Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 279: Old God Statue
It is normal to have secret rooms in ruins. No matter whether it is the ruins of the mythological era or the dungeons built by wizards, everyone likes to build secret rooms. It has become a habit.

Many ruins that have been discovered for dozens or hundreds of years have been plundered by adventurers to the point where even the floor tiles have been taken away, but rumors of the discovery of new secret rooms still come from time to time.

Orday looked into the secret room, then raised his hand and shot a magic ball that emitted a cold light. Seeing that there was no roar of any monster in the secret room, he stepped in.

The room was still very empty, about less than twenty screens, and in a semicircular shape.

At the end of the secret room stands a stone sculpture about four or five meters high.

Like most sculptures in ruins, the details have become blurred due to the passage of time, and only its more obvious features can be identified.

This is a sculpture of a person wearing a robe, a crown and holding a scepter. The facial details are completely invisible, but you can see that there is a pair of huge curved horns on the head of the sculpture and a tail behind the buttocks. However, the fragile representative part of the tail has broken and fell to the ground and shattered.

Looking closer, Alde noticed that the robe did not cover the whole body. To be precise, it was not entirely a robe. One part was wings extending from the back to the front, covering the chest like a cloak.

This looks a lot like a statue of a demon, but demons don't have tails or wings.

"Is that a statue of our tiefling?"

"impossible."

"You think too much."

Before Olde could say anything, Derger and Perrin shattered Nimya's dream.

It does have some similarities with the tiefling, for example, they both have horns and tails, but the tiefling does not have wings.

In front of the statue is a stone altar, and there seems to be some pattern carved on the front of the altar.

Nimia reached out to wipe away the dust on the front of the altar with a bit of regret, revealing the pattern on it.

"A pentagram? Could this have something to do with the devil?"

"Don't look at me! Even though I have blood from the lower planes, this is called discrimination!"

Demons or devils come from the lower planes, and their hybrid with mortals is the tiefling.

Because demons and devils are so fucked up, tieflings are discriminated against in the mortal world, and Nimia is also very sensitive about this.

Alday didn't listen to the other people's conversation. She looked carefully at the pentagram stone carving and found that there were three flame-shaped patterns in the center of the stone carving. They were very small and unclear, but they did exist.

Then she looked up at the statue standing behind the altar, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar it seemed to her.

In a trance, Orday seemed to see the blurry face of the stone statue suddenly turn into the appearance of Li Chengxi, which startled Orday and she took a half step back unconsciously.

Looking at it again now, the face of the statue is still so blurry, as if it was just an illusion.

But Oldie already had the answer in her mind.

This is the statue of the previous Demon God. The pentagram is also his holy emblem.

This place was obviously built in secret, and the individuals or organizations trying to destroy the existence of the Demon God were unaware of it, so it was preserved.

After thinking for a while, Alde turned back to the three people who were arguing about discrimination and said:

"Do you have a god you believe in?"

Upon hearing this, Perrin grabbed his holy emblem, which meant, do you think I have no faith?
This is like asking a maintenance technician what his job is.

However, Oldey mainly asked about Derger and Nimya, and the two looked at each other when they heard it.

"When I was a child, I believed in the Soul Forger with my family, but I haven't prayed to Him for nearly a hundred years."

Moradin the Soul Forger is the main god of the dwarves, and most dwarves believe in him.

But it is not absolute. Adventurers like Drerg are generally too lazy to believe in a certain god. Compared with a god who may not necessarily provide help, the axe in his hand is more reliable.

"I don't have any either. Just staying alive is hard enough. How can I have the time?"

Tieflings are very similar to demons, but that doesn't mean they will believe in demons.

Due to widespread discrimination, it is difficult for tieflings to find stable jobs, and most tieflings join the ranks of adventurers, at least this job does not have any racial requirements.

Oldie looked at Derger, shook her head, and looked at Nimya again. This time she said:
"Come here and kneel in front of the altar."

"Ah? What do you want me to do?"

"Just try to pray."

"Um...is this really okay?"

Perrin interrupted:
"It is very dangerous to pray to an unknown god." If it is a good god, it would be fine, but if it is an evil god, it would be troublesome.

"It's not a big problem. This statue has lost its power. Look at how rotten it has become."

This is true.

Any statue of a god is not so easy to be destroyed. In fact, it is the equivalent of a camera of the god in the mortal world, and is usually blessed with a weak divine power.

On the other hand, since it has decayed, it means that the god represented by the statue has either forgotten the statue or has fallen.

Nimya didn't want to do anything risky like that, and felt that Olday was using her as a guinea pig.

"You don't have to open your heart, just silently recite your wish in your heart. I promise there will be no danger. Let me give you an extra 10% of the profit from this adventure."

"Really?"

When Nimia heard that there was money to be made, he immediately became interested.

This is all because I was afraid of being poor when I was a child.

Following Oldie's instructions, she knelt on one knee in front of the altar, clasped her thumbs together with her nose, closed her eyes, and silently said to herself, "I want gold coins, lots and lots of gold coins."

——I am indeed afraid of being poor.

There was no response at first, and Olday thought her guess might be wrong.

But after just a few seconds, the statue suddenly glowed with a layer of golden light.

The light gathered into a beam and hit Nemia who was kneeling in front of the altar, but it was not an attack and Nemia himself was unaware of it.

Then a huge crack appeared in the middle of the statue, and the four or five-meter-high statue collapsed rapidly in front of everyone, eventually turning into a pile of rubble.

Nimia was awakened by the sound and took several steps back to avoid the collapsing rubble and dust. Only then did she notice that she was covered with a layer of golden light, which quickly dissipated and merged into Nimia's skin.

"what is that?"

Aldea did not answer, but asked:
"how are you feeling?"

"I feel... I feel as if I am filled with power."

It is a feeling that is hard to describe, like waking up naturally from a good sleep and feeling inexplicably refreshed.

"There's no discomfort, right?"

"Well, it feels good."

"emmm..."

Looking Nimya up and down, Olday said to the other two:
"Turn around first, don't look back."

"why?"

"Because I need to take off my clothes for inspection."

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Perrin and Delger turned around immediately, and Alday waved her hand, and there seemed to be a curtain in the air, making it blurry and unclear.

Then she went straight to work on unbuttoning Nemea's clothes.

"Wait! Stop! I'll take them off myself! Don't pull my pants off!"

No wonder Viola often said that Oldie’s research spirit was shit. Once she encountered something that interested her, she would not care about anything.

Since it wasn't cold yet, and as a wanderer, Nimia needed to be flexible, so she didn't wear much. Alday quickly stripped her down to her underwear.

Carefully observing the tiefling's wine-red skin, Nimia was so focused that she even wondered if Alday was gay.

But Oldie was clearly not interested in prostitution, and she soon discovered a mark on Nimia's lower back that looked like a brand.

There are three flame-like marks in the center of a pentagram.

Extending his finger and touching it lightly, Alde wanted to confirm whether this thing existed from the beginning or appeared because of the prayer just now.

But when Alday's fingers touched it, the mark suddenly twisted, changing from a pentagram to a pattern of a slightly open hand.

That is Li Chengxi's holy emblem.

(End of this chapter)