——The third watch broke out, asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and trying to keep the second place in the new book list
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Inside the cave, there was a long, wide dark black stone corridor diagonally downward, and there were copper lamps inlaid every ten meters on the surrounding stone walls, but most of them were not lit, and occasionally a few dim yellow lights set off the passage pale and eerie.
As soon as Lucian entered the corridor, he quickly and calmly dodged to the dimly lit corner, blended into the shadows, and moved forward strangely and quickly forward, almost prostrate and without footsteps.
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In the temple, another high priest wrapped in a silver robe was checking the situation at the other entrances and exits in turn, fearing that it was a man-made coincidence that someone would sneak in through other entrances.
The entrance here is the place where the fierce battle took place, and there is Angela outside, so the high priest subconsciously ignored it, thinking it was safe, and put it at the end.
It's intentional exploitation of mental blind spots!
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After ten seconds of moving forward, the corridor became smooth, and many slightly old and dilapidated doors appeared on the stone wall.
Hiding in the darkness outside a door, Lucian did not use the "bat scream" to investigate, but concentrated and listened to the movement inside with his increasingly sharp hearing, because he was worried that there were magic circles and magic circles in this underground palace that monitored large magic fluctuations.
"There is no breathing, no conversation, no action." Lucian used feedback to judge that there was no one inside, after all, the fighting outside was fierce, and if there were people or strange creatures that didn't need to breathe, the place where the Silver and White Horn Cult was hiding would definitely not be so quiet.
Holding the doorknob with his right hand and gently pressing hard, the door slowly opened, and Lucian quickly swept inside with his eyes before flashing into the room.
It was only at this time that Lucian breathed a sigh of relief, the tension, depression, and fear of being discovered by high-level powerhouses finally eased a little, otherwise Lucian suspected that he would suffocate unconsciously.
"It seems that most of the powerful cultists in this dungeon have been transferred out to fight, and those who have not gone out are basically guarding key places. Well, Uncle Joel's family is poor, and the detention should not be strict." Lucian understood that his initial plan was successful, "But there is really a ruin here."
It was clear from the many rotten furniture in the room that this was an underground relic.
After calculating that the cultists were hiding a hundred meters near the ranger's hut, Lucian guessed that there might be underground ruins or underground caves, both of which had a 50% chance of each, so the "Emden" magic ruins were not casual nonsense.
After a short adjustment, Lucian opened the door again and continued to go deep into the corridor, the matter was urgent, the strength of the cultists had an absolute advantage, and I believed that it would not be long before the battle was over and returned.
Lurking in the corridor, Lucian relied on past traces to determine where the core was, while looking for the cultists in the room.
After listening to three houses in a row, Lucian finally heard the voice.
Behind a door that was also a little old, two people were talking a little nervously:
"What's going on outside? How many priests have gone out?"
"I don't know, but I can hear the explosion outside......"
Lucian judged the strength of the two of them, gently twisted the door, and rushed in, his body turning into an afterimage.
The two cultists were worried about the situation outside, and they didn't expect that they would be in danger, and they were knocked unconscious by Lucian one by one.
Closing the wooden door, Lucian woke up one of the young cultists.
The cultist had just woken up and wanted to shout for help when he remembered what had just happened, but a pair of deep eyes appeared in front of his eyes, like a dreamy starry sky shimmering with stars.
Suddenly, the cultist was lost in the starry sky, feeling that the other party was the "Silver and White Lord" whom he believed in wholeheartedly.
"Do you know where the poor family who was captured is locked up?" Lucian asked in a soft tone.
The "Starry Eye" used in this way is equivalent to hypnosis, with basically no magical fluctuations, and more direct spiritual and psychic power.
To the west of the ruins is the core temple, where there are high priests, priests, priests, and dark knights, while Joel's family and some other ordinary hostages are held in a remote room in the northwest of the ruins, guarded by an ordinary dark knight with several knight attendants.
Moreover, there is more than one floor of this ruin, but the lower layers have been completely destroyed, and at the same time, there are five exits on this floor, which are in different places in the Melze Black Forest.
Not daring to delay in any way, Lucian twisted 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 in the temple, the silver-robed high priest began to perform sorcery, checking the entrances that should be fine here, and at the same time ordered the priests, priests, and dark knights who stayed behind to focus on checking the area around the temple.
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Because he had mastered the terrain of this ruin, although Lucian was still cautious, the latent tension disappeared a lot, and he moved forward more calmly and freely, and most of the powerful cultists in the ruins had already gone out, so he quickly and smoothly arrived at the "cell" location provided by the cult believers.
This is a remote large room, separated in two halves by iron railings, the innermost part is divided into seven or eight huts, holding different hostages, traitors, etc., while the outer part is hung with many torture instruments, and four strong knight attendants are walking around restlessly, discussing things outside from time to time.
An old man wearing black leather armor and whose face looked a little distorted due to long-term negative emotions was sitting on a wooden bench, his eyes fiercely swept through the "prisoner's" room inside the iron railing, as if he could see the situation inside through the closed iron door.
