Levi Ston looked in the direction pointed out by the Shadow Assassin Arrans Kate, and the starry sky there was dim, not to mention star clusters, even the larger stars were pitiful, only fine and dense black bands of light were intertwined, like a strange spider web in the dark night. Levi only glanced at it, and a feeling of disgust instinctively rose in his heart, and he subconsciously looked away.

"Arans, you may not be wrong with your feelings, it is indeed the starry sky that is calling you, or rather, the dark origin power in your body. Levi pondered for a moment, then made a judgment, "As Mr. Dish said, this burning sea of stars is the realm of the gods, so it is obvious that the starry sky that has called you belongs to a dark god, or it may also hide some secrets of the origin of darkness. But our goal now is to find the traces of Pope Nicholas, whose actions are despicable and shameless, but whose power undoubtedly belongs to the source of light, and it is impossible to go there to find the opportunity to become a god. ”

Arans Kate took one last look at the dark starry sky, and then resolutely turned his head, "I wish to obey, Young Master Levi, but how are we going to get there?" he looked at the almost immeasurable distance from the center of the Star Sea with a hesitant gaze, "It's too far, I'm afraid I won't be able to reach it after flying all day from here." ”

"I have an idea, Arans. Levi's eyes twinkled with thought, "Give me your hand, and we may be able to ...... Straight to get there. ”

The Shadow Assassin hesitated to grasp Levi's outstretched left hand, and in the next moment, the sea of stars was pulled into countless blurred rays of light in front of his eyes, and Arrans Kate could barely contain the urge to scream, he could not comprehend this unimaginable speed - it had surpassed the super speed of thought and cognition.

Even if Levi Ston had cast an instantaneous teleportation spell, the Shadow Assassin wouldn't have been so surprised, as it might have been an after-effect of the Heart of the Castle. But now it was different, and Arrans Kate could feel the indescribable majesty emanating from the young regent, which was by no means something that a man who had been in a high position for a long time could develop, because that false momentum would not disturb the mind of any legendary powerhouse. Even - Arans Kate secretly guessed - it was not the majesty that a mortal could show, just like the sense of coercion in the Abyss Monarch Amur Hedras, which made one feel awe...... Levi Ston was unaware of this change, and he only felt that he could change the time and space around him at will in the realm of the gods, as if he had been born with such an ability. The super-high-speed flight condensed the distance that he didn't know would take several days to reach into five minutes, and when the countless rays of light faded and billions of stars reappeared in front of his eyes, he found that his feet had stepped on the ground.

This is an extremely barren land. Maybe the sun used to shine here, the grass was green, maybe it was once crowded with people, and the fountains were roaring, but everything seems to have been a thousand years ago, and now only the broken walls tell the story of the prosperity of the past.

Li Wei looked around, and in this land that was several kilometers in circumference, whether it was the remains of buildings or the dead grass and trees, it was covered with a thick layer of fine dust, turning everything gray and lifeless. A neatly paved path bisects the land in the middle, and at the end of the path is a long staircase, each of which floats into the void like a long serpent into the endless void above.

Levi closed his eyes and emptied his mind as much as he could, feeling the message coming from the endless void, "Not here, just the ruins where the servants of the gods lived, the wreckage of the astral plane...... Above, the voice calling to me is above this staircase!"

"Young Master Levi, please wait a minute. The voice of the Shadow Assassin came from behind him, and then Arrans Kate walked quickly to Levi with a bright green poison dagger in his hand, "Your safety must be guaranteed, please let me find my way ahead." ”

Arrans Kate walked quietly like a disembodied shadow, not raising even a trace of dust under his feet, his bloody eyes scrutinizing every corner of the road, especially the staircase that led to the endless void above, but he didn't see any signs of recent activity.

"If you think about it from an optimistic point of view, it is likely that Pope Nicholas of the Shining Temple has not yet arrived here. Arrans Kate said to Levi in the form of a telepathic communication, "Master Levi, he may be like me, lost in the void and darkness that seems to be eternal, and he has not woken up until now. ”

"I'm afraid that speculation is too optimistic, Arans. Levi Ston shook his head disapprovingly, "Pope Nicholas has abandoned his body and transformed it into a life called the Holy Spirit. I've heard Mr. Dish say that in essence, this kind of life should be not much different from a ghost, except that the body is not composed of negative energy condensed into a semi-corporeal body, but purely condensed by the power of light. ”

"It's similar to a ghost, that is, it is also an imaginary life that can float and fly?" "Arans Kate snorted, a little dissatisfied, "What a nasty thing, Master Levi, should that kind of Holy Spirit like to be similar to ghosts, and to hum some sinister songs in the middle of the night, right?"

