The truth about the underground palace
Snow Ridge, Tiankeng.
Lord Glenn invited His Holiness List, the Pope of the Church of the Lord of Light.
Holding a large staff, wearing a gorgeous robe with red background and gold patterns, and wearing a mitre on his head, His Majesty Rist looked down at the bottom of the pit: "Is this the place?"
"Yes," Lord Glenn said.
His Majesty List raised the great staff and brought it down heavily.
An invisible wave spread out from the point where the staff landed, spreading outward in circles.
Some waves were blocked back, and the returning waves were clearly visible in His Majesty List's eyes, outlining a picture of the underground.
"There is a magic circle underneath, an ancient magic circle." said His Majesty List.
Lord Glenn asked, "Can it be cracked?"
His Majesty Lister mused for a moment: "I need to go in and take a look."
Lord Glenn, His Majesty List, and the dean went down the underground passage together.
Elena, who was of low strength, and Leonard, who had just entered the demigod level, stood together outside the tiankeng, waiting for news.
"How is it? Are you tired? Do you want to go back and rest for a while?" Leonard looked at Elena with concern.
Elena's face was still pale, which looked very worrying.
"No, I just want to wait here." Elena said dejectedly.
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Elena to come back, Leonard could only wait with her. During the time, he even cut a few large branches to make a small chair for Elena to sit and wait.
After waiting for nearly two hours, Elena was exhausted. The damage from the attack from the gods in the dream was not so easy to recover. She leaned on Leonard's back, half asleep and half awake.
Leonard sat with his back to Elena, supporting her like a rock.
In fact, Leonard wanted to hold her in his arms more, but the holding position was not a comfortable one, especially for someone who wanted to sleep. Compared to being held in his arms, it would be more comfortable to lean on her back.
Leonard couldn't bear to see her suffer.
Suddenly, a surge of power surged out from the ground and rushed straight into the sky.
Elena woke up with a start.
Leonard instantly opened the defensive shield.
The clouds in the sky gathered rapidly, the sky darkened, and the sun's rays seemed to be forced inward and gathered.
Above the sky, another layer of sky appeared, and above this layer of sky, a heavenly palace appeared. The door of the heavenly palace opened, and a four-winged human-shaped ball of light flew out.
Is this a four-winged angel? A big question mark appeared above Elena's head.
A four-winged angel descended from heaven to earth and landed in a tiankeng.
Elena: ...
Leonard: ...
The two rushed to the tiankeng, only to see the angel's back as it flew into the underground passage.
Elena grabbed Leonard's arm and said, "Leonard, am I dazzled? I saw an angel, and the angel went down."
Leonard held her hand: "You are not dazzled, and you are not seeing things wrong. I saw it too."
Elena pointed to the bottom of the pit: "Should we follow in?"
Leonard considered for a moment and shook his head decisively: "No, the angels have already descended, which shows that the situation underground is extremely dangerous. It is not something that our level can get involved in. Let's continue to wait for news."
So the two of them squatted at the edge of the pit, staring at the entrance to the underground passage without blinking.
After squatting there for a long time, Elena couldn't help but speak.
"Do you think His Holiness summoned the angel?"
"That should be the case. No one else has this ability except His Holiness the Pope." Leonard responded.
"This is the first time I've seen an angel," said Elena.
"Me too," Leonard said.
"It turns out angels really exist." Elena exclaimed.
Leonard was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at her: "Do you think it doesn't exist?"
Elena touched her face embarrassedly: "Uh, didn't you say that gods and angels only exist in the classics?"
"Yes, that's right. That's why it was my first time seeing an angel too." Leonard nodded in agreement. "But I believe that God and angels really exist. It's just that their level is too high. The world they inhabit is separate from ours. They are two independent worlds."
Elena raised her eyebrows. Does it mean the high-dimensional world and the low-dimensional world?
"So will they interfere with our world?" Elena asked.
Leonard covered her mouth with his hand: "He is right here, do you think He can't hear you?"
Elena blinked and nodded obediently.
As soon as the big hand on her mouth was released, the dean's voice rang in Elena's mind.
"Come down."
Elena looked at Leonard, and Leonard looked at her. When their eyes met, they knew they had both heard it.
The two men went down to the bottom of the pit and walked into the underground passage.
The originally narrow underground passage was widened again, and the width was wide enough for two people to stand side by side. Elena and Leonard walked quickly and soon arrived at the end of the passage.
The huge rock blocking the end of the passage has disappeared, leaving only a large hole with light leaking out of it.
Elena and Leonard stepped into the cave, and a huge underground palace appeared before them.
Elena stared blankly at everything in front of her.
"Is this place the same as what you saw in your dream?" Leonard's voice sounded in her ears.
Elena nodded: "Yeah, exactly the same."
