Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery.

Chapter 293 The Church of the Ancient Sun God
The pirate group of "Vice Admiral Iceberg" not only has Edwina as a Sequence 5, but also has three Sequence 6s, but this is the strength of the "Pirate General".

Generally speaking, in a large pirate group, only the captain is a Sequence 6, and at most the first mate is also a Sequence 6. It is rare for a third Sequence 6 to appear, because if that happens, the captain will feel insecure.

But the "Sword of Dawn" pirate group in front of Edwina was an exception, with three Sequence 6s.

Blue Walls, the first mate of the Golden Dream, said, "No wonder they wiped out three large pirate groups in just two or three weeks at sea. It turns out it's because of their sheer strength."

Edwina nodded slowly: "Be careful of their attacks."

It is still not ruled out that "Captain Gal" wanted to assassinate "Vice Admiral Iceberg" on this island after making sufficient preparations. After all, eliminating a "pirate general" is the fastest way to become a pirate general.

……

On the other hand, the exploration of the "Sword of Dawn" pirate group continues.

Boatswain Salina sighed, "Vice Admiral Iceberg is very beautiful, and...it reminds me of my grammar teacher."

Crew member Boris couldn't help himself and tore off the tape on his mouth and asked, "Did you go to school?"

Salina rolled her eyes at him: "Why? Can't I go to school?"

"I'm just a little surprised and feel..." Having said that, Boris quickly put the tape back on because if he continued, Salina would hit someone.

Odysseus, who was walking in front, smiled and said, "I heard that Vice Admiral Iceberg's path is like this. He likes to be a teacher to others."

Salina was stunned: "Isn't she afraid of being beaten?"

Second mate Rupert laughed and said, "How many people can defeat her on the sea?"

Salina nodded: "That's right."

Then she realized: "Captain, how did you know the extraordinary path of 'Admiral Iceberg'?"

"Look at their banner," Odysseus said. "It has symbols of a book and an eye. If these two symbols appear at the same time, it basically points to the 'Reader' path."

Salina suddenly understood: "So our flag also has the eye symbol, but no book symbol, representing the 'Peeper' path.

"So, the Elemental Dawn's flag also has eyes, and the Mysterious Queen is also a Beyonder of the Mysterious Peeper path?"

Odysseus smiled and said, "That's right."

At this time, Bazel in front parted the lush vegetation in front, and a ruin that was almost covered with green appeared in front of them.

At this time they had found the east side of the island, and "Vice Admiral Iceberg" and her crew should have landed from this direction.

Odysseus said: "It seems that their target is indeed not this relic.

"Since we're here, let's go inside and take a look and take a rest."

The ruins are also full of vegetation, but fortunately, previous adventurers have cleared out many roads.

Everyone strolled in the ruins, feeling the ancient atmosphere here.

Soon they discovered that the city was tilted, as if it was built on a mound.

After passing two ancient streets, they found two buildings that were relatively well-preserved, and it seemed that previous explorers had cleared this place and used it as a camp.

Odysseus and the others entered one of the ruins and took a look. "Judging from the architectural style, this should be a relic from the Third Age."

Beavis, the third mate who was the only one of the crew members who had done research on this, said, "What a pity, those markings and murals are no longer recognizable. Otherwise, we could have further determined who these relics belonged to."

As they were talking, the group arrived at the third floor of the building.

This is a relatively high place around here, and you can overlook the entire street.

Odysseus saw that many buildings had a distinct asymmetrical style in appearance.

Beavis also noticed this: "Are there buildings from the Fourth Epoch here?"

"It looks like a city built in the Third Age, but still inhabited during the Fourth Age," Odysseus said. He then looked around and said, "Did you notice? There's no church here."

After Odysseus said this, everyone noticed that there was indeed no place that looked like a church in the ruins.

This is a bit strange. Whether it is a city from the Third or Fourth Age, there should be a church.

Continue going up, and when you reach the top floor, you can already see over the treetops and see most of the island.

