Inside the cave, there is a slanting, long, and wide dark black stone corridor. There are copper lamps inlaid every ten meters on the surrounding stone walls, but most of them are not lit, and occasionally a few The dim yellow light of the sky set off the corridor pale and gloomy.
As soon as Lucien entered the corridor, he swiftly and calmly dodged to the dark corner of the wall, blended into the shadows, and moved forward strangely and quickly, almost crawling, without the sound of footsteps.
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In the temple, another high priest wrapped in a silver robe was checking the other entrances and exits one by one, worried that it was a man-made coincidence, and someone would sneak in through other entrances.
As for the entrance here, because it was the place where the fierce battle took place, and there was Angela outside, the high priest subconsciously ignored it, thinking it was safe, and put it at the end.
This is a deliberate exploitation of blind spots in thinking!
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After walking forward for ten seconds, the corridor became smooth, and there were many slightly old and dilapidated doors on the stone wall.
Hiding in the darkness outside a door, Lucien did not use the "scream of bats" to investigate. Instead, he concentrated and listened to the movement inside with his sharpened hearing, because he was worried that there would be surveillance in this underground palace. Magic circles with large magic fluctuations, magic circles, etc.
"There is no sound of breathing, no sound of conversation, no sound of action." Lucien used the feedback to judge that there was no one inside. After all, the battle outside was fierce. If there were people in the hiding place of the Silver Horn Cult or there was something strange about not needing to breathe. Creatures, that would never be so quiet.
Holding the doorknob with his right hand and gently exerting force, the door slowly opened. After quickly scanning the inside with his eyes, Lucien flashed into the room.
It wasn't until this time that Lucien was slightly relieved. The nervousness, depression, and fear of being discovered by a high-level powerhouse finally eased a little, otherwise Lucien suspected that he would unconsciously suffocate.
"It seems that in this dungeon, most of the powerful cult members have been sent out to fight, while those who have not left are basically guarded in key places. Well, Uncle Joel and his family are poor people, so they shouldn't be detained strictly. .” Lucien understood that his preliminary plan was successful, “But there really is a ruin here.”
It is obvious from the many rotting furniture in the room that this is an underground relic.
After calculating that the cultists were hiding 100 meters near the forest ranger's hut, Lucien guessed that there might be underground relics or underground caves, each with a 50% possibility, so the "Emden" magical relics are not It's just nonsense.
After a brief adjustment, Lucien opened the door again and continued to go deep into the tunnel. The matter was urgent, and the strength of the cultists had an absolute advantage. I believe it would not be long before the battle ended and returned.
Lurking in the corridor, Lucien judged where the core was based on the traces of his past, and at the same time looked for the cultists in the room.
After listening to three houses in a row, Lucien finally heard the voice.
Behind an equally old door, two people were talking nervously: "What's going on outside? All the priests have gone out?"
"I don't know either, but I could hear a loud explosion outside..."
Lucien judged the strength of the two of them, gently opened the door, and rushed in, his body turned into an afterimage.
The two cultists were worried about the situation outside. They didn't expect that they would be in danger. They were knocked unconscious by Lucien one by one.
Closing the wooden door, Lucien woke up one of the young cultists.
The cultist just woke up, remembering what happened just now, and wanted to call for help, but a pair of deep eyes appeared in front of his eyes, which seemed to be shining in a dreamy starry sky full of stars.
Immediately, the cultist was lost in the starry sky, thinking that the other party was the "Silver Lord" whom he believed in wholeheartedly.
"Do you know where the captured poor family is locked?" Lucien asked softly.
The "Starry Eye" used in this way is equivalent to hypnotism, basically there is no magic fluctuation, and it is more of direct spiritual and spiritual power.
After "communicating" with the cultists, Lucien grasped the general situation of this layer of ruins. To the west of the ruins is the core temple, where there are high priests, priests, priests and dark knights, and the Joel family and some other ordinary hostages It was held in a remote room in the northwest of the ruins, guarded by an ordinary dark knight with several knight attendants.
Moreover, this ruin has more than one floor, but the lower floors have been completely destroyed. At the same time, there are five exits on this floor, which are located in different places in the Melzer Black Forest.
Not daring to delay, Lucien broke the necks of the two cultists, then left the stone house, bypassed the core of the ruins, and sneaked quietly and quickly towards the northwest.
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After checking the other entrances, the silver-robed high priest in the temple began to cast magic spells, checking the entrances that should have no problems. At the same time, he ordered the remaining priests, priests, and dark knights to focus on checking around the temple.
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Thanks to mastering the terrain of this layer of ruins, although Lucien is still cautious, the hidden tension has disappeared a lot, and he is moving forward calmly and freely. In addition, most of the powerful cultists in the ruins have already left. , so quickly and smoothly reached the "cell" location provided by the cult believers.
This is a large remote room, divided into two halves by iron railings. The innermost part is divided into seven or eight cabins, which house different hostages, traitors, etc., and the outer part is hung with many instruments of torture. The knight attendants walked around restlessly, discussing things outside from time to time.
An old man in black leather armor, whose face was distorted due to long-term negative emotions, was sitting on a wooden bench, looking fiercely at the "prisoner" room behind the iron railings, as if he could see through the closed iron door to the situation inside.
