Chapter 321 ‘Dark Sun’ Cyric’s Followers
Looking from a distance, Brian found that the building complex that appeared in front of him did not know whether it should be classified as a village or a fortress.
A large area of fallen dead trees surrounds the general scope of the village, covering an area of approximately 1,000 square meters.
The lizard people filled the gaps between the trees with hay and mud. It seemed that they had gone through countless years to form this strange but very practical building.
After careful observation through the "Eagle Eye Technique", Brian discovered that the interior of the building complex was a maze tightly surrounded by plants. The dead branches and the trees full of branches and leaves were intricately intertwined. Together, they form a dark corridor leading to the depths of the village.
The two people who are used to the buildings in the civilized world feel very uncomfortable with this...
"I'm still wondering why I didn't meet the lizard people of the Dark Scale Tribe in Guangze." Karadna took back Looking at it, he nodded as if in a sudden state, "It turns out that this group of lizardmen have moved their entire family to the Shadow Plane."
"Hey, Brian, you said that in such a depressing environment like the Shadow Plane, who are they? How to survive." She played with a strand of hair hanging on her chest in boredom, moved closer to Brian, and curiously asked her doubts.
"If you have time, you can just ask the people in Shadow City." Brian replied casually, his attention always falling on the lizard people's settlement.
He saw that most of the gates of this village were mesh structures woven from saplings, which were full of holes and looked shaky and unstable.
Looking inside, he could also clearly notice that the entire village was shrouded in thick shadows. It could be seen that the lizard people living here did not have high requirements for lighting, and only the light from the shadows came out from inside. .
“Let’s go.” Brian greeted the grumbling sorceress with a smile, motioned for her to follow, and walked along a path leading to the village.
As the two approached the village quietly, Brian discovered that the village seemed to be naturally formed due to a large-scale tree collapse.
A few living tree trunks are still stubbornly growing out of the dead stumps and branches. The cracks between the branches are filled with fences made of branches and unprocessed soil.
Directly in front of the two people was a village gate made of wicker. Two torches made of human heads were hung on both sides of the entrance.
"Why do you have to go through this village?" Karadna frowned and asked through telepathy.
"Because the end of this village is a large fortress beside a lake shrouded in darkness." Brian simply explained to her, and then opened the wicker door that seemed to have no significance. , walked in.
Although the sorceress behind her was a little instinctively repelled by the dirty lizardman village, she complained and eventually followed her without hesitation.
The inside of the lizardman village is cold and damp. The ground is like a dirt road washed away by heavy rain. You can pick up mud when you step on it, as well as some red, white, black and many other exciting things. Disgusting stuff.
From time to time, a tree stump appeared in the damp soil, which affected the two people's traveling speed.
When they first encountered the wooden pile hidden in the mud, if Brian hadn't supported Caradna in time, this delicate-looking warlock lady might have really lost her footing and fallen on the dirty ground.
However, this was just a small episode caused by Caradna's carelessness. After all, even a more hostile environment than this was not as bad as imagined for the two legendary spellcasters.
After walking for a while in the quiet little village, Brian motioned for Caradna to stand where she was, took the initiative to open the door of a nearby room, and walked in.
As the fishy smell filled the air, he saw the tree roots and branches around the room protruding irregularly from the floor, ceiling and ground. They only underwent simple corrections so that they would not Impede the smooth flow of channels.
The ceiling of the wooden house is only about 1.5 meters high, and its shape is very irregular, making it very difficult for taller people to walk.
Thick moss grew on everything in this room. Rough pottery, wooden tools, a stone fire pit, and a few other pieces of furniture looked like they hadn't been used in quite some time. here.
After getting the answer in his heart, Brian shook his head slightly and walked out again.
At this moment, the two of them saw at the same time, the dim yellow light coming from the front, giving this gloomy world a bit of color.
They looked along the light and found that there seemed to be a large room in the southeast, where several passages intersected.
Then, Brian heard a faint hissing sound coming from the darkness, and then, from the dark and low room, more than twenty animals covered with black scales rushed out. of lizard people.
One of the lizardmen also threw an earth-yellow clay jar at Caradna.
As the jar shattered under the sorceress's feet, bursts of lingering black smoke emerged, and a ghostly giant snake more than ten meters long condensed and formed from the smoke at an extremely fast speed. Bite at Caradna.
——"Missile Storm!"
Brian raised his staff and pointed at the group of lizardmen, hundreds of arcane missiles condensed by magic energy burst out. Come out and beat all these unkind enemies into a sieve.
The roaring ghost snake was also killed by the dark purple chaos ball thrown by Caradna.
After efficiently getting rid of the group of lizardmen, Brian and the two came to the location where the dim light was emitting.
This is a huge and irregular room, with ancient tree trunks supporting the ceiling with roots wrapped around the head. The ceiling is about 3 meters high, which is much higher than the previous small room. The ground faces from the south. Sloping down to the north, the entire north side is a large pool filled with black water.
