In this way, the two of them successfully passed through the gates of several checkpoints through the concealment of optical illusions. Leo also gradually mastered some of the languages ​​used in this world through continuous collection of language information and Sean's explanations.

Just like it is impossible for Leo to completely trust other people, it is also impossible for Sean to completely trust Leo. Although he has told a lot of things he knows about the world, he still hides some things, such as

language.

However, it was obvious that he was not completely able to hide his little secret. When Leo collected the conversations of those people, he showed a focused expression, which all showed that he was listening to the conversations of those people. He could hear

Understand the language of those people.

Just like the knowledge passed down by the big family, this language was also passed down as some kind of knowledge that represented a special meaning by the direct descendants of the Donald family. Sean naturally learned it and learned it very well, although due to some

Due to inheritance reasons, some pronunciation and vocabulary usage have grammatical errors, but generally speaking, reading and writing are pretty standard.

With the language provided by Sean as a reference, Leo's mastery of this language has become much smoother. And while mastering the language, he also learned through the conversations of these checkpoint guards that the world is not like Sean.

As mentioned, there is only the ocean and the land where the Holy Mountain is located. In fact, this world is very big, maybe not even smaller than the world of Velen, and the main component of this world is the ocean, and the rest are islands, such as the one they are in now

This piece of land is an island.

By interpreting the conversation between the checkpoint guards just now, Leo knew that an important festival was being held at the Poseidon Temple on Mount Saint-Truux. Envoys from all the island lords had sent people to participate in this festival, and even the royal family of the sea tribe.

The previous commotion caused by the corpse collector also alarmed the people on the Holy Mountain, so the Poseidon Church was worried that something unexpected would happen in the Mountain of Despair that would affect the progress of the festival, and had to send people to check the situation, and the island lords who gathered here

The envoys also sent people out of curiosity.

In order to disguise himself as a local as much as possible, Leo stole two sets of ordinary people's clothes from a guard station at one of the checkpoints, and changed his and Sean's clothes into clothes that looked obviously different from the locals.

Although they were walking smoothly along the way, they were stopped just as they were about to pass through this natural barrier forest, and what stopped them was the gate and city wall of a checkpoint.

Different from the simple checkpoints they had passed before, the checkpoint they saw now was not made of trees at all, but made of large rocks. Not only did it block the entire road, but it also

It spread into the forest on both sides.

In addition, the gate of the checkpoint is also much narrower. It is no longer two pieces of wood that look very fragile, but a gate forged from two complete pieces of metal.

In addition to the substantial improvement in the defensive power of the entire checkpoint due to the construction materials and construction specifications, the checkpoint itself also contains extremely powerful extraordinary power. From the gate to the defensive wall, it is covered with Poseidon sacred texts containing mysterious power.

The gate of this checkpoint is tightly closed. Leo can only reach the other side by entering the forest, bypassing the city wall, or directly climbing over the city wall. However, Leo did not choose either of these two options. He led Sean to a distance from the city wall.

At the edge of the city wall not far from the door, I used rune traps to camouflage myself, and then sat down on the spot, waiting for the opportunity to pass through the checkpoint.

"Are we just going to wait like this?" Sean asked impatiently after waiting for more than half an hour.

"Why are you in such a hurry? We still have plenty of time." Leo looked at Sean and said calmly.

Sean didn't say anything. Judging from his impatient expression and his reaction of standing up and moving around from time to time, it was clear that he was not very calm inside.

"Aren't you going to say something?" Seeing Sean's situation, Leo asked in a deep voice, "For example, those little secrets that I don't know yet."

Sean was silent for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Do I know what the Long Soul's Day is about?"

"Eternal Souls' Day?" Leo was stunned for a moment, and soon thought that this Eternal Souls' Day was the festival being held at Mount Saint-Truux that the checkpoint guards mentioned when they were talking just now. It was not difficult to hear this from their voices.