Odysseus noticed that the ruins were not built on a mound, but were surrounded by a plain with only a mountain in the distance.

The low-lying part of the ruins seemed to be sunk into a pit.

Odysseus suddenly understood: "It's not that this ruins are high and low, but that part of it is buried underground."

Rupert also joined in the conversation: "Was there an earthquake?"

Odysseus looked around and said, "It doesn't look like it. If there was an earthquake, there should be many buildings around here that have collapsed completely."

But the situation before them was that although these ruins were covered with vegetation, most of them had not suffered serious collapse.

Third Officer Beavis was a little confused: "Why did this happen?"

Odysseus didn't continue discussing the issue. He simply pointed in a direction and said, "According to the urban design style of the Third Age, the church should be in that direction, and it's also buried underground."

Salina looked at the direction the captain pointed and said, "That's the direction Vice Admiral Iceberg and his men were heading just now."

Everyone looked at each other and immediately realized that the target of "Lieutenant General Iceberg" and his men was most likely the buried church.

They landed from the east side and their search speed was slower than that of the Sword of Dawn. They might have come to this ruin, determined the location of the church, and then set out again.

The crew members were not surprised by this. Generally speaking, a church is not only a place for prayer, but can also be regarded as the "extraordinary center" of a city.

Although there was no systematic official Beyonder system in the Fourth Epoch, the Beyonders of the Church were stationed in the church at that time.

Therefore, the church is a very important existence in the ruins, and there is a high probability of discovering extraordinary characteristics or magical items there.

"Lieutenant General Iceberg" must have obtained a clue and the approximate location of the church, which is why he is conducting today's exploration.

"Let's take a break." Odysseus sat down on a fallen stone pillar. "Noi, help me divine the approximate location of the extraordinary creature I'm looking for."

Noy agreed, took off his pendant, closed his eyes and silently recited the divination, then opened his eyes and saw that the pendant was spinning slowly.

She said, "The divination failed."

"It seems to have the ability to counter divination." Odysseus smiled helplessly: "We can only rely on touch."

If you really can't find it, you have no choice but to write to the "Mysterious Queen" and ask her if she has any help.

Odysseus thought for a moment before saying, "You guys take a rest here. I suddenly thought of a way. Let's try it."

As he spoke, he flew into the air with the "Flying Scroll" and took out the "Pituitary Gland of the Trickery Pegasus" from the "Wilderness of Knowledge".

Although the Sequence 5 level does not have a very strong "Extraordinary Aggregation" power, the "Shining Star Tree" will definitely be attracted by the "Pituitary Gland of the Trickery Pegasus".

Because it can also complete the promotion by devouring such main materials, so for such an extraordinary creature, the main material of another potion has great appeal.

Odysseus was flying low over the woods, holding the extraordinary material in his hand, while carefully observing his surroundings.

Suddenly, the "pituitary gland" in Odysseus's hand flew to the ground by itself. He smiled. It was obvious that the "Shining Star Tree" was around and was manipulating the "pituitary gland" to move closer to it.

Odysseus let the Pituitary Gland fly in front of him, and he followed closely behind.

Suddenly, the "pituitary gland" fell straight down. Odysseus chased it and did not find anything abnormal until the "pituitary gland" fell to the ground.

Odysseus realized that it must be the "Shining Star Tree" that sensed the danger and gave up the "pituitary gland".

Odysseus was not surprised by this. Even if it was just a "tree", at this level, it had a "brain".

Maybe after realizing the danger, it will deliberately throw away the "pituitary gland" to make it difficult for Odysseus to find it.

Odysseus put away the "Pituitary Gland of the Trickery Pegasus". For him, it was enough to find the approximate location of the "Shining Star Tree".

He returned to mid-air again, put on the "Hand of Judgement" and "Harvesting Gloves", took out several "Explosive Scrolls" from his briefcase, and threw them one by one towards the forest around his feet.

Boom~Boom~
After hearing the explosion, the crew members who were resting in the ruins went to check quickly. Seeing that it was the captain throwing the scroll, they sat back and rested again.

