The Door to the Past - The Zealots of Danakus (two chapters in one, so today only this
"Click, click", when the first step to step into the temple gate began, all the sounds outside disappeared, the sound of wind, sand, the collision of bones, the wailing of ghosts, the chanting of corpse witches, and even the spitting of bone dragons when they were killed. All of these disappeared, and the temple seemed to be in another world, and everything outside could only be seen, but no sound was transmitted.
The temple was surprisingly quiet, with only the sound of clicking footsteps echoing. The surroundings were pitch black. The cold light from outside the temple gate penetrated in from a distance. With the light outside, you can blur it. This is a long corridor. The end of the corridor merged into a deep darkness, like a giant python that opened its mouth and waited for prey, ready to close its jaw and swallow the prey into its belly. With a concentration, you can feel a slight wind blowing from the inside of the temple. The tiny breeze is filled with a rotten breath, which makes people smell extremely uncomfortable.
"So dark." "So scary" The Gemini of Wingmen held their arms together, their bodies pressed against each other tightly, and there was a slight trembling in their voices. They were only children at the age of Wingmen. Their fear of darkness and unknown instincts is the nature of children. No matter how strong the individual is, they cannot fight against such instincts: "I feel like there is something inside." "Can we not go in?" "We are afraid." "I want to leave here very much."
"Two cowards." Christo laughed at the trembling sisters in a sharp voice, but his steps were slightly faster. His body inadvertently blocked the two girls, but he still said with a mocking voice: "I'm still afraid of the darkness. Do you have to lie in my mother's arms to sleep at night? Hahahaha, oh."
The twin sister took back the foot that was kicked on the goblin's calf as if nothing had happened. She smiled proudly and said, "Idiot Little Cara." "I dare to laugh at us." "I forgot that you were swallowed into your stomach by the giant python in the forest of death last year." "Your pants were wet when you pulled you out." "You must have been scared to pee your pants."
"Nonsense, my whole body was wet at that time." Christo retorted angrily: "I have to say it a few more times. That was the digestive juice and blood of the giant python. It wasn't my pants wet. Don't you understand the common language?"
"Stop messing around with you three." Neri sighed and signaled the three of them to look at Kyle. The three of them tilted their heads and looked at it, and found that Kyle was facing the wall and rubbing her chin. She didn't know what she was thinking.
"Maya." Kyle suddenly turned around as if he had confirmed something. He was shocked by the three people staring at him: "There is no breath of creatures here, so it is unlikely that there is something sensitive to light. Let's illuminate us."
"No problem." Maya, with white wings, responded crisply, slapped her hands and whispered: "God said, there should be light."
So there was light, and the soft light suddenly lit up, illuminating the long channel. No one knew where the light came from. There was no light source around it. The light seemed to appear out of thin air, and it was evenly distributed around everyone with Maya as the center. The light in all directions and even the brightness was the same, so that everyone in the channel had no shadow.
The soft light illuminates the long passage. You can see that the walls of the passage are engraved with dense and quaint patterns. Rather than patterns, they are some words that look like patterns. Although the meaning is unknown, you can still feel the solemnity and solemnity coming from the arrangement and fonts of these words.
"This is a text specially used by the people of God to communicate with gods in rituals." Mina stood beside Kyle, looking at the curved words on the wall and said: "Among the people of God, only the members responsible for rituals and rituals will use this text. Without this position, even the strongest people among the people of God would not recognize it. It can be said that it is a special text for the highest priests. I remember that at the end of the mythology, it was indeed popular for this kind of divine text for sacrificial rituals to be engraved at the entrance of the temple for a while."
"Continue to look inward." Kyle narrowed his eyes and stared at the words on the wall, and said in a deep voice: "I think we are really going to communicate with this god of death Danakus this time. Ms. Mina, are you sure Danakus really fell?"
"I'm sure." Mina nodded seriously: "Because it was something I witnessed with my own eyes that the seventeen strongest men of the people of the God joined forces to fight him, including Loki, the leader of the strongest men. At that time, Danakus and his crazy believers fought on the Miner Plain for nine days and nights. In the last two days, he gradually lost his support, so he used his temple as a medium to absorb the power of all believers, and his crazy believers became mummies. But even so, he was defeated in the end, the kingdom of God collapsed, and he fell, and even his temple sank under the ground that collapsed during the battle, and never appeared again."
"So." Kyle whined to the inside of the temple: "It appeared today."
"Yes, it appeared today." Mina's smile hidden under the hood was a little bitter: "Since the temple appears here and looks restored to good condition, it proves that our previous guess is wrong. What we have to face is probably not just a piece of soul fragment, but it is very likely that we have to face a weak soul head-on. This is my mistake, I should take responsibility, and we still have a certain chance of winning in the face of soul fragments, but really facing a weak soul, our chance of winning is probably..."
