Chapter 9: The Relics of the Gods
Looking at the entrance of the enchantment that emitted a faint white light in front of them, everyone had mixed feelings in their hearts, the journey across half the continent, the days of drifting on the sea, and the fierce battle with the sea witch of the Holy Realm, after experiencing so much and paying two lives, everyone finally came to the entrance of the ruins!
"Ladies and gentlemen, I think we should discuss the distribution of the treasures inside before we enter the ruins. Marken used his body to block the entrance to the ruins in order to draw everyone's attention to him, "I suggest that the treasures inside be divided into six equal parts, which belong to the owners of the six purple glowstones and their entourage. ”
"Weishenme is not divided into eight portions, one per person?" Roger began. When it comes to profits, Berserker's brains are also better than usual.
"Ahem" Marken coughed to hide his embarrassment, and then opened his mouth to persuade: "This, Lord Roger, you also know that you and your brother are inseparable from each other, and Lord Hawke and Lord Dick are masters and slaves, so if it is divided into eight parts, the rest of us will ...... It's a bit of a loss, isn't it?"
"This ......" berserker is simple-minded, and he can't think of a rebuttal for a moment.
But Dick was different, and he immediately said, "Aren't we also at a loss in the fight against the Sea Witch just now, and in the face of the dangers that may be encountered in the ruins, the entourage of the six of us can also help, and Weishenme should ignore their merits?"
After a process of bargaining and prevarication, Zuihou finally worked out a mutually acceptable distribution method: all the treasures were divided into six parts, which belonged to the owners of the six pieces of purple nepheline and their entourage. However, if the number of treasures is more than six and is not divisible by six, and the remainder is less than the quotient, the remainder is divided equally among the two entourage.
After everyone had finished deliberating, they opened the way from Marken to enter the mysterious and unknown ruins of the gods.
The entrance to the barrier emitted a faint white light, making it impossible for anyone outside to see inside.
When Dick entered the entrance to the barrier, he felt that the white light was blinding, and he couldn't help but close his eyes. When he adjusted to the light and opened his eyes, he found himself at the gate of a large hall, with Mark and the others beside him, and the door behind him was wide open, and the door was also full of white light. It makes it impossible for those inside to see the outside clearly.
At this moment, in the bright white light outside the open temple door, another person stepped out, it was Etasha of the team. All the people were there, and Dick had time to check the surroundings.
This is a solemn and magnificent, majestic and tall hall, the whole body is made of white stone, the area is extremely large, the length and width are more than 100 meters, two rows of eighteen three-person thick and thin pillars support the roof of the hall, on the four walls and the pillars are carved with exquisite and gorgeous reliefs, and the top of the hall is painted with gold painting that praises the gods.
There are no lights in the whole hall, but the white masonry that makes up the main hall emits a soft white light on its own, illuminating the hall as bright as day. In the center of the main hall there is a huge statue, the statue is the image of a lonely middle-aged man, the resolute face is angular, a pair of slightly sunken eyes are particularly spiritual, and there is a majestic aura between Gu Pan.
This is the statue of the god of war, Tlancius! Dick recognized it at a glance, there was a statue of the god of war in the entrance square of the academy at the Valques Academy where he used to study, and Dick had been in and out of the academy gate countless times, so he naturally had experienced the demeanor of the god of war countless times. The statue in front of me was identical to the one on the entrance plaza of the college, except for its much larger size. Will Weishenme, the patron saint of the Miro Empire, have his own temple in the Kraken Clan's territory? Dick was puzzled.
"Transius?" Moscat, who was also from the Miro Empire, couldn't help but exclaim. Looking at the people around him who were looking at him in bewilderment, Moscart explained, "Do you see that statue in the distance, that is the statue of the god of war that our Miro Empire believes. ”
"In that case, this hall is the temple of the god of war, and the relics of this god are also left by Tlansius. But the god of war, Weishenme, wants to set up the ruins in such a remote Kraken territory?" Zenas began.
"The things of God are not within our human comprehension. Maybe the great gods are hiding in the shadows and watching our burlesque performances. "Let's go!" and "let's see, what this Master Tlantheus has left for us?"
The crowd walked forward step by step on the white masonry, until they came to the statue of the god of war, but they found nothing along the way, and there was nothing in the hall except the statue and rows of stone benches.
I didn't think it from a distance, but when I looked closer, I realized that the statue of the god of war was really huge, the length and width of the statue were tens of meters, and the head of the god of war was almost touching the dome of the main hall. Standing at the foot of this idol, man looks insignificant.
Behind the statue is a gate carved from white jade, and the jade door is hidden, and there is a faint golden light inside.
Everyone came to the door and carefully examined the gate, the jade door was engraved with a beautiful ornament in praise of the god of war. Through the gap in the open door, it is impossible to see inside. Everyone stared at each other, and no one acted rashly.
zuihou, or still marken took a deep breath, stepped forward, a trace of resoluteness flashed in his eyes, and then stretched out his hand to push, and the white jade gate opened.
