The Death List Novel - Chapter 608
Chapter 608 Church Of Amberry
At this moment, at the end of a fork about fifty to sixty meters away from Qin Lun’s right corner, a silver arrow was inserted into each of the two masked guards’ foreheads.
The long arrow pierced through two stone walls in a short span of tens of meters. When it appeared in their eyes, it was already less than ten meters long. Finally, it pierced through their brains and shot these two outstanding warriors to death on the spot.
The guard covered the mask on his face, his gaze filled with confusion. He didn’t even realize where the danger came from until he died. The two guards stood stiff for a few seconds, gripping the scimitar in their hands tightly and falling straight forward.
Right at this moment, ripples of water appeared in the shadows of the passageway. A black shadow shot out like lightning and pounced towards the two corpses. When the black shadow descended, it held the collar of a corpse in its mouth, and the other corpse was lying on its back.
Venus and Qin Lun shared the same thoughts, and their intelligence was also very high. At this time, they could help their master finish the work, so the two corpses didn’t make too much noise.
The Shadow Gale Leopard dragged the two corpses to the corners of the passageway, and then its body merged into the darkness once more, sneaking towards the entrance guarded by the two guards. At the same time, Qin Lun’s figure also appeared at the fork of the road. He ran over with lighter footsteps and retrieved the magic silver arrows that had shot the two guards to death.
The Shadow Gale Leopard that had sneaked into the fork did not send a warning message. Qin Lun did not hesitate to sweep past the fork and broke into the place where the two guards had been guarding. What surprised him was that there was not a passageway in front of him, but a secret room that was more than a hundred square meters.
Qin Lun quickly sized up the empty secret room. At this moment, Hill and Rand were already on the ground. He didn’t have much time to waste.
On the left and right sides of the secret chamber was a row of standing lamp-post wax. This was a chest-high, slender lamp holder made of precious metals. On top of it was a half-meter long candle. It looked dignified and gorgeous, and was usually used as a sacrificial ritual by the Church.
However, in this dark secret room, the flickering candlelight of the lamp post mixed with the shadows lightly swayed, but it made people feel a strange atmosphere.
Qin Lun’s gaze shifted from both sides and landed on the small altar in front of the secret room. There was a bronze statue of a god. Seeing this half-body statue that was more than a foot tall, his expression couldn’t help but change slightly.
The statue was a half-body of a blue-green woman. In her hand was a trident. On the bronze statue was a jacket carved from seashells and a purple cloak woven from jellyfish. Her fingertips had sharp claws, her elbows had fish fins, her eyes were two pearls shining with white light, and her hair was dark green seaweed.
“Antanari … Fishman language, I should have thought of this a long time ago. This is the secret stronghold of the Church of Amberry.” Qin Lun muttered to himself. When he mentioned Amberry’s name, he lowered his head and didn’t look at the bust to avoid attracting the attention of the gods.
Back then, Qin Lun had followed the Japanese Elves diplomatic corps back to the Ancient Era. He had spent a lot of time with the learned Prince Sun Fairy Milleras, and he had learned a lot about Ferren Continent. He also had a lot of knowledge about the continent’s divine system.
At that time, he wanted to increase his exploration of the world. Later on, he realized that he might obtain the world token. He asked more positively to prepare for his re-entry into Toril.
Amberry was an ocean goddess of medium divine power. The kingdom was located in the heart of rage and belonged to one of the raging gods. The head of the gods was Taros, the God of Storm and Calamity, and the entire camp was chaotic and evil.
Goddess Amberry, also known as the Queen of Viciousness, has a vicious, irritable and evil nature. She is a nightmare in the hearts of sailors and coastal dwellers all over the world.
She often takes pleasure in destroying promises, watching ships being swallowed up by the sea, drowning sailors in the sea, and enjoying it. She loved vanity, flattery, the pursuit of more power, and the display of violence.
She created the Shark Beastman, the only race that worshipped and praised her sincerely. The other sailors and sailors who had donated to her were merely mortals who were afraid of her power and wished for a safe journey to the sea.
Due to the fickle nature of the Ocean Goddess and her frequent destruction of promises, the port city along Ferren Continent’s Sword Bay had an extremely complicated attitude towards her.
On the one hand, people loathed the chaos and evil of the sea goddess, and turned to pray to Sullen and Wilko, who also had the rank of sea goddess and sea warrior. On the other hand, they feared and feared the power of the sea goddess, so they had to donate a lot of money to her priest before they went out to sea.
Priests of the Church of Amberry had two distinct positions in coastal cities such as Bird’s Gate, Kalinshan, and Ascatra.
The port city basically did not allow the church to set up a temple in the city, so the followers of Amberry could only let the temple be built on the relatively remote coast beside the harbor, or on the reef caves that were half below sea level.
However, when a large fleet of ships set sail in the harbor, the fleet welcomed Priest Amberry and hoped that the Queen would give them a safe journey for the sake of her believers.
