The Master of the Strange Realm

Chapter 443 Chapter 437 Snakes and Treasures

After follow-up investigation, it was found that the ceremony performed in the mansion was essentially a sealing ceremony. The group of people who built this place discovered the corpse python that existed in the outer subspace in the material world, so they built and expanded a passage leading to that space, using the strange painting as the entrance to the passage.

The victim brought by the midnight carriage is the sacrifice to appease the python. Until tonight, the number of sacrifices reached the standard, they finally achieved their goal, and the church arrived just in time.

This is the truth that the Sage Church discovered after the accident. Although there were casualties, the first few people who fell to the ground after inhaling the poisonous gas were surprisingly safe.

They were at the front, so they could see more clearly.

After returning to the church, based on the patterns on the python's body and the ancient legends nearby, it was finally confirmed that it was the "grey death snake Luxos" that was sealed by the false god "Spiritual Snake Mother" in the 14th era.

The followers of this false god are extremely rare. In this era, most of them are active in the southern end of the continent, and they cannot be found for a while.

But the Church of All Spirits has more detailed information. When Jenkins woke up from bed at six in the morning, the whereabouts of the missing scribe and the story behind it were almost clear.

He fought bravely against the big snake last night, and thus saved his companions. After that, he secretly used purification candles to treat the scribes who were affected by the poisonous gas. Because of this, he could continue to participate in the next plan.

No one was doubtful that he could resist the mental pollution of the giant python. On the contrary, everyone thought that this was perfectly normal.

After a night's rest, after breakfast, we went to look for Great Elder Wood Bloshear. He was the top leader of the church's secret keepers. He was also the one who presided over the ceremony for Jenkins to be crowned the Son in Nolan. of.

Elder Bloshel does not have a fixed office. He usually only stays in the seal room deepest underground in the Holy See. But when Jenkins bumped into him this time, the old man was talking to Mr. Gilbert in a corridor behind the temple complex. This gentleman was also an acquaintance. He was the one who led the team on the night the Ice Messengers broke into Nolan Church. People who come to support.

"No more rest?"

The old man asked, smiling and squinting his eyes.

"Have rested well. I heard that the church already knows the whole story."

"Yes, oh, let's talk over here, don't stand here blocking the road."

The three of them moved to the prayer room nearby. This room has no windows. Apart from the metal holy emblem hanging on the wall, the only decoration is the gas lamp in the shape of an angel holding up its hands.

"The Church of [All Things and Nature] has given us a lot of help. The origin of that big snake is not simple. This has nothing to do with this matter. We can talk about it later. Regarding [Gray Death Snake Luxus] Rumors of it are widely circulated in the rural town of Belduran, and in ancient records, some brave people once challenged it, but without exception they were swallowed up. We believe that the construction of Hausen Manor was carried out. The group of people should be looking for something that was swallowed by the snake..."

He stroked his beard and asked Mr. Gilbert to add:

"We are not sure what it is specifically. After all, there have been so many stupid people in the past years...I mean there are too many brave people. But last night Mr. Willamt also reported about [K Raimon’s Treasure Mask. This is valuable because there are clear records that the snake did swallow one of them.”

"Can such a thing be recorded? Oh, this is such good luck and blessing from the sage!"

He said quietly.

"It's okay to say it's the blessing of a sage..."

Mr. Gilbert scratched his hair in embarrassment: "The one who attacked the snake wearing a mask was one of our scribes in the 16th century. The document recording this incident was written in the late 16th century for special reasons. It was sealed at that time and requires special permission to see it, so we don’t know about the snake until now.”

The three of them looked at the wall beside them at the same time, tacitly ignoring the topic just now.

"So, the purpose of that group of people was actually to sacrifice a living person to the snake in exchange for the mask?"

Jenkins asked, faintly feeling some signs of heat on his forehead. He has always had this feeling since he came to the Holy See in Belduran.

"Yes, we also have our own information channels, that's almost certainly the case."

