Chapter 24: Atonement (7)
Luo Mu's pupils shrank suddenly, and Ciris also widened his eyes in surprise and covered his mouth.
This scene was completely beyond the cognition of the two, the white dress on the woman's body was like a blooming white flower, but her lower body was closely connected with the hideous black snake, not distinguishing from each other.
The woman's hair was a strange grayish-white color, and her upper body was slightly bent forward, as if she was unconscious, and then after a while, the woman's body slowly lifted up, raised a delicate face, and looked at the two of them.
Luo Mu couldn't help but gasp, everything on the upper body of the woman was no different from that of humans, with slender and plain white arms, round and smooth neck, but those eyes made people shudder.
The whites of the woman's eyes were completely black, and just above the black, a snake-like blazing vertical pupil was shocked, and there were countless cracks around the vertical pupil, as if imprisoned in the eyeball.
Luo Mu looked at these eyes, but she didn't feel any temperature from them, some were just cold killing intentions, and there seemed to be a trace of confusion in them, as if she was also thinking about why she was here and why she wanted to chase and kill the two people in front of her.
Just as Luo Mu and Sirius were looking at the girl on top of the huge black snake, a dry laugh like withered grass suddenly came from behind the two.
"Hehehehe...."
Luo Mu turned his head suddenly, and then found that under the pitch-black bell, there was actually an old man who looked like dry bones!
When Luo Mu and Sirius reached the top, although Luo Mu didn't deliberately investigate, the wind around his body was giving him feedback all the time, but Luo Mu didn't even notice the existence of this old man at all!
It is possible that this old man just appeared here, but Luo Mu took a closer look, and the ragged clothes on the old man's body, including the surrounding weeds and a series of traces, could prove that the old man didn't know how long he had been sitting here.
Luo Mu looked at the old man in front of him, although the old man's body had almost completely lost all functions, and his eyes had become cloudy, Luo Mu could feel that the old man in front of him might really be the last normal person in this world.
Is Wendell a normal person? Luo Mu was not sure.
Luo Mu looked at the old man from afar, and Cyris also turned his head, at this moment neither of them was sure whether this person was friend or foe, Cyris had already put the demon on the side of his body, and he could draw the long sword out of the scabbard at any time.
But Luo Mu looked at the old man's cloudy eyes, but he had a sense of darkness, maybe this old man was the last key to unlock the secrets of this world.
Luo Mu waved his hand lightly, signaling Sireis not to be too vigilant, and then walked towards the old man.
The old man sat under the pitch-black bell, hidden in the shadow of the whole bell, it seemed that this bell was the source of awakening the blue-black corpses all over the city, but it was not clear whether this bell stopped the black snake below from ascending, or the old man sitting here.
Seeing Luo Mu walk in, the old man laughed a few times ugly, and then said hoarsely, "Have you seen Her Royal Highness the Princess?"
Luo Mu had already walked in front of the old man, and he was stunned when he heard the old man's words, and then immediately reacted, the girl who stood out from the top of the black snake turned out to be the last princess of Capeln!
What's really going on in this country?
The old man looked at Luo Mu stunned, smiled weirdly, stretched out a bony hand, patted the ground in front of him gently, and motioned for Luo Mu to sit in front of him.
Luo Mu didn't say much, he could see that the old man was close to running out of oil, and he might die at any time, Luo Mu sat cross-legged in front of the old man, and Ciris also slowly walked over and stood behind Luo Mu.
The old man's cloudy eyes looked at Luo Mu, a trace of nostalgia rose in his eyes, Luo Mu still opened his mouth and asked, "Where is this?" Luo Mu was actually eighty percent sure, but he still hoped to get the final answer.
The old man whispered, "This is the cursed realm, Capeln"
Sure enough, everything did not deviate from what Luo Mu thought, and when Luo Mu just wanted to ask what was going on, the old man raised his hand lightly and said, "My time is running out, I will tell you everything."
Luo Mu nodded, the old man opened his mouth slightly, as if he didn't know where to start, and finally sighed and said, "I am a native of Kapeln, I was born here, I grew up here, I also became a soul master here, and I became the last national teacher of Kapeln here, my name is Morgan."
Morgan looked into the distance, at the highest point of the royal palace, and also the highest point of Capeln, overlooking almost the entire city, Morgan went on to say, "Although Capeln is not a big country, it has been inherited for 10,000 years, and dynasties have changed, and all the kings have wanted to be safe and prosperous, but all this has changed thousands of years ago, and on that day, in the town of Corser, north of the royal city, we found a completely indestructible crack in hell."
