A Tale of Strategies For the Throne

The movement of the altar collapsing was too great, almost at the same moment it happened, everyone in the valley could hear the roar that was almost like a landslide.

After completing the task, Kaihos just rushed to the altar to join the crowd. Before he could speak, he felt the ground shaking, which made the horse under him neigh continuously.

He tightened the reins tightly, controlled the mount, and turned his head to look in the direction of the loud noise.

In the center of the valley, a large flat land surrounded by stone houses suddenly opened a big gap, and quickly collapsed around it centered on it.

The flame fence that had been ignited in the black ditch around the altar was in pieces in an instant, and a large part was broken.

And the altar surrounded by the flame fence collapsed into the gap.

The aftershocks are still there, broken stones are still falling from the edge of the collapsed altar into the huge gap, and the bluestone slabs on the edge are still cracking outwards.

But in this dangerous situation, the knights on the edge of the altar rushed over regardless of the danger, climbed down from the edge of the break, and shouted something nervously below.

what happened?

Kaihos was puzzled for a moment, and the next second, his heart was shocked.

Could it be—

He turned his horse's head sharply and galloped to the edge of the collapsed altar.

There were broken stones in front of him, and it was impossible to ride in. Kaihos got off his horse and ran over quickly.

At this time, a middle-aged knight hastily ran towards him.

When he saw this person, Keyhos's heart tightened even more.

The person who came was a knight commander among the elite knights brought out from the palace, and he should have stood by Garlan's side every step of the way.

"Where is His Majesty?"

With a glimmer of hope, Keyhos asked eagerly.

"Your Majesty was on the altar just now, but he couldn't leave when the altar collapsed."

The altar collapsed so unexpectedly that it happened almost instantly, leaving no time for people to react and rescue.

The knight commander knelt down and knelt in front of Kyhos, his eyes filled with annoyance and deep self-blame.

He clenched his fists.

When he thought that he had failed to fulfill his duty to protect His Majesty, he wished he could give up and apologize—but now, he had to preserve his usefulness to find His Majesty!

Keyhos's mind buzzed, and it went blank for an instant.

"Where is His Excellency Heymos?!"

Sweeping his eyes over the collapsed pit in front of him, which was completely covered by countless rubble, he gritted his teeth and asked.

How could you allow His Majesty to encounter such a danger, even though he was always by His Majesty's side—?

"Lord Heymos also fell down."

The knight commander replied hoarsely.

Startled for a moment, Kaihos, who immediately came back to his senses, took a deep breath.

"Immediately send out an emergency summons, calling everyone to come here immediately, and clear the passageway as quickly as possible."

The monstrous anger boiled in Keyhos's eyes.

He stood on the collapsed gravel, his whole body looked murderous.

"Also, pass my order, except for a few useful guys, all the cult believers here will be dealt with directly on the spot."

The knight of the scorching sun said, his tone was cold and his face was full of evil spirits, which made people shudder.

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pat.

Clap, clap.

Small pieces of rubble rolled down from the pile of rubble, making a tiny crashing sound.

It's just that this place is too quiet, so this small sound is very clear.

The body that was almost half buried in the pile of rubble had been lying on the ground for a long time, and remained motionless until the small stone rolled down and made a slight movement, which woke it up.

The dusty eyelashes moved slightly, and then slowly lifted up.

The color of pure gold shines through it.

After blinking in confusion several times, Garlan gradually came to his senses and sat up with his hands propped up.

Fortunately, although half of his body was buried, it was covered by some small gravel and soil, so he was not crushed by heavy stones.

His hair was covered with dust and became gray, and in this dark environment, the original bright golden luster could hardly be seen.

The clothes on his body also became tattered during the fall, and he felt pain in his body as soon as he sat up.

Looking down, there were many scars on his arms, legs, and body.Although they were just superficial scrapes and bruises, not serious, there were constant tingling sensations.

Turning his gaze away from the pile of rubble beside him, Garlan stood up with his hands propped up while looking around.

He raised his head and looked up, but the place he saw was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

He could only roughly judge that he had fallen from above together with the crushed stone slabs of these altars, and the place where he was now seemed to be a small stone house, with stone doors on both sides of the front, leading to different places. direction.

