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After entering the safe road on the right, Agaritu walked a few hundred meters forward, and sure enough, he saw a gate that had been opened.

This gate is made entirely of bronze and has no spiritual brilliance, making it an ordinary object. It's thick and ancient, engraved with abstract running demon wolves (but painted like spiders due to too many legs), giants wielding huge stone clubs and weapons, humans the size of giants' palms, suns bigger than giants, thunder and lightning and clouds floating in the sky.

The sun occupies a large area at the top, radiating straight lines to express the light, and there are many patterns characteristic of a bygone era in the gaps, which are filled to the brim.

The gate opens in the middle, the sun splits into two symmetrical halves, and the part engraved with humans happens to be separated from the side of the giant and the demon wolf, and the ingenious conception implies a hint of the history of the time.

This bronze gate is quite well preserved, placed in the outside world, this is an important cultural relic enough to shake the archaeological world, its status may be comparable to the "Simu Wuding" in the old civilization, is the ancient era of culture from scratch research. And judging from the performance of the carving, the sun occupies the supreme position, and the eternal sun is likely to be the biggest winner.

Of course, it is more likely that this item was blocked by the major churches as soon as it was put on the market, or destroyed on the spot because it did not have the properties of the seal.

Inheriting the ontology's preference for "lost things" and discovering instincts, the spirit also became interested in this carving, held the lamp in his hand higher, studied the carvings carefully with a sense of ritual, and recorded them in his memory.

There is a not-so-obvious mechanism on the ground behind the door, which slowly closes when stepped on.

After carefully reading all the carvings on the door, Agaritu was about to enter the door when he suddenly noticed that the light in his hand illuminated a hidden fresco. He wasn't sure if the mural had just appeared, as his attention had been on the gate itself.

After hesitating for a few seconds, he chose to turn around, held the lamp in his hand, and approached the mural.

This mural is connected to the mural outside, but it should not be from the same person's hand, the one in front of you is obviously more delicate and freehand, and the outside is more similar to symbols, and even the expression of words.

He could see the mural clearly.

Above the fresco was a sea of flames that parted in the middle and split a path.

On the road, there is a long procession, and the members either bow their heads reverently or kneel on the ground, aiming for the depths of the sea.

Their leader was a tall, lanky man with long silver hair, soft features, closed eyes, and layers of wings behind his back.

Agaritu's expression remained unchanged, and a name came to his lips, but it was not spoken.

Then, he spoke: "You understand? ”

There was silence in the long, narrow dark passageway, and after a few seconds, a foot silently appeared at the edge of the light, then two legs, and finally a man walked out into the light-shrouded area, bowing slightly.

"Understood, honorable captain."

Anderson spat out a mouthful of blood from his mouth and said with a bright smile: "This is the pilgrimage path of a certain god in the legend of the ancient era, the right side is for people to walk, and the left road is for sacrifices. The sacrificial sheep go ahead, so you are the last to disembark as a pilgrim. ”

He was wearing a blood-stained white shirt and a torn black waistcoat, with a lot of blood on his face and wounds on his abdomen, but not serious.

This answer is reluctant, at least not illiterate...... Agaritu turned to him: "Are they all dead?" ”

Anderson moved into the light, then sat down on the floor, tore a long strip of cloth from his clothes, and bandaged the slit on his arm, which he had been holding with his hands. He bit the strip of cloth in his mouth, and said with some slurp:

"Yes, honorable captain."

"We have been attacked by an extraordinary object and an extraordinary creature, our Dawn Knight has not been able to stop the seal that is stronger than him, and our wizards have not properly identified the extraordinary creature that will take on the form of others. And your subordinates, captain, have no idea of uniting to fight, with all due respect, he is stupid and arrogant, and he sits back and watches us killed, but does not want to think about who will cooperate with them after we are dead. So in the end they all died. ”

Agarito was surprised, but not surprised.

