Path of Light.

Chapter 576 577. The Secret in the Temple
Under the illumination of the holy light, more words appeared on the stone wall.

Lines of handwritten Elvish text began to appear on the originally seemingly uneven stone wall. Roy learned something from the text on the wall.

The Statue of Liberty's expedition plan to advance into the dark land, in fact, the bishops of the temple have no intention of stopping, which means that the exploration of the dark land is endless.

The expeditionary force originally formed by the Temple of the Statue of Liberty was a group of priests with firm beliefs. With the blessing of the Statue of Liberty, they possessed powerful holy light power. Unfortunately, when the holy light of the Statue of Liberty no longer descended, the power of these priests also weakened little by little.

They are the believers who are most eager to find the Statue of Liberty. This group of priests formed the first expeditionary force and entered the Dark Land through the Dark Portal.

In fact, the first expedition was relatively successful. After the priests' expeditionary force entered the Dark Land, the dark creatures were completely unprepared. The power of holy light possessed by the priests was very restraining to those dark creatures, so the expeditionary force advanced all the way in the Dark Land. It was a pity that the priests had no experience in such things as expeditions, which led to frequent problems with the expeditionary force's logistics supply routes. As a result, it was the long supply line that held back the first expeditionary force.

The priests were eager to find the whereabouts of the Statue of Liberty, but after they entered the dark land, the holy light in their bodies could not be replenished, so the priests' fighting power became weaker and weaker.

Finally, the dark creatures that came from all directions finally stopped the expeditionary force.

The second expedition was still normal. Since the priests obtained information about the fallen dimension of the Statue of Liberty from the mouth of a terrifying demon, the first expeditionary force could not take another step forward. The bishops of the Temple of the Statue of Liberty immediately organized a second expeditionary force.

This time, the Statue of Liberty could only dispatch some priests with outstanding abilities and firm beliefs from the Elf Continent and various temples, and spent a large sum of money to hire 200,000 mercenary soldiers from the Mercenary Guild, to form a second expeditionary force with a total strength of 800,000, and once again poured into the dark land.

Since nearly a quarter of the Second Expeditionary Army were mercenaries, and these mercenaries were not restricted by divine power, the Second Expeditionary Army once again advanced into the depths of the Land of Darkness...

This expedition to the Statue of Liberty has no end. They have only one goal, which is to rescue the Statue of Liberty who is trapped somewhere in the dark place.

This expedition lasted for a long time. The Second Expeditionary Force advanced left and right in the Dark Land and occupied a large area of ​​the Dark Land at one point.

However, the vastness of the Dark Land far exceeded the estimates of the archbishops of the Temple of the Statue of Liberty. Not only did the second expeditionary force fail to find any news about the Statue of Liberty, but it also exhausted all of the expeditionary force's reserve forces because of the establishment of countless material transfer stations in the Dark Land.

The second expeditionary force opened up several large battlefields in the Dark Land, requiring the Statue of Liberty to continue to deploy troops to the Dark Land.

At this time, the Statue of Liberty on the Elf Continent had actually transferred all its elite priests to the Dark Land.

As the Golfito Statue of Liberty began planning to form the third expeditionary force, it began to frantically withdraw the Statue of Liberty from the Elf Continent.

Since the expeditionary force was composed of priests from all over the Elven Continent, the abilities of the expeditionary soldiers varied, so the third expedition was a failure. These priests supported the various battlefields in the Dark Land, but did not turn the tide of the battles in the major battlefields...

The Elvish writing on the wall became particularly sloppy at this point, and the words were full of doubts about the expedition.

However, this priest was also looking forward to the Statue of Liberty's expeditionary force on Roland Continent to achieve brilliant results, because according to his description, the number of priests and believers of the Statue of Liberty on Roland Continent was at least ten times that of the priests on the Elf Continent, or even dozens of times...

Roy found it hard to imagine the scale of the expeditionary force on the Roland Continent.

Roy squatted beside the stone wall, holding a ball of soft holy light in his hands. Under the illumination of the holy light, the words slowly appeared. When the holy light was removed, the elven words engraved on the stone wall magically disappeared completely.

