Path of light

Chapter 576 577. The Secret in the Temple

Under the illumination of the holy light, more words appeared on the stone wall.

The stone wall that seemed to be uneven began to show lines of handwritten elven text. Roy learned one thing from the text on the wall.

The bishops of the temple did not intend to stop the expedition plan of the Statue of Liberty to advance into the dark land, which means that the exploration of the dark land is endless.

The expeditionary force initially formed by the Statue of Liberty was a group of priests with firm beliefs. With the blessing of the Statue of Liberty, they possessed powerful holy light power. Unfortunately, when the holy light of the Statue of Liberty no longer descended, the power of these priests was also weakened bit by bit.

They were the believers who wanted to find the Statue of Liberty the most. This group of priests formed the first expeditionary force and entered the dark land through the Dark Gate.

In fact, the first expedition was relatively successful. After the priests' expeditionary army entered the dark land, the dark creatures were completely unprepared. The priests' holy light power was very restraining to those dark creatures, so the expeditionary army advanced all the way in the dark land. Unfortunately, the priests had no experience in expeditions, which led to frequent problems in the logistics supply routes of the expeditionary army. As a result, the long material supply line slowed down the pace of the first expeditionary army.

The priests were eager to find the whereabouts of the Statue of Liberty, but after they entered the dark land, the holy light in their bodies could not be replenished, so the combat power of the priests became weaker and weaker.

Finally, the dark creatures that came from all directions finally stopped the expeditionary army.

The second expedition was still regular. Because the priests obtained information about the fallen plane of the Statue of Liberty from a terrifying demon, the first expeditionary army could not take another step forward, and the bishops of the Temple of the Statue of Liberty immediately organized a second expeditionary army.

This time, the Statue of Liberty could only dispatch some priests with outstanding abilities and firm beliefs from the Elf Continent and various temples, and spent a lot of money to hire 200,000 mercenary warriors from the Mercenary Guild, and put together a second expeditionary force with a total force of 800,000, and once again poured into the Dark Land.

Because nearly a quarter of the Second Expeditionary Force were mercenaries, these mercenaries were not restricted by the divine power, so the Second Expeditionary Force once again advanced into the depths of the Dark Land...

The Statue of Liberty's expedition this time had no end, and they had only one goal, which was to rescue the Statue of Liberty trapped somewhere in the Dark Land.

This expedition lasted for a long time, and the Second Expeditionary Force rushed left and right in the Dark Land, and once occupied a large area of ​​the Dark Land.

However, the vastness of the Dark Land far exceeded the estimates of the archbishops of the Statue of Liberty. Not only did the Second Expeditionary Force not find any news about the Statue of Liberty, but it also used up all the reserve forces of the Expeditionary Force because of the establishment of countless material transfer stations in the Dark Land.

The second expeditionary force opened up several large battlefields in the Dark Land, which required the Statue of Liberty to continuously deploy troops to the Dark Land.

At this time, the Statue of Liberty on the Elf Continent had actually transferred all its elite priests to the Dark Land.

The Statue of Liberty in Golfito began to plan to form the third expeditionary force, and began to frantically withdraw the Statue of Liberty on the Elf Continent.

Since the expeditionary force was composed of priests from all over the Elf Continent, the abilities of the expeditionary soldiers were uneven, so the third expedition was relatively unsuccessful. These priests supported the various battlefields in the Dark Land, but did not reverse the situation in the major battlefields...

When the elven text on the wall was written here, the handwriting was particularly sloppy, and the words were full of doubts about this expedition.

However, this priest was also looking forward to the Statue of Liberty expeditionary force on Roland Continent to achieve brilliant results, because according to his description, the scale of the Statue of Liberty priests and believers on Roland Continent was at least ten times the number of priests on the Elf Continent, or even dozens of times...

Roy found it difficult to imagine what the scale of the expeditionary force on Roland Continent was.

Roy squatted beside the stone wall, holding a ball of soft holy light in his hands. Under the illumination of the holy light, these words slowly appeared, and when the holy light was removed, these elven words carved on the stone wall disappeared completely in a very magical way.