The moment the two of them stepped into this huge room, Brian instantly noticed that the water in the pool was slowly rippled.
With the splashing sound of water, a giant snake covered with thick blue-black scales emerged from the pool.
It has a humanoid head, with several swinging tentacles extending from its chin, and the tip of its tail is a milky white needle.
"What kind of monster is this?" Caradna looked at the giant snake in the pool in surprise, and instinctively moved towards Brian.
“I can’t tell.” Brian frowned slightly and guessed: “It should be a variant of Ghost Naga.”
Although he could feel that it was the giant snake that was infinitely close to him. He had a legendary level of strength, but after seeing the dark black liquid in the pool, he realized that this was definitely the result of some kind of secret method that was used to reverse the current situation.
"Human~~" This giant snake was curled up in the pool, looking down at Brian and the two of them coldly with its blue snake eyes, and its voice had a hint of the long sound unique to snake creatures. .
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" A hint of amusement appeared in its cold snake eyes, "Interesting... You must be my lord's enemies."
As soon as he finished speaking, a dark gray cone-shaped spit erupted from the giant snake's mouth, enveloping the two people with suffocating negative energy and nauseating odor.
Caradna dodged the giant snake's negative energy breath, and Brian propped up a wall-like energy protection barrier, isolating all attacks two meters away from him.
Seeing that the energy wall was being corroded by the breath attack at a speed visible to the naked eye, Brian quickly recited a spell and pointed his staff toward the pool.
——"Ice cone!"
A stream of cold air spurted out from the top of the staff, quickly covering the entire black pool, and an extremely cold realm instantly emerged.
In an instant, with crisp freezing sounds, the entire pool, together with the giant snake entrenched here, was frozen in place.
Caradna on the side also condensed a washbasin-sized chaotic sphere from her palm in time. At the moment when the giant snake broke free from the shackles of the ice with its force, it erupted into a deep sound that even slightly distorted the air. Purple energy.
With the giant snake's shrill roar, the blue-black scales on its body peeled off layer by layer under the infiltration of chaotic energy, revealing a bloody body.
Brian drew out the Star Sword with blue and white cursed fire, and passed through a sword light that was like twinkling stars. The twisted head of the giant snake, like a humanoid creature, rose into the sky and rolled to the ground. , the stiff body was floating on the water.
Seeing that the enemy was completely dead, Brian and Caradna no longer wasted time and continued to move deeper.
After they dealt with five more waves in a row, totaling more than a hundred lizardmen, they discovered a muddy and damp room.
This dirty room is one person's height lower than the other rooms. It is like a big pit. Two unfortunate lizard men are lying on the ground with their hands tied behind their backs in a mixture of wet mud and feces.
"Hiss~ help us. Hiss, we are not Shadow Scales, we are sharp teeth." Seeing Brian appear, one of the lizardmen seemed to have seen the savior and hurriedly said in dragon language: "Please Please, save us.”
With a wave of his hand, Brian released the restraints of the two lizardmen, ignored them, and led Karadna towards the deep part of the village leading to the fortress. The road goes on.
According to the information he once had in the game world, he knew that their destination was a lost monastery.
A long time ago, a group of Shar's Darkmoon monks built a secluded monastery here in order to explore the secrets of the Dark Rift.
Although this group of warrior monks has long since disappeared into the corners of history, Shar has protected the secrets and safety of this monastery.
When the ancient black dragon Despier decided to hold a ceremony to tear apart the magic web and began to recruit believers and guards, he was brought here.
The monastery is on the top of a low hill, only a few hundred meters away from the pier at the eastern end.
Here you can overlook the shadowy depths of the eastern part of the canyon, and the pier can lead to the walls of the monastery that have collapsed in all directions.
Since Despiers and their men performed rituals deep in the canyon, they had little use for the abandoned monastery.
So the people of Shar Church do not live here. The people who use this monastery are a group of followers of Cyric, the god of murder.
The people of Shar Church do not trust this group of followers, so they naturally do not allow them to enter the ritual of the Dark Grand Canyon without permission.
However, followers of Cyric, the god of murder, are content to stay close to the ritual and provide arcane support to the black dragon Despiel in order to master the current status of the ritual.
Their leader is the skeleton attendant Ethel, and her deputy is a demon race, Zethamas. The two of them guard this lost monastery together.
At the end of the long journey, Brian finally saw a small pier on the east side of the river bend in the dim light emitted by the road sign lantern.
The pier looks abandoned for a long time and no one has taken care of it, which makes people wonder whether it can be used normally.
However, looking forward, we can see that there are no other road signs shining brightly in front of us. It seems that this should be the end of this journey.
If you look carefully, you can also see that behind the pier there is a path leading to a steep cliff in the dark depths. Ferns and plants that appear to be algae extend upwards from the river bend along the slope.
