"Very well."
When Her Majesty the Queen said this, a sudden tremor came from the direction of the altar of the Goddess of the Dead Moon. It was as if something had crashed into the temple. That thing must have been a giant beast the size of a mountain. The whole hall of the Dead Moon shook with a loud bang. The white bone pillars creaked strangely, and the arches above their heads buzzed. It was as if the whole world was shaking, and sand poured down like a waterfall.
Andrea took a step back and stabilized her center of gravity. She raised her head, her silver eyes revealing a look of vigilance. Unknowingly, a pitch-black spear had appeared in her hand. It was her light spear 'Raven'.
Brando's body shook, and he immediately looked around vigilantly. This tremor was clearly of the same origin as the one he felt a moment ago. His first thought was that the Eternal City was experiencing an earthquake, but it was at this time that the third tremor came.
This tremor was more obvious than the previous two. The entire Hall of the Dead Moon suddenly shook, and everyone in the hall had an illusion that the hall had moved by one or two centimeters. With the sound of glass shattering, the rose-arched windows on both sides of the corridor that depicted the classic legends of the Dark Codex shattered at the same time. Whether it was the Dragon Slayer 'Hudson', the Advent of Darkness, the First Rising of the Dead Moon, Ben Burton and his followers, or even the Blood and the Lamb, they all fell from the windowsills and fell heavily to the ground, shattering into colorful glass shards.
The followers in the hall moved forward and backward like waves, and the followers who lost their balance fell to the ground in rows. It was as if an invisible scythe had swung over the heads of the crowd, and where it passed, the crowd immediately became shorter.
Kacha —
Brando seemed to hear the sound of something cracking. The sound came from the front of the hall, and he and Andrea subconsciously looked up. The two of them were surprised to see that on the holy statue of the Goddess of the Dead Moon, which was more than ten meters tall, there was a crack that was a few centimeters wide starting from the neck. In the continuous tremor of the hall, small fragments rolled down from the crack, and then as if the Goddess lowered her head, the holy statue broke from the neck, and a head that was as tall as a person rolled down from the sky, falling straight towards Queen Madara and Bishop Philip below.
Andrea was so shocked that she did not realize what was going to happen next. Brendel, on the other hand, did not have such a deep impression of the situation. He reminded her immediately, "Don't worry about it too much."
"Be careful!"
But he immediately realized that as the Queen of the Dead Moon Empire, it was impossible that she did not have a protective holy object on her, and the falling stones were unlikely to cause any harm to her. The Goddess' head fell from the sky, and it looked very frightening, but in this world of magic, its power was not even comparable to a stone shot from a catapult.
Sure enough, a conspicuous arc of light appeared ten feet above the Queen's head, and the falling statue hit the arc of light as if it had hit an immovable iron plate. The tip of the Goddess' nose touched the ground first, and it immediately collapsed, and then the whole head completely broke from the broken nose, turning into a few harmless pieces of broken stone. With a bang, it exploded and fell to the ground, and a few pieces splashed on Philip who was not far away, hitting his robe, but the latter's face was stiff, and he did not even frown.
This calmness, even in the face of a landslide, deeply shocked Brando. How could such a person be a mediocre and mediocre person? He could not help but think that he must have seen a ghost to believe the unreliable rumors circulating outside. How could such a mediocre person become the Bishop of the Dead Moon Temple, the second most powerful person in Madara, and possibly the most powerful person in this era? But why would such a person be willing to assist a person with no background and origin to become the Queen of Madara? Was it just for the Mercury Staff? Brando was more willing to believe that perhaps the Bishop had really received an oracle that allowed him to see through the fog of the future, and see Madara, the unification of the dark Dead Moon Empire.
"Lady … Kleis …?" At this time, Andrea suddenly cried out.
Only then did Brando realize something. He looked up and found that only half of the statue of the goddess was left. Her upper body was completely cracked, and after rolling down from her head, the parts above her waist also fell apart, turning into several pieces that fell down from both sides. One of the pieces hit the giant spider at her feet and smashed it into pieces. Her two arms fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. One of the round forearms was still rolling on the obsidian floor, down the steps below the altar, and all the way to the hall below.
It finally stopped in front of a young acolyte of the Dead Moon. He looked as if he was scared stiff as he stared at the arm of the goddess, as if he was not looking at a statue, but at the bloody broken arm of the real Goddess of the Dead Moon, Kleis.
