"Oh, interesting..." Rother said in a low voice.
"What did you say?" Sean looked at her. "What's interesting about it?"
"It doesn't hurt to tell you, mortals." Rother grinned and said, "The underground civilization has left relics all over the continent, so the Taquila have studied them a lot. As for these symbols..." She walked to the mottled pillar and brushed off the dust. "They're not the characters they used, and they have nothing to do with the magic characters made by the Union. Isn't it interesting enough to think of the history of the Four Kingdoms? "
Azima found that she did not understand at all. Although the meaning of each word was clear and unmistakable, she did not know what it meant when they were put together. To her relief, Marl, who was from a great noble family, and Knaff, the local guide, also looked confused. They were not much better than her.
Sean, on the other hand, revealed a thoughtful expression.
"I heard from His Majesty that the Four Kingdoms used to only have scattered villages and small towns, which could be regarded as the edge of the continent. The so-called history is that there is no history. If this relic is not left by the civilization of the Battle of Divine Will, then it means... "
At this point, he suddenly froze.
"In the past, there used to be unknown alien races living here?"
"We can't draw a conclusion yet," Rother said with interest. "It's unknown whether the underground civilization will split into tribes and create different languages. We can only get more information if we go in and have a look. "
"Lord Sean, there seems to be a stone tablet here," a soldier who was inspecting the stone gate suddenly shouted. "It seems to have our characters written on it."
They immediately gathered around the stone tablet.
They saw a piece of granite lying among the weeds. It was covered with moss, and only one side of it had been polished. It was difficult to find it without a careful search. It took the soldier a long time to clean it up, and the carved words were revealed to them.
"The land cursed by the gods. Do not enter. You will die. "
After reading the warning clearly, Knave could not help but gasp in shock.
"Is, is this... the legendary Temple of the Cursed?" he stammered as he took two steps back.
Sean and the God's Punishment Witch looked at each other and asked, "Do you know its origin?"
"I've only heard about it from others. It happened more than 100 years ago …" Knaff stared at the dark hole and swallowed. "Didn't the local lord set up many traps to stop the Kingdom of Wolfheart from crossing the Cage Mountain? Legend has it that a team led by a Knight encountered a mountain rain while carrying out a mission. This kind of rain came and went quickly, covering the sky and covering the earth. When it fell, it could make people dizzy. So, the Knight ordered them to find shelter from the rain, and they happened to find a strange temple. "
"Oh?" Rother raised her eyebrows. "Did they find treasures after they went in, and the villagers were driven by greed and stole the treasures, only to be cursed by the gods and die tragically?"
"You, you've heard of it too?" Knaff was surprised.
"Pfft," Rother laughed. "Mortals really haven't learned much. They've been doing this for hundreds of years, and it's still working. I bet this rumor was made up by the lord in order to keep the treasures in the ruins to himself. As for those poor people, they were just used as evidence of the curse and were killed one by one. "
"But... they didn't die immediately."
"What?" Rother frowned.
The guide shrank his neck and replied cautiously, "After almost 10 years, they all died one by one, including the Knight. It's said that they were in extreme pain when they died, and even the skin on their faces fell off, revealing pieces of rotten flesh. They looked so hideous, and this is also the source of the curse. To prevent misfortune from spreading in the territory, the lord ordered that no one was allowed to go near that area, so now no one knows its specific location. "
"Are you sure?" Rother walked to Knaff and put her arm on his shoulder.
Looking at the arm that was thicker than his thigh, the guide's face turned pale. "I heard it from the tavern. I'm sure it's not a lie! My lady, if you don't believe me, you can ask someone else. If there's a problem, then the rumor itself must be wrong! "
"If they died after so long, then it doesn't make sense that they were killed," Azima thought. Besides, if it was common for the Knight to conspire with the lord to frame the villagers, it was another thing to kill the Knight as well. The latter was a noble. No matter how small his family was, he couldn't be executed without a trial.
"Is it... really a curse from the gods?"
"Uh, how about... we go back to the town first and make our next move when we get more information?" Marl Tokat, the liaison officer, suggested.
"Next move?" Knaff looked at Sean in disbelief. "Did you come for the Temple of the Cursed from the beginning?"
"No, it's just a coincidence." Rother let go of Knaff. "What do you think? As His Majesty's trusted guard, I don't think you'll run away, right? "
"Of course," Sean replied calmly. "Accomplishing His Majesty's task is the first priority. Now that the goal is right in front of us, there's no reason for us to turn back."
"Very well, then let's go in and meet the so-called 'gods'." Rother grinned grimly.
"But we can't just go in without any precautions." Sean shook his head. "In fact, His Majesty also mentioned that we might encounter danger when we get close to the source."
"He even foresaw this?"
"Yes," Sean turned to Azima and said, "After you left that night, His Majesty told me something alone. He said that we might encounter two situations. One is that the source is exposed on the surface. In that case, we don't need to do anything. We can just seal off the scene and report directly to Neverwinter. The other is that the source is located in an underground mine. The deeper the cave, the more dangerous it is. Therefore, if we encounter the second situation, we need to take precautions in advance. Although this isn't a mine, it fits all the characteristics of a mine. "
Then he snapped his fingers at the soldier. "Bring the things here."
The two of them quickly unloaded their luggage and took out five snow-white coats from within.
Rother squatted down and curiously flipped through the coats. "They're just ordinary leather coats."
"Not with a mask," Sean said. He picked up a coat and put it on. Azima found that this was the only way to describe it. The coat was seamless from top to bottom and did not even have a button. It was more like a human-shaped pocket than a coat. After putting it on, only Rother's face was exposed. His hands and feet were wrapped in the coat, which looked very weird.
Then he put on a transparent mask to fill the last gap. A fist-sized iron can was fixed in front of the mask, which looked like a pig's nose.
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