The battle was not at the Sunset Long Slope. As a matter of fact, the Sunset Long Slope was located behind the enemy lines. They had purposely taken a detour around a canyon to reach the place. Fenna had provided them with the route.
Cairo was currently in a defensive state. It was unlikely they would be able to ambush the demon creatures from the back. They only wanted to end the battle as soon as possible, instead of trying to start another one.
The number of demon creatures behind the enemy lines was not as high as in the battle, but the density was not low, either. Basically, they would stumble into one or two powerful creatures within a kilometer or two.
A battle would easily attract more demon creatures. Luckily, the members of the team were elites. They knew how to lure the demon creatures away so they could save some energy before reaching their destination.
"Did you notice? There are demon creatures patrolling around the Sunset Shrine. Those Silver Snake Warriors are leading the way. They are followed by a bunch of snake-men. I don't think they are roaming around. It's best if we don't let them see us," Chad said, pointing at a group of demon creatures ahead.
The Silver Snake Warriors were covered in silver scales. From afar, they looked like armored warriors riding serpents. These Silver Snake Warriors rarely showed up in battles against human invaders, but if they showed up, it meant the presence of a Medusa. They were the most loyal guardians of the Medusa!
The strength of the Silver Snake Warriors was on par with the Brutal Sword Death Servants. It was not that they could not kill the Silver Snake Warriors, but if they tried to attack the Silver Snake Warriors, they would be exposed. They would be greeted by hordes of Silver Snake Warriors!
"We've come to the right place. There are so many Silver Snake Warriors here," Benz said softly.
"They are patrolling very frequently. How are we going to enter the Sunset Shrine?" Zowey asked.
"That won't be difficult. The Silver Snake Warriors are particularly fond of the Dusk Demon Rats. I saw a nest of demon rats when we passed by earlier. We just have to find a way to drive the Dusk Demon Rats here and let them run around the Sunset Shrine. The Silver Snake Warriors will instinctively kill and chase after them. That way, we'll have a chance," Chad said with experience.
The rank of the Dusk Demon Rats was not high. It might be difficult for the Snake Demons to capture them, as they were born with the ability to avoid the attacks of the Snake Demons. However, it was too easy for the humans to capture them. They would first use poison to smoke their caves, then trap them with ice locks and plant traps. As a result, a group of Dusk Demon Rats could easily become bait.
The Silver Snake Warriors would stick to their posts most of the time, but they would go crazy when they saw the Dusk Demon Rats. Their nature made it impossible for them to tolerate the fat rats wandering around in their sight!
…
The plan was very successful. Everyone successfully passed through the area patrolled by the Silver Snake Warriors. The black silhouette of the Sunset Temple under the moonlight gradually came into view.
The ruins of the Sunset Temple were very large, and there were about 30 ancient temples of various sizes. Each of them had a very large courtyard and sentry tower. When they were scattered on the ground in a certain pattern, the Sunset Temple felt like a dilapidated ancient city. There were dilapidated pillars, half-exposed ancient halls, and overgrown altars that were almost completely covered in vegetation. There was nothing that was intact at all.
"What about now?" Vani did not seem to have any ideas.
"We, we'll wait until dawn," Mofan said.
"Why?" Ferrero asked.
"Just wait when I tell you to. You can leave if you don't want to," Mofan snapped.
Ferrero was displeased, but he did not say anything further.
…
The group was hiding in an ancient temple covered in mud and rocks. They had no idea what kind of mud the temple was made of, but it still looked brand new. It did not look like it had been dilapidated for thousands of years. Instead, it looked like it had been weathered for only a few hundred years.
The ruins of the Sunset Temple had indeed withstood the wind and frost of time. Thousands of years had passed, and most of the ruins were only left with a mound, or even a few rocks as evidence. However, the skeleton of the Sunset Temple seemed to still be there, and it was much larger than expected.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh ~"
Benz kept scratching his back, as if he had been bitten by a poisonous bug.
The group did not pay much attention to it at first, but Chad realized something was wrong when Benz kept scratching his back every few minutes.
"Benz, your back is about to fester!" Chad said in shock.
"I just feel itchy, don't you all feel the same?" Benz asked.
"Now that you mention it, I do feel the same …" Sofia said embarrassedly.
Zoey immediately went behind Sofia and checked her back. She discovered that Sofia's back was red too. She even had some pox-like things on her back. Even though her condition was slightly better than Benz's, it was obvious that she had been poisoned, too!
"I … I think I'm …" Zhao Manyan said.
