The huge shadow behind the clouds gradually faded, and it lasted for more than ten minutes before it finally disappeared.
What happened just now was like an illusion.
"Goddess, what was that?" Calaxus clenched his hands in front of his chest. His lips were dry. "That evil and huge …"
Hao Ren was expressionless and did not even turn his head. "That's Lockmarton, or a part of it."
All the monks and church knights sucked in a breath of cold air.
"But it seems that it has not completely broken free from the seal." Hao Ren turned around and said in a calm voice, trying to calm the others down. "That should be a projection of it in the real world. The barrier left by the goddess is still blocking it, so it was just a shadow. But in any case, the imprisonment of the Forgotten Abyss seems to be in danger, and it will collapse at any time. "
"We should go to Asurmen immediately," Calaxus said quickly.
Hao Ren nodded. At the same time, his eyes slowly swept across the dim cathedral.
Exhausted monks, tense Apologetic Knights, frightened refugees — as the underground palace could only accommodate a limited number of refugees, there were also many refugees gathered in the church's buildings above ground.
These people were exhausted, and more importantly, their mental exhaustion had reached a critical point. What they were facing was the power of nightmares that could not be measured by common sense. With Lockmarton's projection descending and the dark shadows roaming the city getting stronger and stronger, these people would not be able to hold on for long. So before they left, they must find a way to survive.
Hao Ren scratched his chin and whispered, "I need to find a way to leave a defensive barrier in this cathedral."
When Lily heard this, she quickly covered her tail. "There's not much fur left!"
"I didn't say you need to pluck my fur!" Hao Ren glared at the husky and then took out some red paper from his dimensional pocket.
The red paper was obviously peeled from somewhere else. There was cellophane tape on the edge, and there were crooked calligraphy on the front of the paper. Hao Ren shook the red paper and saw a couplet. The first couplet was: I don't know what to write for two months, and the second couplet was: I thought for three days and came up with two lines of nonsense. The horizontal line was: As long as there are words.
Those with better memory should have remembered that this thing was the authentic handwriting of Raven 12345.
This couplet was once pasted on the front door of the Hao Family's mansion. According to the neurotic goddess, the writing of the true goddess would turn misfortune into blessing. This couplet could make the whole mansion feel righteous and evil. At first, Hao Ren pretended to be an advanced worker and pasted the couplet on the front door. But after two months, he could not stand the shame and removed the couplet. Such an unlucky thing was posted on the front door, and people would come to take photos every day. Those who knew thought it was young and fresh, but those who did not know would think it was a house full of performance artists.
But people from the other world could not read Chinese, so they could definitely stand it.
"You can paste these things on the front door of the church to prevent the invasion of Nightmares and the forces of Chaos." Hao Ren solemnly handed the couplet to Father Bernstein. Even Xuanzang was not as serious as he was when he was holding the scriptures. He handed the couplet to Father Bernstein and explained, "This one is on the left, this one is on the right, and this one is on the top of the door frame. Hey, it's the wrong way to look at it. Don't ask so many questions. Just think of it as a divine talisman. If I say it's a divine talisman, it's a divine talisman! Did the goddess of creation say that advertisements were not allowed at the door of heaven? "
Bernstein took the powerful couplet in a daze. When Hao Ren looked at it again, he still felt that something was missing. He took out two pieces of red paper from his dimensional pocket and wrote two words on the door with the pen he stole from Raven 12345's office. One was "Goddess Protect Me", and the other was "Evil Be Gone". He then handed them to the priest and said, "Paste these two as well, one on each side of the door."
He was a pope, after all. Even if his calligraphy was not as good as Raven's, it should at least be a semi-divine artifact. Lily was a husky, and she could still produce holy light hundreds of meters away from Collow. As a demigod, he should not be any worse than Lily. Even if he was not good enough, he still wrote it with Raven 12345's pen, which had the goddess' teeth mark on it.
The situation in Louen was unstable, and it was always good to have more security.
After everything was arranged, Hao Ren and Calaxus selected their men and set off for the crystal mountain of Asurmen.
