When Shade saw the light ahead again, he temporarily left the narrow corridor covered with mud and came to the wider space inside the temple. This was probably a library or something like that before, and rotten wooden shelves could be seen everywhere in the mud on the ground.
The fishman priest in red sacrificial robes was fighting with Professor Sanchez, the vice president of Saint Byrons Comprehensive College. Although the fishman priest only had nine rings, his power seemed to be strengthened in the temple. But even so, he was still completely suppressed by Professor Sanchez, and the professor's victory was doomed.
"Who are you?"
Professor Sanchez also raised the same question as the church ring magician at the entrance of the temple. However, Shade still did not speak and wanted to bypass them.
Neither the red-robed chief priest nor the professor had any intention of stopping him. The professor even reminded him:
"The danger ahead is even greater. God's power rejects non-believers like us. No matter what you want to do, since you are a human being, I must remind you: do not move forward if it is not necessary."
Xia De shook his head, walked around the two men and ran forward holding the fishing rod.
After Tattoo led Xia De into the corridor again, he could clearly feel the air getting heavier. After running a few more steps, the air seemed to be blocking Xia De's progress like a quagmire. Some powerful force radiated from the front to the surroundings, a force that Xia De was very familiar with.
Although the temple complex was large, after running at full speed, Shade finally reached the end.
This was the real old temple. When Shad emerged from the exit of the corridor, his eyes passed over the huge black stone pillars supporting the building, over the strange and bizarre fish-man and mermaid statues that filled the ground, and even over the four people who were fighting. He saw the holy emblem hanging on the wall in the deepest part of the temple.
The light here is dim, but the holy emblem emits a bright golden glow.
The weird and twisted feeling at this time was only slightly better than the last time when the evil god was watching him directly. When he came to the temple, Shade even felt his skin moving, as if trying to spontaneously transform into the form of an aquatic creature. However, due to the reaction of some powerful force in his body, this transformation could not proceed at all.
The red spiral phantom became clearer and clearer along with the double image in front of him. He could vaguely hear the sound of prayer, but it also sounded like someone was whispering in his ear. The low and chaotic voice poured directly into his ears. If Shade was not used to facing gods in various occasions, he might have fallen to the ground and twitched after leaving the corridor.
Among the four people fighting, the ugly fishman chief priest was actually a twelfth-ringed warlock. Shade didn't expect that there was such a high-ringed warlock in the Scarlet Cult. But since the other party dared to rashly initiate the ritual, it was understandable that there was such a high-ringed warlock.
Unfortunately, his opponent was a thirteen-ring warlock. Judging from the holy emblem hanging on his chest and his fighting style, this middle-aged man in a black windbreaker who calmly manipulated countless tiny brass metal creations should belong to the Church of Creation and Destruction.
Besides the two, Shade actually saw Darkness who had taken off her red gloves, and Ms. Xiwei Aurora, whose face seemed to be covered with a layer of mist. Of course, because he couldn't see her face and her clothes had changed, Shade was not sure who it was at first, but the badge on his chest that was burning reminded him that there was no second witch in Coldwater Harbor.
Xia De immediately took off the gold ring on his hand and put it in his pocket, and was very grateful that the red sea water made it impossible to recognize the original style of his clothes.
Shade was not surprised that the other three were able to stand in the temple strongly influenced by the power of the gods without being affected, but it was somewhat unexpected that Darkness, who only had six rings, could resist the pressure as if he was being directly stared at by the gods.
Except for the twelfth-ring fishman, everyone else's power was suppressed.
The battle between Darkness and Miss Aurora was extremely strange. The former was bent over, with the life ring belonging to the six-ring warlock appearing behind him, and dark whirlpools around him. His strange right hand expanded into the upper body of a huge, flesh-colored, incomprehensible creature, and sulfur and black flames kept spewing out of the monster's laughing mouth.
Miss Xivi Aurora barely fought back, and even her life ring didn't show up. She used telekinesis to manipulate the fish-man statues in the temple to passively defend. But this witch, who was stronger than Miss Carina, had no reason to be defeated by Darkness. Shade still remembered that Miss Carina dared to try to rush forward when facing the evil god, and she was able to retreat successfully.
The witch seemed to be afraid of the thing growing out of Darkness's right hand, so she didn't attack with all her strength.
“Why are Darkness and the witch here too?”
Xia De thought puzzledly, and then he saw that the bloody fishman tattoo on the fishhook that had kindly brought him here had disappeared.
The scattered blood color merged into the temple and drifted into the forest of fishmen and mermaid statues. It seems that this is the real birthplace of the mermaid curse. It seems that the first curse spreader, that is, the small mermaid statue, originally belonged to the temple.