A seal used to slaughter livestock does not need to be too high in sequence, and if it is higher than the sequence 6 of "Warrior", it is most likely to be sequence 5. The "human skin ghost" that he saw on the road that had been harassing the team was just a piece of material corresponding to the "soothsayer" sequence 6. And the team composed of adventurers and sailors has two Sequence 5 Anderson and Gilcias 2 or more, and they are all experienced Extraordinary Beings, and their overall strength is much higher than that of the opposite side, almost to the extent that one person and one punch can defeat the seal and extraordinary creatures to the point that they cannot be prototyped.

However, just because they were in darkness and could not grasp the situation immediately, they were killed by the enemy in a very short period of time, almost defenselessly.

It's a bit of a pity that their extraordinary properties will probably be taken away as part of the sacrifice and by the pilgrim team of the Aurora Society.

He already knew who the people who had been here before were.

The mural signs along the way, the carvings of the ancient Sun God era, the cross emblem, and the modern products, there is a high probability that they came here for a routine pilgrimage to the Eastern Continent in October last year, and the result was that for some reason all the Aurora pilgrimage team suddenly lost contact!

"Rejoice, Gilcias is dead, and no one wants to kill you now." "How did he die?" ”

Anderson laughed with great honesty.

"When I heard the Knight of Dawn shout at the end of our run, I knew it was over, and immediately turned and ran."

"The Reborn Financial Giant"

"He ran away too."

"He ran with a few other people, and the seal chased after him, and when he got close to five meters, he would trip one of them."

"In the end, he tried to trip me over, but I was quicker than him!" Anderson smiled and made a fist swing, "He fell, so I ran out as hard as I could, and then ran out of the passage of the sacrifice, saw the mural, and came here." ”

After saying this, Anderson let out a long breath and his expression became weak and languishing.

He said with great sincerity, "Honorable captain, there may be a place where I can be found as a pathfinder, but I am dying of hunger. ”

Agaritu smiled, "You can live for more than five hours, and the corpse may be useful." ”

After speaking, he glanced back at the "Angel of Destiny" on the mural behind him, and said meaningfully:

"You walked into the path of the sacrifice and escaped unharmed, perhaps this is also the choice of fate. You may be able to pray in your heart that fate will choose you one more time. ”

Behind him, Anderson, who already knew that it was impossible to get any handouts, had an even more ugly face, and he knew extremely well that he had slipped into an extremely dangerous situation, both physically and mentally. His eyes were dizzy, but he still forced a smile on his face: "Fate? Sorry Captain, I don't quite believe this. If I believe fate is what happens, I should be serving dishes at a restaurant in my hometown right now. ”

"Someone predicted that you would serve dishes at a restaurant?"

The devil spoke to him casually, and walked to the open door, and Anderson did not hesitate, but stood up and staggered behind.

"My homeroom teacher, old man." This time, Anderson's disguised smile was a little more real because of the memory, and he said regretfully, "The old man firmly believed that a man like me would not be successful, and he was afraid that I would starve to death, so he suggested that I study art, but I didn't like to draw according to the old bone examiners, and finally I skipped school." ”

"It's apostasy." "It sounds like you're from the Church of the God of Knowledge," Agaritu said. ”

- The word class teacher is a word for Lenburg.

Since it has the meaning of "professor in charge of the class" and "priest" at the same time, a more accurate translation would be "responsible bishops in small classes", and only the clergy of the intellectual church will have both the duties of priest and teacher.

As soon as it appeared, the title was applied for by the bishops of Lenburg, who believed that the term had been specially designed for them by Russell the Great. But for some reason, Russell the Great, who coined the term, insisted on using this less formal "head teacher" as the official translator.

Anderson stepped on the trap with a dazzle, and the heavy bronze door slowly closed behind them.

"I have a flexible prayer policy."

