Receiving a signal from Miss Beas, Chad pulled the two ladies in front and behind him, and then lit the Bordeaux candle. The voices, heat and figures of the three people disappeared, and the light of the candle illuminated the scene.
The three men were almost out of the tunnel, but when they raised their hands to prepare for attacks from all directions, they saw no ferocious-looking people waiting for them outside.
The candlelight illuminated the surroundings and they finally felt relieved.
The passage was connected to an underground space of similar size to Shade's bedroom, barely a cubic space. Opposite the wall dug out by the mercury blood was a closed stone door. Apart from the stone door, there was nothing here.
This is the official entrance to the ruins. The word "shabby" is probably the right word to describe this place. It is not the huge building complex in the underground cave as imagined, nor is it the mausoleum of the ancient witch emperor in the story. It is just a dark room buried deep underground.
"If this place was really built by the last believers of the innocent Creator, they should have almost reached the end of their ways by then."
Miss Bei Ya Si commented, she felt a little sad, after all, the other party was also a believer of the good god, and he persisted for a thousand years after the god left.
Instead of pushing the door open immediately, the three of them dispersed to observe the surroundings. Xia De raised his finger and carefully observed the surrounding rock walls. Except for the side where the stone door was located, the other three sides were engraved with words. The ruins were obviously built in the early Sixth Age (Chapter 172), but the words used were not the words of this age.
Fortunately, no matter which era the texts belonged to, it made no difference to Xia De, so he translated them:
In the 532nd year of the Sixth Era, Joel Ode Carris, Scarlett Card Guzman, and Gina Angela Sewell sealed the ruins together. Our Lord has left, and we are about to sleep forever. The glory of the Order has been brilliant for a thousand years, but everything will eventually die. May our Lord, the "Pure Creator," be resurrected and give us glory again.
As he read, both ladies looked over.
"Do you recognize these words?"
Xia De stopped translating and asked them.
“I don’t know him.”
The brown-haired girls shook their heads together.
"No, I'm not asking if you know these characters, but if you know what kind of characters they are."
Xia De asked again, and Miss Bei Yasi blushed:
"My score in ancient literature... the Vatican almost failed me in the test."
"I don't know. This should be some rare ancient language. These religious groups inherited from ancient times all like to use rare ancient languages as a means of internal communication. On the one hand, it shows the antiquity of their organization, and on the other hand, it is for safety reasons."
Miss Annat said, she knew that Shade could read all the texts, so she didn't ask any more questions:
"Mercury Blood probably failed to translate these contents. Let's see if there is any valuable information. We need to move forward as soon as possible. Detective, give me the Magic Eye first, and I will go to the front in a moment."
Xia De handed her the small jar he was carrying, then raised his finger and continued to read the text. This kind of text has very little information in the words, and it takes a long paragraph to describe simple things, so there is not much left:
If our Lord is resurrected, the oracle will surely guide the later generations to excavate the remains of the cult. Our Lord's last creation, transformed into a divine artifact rated as a sage-level relic by the Orthodox Church, is deep in the ruins... ...
"A divine weapon?"
Miss Beas interrupted Shade in surprise:
"Is the God's Gift Box a creation of the old god 'Pure Creator'? Or is there an even more powerful relic inside the ruins?"
"Shad, continue translating."
Miss Anat also frowned.
All three of them were sweating. Although there was enough oxygen underground, it was really stuffy here:
Later comers must not desecrate our Lord's sacred artifacts and must take them away according to the etiquette of the cult.
"What is etiquette?"
Miss Beatrice asked again.
Xia De glanced at the following paragraphs:
"No, it seems that they assume that the latecomers know the etiquette."
"Detective, continue translating. Besides the so-called creations of the old gods, what else is there in the ruins?"
The cult had accumulated wealth for thousands of years, and before the ruins were sealed, all of it was donated through the Orthodox Church...
"ah?"
The young girl was subconsciously surprised, then covered her mouth embarrassedly and motioned Xia De to continue.
In addition to the creations of my Lord, I built a defense system with several relics to warn thieves. In addition...
The traces are a bit blurry, but you can still make them out:
There is also a religious doctrine called "The Book of the Ignorant", which has been preserved in the form of eighteen pure gold engravings;
There is also a statue of our Lord's holy emblem, sleeping with the three of us;
There are also filthy relics sealed by the Order, suppressed here;
Xia De suddenly coughed and subconsciously covered his mouth. He looked down and saw blood in the palm of his hand.
Miss Beas and Miss Annette, who were nearby, saw the blood at the corner of his mouth and immediately stopped him:
"Stop looking, detective. Stop it."