Mr. Gilbert then coughed loudly, fiddled with the buttons on his jacket cuffs, and added:

"We arrested people based on the two locations you provided last night. The kid who attacked you was caught. He is also related to the organization looking for masks; the circus has left the local area. The bat skin you mentioned, we It was dug out in the woods on the outskirts of the city; as for Mr. Dagger, he was very alert and left his residence half an hour before the arrest team arrived. "

"What about the scribes who disappeared last night? May the sage bless them and hope nothing happens to them."

"In fact, there are more or less pre-epochal ruins all over the continent, some exposed outside the surface, and some below the surface. According to the results of the divination on the mask you provided, Clement's treasure is probably in Bell. It is deep underground six miles east of downtown Dilan, and the destination of the large-scale space movement last night was also that area. "

"But...the masks are not all collected. I only have two here."

The two masks were handed over by Jenkins, who fully understood that it was not good for him to have these things on him.

"Saint Willemte, you are mistaken about one thing."

Elder Bloshear shook his head at him: "Perhaps you were misled by local legends. Although the seven masks are indeed the key props to obtain the so-called treasure, they are not needed to open the door to the treasure. There are some in the Holy See The remaining information is very troublesome to find.

But the person caught based on your information last night revealed some key clues. What is needed to open the treasure is an ancient bronze key. That key is related to a great being. Reasons for scale space shift. "

"In other words, our scribes and the illegal benefactors who originally existed in the mansion have now arrived at Clement's treasure?"

Chocolate, who had been keeping quiet, became keenly interested in the word "treasure".

Chapter 444 Chapter 438 Eighteen Bronze Doors

"Yes, and we suspect that there is another way to enter, because the last trace of the man codenamed Mr. Dagger also disappeared in that area. But all this still needs to be investigated, and you must be very cautious when exploring ancient ruins."

Jenkins thought that this matter could not be completely resolved before he left Belduran. After all, he would take the train back tomorrow morning. But in the afternoon, while walking in the garden with chocolates, Mr. Gilbert hurried over again and started waving across the garden:

"Mr. Willamt, we have discovered a way to enter the treasure and conducted a preliminary safety assessment. Do you want to participate in the operation? We are about to set off."

"certainly!"

He nodded without hesitation. It was a rare experience to have the opportunity to participate in a large-scale benefactor operation.

Dozens of carriages set off from the Holy See and walked around the edge of the city before arriving at their destination. It was an inconspicuous small valley, and even if you used abilities like the spell [Treasure Detection], you couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.

This time, thanks to the group of people in the mansion, otherwise the church wouldn't have discovered this place.

The downward entrance has been opened, and the entrance is made of stone bricks on the mountain wall. Candles and oil lamps are placed on both sides of the downward steps.

After a vertical distance of at least 3 kilometers, the rough wall suddenly connected with an even older brick wall.

Different from the temporarily constructed passage ahead, from here on, the walls and floors turned into large, carefully polished stone slabs. There are also some unclear murals on the walls. Judging from the style, at least they are not products of this era.

Every fifth step, there will be a pure gold oil lamp on the wall. According to Mr. Gilbert, the oil inside is precious mermaid oil, which will not burn out for three hundred years.

"Mermaid oil?"

Jenkins asked softly, but his voice still echoed in the empty passage:

"It's not really made of the sebum of intelligent creatures, is it?"

"No, no, no. You misunderstood. Mermaid oil only means that this oil is unique to the mermaid species. It is not the cruel and disgusting thing in the legends of country folk."

There were no human footprints or traces of fighting in this passage, which meant that at least the group and the scribes in the mansion did not enter from here.

Jenkins was still following the team as a support staff, and along the way he could see some cracked organizational structures exposed.

Except for specially numbered items, no ritual or prop will always have extraordinary power. This makes the biggest problem that people have to deal with in the relics of the past era are the physical traps and mechanisms made by ancient craftsmen.