They were already familiar with the captain's scroll and were not surprised. Since the captain had not ordered them to help, there was no need for them to actively look for it.

Lieutenant General Iceberg and others who had just found the location of the church in the distance immediately became alert.

What happened? Did the Argonaut fire at the island?

Vice Admiral Iceberg quickly flew up to investigate. After a moment's observation, she returned to the ground with a strange expression on her face. "It's Garr hunting with the Scroll."

"Scroll?" Second Mate Orpheus thought he had misheard. "Could a scroll be so powerful?"

But he immediately realized that his question seemed to be questioning the captain, so he changed his tone and said, "It seems that this 'Captain Gar's' scroll is a bit special."

Edwina nodded: "It is indeed special."

Then she ordered, "First mate, lead your men to climb up to the treetops. If Gar approaches, immediately issue an alert. The rest of you continue digging."

Those scrolls are very powerful. If Gal throws a few of them around in the air, it will definitely cause a lot of casualties.

……

When Odysseus threw the fifth scroll, he saw a vine with dense branches and leaves suddenly "stand up" from the big tree and "run" behind the big tree to avoid the explosion.

That's it!

Odysseus used the "Travel Ring" to travel to the big tree and punched out with his right hand wearing the "Harvesting Gloves".

Click~
The towering tree was cut in half, and the "vines" that had been hiding behind it were also blown away.

In mid-air, the shape of the vine changed and turned into a small tree. The tree had star-like patterns connected together. When it was knocked away, it flickered like stars blinking.

The roots of this tree are more like tentacles. After it lands on the ground, it moves briskly on the ground.

That is the "Shining Star Tree".

The vines before were just a disguise for the "Shining Star Tree".

When Odysseus saw the stars twinkling on the tree, he suddenly had an illusion that the light around him suddenly dimmed and night was about to come early.

The "Shining Star Tree" suddenly seemed very far away from Odysseus, as far away as the stars in the sky.

This should be some kind of illusion. Odysseus used the "Harvesting Gloves" to ignite walls of fire around him, instantly setting the surrounding dense woods on fire.

The fire illuminated the surroundings, and although the "Shining Star Tree" was an extraordinary creature, it was still a tree after all. After seeing the fire, it immediately used its "roots" to escape.

The "sense of night" and "sense of distance" suddenly disappeared.

Odysseus raised his hand and summoned a group of fire crows, which bombarded the "Shining Star Tree".

The starlight around the "Shining Star Tree" flickered, and it used its extraordinary ability to blow gusts of wind around it, which always blew away the fire crows when they approached it.

Odysseus once again used the "Travel Ring" to appear behind the "Shimmering Star Tree" and raised the "Hand of Judgment": "Imprison!" "Death!"

He punched out and knocked the "Shining Star Tree" away again.

Because of the lesson from the last hunt, Odysseus rushed forward, stepped on the "Shining Star Tree" with one foot, and punched it again with the "Harvesting Gloves".

Harvest!

Just break the tree in two.

The "Shining Star Tree" stopped moving, but Odysseus stood by, ready to strike again at any time.

It was not until the stars on the "Shining Star Tree" gathered towards one position that Odysseus knew that the other party was indeed dead.

So the whole tree was placed into the "wilderness of knowledge".

Flying into the air again, Odysseus used two "Wind Scrolls" to put out the fire in the woods. Returning to the ruins where he had just rested, Odysseus said to everyone, "I'll treat everyone to a barbecue tonight!"

Salina immediately said, "Okay!"

Odysseus once roasted meat for everyone to eat. The taste made Salina drool just thinking about it now.

Knowing that the captain had hunted successfully, everyone smiled and agreed to do the job. One said he would cut the meat, another said he would make the fire. After that, the crew chatted and laughed while resting for more than half an hour.

Anyway, there was nothing important to do today, so everyone searched the surrounding area as if they were on a picnic. After hunting another extraordinary creature, they started hunting ordinary animals.

