"Any surprises?" Andrina asked softly, looking at Thorne who frowned at the parchment and pondered.

"Why does the text written in Dragon Language look so awkward, it feels like it was scratched by a cat's claws." Thorne, who was not in a channel, stared at the text recorded by Anderina and expressed his doubts.

The last time he was at the tower in the town of Waterfall, he had also seen the words recorded by the dragonborn lord in the dragon language, and he was puzzled by the characters that looked awkward.

However, since he did not master the dragon language at that time, he simply thought that the handwriting of the dead dragonborn lord was too bad.

Now, seeing the dragon language recorded by Anderina again, this puzzlement resurfaced from the heart.

"…"

After listening to Thorne's complaints, Andrina glared at him helplessly, her eyes flashed, and she pointed at the burly figure behind her: "Look at the palms of our paladin teammates, and you'll understand why."

The paladin Peo, who was lying on the gun inexplicably, immediately stretched out his palm composed of one thumb and three claws, and after looking for a long time, a series of question marks appeared on the lizard's head.

"The so-called dragon language is naturally created by the giant dragon itself, and the size of the dragon family gradually increases with age. Just because of the flexibility of their small claws, let them use quills to write words, Wouldn't it be too embarrassing for them?"

Malvasia glanced at the paladin who was still staring at her palm, and explained to Thorne and Kutaig with a smile.

"What do you mean, when they record things, they never use a pen to record things, but scratch them out directly on the stone with their small claws."

The suddenly realized orc swordsman said his guess: "That's why the words they handed down look like they were scratched by their claws."

"You are the one who scratched it out with your small claws. Although my dragon claws are very sharp, I swear in the name of the **** of justice, I have never used it to do such a barbaric act, I am a civilized dragonborn. "

Paladin Peo walked over to Kutaig, bumped him with the shoulder, and explained to him seriously.

"I didn't expect you to be able to respond to the root cause of the problem so quickly, Kutaig, what is your intelligence attribute?" At this time, Malvasia turned her gaze to the orc swordsman and asked inadvertently.

"...10 points." Kutaig looked embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "I originally had 14 points of intelligence, but because of the natural punishment of the orc race, in order to gain 4 points of extra strength, I can only endure 4 points of intelligence. Attribute penalty."

"Compared to the intelligence of most people who only have seven or eight points, you are already above the officer level in the orc race." After Malvasa finished speaking, she turned her eyes to the paladin Peo and said with a smile: "Then, What about you? Dragonborn races shouldn't have intellectual penalties, right?"

"Uh... Of course not, my intelligence attribute is 11..." Paladin Peo stretched out his claws and scratched his scales embarrassingly, but still answered the question honestly.

"What about you? Half-elf ranger." Then, Malvasia shifted her smiling pale red eyes to Thorne.

"Ms. Malvasia, intellectual attributes represent a person's exuberant curiosity, rich knowledge, and learning ability, and have little to do with a person's IQ, so it's not what you think it is."

Thorne looked at his intelligence of only 12 points, and explained to the goblin wizard with a calm and serious look in the eyes of the sorceress.

"Master Qingchen, do you think my analysis is correct?" Suddenly, Thorne noticed the indifferent Master Qingchen again and immediately asked for his opinion.

"...Yes, little friend Thorne's analysis is very correct." Master Qingchen didn't react for a while. When he reacted, he first glanced at his intelligence attribute at 13 points subconsciously, and then smiled and nodded in response. .

"Actually, I didn't say anything, I just wanted to satisfy my curiosity and see how excited you are." The goblin wizard glanced at the Druid behind him, and then brought the topic back:

"Okay, let's get down to business, everyone has heard the message of this ancient dragon-born wizard, although it is only a simple last word, and he died directly at the critical moment of recording, but we can still analyze this dragon from it. The reason for the destruction of the holy city of the race."

"It was the five-colored evil dragon, the followers of the evil dragon, and the devils of the Hell of Bato who caused the destruction of this holy city." Thorne expressed the doubts in everyone's heart according to the recorded text:

"Furthermore, the mastermind behind the evil dragons and the devils, as well as the old enemy of the dragon-born race and the metal dragons, is only Tiamat, the **** of evil dragons entrenched in the Hell of Baator."

"So, I am now very suspicious of whether there is really a temple of Tiamat, the **** of dragons, in the depths of this secret passage." Malvasa said directly after listening to Thorne's analysis. inference:

"Just now, Thorne also mentioned to us that the breath of demons was sensed here, so it is very likely that the power of demons still remains here."

