rune hunter

Chapter 227 The Mysterious Temple

"Cross the street ahead, and we're at the place!" Blackbeard, who emerged from the pile of demon corpses, looked around at the terrain, and suddenly shouted.

Objectively speaking, Blackbeard has performed well along the way. Not only did he not cheat, but he also fought bravely. At the same time, he found a relatively safe path with his rich experience.

Although safety is only in a relative sense, they did not encounter such a large-scale siege from the scytheclaws along the way.The sporadic demons couldn't stop the Istaren warriors at all. With the assistance of Laurana, the warriors including El's lethality against the demons soared.

In fact, when it comes to familiarity with the underground environment, the kobold geomancer is the most suitable staff, but that guy is usually a lazy uncle, if there are not enough benefits, it is difficult to stimulate his initiative.And Laurana is much easier to talk about in this regard.

Although the eldest lady is always mysterious and confusing, she is relatively reliable at critical moments.Besides, as an alchemist, Laurana herself expressed great interest in the legendary ruins of the ancient city-state.With the help of the knowledge and wisdom in her head, she can get twice the result with half the effort in many cases.

El raised his head and looked in the direction the black beard was pointing, his eyes lit up immediately.There are no other forks on both sides of this street, which means that there will be no more monsters rushing along other streets to seek death.And what appeared at the end of the street was a gate, compared to the traces of luxurious decoration on the surrounding buildings, that gate looked very simple in the darkness.

"Maybe it's a temple?" Hearing El's simple description, Laurana guessed somewhat uncertainly.With her eyesight still unable to penetrate the darkness, she naturally had no way of drawing conclusions.Hearing that the destination was ahead, the soldiers' momentum recovered a lot, and the speed of their feet accelerated again. After dealing with the wave of harassing monsters around them, the whole team began to trot forward.

To El's surprise, the street was extremely quiet, and they came straight to the gate without encountering any obstacles from any monsters.Blackbeard took the lead, and rushed in familiarly. Seeing that he was defenseless, the Istaren warriors followed closely behind.

As Laurana guessed, although the original appearance of the building could not be seen clearly because of the obstruction of the rocks outside, but after entering, you can see the obvious architectural style of the temple.Only religious buildings will arrange a wide hall at the entrance for believers to gather and pray. Even El, who is not very familiar with temples, knows a thing or two about this.

It is precisely because of the wideness of this hall that the surrounding space can be seen at a glance. The light of the torch quickly dispelled the darkness in the hall, and it also proved that there are indeed no traces of monster activities here.The soldiers couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, but at this moment, there was another exclamation from the team.

It was Laurana who exclaimed. Sometimes the more you know, the more ignorant you will find yourself. This is the trouble that smart people have.Laurana guessed the true appearance of the building from the beginning, but when she entered the hall, she was surprised instead.

"Which god's temple is this? Why are there no corresponding decorations and marks?" Laurana turned around with her eyes wide open, her face full of surprise.In the eyes of the eldest lady, this temple is simply too simple, except for the main structure, there is no valuable information at all, and it looks as clean as an unfinished toilet.

"Ahem...Are you asking us unbelievers?" El coughed awkwardly, and the faces of the soldiers around him were also very unnatural.Because the northern region of Auckland was only developed in the last few hundred years, the land is sparsely populated and poor. Compared with the cost, it has almost no value for development, so it has always been ignored by the sects of the gods.Even in an important military town like Istaron, after hundreds of years of hard work, it has only received the favor of a few non-mainstream gods such as Xerxes.

Most of the northerners are unbelievers, and they know almost nothing about the common sense of the sects of the gods. This is not because they intend to blaspheme the gods, but because the servants of the gods don't look down on this kind of border area at all.

"No, according to historical records, the ancient city-state at that time was still a barren land, and there shouldn't be a temple. Otherwise, the sects of the gods would not allow the power of demons to erupt from here... Then this temple is a What's going on? Could it be that group of ancient people with a lot of brains wanted to build the temple first, and then invite the believers of the gods to settle in? Just kidding, there is no such reason..." Laurana walked back and forth a few times, talking to herself After talking for a long time, the confusion on his face became more and more serious.

"Compared to that kind of insignificant question, what I don't understand is why is the treasure of the Thieves King hidden in the temple?" El frowned and looked at the black beard who was walking in front.Although this hall is spacious, its area is not too large. Just now, with a light from a torch, we can basically see the surrounding environment clearly.

Just as Laurana wondered, this temple was cleaner than a plate licked by a dog. Not to mention the decoration, there were no tables, chairs or pulpits in the hall, and even the floor hadn't been re-paved. It looked cleaner than the first floor. The relics of residential buildings are even simpler.He couldn't find any traces of clues that could be connected with the treasure here.

At this moment, the bandits who were following behind also caught up. Even if there were Istaron warriors leading the way ahead, their appearance was a bit horrible.The robbers did not have tower shields, nor did they have heavy armor. Facing the attack of monsters, they could only rely on the crude weapons and equipment in their hands to fight hand-to-hand with the monsters. Naturally, they suffered heavy casualties.

The bandits also envied and hated the equipment on the Istaron warriors, but Roger never asked El to borrow the equipment.If the total weight of the equipment on the Istaron warriors and the tower shield is added together, it may exceed 120 catties.Putting an untrained bandit in such an outfit would wear him out within a short distance.

However, this kind of reasoning is difficult to explain clearly to these robbers. They have no culture and don't understand the principle of trade-offs at all. They only know to keep good things for themselves, without considering the actual utility at all.

El could clearly feel the greed and fear in the eyes of some robbers, and he didn't bother to pay attention to such ignorant creatures.Roger wouldn't mind if these bastards dared to make a wrong decision and kill them with an axe.

The team of the bandits had been shattered by the impact, and there was no formation at all. After the first band of bandits hid in, it took five minutes for Roger to rush over with the rear.

Although there were no obvious injuries on the surface, El noticed that his face was blue, and he looked like he had suffered serious internal injuries. Even the fingers holding the knife were trembling slightly, as if he had experienced a fierce battle.

There is no shortage of powerful subordinates around Roger. Before the departure, only El found five masters at the peak of the bronze rank, but now there are only three and a half left.Xi Ya, who followed closely behind Roger, lost an arm and half of her body, and was able to barely walk only by relying on the tenacious vitality of the Landwalker's blood.

After entering the temple and finding that there was no danger, the tense expression on Xi Ya's face relaxed, and she fell backwards.

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