Chapter 58: The Ruins (Part II)
When the two of them regained consciousness, they found that the place they were in at this time was completely different from before, it was like a lively workshop or a busy factory, and the two saw a lively scene in front of them, walking back and forth with many short figures, although they were crowded, but they didn't seem to see the two at all, and they were still doing their own things in an orderly manner, and the whole space was extremely quiet, and they couldn't hear any sound except for the breathing of the two, which made the two feel unusually weird.
"This is ......" Benjamin didn't finish speaking, a figure actually passed through his body directly from behind, and there was no slightest feeling, Benjamin saw the appearance of these people clearly, the height was only half the height of ordinary people, the yellow-green skin was wrinkled, but the ears were longer than half of the head, standing on both sides of the top of the head, and there was a handful of not very long hair growing in the blank space on the top of the head in the middle, but there was nothing in the big eye sockets, like two black holes.
"These are goblin ghosts, nothing more than unconscious, and now they act entirely on instinct. Sophia said.
"I didn't expect anyone to find this place, it's still an astrologer. A shrill voice sounded suddenly, and a figure was seen floating towards the two of them.
"Who are you?" asked Benjamin.
The visitor looked older than the others before him, and the eye sockets were no longer empty, but actually had a pair of eyes, but they looked a little like goldfish sticking out. The visitor looked at the two of them and said with some surprise:
"Huh, you're not that damn believer in the God of Light, so who are you?"
"We're just ordinary adventurers, we found a teleportation array outside, but when we came in, we were surrounded by God Eater Demon Worms, and we didn't know what was triggered, so we came here. Without waiting for Benjamin to reply, Sophia spoke first.
"There are astrologers, and they're no ordinary adventurers, but that's okay, as long as it's not that damn believer. The goblin ghosts seem to have a great hatred for the Holy See, "If it weren't for them, we wouldn't have perished." β
"The Holy See is also our enemy. Benjamin interjected, "So, I'd like to ask you to tell us how we can get out of here?"
"Hehe, if you want to know how to leave, you have to do something for me first. The goblin ghost said.
"Why?" Benjamin was a little unhappy, he hated being blackmailed the most in his life, "what if I didn't promise you?"
"In that case, you won't be able to go out again. The goblin sighed, "Actually, you're helping yourself." β
"Oh?
"That's right," the goblin said slowly: "This was originally the top processing factory of the goblin clan, and the machinery and equipment produced here are the top, not only in the goblin tribe, but even the only dwarf on the entire continent can be compared with the goblins, but our respective fields are different." However, three thousand years after the end of the War of the Gods, the believers of the God of Light suddenly launched a holy war, and after we failed to resist, we began to be ruled by them, and these despicable fellows killed most of our people, leaving only a small group of the most capable of these goblins, and the same is true of the gnomes and dwarves, they forced us to help the Holy See produce a large number of powerful siege equipment, and we were not willing to become their slaves, so in the process of peacetime, we secretly intercepted some materials, and privately produced the best of the goblins and the most suitable for us, and waited until one day we were strong enough to overthrow their ruleγ β
The goblin ghost said this, as if he was very excited, and his eyes that had been protruding were as red as if they were bloodshot at the moment, as if he was calming his emotions, and after a long while, he continued: " And just when we were accumulating reserves little by little, the holy war failed, and these guys from the Holy See wanted to kill us all, so we had to fight back in advance, but in the end, the doppelganger of the God of Light came, and we couldn't resist at all, and the elder also died at that time, and we were sent here by the elder before he died, this was originally the place where we secretly produced, and it had a very strong defensive ability, but I didn't expect that after the people of the Holy See didn't find us, I don't know why there was a god-devouring demon worm of the Great Demon God, so they arranged the demon worm outside, and when we wanted to go out to investigate, many people were killed by the demon worm, There is no way for us to retreat here, but we didn't expect the Holy See to know our location with the clues of the demon worm, but there is no way to break the forbidden defense of the power, and finally we actually asked the divine envoy to put a curse on us, so that we people work all day long until we die under the influence of the curse, and our souls cannot be freed. So, I think what you're helping me do is lift this curse, and only when this curse is lifted can I open the ban here, and you can leave. β
"Ah, how can this be, these abominable fellows. Sophia said with great resentment when she heard the goblin's story.
"But how can we help you lift the curse?" Benjamin wondered, "we can't get out, and even if we can, we don't know how to lift it, and we're not from the Holy See." β
"Of course I know that you are not from the Holy See, but only you can lift it, because you can travel back and forth in the space of this place, there are still several spaces here, and you need to find the source that has maintained this curse for so long, and destroy it to be lifted. β
"What?" Benjamin was a little unacceptable when he first heard of such a theory, and he just thought about it carefully...... Slowly, I seem to understand something, I also have skills similar to this curse in my astrology, and if you want to use it, you need to rely on the power of the stars, so the curse of the Holy See should be the same reason, but at this moment Benjamin doesn't understand what this energy is, and after thinking about this, it seems that he will be able to find the source of the maintenance of this curse.
"That's the map here, take it," the goblin ghost said, gesturing to the table not far away, "Also, you need to hurry up, as long as you stay here, you will also be affected by the curse, and you will not be able to leave if you want to." β
"Huh?" The two didn't expect such an accident, so they had to say helplessly: "Okay, we promise you." With that, the two picked up the map, and according to the map, they were going to start searching from the nearest room first. The two searched three rooms in a row and found nothing, but their mental power was almost exhausted, looking at the two remaining locations in the map, the two decided to recover a little before continuing to search.
Finally in the last room, Benjamin noticed something unusual,
"Do you feel it?" asked Benjamin.
"What?" Sophia looked at Benjamin with some blankness.
"It should be here," Benjamin explained, "it's a completely different feeling than before, but I don't know what. β
"It's the power of faith. Sophia said, "Yes, that's right. β
"Oh, how can that be lifted?"
"There should be some equipment or formation here that is intercepting the power of faith, otherwise it wouldn't have lasted so long. β
"Intercept the power of faith?" Benjamin looked at Sophia incomprehensibly.
"The power of faith is the power that the soul of the believer exudes when he praises the gods, but if the power of faith is stolen in this way, once the gods find out, then the person will suffer the wrath of the gods, and it will be very miserable, even worse than the fate of the infidels. β
"If it's so dangerous, why steal it?" Benjamin didn't understand.
Sophia's face became ugly, and she said word by word: "For the sake of God!"