Because it was close to the flowing water, the surrounding air was extremely humid.
Apart from Margaery, the other centaurs remained on the opposite side of the lake. They did not walk past the stone platform in the water. Without permission, they could not casually approach this temple.
Sirius, Harry, Ron and Hermione were discussing something in a low voice. Elwyn did not participate.
He was still thinking about Professor Trelawney's prophecy, the surrounding scene made him extremely uneasy.
"The centaurs have a habit of using the names of planets to name their temples." Sirius said. "All over the world, there are centaur tribes and temples for worship and stargazing. Although due to the distance, they rarely communicate with each other, but the names of these temples have never been repeated."
"What is this black temple called?" Harry asked.
"They call this the Moon Temple." Sirius pointed to the red moon hanging above their heads. "Because it is suitable for observing the trajectory of the moon, it got its name. Because it was an early temple, it is very famous among the centaurs. If you meet the centaurs anywhere else, just mention this place and they will definitely know. "
"It's not completely unique, there are two Moon Temples in the Centaur world." Margaery interrupted, his tone was filled with uncontrollable anger. "Those traitors who were exiled by the tribe built another Moon Temple at another place. It is exactly the same as this one, but the things they worship are completely different."
"So, there is another black temple like this one?" Elwyn asked.
"That's right, those traitors defiled the sacred place. The Moon Temple they built is filled with evil and taboo." Margaery angrily dug the ground with his front hooves.
Hearing his words, Elwyn felt slightly relieved.
If there was no evil and taboo in this dark temple, then it was not the place that Professor Trelawney mentioned.
He did not think about this anymore, no matter what the situation was, he had to go in.
Passing through the dark and narrow entrance, Elwyn followed Margaery and Sirius into the temple. Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed behind him. Everyone looked around curiously.
With the light of the torch, Elwyn could see the gorgeous and colorful murals carved on the wall.
These murals were the continuation of the carvings on the outside walls, most of them were related to centaurs observing the stars, and also the movement of the stars.
Moving forward, the complicated constellation pattern formed by the stars occupied the entire space. Even the ceiling and the marble floor had them, making people feel dizzy.
Only a real astrologer could understand the value of these complex patterns, which recorded the positions and movements of almost all the planets for thousands of years. Many of them were important star maps that human wizards had never noticed or had lost.
Elwyn could not understand these, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were even more so, but this did not stop them from gasping in surprise.
The passage continued forward, and after turning a corner, a milky white object suddenly drilled out from the wall, bumping into Elwyn. This was a spirit, not the usual wizard spirit that everyone saw in the castle, but the spirit of the centaur ancestor.
His attire was different from the centaurs, he was tall and sturdy, and wore a rarely seen leather armour that was riddled with scars, as though he was a warrior that had just returned from a bloody battlefield.
Elwyn carefully observed this centaur spirit, this fellow was the strongest centaur he had ever seen, about twice the size of Margaery. This was simply too inconceivable.
If he had to describe it, he was basically a hybrid between a centaur and a troll.
While Elwyn was sizing him up, the centaur spirit was also looking back at them.
His eyes were filled with suspicion, he frowned and said something, his tone was extremely strange, it was definitely not English. Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what he was saying.
Margaery hurriedly stepped forward and started conversing with him.
"That is the centaur's unique language, it is extremely ancient and complicated, it is rarely used now." Sirius explained, "But it was once very popular in the middle ages."
"That leather armour looks like it is from the middle ages." Hermione analyzed, "He must be like the almost headless Nick, living here for close to a thousand years."
"Nick knows all the spirits, but he has never told us about the centaur spirit." Harry curiously sized him up, he lowered his voice and said, "Do you still remember last year's Halloween party, all the spirits in England came, but this fellow wasn't there."
"I think he was unable to communicate with us, that's why we didn't invite him." Ron wrinkled his nose and guessed softly, "Nick definitely doesn't know how to speak centaur language right?"
"Centaurs normally don't interact with humans, even if they become spirits." Sirius said, "This is the centaur's most sacred temple, only the tribe's wisest elders and most valiant warriors are allowed to reside here."
"That means there will be many centaur spirits here?" Elwyn asked.
"Actually, there aren't many." Margaery finished conversing with the centaur spirit, he walked back just in time to hear Elwyn's question, he replied simply, "Because of the traitors, we once suffered huge losses, many of our ancestors' spirits disappeared forever, only the strongest centaur remained. That was Ugart, in the centaur language it means a majestic mountain, he is our tribe's greatest warrior. "
"Greatest warrior, what did he do?" Ron asked suspiciously, "Killed many eight-eyed spiders?"
"He once slaughtered an adult fire dragon, and many other monsters that you can't even imagine." Margaery said gruffly, as though he was dissatisfied with Ron's offense. "Human, never underestimate the centaurs, we possess a strength and civilization that is not weaker than yours."
Fire dragons are the strongest and most savage mystical creatures that exist. Everyone had once seen one under Gringotts, and were deeply shocked by its strength.
It was hard to imagine that a centaur could actually kill a fire dragon with his own strength, even a powerful wizard would find it hard to do so.
The centaur spirit Ugart turned and left, everyone looked at his back in awe.
"Let's go, don't let the elder wait for too long." Margaery turned around and set off again.
Everyone continued forward, entering a circular passage. Towards the outside of the passage was a round room of different sizes, filled with many strange objects. Some of them were sacrificial items, but some of them didn't look very pleasant.
Borrowing the dim light from the torch, passing through the narrow gap of the stone door, Elwyn saw many statues placed in the dark room.
The statues were all sorts of things, they couldn't be seen clearly due to the distance, but the appearance of the statue by the door was enough to shock everyone.
Elwyn swallowed his saliva, standing there in a daze, his entire being stunned.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
