Under Leo's questioning, Jason and the others explained what had just happened one by one.

It turned out that the four of them were mentally blank like Leo. When they recovered, Leo and High Priest Deni had disappeared.

After that, some ferocious beasts would continue to run out of the walls around the cave and attack them crazily. They had already experienced five waves of attacks. If Jason hadn't been here, perhaps Nelson and the others would have died from the beasts.

His mouth dropped.

However, what makes them feel strange is that all the beasts they kill will disappear before their eyes. Even if they hold the body of the beast in their hands, or even bite off a piece and put it in their mouth, they will disappear.

If the wounds on their bodies were not fake, they might think that they had gone crazy and everything they experienced was an illusion.

"Those are not hallucinations." High Priest Deni had already put on the clothes he had brought back to the cave, and used his hood to cover his horrifying-looking eyes again. After hearing Jason and the others' experiences, he took the initiative to explain.

Said: "They are all divine creations of Nilgard's patron saint. They live in the garden of the patron saint. When someone approaches the god's place, they will appear to stop the intruder, but they will never leave any traces, no matter what.

Be it life or death. This is what is recorded in the book "Garden of the Spirits" written by the Nilgaardian writer Herkes."

Although High Priest Deni gave an explanation, no one believed him.

"What are those?" Sean's eyesight was very sharp, and he soon saw two strange-looking long swords at the feet of High Priest Deni, and he moved over to pick them up.

However, after his hand touched one of the long swords, the sword immediately rusted and decayed in a short period of time, eventually turning into a pile of metal shavings.

Seeing this situation, Sean quickly raised his hand instinctively, distanced himself, and said: "It wasn't me, it wasn't me who did it!"

"Of course it wasn't you. If you could do such a thing, you wouldn't be here anymore." High Priest Deni mocked Sean coldly, then squatted down and picked up some metal scraps.

After looking at it, he said to Leo: "What belongs to God will eventually belong to God."

As he spoke, he reached out and touched the other sword lightly. This sword was also decaying at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if millions of years of time had been compressed into a few seconds and acted on this long sword.

"Why is this okay?" After seeing the outcome of taking the long sword away from the arena, Leo immediately touched the psychic device in his arms, took it out and looked at it, and found that the thing was still the same.

Nothing changes.

"I'm afraid God doesn't know that you would do such a thing." Looking at this divine creation, High Priest Deni remembered the scene of Leo fighting in the arena, and couldn't help but said jokingly: "So in a certain aspect,

This thing should have become something beyond the control of gods."

"What is this? A gold brick?" Jason, who was wrapped in bandages, came up and asked with a grin.

"No! It's a creation of the gods." Leo responded to Jason's inquiry according to the name given by High Priest Deni. Then, without waiting for Jason to ask where he and High Priest Deni had been, Leo told them about their experiences in the arena.

He said it hastily.

When they heard Leo say that he used five guns to destroy a legendary divine creation in less than ten seconds, everyone, including High Priest Deni who saw this scene with his own eyes, used

Looking at Leo with a strange look, Jason looked more at the flintlock hand cannon that belonged to him and was only temporarily borrowed by Leo, and wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth from time to time.

"Look, on the altar!" Nelson suddenly pointed at the stone platform and said.

When everyone heard this and looked over, they saw a drop of blood-like liquid seeping out from the center of the stone platform and being lifted up and suspended in the air by an invisible force.

The blood threads that originally spread throughout the cave slowly retreated into the stone platform, and gradually gathered in the drop of blood, causing the drop of blood to change from bright red to dark red, and then a trace of gold was added, and as the gold thread

increased, and finally turned into a drop of golden blood.

At this time, the passage entrance and another bronze door that were originally covered by the illusion also reappeared, and the previously closed bronze door that could not be opened also opened a crack.

Sean, who never knew how to suppress his greed, completely ignored the reappearance of the two entrances and exits. Only the drop of golden blood remained in his sight, and just like he couldn't help but reach out and touch the sword,

This time I couldn't help but grab that drop of dazzling golden blood.

