Mystery: The arrival of the new Black Emperor

This mural is somewhat abstract. The saint who drove away the violent weather in the previous mural was listening towards a dark place.

This should have happened in the Fifth Age. The violent weather on the sea before represented the scene when the violent sea was formed.

I don’t know what the saint heard. In short, the elves changed their beliefs and erected new statues.

The last mural depicts a scene of bloody sacrifice. A tall elf is lying on the altar with a face full of pain, while the priest is clawing out his chest and heart.

Hobert said: "The elves living here are likely to perish in this bloody sacrifice, and their leader seems to be contaminated."

Alger nodded, feeling that what he just saw was a heavy and bloody history.

Then, the two of them looked at the stone door behind the temple. There was a gap in the stone door, and the cold wind blew out from it.

The two people pushed open the stone door together. Inside was a cave connected to the mountain, like a long and dark corridor.

Hobert injected spirituality into the warm ring, and then wiped the cane with his hand.

The cane immediately emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the road ahead and covering both Hobert and Alger with a layer of sacred light.

Pass through the corridor and come to a spacious cave. After seeing the scene in front of them clearly, both of them were a little surprised.

In this cave, it was actually divided into two square formations, and there were many mummies of elves standing neatly.

They must have turned into mummies immediately after death, or died as mummies, otherwise the remains would not have been so well preserved.

In front of the small altar in the middle of the cave, there is a mummy kneeling. He may be an elven priest.

Hobert and Alger cautiously came to the altar. Their eyes were fixed. The symbol painted in the center of the altar turned out to be the symbol representing the "Lord of Storms".

Hobert looked at the mummies around him again. They were male and female, old and young. Some had extraordinary properties on their bodies, but most of them did not.

If they only saw these mummies, the two people might think that this was a scene of bloody sacrifice, but with the symbols on the altar, everything became weird.

Why do the elves, the last remaining power in the northern and southern continents, paint the symbol of the "Storm Lord", whom they regard as their mortal enemy, on the altar?

There is another cave inside this cave. Now that we are here, of course we must continue to explore.

The two people moved forward again, passing through a not very long cave. There were some occult symbols painted on the stone walls of the cave. Hobert, who was well-informed, could probably understand that they seemed to be common symbols representing seals.

After passing the cave, they came to a spacious cave. There were many corpses lying around. The only corpses inside were skeletons, and each skeleton had an extraordinary characteristic.

Alger even felt that some of those extraordinary characteristics were Sequence 6 or even Sequence 5.

There are many new-looking accessories on the skeleton, which must be magical items.

Now it’s so prosperous!

However, neither of them immediately bent down to pick up the extraordinary properties in front of them. Instead, they carefully observed the surroundings. Hobert's cane emitted a more dazzling light and illuminated the entire cave.

They had the same idea, first find out the cause of death of these elves.

The light from the walking stick allowed them to see a headless corpse sitting cross-legged in the deepest part of the cave.

Hobert noticed that the corpse was holding a cane and wearing a gold ring.

Surrounding the headless corpse, there are slowly moving heads, hearts, lungs, livers, and kidneys, and there are also several circles of intestines surrounding the waist of the corpse.

It was unknown how long the corpse had been there, but there were no signs of decay, and the general structure of the internal organs could be clearly seen.

The trunk of the corpse was dug open, and the internal organs should have come from inside the corpse.

However, the head floating around the corpse had obviously been cut open. Not only the head, but also the heart and other internal organs had marks of being cut open. Even the intestines had been opened if you looked at it yourself.

Hobert and Alger looked at each other, recalling the bloody sacrifice scene in the mural.

"Who are you?" When some shriveled heads floated directly in front of the corpse, a solemn and old voice suddenly came to mind in the cave.

The voice spoke Elvish, but both Hobert and Alger, who were often exposed to the occult, could understand it.

Hobert replied in jerky Elvish: "My companion is a descendant of the Elf race. He received a great guide and came here to inherit the power of his ancestors."

Alger was stunned. He didn't expect that the "Emperor" was just talking nonsense.

But he could understand it, and he didn't know if the headless corpse in front of him was an evil spirit or what? But the other party should be wise.

Hobert's words suddenly sublimated the purpose of their action from digging graves to inheriting the power of their ancestors.

Moreover, Alger's blue hair showed that he did have the blood of the elves, and the "Emperor" was not completely lying.

"That's really great!" said the voice, "I've been waiting for help for too long!"

Hobert was stunned: "What kind of helper?"

"Kill my helper!"

The cave became silent.

After a full ten seconds, Hobert asked: "Are you serious? Is there any need to kill you again?"

Your head has been cut off and your heart has been cut open, okay?

"Maybe my words are beyond your understanding, but I am really not dead yet." The voice sighed: "We have been cursed, a curse from the star realm!

"You should have seen it when you came in. The last elven group in this sea area has perished!"

Hobert is not interested in the curse because it may indicate great danger: "Can I end the curse by killing you?"

"No, if you kill me, you can completely prevent the power of the star world from coming." The voice explained: "Suddenly one day, I don't know what happened in this sea, and the spiritual world and the real world were distorted and merged. .

"We heard a voice in the twisted spiritual world, a voice that claimed to help us kill Leodro and regain our former glory.

“So we changed our beliefs and erected new idols.

"But that was the beginning of disaster. We should not listen to his temptations and pray to Him for strength.

“It was only after He came to me that I felt His malice.

"In order to prevent him from coming further, I could only leave my body without any closure, so I cut off my head and opened the skull to expose the brain. Then I dug out the heart and opened the atrium and ventricle. then……"

"Okay, okay." Hobert said, "You don't need to explain it in such detail, we all understand."

"As long as you understand, come and kill me! So many people in the cave wanted to kill me, but they all failed. But after so many years of struggle, I have taken the initiative in this body. It could easily kill me."

Hobert thought for a while: "Sorry, I refuse!"