Other personnel searched the abandoned old mansion up and down. Apart from the ruined walls and the corpses of cultists everywhere, the crazy followers of Loch Marton only left such a valuable trace.
A black and red altar of evil.
The altar is not big, with a radius of about two meters. It is made of some kind of indescribable mysterious substance. This substance looks like loose volcanic rock, but it is extremely hard, and it has a bone-piercing chill. The altar is made of The blood depicts distorted runes, these runes are blurred on the black and red base of the altar itself, but if you stare carefully, those runes appear as if they have broken off the table, making everyone who looks at it People are dizzy. And next to the altar, two piles of ashes can be seen, human-shaped ashes.
The shape of the ashes makes people can't help but have some creepy associations.
"... This is matter from the depths of chaos, a filthy thing corroded by Lokmarton's blood," Calassius knelt down in front of the altar, and touched the surface of the altar with his fingers with disgust on his face. "Only those cultists who have become half-monsters can conjure this kind of thing from nothingness through psychic rituals. No wonder they choose to settle here: the chaotic tear point is the weak point on the frontier of order. Here, they and the chaotic world The connection between them will become closer, and even this evil thing can be summoned directly from the chaotic world."
"What is this table for?" Lily poked the edge of the altar with her paw curiously, "Is there blood on it?"
"The altar is just a medium to communicate with the dark forces in the chaos. They use living people as sacrifices." Calcius frowned and glanced at the two piles of humanoid ashes beside the altar. A descendant of a sage with the blood of the Sanctuary... This blood is enough to please Loch Marton, and make the source of all evils drop unimaginable power."
Hao Ren rubbed his chin, and the clues were connected by him: "They may borrow power from Lochmarton through this altar, and then use it to restrain an 'artifact' that they cannot control."
"Artifact?" Calassius immediately raised his head, "What do you know?"
"Of course I know, they snatched the 'artifact' from me," Hao Ren spread his hands, facing a stranger he just met, he did not rush to tell the truth, "Among the escaped cultists are a couple Brothers and sisters named Willie and Lavinia, they were originally oblivion believers lurking in the noble class of Talos, and then they used a trick to snatch a disc from me, and they thought it was a 'radiant disc'."
But I didn't expect the high-ranking monk to widen his eyes as if he saw a ghost after hearing these four words: "The Radiant Disc?! Why do you have this sacred object in your hand? It really is it!?"
"They 'thought' that thing was a shining disk, but I didn't say it was," Hao Ren shrugged, and asked curiously, "It sounds like this shining disk is something very important? Is it exactly? What, let these cultists make such a big battle?"
Calassius had a hesitant look on his face, as if he was considering whether this matter was a secret of the sanctuary, but before he could think it through, Lily patted his arm next to him: "Just tell me, uncle, the landlord must have Method!"
Calassius considered his own health and the strength of the wolf's hands, and immediately decided to tell the story.
"The Disc of Radiance is an ancient artifact that has been lost for thousands of years. It is said that it is a key that can deflect and open the 'Reflection Realm' under the holy mountain of Asuman, and enter another dimension of this world. According to ancient legends, The 'Land of Reflection' is also a secret path leading to the eternal prison that suppresses Loch Marton, but this secret path has been blocked by the divine power of the Goddess of Creation, and even if mortals can open it, they can only watch it from a distance and cannot approach it."
"The prison where Lockmarton was held?" Hao Renxin said that the situation was similar to what he had guessed, but there was still nothing unusual on his face, "It doesn't mean that Lockmarton was torn apart by the security system left by the goddess when he escaped for the first time. Broken, is there only its echo left in the world?"
Calassius had a gloomy face, but what he thought of at the moment was the words that the "Nightmare Shadow" said in a short-lived sane state, and those words pointed to a chilling secret. After hesitating for a moment, he glanced at the wolf and Hao Ren: "What I'm going to tell you next is one of the world's oldest secrets. Even in the sanctuary, only the upper echelons of the Holy See have the right to know."
The female knight Tridis immediately took the initiative to speak out when she heard this: "Then I should retreat first?"
"No need," Calassius sighed and waved his hands. "Secrets are only meaningful to specific people at a specific time. Looking at the current situation, I don't think there is any need to keep it secret. Lockmarton is not Not dead, not dead from the start."
Hao Ren had already guessed this before, so it wasn't surprising. Lily didn't think it was scary at all, and she had heard information about it from Calassius before, so she looked calm, but apart from them In addition, most people at the scene showed expressions of shock and disbelief, even some monks from the sanctuary.
Obviously, their level in the sanctuary is not enough to touch this part of the secret.