“Brian, do you have an illusion?” As they walked, Caradna’s voice echoed in Brian’s mind, “I always feel like someone is watching us secretly.”< br>
"That's true." Brian heard this, looked around thoughtfully, and said to her, "Before we reach the Dark Canyon, we should ignore it for the time being."
The two of them said to her Confused, I walked along the path towards the cliff. The mountain was very steep, and there were thick bushes on both sides of the road. The dim and hazy vision made this night road in the mountain even darker.
They didn’t see any guards along the way from the dock to the mountain road.
To be precise, the activities of any living thing.
This even made Brian wonder whether he had taken the wrong path or was about to face some huge challenge.
Even so, in addition to being more vigilant, he could only bite the bullet and go on.
Following this mountain road upward, the blurry shadow of a huge building gradually appeared in front of them.
Looking carefully, you can see that in front of the two people is a guardhouse. There is a weak torch burning in front of the door, and an iron bell is hung with a rope in front of the door.
Under the light of the fire, the windows of the guard room, half hidden in the darkness, were like eyes full of malice, staring at them.
Through cautious detection methods, Brian discovered that the floor of the guard room seemed to have disappeared long ago, and the room was covered with swamp plants.
It can be seen from this that this building has been abandoned for a long time.
And the bell hanging with a rope seems to be just a tool to symbolically notify Pastor Shar of his arrival when he visits here.
The two of them concealed their presence as much as possible, carefully passed through the guard room, and successfully arrived at the inner courtyard of the fortress.
This vibrant courtyard is surrounded by ancient stone walls. Looking around from the inside, the building complex does look like a traditional monastery.
The entire building complex is built against the mountain. The height of the building on the east side is significantly higher than the guard room and stables.
Dim yellow firelight shone from the windows on the wall, illuminating the roads connecting the buildings.
Suddenly, there was the sound of something rapidly breaking through the air, bringing a warning to Brian and Caradna.
Looking in the direction of the sound, they simultaneously saw a winged, gargoyle-like creature rushing out of the shadows holding a jagged sword.
This strange creature is similar in size to humans, but is very muscular and covered with slender black scales.
Dark Hunter, the winged dark elf, the Godless One.
In an instant, Brian's expression changed slightly, and at least three nicknames came to mind to call this creature that suddenly appeared.
In fact, the real name of this black gargoyle is: theKir-lanans, which when translated roughly means: Resist the Gods.
In the Year of Turmoil, when the three gods of death, Bane, Baal, and Melkor, were killed in the God War, the powerful divine power they inspired led to the birth of the God-Rejectors.
The disappearance of these three evil gods released countless divine powers, which directly caused all kinds of destruction. Part of the evil energy generated remained in the material world after the death of these gods, and gathered and fused, and finally A maelstrom of divine power and negative energy formed, and the God Rejector was born.
Unlike other races, the God-Rejectors were not born under the glory of the gods, but were created from the god's stupidity. They are bound to never be loved by the gods, and any pious prayers and sincere wishes Faith has nothing to do with them.
Because of the conditions of their birth, they are destined to be forever abandoned by God’s gift.
In their pale existence, they have only one purpose: to vent their anger to God.
From the day they were born, they waged a guerrilla war against anyone who could bathe in the favor of any god, no matter how despicable and inferior.
The God Rejector suddenly appeared in front of him, which really surprised Brian.
However, he could no longer think too much now. A cold sound broke through the air, and the god-rejector who looked like a gargoyle brandished a jagged sword and took the lead in killing him.
——"Flash!"
Brian did not dare to be careless and dodge instantly. As evil creatures born from the remaining divine power of the three gods of death, they are born with divinity and possess powerful spells. It has resistance to divine spells and is immune to many mind control spells. It is simply a monster born to restrain spellcasters.
If you want to kill it as quickly as possible, you can only use physical means.
Just as Brian was dodging the attack of the God Defender, Caradna on the other side had already taken the opportunity to prepare her own spell, a dark purple chaos sphere, whizzing and smashing towards it.
As a dull sound sounded, the God Rejector flapped its bat wings violently, and streams of gray-white death force emerged from his body, completely dispersing the exploding chaotic energy.
"How is it possible?" Caradna felt a little unbelievable when she saw that the spell she was so proud of had no effect.
However, at the moment when she was so stunned, the cold eyes of the God Rejector had already locked onto her, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into an afterimage and appeared in front of her.
——"Force Field Prison!"
Brian was naturally aware of the situation here immediately. With a wave of his staff, a square force field cage fell from the sky, and the The God is trapped inside.
“Get away!” He immediately reminded Caradna:
"This is the God-Rejector. It has strong magic resistance. Our attacks cannot shake its defense at all. You are responsible for restricting its movements with spells, and I will attack."
"I understand." Caradna nodded slightly, her expression becoming solemn.
