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Chapter 1592: Chapter 484: Harvested Gold Coins, Fruits, and Materials Chapter 1592: Chapter 484: Harvested Gold Coins, Fruits, and Materials “Ordinary pioneering missions can be resolved with mercenaries. If Holy Dragon Knights are involved, it must be a top-secret mission of the Holy Church… I suspect it might be related to the ‘Divine Fragment.’”
“Mm-hmm. It seems the passage that this mutated serpent came from should lead to the ‘Death Domain’. Its Divine Fragment must have also come from some place.”

“…”

Leonard Churchill and Sophia Jones stared at the decaying armor inside the serpent, leading them to many thoughts.

They had originally planned to explore along the cave a bit.

But now, they immediately discarded the idea.

According to Leonard Churchill’s speculation about the “Death Domain” area, even if all went smoothly, it would be at least half a month’s journey from Blackwater Swamp.

Looking at it now, this cave might be a shortcut.

However, the situation inside the cave is unclear, and the likelihood of encountering danger while exploring is very high.

A mutated Seventh Tier Overlord Beast nearly decimated the Great Sword Group, not to mention the unknown region of the “Death Domain” where Eighth-Order Magical Beasts have been confirmed to exist.

If they were to recklessly explore, they could all be annihilated.

And the danger isn’t just from Demon Beasts but potentially from people of the Holy Church as well.

“Divine Fragments” are invaluable treasures, coveted even by Divine Rank Powerhouses.

If they encountered them, conflict was inevitable.

Currently, the Holy Church, Church of Light, and the Crimson Sect, the three major Outer God Sects, are all strategizing around the “Death Domain.”

All three factions have the presence of Outer Gods.

For others wanting to join in, the risk is extremely high.

So after discussing, Leonard Churchill and Sophia Jones decided to stick to the original plan and go observe the situation at the Death Domain first along the planned route.

…

While Leonard Churchill and Sophia Jones were pondering over the cave, the Great Sword Group members were joyfully scavenging the Divine Temple.

This Relic seemed to have never been visited before, and it was relatively intact.

However, after Leonard Churchill warned them about the potential presence of the Outer God related to this Sun Temple, everyone dared not randomly touch things associated with the Gods.

Such as the Dragon Guard Statues, and the Dragon Throne deeper inside.

Nevertheless, they still made a very large haul.

“Hahaha, guys, look, there are so many Gold Coins here!”

“They must have been used for sacrificial purposes.”

“Brother Leonard Churchill, can we take these?”

“As long as they’re not from the altar, it should be fine.”

“Alright!”

“…”

After all, it had been over a hundred thousand years, and apart from the stones, almost everything in the temple had decayed.

But soon, the team members discovered a pool full of Gold Coins at the entrance of the temple, covered with a layer of rotten mud as if it was a fountain pool.

Great Dragons have no use for Gold, but they are naturally greedy and like shiny, precious things.

Just as humans like to choose the color of their floor tiles, Great Dragons usually use Gold Coins to pave their nests.

Thus, many temples on the Southern Continent related to Great Dragons have accumulated a large amount of gold and silver objects, merely as decorative items, not involving any mysterious powers.

After asking Leonard Churchill, the know-it-all, the group excitedly began to dig up the Gold Coins.

The Revolutionary Army needed this funding.

It could exchange for a large amount of Material for the bases in the East Wilderness.

The serpent was being handled by specialists, and Leonard Churchill had no particular interest in the Gold Coins, only taking a few samples to examine the dragon head imprint on them.

Relics related to the “Altranc civilization,” especially those pointing to that Sun God, were now taboo within the Ariel Empire.

It was only recently that Leonard Churchill clandestinely accessed some Classic Books and learned the origins of the portrait on these Gold Coins.

It should be the Dragon God Marlodis, recorded in the Classic Books with grand titles such as “The King of Altranc,” “The Ruler of the Golden Clan,” “The Bright Dragon God,” “The Master of Justice and Life”… and so on.

Another Outer God from the Chaotic Era.

However, in the records of the Ariel Empire, he was the “Lord of Bad Omens,” the source of all disasters.

Even that name was taboo.

Thus, he was little known.

…

While the members of the Great Sword Group were careful not to barge into the core of the temple, Leonard Churchill was intrigued by the blurry lines and the exquisite bas-reliefs on the stone sculptures.

These weren’t things you couldn’t touch.

You just couldn’t touch them with “greed” or “sacrilegious” intentions.

Otherwise, directed malevolent thoughts could usually alert the Will of the Gods.

Leonard Churchill was simply interested in the hidden information in these ancient Relics.

Usually, such murals told the epic stories of historical events, recording the ruler’s grand achievements.

They were of high research value to Archaeologists.

The stone carvings in this Sun Temple were no different.

Although the bas-reliefs were mostly damaged and eroded, he could more or less understand them through a combination of guessing and inferring.

They recorded, from a human perspective, the praises of the great Golden Dragon God who brought them light, food, and everything else.

Leonard Churchill thought there was nothing surprising in the content.

However, as he continued to look, he came upon a war scene depicted on the bas-relief in the southwest corner of the temple.

As he gazed, his attention froze.

Because there, he saw a “giant hand”!

“Eh… What’s this? Did Dragon God Marlodis actually battle with that mysterious giant hand?”

Leonard Churchill also found it somewhat unbelievable.

If he hadn’t witnessed with his own eyes the huge hand breaking free under the Sky-reaching Tower at the Royal Academy, he wouldn’t understand that the blurred palm represented a monster!

After all, it had been over a hundred thousand years, and it felt like an intrusion of two different timelines into the scene.

Leonard Churchill felt his brain wasn’t quite up to the task.

Previously, in “Thousand Army Surrounding City”, Taron Grand Priest Divine Rain did give a brief overview of the tiers of Godhood.