Under Leo's questioning, Jason and the others told me what had just happened.

It turned out that the four of them also had the same mental void as Leo, and by the time they recovered, Leo and High Priest Denis had disappeared.

After that, some ferocious beasts would continue to run out of the walls around the cave, frantically attacking them, and they had already experienced five waves of attacks, if it weren't for Jason here, maybe Nelson and they would have died at the mouth of the beast.

It's just that what makes them feel strange is that all the beasts they kill will disappear before their eyes, even if they grab the corpse of the beast in their hands, or even bite off a piece and hold it in their mouths, they will disappear.

If it weren't for the wounds on their bodies, perhaps they would have thought that they had gone mad and that everything they were experiencing was a hallucination.

"Those are not hallucinations. High Priest Denis had already put on the clothes he had sent back to the cave, re-covered his frightening-looking eyes with his hood, and after hearing Jason's experience, he took the initiative to explain: "They are all divine creations of the Patronus of Nilgard, they live in the garden of the Patronus, and when someone approaches the place of the gods, they will appear to stop the intruder, but they will never leave any trace, whether in life or in death." This is what is recorded in the book "The Garden of the Gods" written by the Nilgardian writer Herx. ”

Although the High Priest of Denis gave an explanation, no one believed his words.

"What's that?" Sean's eyes were very vicious, and he soon saw two strangely shaped long swords at the feet of High Priest Denis, and tried to pick them up.

However, as soon as his hand touched one of the swords, the swords immediately rusted and decayed in a short time, eventually turning into a pile of metal shavings.

Seeing this situation, Sean hurriedly instinctively raised his hand to signal, brushed himself off, and said, "It's not me, I didn't do it!"

"Of course you didn't do it, and if you could do that kind of thing, you wouldn't be here. High Priest Denis coldly taunted Sean, then crouched down, twisted up a bit of metal scraps, looked at it, and said to Leo, "What belongs to God will eventually belong to God." ”

As he spoke, he also reached out and lightly touched another sword, which was also decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if thousands of years of time were compressed into a few seconds on this long sword.

"Why is this okay?" After seeing the sword take away from the arena, Leo immediately touched the psionic device in his arms, took it out and looked at it, and found that the thing was still the same, nothing had changed.

"I'm afraid God didn't know you would do something like that. Looking at this divine creation, High Priest Denis remembered the scene of Leo's battle in the arena, and couldn't help but say with some ridicule: "So in a certain way, this thing should have become something beyond the mastery of the gods." ”

"What is this? bricks?" asked Jason, who was wrapped in a bandage, and grinned widely.

"No! It's a creation of the gods. Leo responded to Jason's inquiry by the title given by High Priest Denis, and then without waiting for Jason to ask where he and High Priest Denis had just gone, he gave a cursory account of their experience in the arena.

When Leo said that he had destroyed a legendary god creation with five shots and less than ten seconds, everyone including High Priest Denis, who had seen this scene with his own eyes, looked at Leo with strange eyes, while Jason was more looking at the flintlock hand cannon that belonged to him and was only temporarily borrowed by Leo, and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth from time to time.

"Look, on the altar!" said Nelson, pointing to the stone platform.

When everyone heard this, they looked over, only to see a drop of blood-like liquid seeping out from the center of the stone platform, and was held up and suspended in the air by an invisible force.

The blood that had originally spread throughout the cave also slowly retreated into the stone platform, and gradually gathered in that drop of blood, making that drop of blood change from bright red to dark red, and then a trace of gold thread, and as the gold thread increased, it finally turned into a drop of golden blood.

At this time, the entrance to the passage, which had been hidden by the illusion, and another bronze door reappeared, and the bronze door, which had been closed and could not be opened, also opened a crack.

Sean, who never knew how to suppress his greed, completely ignored the reappearance of the two entrances and exits, and only that drop of golden blood was left in his sight, and just like he couldn't help but reach out to touch the long sword just now, this time he couldn't help but grab the brilliant and dazzling drop of golden blood.

