> Richard stood in the square in front of the temple, looking up at the tower, which looked like a long tassel at the top of the temple. It was this miraculous tower that took Lina away. What kind of race is able to leave such a weapon?

A knight in costume hurriedly walked out of the temple, came to Richard, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Richard, the enemies in the temple have been destroyed, you can enter." ”

Richard nodded, hugged Lina, and walked into the temple.

The temple is magnificent and majestic, with an overall height of nearly 100 meters, of which the ceiling of the main hall at the bottom is nearly 50 meters high. The style in the main hall is desolate and simple, and there are obviously two different styles in architecture. I don't know what kind of material the main hall is made of, and there is not a single pillar in the entire hall. The four walls are a deep black with a metallic sheen, and various undulating lines can be faintly seen on the walls. On top of this wall, an altar was set up, and a spiral staircase was built to lead to the upper floor. The spiral staircase was still stained with blood, and a dozen corpses were neatly placed under the walls on the side of the temple.

Richard walked over to the corpse and looked at it carefully. Judging from the color of their clothes, these people were all attendants or priests in the original temple, not specialized warriors. They resisted so fiercely that everyone was covered with wounds. And in the corner of the temple, there were more than a dozen temple staff squatting there, guarded by several costumed knights. The eyes of these people were full of panic and fear. Even as a servant of God, not everyone can ignore life and death.

Richard didn't say anything, but turned around and walked up the spiral staircase, all the way to the upper floor of the temple.

The spiral staircase was built in a generous and atmospheric manner, with a strong Hulan style, but Richard could see that the spiral staircase, the altar, and many of the attached items in the ground floor hall were different from the style of the temple itself, and were obviously added later. Not to mention, the extremely smooth metal surface of the main hall itself alone is not a level that Hulan's craftsmen can achieve. Even in Norland, it takes a skilled alchemist, aided by magical powers, to be able to treat the surface of the metal to such a smooth finish. However, the price of the treated metal in this way can be imagined.

The spiral staircase goes all the way up.

The main hall is divided into three floors, the middle floor is the storehouse and the rest and residence of the various clergy, and the upper floor is the real core of the whole temple. On the upper floors, the battle was particularly fierce, with blood stains and traces of weapons slashed throughout. The difference between the original main body of the temple and the later additions of the Huran people can also be seen here. No matter how thick the Hulan people's additional buildings, they can almost always be pierced by the weapons attached to the fierce battle on both sides, and sometimes even collapse in pieces. The main building of the original temple was extremely hard, and the full force of the knight's blow could only leave a shallow scratch on it. In terms of material, the metal texture of the entire hall is higher than that of Lafite's fine iron.

In front of Richard was a long, wide corridor with two open doors at the end. Richard walked through the door, and was greeted by a large hall that shimmered with dim light, and the smell of blood was thick in the air. There were three men in strange robes in the temple, all of whom had fallen in pools of blood at this moment. As soon as he looked at their uniforms, Richard knew that these three people were the three highest-ranking oracles in the Holy City of Hulan. The three oracs had apparently gone through a fierce battle, but they were all defeated. The battles in front of the temple were dominated by the Knights in Armor, but the three oracles were dealt with by Aceris and Semir themselves. It's not the first time that the Blood Paladin and the Dark Priest have fought together, and they work together very well. They have a common trait that they can inflict heavy damage on their enemies, but they say that they can't say that they can't die.

The three divine envoys were all moaning in a low voice at the moment, twitching a few times from time to time, and their consciousness was sometimes awake and sometimes painful. Aceris was busy around them, often casting unexplained magic spells on the three oracles. Semir walked up to Richard and said, "These are the three divine envoys of Hulan." By the time we entered, most of their own strength had been consumed. ”

Richard first looked around the whole hall, which was in the same style as the ground floor hall, and the most striking thing was the huge round platform in the center with a diameter of several meters. It is also made of metal and engraved with large texts of unknown meaning and many patterns. However, even Richard didn't know the words, let alone the role of the patterns, which were different from any known magic arrays. And Richard looked at it and had a feeling of being clueless, which showed that neither words nor patterns had anything in common with the magical knowledge he had learned.

Richard's gaze fell on the three oracles again, and it seemed that to crack the secret here, these three people would need to cooperate. At this time, Aceris stood up and said, "If you deal with it, these three guys will definitely not die for a while, and you can dispose of them at will." ”

Richard didn't want to waste time on the three divine envoys, so he turned back to Naiyou and said, "I'll leave it to you." ”

Nai Yu moved forward like a ghost, a faint mist rose around him, and said in a flat voice: "Don't worry, I will let them say everything that should be said and what should not be said." ”

Nayumoto is an extremely beautiful girl with a mysterious aura all over her, but when she says this in an unchanging voice, it makes everyone shudder.

