Chapter 273 God's Stone of Retaliation

Roland quickly estimated the volume of the underground cave. The bottom is about the size of a football field, surrounded by steep walls. The fork that connects here is right in the middle of the mountain wall, and there is a narrow stone ladder next to the entrance, extending downwards.

"I guess you didn't dig this ladder," he knelt down, bringing the torch closer to the ground. Under the reflection of the fire, the marks carved by axes and knives on the stone steps are very obvious, and there are still a lot of stone chips and dust accumulated in the marks.

"Of course not, Your Highness, when we found this place, there were already stone steps," Carter shrugged. "I guess this thing has been around for decades."

"Or hundreds of years," Anna said suddenly.

"I think so too," Lightning nodded, "It's only been seventy years since Border Town was established, and it's unlikely that the stone stairs are related to the locals or the kingdom."

"Is there anyone in the western region hundreds of years ago?" Carter questioned, "Greycastle hasn't even been established yet."

Roland patted the knight on the shoulder, "Four hundred and fifty years ago, there was a group of people who were forgotten by history." Then he raised the torch, "Come on, let's go down and have a look."

Soldiers from the First Army had already surrounded the bottom of the cave in twos and threes. He led the knights and witches straight to the God's Stone of Retaliation. Only when they stood at the foot of the stone pillar could they deeply feel the size of the God's Stone. Open your arms, less than one-tenth of it, you have to look up to see its top, the tallest purple God's Stone of Retaliation is close to 30 meters, almost equivalent to an eight or nine-story building .

Theoretically speaking, a stone that can emit light by itself is either radioactive or fluorescent, but the light of God's Stone of Retaliation obviously has nothing to do with either of these. , the greater the brightness. Based on this brightness, the soldiers who entered first would all die of ionizing radiation within a few minutes. The latter needs to be illuminated before it can emit light. There is no light source deep in the ground, so it obviously cannot support it to continuously emit cold light.

Roland also noticed that although the sacred stone is in the shape of a prism, which is common in crystals, the surface does not have crystal lines, but is as smooth as flat glass.

"A thumb-sized God's Stone of Retaliation in the church can be sold for several golden dragons. One as big as this... can almost empty the treasury of the Four Great Kingdoms." Carter couldn't help feeling emotional.

"Sold to nobles to kill witches?" Nightingale gave him a sharp look.

"Uh, I didn't say that," the chief knight unconsciously looked away.

"It's the first time I've seen God's Stone of Retaliation in this color. Shouldn't it be white and transparent?" Lightning looked at the stone pillar curiously. "If I bring one back, won't it be necessary to light candles at night?"

"I'd rather light a dozen candles in a stuffy room than use it for lighting," Nightingale said with her arms folded. "To a witch, it's a cage, a shackle, and an accomplice of the church! If there were no This damn stone will be fine."

"Well, Miss Nightingale, you don't know how to read at night anyway..." The little girl licked her lips, picked up a stone, and looked at Roland, "Can I take one back as a spoil of adventure?"

Roland nodded, "If you don't dislike this kind of thing."

She swung the stone in her hand and knocked hard on the corner of the prism, only to hear a crisp sound of "ding", the stone shattered in response, and there was not even a single scar left on the prism.

The knight couldn't help but gasped, "What's going on... Aren't God's Stones of Retaliation all fragile and fragile?"

"Maybe this piece of light is different," Lightning patted off the stone chips in his hand, then took out a dagger from his pocket, and tossed around the prism for a while, but even if he used all the scraping and picking, it was still in vain.

Roland felt something was wrong, he motioned to Nightingale, "You try it."

The latter nodded, pulled out his revolver, and pulled the trigger directly at the other prism. A huge roar immediately echoed at the bottom of the cave, and a few sparks appeared from the part where the God's Stone of Retaliation was hit. After the smoke cleared, a group of people walked over, only to see that the bullet left only a shallow mark on the surface of the sacred stone.

This means that in terms of light intensity, it has surpassed the homogeneous steel plate.

"The muskets are useless?" Carter frowned. "Then how did the church cut it up and sell it?"

No one can answer this question, and it doesn't match your usual impression.

At least Roland has used bricks to smash the chains of divine punishment, such as the one tied around Anna's neck. It only takes two or three strokes to turn the crystal clear stone into a puddle of white powder.

Anna, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Your Highness, do you still remember the treasure map drawn by Ferlin Hilt at dawn?"

"Treasure map?" Roland was taken aback. He vaguely remembered that a triangle occupied most of the area on the blueprint, and the three points respectively pointed to the holy city of Taquila, the stone tower of the Misty Forest, and the end of the northern slope... Wait, the northern slope? Suddenly a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, "Could it be..."

"I don't think that point points to the mine on the north slope, but here," Anna said slowly, "this is an underground cave that contains a large number of God's Stones of Retaliation."

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After a careful search, except for a large pile of indestructible sacred stones, no other valuable discoveries were found in the cave.

Not to mention ancient books or remains, even the tools for chiseling stone ladders are not left behind, which is very unbelievable. According to the current level of technology, it is definitely a huge and arduous project to carve out a ladder on the steep rock wall. Accidental drops, lost tools, and the like should be common occurrences. But the scene was nothing but rocks, as if they had cleaned the cave thoroughly before evacuating.

After Roland returned to the office, he called the scroll and reproduced the drawing of the Dawn Knight on the Book of Illusion.

Similar to the pattern in memory, the southernmost point does fall at the foot of the northern slope.

If Anna's guess is correct, could this be the map left by the church when they were looking for a new vein of God's Stone of Retaliation? But why did they abandon everything after spending a lot of time digging out the stone stairs leading to the bottom of the cave? If the church had established a border church four hundred and fifty years ago, I am afraid that Border Town today would look completely different. Judging from the price and usage of God's Stone of Retaliation, this mine is nothing like it at all. Resources that can be discarded at will.

Now the holy city of Taquila is a restricted area that cannot be reached, maybe the answers to these questions can only be known after going to the stone tower...or will never be known. (To be continued.,, your support is my biggest motivation.)