Although it is very old, according to the architectural pattern of this stone house, this place should be a side house at the corner of a palace.

In other words... this is a palace hidden underground?

As Garlan got up, the dust on his body and hair fell down, causing him to choke and sneezed several times.

The underground light was really dim, and he couldn't see his face either. He didn't know that his face was gray and black and dirty at the moment. Coupled with the tattered clothes and scratches on his body, he looked quite ugly. Embarrassed.

After confirming that Heymos was not here, Garlan reached out to touch his waist.

When he touched the cold sword hilt firmly hanging on his belt, he felt a little more at ease in his heart.

Anyway, the weapon is still there.

Thinking of this, he thought for a while, cut off a hair of his own, threw it in front of the two stone gates, and finally chose a stone gate with a slight breeze blowing in, and walked in.

Behind the stone gate is a long stone corridor. Once you enter, the light becomes dimmer, and you can only vaguely see the situation a few meters in front of you.

The entire corridor was empty, he walked here alone, and could only hear the sound of his footsteps echoing in the stone corridor.

Being alone in this narrow and claustrophobic place made Garlan feel very uncomfortable.

Heymos must be found quickly.

he thinks.

Although this long corridor was quite old and outdated, the stone slabs under his feet were fairly flat, so Garlan quickened his pace.

He and Heymos fell from the top together, but for some reason, they ended up in different places.

In the current situation, it would be better for him to join Heymos as soon as possible.

Moreover, he was lucky enough to be fine after falling from such a high place, but he was a little worried and wondered if Heymos was injured.

The stone corridor is very long. He has been walking for a while, but he still hasn't seen the end. Moreover, there are several turns in the corridor, and there is a fork in the middle. From this, it can be judged that this underground stone hall should be extremely large as a whole.

Every time, Garlan directly chooses the path where he can feel a little breeze and continues on. As he walks, he wonders how many years this huge stone palace has existed underground.

I didn't know how long I walked like this, when suddenly there was a voice coming from the front, which seemed to be from the upper side.

The feeling of walking alone in silence is really uncomfortable. The dark stone corridor seems to be endless, giving people the illusion that they will wander here forever and never return to the world.

Hearing the noise at this moment, Garlan felt relieved and couldn't help letting out a breath.

He ran forward quickly, and there was another fork in front of him, with two stone steps extending up and down.

Naturally, Garlan ran up without hesitation. When he reached the end of the stone steps, he raised his head and saw a wooden door above his head with a lock fastened to it.

It's just that it's been too long, and most of the wooden door has decayed, and there are gaps between the wooden boards.

He drew his sword and slashed hard, directly splitting the wooden door open.

Years of dust and sawdust fell down his head, staining his already dusty body with a layer of gray dust.

Garlan coughed a few times after being choked, and then quickly climbed up the wooden door above his head that had been split open by him.

Climbing out, he came to a spacious side hall.

Unlike the dusty, dilapidated corridors and stone houses below, this place is much cleaner and tidy, with burning oil lamps hanging on the walls, it is obvious that people have been active here.

Garlan vaguely guessed that what he fell just now was the bottom floor of this huge stone hall, because he has been walking up the long corridor, and now he has reached the middle floor of the stone hall.

Just as he was looking around, the voice he heard in the underground stone corridor sounded again, not far ahead.

He ran forward quickly.

Rounding the corner of the stone wall, Garlan saw the source of the noise at a glance.

I saw a thin child being pinned to the ground by a man in a black and blue short robe.

The noise Garlan heard just now was caused by the little boy's escape.

The child's slender limbs were waving and struggling desperately. Even though he knew it was futile, he desperately punched and kicked the man who was holding him down. His movements were extremely crazy. It looked like he was caught by a hunter and was desperate and desperate. struggling young beasts.

Although that little strength couldn't hurt him at all, the man was impatient with the little boy's struggle, so he just slapped him.

with a snap.

The man's slap was extremely severe, and the child's brain was buzzing from this blow, his eyes were blank, and he lay on the ground without moving.

