Riding the changing energy cloud of the god of lights, Rogge and his party traced the direction of the four-winged angel's departure and went deep into the Valley of the Sages, they swept over the bare cliffs, overlooking the wind-swept yellow sand below, and the ruins and ruins submerged in the sand, searching for the traces of the angels. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Suddenly, two huge angel statues appeared at the mouth of the valley in front of them, the body of the angel statue connected to the cliff wall intersected with its wings, looking at the direction of the entrance to the Valley of the Sages, both statues were covered with the wind and frost of time, and the head of the statue on the right had broken and fell at the foot of the statue.

The four of them floated past the angelic statue, and saw in the distance that in the middle of the valley behind the statue stood a high hill, above which sat a majestic temple, and an S-shaped slope meandered down the steep hill from the front of the temple to the bottom of the mountain.

Rog had the lamp god descend in front of the temple, and led the people past the man-tall and mutilated statues of angels, and through the temple gate into the open square inside the temple, he saw broken stone pillars toppling the loess floor, which looked to have been abandoned for a long time.

Rog and Antonio exchanged glances with each other, and continued to move forward with Catherine and Tali, passing through a gate, a huge statue of a woman was standing, and the four of them stopped in the open space in front of the statue, looked up at the weathered statue, and found that she was different from the previous angel statue, and did not have wings behind her.

"What the hell is this place?" said Catherine, looking around at the silence and desolation around her, "is it an abandoned temple?"

"I didn't find any of the goddess's features from this statue. Standing in the shadow of the statue, Roger looked up at the majestic statue that shaded the sun and said, "If you want to carve a statue of a goddess, you must have her signature features, such as the flowers and plants of the goddess of the forest, the waves of the goddess of water, the crescent moon and the starlight of the moon goddess." ”

"Maybe it's the goddess of wisdom?" the little furball tilted his little head and interjected, "Just like me, smart can't be written on the door of the head!"

"But you did put the word stupid on your head. Rogge glanced back at her and said, "The goddess of wisdom is also the goddess of war, and the spear that symbolizes courage and the book that symbolizes wisdom are typical features of her, and no statue of the goddess of wisdom will lack both, or at least one of them." ”

"You're right," said Antonio, circling the statue and returning to Rogge, "and the woman on this statue looks so ordinary, dressed like an ordinary human peasant woman, that it doesn't look like the makeup of a goddess." ”

"Because she was just a human all along. ”

This sudden female voice caused several people in front of the statue to involuntarily turn around, and saw the four-winged angel who had just flown away standing quietly in the gate behind them.

She still wrapped her body around one pair of wings, the other one had been folded, and her body was only bare with her slender legs and arms, barefoot, and the gleaming sword still in her hand.

"Wow, pretty angel sister!" cried out the little furball as she jumped up from top of Catherine's head, stretched her neck and fluttered her little wings with joy.

"Shut up, little villain. Rog walked past Catherine and swept his fingers at the two little paws that the little furball was stretched out, and the little furball suddenly lost its balance and fell on Catherine's head with a "snap".

He walked ten paces away from the four-winged angel and stopped, stared at her and said, "Hello, Miss Angel, we meet again." ”

"Don't call me that!" the four-winged angel looked at them with a cold expression and said, "The name angel is forbidden here, only the dead can say it!"

"Alright then," Rogge nodded obediently, glanced back at the statue of the woman behind him, and asked, "So, what did you mean by that?

"Yes, she's an ordinary human, probably even more ordinary than that girl. Four-winged Sky pointed at Catherine, who was standing beside Tali, with the sword in his hand, and said, "But she has a very unusual fate, and what you see here is the only evidence of her fate. ”

"Perhaps, you can tell us a little bit about her?" Antonio said politely to Rogge's side.

The four-winged angel held a glittering sword in both hands, silently looked up at the magnificent statue and said, "For thousands of years, no human or other creatures of any race have ever arrived here, and it may be fate that you can come here." ”

She pointed her golden eyes at the four of them and said, "The owner of the statue behind you is an ordinary human woman, but she has another identity, that is, the wife of the god of war. ”

"The wife of the god of war?" As soon as these words came out, everyone present was taken aback, and they all looked back at the tall statue, only to hear the four-winged angel continue: "She unexpectedly met the god of war in the era when the gods and titans were at war, and the god of war at that time had just encountered a siege and bloody battle due to his greed for merit. ”

