The ruins above the temple used to conceal the ground were built by the relatively prosperous Worm Order at the beginning of this era. At that time, it was the residence of the priests of the order and the believers who came to worship. Later, the religious order declined, and the ruins were abandoned, and became the ruins of a large manor that appeared in front of Xia De now.
Time has destroyed most of the things, only the fuzzy patterns on a few pillars can explain how prosperous this place was back then. The ancient language from the third era is etched on the pillars. All the letters look like curly worms. , and few people can understand it.
The entrance to the underground temple is under the floor on the side of the ruins. Opening the downward passage requires a difficult incantation and a key. After the meaning of the mantra was translated by Shad, it probably means "praise the great earth-shaking worm, may your waves be with us".
As for the key to open the entrance, it is not a dead thing, but a worm living in the body of the last priest of the order, the old lady Yilar. The whole body of the bug was black, as long as one-fifth of an arm, and its mouthparts were extremely conspicuous.
It emerged from the mouth of the old lady of Ilar, wriggling with hundreds of secondary legs. Not only Xia De, but even Miss Aurora couldn't bear this scene. And the cat on Xia De's shoulder is even more vigilant and wants to rush up. It looks like it wants to protect Xia De from the bug... Mia thinks that this bug is smaller than it, so it is not dangerous at all.
During the chanting of the mantra, the pitch-black worm burrowed into the ground. And as the ground trembled, the stone steps connected to the ground appeared under the dark entrance.
[Outlander, you feel the "miracle" and "blasphemy". 】
Miracles mostly come from righteous gods, and blasphemy only comes from evil gods. For the first time, Shad encountered a **** of miracles and blasphemy.
Looking at the stone steps in front of him, Xia De handed Miya to the maids, because the old lady Yila only allowed Xia De and Miss Aurora to enter the temple.
Waited for a while to ventilate the inside, and then went down the stairs. The black worm went down the wall and lit the kerosene lamps on both sides of the stairs for everyone one step ahead, and also illuminated a large number of murals on both sides of the stairs involving terrible living sacrifices and religious criminal laws.
Xia De once again confirmed that although [Earth Shaker] has gone away, this old **** is a real evil god.
Probably when it was built here, the religious order had already declined, so the underground temple was not the kind of large building that Xia De imagined.
The stone steps are not long, and at the end is the temple where holy emblems and statues are placed. The lights are dim, and the underground space seems a little narrow and shabby. There is a dark room on each side of the temple, which are the library used to store the religious books and the dark room used for rest.
It seems that all churches pay more attention to the holy emblem than the statue, so the statue representing the image of the [Earth Shaker] in the material world is simply placed on the high platform, and the Shade feels as if there are dozens of them at a glance. The holy emblem with worms crawling on its back was hung in the most conspicuous position of the temple.
The holy emblem is made of stone and is generally round. The holy emblem pattern is a worm entangled. Apart from filling some runes in the gaps, this simple holy emblem just looks at it, and it makes people feel unsteady on their feet.
The old lady Yilar opened her mouth to swallow the dark worm, and then slowly lit the candle here, while Xia De and the witch scanned the surroundings. Before Xia De came here, he actually had some expectations, expecting something like divinity here, but unfortunately there is not.
But in the material world, there must be other divinities. Rather than confronting the evil god, Xia De is more willing to find traces of divinity from myths and legends. Although his current divinity is enough to use the fourth ring as long as there is no more trouble, but he can't really go to the fourth ring to start searching.
After lighting the candles, the old man knelt down on one knee on the soft cushion under the holy emblem, prayed for a long time, and then led Shade up the high platform to the statue.
Having gone through the vicissitudes of time, the quaint statues that have witnessed several eras are not big, about the same as ordinary plaster busts. After Xia De approached, he immediately felt more and more profane elements, and at the same time, the illusion that the ground was shaking became more and more obvious.
The reason why I think this is an illusion is because if there is a real earthquake, the flames of those candles cannot be so stable.
One of the common sense of ring magicians is never to get close to the idols of strange gods. Even if you want to gain knowledge, you have to confirm the consequences and write a suicide note before approaching.
But this time Miss Aurora was by her side, and Xia De didn't hesitate. Seeing that the old lady Yilar was kneeling on the soft cushion under the statue again, praying in a low voice again, he followed suit.
His eyes quickly scanned the statue, and the bumps on the surface of the worm's body were not decorative runes, but human faces distorted by pain. When Xia De saw them, those human faces seemed to come alive, squirming to express their pain, and even passed the pain they experienced to Xia De.
But in the blink of an eye, the illusion disappeared. The impact of this scene coupled with the influence of the evil **** statue itself made Xia De immediately close his eyes and bow his head.
This time it is different from the statue of [Vampire Duke Rael]. This statue is a sacred object of the religious order and is still being sacrificed to this day. Its influence on mortals is far greater than the former.
He felt someone coming up behind him:
"I didn't expect you to be so powerful in spirit, and you can still look up at the statue when you walk so close."
It was Miss Aurora, who also came over.
"Do those hideous human faces on the surface of the statue have any representative meaning?"
Xia De wanted to take a break, restore his best mental state, and then look directly at the statue to feel the blasphemy.
Miss Aurora didn't care about the feelings of the old lady Yilaer at all, she smiled and explained:
"In ancient times, in order to appease the wrath of the so-called earth, the believers of the old **** [Earthshaker Worm] would hold live sacrifices, offering their blood and souls to the gods to gain peace. It is said that the souls of those sacrificed people would Swallowed by the old gods, and permanently imprisoned in the shell of the gods, squeezed, worn and tormented day and night."
