Climbing up the mountain wearing heavy armor—Hao Ren thought at first that the knights in front of him were ordinary humans, but when he saw that these people were wearing full-body armor weighing dozens of kilograms and various weapons including long swords, throwing axes, and crossbows, After climbing to the top of the mountain like walking on flat ground and barely breathing, he realized that these guys in front of him might also be superhumans in another sense.
The ancient gate of the temple has collapsed. The open door and the void above the main hall make it completely unable to shelter from the wind and rain. Thousands of years of abandonment have left many places in this sanctuary covered in dust and rubble. The empty hall cannot provide Any environment that allows people to rest comfortably, but even such a bad situation is already precious to the exhausted knights.
As Hao Ren said, there is no fog of chaos on the holy mountain. Perhaps this temple, which had been abandoned for many years, was still providing weak shelter, preventing chaos from invading here. Veronica felt a reassuring breath flowing into her heart the moment she stepped into the temple. She glanced at Hao Ren gratefully, then took a long breath and sat on the ground with no image, and the other knights were no better than her.
"Your Highness Princess..." the old knight Morian couldn't help but Veronica waved her hand: "Sir, don't worry so much, it's important to recover your strength, I can feel the power of order here, although it is weak, but Enough to dispel Chaos, it's safe here."
Morian blinked. There is no doubt about the talent of "detecting chaos" passed down in Talos' royal blood, so he also took a breath, removed the handguard and waist armor that were in the way, and put the long sword within reach. But the man still stood straight beside his princess.
"Unbelievable..." The old knight looked around the abandoned temple. His eyes swept over the ancient and exquisite mural reliefs, and then stared at the statues of those ancient heroes for a long time. Finally, he saw the large void above the temple, and the large void in the void. Something that floats without gravity, "... this is the legacy of the previous generation. I didn't expect there to be such a holy place in this barren wilderness... I have seen a lot in my life."
"As I said, there must be good things in those ancient books," Veronica smiled weakly. Although she is the leader of the younger generation in the kingdom, she is still too young after all, and the fatigue accumulated over the past few days will suddenly disappear. She felt that she could hardly stand up anymore. She looked at her embarrassed state and shook her head with some self-deprecating, "The old fellows in the House of Nobles will definitely want to see me in such an unseemly state. Slam it—it's been a long time since last year's parade that they've had a reason to slam me."
"Decent, decency," Morian shook his head, his tone full of disdain, "Those guys, even if they are thrown to the border of chaos, they will only talk about decency and etiquette to the servants of chaos."
Veronica smiled, then turned her head to look at Hao Ren: "Mighty hermit, thank you for your help, please forgive me for being rude at the moment—I and my knights are really tired. I am Ta The eldest daughter of the kingdom of Ross, Veronica St. Talos."
The knight princess was serious when she spoke, but she still leaned lazily against the stone wall behind her. She looked nondescript, but she was a sweetheart. Hao Ren was a little surprised after hearing the other party's self-introduction:
I didn't expect that the bloody, embarrassed, and indecent girl in front of me was actually a princess. Is it so easy to trigger the plot mission these days? How to go out to save someone's family members are all relatives of the emperor...
But after being slightly surprised, he was more indifferent, because creatures like princesses are not rare to him, and there is a princess in the devil world in his family, who holds a screwdriver all day long and is scolded by the adults at home. Wow screaming.
This kind of indifference has another meaning in Veronica's eyes.
Hao Ren didn't know what was going on in Her Royal Highness's mind, he just quickly remembered his omnipotent self-introduction: "Oh, Your Highness, hello, I'm a traveler passing by here..."
Before he finished speaking, he choked back, because he suddenly remembered the damn natural environment nearby: a rocky mountain with no grass growing, a barren and dead wilderness, and a monster army emerging from the mist—although He didn't know what happened to those monsters and fog, but it was obvious that places where these things were entrenched were definitely not suitable for self-driving tours. Looking at the horrors of the regular royal army that was almost wiped out in the wilderness, Hao Ren reckoned that the worst traveler in the world probably didn't visit this ghostly place.
