Act 214 Curtain VII

"very good."

When Her Majesty the Queen said this, suddenly a vibration from front to back came from the direction of the altar of the Goddess of the Dead Moon, as if something hit the temple. That thing must be as big as a mountain. The giant beast, the entire Hall of the Dead Moon shook with a bang, the white bone pillars made strange creaking noises, and the deep high arches overhead buzzed, as if the whole world was shaking, and the sand fell down like a waterfall. Come down.

Andrea took a step back, steadying her center of gravity. She raised her head, with a vigilant look in her silver eyes. At some point, a dark spear appeared in her hand, which was her light spear 'Raven'.

Brando swayed, and he immediately raised his head and looked around cautiously. The vibration was obviously the same as the one he felt a moment ago. The first thing he thought of was whether this city of eternal death was actually There was an earthquake, but it was at this time that the third shock occurred.

This time the vibration was more obvious than the previous two times. The entire Hall of the Dead Moon slammed back, giving everyone in the hall the illusion that the hall had moved one or two centimeters. There was a 'crash' There was a sound of glass shattering, and the rose arch windows on both sides of the corridor depicting the classic legends in the Dark Scriptures shattered at the same time - whether it was the Dragon Slayer 'Hudson', Darkness Coming, Death Moon Rising or Ben Burton 'And his followers, as well as the blood and the lamb, fell off the windowsill several meters high, fell heavily to the ground, and turned into colorful glass fragments scattered on the ground.

The believers in the hall formed a wave-like scene from front to back. The believers who lost their center of gravity fell to the ground row by row. It was as if an invisible sickle was swung over the heads of the crowd. Wherever it passed, the crowd immediately became shorter. One crop.

‘Kacha—’

Brando seemed to hear the sound of something cracking. The voice came from the front of the hall. He and Andrea subconsciously raised their heads, and they saw it with surprised eyes. There, on the more than ten-meter-high icon of the Dead Moon Goddess, a crack several centimeters wide appeared starting from the neck. Amidst the constant vibrations in the hall, small fragments rolled down from the crack, and then as if the goddess lowered her head, the icon broke from her neck. A head as tall as a man rolled down from the air and fell straight to Queen Madara and the officiant Philip below.

Andrea was so stunned when she witnessed this scene that she did not realize the consequences that would follow. However, Brando, as a time traveler, did not feel that deeply about this. He immediately reminded:

"careful!"

However, he immediately realized that as the majestic emperor of the Dead Moon Empire, it was impossible for him to be without a sacred object for protection. It was unlikely that a mere falling stone would have any impact on her. The goddess's head fell to the ground in the air. It looks very scary, but in this magical world, its power is not as powerful as a stone bullet thrown by a trebuchet.

Sure enough, a conspicuous arc of light emerged from Her Majesty the Queen's head ten feet away. The falling stone statue hit that arc of light, as if it hit a motionless iron plate. The tip of the goddess's nose touched the ground first, and it immediately collapsed. The face was broken, and then the entire head was completely broken from the broken nose. It turned into several pieces of non-threatening gravel and exploded with a bang. It fell to the ground with a loud splash, and a few pieces splashed on Philip's body not far away, hitting his priest's robe, but the latter's face was dull and he didn't even frown.

This ability to calm down without being surprised when the mountain collapsed in front of his eyes deeply shocked Brando. Would such a person be a mediocre and mediocre person? He couldn't help but think that he had really seen a ghost to believe the unreliable claims spread outside. He thought about how a mediocre person could become the chief priest of the Temple of the Dead Moon - the second most powerful person in Madara - in this Era may even be the most powerful figure. But how could such a person willingly assist a person with little background and origin to become the emperor of Madara.

Is it just for the mercury rod? Brando is more willing to believe that maybe the officiant has really received an oracle, allowing him to see through the fog of the future and see Madara, the unity of the dark Dead Moon Empire.

"Cress...sir...?" Andrea suddenly cried out at this time.

Only then did Brando realize something, and he raised his head. Only then did I realize that only half of the statue of the goddess was left. Her upper body had been completely cracked. After her head rolled off, the part above the waist also fell apart, turning into several pieces and falling from both sides. One of them hit the end. The giant spider crawling at her feet smashed the spider into pieces. Her two arms fell to the ground and were broken into several pieces. One of the round forearms was still rolling on the obsidian floor. Then, along the steps under the altar, he rolled all the way down into the hall below.

It finally stopped in front of an acolyte of the Dead Moon. He was still a young man. He looked at the arm of the goddess in shock as if he was looking at the arm of the goddess, as if he was not looking at a sculpture, but the real goddess of the Dead Moon, Kress. Like a bloody broken arm.

