Age of Mysticism

  Chapter 418 Informant

  The change in the plot made Luke leave the Adventurer's Association with complicated thoughts. Next is the time to really test the ability to develop the plot.

   Luke didn't return to Fickchuk's house immediately, and now is not the time to discuss world fashion with Mrs. Fickchuk. Using his familiarity with the terrain, he crossed a small path, climbed up a layer of mountain wall, and reached the vicinity of the Abyss Temple before Egbert sacrificed.

  The old site of the Blood Oath Temple is a pyramid-shaped building located on the top of the mountain. The old site is now only responsible for the sacrifice activities of the big festival celebrations. After the mountain below the temple was opened up, the Celtic Duke's castle was built. The Abyss Temple is located in the closed lower level of the castle when there are no public activities. Now that the Duke of Celtic has publicly recognized the Temple of the Abyss as the legal organization of the Tedgar Hills, the Temple of the Abyss has opened an entrance and exit to handle external affairs.

  The gate of the Abyss Temple is located on the excavated mountain wall. The four pillars with a height of ten meters are embossed with exquisite patterns, which looks magnificent.

   Outside the gate is guarded by blood-sworn barbarians transformed by occult techniques, and an eye hangs over the open hall. The whites of the eyes are large, and the yellow pupil occupies only one-tenth of the entire frontal area of ​​the eyeball. The eyes are very alert, and anyone passing by the gate of the Abyss Temple will attract its attention. If you stay outside the door for too long without reason, the yellow pupils will turn red and a warning sound will be issued, and the blood-sworn barbarians will immediately step forward to interrogate them.

  Luke saw that the eye was placed outside the gate of the temple, and quickly found a blind spot that the eye could not observe. There are branches blocking the gap between a stone house and a big tree, and part of the vision here is blocked by stone pillars.

  Luke hid behind the tree, observing the Abyss Temple through the cover of the branches and leaves.

   There are not many abyss mages coming in and out, and they are all low-key, trying to hide their appearance with hoods. The eyes on the gate are very strict, and everyone who enters or exits must show his appearance to be recognized.

   After waiting for a while, Luke saw Priest Egbert.

  He lowered his head, and his steps were in a hurry.

  While passing the gate of the temple, he flashed a badge and was about to go in, but was warned by a piercing scream from his eyes.

  A blood-sworn barbarian stepped forward, he saluted respectfully, and then said: "Priest Egbert, according to the order of the apostles, anyone who enters or exits the temple must be recognized by the eye of true sight."

   Egbert said sarcastically: "A guy who can only tell small stories, won the appreciation of Lord Victor by flattery and framing."

The Eye of True Sight laughed sharply: "Egbert, I can take your slander as your envy of me. I was transformed into the Eye of True Sight by Master Victor with the power of the abyss, and as a Master Kedo's eyes are watching your every move.

   Don't do anything that endangers the Abyss Temple, because you can't escape my gaze on you! "

Egbert lifted his hood and looked up at the Eye of True Sight: "I envy you, but I definitely did not slander you! Don't try to make up lies about me, I accept the ruling of the abyss, Victor Your Excellency believes in me."

  The Eye of True Sight smiled: "Yes, you have accepted the judgment of the abyss, and many people have accepted the judgment of the abyss, but there is still no result for what Lord Victor is worried about.

   Who colluded with outsiders and betrayed the temple?

is it you? "

   Egbert said angrily: "You don't have evidence, don't talk nonsense."

   "Evidence? Go in, Priest Egbert... If it's really you, I will find the evidence."

   Egbert walked into the temple angrily.

  Luke carefully exited the temple area and stole a suit of clothes where no one was paying attention. After changing the clothes on his body, he turned into an ordinary indigenous human being in the holy mountain.

   Follow the down road for two blocks and turn into a narrow alley. First, I spent money to buy a buckwheat pancake at a pancake shop, and got some change.

  After taking two steps, Luke gave the cake to the children playing on the side of the road, walked another ten meters and turned a corner to find an ordinary stone house, and knocked on the slightly worn-out wooden door.

  A small window on the wooden door opened, and a man with sores on his face asked impatiently, "What's the matter?"

  Luke took out the change he just got, and looked for a worn-out banknote that was stained with a lot of pine nut oil unique to the Holy Mountain.

"My wife is suffering from some kind of illness, and she keeps coughing." Luke handed in the money with a sad look on his face: "Old Ham introduced me, he said you have wizard's medicine here, it's a magical medicine .”

