"Oh, it's interesting..." Rosser whispered.
"What did you say?" Sean looked at her. "What's the point of that?"
"It's okay to tell you, mortals." Rosser pursed his thick lips, "Underground civilization has left ruins all over the continent, Taquila has naturally studied them, and these symbols..." She walked to the mottled column Before, brushing off the dust on it, "It's not the words they use, and it has nothing to do with the magic characters formulated by the Federation. Thinking of the history of the Four Kingdoms, isn't this interesting enough?"
Akima found herself completely incomprehensible, and although the meaning of each word was unambiguous, it just didn't know what they were talking about together. What comforted her a little was that Marr, who came from a noble family, was equally confused as the local guide Naf, and was no better than her.
Sean had a thoughtful look on his face.
"I heard Your Majesty say that in the past, the four kingdoms only had scattered villages and small towns, and they were considered the corners of the continent. The so-called history means that there is no history. If this relic is not left by the civilization in the battle of divine will , then it means"
Having said that, he froze suddenly.
"In the past, this place was populated by aliens that we don't know about yet?"
"I can't come to a conclusion yet," Rosser said with great interest. "Whether the underground civilization will differentiate into tribes and create different languages is still unknown. Only by going in and having a look can you get more information. message."
"Lord Sean, there seems to be a stone tablet here," the soldier who was inspecting the stone gate suddenly shouted, "It seems to have our words written on it."
A group of people immediately gathered around.
I saw a piece of granite lying across the weeds, covered with moss, and only one side had been polished. If you didn't search carefully, it would be difficult to find its existence. It took a while for the soldiers to clean it up, and the scratches of the handwriting were displayed in front of everyone.
"The land cursed by the gods, do not enter, you will die."
After reading the warning above, Naf couldn't help taking a breath.
"Difficult, could this be... the legendary curse, the cursed temple?" He took two steps back and stammered.
Sean and God's Punishment Witch looked at each other, "Do you know its origin?"
"I just heard others say that it was more than a hundred years ago..." Nave stared at the dark entrance of the cave and swallowed, "The local lord did not send someone to stop the wolf-hearted people from crossing the cage mountain. Are there many traps set up? According to legend, a team led by a knight encountered a mountain rain during the mission. This kind of rain came and went quickly. When it fell overwhelmingly, people could be blinded, so the knight ordered to seek shelter from the rain where I happened to find a strange temple."
"Oh?" Rosser raised his eyebrows. "Did they find treasures inside after they went in? The villagers were driven by greed to smuggle the treasures out, but they were cursed by the gods and died tragically in the end?"
"You, have you heard of it?" Nave asked in surprise.
"Pfft," Rosser laughed, "mortals really don't have much progress. I played this trick hundreds of years ago, and it still works now. I bet this rumor was made up by the lord in order to take over the ruins for himself. The windfall. As for those poor bastards, they were just used as evidence of a curse, and they were silenced one by one."
"But... they didn't die right away."
"What?" Rose frowned.
The guide shrank his neck and replied cautiously, "It took about ten years for them to die one after another, and the knight was no exception. Pieces of rotting flesh are exposed, and it looks so hideous, and this is the source of the curse. In order to prevent bad luck from spreading in the territory, the lord ordered no one to approach the area, so no one knows its exact location now. ."
"Are you sure?" Rother walked over to Nuff and put his arm on his shoulder.
Looking at the arm that was thicker than his thigh, the guide's face turned pale, "I heard it all from the pub, I promise not to lie! Sir, if you don't believe me, you can ask someone else, if you have any questions. , it must be the rumor itself that is wrong!"
If it took so long to die, then the idea of silence would be untenable, Akima thought, and since it was common for knights and lords to conspire to frame villagers, killing the knights together would be another matter. Nobles, no matter how small their family background is, are not arbitrarily executed without trial.
Could it be... This is really the curse of the gods
"Uh, why don't... let's go back to town first, and then take the next step when we hear more information?" suggested the liaison envoy Mal Tokat.
"Next move?" Naf looked at Sean in disbelief, "Could it be that you all came to curse the temple from the beginning?"
"That's not true, but it just happened to be together," Rosser let go of Nave. "How about it? I think as your majesty's trusted bodyguard, you won't run away, right?"
"Of course," Sean replied calmly. "Completing His Majesty's entrustment is the first priority. Now that the goal is in front of you, there is no reason to turn back."
"Very good, then we'll go in and meet the so-called "gods" for a while," Rosser grinned.
"But you can't just go in unprepared," Shawn shook his head. "In fact, His Majesty also mentioned that you may encounter danger when approaching the source."
"He even foresaw this?"
"That's right," Sean turned to Akima and said, "After you left that night, His Majesty explained something to me alone. He said that we may encounter two situations. One is that the source is exposed on the surface. In that case, we don't have to do anything, just go back to Neverwinter after blocking the scene. The other is that the source is located in the underground mine, the deeper the cave, the greater the probability of danger. Therefore, if you encounter the second situation , needs to be protected in advance. Although this is not a mine, it meets all the characteristics of a mine.”
After he finished speaking, he snapped his fingers at the soldier, "Bring the things here."
The two quickly unloaded their bags and pulled out five snow-white coats.
Rosser squatted down, unfolded it curiously and turned it over, "This is just an ordinary leather jacket."
"It won't work if you wear a mask." Sean picked up a piece of clothing and slipped himself into it. Akima found that the only word to describe it was that the top and bottom of the leather jacket were connected together, without even a single button. It's not so much clothes, it's more a pocket cut to the shape of a human. After putting it on, only one face is exposed, and the hands and feet are wrapped in it. It looks very strange.
Then he put on a transparent mask to fill the last blank, and a fist-sized iron can was fixed at the front of the mask, which looked like a pig's nose.
"Five people go in, and the others stay outside," Sean said in a loud voice, "Apart from Miss Akima and Miss Rosser, who else is coming?"