Vivienne has evaluated the historical inheritance of short-lived species from the perspective of long-lived species many times, and these evaluations are always profound and accurate. Just like the witch story circulated in the Andre family, just three hundred years of family inheritance will cause such a huge deviation in the truth of the year, not to mention the 10,000-year-long historical record on the Dream Plane—there is still a gap in the middle. There have been several twists and turns and interruptions, so that it is understandable how many errors have occurred in the legends that have been handed down to this day.
Now even the longer-lived races in the Dream Plane can't figure out what the truth was back then.
People have always thought that the ancient magic empire's research on forbidden technology offended the goddess. The artificial miracles built by the magic emperors were symbols of blasphemy. Can you think that these things are actually used to suppress the eldest son
Although the repressive effect of these things may be quite limited.
At the foot of the Sunset Volcano is a large field of stones. The land made of huge black rocks stretches to the coastline on the east side. On a small mound between the field of stones and the limestone fortress lies the An old monastery that looks almost abandoned.
This monastery is the last facility of the Glory Sect on the east side of the kingdom, and only a few old ascetic monks are taking care of it.
The mottled and peeling church walls are covered with thorns. Apart from large pieces of rubble around the monastery, there are a few clumps of salt-tolerant bushes growing sparsely. From the outside, I am afraid that no one would have guessed that this is the second sacred cave, the Watcher Church. Hao Ren and the others didn't waste time in the Gray Rock Fortress. After a brief handover from the fortress defenders, Ophra led the team to this dilapidated monastery. The entrance to the sacred cave is located in the monastery's underground.
Lily looked at the dilapidated appearance of this ancient monastery with some emotion: "This place is really dilapidated... A fortress, an old monastery, can really guard such an important place as Sunset Volcano?"
"Don't underestimate these ancient facilities," Archbishop Auburn shook his head, "the three ancient ruins have corresponding church guards, the Lake Church in Beinz Parish, the old monastery at Sunset Volcano, and the giant tree of life The chapel. These three facilities are the oldest and most powerful divine arts nodes, and the church system of the entire kingdom is providing energy to these three nodes. Although they look dilapidated, it is difficult for even an army to break through Defense here."
"The church in the middle of the lake in the Blood Lake of Beinz was ruined in an instant. After the investigation, it was found that the eldest son completely cut off the operation of the chapel's magic power." Ofra shrugged. "Facts have proved that the power of the eldest son is far beyond our comprehension. Even the ancient magic empires couldn't resist it, and our current magical system is just fragments, let alone useful."
The Archbishop of Auburn shook his head and said nothing, while the monks of the Priory opened the entrance to the underground: this entrance is located in the back garden of the small church of the monastery, and it looks like an ordinary large tombstone from the outside. Hao Ren reckoned that there was also such an entrance in the lake center church of the Blood Lake in Beinz back then, leading to the storage point of the "holy coffin" under the church. But before he could find the entrance, the entire chapel was swallowed by the whirlpool.
The three sacred caves where the eldest son is sealed actually have the same structure: the eldest son sleeps in a huge underground cavity surrounded by a labyrinth-like cave system, above which there is a man-made rock shell (built or the magical emperors of old), the rocky shell holds up the upper surface. A small church was built right above the entire system (the builder was the first Pope of the Glorious Sect). In the basement of the chapel there is a safety device, the sacristy, which constantly "hypnotizes" the eldest son.
The whole structure is like a silver nail in the coffin to prevent the resurrection of evil spirits-the world has passed ten thousand years under the protection of this fragile safety device.
Going down a steep rocky passageway, you can reach the underground part of the chapel. This is a medium-sized underground palace. Very spacious, but simple structure. No frills, it's downright functional.
Hao Ren followed Archbishop Auburn out of the corridor, and saw a spacious rock hall illuminated by magic glow stones. In the center of the rock hall was a stone platform. The stone platform was empty, but the slight depression in the center seemed to prove that Something was stored here. Around the hall, many monks in gray robes can be seen meditating-the gray robes are the dress of ascetics.
"These are penance groups sent from the capital," Ophra explained in a low voice. "The church and the capital have sent a lot of people to monitor the movement of the two sacred caves, but ordinary people will get too close to the tentacles." Controlled by the mind. So most people can only guard in the gray rock fortress, only these ascetic monks and some high-ranking knights have entered the ground. The high-ranking knights are in other crypts."
Hao Ren nodded. He knew that the place where the eldest son slept was like a huge underground labyrinth. There should be countless criss-crossing corridors and huge crypts nearby. The knights and monks from the capital should have gone to various crypts. Ascetic monks should be responsible for guarding the entrance.
