Chapter 14: The Prayer
One of the priests frowned, then said, "How dare you break into that place?"
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Byron shrugged his shoulders indifferently, glanced at the unconscious soldiers, and continued: "Sam of the garrison died at the hands of those skeletons underground, I suppose, only a necromancer can evoke those dead bodies, right?"
"You are wrong, the dark power in the temple is enough to awaken the dead from eternal sleep, and it doesn't necessarily take some evil mages to wake them up. The older priest shook his head slightly.
"But they really shouldn't wake up, there's something weird, and I think we should check it out. There is a ......" The young priest furrowed his broad brows, and there was some anxiety in his expression.
"Neil!" the older priest interrupted him with a soft snort, then glanced at the adventurer next to him. Bai Ethics looked puzzled, and then his expression moved, and he put his feet on the stone bed.
If the soldier on the stone bed was still awake, then he must not mind jumping up and dueling with Byron, who put his foot next to his head.
Byron's rude behavior caused both priests to frown slightly, but the older priest immediately saw the wound on his leg.
"I hope to trade this news for a chance to be treated, two. Byron had heard a commotion outside, and thought the bullies must have started searching for him.
The priest nodded and said, "Young man, thank you very much for the news you brought, I will do my best to treat you." ”
"Thank you, Priest. Byron moved his foot, as if to say, treat me immediately.
The older priest shook his head and sighed at the frizziness of the young men, picked up a wet towel from the basin and cleaned the wound on Byron's leg, and then the other priest placed a shimmering palm on Byron's leg.
Byron immediately hissed, not because it was too painful, but because of the itching caused by the new granulation, if it wasn't for reason to stop Byron in time, he couldn't help but want to use his hand to clasp the position of the wound.
The magic of "treating minor injuries" was over, and Byron's legs were as smooth as ever.
Trying to move his feet, there was only a faint throbbing pain, and Byron let out a sigh of relief - now he could seriously run away.
"Whatever the mage is looking for, we should go and see, young man, would you be interested in taking a trip to the underground temple with us?" said the older priest with a smile, and if it were a normal day, Byron might still be bewitched by his friendly smile. But now, this guy is clearly looking for a meat shield at the top!
Byron shuddered when he thought about himself carrying the attack of a group of skeletons alone, and behind him, two priests were slowly casting magic spells.
He quickly shook his head and rejected the priest's proposal: "The bullies of that group of lucky friends have built the base camp underground, and the three of us can't get in." ”
They may be held in high esteem among the inhabitants of their realm, but these bullies don't have the slightest respect for them.
The priest looked thoughtful, and Byron was about to nod his head when the footsteps of the bullies sounded outside the temple - they were coming.
Perhaps seeing the panicked look on Byron's face, the older priest smiled meaninglessly, and then said to Byron, "Young man, follow me." ”
Byron looked behind him, it was pitch black, but dense footsteps were approaching. Byron gritted his teeth and followed the priest in front of him, and the two walked behind the half-human, half-sheep sculpture of the "Lady of the Woods", who lifted a wooden plank nailed to the ground, revealing the long staircase below.
Byron turned his head to look at the priest, and under the gray curls, he smiled in his bright eyes, nodded slightly at Byron, and then handed the oil lamp in his hand to Byron.
Taking the lamp, Byron took three steps and two steps, and descended the stairs, followed by the priest, and then covered the plank.
The temple immediately went dark, and the young priest groped in the darkness for a while, then lit a wax torch.
Several bullies rushed in, and as soon as they entered, they scanned the room with an inquiring gaze. The young priest glanced at them, unhurriedly placed the candle on the stone bed, and wrapped the wounded soldier's wound in a circle with gauze.
"Priest, did you see that adventurer?"
"Which adventurer?"
"It's the guy who can play tricks with both hands and always bounce around town. ”
The young priest shook his head, then continued to wrap his bandages. The bully who questioned twitched his cheeks, as if dissatisfied with the priest's attitude. But they didn't say much, after all, people like them will always get hurt and will inevitably come to the temple. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain a semblance of friendliness.
A few people no longer cared about the priest, and began to search the temple on their own. However, the empty temple was almost immediately apparent where to hide. The bullies made their way through the temple and chased them through the back door.
The young priest picked up the candle, closed the back door, and then pulled open the plank and walked down.
Temple of Death – Public burial chamber
On the stone walls, dense coffins lay horizontally in the hollow of the wall, but now, the black coffins have been dragged out. The broken coffin fell in the corner, the weathered bones inside opened their hollow eyes, and the wealth of the burial was taken away by the bullies.
