Lord Highlander

  Chapter 445 444. The secret hidden in the temple

  Viscount Emmet brought several knights from the Hailansa Knights' reconnaissance team to the street where the temple in Meijin town is located.

Seeing a large number of **** dogs wandering around the temple, Viscount Emmett can tell without taking out the map. This is the key investigation area of ​​Meijin town marked by the magician investigation team on the map. Only the knight investigation team entered at night The small town of Meijin couldn't rely on the town's landmark buildings to confirm its location.

Now seeing the Statue of Liberty standing on the spire of the temple roof in the night sky, Viscount Emmet unfolded the map of Meijin Town again, looked at the big red cross marked on the map, and wanted to tell his companions that this time The investigation destination is here.

  Suldak and Andrew canceled the invisibility effect due to an unexpected incident. Instead of approaching the temple rashly, they chose to lurk in a residential house next to the temple.

  Viscount Emmet waved to the knights in the team. Relying on the invisibility effect, they continued to walk along the long street and approached the temple a little bit.

After the knights approached the temple, they discovered that there were hundreds of **** dogs guarding the iron railings. Unless these **** dogs were killed, it would be difficult to pass by these **** dogs even if they were invisible. If you get too close, you will definitely be spotted by those **** dogs.

Just when Viscount Emmet was worrying about how to pass through this area, he did not expect the howling of **** dogs to sound one after another from the east of the town, and the **** dogs near the temple responded quickly. A giant **** dog led a large group of **** dogs and rushed towards the incident.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the half-elf archer led the knight reconnaissance team to the back street of the temple, and found a tall sycamore tree behind the high courtyard wall. Half of the crown of this sycamore tree extended into the temple. In the yard, there were not many hellhounds here. The elf archer quickly climbed up the big tree. Viscount Emmett saw her walk a few steps along the horizontal branches of the plane tree, cross the courtyard wall, and jump Into the backyard of the temple.

It didn’t take long for the Knights’ investigation team to climb over the courtyard wall and enter the backyard of the temple. The layout here is very similar to that of other temples. The backyard is an inner courtyard, and the arched stone pillars are built to form an outer corridor. The central area is It is covered with dense vegetation. The landscape plants in these gardens can no longer see their original shape because they have not been pruned by the gardener for a long time. The trees in the garden grow very lushly.

  The invisible knight team stepped on the weeds in the courtyard, and the weeds that were no more than knee high showed a strange bend, as if invisible feet stepped on it, leaving a line of clear footprints.

  The half-elf archer seemed to stop in front of him, squatted down, and took out a stone from his arms and threw it towards the stone steps on the other side.

  The stone fell on the slate floor with a crisp 'click', and a giant hellhound came out of the bushes ten steps in front of her and searched for the place where the sound came from.

Samira took the opportunity to get into the bush, and Viscount Emmet followed closely behind with the knights. It turned out that the bush was actually an arch made of bushes, but because the bushes grew so densely, it looked like an arch. Like a dense bush.

Walking a short distance of tens of meters along the stone corridor in the back courtyard, the half-elf archer avoided five waves of **** dogs patrolling with his keen intuition. Unexpectedly, the guards of **** dogs in the temple were even stricter. La gestured to Viscount Emmett, and the scouting team could not go any further.

Viscount Emmet pointed to the Roman pillars that were more than ten meters high near the main building wall of the temple. Samira understood and led the team to approach the dark corner of the outer wall of the temple. Looking at the pattern on the stone pillar, he climbed up the Roman pillar in the corner with his bare hands, and with some reliefs and protrusions on the surrounding walls, he actually climbed to the roof.

  A rope slowly hung down along the edge of the wall, Viscount Emmet and the other three knights used this rope to climb up to the roof of the temple.

The **** of the temple roof is extremely steep. Many blue tiles were damaged and were not repaired, revealing several large holes. The outstretched arms of the statue of Liberty on the highest part of the roof were covered with bird feces. Viscount Emmett saw the half-elf archer crouching in one place Next to the hole in the roof, she was peeping into the temple, so she led the three knights carefully to her side, squatted on the roof of the church and looked into the temple. Since it was night, the prayer hall of the temple It was pitch black.

Looking down from above, I can see flickering lava stripes in the hall one after another. Those stripes are the natural lava patterns on the hellhounds. It seems that there are a lot of hellhounds in the hall, and These hellhounds are huge in size, at least they look like giant hellhounds.