Festivals are very important here.

Sean explained with a serious expression: "The Festival of the Eldar is a festival of the Eldar to commemorate the God of the Sea raising his sleeping temple from the bottom of the sea for the Eldar. It is the most important festival of the Eldar of Mount Saint-Truux.

On the day of the festival, they will collect a large number of sea monster snails, then summon sea monsters, and hunt sea monsters to make sacrifices to the sea god."

Leo listened to Sean's words and said, "What will happen if the sea monster is killed?"

"Each sea monster snail corresponds to one or more sea monsters. As long as the corresponding sea monster is killed, the sea monster snail will also be destroyed." Sean smiled bitterly and said: "If I don't get one this time

sea ​​monster snail, then you need to wait thirty years for the new sea monster snail to fully mature."

"They shouldn't use all the sea monster snails for sacrifice, right?" Leo said with some doubts.

Sean smiled bitterly and said nothing.

However, after Leo asked, he knew that he had asked a useless question, because never use ordinary people's thinking to look at a group of religious fanatics. For normal people, there is absolutely no unnecessary loss. For fanatics,

Even if it is a sacrifice that demonstrates their faith, they will only think that the sacrifice is not hidden enough or valuable enough, and they will never think that the sacrifice should be used sparingly.

Leo comforted Sean and said, "Don't worry, what we have to wait for now is the return of those who went to Despair Mountain to check the situation."

Sean asked: "Can't we just turn it over?"

Leo didn't answer. He just turned around and walked to the forest on the edge of the road. He carefully searched the bushes in front of him and found a creature that looked like a poisonous snake. He grabbed it and walked back.

Before Sean could understand what Leo was going to do, he saw Leo throwing the creature in his hand towards the city wall. As soon as the creature touched the city wall, a force suddenly burst out from the city wall.

, instantly crushed the creature and turned it into a pool of blood mist, which scattered around.

Seeing this scene, Sean also felt a little scared. He didn't know why Leo would set up rune traps so far away from the city wall just now, but now he understood.

At the same time, the stress response of the city wall also alerted the guards on the city wall. Several half-human and half-fish guards quickly came to the triggered section of the city wall and looked down. Although they carefully searched for the city wall,

The reason why the defense force was triggered, but they were never able to find the person or the suspicious place, and Leo's disguise was not seen through, so after finding nothing, they could only curse and turn around and leave, returning to their checkpoint hut on the city wall.

About two hours had passed since this episode. Suddenly, there was a slight vibration on the ground, and then he saw a group of people appearing at the end of the road. Sean's realization could not help him see the group of people clearly.

Their specific appearance could only be judged to be one of the teams they had encountered before, but Leo could see the physical appearance of those people emotionally, and after seeing clearly, he stood up from the ground.

"Who are these people coming?" Sean also stood up and asked.

"Princess Chris." Leo replied in a deep voice, with a slightly serious expression on his face.

Although Leo deceived these people through the disguise of rune traps when the two met before, he could feel that the half-mermaid bishop who was suspected of being Princess Chris should be aware of the rune traps.

The environment they are in now is a special energy field formed by a bone road. Although his rune trap has tried its best to disguise the energy fluctuations around it, compared to the disguise in the Despair Mountains, the disguise here is just energy.

There is obviously a big difference in terms of volatility.

If the half-mermaid bishop uses energy fluctuations as a basis for identifying Leo's location, then their location is likely to be exposed.

Thinking of this, Leo looked around, and soon his eyes fell on the edge of the city wall not far away, and he had a bold idea in his mind.

So, he motioned to Sean, then took away the disguise of the rune trap, led Sean to the edge of the city wall where it was enough to trigger the wall's energy counterattack, and then used his spiritual energy to wrap the two of them, just doing

An optical camouflage was created, and the energy fluctuations were not hidden at all.

