Path of light

Chapter 575 576. Writings on the wall

Captain Malthus and Roy climbed the long steps outside the Temple of Liberty side by side. The steps were paved with white granite stone strips and engraved with non-slip patterns. The entire Temple of Liberty has gone through thousands of years of wind and rain, and the gaps in these steps are still It's so tight that it's difficult to insert a skinning knife into the gap.

The statues on both sides of the stone steps are no longer priests, but angels with folded wings. Some angel statues have their hands on their shoulders and bend their knees to pray. Some angel statues are holding giant swords with both hands and looking up to the sky. Some angel statues are holding the Holy Grail and looking down. Put your feet down...

The Temple of Liberty in Golfito is a large complex of buildings.

In addition to the main body of the temple, more surrounding buildings are the living areas for the priests.

This time, Captain Malthus took Roy outside the main temple. They were going to attend the Silver Moon Elf Officers' Meeting. They walked into the magnificent arched door outside the temple, and an extremely gorgeous courtyard appeared in front of Roy. .

In the courtyard are some corridors paved with marble. The areas not paved with marble are covered with green grass. In the middle of the courtyard is a square pool with a fountain and a waterfall. The clear water in the pool is almost overflowing from the pool. , a clear waterfall caught Roy's eyes.

Just in front of the waterfall, there is a statue of the Statue of Liberty covered in gauze. She is half lying on a boulder, reaching out to stir up the clear water in the pool.

In the past, Roy had seen the Statue of Liberty holding the sacred scepter and the Holy Grail of Wisdom...

Only the Statue of Liberty in the vestibule of the Golfito Temple of Liberty looks more like a beautiful human girl. Even the happy and shy expression on her face is clearly displayed. Roy can even learn from her. He heard her murmuring voice from Kai's lips.

Some Silver Moon Elf officers stood in the courtyard in twos and threes. When some officers saw Captain Malthus, they even greeted him familiarly.

Captain Malthus nodded repeatedly and responded to the officers with a smile, but did not join them. He led Roy into an arched corridor with walls on one side and arched Roman columns on the other. The walls are inlaid with some exquisite reliefs.

“I have always thought that some of the buildings in Buenos City are too exaggerated. I wish I could carve out all the stones. I didn’t expect that the reliefs in the Temple of Liberty are no less impressive. I don’t know how much effort it took to create this mural. Carved out..."

After Captain Malthus finished speaking, he smiled to himself.

Roy thought of the Temple of Liberty in Castletown. Before that temple was abandoned, the courtyard in front and the statues in the main hall were also very exquisite.

"Each temple is said to be a residence prepared for the goddess to come to the world. In the past, these temples would often send blessings and holy light from the goddess. Occasionally, a ray of divine thought from the goddess would possess the body of the high priest, often in the temple. Hanging out, so as believers of the Statue of Liberty, they naturally have to spare no effort to build these temples magnificently! Having said that, if they were willing to use this money to subsidize the lives of poor mixed elves, their number of believers would at least increase! Double!"

Roy couldn't help but complained beside him.

Although he is a great priest, he is not a believer in the Statue of Liberty.

So when I stood in the temple and complained about the Statue of Liberty, I felt no pressure...

Captain Malthus smiled, and as he spoke, the two of them arrived in front of the main hall of the Temple of Liberty. The tall dome almost pierced the sky. The atmosphere created by these tall buildings was as if the main hall was reserved for gods to live in. residence.

Follow Captain Malthus into the main hall. The luxurious dome is decorated with exquisite paintings. The paintings on the dome seem to describe the battle of the gods. There are countless angels surrounding the Statue of Liberty.

Roy passed by the side hall and looked inside through the open door. This should be a side hall used for baptism and blessing.

The holy pool in the innermost part of the room had long since dried up, and the high platform on which the Holy Grail was placed had long been empty. The benches in the room were still arranged very neatly.

Roy was more affectionate towards the side hall where holy water was distributed. His original responsibility was to stand on a high platform and use a silver spoon to distribute a cup of holy water to every goddess believer who came to pray.

