Life Dungeon Game

He Ao followed her forward, and as he passed through the corridor, the giant spider suddenly rushed out and bared its fangs at He Ao.

Then He Ao pierced its body with his sword and threw it back into the depths of the corridor.

Several more monsters appeared on the road behind, but the red-haired woman dodged them all by using her disc with a pointer.

Since He Ao didn't have such a tool, he had no choice but to permanently silence the monsters before they could make a sound.

The two of them, one after the other, quickly arrived at the eighth floor of the church.

There were no more monsters on this floor. The red-haired woman seemed to follow some kind of guidance to reach a small door deep inside the eighth floor, then pushed it open and went inside.

He Ao quickly followed.

When he reached the door, he saw the red-haired woman take a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind, and move the pointer on the disc.

With a flash of distorted light, she vanished from the spot.

He Ao walked behind the door and looked around the entire space behind it.

There were no lights in the space, yet an invisible radiance seemed to spread around, illuminating the entire area.

This is a spacious 'hall'.

The entire hall is circular, spacious and grand, with rows of wooden benches.

The chairs were placed close together on the hall floor.

The hall is topped with a beautiful dome covered with reliefs, and the dome seems to be inlaid with exquisite stained glass windows. Around the hall, there are also exquisite stained glass windows.

However, in reality, there is not a single window in this hall.

He walked to a window and stared at it, his vision filled with vibrant paint.

These windows are not 'real' but rather 'painted' on the walls. The exquisite painting and vibrant colors make them appear as if they were real, gleaming glass windows.

But in reality, they are just stone walls.

At the edge of He Ao's field of vision was a huge and heavy double 'gate'.

This door was also 'painted' on; there were no gaps in the door, and it couldn't be pushed open.

Apart from the small door through which He Ao entered, there was no other 'passage' connecting this hall to the outside world.

Behind this small door, a stone wall was 'painted' that was almost identical to the surrounding walls.

He Ao gradually walked among the rows of seats and reached the very center of the hall.

He turned around and looked in the direction that the 'gate' depicted in the painting was facing.

The first thing that caught his eye was two huge glass windows, and in front of the glass windows, facing all the rows of wooden chairs, was a 'wooden cabinet' carved from stone.

There was nothing on top of the cabinet, but the patterns carved on its surface suggested that it was being 'illuminated' by something.

Judging solely by size and specifications, this hall seems to belong at the entrance of the church on the first floor, rather than at the deepest part of the church.

He watched all of this.

Spacious, warm, oppressive, bizarre.

In my psychic vision, this place was filled with distorted patterns, almost completely covered by them.

It looks like this is where the real 'main cathedral' is located.

The red-haired woman must have entered using some kind of special tool.

Heo didn't have that special tool, but he had information he got from Levins.

He gazed at the enormous stone carving of the 'wooden cabinet,' and slowly opened his mouth, preparing to utter that syllable.

Then he paused slightly.

After a brief moment of thought, he took out a pendant that emitted a faint glow and held it in his palm.

Then, some ancient syllables, seemingly passed down from time immemorial, came from his mouth.

"Atmorye!"

Beyond the endless expanse of time and space, it seemed as if some vast and boundless being cast its gaze upon this place.

The tightly held pendant shone with a dazzling light, and endless praises and distorted pollution exploded in He'ao's mind.

A bright light enveloped his body in an instant.

Everything in the surrounding space was distorted in his vision.

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Chapter 780 The Church Inside (Super Long Chapter, Please Vote!)

The massive, distorted chanting filled He'ao's mind, as if tearing his entire soul apart, and dark tears of blood flowed from his eyes.

However, this did not significantly affect He Ao's thinking and judgment. He stared at the light that obscured his eyes, and various thoughts flashed through his mind.

He could clearly feel that when he uttered the syllable 'Atomolaiye', it was as if some vast and magnificent gaze was being cast upon him from a distant time and space.

It was this gaze that activated the power hidden within the pendant, further influencing the space surrounding the church.

It appears that this is perhaps a 'simplified' 'ritual'.

The syllable 'Atmoraiye' may originate from some kind of mystical language, and its correct pronunciation itself can achieve a certain mystical effect.

Moreover, it is highly likely that this syllable is related to 'Eternal Light', otherwise it would not have attracted the attention of Eternal Light.

