purgatory artist

Chapter 129 The Boys

All the teenagers set off one after another, heading towards the village at the foot of the mountain.

Halfway through Liu Ping's walk, a voice suddenly came from not far away:
"Knight? Alone?"

Liu Ping stopped and said, "What's the matter?"

The boy ran over and said, "I'm an assassin, why don't we form a team and fight together?"

Liu Ping glanced at him.

One more person means more strength, besides, this kid looks smart, when he is blocking the monster in front, he can attack from one side——

"Okay, let's fight together." Liu Ping nodded.

"Your stick isn't good enough, come on, I'll cut it into a spear for you, so that your combat effectiveness will be improved." The boy said.

"Thank you." Liu Ping thought about it, and threw the wooden stick over.

The boy took the wooden stick, and a strange smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"I heard that you died while robbing women, so this time, do you know why you died?"

As he spoke, he threw the stick behind him.

In the darkness, several teenagers came out.

One of them grabbed the stick, chopped it off with a knife, and threw it on the ground.

Liu Ping looked at several people, then at the person who broke the stick, suddenly remembered, and said:
"It turned out to be you. I took a fish from your table during dinner."

"Yes, I clearly told you to put that fish down, but you didn't listen." The boy said.

He holds a statue in his hand.

The holy light emanates from the statue, as if it can heal people around at any time.

The boys surrounded him.

"Are you going to break my only weapon because of a fish?" Liu Ping asked.

Several teenagers fell silent.

Liu Ping's brows slowly frowned, and continued: "Killing people's lives for the sake of quarrels, is this what you do?"

"If you don't have a weapon, you just wait to die." The young man said lightly, then turned and ran towards the village down the mountain.

Several other teenagers followed immediately.

Liu Ping was the only one left standing there alone.

1 minutes passed.

2 minutes.

Minute 3——

"Idiots... Will killing you lower my evaluation? Forget it, be careful, and we'll talk about the rules later."

He shook his head and went straight to the side of the woods.

After a few minutes.

He came out, wrapped dozens of wooden sticks with rattan, tied them to his back, and strode towards the village down the mountain.

……

In the village, flames were burning everywhere.

The old man said he would kill all the lost souls.

But what is the lost soul?
Liu Ping chose a remote location, climbed over the fence, and stopped in front of a farmhouse.

The door was ajar, and there was a low roar from inside.

Liu Ping pulled out a wooden stick from behind, pressed it against the door, and pushed hard——

The door opened with a "squeak".

The roaring sound disappeared immediately, and a black figure rushed out from the door and landed in the yard.

— but a skinny man.

He fell on the ground and looked at Liu Ping vigilantly like a beast.

Lines of burning small characters quickly surfaced:
"The lost soul."

"Being used as food by some kind of monster, eating up the essence of the soul, leaving only the body and endless negative emotions, and will actively attack everything that comes close."

Liu Ping showed a thoughtful expression.

It appears that the enemies of the Empire are some kind of monster...

Yongye is clearly the sleeping place of the dead, but it's not peaceful at all.

"Hey, you can do it now, you can see the origin of these things just by looking at them." Liu Ping teased.

Lines of small characters responded: "This sequence has been activated, please don't look at this sequence with the eyes of the past."

The lost soul uttered a wild roar, and rushed towards Liu Ping!

"now it's right."

Liu Ping praised, and raised the wooden stick high, until the opponent's claws were blocked by the shield, and then slammed down hard!
Click.

There was a crisp sound.

When the stick was broken, the neck of the lost soul was also broken.

It fell to the ground and struggled continuously, trying to stand up and attack Liu Ping again, but it couldn't.

Liu Ping pulled out another wooden stick from behind, and swung it down with all his strength——

The monster was finally quiet.

The second stick also snapped.

Liu Ping shook his head and sighed, "Weapons are too rubbish."

He was about to leave, but he suddenly remembered something, and then he retreated and walked into the farmhouse.