"It's not your thing, you shouldn't touch it!" Leo grabbed Sean's outstretched hand, looked at him coldly, and said.

Sean pursed his lips and withdrew his hand, but his eyes still couldn't take his eyes off the golden blood.

After teaching Sean a lesson, Leo reached over and tried to pick up the golden blood, but to his surprise, the drop of golden blood passed through his hand, as if the golden blood seen in everyone's eyes was just an illusion.

"It doesn't look like it's your thing, either. Sean hit back at Leo at the right time.

"This thing is weird!" a curious Jason reached out and grabbed the golden blood, just like Leo, the golden blood passed through his hand.

"Doctor, try it. Thinking of the origin of this drop of golden blood, Leo turned to Nelson and said.

Nelson also reached out curiously to grab the golden blood, and to everyone's surprise, he thought that Nelson would be the owner of this drop of golden blood, after all, this drop of golden blood came from his blood, but he didn't expect that Nelson would not be able to succeed.

"Kena, you go and try. High Priest Denis said to Catherine.

Catherine didn't think much of it, and reached out to grab the drop of golden blood, and this time she succeeded, and the golden blood that was like an illusion a moment ago was actually caught in her hand.

Catherine was stunned, spread out her hand to look at the blood that looked like a golden gem, and said, "What's going on?"

"It may have something to do with the fact that you're a native of Nilgaard," High Priest Denis explained briefly.

"It could also be that the doctor was thinking about you when his blood was drawn. Jason teased with a laugh.

This ridicule made Catherine and Nelson's faces redden, they glanced at each other, and immediately shifted their gaze, and adults who were obviously in their thirties and almost forty years old all made this kind of young boy and girl-like behavior, which made the onlookers laugh a little.

"Shouldn't we move on?" Sean interjected at this time, "The world behind the door may be the destination of our trip." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, several dissatisfied eyes immediately fell on him, making him shrink his neck, retreat behind people, and cover his mouth, indicating that he would not talk more.

At this time, Leo's spiritual network suddenly sensed the changes in the spiritual energy in the stone platform, and gave a hint through the auxiliary brain system.

Leo, who got the hint, immediately looked at the stone platform in the middle of the crowd, and the others also looked at the stone platform because of his actions.

I saw that the originally uneven surface of this hard stone platform quickly showed signs of weathering, gradually covered with cracks, and in just ten seconds, it completely fell apart and turned into a pile of sand.

In the eyes of everyone, the decay process of the stone platform and the two long swords is the same, but it is just a metal and a rock.

However, in Leo's eyes, the two are completely incomparable, the decay of the long sword is only due to the disappearance of the power that protects it, and the natural corrosion of the long sword that has stopped in the past plays a role at the same time, so that the long sword has completed a thousand years of corruption in a short time, while the destruction of the stone platform is because the spiritual energy inside the stone platform has become chaotic, crushing and repelling each other, thus collapsing and self-destructing.

Although there is no evidence to prove it, Leo feels that the destruction of the stone platform may have something to do with the psionic device he brought out of the arena.

The destruction of the stone platform made everyone a little stunned, but because it did not cause any adverse reactions, everyone did not bother with this matter anymore.

Only High Priest Denis sighed with some regret, for he felt that the destruction of the stone platform was a sign that the altar that could create divine warriors might have failed.

Although the bronze gate had been opened, Leo did not immediately continue to move forward, but repaired it in this cave**, allowing everyone's injuries and physical strength to recover a little, and at the same time reloading the consumed arrows into the repeater.

Jason had run out of explosive arrows from his crossbow, and he had to use normal arrows and a few corrosive acid arrows to ensure the crossbow's lethality.

After about half an hour of repair, everyone had almost recovered, and began to move on, opening the hidden bronze gate, and entering another passage inside the gate.

The passage before this passage was different, this passage was specially built, the ground was laid with flat stone slabs, the surrounding walls were carved with decorative columns and religious patterns and symbols, and the top was specially carved into an arc-shaped dome, and the dome was also engraved with some patterns, which should be some ancient legends.