"Is it very low?" Kyle asked deliberately with his hands in front of his chest, tilting his head.
"Yes, very low," Mina said, "So I hope this raid will end here, and you will immediately return to the gate of Death, from there you can return to our world, and then work together to close the gate of Death."
"And what about you?" Kyle asked with a faint smile: "Let's run away and let you face the weak soul alone? I remember we had rejected this proposal before. We are not that cold-blooded. We are watching a lady sacrifice her life for our world, but we do nothing ourselves. So, regarding leaving, Ms. Mina, you should not mention it again. I don't think that we have come to this day, and that there are still people who will retreat because they are afraid of death."
"But the situation is different." Mina, the combat dragon, said anxiously: "The danger now..."
"You need to say nothing. Ms. Mina, the situation is not different." Kyle waved his hand and interrupted Mina's persuasion and said calmly: "Long time ago, when we gathered, I did not take the premise of facing the fragments of the soul as the plan. This kind of adventure activity can only deal with any possible situations if the worst plans are made. I want to ask you. Do you think that our demigods in the Fourth Age are weaker than the strongest among the gods and peoples back then?"
"I can't compare to Loki, you can't compare to the leaders of the strongest, but the gap will not be big." Mina thought for a while and replied directly without hiding it: "Your strength should be in the top fifty among the strongest."
"That's right." Kyle nodded and said, "They're seventeen strongest men join forces to defeat Danakus in good condition and his crazy believers head-on. If we thirteen of them join forces, do you think we can win a broken and lonely soul that no longer exists in the Kingdom of God?"
"I haven't said it." Mina said with a wry smile: "After the battle that year, only six of the seventeen strongest people among the gods survived, one of whom was seriously injured and had no hope of returning to his heyday."
"Haha. That's their own choice." Kyle chuckled, "Just now, this is also our own choice. And, do you think I will take everyone to die without any preparation? Although everyone is not afraid of death, if I would let everyone accompany me to die, why should I be a perfect person?"
"Do you have other preparations?" Mina was stunned, feeling a little unbelievable. After interviewing her, Kyle turned around and summoned a large number of combat powers. She was mentally prepared in advance, but she really didn't expect that after summoning the most powerful force on the Yara Continent, Kyle would make other preparations. Just as she really expected the difficulties in advance, it was impossible to defeat him. Could anyone in the world be perfect? Mina felt a little uncertain for a moment.
"Of course there are other preparations. When I go on adventures, I will never put all the water in the same backpack." Kyle's face was filled with a calm smile and bowed to Flar's chest: "Your Majesty, please."
Flar returned a smile that made flowers bloom, and cautiously took out a slender box less than one meter long from his backpack. The surface of the box was carved with countless magic arrays, which looked extremely precious.
"Hundred-layer box?" Mina was stunned and said in surprise: "Is it... some kind of artifact?"
Flar nodded with a smile and gently opened the lid of the hundred-layer box. The space in the box was very narrow, and there was only an ordinary-looking feather arrow lying quietly in the box.
"The Hunting Goddess Arrow, it turns out that this arrow is kept in the hands of the elves." Mina took a deep breath and said with a wry smile: "After the end of the Third Age, our guardians are still guessing whether this artifact still exists in the mortal world. It is also right. We should have thought of collecting three feather arrows made by the Hunting Goddess, and naturally hope to remain in the hands of her favorite elves."
The Hunting Goddess Arrow is a magical artifact made by the goddess in charge of collecting and hunting. Although it is just a one-time weapon, its power is amazing. After the feather arrow is shot, it will inevitably hit the target. It ignores any defense. Neither armor nor shields, it cannot have any impact on the Hunting Goddess Arrow. At that time, the hunting Goddess used up materials and finally only made five. Two of them were used up in the Battle of Gods at the end of the Third Age, achieving amazing results. In the most critical battle, two of the most important sons of the orcs were shot and killed. It can be said that the two arrows rewritten the pattern between the elves and the orcs. However, when the Battle of Gods ended, the gods no longer entered the mortal world, and no one saw the remaining three arrows. Most people believed that the three arrows had been carried by the Hunting God to return to her Kingdom of God and would never appear in the mortal world again. Unexpectedly, they saw one of them here today.
"I'm going to swear here." Kyle said solemnly to Flar, "I will never reveal anything about this arrow to anyone. I will always keep the secret about this arrow."
