It took Ariel more than ten minutes to get used to the light outside the cell.
The clusters of torches on the wall were swaying constantly, flickering on and off, casting countless changing shadows on the ground, like ghosts, making Ariel's heart beat fast.
Ariel almost didn't think much before he guessed where the Judgment Knight was going to take him.
He clearly remembered that when he was being escorted into the dungeon, he once saw a dark and gloomy hall.
In that hall, surrounded by high platforms, there was an iron chair.
There were iron chains placed on the chair, and there were all kinds of torture tools around. Some of them I had seen before, some of which I had never seen before, all exuded a cold aura.
Although Ariel once liked to call himself a "fearless warrior", when he saw those torture tools, he still couldn't help but shudder and felt a little creepy.
With an uneasy mood, he silently prayed to the God of Darkness in his heart while being dragged by several Judgment Knights along the narrow dungeon corridor.
"You can't ask anything from me!" he said angrily.
But the knights of the Church of Light ignored him.
Under the influence of the "Holy Light Array" covering the entire trial court, he felt that he was unable to use any divine power. His whole body was limp and he could only be at the mercy of these knights.
A few minutes later, they arrived at the nightmare-like hall.
The moment he arrived, Ariel was surprised to see that another group of people had already appeared here.
It was also a group of armored Judgment Knights from the Church of Light, holding weapons and surrounding another prisoner.
It was precisely the young silver-haired woman that Ariel spied from the cell window that day.
Her cold and handsome face also showed a worried look at this time.
And perhaps due to the suppression of the "Holy Light Array", the aura of the God of Darkness's divine companion on her body also became very weak, making Ariel almost unable to detect it.
"I've said it more than once, I don't know anything," she said in a cold tone, "If you want to kill me, just kill me. Don't even think of asking me anything."
Likewise, the Judgment Knights ignored what she said.
There was silence in the hall after that.
I don't know how much time passed, but Ariel finally heard footsteps coming from outside the hall again.
The footsteps were different from the soldiers' neat footsteps, and also different from their own bumps and bumps. Instead, they sounded unhurried, calm and unhurried, as if everything was under control.
Then, a middle-aged man wearing a plain white robe walked into the hall, walked straight up to the high platform, and sat down leisurely on a high-backed soft chair with armrests.
His face was livid and his expression was solemn. It seemed that because of his long-term dealings with heretics, he was a little more violent than other priests of the Church of Light.
In his arms, he held a thick book.
Ariel didn't even need to think too much to guess that it was the "Light Canon".
"I am the chief referee here, Soren Arande." I heard this man say lightly. His voice was not loud, but in this closed and dead environment, it seemed particularly clear and echoed endlessly.
Then he went on to say:
"I never thought that in my lifetime, two famous figures from the Dark Temple would gather here and become my prisoners.
"One is a guardian knight with a great record. Mr. Ariel, when you killed three bishops of the Church of Light in succession, you must not have thought that you would also have such a day!"
Ariel snorted coldly. Naturally, he heard the strong sense of ridicule in the mouth of the Sauron referee.
"The other one is naturally my dear saint," Judge Sauron continued, "Miss Isabella, when your teacher passed the mantle to you two years ago, she certainly did not think that you might
Become the last saint of your dark temple!"
"Sauron, don't mention those things to me," the silver-haired woman's face was filled with anger, "You still refuse to believe what I told you?"
"Do you think I will believe it?" Soran leaned back and said in an understatement, "Can you provide evidence?"
The silver-haired woman took a deep breath and seemed to want to argue something, but in the end she silently took a few steps back.
As for Ariel, he was a little surprised after hearing this conversation.
He secretly thought in his heart: "It seems that my guess is correct. This little girl named Isabella is indeed the new generation of saints in our Dark Temple. I don't know if I have stayed here in recent years to protect that
The so-called 'secret', how much torture she suffered...
"It's just that... according to Sauron, Isabella became a saint two years ago. Could it be that two years ago, her teacher, Ms. Camili... encountered an accident?
"What have they experienced in the years since I left the Dark Temple?"
Thinking of this, Ariel sighed silently, emotions of sadness and self-blame involuntarily welling up in his heart.
At this moment, Chief Referee Sauron suddenly raised his voice and said to the two of them:
"I know that your Dark Temple has an unknown secret, and both of you are very likely to be insiders of this secret.
"I will give you one last chance. If you tell me what this secret is, I will let you die happily.
"Otherwise, I will let you watch your companions being cut to pieces by a thousand cuts, and living in extreme pain worse than death. I always do what I say for such things."
Ariel frowned slightly.
From these words, he felt that the chief referee named Sauron Arland was a person who knew the Dark Temple very well and could accurately grasp the weaknesses of the Dark Temple.
After all, through repeated dealings with the Dark Temple, Sauron must have understood that the followers of the Dark God are fanatical in their beliefs and fearless of death.
In this world, there are only two things that can force them to change the principles of doing things.
One is the oracle of the God of Darkness.
The second is the life safety of companions.
Perhaps it was for this reason that Judge Sauron brought the two of them together and threatened them with "companions" in an attempt to torture out the secret he wanted to know.
Ariel closed his eyes silently and prepared himself for the pain.
After all, he didn't know what the secret was.
However, at this moment, the silver-haired woman suddenly stepped forward and spoke in a voice:
"Master Judge, I have something to say."
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