I traveled through time and space and became the Archbishop of Stormwind!

Chapter 670 Falling into the Abyss

Karedis's voice trembled like a withered leaf in the wind.

"Please, let me go! I've told you everything I know!"

The devilish smile that Alvin wore on his face, as Karedis saw it, reappeared. He shook his finger, grabbed the mayor by the tattered collar, and lifted him off the ground as easily as a chicken to be slaughtered.

"Walk?"

Alvin's voice carried a hint of mockery, but his eyes were sharp as knives.

“Dear Mayor, haven’t you heard that if a ship is about to sink, the captain is the last person to leave the ship? Let’s set sail and not waste time.”

“No! No no no!!!”

Karedis let out a pig-like scream, struggling futilely with his limbs.

“I can’t take you with me! The prince will find out! He’ll tear me to pieces! He’ll drain my soul! That’s a million times worse than death! You’re the devil! You’re worse than Imhotep!”

"is it?"

Alvin moved closer to him,

"If you don't lead the way, I can let you experience right now what it feels like to be completely purified from the inside out by holy light. It may not be as sophisticated as Your Highness's methods, but it's guaranteed to be highly effective. Do you want to go see your demon master right now, or live a little longer and gamble on your luck?"

Karedis looked miserable; he could tell that Alvin was serious.

Ultimately, the instinct for survival prevailed over everything.

He collapsed, as if all his bones had been removed, sobbing and weeping uncontrollably, "I'll take...I'll take you...Don't kill me..."

Under Karedis's half-hearted guidance, they arrived at an extremely secluded corner at the edge of the rotunda.

With his still trembling hands, Kaledis pressed several runes in a specific order on a seemingly ordinary wall relief.

After a faint clicking sound, the wall silently slid open, revealing a narrow, downward-pointing staircase entrance.

A cold wind blew up from below, as if carrying the chill from the depths of the earth.

Alvin glanced inside and saw that the staircase spiraled downwards, so deep that it seemed to lead straight to the earth's core.

Many places have collapsed and fractured, revealing bottomless abysses below.

Gravel occasionally slipped off the edge, and for a long time there was no echo; only endless darkness opened its gaping maw, waiting for those who stumbled.

Are you kidding me? Leading me into a trap at a time like this? Do you have a death wish?

"Irwin roared."

"In the past, we relied on the internal teleportation array to go up and down!"

Karedis explained, his voice trembling, as he pressed himself tightly against the inner wall, too afraid to even look down.

"But now that Imothar is gone, the power system supplying the entire city is collapsing, and the teleportation arrays are malfunctioning, we're left with only this primitive method..."

"Okay, luckily I have a solution."

"Irwin said, raising the Naaru Beacon, its soft golden light dispelling the small patch of darkness.

"Levitation!"

He chanted softly, casting a weight-reducing spell on the three people one by one.

"Please, Mayor, go first, don't try anything funny."

"what?"

"Go down, you!"

Before Karedis could react, Elwin had already kicked him in the butt, sending him tumbling into the abyss.

Karedis was horrified and screamed.

However, this levitation magic was similar to a mage's levitation, and he quickly mastered the method of controlling the direction of levitation, and reluctantly floated down.

“Stay close to me, Stella.”

Elwin said something to Stella, then took the lead in stepping off the broken steps. Under the effect of the levitation spell, his body began to slowly drift down into the endless dark abyss below.

Stella took a deep breath and followed suit, leaping into the darkness.

The feeling of weightlessness came instantly, and the surroundings were absolute darkness and deathly silence. Only the light from the top of the Holy Light Staff in Elwin's hand floated like a lone boat in an endless sea of ​​ink.

Below them was a void that seemed to devour all light, and a cold air current surrounded them. The only sounds they could hear were their own heartbeats and the flow of blood.

It didn't feel like flying; it felt more like being thrown into an endless universe and falling in an unknown direction.