The violent noise was still coming. Although the fighting outside had eased a lot, it still continued.
The old man who was a dark knight suddenly stood up, and said with strong anger: "Get those two guys with broken fingers out, and I will punish them well."
Lucien, who was hiding in the shadows outside and quietly listening to the movement inside, was moved, "He means Uncle Joel and Aunt Alisa?"
One of the knight attendants hurriedly tried to dissuade them: "Master Johnson, we cannot let them die before we succeed in advance!"
"I understand, but I'm in a bad mood right now and need to blow off some steam, and they're the most troublesome prisoners to take out every day or two, it's disgusting and annoying! I'm just going to teach them a lesson !” Due to the fighting outside, Jason said irritably, “Tim, if you don’t want to, then you will replace them!”
Several knight servants knew that Master Johnson was very irritable and irritable due to the power of his blood. They glanced at each other and did not dare to stop them. They took out the keys and opened the iron bars and iron gates.
"You guys." Joel woke up groggy. The torture during this period made them slow to respond to the outside world, and they didn't even notice the fierce battle on the ground.
Tim kicked Joel and woke Alisa up: "Master Jason is going to interrogate you."
Then he turned his body sideways, allowing Joel and Alisa to go out worried and scared. Ivan, who was woken up, gritted his teeth and watched this scene with hatred. He didn't cry or make noise, and he was much more mature than before.
"Go faster." Tim kicked Joel again, causing him to stumble over the bars and almost fall in front of Jason.
Jason picked up the whip from the torture rack and slammed it on Joel's back: "You low bastards, why do you bother me so much! Damn it, really damn it!"
Although Jason restrained his strength, he was afraid of killing Joel and Alisa, but as a dark knight, he still made Joel roll over and scream in pain.
Such painful shouting made Jason a little more comfortable, and his irritable mood from worrying about fighting outside eased down.
But this painful scream also made Lucien in the shadows outside clenched his fists tightly, wishing to rush in to save and kill people immediately.
"It's not the time yet, we must wait!"
Relying on his strong self-control and calmness, Lucien hid in the shadows motionless.
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On the ground, the battle has come to an end. Of the thirty night watchmen, only "Joker", "Code Bearer" Salvador, the great knight Lund with the blood of "Elimination", "Night Watch Red Dragon" Minsk and the second level battle Pastor Juliana and the other twenty-five night watchmen including a great knight were all killed, and some of them didn't even have their bodies left.
The "Silver Horn" High Priest Angela floated in the air, casting powerful sorcery to weaken the strength of the three fifth-level powerhouses, and coordinated with the frontal attacks of other priests, priests, and dark knights.
Angra communicated with the silver-robed high priest by means of a short-distance telepathic connection: "Ilya, it's really difficult to teach these night watchmen, there are a lot of powerful magical items, if I didn't take the initiative in advance, I'm afraid my seventh-level The High Priests have to pay a certain price to get rid of them."
Now, those magical items have been destroyed a lot by Angra's sorcery.
"Angra, don't procrastinate, quickly resolve the battle, and then hurry up to deal with the battlefield, and completely destroy the entrance of the ruins here, so that the church will not find out." Ilya, the silver-robed high priest, urged Angra.
"Okay." Angra recovered for two seconds, and the dark light in her hand lit up, as if she was about to cast a powerful sorcery.
At this time, the sound of crashing tide suddenly sounded from above, the darkness became a deep blue, and the sea and the sky changed positions strangely.
The deep blue water and sky collapsed suddenly, turning into a huge blue pillar that pierced through the sky and earth as if struck down by a god, covering Angra.
The silver-robed high priest Ilya sensed this scene through a telepathic connection, and stood up at once: "'Dark Blue Tide' Camille!"
This is the seventh-level sky knight!
And in the sky, two bright red figures flew over, a man and a woman, with bright red robes, shawls, and square hats. They were assisting Pastor Sard, a member of the College of Cardinals, to preside over the Diocese of Violet. Two Cardinals Gosset and Amerton!
Behind them, there are several knights who rely on magic items and other flying to come.
"Execute everyone, destroy all traces, and quickly evacuate from other entrances!" The silver-robed high priest Ilya didn't have time to care about Angra's situation. Through the crystal ball, he hurriedly ordered the key personnel inside the ruins, and at the same time he was destroying himself. Looking at the altar, if the complete altar is seen by the cardinal, this time the matter has almost completely failed.
Although he and Angela are also seventh-level high priests, Angela has been fighting for a while, and was successfully attacked by a sky knight. The strength of the two of them will definitely not be able to defeat two cardinals and a sky knight now, which is even more terrifying Unfortunately, Sard, the old "monster" standing at the top of the world, may come at any time, so Ilya made a very decisive decision.
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In the prison, Jensen got the order from the crystal ball hanging around his neck through the sense of will, so he waved the whip ferociously.
As for Lucien in the shadow outside, as soon as he heard the loud sound of waves hitting the ground, he knew that the opportunity he was waiting for had come, so before Jason raised his whip, he had already smashed open the iron gate outside, turning into a A faint moonlight-like afterimage rushed towards Jason's back.