Viscount Emmett led several knights from the Halanza Knights’ reconnaissance team to the street where the temple in Mezu Town is located.
Seeing a large number of hell dogs wandering around the temple, Viscount Emmett could tell without taking out a map that this was the key investigation area of Meijin Town marked on the map by the Magician Investigation Team. It was just that the Knight Investigation Team entered at night.
In the small town of Meijin, it is impossible to rely on the town’s landmark buildings to determine your location.
Now seeing the Statue of Liberty standing on the spire of the temple roof in the night sky, Viscount Emmett once again unfolded the map of Mezu Town, 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 had their invisibility effect eliminated due to an unexpected incident. They did not approach the temple rashly, but chose to lurk in a residence next to the temple.
Viscount Emmett waved to the knights in the team. They relied on the invisibility effect to continue walking along the long street and gradually approached the temple.
After the knights approached the temple, they discovered that there were hundreds of hell dogs guarding the iron railings. Unless they killed these hell dogs, even if they were invisible, it would be difficult to pass by these hell dogs.
If you get too close, you will definitely be discovered by those vicious dogs of hell.
Just when Viscount Emmett was worried about how to get through this area, he did not expect that the howls of hell dogs were heard one after another from the east side of the town. The hell dogs near the temple responded quickly and
A giant hell dog led a large group of hell dogs and quickly rushed towards the scene of the incident.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the half-elf archer led the knight investigation team around to the back streets 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.
There were not many hell dogs in the yard. The elf archer climbed up the big tree nimbly. Viscount Emmett saw her walking a few steps along the horizontal branches of the sycamore tree, crossing the courtyard wall, and jumping.
Entered the backyard of the temple.
But not long after, the knight investigation team all climbed over the courtyard wall and entered the temple's backyard. The layout here is very similar to that of other temples. The backyard is an inner courtyard, arched stone pillars build an outer corridor, and the central area is
It is covered with dense vegetation. Because the landscape plants in these gardens have not been pruned by gardeners for a long time, their original shapes can no longer be seen. However, the trees in the garden are growing very lushly.
The invisible knight team stepped on the grass in the courtyard. The grass that was no more than knee high showed a strange bend, as if invisible feet stepped on it, leaving a clear line of footprints.
The half-elf archer seemed to be aware of it and stopped in front, squatted down, took out a stone from his arms and threw it towards the stone steps on the other side.
The pebbles landed on the slate floor with a crisp sound, and a giant hellhound emerged from the bushes ten steps in front of her and searched directly for the place where the noise was made.
Samira took the opportunity to get into the bush, and Viscount Emmett followed closely with the knights. It turned out that the bush was actually an arch made of bushes, but because the bushes were too dense, it looked like
Like a thick bush.
Walking just a few dozen meters along the stone corridor in the back courtyard, the half-elf archer relied on his keen intuition to avoid five waves of patrolling hell dogs. Unexpectedly, the hell dogs in the temple were even more tightly guarded. Sami
Pull made a gesture to Viscount Emmett, and the reconnaissance team could not go any further.
Viscount Emmett pointed at the Roman column that was more than ten meters high near the wall of the main building of the temple. Samira understood it and led the team to approach the dark corner of the outer wall of the temple. The half-elf archer relied on his dexterous and light body to climb up.
Following the patterns on the stone pillars, I climbed up the Roman pillar in the dark corner with my bare hands. Using some reliefs and protrusions on the surrounding walls, I actually climbed to the roof.
A rope slowly hung down along the edge of the wall, and Viscount Emmett and the other three knights used this rope to climb up to the roof of the temple.
The roof of the temple has an extremely steep slope. Many green tiles were damaged and have not been repaired, exposing several large holes. The outstretched arms of the Statue of Liberty at the highest point on the roof were covered with bird droppings. Viscount Emmett saw a half-elf archer crouching in one place.
Next to the hole in the roof, she was peeping into the temple. He led the three knights to her side carefully, 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 inside.
Looking from above, we can see streaks of flickering lava rising and falling in the hall. Those stripes are the natural lava patterns on the bodies of Hell Dogs. It seems that there are a large number of Hell Dogs in the hall, and
These hellhounds are huge in size and look at least like giant hellhounds.