"It's their honor."
The old man bowed his head in prayer and said suddenly, although she didn't look up, Xia De thought she should still have that very kind expression.
Miss Aurora smiled again, and instead of refuting, she asked:
"Xia De, haven't you ever been curious? Miracle and blasphemy, why should we use human sense of good and evil to distinguish?"
"I've thought about it too, but I can't figure it out. Probably, the distinction between evil gods and good gods just coincides with good and evil, but in fact the distinction between miracles and blasphemy is due to another reason."
Miss Aurora said, she reached out behind Shad and grabbed Shad's right hand:
"I can't explain this to you better, it can only be discovered by yourself. Feel it carefully, Shad, let me help you feel the power of this old **** carefully. If the power you get is related to the earth instead of It's about the shock, I think I'll have to think of something else."
Her five fingers passed between Shad's fingers, pushing Shad's hand forward. Of course Xia De understood that this posture was very wrong, but the statue was right in front of him, and he had no time to refuse it.
A strange brilliance spread from Miss Aurora's body, and that brilliance was transmitted to Xia De through her arms. Behind the two, the life rings of the second-ring warlock and the twelve-ring warlock appeared in the steam mist. The cross-section of the dodecagonal brass ring seems to be helping the plane ring to rotate:
"Xia De, even a witch can't do this often, please feel this power carefully."
So the hands of the two of them pressed against the surface of the statue together.
When the palm touched the statue, Xia De didn't care about the cold feeling and the slight tingling sensation as if bitten by insects. He stared at the statue, and what he really cared about was that the stone worm in front of him seemed to come to life at this moment. The worm's body squirmed, making the hand clinging to the statue feel the roughness of the stone surface.
Xia De's eyes began to bleed, but he also really felt the trembling power and the terrifying power left by the great one.
The body wanted to tremble, but the witch behind him fixed Xia De's hand. Amidst the strange brilliance of the witch's body, the terrifying mouthparts of the big stone worm directly bit Xia De's hand. While the unreal pain appeared, Xia De felt as if something exploded in his head.
He seemed to see the **** sacrifices of primitive tribes in ancient times, as if he saw the terrifying worm populations wandering in the depths of the earth, as if he had traveled through several epochs, and in the oldest age, he saw the earth where worms were trembling and crying swallowed something.
In this chaotic hallucination, a voice finally appeared in my ear:
[You have come into contact with the statue of the old **** "Earth Shaker". 】
[Wandering in the depths of the endless land, shaking the land, absorbing the power of disaster and destruction. In the dusk of the old days, he left voluntarily in a frenzy, returning that great power to the earth. 】
[You have listened to the story of the old **** "Earth Shaker", and you have learned about the blasphemy of the old **** "Earth Shaker". 】
Xia De's back... Behind Xia De and Miss Aurora, the life ring of the twelve-ring magician disappeared, and the life ring belonging to the second-ring magician turned rapidly. Both the old man and the witch turned their heads to look, and the dazzling four-color aura that had already lit up seemed to be using thaumaturgy, but this was just the normal state of Shad's spirit rune.
The ground was shaking, and this time it was really a small earthquake. Accompanied by this tremor, silver aura gathered on the surface of the ring of life. The bell rang, the siren blared, and the dazzling silver aura directly illuminated the entire underground temple space.
This was the first time someone witnessed Xia De engraving spirit runes at close range, but the old low-level warlock thought this scene was miraculous, but the witch frowned in surprise.
Even if the high-ring warlock engraved the spirit rune, there should be no such movement. After all, the acquisition of the spirit rune is only a matter for the individual ring warlock, and there is no reason for it to have such a strong impact on the environment.
[Outlander, you have engraved the silver blasphemous rune-vibration. 】
The rapidly rotating life ring gradually slowed down, and all the aura gathered on the surface of the life ring, finally forming a new rune. The flickering aura gradually stabilized until it was at almost the same level as [Tree Kiss] [Greed].
"Miss Aurora, it's ready."
Shad took a deep breath and removed his hand from the idol. The statue remained in its original state, and the scene where the bugs devoured Xia De's arm just now was really just an illusion.
It's just that there is still a tingling sensation on the arm, because after receiving the huge amount of information and feeling the power of the gods at close range, Xia De staggered back a step~www.mtlnovel.com~ felt something soft hit his back. His face turned red, and he didn't have the nerve to turn back to observe his life ring immediately, but he had already felt the power.
The witch withdrew her surprised expression, chuckled, and withdrew her slender fingers from Xia De's. Xia De let out a breath slowly, his eyes were completely removed from the **** statue in front of him that was putting him under great pressure, only then did he realize that his entire back was soaked without knowing it.
"Did there be an earthquake just now?"
He asked in a weak voice, half of it was pretending, and half of it was because his mental state was really not very good.
"Very mild earthquake."
The witch with long brown wavy hair said, and then looked suspiciously at Xia De's side face:
"Xia De, don't tell me that the spirit rune you got is [Earthquake]."
"No, it's [Shock]. The trip achieved its goal."
Xia De said, and sighed softly:
"Miss Aurora, you really helped me a lot this time."
"You don't have to be so polite, I just paid for the travel expenses for you."
The witch said relaxedly, looked at Xia De, and then looked at the statue that was still standing there quietly. The gods are long gone, but the idols are still terrible:
"Okay then, let's go back."
She also doesn't want to comment too much on this place, and she doesn't want to face the statue of the evil **** too much. Even a witch is still a mortal.
Therefore, this short journey ended smoothly.