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Chapter 18

Due to the relatively large number of people and walking forward, although no emergencies were encountered, it still took them 6 days to reach the position near the huge pothole.Seen from a close distance, the pothole is filled with gray mist, and the bottom cannot be seen. If no one has really gone down, no one will believe that the pit has a bottom.

"That group of people didn't conflict with that Casaredin." Reya looked at the group of people who kept a safe distance from them, and whispered.

"Of course not, I have reached an agreement with them." The black-robed priest who suddenly appeared from nowhere made everyone jump.

"Why do you appear like a ghost?" Lacey complained, "You pop up out of nowhere every day, aren't you tired?"

"Ah, I'm sorry." Casaredin apologized very simply, then stepped aside and continued, "A dark priest is indispensable to open the gate and enter the Dark Temple, so they found me and said that before entering the Dark Temple , I will never trouble me. Anyway, I have no intention of confronting them head-on, since they are coming, of course I will not refuse. "

"Then what should we do now?" Ed looked at him cautiously.

"You guys just follow behind, find opportunities for yourself~" Casared turned and left, waving his hands and walked towards the direction of the army, "Special treatment~"

"Special treatment or something..." Reya frowned, "That group of people may not be better than us."

"That's not necessarily true. Those people have been away all year round and have experienced more things than us. Experience is also part of strength." Lu Mo was very calm.He didn't think there was anything wrong with being underestimated, maybe it would be their advantage at some point.

"Lumer is right." Ed nodded, "It's the special preferential treatment he said, so we should pay more attention. It's better for us to follow up and stay away from him."

"Hehe~ Did you give us preferential treatment for the sake of the Elf?" Lacey looked at Roser teasingly.

The white elf did not leave him, and took the lead to catch up with the crowd.

Lacey felt bored, so she pulled Rex and followed.

"I don't think Lacey really hates him?" Rhea rubbed her chin.

"Well, it's not your illusion." Lumer nodded.

"Don't say anything, let's go." Ed gave the two people a slap on the back of the head and warned them with narrowed eyes.

"The captain is showing off his power, let's go~" The two trotted all the way.

Ed looked at the two guys who were always having convulsions from time to time, shook his head, and followed.

The fog in the big pit is not an ordinary fog, it is a miasma, a miasma that will make people fall into a hallucination.

The people who enter here are not people who don't understand anything, they are all experienced adventurers and mercenaries, but such a simple miasma is not to be feared, everyone has already prepared, and wears a mask that can dispel the miasma. The leaves of the miasmatic sungrass moved smoothly on the way to the temple.

"Without this miasma, it really doesn't look like you are walking towards the ruins of the ancient dark temple." Lacey looked around, except for the people who were not far away, there was nothing but fog.

"It does look safer here than I imagined." Rosell rarely took the initiative to talk to Lacey, "I didn't perceive anything special. Wait." He stopped suddenly, closed his eyes, Stand still.Then, raised his right hand and pointed to the right, "Over there."

"What's wrong?" Ed frowned. Although he was only a mixed race, he inherited his mother's blood, and his perception was much stronger than that of ordinary people.At this moment, he didn't feel anything wrong.

"There's a fight ahead." Lacey was the first to follow. "Come on, let's go this way and try to get as close as possible."

He glanced in surprise in the direction he had traveled before.Sure enough, did they still fight?

"Come on, it's not a joke to be involved." Ed knew very well what kind of scene it would be if there was a fight over there.The high priest went crazy, but ordinary people can stop it.But when they were hiding in a blind spot and actually saw the battlefield, Ed was still extremely shocked.

"It's true, there are corpses all over the field." Lacey's face was cold, his eyes narrowed slightly, "It smells so bloody."

"Ugh..." Reya and Lumer couldn't help vomiting.Although Rhea grew up in the slums, although the slums live in poverty, there are always some people who deliberately maintain the stability there. Murders are not uncommon, but this is really the first time I have seen such a scene.And Lu Mo, a noble young master who grew up under the doting of his parents, how could he bear it.