She took the wounded God of War back to her abode, a hole dug in the mountain wall, and treated his wounds with wild herbs commonly used by humans, and gave him food for humans, at first she was afraid to talk to the God of War because he looked very fierce and scary, but then they gradually became familiar and began to talk. ”

"In fact, the God of War's injuries are not serious, his divine power protects him, but the care and care she gives him is something he has never felt in the divine realm, he has not had much interaction with humans, he spends every day on the battlefield or training ground, and is used to the collision of blood and weapons, and she gives him a different kind of warmth. ”

At this point, the four-winged angel spread out its wings and flew over the heads of the people, and landed on the pedestal under the giant statue, and she sat down at the feet of the statue and looked down at them and said, "Yes, they are in love, and the place where they met and loved each other is here, and the place where you stand was once the mouth of the cave." ”

The four of them took a step back respectfully, and couldn't help but glance down at the sand under their feet, only to hear the four-winged angel continue: "The god of war finally returned to the battlefield and helped his parents and sisters defeat the Titans, and when he secretly returned here, he found that he had become a father. ”

"Yes, just after the god of war left, the woman gave birth to the god of war's child, not one, but one hundred and seven, and when the god of war knew all this, he was ecstatic when he knew all this, and he used his divine power to build this magnificent temple here, and built the whole valley into a huge palace. ”

"But," said the Four Winged Heavens, looking at the four of them meaningfully with a sad look, "they didn't feel the love and happiness for long, and the divine realm soon discovered all this, and the Father of the Gods recalled his son and forbade him to be with the human woman. ”

"Not only that, but the Lord God cursed the valley, and the woman and all her children were not allowed to leave the valley and give birth to offspring, or they would die within twelve hours, and the valley was a great cage where the mother and child were trapped forever and dead. ”

"After the god of war left, the woman lived alone in the loneliness of her children, and the children grew up, but she grew old, and finally she died in the place where I am sitting now, with a longing for the god of war. The four-winged angel said as he looked back at the statue behind him.

After a long silence, Catherine asked in a trembling voice, "So, what happened to those children?"

"She's right in front of you," whispered the four-winged angel, casting his gaze on Catherine's face, "yes, I am the seventh of the hundred and seven children, and my name is Isabella." ”

She jumped down from the pedestal of the statue from her feet, and said as she walked towards the crowd: "We call ourselves winged people, because we have human blood, we will be killed, but at the same time we have the blood of gods, we have wings, we have infinite lifespan, we have inherited the divine power of the god of war, in other words......"

She stopped a few paces in front of them and said in a hateful tone, "We are God's forsaken children. ”

"I don't think that's the only reason for your hatred of God?" Rogge took out his emerald and gold pipe from his tobacco pouch and lit it, "Those angel hunters have killed more than half of your people, and if this continues, you will be exterminated sooner or later." ”

"How do you know so well?" Isabella looked at Rogge in surprise and subconsciously asked, "Do you know how to read minds?"

"Oh, I wish I could. Rogge shrugged his shoulders and pointed to her sword and said, "But unfortunately I know from your sword, there are fifty-seven names carved on your sword, the earliest marks are badly worn, the middle part is broken, and the last one is very new, no more than a month at most." ”

"I'm amazed by your observation," Isabella stared at him for a moment of silence, making sure he wasn't lying to himself through mind reading, before nodding her head, "You're right, humans have been killing us for nearly a century, ever since the first humans strayed here and discovered our existence. ”

"At first, only a few of them came here in search of so-called artifacts and treasures, but then they began to invade in a big way, with the aim of killing us and trading our bones for wealth and power!"

Isabella clenched the sword in her hand and gritted her teeth, "My six sisters all died at the hands of humans, and a month ago I sent away my sixth sister Kate, who was attacked by humans and shot in the heart with an arrow made of demon stone. ”

She looked down at the name of the sixth sister carved on the sword, and said angrily: "They cut off her legs and separated her bones from the flesh, and when we arrived, they had already broken her chest and abdomen, and were pulling out every rib of her......"

"Can you imagine?" Isabella turned her angry golden eyes to the four, almost roaring, "There was blood all over the ground, like a red stream, we took back her mutilated body, but she was unrecognizable, and we couldn't even piece together her complete skeleton, because the humans had fled with them." ”

"Demon Stone ......" Rogge frowned slightly thoughtfully after hearing this, and before he could speak, a winged woman suddenly fell from the sky, landed beside Isabella and said to her anxiously: "Isabella, Claire's injuries are too serious, and she is about to die!"