"That's when we go down together and purify all these demons." The paladin said before the broken dragonborn corpse.

As soon as he finished speaking, he took out a silver holy emblem, and first placed it on his chest and bowed gently to the corpse.

Immediately afterwards, in the bursts of magical light, the decayed dragonborn corpse turned into a pile of inconspicuous ashes, and was finally wrapped in a piece of cloth by the paladin Peo, and solemnly put it away.

"What do you think?" Malvasia did not refute the words of the paladin, but turned her attention to the few people who had not spoken, asking for their opinions.

Thorne noticed that Master Qingchen, Kutaig, and Andrina beside him all turned their attention to himself, as if asking him to make a decision, so he directly said his thoughts:

"I am afraid that the ruins of the ancient times have long been forgotten by the world. Otherwise, they would not have been hidden here so quietly for so long. Since they have all come, it is natural to go in and find out."

"Then let's go. When this is over, I have to go back to Horn Town as soon as possible to see how the batch of little goblins that were planted last year look like." Malvasa waved her hand and signaled everyone to prepare to leave.

"Ms. Malvasia, did you plant those little goblins yourself?" As soon as the goblin wizard's voice fell, the paladin Peo turned to look at her in surprise, feeling a little incredible, and blurted out subconsciously.

"…"

Thorne glanced at Andrina beside him, just in time to meet her gaze, and then the two smiled helplessly at each other.

For the paladin in front of him, Thorne thought that the first impression he gave him was serious, rigid, serious and stubborn.

But after these two days of contact, after everyone got acquainted, he finally found that the paladin of the God of Justice had a bit of... sullenness.

"When you have time, find a girlfriend, don't deny yourself. The world is so big, there will always be other races who will discover your true inner beauty and fall in love with you."

Malvasia didn't get angry when she heard the reckless voice of the paladin, but smiled lightly and said to him with a sincere tone.

"Really?" The paladin Peo, who was unaware of the slip of the tongue, heard the words, his eyes lit up, he touched the top of his crown composed of small horn-like scales, and stared at the goblin wizard.

"Of course, there have been many enviable love stories between ogres, trolls or goblins in our emerald fields.

After all, the appearance association race actually only occupies a very small part of the continent. So, little lizard, don't be discouraged, you still have hope of finding your true love. "Malvasa looked at the curious paladin, smiled and comforted.

Thorne glanced at the paladin, secretly glad that he didn't choose any strange race, and then ignored the crowd, and took the lead and walked towards the depths of the secret path with Andersina who held back her smile.

"Brother, I think you should accept your fate. For me, women only affect the speed at which I draw my sword."

Kutaig walked up to the paladin, gave him a sympathetic look, then reached out and patted his shoulder, dropped a word, and chased after the goblin wizard.

"I don't need to practice sword-drawing." Paladin Peo muttered depressedly, took steps, and caught up.

Under the leadership of Thorne, everyone walked along the dark secret road for nearly half an hour without seeing the bottom.

While walking, Thorne suddenly stopped.

I saw him take a look at the growing luminous flora around him, and then said to Andrina beside him, "Did you feel that the surrounding air is slowly getting damp."

"I feel it." Andrina pondered for a while, as if remembering something, and said to Thorne: "It seems that there may really be the temple of Tiamat, the **** of dragons, ahead."

"Why so sure?" Thorne looked at Andrina.

"Because in the main material plane, almost all of Tiamat's temples are built in natural caves, especially those dragon dens that have been dead for a long time. As we go deeper, we have already felt the flow of fresh air, which is Said we had a good chance of reaching a huge natural cave," Andrina explained to him.

"There is another possibility." Malvasa, who came closer, glanced at the scabbard long sword hanging on Thorne's waist, her expression was a little dignified:

"As the secret temple of Tiamat, especially the most prominent large-scale temples, there is usually a permanent gate to the otherworld that leads to the first layer of Avernas, the Hell of Baator."

"It's not that serious." Thorne looked into the depths of the passage: "If there were, I'm afraid the devils here would have already flooded."

"You forgot the dragonborn wizard who died at the door?" Malvasa reminded Thorne.

"You mean that the gate to the other world in the depths of the temple has been sealed?" Thorne immediately understood what the other party meant, but was still a little puzzled: "Then why does my weapon still sense the breath of demons."

"I think it's better to go in and check it out instead of guessing randomly here." At this time, the impatient paladin took the lead and walked towards the secret passage.

