Quit the team, then picked up a beautiful girl with problems

"If we came here ourselves, I might really ask him," said Li Ang.

The main problem now is that in order to land on this island, they are using the name of the Order Flame Corps. If any conflict arises and the Theocracy makes a fuss, the guild may hold Alafia accountable afterwards, and she will have to work hard to deal with it.

The Silver Heart Sword she gave him has helped Leon a lot in recent days, so he naturally doesn't want to make things difficult for her.

However, if there is no other way, then we have to go to that step. At that time, Li Ang will help her explain the situation to the guild. This is the secret I am talking about."

Elafia raised her hand and pointed at the ground.

She gave an unexpected explanation.

Zoe looked at the stone slab below the floating bean, tilted her head and asked, "Same as my house?"

"More than just the basement."

Elafia shook her head. "There's a lot of metal down there. Judging from the types of metal I sense, there might be quite a few decorations, but judging by the total amount, there should be quite a few mechanisms."

Dorothy tugged at Leon's sleeve. "Is it a tomb? Like the one we found earlier?"

"You've had quite a few adventures," Alafia said calmly.

The words in the girls' mouths stopped abruptly.

I don't know why, but I always feel that it's best not to get involved at this moment.

In short, it is true that Leishan Church has an underground space.

Li Ang asked Alulu, "Do you know what's underground?"

Xiao Niu shook his head repeatedly: "I don't know, I've never heard the teacher say that."

Dorothy folded her arms and asked, "Could it be that Lulu's teacher is actually a high-ranking member of the church, guarding some kind of treasure trove? Or is there a key tomb down there, and those Knights and Clergymen are here to bury him?"

What she said seemed to make sense, at least Zoe and Andasu seemed convinced.

"If that's the case, why didn't they come earlier?"

"I didn't notice it before." said the half-elf.

"Have any important people come to your place before?" Li Ang asked Alulu.

The pink-haired girl said that this had never happened before and she had never seen so many Knights of the Guardian Church before.

Leon said, "If you hadn't stopped them, those reserve knights would have been planning to bury your teacher in the wild, right?"

"Ah."

"So, this doesn't add up. The tomb is just your guess. Although it has the image of burying people, it doesn't mean that Alulu's teacher must be buried there. Besides, she has never heard of this. Why does Leishan Church have an underground tomb but not use it?"

Dorothy curled her lips and fell silent.

Her guess made sense. Many churches have tombs built under or near them, but one has to see it to know what that space is.

Li Ang shook his head. He intuitively felt that what he saw today was related to the time of the Promise Keeping Festival, and the lightning clouds he saw just now also appeared above Leishan Mountain, but there was no clue to connect these things.

Perhaps I was overthinking it? Did the bishop and the knight simply come here for something else, stumble upon Teacher Alulu's body, and bury him?

Alafia said, "Since we have no clue where to find someone, why not go and see what's hidden down there? It will help us understand this place better and perhaps provide us with new ideas."

There was nothing wrong with her idea. Leon asked, "What about the entrance? Can we find it?"

"It should be in this direction."

Alafia left the old pastor's room on a flying sword and led everyone to the main hall of the church.

At the front of the rows of seats is a statue of a goddess with her hands clasped and eyes closed in prayer. Behind her is the only eye-catching stained glass window in this simple church.

Alulu had mentioned it to Leon before, so he quickly recognized the image depicted in the stained glass window—the goddess holding a sharp blade, piercing the blood-red demon and stepping on it under her boots.

"That monster!"

Zoe followed Leon's gaze and saw the stained glass window, noticing the image of the devil on it.

In the past, if no one pointed it out, everyone might have thought that the demon in the stained glass window was just a vague image of an enemy randomly pieced together with red and white glass.

But because they had actually come face to face with the devil, everyone present, except Elafia, could see at the same time that the stained glass window depicted strange horny skin and thorns, and that the goddess had undoubtedly defeated the blood-red devil.

"The teacher always looks over there," Alulu said, then added with a hint of speculation, "Could it be that the teacher also knows about the Crimson Devil?"

Elafia said, "This is a top-secret matter within the guild. The Speaker said that no more than five people in the world know about demons."

"That's a lot now." Li Ang said.

After receiving a cold look from the blond, he said, "Newbis has produced many talented individuals. After all, the Watamu religion has a long history. In the remote corners of the religious state, perhaps someone has inherited ancient knowledge."

After Alafia flew to the statue of the goddess on her flying sword, there was a high platform behind the statue. Climbing up seemed to be a disrespect to faith, so Leon did not follow her in front of Alulu.

However, he could lean his head forward enough to see the space behind the statue.

"Right here." said Ella Fia.

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"Where?" The girls were confused.

Elafia said, "The statue, the platform, and the interior of the underground are all made of metal. Judging by their shapes, they form a mechanical device, probably used to operate the secret door."

Li Ang asked, "Can you find the mechanism?"

"It's right here, but I can't see the mechanism to open it. Some kind of magic is covering it up. I need to find the conditions to reveal it, or Leon can find a way."

"Can't even break through the 9th level?" Zoe asked doubtfully.

The kitten could no longer contain himself and began to feel around the sculpture, trying to find the mechanism.

"This is some kind of ancient mechanism." said Elafia.

Leon and the girls explained, "Ancient mechanisms often utilize not only magic but also spiritual manipulation, making them difficult to break."

"Except for high-level sorcerers." The blonde girl folded her arms and looked at Leon.

"Let me give it a try."

Li Ang closed his eyes and began to perceive spiritually.

On the side, people who were in doubt were also discussing and speculating.

