"Blasphemy card?"

Angel's gaze also rested on the remains of the building, which was significantly more intact than the other wreckage, and asked suspiciously.

"No, I mean a card that is no less valuable than 'blasphemy', although after all kinds of speculation, I also feel that what Ziringers covets must be such a card that will allow him to go straight to the high sequence, but I can't be completely sure."

Alger responded immediately, his tone less convinced.

Indeed, since the "Hurricane Lieutenant General" Ziringus, one of the former pirate generals, already has his own fleet and has the "Wriggling Hunger" comparable to the high-level magical items, as long as he steadily develops his own power on the sea, it should not be difficult to advance to Sequence 5, so the reason for him to give up everything and go to Beckland alone is only the ticket to the high-sequence......

The target of the "Apostle of Desire" who ventured to assassinate Duke Negan was also an "Abyss" card, and Zilingers was so similar to his path of action, even that the target was the same person, it is indeed possible that he was promised a "blasphemy card" as a reward.

Angel recalls her experiences in Beckland and confirms the correctness of Alger's train of thought.

Either way, only by entering the ruins can we determine whether the so-called "valuables" are one of the cards left by Russell the Great.

"Then we're going to move fast, you only have about 8 minutes left to move."

Crane glanced at Alger and whispered.

After ten minutes of using the "Magic Pocket Watch", he will be subjected to the negative effects of fear of fire for up to 12 hours...... The corners of Angel's mouth twitched, remembering his previous unbearable experiences, and he commanded quickly:

"Lead the way."

Alger pinched the pocket watch in his pocket, nodded silently, and with some hesitation, raised the lantern and led the way to the building.

The tower and bell tower had collapsed, and only the main three-storey building was extremely plain in appearance, with no buttresses or decorative columns as is common today, and the windows were narrow, but the main entrance was a full two stories high.

Now, of course, its doors and windows are decaying, with only hollow arched gaps, like a monster with its mouth wide open, waiting for someone to throw itself into a net.

"It's like an early Quaternary building, and all the major churches had churches with this shape at that time."

Klein, a history student, stood in the doorway, looked up, and couldn't help but spoil Gelman's playing style, commenting.

"That's right, there is a record in the canons of the Storm Church that the upper temple and the lower tomb imply the unity of life and death."

Alger gave his teammates a surprised look and added.

There's no room for me to interject at this point...... Angel snorted to himself, using his dark vision to look inside the door, and found that there was nothing in the vast space behind the door, except for a porch on each side and in the depths leading to other locations.

"The first floor should be safe."

She reminds to take the initiative and go inside the building first.

In such a small area, if the two Sequence 5 were to explore the way, she would probably not have time to escape when she encountered real danger, and she had to walk in front.

The other two also acquiesced to this arrangement, and followed behind, Crane quietly released the stealth state of the "Blood Admiral" secret puppet, allowing him to float in the air, observing the team from another perspective to prevent a sneak attack, while Alger pulled out the scimitar at his waist, and the muscles of his right hand holding the hilt bulged, apparently using his extraordinary ability to strengthen himself.

Upon entering the building, Angel immediately noticed that the corridors leading to other locations on both sides had completely collapsed, and from the outside of the building, it was clear that there were no corresponding buildings in the direction they were connected.

Directly in front of it, the altar that was supposed to be the prayer hall of the church, but there was only a deep hole leading to the bottom of the building.

Could it be the underground "tombs" that Alger calls them?

Angel frowned as she approached, invisible threads creeping in, entering the void in her place, reaching into the depths, while she herself cast her gaze above the hollow, where the prayer halls of the major sects were hung with holy emblems.

There is no emblem on the wall, only a fresco that has almost been erased by time.

Towering mountain peaks are depicted on it, with layers of glorious crosses depicted in stick brushstrokes, and a majestic figure standing at the bottom of the mountain, holding a stone slab, surrounded by winged angels.

If I hadn't known that this was another world, I would have thought it was someone crucified......

Angel resisted the urge to speak sharply and looked at the other two, Alger was also observing the mural with the help of the lantern, and Crane was a little out of focus, apparently his eyes were connected to his secret puppet.

"This is the 'Ancient Sun God'......

"No wonder it's the Quaternary, no, it should belong to the style of the continuation of the Tertiary, it's His church......"

Alger thought of something first, his tone shocked and stunned.

