In this way, the two of them successfully passed through the gates of several checkpoints through the concealment of optical illusions, and Leo also mastered some of the languages used in this world through continuous collection of language materials and Sean's explanations.

Just as Leo can't trust anyone else, so is Sean, who has said a lot about the world he knows, but still withholds some things, such as language.

However, it was clear that he was not fully able to hide this little secret of his own, and as Leo collected the conversations of the people, his expression of concentration showed that he was listening to them and that he understood their language.

Just like the knowledge passed down by those large families, this language has also been passed down as a kind of knowledge that represents a special meaning among the descendants of the Donald family, and Sean naturally learned it too, and learned it very well, although for some inheritance reasons, there were errors in some pronunciation and vocabulary grammar, but the reading and writing were generally standard.

With the language provided by Sean as a reference, Leo's mastery of this language has also become a lot smoother, and while mastering the language, he also learned through the dialogue of these guard guards that this world is not as Shaun said, only the ocean and the land where the holy mountain is located, in fact, this world is very large, and it may not even be smaller than the world of Velon, and the main component of this world is the ocean, and the others are islands, for example, the land they are on now is an island.

By interpreting the conversation of the guard at the checkpoint just now, Leo knew that an important festival was now being held in the Poseidon Temple in the Santa Tru Mountain, and all the messengers of the island lords had sent people to participate in this festival, and even the royal family of the Sea Clan, and the movement caused by the corpse collectors before had also alarmed the people on the other side of the Holy Mountain, so the Poseidon Church was worried that something unexpected would happen in the Desperate Mountain that would affect the progress of the festival, so they had to send people to check the situation, and the messengers of the island lords who gathered here also sent people out of curiosity.

In order to disguise himself as a local as much as possible, Leo stole two sets of ordinary people's clothes from the guard station at one of the checkpoints, and replaced him and Sean with clothes that looked distinctly different from the locals.

Although they had made a good journey along the way, they were about to pass through the forest of natural barriers, when they were stopped by the gate and wall of a sentry post.

Unlike the improvised checkpoints they had walked before, the one they saw now was not made of trees at all, but was made of large rocks that not only blocked the entire road, but also spread into the forests on both sides.

In addition, the gates of the outpost are much narrower, and instead of two very fragile looking woods, they are forged from two complete pieces of metal.

In addition to the fact that the defense of the entire outpost has been greatly improved due to the construction materials and construction specifications, the outpost itself also contains extremely powerful extraordinary power, from the gate to the defensive wall are engraved with the sea sacred text containing mysterious power.

The gate of this sentry is tightly closed, and Leo can only reach the other side unless he enters the forest, bypasses the city wall, or climbs directly over the city wall, but Leo does not choose these two options, he leads Sean to the edge of the city wall not far from the city gate, uses rune traps to disguise it, and then sits down in place, waiting for the opportunity to pass through the sentry post.

"Are we just waiting?" asked Sean impatiently after waiting for more than half an hour.

"What are you doing in such a hurry, we still have plenty of time. Leo looked at Sean and said calmly.

Sean didn't say anything, judging from his somewhat impatient expression and the reaction of getting up and walking around from time to time, it was obvious that his heart was not very calm.

"Aren't you going to say something?" Seeing Sean's situation, Leo asked in a deep voice, "Like those little secrets that I don't know yet." ”

Sean was silent for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "I know what the Long Spirit Festival is all about?"

"Long Spirit Day?" Leo was stunned for a moment, and quickly thought that this Long Spirit Festival was the festival that was being held in the San Tru Mountains that those guard guards had just talked to, and it was not difficult to hear from their voices that this festival was very important here.

Sean explained with a serious expression: "The festival of the Spirit Race on the Long Spirit Day is to commemorate the sea god's ascension of his sleeping temple from the bottom of the sea to the sea for the Spirit Race, and it is the most important festival of the Spirit Race in the Holy Tru Mountain. On the day of the festival, they will collect a large number of sea monster snails, and then summon them to sacrifice to the sea god by hunting them. ”

Leo listened to Sean's words and said, "What happens if the sea monster is killed?"

"Each snail corresponds to one or more snails, and as long as the corresponding snail is killed, the snail will also be destroyed. Sean smiled bitterly and said, "If I don't get a sea snail this time, then I will need to wait thirty years for the new sea snail to fully mature." ”

"They shouldn't have taken out all the sea monster snails for sacrifice, right?" Leo said, a little confused.

Sean smiled wryly and said nothing.

However, after Leo asked, he knew that he had asked a useless question, because never look at a group of religious fanatics with ordinary people's thinking, it is completely unnecessary for normal people, and for fanatical believers, it is a sacrifice to show their faith, they will only think that the sacrifice is not enough to hide and be expensive enough, and they will never think that they should save the sacrifice.

Leo relieved Sean and said, "Don't worry, we're waiting for the return of those who went to the Mountains of Despair to check on the situation." ”

Sean asked, "Can't you just turn it over like this?"

Leo didn't answer, but turned and walked to the forest at the edge of the road, carefully searched the bushes in front of him, and then found a creature that looked like a poisonous snake, grabbed it, and walked back.

Before Sean could understand what Leo was going to do, he saw Leo throw the creature in his hand towards the city wall, and as soon as the creature touched the city wall, a force burst out from the city wall, instantly crushing the creature into a puddle of blood mist, which scattered all around.

Seeing this scene, Sean also felt a little afraid, he didn't know why Leo was setting up rune traps so far away from the city wall, but now he understood.