He continued to look down. The words on the stone wall were full of uncertainty, and even a section of text was smeared.

Roy could feel how confused and restless the recorder felt when he wrote this text.

His faith was still there, but the god he prayed to was gone.

Without the blessing of the Holy Light, the cultivation of the priests of the Statue of Liberty would stagnate, and even the sacred power in the bodies of many priests would slowly diminish...

Three consecutive expeditions exhausted the last wealth of the Temple of Liberty in Golfito. In order to find the whereabouts of the Statue of Liberty in the Dark Land, the bishops of the Temple of Liberty chose to go all out. They decided to abandon everything and take all the priests to the Dark Land.

Before entering the Dark Land, the priests were also worried that dark creatures would sneak into the Elf Continent through the Dark Portal, so the priests came up with a plan. They planned to seal the Dark Portal from the inside after entering the Dark Land...

'I don't know if I can be guided by the Holy Light to find the goddess lost in the dark land this time, but I know in my heart that if we choose to stay in Golfito, I am afraid we will never have the chance to find the goddess, so I will go without hesitation this time.'

'If anyone happens to see this passage, please understand that we, the priests of the Statue of Liberty, are fighting for our faith unwaveringly even in such adversity! '

'We sailed across the vast Endless Sea from Roland Continent to the Elf Continent, spreading the glory of the Statue of Liberty here.'

'We are the spreaders of Holy Light...'

The text stops here.

Roy sat in the stone chamber, unable to say anything for a long time. It was obvious that High Priest Reed was also in darkness and his whereabouts were unknown.

Moreover, the expeditionary forces entering the Dark Land this time are far more than the three expeditionary forces of the Statue of Liberty in the Elf Continent. The troops of the Statue of Liberty in other continents have also entered the Dark Land.

The Dark Gate of Golfito was handed over to the Silver Moon Elves for management, which was also planned by the priests before entering the dark land.

The priests abandoned everything in Golfito, even this magnificent temple.

Roy stood in front of the stone wall for a long time, until he felt his legs a little sore, and then he woke up from his deep thought.

Walking out of the stone chamber, Roy became more and more curious about whether there were similar written records in the stone chamber behind.

Almost no one comes here, and the passage made of broken wooden boards is covered with dust, and even makes a creaking sound when you step on it.

There are no plants growing in the Golfito Canyon. Only in the temple's front garden can you see lush lawns and shrub walls, but some corners have shown signs of withering.

There were no birds or animals in the canyon, so Roy walked forward along the passage.

The stone chambers in front are also places for ascetic practice. The priests pray and meditate in the stone chambers. Some of the stone chambers are empty, but some ascetic priests will write their thoughts on the stone walls.

They did it very obscurely. Without the power of holy light, it was impossible to see the elven texts engraved on the stone wall. Roy even learned some of the wars between the Naga Sea Clan and the elves from the texts recorded on the walls. Although the elves won the war in the end, the war lasted for a long time, and both the elves and the Naga Sea Clan paid a heavy price.

In a stone chamber, Roy let a divine light float above his head. Under the illumination of the divine light, rows of densely packed words appeared on the surrounding walls. These words recorded some of the insights gained from studying divine arts.

The priest who came here to practice hard was probably a second-level combat priest. He described in a long-winded way on the wall the divine arts that were introduced to the Elf Continent. They can be roughly divided into five categories: blessing, judgment, holy seal, healing, and exorcism.

In fact, Roy learned six kinds of blessings from High Priest Reed, but High Priest Reed said that the blessings he learned were not complete. As far as he knew, there were two blessings that even he did not know. The blessing spells he taught Roy were:

Blessing of shelter, blessing of strength, blessing of kingship, blessing of wisdom, blessing of light, blessing of freedom.

He also gave three kinds of judgment spells: Hammer of Punishment, Hammer of Judgment, and Hammer of Sanction.

Roy currently masters a healing magic, Holy Light.

There are two kinds of exorcism magic, Glimmer Illumination and Purification. The former can find out the undead creatures within the range of holy light, while the latter can purify the weak undead creatures.

