Path of Light.

Chapter 581 582. Expeditionary Force Camp

The main hall of the Statue of Liberty Temple finally became quiet without the quarrels between the magic guild mages and the priests of the Moon Temple.

The rays of light coming down from the dome filled the entire hall with a sacred atmosphere.

In the flower beds surrounding the Statue of Liberty on the podium in the hall, clusters of flowers of light are still blooming, and the holy light particles floating in the air are emitted by these flowers of light.

Every time Roy stood in this hall filled with a strong sacred atmosphere, the vortex of magic around his body would spin rapidly, constantly absorbing the power of the surrounding holy light.

The Holy Light Tree in his body was also swaying its golden branches happily...

Roy stood behind a group of Silver Moon Elf captains, listening to the passionate speech given by Captain Gabelres on the podium. The more he listened, the more uncomfortable he felt.

Judging from the tone of Legion Commander Gabres, the Elf Guard of Golfito Canyon is likely to enter the Dark Portal and officially take over the defense on the other side of the Dark Portal. The priests of the Temple of the Statue of Liberty guarding there will gradually evacuate from the Dark Portal when the Elf Guard enters the dark land, and embark on the long journey of searching for the Statue of Liberty along the Expedition Road.

The elven captains of the Silver Moon Elf Guard in the main hall were also whispering to each other.

However, there was no expression on Captain Malthus's face. The mission of garrisoning in the Dark Land would never fall on the Second Silver Pegasus Knights, so he was not worried at all about receiving the garrison mission in the Dark Land.

Captain Malthus turned to Roy and whispered, "Don't worry. The mine guards are all auxiliary soldiers of the Silver Pegasus Knights. They will definitely not choose us when they recruit the guards to enter the Dark Gate this time."

Roy forced a very forced smile.

Legion Commander Gabreth spoke for a long time standing on the podium. He felt his throat was a little dry, so he took the water cup from his adjutant and took a big sip.

Afterwards, he led the captains of the Silver Moon Elf Guard out of the main hall of the Statue of Liberty and walked to the back along the heavily guarded corridor of the main hall. Portraits of the successive bishops of the Statue of Liberty were hung in the corridor. The bishops, wearing white sacred robes inlaid with gold, looked filled with a sacred aura.

Roy mixed in the crowd, looking at the portraits, and even saw pairs of invisible wings on some of the portraits...

There was clearly nothing on the portraits, but when Roy looked at them, he could feel the stirring sacred aura on them, and then saw the invisible wings behind the bishop in the portraits.

Roy rubbed his eyes hard, and the strange aura in the portrait disappeared.

Captain Malthus, who was walking in front, felt that something was wrong with Roy, so he turned around and asked in a concerned voice, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, my eyes just feel a little uncomfortable!" Roy replied in a low voice.

After passing through the main hall corridor, we finally arrived at the back garden of the temple. This back garden is surrounded by the main hall and side halls of the temple, so this back garden cannot be seen from outside the Statue of Liberty.

A dark gate nearly 20 meters high is located in the center of the back garden. It is a square-looking rock gate. In the middle of the gate is a huge vortex formed by purple mist, and silver arcs of electricity are constantly moving in the vortex.

The stone pillars on both sides of the gate are giant stone pillars that are five meters by five meters and more than twenty meters high. There is an arched lintel on the top. The reliefs on the surface of the stone pillars are all angels fighting with shadow monsters with countless tentacles. The angels hold large swords emitting holy light in their hands and drive these shadow monsters into a huge crack.

This crack runs through the earth and the sky, and it seems out of place in the world in the relief...

There was almost nothing in the back garden except for the Dark Door. There was only an arched corridor surrounding the surrounding buildings. There was also a big door on the left side of the back garden. Roy guessed that the tightly closed door should be the passage for the Statue of Liberty Expeditionary Force to enter the back garden. It was impossible for so many expeditionary soldiers to enter the back garden through the corridor of the main hall.

Standing in front of the Dark Portal, Roy could not feel the fluctuations of the dark aura.

This was the first time Roy saw the Dark Gate. He then discovered that there was a reason why the back garden was so empty.

The back garden of the Statue of Liberty is paved with bluestone slabs that are arranged in a circular pattern. In many places, there are still some lines left on the bluestone slabs, and in some of the cleared traces, there are still some remaining traces of magic runes.

These traces should have been left by the magicians of the Magic Guild. They set up a sealing magic circle in the back garden. Unfortunately, the surging magic tide of the sealing magic circle affected the source of the magic power of the Dark Portal, causing the Dark Portal to collapse.