He didn't say much about his faith, for he didn't have any serious beliefs: "You're right, but my apostasy seems to the old man to be just a truancy, and he's even glad that there's no one in the class named Anderson Hood who pulls his average to the bottom every week." He opened the door for me and gave me a map the night I skipped school. He said that going outside as a traveler to study the customs and customs is also a good direction for employment, so he assigned me a hundred travelogue essays, telling me the route to go abroad, for fear that I would be caught smuggling and embarrassing him. ”

Anderson suddenly couldn't speak, he felt like he was giving an account of his life, as if the next step was to find a place to lie down, and then pass away with a smile after saying his last words.

But the demon captain turned his head: "Hurry up, it's time to hit the road." ”

Dimly lit walkways, demons carrying lanterns, murals praising ancient gods along the way...... Anderson chuckled dryly and quickened his pace, feeling like he was really going to die.

He suppressed his embarrassment and subtlety, snorted, and continued in an active manner:

"On the way abroad, I met an old man who was a fortune teller on the bridge, talking nonsense, and the fee was very expensive."

"I saw that he hadn't eaten for a few days, so I went to count it once, and asked him which country I should go to, and he said I should go to a restaurant to serve plates."

"I didn't think much of this in the first few years of my life, but after staying at sea for a long time, I occasionally thought it might be good to serve dishes. But I didn't really want to serve the dishes, I escaped for the sake of a new and exciting life. ”

After walking a few steps in silence, he chuckled briskly:

"This adventure in the Forsaken Lands is also exciting, honorable captain."

Agaritu didn't answer, and the only sound in the hallway was the soles of his shoes on the ground, echoing in the hollow environment.

Soon, a flickering light source appeared at the end, which should be thunder and lightning from the outside world.

The devotees on the mural are either kneeling or advancing, silently frozen in different postures, in the direction of the exit, walking in front, the leader holding a wooden staff with his hands raised to welcome the light after the darkness.

- If there is no thunder and lightning and darkness, the light of the sun should be behind the long oppressive aisle, which is a baptism.

Walking out of the passage, the scene of the outside world comes into view.

Two dark towers and black buildings are connected to each other by a covered bridge, enclosing a wide gray stone square.

The square was riddled with holes, huge arrows were inserted, and several fires were burning, as if they had been attacked.

From a distance, there are lights in several windows of the building, and there are really people living in such a place!

The rain here is much lighter, and it is no longer the overwhelming momentum that seemed to drown everything out before. The square was spacious, but the two of them were not slow on foot, and soon reached the black building in the middle.

The building has many spires and is followed by the houses in which it lives. The Gothic building resembles an old-fashioned building, with a cross on top, and looks like a church or a monastery.

Agaritu approached the monastery and reached out and knocked on the door. After a long silence, as he was about to knock on the door again, there was a slight sound of footsteps from behind the black door, and then, the door tilted slightly, revealing a palm-wide slit.

Behind the gap, there is a hand holding a candlestick, and a red candle burns slowly.

Behind the hand was a tall man, a weather-beaten man, with deep wrinkles on his forehead, eyes, and mouth, but his hair was black and shiny, without a single silver thread.

His linen robe was simple and simple, his expression was serene and calm, and his rare pure black eyes had a curiosity about his guests and a kind smile characteristic of the clergy.

Agaritu quickly turned out the corresponding face from his memory - exactly right, this is the "Black Sage" of the Aurora who will lose contact, Leomaster!

However, the face in his memory is very different from that of Leomaster now, with the "Black Sage" having a dark and gloomy expression, and like other secret prayers, he likes to hide himself in the shadows, and his expression and movements also have the characteristic fanaticism and neuroticism of true Creator believers.

He had even reached the end of the middle and late stages of his pilgrimage, but there had been no news at all.

"Welcome, all who can come here are Lambs who are guided by the Lord."

Leomaster smiled, "But I'm sorry, I can't let you in." The Lord's trial is in this monastery, and you can join us in penance, witness miracles, and redeem yourselves. ”

"In the monastery?"

"Yes, it's an inevitable test." The ascetic replied, "When we come here, the corresponding demons will also appear. If you are not religious, you will die, and only those who are steadfast in their faith can be redeemed and reborn. ”

Didn't understand at all. The demon thought to himself.