   Intermittent crying came from this hall.

  The knights were lying on the roof, and the extremely irritable crying became clearer, mixed with the creaking sound of chewing food, Emmet wanted to see what was in the temple hall.

   What is certain is that there should be no **** passages and demon gates in this temple, otherwise **** dogs should come out of the temple hall continuously.

Viscount Emmet hesitated for a moment, and took out a yellow magic flare from his arms. This kind of flare can burst into dazzling light like fireworks after being lifted into the air. Even in the daytime, the light of this flare can travel far. He pulled the fuse on the tail of the flare and threw it into the hole in the roof.

   'Hiss...'

  The fuze of the signal flare glowed faintly, and fell into the hall with a clatter. It hit something, and the sound was dull.

At this time, all the voices in the temple hall stopped, and several knights on the roof cautiously peeped into the hall, only to see a crimson immature hand reflected in the faint light of the fire, with two growths growing out of a head. A small head with black pointed horns and two fangs protruding from the corner of its mouth looked curiously at the magic flare. Its purple pupils were like amethyst embedded in its eye sockets.

  The next second, a burst of flame was ejected from the tail of the signal flare, and the entire signal flare hit the wall in the hall with a 'swoosh', made a sound of impact, and hit the ground in the hall again with a trail of light.

  The tail flame of the signal flare woke up all the **** dogs in the hall. There were dozens of giant **** dogs in the hall. They raised their heads and stared at the signal flare flying around in the hall room.

Viscount Emmet's eyes widened, and he saw that the pool of holy water in the prayer hall of the temple was filled with bright red blood. Some human hands and corpses were lying in the pool of blood, and several giant **** dogs were lying in the pool of blood. Next to him, he was eating the corpses in the blood pool, and on the high platform of the choir in the temple prayer hall, there were piles of corpses piled up like hills, and most of these corpses were residents of the small town.

   Unexpectedly, the **** dogs dragged the corpses of all the town residents to the temple in order to provide sufficient nourishment for these giant **** dogs.

Then, the magic flare exploded in the hall of the temple. After the explosion, a dazzling light lit up in the hall of the temple. Everything in the hall appeared in front of Viscount Emmett. Amy The Viscount found that there were some skin-colored **** dogs lying next to the bellies of the lying **** dogs in the hall, and there were some black **** dog cubs lying beside almost every **** dog.

Of course, if it was just like this, Viscount Emmett would not have widened his eyes. What made him feel a little unbelievable was that there was actually a little devil with devil horns on his head next to those dark-bodied hellhound cubs, little devil With a hunchbacked young body and a bare tail dragging behind, they looked a bit like kobolds in a wilderness mine. They had the torso and head of a demon, but their limbs were still the claws of a hellhound.

  Almost every hellhound female has such a litter of cubs, and among these cubs there is destined to be an imp of similar size.

Several **** dogs roared in the prayer hall of the temple. These **** dogs did not know where the signal flares came from. Several huge **** dogs jumped onto the highest pile of corpses in the hall, and several **** dogs The vicious dogs rushed into the courtyard outside the temple hall like a whirlwind. Hundreds of **** dogs gathered around the temple from the gate. They were like a group of headless flies, searching around the temple aimlessly.

  The flare went out quickly, and the hall became dark.

   There was another night owl-like cry in the hall, and Viscount Emmet finally figured out where these cries came from.

  The knight detection team quickly hid in a dark corner of the roof, and Samira carefully lifted the hanging rope up into the air, covering up the last clue.

The investigative team hid on the roof for a while. Viscount Emmett saw a group of hellhounds leaving the temple and guarding the outside again. Everything in the prayer hall was back to normal, so he wanted to leave quickly and bring the news here. go back.

  He gestured to the knights on the roof to go down, and was about to slide down the rope, but was stopped by Samira.

The half-elf archer gestured to Viscount Emmett to wait a little longer. Just when Viscount Emmett was hesitating, a constructed knight beside him ignored Samira's gesture and went straight past Samira, grabbing onto the roof of the building. The rope slid slowly down.

