Li Wei encountered no obstacles along the way.
Perhaps the previous visitors had already dealt with the traps and enemies for him. All Li Wei saw along the way were skeletons and traps that had already been triggered.
From these, Li Wei could at least clearly reconstruct what had happened-the Priest had led more than twenty holy knights into this temple. Li Wei had found the Holy Lord Church's insignia on one skeleton's armor, confirming their identity. He wasn't sure how they had entered. They certainly couldn't have pumped out the water as he had, but considering that the cultists had been here at the time, perhaps they had another way in.
In any case, under the Priest's leadership, these holy knights had charged inside and fought the cultists. This was something Li Wei found rather hard to understand, because judging by the remaining skeletons, their opponents had only been ordinary people. Most had been children, along with women and a few men.
No matter how he looked at it, they should have been no match for fully armed holy knights.
Yet the holy knights had suffered heavy losses here. Nearly half of them had fallen in the corridors. Li Wei could scarcely make sense of it. Judging by their bodies, they had all worn heavy armor and carried large shields and longswords.
For that era, they had been well equipped.
Li Wei had also read descriptions of the Holy Lord Papacy's holy knights. They were the Holy Lord Church's bravest, strongest, and most formidable warriors-elite troops, by any measure. Losing more than half their number to a mob of the old, weak, sick, and infirm was suspicious in itself.
Li Wei did find some marks on their bodies and armor, mostly caused by violent impacts. Even where the blows