Silver Blade and Rose

Chapter 46

Zars put the sunstone in his pocket, didn't waste any more time on the statue, and decided to go into the temple to have a look.

The person who wrote the distress letter has yet to show up. According to the letter, he should be waiting in the center of the forest. This is the holy place for the forest guards. It stands to reason that they cannot walk around casually, so there is a high probability that he is inside the temple.

Zars stood in front of the temple door and looked up. The building was not high, and there should be only one floor above the ground, but it was hard to say whether there would be an underground part.He checked the exterior of the building just now. The main body is covered with the same white stone as the ground, and the auxiliary materials are indistinguishable black. Clean, no stains on the walls, looks like it should be looked after all year round.

This is not unimaginable in other ruins, but this is the center of the "Forest of No Return", and there should be no people in the first place, let alone take care of the entire building.

This place is full of weirdness, coupled with the problem of the Hyde statue that has not been clarified, there are more and more mysteries, and Zals can't help but think, if Edwin came here, maybe he would be more comfortable than he is now many.

But I can only think about it, he is the one who has to face all this now, and he can't always rely on the imaginary Edwin to deal with the problems in front of him.

Zars took two steps forward, reached out and pushed open the door of the temple.

At first he thought the door was made of the same stone as the outer wall, but when he stretched out his hand to push it, he realized that it was made of white-painted wood, which was much lighter than expected.The door made a slight "squeak" sound, and was easily pushed open by him, and the scene inside the door was displayed in front of Zars.

Just like what he thought, the temple has only one floor on the ground, and it is a purposely elevated structure. You can see the sunlight falling from the tall spire—there are many small holes in the stone roof, and the sunlight falling A dot of light spots formed on the ground, like a road made of stars, extending all the way to the altar at the end.

It may not be appropriate to say that it is an altar, but this is what Zals thought when he saw it for the first time.It's about half a person's height, sitting on top of the stairs, carved out of the same white stone as the stairs, it was supposed to be like a podium, but it feels very uncomfortable for no reason.The reason why I think it is an altar is because there is a small stone sculpture on it, which looks like a demon with wings, with a hideous face and a lantern in his hand.

To some extent, it corresponds to the portraits outside the temple.

There are purple flowers growing around the altar. The soil and flowers should have been moved here on purpose, and there are still traces of turning over it.Zars didn't go up the steps, looked at the demon statue on the altar from a distance, and suddenly realized something.

Edwin once said that the White Land is similar to the heaven in the human mouth, and the wings on the back are undoubtedly one of the characteristics of an angel, but on this statue it grows on the body of a demon.

The statue outside the temple is also abnormal. If Hyde is really Edwin's friend, Earl Elvins, then he is undoubtedly a high-ranking demon.According to the records of the Exorcist Association, not all great demons have wings, and the minority with wings also have bat wings, but the statues depict wings...

He wanted to get out of here now, maybe he could grab Hyde by the collar and show him what kind of wings he had grown.Zals rarely thought with a bit of mischief.

The situation was completely out of control, but he gradually relaxed, not as nervous as he was in the forest just now, and even began to admire the murals in the temple.There are several different paintings painted on the snow-white wall. He has no artistic talent, so he can only look at it from a secular perspective, but it can also be seen that the author is very good at painting. The characters in the paintings are lifelike, just like the statues outside. You can check in with yourself at a glance.

The first painting depicts wild beasts running rampant in the forest, hunters are slaughtered, and only some old and weak women and children who are unable to fight are left hiding in the corner, and they still do not forget to pray despite their panic.

The king of the herd appears in the second painting, a huge gray wolf, which leaves the wolves far behind, standing on a high hill and confronting the last warrior of the human tribe at a distance, behind him is a flashing Arrows of light.

The arrow pierces through this painting and pierces the body of the wolf king in the third painting. The man who pulls the bow has bat wings on his back and a handsome face, obviously a demon.

In the fourth painting, Hyde ... should be called the Earl of Elvins, he is still dressed in the statue, wearing a dark cloak, leading a group of demons on horseback through the forest .There were humans crawling on the side of the road they were advancing, waiting for them to pass in a posture of worshiping gods. They obviously respected this group of people, especially the leader Elvins.A line of small characters was written at the bottom of the screen: Dedicated to Lord Elvins, which also confirmed Zarles' guess about Hyde's identity.

The last painting is this temple. In front of the white pointed building stands a delicately carved figure, which is almost exactly the same as what Zars saw from the outside.

They should have saved the ancient tribe in this forest, allowing them to keep the last fire and continue to thrive in the forest.Humans built a temple for the leader, Elvins, and worshiped him as a god. After thousands of years, the people of the forest were completely extinct, leaving only the forest guards who had some relationship with them still inheriting the "Never Return". The legend of the forest".