This might be a bit of a hassle for the average person, but for a large squad of Givers it just takes some time.

When the time on the pocket watch approached three o'clock in the afternoon, the long passage finally came to an end.

Outside the passage is a huge cavity in the ground, which is circular in shape. There are 18 bronze doors evenly distributed on the wall of the hall. The door where Jenkins and others walked out has a sculpture of a flying phoenix.

The team that arrived one step ahead of them had discovered the traces left by the missing scribes, and even found some hard-to-find blood stains on the ground.

In order to prevent the incident in the mansion from happening again, this time the operation used the special prop B-01-05-8382 [Sound Transmission Conch] to communicate with the ground throughout the process.

After briefly recounting what happened here, the church immediately organized people to search for documents. Jenkins could even imagine the scene of hundreds of gray-haired old gentlemen rummaging for information together under the dome of the huge library.

Chocolate was not interested in what was going on in the passage at all. Instead, he became excited when he came to this hall.

The floor of the hall is also made of square stone slabs, while the walls are carved from complete white marble. I don’t know how much it cost to build this place.

"It's also possible that there were ruins here originally, and the robber Clement just discovered and occupied them."

He thought to himself, and seeing that there was no work now, he grabbed the chocolate waist and lifted it up, and looked around together, one person and one cat.

At the top of the hall is a painted stone wall that slopes downward from the center. The painting shows a coiled snake biting its own tail. This should be considered an Ouroboros, which is a very common concept in the field of occultism.

There is also something strange about this painting. The appearance of the big snake is simply outlined, but no color, unicorn shape or eyes are added. This is in sharp contrast to the exquisite paintings in other parts of the mural, which is really strange.

The surrounding walls are simply engraved with some ancient characters, but if you look closely, you will find that the strokes that make up those letters are very much like bones. After thinking about this, Jenkins felt a sense of fear in his heart for some reason.

The eighteen bronze doors around the rotunda have eighteen different patterns. In addition to the phoenix that church people walked out of, it also contains bleeding daggers, resurrection crosses, faceless men, shining crowns and other metaphorical graphics in the field of occultism.

He tried to use his True Eyes to see what was behind the different gates, but saw nothing. This shows that there is a high probability that there is a fairly long passage behind each door.

Of course, he didn't notice at all that Chocolate's eyes were different from before. It stared closely at a certain door that Jenkins had noticed just now, looked up at the man, and showed an expression that would only appear when sneaking into the kitchen and rummaging through the desserts that Jenkins had drawn.

It is impossible to decipher the writing on the wall in a short time, and it is absolutely unfeasible to try to enter through a certain door rashly.

The missing scribes left some marks that pointed to three possible choices, but no one dared to bet on a one-third chance.

While everyone was quietly waiting for the news from the ground, the door with the dragon's spitting pattern silently opened a gap.

A charred man fell out of the door, and then raging red flames shot out from the crack in the door.

Golden book-like shields were opened one after another, blocking the door, but some flames still shot out, and everyone had to move closer to the other end of the rotunda.

"There's an ancient dragon behind that! It's a real pure-blood dragon!"

The man cried and rolled on the ground until three people held him down before Jenkins had the chance to treat him.

Chapter 445 Chapter 439 The Bronze Box in front of the Abyss

The man who ran out from behind the Dragon Gate was unknown to anyone, so he was not a scribe. After the burns on his body were treated, he still looked crazy and kept talking about things related to the "dragon".

After contacting the ground, Mr. Gilbert briefly hypnotized him, and then used spiritual guidance to try to find out what happened here.

"We came here together with the Gifters of the Sage Church, and we got separated during the fight. I followed Mr. Alexander, the only one who knew the secret here, and walked into the Phoenix Gate first, but it was just a road full of traps. The passage, later..."

As long as the dragon door is not mentioned, this person is fully capable of describing clearly what he knows. And that Mr. Alexander was the leader who organized this group of people to search for the Clement treasure.

