After follow-up investigation, it was found that the ceremony formed by the mansion was essentially a sealing ceremony. The group of people who built this place discovered the corpse python that existed in the outer subspace in the material world, and built and expanded a passage leading to that space, using that weird painting as the entrance of the passage.
And the victim pulled by the carriage at midnight is the sacrifice to appease the python. Until tonight, the number of sacrifices reached the standard, and they finally achieved their goal, and the church just arrived.
This is the truth that the Church of the Sages discovered after the accident. Although there were casualties, the first few people who inhaled the poisonous gas and fell to the ground were surprisingly safe.
They are standing in the front, so they can see more clearly.
After returning to the church, according to the lines on the boa constrictor and the ancient legends nearby, it was finally confirmed that it was the [Grey and White Death Snake Luxos] sealed by the false god [Mother of the Spirit Snake] in the 14th era.
The believers of this false god are extremely rare, and most of them were active in the southern tip of the continent in this era, and they could not be found for a while.
But the [Spirit of All Things] church has more detailed information. When Jenkins woke up from bed at 6 o'clock in the morning, the whereabouts of the disappeared scribe and the story behind this incident can almost be understood.
He fought the big snake heroically last night, and thus saved his companions. After that, he used purification candles to heal the scribe who was affected by the poisonous gas in a covert manner. Because of these, he could continue to participate in the next plan logically.
No one doubted that he could resist the mental pollution of the giant python. On the contrary, everyone thought it was normal.
After a night's rest, after breakfast, he went to look for Great Elder Wood Blothier. He is the highest leader of the church's secret keeper. He was also presided over the coronation ceremony for Jenkins in Nolan. of.
Elder Brothir doesn't have a fixed office, he usually only stays in the deepest seal room underground of the Holy See. But this time when Jenkins bumped into him, the old man was talking to Mr. Gilbert in a corridor behind the temple complex. This gentleman was also an acquaintance. people who come to support.
"No more rest?"
The old man asked while smiling and squinting his eyes.
"I have rested very well. I heard that the church has already known what happened."
"Yes, oh, let's talk over here, don't all stand here and block the way."
The three of them moved to the prayer room aside. There are no windows in this room, and apart from the metal holy emblem hanging on the wall, there is only a gas lamp in the shape of an angel holding it up on the wall as decoration.
“The church of [All things and nature] has given us a lot of help. The origin of the big snake is not simple. This has nothing to do with this matter, we can talk about it later. About [Grey and White Death Snake Luxos] The rumors of the country town of Beldyland are very widespread, and in the ancient records, there have been some brave people who challenged it, but without exception, they were all swallowed. We think that the construction of Howson Manor The group of people, should be for something swallowed by the snake... "
He stroked his beard and asked Mr. Gilbert to add:
"We are not sure what it is, after all, in the past years so stupid... I mean there are too many brave people. But last night, Mr. Williams also reported about [Clemen's Treasure Mask ]. This point is very valuable, because there are clear records showing that the snake did swallow one of them."
"This kind of thing can also be recorded? Oh, this is really good luck, it is really the blessing of a sage!"
he whispered.
"It's okay to say that it's the blessing of a sage..."
Mr. Gilbert scratched his hair in embarrassment: "The one who was wearing a mask to attack the snake was one of our scribes in the 16th century. It was sealed up at that time, and special permissions are required to see it, so we don't know about the snake until now."
The three of them looked at the wall beside them at the same time, tacitly ignoring the topic just now.
"So, the purpose of that group of people is actually to sacrifice a living person to the snake in exchange for that mask?"
Jenkins asked, faintly feeling some signs of heat on his forehead. Ever since he came to Beldyran's Holy See, he always had this feeling.
"Yes, we also have our own sources of information, almost certainly."
Mr. Gilbert then coughed loudly, fiddled with the buttons on the cuffs of his jacket, and added:
"We went to arrest people based on the two locations you provided last night. The upline of the child who attacked you was caught. He is also related to the organization looking for masks; the circus has left the local area. The bat skin you mentioned, we It was dug out in the woods on the outskirts of the city; as for Mr. Dagger, he was very alert and left the residence half an hour before the arresting party arrived."
"So what about the scribes who disappeared last night? May the sages bless them, and hope they will be fine."
"In fact, there are more or less pre-epoch relics in various parts of the continent, some exposed outside the surface, and some below the surface. According to the results obtained from the mask you provided, the treasure of Clement is probably in Bell The city of Dilan is deep underground six miles to the east, and the destination of the large-scale spatial movement last night is also that area."
"But... I haven't collected all those masks, but I have two here."
The two masks were handed in by Jenkins, who fully understood that it was not good for him to wear them.
"Saint William, you have made a mistake."
Elder Blothir shook his head at him: "Perhaps you were misled by local legends. Although the seven masks are indeed the key items to obtain the so-called treasure, they are not needed to open the door to the treasure. There are some masks in the Holy See The remaining data, it is very troublesome to find them.
However, the person caught last night based on your information revealed some key clues. To open the hidden treasure is an ancient bronze key, which is related to a great existence. The reason for the spatial shift in scale. "
"In other words, our scribes and the illegal gifters who originally existed in the mansion have all arrived in Clement's treasure now?"
Choco, who has been keeping quiet all this time, became keenly interested in the word "treasure".