There was always a dark aura about that Ed, he could be said to be sensitive before, but now judging by his performance and his occasional stretching of hands, he is not an ordinary person.But Lacey...why do you have no reaction to this almost unilateral massacre scene! ?

……His Royal Highness Prince……

Rossel lowered his head and clenched his fists tightly.

Rex withdrew his gaze from Roser, and turned his attention to the battlefield again.

After walking for about two Hills (hours), I could finally vaguely see the entrance of the temple.

It is worthy of being the relic of the ancient temple. Even though it has passed a long time, engraved with the traces of time, and in addition to the damage caused by the intruders over the years, Dan has not damaged the grandeur of the ancient temple in the slightest.To enter the temple, the priest of the temple must pray to the gods devoutly to obtain the qualifications to enter the temple and open the door.

Now, it's time for Casared to perform.

"You all stay here, if you still want to die, don't come near." After leaving these words, Casared walked to the steps of the temple, knelt down, folded his hands, and prayed devoutly.

Following his low groan, the temple sounded as if responding, and the gate slowly opened.

Casared opened his eyes, and he felt the crowd slowly approaching him.

"How?" Someone in the crowd couldn't help asking.

"Hush..." He seemed to be the leader. He signaled the adventurers to be silent, then looked up at the temple, saw the door opened, and waved his hand, "Go!"

"I just said when will you guys do it, hehe~" Casared stood up and recovered himself, facing the attacking adventurer head-on. "I swore to the God of the Earth that I would not intentionally hurt you, but now, you are the ones who made the first move. I shouldn't have broken the oath, you say, right?"

"You dark mage, go to hell—!"

"Those who still think that I am a mage, are you naive or stupid?" In an instant, a black magic book appeared in Casared's left hand. Stopped on the ground, smiled slightly, "Just use this." He said, the high finger of his right hand was like the sky, and muttered, "O fire elf, fly and be violent, please give the most severe punishment to the betrayer in front of you!"

"It's the Red Lotus Hell! Run! Magician, set up the barrier!" The leader yelled in horror.

"It's useless! Accept the punishment!"

"what--!"

The screams continued, and the adventurers couldn't escape from this hellish place.

"You nasty bastard!"

"Tsk, the shield of the earth!"

The attack was blocked, and the paladins of the Church of Light retreated immediately and returned to their companions.

"Are you late..." one of the female priests lamented.

"Why did you do this!" the paladin yelled sharply, "You obviously, you were such a kind person once!"

"Huh?" Casared frowned and looked at the person who attacked him just now, and then suddenly realized, "Oh, it's you, Siegel, so you are already so old."

"You! I'm not old!" Siegel was furious. He hated people saying he was old. "You're already over 40!"

"Don't compare me with you, my lifespan is longer." Casared snorted lightly.

"you!"

"Siegel." Another male priest stopped Siegel.

"Yes, High Priest Lancelot." Siegel saluted and stepped aside.

"Captain Chi Yan, please help me to see if there are any survivors." Seeing that Chi Yan took some mercenaries to check, Lancelot turned his attention to Casared again, "I have long admired your name."

Looking at this young priest, Casared frowned. He had never heard of this person. Could it be that he is a newcomer to the Church of Light? "Who are you?"

"Good day, I'm Wayne Lancelot, High Priest of the Church of Light." Lancelot folded his arms and bent slightly.

"Good day, I am Casared Ivan, High Priest of the Dark Temple, please call me Casared." Casared replied.

"I don't want people to call you 'Aiwen', is it because I'm afraid that people will think you've insulted the name?"

"No, I just don't want people to confuse me with others." Casared smiled lightly.

"...Your Excellency, don't you think this approach is a bit excessive?" Lancelot looked around, and the corpses and broken arms everywhere made him frown slightly.

"It was they who violated our agreement first, what's more, wasn't it you, the High Priest, who asked them to do this?"

Lancelot didn't speak, and the others didn't refute, which was a tacit agreement.

"The gate is already open, I'll go in first, you go slowly." After speaking, Casared rushed into the temple.

"High Priest Lancelot, shall we go in now?" Siegel asked.

