Chapter 470
470: Past Events Thousand Years Back
“What do you mean?” Gilbert asked insistently.
“Elizabeth is in Brettel City. I think she can help us!” Han Shuo explained.
Elizabeth, a target on the Church of Light’s hitlist, possessed a most bizarre Body of Divine Favor with the miraculous ability to absorb divine energy from followers of the Church of Light. Han Shuo had a feeling that she might be able to absorb and remove the divine energy contained in the cage. Without the protection of divine energy from the Ice Goddess, Han Shuo had a hundred percent certainty of breaking the Jadefrost Cage.
“She?” Gilbert wasn’t fully convinced. But when he saw Han Shuo’s confidence in the idea, he asked, “Can she be trusted?”
“I’m not too sure either. But there’s no harm trying!” Han Shuo replied.
“You, you are called Bryan, right?” Gilges, the patriarch of dark dragons, raised his head and asked.
“Yep!” Han Shuo replied.
“Thank you for your rescue. My race of dark dragons will engrave your grace in our memory!” Gilges kowtowed at Han Shuo. Then, he raised his head and said, “One of the reasons those of the Shrine of Ice came here, killed my tribesmen, and imprisoned us here was to turn the entire race of dark dragons into their saddle horses. The other was to find out the route to the third layer of the underground world from me!”
The third layer of the underground world!
Although I don’t have any conclusive evidence, I’ve always believed that the Cemetery of Death was constructed by the original owner of the skeletal staff. And just like our dark dragon race’s constant defense of the tunnel five thousand years, for the original owner of the skeletal staff to have built the Cemetery of Death, there must be some profound meaning to it.”
“Then, do you know about the circumstances of the Calamity Church’s origin? They don’t seem to have appeared too long ago on Profound Continent. Why is it that they consider the Cemetery of Death to be their holy land? How did they know about the three miraculous abilities of the skeletal staff?” Han Shuo was anxious and asked Gilges in a hurried tone.
“I do know some things about the Calamity Church. That folklore you mentioned about the Cemetery of Death, except for the part where those necromancers constructed it, a large part of rest of the stories is true.
“The Calamity Church was actually founded by the same necromancers that formerly possessed the Cemetery of Death. At the time, they created countless terrifying magic in the Cemetery of Death. In particular, the appearance of this ‘Plague’ spell. It caused people in countless cities to turn into undeads.
“Therefore, they became the common enemy of the entire continent, and were finally extirpated by experts of various countries. However, they were very hard to kill. They weren’t totally wiped out under the besiege of every country on the continent. But those few who so luckily survived would never dare to show their faces in public like they used to, and forever live in the dark.
“I have to say, these people indeed were incomparably mighty. Even with the combined effort of the entire continent to destroy them, they weren’t completely eradicated. Those who survived even grew stronger and stronger, while their knowledge in the field of necromancy became more and more refined. They even began to recruit various wicked experts of the Profound Continent.
“That was, until these powerful necromancers attained new heights in their delvings into the field of magic, possessing the capacity of communicating with demons and evil gods. They established the Calamity Church to worship the evil god, accepting more and more evil entities in Profound Continent, and flourished to the point now where even the Church of Light can barely suppress them.
“The Cemetery of Death is their birthplace, and also the place where the first generation of high-level Calamity Church members researched necromancy magic. For them to take the Cemetery of Death as their sacred ground, it’s a matter of course!” Gilges explained continuously as he looked at Han Shuo.
“So that’s how it is!” With Gilges’ narration, Han Shuo finally understood what the Cemetery of Death had to do with the Calamity Church. As it turned out, the Cemetery of Death was basically the laboratory of the evil necromancers that founded the Calamity Church. The founders of the Calamity Church would do research on producing that wicked magic in there. No wonder Wolf always said that Han Shuo was one of theirs.