According to the interpretation of the murals, it should be such a story.But Zales looked back and forth several times, and still felt that there should be some details that were not drawn in the middle.

The person who made the statue obviously knew that Elvins was a demon, and carefully hid this information in the sculpture, which corresponds to the statuette placed on the altar. Although the two are made of the same material, they are also exquisitely carved , but it reflects a completely different atmosphere.The portrait outside the door portrays Elvins' expression calmly and softly, like a god without joy or sorrow, but the one on the altar depicts a hideous demon hidden under the cloak, with feathers on the wings standing upright. Standing up, like a monster full of blades.

In his opinion, the altar in front of him seemed to be arranged by someone who hated Elvins. This person knew the true identity of Elvins' demon, and for some reason hated and even wanted to curse him, so he put it like this Putting a statue here changed the original meaning of the temple.

The temple is a place where humans enshrine the gods they believe in. Once the altar is tampered with, the devout beliefs and wishes of the believers may be distorted into diametrically opposite forms.

In the Forester's Lodge in Forest Park, Mr. Wagner had asked him to pay attention to some things, hoping to find out why the "Forest of No Return" existed.In his opinion, this forest has existed for too long, so long that all the forest guards like him just listened to the word of mouth of their predecessors to maintain the existence of the key, and even forgot what the original meaning of guarding it was.If he could figure out the reason for the forest blockade, he might be able to solve the puzzle that had plagued him for a long time.

Now Zars understands that someone has tampered with the power of faith of the forest people, centered on this temple, and turned the entire forest into a large labyrinth with no entry or exit. Perhaps this is the existence of the "Forest of No Return" real reason.

As for the reason why Elvins appeared here after losing his memory and was trapped here, it probably has something to do with his statue here.Since there is a spatial turbulence in the center of the forest that can attract people wandering in the cracks, Elvins is likely to be attracted by the trace of his breath left here, but he is lost in the forest because of memory loss, because he can't find the key. And for reasons similar to Edwin's, he couldn't find the temple, so he wandered around in the forest until he met him who entered the forest.

If his guess is correct, then...

Zars came back to his senses, ignored the people who might be trapped in the temple, and walked straight towards the door.

He had to find Hyde, who was still waiting in the woods, and tell him to stay put and not come in—

When he was still two or three meters away from the door, the door that he had pushed open and leaned against the wall suddenly closed by itself.

"Since you're in, don't rush out." A voice said.

Zals subconsciously reached out to draw the gun the moment the door closed by itself, but he couldn't find the target after the gun was drawn out.The voice floated in the air, as if it was just an artificial intelligence that automatically opened and closed the door, and it never spoke again, nor did it take any further actions.

He took a few steps forward with his gun in hand, and after making sure that the door was closed and that there was no threat to his life in a short time, he turned around to try to open the door.

Half a minute later, Zales gave up on continuing this stupid move, sighed, turned and walked towards the altar.

The seemingly ordinary wooden door did not move at all, as if it was originally a wall that had been welded to death, and even Edwin's dagger couldn't move it. Unless he carried explosives with him, there was really no value in continuing to try.Locking him in the door was nothing more than thinking that he had seen through the secrets of the temple, and was going to tell the people waiting outside. Since he got such a reaction, Zars thought that his guess might be right even if it wasn't all right Mostly.

After a few thoughts in his mind, he finally stepped on the steps leading to the altar.

Don't you just want him to come up and see this?Check it out, no big deal.

The demon statue was placed in the center of the altar, surrounded by a circle of candles. The flame danced on the wick as if it were real, but the candle did not burn down. From his point of view, it seemed to be grinning at him.

Zars and the Statue Demon looked at each other for a moment, then reached out to it.

If the candle and the flame were real, he would have been burned when he reached out, but nothing happened, his hand passed through the burning candle easily, without even feeling the heat, and touched the white demon .

"You were the one talking just now," he said firmly, as if he had discovered the secret a long time ago, "Why did you lock me up here?"

The tentacles of the stone statue were cold, and Zars did hold one of its legs, not a fake.But he waited for a while, and the voice just now did not answer him.

...isn't it?

"If you keep pretending, I'm going to attack."

He said another sentence in a warning manner, deliberately raising the volume, trying to act as a deterrent, but he only got Jie Jie's laughter as a response.

"Hahahahaha, do you think that thing is my real body?" The same voice as before was floating in the air, unable to find the source, "I'm not so stupid that I would give away my weakness It's in your hands—little brat, it's too simple for you to think about my business."

Zars loaded the bullet with one hand, and shot straight to smash the demon statue in his hand.

The bullet did hit the statue, but it was blocked by an invisible barrier that suddenly appeared. The ejection deviated from the direction and landed in a corner not far away.As for the demon statue, it was placed on the altar without any damage.

"It's not that you don't take it seriously." Zales just wanted to verify his thoughts, and said clearly, "On the contrary, this thing is really important to you."