  The sore-faced man took the money, looked at Luke again, and opened the door: "Come with me."

  Luke looked around vigilantly, and walked in after confirming that no one was paying attention.

  Behind the door is a very narrow aisle. The stone walls on both sides are covered with moss, and big scorpions and centipedes can be seen everywhere. The sore-faced man walked in front, reciting spells in a low voice, and the poisonous insect was very spiritual to find a nearby gap to sneak in.

  After walking about twenty meters along the curved corridor, Luke followed the sore-faced man to a dark room.

  In the middle of the room is a large pot, in which bones of unknown animals are boiled, and the soup is dark green. The four walls of the room are shelves filled with various materials, including animal parts and bottles and jars filled with unknown liquids.

  The sore-faced man rummaged through the shelves, and soon found a medicine jar. He fetched a small glass bottle, poured some powder from the medicine jar into the bottle, and finally filled the bottle with some green soup from the pot.

   Handed it to Luke after shaking it a few times.

   "Make your wife drink it before dinner, get some sleep, and you'll be fine tomorrow."

   Luke took the bottle, the green liquid inside looked disgusting.

   "This...is different from what I imagined, why don't you ask about my wife's condition?"

  The sore-faced man said: "Ask whether you want to ask, this is the potion I gave you. You can pay for a thousand Reichsmarks."

   "Didn't I just give you money?" Luke asked pretending to be puzzled.

   "That's just opening money." The sore-faced man showed an ugly smile: "Didn't Old Ham explain it to you?"

   "But this potion costs a thousand Reichsmarks, isn't it too expensive?"

   "Compared to your wife's life, a thousand Reichsmarks is not expensive. If the disease is not treated in time, people will die."

   "But... if the medicine is taken indiscriminately, people will die."

  The change in Luke's attitude made the sore-faced man immediately alert: "Who are you?"

  Luke handed the medicine bottle to the sore-faced man: "If you drink this medicine, I will give you money."

  The sore-faced man saw that Luke didn't come to buy medicine, he immediately said sharply: "Boy, if you don't want to die, just put down the medicine and leave the same way. I can pretend you never came, otherwise..."

   "Otherwise..." Luke took out the steel wings of blazing feathers, and turned his hands into a two-handed sword: "What do you want to do to me?"

  The sore-faced man knew the goods. When he saw Luke take out such an advanced alchemy weapon, he immediately relented and said, "Sir, I am a potion buyer. My medicine can really cure diseases."

  Luke walked around the small room, but didn't see the person he was looking for, so he asked the sore-faced man, "You're not a wizard, where is he?"

  Hearing that Luke came to find the wizard, the sore-faced man immediately said: "Something happened to the wizard, and these medicines are left by him, and they are very effective!"

   "What happened to him?" Luke asked, walking back to the sore-faced man.

  The sore-faced man didn't answer immediately, but asked Luke vigilantly, "Who are you?"

Luke said: "The Temple of the Abyss will secretly use the nearby residents to conduct human experiments. Some people will get sick unknowingly, and eventually die without treatment. An abyss mage is thinking about making money. Whenever the Temple of the Abyss conducts human experiments, , he will develop the corresponding therapeutic agent.

   and let you secretly sell. "

  The sore-faced man was shocked: "How do you know?"

Luke put the sword on the sore-faced man's neck: "It doesn't matter how I know, I came this time to find this wizard, but he is not here. And... let your little friend go back to the nest, my friend Swords are definitely faster than their poison."

  Several scorpions that secretly crawled towards Luke turned around and left immediately.

  The sore-faced man said fearfully: "I'm sorry, sir. You didn't see the wizard this time because he was arrested."

   "Go on!"

  Luke's sword was pressing on the sore-faced man's shoulder, and his body could not help leaning under the weight of the sword.

  In order to get rid of this situation, the sore-faced man immediately told what he knew.

  "A few days ago, the wizard told me that he was going to escape from the Holy Mountain. His whereabouts and a large amount of unknown money caused the investigation of the Abyss Temple. Originally, I was supposed to help him escape, but when the appointed time came, he did not show up.

  I think he should have been arrested by the Abyss Temple. "

  Luke relaxed some pressure, and asked the sore-faced man: "The wizard was arrested, but you didn't escape. Did you hide something from me?"