In addition, a recessed shrine was carved between each of the two pillars, and the same idol was enshrined in the shrine, but the shape of the idol was different, and it is worth noting that this idol was not in human form, but a half-human, half-worm monster.

I saw that this monster had the upper body of a charming woman, and the lower body was like a spider, except that the spider's legs were human arms, and the spider's tail was as fat as the queen's abdomen. Even each idol is carved with an egg at the end of the tail egg, which is not fully born.

The most crucial and most noticeable thing for Leo was that in the inscription at the base of the idol, he saw the chaotic religious symbols painted on the parish walls on the ground.

"This is the patron saint of the Nilgards?" Leo asked, pointing to the idol and towards the High Priest of Denis.

High Priest Denis frowned at Leo's gesture of pointing at the idol, feeling a little displeased, but he replied truthfully, "This is the patron saint of the Nirgadians, the mother of the nests, and the mother of all beings, and the entire world of Veron was born from her belly. ”

As he spoke, he saw that the High Priest of Denis bowed to the idol in the posture of an ordinary priest, although the posture was not very special, but his expression was very solemn and focused, which showed that he should have a deep faith in this so-called mother of the nests.

"The world of Velen was born with this thing, do you believe that?" Sean snorted lightly as he looked at the idol with some disdain.

High Priest Denis did not show any anger at Sean's provocation and his disrespectful remarks about the idol, but only gave Sean a cold look and continued to walk forward after Leo.

Not getting the response he deserved, Sean couldn't help but pout his lips and quickly followed.

The carefully constructed passage didn't last long, and soon came to an end, and this time there was no bronze door at the end, and they could see everything in front of them standing on the edge of the exit.

I saw that they were on the edge of a huge ovoid beehive at the moment, this hive was about sixty meters high, the longest part was about thirty meters in diameter, and the surrounding stone walls were all hexagonal bee chambers, except for the entrance and exit of the passage where Leo and the others were, these bee hives were densely covered with the entire inner wall, even the top and bottom, roughly counting, there were at least five or six thousand.

In addition, inside the hive, there is a large platform supported by several stone pillars extending from the surrounding stone walls, suspended in the center of the hive.

At the entrance and exit where Leo and the others were, there was a stone pillar about two meters wide that stretched diagonally upwards and connected to the platform, allowing them to reach the platform.

There is no brazier in this hive, because the walls of the hive seem to be coated with a layer of luminescent material, emitting a faint silvery-white light, so the whole hive appears very bright.

"The source of radiation is found, light radiation, and no long-term contact. ”

As soon as they approached here, the paracerebral system had already analyzed that these glowing substances on the wall were low-radiation sources, and although there would be no problem with short-term exposure, they would still cause cell mutations in the body after a long period of exposure.

"The bee chamber is full of corpses. At this moment, Catherine suddenly let out an exclamation.

It turned out that when she walked to the stone bridge leading to the platform, she found a black shadow in each beehive, and after looking closely, she saw that the black shadow was all human bones.

When the others heard this, they all looked at the nearest bee hive around, only Leo had already known the situation inside the bee hive through the spirit network, so he didn't show too much surprise.

When Sean saw these beehives, he seemed to think of something, walked back to the entrance, stepped on the concave wall of the beehive and climbed to the nearest bee room, carefully looked at the dried corpses inside, reached through a layer of barrier membrane, groped for a while on the dried corpses inside, and then let out an exclamation as if he had found something, and immediately climbed back to the stone bridge, standing in place and looking at the things obtained from the corpse in his hands with a serious face.

"Sean, what did you find?" Seeing Sean's rare serious expression, Nelson couldn't help but ask.

"All of them were members of the royal family of France more than 300 years ago. As he spoke, Sean spread out his hand, only to see that he was holding a gold silk chrysanthemum badge jewelry with the unique mark of the ancient French royal family, and said: "Three hundred years ago, the French royal family was almost exterminated by a slave uprising, and then the royal family was restored, trying to find the bodies of those dead royal families, but they have never been found, I didn't expect them all to be here." ”