Just when Leo and Sylvia solved the abscess flesh and blood and ingested the source, in the Red Rock Town closest to where they were, the old man who was responsible for guarding an ancient altar in the center of the town was looking at the holy altar in fear.

Cracks appear constantly on the statue in the center of the altar.

I can see that this statue is not much different from other ordinary statues of anthropomorphic gods, but if you look carefully, you will find that this statue has no face. The original location of the facial features has been replaced by a complex symbol. The core of this symbol

It should be the Holy Emblem of the Church of Justice, and there is a circle of complex symbols entwined and integrated around the Holy Emblem, which feels like a chain.

If it were in other places, if such a symbol were seen by the clergy of the Church of Justice, they would definitely consider it blasphemy. It won't be long before a large number of church knights come to crusade. Even this red stone town will be seen by the knights of the Church of Justice.

Treat them as heretics and undergo a thorough purification.

Fortunately, this is the Kingdom of Teresa, and the influence of the church is not very great here. Moreover, even though the True God Church has built temples, sanctuaries, churches, and temples here, and sent senior clergy here to preach, but in these churches

There are no fully-equipped church knights in the garrison. Even if a heresy is discovered, it will still require the cooperation of the Theresa Kingdom's troops to act.

Therefore, in the Kingdom of Teresa, things with obvious heretical symbols like this statue are not uncommon. The True God Church here is also accustomed to it, and there is no energy or manpower to solve these things. Therefore, as long as such heretical things are not done

It's too much, and the True God Church in Teresa's Kingdom usually turns a blind eye.

This altar is now a microcosm of the heretical beliefs of the entire Kingdom of Teresa. This altar has existed before the construction of Red Rock Town. No one knows which god the statue in the altar represents.

This kind of unknown is really unknown. Not to mention the ordinary citizens in the town, even the old man guarding the altar does not know who the statue in the altar represents. It is precisely because there is no one related to it here.

religion.

But it is such an altar of unknown gods. Every mayor of Red Rock Town will come here to pay homage at a specific time every year and perform some strange-looking rituals. After each ritual, he will repeatedly instruct the guardian saint.

People in the forum must report any abnormal movement here as soon as possible.

The old man who has been guarding the altar has been guarding the altar for more than 20 years. He is not a local of Hongshi Town. He is a refugee from a foreign country. In fact, no one from Hongshi Town is willing to come here to guard the altar.

It's not because of the salary, but because this altar is very weird. Anyone who guards the altar will age faster than normal people.

Like the current old man, he is actually only in his forties, but now he looks almost like an old man in his sixties or seventies.

Because of this, most of the time, the people who guard the altar are outsiders, and they stay there for a lifetime.

The reason why I will do this for a lifetime is not because the mayor of Red Rock Town does not allow the caretaker to resign, but because as long as he becomes the caretaker of the altar, it is as if he has signed a contract with some mysterious existence.

If you have the thought of resigning, even if you see yourself getting older faster than others day by day, you still won’t have the thought of resigning.

The old man originally thought that he might be like other altar keepers for the rest of his life and die in office, but something unexpected happened tonight. For the first time, he thought that he should leave here, go out for a walk, and preferably find a partner.

, anyway, the salary he has accumulated over the years is enough for him to live a prosperous life in the future.

But he soon discovered that there was something wrong with his idea of ​​resigning, which reminded him of the altar, so he immediately went to the altar to check the situation, and saw a large number of cracks on the surface of the statue of the altar.

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If there were just cracks, he wouldn't be shocked and panicked, but the thick pus and blood that kept coming out of the cracks really frightened him, until the arms of the statue were too big to support.

, fell to the ground and shattered to pieces before he reacted and immediately thought of what he should do.

As a result, the old man rolled out of the altar and ran towards the mayor's residence. Because it was late at night, no one noticed on the road. Only a few patrolling town guards looked at him suspiciously.

Looking at the altar keeper, he didn't understand why he looked so flustered.

Not long after, the bell at the mayor's mansion rang. This bell represented that the town had entered the most urgent state. All people in the town who had served as guards or militiamen must gather in the town square unconditionally.

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The Kingdom of Teresa is a mercenary country, and the entire country is extremely familiar with various military matters. When the alarm bell rang, almost all the guards and militiamen in the town woke up from their sleep and equipped themselves with weapons.

They grabbed their weapons and gathered towards the town square.

The originally quiet town immediately became brightly lit. Not only did every household light up lights, but even braziers were set up in the square, illuminating the place brightly.

The officer guarding the town had just finished reading the mayor's instructions. Although he still had doubts in his heart and did not understand the mayor's thoughts, he did not ask any more questions. In compliance with the military obedience regulations, he unconditionally began to order his subordinates to

The guards and militiamen gathered in the square reorganized their ranks, and soon the army was standing neatly in the square under orders.

However, after the formation of the team was completed, the guard captain of the team did not issue follow-up orders. Instead, he stood in the square like everyone else, waiting for the arrival of the mayor.

At this moment, the mayor of the town, Rose Belmont, and the altar keeper came to the altar located on the edge of the town. They looked at the statue that had been broken into pieces and only the base was left, as well as the blood flowing all over the ground.

His face was filled with pus and blood, and his face looked extremely ugly under the light of the torch.

At this moment, Ross Belmont regretted that he would take the initiative to apply to be the mayor of Red Rock Town. Originally, he just thought that this was a very easy routine task. As long as he sat in the position of mayor for six years, he could return.

Go to Belmont Castle or work in other more prosperous cities, because in the past many years, members of the Belmont family who came to Redstone Town to work have lived this way.