As she said this, Miss Beatrice was about to pull Shad.
"It doesn't matter. There's only one last sentence left."
Shade shook his head and looked away from the stone wall, finally feeling dizzy. This ancient text itself was a power, and he hadn't realized it just now. If this was a longer article, he would most likely die in silence.
Have you forgotten that I am here? If there is any danger, I will remind you.
“Yes.”
He answered in his mind and continued to look up, but Miss Annat grabbed his hand and looked at him with purple eyes:
"Be careful."
The female fortune teller reminded softly.
The sect was glorious for a thousand years, but it finally came to an end in the hands of the three of us. Sleeping here, the soul...
The life ring in the soul trembled violently, and the spirit in the body was actually moved by the words, which made the incident of the Dark Box going out of control come to mind.
Having learned his lesson, Xia De immediately closed his eyes and forced himself to forget the shapes of the dozens of scratches on the back. After a long while, he said:
"No, the last sentence is like a spell. There are still defenses here."
Fortunately, he only read the beginning, so he didn't cause any trouble. And through the marks on the three walls, they also knew that in addition to the God's gift box, there were actually other valuable things in the ruins.
However, even if the Mercury Blood could not translate these words, they had occupied this place for so long, and they had most likely already searched the ruins. So apart from the gift box of the Sage-level Relic God that could not be moved, there was probably nothing worth taking away from the ruins.
The next step is to officially enter the door. Although Miss Annat only divined three dangerous relics along the way, it is obvious that these three relics cannot be the only ones blocking the way.
It is even possible that the person with silver eyes is at the door, waiting for the three to open the door and then killing them with one move.
Now that we've come this far, there's no need to talk about retreating.
Shade put on the gold necklace and lit the candle to make himself and Miss Beiyas disappear. Miss Anat held two jars with magic eyes in her left hand and hit the stone door with her right arm.
The stone door was opened, and it seemed as if endless darkness floated out from behind the door. The only thing that could be seen behind the door was two huge red light sources, which reminded Shade of Mia the cat peeping at him through the crack of the door in the dark.
But the thing behind the door was obviously not a harmless creature like Mia. Even though Shad was standing behind Miss Annat, he still felt the horror and distortion coming from the back door of the stone door.
Living things instinctively fear the unknown that exists behind the door, and the two red light sources seem to be warning of danger.
Ice spread out from the cracks in the door, and the cold wind was mixed with a foul smell, like the air coming out of a lonely grave in the mountains. An inexplicable feeling was warning Xia De not to move forward.
After this moment, he suddenly realized that the two huge red balls should be eyes, and the size of the owner of the eyes can be calculated based on this, then... ... Xia De has never had any gigantic fear, but thinking of this, he still felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
The wind was blowing violently, and in the darkness behind the door, something was rushing towards here. Miss Anat was as stunned as Shade, but she reacted at this moment and threw the two jars she was holding forward without thinking.
The candles in their hands could only illuminate a small area of space inside the stone door. The three of them saw that the two glass jars containing the magic eyes that were thrown into the door were grabbed by a giant hand that stretched out from the darkness. Then the giant hand retracted into the darkness where the candlelight had not yet illuminated. The ice layer that spread out from the door stopped, and the wind with a foul smell also stopped.
The three of them were breathing heavily. At that moment, they really felt that a disaster was about to happen. After the giant stone hands retreated, they dared to enter the door completely. Xia De raised his finger high, and Miss Bei Yasi summoned several bright yellow light balls to fly into the sky.
The space outside the door is obviously not as narrow as a normal bedroom, but the space behind the first door does look a bit like the ancient underground ruins in the story.
The space behind the door was still very spacious, about the same size as St. Teresa's Square, but more than four stories high. A giant stone statue stood in the middle of this empty space, with its feet on the ground and its head touching the sky, with its head almost directly touching the highest stone wall.
The stone statue has two legs, four arms, and three heads. A semicircular stone ring connects the shoulders on both sides and draws an arc-shaped trajectory above the head.
The huge red eye that I just saw was located in the center of the head, and in addition, the entire stone statue, from top to bottom, was covered with other eyes almost everywhere. The stone statue was motionless like a dead object, but those thousands of eyes kept opening and closing under the silver and yellow light, looking at the "tiny" three people, and each eye clearly revealed the color of wisdom.
"Is this a gargoyle?"
Even if this thing didn't move, the sense of oppression itself was enough to drive a mentally fragile person crazy. At the same time, this could be considered the largest relic that Shade had ever seen.