The violent sound was still coming from, and although the battle outside had eased a lot, it still continued.
The old man, who was a dark knight, suddenly stood up and said angrily: "Get those two guys with broken fingers out, I want to punish them well."
Lucian, who was hiding in the shadows outside and quietly listening to the movement inside, moved in his heart, "He refers to Uncle Joel and Aunt Alyssa?"
One of the knights' attendants hurriedly dissuaded: "Lord Jensen, you can't let them die until they succeed in advance!"
"I understand, but I'm in a very bad mood right now and need to vent, and they are the most troublesome prisoners, and they have to be taken out every day or two, it's so hateful, it's so upsetting! I'm just teaching them a lesson!" Because of the battle outside, Jensen said irritably, "Tim, if you don't want to, then you can replace them!"
Several knight attendants knew that Lord Jensen was very irritable and irritable due to the power of his bloodline, so they glanced at each other, did not dare to stop him, took out the key, and opened the iron railing and iron door.
"You guys." Joel woke up groggy, and the torture during this period made them slow to react to the outside world, not even noticing the fierce battle on the ground.
Tim kicked Joel and kicked Alyssa awake again: "Master Jensen wants to interrogate you."
Then he turned sideways and let Joel and Alyssa walk out worried and scared, and Evan who was awakened gritted his teeth and watched this scene hatefully, without crying or making noise, much more mature than before.
"Walk faster." Tim kicked Joel again, causing him to stumble out of the railing and almost fall in front of Jensen.
Jensen picked up the leather whip on the torture rack and slammed it on Joel's back: "You lowly bastards, why do you want me to be so troublesome! Damn it, really damn it!"
Although Jensen restrained his strength and was afraid of killing Joel and Alyssa, as a dark knight, he still made Joel and the two roll and cry out in pain.
Such a painful cry made Jensen feel a little more comfortable, and his irritable mood from the fear of fighting outside eased.
But this painful scream also made Lucian in the shadows outside clench his fists tightly, wishing he could rush in immediately to save and kill people.
"It's not time yet, we have to wait!"
Relying on strong self-control and calmness, Lucian hid motionless in the shadows.
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On the ground, the battle has come to an end, and the thirty night watchmen are left with only "Joker", "Codekeeper" Salvador, the great knight Lund with the "eradication" bloodline, "Minsk" and the second-level battle priest Juliana, and the remaining twenty-five night watchmen, including a great knight, are all killed, and some of them have no bodies left.
The "Silver and White Horn" High Priest Angela floated in mid-air, using powerful sorcery to weaken the strength of the three level five powerhouses, and cooperated with the frontal attacks of other sacrifices, priests, and dark knights.
Angela relied on a short-distance psychic connection to communicate with the silver-robed high priest: "Ilya, these night watchmen in the church are really tricky, there are a lot of powerful magic items, if it weren't for taking the initiative in advance, I'm afraid I, the seventh-level high priest, will have to pay a certain price to kill them."
Now, those divine arts items have been destroyed a lot by Angela's witchcraft.
"Angela, don't delay, hurry up and resolve the battle, then hurry up to deal with the battlefield, and completely destroy the entrance to the ruins here so that the church can't find out." Elijah, the silver-robed high priest, urged Angela.
"Okay." Angela recovered for two seconds, and the dark light in her hand lit up, as if she was about to perform a powerful witchcraft.
At this time, there was a sudden sound of a crashing tide above, the darkness turned into a deep blue, and the sea strangely switched places with the sky.
The deep blue sea and sky suddenly collapsed, turning into a giant blue pillar that seemed to have been struck by the gods, enveloping Angra.
The silver-robed high priest Ilya sensed this scene through a psychic connection and stood up at once:
"'Deep Blue Tide' Camille!"
This is a seventh-level heavenly knight!
And in the sky, two bright red figures flew over, a man and a woman, the robes, shawls, and square hats were all bright red, and they were the two cardinals Gosette and Ammoren who assisted the Holy Spirit Pastor and Cardinal College member Salde in presiding over the Diocese of Waorit!
Behind them, there were several knights who relied on divine magic items and other flights to arrive.
"Execute everyone, destroy all traces, and quickly evacuate from other entrances!" The silver-robed high priest Ilya didn't have time to care about Angela's condition, and through the crystal ball, he hurriedly gave orders to the key personnel inside the ruins, while he himself was destroying the altar.
Although he and Angela are also level seven high priests, but Angela has been fighting for a while, and has been successfully raided by the Sky Knights, the strength of the two will definitely not be able to defeat the two cardinals and a sky knight now, and what is even more terrifying is that Sald, the old "monster" standing at the top of the world, is likely to come at any time, so Ilya made a very decisive decision.
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In prison, Jensen received orders from the crystal ball hanging around his neck through will induction, so he waved the leather whip ferociously.
Lucian, who was in the shadows outside, understood that the opportunity he was waiting for was coming as soon as he heard the loud sound of waves hitting the ground, so before Jensen could raise his leather whip, he had already knocked open the iron door outside, turning into a faint moonlight-like afterimage, and rushed towards Jensen's back.
(End of this chapter)