In addition, High Priest Reed does not know the Holy Seal, so Roy does not know the Holy Seal-related spells either.

In fact, when Roy stepped into the Statue of Liberty, he clearly felt that the area was filled with a large amount of sacred atmosphere.

When he walked into the Statue of Liberty, the Tree of Holy Light in his body had already been awakened. A huge sacred storm emerged around the Tree of Holy Light. These sacred auras swept in from all directions and gathered around him without dispersing.

The sacred tree quickly absorbed the power of the holy light in the Statue of Liberty...

Roy felt that his body was like a balloon filled with air, which might burst by the holy light at any time.

As a large amount of holy light power poured into Roy's body, Roy found that the seal for promotion to level eleven began to loosen, as if he only needed some kind of opportunity to be promoted to level eleven high priest.

And when he read the information recorded by other priests in the stone chamber on the mountain wall, the feeling of being on the eve of a breakthrough became stronger and stronger.

Finally, a ray of holy light penetrated the shackles, and a beam of light came in, and immediately a second ray of light came through, and the opening became larger and larger.

After a moment, the Tree of Holy Light in the body suddenly grew a lot, and some flame-like buds appeared on the flowers of light on the Tree of Holy Light.

It seems that his breakthrough to the level of high priest basically means making the Holy Light Tree in his body more luxuriant and storing more Holy Light power.

A ball of soft light appeared between Roy's hands. Roy finally understood one thing. It turned out that the way to make himself stronger was not only to purify the undead. Chanting prayers in the sacred Statue of Liberty could also help him break free from the shackles and advance successfully.

Roy felt that he had stayed in the stone chamber long enough, so he walked towards the exit along the wooden passage.

Instead of going the same way he came, he tried to go out from the other side of the passage.

Roy walked a long way and soon found that he had walked out of the area of ​​the Statue of Liberty. The passage built with wooden boards against the stone wall had not reached the end yet.

The end of this wooden plank passage is a very desolate hillside in the canyon. If you walk a little further west from here, you will just return to the barracks of the Second Silver Pegasus Knights.

I didn’t expect to walk out of the Statue of Liberty like this…

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Since Roy walked out of the Statue of Liberty, he had no intention of returning to the hall of the Statue of Liberty to listen to the quarrels between the magicians and high priests.

There is no stream in Golfito Canyon. When the Second Silver Pegasus Knights provide water to the silver Pegasus, they never use the clean water condensed by the magic rune plate. They will ride the silver Pegasus to the outside of the canyon and let them drink water by the lake.

Recently, the Silver Pegasus Knights discovered that there was a clear mountain spring opposite the lake, so they often took Silver Pegasus to drink the spring water.

Roy walked to the lake. This time he came to the magic airship as a routine to inspect the situation there.

Nine magic airships were parked side by side at the lake, with only a few crew members on board scrubbing the decks. Viscount Felec looked decadent and hopeless, with his arms resting on the side of the ship, his head sticking out of the boat, staring at the clear lake water.

On the shore not far away, a team of Silver Moon Elf guards stood quietly under the shade of the trees, staring at Viscount Felek.

Seeing Roy walking along the forest road to the lake, a guard captain hesitated for a moment before walking up to him and asked Roy very politely:

"Captain Roy, your mine guards have successfully arrived at Golfito, so Viscount Felec's work as a guide is now complete. Can we bring Viscount Felec back to Murayaki?"

Roy was stunned.

No matter what, you shouldn't ask him about this kind of thing!

But since the other party asked this, Roy stopped and looked at Viscount Feleck on the boat and said casually:
"Currently, the mine guards have received a new mission to transport military supplies. They may frequently travel between Golfito and Murayaki. Before this mission is completed, Viscount Felec must stay here and lead the way for us."

The captain of the guard looked very unhappy and his brows were knitted together, but he did not argue with Roy.

At this time, all the half-elf crew members on the nine magic airships ran to the deck and kept looking over here...

Roy ignored the captain of the guard and walked along the sampan on the simple dock to the magic airship.

He ignored Viscount Felek and went straight to the captain's room, chatting with a half-elf captain about the military supplies on the ship that had not yet been unloaded.

(End of this chapter)