Leon opened his eyes, then switched to spiritual vision, and looked in the direction of the perceived inharmonious position.

On the stained glass window, the place where the goddess pierced the demon with her sword has a special spirit attached to it.

As Zoe was touching around, her eyes kept falling on Leon.

Noticing that he looked up, she immediately asked, "Where is the mechanism?"

"No, but it's related to that."

Li Ang said, "The mechanisms in ancient ruins are often set up in a chain, and even after a while of dismantling them, they are just the precursors to the real mechanism."

"Isn't this too sick?" Zoe said bluntly.

"I agree."

Hearing Zoe say this, he felt very comfortable.

After reaching the pinnacle of his soul and becoming a heavenly group, and being qualified to explore various ancient ruins, his ability as a sorcerer played a big role in unlocking the mechanisms, but he was also often annoyed by the nesting dolls.

From then on, he often complained in his heart, "Newbis Fantasy" was obviously made as a money-making card-drawing game, so why did it have to copy the dregs of some large-scale games to fill the content?

In order to cross the bridge, I have to first go to the east to unlock mechanism A, then go to the west to unlock mechanism C, then go to the east and north to unlock mechanisms B and D, and finally come to the front of the bridge and turn on the switch.

A moderate amount of puzzle-solving during the game can act as a rhythm buffer, but for some games whose names are even related to combat, you have to seize the opportunity to throw axes and spend more than ten minutes solving puzzles. Isn’t that a bit too much?

Not to mention that there are games that are so excessive that they can be seen as simply cramming a little combat into the puzzle-solving, rewarding players for savoring the designer's "weird ideas."

However, the possibility of the Newbiss game itself making the mechanism is extremely low. This situation may be the result of a miraculous synchronization of the souls of the ancient craftsmen of this world and the game designers of another time and space.

The mechanism in front of him was not as dangerous as those ancient ruins, but the principle was similar. It was also designed using magic that could not be explained in modern times combined with spiritual manipulation.

The key point is the stained glass window.

"So what should we do? Break it?" Zoe said.

"Don't do this." Alulu said hurriedly.

"Of course not, because that would mean we would have to repair the glass window every time we open the door. That would be too expensive, wouldn't it?" Dorothy shook her head.

Li Ang did not withdraw from the spiritual vision. He gradually realized that the spirituality on the stained glass window served as a covering, and it would remove the covering when the conditions were met.

However, how can we know what conditions are required now?

Li Ang did not always solve the mechanisms of ancient ruins according to their conditions.

He raised his hand and directly eliminated the "covering" part of the spirituality.

In the past, he had to rely on perception to process for a long time, but now he used his spiritual vision to see the spiritual structure of the mechanism. While directly performing delicate operations on the spirituality, he could also increase the output of magic power and nail the pressure into the key connection points.

Feeling the magic power impacting him loosen and the cover broken, Leon also switched back to normal vision.

The statue of the goddess changed.

The statue seemed to have transformed from hardened plaster into soft clay. It opened its arms, opened the holy book at its waist, and pointed it towards the people present.

There were three more lines of words on the page.

You need to observe the precepts, restrain your practice, and find the true meaning of the arduous journey.

You need to control yourself, restrain yourself, and not be burdened by desires.

You need to keep your heart, discern the way forward, and know what to do.

Show me your way.

What was uncovered was not the switch of the secret passage, but the clue to unlock the next mechanism.

"Is this a chain trap?" Dorothy began to feel annoyed by the trouble.

Zoe frowned, trying to understand the words.

"It's a bit troublesome."

Ellaphia said, "Gatha-type mechanisms are the most troublesome."

Li Ang nodded. Sometimes, ancient people loved to make witty remarks.

He didn't expect that the statue would move.

From a spiritual perspective, the statue itself only has a weak basic spirituality, which allows it to maintain the image of a goddess.

Leon could see some clues about the mechanisms in the Dark Night Ancient City, but this statue was as silent as an ordinary sculpture.

This small church holds quite a few secrets.

"These are what my teacher taught me." Alulu said suddenly.

Li Ang looked at the pink-haired girl: "Is that what he said?"

Xiao Maverick nodded in confirmation.

"In that case, I guess he deliberately wants you to remember it," said Alafia.

"When he told me this, I had just mastered the way of the paladin."

"Is there anything special about paladins?" Zoe said.

The Paladins are powerful, but their membership has always been small. Even in the Theocracy of Wattam, and even among the large number of knights who defended the religion seen along the way, the number of Paladins is far less than that of warriors and knights.

"If there's anything special about it, it's the powerful divine power I gained through the oath."

They are perhaps more holy than the priests who rely on magic to cast holy spells, mainly because of the oath itself.

The reason why the various professions in Newbis are called "skills" is because of the ways of using magic behind the professions. They are derived from various different ideas. There are far fewer similar professions than different professions, so no one has ever had the energy to master too many professions.

The oath of a paladin is like a rule of the world. Just like using spirituality to attract magic and using magic to interfere with matter, by making an oath that you firmly uphold, you can realize the method of using magic to summon divine power.

"Is it about injecting divine power?" Dorothy said, "I can do that too."

She raised her palm, and the faint holy light could transform into holy fire or a glimmer shield.

The half-elf touched the statue of the goddess with his palm, and the sacred light was instantly absorbed by the statue. After circling her, it enveloped the goddess in light, as if she had really come here.

"It worked?" said Dorothy happily.

The sacred light flickered a few times and then went out completely, and the statue of the goddess returned to its dead appearance.

"Try yours?" Li Ang said to Alulu.

"Your divine power is purer than that of this lazy priest."