Calassius coughed twice, and simply continued the matter: "The power of Loch Marton is unimaginable to mortals. Only the power of the Goddess of Creation can suppress it, but it is only suppression: the evil giant has never When he really died, he just lost his body in the real world, and was imprisoned in an eternal prison called 'Forgotten Abyss' in the form of nightmares and negative energy. His spiritual body survived intact in that cage. , instead of floating in the sea of Karnos in a fragmented form as told in the myth—this statement was originally just to appease the believers, but now it has become the 'truth' that everyone in the secular world firmly believes in."
Hao Ren nodded silently, expressing his understanding of Calassius' words.
After all, most of the people in this world are ordinary people, and the truth that is too heavy and dark is not acceptable to everyone.
"The Abyss of Oblivion is a world ruled by nightmares and twisting shadows, located in the depths of the Sea of Karnos, but it is not the 'deep' in the conventional sense of space," Calcius continued, "It is in our world Among the cornerstones of the prison is an area that mortals cannot set foot in. Apart from the guards of the ancient prisons and the posts of the ancient holy spirit, there is nothingness outside the prison, but this prison is not completely isolated from our world... "
Hao Ren interrupted him: "It's the Realm of Reflection you mentioned just now, it's a bridge connecting the real world and the nightmare world?"
The senior monk nodded silently.
"So... those cultists plan to enter Lockmarton's cell?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "What are they planning to do? Prison robbery?"
"This is something I can't believe," said the high-ranking monk in an unusually depressed tone, "There is the last barrier between the Realm of Reflection and the Abyss of Forgotten. It is already the limit for ordinary Annihilation cultists to borrow a little power from the Abyss of Oblivion through rituals. How could those cultists think that they have the ability to directly penetrate the barrier?! They can’t even get in by themselves, let alone Bring Lochmarton's soul out of that world!"
Hao Ren nodded while listening, but suddenly, a lightning thought flashed through his mind: "What if the divine power barrier left by the goddess of creation fails?"
Calassius stared at Hao Ren.
"The Light of Asuman..." Hao Ren said slowly, "How long has it been since you left the Sanctuary?"
The senior monk hesitated for a moment, suppressing the uneasiness in his heart: "It's been more than a month... because all the teleportation formations have been blocked by the chaotic storm, we can only take the magical battleship, and it takes more than half of the time just to cross the Sea of Karnos." It took me a month, and then I crossed the Ansu southern border with the wolf, and it took another half a month."
"Sure enough, you don't know what happened in the sanctuary after that," Hao Ren sighed, "According to the situation detected by the astrologer using state-level detection spells, the light of Asuman over the sanctuary has been extinguished. It happened a month ago, at that time you had already left the sanctuary."
The monks in the sanctuary all stood there dumbfounded.
"How...so fast..." Calcius muttered to himself.
"It seems that the situation in the sanctuary was not right before you left," Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "then the withdrawal of the Church State can also be explained."
Calassius' face turned pale: "Sensational, sensational... If it's what you said, the cultists must have made every plan to release the evil souls of Loch Marton, they are fully capable of entering the Abyss of Oblivion, and even take the evil giant's Bring out the soul!"
"Maybe it's not that bad," Hao Ren laughed at this moment, "The 'key' in their hands is fake."
"Fake?" The senior monk didn't react immediately, but quickly understood what the other party meant, "You said that the shining disk in their hands..."
"I don't know what the real disc of light is like, but the one they stole from me is definitely not," Hao Ren said with a smirk on his face. "If they use that thing to open the door, they will have a lot of fun."
Calassius blinked, the surprise came so suddenly that he had to calm down. But after the surprise, his face was still full of worry: "Even so, the extinction of the light of Asuman is still a big event. Without the protection of the eternal holy light, the sanctuary is at stake."
Lily looked at Hao Ren, then at Calassius: "Uncle, do you want to go home and have a look? Your hometown is booming."
The big dog's speech is still so simple and directly penetrates into the hearts of the people.
Karasius took a few deep breaths, and it took a lot of effort to calm down. His eyes became firm again: "If the light of Asuman has been extinguished, even if the entire sanctuary investigation team is withdrawn, it will be nothing but a drop in the bucket. If the Pope and the bishops are still holding on, then our mission may be the last hope to save the sanctuary."
"Mission?" Hao Ren asked casually curiously.
Before Calassius could speak, Lily jumped up bluffing: "They are going to a place called the barren wilderness to find the ruins of the Casuan Temple! They say there is a Daoguang over there!"
Hao Ren was taken aback: "Cassuan Temple? Why do I sound a bit... What the hell?"
Seeing his appearance, Lily immediately approached him: "Landlord, do you know this place?"
Hao Ren rubbed his chin, and finally connected all the causes and consequences together.
He touched his chin: "Calassius, right... The light you are looking for, if nothing else happens, I should have smashed it out." (To be continued~^~)