"The odds of winning are so high?!" Everyone's eyes were filled with joy.
"But the premise is that we have to find the other three 'supreme' artifacts."
"Now we only know the whereabouts of the King's [Scepter], but what about the other three pieces? Where are they?"
"Why panic! We have the prophet Miles here. As long as these three artifacts are still in the treasure house, we will be able to find them sooner or later."
After everyone discussed it, they looked at Lin Qiye eagerly.
Lin Qiye nodded thoughtfully, "Actually, in the prophecy just now, I have vaguely sensed the location of the [Holy Grail]."
"Have you found the [Holy Grail]? So quickly?" the agents said in surprise.
"Well, if I read correctly, the [Holy Grail] is hidden in a dry oasis in the desert..."
"Then let's leave now!"
"...Don't be anxious." Lin Qiye held his forehead a little tiredly, "Just now, I just roughly sensed its location. I don't know exactly how far it will go, and because of the continuous prophecies, my mental power has already been a little bit...
Overdrawn.
Let’s do this, let’s rest here for one night, and when I recover tomorrow, I can go find the [Holy Grail].”
Hearing this sentence, some agents looked a little embarrassed.
"However, we only have less than two days left. If the marks left by the two gods in our bodies take effect..."
"Haha, you are too nervous." Lin Qiye said calmly with a smile on his face,
"After I recover tomorrow morning, I will be able to predict the whereabouts of all the artifacts. This treasure house is not too big. If we go through it one by one, we can collect all the artifacts in half a day at most.
Now, we are grasshoppers on the same rope. If you can't get the four artifacts and kill the two gods, then I can only be trapped here by them.
How could I harm you?"
Everyone thought for a moment and their expressions softened a little.
"Well, let's take a rest here tonight, and then set out to search for the [Holy Grail] tomorrow." Claude nodded in response.
…
"The dungeon was attacked?"
When the city lord heard the report from an attendant, his face suddenly darkened, "What about the intruders?"
"They... are all still in prison. It's just that one of the attendants who had an argument with them died and his head was smashed open."
The attendant seemed to recall some disgusting scene, and his face turned pale.
"People are dead, but they didn't run away?" The city lord frowned slightly, doubt appearing on his old face.
"Is it...just pure revenge?"
"I don't know. We asked the intruders, but they didn't say anything."
"...I understand." The city lord was silent for a moment, "In countless years, there have never been intruders in Wucheng, but this time so many appeared in one go...
Could it be that this world is really going to be in chaos?"
"City Lord, what should we do now?"
"Early tomorrow morning, kill the intruder and offer it to the three gods as a sacrifice... and then send the dead attendant there as well." The city lord said slowly,
"Notify all residents in the city to enter the highest alert state and be ready to activate the inherited and maintained artifacts to deal with more foreign invasions."
Upon hearing these words, the attendant's expression changed:
"City Lord, is the matter so serious?
Even if more than twenty intruders came this time, wouldn't they still be suppressed by you instantly? As long as your [Scepter] is in charge, no matter how many intruders come, they won't be able to threaten us, right?"
"No matter how powerful the [Scepter] is, it is just an artifact, and we are all ordinary people." The city lord looked down at the crutch in his hand, with a flash of worry in his eyes.
"Moreover, not all the 'supreme' artifacts in this world are under our control."
"Are you worried..."
The city lord sighed and looked out the window at Wucheng shrouded in darkness, "May the three gods bless us..."
…
The sky is getting brighter.
The morning sun shone on the ancient brick pavement. More than a dozen attendants carried one end of the silver lock and led more than 20 prisoners with black bags on their heads towards the execution platform at the edge of the city.
Many residents stood on both sides of the street, carefully looking at the more than 20 intruders, with curiosity and a hint of timidity.
"They were the ones who caused trouble in the city yesterday!"
"They are said to be invaders from outside this world? What do they look like?"
"They are almost the same as us, with two eyes, one nose, and one mouth, except that some of them have different skin colors from ours. They are whiter than bleached cloth!"
"Really? I didn't see you yesterday?"
"Fortunately, you weren't there. My arm was almost chopped off by them... If the city lord hadn't taken action in time, I might have been sacrificed to the three gods."
"Kill them quickly!"
"…"
In response to the calls of Wucheng residents, more than 20 "agents" were brought to the center of the execution platform.
Sharp sword lights flashed one after another, and a moment later, more than twenty bloody corpses fell to the ground, and blood slowly flowed downwards along the supports of the execution platform.
"Sacrifice to the three gods!"
Someone among the attendants shouted loudly, and everyone immediately threw all the twenty corpses into an ancient blood-colored stone well.
The dull sound of landing echoed in the ancient well, and more than twenty bloody corpses were all submerged in the narrow darkness and disappeared.
"May the three gods bless you."
Seeing this, everyone lowered their heads and chanted.
After the execution was over and the crowd dispersed, the attendants hid a corpse with a smashed head under a black cloth in the corner and threw it into the ancient well.
They stood by the ancient well, staring at the abyss in front of them, and also murmured to themselves:
"May the three gods bless..."
The attendants left, and the area around the ancient well fell into complete silence.
No one noticed that in the deepest part of this dark and narrow ancient well, three motionless figures like stone statues slowly opened their eyes.
"So many sacrifices have come...Now, the sacrifices to the [Holy Grail] should be enough?"
One of the stone statues spoke in a low voice.
Rustling——
Fine gravel fell from the body of the central stone statue, and its dusty arm was raised, holding up a mysterious dark gold goblet.
The thick blood swayed on the edge of the cup wall, and it was already halfway up the cup.
A dim light flashed, and more than twenty bloody corpses piled in the center of the ancient well floated up automatically, turning into balls of blood and flowing into the dark golden cup.
"Huh?" The stone statue in the center narrowed its eyes, "These sacrifices... are lifeless."
"No life?"
"This is an artificial body without a soul and cannot be used as a sacrifice for the [Holy Grail]." The stone statue in the center was silent for a moment, "An outsider has entered the [King's Treasure House]."
"Are they people sent by other divine kingdoms?" The stone statue on the left frowned slightly.
"I didn't expect that after so long, there are still people thinking about this treasure house... Since these are soulless artificial bodies, those idiots above must have been played by outsiders.
Their true bodies must be hidden somewhere in this [treasure house].