The intermittent crying sounds came from this hall.
The knights were lying on the roof, and the cries that made people feel extremely angry became clearer, mixed with the crunching sounds of chewing food. Emmett wanted to see what was in the temple hall.
What is certain is that there should be no Hell Passage or Devil's Gate in this temple, otherwise hell dogs should be constantly coming out of the temple hall.
Viscount Emmett hesitated for a moment and took out a yellow magic flare from his arms. This kind of flare can explode with dazzling light like fireworks after it is launched into the air. Even during the day, the light of this kind of flare can spread far away.
He unzipped the fuse at the tail of the flare and threw it into the hole in the roof.
……
The fuse of the flare lit up with a faint flame, and fell into the hall with a loud thud. It hit something unknown, and the sound was very dull.
At this time, all the sounds in the temple hall stopped. Several knights on the roof cautiously peeped into the hall, and saw a red, young hand reflected in the weak firelight, with two sprouts on one head.
A small head with sharp black horns and two fangs protruding from the corners of its mouth looked curiously at the magic flare. Its purple pupils were like amethysts embedded in its eye sockets.
The next second, a stream of flames shot out from the tail of the signal bomb, and the entire signal bomb swooped across the hall to the wall, made a crash, and then hit the ground in the hall again with a tail light.
The tail flame of the flare woke up all the hell dogs in the hall. There were actually dozens of giant hell dogs in the hall. They raised their heads and stared at the flare that was flying everywhere in the hall and room.
Viscount Emmett's eyes widened and he saw that the pool that originally contained holy water in the temple's prayer hall was filled with bright red blood. Some human hands and corpses were lying in the blood pool, and several giant hell dogs were lying in the blood pool.
Next to him, he was gnawing at the corpses in the blood pool, and on the high platform of the choir of the temple's prayer hall, there were actually piles of corpses like a hill, and most of these corpses were residents of the town.
Unexpectedly, the hell dogs dragged the corpses of all the town residents to the temple in order to provide sufficient nourishment for these giant hell dogs.
Then, the magic flare suddenly exploded in the temple hall. After the explosion, a dazzling light lit up in the temple hall. Everything in the hall appeared in front of Viscount Emmett's eyes. Amy
Viscount Te found that there were actually some skin colors lying next to the bellies of the hell dogs lying in the hall. Next to almost every female hell dog, there were some black hell dog pups.
Of course, if it was just like this, Viscount Emmett would not have his eyes widened. What made him feel a little incredible was that next to those dark-bodied Cerberus pups, there was actually a little devil with devil's horns on his head. The little devil
They have rickety young bodies and a bare tail trailing behind them. They look a bit like the kobolds in the wilderness mines. They have the torsos and heads of demons, but their limbs are still the claws of hell dogs.
Almost every female hell dog has a litter of pups, and among these pups there is bound to be a little devil of similar size.
Several low roars of hell dogs were heard in the prayer hall of the temple. These hell dogs did not know where the signal flares came from. Several huge hell dogs jumped onto the highest pile of corpses in the hall, and there were several hell dogs.
The vicious dogs rushed into the courtyard outside the temple hall like a whirlwind. Hundreds of hell dogs gathered around the temple from the gate. They were like a group of headless flies, searching around the temple aimlessly.
The flare quickly went out and the hall became dark.
A night owl-like cry came from the hall again, and Viscount Emmett finally figured out where these cries came from.
The knight investigation team quickly hid in the dark corner of the roof. Samira carefully lifted the hanging rope into the air, covering up the last clue.
The investigation team hid on the roof for a short while. Viscount Emmett saw groups of hell dogs leaving the temple and guarding outside again. Everything in the prayer hall returned to the same state as before. He wanted to leave quickly and bring the news here.
go back.
He gestured to the knights on the roof to get 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 construct knight beside him ignored Samira's gesture, went straight over Samira, and grabbed the roof.
The rope slowly slid down.