“Bang!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the god-defying man swung his long sword and swept it in a circle, and the solid force field prison shattered in response.
I saw it spreading its wings, its cold blood-red eyes locked fiercely on Brian, its hands clenching the hilt of the sword, and dark energy like the radiance of divinity gradually emerged from its body.
Seeing this, Brian stared at it with a solemn expression. Through the movements of the God-Rejector, he instantly judged that the God-Rejector was planning to perform a killing move.
At this moment, Caradna took action again.
As she chanted the spell, the dark void around the God Rejector suddenly condensed into smoke-like rose purple energy, and then instantly turned into countless slender energy ropes, spinning crazily. It was tied up like a rice dumpling and fell rapidly towards the ground.
Brian took this opportunity, holding the Star Sword that was already lingering with blue and white cursed fire in his hand, turned into an afterimage, and appeared in front of the God Rejector who had not yet fallen to the ground.
A flash of sword light passed by, and the moment the long sword hit the body of the God-Rejector, bright blue and white cursed fire spread towards the God-Rejector's body at an extremely fast speed.
The God-Rejector let out a painful cry, but the rope transformed from chaotic energy was so soft that it could not escape for a while.
Seeing that the attack was effective, Brian was slightly relieved.
Although the God-Rejectors have strong magic resistance and immunity, their IQ is the same as that of beasts, and they do not have spell-like abilities.
As long as it can cause damage to it, even grinding it can grind it to death.
"Bryan, use this weapon to hammer it." He was about to continue attacking, but Caradna had unknowingly taken out the wand behind her back, injected it with chaotic energy, and threw it over.
Brian took the wand into his hand without any hesitation, nor did he get curious and tried to untie the linen wrapped around him. Instead, he clenched his hands tightly without hesitation and moved toward the Rebellion who was about to break free from the restraints. The man was hit on the forehead.
“Bang!”
With a dull sound, the body of the God-denier who was hit on the head suddenly stiffened, and suddenly the wand surged through the wrapped linen cloth. Swallowed by the deep purple chaotic energy that moved out.
Shrill wails continued to sound, and the God-Rejector, who even Brian found troublesome, was forcibly refined into a dark purple soul crystal and fell to the ground.
Caradna gently hooked her slender fingers, and the soul crystal fell into her palm. She immediately showed a happy smile, "A soul crystal refined by the remaining divine energy of the three gods of death. , is the most sought-after currency in Baator Hell.”
Without asking too much about the specific reason, Brian handed her the wand and began to continue exploring the depths of the monastery.
They came to the nearest house. Inside, there were many damaged scroll boxes scattered on the smashed wooden table, and water-soaked parchment was thrown around on the ground.
The ceiling is a hemispherical dome, and it looks like this was once a place where paperwork was done. On the west side of the room is a large door decorated with black heraldry, on the north side is a small room, and on the east side of the room is The collapse was serious, with several large holes in the wall and a whole section of the ceiling missing.
"The God Defiant just now should have come out from here." Caradna pointed to a clean area on the ground and said, "Obviously, it is more like it is responsible for monitoring something."
"Brian, didn't you say that there are followers of the God of Murder hidden here." She then asked curiously: "Why didn't these people show up when we just dealt with the God Rejectors?"
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"Because the role of the God Rejectors is to monitor the followers of the God of Murder." Brian expressed his speculation, "If it were me, I wouldn't help those who monitor me."
"Then That's right, so the strange feeling we had before we appeared in the monastery was because the God Rejectors had noticed us in advance?" The sorceress's eyes lit up and she expressed her guess.
“It’s possible.” Brian thought for a moment and said, “If that’s the case, the black dragon hiding in the dark canyon may have noticed our arrival.”
The strange noise coming from deep inside the monastery interrupted the conversation between the two.
This intermittent voice sometimes turned into a sharp cry, sometimes turned into a moan, sometimes it turned into a howl, or a low whisper.
They followed the direction of the sound and cautiously came to the most conspicuous building of the monastery, a solemn temple shrouded in a black hemispherical dome.
On the wall of the temple hall is a huge mural. The entire mural is inlaid with colored copper sheets.
In the picture, a skull without its jaw is bathed in the purple sunlight shining down from the gaps in the sky, looking up at the sky.
Under the mural, located in the center of the entire wall, is an altar made of black marble.
In the corners on both sides opposite the altar, there are two statue-like things covered by thick black curtains. Standing quietly next to them is a huge and bulky deformed creature. .
It looked like a giant made of gray, corrupted human flesh, but its face was a slowly rotating black vortex.
From this creature came a discordant chorus of wails, cries, and moans.
Brian was also surprised to notice that on the skin of this monster, there were dozens of faces with painful expressions...
They seemed to be struggling outwards, trying to get out of the way. Escape from the body that binds them.