"Come here." The dean's voice came.
The two looked in the direction of the sound and saw an angel and three demigods standing in front of a huge mural on the left side of the palace.
Elena walked over, and under the illumination of the large ball of light above, she clearly saw that the mural was different from the one in her dream. Not completely different, the peeling parts were still peeling, but in the remaining parts, the colors of the mural had returned to their bright and vivid colors.
"This, has this been restored?" Elena looked at the mural in surprise.
"Yes." The dean answered her, "Come, stand closer."
Elena obediently approached the dean, but the dean smiled and said, "Not closer to me, but closer to the mural."
Approach the mural? Elena's foot suddenly stopped.
She refused to come closer, she was afraid.
The dean saw her fear and said, "Don't be afraid. The angels are here. You will be fine."
Elena was still afraid, and she looked at the dean timidly.
The dean could only explain a few more words: "We have studied this mural for a long time, but we haven't found the key to triggering it. Perhaps you are that key, so we want you to get closer to the mural to see if anything happens. Don't worry, just get close, we will protect you."
Lord Glenn also spoke up: "I will do my best to protect you."
Although she had received assurances from the two demigods, Elena was still a little scared. However, now that she was already here, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and move forward to approach the mural.
Elena's eyes were fixed on the god standing sideways.
This is the most terrifying existence in the dream.
She approached slowly, step by step.
Elena walked to the closest part of the mural, but the god on the mural did not change at all.
Elena's heart, which had been in mid-air, fell.
Maybe because of the presence of the angel, the god dared not...
Just as this thought was halfway formed, the air in front of Elena suddenly twisted, she heard strange mutterings, and her head suddenly began to hurt violently.
"Ah." Elena screamed.
The four-winged angel acted quickly, inserting one hand into her brain.
No one expected this change. Leonard was furious when he saw this scene, and he swung his sword to attack the angel.
His Majesty List raised his great staff to block, and Leonard's attack was neutralized.
"Calm down." The dean grabbed Leonard's arm.
Lord Glenn also stepped forward and grabbed him: "Please believe in the angel, the angel will not hurt her."
Leonard stared at Elena closely.
The angel withdrew his hand and pulled something out from Elena's head. Because he himself was a human-shaped ball of light, shining brightly, this thing was wrapped in layers of light, and it was impossible to tell what it was.
"She was anchored, and now I have pulled out the anchor. She is fine." A strange voice that sounded like a man, a woman, and a child rang in everyone's ears.
After the anchor was pulled out, Elena's headache disappeared immediately and the strange mumbling also disappeared.
Elena looked at the angel's hand, but couldn't tell what he was holding.
"Excuse me, great one, could you tell me what this is?" Elena asked humbly.
The angel answered her, "This is an anchor."
The angel only said this and did not explain further.
Elena: ...Uh, so what is an anchor?
Elena wanted to ask, but she didn't dare to. She could only look at her teacher, the dean, for help.
The dean explained, "Anchors are special creatures, without a fixed form. They are crafted by gods based on their own characteristics. As for their purpose, you can think of them as the god's reset button. When a god perishes, he can use the anchor to return."
???
Isn’t this reincarnation?
Elena was horrified.
"But why am I anchored?" Elena was terrified. If she were a cat, all the fur on her body would have exploded at this moment.
"Because of the dream you had," the dean replied. "You dreamed of this place and were attacked by a spirit. This attack must be the process of anchoring."
"Will the things in the dream also affect my real body?" Elena asked in surprise.
The dean smiled and said, "For those of us who have entered the magical world, dreams are not just dreams, but also a communication between the spirit body and the spiritual realm. Dreams will affect your spirit body, and naturally affect your true body."
Elena was speechless.
Can the harm in dreams also harm the real body?
Oh, no, it wasn't a dream at all, it was a prediction of fate.
Fate foreknowledge is the foreknowledge of the future. The harm from the future can reach her through time and even anchor her...
"Is it really the gods under the Lord of Light who dropped anchor for me?" Elena asked hesitantly, raising the biggest question in her heart.
The Lord of Light's servant wants to take over her body. This is too scary.
"Of course not." His Majesty List's calm voice sounded. He looked at Elena with a kind gaze. "My Lord is a righteous God and would never allow anchoring on a living person. The person who did this is definitely not a follower of my Lord."
Elena remained silent.
"He was once a follower of my Lord, but later fell." A voice that sounded like a man, a woman, or a child sounded in her ears, and Elena looked at the four-winged angel.
The four-winged angel turned to face the mural: "The content of the mural is the ceremony in which our Lord bestows His divinity upon Him."
Elena's gaze fell on the mural and on the Fallen Angel, who was looking up at the Lord of Light, holding a ball of light in his hands.