  The sore-faced man replied immediately: "I haven't finished yet. Later, I received a message from the wizard using a secret technique. He said that he was a small character, and the Abyss Temple was busy interrogating the big shots, so he had no time to deal with him."

   "Then where?"

   "Then...he told me the formula of the medicine, and asked me to continue buying medicine to make money. When he finds a way to escape, he can run away with the money."

   Sure enough, it was the guy who wanted money.

  Luke retracted the long sword, then turned it into a dagger and put it away.

  He came this time to find the wizard, but the wizard was affected by the turmoil inside the Abyss Temple.

  This road is blocked, what should I do?

   Luke asked the sore-faced man: "It seems that your communication is very smooth, do you have a way to send messages to the wizard?"

  The sore-faced man didn't expect such details to be caught by the other party, so he continued to break the news: "The scorpion I trained dug a small passage, which can send the note to the wizard's prison."

  Luke feels that the plot of the Temple of the Abyss has been changed too much by Qingkong, and looking for other paths will not only face the changed plot, but also take great risks.

  Since we found this place, we might as well regard it as a breakthrough point.

  Luke took out a golden coupon: "I am an imperial agent."

  The sore-faced man snatched the gold coupon from Luke: "I am willing to work for the empire!"

   Sure enough, they are the same raccoon dog!

Luke said to the sore-faced man: "Don't think that the wizard is a small character, and his crimes will not be taken seriously by the Abyss Temple. With so many big figures in the temple being judged, the fate of small characters is probably that they would rather kill by mistake than let them go." .”

  Luke's words awakened the sore-faced man. He knew a little about the Abyss Temple. Many powerful abyss mages said that they would never be seen again if they disappeared.

  Under the pressure of this kind of wheels, what good end can a small character have?

   "My lord, although I am in the holy mountain, my loyalty to the empire has never wavered."

  Luke said: "I don't care whether you are loyal to the empire. As long as you do things for the empire seriously, I guarantee that you can leave the Tedgar Hills safely and be properly resettled."

   As he spoke, Luke took out another gold coupon.

  The sore-faced man rushed over immediately: "Don't worry, my lord, I will do whatever you ask me to do... Can you rescue the wizard and pardon him for his crime of being an abyss mage?"

"of course can!"

  Luke exposed his identity because he knew these two people. Although they were greedy for money, they were reliable at critical moments. They sell potions to people who have received secret arts, not only to make money, but also because they have a heart of compassion.

  One thousand Reichsmarks to save lives is indeed not expensive.

  With Luke's promise, the crisis made the sore-faced man seem to have grasped the straw of life-saving: "My lord, what should I do?"

  Luke said: "Continue to sell your medicine as if nothing happened. Then tell the wizard that we are trying to save him... Let him tell the current situation of the Abyss Temple."

   "Yes, my lord, I will contact him at night. Is there anything else I need to do?"

   "Don't be so nervous." Luke comforted the sore-faced man: "Relax a bit, do what you have to do. You are working for the empire now, and when the army of the empire captures the holy mountain, you will be a great hero of the empire.

   Only by putting your mind right can you serve the empire better. "

  The sore-faced man asked: "Can the empire really reach here and capture the holy mountain?"

  Luke said with a smile: "In terms of industrial capabilities and war potential, the Tedgar Hills are not comparable to the Empire, and the Celtic Duke can rely on the secrets provided by the Abyss Temple.

   What the Abyss Temple looks like now, you should know better than me, an outsider. Even the big shots are worried, how long can the Abyssal Temple survive every day like walking on eggshells?

  The Tedgar Hills can persist until now because the northern border of the empire was invaded by the United County. When the empire solves the troubles in the north... it doesn't even need to solve the troubles in the north, the empire can solve the rebellion of the Celtic dukes with the army of the north alone. "

  The sore-faced man said: "But I heard that the Northern Territory Legion is negotiating with the Celtic Duke, and plans to join the Barbarian Legion to avenge the eldest prince Fania."

   Luke said with a smile: "Revenge, who do you seek revenge? The emperor's grandson Sinclair is going to kill his grandfather, and kill the king to avenge his father?

   This is a family matter of the Golden Shield royal family. The emperor's grandson Sinclair wants to prove that he is different from Fania, re-join the competition for the throne, and defeat the Celtic Duke, so he is eligible.

   Do you think the Barbarian Legion is qualified to unite with the Legion of the North? "

  (end of this chapter)