Chapter 271: Discovering the Temple [I]
Chapter 271: Discovering the Temple [I]
Salin, of course, didn't know that one of the most powerful guys in the Holy See had slipped into his city. Still there waiting for his return. Fearing that the Inquisition would find the location of the two adjudicators based on where they had died, Salin and Rex's team left as quickly as they could, heading deeper into the desert.
This time, Rex moved forward during the day and rested at night. The terrifying creatures of the Purgatory Desert like to move at night, and during the scorching hot days, they basically hide in the sand and sleep.
Without the protection of the magician, the swordsmen wearing the armor of the spirit snake would not be able to follow Rex deep into the desert, and without the swordsmen taking turns patrolling at night and fighting the demonic beasts in the desert, the rest of the magicians would also be a problem. After staying up like this for half a month, Salin's team finally came to the center of the Purgatory Desert without danger.
Originally, this journey was not half a month away, and Salin saw the strength of the royal army, and also saw how these dozen or so swordsmen and sword masters consumed gold coins.
The spirit snake armor is indeed the best armor in this plane, the ten swordsmen are under the protection of the spirit snake armor, and none of them are seriously injured, more than a hundred battles of all sizes, the demon beasts have slaughtered thousands, but the chance of the mage is less than one percent. Most of the time, mages are blessed with defensive magic to swordsmen.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes. Salin would never believe that ten sword masters and two Black Iron Sword Masters had such a powerful fighting power.
At the same time, the consumption of the spirit snake armor is also not small, and every time he camps at night, Rex will personally repair the armor and replace the magic core for the warriors. Saleen was on the sidelines and learned a lot about magic armor. He had also refined magic armor himself, but that armor was heaven and earth compared to the spirit snake armor. If it weren't for the hard material, the armor made by Saleen would be ashamed to take it out and show people.
Salin made a simple calculation, going deep into the core of the desert, ten swordsmen, two black iron sword masters, and violent bears, and the materials consumed by each person in a day were equivalent to more than two hundred gold coins. This price is not the market price, but Rex brings all the materials and repairs the armor by himself.
The daily consumption was about three thousand gold coins, and in the last period of time, tens of thousands of gold coins were consumed by Rex. If Rex hadn't brought a large number of mages with him, but had hired a team of men, it would have been ten times more than the market price.
On this day, the team came to an emergency halt, but it was because of a sandstorm. The magician quickly built a fortress with ground magic underground, and everyone got into it and stayed up until the sandstorm passed, and then crawled out.
The magic compass is completely ineffective, and it is necessary to wait for the stars to come out at night. Compare the star map to start calculating the exact location of the temple. Resetting the camp, Saleen created a large amount of ice to cool down. The heat of the Purgatory Desert is more than seventy degrees, and if there is no magician, ordinary soldiers will die of heat. Moreover, only the ice cubes made by the intermediate magic are not easy to melt, and although there are also water types in the low-level magic that can make a large number of ice cubes, it will exhaust the magician to death.
In short, Rex's team can only be described as extravagant. Among them, there is not a single magician, and in general, the logistics are also very difficult, but Salin has the Dimension Stone, and Rex has the artifact Ring of the Shinra.
After dark, the magicians measured the wind speed and humidity and were sure that there would be no sandstorms anytime soon, and then began assembling a set of metal equipment. The equipment was simple, the ground used magic to make a base of six stones, fixed the metal brackets, and laid a set of crystal pieces on top of it.
This crystal piece is made of discarded crystal, and the only feature is that it has excellent transparency and no flaws. This thing is no longer useful to ordinary mages. Only a skilled alchemist collects it, and it's not cheap either.
The crystal is magically etched with extremely precise patterns, scales, and axes. Once the crystals were laid, the mages followed Salin and Rex to the ground running.
After adjusting the subtleties one by one, Rex observed the starry sky through the crystal.
The elements and geomagnetism in the desert are a little disordered, and the magic compass is useless, but the sky is still pure, and you can use this expensive crystal star map to calculate your current location. Then, by calculating the coordinates from Metatrin City, you can find the exact location of the temple.
Money, everything is still the function of money, the price of this set of crystal star maps is expensive, and the coordinates calculated by nearly a thousand mages before and after cannot be purchased with gold coins.
The night sky is pure, and the Qin Yin Empire once had the best astrologer, and this constellation knowledge, in addition to magicians, is also a high-ranking general who must be familiar with. Rex has studied systematically since he was a child, of course, not to predict the future, but to familiarize himself with the fluctuations of the elements of the Myers continent according to the law of constellation changes.
Magic is a difficult subject, and it is not something that can be learned by memorizing a few spells.