This question was clearly beyond Levi's knowledge, and the young regent scratched his head a little dazedly, "I don't know...... But perhaps I can ask Mr. Dish and Master Sugard after settling the matter. ”

"Alright, Master Levi, but I'd like you to ask these two knowledgeable masters how you can get a shadow banshee with the surname Ren to stop practicing the kind of love songs that make the Shadow Assassin's blood condense in her room! Three months, I've heard enough!" Arrans Kate couldn't help but curse in a low voice at the end, ending with a serpent-like hissing voice.

The stairs go straight up, and they look incredibly long, as if there is no end to it. Levi felt that he had walked for more than half an hour, and when he set off, the ruins within a radius of several kilometers had long since left only a gray spot the size of an egg, but when he looked up, the other end of the stairs still stretched infinitely towards the endless void, and he couldn't see where the other end was.

The Shadow Assassin Arranth Kate had already returned from his twelfth exploration, then spread his hands and shook his head gently at Levi. Each time, he had to run a full 500 meters up at a brisk pace to make sure that the road was safe, and then he returned to Levi's side, and then climbed up together. Levi sighed, for the legendary powerhouse, this bit of fatigue is really nothing, but the boring climb tests the patience of the two, and makes the time infinitely long.

"Wait a minute, Alans, I'm beginning to wonder if this ladder is a trap at all. Levi stopped the Shadow Assassin as he was about to continue his exploration, "You've explored the path twelve times, and each time you've run more than five hundred meters, which adds up to six kilometers...... What steps would take six kilometers long? Couldn't they shorten that distance with the power of the gods?"

"Of course the gods can, but that would not show their high status. "I've heard that the Holy Mountain of the Shining Temple, where Pope Nicholas lives, also has such a surprisingly long staircase, and the Shining Temple used to use it as a test to sharpen the hearts of the midshipman, but it was abolished more than a decade ago. ”

"It seems that Pope Nicholas has an advantage on this point. Levi shrugged his shoulders with a wry smile, "After all, he often has to climb up and down from the Holy Mountain, so he should be very used to climbing this sport." ”

"Not necessarily, Pope Nicholas probably doesn't need to climb up and down. "Aranth Kate struggled to recall, "The Trickster Lord Shackros once planned an attack on the Temple of Radiance, and he also mentions the method of attacking the Holy Mountain...... Although the staircase of the Holy Mountain was set up with some runes and ciphertexts with anti-magic effects, it did not have any restrictive effect on the strong who had already mastered the power of the Origin. ”

Levi's skull, which had just been clicked, suddenly stopped, and the movement was so stiff that Arans Kate worried if he had suddenly sprained his neck, and just as the Shadow Assassin was about to ask, the young Lord Regent suddenly clapped his hands and let out a sound of regret on his lips.

"How did I think so late of this possibility! This staircase was indeed deliberately built so long by the gods to show off their status or to limit disturbances from their minions, but they obviously didn't have to climb up and down, but ......"

In the next moment, a colorless light emerged from Levi's chest again, and the long staircase suddenly began to shorten rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, a very large and ancient bronze door appeared in front of the two of them, and the door was densely engraved with countless intricate patterns, each pattern was cleverly combined by many distorted words, Levi only understood a few of the simplest alchemy ciphertexts, and the others did not know anything.

An ominous feeling immediately rose in the hearts of the two of them was that this door should have been tightly closed for hundreds of years, and even left obvious rust and marks on the ground, but now it has been violently opened by someone, many protective runes have fallen off, the ground is covered with splashed debris, and the half-open door crack is like a hideous giant mouth that wants to be devoured, revealing a completely invisible darkness behind it!

Arrans Kate jumped in front of the bronze gate and reached out to touch a crack in the center of the gate, but as soon as the shadow assassin's finger touched the edge of the rift, a dazzling golden light shot out from the rift, so fast that Arrans Kate didn't have time to react before he was hit in the chest by the golden light.

The Shadow Assassin's rune bandage is not so much a way to hide his face, but rather a special defensive item, especially the rune bandage on Arans Kate's body, each silk thread is woven from linen refined by dark magic, and countless dark spells are painted on the surface, and the defense power is not under the heavy armor of an ordinary enchanted knight. However, the sharpness of this golden light was far beyond imagination, and at the slightest touch, the rune bandages on Arrans Kate's chest all ignited with abyssal fire, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into pitch-black ashes and scattered everywhere.

Arrans Kate let out a low, painful snort, and the moment the golden light pierced his chest, he twisted his body desperately, finally avoiding the vital point of his heart, but the left side of his chest was still pierced hard. This golden light was condensed from the rather pure power of the Light Origin, it was unimaginably sharp, and at the same time, it also carried a blazing heat, and the piercing wounds on Arrans Kate's chest and back did not gush out of it at all, and along with the surrounding skin and muscles, they were all scorched into deep black char.