"What He holds in His hands is the Godhead." The four-winged angel's voice continued, "Later, He betrayed our Lord and became a Fallen Angel. It was our Lord who personally slew Him and took back the Godhead."
Betray the Lord of Light!
The Lord of Light personally killed the betrayer!
Elena's eyes widened. These two sentences contained a lot of information.
Not only Elena, but everyone present was hearing this secret for the first time.
"Who is this Fallen Angel?" His Majesty List asked the key question.
The four-winged angel did not answer.
But His Majesty Lister's expression seemed as if he was staring and listening.
"Thank you for telling me." His Majesty List thanked the four-winged angel.
This is a private chat, Elena thought.
"He anticipated the outcome of failure at the beginning of his betrayal. In order to be reborn, he set up several anchor points. This place used to be his temple. After his demise, my Lord sent us to clean it up. After the cleanup, we also sealed this place to prevent people from entering by mistake. But I didn't expect that fate favored him, and he still left an anchor." After the four-winged angel finished speaking, he turned around and "looked" at Elena.
Elena shuddered and stood straighter as if she was facing the dean.
"Do you have anything to say?" the four-winged angel asked without any emotion.
say what?
As soon as Elena asked a question, her body suddenly became unable to move, and then something rushed up her throat.
The game system, which never appears on its own initiative, appeared and a red warning window popped up.
"There's a virus invasion."
"Start antivirus."
"Antivirus failed, try again."
Virus?
Elena immediately understood that it was the four-winged angel casting a spell on her, probably something like the Mantra.
Elena took advantage of the opportunity when the game system was "scanning viruses" and tried hard to control her tongue and say what she wanted to say.
"I bought a chipmunk. It once fell into this underground palace and left a spatial symbol on it. I discovered this symbol by accident and thought it was useful, so I engraved it into the core."
Elena finished her words very quickly, like pouring beans out of a bamboo tube.
As soon as she finished speaking, the red warning pop-up window in front of Elena turned green.
"The virus was successfully eliminated."
After hearing Elena's answer, the four-winged angel said, "You engraved the spatial symbol on the core? Therefore, you established a connection with this underground palace, had a dream of communication, and ultimately, under clever guidance, came here and were anchored."
The logic is very coherent.
Elena felt embarrassed when she heard it.
That's the whole process, yes, but when you say it this way, it sounds like she was trying to get a small advantage and almost lost her life.
If you covet a symbol, you will lose your soul.
So embarrassing.
"You're very lucky." The four-winged angel paused and asked, "Which righteous god do you believe in?"
Elena lowered her head and answered softly, "I don't believe in religion."
Being religious is not just a matter of faith, but also a matter of worship and political affiliation. Therefore, for the nobles, being religious is an extremely serious matter. The vast majority of the great nobles are believers of the three major churches, and their children are baptized and believe in religion at a very young age. However, for the small nobles who have little power and no ambition, not many believe in religion.
Because it is more cost-effective not to believe, saving money, worry and queueing.
The Field family that Elena came from was a small family with small lords. Her ancestors were knights, and all the lords in the past had followed the path of knights, so there were very few religious believers. She herself was a time traveler, so she was even less religious.
"Very good, this is the arrangement of fate. Now that you have established a connection with my religion, you should throw yourself into the arms of my Lord." said the four-winged angel.
Elena: ...Uh, so, so religious? Can she refuse?
While they were in a dilemma, the dean spoke up: "Elena is a very talented mage. She is a believer in magic."
Yes, Elena looked at the dean with sparkling eyes.
She has a demigod teacher who is a mage. She may not believe in religion, but she believes in magic itself and the rules of the world.
His Majesty List smiled: "She can have another choice."
The dean said lightly: "She is still young, she can take her time to make her choice."
“Now you can understand it first.”
"Don't worry, she still has a lot to learn."
Lord Glenn coughed lightly, interrupting the Dean and His Majesty List's arguing over their choice of faith.
"Your Majesty, can we go and rescue those poor students now?"
His Majesty List was reminded by Glenn and thought of the real purpose of his visit. He couldn't help but smile.
"Sorry, I forgot." His Majesty List apologized to Glenn kindly.
Then His Majesty List had a conversation with the four-winged angel. Under the guidance of the four-winged angel, several people opened another passage in the underground palace.
The rescue was not something that Elena, a weak mid-level mage, could interfere with. The dean cared about the students and asked Leonard to escort Elena out.
Leonard escorted Elena out of the underground palace and back to the safe ground.
The rescue operation ultimately saved only two people, leaving this regular competition with a sad outcome.
After the rescue operation, the four-winged angel returned to heaven, His Majesty List returned to the Holy City, and the dean also said goodbye to Elena and left, returning to the Carlopetto Empire.
Only Leonard had not completed his lecture tour and had to stay in the Obili Kingdom.
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