Chapter 36: The Temple of Blasphemy
Toris walked around with her torch raised, she wanted to find her teammates first, whether they were dead or alive.
"Lisa, Sally, Marco, Momorrow, can you hear me?"
The surrounding walls seemed to be built artificially, and Toris even saw the twisted text and malicious patterns carved into the walls, and Toris felt dizzy just by looking at them.
It didn't seem to be under the second-floor exit, and she didn't notice a hole in it.
Toris walked forward a few hundred meters, there was no living person on the ground except corpses or corpses, and after walking for half an hour, Toris stopped, she silently stared at a corpse on the ground, this corpse was cut off most of its body, and blood spurted out like a fountain.
"What the hell is going on with these people?"
Donoris frowned, she had been staring at a person for more than ten minutes, with the amount of bleeding from this person, the blood had already dried up, why hadn't it stopped.
Bang - bang - bang -
Heavy footsteps sounded in the distance, and Toris thrust her torch into the river of blood beside her, burrowing herself into the cracks in the nearby walls.
"Something is coming, judging from the sound of footsteps, it weighs at least about 2 tons, it is definitely not a human, but this footstep is obviously a biped, humanoid monster...."
Toris clenched the sword in her hand, she didn't stare at the exit of the crack in the wall, powerful creatures are very sensitive to sight, and you have to look at it with your peripheral vision.
'It's near...'
The sound of footsteps was getting closer, a beam of fire came from outside the crack in the wall, and the sound of iron tools dragging on the ground was also heard.
Bang β
A monster stopped outside the crack in the wall with a torch, three meters tall, with rudimentary armor, hideous horns, hoove-like feet, and a huge axe, even if she didn't see the face, Toris recognized who the monster in front of her was.
'Minotaur! β
Doris's body tensed.
"Uhhhhhh
I saw the minotaur look at the torch stuck in the river of blood at his feet, and bent down to pull the torch out of it.
It wondered why there was a torch here, which with its intelligence was simply incomprehensible.
"Roarβ"
There was a roar in the distance, and the minotaur threw the torch and walked in the direction of the roar.
It wasn't until the minotaur had gone far away that a slight exhalation could be heard through the cracks in the wall, and Doris's left hand was clenched into a fist against her chest, she had just completely forgotten to breathe, and it wasn't until the minotaur had gone away that she felt a suffocating sensation of lack of oxygen.
'Minotaur, there is actually a Minotaur here, I want to report it to the guild....'
The Minotaur is a very powerful monster, only in the depths of the dungeon, legend has it that the Minotaur is the minions of the demon, where the Minotaur appears, there must be the footprints of the demon, Toris thinks that the strength of her bronze-level warrior cannot be beaten.
Take out your adventurer card, which has an emergency SOS function, and hope that this dungeon does not have the ability to isolate magic.
Entering her vindictive spirit on the card, the identity information on it gradually faded away, and Toris wrote it on the card.
"There's a minotaur on the second floor, ask for help, Doris."
The card could only write a few words, and Doris's hand left the card, and a blue flame erupted from the card, and as the flames burned, the card was burned to ashes.
I hope it can be conveyed. β
Toris sat silently on the floor, and after she had relaxed from the danger she had just had, she felt her stomach start to get hungry and took out her food reserves from the storage ring.
I don't know what happened to Lisa, the storage ring is on my hand, they don't have anything to eat, and even if they don't die, they won't last long. β
"Lisa, Sally, Marco, Momoro...."
Toris clasped her hands on her knees and whispered to her missing members.
Early the next morning, in the guild inn, Caleb took off Ena who was wrapped around him.
After the shaking of the dungeon stopped last night, Ena said that she would not sleep at all, and would not come down from Caleb, so Caleb could only hold Ena for a long time before coaxing her to sleep.
Caleb stretched as he stood up, moving his body, feeling like a screen of snowflakes in his body.
"Oops, half of my body is numb."
His feet went limp, and Caleb fell to his knees.
He rubbed his sore waist, thinking that he should teach Ena a deadly scissor kick, otherwise he would be sorry for her legs.
Those legs are really terrible, and the unconscious force when sleeping actually allows Ena to use the effect of ground skills.