Asiris leaned against the wall, whistled at Nayu, and said, "Be careful, don't break it." ”

Naiyu stopped, looked at Asiris with black and white eyes, and said lightly: "This little thing doesn't bother me, but I'm still worried about yourself, little one!"

For some reason, the corners of Aceris's mouth twitched suddenly, and his smile suddenly became extremely ugly.

She didn't see any movement from Nayu, she just stood between the three divine envoys, and the three divine envoys immediately cried in extreme pain, rolling desperately. But the strange thing is that no matter how much they roll, they just can't get out of that small area. After a moment, Nayu said, "Now you can ask." ”

Richard asked for half an hour before the three divine envoys ran out of vitality.

They had already said what they knew, and the moment of their final death was not liberation, but extreme fear. It was the first time that everyone had seen the whole process of Naiyu's torture of the soul, and many people subconsciously kept their distance from this strange girl.

Watching the three divine envoys die one by one, Richard didn't ask where their souls went, so he had such a frightened expression. He looked at the dome of the main hall in amazement, and after a moment said, "Let's go to the cemetery first and bury Lina there!"

In the tradition of Akmund, a warrior would first bury his bones on the battlefield where he died. And a warrior with Akmund blood who meets the requirements, even if he dies in the Outlands, may automatically generate a tombstone belonging to him in the family cemetery. But this is not absolute, for example, there is no Gordon tombstone in the cemetery of the Akmund family.

Everyone did not dispute Richard's decision, but followed Richard through the entire top floor of the temple, and then across a long aerial bridge to the most sacred cemetery in the Holy City of Hulan. It is a picturesque slope that has been shut out by a mysterious force that has created a small world of green trees and grass. A mountain spring flows through the slope and then flows into a bottomless pool. In this small world, there are dozens of small kiosks scattered in different styles, but equally beautifully handmade. Each pavilion is a cemetery, and the pavilion contains a brief introduction to the people buried here. Everyone's introduction is simple, just a brief mention of a few major achievements in life. But by Hulan's standards, these are earth-shattering events!

The only people who can be buried in the Holy Sepulchre are the three divine envoys and the two leaders of the Holy City Warriors, day and night.

Richard looked around, pleased with the place, and ordered, "Remove all these tombs, I don't want anyone to disturb Lina." ”

The Constructed Knights and their followers worked together to remove the memorial pavilion inside the Holy Sepulchre along with the cemetery below. There is indeed a mysterious power in the Holy Sepulchre, and after the memorial pavilion and the burial chamber below were removed, the excavated land slowly closed and the green grass was restored to its beauty.

Richard chose a satisfactory place to bury Lina. The cemetery was dug up, Lina was laid flat in the burial chamber, and a brief ceremony was performed in accordance with the tradition of Akmund. Finally, Richard placed his hand flat on top of Lina, and after a moment of silence, a small cloud of reddish flames descended from his hand, which slowly fell on Lina's body.

It was a flame with the power of Richard's real name, and it burned incessantly as soon as it fell on Lina. Everyone bowed their heads and sang the ancient and desolate war song of Akmund. The war song was unusually short, the melody was low and the crowd sang it over and over again, as if returning to the barbarian era, and the sight of Akmund struggling to survive in an extremely difficult environment seemed to be in front of him again.

The flames were finally extinguished, and there were no more dragon mages left in this world, and only a trace of gray remained in the tomb. Above the Holy City, the red dragon Carlo let out a long groan, hovering for several weeks, tearing open the space and disappearing into the depths of the void.

From beginning to end, Richard stood quietly and without tears. The rest of the followers did not shed a tear either, even Asiris and Semar.

When Akmund left the world, he didn't need tears.

Finally, in the center of the Holy Sepulchre, there is an additional simple tombstone, on which only Richard's name is engraved by Richard's own hand.

As Richard and his followers left the Holy Sepulchre, Richard couldn't help but glance back at the place where the dragon mage was laid to rest. It's beautiful and tranquil, and it's Lina's favorite type of scenery during her lifetime. And as long as Richard didn't lose Hulan's plane, no one would disturb her eternal sleep.

"Let's go. Richard said to the crowd. His voice was flat, so flat that there was no trace of emotion.

And in the bottom of his heart, it seems that something is missing.