Although Saleen is able to control the consumption of magic strings with the most precision, he is not as good as Rex in this regard. The distribution of Rex's magic strings is basically in line with the natural changes of this plane, which can maximize the power of magic and reduce the consumption as much as possible.
Although Jason is a good teacher, he has not been a long-term guide to the knowledge of Saleen's constellations, and now he can only watch from the sidelines. It's also to learn this skill that Rex is hard to find.
The light magic released by Rex penetrated the crystal star map, and after a few proofreadings, it matched the coordinates of the constellations in the sky. The magicians immediately jotted down the data and began to calculate it, and in less than an hour, they got the desired result.
"County Lord, this temple is in the northeast direction, at an angle of twenty degrees, six hundred and one miles!" the mages happily gave the data. Salin admired in his heart, accurate to a distance of less than a mile, so many people, as long as they cast a net on the desert to find it, they would not worry about finding the entrance to the temple.
"More than six hundred miles!" Rex was a little depressed, but also a little happy. The depressing thing is that the distance of more than 600 miles, even if you are in a hurry, it will take more than three days. Fortunately, he carried a crystal star map, otherwise there would be an error of 600 miles just by observing the celestial phenomena with the naked eye!
With an error of six hundred miles, if you go around in circles in the desert, you may not be able to find the location of the temple for three or two years.
Rex didn't know that there were originally two oracles in this temple. Now that she is gone, if the oracle is still there, she will spend a lifetime and will not be able to find the location of the temple.
Or maybe Rex was lucky, she led people to toss and turn in the desert for more than half a month, and the Inquisition sent nearly a hundred black butlers, leading a large group of people, to block several exits to the south. Although the Purgatory Desert is vast, there are not many suitable places to enter and exit.
The inquisition is also slightly understaffed, because at the moment. The men and horses on the side of the Principality of Divine Grace have already gathered, and the blood knights are ready to cross the river at any time in the upper reaches of the Chishui River, and it is impossible to block the purgatory desert with the men who can be sent. Deploying in the south is just a gamble of luck.
The referee has three chief referees, two of whom were also promoted after the death of Emperor Qin Yin in battle. The interior is still unstable, and it takes a lot of effort to deal with the Pope, which has only fulfilled Rex.
Otherwise, the three chief referees will go directly into the desert, and once they meet Rex, Rex can only pray for his life and flee back to Qin Yin. Also talk about what temple to find.
After four days ahead, Rex's team stopped and waited for the night to come.
At this time, even the magicians were full of weather. This purgatory desert is really not a place for people, hiding in the magic chariot every day, and the last time the toilet had to use magic to protect the body, otherwise it could be killed by the sand scorpion drilled out of the sand at any time.
However, what these mages have obtained is also very precious, and although these mages are also trained with the army, they are far less than fighting in the desert. During this time, the combat power of the mages brought into the desert by Rex skyrocketed, and the elusive magical beasts in the desert were the best sparring partners.
As soon as night came, Rex re-erected the crystal star map, and measured the exact location of the temple one last time, and found that there was another deviation, but this time it was only three miles away.
The central temple, which was secretly left behind by the goddess Myers, was just three miles away.
"Rest for the night, and leave tomorrow!" Rex was not in a hurry at this time. There may be danger in the temple, and now everyone is tired to death, and once they encounter a strong enemy, Rex's hard-trained officers and magicians will be broken here.
This time the camp wasn't very strong, but half of it was under the sand. And instead of splicing the barracks, Rex directly used magic to create a large stone house. Even if a sandstorm comes, don't be in a hurry.
Everyone was in the stone house, the magic lamp was softly lit, and Rex and Salin sat in the middle, glancing at each other. Salin nodded, and Rex spoke.
"Everybody knows what we're looking for this time. Yes. It is the shrine of the goddess Myers. This temple, which is the core of all the temples on the continent, has never been entered. Legend has it that the goddess Myers once lived here. ”
Rex's voice wasn't too loud, but it was extremely clear inside the stone house. The mages had a look of anticipation on their faces. The goddess Myers, the deity of the realm, once created brilliant magic for magicians to learn. Although human beings were powerful back then, most of them relied on instinct, and it was not until the fall of the goddess that they gradually possessed strong creativity.
The magic left behind by the goddess is the most practical. If there are relics of the goddess in the temple, it is the most precious treasure for the mage.
"I don't know what dangers are in the temple, you know, I have the Ring of the Divine Ara, if I want, I can escape at any time, after entering the temple, the magic chariot will not be usable, all of you, you can't be more than five hundred meters away from me, if I say I want to leave, I must come to me within three seconds. Got it?"
The mages and warriors all nodded heavily, at this moment, the previous status is not important, the temple where the goddess lived can be said to be the holy land of the people of the Myers continent. The Lord of Radiance cannot erase the existence of the goddess in any way.