Chapter 59 Family Cemetery

The beginning of civilization is the kindling that burns in the wild bonfire.

In the first millennium after the primordial fire ignited chaos and made order and the world appear, ancient human beings were born in the forestless plains. This new race walked in the nascent world, watching everything curiously.

At that time, everything had no name.

Because they hate darkness, people imitate thunder and lightning, use rocks and dry wood to ignite the fire of the barren age, and use it to illuminate the dark night without light. In the process of holding torches, exploring and identifying this unknown world, they have no name for everything. Name things, use primitive symbols to describe, and record strange things.

Gradually, accumulating, and using simple language, human beings summed up the laws and logic, and developed the civilization of the Enlightenment Age.

Then, the torch was passed on from generation to generation, and it continues to this day.

Starfall, December 11, 831, night.

Four days after the Kuroshio siege.

The cold wind kept blowing the fortress towering among the snow-white forests, and the soft and white snowflakes like goose feathers fell on the ground and condensed into a thin sheet of frost. The bright and clean double moons hang high in the sky like silver plates, and the bright moonlight spreads like running water on the entire bluestone plank road.

The black-haired man led his war horse through the night street, and a silver-haired maid followed quietly beside him.

Looking around the entire fortress, the young lord's eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the boundless darkness and cold and solid walls, and see those flickering fires of life. And his young head maid curiously looked up at the night sky dotted with stars, quietly estimating their number.

The girl's elegant voice echoed in the silent street, while Joshua focused on his surroundings.

Now, they are at the rear of the fortress, and rows of similar houses are neatly lined up on both sides of the street. However, a part of the house is now unoccupied, there is no firewood smoke wafting from the chimney, and there is no trace of the owner's activities behind the windows.

In the past few days, the Kuroshio seemed to be over, and there was no movement. Even if the soldiers went into the Black Forest to investigate, they could no longer see the group of wild beasts galloping like a black tsunami. Under the sunlight, the purple mist gradually dissipated, and the black forest returned to its former tranquility.

That being the case, after confirming that this was not some kind of conspiracy, the fortress resumed normal operation, and a steady stream of dragon cart convoys came from the main city to deliver urgently needed food and equipment, and in order to hold a requiem ceremony for the fallen soldiers Well, Pastor Artanis of St. Lauren's Cathedral even braved the severe winter and brought his two apprentices to the Black Forest Fortress along with the convoy.

Led by the archbishop, the team that went to the holy mountain in the far sea has not yet returned, so he is the only one who has the ability and qualifications to preside over this ceremony in the entire Moldavian territory. After the victims of the Kuroshio were buried, the white-haired priest left without staying in the fort long.

But before that, he deliberately found Joshua and said a word to him.

"Now is the time."

The old friend of the old housekeeper said this to Joshua, his eyes were extremely calm: "Go and see your father and Fan... Although I don't know why, but before he left, he asked me to wait for you to become the lord for a while." I will tell you this sentence after time, and say that you should understand what it means."

Of course Joshua knew what it meant.

December 11th, so long has passed, and it has been almost two months since the father died and the old housekeeper left. Now that he has come to the fortress, it is indeed time to see them again.

So in the middle of the night, he put on a coat made of white wolf fur, walked out of the room, and strolled in the winter fortress with his maid and war horse.

This is a cold and well-organized city. Relying on the wizard's spells, the gray-white city wall that has been roughly repaired once again separates the mountains and the plains. The sturdy and tall towers stand majestically behind it, and the gray-green needles of the pine trees on the roadside blow in the cold wind. rustle.

Broad avenues, winding streets, and stone huts lined up on both sides of them, as well as fortresses and barns placed in them, a few patrolling soldiers walked back and forth on the stone roads, and the ever-burning lamps made of pyroxene in their hands radiated light. With a faint white light.

And Joshua's destination was a quaint church on the edge of the fortress.

After passing through a few more streets, Joshua came to the door of this ancient building. He looked around, but found nothing. This accident caused the soldier to show a rare confused expression.