He continued to look down, and the words on the stone wall were full of uncertainty, and even a paragraph of words was smeared.

Roy could feel how confused and restless the recorder was when he wrote this paragraph.

His faith was still there, but the god he prayed to disappeared.

Without the blessing of the holy light, the cultivation of the priests of the Statue of Liberty would stagnate, and even the sacred power in the bodies of many priests began to slowly diminish...

Three consecutive expeditions exhausted the last wealth of the Statue of Liberty in Golfito. In order to find the whereabouts of the Statue of Liberty in the dark land, the bishops of the Statue of Liberty chose to go all out. They decided to abandon everything and take all the priests to the dark land.

Before entering the Dark Land, the priests were also worried that dark creatures would sneak into the Elf Continent through the Dark Gate, so the priests came up with a plan. They planned to seal the Dark Gate from the inside after entering the Dark Land...

'I don't know if I can be guided by the Holy Light to find the goddess lost in the Dark Land this time, but I know in my heart that if we choose to stay in Golfito, I'm afraid we will never have the chance to find the goddess, so I will go without hesitation this time. '

‘If anyone happens to read this text of mine, please understand that we, the priests of the Statue of Liberty, are determined to fight for our faith even in such adversity! ’

‘We sailed across the vast endless sea from Roland Continent to the Elf Continent, spreading the glory of the Statue of Liberty here. ’

‘We are the spreaders of holy light...’

The text stopped here.

Roy sat in the stone chamber and couldn't say anything for a long time. It was obvious that the High Priest Reed was also in the dark and his whereabouts were unknown.

Moreover, the expeditionary forces entering the dark land this time were far more than the three expeditionary forces of the Statue of Liberty in the Elf Continent. There were also troops from the Statue of Liberty in other continents entering the dark land.

The Dark Gate of Golfito was handed over to the Silver Moon Elves for management, which was also planned by the priests before entering the dark land.

The priests gave up everything in Golfito, even this magnificent temple.

Roy stood in front of the stone wall for a long time, until he felt his legs were a little sore, and then he woke up from his deep contemplation.

After walking out of the stone chamber, Roy became more and more curious about whether there were similar written records in the stone chamber behind.

Almost no one came here, and the passage built of broken wooden boards was covered with dust, and even made some creaking sounds when stepped on.

There were no plants growing in the Golfito Canyon. Only the lush lawns and shrub walls could be seen in the front garden of the temple, but some corners had already shown signs of withering.

There were no birds or animals in the canyon, and Roy walked forward along the passage.

The stone chamber in front was also a place for ascetic practice. These priests prayed and meditated in the stone chambers. Some of the stone chambers were empty, but some ascetic priests would write their thoughts on the stone walls.

They did it very obscurely. Without the power of holy light, it was impossible to see the elf texts engraved on the stone walls.

Roy even learned about the war between the Naga Sea Clan and the elves from the words written on the walls. Although the elves won the war in the end, the war lasted for a long time, and both the elves and the Naga Sea Clan paid a great price.

In a stone room, Roy let the holy light float above his head. Under the shining of the holy light, rows of dense words appeared on the walls around him. These words recorded some of the experiences gained from learning divine arts.

The priest who came here to practice hard was probably a second-level combat priest. He described the divine arts introduced to the Elf Continent on the wall in a long-winded manner. They can be roughly divided into five categories: blessing, judgment, holy seal, treatment, and exorcism.

In fact, Roy learned six kinds of blessings from the great priest Reed, but the great priest Reed said that the blessings he learned were not complete. As far as he knew, there were two blessings that even he didn't know. The blessing divine arts he taught Roy were:

Shelter blessing, strength blessing, king blessing, wisdom blessing, light blessing, and freedom blessing.

He also gave him three kinds of judgment spells, the Hammer of Punishment, the Hammer of Judgment, and the Hammer of Sanction.

Roy currently has a healing spell, the Holy Light Spell.

Two exorcism spells, the Glimmer Illumination Spell and the Purification Spell. The former can find the undead creatures within the range of the Holy Light, and the latter can purify the weak undead creatures.

