The knight in the abyss

Chapter 800 Jigsaw Puzzle
The elf priest looked at little Isa with a strange look, but finally nodded, took out two small bottles from his pocket and handed them over.The little vampire walked up to the defiled icon of Melkor, and first poured a small half bottle of holy water from above to wash off the dirt covered on it, then took out a handkerchief and wiped it carefully.

Seeing that she couldn't finish it for a while, everyone dispersed to check other areas in the palace.Like the hall outside, this place has obviously experienced battles, and the intensity is even more intense.The difference is that the walls and floor of the outer hall are covered with dents, obviously caused by the wielding of various weapons, while here are full of dents caused by explosions, benches blown by strong winds, and various burns. On the scorched surface, it seemed that a duel between spellcasters had once been staged.

"Who do you think made these marks?"

Kara Lin's voice sounded behind Lancelot, the human knight turned around and found that the scholar seemed to be in a good mood.

"You seem to be in high spirits... One of them should be Peyton Derek, right?"

"Hehe, it is of course very exciting to have the opportunity to learn about some hidden history..." The scholar shrugged with a smile, "Of course Peyton Derek is the most suspected, but he can't fight alone. We already know that Peyton Derek is a lich, I really can't imagine anyone who has the ability to compete with him..."

"Speaking of this, you reminded me..." Lancelot scratched his head, "How powerful is a lich? Compared with Tijana, who has stronger spellcasting ability?"

"If you only talk about the ability to cast spells, then of course liches are stronger. No offense is meant. During the almost infinite lifespan of liches, they can master magic skills that ordinary people can't even imagine through learning, experimenting and researching, and yours The succubus lover is a sorcerer, and using magic is more like a physical instinct for her, and it is incomparable with arcane spellcasters like liches..."

"Is that exaggerated? But you have never seen the scene of Tijana fighting. Let me tell you, when we were in Volcano Fortress, we watched the Balrog resurrect in the magma. At that time, we thought everything was over. At this time Tijana finally arrived, and Vesuvius had no power to fight back in front of her, she killed that Balor as easily as Brutal killed a Berserker..."

"Thank you for the compliment, but I think it's still a bit worse than me...Although it's very close." The voice of the young dwarf sounded behind the two.Facing Lancelot's displeased gaze, Brutal shrugged indifferently, "I was there at the time, and that's the truth. I must have killed more Berserkers than she killed Balrogs."

"Hmm...Lancelot, you just asked about spellcasting ability, but if you want to compare combat ability, Tijana must be stronger...Although warlocks master very few spells, their spellcasting methods are more suitable for combat. No doubt."

"Thank you for saying that. Going back to the question just now, according to what our friend who will turn into a crow said before, the hag is obviously capable of contending with Peyton Derek, and we also used it in our previous adventures. Quite a few hag-made scrolls, no?"

"I know that hags also have very advanced magical attainments, but if someone told me in the past that hags are powerful enough to compete with liches, I would never believe it."

"Then you believe it now?"

"Soveris gave a very reasonable explanation - a hag assembly. Among all possible reasons, that reason is indeed tenable. When more than three hags form an assembly, they can share spells with each other, Doubling the combat power, if there were thirteen hags joining forces to form an assembly, as Soveris said, it would not be surprising that the lich would lose. However, the hags fought with Peyton Derek fought, and someone else fought the Lich here."

"Who would that be?"

"I don't know, but a reasonable guess is that the man is a member of this temple, that is to say, a priest of the Lord of the Dead Church..."

"A divine spellcaster? Like Aramir?"

"I heard someone mention my name." The elf priest heard the words and came over, "Is there any problem?"

"We were discussing who fought here back then. One of them was basically the Lich Peyton Derek, and the identity of the other, we guessed, might be a divine spellcaster like you."

"Reasonable speculation. If it is a high-level priest of the Lord of the Dead, he is born with a certain ability to restrain the lich who is an undead creature. But it is obvious that Peyton Derrick won in the end, otherwise he would There was no subsequent battle with the hags, and the mosaic glass would not have been replaced by Cyric's..."

"I feel that we have already been able to put together a rough picture from the existing clues." Lancelow rubbed his chin, leaning thoughtfully on the three sides of the glass depicting the "great achievements" of the Prince of Lies, "At first , Peyton Derek obtained the method of becoming a lich in this temple that worships the Lord of the Dead, that may have happened when the stone gate was opened for the third time before, or it may have been before. After the Lich, he visited the temple again for some purpose, but had a serious conflict with a certain guard of the temple, and the result of the conflict ended in the Lich's victory."

"As for the hags, we also have some useful information. According to what we saw in the vision, Uncle Barend was killed by a weapon cursed by Cyric, and those hags seem to have been prepared for this , so we can assume that there is some connection between them and the Prince of Lies. Based on this assumption, the altered mosaic glass and the desecrated icon of Melkor are obviously also made by them, and the two ghosts at the door The guards also said that it was the hag who opened the stone gate last time before us, so this just corresponds to our assumption."

"According to Soveris, the hags once had a big battle with Peyton Derek, and the battle made a lot of noise, but the result was that Peyton Derek never showed up again, and the hags became The de facto owner of the Lord of the Demon Realm. There is a small doubt here, whether the hags came to this temple before or after the battle with Peyton Derek, and desecrated the icon of Melkor ?”

"Is this important?" Brutal couldn't help but ask, "I'm not questioning you, I just don't understand..."

"Very important." Lancelow nodded, "If it was before, then they probably found a way to defeat Peyton Derek here, it may be a fatal weakness of the Lich, it may be some kind of weakening The way, it is also possible... is how to seal its power."

"Uh..." Brutal swallowed with some difficulty, "What did those ghost guards say before? A certain powerful force was released?"

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