As if it was contagious, the strange festering spread to everyone's body, including Mo Fan. His arm was now covered in itchy blisters!
"Are we under the curse of an ancient god?" Vani recalled the curse that had a radius of three kilometers.
The group immediately recalled the person in the picture that had died a horrible death. They immediately panicked when they heard Vani's words.
"Don't panic, I've never heard of a curse that can last for thousands of years, let alone such a huge area. There must be something that we didn't notice, "Mofan said.
"But we didn't even touch anything," Zhao Manyan said.
Mofan lifted his head and stared at the cold, green moon hanging in the sky.
"Do you think the moonlight is poisonous?" Heidi asked when she saw Mofan staring at the moon.
"Anna told me that the festering on the person's body was caused by some kind of Light Magic, but strangely, the person entered the Sunset Shrine at night. There was only moonlight at night, "Mofan said.
"How could moonlight cause festering on the person's body? Unless there's some evil energy hidden in the moonlight that we didn't notice," Heidi said.
"I think it's because of that thing," Mofan pointed at a tower deeper into the shrine.
The tower was over forty meters tall. It had a huge groove on it, and something was emitting a dark glow. Zhao Manyan had a feeling that it was embedded with some kind of treasure, but there were too many Silver Snake Warriors around. They did not dare to go any closer.
"Should we take a look?" Heidi suggested.
"Mmm," Mofan nodded.
It was difficult to move around with too many people around. The festering on their bodies was quite serious, too. Mofan brought Heidi and Sofia, who also had the Shadow Element, to the pitch-black tower.
…
Heidi was a Sound Mage. Bringing her along would allow them to observe the creatures around them.
Sofia and Mofan had the Shadow Element, so it was fairly easy for them to sneak past the Silver Snake Warriors. As long as they concealed their presence, the Silver Snake Warriors below the Commander-level would struggle to locate them.
After passing through a few courtyards overgrown with weeds, they lifted their heads and looked at the pitch-black tower. The dark glow it was emitting was quite eerie!
"Don't … don't you think it looks like an eye?" Sofia said in a trembling voice.
"It's definitely an eye!" Mofan said confidently.
Heidi's vision was not as good as the two Shadow Mages in the dark, but she was covered in goosebumps when she heard Mofan and Sofia saying that the glowing thing on the tower was an eye. How could there be such a huge eye with a dark glow? What kind of creature was that?
"I've seen something similar before," Mofan said.
Mofan remembered seeing something that looked like an eye in the ancient royal tombs. It was called the Wicked Eye Copper Mirror.
The Wicked Eye Copper Mirror had always been a mysterious existence. Han Ji mentioned that it was related to the Light Element and the Chaos Element.
Mofan had jokingly referred to it as a camera from a few thousand years ago. As a matter of fact, it was not that difficult to understand the Wicked Eye Copper Mirror if it was related to the Light Element and the Chaos Element.
On top of the black mud tower, there wasn't a creature. It was something like the Evil Eye Copper Mirror. Its eyes were embedded in the mud tower, and the light it emitted was hidden in the moonlight. When people looked up at the moon, they would think that the moon was a scary green color.
"It must be an ancient Burning Evil Eye," Mofan said.
"Burning Evil Eye? What's that? "Sofia looked at Mofan in astonishment.
Heidi was looking at Mofan too. She was curious how Mofan knew about it. He did not look like the knowledgeable type!
"I read about it in the ancient Greek books. In the early days, when humans had just come into possession of magic, their magic system wasn't mature enough yet. As such, they used the organs of ancient divine beasts as protection to scare away the invading demon creatures. This Burning Evil Eye is very famous. It's similar to a barrier of light. The barrier won't stop any creature from approaching it, but once they enter its range, the deadly rays, poisonous rays, and evil rays will come into effect. The longer they stay in the barrier, the more obvious the effects will be. It seems like the person who died to the Sunset Shrine's curse was actually killed by this Burning Evil Eye, "Mofan said.
"How do you know about it?" Sofia asked with a confused look.
"Since I'm here, I've obviously made some preparations. I only read about it in some ancient books," Mofan replied.
Be it the Greek God of Death, the national beast of Egypt, or the Totem Beasts of China, it seemed like the ancient countries with a long history were closely related to the divine beasts. As such, when Mofan was meditating in Parthenon, he had read a lot of books about Europe and the cities to the south of the Aegean Sea. The books in Parthenon were all forbidden. Many of them recorded history that had not been made public. Mofan was only trying to find the connection between the Totem Beasts of China and the divine beasts of other countries.
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