The knight in the abyss

Chapter 790 How to choose

After the battle, everyone briefly searched the torture room, only to find some gold coins and a few gems of low value.Before leaving this room, Lancelot summoned a slender vine from the cracks in the stone bricks, strung together the dozens of heads he had just seized, and put them into his dimensional bag.

The exit of the torture room was sealed by an iron fence door, but the lock on it had been broken by someone who had been here before. With a little effort, Lancelot lifted the heavy fence door and kept it until The companions all passed.

Behind the door is a downward staircase leading to unknown depths.There is a hidden pressure plate trap on the steps, but the dead body of the victim who happened to fall on it prevented the trap from resetting itself, and little Isa discovered the last trap that was not triggered in advance.

The exit of the stairs was another iron fence, and it seemed to be stuck by something, so Lancelot had to take a more violent way to physically destroy this barrier.

After coming out of the stairs, everyone entered a long and narrow aisle. On both sides of the aisle were cells with iron bars of the same style.In nearly every cell there is a prisoner, of every race, whose reasons for being there have long since been wiped away by time.

Even so, the torture of these prisoners did not end. They were transformed into undead creatures and could not rest in peace. When they heard the movement of the crowd, they immediately howled and rushed forward, but were firmly stopped by the prison door.

But not completely stopped.The palms, soles of feet, and even the heads of the prisoners fell from their bodies due to too violent movements, and crawled towards everyone on the ground.Although there was no real threat, the companions felt their scalps tingle and smashed the stumps to pieces as fast as they could.

Listening to the howls of those who could not die, Lancelot knew that even if there were still souls trapped in those horrific bodies, they would have been tortured to utter madness in this dark dungeon.The human knight sighed, although the existence of the prison door made these prisoners not actually a threat, he still drew his long sword, intending to end the torment of these dead.

"Brother, let me come."

Little Isa saw Lancelow's intentions and gently took his arm, and the latter of course had no objection to this.The girl blessed by Kelemvor swung her sword with a compassionate gesture to end every undead trapped in the cell, and whispered at the same time:

"Dead, listen to the Gospel. The lord of the dead, Kelenvor, has made a covenant that mortals should be judged fairly after death, and those who have not been judged should not be subjected to endless torture..."

Before each action, little Isa had to repeat that passage.When she was doing this, Lancelot watched the little girl's expression calmly and confirmed that she said those words from the bottom of her heart.This caused some complicated emotions in the human knight's heart. Although this metaphor is a bit inappropriate, seeing his sister-like partner find a spiritual sustenance, it feels like knowing that his daughter is about to get married.

"What's the matter, brother?" Little Isa noticed Lancelot's abnormality, "I just... did something wrong?"

"Ah, no, it's just that I just thought of a question..." Lancelot touched his nose, "If, pay attention, if I have a way to escape the shadow of death, what will the Lord of the Dead think about it?"

"Escape from the shadow of death?" The little girl blinked in confusion, "Is it like me, turning into an undead creature?"

"No, not like that, I know how the Lord of the Dead feels about it, I mean, in some... more natural way."

"Well... it seems that the doctrine only says that there is no need to fear death, no need to avoid death, no need to rush to death, and you can't embrace the way of immortality. Therefore, if my brother can obtain eternal life in a natural way, he should not be killed by the Lord of the Dead. Hostile..." Little Isa said with an expectant expression on her face, "Can brother really do that kind of thing?"

"Hey..." Brutal on the side made a disdainful voice, "Then if Kelemvor sees that the eldest brother is upset and insists on getting rid of him, what will you choose?"

"That kind of thing won't happen!" The little girl glared at the young dwarf angrily, "If... if the Lord of the Dead really makes that kind of decision, it means that he is a bad god! Of course I will stand On Brother Lancelow's side!"

"Haha! I also believe that that kind of thing will not happen, because I know that Kelenvor is... God." Lancelow reached out and rubbed the hair of little Isa, "But if He really did that This kind of decision means that the priesthood of the deceased will completely suppress his remaining humanity. That means that the mortal once named Kelenvor will disappear completely, and I regard him as a friend, so I will never allow that kind of thing occur."

"Of all the cowhide I've heard, what you just said is the most outrageous." Brutal smirked and shook his head, "But I like it, so if that happens, remember to call me together."

"You..." The elf priest's voice sounded faintly from the side, "Don't you think this topic is a bit blasphemous?"

"What? Will you come then?"

"Are you kidding? Of course."

"Karalin?"

"I have to go." The scholar laughed, "And maybe I can bring some powerful help, don't forget the goddess of magic and the lord of the dead... Uh, Uncle Barend, please don't show that expression, We're just discussing some hypothetical situations..."

"... I actually know quite a few adventurers, and many famous ones will come to me to order weapons." The old dwarf's shoulders drooped obviously, "But it seems that there has never been one as crazy as you... "

"Oh dad, if it weren't for this madness, you would never see me again." Brutal bumped his father with his shoulder, "And, don't you know Sir Lancelot's strength? Don't worry. La……"

While chatting and laughing, everyone passed through several empty rooms that looked like meditation rooms, and finally walked into a circular room.A quarter of the room was occupied by a hill made of skulls, and in front of the hill was an altar made of black crystal.Other than that, there was no other exit in the room, and everyone knew that they had arrived at the place they were looking for.

"So, just put the skulls on, right?" Lancelot took out the string of skulls that had been tied up from the dimension bag, "How many do you put?"

"Let's put them one by one." Brutal suggested, "I can't put them on the table, or until there is any special reaction..."

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