After he reminded him, Angel remembered that as early as the end of last year, the "world", that is, Klein beside him, had reported an ancient ruin located on the outskirts of Beckland, and then in the dream with the assistance of Arodes, he watched the whole process of the "mechanical heart" exploring the ruins.

There, there are similar frescoes, as well as the young Adam and Amun next to the "ancient sun god".

She looked at Klein, who also frowned in thought, and after a moment spoke:

"It should be him, and the stone slab in his arms is a little strange...... However, there should be nothing hidden in the area above ground, and you can only go underground. ”

He should have confirmed it with the secret puppet and the spirit thread...... Angel nodded, and continued to drive the invisible thread to explore the underground area, while he slowly walked towards the entrance of the cave.

At the same time, she spoke:

"I found some stone statues down there...... Don't be too surprised when you see it. ”

Her silk thread had entered the wide underground corridor that seemed not to have been built for humans, and she had explored a long distance, knowing what the three of them were going to face, so she warned in advance.

Crane and Alger nodded silently.

"We ......"

Seeing that everyone was ready, she spoke again, but heard a burst of footsteps from far and near, gradually becoming heavy behind her, the three of them looked back, outside the gate of the building, where the three of them were approaching just now, a huge monster with a height of more than four meters, a gray body, horns on the tip of the head, and six wings on its back was slowly approaching.

The six-winged gargoyle, who could only provide some of the potion materials for the "Secret Puppet Master", was about to step into this building, holding a stone halberd longer than his height in one hand and a "hunting black spider" turned into a stone statue in the other, and his eyes were shining with fiery red.

That's the only exit...... Without communication, the three of them immediately understood their current situation, and without hesitation, they drilled into the deep cave, stepped over the wide stone steps, turned at a right angle, and entered the underground tunnel.

This corridor, which seems to have been built for giants, is about 10 meters high, with an arched cross-section, so deep that there is no end in sight, and in a completely lightless environment, only the lantern carried by the upside-down hangman emits a faint light.

In the corridor, there are stone statues densely placed, most of them are humanoid creatures, a few are animals of different sizes, and there is even a "hunting black spider" curled up, they are arranged on the side of the wall in a very regular way, from high to low, towards the entrance, like two honor guards.

Giants, elves, humans, tigers, baboons, spiders...... They are of different races, dressed in styles that span millennia, and the only thing they have in common is that they are gray and white, with delicate and meticulously carved surfaces, and their faces show expressions of pain and despair, even for animals.

Deep dark passages, lifelike stone statues...... If Angel hadn't warned them in advance, this eerie scene might have caused them to turn around and run.

"The area?"

Frowning, Alger asked tentatively.

All three of them remembered the moment of horror just now, and the experience of being almost "petrified" all over their bodies.

These "stone statues" were originally living humans and animals?

If we were to be completely petrified in that area, would we have been moved here by the six-winged gargoyle with a desperate face and become part of them?

After a brief moment of consternation, the three of them remembered that Alger was only about 5 minutes away from being afraid of the fire, and quickly got rid of his fear, bypassing the stone statues that were neatly placed on both sides of the corridor, and walking towards the depths.

Behind him, the tall six-winged gargoyle was still slowly approaching, listening to the fact that it had entered the first floor of the building and was walking towards the underground area.

If it weren't for the "Teleportation" and "Mirrored World" as a means of getting out of here, we would have gone back and killed the gargoyle to ensure the escape...... Angel thought about it, and walked ahead first, exploring the way with silk threads, and the dark vision swept from the stone walls on both sides of the road, and unsurprisingly saw murals praising the "ancient sun god".

Most of them are unrecognizable due to the cracking and collapse of the stone walls, but some are relatively intact, depicting scenes similar to those of the mural above: a huge cross, cascading with light, and a majestic figure who fights against the raging flood, soothes the cracked earth, and looks at the starry sky as if he is defending his followers against all evil and calamity.

Even the church of the Seven Gods would not praise the gods so bluntly, after all, everyone has their own holy scriptures and will not take everything to themselves...... Alger subconsciously wanted to slap his right fist on his left chest and say a few words for his faith in the Lord of the Storm, but remembering that there were no "outsiders" here, he stopped pretending.

"It's similar to the murals in the Temple of the Forsaken that Mr. 'Sun' said, but the 'True Creator' is praised there, and the 'Ancient Sun God' is here."

He calmly analyzed, not getting too nervous because there were only a few minutes left, and giving up exploring.

