ragginovel Chapter 543 Roman
Chapter 543 Roman
Chapter 543 Roman
At night, the blood moon is still there.
Three figures quietly appeared in a small, seemingly abandoned chapel.
Only five minutes after entering, Huang Donglai was surprised to find that the wound on his right back was healing at an incredible speed.
Not only that, he soon realized that even the feelings of thirst, hunger, fatigue, etc. gradually faded, or even completely disappeared, after coming here.
"Brother, did you do something to heal me?" Huang Donglai, whose physical condition had obviously improved, immediately stood up, walked up to the "God-suited Brother" and asked.
It was this old man who led Huang Donglai and Balde here just now. However, after they came in, he was not in a hurry to communicate with the two of them. He just asked them to rest for a while before talking.
At this moment, seeing Huang Donglai coming over to talk, the man in divine costume who was sitting on a bench with his eyes closed raised his eyes slowly and replied calmly: "No, I didn't do anything. In fact, I don't know why this room can help people heal and restore their physical strength..." When he said this, he raised his chin slightly and pointed to the depths of the chapel, "But I think it should be related to the stone statue."
"Oh?" Huang Donglai looked at the stone statue with curiosity after hearing that.
It was a statue of a nun carved from an unknown stone. Its overall appearance and posture looked very simple, except for one special design: its hands were put together in front of its body, forming a structure similar to a small brazier. At this moment, the lighting in the chapel depended on the fire held in the hands of the stone statue.
A few seconds later, Huang Donglai took a few steps forward and looked closer. He could see clearly that there were words written on the base of the statue:
"Wherever you are, there is a sanctuary of peace.
Your eyes are like a beacon in the night sea.
Your divine mercy is like the pouring down of moonlight.
You gently raise your hand and soothe the traveler's wounds."
Although it is not known who carved these words, the words undoubtedly imply that this stone statue has some kind of healing power that can affect the people in this small chapel.
"Oh my goodness, this is great." Huang Donglai muttered, "Then as long as we use this room as a base, won't we be invincible?" At this point, he had thought of something, so he immediately looked at the guy in the godly suit, "Brother, you got all this equipment by relying on this room as a backup, right?"
Brother Shenzhuang looked at Huang Donglai and replied in his cool manner: "You guessed the second half of the sentence correctly, but the first half..." He sighed, "Let me put it this way, there were many people who came here at the beginning, but now I am the only one left."
"May I ask who you are?" The next second, Balde at the side interrupted and asked.
"You can call me Roman." Roman just replied with a last name casually.
Unexpectedly, Huang Donglai was shocked when he heard this: "Hey? Are you Nicholas Roman?"
“Oh?” This time, Roman’s cold expression finally changed a little. “Have you heard of me?”
"In order to avoid people with the same name, let me confirm again. You are the Roman sent to Transylvania by the Ranger Organization, right?" Huang Donglai said again.
"You even know this?" Roman also reacted quickly, "Could it be that you also..."
"Oh!" Huang Donglai slapped his thigh, his tone suddenly warmed up, "I'm Huang Donglai, Tyrael's good brother in the Central Plains. Brother Luo, you should have heard him mention me, right?"
Huang Donglai is very friendly and calls people "brother" as soon as he opens his mouth.
“So you are…” As for Roman, he had actually heard of Shuangxie and even other people from Hunyuan Stargate.
As we mentioned earlier, when Tyrael was briefly recalled to Europe by the Ranger Organization during the Thirteen Dead Zodiac incident, he actually met Roman, but Tyrael felt that he couldn't just abandon his brothers in Central Plains and leave, so the two of them just chatted for a while, shared some information efficiently, and then parted ways again.
Now that Huang Donglai reported Tyrael's name, combined with his Central Plains appearance, Romanton felt as if he suddenly understood something.
Originally, Roman didn't know the details of Huang Donglai and Balde, so he wanted to help them but had to be wary of them, so his attitude had always been lukewarm. But now that he finds out that they are his own people, the next thing will be easy.
The two sides quickly began to exchange the information they had. Most of you readers know about Huang Donglai's situation, so I won't go into details. Let's just talk about Roman's situation...
What happened to him, or to the "elite ranger team" that traveled to Transylvania with him?
This is a long story...
Roman's team was originally strong. If we don't count the two "foreign players" Sun and Huang, the overall strength of the team would be greater than that of the Gaoying Circus.
Moreover, they did not use any disguise during the journey. They just crossed mountains and killed bandits when they met them... No matter if it was local bullies blocking the road or demons, don't ask, they just did it.
There are both advantages and disadvantages to going all the way like this.
The good thing is that it is really fast...