But when he was halfway through the slide, he discovered that there were actually a few hell dogs in the courtyard behind the temple. One of the hell dogs seemed to have smelled a certain smell, and walked to the back corner without any mistake, and discovered
They looked up at the rope hanging from the roof, only to find that there was nothing on the empty rope.
The hell dog roared in warning, and the hell dog in the front yard rushed over quickly. A giant hell dog saw the rope, bared its huge fangs and roared one after another at the roof. As the giant hell dog
Hearing the roar of the dogs, the hell dogs surrounding the temple did not hesitate to run along the stone walls made of bluestone strips and quickly ran up to the roof. They climbed the stone walls as if they were walking on flat ground.
Although it was caused by the carelessness of the construct knight, the matter was over and now was not the time to complain. Before all the hell dogs rushed up, Samira quickly climbed up the square base of the Statue of Liberty along the roof of the temple.
On the top, there are marble reliefs inlaid around the base. The content on the relief is the famous Battle of the Gods scene, in which countless archangels hold up their spears and are slaying a big demon in the valley.
The knight reconnaissance team, a group of five people, climbed onto the base. The upper edge of the base was not too wide, and the knights could just sit on the stone platform on the edge.
As for the hell dogs, they had already climbed to the roof. They were sniffing around on the roof with their keen sense of smell, but Viscount Emmett had sprinkled cannibal pollen along the way. After the hell dogs smelled the pollen, they sneezed continuously, and finally
The trusty nose has lost its function.
Under the cover of night, the knight reconnaissance team hiding in the shadows sat quietly at the feet of the Statue of Liberty, silently watching the hell dogs return in vain.
A giant vicious dog climbed to the roof of the temple, stood on the highest ridge, and roared deafeningly at the night sky.
The hell dogs all over the city howled together, and for a while the whole town was enveloped in a roar.
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Surdak and Andrew were lying on the roof of a residential house, monitoring every move of the hell dogs around the temple. When they saw a burst of bright fire bursting out of the temple building, a large number of hell dogs suddenly poured in.
Temple, I had a premonition that something was not good.
However, the two of them lost the protection of the secondary invisibility potion and did not dare to approach the temple easily. They could only work on the roof of the house.
Then, Surdak heard a giant hell dog standing on the roof of the temple and roaring angrily. This made Surdak feel relaxed. The anger of the hell dogs only meant that they had not been found yet.
Investigation team.
Suldak asked the Nanai native next to him: "Andrew, what secrets do you think are hidden in the temple?"
The native warrior of Nanai said honestly: "In short, it cannot be the passage to hell or the devil's door."
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The half-elf archer leaned against an angel relief, raising her head to look at the night sky shrouded in dark clouds.
In Viscount Emmett's field of vision, only the vague outline of the half-elf archer could be seen. She looked calm and elegant sitting under the statue. However, there was a huge difference in the status of mixed elves and elves with pure blood in the Green Empire.
The existence of half-elves in imperial society means that some of the descendants of elven slaves who were abandoned by their slave owners or escaped privately were combined with humans. These half-elves do not have the protection of noble families and are usually not recognized by normal society.
But this time I have to say that Surdak has a very good eye for seeing people. If it weren't for the half-elf archer, maybe the knight reconnaissance team would have been completely destroyed by now.
Seeing the hell dogs jumping from the roof of the temple, the temple once again returned to its previous tranquility.
The half-elf archer jumped off the statue's base lightly, stood on the ridge and looked around, then returned and called the knights to get down from the statue's base. This time she chose to tie the rope to a fine iron arrow.
Then he took the forest bow and pointed it at a tall fir tree outside the wall, set up the bow and shot an arrow. The fine steel arrow was accurately nailed into the trunk of the tree with a thin rope.
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 behind her back, hung the iron hook on the thin rope and jumped lightly, her body flew lightly across the night sky, and plunged into the fir tree outside the courtyard.
Samira then used this thin rope as a traction, pulled a thicker rope over, and tied it to the fir tree again.
Waiting for the four knights on the opposite roof to row over one after another.
In the quiet night, there was a "click" sound on the roof of the temple. A construct knight accidentally stepped on a piece of green tile. The tile fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.