The four men in the fight soon spotted a stranger standing at the entrance of the temple with a fishing rod, but no one knew what this man was doing.
"Stranger, help me defeat the people of the Orthodox Church. When the tsunami floods Coldwater Harbor, I will give you the treasure of the fishmen. Elixirs of immortality, gold and silver utensils, ancient documents, and esoteric scriptures, you can choose whatever you want!"
The fish-man high priest spoke first. Although his face was not as alienated as the captain of the bone pirate ship or the oil painting in Mr. Jude's safe, it was definitely the most fish-like human face that Shad had seen in Coldwater Harbor.
Its skin was covered with slimy wrinkled scales, and the backs of its hands and forehead were engraved with the evil god's holy emblem. The person who was qualified to do this was probably the true controller of the Scarlet Cult.
"Don't trust these cultists. The sea return ceremony will not succeed. Stranger, help me deal with him, so that there will be fewer casualties in the city. No matter what organization you belong to, we are all human beings. The church will give you a suitable reward."
The church ring warlock who controlled the brass mechanical creation spoke directly, without using any words of justice to persuade Shade. However, his accent was a little strange, he was not from Dlarion. This one should be a temporary transfer from Carsenrick by the Creation Church.
"Stranger, help me deal with this demon-possessed man. How about a bearer draft for twenty thousand pounds? Any bank in a big city can cash it."
Miss Aurora also spoke. Although the two sides were very close now, the power of the evil god in the temple was too strong, and she could not accurately sense that something was wrong with Shade.
"She's a witch, don't trust her!"
Darkness said loudly. His own voice was calm, but the laughter of the demon that his right hand had transformed into was unusually sharp and piercing.
"You don't want to make an offer?"
Shade asked with a frown, temporarily moving his gaze away from the holy emblem deep in the temple.
"What?"
Darkness was stunned.
"I mean, the other three have made offers, so why don't you make one?"
Xia De repeated it again, and before the latter looked over, his body suddenly disappeared inside the temple.
"Be careful! It's the power of space!"
Darkness's right-hand demon suddenly spoke, the strange blasphemous language affecting the space, but only Shade and Darkness herself could understand it.
The latter instinctively swung his right arm behind him, and the demon opened its big mouth and bit the moonlight sword swung by Shade behind him.
The sword radiated a holy silver light, and the devil's mouth was covered with blisters as if it was burned, and foul-smelling black smoke came out.
The power of the sixth-ring warlock's strange right hand was far beyond the ability of the second-ring Shade to contend with. But before the power of that piece of flesh and blood faded, Shade could barely resist.
But that mouth was really powerful. In just two or three seconds, the Moonlight Greatsword began to break. Darkness was about to reach for Shade's heart with his left hand, but another Moonlight Greatsword suddenly chopped down from the void.
A strange dark vortex suddenly appeared in front of the Moonlight Greatsword. The two-handed greatsword that pierced out of the void fell into the darkness and disappeared completely. At the same time, the sword in Shade's hand was completely shattered by the sharp teeth.
He stepped back immediately, but Darkness was probably still concerned about the witch beside him, so she didn't catch up.
"Last time you said you were a six-ringed person and asked me what ring I was. Do you have an answer now?"
Shade asked softly, his eyes glancing towards the holy symbol on the deepest wall of the temple.
"you... ... "
The half-demon on the right suddenly roared, and extended its arms to bite Shad, but Shad's body disappeared again and appeared farther away.
"It's you? The guy on the roof?"
The middle-aged man suddenly realized.
"The letter of denunciation with the piece of paper containing 'one shilling' was written by you to the Natural Church? Wait, your signature is..."
The church ring warlock with a Carsenrick accent suddenly widened his eyes and glanced at Shad, but he did not say the name of "Godcaller".
"You're the one who reported me?"
Darkness stared at Shade.
"You were the one who wanted to kill me with the puppeteer script. I had no choice but to report you."
Shade responded.
The resentment on Darkness’s face intensified:
"You found our location first, how could I let you leave alive? Wait, something is wrong. My companion paid the price of his life because of a typo, and you were doomed to encounter a level 0 relic. How are you still alive?"
"Level 0 relic? So good luck... Level 0?"
The image of the monster in the pool flashed before Xia De's eyes, and the corners of his mouth twitched:
"Level 0."
This was the first level 0 relic he had seen in this world. Although the other party did not show any power, considering the strange infection that could melt almost any soul, and the practice of claiming to be desire, it seemed unreasonable that the other party was level 0.