Besides, it's a big deal to extinguish the lantern and explore in the dark, I, the "Queen" and the "World" have dark vision, and the firelight doesn't have to be ...... With this in mind, he looked at the "world" beside him, expecting the most knowledgeable member of the Tarot Society, Mr. Fool's family to give some answer.

"Perhaps there is some connection between this and the 'fallen Creator' and the Creator that Silver City believes in, and there are too many things in the Tertiary that current historians can't confirm."

Klein replied.

Nor did he, or the "Fool", know any more about these secret knowledge than the other Tarot members.

My advantage is in Russell's diary, and he is just a man who lived two hundred years ago, and there are too many secrets hidden in the fog of history...... He laughed to himself, urging the other two to move on to the sound of the gargoyle's footsteps that continued to approach behind him.

Walking through the murals, with the help of Angel exploring through the silk threads and avoiding the dead end, he came to a stone door that was eight meters high and left a gap.

This is true of the entrance, and so is the passageway, and it is clear that this underground structure was not built for humans, or not just for humans...... Thinking of the giant "stone statue" at the entrance of the corridor, and the tall gargoyles wandering nearby, Angel had an understanding.

Klein studied the symbols above the stone door, confirming that they represented death and new life, and were often engraved at the entrances to cemeteries and mausoleums.

"It should be here, considering that Ziringus' exploration took about ten minutes five years ago, he should have entered this door......"

Alger said that he took the initiative to extinguish the horse lantern in his hand so as not to fall into a state of fear of fire after 3 minutes, which would adversely affect his teammates.

As a Sequence 6, but with a "wriggling hunger", Chillingus is roughly on par with the Sequence 5 Extraordinary, and we have two Sequence 5s and one Sequence 4 here, which is not very dangerous...... Angel used her eyes as a mirror to perform a divination, and came to the conclusion that it was not dangerous, so she nodded to Crane and Alger.

One of them summoned the "resentful spirit" secret puppet and entered the stone door through the stone door, and the muscles of one arm swelled, using the power of rage to press directly against the heavy stone door, using the power of water and wind to lubricate the ancient mechanism, and push the door to the sides in a near-silent manner.

It's not like those storm believers...... Angel chuckled secretly, and his eyes in the darkness reached deep from the crack in the door that gradually widened, and initially confirmed the situation in the room.

Sure enough, under the building above what appeared to be a temple, there was an ancient burial hall...... She glanced over a gray-white sarcophagus enclosed in a circle, lingering in the empty space between them, and was surprised to find a colorful painting painted on the ground.

Is there something special about painting on the ground, not on the wall...... As soon as the thought popped into her mind, she was struck by what was depicted in the painting.

This "floor painting" draws a long table from a top-down perspective in a style that goes beyond the orderly composition that is now prevalent in the Fifth Age, with dark tones and realistic brushstrokes, on which lies a figure carrying a cross, drenched in blood, missing some limbs, with holes in his abdomen and skull, and white brains and black intestines gushing out exaggeratedly.

Beside him, the tall figures of the three majestic or handsome, or wise bent down, holding the arm dripping with blood and nibbling, sucking according to the head that flowed out of the brain, digging out the still beating heart and swallowing it whole, and the evil and madness in their eyes did not match their rather positive image at all.

The most bizarre thing is that between the chest and abdomen of the apparently dead lying figure, there sits a dark-skinned, shadow-covered baby, who, like the other three, clutches a piece of intestines and chews as if enjoying a meal, but his expression is a little crazy, faintly competing with the other people who eat the corpse.

If the floor paintings only depict such crazy scenes, it would not shock Angel, after all, after the revival movement of "artistic freedom" advocated by Russell, there are not a few paintings with the theme of hellish scenes and demonic cruelty, and they are even loved by many rich and nobles, who secretly buy them and collect them privately, forming a small circle that is niche but boasts of high connoisseurship.

However, she recognized the identities represented by the figures in the painting......

Lying on the table, the food for the others was obviously the "Ancient Sun God" described in the frescoes in this building, and the three men with great appearances and evil eyes had been seen by Angel in the frescoes of the Temple of the "True Creator" displayed by Mr. "Sun", and in the underground ruins of Backland, which "World" Crane had explored.

They, nay, are the "Lord of the Storm," the "Eternal Sun," and the "God of Knowledge and Wisdom"!

(End of chapter)