However, the meaning behind this sentence is probably the reason why the pilgrim team lost contact, and it seems that there has been a lot of loss.

He thought for a while, hesitating whether he should reveal whether he knew the identity of the other party, and finally he chose to ask directly:

"Who are you?"

Leomaster was not surprised by this question and answered it gently.

"I am an ascetic named Leomaste, from a religious organization."

Anderson's face was strange, and he could see that the ascetic was more reserved, but the black inverted cross at the top of the monastery made the words "Aurora Society" clearly written on the ascetic's face.

"The easternmost part of the Sunia Sea is the place where my lord sleeps, and her holy mountain is hidden somewhere here, and I have come here with a pilgrimage procession, and have been tested by the Lord, and have stayed here to do penance."

Agaritu did not react to these words, and although he was a little curious about what the "demon" was, Leomast did not seem to intend to tell the stranger the details of the test, so he asked again straight to the point:

"Walk through the monastery and enter the sanctuary?"

Leomaste shook his head slowly: "The Lord bears the sins of the world and hangs upside down at the end of the world. Her sanctuary rejected everyone and would only open when the Last Judgment was near. ”

What does this mean? Agaritu asked, "Where is the edge of the island ahead?" ”

Leomaster said through the crack in the door:

"Bypass here, all the way east, across the dark abyss, but the long bridge leading to the sanctuary has been cut off."

Getting the information he wanted, Agaritu immediately turned his head with his lamp, preparing to bypass the black monastery from the left.

Seeing this, Anderson cautiously leaned in, and looked at the gentle and kind ascetic behind the crack in the door with a smile:

"Excuse me, as you can see I'm hurting, can you give me some food or water?" Although dying at the end of the pilgrimage path is the Lord's forgiveness, I feel that I can do more for the Lord while I am alive. ”

Anderson's honorific title for the true creator caused the two demigods present to turn their heads, and Leomaster's eyes moved slightly, and his smile became even kinder:

"We have consecrated her name."

Naturally, Anderson connected the dots four times on his body, drew a cross, and skillfully replied: "Praise be to the Creator of all, the fallen nature of all living beings, and may her will be done on earth as it is in heaven." ”

"When did you receive the Lord's guidance?"

Anderson replied solemnly: "When I was hungry and penniless wandering the streets of Intis. ”

He didn't say the rest of the story, and a devout person like Leomaster would naturally glorify the fact that he had been helped by his compatriots and developed faith, and the situation at that time was that Anderson had delivered himself to a member of the Predator Cross who ordered food while working part-time as a food delivery.

As a low-level hunter, he was caught in this way, and the staff benefits and salaries of the Predator Cross did make him feel tempted for a while, but the fanaticism and neuroticism characteristic of the true creator believers soon caused him to run away with a bucket due to his lack of faith and faith.

In total, he worked for less than a quarter, and left a large number of untouched documents and reports when he left.

Leomast was sympathetic and nodded, "Please wait. ”

The door closed and reopened a few minutes later, and Leomaste brought a water bag with still warmth, and two pieces of fluffy and delicious dough. Just seeing the dough, Anderson immediately felt his saliva secreting rapidly, and his hunger could no longer be suppressed.

"This is the Lord's sacrament, and her flesh and blood, and we share her, is to become fellow citizens."

After Leomaster finished speaking, Anderson couldn't wait to take a bite of the cake.

The dough is also heated, and at this moment it is more delicious than all the delicacies I have ever tasted. But before he could taste the taste of the bread, a voice suddenly came from his head:

"Praise the Lord! Praise the Great Lord! ”

Anderson let out an earth-shattering cough.

TBC

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I've been so busy these days, and I'm delirious about learning my driver's license, so I don't want to pay attention to the pain caused by the subscription big dive.

Regarding the True Creation Shangyuan Fort mentioned at the end of the previous chapter...... I don't have it in my plan, and even if it does, it will be a long, long time later.