Take the town of Naslanik Moldova for example. When Roman's group arrived there, they told the Society of the Lord in a very tough manner: We are from the Ranger Organization. We are on our way to slay demons and monsters. We are passing through here. We don't need you guys who are using the name of the church and whose actual identity is unknown to pretend to express your opinions or help us. Anyway, just don't cause trouble for us. If you don't listen to our advice, you will bear the consequences yourself.
Father Norchi thought about it and realized that there were so many brave warriors with such a tough attitude and a righteous cause. If I were to go to war with them just to extort some tolls... it would not be worth it even if I won, not to mention that I might not win.
Therefore, the Order of the Lord of the Rings did not bother them again, and they set off the next day without any delay.
But the downside of their style of painting... is that it's obviously "dangerous".
After all, not all threats along the way are like the Order of the Ring, who are out in the open and just want to be a local boss; there are many malicious people from humans or non-humans, who are greedy, fierce, stupid, or have no bottom line... Your toughness will not only fail to deter them, but will also make yourself a target.
The most troublesome thing is that you can't tell what kind of impact these threats will bring to you. Sometimes a few thieves' clumsy plots, or some attracted but not very powerful demons, may accidentally injure or even reduce the number of your members.
Therefore, before arriving in Transylvania, Roman's team was no longer in the same configuration as when they first set out.
What's even more deadly is that after arriving at their destination, the person who came to meet them was the former witcher who had become Count Philibert Belmondo Vlad Tepes.
Of course, they didn't know what had happened to the other side. In addition, this "elite team" had been fighting hard all the way, and there was always an atmosphere of arrogance and murderous intent in the team, so Philibert easily led them into the trap that had been set long ago without much effort...
“We desperately escaped from the room full of spikes and flying monsters, but what awaited us ahead was still an unfamiliar corridor, and there were a lot of pursuers behind us…” Roman’s narration finally came to the last part, “The few survivors to begin with got separated during the escape, and in the end there were only ten people left, including me, who fled into a room full of mirrors…
“What happened next was very strange. We seemed to have lost consciousness for a short time. When we came to our senses, we had already left the room and the moonlight outside the window had turned blood red.
"The pursuers disappeared, and the city became quiet...at least most of it.
"Then we discovered that some of the doors here, after opening and closing, would connect to different places, which was a phenomenon we had not encountered before entering the mirror room.
“And that room full of mirrors, I never saw it again.
"As for this chapel, we found it after we lost another person. We soon discovered that our injuries would heal quickly if we stayed here, and we wouldn't feel thirsty, hungry, or even sleepy...
"So, as you just said, we thought that with this room as our backup, we could go out and explore with peace of mind, and kill as many enemies as possible... until we found a way to survive.
"However, after an unknown period of time, we all began to suspect that there might be no way out of this place.
“No matter how many times you open the door or how far you explore, there will always be areas you haven’t seen before; monsters seem to be endless, and sometimes when you return to the same place after leaving for a few minutes, you will see that the thing you just killed is alive again...
"What's worse is that there are things in some places that are so powerful that you can't defeat them at all, and you never know which door or corner they will appear behind...
"To make a long story short, some time passed. Of course, I still don't know how long it was, probably about ten days or half a month. Anyway, my companions fell one by one during this period.
"Those who died in the battle were relatively safe, but there were several who had mental breakdowns. They shouted that this was hell, and then tried to eat the monster's corpse, thinking that this would make the monster 'disappear forever', but the result is predictable...
"In the end, as you can see, I am the only one left."
At this point, Roman laughed bitterly: "Heh... I don't know why I'm still holding on. Either my will is really that strong, or I've already collapsed, but I don't know it yet... You are just hallucinations I saw after I went crazy."
Huang Donglai and Balde listened to Roman's narration and watched the latter's cold expression gradually turn into a look of pain mixed with frenzy and compassion, and they felt their scalps tingling.
"Brother, don't think too much. Aren't there three of us now? Everything will be fine." Huang Donglai was really afraid that the other party would fall into terrible memories and then have a collapse, so he quickly tried to persuade him with some kind words.
Although he said this, Huang Donglai was actually scared at the moment.
Because when he was listening to the other party, he had already secretly calculated in his mind... Assuming that Tyrael was taken away on the eve of the Ghost Festival last year, Roman's team was gathering and had not yet completed the gathering, then at most it would have taken Roman's team two months from the time they completed the gathering, to the time they went to Transylvania, and then to being trapped here.
In other words, this guy has been trapped in this abnormal space since at least last winter, but judging from his appearance, he obviously didn't know that much time had passed...
Whether this phenomenon is due to the different speed of time flow here, or people's perception of time is affected by this space, it is not a good phenomenon. After all, Huang Donglai does not want to stay here for several months.
"Hey, did you hear that?" Suddenly, Balde's light call interrupted the conversation between Roman and Huang Donglai.
The two men immediately quieted down upon hearing this and listened in the direction indicated by Balder's eyes.
Sure enough, the sound of an organ could be faintly heard over there.