He clearly knows the location of each of the seven masks, and he also took out the key leading here.

But no matter how many people asked, he could not tell the specific appearance of Mr. Alexander. It's not that the person has been hiding his face, but more like being cursed and unable to speak.

The information he gave was of great importance, for Mr. Alexander finally assembled as many men as the scribes who came to the place. This is very unreasonable, because he does not need so many helpers to share the final harvest.

The church immediately suspected that there should be a door here that required a large-scale sacrificial ceremony to open. After a detailed analysis of the information from the underground hall, they finally determined that their target was the bronze door with a crown pattern.

"The mask...the crown...this is not..."

Jenkins seemed to understand something. He hugged his cat and followed the team into the passage behind the bronze door of the Crown.

Chocolate can’t wait.

This passage is very similar to the passage that everyone uses to enter the underground, except that there are not so many traps. After cracking several ancient gear mechanisms, the wall on the left side of the passage that had reached the end moved to the left with a huge roar, revealing a downward-facing stone door.

Someone had obviously walked through this passage. There was no light behind the stone door, and the passage showed a strange gray-white color under the light of the lit kerosene lamp. Scattered on the steps were pieces of bat corpses, the corpses of the benefactors, and occasionally withered dandelion-like plants, as well as broken human body limbs.

Obviously, most of the people gathered by Mr. Alexander died here.

Because he was walking at the very back, the battle was over when Jenkins came to the cliff-like platform at the end of the stone door.

In fact, it couldn't be called a battle. The missing scribes and the illegal benefactors came here almost at the same time, and Mr. Alexander used the mask in his hand to take something away and left directly.

In the remaining time, the two groups left here were just attacking and defending each other until the church also found this place.

When you bend down from the narrow stairs, the first thing you see is the huge abyss in front of you. The remaining instinct in human blood makes everyone resist looking at it. The people who opened this place also did not place lights here. Only the candles and kerosene lamps in their hands could not illuminate the whole darkness in front of them.

Seeing someone using the ability to illuminate, Jenkins also summoned the Star Ball. But for some reason, everyone's light was far lower than expected. Whether it was items or abilities, the extraordinary ability to shine was all suppressed. This made the scribes even more vigilant, and they lowered their voices and slowed down without warning.

Jenkins followed Mr. Gilbert's instructions and together with everyone else focused their light on the cliff opposite the platform, which was a pure black rock wall. On the rock wall facing the exit of the steps, seven bronze boxes are neatly inlaid. One-third of the bronze boxes are exposed above the surface of the cliff. Each side has different patterns, but the side that is completely/exposed It's the same dent in the mask.

The central bronze box has been opened, and the scribes can look into the hollow interior.

"Holy Cloth?"

Jenkins amused himself by guessing, but this was obviously not the case. The [Armor of Courage] he once used was more like the Holy Cloth in his memory.

He put the chocolate down for the time being and went to treat the wounds of the wounded. When he finished his work and turned back to look for his kitten, he found that Chocolate was already standing on the edge of the cliff.

"Oh, Chocolate, come here!"

He called hurriedly. The cat, who was looking down, hesitated for a moment, then waggled its tail and ran back to Jenkins.

"Sir, is this over?"

Everyone has something to do. Just recording the situation here and controlling the prisoners is troublesome enough. Only Mr. Gilbert stood alone by the stone wall, looking at the seven boxes illuminated by the many rays of silver.

"No, this is just the beginning."

The middle-aged man frowned, "It's hard to imagine that there is an abyss at this depth of the ground. Where else can this abyss lead to? There is actually nothing under the civilized ground... ..”

"Is it the kind of civilized species that lives underground in the story? Dwarves?"

Hearing his words, the chocolate in his arms showed a mocking expression, but immediately took it back, pretending to be a cute and ignorant cat.

"No, highly intelligent alien creatures will not live so deep underground. Because there are more terrifying things there..."