They were all extraordinary people, and hunting ordinary animals was easy for them. They quickly killed some pheasants, rabbits, a wild boar and a deer.

Everyone started their return journey with a great harvest, but Odysseus couldn't just go back like that, so he led the crew back to the ship, probably in the direction of the church.

Their ship was indeed heading in this direction and could return from here, so it would not arouse suspicion.

A group of people were walking back, chatting and laughing, when Odysseus, who was at the front, suddenly stopped and looked up, saying, "Are those the subordinates of Vice Admiral Iceberg?"

A few dozen meters ahead, Blue Walls, the first mate of the Golden Dream, parted the treetops and jumped down from above. "What are you doing here?"

"We're going back to the ship," Odysseus said. "Shall I leave you two pheasants?"

But he obviously had no intention of staying. Before the other party could answer, he paused and asked, "What are you doing in the tree?"

Blue thought: It’s just to avoid you flying over and throwing the scroll.

But in the end, he just said calmly: "Stand guard."

Then Blue pointed in a direction: "You leave from that direction."

The members of "Sword of Dawn" all guessed that the church should be located behind Blue, and at this time "Vice Admiral Iceberg" should be leading the crew to dig the church.

Just as the crew was about to leave, Odysseus suddenly said, "I'm curious, is that church the church of the 'Ancient Sun God'? Or the church of the 'True Creator'?"

Blue was stunned for a moment before saying, "This is not something you should know."

This made the crew of the "Argo" drop their prey and glare at the first mate of the "Golden Dream".

Out of courtesy, they could go in the direction Blue pointed out to make things easier for them.

But Brudy's answer was a bit too much. He could have said he didn't know, or wasn't sure, or even refused to answer, but he said "it's not your business." This answer was too arrogant.

Odysseus raised his hand, telling everyone not to act rashly. He sneered and said, "Then I will wait on the sea for a while, and then go to the church to take a look after you leave.

"You guys are so unprofessional, you can't find anything important."

Blue Walls clenched his fists, and the muscles in his arms suddenly bulged as if they were full of strength.

Odysseus put on the black glove again. Blu was stunned for a moment, then immediately said in a relatively polite tone, "I'm sorry, I'm not very clear about your question just now."

He is a "craftsman", and the Sequence 7 of this path is "appraiser". The moment Odysseus put on the gloves just now, he realized that it was a Sequence 5 level seal.

Pirates may be cruel, arrogant, or immoral, but they know the times.

Odysseus also put on a smile and said, "Okay, I won't bother you anymore."

"Wait a moment." At this time, Vice Admiral Iceberg parted the dense bushes on the ground and walked out from behind. "Since you are so interested, let's go and take a look."

Not only Basel and others were stunned, but Blue was also stunned.

This invitation was somewhat hasty, or perhaps according to the rules among pirates, one pirate group would hardly take the initiative to invite another pirate group to join when exploring ruins.

Unless you encounter some unsolvable problems during the exploration.

Odysseus smiled slightly and agreed: "Okay."

Then he said to the crew, "You go back first, I'll go take a look."

As he spoke, Odysseus took off his gloves.

The crew did not go back immediately. Basel asked Beavis to take Noy and Boris to send all the prey back, and the rest of the members waited here.

Odysseus did not force it, and threw a bottle of mosquito repellent essential oil to the crew, then came to Vice Admiral Iceberg and said: "I often explore ruins, maybe I can help you.

"If a certain amount of spoils is obtained due to the help I provided, I also have the right to share the spoils.

"If I didn't provide any help, I wouldn't take any spoils."

Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina nodded: "Okay."

Then she said to Blue, "You go down too. Orpheus will keep watch for you."

The three of them turned back together and after walking for a minute or two, they arrived at the tunnel dug by the subordinates of "Lieutenant General Iceberg".

The top of the church is still exposed on the ground. After digging up the top of the church, you can enter from here.

Vice Admiral Iceberg didn't rush Odysseus into the tunnel. Instead, he asked, "Why do you say this is the church of the 'Ancient Sun God' or the 'True Creator'?"