The others also reacted at the same time and solemnly made oaths. Everyone understood that since this arrow was brought by Flar and was intended to be used in this battle, it would no longer matter whether it was confidential. What was important was the existence of the remaining two arrows. The elves blocked the news about this magical weapon for thousands of years. Of course, they planned to be the ultimate weapon that they would only use at the most critical moment. Now that the elves are willing to contribute one of them for the Yara world, they have already made great sacrifices. If the news about the remaining two arrows is spread, they will be very sorry for the elves' wishes.
"With this arrow, the winning rate can be increased by at least 20%. "Ms. Mina finally showed a smile on her lips and sighed softly: "I have to say that you have really brought me a lot of surprises."
"So, Ms. Mina, there's nothing to hesitate." Kyle pointed to the passage ahead: "Let's go deeper. I feel that the person we're looking for is at the end of the front."
Through the long passage, two huge stone doors crossed the end of the passage, and there were no patterns on the stone door. There were only two lines of text unique to the gods and people. The difference between these two lines of words and the gate was no longer special for sacrifices, but special words circulated among high-level gods and people. Kyle gently read the words on the door: "Everything will eventually become illusory, and only death is eternal."
"Haha, interesting." After reading the words on the door, Kyle chuckled and shook his head, "It sounds very reasonable nonsense. If everything is ultimately illusory, it is better for everyone to commit suicide immediately after birth. It doesn't make any sense anyway."
Mina did not respond to Kyle's statement. Before walking to the huge stone gate, the humanoid appearance burst out with the power of a dragon. Two huge stone gates of thousands of thousands of kilograms made a creaking sound under the push of Mina's relatively small body, and slowly opened to both sides. As soon as the door opened, air that was far more dirty than the outside world rushed towards us. I don't know how many years of air that has accumulated is very toxic. Fortunately, the group of people are all demigod bodies, otherwise they would have been poisoned as soon as the door opened.
"Wind." Feila shook the black robe on her body. She spit out a syllable coldly, and the strong wind instantly filled the space behind the stone gate, rolling the dirty air inside. The few people did not rush through the stone gate, but stood patiently at the door, waiting for the strong wind to dispel the filth and observe inside. Behind the stone gate is the main hall that every temple will exist. The statues representing the incarnation of the gods are placed here, surrounding the statues, and hundreds of leather cushions are placed. However, these cushions have long been corroded, and when they are blown by the strong wind, they turn into a ball of debris and float.
However, everyone found that they were not lonely. Nearly a thousand people sat cross-legged on the ground around the statue of the gods. Most of them were left with only skeletons, and only a few were still in the form of mummy bodies, which seemed to coincide with the war scene that Mina mentioned just now.
"Are these crazy believers of Danakus?" Everyone didn't care about these nearly a thousand corpses after seeing them clearly. These corpses had no breath of life, nor had they turned into undead. They were simple corpses rarely seen in this strange space. Christo took back the crystal energy gun that had been picked up, wiped the sweat from his palms, and in order to cover up the shame that he had just been startled, he said disdainfully: "It turns out that these believers of the god of death have not become undead after death. I thought the god of death attracted believers by promising them to become undead after death and continuing to live."
"It's not them who will become an undead, who will do it?" "That's right, are you willing?" "And you were scared just now." "Stop pretending, we've all seen it." The Winged Men sisters made a habitual sarcastic attack on Christo. The goblin gunman snorted coldly, and just as he was about to fight back, he was stopped by Kyle's smile-like eyes.
"I don't think it's good for them to become undead," Kyle said. "These are the most devout believers in the Danakus Church. Their power is probably relatively strong, so they are chosen to provide power for gods. If they become undead, there may be many demigods mixed in it."
"You can rest assured that there is no sign of becoming a dead soul." Flar stood up next to a corpse. As a creature of the life god, most of the elves are filled with energy of life attributes and are very sensitive to the dead soul. Basically, Flar is sure that there is no death energy, so they must be ordinary corpses. Flar thought for a while and confirmed again: "The layer above the ground can basically be confirmed that there is no death energy, but there is an energy barrier in the underground part and cannot be sensed. Only by going down can you know it."
"Since that's the case, it's much easier." Kyle said calmly: "Let's search this floor first, and then explore the underground floor. In order to seize the time, there are thirteen people in total. Maya Tiya, you two are one person. Let's explore this temple in groups of three. Once you encounter special circumstances, use the agreed frequency switch field and others will go to support it as soon as possible. Do you have any opinions on this arrangement?"
"No objection," Christo said the first, "But how to group it?"
"The others are grouped by themselves, as for you." Kyle smiled evilly: "Of course you are going to be with Maya Teya and Dilly."
Chapter completed!