After pondering for a while, Lancelot nodded, "Be careful, the guardian puppets will not attack people from the dark camp, but we will inevitably fight. Captain Chi Yan, you also pay attention to safety."

"Thank you High Priest for your concern." Chi Yan nodded, telling the mercenaries to be prepared.

"Let's go." Casared issued an order after adding the Guardian of Light to everyone.

"Yes!"

Sure enough, the guardian puppet woke up the moment they were about to step into the gate of the temple.

Unexpectedly, the Dark Codex was in the hands of this person.

After Roser saw the magic book, he became more wary of Casared.

"Let's go in while those people stop the golem." After finishing speaking, Lacey got up and ran towards the temple, followed by Rex.

"Tsk..." Roser immediately followed after seeing this, he couldn't let His Royal Highness get hurt.

"Hey!" Ed wanted to stop but couldn't stop, "Leiya, Lumer, let's follow quickly."

So several people took advantage of the chaos and entered the dark temple.

"High Priest Lancelot, those people..." Siegel saw Lacey and others entering the temple, and asked Lancelot if he needed to stop them.

"Don't worry about them, our mission is to find the 'Staff of Light' lost here."

"Yes!"

After entering the temple, the first thing you see is the huge statue inside, which is the god of darkness, Trian.

"Look this way." Lu Mo found a secret door next to the statue and called everyone over. "Do you want to go in and take a look? Maybe you can find something."

After discussing it, everyone decided to go in and find out.

Ed took out the prepared teleportation scroll and distributed it to everyone, "Well, if there is any danger, crush it immediately. The place of teleportation is the school."

"clear."

"Everyone, be careful, let's go!" Ed was the first to walk into the secret passage.

As they went further and further away, the secret passage became wider and wider.This place is intricate, with forks constantly appearing, it is no longer a secret passage, this is clearly an underground labyrinth.At the beginning they were still walking together, drawing lots to decide the direction when they encountered a fork in the road. However, as they walked, they found that the number of people gradually decreased without knowing it, and finally, there was only one person left.

"Rael, Rael?" Lacey held up the staff, relying on a little light from the crystal on the staff to illuminate. After realizing that Rex was missing, he called twice but there was no response, so he simply ignored it and moved forward carefully. .

The situation of other people is similar, but, for the purpose of experience, they didn't use the teleportation scroll immediately.

Ed decided to look for the ruins of the temple in order to complete the task that Idakel gave him.He took out the ring hanging around his neck from his clothes, hoping it would respond, but there was still no response.Sighing, continue walking.

I don't know how long he's been away. The night vision he inherited from his mother allows Ed to move freely in the dark, but he has gradually become a little anxious because he has no clues.At this moment, the ring made a small buzzing sound.

The rings glowed slightly, and finally merged into a bunch, pointing forward.

After making up his mind, Ed walked in the direction indicated by the ring.

"I thought it would be the person with the dark token who came here first." Casared looked at Rex who appeared at the door, and smiled playfully.

"This is not Trian's bedroom." Rex said coldly.

"Sure enough, someone who knows something." Casared laughed, "Although I don't know why you said that this is not the sleeping hall of Trian, the God of Darkness, but it belongs to the scope of the Dark Temple. Others think that the ancient temple It’s just an ancient temple, but I don’t know that in ancient times, the temple was the residence of the main god.”

"This is indeed Trian's temple, but this place is not Trian's bedroom." Rex said, regardless of whether Casared would be against him, he walked slowly inside and leaned against the wall. Dilapidated stone bed.He stroked the stone bed gently, as tenderly as he would treat a lover.When his hand touched a decoration at the head of the bed, a dark space appeared on the wall, but it was empty inside.Rex turned to look at the dark priest.

"It's here with me." Casared picked up a brightly colored flower, just like a freshly picked flower, and smiled triumphantly. "This thing is in there, and I don't know what it means. Seeing that you are so clear that there is something in it, you must know what it is?"

Rex looked at him coldly, and then looked at the door, where Ed's figure gradually appeared.