However, this kind of long-distance projected 'gaze' is not as effective as a communication ritual and cannot establish a stable 'communication' connection between the speaker and the deity.

Its actual effect appeared to be that it attracted the 'Eternal Light' for a moment, and then the Eternal Light glanced in this direction, its gaze sweeping over the speaker.

However, even such a simple 'glance' carries an unbearable pollution for most ordinary people.

It seems that the Eternal Cult must have some technique to mitigate the effects of this contamination, but based on He's understanding of these heretical cults, this technique is most likely a method that only 'believers' can use.

Even this contamination itself is one of the methods for selecting core members of the sect.

If you can't even withstand the corruption of your own god, how can you be a core believer of that god?

This might explain why the Eternal Secret Cult followers that He Ao encountered all seemed a bit eccentric.

In fact, most believers in evil gods are somewhat eccentric, but the direction of their madness varies depending on the god they are following.

As He's thoughts raced, the distorted light that filled his eyes gradually faded away.

The first thing that caught his eye was a row of wooden chairs, and directly in front of these chairs was an exquisite wooden cabinet.

Above this exquisite cabinet floats an invisible yet seemingly tangible radiance. Two enormous glass windows stand behind this radiance, highlighting its holiness and majesty, inspiring awe in all who behold it.

He suppressed the strange feeling in his heart that he wanted to make him kneel down, and turned to look around.

A towering dome covered with reliefs, and exquisite stained glass windows.

A hazy glow pierced through the translucent glass, shining from outside the hall into the interior, forming hazy pillars of light.

A sense of holiness and antiquity permeates the spacious hall.

This place still seemed to be the same hall where he had stood before, but the stained glass windows that were originally painted on the stone walls had now become real stained glass.

The stone cabinet, which was disguised as a seamless wooden cabinet, has now become a real wooden cabinet that can be opened and closed.

He glanced at the direction of the small door he came in through, the door that was...

The small door, painted as a stone wall, has now completely transformed into a solid stone wall.

He turned around and looked behind him.

A towering, imposing gate covered with exquisite reliefs stood behind him, majestic and oppressive.

That 'disguised' church hall has become a real church hall here.

Through the stained glass windows, one cannot see any view outside; only the holy light shining into the hall through the windows remains unchanged.

In He Ao's perception, the 'warmth' and 'sanctity' of this hall had a very obvious 'superficial' feel.

It's nice, it's beautiful, but it doesn't feel real.

In He's other layer of 'spiritual vision', this perception is even more directly manifested.

In that view, the entire hall and everything within it was almost entirely composed of stacked distorted patterns. Standing in the center of the hall, He Ao felt as if he were floating in an ocean of distorted patterns.

Interspersed among these distorted patterns are distorted rays of light, which wander within the distorted patterns that form the hall, radiating a terrifying sense of oppression from an unfathomable higher being.

At the very bottom layer of these distorted patterns, He Ao vaguely sensed a kind of agonizing roar.

This does not match the characteristics of any of the sights that Heo has seen in the outside world.

This place may no longer be in the surface world.

This hall might be a special space entirely constructed of extraordinary power and the radiance that could possibly come from 'divine grace'.

He Ao was no stranger to this kind of space, because the mirror space created by the extraordinary item 'Mirror Coin' he obtained in the main world was also a space that seemed not to exist in the surface world.

However, that mirrored space was far less magnificent and wondrous than this church hall.

He Ao's gaze continued to sweep across the hall. Apart from the main door, there seemed to be no other 'passage' leading to other places.

He came here to find his parents' bodies. While he was "strolling" through the church with the red-haired woman, he also took the opportunity to search all the main churches in the surface world.

As he had predicted, the bodies of the Novus were not found in the church on the surface world.

Kate previously mentioned that the bodies of Elo's parents were highly 'spiritual' and were sent to the cathedral, which clearly indicates that the cathedral is intended for some extraordinary purpose.

In the presence of an inner chapel, it is relatively safe to place such supernatural remains there.

Therefore, when Heo learned of the existence of the inner church, he prepared to enter it.

Of course, entering the inner church would also allow him to better understand some of the 'secrets' of the Eternal Secret Church.

However, the 'scale' of this inner church was somewhat beyond his expectations.

The underlying rule of this world is 'equivalent exchange', and the 'cost' required to maintain such a vast inner space is probably not a small amount.

He stared at the door, pondering whether he should push it open and leave the hall to explore.