"What is this?" Caradna approached Brian, her bright burgundy eyes showed no trace of fear, she just frowned in disgust.
"Judging from the age of the statue and the murals on the wall, this place was probably originally the temple of the Lost Lady, and was later given to Cyric, the God of Murder for some reason." Brian explained to her as he walked, "Dark Lady The Japanese believers did not want to see other gods here, so they covered the previous statue with a curtain."
He opened the curtain on the statue on the left, and sure enough he saw a statue of an elegant lady with a tall figure. Tall, wearing loose robes, with a feather mask on his face, the statue on the other side is an elegant and slender young female dancer, dancing gracefully.
Obviously these are the two statues of the Lost Lady Shar representing the ‘Dark Night Singer’ and the ‘Dark Night Dancer’ respectively.
“Judgment from the Dark Sun, heretics!”
At this moment, a gloomy-looking man with dark red skin emerged from behind the door on the northeast side. come out.
He had a pair of short horns protruding from his forehead, wore a shiny black light armor, and held a hammer like a devil's claw.
"Oh, you guys are here just in time. Despil needs a few more 'volunteers', and it's you."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound like a devil's scream. With a howling roar, the enemy who suddenly appeared was suddenly shrouded in blood-red light. The short horns on his forehead grew into huge and curved goat horns at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a pair of them also grew on his back. Broad blood red bat wings.
"Suffer death, the judgment from the dark sun, you two heretics, dare to trespass into the temple of my lord!"
Cyric's follower, the demon clan Zesama Si, a half-demon warrior with medium legendary strength.
Brian instantly recognized the person's identity, secretly exchanged glances with Caradna, and immediately prepared to face the attack of the demon race.
A half-demon warrior with a mid-level legendary strength posed no threat to him at all. ——"Overfrequency Explosion!"
Just when Zesamas flapped his wings, brandished a war hammer like a devil's claw, and was about to approach Brian, Brian fired an instant shot The psychic energy caused a sudden stabbing pain in his brain, and the attack suddenly stopped.
On the other side, Karadna's spell attack has been prepared, and the rose-purple chaotic energy tightly entangled the demon warrior just like it dealt with the God Rejector just now.
Brian was about to prepare a follow-up attack when raging black flames suddenly erupted from the demon warrior's body, burning all the soft ropes. He was also affected and had to avoid the edge temporarily.
"It turned out to be two legendary spellcasters... What are they doing here?"
The escaped demon warrior murmured to himself, he looked down at Brian and the two, dark red A look of fear and shock appeared on his face.
Obviously, he also knew that he could not face two legendary casters at the same time.
Then, the demon warrior suddenly opened his exaggerated mouth and let out a death scream that could pierce the eardrum.
Brian and Caradna's expressions changed slightly, and they immediately activated the protective barrier to block the explosion of death sound waves.
The demon warrior quickly turned around and spread out his broad blood-red bat wings when Brian and the two were not paying attention. Like an arrow from a string, it broke through the dome of the temple and disappeared into the dark void.
After recovering from the screaming sound wave, Caradna immediately walked to Brian and asked, "Would you like to track his location."
"No need." Brian shook his head slightly. , "At this moment, he must be meeting up with his leader, and he will come over when the time comes. We might as well wait here and wait for work."
Caradna nodded slightly, agreeing with his statement.
So, the two came to the demon warrior's room and tried to search for some useful information.
In the room, a candle made of animal fat was inserted into a bleached skull to provide light. Thick books with black covers were randomly thrown on the table and shelves.
Brian did not dare to waste time, walked to the bookshelf, and quickly flipped through the information here.
There were a total of 16 books in the room. After identifying them, he confirmed that these books were all about magic, planes and demons.
Brian also accidentally discovered that in the blank space of one of the pages of the book, there was still very new handwriting recorded in black ink, which was obviously written not long ago.
There is no title written on the cover of this book, which is relatively the thinnest among the sixteen books.
The content of the book is about the origin of magic and the records of the magic network. It briefly describes the history of the goddess Mystra since the turbulent times.
A human woman named Midnight embarked on the path to becoming a god amidst the disasters of the turbulent era.
She inherited the priesthood and power of the goddess of magic, Mystra, and became the third administrator of the magic network known as the goddess of magic.
The back of the book mentions a city flying in the sky that suddenly appeared in the vast Eno Oak Desert in the north.
The city's residents call themselves the Shades, powerful spellcasters who claim to be descendants of the ancient human empire.
The book also mentions that these ghosts do not use the magic network, but use a mysterious structure called the shadow magic network.
It is believed that this Shadow Demonic Network was created by Shar, the Lady of the Night, to fight against Mystra.
A kind of network that has been widely circulated in fact, but maintains an unknown secret on the surface. A well-known secret.
The book also contains personal complaints, claiming that the third goddess of magic, Mystra, is far inferior to her predecessor.