When Brando saw the expression on the acolyte's face, he suddenly realized what had happened. The statue of the Goddess of the Dead Moon had collapsed. Perhaps this did not sound like a big deal, and could at most be regarded as an ominous sign. But Brando knew that this was not the case, because this was a world of magic and gods. This was the central hall of the Dead Moon Temple. Although this statue had not appeared for thousands of years, it actually symbolized the authority of the Goddess of the Dead Moon, Kleis, in this world.
But now, it had shattered.
In the thousands of years of history of the Holy City of the Undead, this was not the first time it had been tested by a disaster. Since the establishment of the Holy City of the Undead, it had experienced hundreds of big and small disasters, including natural disasters and man-made disasters. During the Year of the Brown Lion, the Holy City of the Undead once had a fire in the Holy City, which had just been rebuilt not long ago. Ninety percent of the Holy City of the Undead was reduced to ashes, but only the great hall remained unscathed. When the fire spread to the thirty-third step outside the great hall, it was miraculously extinguished, followed by heavy rain that lasted for two days and two nights.
At the beginning of the First Era, the Wind Elves invaded the Land of Eternal Death. That was the only time in the last one thousand and three hundred years that the Dead Moon Kingdom had been invaded. The Wind Elves killed the Undead Lord Skeletal Gangrene, and their army was once directed at the Holy City. At that time, the Wind Elves' commander declared that he would completely destroy the temple. But not long after he said that, civil strife broke out in Saint-Ausol. The Elves' attack was thus left unsettled, and the Holy City of the Dead Souls avoided a catastrophe.
Then came the Year of the Croaking Frogs, which happened less than three hundred years ago. The great earthquake in Eccas Canyon affected the Holy City of the Dead Souls. Seventy percent of the buildings in the city collapsed, and even half of the main hall of the temple collapsed. But this statue was not damaged at all, and stood tall among the broken walls. Later, when the believers of the Dead Moon rebuilt the temple, they used this statue as the center to reshape the hall, and that was how the majestic and magnificent Dead Moon Temple was built today.
But today, this statue of the Goddess collapsed with a loud bang. Although the tremors in the hall were violent, it was still far from comparable to the great earthquake in the Year of the Croaking Frogs. The believers of the Dead Moon were all humans. They may not have experienced the great earthquake two hundred years ago, but there was no lack of old souls among the Undead Lords here who had lived for a long time. When they saw this scene, they were immediately stunned.
A buzzing sound rose from the hall, as if a lid had been lifted. The whispers of the believers became louder in an instant. The fear of the believers in the front row spread like an infectious disease, and quickly infected the people behind. The expressions on the faces of the believers became incomparably terrified. They finally lost their footing, and some of them stood up from the crowd, frantically struggling to rush out.
But before they could run far, a sharp arrow shot out from the shadows and hit the backs of those people. The arrow seemed to be imbued with unparalleled power. It turned into a black light and pierced through the backs of those people, plunging straight into the ground. The tail feathers were still trembling.
[Madara's skeleton archers rarely use these arrows, but there's one exception, and that's the Dark Rangers.] He subconsciously looked at the two sides of the hall, but even with his perception, he could not see anything. Madara's skeleton archers rarely used these arrows, but there was one exception, and that was the Dark Rangers. He subconsciously looked at the two sides of the hall, but even with his perception, he could not see anything.
This hall seemed to be occupied by a huge will, shielding his perception. His five senses could only extend to a dozen meters like a normal person before they were blocked by a dozen pillars.
These dozen black arrows deterred the crowd, and the believers who were becoming chaotic stopped in their tracks. They turned back and looked at Her Majesty the Queen and Philip at the altar. What impressed Brando was that Her Majesty the Queen was not particular enough to use weapons in such a place and cause such a massacre. But Archbishop Philip beside her did not seem to have seen it, and his expression did not even change slightly.
If such a thing happened in the Leo Palace of the Holy Cathedral of Fire, the royal family of the Cruz people would be waiting to break off relations with the Holy Cathedral of Fire. In the sanctuary that represented the majesty of the Golden Flame, openly slaughtering its believers, what was this if not disobeying the gods?
But this scene also made Brando understand one thing, and that was that everything that happened in front of him did not seem to be sudden. At least Her Majesty the Queen and Archbishop Philip had been prepared, and both of them seemed to have expected this to happen. Brando looked at the undead lords and high-ranking priests standing below, and he saw the same look of shock in their faces and in the soul flames in their eyes.
He turned back and looked back at the Queen of Madara and Philip. This was not an earthquake, and an earthquake could not destroy the icon of Clare unless the earthquake happened in another place, and that was outside the Elemental Frontier.
Something happened to the gods.
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