"Be careful of the trap!" Thorne looked at the paladin who had already set off, frowned slightly, and reminded him out of good intentions.

Because it is now approaching the sphere of influence of the temple, he does not think there are any traps or unknown guards here, so he reminds him subconsciously.

"thump!"

Sure enough, not long after Thorne's words fell, the paladin who strode forward accidentally fell into a pit full of rusted steel needles, and the wolf howling followed, echoing embarrassingly in the secret passage.

"..." Kutaig immediately ran over to help when he heard Peo yelling.

Seeing Kutaig dragging the embarrassed paladin up from the pit, Thorne walked over and pulled a rusted steel needle from the opponent's butt, and said helplessly:

"You should be glad that this is a trap in the ancient times. Otherwise, your body will be completely corroded by this long-defunct strong acid. I really don't understand how you survived until now. Let me lead the way."

"It's okay, will you get tetanus like this?" Kutaig patted the dust on the paladin and asked.

"No problem, I didn't break the defense, what's the tetanus, and I'm a paladin, and I'm born with the ability to remove diseases." The depressed paladin didn't care, and followed the pace of Thorne together with Kutaig .

In this way, under the leadership of Thorne, everyone came all the way to the temple in the depths of the secret passage.

"Thorn, I feel a breath here that is very similar to the Emerald River." Andrina looked at the deep darkness and the deep passage around, and told him her feelings.

"If you say that, there must be a secret passage to the surface hidden here. When I have time, I will investigate it carefully." Thorne secretly remembered this sentence in his heart, and then began to look at the surrounding environment.

In the entire wide hall, apart from the dust covered with snow, the most conspicuous is the Tiamat sculpture in the center of the hall, and the frescoes dominated by Tiamat on the walls.

In the frescoes, Tiamat, the **** of dragons, is surrounded by numerous male consorts and worshipped by countless humans, demihumans, and humanoids.

In the doctrine of the dragon god, Tiamat is the only being powerful enough to resist the gods and subvert all tyranny. So all followers of the Dragon God are working hard and looking forward to the day when their Dragon Queen will expel the gods from the Prime Material Plane and unite the kingdoms under the Dragon God's rule.

"Would you like to destroy this statue?" Thorne looked at the statue of Tiamat, remembered the scene in Twin Towers, and told everyone what he thought.

"If you want the town of Waterfall to be brushed by the dragons as a novice dungeon, do whatever you want. By the way, Tiamat, the **** of dragons, is the most vengeful, and this is obviously a large temple. As long as If you dare to destroy it, you will be immediately sensed by the other party."

Malvasia didn't quite understand why Thorne was keen to destroy the statue, but she still reminded him with a solemn expression.

"Forget it." Thorne lost interest immediately after hearing this.

"There is another secret door here." At this time, Kutaig, who was carefully inspecting the temple, appeared from behind the statue and told everyone what he found.

So a few of them rushed over immediately.

"I sensed the demons in this stone gate. However, based on the degree of reaction of the weapon, the strength should not be that strong." Thorne, who walked to the stone gate, clenched his sword hilt, closed his eyes and pondered, saying Come up with your own ideas.

"This is a stone door sealed by magic, but people outside can open it." Malvasa walked to the stone door, feeling the mark of the magic rune, and said, "It was carved with dragon claws, it looks like Probably left by the dead dragonborn wizard."

"My animal companion sensed the scent of the jewelry inside. I suspect that this is the secret room where the wealth dedicated to Tiamat by the believers is stored." At this time, Master Qingchen, who had always remained silent, answered.

"Then open it. A large temple left over from ancient times must have unimaginable wealth." Thorne pondered for a while and replied.

"But, think about it clearly, there may also be a door to another world leading to Baator's hell. Are you sure you want to open it?" Malvasa reminded again kindly.

"If the gate to another world in ancient times is really not damaged, it is impossible for the devils to break through this stone gate that has been banned, so I still recommend opening it." Thorne thought for a while, insisting on his own. the opinion of.

"What do you mean?" Malvasia no longer discouraged, but turned her attention to other people and asked for their opinions.

"I can sense the evil in it. As a paladin, it is my duty to eliminate evil." Paladin Peo took the lead in expressing his point of view.

"I have no opinion." Master Qingchen smiled and shook his head, not caring.

"Alright then, come here, little lizard, raise your long sword and cut it down at this rune, the restriction on this stone gate is almost broken." Seeing this, Malvasa directly instructed the paladin.