The bruised and battered priest Borat sat against the wall, looking very depressed. Although Xiao Chen used magic to dispel the red mist on him, he was still very tired and looked like he hadn't slept for days. The other surviving priests and temple guards were in even worse condition. Their spirits were ravaged by the red mist and their minds had not yet fully recovered. They all sat on the ground stupidly, motionless.
Xiao Chen and others have cleared the entire temple and rescued the soldiers who were not injured. Among them, several dying Marines became Xiao Chen and Luo Ling's new soul servants, while the relatively complete temple guard souls were secretly put into the "Soul Gathering List" by Glade.
Xiao Chen asked Babik to lead the team to guard the entrance of the temple and temporarily block the temple. He still had some questions to ask Priest Borat.
He brought Ansaldo to Borat's side, and Ansaldo squatted in front of him and asked: "What's going on? How did this red demon make you crazy?"
Thinking of the red fog, the wrinkles on Borat's face wrinkled together: "I first sent several nobles from the Tower of China to the high priest, and then returned to the courtyard to accompany you for a while, and then returned to the temple. At that time, I felt something was wrong, because there was a very strange and depressing atmosphere in the temple. There was also a breath that I was a little familiar with, but I couldn't tell the source. I seemed to be able to feel it at ordinary times, but it was very faint. But today it has increased many times. I tried to find the source of this breath, and then I saw red mist floating from the depths of the temple. I saw that the mist would entangle people and make them crazy. So I called a few priests and cast shields to find the source of the red fog, but when they were only halfway there, they all went crazy. I don't know why I was less affected by the red fog, so I escaped, and then you all saw it."
Borat looked up at Xiao Chen and asked, "You came out from the innermost part of the temple. Does this red fog have anything to do with you?"
Xiao Chen shook his head and said, "Since you found the red mist's aura familiar, you must have known that it came from your Forge Temple, right? The red mist was brought here by your high priest."
"What? How is this possible? Why would the high priest want to destroy the Forge Temple?" Borat said.
Xiao Chen said: "Remember the red ball in the high priest's room? That's the source of the red mist."
Borat was surprised and said, "That is a spell to pray to the God of Forge. When the high priest needs to pray to the God of Forge for something, he will cast that magic. How can an illusion bring about such a horrible thing?"
"There is a being behind that red ball, and that being claims to be the God of Forging."
"This is impossible, God of Forging, it should, it should..." Borat jumped up from the ground in panic, like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
"The God of Forging shouldn't exist, right?"
"No, of course not. However, the God of Forging should only be the belief of us dwarves." Borat flatly denied.
"I understand what you mean. The God of Forging should be an image that is believed in, but not a specific existence. I guess you are the priest in this temple who least believes in the existence of specific gods. But I'm afraid that many of your colleagues still really believe that the God of Forging exists, just like the God of Nature, right?" Xiao Chen said.
Borat was a little surprised: "My companions... some people do, no, most people think so. We have had arguments in private. In fact, many people just hope that the God of Forging will be more powerful and can be relied upon by the dwarves. But I think it is best for the God to simply become a belief and not interfere in the affairs of this world."
"I'm afraid this is why you were able to resist the red fog for the longest time. Because that is the power of the God of Forge. Your companions are not weaker than you, but they are more willing to believe this: the God of Forge exists and has descended. As for the ordinary temple guards, you should have chosen believers who firmly believe in the existence of the God of Forge, right? So they only need to touch the red fog to be controlled by the God of Forge." Xiao Chen analyzed slowly.
"Could it be... I'm wrong?" Borat clenched his fists tightly.
"No, of course not. Look at what this 'God of Forging' has done. If the real God of Forging existed, would he let his people become crazy like this?" Xiao Chen said disdainfully, "Although I don't know what it is, it just took advantage of your belief in the God of Forging, used some kind of mental magic to control you, and then tried to steal our things."
"You are right. The God of Forge would never treat his people like this. The temple has been destroyed by it. Then why did the red mist dissipate later?"
"Because we have repelled it for now."
"That's amazing." Borat stood up. "You mean the red mist will come back?"
"I'm afraid so. Although we have cut off its source, we don't know what kind of creature it is. During the battle, we found that it was hiding in the space on the other side of the red ball, where there was the breath of the Forging Tower. The high priest told us before that the Forging Tower is in the Ruins of God. So, the monster is likely something that lives in the Ruins of God." Xiao Chen looked at Borat and asked, "The best way is to go to the Ruins of God and find out the problem. I heard before that the high priest should have a key to the Ruins of God. Do you know where this key is?"
"The ruins of God? How could it be there?" Borat said thoughtfully, "The ruins of God is a closed little world. There is no way to get in from the outside world. Only through the 'key' can you find its location and then reach it through teleportation. So in fact, the key is a set of directional parameters for teleportation. The royal family put this set of parameters in a holy ring with teleportation attached. Wearing that ring can directly activate the teleportation to that little world. But the key of the temple is different. The set of directional parameters of the temple is passed down from generation to generation among the high priests. Whenever you want to go to the ruins of God, the high priest will activate the teleportation array in the teleportation room. In other words, the key is in the head of the high priest."
"In other words, now that the high priest has been killed by the 'God of Forging', no one in the temple knows the location of the God's ruins?"
"Originally, the two alternative high-ranking priests also knew that they were candidates for the next high priest." Borat said.
"where are they?"
Borat pointed to the ground in the square, where the marines were collecting the bodies of the temple priests. One priest had a big hole in his neck, shot dead by Evelyn, and another priest was shot into a sieve by the gunfire. (To be continued)