Odysseus replied, “In the ruins just now, there are buildings from the Third Age and also from the Fourth Age.

"This shows that this city existed during the Third Age. During that time, only the 'Ancient Sun God' dared to openly build a church in the northern and southern continents.

"During the Fourth Epoch, neither the Six Gods nor the Hades, or the God of Death, would build a church here."

At that time, the six gods had their own kingdoms. The only one who could possibly build a church on the sea was the "Lord of Storms", whose kingdom was not here at that time.

The "God of Death" only built churches in the southern continent, and the architecture in the ruins was obviously not of the southern continent's style.

At that time, perhaps only the "True Creator" would build a church in such a place.

Vice Admiral Iceberg nodded and said, "It seems you have extensive knowledge of the occult. Please go down."

Without thinking much, Odysseus came to the tunnel. After the top of the church was dug out, there was a huge, downward hole in front of Odysseus.

He waved to the pirate who handed him the rope, then used a "flying scroll" and flew down himself.

Although the church was buried in the soil, it was almost undamaged. It was pitch black inside, with only the braziers set up by Lieutenant General Iceberg's subordinates and the lanterns in their hands providing light.

Odysseus noticed that the pirates were searching the church separately with lanterns, wondering what they were looking for.
He landed on the ground, followed by Edwina and Blue. Only then did Vice Admiral Iceberg say, "Just now during the exploration, someone triggered the extraordinary mechanism here and closed the portal leading down.

"Jordson and several other members are still on the lower floor. Blue, find the mechanism to open the passage as soon as possible."

Blue is a "craftsman" and is familiar with the mechanism. Just now, "Vice Admiral Iceberg" took the second mate Orpheus to replace the first mate Blue and asked him to find the mechanism. He happened to hear Odysseus's question.

Odysseus sounded like he knew a lot about ancient ruins, so Vice Admiral Iceberg decided to bring Odysseus along to see if he could be of any help.

Then Vice Admiral Iceberg said to Odysseus, "You can look around and see if you can find any clues."

Odysseus nodded: "Okay."

He thought that although "Lieutenant General Iceberg" looked cold, he was actually very rigorous in his work. After repeatedly confirming that he had rich knowledge of mysticism in the tunnel, he came down to explain the problems they encountered.

Because when they were up there, "Lieutenant General Iceberg" had limited manpower, and the third mate's life or death was still uncertain.

However, Odysseus was able to call on his crew to attack Vice Admiral Iceberg and others.

After coming underground, Odysseus was the only one left, and most of the subordinates of "Vice Admiral Iceberg" were here. Even if Odysseus had any ideas, he did not dare to act rashly.

Vice Admiral Iceberg took his first mate Blue to the passage. Odysseus did not follow them, but first took a look inside the hall. There was no statue or sign there!
Odysseus frowned. Theoretically, if it was the church of the "ancient sun god", there should be a huge cross here.

If this is the church of the "True Creator", there should be an upside-down person hanging on the cross, but there is nothing there. How can he judge?

Odysseus thought for a moment and said to the pirate beside him, "Let me use the lantern."

Vice Admiral Iceberg also sent two pirates to follow Odysseus.

Without waiting for the pirate to answer, Odysseus picked up the lantern and flew up again. As he expected, there were some incomplete murals on the top of the tall church.

The two pirates below could only stare blankly. How could they follow the "guest" as he flew up into the sky?
Odysseus, holding a lantern, saw that one of the murals depicted a tall and majestic mountain, with a majestic cross on the top of the mountain.

He immediately made a judgment: this is the church of the "ancient sun god".

After the fall of the "Ancient Sun God", Adam probably took over here.

At that time, the divinity of the "ancient sun god" had awakened in Adam's body. Odysseus guessed that he removed the huge cross in order to prevent the believers' prayers from being directed directly to "God" and make "God" more active.

Odysseus fell back to the ground again and also looked at the entrance of the passage.