Brando saw the look on the man's face and suddenly realized what had happened - the statue of the Goddess of the Dead Moon had collapsed. Maybe this didn't sound like a big deal, but at most it was an ominous sign. But Brando understands that this is not the case, because this is a world with magic and gods. This is the central hall of the Temple of the Dead Moon. Although this icon has not been revealed for thousands of years, it actually symbolizes The authority of the dead moon goddess Cleese in this world.

Now it suddenly shattered.

In the thousands of years of history of this holy city of the dead, this is not the first time that it has been tested by disaster. Since the establishment of the temple, it has experienced hundreds of disasters, large and small, including natural disasters. There was also a time when a fire broke out in the temple in the Year of the Brown Lion in the Era of Chaos. The fire burned the newly rebuilt temple to the ground. Ninety percent of the temple was reduced to ashes, but only the main hall was burned to the ground. The fire was unscathed and miraculously extinguished when it spread to the thirty-three steps outside the hall. Then it rained heavily for two consecutive days and nights.

At the beginning of the first era, the wind elves invaded the Land of Eternal Death. It was the only time in thirteen hundred years that the undead were invaded into the heart of the Dead Moon Kingdom. The wind elves killed the then arrogant undead lord Bone Necrosis. At one point, the troops were directed directly at the Holy City. The then commander of the wind elves threatened to completely destroy the temple. But not long after he said this, a civil strife broke out in St. Osor's country. The elves' The offensive ended as a result, allowing this holy city of the undead to escape a catastrophe.

Then came the Year of the Frog, which was less than three hundred years ago. A huge earthquake in the Ercas Canyon affected this holy city of the dead. Seventy percent of the buildings in the city collapsed, and even the hall of the temple collapsed. Half of it collapsed, but this icon remained intact and stood among the ruins of the broken wall. Later, when the Dead Moon believers rebuilt the temple, they reshaped it with this icon as the center. Only in this hall can we have today’s majestic Temple of the Dead Moon.

However, today, the statue of the goddess suddenly collapsed. Although the previous earthquake in the hall was violent, it was still far less than the earthquake in the Year of the Frog. The believers of the Dead Moon are all human beings. They may not have experienced the great earthquake two hundred years ago, but among the undead lords here there are many old guys with long lives. When they witnessed this scene, they immediately stood on the spot.

A buzzing sound rose from the hall, as if a lid on something had been lifted. The whispers of the believers suddenly became louder, and the believers in the front row looked horrified. It spread like an infectious disease and quickly infected the people behind. The expressions on the faces of the believers became extremely frightened. They finally couldn't hold their ground. Some people stood up from the crowd and seemed to be struggling like crazy. Rush outside.

But before they could run too far, a sharp arrow shot out from the shadows, hitting the vests of those people. The arrow seemed to be attached with unparalleled power. It turned into a black light and penetrated through the vests of those people. It passed by and hit the ground, its tail feathers still trembling.

Brando saw the bloody arrows clearly and realized that they were dark steel arrows. Madala's skeleton archers rarely used this kind of arrows, but one of the troops was an exception. Dark Ranger, he subconsciously looked at the dark places on both sides of the hall. With his perception, he couldn't see anything.

There seemed to be a huge will entrenched in this hall, blocking his perception. His five senses could only extend for more than ten meters like a normal person, and were blocked by more than a dozen pillars.

These dozen black feather arrows intimidated everyone very well. The believers who were becoming confused stopped in their tracks. They turned back and looked at Her Majesty the Queen and Philip beside the altar. Let Brando What I admire is that Her Majesty the Queen is not particular enough to dare to use weapons and commit such a murder in such a place. However, the priest Philip next to her seemed not to have seen it, and the expression on his face changed slightly. All are indebted.

If such a thing happened in the Lion Palace of the Temple of Flame, if nothing else, the Cruz royal family would be waiting to break with the Temple of Flame and openly massacre them in the sanctuary that represents the majesty of the Golden Flame. Its believers, what is this if not disobedience to the gods?

However, the scene that happened now also made Brando understand one thing, that is, everything that happened now did not seem to be sudden. At least the Queen and Philip, the officiant, had been prepared. They seemed to have expected this scene. Brando looked at the undead lords and high-level priests standing below. He also saw shocked looks on their faces and the soul fire beating in their eyes.

He turned back and his eyes returned to the Queen of Madara and Philip. This was definitely not an earthquake. It was impossible for an earthquake to destroy the icon of Cress unless the earthquake happened in another place, that is, in the realm of elements. outside.

Something is wrong with the gods.

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