The magicians immediately dismantled the sealing array set up in the back garden, but some traces still remained on the bluestone floor.

Roy also saw a high platform on the side close to the mountain wall, where a group of priests from the Moon Temple were guarding...

Roy always felt that this back garden was a little weird. Legion Commander Gabeles led the other leaders in and sternly warned them to follow his footsteps and not to move around freely in the square in the back garden.

When Roy first walked into the back garden, he was a little confused. When he secretly injected a trace of holy light into his eyes and looked at the empty square, he immediately saw a completely different scene. The empty square in the entire back garden disappeared in an instant, and it was replaced by a battlefield ruins, except that the broken ruins were all virtual.

If that were all, Roy wouldn't be too surprised.

In addition, Roy also saw hundreds of space cracks of various sizes and lengths on the battlefield ruins. These cracks were like irregular caterpillars, floating above the back garden square, and some could even move along a certain trajectory.

Through these space cracks, Roy could even see the endless void.

If these space cracks are used well, they can be used to build teleportation gates, but they are also extremely dangerous. If you are not careful, they will cause space storms. Once this space storm spreads, a huge black hole will appear. This black hole will continuously devour the World Stone and even completely destroy the entire plane...

When these space cracks are moving, they are like invisible sharp blades. Once any creature touches the edge of the space crack, no matter how strong its body is, it will be cut off instantly.

At this moment, Roy saw many unstable space cracks appearing in the square of the back garden, and the road that Commander Gabreth led everyone to take happened to avoid all the space cracks in the square.

The hundreds of space cracks in the back garden square made Roy break out in a cold sweat.

At this moment, on the steps of the Dark Portal, stood a team of high-level Silver Moon Elf Knights. Although they were not accompanied by unicorns, Roy could confirm that they were a team of unicorn knights based on the unique aura they exuded.

Legion Commander Gabreth went straight up the stairs. He did not stop in the back garden, but strode into the vortex of purple mist.

A group of Silver Moon Elf leaders followed Captain Gabrielleth into the Dark Portal.

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The officers followed the legion commander to the other side of the Dark Portal. The sky here was no longer azure blue. It looked as if there was no boundary with the star field. The light red sky looked like the sunset glow presented by a fiery cloud.

Roy thought that the Dark Land was a world without light, but he didn't expect that the sky was actually light red, and he could also see the surrounding scenery.

In addition to the magnificent Dark Gate behind him, this place is also located in a canyon. The rocks on both sides of the canyon look like they have been polished by the wind for thousands of years. The trajectory of the wind is clearly engraved on the rocks, forming very eye-catching horizontal lines.

Those rocks also present a light earthy red color...

The priests of the Statue of Liberty built a temporary camp around the Dark Portal. In addition to the simple tents in the camp, the most eye-catching thing is a huge pool built near the Dark Portal. Holy light is surging in the pool, and it is clearly full of holy water.

At this moment, nearly a hundred priests were pouring holy water into some containers. They squatted by the pool in silence. They were wearing travel cloaks and carrying many miscellaneous pendants, looking like they were preparing for a long journey.

Sixteen circular houses were built at the outermost part of the camp. Inside these houses were huge diamond-shaped magic crystals. Each magic crystal was flowing with huge magical energy. This magical energy gathered on the roof, forming an arc-shaped beam of light...

Sixteen arc-shaped light beams converged above the Dark Portal, forming a large magical shield that protected the Dark Portal.

It seems that the Statue of Liberty also built magical fortifications in the dark land...

When Captain Gabrielleth and a group of Silver Moon Elves came out of the Dark Portal, they were greeted by three priests in sacred robes.

Two of them should be combat priests, the one in the middle should be a temple priest, and these three priests are all humans.

When they saw Captain Gabreth, they saluted first, then said:

"Since you are ready to take over this Dark Gate, I will hand over this expedition camp to you as well. All the priests in the camp will leave in two days."

"The most important thing for you to do when you take over the expeditionary camp is the daily maintenance and inspection of this magic shield."

"The magic shield here can effectively block the perception of dark creatures, making this Dark Portal absolutely secretive. In recent years, we have organized three consecutive expeditions in the Dark Land, and the Holy Legion often appears inexplicably from this area. Although those dark creatures have not found this place yet, I estimate that they have guessed the approximate location of the Dark Portal."

"So you must be careful while you are guarding here, and don't easily run outside the magic shield. Doing so will leave clues for the dark creatures to track you."

(End of this chapter)