The believer of All Things Sect snorted coldly, picked up the child with one hand,

At this time, another believer also chased after him, seeing this scene, he felt relieved.

"He actually ran away when we were short of manpower, this little bastard is quite smart."

He complained as he walked towards his companion.

The higher-ups ordered them to evacuate urgently. He took the kid out of the prison, and when he was leading him to transfer, the cunning kid seized the opportunity and escaped if he didn't pay attention.

The man carrying the child said coldly: "Know that there are not enough manpower, so watch closely. There is chaos up there. We need to retreat quickly."

As he spoke, he handed the child in his hand to his companion.

The child who was being carried raised his eyes with difficulty, and looked at the hand of the man who was walking towards him and was about to grab him.

There was deep-seated hatred on his face, and his eyes were full of darkness when he stared at the other party.

Seeing that he is about to be handed over to the other party like a cargo.

Suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of his eyes.

The silver-white sword tip pierced through the chest of the man who had already stretched out his hand and was about to grab him.

The cold light of the sharp sword tip reflected in the child's eyes, as if dispelling the darkness in his eyes.

The child opened his eyes wide, seeing that the strong man he could not resist even with all his might, didn't even have a chance to struggle at this moment, and just fell down straight.

As the man fell to the side, a boy with dust all over his face appeared in front of his eyes.

The blood-stained blade of the sword in the boy's hand shimmered in the child's eyes.

The bright sword tip is reflected in the child's dilated dark blue pupils, from far to near.

over his ear.

He could even feel the chill as the sharp blade brushed against his cheek.

A sword stabbed.

He heard the sound of the iron blade sinking into the flesh from behind, and a wail before death.

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In the dark ruins of the Flowing Water Pavilion, Heymos stood where he was.

After pressing his hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, he didn't move again.

But his breathing has gradually slowed down, exhaling rhythmically, one by one, his shoulders, arms, and even the muscles of his whole body have slowly contracted, tightened, and bulged slightly without any trace.

The invisible sense of oppression spread out from his body little by little, with a certain shocking vigor.

That is the posture of a beast about to fight.

He can explode terrifying lethality in the next second anytime, anywhere.

Facing the strange sound that surrounds this place, Heymos has raised his perception and vigilance to the extreme, and even accumulated all his strength in the face of the unknown enemy.

He stood there expressionless, lowering his eyes slightly, looking calm.

"All things teach?"

He asked coldly.

There was silence for a while, except for his rhythmic breathing and the sound of running water splashing, there was no other sound heard here.

The other party seems to have left.

But Heymos did not relax in the slightest, still scanning his surroundings sharply.

Because he could clearly feel that someone was watching him in the darkness, and the cold breath faintly seeped out of the falling water, entangled him.

"……I see."

After a long time, that hoarse and strange voice finally sounded again.

"Your body...has the aura of my god..."

"I see……"

"The person chosen by my god... After a long period of time, under the guidance of the great mother god of all things, you have once again returned to the presence of God..."

"The gods guide your return."

With a swish, a ray of light flashed across the darkness.

The speed of the sword was so fast that the falling water broke for a moment.

Heymos, who was standing indifferently and calmly, raised his head, and the golden red eyes revealed a deep hostility from the flying black hair.

There was even a ferocious look on his face.

It was like a monster that had been cut off from the chains that restrained it and returned to its nature and suddenly became violent.

Raising his hand, he swung the sword that had slashed at the flowing water just now, shaking off all the water droplets rolling on the blade.

With a sullen face, Heymos walked up the stone steps without saying a word.

Then, without looking back, he walked into the dark stone cave on the attic that he didn't know where to go.

As he entered the cave, the faint light of the ruins he had left behind shone on him.

At the back of his waist, his clothes were frayed when he fell.

On the brown skin exposed from the torn opening of the clothes, a fuzzy mark the size of a thumb that had almost faded due to too long time could be vaguely seen.

In the light red circle, the runes of the water of life and the runes symbolizing destruction and war are intertwined in it, showing a reverse shape.

——The rune that symbolizes the religion of all things.