Chapter 948 The Ancient Church
The strange thing that Sharan discovered is located in a Gothic building.▲∴
Although it is much larger than ordinary houses, it is not very majestic compared to the tall towers in this city. However, the murals and strange runes carved on the eaves of the building make the building significantly different from the surrounding houses, and there is more of a mysterious color.
"This building should function similar to a church in this civilization," Sharan explained while leading Frey and Teo into the strange building: "Because my bat found the statue of God inside...well, it was probably the statue of God... and something similar to the confessional."
As soon as you enter the building, the first thing that appears is a walkway about a hundred meters long. There are dark red stone pillars standing on both sides, with three people hugging each other. The stone pillars are carved with statues similar to those on the eaves, but the statues inside have parts that can be used as lamps.
But now there are no oil lamps or candles on it.
"The hall is right behind this walkway," the little vampire pointed to the rusty double-open door at the end of the walkway, and said to Frey, who was frowning, "The thing I said is right there."
"I don't know if this building is a church, but at least this corridor is not simple."
Frey narrowed his eyes and looked at the statues and runes on the surrounding stone pillars, and said in a deep voice: "This may be an incomplete ritual. The ritual process is to make people walk from the door to the entrance of the hall. Every step, this ritual will impart a psychological hint to the person who performs the ritual, that is, those walking in the corridor, so that they will feel a sense of awe of ‘something’. Walking through the complete corridor, the subject may unconsciously maintain a considerable degree of awe and even belief in ‘something’.”
"Is that right? But when I came in before, I didn't feel anything was wrong..."
Sharan was stunned and said in disbelief.
"Because the form required by the ritual is to 'walk', and your bats fly in. Naturally, they will not be affected... and the method of imposing this psychological suggestion is very clever. If I were not affiliated with the Pure White Church and had the purest faith in the Divine Light, and once the faith was shaken, I'm afraid even I would not be able to detect this easily."
Frey's expression became serious: "If you use this method to deceive believers and put them on the Eastern Plain, you can already be regarded as a cult registered in the heresy ruling agency."
"What should we do now? Let's fly over?"
Sharan didn't understand Frey's words much, so she decided to change the topic: "My words are fine, and Teo shouldn't matter, but Frey, you can't fly?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Teo, who was beside her, immediately raised her wand and sang softly, and Frey floated up like a dandelion.
Obviously, as someone favored by the wind element, Tio is fine if he takes one or two people to fly with him when he is wearing a magical outfit.
With the help of Teo, the three of them successfully passed through the corridor and arrived at the hall.
The layout of the hall is very similar to that of the church in the eastern plains. First, there are three rows of benches (but now they are almost decayed), then there is a high platform for a choir. Next to the platform is a small room made of wood and iron, similar to the confessional room in the church, and finally there are podiums and statues of gods.
The statue of the pure white church is either a cross or a silver ball.
But the statue of the god here is different. It is a strange silver statue about two meters high and wearing a cloak.
Silver seems to have four hands. They each hold a hard book, a long sword with flames, a sundial-like object and a funnel.
Its head has long curved horns and its face is covered by a cloak, but it can still be seen that it has four eyes on its face, embedded with four different gems. Even after many years of time, the gems are still shining, which even makes the girls feel that this statue is looking at them.
Its body is twisted and does not look like what a human should have. Although the shape of the hands and feet looks similar to that of humans, it is obvious that this creature is not a human.
"The religion of this civilization is really a bad thing. It actually treats this kind of thing as a god."
Although I had seen it in the form of a bat, Shalan couldn't help but sigh now.
This is also the first time Frey has played today that agrees with Sharan's words from the bottom of his heart.
How distorted should the aesthetic view be to treat this kind of thing as a god...
"Is this the weird thing you said?"
Retracting his eyes from the statue, Frey asked Saran.
Although her appearance was strange, Frey could not find anything wrong with it after looking at it for a long time. It seemed to be just an ordinary silver statue.
"Of course not," Sharan blinked innocently: "This is just an ordinary statue, right?"
“…”
Please tell me this from the beginning.
Fleeing desperately torture the complaints into his throat, and finally turned into a long sigh, Frey asked exhaustedly, "So what exactly do you mean by saying something strange?"
She made up her mind if Shalan was still so unreliable, then even if it caused a gap between the Pure White Church and the Dark Night Noble, she would beat Shalan up. Anyway, at this very close distance, the action power of ordinary magicians is definitely not as good as her. Even if it is Sivi, as long as she accidentally turns on the winged angel mode, she can still beat her two punches to enjoy it, although it may not be useful...
"The seal on the podium," Sharan seemed to notice Frey's hidden anger and honestly explained: "My bat couldn't be lifted up. It seemed to be connected to the table. This is very unreasonable, so I think that might be a mechanism."
"You mean, there are secret passages here?"
Frey's eyes lit up. He thought the reason for coming here was Sharan's stupidity, but he didn't expect there would be clues.
Since nothing can be found on the surface, can we find some clues on the hidden inner side of this city?
Thinking of this, Frey no longer hesitated and carefully held the seal. He first lifted it, but found that it really couldn't lift it, and then he tried to turn it clockwise.
But nothing happened.
"Am I guessed wrong?" Sharan showed an embarrassing expression.
"No, you guessed it."
Frey raised his chin towards Sharan.
Chapter completed!