Soon he discovered that there were some occult characters around the entrance of the passage. These characters were not "ancient giant language" or "ancient dragon language", but a kind of occult symbols that Odysseus had never seen before.

However, he soon figured out that these symbols should be those used by ancient humans, because some of them are quite similar to modern mystical symbols.

Odysseus guessed that these should be some symbols commonly used in the Third Age with similar functions to "Ancient Giant Script" and "Ancient Dragon Script", but later because the truly advanced magic circles were lost, these symbols were simplified into the current mystical symbols.

Although this was the first time Odysseus had seen the symbols at the entrance of the passage, their locations were similar to the corresponding symbols of the ruins of Abraham's family and some secret doors in the "underwater city".

Based on his previous exploration experience, Odysseus could basically guess the location of the mechanism.

Then, Odysseus guessed that this design was still a common structure until the Quaternary Period.

Later, the effect of the magic circle seemed to be weakened intentionally, and this mechanism that used the magic circle to switch gradually faded out of people's sight.

Seeing Blue still measuring the ground and walls around the passage, he said, "Let me give it a try."

Blu was stunned and glanced at Vice Admiral Iceberg. Edwina thought for a moment before saying, "Please."

Odysseus took out spiritual materials and a soft brush and began to draw a magic circle on the wall.

This magic circle is similar to the one used in the "Underwater City" before. It is equivalent to bypassing the combination lock in the mechanism and setting a new combination lock by itself.

His movements were very smooth and natural, and in just over half a minute, he had drawn a small magic circle.

This made many of the surrounding pirates gulp. They couldn't help but wonder how many lessons and practice it took to be able to draw so quickly and so well.
Lieutenant General Iceberg was stunned for a few seconds before saying, "This formation is very strange. I have never seen many of the occult symbols used."

The magic circle drawn by Odysseus uses the "Gal Rune".

According to the conclusions drawn from his previous research, no matter what kind of mystical characters are used, the functions of the written magic circles are not much different, and except for the key positions of the magic circles, these symbols can be used universally.

The other crew members were all stunned. They didn’t expect that the captain didn’t even recognize these symbols!
For a moment, they even felt that this was a bit scary.

Odysseus simply smiled and said, "I have studied magic circles for many years."

He thought to himself: If you add the "time acceleration" in the "Knowledge Wilderness", it's about 20 years. Later, I can say that I started studying magic circles at the age of three.

Vice Admiral Iceberg just nodded slowly without saying anything, but Odysseus noticed that the look in her eyes when she looked at him was no longer as cold as before.

Odysseus put away the brush and spiritual materials, then injected spirituality into the magic circle.

Click~
The mechanism was immediately activated, and the downward passage was opened. However, Third Officer Johnson and other crew members did not wait on the downward stairs.

Blue said: "They may be exploring to see if there is another exit."

"There should be some danger down there." Edwina said, "Blue, you stay here. Daniels, take five crew members and come with me."

Then she looked at Odysseus and said, "Gar, you are not one of my crew members. I cannot command you, but I hope you can go with me."

"No problem." Odysseus smiled and said, "I won't refuse the spoils that come to my door."

He seemed to be reminding Edwina to remember the previous agreement about the spoils, and really wanted her to feel at ease with him.

Because at this time, it would be a bit strange if Odysseus did not put forward any conditions.

The situation was urgent, so after a little preparation, a few people went to the next level together.

When you get to the bottom of the stairs, there is a long corridor with rooms on both sides and a horizontal corridor. It is a fairly large space.

Because there might be unknown dangers, I couldn't shout and could only search each corridor one by one.

After searching for a while, Odysseus said, "I don't think we need to look anymore. We've been operating on this floor for so long. If they were here, they would have heard us long ago."

Edwina nodded and immediately ordered, "Go to the next level."

Then, as they walked forward, Edwina asked like Kaodis, "Do you know the structure of the Third Age Church?"

“I know,” Odysseus said, “Up to the temple, down to the tomb.

"The layer below should be the tomb."

If there is any danger, it is basically on the next floor.

(End of this chapter)