Tarusar stepped forward and brought all the tribes together to build a walled city to fight against the powerful enemy.
His prophecies were fulfilled one by one......
Delia stole a glance at Surdak, and then led him through the remnant courtyard.
The temple is divided into the main basilica, with the Hall of Punishment on the west side and the library on the east side, but these buildings have almost collapsed, especially the library on the east side, except for the stone mill and a broken wall, is almost covered with moss.
On the other side of the hall of punishment, the four stone pillars were still there, and the triangular stone slabs above them were insignia with iron barbed whips and blood-stained crosses with chains.
The cathedral in the main hall looks like a small castle, but the roof has completely collapsed, and only the surrounding walls remain, enclosing the space inside.
If you want to see what is going on inside, unless you can fly into the sky, you have to step on gravel and enter through the main entrance.
"The main hall here is fairly well preserved, but it's also quite dangerous here, and it may collapse at any time......"
Delia said to Surdak.
The main hall of the Cathedral of Light was still a long way from the vestibule, and Delia led Surdak up several long stone steps to reach the entrance of the main hall.
Passing through the six crumbling arches, and further inside was an open-air cloister with no broken stones, Surdak glanced up at the open-air rooftop, and knew that it must have been the Temple Guardians who had cleared the rubble.
The stone path underfoot is fairly smooth, although moss grows in many of the crevices of the stone slabs, or some of the rocks are covered with dry moss.
Surdak could see some angels on the pillars of these cloisters, and when he went inside, he saw some ruined walls on both sides of the cloister, and there seemed to be some frescoes on these walls that had lost their color.
Although the murals have lost their color, the scenes in the paintings are still vivid from the lines and the difference between gray and white......
Delia stopped in front of the murals, squinting at the paintings on the walls, pursing her lips and not speaking.
Surdak stopped and looked at the murals on the wall, although the wall always collapsed intermittently, Surdak still saw that the murals looked coherent.
There were no murals on the broken walls, and Surdak didn't get too hung up, he kept reading as if he were looking at a comic strip.
The fresco on this wall mainly depicts a story, as two walls in front of it have collapsed, and Surdak is looking at it from the third fresco.
The third mural tells the story of a great battle between angels and demons, a battlefield full of corpses, with countless angels with outstretched wings in the sky, and black flames burning on the ground, and demons with all kinds of ugly bodies everywhere.
The fourth is about war-weary angels and demons conspiring to make peace, and they gather in a room where there are even some food and drinks on the table lit with countless candles.
The wall of the fifth painting was somewhat broken, but Surdak could see half of it, and it was clear from it that the angels and demons had taken a piece of the World Stone and used it to create a place of refuge.
(End of chapter)