"This guy, when he sleeps, his sleeping position is so bad, his waist is about to break"
For the whole night, Caleb felt like he had been tortured all night.
"I can't sleep together like this anymore."
Caleb looked scared, if he hadn't woken up in time last night, maybe Ena would have even used the armbar.
Holding his waist and getting up, Caleb nudged Ena.
"Ena, wake up, you're leaving."
Ena had been clamoring to leave last night, and Caleb had to get her to agree to wait until she got her weapon today, and she was still sleeping lazy.
Ena sat up with sleepy eyes, she hadn't slept enough in the middle of the night last night.
"Uh-huh, brother...."
Caleb pinched Ena's ears, stood up on her two limp ears, and rubbed her hair vigorously, and the two of them had a fight, and Ena finally came to her senses.
As soon as she woke up, Ena remembered the anomaly of last night, and she intently sensed the movement of the dungeon, and a strange look appeared on her face.
"How did it disappear, there was no trace of energy at all, this is impossible."
Dark energy is not something that can only exist at night, and even if it is weakened during the day, it is impossible to leave no trace at all.
Caleb noticing Ena's expression, as if something new had been discovered, Caleb asked:
"What's wrong?"
Ena looked strange and told Caleb about her findings.
"Brother, the energy of the dungeon is gone, it's so strange...."
In the dungeon, after a night's rest, Toris finally felt recovered, she looked at the sun and moon needles on her body, and the time was already daylight.
Carefully moving towards the crack in the wall, a white light shining from outside the crack in the wall, Doriss listened carefully to the movement outside.
"It's so quiet, there's no sound of blood flowing."
Could it be that the blood of those corpses had dried up, Doridis poked her head out to find out.
Doris's eyes widened and she looked incredulously at the passage outside the wall, and looking at this passageway, she even thought that everything she had seen the night before was an illusion.
The passages were clean and bright, the air was fresh, the corpses all over the ground had disappeared without a trace, and even the words and patterns on the walls were diametrically opposed to the night, full of sacredness.
Toris carefully identified it, this is the sacrificial text of a certain god, and she doesn't know what it means, after all, she is just an adventurer, she has never been to the academy, in addition to knowing the common script of the mainland, it is already very powerful to recognize that this is a sacrificial text.
Toris covered her mouth, afraid that she would make a sound, she had never seen such a strange dungeon, even though it was on the second floor of the dungeon, she could feel the sun shining from the sky.
What had been a hellish passage had become a sacred, like a temple aisle.
It was clear that there were corpses all over the ground before, and there was a river of blood, but now the ground was clean and bright, and Toris could even see her own reflection from the ground.
'I escaped?' β
An idea came to Doris's mind, but the next second it was vetoed by her, her position definitely didn't change, it was this dungeon that changed.
Doris's arm trembled slightly, the unknown was the most frightening.
She forcibly clenched the hilt of the sword in her hand, gritted her teeth, and stepped out of the crack in the wall, she couldn't wait for death here, there were not many things on her body, and the guild's rescue didn't know when it would arrive, she had to find a way to save herself.
In the silent passage, Toris could only hear her own footsteps, and there were no monsters around, not even a single bug.
Toris had been walking in the dungeon for hours, her breathing began to grow rapid, she didn't know how long she had been gone, and the constant scenes around her made her lose her sense of time.
From morning to now, it was as if Toris was spinning in place, with little change in the words and patterns on the walls, appearing the same at intervals.
After walking for hours, Toris finally decided to take a break, she couldn't walk for a while, and it was only then that she fixed her eyes on the mural on the wall.
Giants, ears of wheat, farming, humans
A huge figure is teaching humans to grow crops, from the human clothing in the mural, the human period of this mural should be very early, the clothes are not covered, and animal skins are the most common clothes inside.
'Is this a fresco from ancient times?' β
Attracted by the mural, Toris stood up and looked closer, the scene depicted on the mural was indeed a picture of ancient times, when humans appeared more than 100,000 years ago.
'This giant is..... Mother Earth? Gaia? The Divine Mother inspires the Spirit, which is the picture of mankind receiving Gaia's teachings. β
Toris is very glad that she likes to find some history books to watch when she has nothing to do, and she has introduced them in the books.
The first god of the world, the starting point of the gods, the god who guides all things.
