Roland quickly estimated the size of the underground cave, which was almost the size of a football field at the bottom, surrounded by steep mountain walls.The fork connecting to this is just in the middle of the mountain wall, and there is a narrow stone ladder next to the hole, which has been extending downward.

“I guess you didn’t cut the ladder,” he crouched down and put the torch close to the ground.Under the reflection of the fire, the traces of the axe engraving on the stone steps are very obvious, and there are still many stone debris and dust in the engraving.

"Certainly not, my lord, the stone steps were already there when we found it," said Carter, shrugging. "I guess this thing has been around for decades."

“Or for hundreds of years,” Anna suddenly said.

"I think so," said the lightning, "and the border town has been established for only seventy years, and it is unlikely that the stone ladder will have anything to do with the locals or the kingdom."

“Has anyone been in the West for hundreds of years?”Carter questioned, "The Greysburgs have not yet been established."

Roland patted the knight on the shoulder, "For 450 years ago, there was a group of forgotten people who were forgotten by history."Then he raised the torch and said, "Come on, let's go down and look."

The soldiers of the First Army had surrounded the bottom of the cave in three or two places, and he took the knight and witch to the stone of divine punishment, and only when he stood at the foot of the stone pillar, could he deeply feel the greatness of the stone.With open arms, less than a tenth of it, one-tenth of it must be raised to be able to see its top, and the tallest purple god-punishment stone is close to thirty meters, almost equivalent to an eight- or nine-story house.

In theory, the stone that can luminate on its own is either radioactive material or fluorescent components, but the light of the divine penalty stone obviously has nothing to do with both - the luminous light of the former comes from the ionization of air caused by the decay of the element itself, and the shorter the half-life, the greater the brightness.According to this brightness, the soldiers who enter first will die of ionizing radiation within a few minutes.The latter needs to be illuminated after being illuminated, and there is no light source deep underground, which is obviously unable to support its continuous cold light.

Roland also noted that although the stone is a prism-like prism common in crystals, the surface does not have a crystallized pattern, but is as clean as flat glass.

“A god-scrapted stone the size of a thumb in the church can sell several golden dragons, and one as big as one... can empty the coffers of the four kingdoms.”Carter couldn’t help but lament.

“Selling the nobles to destroy the witch?”The nightingale looked at him hard.

"Well, I didn't say that," said the chief knight unconsciously.

"It is the first time I have seen the divine stone of this color, should it not be white and transparent," said the lightning, looking at the pillar curiously, "if I take a piece back, is it not necessary to light a candle at night?"

"I would rather light a dozen candles in a sweltering room than use it," said the Nightingale, with her breasts in her arms, "for witches, it is a cage, a shackle, an accomplice of the Church!"If only there were no such damn stones.”

"Well, Sister Nightingale, you won't read a book anyway ..." The little girl licked her lips, picked up a stone from the pick-up, and looked at Roland, "can I bring one back as a booty for adventure?"

Roland nodded, "If you don't hate such a thing."

She picked up the stone in her hand and knocked hard on the corner of the prism, only to hear a crisp sound, the stone broke in response, and the prism did not leave even a trace on it.

The knight couldn’t help but say, “What’s going on... aren’t the stones of God’s punishment all fragile and fragile?”

"Maybe this piece of light is different," the lightning shot off the stone debris in his hand, and touched the dagger from his pocket, and tossed around the prism for a while, but even if the scraping and cutting are used, it is still futile in the end.

Roland felt a little wrong, and he motioned to the nightingale, "You come and try."

The latter nodded, pulled out the revolver, and pulled the trigger directly down the trigger on another prismatic prism.The huge roar suddenly echoed at the bottom of the hole, and the part of the god penalty stone was hit came up with some Mars.After the smoke was gone, a group of people walked over, but saw that the bullet only left a shallow mark on the surface of the stone.

This means that the light in terms of strength, it has exceeded the homogeneous steel plate.

“Is the gun useless?”Carter frowned, “How did the church cut it down and polish it?”

No one can answer this question, and this is not the same as everyone's impression on weekdays.

At least Roland had broken the lock of divine punishment with bricks—for example, the one tied to Anna’s neck, which could turn a crystal clear stone into a pool of white powder in just two or three.

Anna, who had been silent, suddenly said, "Your Highness, do you remember the treasure map drawn by Philin Hilt in the morning morning?"

“The treasure map?”Roland nodded.He vaguely remembers that a triangle on the drawing occupied most of the area, and the three vertices pointed to the holy city of Taqila, the hidden forest stone tower and the end of the northern slope mountain... and so on, the foot of the North Slope Mountain?Suddenly a flash of lightning in his head, “Is it?”

"I think that point is not pointing to the north slope of the mine, but here--" Anna said slowly. "This is a cavern that contains a large number of sacred stones."

...

After a careful search, the cave found no other valuable discoveries except for the large and impenetrable stones.

Not to mention ancient books or remains, even the tools for cutting stone ladders have not been left, which is very strange.According to the current level of technology, if you want to build a ladder on a steep stone wall, it is definitely a huge and arduous project.Things like accidental fall and loss of tools should be common.But the scene except for the stone or the stone, as if they had cleaned the cave thoroughly before the evacuation.

When Roland returned to the office, he called the book and retracted the drawings of the dawned knights on the "phantom book".

Similar to the pattern in the memory, the southernmost point does fall at the foot of the North Slope.

If Anna is right, is this a map left by the church when it comes to finding new stones of divine punishment?But why did they spend a lot of effort to cut out the stone ladder to the bottom of the hole, and then abandoned everything?If the church had built a border church 450 years ago, I am afraid that today's border town would have been completely different - according to the price and use of the stone of God's punishment, this mine does not look like a resource that can be discarded at will.

Now the holy city of Takira is an unreachable forbidden area, perhaps these answers can only be known after going to the stone tower ... or never.(Unfinished.)