Looking at the scene behind the door, everyone entered a petrified state. Everyone had endless reveries about the things behind the door, from the treasure-like peerless artifact to the terrifying hell devil, or something else, but everyone didn't expect that the thing behind the door was actually ...... Golden Coins!
Ancient gold coins filled the small room, glowing with golden beauty in the white light of the white masonry. To ordinary people, this is definitely a treasure, but who is there who is an ordinary person? With the respect of the dragon knight, I am afraid that no one except Dick will pay attention to these gold coins.
"Oh my God, is Lord Tlantheus as fond of gold as the dragon?" Etasha groaned weakly. Dick nodded approvingly, for he had just seen a red dragon's lair not long ago, and the scene inside was so similar to this place.
Marken turned around, his face with an undisguised look of disappointment: "Let's continue to search and see if there will be secret doors, secret passages or something." ”
Everyone nodded, and scattered, Dick stood there and fell into deep thought, the god of war set up such a big game, just to bury a pile of gold coins? And Tlansius didn't even bother to close the jade door, so he just covered it up. No matter how you think about it, it doesn't feel that simple.
Dick thought as he walked back, and when he came back to his senses, he found himself standing in front of the statue of the god of war, and everyone else was carefully looking around for a secret passage or a secret room.
Dick bent down and bowed slightly to the statue of the god of war, for the god, he did not believe, but still respected. But just like that, when he bowed, he suddenly found that the statue in front of him was a little weird!
The statue is identical to the one on the entrance plaza of the Valques Academy, except for its much larger size. But when he bowed like this, due to the perspective relationship, he found that there was a slight difference between the right hand part of the God of War's sword and the one in the academy.
Dick immediately borrowed the liliang of Dimihera, and with a shock of his black wings, his body had already flown into the air, flying between the right hand of Transtheus holding the sword, and he began to try to pull or push the right hand of the god of war from all directions, the idol was made of unknown materials, and it was extremely strong, so there was no need to worry about destroying the idol with too much force. Finally, when he pulled hard again, it seemed to touch some mechanism in the statue, and the right hand of the god of war moved a few inches in the direction he was pulling, and at the same time, with a loud rumbling sound, the floor in the center of the temple began to sink and shift, revealing a dark and deep staircase passage.
Everyone's eyes were drawn to the rumbling noise and the slight vibration of the floor.
"Congratulations, little ones, on discovering the secrets of this temple. The gold coins in the temple are only a means to hide people's ears, and what is buried under the temple is the real treasure that I, Tlansius, have left to the world!" a solemn and majestic voice resounded in the main hall, and the sound seemed to come from all directions at the same time, making it impossible to discern the source of the sound.
Is this the voice of the god of war?, Dick thought to himself.
All eight of them came to the staircase passage that led to the underground. The staircase is very spacious, extending in a spiral shape, and the bottom is deep and dark. Tiny pale flames floated above the handrails of the staircase, providing a faint light to the passage.
The eight of them glanced at each other, and Marken and Moscart were the first to descend the stairs, followed by the two berserkers, Hawke, Dick and Zenas, who were guarding each other and walking in the third column of the line, and Etasha walking in Zuihou.
The spiral staircase was deep and silent, and only the sound of the clattering footsteps echoed in it, and the pale flames that floated on the handrails of the staircase every few steps shone on the faces of the crowd. The stairs seemed to be endless, and everyone walked at an even pace for several hours without seeing the bottom.
The figures of Mark and Moscut, who were walking in the front, suddenly stopped. This dark staircase has finally come to an end.
At the bottom of the staircase was a black stone chamber, the top of which was hovering with a large cloud of pale flames, much better lit than the previous staircase. The stone chamber is very large, but everyone has just seen the huge temple, and the black stone chamber in front of them is nothing.
On either side of the chamber stood two rows of dark gold armor, the kind of knight's armor armed from head to toe, with hideous helmets, delicate masks, broad breastplates, slender arms and legs, beautiful battle skirts, detailed gloves and pointy boots. The armor also had a sheathed knight's sword hanging from his waist. All the armor was armed with a cavalry spear more than three meters long in one hand and a heavy shield in the other. There are more than five thousand pairs of such armor.
At the end of the stone chamber is a black door.
"Little ones, this is your first test. Tlansius's voice rang out again from all directions.
"What, there's still a test?" said in Etasha's coquettish voice, "Lord War, it's hard enough for us to be here!"
However, Tlansius did not answer her words.
As soon as Trensius's words fell, the two eye holes on the armor covering the faces of the stone chambers lit up with a faint red glow, and everyone had a premonition of something, and put their hands on their blades.
Sure enough, all the armor moved mechanically, and the sharp edge of the spear in his hand flashed, all pointing at everyone.