Toris followed the direction of the mural, and soon a second mural appeared.
Giants, mountains, minerals, dwarves
A giant figure crushed the mountain and threw its hard substance into flames, teaching the dwarves to make iron.
'The treasure of the dwarves, the gift of the earth......'
Giants, forests, fruits, elves
The third is a dense forest, with two winged figures floating on the giant's shoulders, and their pointed ears all indicate their identity, and the giant is teaching the elves to recognize the type of fruit.
'Ancient elves, the first two elven gods...'
In the fourth, the giant is teaching the orcs to be nomadic, walking in front of him and behind him is a group of orcs, leading the herd to follow in the giant's footsteps.
'Orc Ancestors....'
The fifth, sixth....
The images on the mural are constantly changing, there are prosperous and powerful races, there are also races that have long been extinct, and there are some races that Toris cannot name, all of which have been abandoned in the long river of history.
Toris followed the mural, not noticing the rapid pace of change in the surrounding scene, until she stopped in front of the last one.
"How can this be, the mural is destroyed!"
The last mural was completely destroyed by an unknown attack, and part of the mural has disappeared, only the giant can be seen hanging high in the air with long chains, and countless corpses underground.
Killed by a sword, beheaded by an axe, and cared out of the heart......
Blood flowed out and gathered into a small river to gather in the place of destruction, Toris did not know what was destroyed in this painting, she had never seen any record of this mural in the book, but this mural reminded her of last night.
The corpses died in a manner similar to the one she had seen at night, and Dores shook her head.
"There are too many creatures related to blood, blood represents a strong magic, no matter what race it is, it has one or two abilities to use blood, sacrifice, magic, sacrifice, ritual... There are so many ways to use blood that you can't guess it. β
There are only two that Toris can think of, the blood ritual of the extinct blood clan, the river of blood.
The orc race, one of the four major races today, is sacrificed by all beasts.
These two large-scale uses of blood will cause mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, and rivers of blood.
Toris thought for a moment, not having a clue, and wanted to see if there were any other murals.
"Wait, where is this?"
Doroth awoke suddenly, and before she knew it, she had broken away from the repeated passageway, and a huge stone door appeared in front of her.
Intricate patterns, pattern-like words, birds and animals, alpine forests, flowers and fruits, wheat ears and iron ore, all are symbols of the Mother Earth Goddess.
"Is this a temple? The temple of Mother Earth? β
As Toris approached the stone door, she touched the pattern on the stone door and pushed it hard.
"Hah!"
The weight of the stone gate was beyond Doris's imagination, and she only pushed a trace of it with all her strength.
Suck β
Toris took a deep breath, and the fighting energy in her whole body was mobilized.
"Ahh
Half of the massive stone door was pushed open by Doris, wide enough for Toris to pass through.
"Finally pushed it away..."
Toris didn't hesitate, she turned sideways through the stone door, and the view made her legs limp.
She fell to her knees on her legs and stared blankly at her head.
"Ground. Gaia, Mother Earth... This is blasphemy! It's not a temple at all! β
Tears flowed uncontrollably, and the huge stone statue in front of her was undoubtedly Gaia, her hands were pierced by iron chains, the entire stone statue hung in the air, and countless spears pierced the stone statue's chest.
No statue of the Mother Earth Shrine has ever been like this, even if the Mother Earth Goddess has not responded for tens of thousands of years, but there are still many people in the world who believe in the Mother Earth Goddess, and no one will want the gods they believe in to suffer this kind of suffering.
A drop of blood-red blood floated in front of Doris's eyes, and her expression changed, and she hurriedly looked to the side.
"Lisa! Sally! Mark! Momoro! β
Doris's eyes shrank, and at some point beside her knelt her four members, their expressions stiffened, a large cut was made between their necks, and they knelt on the ground and stared blankly at the stone statue of Gaia, blood flowing from the bodies of the four people.
The blood seemed to lose its gravity, turning into beads of blood and floating upward.
'What's on it?' β
Toris followed the beads of blood and turned her gaze upwards, it was pitch black, and then she froze, her eyes lost their luster, she took out a dagger from behind her, cut a large hole in her neck, and knelt on the ground, staring blankly at the stone statue.
Caleb was on his way to the dungeon with Ena at this time.