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There were intermittent arguments in the main hall of the Temple of Liberty. Before entering the main hall, Captain Malthus showed a look of helplessness on his face.

"In the past half month or so, they have argued countless times in the main hall. Every time I walk into the main hall, I get a headache!"

Captain Malthus complained in a very low voice.

Roy stood beside Captain Malthus and looked curiously into the main hall.

Captain Malthus signaled Roy to stop, stood at the door of the main hall, took a deep breath, tightened his abdomen and straightened his chest, keeping his face expressionless, and walked into the main hall of the Statue of Liberty with a straight face.

Roy stepped back half a step and followed Captain Malthus. He also restrained his curious eyes and stepped in...

A group of magisters from the Magic Guild and the high priest of the Moon Temple stood on the left and right sides of the hall, and the atmosphere seemed tense.

A dozen elf knights were sitting in chairs on the high platform, and a group of officers were standing in the area near the door of the hall. Captain Malthus took Roy to sneak into these officers. Roy knew that his half-elf identity might cause some trouble. Some mixed-blood elf officers were disgusted, so he stood at the edge of the crowd.

As the leaders of the Dark Portal, the magicians of the Magic Guild wanted to have the power to guard the Dark Portal.

The Moon Temple wanted to build a Moon Well outside the sealing array to attract the power of the Moon God to completely suppress the Dark Portal.

But the problem was that once the Moon Temple built a Moon Well, it meant that a Moon Temple would be built here. They did not want the magicians of the Magic Guild to live next to the Moon Well for a long time.

This argument lasted for a long time, and Roy's legs were a little numb when he stood in the hall...

He saw that some Silver Moon Elf officers would walk out of the main hall from time to time and take a breath in the garden in the front yard, so he said hello to Captain Malthus and slipped out of the side door.

Captain Malthus also knew that Roy must be a little bored standing in the hall, but unfortunately he couldn't talk in the hall, so he could only make a few simple gestures to let him take a breath in the courtyard outside and signaled him not to walk around.

Roy actually wanted to find a toilet, so he walked along the corridor on the side to the backyard.

Although the Statue of Liberty has been occupied by the Silver Moon Elves, there are actually not many guards in the main hall.

Roy walked along the corridor to the right side of the main hall, where there is a beautiful inner courtyard. On the left side of the courtyard is a library, and on the right side is a plaque of an armory.

Roy was curious about the library of the Statue of Liberty, so he walked up the steps to the door of the library.

The door of the library was also open, but only the layout of the first floor hall could be seen from the door.

There were many books neatly arranged in the hall, most of which had been emptied, and the remaining books were scattered on the books and on the ground, and no one paid any attention to them.

Roy stood outside the door and did not step in. He poked his head inside and peeked...

He happened to see a Silver Moon Elf guarding the corner of the door. When he saw Roy, he looked at Roy with doubts.

The Silver Moon Elf did not speak, and Roy quickly retracted his head obediently.

To be honest, he was frightened by the Silver Moon Elf guard at the door. When he patted his chest, Roy found that he was wearing the badge of the Silver Pegasus Legion on his chest.

It was probably this Silver Pegasus Legion badge that saved him a lot of trouble...

Roy continued to stroll in the inner garden. He heard Captain Malthus say that the Dark Portal was behind the main hall of the Statue of Liberty. Behind the door in the main hall was the only passage leading to the Dark Portal, so Roy was not too worried that he would enter the restricted area by mistake.

He was very interested in the building complex of the Statue of Liberty. After sneaking out of the inner garden of the temple, Roy left the main hall of the Statue of Liberty.

The houses and streets in front of him had changed greatly. Many houses in this area were connected together.

Roy guessed that this should be the living area of ​​the priests. This area seemed relatively large, and the entire building complex looked like a compact small city.

Walking on the old streets, there were a lot of messy things scattered on the messy streets.