However, although Leo's psychic energy fluctuations were not deliberately hidden, the energy fluctuations emanating from the city wall from time to time wrapped them up, forming a layer of cover.

After doing this, Leo and Sean stood quietly, waiting for the arrival of the team.

Soon the team of men and horses had arrived not far away visible to the naked eye. The guards on the city wall also discovered those people early. As orders came out from the city wall, the metal gate was slowly opened from the inside.

Open.

This team of people did not return empty-handed. They assembled a pack car, which was pulled by more than a dozen lizard monsters. On the pack car was placed a huge piece of gravel, with a layer of black oil attached to the surface.

liquid, and Leo could feel that these liquids contained the energy fluctuations of the corpse collector. It was thought that this should be the residue dropped after the corpse collector was killed by the trident.

At that time, Leo just wanted to get out of there. He never thought that the body collector would drop debris. If he had known about it, he might have already collected it.

At this time, a group of three-meter-tall monsters with octopus heads and human bodies walked out of the gate. They saluted the archbishop who was suspected of being Princess Chris with great respect, and then passed through the fish

The vibration of the gills spoke the language here in a harsh voice, saying: "Ms. Bishop Chris, we need to follow the rules to check what you are carrying."

After hearing what the octopus head said, Leo and Sean looked at each other. If they were 60% doubtful about the identity of Princess Chris, the half-mermaid bishop, now they are almost 90% sure.

The half-mermaid bishop in front of me is Princess Chrissy.

Princess Chrissy, who was sitting on the Lizard North Gate, did not respond. She just nodded and signaled the octopus-headed creatures to check the items they carried.

Those octopus heads seemed very casual when inspecting the accompanying church knights and priests. Some even only asked two questions. Even if the inspection was completed, they were not satisfied with the stone stained with the remains of the corpse collector that was transported by this group of people.

A lot stricter.

I saw a few octopus heads among them who were wearing armor and took out a pearl-like object from the armor. They placed it around the rock and moved it slowly. After checking it several times, no problem was found.

, the octopus head confessed to Princess Chris, and then started to signal the guards inside the city wall to let them go.

Just when all these people's attention was focused on the city wall and no one paid attention to other situations around them, Leo led Sean to the end of the team naturally, where there were some people who looked similar to them and looked like porters.

, and then removed his disguise.

The sudden appearance of two strangers beside them naturally attracted the attention of this group of people. However, when they looked at Leo and were about to ask who Leo and Sean were, they felt that they seemed to know these two people.

Time passed and they couldn't remember the names of these two people, so the doubts in their hearts quickly disappeared and they stopped questioning them.

However, just as the two of them merged into the team and walked through the city gate, Princess Chris, who was walking in front, suddenly looked back and glanced across the crowd where Leo and the others were, although there was a hint of confusion in her eyes.

Doubtful, it seemed that he noticed something was wrong, but he did not stay longer on Leo and the others. Apparently, he did not notice the mental camouflage effect created by Leo using his spiritual energy.

After that, Leo originally planned to leave the team after passing this gate, but he found that there were similar checkpoints behind him, so he changed his mind and continued to stay in the team. Taking advantage of the special characteristics of this team, he passed through it smoothly.

The remaining checkpoints.

After passing the last checkpoint, the Bone Road and the forest that served as a barrier came to an end, and the place they were now at was at the foot of a high mountain, which happened to be one of the two intersecting mountains they had observed before.

A variety of plants also grow in this place, but compared to the plants that used to be a barrier forest before, the plants growing here are obviously more normal. Of course, this kind of normality can only be seen in Leo who has seen various plants.

In the eyes of people who grow strange alien plants, people like Sean who can't even figure out the types of plants in the world of Velen see these plants as if they have seen something magical.

For example, the trees planted on both sides of the road are all fire trees. This kind of fire tree is not an adjective, but a real fire tree. The tops of some branches turned into torches and burned violently. However, no matter how hard those flames burned, they could not burn.
Chapter completed!