The surface of Sunset Volcano looks unchanged, but layers of defenses have been set up underground—the defenses only have the effect of psychological comfort.
Archbishop Auburn pointed to the stone platform in the center of the long hall: "This was used to place the holy coffin, but after opening the outer shell of the sacred cave, we moved the holy coffin to a deeper place."
Then he led the team through the hall and continued towards another corridor that sloped downwards even more. It didn't take long for everyone to pass through a stone wall that seemed to have just been cut through, and the road ahead suddenly became clear.
"What we just passed was the outer wall of the underground palace of the church. It was just broken last month." Another bishop looked back at the black stone wall engraved with Leta runes. "From here, we will enter the influence of the Firstborn range."
Several accompanying ministers in the team immediately clenched the magic amulets in their hands: These people are ordinary people, they do not have the strong spiritual power of monks or the strong will of high-ranking knights, but they have to go deep into the eldest son because of their mission. Only by relying on those blessed amulets can they move freely in this underground world.
"I feel a little hot," Nangong Wuyue was the first to feel the change in the surrounding environment after walking for a while, "and there seems to be a bit... sulfur smell in the air?"
"We are under the Sunset Volcano," Ophra smiled. "The werewolf magic emperor Sanur created the largest and most complicated underground lava river in the world below, and some heat and gas will flow from the cracks in the rocks. infiltrated. But don’t worry, we’ve made sure there’s nothing leaked.”
Nangong Wuyue curled her lips, creating a barrier of water mist around her: "Tsk tsk... Why do things like this always happen to me? I've started to lose my scales in the past few days."
Hao Ren: "..."
Everyone went deep along the underground passage, and the more they went forward, the wider it became. They passed several forks and relatively spacious stone chambers. As Hao Ren expected, there were three to five senior officials at each fork and stone chamber. Knights or monks are stationed. They built simple camps and defense lines in this underground world, monitoring any disturbance that might come out of the labyrinthine passages.
At the same time, Hao Ren finally saw what he wanted to see: the tentacles of the eldest son began to appear on the surrounding cave walls.
When the Archbishop of Auburn saw those winding and huge tentacles, his face finally lost the calmness of stone carvings. The mosaic of his head even trembled slightly. "And a high-ranking clergyman who is very sensitive to "origin power", he feels the powerful power and crazy ideas contained in these tentacles more clearly than others: "These are the outer tentacles, and only a small part have mental interference The ability, as long as you avoid it carefully, it will not be affected, so it is still safe here. But if you continue to move forward, you will enter... "
"It will enter the key 'organ' of the eldest son. I know, we have entered it ourselves," Hao Ren nodded. "These tunnels should still be on the outer layer of the cave. Have you opened the outer shell of the inner area?"
"It's just ahead, but we didn't open it," Archbishop Auburn nodded, and led the crowd to a fork in the road. "We searched for ten days, and finally found the ancient magic emperor in this maze-like tunnel." The remaining weak point of the barrier, disturbingly, has a gap in it through which part of the firstborn's tentacles have sprung."
After continuing to move forward for about ten minutes, the team came to the "barrier entrance" in Auburn's mouth. This is a huge circular cave, and ancient and sacred texts can be seen everywhere on the walls around the cave, which are the seals and messages left by the first Pope. Hundreds of ascetic monks and paladins built fortresses and defense lines in this cave, closely monitoring the several tentacles that spread out from the west side of the cave. Hao Ren saw those tentacles protruding from a huge gap, instead of "seeping" out of the rock like other places, which shows that these tentacles used more violent methods when they broke through the barrier. Enlarged the channel of their own access.
But it seems that this should only be a short-term "false awakening". Now those tentacles have quieted down again. Judging from the traces around the tentacles, the last time they "twitched" should be many years ago.
"It's scary," Ofra smacked her lips. "Before we knew... how many things happened underground on this planet?"
Hao Ren cautiously approached the tentacles, and after confirming that there was no response from the latter, he stepped on them boldly. He climbed along the tentacles to the crack in the stone wall and looked at the situation on the opposite side.
On the other side is the secret room where the eldest son slept. He saw a huge stone room filled with an ominous red light. Countless tentacles gathered from all directions to form a tangled and twisted sarcoma-like organ. The light changes from light to dark at a very slow speed.
"The good news is that the sleeping is very solid, but the bad news is that this 'tumor' looks bigger than the one in the Dragon's Back Mountain Range." Hao Ren jumped back to the ground. "Where is the holy coffin? I want to analyze its mechanism."
The Archbishop of Auburn pointed to a small stone house in the center of the knight's garrison: "It's right there." (To be continued~^~)