"This is not your thing, you shouldn't touch it!" Leo grabbed Sean's stretched out hand, looked at him coldly, and said.

Sean curled his lips and took his hand back, but he still couldn't take his eyes away from the golden blood.

After giving Sean a lesson, Leo reached out to pick up the golden blood, but what was surprising was that the drop of golden blood actually passed through his hand, as if the golden blood that everyone saw was just an illusion.

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"It seems like this isn't your thing either." Sean shot back at Leo at the right time.

"This thing is really weird!" Jason, who looked curious, also reached out and grabbed the golden blood, and just like Leo, the golden blood also passed through his hand.

"Doctor, give it a try." Thinking of the origin of this drop of golden blood, Leo turned to Nelson and said.

Nelson also curiously reached out to grab the golden blood. What surprised everyone was that they thought Nelson would be the owner of this drop of golden blood. After all, this drop of golden blood came from his blood, but they did not expect that Nelson could not succeed either.

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"Kenna, go and try." High Priest Deni said to Catherine.

Catherine didn't think much after hearing this, she reached out to grab the drop of golden blood, and this time she succeeded. The golden blood that was like an illusion a moment ago was actually caught in her hands.

Catherine was stunned, opened her hand and looked at the blood that looked like a golden gem, and said, "What's going on?"

"This may be related to the fact that you are a Nilgardian," High Priest Deni explained simply.

"Maybe it's because the doctor was always thinking about you when he was drawing blood." Jason joked with a smile.

This joke made both Catherine and Nelson's faces turn red. They glanced at each other and immediately looked away. They were both in their thirties and almost forty years old, but they both acted like this.

The boy and girl acted alike, making the onlookers laugh a little.

"Should we move on?" Sean interjected a little uncharacteristically at this time: "The world behind the door may be our destination."

As soon as he finished speaking, several dissatisfied looks fell on him, causing him to shrink his neck, retreat behind others, and cover his mouth to show that he would not talk too much.

At this time, Leo's mental network suddenly sensed the changes in spiritual energy in the stone platform, and gave prompts through the accessory brain system.

After receiving the prompt, Leo immediately looked towards the Shitai among the crowd. Others also looked at the Shitai in unison because of his actions.

I saw that the originally uneven surface of this hard stone platform quickly showed signs of weathering and was gradually covered with cracks. In just ten seconds, it completely shattered and turned into a pile of gravel.

In the eyes of everyone, the decay process of the stone platform and the two long swords were the same, except that one was metal and the other was rock.

However, in Leo's eyes, there is no comparison between the two. The long sword decayed only because the power to protect it disappeared. The natural corrosion that had stopped in the past took effect at the same time, causing the long sword to complete a thousand years of corruption in a short period of time.

The destruction of the stone platform was due to the spiritual energy inside the stone platform becoming chaotic, crushing and repelling each other, and thus collapsing and self-destructing.

Although there is no evidence to prove it, Leo feels that the destruction of the stone platform may be related to the psychic device he brought out from the arena.

The destruction of the stone platform made everyone a little surprised, but because it did not cause any adverse reactions, everyone did not spend more time on this matter.

Only High Priest Deni sighed with regret, because he felt that the destruction of the stone platform indicated that the altar that could create powerful warriors might have failed.

Although the bronze door had been opened, Leo did not continue to move forward immediately. Instead, he repaired the hole and allowed everyone to recover slightly from their injuries and physical strength. At the same time, he also reloaded the consumed arrows into the repeating crossbow.

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Jason had used up all the explosive arrows of the strong crossbow in his hand. He had to use ordinary arrows plus a few corrosive acid arrows to ensure the lethality of the strong crossbow.

After about half an hour of repairs, everyone had almost recovered and began to move forward, opening the ajar bronze door and walking into another passage inside the door.

This passage was different from the previous passages. This passage was specially built. The ground was paved with flat stone slabs. The surrounding walls were engraved with decorative columns and religious patterns and symbols. The top was specially excavated.