A black skeletal soldier wanders and wanders the tomb. It holds a scimitar in its right hand and a light wooden shield in its left.
The blue bricks of the ceiling of the burial chamber were removed piece by piece, then a thick rope was thrown down, and then there was a shaking fire.
The skeleton soldier instinctively tilted its head slightly, and then it looked up, its desperate thirst for life making it bite its jaw hungrily.
Byron moved away from the entrance of the cave, handed the candle to the priest beside him, and spread his hands helplessly: "A skeleton soldier." ”
The priest looked down from the ceiling with a candle in his hand, and the dark green soul fire burning from inside the skull's skull was looking at him silently from below.
Unlike Byron, the priest could see the clues in the skeleton at a glance.
He moved his body away from the entrance of the cave and looked at Byron solemnly: "You're right, young man, it's indeed a necromancer. ”
"Huh?" Byron nodded blankly, then licked his face and asked, "Lord Priest, how did you see that?"
"Skeleton soldiers are not self-conscious, they rely on the negative energy instinct flowing through their bodies. The priest smiled and nodded, as if pleased with Byron's shameless questioning.
"So, they don't wear weapons on their own at all. ”
Byron raised his eyebrows slightly: "What if they happened to be holding weapons when they died?"
The priest's gray eyebrows furrowed, and he laughed, then handed the candle to Byron: "Young man, you look carefully at its weapon. ”
What can a scimitar with a cold light and a light shield see?
Byron stretched the torch forward, and the blade of the knife in the skeleton's hand reflected the flickering firelight, as if unable to suppress the desire in its heart, it stirred, hissing in its mouth of unknown meaning, and threw itself at the bottom of the hole, and kept jumping lightly.
"Do you see clearly?"
"Well, their weapons are new, and someone has provided them with weapons. ”
"That's right. By the way, the mage you're talking about...... Well, how many rings are there?" the priest looked up slightly, looking like he was trying to think, but couldn't think of anything.
Before Byron could reply, another voice rang out: "Second ring." ”
The young priest followed, nodding to his colleague and handing him the pouch in his hand.
Then he moved his gaze to the entrance of the cave, and a solemn low holy word sounded, and a holy light fell from the sky, enveloping the skeleton in it, and the black dry bones on its body boiled like boiling water, and the dark energy on its body dripped down like hot oil, revealing the white bones below.
The skeleton, which had lost the support of negative energy, immediately collapsed, scattering bones all over the ground. Byron glanced at the priest beside him in surprise, how could the lady of the forest who belonged to the "plant realm" be so powerful?
The three of them slid down the rope to the messy ground, and Byron was moved to pick up the skeleton's weapon, and finally had a weapon to use.
"This burial chamber is the lowest level of the temple, and the upper part is the embalming room. The elder priest took out a map and stared at it for a long time before he confirmed it.
Byron glanced at it secretly, and on the yellowed parchment, he sketched a simple outline of the structure of the temple with charcoal. Obviously, this is not a drawing of the temple's construction, but a rough drawing drawn from memory by someone who entered the temple later.
The three of them walked along the long tomb road for more than ten meters, and there were bluestone steps in front of them, Byron walked in front with a shield, and the priest held an oil lamp, and the flickering flames quickly illuminated the embalming room.
The corpse of a woman lies on an embalming table, the wooden table tops filled with various wooden bowls, porcelain jars, herbs, and small knives. Getting closer, several people couldn't help but churn in their stomachs.
The back of the blonde female corpse with its back to several people had been sliced open, and the vertebrae inside were covered with runes carved into it with an unknown liquid, and the cold chalcedony was embedded in the shoulder blades of the back.
The older priest's face was furious, and his chest rose and fell violently. He walked over to the corpse and straightened the woman's body.
"It's Kama. The young priest stood beside Byron and said quietly.
Byron tilted his head, and no emotion could be seen in his unfazed eyes. Then the young priest stepped forward, tore off a piece of sackcloth from her body, wrapped it around her hand, took the knife from the table, and took out the chalcedony from the woman's back.
The two priests chanted in the dark underground, and the prayers that were low and high calmed Byron's mood. At the end of the prayer, the older priest took a few seeds from the pouch and sprinkled them on the corpse.
"Her soul has gone to the Temple of Nature. The priest looked up in relief, and there was a hint of yearning in his eyes.