The king shook his head. “No, I can’t risk breaking off a complete rift with the temple by exposing this matter. What I want is to kill that thing in the ruins of God. The high priest won’t be a problem.
My preparations over the years have not been in vain. I found a record in the royal heritage I retrieved last time. It was a map and a compass left by the saints who transformed the ruins of God in the past. The map recorded the three secret passages set up by the saints, which can connect the three major parts of the ruins of God. The compass can help us determine the location of the secret passage.
So I have a new plan. This time, I can add forces outside the royal family and enter from the path of the Great Forger Trial. If I don’t encounter a monster, I can find a way to find the monster through the secret passage and then completely destroy it. In this way, I don’t have to rely solely on the warriors and mages trained by the royal family. "
"But our family doesn't know this." Ansaldo said.
"Because your Fire Crystal Family is usually very close to the Temple. If you and the people from the Tower of China had not fought a big battle in the Temple this time and almost completely wiped out the Temple's power, I would have kept my distance from you." The king said helplessly, "For such things, I must be absolutely cautious and cannot give the Temple any chance to strike first. So I turned to the Black Rock Family and the White Leaf Family, who have always had a distant relationship with the Temple, for help. They spent more than a year with me preparing a team to kill monsters, and also invited masters from humans. But I didn't expect that you brought the Chinese to the Forging Tower and took them to the Temple, and all the plans were disrupted."
Xiao Chen instantly understood what was going on with those mysterious people he met in Crowell. He asked, "On our way to the capital, we encountered a group of humans hired by the Black Rock Family. They were all masters from the Ancient God Temple. So they were all hired by the Black Rock Family on behalf of the royal family?"
"Yes." The king's voice was tired and heavy. "Not only did the Black Rock Family invite these people for me, but the White Leaf Family also found several masters from the various tribes of the orcs, including two great swordsmen from the Lion Clan and two great shamans from the Fox Clan. Together with the dwarf warriors and the great forger we sent, there are a total of twelve master-level masters. On the same day that you visited the temple, they entered the ruins of the gods through the passage of the Great Forger Trial."
"Same day? What time exactly?" Xiao Chen asked.
"About an hour before you entered the temple, our team also entered the ruins of God. However, it would take them quite a while to find the location of the monster inside the ruins of God. I estimate that the time they spent fighting the monster was about the same as yours."
"What's the result?" Xiao Chen asked.
The king stood up and walked to the door, saying, "Follow me."
The king led them out of the room through the side door, and walked along a corridor to another room. There was a bed in the room, and a human was lying on it. The man was seriously injured, half of his face was burnt black, and his body was covered with bandages. Xiao Chen looked at the scars carefully, and they were mottled like raindrops. He suddenly realized that such injuries were caused by the red rain. The monster must have released a red rain on the other side of the red ball, and the man in front of him should be a survivor of that battle.
"What is this?" Xiao Chen asked.
"This is the great wizard Bohawkus, the only survivor of this expedition," said the king.
Bohawks didn't look like a great magician at this moment, he was just a dying patient.
"Twelve masters! I have been preparing for so many years to find these suitable candidates." The king lowered his head and looked at the man on the bed, his face very depressed. He said: "Twelve masters plus more than ten high-ranking people who went with us, so many people challenged that monster together, but he was the only one who escaped back."
"His injuries seem to be very serious. I can feel that his mental strength is in a very weak state, like a candle in the wind, which may be extinguished at any time." Luo Ling said.
"When he first came, his injuries were not that serious, but the damage caused by the red fog seems to continue to corrode the human body. We used a lot of exorcism potions and finally dispelled the influence of that magic, but the injuries remain at this level. Whether he can survive tonight is still a big question." said a healing magician from the Baiye family.
The king said, “But before he fainted, he told me that the power of the red fog monster was far beyond their expectations, and everyone died except him.
They encountered the monster halfway through the Great Forger Trial, and the battle was fierce. At first, the mages worked together to cast shields, and then used magic to consume the energy in the red fog. The warriors were responsible for resisting the dwarf monsters it summoned. At first, this tactic was effective, but when the monster turned into a torrential red rain and fell, no one could resist for too long. Their shields were quickly penetrated and their bodies were corroded by the red rain. Although they finally used magic to cause considerable damage to the red fog, no one was able to escape from the Ruins of God. Only Bohawks, under the cover of several subordinates, successfully used short-distance teleportation magic, and had the opportunity to escape back through the teleportation array. Even so, the red fog finally caught up with him and dealt him a heavy blow the moment he escaped from the Ruins of God. "
"You don't really understand the power of this monster." Mei Tiantian said, "No matter what you call it, its power has actually surpassed that of a saint. Even if it is not as powerful as an ancient god, it is at least a genuine and powerful demigod. Letting a team of master-level warrior mages challenge a demigod is simply courting death."
"Demigod? What evidence do you have?" The king's face turned paler than before.
Mei Tiantian said: "The evidence is that the power it uses is divine power. I am different from you. I have faced real divine power. Divine power has been processed and condensed by gods or demigods themselves, so it is more advanced than ordinary magic power. Mages below the level of saints do not have a sufficient understanding of the nature and rules of magic power. The magic power they use will also appear very fragile in front of this half-baked divine power. This is why your shield cannot withstand Hong Yu's power, and why you need a lot of exorcism potions to remove the little bit of divine power left in him."
The king asked, "You mean, only a saint can fight it?"
Mei Tiantian said: "If it is an ordinary magician, the saint realm is not enough. Logically speaking, at least the super saint realm can effectively suppress the demigod."
Ansaldo was surprised and said, "But I saw that the magic used by Mr. Xiao Chen can disperse the red fog. When you encountered the red rain in the temple, you also resisted the attack of the red rain."
"Because we are never ordinary mages." (To be continued)