The evidence is that the dead magic area and wild magic area on the continent caused by the death of her predecessor still exist.
Next, Brian read Zesamas's notes.
It uses a tone full of ridicule to condemn the intelligence and knowledge of the author of the book.
In his opinion, these contents are meaningless venting.
However, there is one message exception.
The first is a theory:
“The dead magic area not only invalidates all magic in the area,”
“Based on the principle of its existence, it can be assumed that magic based on the Shadow Demonic Network will also be invalid. ."
Then Zesamas developed the following discussion based on this:
"Can I believe this hypothesis?"
"The conclusions it leads to are truly astonishing."
"Remember, Zesamas: Find out how the dead magic zone affects your power."
"This way , There is no doubt that Ethel is of no use.”
“So, what about asking Despiel?”
“There is no doubt about the promise given by this black dragon. It’s tempting.”
"But how would my lord Cyric view this?"
"Perhaps it would be more beneficial to make a deal with the demon lords in the Underdark..."
"Let's go!" After reading these contents, Brian had a vague understanding of why the followers of the God of Murder wanted to assist the Shar Church in tearing apart the magic web.
As soon as the two of them reached Cyric's temple hall, they were blocked by the fleeing demon warriors again.
"Get out, heretics!" The demon warrior named Zesamas roared at the two of them: "This is the temple of my lord. No one can enter and accept the judgment of the dark sun. Go! ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the aura around the demon warrior suddenly became stronger, and then the demon warhammer in his hand was filled with dark energy that seemed to be substantial, and he rushed towards Karadna.
The sorceress’s eyes were slightly focused, and her slender fingers outlined dazzling spell-casting gestures. Lines of nearly invisible lavender defensive force fields continued to appear in front of her, resisting the fierce attacks of the demon warriors.
At the same time, the early warning ability of Brian's Purple Dragon Seal Ring suddenly appeared in his mind. His expression changed and he activated the "Illusion Technique" in the triggering technique without hesitation.
Sure enough, the moment he escaped, a black shadow came as fast as a stream of light, instantly penetrating his body. The speed was so fast that Brian was secretly shocked.
“Boom!”
There was a loud noise, and another nine-level attack magic spell of Brian's Illusion, "Ice Fury Explosion", was triggered, and there was a trembling sound of ice exploding. The powerful impact made the temple hall seem to be shaking slightly.
In an instant, the entire temple hall was filled with a bone-chilling chill and a thin layer of frost mist.
At this time, Brian also clearly saw the enemy who was attacking him. She was a human woman wearing tight black leather armor. She had unmodified short black hair and pale cheeks. A cold look on his face.
The emblem of Cyric, the god of murder, is conspicuously decorated on her leather armor.
Skeleton Waiter Ethel, a shadow dancer whose strength has reached a medium legend, Brian instantly recognized this person's true identity.
"Kill them, Zesamas." The skeleton waiter waved the two daggers surrounded by dark energy and suddenly disappeared into the shadows.
——"The Mantra of Chaos!"
Brian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he whispered mysterious words, and a terrifying lavender energy field quickly erupted, covering the entire hall.
The demon warrior on the other side, who was beating Karadna back steadily, was affected by the Chaos Mantra. His body hovering in the air suddenly froze, and he almost fell down.
Karadna instantly found an opportunity to counterattack, and the overwhelming chaos energy missiles shrouded the body of the demon warrior.
"It seems that these two are both chaotic camps." Seeing that his attack did not have the expected effect, Brian couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
Then, he looked highly alert, standing on the spot and watching for the shadow dancer who might launch a fatal attack on him from a dark corner at any time.
As the dark shadow twisted, Brian's Purple Dragon Seal Ring instantly sensed danger and alerted him in time.
“Clang!”
Faced with Shadow Dancer’s fatal attack, Brian did not choose to escape. He drew out the Star Sword, which was surrounded by blue and white cursed fire, and met Shadow Dancer who appeared. They fight together.
——"Demon fire!"
A ball of dark purple will-o'-the-wisp was accurately thrown by Brian onto the body of the shadow dancer, making it impossible for it to disappear by hiding its gaze.
Then, he immediately locked onto her figure, and with the blessing of acceleration, he used his exquisite swordsmanship to launch a continuous attack on the shadow dancer.
Feeling that a spellcaster could unleash such a powerful melee capability, Shadow Dancer Ethel's expression gradually changed from disdain to shock.
In order to end the battle as soon as possible, she jumped into the air, and a sudden surge of shadow energy appeared around her.
"Bang!"
With a soft sound, Shadow Dancer's body suddenly exploded and turned into countless shadow creatures, overwhelmingly attacking Brian.
——"Soul Blade: Blade Storm!"
Amidst countless shrill screams, the ghost turned into a cold wind and rushed toward him. Brian was already on guard. The spiritual crystal servant who had been waiting for a long time instantly summoned a rain of swords from the sky to block this dense group of shadow creatures.