No sooner had the Shadow Assassin's body fallen, he leapt up from the ground and turned his head towards Levi, but before he could say a word, blood bubbles glowing with a lilac glow poured out of the corners of his mouth with a violent coughing sound, soaking red with the rune bandage that wrapped around his jaw.

"Arans, don't speak, your lungs have been badly damaged. "Every qualified knight has learned to treat emergencies and judge injuries on the battlefield, and during the two years that he served as a trainee knight's squire, Levi Ston almost immediately judged the Shadow Assassin's injuries, and with as little care as possible he held his body and let him lean against the door frame. "Hold on, your injuries will take a while to heal. ”

The white light of the healing technique immediately shrouded Arans Kate's body, causing his gray face to suddenly change a little. The Shadow Assassins, who have been transplanted with demonic blood, instinctively repel the light and are also repelled by the light, but the healing technique of the heart of the castle is not formed by the pure power of light, and can heal demons and even undead creatures instead of killing them.

"Young Master Levi, we ...... Can't waste time here. Almost as soon as the injury was relieved, Arranse Kate struggled to his feet, but was firmly pressed back by Levi's hand. "No, your wounds haven't healed yet, and it's too dangerous to act now. ”

"But Pope Nicholas has passed through this door, and if we don't stop him right away, maybe he will be able to seize the priesthood of the Lord of Glory, Flandara, and if that happens, everything will be over. Arans Kate exclaimed in a hurried tone.

"I don't think Pope Nicholas will get the Shining Priesthood so easily. "And I have a wonderful feeling, per......haps," Levi frowned, and he shook his head a little uneasily, as if he was throwing a strange thought out of his mind.

Even the Castle Heart's healing technique felt very strange to the Shadow Assassins who were accustomed to darkness and cold. Arans Kate waited until the warm feeling had just suppressed the stuffy pain in her chest, and she couldn't hold back her anymore and jumped up, "Young Master Levi, my injuries are all healed!"

Levi glanced at the Shadow Assassin suspiciously, and only withdrew his gaze when he was about to prove it by slapping his chest. "Alright, now let's move on, Arans, there's no breath coming from behind the door, but that doesn't mean it's safe, please be careful. ”

The Shadow Assassin nodded heavily, and then his movements were so fast that they were barely visible, and he disappeared behind the bronze gate in a flash.

Levi waited silently in the boundless void, except for the narrow steps under his feet and the bronze gate in front of him, there was nothing around him, not even the twinkling stars. But Levi could feel that the clusters and the vast web of energy were still there, but they could not be seen in this place built by the true gods. The faint calls came from several different directions, penetrating the invisible protection above the stairs that were almost impossible to discern with an ear for listening, yet Levi could make out every call...... Incomparably weak, full of earnest and sorrowful.

Yet there was nothing stronger than the call from behind this bronze gate, which resounded in the young regent's mind, full of infinite majesty and power. Levi could feel the voice, but he couldn't respond to it, and even thoughts of resistance and rejection rose in his heart.

"Young Master Levi, behind the door is another piece of nothingness, there is no danger. When Arranse Kate's voice rang out, a distraught Levi almost ignored it. "It's very wide, it's like a square, oh, I see a glowing figure, it should be Pope Nicholas......"

Psychic communication was suddenly interrupted, and Levi's face suddenly changed, and without thinking, he drew his knight's sword, and then rushed into the darkness behind the bronze gate.

What Levi didn't expect was that the darkness that could not be seen from outside the door actually did not exist, and behind the bronze door was a huge and gorgeous hall, where countless slender rays of light converged from all directions, converging into more than a dozen balls of light of different colors in the center of the hall. Beneath these orbs of light lay the same number of high-backed chairs, made of gold and jade, emitting a brilliant and gentle glow.

The Shadow Assassin Arranth Kate collapsed in a corner of the hall like a torn rag, his eyes wide and his limbs hanging limply at his side, motionless, as if all the bones in his body had melted. Levi's breath was suffocating, but fortunately he saw that the Shadow Assassin's chest was still rising and falling slightly, at least not at this moment.

A figure with golden light all over his body stood more than ten meters away from the place where Arrans Kate fell to the ground, a golden ball of light that shimmered like the morning light slowly rotated on the figure's head, a link of light connected the light ball and the back of the figure, the color seemed to be colorless and transparent sunlight, and it seemed to be the most gorgeous and brilliant color in the world, but it is difficult to describe in words. The bonds of light pulsated as if they were alive, and each pulse injected a large amount of pure light source power into the figure's body, making it more real, taller, and more majestic.

"You're too late, Levi Ston, heretic regent. "But perhaps it should be said that it is just right, for you will have the privilege of witnessing the birth of a true God, the Lord of Glory, Nicholas Cayin, and be the first to bow down at my feet!"