The thoughts in his mind were running fast, and the reaction in his mouth was not slow: "... Ah, I don't seem to remember where I came from."
A puzzled look appeared on Veronica's face: "You...have you lost your memory?"
"Not really, it's just that my mind is a little confused." Hao Ren scratched his hair, "I found myself in this place when I woke up, and I still vaguely remembered some things here, but I was at a loss about the situation in the outside world. .Where do you think I look like?"
"Amnesia... Awakening?" Veronica frowned, and quickly organized the knowledge she had collected from the royal collection and her bachelor tutor in her mind, "This seems to explain it... Could it be that you were in the jihad many years ago?" Have you been sleeping in this temple since then?"
"Jihad?" Hao Ren was taken aback, "Oh, yes, Jihad, I remember there was a war here before I fell asleep."
Veronica had a dazed look on her face, and her eyes became more serious and awe-inspiring when she looked at Hao Ren.
During this brief conversation, Hao Ren roughly guessed what the princess in front of him was thinking.
She probably regarded herself as an ancient person who had been sleeping in this temple for many years—since there is a temple on this stone mountain, it means that this place has not always been so barren, and perhaps it was also a prosperous religious place many years ago. But time has passed, and this place has been swallowed by barbarism, and he, the guy who ran out of the temple, naturally reminds people of the legend of the sleeping man in ancient times.
In a world where magic exists, such a thing does not seem so inconceivable.
Anyway, after working in the position of inspector for the past few years, Hao Ren has already developed the habit of facing any situation with the greatest compatibility. No matter what happens, he will remain calm and accept it calmly. major premise.
So he tried not to speak, just listened to the conversation between the princess in front of her and the old knight beside her, and occasionally interjected a sentence or two, but hardly revealed any valuable information—perfect for a man who had been sleeping in the temple for many years and didn't care about world affairs. The identity of the "Ancient Guardian".
"When did you wake up?" Veronica looked at Hao Ren curiously. The clothes on the man in front of her made her feel very novel. The clothes were clean and tidy. This made her very puzzled, "Did the ancients of the previous generation wear this kind of clothes?"
"It's only been a few days since I woke up," Hao Ren shook his head. "I don't know much about the last generation. What's the situation in the outside world now? Is there still a war?"
Just blindly speaking cautiously will also make you fall into a passive position. Before the other party asks more embarrassing questions to gain the initiative, this is also Hao Ren's work experience.
"Peace has never really come to the land of Kolo," said the old knight next to Veronica, "The slaves of Chaos will attack every century, and they are more aggressive every time. This year is the first time of the Chaos War." For seven years, they have come more ferociously than any time recorded in history, and many lands of order have fallen."
Veronica also showed a look of shame on her face: "We are ashamed of our ancestors who fought bravely—in the seventh year of chaos, we lost more land than in any previous century, and the border of order has receded to dusk. Near the Wall of Twilight... The Order has stabilized the defenses of the Wall of Twilight, but the land outside is now half-polluted."
Hao Ren turned his face away slightly: Her Royal Highness is sorry for his ancestors, he feels that this fake "Guardian of the Ancients" cannot bear it...
However, the words of the old knight and Veronica also gave him some interesting information, which made him think:
This place seems to be deeply troubled by a long discontinuous war. Every century, an enemy called "Chaos" invades the civilized world. The people of this world seem to have their own way of resisting the invasion, but their resistance is still It was difficult.
He has seen the blood disaster of the eldest son in the dream plane, the evil sect of the brain monster, and the army of the rebellious son, but what is this "chaos"
Maybe it has something to do with the "Lord of Madness" in the Dream Plane? But he has already come into contact with the shadow monsters summoned by cosmic fragments, and he has also greeted those monsters condensed from the mist just now, and the two seem to be different... (to be continued~^~)