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This mural is sowhat abstract. The saint on the previous mural, who drove away the violent weather, is listening intently towards a dark place.
This should be sothing that already happened in the Fifth Epoch. The violent weather on the sea before should represent the scene when the Berserk Sea ford.
No one knows what that saint heard, but the Elven race changed their faith from then on and erected new idols.
The last mural depicts a bloody sacrificial scene. A tall Elf lies on the altar, his face full of pain, while the priest is cutting open his chest and heart.
Hobert said, "The Elven race living here probably died out in this kind of bloody sacrifice, and their leader seems to have been corrupted."
Alger nodded, feeling as if he had just witnessed a heavy and bloody history.
Then, the two of them looked at the stone door behind the temple. There was a crack in the stone door, and a cold wind blew out from inside.
The two of them pushed open the stone door together, revealing a cave connected to the mountain, like a long and dark corridor.
Hobert injected his spirituality into the warm ring and then wiped his staff with his hand.
The staff imdiately emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the path ahead and covering Hobert and Alger in a layer of sacred light.
After passing through the corridor, they arrived at a spacious cave. Both of them were surprised after seeing the scene in front of them clearly.
In this cave, there were actually two formations, with many Elf mummies standing neatly.
They must have turned into mummies imdiately after death, or died as mummies, otherwise, the remains could not have been preserved so well.
In front of the small altar in the middle of the cave, there was also a kneeling mummy, who was probably an Elf priest.
Hobert and Alger carefully ca to the altar, and their eyes narrowed. The symbol drawn in the center of the altar was actually the symbol representing the "Lord of Storms".
Hobert looked at the surrounding mummies again. There were n and won, old and young, so with Beyonder characteristics, but most did not have any.
If they only saw these mummies, the two of them might have thought it was a bloody sacrificial scene, but with the symbol on the altar, everything beca strange.
Why would the last remaining power of the Elven race in the North and South Continent paint the symbol of the "Lord of Storms", whom they regarded as a deadly enemy, on the altar?
Inside this cave, there was another cave. Since they had already co here, of course, they had to continue exploring.
The two of them moved forward again, passing through a not-very-long cave. So mystical symbols were drawn on the stone walls of the cave. Hobert, who was quite knowledgeable, roughly understood that they seed to be common symbols representing seals.
After passing through the cave, they arrived at another spacious cave, which contained many corpses lying in disorder. Only skeletons remained of the corpses inside, and each skeleton had an Beyonder characteristic.
Alger could even feel that so of those Beyonder characteristics were Sequence 6 or even Sequence 5.
There were also many seemingly brand-new ornants on the skeletons, which must be magical items.
They've struck it rich this ti!
However, neither of them imdiately bent down to pick up the Beyonder characteristics in front of them but carefully observed the surroundings. Hobert's staff emitted a more dazzling light to illuminate the entire cave.
They had the sa idea: to find out the cause of death of these Elves first.
The light from the staff allowed them to see a headless corpse sitting cross-legged at the deepest part of the cave.
Hobert noticed that the corpse was holding a staff in its hand and wearing a golden ring on its finger.
Around the headless corpse, a head, a heart, lungs, a liver, and kidneys were floating and slowly moving. The corpse also had several circles of intestines wrapped around its waist.
No one knows how long the corpse has been there, but there were no signs of decay, and the approximate structure of those internal organs could still be seen clearly.
The corpse's torso was cut open, and those internal organs should have co from inside the corpse.
However, the head floating around the corpse was obviously cut open, not only the head but also other internal organs such as the heart had traces of being cut open, and even the intestines seed to have been cut open if one looked closely.
Hobert and Alger looked at each other and recalled the bloody sacrificial scene in the mural.
"Who are you?" Just as the sowhat shriveled head floated to the front of the corpse, a solemn and old voice suddenly echoed in the cave.
The voice spoke in Elvish, but Hobert and Alger, who often ca into contact with mysticism, could understand it.
Hobert replied in broken Elvish, "My companion is a descendant of the Elven race. He has received a great guidance to co here and inherit the power of his ancestors."
Alger was stunned. He didn't expect that "Emperor" could make up such a lie so easily.
But he could also understand that he didn't know whether the headless corpse in front of him was an evil spirit or sothing else? But the other party should have intelligence.
Hobert's words elevated the purpose of their actions from digging graves to inheriting the power of their ancestors.
Moreover, Alger's blue hair indicated that he did have Elven blood, so "Emperor's" words were not entirely lies.
"That's really great!" The voice said, "I've been waiting for helpers for too long!"
Hobert was stunned: "What helpers?"
"Helpers to kill !"
The cave beca silent.
After a full ten seconds, Hobert asked, "Are you serious? Do you still need to be killed again?"
Your head has been cut off, and your heart has been cut open, okay!
"Maybe my words are beyond your comprehension, but I'm really not dead yet." The voice sighed, "We were cursed, a curse from the Astral World!
"You should have seen it when you ca in. The last Elven group in this sea area was destroyed!"
Hobert was not interested in that curse, because it might indicate great danger: "Killing you will end that curse?"
"No, killing will completely prevent the descent of that power from the Astral World." The voice explained, "Suddenly one day, sothing unknown happened in this sea area, and the spirit world was distorted and rged with the real world.
"In the distorted spirit world, we heard a voice, a voice that claid it could help us kill Leodero and regain our forr glory.
"So we changed our faith and erected new idols.
"But that was the beginning of the disaster. We should not have listened to his bewitchnt and prayed to Him for power.
"When He descended on , I felt his malice.
"In order to prevent his continued descent, I could only make sure that my body had no enclosed places, so I cut off my head, cut open my skull to expose my brain, so I dug out my heart and cut open the atria and ventricles, so..."
"Okay, okay." Hobert said, "No need to say it in such detail, we all understand."
"It's good that you understand, hurry up, co and kill ! Many people in the cave wanted to kill back then, but they all failed. But after so many years of struggle, I have taken the initiative of this body, and it is easy to kill ."
Hobert thought for a while: "Sorry, but I refuse!"
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