The Amberry Church had set up a stronghold in the city, which clearly did not meet the requirements of the officials of the Border Gate. Therefore, Qin Lun and the others had made the correct judgement. After this place was exposed, they would at least not be hunted down by the City Guards.
Most of the city gangs would not help an Ambry Church because the Queen was fickle, so they would not refuse to accept their donations because of this small favor.
However, this knowledge did not make Qin Lun feel much relieved. On the contrary, his expression became even uglier.
Just because people don’t take the initiative to help the Church doesn’t mean that the Church is easier to provoke. Amongst all the Churches of the Gods, the Church of Ambrose was second only to the Church of Light and the Church of the God of Wealth.
Although most of the temples of the Amberry Church on the remote coast are in tatters, the annual donations made to them by the fleet and the Chamber of Commerce along the coast of Sword Bay are astronomical. The Amberry Church had enough money to hire a group of Legendary Professions to hunt Qin Lun and the others to the ends of the earth.
“Get out of here before the Church’s high-ranking clerics return!”
Qin Lun thought for a moment. He turned around and found the corpses of the two guards that Venus had dragged into the corner. He took off the masks and black robes on their faces in three or two strikes. He took the scimitars of the guards and intended to cover them up for himself.
“Eh? No wonder they’re all wearing masks and black robes. So they’re not humans.” After taking off the guard’s mask, Qin Lun discovered that these two tall and big fellows had green scales all over their faces and fish gills on both sides of their heads. They were actually amphibious fish men that he did not recognize.
Qin Lun put on a mask and a black robe, unfolded his body, and swept towards another passageway opposite the secret room. He didn’t know if there were any guards on the other side, but relying on this outfit and the Dark Shadow Gale Leopard, he could at least give him a chance to sneak attack first.
‘”Hill, Rand, be careful not to reveal your identity. Also, don’t use any of your iconic skills. This is the stronghold of the Amberry Church …” En, I’ll explain the details of this sea god and the church to you when we get out of here. ” During his escape, he did not forget to remind his other two companions.
“Listening to that kid’s tone, why do I feel like I’ve fallen into a pit!” Rand, who was setting the fire, smiled bitterly and teased Hill.
“Just get used to it!” Hill smiled without changing his expression.
When the two of them received Qin Lun’s message, they immediately started to destroy the carriage shop. This time, they didn’t randomly kill people. They just used Rand’s ability to set fire to such a large carriage dealership.
The carriage shop was filled with hay, and it was difficult to contain the fire together. In addition, the large livestock in the carriage shop were edified by the fireworks, causing unrest. The entire carriage shop was thrown into chaos.
The reason why Qin Lun was able to sneak into the underground chamber so smoothly was because all the high-ranking clerics were lured away by the fire on the ground.
“Stop!” However, Qin Lun seemed to have run out of luck. Not far from the secret room, a few masked guards with torches walked towards him. The leader was wearing a bronze lamb face and his voice was hoarse. “What are you doing here? Follow me!”
After saying that, the Bronze Sheep Noodle no longer paid attention to him and turned around to enter a fork on the right.
Qin Lun tightened his grip on the scimitar and secretly made a quiet gesture to the Shadow Gale Leopard behind him, quietly following a few masked guards.
Following behind these guards, Qin Lun could faintly smell a faint fishy smell. Obviously, these masked guards weren’t humans, but some kind of marine humanoid race.
This made him secretly rejoice at the unpleasant smell on his body. Otherwise, these guards would have discovered the identity of the outsider long ago. Following the four masked guards, Qin Lun was quickly led to a cold and dry place.
“Priest Luo De said that the fire on the ground seemed to have been intentionally disturbed by someone. It is possible that the Gate of Bode has already discovered this church stronghold.” The bronze lamb noodle pointed to a dark room in front of him and said, “We need to transfer the things inside to the ship. These are sacrifices to the goddess at the next ceremony. We cannot leave them to the greedy people of the secular world.”
“Sacrifice?” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up slightly behind the mask. Although the shrewd goddess belonged to the Chaos Evil Camp, the offerings were all treasures, unlike the blood sacrifices of some evil gods.
The three of them seemed to be lacking some gold coins before adventuring on the mission. When Hill and Rand were sweeping through the small gangs, they took some things with them. However, those hooligans didn’t have much wealth on them, only enough for a few meals.
Just as he entered the small dark room, Qin Lun was stunned. More than a dozen treasure chests were casually piled on the ground. Most of the chests were unlocked. Under the illumination of the torches, the open chests reflected the light of precious metals and jewelry.
Qin Lun even saw a pile of magic crystals and cores, a bundle of primitive sheepskin scrolls, and a half-buried secret silver scepter under a pile of gold coins under a half-open jewelry chest. The huge purple gemstone at the top of the staff emitted a resplendent light, as if it made the entire room shine brightly.
“What are you still waiting for?” Seeing Qin Lun standing still, the Bronze Sheep Face scolded him with some dissatisfaction.
“Haha, I’m thinking about how to thank you!” Qin Lun raised his head and revealed a brilliant and charming smile behind the mask.