In addition, High Priest Reed does not know the Holy Seal, so Roy does not know the Holy Seal-type spells.

In fact, when Roy stepped into the Statue of Liberty, he clearly felt that the Statue of Liberty was filled with a lot of sacred aura.

When he walked into the Statue of Liberty, the Holy Light Tree in his body had been awakened, and a huge sacred storm emerged around the Holy Light Tree. These sacred auras swept in from all sides and gathered around him.

The Holy Tree quickly absorbed the power of the Holy Light in the Statue of Liberty...

It made Roy feel that his body was like a balloon filled with air, as if it could be burst by the Holy Light at any time.

As a large amount of holy light power poured into Roy's body, Roy found that the seal of the promotion to level eleven began to loosen, as if he only needed some kind of opportunity to be promoted to the eleventh-level high priest.

And when he read the information recorded by other priests in the stone chamber on the mountain wall, the feeling of the eve of the breakthrough became stronger and stronger.

Finally, a ray of holy light penetrated the shackles, and a beam of light penetrated in, and immediately a second beam of light penetrated, and the opening became larger and larger.

After a while, the holy light tree in the body suddenly grew a lot, and some buds like flames appeared on the light flowers on the holy light tree.

It seems that his breakthrough at the level of high priest is roughly to make the holy light tree in the body more luxuriant and store more holy light power.

A soft ball of light appeared between Roy's hands. Roy finally figured out one thing. It turned out that the way to make himself stronger was not only to purify the dead, but also to recite prayers in the sacred Statue of Liberty, which could help him break through the shackles and advance smoothly.

Roy felt that he had stayed in the stone chamber long enough, so he walked towards the exit along the wooden passage.

He did not take the way he came, but tried to walk out from the other side of the passage.

Roy walked a long way, and soon he found that he had walked out of the Statue of Liberty area. This passage built with wooden boards against the stone wall had not reached the end yet.

The end of this wooden passage is a very remote mountainside in the canyon. If you walk west from here for a while, you can just return to the military camp of the Second Silver Pegasus Knights.

I didn't expect to walk out of the Statue of Liberty like this...

...

Since Roy walked out of the Statue of Liberty, he didn't plan to return to the hall of the Statue of Liberty to listen to the quarrels between the magicians and the high priests.

There is no stream in the Golfito Canyon. The Second Silver Pegasus Knights never use the clear water condensed by the magic rune plate to give these silver Pegasus water. They will ride the silver Pegasus to the outside of the canyon and let them drink water by the lake.

Recently, the Silver Pegasus Knights discovered that there is a clear mountain spring opposite this lake, so they often take the silver Pegasus to drink mountain spring water.

Roy walked to the lake. This time he came to the magic airship as a routine to inspect the situation here.

Nine magic airships were parked side by side by the lake. Only some crew members were scrubbing the decks. Viscount Felek looked decadent, with his arms resting on the side of the boat, his head sticking out of the boat, staring at the clear lake water.

On the shore not far away, a team of Silver Moon Elf guards stood quietly under the shade of the trees, staring at Viscount Felek quietly.

Seeing Roy walk along the forest road to the lake, a guard captain hesitated for a moment before walking up and asked Roy very politely:

"Captain Roy, your mine guard group has successfully arrived at Golfito, so Viscount Felek's guide work is over, can we take Viscount Felek back to Murayaki?"

Roy was stunned.

This kind of thing should not be asked to him anyway!

But since the other party asked this, Roy stopped and looked at Viscount Felek on the ship and said casually:

"Currently, the mine guard group has received a new mission to transport military supplies. They may frequently travel between Golfito and Murayaki. Before this mission is completed, Viscount Felek must stay here as a guide to lead the way for us."

The captain of the guard looked very bad, his brows knitted together, but he did not quarrel with Roy.

At this time, all the half-blood elf crew members on the nine magic airships ran to the deck and kept looking over here...

Roy ignored the captain of the guard and walked along the sampan on the simple dock to the magic airship.

He ignored Viscount Felek and went directly to the captain's room to talk to a half-blood elf captain about the military supplies on the ship that had not been unloaded in time.