There is an arc-shaped dome, and there are some patterns engraved on the dome, which should be some ancient legends.

In addition, there is a recessed shrine carved in the middle of each two corridor columns. The same statue of the god is enshrined in the shrine, but the shape of the statue is different. It is worth noting that this statue is not a human form, but a human figure.

A half-human, half-insect monster.

I saw that this monster has the upper body of a charming woman, and the lower body is like a spider, but the spider legs are human arms, and the spider tail is as fat as the abdomen of an ant queen. There are even carvings on each statue.

There is an incompletely hatched egg at the spawning opening at the end of the tail.

The most critical thing, and what caught Leo's attention the most, was that in the inscriptions at the bottom of the statue, he saw those religious symbols full of chaos painted on the walls of the parish on the ground.

"Is this the patron saint of the Nilgardians?" After discovering this, Leo pointed to the statue and asked High Priest Deni.

Regarding Leo's gesture of pointing at the statue, High Priest Deni frowned and felt a little displeased, but he still answered truthfully: "This is the patron saint of the Nilgardians, the mother of all nests, and also all living beings.

Mother, the entire world of Velen was born from her belly.”

As he said this, he saw High Priest Deni saluting the statue in the normal posture of a priest. Although his posture was not very special, his expression was very solemn and focused, which showed that deep down in his heart, he should not be concerned about the so-called mother of all nests.

low faith.

"The world of Velen was created by this thing, do you believe this?" Sean looked at the statue with some disdain and hummed.

Regarding Sean's provocation and his disrespectful words about the statue, High Priest Deni did not show any anger. He just looked at Sean coldly and continued to walk forward behind Leo.

Not getting the response he deserved, Sean couldn't help curling his lips and followed quickly.

This carefully constructed passage was not long, and it soon reached the end, and this time there was no bronze door blocking the end. Standing at the edge of the exit, they could see everything in front of them clearly.

They saw that they were currently on the edge of a huge egg-shaped hive. This hive was about sixty meters high and about thirty meters in diameter at its longest point. The surrounding stone walls were all hexagonal hives. Except for Leo and others,

Outside the entrance and exit of the passage where people are, these honeycombs are densely packed all over the inner wall, even on the top and bottom. A rough count shows that there are at least five or six thousand of them.

In addition, inside the hive, there is a huge platform supported by several stone pillars extending from the surrounding stone walls, suspended in the center of the hive.

There happened to be a stone pillar about two meters wide extending upward at the entrance and exit where Leo and others were, and connected with the platform, allowing them to reach the platform.

There is no brazier in this hive, because the hive walls seem to be coated with a layer of luminous material, emitting a faint silvery white light, so the entire hive looks very bright.

"The source of radiation is found, it is slightly radiating, and no long-term exposure is allowed."

The first time he got close to this place, the accessory brain system had already analyzed that the luminous substances on the wall were low-radiation sources. Although there would be no problem if exposed to it for a short period of time, long-term exposure would still cause cell mutations in the body.

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"The hive is full of corpses." At this time, Catherine suddenly exclaimed.

It turned out that when she walked to the stone bridge leading to the platform, she discovered that there was a black shadow in each hive. After looking carefully, she saw clearly that the black shadows were all human bones.

After hearing this, everyone else looked towards the nearest hive. Only Leo already knew the situation inside the hive through the spiritual network, so he did not show too much surprise.

When Sean saw these hives, he seemed to have thought of something. He walked back to the entrance, climbed on the alcove of the hive to the nearest hive, looked carefully at the mummies inside, and stretched his hand through

A layer of skin that acted as a barrier, I groped around the mummy inside, then let out an exclamation as if I had discovered something, and immediately climbed back to the stone bridge, standing there looking at my hands with a serious face.

Things obtained from corpses.

"Sean, what did you find?" Seeing Sean showing a rare serious expression, Nelson couldn't help but ask.

"They are all members of the French royal family more than 300 years ago." Sean said, spreading his hands, and in his hand he saw a filigree badge jewelry with the unique mark of the ancient French royal family.
Chapter completed!