When Hao Ren left the cathedral, he looked back and was pleased to see that Father Bernstein had followed his instructions and pasted the red papers on the door. Although the priest was still suspicious of the red papers, at least he knew that it was better to be safe than sorry. The majestic cathedral of the goddess of creation stood quietly in the darkness, with the red couplet inscribed by Raven 12345 on the door. The two gods had completed the first fusion of divine power under this very special condition, and the collision coefficient was at least 20,000 stars.
Hao Ren looked at it for a while, shook his head, and sighed. "It's so f * cking festive."
The couplet emitted a faint white light in the darkness, repelling all evil and preventing evil from invading.
Meanwhile, Hao Ren, Calaxus, and the rest of the Sanctum investigation team and the abhumans soon arrived near the crystal mountain of Asurmen. They stopped at a place where they could overlook the foot of the sacred mountain.
Along the way in the wilderness, the twisted monsters that were born in the darkness could not be mentioned. They just added a few hundred hits to the record of Hao Ren's North Stars.
Standing on a high ground near Fidelinopolis, Hao Ren looked into the distance.
Asurmen was more majestic than he had imagined, but it was not like a mountain in the normal sense.
Like a massive crystal cluster inserted straight into the earth, Asurmen stood abruptly in the center of a circular basin. The white crystal mountain was steep and neat, and the high and low crystal pillars integrated together to form the main body of this eternal miracle. The sacred mountain became thinner the higher it went. At the top of the mountain, one could vaguely see the last floating shadow and a faint crack.
At the foot of Asurmen, where Fidelinopolis used to be, were now large potholes and sporadic ruins.
As the old bishop Holtzman said, 80 to 90 percent of Fidelinopolis had disappeared. The magnificent city buildings were gone, and there was an unpleasant smell in the air. The three concentric circles at the foot of Asurmen were scattered with large and small potholes as if hot molten iron had been poured into rosin. At the bottom of the potholes, there was a slightly rising heat and suspicious, shiny condensation.
"It looks like a meteor shower destroyed the city." Lily was shocked. "Are those the big potholes caused by the meteors?"
Hao Ren poked his head out for a while and said, "If only Y 'zaks were here. He is an expert in this field."
Calaxus stood in the dim light, silent, and pale.
Although he had heard about the terrible incident in Fidelinopolis from Bishop Holtzman, he was still shocked and terrified when he saw it with his own eyes.
Now, only the tenacious willpower of a high-ranking priest was supporting him, preventing him from collapsing in the cold wind.
"That is the Basilica Icon." After a while, Calaxus finally said. He pointed at the end of the ruins, at the foot of the sacred mountain Asurmen. His hoarse voice startled Hao Ren. "The supreme center of the church."
Hao Ren also saw the magnificent building. It was a very special twin tower with a unique style in Collow. The lower half of the Basilica Icon was a platinum palace with multiple domes and palace walls. The upper half had two tall minarets, and a long corridor extended from the top of the minarets to connect the two minarets. The entire structure of the Basilica Icon looked like a huge door.
Now, the sacred palace was shrouded in darkness. The eternal Holy Light outside the palace had long since disappeared, and only a thin layer of black fog that resembled a veil hovered ceaselessly outside.
Hao Ren's eyes narrowed slightly.
The Basilica Icon was not only shrouded in darkness. In the depths of the black mist, Hao Ren saw a dim yellow halo, which was like the twilight of dusk.
Evil forces were coming out of the building from the inside out.
"If we want to go to Asurmen, we must first go through the Basilica Icon," Calaxus said slowly, suppressing his frustration. "There is a platform in the Basilica Icon, where we can call the gatekeeper of the sacred mountain, and then the gatekeeper will open a portal to the interior of Asurmen. But to be honest, in this situation, I don't know how the gatekeeper is doing. She might not even respond to us. "
Hao Ren glanced at Lady Gloom, who was silent, and stepped forward. "We have to try."
The Basilica Icon gave people a heavy sense of oppression.
In the days of light, this sense of oppression came from sacredness, greatness, and the noble spirit of the building itself. But now, people who stood in front of the Basilica Icon only felt an instinctive rejection and fear of the evil forces of Chaos. The towering walls of the temple and the towering twin towers stood in the darkness, giving people the illusion that they were gradually collapsing. They seemed to have become living ghosts, trembling and twisting, making a strange whimpering sound under the night sky.
Putting these chaotic illusions behind him, Hao Ren led the team through the gate of the Basilica Icon.
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