Even the well-traveled Blue Dragon couldn't help but feel an instinctive tension under the oppressive feeling of this enclosed environment and unknown depths. Her breathing became slightly rapid, and her fingers curled up unconsciously.

Alvin keenly noticed the subtle change in the girl beside him.

He reached out and grasped Stella's somewhat cold hand.

Stella's hand trembled slightly, but she did not break free.

Alvin's palms were warm and dry, enveloping her slightly coolness.

The warmth brought by the holy light seemed not only to dispel the physical cold, but also to act as an invisible bridge, transmitting a reassuring power.

In this chilling abyss of darkness, this simple contact seemed to become a steadfast anchor, pulling her back from the boundless terror of the void.

Stella didn't speak, but gently squeezed back, the slight trembling in her fingertips gradually subsiding.

A silent understanding flowed between the two in the darkness, temporarily dispelling the gloom and pressure from the unknown surroundings.

Just as they had been drifting for nearly five minutes and had gradually adjusted to the slow descent—

"BOOM!!!!!"

A deep, muffled roar, as if from the depths of the earth's crust, suddenly came from below!

Immediately afterwards, the entire massive vertical tunnel shook violently, and rubble fell in a shower, plunging into the darkness below.

"what happened?!"

Elwin immediately steadied himself, his Holy Light Shield instantly opening to deflect the falling rocks, and he sternly questioned Kaledis, who was so frightened he was almost fainting.

"I...I don't know! I really don't know!"

Karedis was pale, and his voice was trembling with sobs.

"Perhaps it's His Highness's ritual! He might have succeeded! Great Mr. Alvin, we still have time to escape! While everything is still..."

"Shut up!"

Alvin, unable to bear it any longer, clenched his free hand into a fist and struck him on the back of the head with just the right amount of force, making him swallow back the rest of his discouraging words.

Karedis cried out in pain, then dared not say another word, only letting out desperate sobs.

After falling a further distance, the holy light in Elwin's hand finally illuminated the area below.

It was an enormous rock platform, abruptly embedded in the cliff face of the abyss like an isolated island.

The edge of the platform is a bottomless abyss, and a huge archway carved with intricate magical patterns is embedded in the cliff face, but it is now tightly closed.

Using levitation, the group slowly descended onto the cold, rocky platform.

Karedis pointed to the archway and said weakly, "This is it, one of the entrances to the core area of ​​the Temple of the Night. It used to be sealed by a powerful magic seal, but now... it seems to have failed."

He stepped forward and pushed hard with both arms. The seemingly heavy stone door opened a crack with a heavy scraping sound, revealing an even denser darkness behind it.

Just as Alvin was about to step inside, Stella suddenly grabbed his arm with such force that he stopped in his tracks.

"Wait, Alvin!"

"What's wrong?" Alvin immediately became alert and asked in a low voice.

Stella furrowed her delicate brows slightly, her nostrils flaring as if she were trying to catch some subtle scent in the air.

Her face turned pale, and her blue eyes were filled with disbelief.

"No, the smell here is too strong."

She lowered her voice, almost whispering.

"Smell? Fel energy? Or arcane magic?"

Alvin also focused his senses, but apart from the dense dark energy and the smell of dust, he did not detect anything special.

"Not those."

Stella shook her head, her sharp gaze fixed on the darkness behind the crack in the door.

"It's orcs! I smell orcs! A strong, pungent scent of sweat, leather, and blood! And there's more than one!"

"Orcs?!"

Alvin was also stunned; this was completely unexpected.

In the deepest part of this ancient elven city, isolated from the world for tens of thousands of years, just as he was about to face a fallen elven prince, the presence of orcs suddenly appeared.

"Are you sure? How come there are orcs here? Weren't the orcs led by Cho'gall teleported to some other place?"

"My senses can't be wrong!"

Stella's tone was absolutely certain; as a dragon, her sense of smell far surpassed that of any other race.

“And they seem to have just been there, which is very unusual, Alvin.”

"It's probably because you closed the barrier stone that those guys found their way here..."

"Karedis suddenly said."