Morgan's story seemed to bring Luo Mu and Cyreth back to that era in an instant.
After discovering the crack in Hell in Corser, Capeln evacuated the residents of the entire town as soon as possible, and controlled it layer by layer, Morgan was also involved as a member of the team of the palace soul masters, but they couldn't destroy the crack anyway, and there was a steady stream of demons emerging from it, and everyone was busy killing the demons who escaped from it and were exhausted, but they suddenly discovered one day that the reason why this crack in hell could not be destroyed and could not be closed was that there was a huge demon holding it there。
It was an incomparably huge snake-type demon, everyone couldn't see the whole picture of this demon at all, they could only see the scales on the snake's body, and countless scarlet eyes, the hell crack could not be closed, a large number of Kapeln's warriors and soul masters died every day, this situation lasted for a whole year, Kapeln finally couldn't bear it, whether it was the death toll or the terrifying huge snake-type demon had almost completely plunged the country into a panic, the royal family was ready to report this situation, whether it was to Nogris or other countries at that time, the situation must be alleviated immediately, otherwise Kapeln would have no more warriors。
But everyone knows that in which era, although Nogris is neutral, but has not yet formed the current good demon eradication model, once Capeln asks for help, they fight against the demons for a year, and the country's extreme weakness will be immediately known by the surrounding countries, then although the matter of the demon crack will be solved, it is very likely that greater trouble will befall Capeln.
Just when the king finally made the decision to ask for help, a man stepped forward, the least favored princess in the palace, because this princess was so ugly that it was difficult for anyone to associate her with the eminent status of the princess.
No one knows where this princess learned the secret method, she actually entered the demon crack alone, and fused with the huge snake demon, suppressed the demon with her own humanity, controlled the demon in the crack of hell, and gradually closed the crack completely, and the princess also became a monster with a snake head forever at that moment.
In any case, the crisis is over, the country is still safe, after a week of Kapeln celebrated, the whole country finally rose up guilt for the princess, Kapeln built a church for the princess, to mourn, the church was built in the place where the hell crack in Corser Town appeared, after the hell crack was basically healed, the team of soul masters led by Morgan sealed it on top of it, and used countless soul arrays to suppress it, just to ensure that this hell crack will never return to the world.
In the long years that followed, the princess who saved the country was gradually deified with the acquiescence of the royal family, and finally formed a unique sect that claimed that their Virgin, the princess "Nergale", had endured untold suffering for the entire nation, and that each of them was sinful and should spend their lives atonement for the sins they had committed.
This situation could not help but have an impact on the royal power, and at the same time, the royal power and the divine power were well combined, which made the people of Kapeln believe in the royal family even more, because this god Nergale is a member of the royal family, and the royal family of Kapeln is naturally happy to see it.
It is difficult to say whether the emergence of this sect was supported by the royal family, but in the end Capeln did declare this church the state religion, although it did not force the people to be religious, but it controlled public opinion, and made the people think that those who did not believe in religion were incorrect and had no shame, so that everything was natural.
At the beginning of a certain year after the church was built, a black stone egg would be bred under the statue of Nergale, and at that time the church had already been formed, and even in the passage of time, few people remembered the cracks in hell, which was naturally interpreted as the Virgin Nelgale was moved by their prayers, and this stone egg is a proof of their piety.
For a time, the black stone eggs were vigorously scrambled by the people of Kapeln to prove their piety, and even the stone eggs were even sold or purchased on the black market at a clear price.
After this incident slowly passed, almost all of them had a separate shrine in their homes, that is, the stone egg of Nergal was enshrined as Luo Mu and Sireth had seen before, and it was used to pray and prove their piety at all times.
Time passed slowly, about a thousand years ago, due to pressure from all sides and some political factors, the royal family of Capeln decided to stand on the huge chariot of Discart and become one of the vassal states.
The people didn't have much to say about it, after all, compared to Discart, Capeln was like a mantis arm that could be shattered at the touch of a car, but after becoming a vassal state of Discat, some problems arose.
Discart has its own unique religious culture, although they did not require the vassal states to worship their gods, but the other vassal states turned to the people to follow the unique religion of Discart in order to curry favor with Discat, and Capeln was naturally in a dilemma.
There were also very different voices in the palace, one side wanted to demand that the people be converted, after all, everything was for the good of the country, and the other was naturally a loyal believer in Nelgal, who was firmly opposed to such an idea.
Just when the two parties were arguing, someone suddenly discovered that in the homes of some townspeople in Corser, the black stone eggs were slowly hatching.