The Silver Moon Elf warriors did not live in the living area here. The entire living area looked very depressed, and there was no Silver Moon Elf to be seen. Roy walked on the street, as if he was in a long-abandoned city.

In this city where only priests live, many buildings have the symbol of the Statue of Liberty.

Roy found that the Statue of Liberty was scattered at the intersections of the streets and alleys, like a shrine built in the city.

The bishop of the Statue of Liberty once gathered hundreds of thousands of holy expeditionary forces in Golfito Canyon, and went on three expeditions to the Dark Land. All the war expenses were borne by Golfito alone, which shows how strong the foundation of the Statue of Liberty is!

Unfortunately, many of the Statue of Liberty in this living area began to become broken, and the broken limbs were torn apart on the stone slabs...

Roy walked around in this living area and stopped when his feet were a little sore.

He found a bench to sit down casually, and originally thought of returning to the main hall to meet with Captain Malthus.

When Roy stood up, he found that he had actually walked to the edge of the temple's living area. He was right near the canyon wall. There was an extremely simple corridor near the wall, which was only attached to the wall.

Many parts of the corridor had collapsed, and many stone chambers opened on the mountain were exposed.

Those stone chambers didn't even have doors, and they were pitch black inside.

Roy tried to walk two steps on the broken corridor and looked at a stone chamber at the edge.

This stone chamber was exactly what it said. The space inside was less than two square meters. A normal-sized elf couldn't even stretch his body and lie in it.

The stone chamber only had a door, no window, and even the door was just an empty door frame...

Roy looked at this stone chamber that was slightly more cramped than a toilet, and found that some of the walls of the stone chambers actually had statues of the Statue of Liberty.

Some of the walls of the stone chambers were painted with some messy patterns.

I heard from High Priest Reed that there are many ascetic priests in Golfito who would dig a cave on the cliff and live in it. These ascetic priests pray devoutly to the Statue of Liberty all day long except for two meals a day.

Roy suddenly became very interested in these stone chambers.

He passed the first few stone chambers with few carvings on the stone walls and walked up along the passage that could collapse at any time. The further he went, the older the stone chambers became. There were indeed many patterns carved by sharp weapons in the dark stone chambers.

Roy stretched out a hand, and a ball of holy light emerged from his palm.

The soft holy light made the stone chamber much brighter, and the patterns that were originally hidden in the darkness gradually became clear in front of Roy.

Roy walked through more than a dozen stone chambers in a row, and finally in a stone chamber, he saw a lot of elf texts written by a priest when praying. These elf texts almost covered the left wall.

Roy raised the holy light in his palm a little higher, he approached the wall, and carefully observed the texts, and found that these elf texts were not complaining, but recording something.

Here it is written that a priest could not feel the holy light of the Statue of Liberty in the years he was in Golfito.

This made him feel desperate...

He even felt abandoned by the Statue of Liberty, so he lived in pain every day...

Before he entered the stone chamber to pray, he had been at a loss for a long time. He traveled to countless places just to find the holy light of the Statue of Liberty. He even captured some little demons through the summoning ceremony and interrogated these demons privately, but even so, he did not find any information about the Statue of Liberty.

He once visited the great magician of the Astrologers' Union and asked him to find the current location of the Statue of Liberty through the stars. Unfortunately, the great magician gave him a very vague answer, and he could not understand many of the words.

He also found a prophet to predict the Statue of Liberty, and the prophet only told him that the Statue of Liberty was trapped in a place without any light.

He cast a forbidden spell, summoned a horror from hell in a hidden place, and imprisoned it in a prison, and tortured the horror with holy light every day.

In this way, he would summon the demons of hell every once in a while, and finally got useful information from a demon:

The Statue of Liberty was imprisoned in an unknown place in the dark land, and had fallen into a deep sleep.

It was this news that made the priests in the Temple of the Statue of Liberty feel extremely panicked.

Then several archbishops in the Temple of the Statue of Liberty began to plan a war...

So the priests began to send an expeditionary force to the dark land, and a large number of priests followed the expeditionary force into the dark land.