"What's going on? Isn't it here? Impossible."

Shaking his head, he left Hei outside, then led Yingying through the unlocked door and walked into the church.

"Huh."

As soon as she entered the hall, the silver-haired girl let out a soft exclamation. She looked around suspiciously, then frowned and said, "Master, this place... feels a bit weird."

This church is not big, there are only less than forty seats in the prayer hall, and there is a layer of gray dust on it, it seems that no one has cleaned it for a long time. But in front of the hall, behind the altar, the place where the statue of the holy emblem of the gods should have been placed was empty, without anything.

But Joshua was very clear that what Ying said was weird did not refer to this, because he also felt that since he entered the door, there was a strange force around his body, which seemed to welcome him, and seemed to guide him. .

Faintly, Joshua could even hear a voice echoing in his ears.

"Go ahead."

Temporarily unable to answer his maid's question, the warrior who was also puzzled could only say this: "Although it is a memory from a very young age, the impression is very deep. I can be sure that there is nothing wrong here, but I don't know where there is a problem."

So the two walked slowly forward.

While walking, Joshua could clearly feel that the church was filled with a strange energy, which rejected any unqualified power, even the ubiquitous elements and magic power were completely imprisoned , unable to form spells.

Forbidden area.

Even in his previous life, Joshua rarely encountered this kind of situation. Except for some natural dead magic areas, he had basically never seen such inert magic power suppressed.

But the magic-forbidden area in this church is different from those dead magic areas in extreme environments. The magic power here is not so much suppressed as it is sealed. It is not that they cannot form spells, but they cannot be freely formed. spell.

Just meet the conditions.

As the distance approached, one could sense that the suppressed power was gradually getting stronger, and the source of that power was the square altar made of silver metal.

Walking to the altar, Joshua subconsciously looked at the center of it. According to the religious code of the Continent of Disputes, when there are believers praying, the altar should have offerings to the gods, and when there are no one, it should be placed on the altar. The holy emblem of the gods should be placed, all in all, no matter what, it can't be left empty.

But there is nothing in this altar, neither the sacrifice nor the holy emblem, only a sunken trace like a handprint.

"...Could it be?"

Looking at his hand, Joshua did not hesitate for long, he simply pressed his hand into the groove of the altar, and then wanted to see what would happen.

And as if sensing the arrival of the long-awaited goal, a gray-blue light shines from the bottom of the altar, and it spreads quickly like ripples, sweeping across Joshua's whole body in an instant, even following him. The firefly behind her was no exception, and was also scanned by the light.

"Bloodline confirmation... The direct bloodline of the Radcliffe family has the divine machine contract and meets the conditions."

The voice that had been lingering in Joshua's ears finally became audible, and a thought came out from the altar, carrying a lot of information into Joshua's mind: "Grant permission, the channel will open."

"From fire, born from steel, wisdom is immortal, order is eternal."

Accompanied by the trembling of time and space and the ancient praises, the magic power that was originally sealed began to become active, and a faint blue door slowly emerged above the altar in silence, and it could be vaguely seen that there was a piece of magic behind it. The black earth, and countless stone tombstones are erected in it.

Around each tombstone, there is a weapon inserted upside down on the ground. Among them are knives and guns. Almost all weapons used by humans can be found in them. They look extremely dilapidated, and each one has been damaged. Great damage.

"...So that's the case. I said why I didn't see it outside. I clearly remembered that it was adjacent to this small church, but there was nothing around."

Staring at the gate of time and space that was slowly expanding, Joshua, who understood all the information through the thoughts in the altar, said in a low voice, "So it's here, it's actually here... No wonder the secrets of the divine machine and the seal guardian are so secretive. It hasn't been discovered for many years..."

Following this exclamation, the Radcliffe family cemetery hidden between the narrow passages of time and space completely appeared in front of his eyes.

I have some Calvins recently, the chapter I owed a few days ago is estimated to have to wait for a while...