At the same time, he used a flash technique to appear behind the demon warrior.
——"The Mantra of Chaos!"
As Brian whispered, the terrifying lavender energy field enveloped the demon warrior without warning.
The unprepared demon warrior's attack was stopped instantly, he covered his head and let out a painful cry.
——"Mordenkainen Disintegration Technique!"
Brian pushed his palm, and energy full of destructive aura emerged from his palm, mercilessly washing through the demon warrior's body.
In an instant, his armor, weapons, and magic accessories were all shattered into pieces by the nearly annihilating energy.
With no protection from any defensive measures, Brian swung his sword accurately and quickly, slashing out.
A sword light bursting out with blue and white flames flashed past.
The frightened demon warrior subconsciously used his weapon to block it. He never thought that his demon war hammer had already shattered in the attack of the disintegration technique.
“Pfft!”
A stream of blood filled with corrosive energy spurted out. The demon warrior's right arm was cut off by Brian's sword first, and the blue-white flames of the cursed fire quickly spread towards his body at the fastest speed.
The demon warrior, whose whole body was burning with blue flames, covered his severed arm, howled in pain, and flapped his wings desperately, trying to escape.
Brian looked at him with an indifferent expression, and his body suddenly disappeared on the spot, appearing in front of the demon warrior without any warning, floating quietly in mid-air.
The demon warrior Zesamas was about to speak when his throat was slashed by Brian's sword. Blood spurted out from the deep wound and he fell to the ground.
At the same time, the shadow dancer Ethel, who disappeared into a shadow all over the sky, quietly touched Caradna's back and turned into a black stream of light at a very fast speed. Just like a person's delusion, he launched a fatal attack on the sorceress.
And Caradna, who had been watching Brian kill the demon warrior indifferently from beginning to end, obviously did not do anything.
She had already been warned by Brian and had taken precautions in advance.
Faced with Shadow Dancer's fatal blow, Karadna remained unmoved and stood quietly, as if she didn't notice it at all.
Just when Shadow Dancer's attack was about to hit Karadna, a semicircular protective shield suddenly appeared, blocking the attack in time.
As the magic shield flashed with lavender light, dark purple current surged around the shadow dancer who came into contact with the shield, causing her to tremble all over and quickly distanced herself from it before disappearing again. In the shadows.
It was only at this moment that Shadow Dancer Ethel realized that she had only disappeared for a short while, and her teammates had been killed. This made her immediately give up her plan to continue the attack and prepare to escape from here.
——"Space Lock!"
——"Psionic Space Blockade!"
——"Psionic Space Distortion!"
Publish Ryan naturally would not let a flexible shadow dancer slip away from him. He released the three space-blocking spells and psychic powers he had mastered without hesitation, completely eliminating the opponent's attempts to cross the border. Escape by plane movement.
"Get her out for me." Then, he came to Caradna, looked around the silent temple hall vigilantly, and told her.
The sorceress nodded gently with a solemn expression, closed her beautiful eyes lightly, and was immersed in the process of releasing her spell.
As the obscure spells were recited from Karadna's mouth, with the sorceress at the center, the entire temple hall was gradually covered by a large lavender net.
At this moment, Brian on the side suddenly noticed that the Shadow Dancer hiding in the dark was anxious and tried to forcibly interrupt Caradna's spell casting.
Of course he would not let her act recklessly. He quickly raised the Star Sword and blocked the appearance of the shadow dancer in time.
Waves of whistling spells and psychic energy flooded towards Shadow Dancer, mixed with Brian's melee attacks. For a moment, Shadow Dancer was unable to resist and could only be forced to retreat.
Seeing that her attack was blocked and the sorceress's web was taking shape at a speed visible to the naked eye, Ethel, as a shadow dancer, finally smelled the fear of death.
This was the first time she had seen a spell caster with this style of fighting. Not only did he possess superb swordsmanship, he could even attack her while instantly casting deadly spells and psychic powers, which made her simply It is difficult to resist for a long time.
As a strong man with a medium-level legendary strength, he is about to be forced into a desperate situation at this moment.
This made her feel like a fish jumping into a gradually tightening net. Death was only a matter of time.
Her eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly, through the supernatural power she had mastered, she transformed into a dozen identical figures, scattered in all directions, trying to forcefully break through.
——"Psychic Life Detection!"
——"True Seeing!"
Brian can see through the enemy's intentions at a glance and activate spells and abilities continuously. , locked her true body, and continued to launch continuous attacks and spell bombardments.
Just when the hunted shadow dancer was about to escape from the space lock, Caradna suddenly opened her eyes, and the lavender network projected in the temple hall, in an instant, It became like a substance and shrank as fast as possible, making the escaping shadow dancer like a fish trapped in a net being fished out of deep water. No matter how hard she struggled, she could not escape.