But he never thought that less than half a month before he resigned as mayor, the family had already selected a candidate for the new mayor. He only needed to wait for the arrival of the new mayor to complete the handover before he could leave. But this happened

Something happened to the altar at that time, and judging from the situation, it should be the most serious state. Judging from this situation, the weirdness of the banned Lübeck town may have broken through the seal.

He didn't know what that weird thing was, but he knew that in the family's ranking of dangerous items, that weird thing ranked among the top ten in terms of danger.

When he first came here as the mayor, he wanted to go to Lübeck Town to see the specific situation out of curiosity. However, on the way to Lübeck Town, he was blocked by various restrictions placed by his family in that forest.

However, the information he found from other places found that the town of Lübeck had been destroyed long ago. Later, a family scholar told him that the town of Lübeck actually still existed, but now it had become a strange part of it.

The family scholar did not tell him more about the strange situation in Lübeck Town, but only repeatedly warned him that if any abnormality appeared in the altar statue, he should treat it as the most serious situation and be prepared to die.

At this moment, everything the scholar said appeared in Ross Belmont's mind very clearly, and he felt panicked as never before. Although he wanted to escape immediately, with his ability, he escaped to

A safe place shouldn't be a problem, but when he thought of the family punishment he would face after escaping, the idea of ​​​​escape immediately disappeared from his mind.

"My lord, my lord, what should we do now?" Just as various thoughts emerged in Ross Belmont's mind, the altar keeper on the side couldn't help interrupting his meditation and asked.

Rose Belmont turned to look at the old appearance of the altar keeper, sighed, and said: "You have been fired now, leave here immediately, and go as far away as possible."

After saying that, he walked out of the altar and walked towards the town square.

Hearing Ross Belmont's words, the Altar Keeper was at a loss. Soon he realized that he had been freed from his duties as the Altar Keeper. He could really go to other places to relax as he had thought before.

After spending the rest of his life, he hesitated despite being excited, and his face was even more confused, because he couldn't figure out where he would live or what kind of life he would live after leaving here.

In the past twenty years, the old man, as an outsider, has completely integrated into Hongshi Town. He has become a part of Hongshi Town, even more like his hometown than his hometown. He simply cannot imagine leaving Hongshi Town.

How will Shi Zhenhou live, even if he has enough savings?

After standing in a daze for a moment, when the last relatively intact statue base was completely shattered and made an unusual sound, he also regained consciousness, and then saw him turn around and walk into the small room next to the altar.

, when he walked out after a while, he was wearing a simple leather armor and holding an old spear in his hand. He left the altar and trotted towards the brightly lit town square.

When Ross Belmont arrived at the town square, he saw that the town's guards and militia had been assembled. Without further ado, he directly ordered the captains below to set up defenses outside the town as they had been trained in the past, and at the same time,

The prayer relics of each True God Church stored in the warehouse were taken out and distributed.

These prayer relics come from different true God churches and are religious items worn by the clergy of these churches. Because the clergy wear these objects when praying, some extraordinary power generated by the prayers also penetrates into the objects.

These prayer relics were collected by the Belmont family and the Theresa royal family, and a batch is regularly replaced every five years to avoid the decline in the effectiveness of the relics due to storage and other problems.

In addition, the procedures for replacing sacred objects are also handled by Belmont Castle, and they are sealed and stored through special methods. As long as the seal is released, members of the Belmont family in Belmont Castle and nearby cities will react.

We will organize manpower to come here for support as soon as possible.

The only mission of Red Rock Town now is to prevent the weirdos from Lubeck Town from escaping until other reinforcements arrive.

As for whether the weird thing will not attack Red Stone Town, but take a detour to other places, Ross Belmont is not worried at all, because according to the castle, part of the weird thing is buried in Red Stone Town.

After breaking the ban, the weird body will instinctively go to Red Rock Town to recover that part of the body, so Red Rock Town will be 100% vulnerable to weird attacks.

While ordering the army to set up defenses, Rose Belmont also ordered his officials to immediately gather the old, weak, women and children in the town and arrange for them to leave Red Rock Town by carriage immediately and take refuge in a nearby town.

The residents of the town were all at a loss as to what was going on. Some of them were even wearing pajamas. However, when the usually arrogant officials in the town knocked on their doors one by one, they ordered them in the sternest tone.

Pack your clothes immediately and leave the town to take refuge. No matter how stupid the town residents are, they know that something serious is going to happen.

Coupled with the fact that pairs of guards and militiamen began to set up defenses on the outskirts of the town under the command, no matter how confused they were, they had no intention of asking the reason. One by one, they hurriedly packed their bags, changed their clothes, and picked up the few things they had at home.

Finance left their houses in a panic. Some people didn't even close the door and ran towards the square, for fear of not catching up with the leaving convoy.

In this way, amidst the bursts of noise, the number of residents in the town gradually decreased, and calm returned to the town. A convoy like a fire dragon quickly moved along the dark mountain road towards the nearest town.

On the periphery, various protective fortifications prepared before were erected, and the water tanks behind the fortifications were also filled with water. Some holy objects were thrown into the water, turning the water into a miraculous effect on certain heretical and evil creatures.

Holy water, and the soldiers and militiamen who had received the prayer objects all wore them on their bodies. Even if they had never believed in any religion in the past, at this time they could not help but recite some self-composed prayers in their hearts.

I hope these prayer objects can save their lives when they encounter danger.

At this time, Ross Belmont also put on the traditional armor of the Belmont family, picked up weapons, and came to the front line. His actions also improved the morale of the defense line to a certain extent.
Chapter completed!