I draw a card first

Chapter 19 Undercurrents in the City

While observing the reliefs above, Ivan walked step by step along the steps and approached the interior of the temple.

At the end of the steps is a small room with an open-air patio above it, and a small altar of three to four meters square is quietly placed in the center.

"Is this the place where the power of faith without a master gathers?"

Walking around the dark green stone altar with a little jade texture, Aiwen touched it and found that the material was actually warm, and it felt quite good.

After satisfying his curiosity, Aiwen finally gave the altar an instruction to start absorbing faith.

Following his will, a faint white gleam began to appear on the originally silent altar. With the help of a special connection between himself and the altar, Aiwen could feel that there seemed to be something floating in the surrounding space that was constantly being captured by the altar. Suck away, gather.

In the end, only a "ding" was heard, and a small milky white translucent crystal emerged from the sky above the altar, and then gently fell on the stone altar.

Ai Wen reached out to pick up the crystal, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.

"What is this? Hmm... why does it look a bit like the crystallization of divine power introduced in the knowledge that Lanster taught me?!"

Surprised, he couldn't help squinting his eyes, and carefully looked at the crystal lying quietly in his palm again.

Divine power crystallization, as the name suggests, is a special crystal formed by the gods spending a lot of time and huge consumption with their own divine power, which contains a large amount of substantive divine power that can be used by others.

It can be used not only as an energy source to cast terrifying divine spells, but also as the core of a magic circle, and has many other functions. It can even be used to summon the clones of gods who produce crystals to descend. Hard currency and high-end currency have extremely strong purchasing power even in hell and abyss.

After all, the demon god is also a god!
Ai Wen carefully identified it, and confirmed that the thing in his hand was really a divine power crystal, or the more valuable one among the divine power crystals, the one with no attribute tendency!
This kind of divine power crystal has a higher versatility than the crystals made by conventional gods, and its preciousness is second only to those extremely rare crystals condensed by gods with powerful divine power and above.

"hiss!"

Ai Wen gasped, this is the real overnight riches.

Goddess of Wealth's gold coin is so weak compared to this thing!

A small crystal can be exchanged for a small gold mountain casually!

But the only pity is that Aiwen soon discovered that as the power of unclaimed faith scattered around was evacuated by the altar, the speed of the altar's condensed crystallization suddenly dropped dramatically.

He felt it for a while, and according to the information fed back from the altar, it is estimated that the next one will take at least two days to condense, and the speed will become slower and slower in the future, showing a terrifying drop of diving.

Unless Aiwen moves the temple to other areas that have not been absorbed, or finds a new supply source, the speed can be increased again.

Even so, Ivan is really content.

"Take your time. With the inheritance of the Lilith family, it's not too shocking to take out a few divine power crystals, but if there are too many, you should cause trouble."

The pie is too big, and it can really support people to death. Ai Wen still has some ideas about this, after all, he still wants to live for two more years.

Putting aside the question of the altar for the time being, he planned to turn around and leave, but looking at the bare altar and the empty room with no decoration at all, Aiwen couldn't help but feel a little awkward, and always felt that there seemed to be something missing here.

After thinking about it, he suddenly had an idea, took out [Immortal Cold Flame], and placed it on top of the altar.

Seeing the pale golden flames floating above the altar, emitting a faint gleam, bringing a sacred feeling to the surroundings, Ivan finally nodded.

"That's what it looks like"

It was too empty and simple before, and it was not worthy of the awesomeness of the altar.

Of course, dressing up is just an innocuous thing, and what really makes Aiwen a headache is how to keep this huge pie.

"It seems that it is imperative to train more paladins!"

After all, in this situation, if a little bit of rumors leaked, Aiwen had to find a way to pull out a new plane to send and run away every minute, and he had to have a group of confidantes to guard him.

"It seems that I can only find a way to go to Waterdeep City in the near future!"

Different from the backcountry in the west of the kingdom in Lion City, as one of the largest trade centers on the mainland, there is definitely something that can help Aiwen expand the efficiency of paladin apprentice training.

Ai Wen decided to go there on a little pegasus.

With the terrifying flying speed of Little Pegasus, it only takes a few days to go back and forth, but the specific things still need to be arranged, after all, the current city is not as safe as it seems on the surface...

----Dividing line------

"I heard that our foreign consultant is about to go to Waterdeep City for business?"

In a luxuriously decorated room, the president of the Lion City Branch of the Mercenary Guild leisurely picked up the wine glass, and seemingly casually said to the opposite man who completely concealed himself under the huge cloak.

"Our Lord Advisor has been very active recently. After he leaves, it is estimated that many people will finally be able to sleep well, right?"

The man sitting opposite snorted coldly.

"Oh? Then our chairman must be one of the members who can sleep well?"

"Who knows then."

Looking at the small exquisite wine glass in his hand, the middle-aged president said in a leisurely tone like an old man who sees through the world:

"Perhaps, not only can I have a good sleep, but if I'm lucky, I can also smile, am I right? Dear Lord, Bishop of the Shadow Church?"

The bishop of the Shadow Church fell silent for a moment, and the two confronted each other for a while. After he snorted coldly, he turned and left without saying a word.

Looking at his back, he drank the wine in one gulp, and the president suddenly showed a meaningful smile.

"The storm is coming!"

The outsider who is suspected of being an alien legend, a series of policies during this period have affected the interests of too many people. It's just not good.

Now that he heard that the other party might leave temporarily, all kinds of ghosts and monsters started to jump out, and the Shadow Church that just found him was one of them.

As one of the recognized cults on the mainland, they are used to absorbing the bottom believers among the poor at the bottom and then quietly growing and eroding the place. However, they suffered heavy losses under Aiwen's key blows, and many strongholds were simply destroyed.

When I got the chance this time, I couldn't wait to jump out and want to fight back.

"But what does it have to do with me?"

(End of this chapter)