A sword light flashed.
Ethel, the skeleton attendant of Cyric, the God of Murder, ‘Shadow Dancer’, was killed on the spot by a sword piercing his chest.
"Well done." Seeing the death of Shadow Dancer, Brian took a deep breath and smiled at the sorceress beside him.
Although the strength of these two opponents remains at medium legendary, they are not spellcasters, but shadow dancers and warriors without any spellcasting abilities.
Killing the Shadow Dancers is a piece of cake as long as you are wary of their terrifying sneak attacks and ability to hide in shadows.
Of course, if it weren't for Caradna's help, he could only watch the Shadow Dancer leave, with nothing to do.
After cleaning the battlefield, Brian and Caradna walked through the temple hall and came to a comfortable suite. There was a magnificent red carpet under their feet and exquisite decorations on the walls.
A large and soft bed with four legs is placed in the corner. Complete furniture and wardrobe cabinets are in their respective places. On the opposite wall, there is a painting. A flag bearing a jawless skull bathed in purple sunlight.
Obviously, this is the room of the skeleton waiter Ethel.
At this moment, Brian found an unfinished letter on the table, and the ink on the letter had not yet dried.
This made him realize that the skeleton waiter was probably writing a letter, which was interrupted because of the sudden intrusion of the two men and the message from the demon warrior.
So Brian picked up the letter and looked at it.
To the respected Chief of Vigilance, 'Dark Will' Acamelle:
Enter your blood-stained right hand, loyal follower, Skeleton Attendant Ethel
< br>As we might expect, followers of the Lady of the Night guard their secrets very well.
But I did find some clues that might help us understand their ultimate plan.
We assisted them in a ritual in the swamp to create a dead magic area that could cover the entire swamp.
Obviously, once completed, only the Shadow Demon Web will be able to function normally in this area.
But I think it would be foolish to claim sovereignty over their swamp.
This contradiction troubles me, so I pray to the Dark Sun to grant me knowledge about these issues.
Unfortunately, I received no response.
But praise Cyric!
While in their ancient monastery, I discovered an ancient fragment of parchment, which I enclose with this letter.
I believe this was written by a Darkmoon monk who once lived in the Abbey of Abendedict.
From this parchment, it seems that Lady Ye’s followers secretly have a secret chronology.
I am unable to comment on its origin and accuracy, but the history we have experienced seems to have proven that the records at the forefront are amazingly accurate, even surpassing the missing sage we know. The prophecy given by 'Mad Mage' Ojasla.
As you can see, this dark chronicle spans hundreds of years of history.
But perhaps the original entire piece of parchment revealed more and more fully about the future.
If you can consult the "Dark Chronicles", it may be able to explain what Lady Night's followers are planning.
During a whole week of investigation, I could not find any more similar clues.
I cautiously and tactfully questioned Lady Night's followers and Despiers.
Despiel seemed to know nothing about it,
But you know, creatures like black dragons... it's hard to say.
Other followers of the Night Lady said they could not understand what I was talking about,
and told me how the monks who lived in this monastery were going mad.
Although I couldn't tell from the outside, I felt that they were handling me very carefully.
I think, we must find this "Dark Chronicle" and...
The letter stops here, and it seems that no one will ever know what the rest of the story is like.
Brian burned the letter and secretly rejoiced that he arrived in time. If Ethel could finish the letter and send it out successfully, then the showdown between the Lost Lady and the Mysterious Lady would be over. Influenced by Cyric's followers.
This is obviously not what he wants to see. After all, the 'Dark Will' Halkon Acameral is not only the chosen one of Cyric, the God of Murder, but also the important city of Cyric's faith on the mainland. One, the leader of the 'Twin Towers of Eternal Eclipse' located on the southern border of Amn.
The most dazzling achievement of this elector was that when he was judging Cyric's crimes at a high council of gods composed of powerful gods, he dared to shout to many powerful gods on the spot: "You are all a bunch of fucking idiots." Donkey! ”
If this fun-loving voter named 'the funniest and bravest' by Cyric is involved, the fun will be really great.
After settling the matter here, he appeared at the back door of the monastery with Caradna.
This is a well-maintained path with shrubs on both sides extending towards the cliffs to the east.
The gray paths intertwined with the shadowy lands of this world leading into the distance until they were completely swallowed up by darkness.
Looking along the direction of the extension of the path, the shadow world suddenly became wider. The depression that I had felt since entering the shadow plane seemed to be gone.
Brian is very clear that ahead is the Dark Grand Canyon, which is the end of the intersection of the Demonic Network and the Shadow Demonic Network. His next task must be to destroy the dark ritual of the ancient black dragon Despiel to tear the Demonic Network apart. .
Otherwise, the entire Guangze Demonic Network will be destroyed first, and eventually become a place permanently shrouded by the Shadow Demonic Network.
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(End of this chapter)