At the same time, the stress reaction of the city wall also alarmed the guards on the city wall, only to see a few half-human and half-fish guards quickly came to the triggered section of the city wall, and looked down for a while, although they carefully looked for the reason why the city wall defense force was triggered, but they were never able to find people and suspicious places, and Leo's disguise did not see through, so they could only turn around and leave with nothing to find, and returned to their sentry hut on the city wall.

After about two hours of this episode, suddenly there was a slight vibration on the ground, and then he saw a team of centaurs at the end of the road, Sean's realization could not help him see the specific appearance of the team, he could only judge that it should be one of the teams they had encountered before, but Leo could see the figures and faces of those people very emotionally, and after seeing clearly, he also stood up from the ground.

"Who's here?" asked Sean as he stood up.

"Princess Chrissy. Leo replied in a deep voice, with a slightly serious expression on his face.

Although Leo had deceived these people through the disguise of the rune trap during the previous encounter between the two, he could sense that the centaur bishop who was suspected of being Princess Chrissy should be aware of the rune trap.

The environment they were in now was a special energy field formed by the bone path, and although his rune trap had been disguised as much as possible to the energy fluctuations around the place, compared to the camouflage in the Desperate Mountains, the camouflage here was obviously much worse in terms of energy fluctuations.

If the Centaur Bishop had used energy fluctuations as a basis for identifying Leo's location, then they would most likely have revealed their location.

Thinking of this, Leo looked around, and soon his eyes fell on the edge of the city wall not far away, and he had a bold idea in his heart.

So, he gestured to Sean, and then took away the disguise of the rune trap, and led Sean to the edge of the city wall that was enough to trigger the energy counterattack of the city wall, and then used spiritual energy to wrap the two of them, just making an optical disguise, as for the energy fluctuations, they were not hidden at all.

However, although Leo's psionic fluctuations were not deliberately hidden, the energy fluctuations that emanated from the city walls from time to time enveloped it and formed a layer of cover.

After doing this, Leo and Sean stood quietly in place, waiting for the group to arrive.

Soon the group of men and horses had already arrived not far from the naked eye, and the guards on the city wall had already spotted those people, and with the sound of orders coming from inside the city wall, the metal gate was slowly opened from the inside.

The group did not return empty-handed, they assembled a pack cart, pulled by a dozen lizard monsters, and placed a huge gravel on the pack cart, this piece of rubble had a layer of black oily liquid attached to the surface, and Leo could feel that these liquids contained the energy fluctuations of the corpse collector, thinking that this should be the remnant of the corpse collector after being solved by the trident.

Leo was only thinking about getting out of there, not thinking that the corpse collector would drop the wreckage, and if he knew, he might have already done it.

At this time, a group of monsters with octopus heads and human bodies full three meters tall came out of the gate, and they saluted the archbishop who was suspected to be Princess Chriss, and then said in a harsh voice through the vibration of the gills, "Master Chrissy, we need to check what you are carrying according to the rules. ”

Hearing what the octopus head said, Leo and Sean looked at each other, if they had sixty percent doubts about the identity of the centaur bishop's Princess Chriss, then now they are almost ninety percent sure, and the centaur bishop in front of them is Princess Chrissy.

Princess Chriss, who was sitting on the north side of the lizard, did not speak, but only nodded, and motioned for the octopus heads to check what they were carrying.

The octopus heads were very casual when they inspected the knights and priests of the Church, and some even asked only two questions, and even if the examination was completed, they were much more strict about the stone that was transported by the group and the remains of the corpse collector.

I saw that a few of them, wearing some ornate armor, took out a pearl-like object from the armor, placed it around the rock and moved it slowly, and after checking it several times, no problem was found, and the octopus head confessed to Princess Chrissy, and then began to signal the guards inside the city wall to let him go.

Just as the attention of these people was all on the city walls, and no one was paying attention to the rest of the surroundings, Leo naturally walked to the end of the group with Sean, among the people who looked like porters dressed similarly to them, and then undisguised themselves.

The sudden appearance of two strangers around them naturally attracted the attention of this group of people, but when they looked at Leo and were about to ask who Leo and Sean were, they felt that they seemed to know these two people, but they couldn't remember the names of these two people for a while, so the doubts in their hearts quickly disappeared, and they didn't ask the two again.

It's just that just as the two of them merged into the team and walked through the city gate, Princess Chrissy, who was walking in front, suddenly looked back, and her eyes swept over Leo and the crowd where they were, although there was a trace of doubt in her sight, as if she sensed that something was wrong, but she didn't stop at Leo and them for long, obviously not finding the spiritual camouflage effect created by Leo using psionic energy.

After that, Leo originally planned to leave the team after crossing this gate, but he found that there were similar checkpoints behind him, so he changed his mind and continued to stay in the team, taking advantage of the peculiarity of this team, he successfully walked through the remaining checkpoints.

After the last checkpoint, the Bone Road and the forest that served as a barrier ended, and they were now at the foot of a high mountain, which happened to be one of the two staggered mountains they had observed.

There are also all kinds of plants growing in this place, but compared to the plants that used as a barrier forest before, the plants growing here are obviously more normal, of course, this normality is in the eyes of people like Leo, who have seen all kinds of strange alien plants, like Sean, who can't even figure out the plant species of the Velen world, seeing these plants is like seeing something magical.

For example, the trees planted on both sides of the road are all fire trees, which are not adjectives, but real fire trees, and the tips of some branches are turned into torches and burn violently, but no matter how much they burn, the flames cannot harm the leaves and trunks of other trees that are not burning.