It's just that when he slid halfway, he found that there were a few more **** dogs in the courtyard behind the temple. One of the **** dogs seemed to smell something, and walked to the back corner without any mistakes, and found The ropes hanging from the roof, their eyes looked up along the ropes, but found that there was nothing on the empty ropes.

The **** dog let out a warning roar, and the **** dog in the front yard rushed over quickly. A giant **** dog saw the rope, bared its huge fangs and roared continuously towards the roof, followed by the giant **** dog With the roar of dogs, the hellhounds surrounding the temple quickly ran up to the roof along the stone walls built of bluestone strips without hesitation, and they climbed the stone walls as if they were walking on the ground.

Although it was caused by the construction knight's carelessness, the matter has come to an end, now is not the time to complain, Samira hastily climbed up the square base of the Statue of Liberty along the roof of the temple before all the hellhounds rushed up On the base, there are marble reliefs inlaid around the base. The content on the reliefs is the famous scene of the battle of the gods. Countless archangels are holding spears in their hands, and they are besieging a great demon in a valley.

  A group of five from the Knights' scouting team climbed onto the pedestal. The upper edge of the pedestal was not too wide, and the knights could just sit on the stone platform at the edge.

As for those hellhounds that have already climbed to the roof, they are sniffing around on the roof with their keen sense of smell, but Viscount Emmett has sprinkled man-eating pollen along the way. After the hellhound smelled the pollen, they sneezed again and again. The trusted nose has thus lost its effect.

  Under the cover of night, the Knights' investigation team hidden in the shadows sat quietly at the feet of the Statue of Liberty, silently watching those **** dogs return without success.

  A giant vicious dog climbed to the roof of the temple, stood on the highest ridge, and roared deafeningly at the night sky.

  The hellhounds in the whole city howled together, and for a while the whole town was enveloped in roars.

  …

Suldak and Andrew were lying on the roof of a residential house, monitoring every move of the hellhounds around the temple. When they saw a burst of bright flames erupting in the temple building, a large number of hellhounds suddenly poured in Temple, I had a premonition that the situation was not good.

  However, the two lost the protection of the secondary invisibility potion, so they didn't dare to approach the temple easily, so they could only worry about it on the roof of the residential house.

Afterwards, Suldak heard a giant hellhound standing on the roof of the temple and let out an angry roar, which made Suldak feel more relaxed. The anger of the hellhounds can only mean that they have not found scouting team.

  Suldak asked the Nanai native beside him: "Andrew, what secret do you think is hidden in the temple?"

  Nanai indigenous warrior said honestly: "In short, it can't be the passage of **** or the gate of the devil."

  …

  The half-elf archer leaned on a relief of an angel, and she looked up at the night sky covered by dark clouds.

  In the vision of Viscount Emmett, only the vague outline of the half-elf archer can be seen. She looks calm and elegant sitting under the statue, but there is a world of difference in the status of elves with mixed blood and pure elves in the Green Empire.

The existence of half-elves in imperial society means that some elf slaves who were abandoned by slave owners or fled privately were born after combining with humans. These half-elves do not have the shelter of noble families, and they are usually not recognized by normal society. But this time, I have to say that Suldak has a good eye for seeing people. If it weren't for the half-elf archer, maybe the knight reconnaissance team would have been wiped out by now.

   Seeing the hellhounds jumping off the roof of the temple, the temple regained its previous tranquility.

The half-elf archer lightly jumped off the base of the statue, stood on the ridge and looked around, and then returned to call the knights to get off the base of the statue. This time, she chose to tie the rope to a fine iron arrow. Go up, and then point the forest bow at a tall fir tree outside the wall, shoot an arrow with the bow, and the fine steel arrow is nailed into the tree trunk with a thin cable.

The half-elf archer straightened the thin rope and tied it to the base of the statue. Without waiting for Viscount Emmett to speak, he took out a dagger with a small iron hook at the end of the handle , Samira held the dagger backwards, hung the iron hook on the thin rope and jumped lightly, her body lightly crossed the night sky, and plunged into the fir tree outside the courtyard.

  Then Samira used this thin rope as a traction, pulled a thicker rope and tied it to the fir tree again.

   Waiting for the four knights on the opposite roof to row over one by one.

In the quiet night, there was a crisp sound of 'click' on the roof of the temple. A knight in construction accidentally stepped on a piece of blue tile, and the tile fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. The sound of cracking is heard far away...

  (end of this chapter)