The environment in the room was quite simple, with only a bed made of hay and some rough and simple farm tools.

——I don’t even have a pair of scissors.

Liu Ping was a little disappointed.

He simply untied the vines and threw all the sticks on the ground, leaving only one in his hand.

——These wooden sticks can only be regarded as ordinary wooden branches, not suitable for fighting at all, and carrying too many sticks is a waste of energy.

After finishing all this, he withdrew from the farmhouse, only to find that there was another person in the yard.

It was another teenager.

In the whole class, he was the third person to introduce himself. His name was Libertas. It is said that he accidentally killed the youngest son of the Patriarch in a duel, and was chopped to death by the Patriarch with an axe.

"I remember you, you are the Liu Ping who died trying to snatch a woman."

Libertas looked at him and said suddenly.

"I remember you too, your name is Libertas." Liu Ping said.

——Among the group of teenagers just now, there was no such person.

Libertas looked at the corpse on the ground and said with a smile: "How about it, do you want to fight together? Two people are stronger than one after all."

"Yes." Liu Ping said flatly.

"Come on, give me your stick, and I'll cut it into a spear for you, so that if you fight in a while, your combat effectiveness will also improve." Libertas said.

Liu Ping threw the wooden stick in his hand.

Without saying a word, Libertas drew a fruit knife from his waist, and quickly sharpened the stick.

"What's your occupation?" Liu Ping asked.

"Apprentice assassin." Libertas said.

He raised the sharp wooden spear and looked at it carefully for a moment, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

"Actually, I've never seen a guy as fierce as you, who was directly beaten to death for robbing a woman—that woman must be very beautiful."

Libertas winked at Liuping and threw the wooden spear to him.

Liu Ping took the wooden spear with a smile on his face.

"If you want to say she is beautiful, she is indeed very beautiful." He recalled Yana's face and said seriously.

"That's worth it." Libertas said.

"That's right, should we continue chatting, or go out and kill some lost souls?" Liu Ping asked.

"Let's go, idle is idle."

Libertas turned the fruit knife into a continuous stream of silver light, turned around and walked out of the yard.

The two crossed a small road, and at the end of the alley, they met a lost soul again.

"I'll stop you from killing me, do you have any objections?" Liu Ping said.

"Is it shield defense skills? Good." Libertas said.

Liu Ping stepped forward, and was about to raise his shield to block the soul-destroyer, but saw a bloody light suddenly radiating from the soul-destroyer's eyes.

--not good.

With a flash of his figure, he passed by the soulless man, and the wooden shield slapped back——

Snapped!
The head of the lost soul exploded, and he fell straight to the ground.

Libertas' eyes lit up, but he joked, "You don't give me a chance to show off at all."

"No, there seems to be something wrong with it." Liu Ping said.

"What's wrong?" Libertas asked.

"It gave me a sense of danger just now." Liu Ping smacked.

"With our current pitiful strength, it's normal for them to give us a sense of danger." Libertas shrugged.

"...I can't tell, let's take a look." Liu Ping said.

The two walked out of the alley, one behind the other, and came to the road.

I saw lost souls wandering aimlessly on the road in twos and threes.

"I'll stop you from killing." Liu Ping said.

"no problem."

Libertas walked towards the nearest lost soul.

The lost soul sensed that someone was approaching, and immediately roared and rushed forward.

when!
The wooden shield made a dull blocking sound.

Liu Ping blocked the attack of the lost soul for Libertas, and Libertas clenched the dagger tightly and stabbed the opponent's neck directly.

puff--

A head was cut off, and blood spurted from the neck.

"It's too harsh." Liu Ping said.

"In order to avoid being contaminated with their blood, after all, we don't know whether their blood is poisonous." Libertas explained.

He suddenly said with some regret: "If I can get a dagger, it won't be such a trouble."

"Maybe after the upgrade." Liu Ping said.

The two walked straight along the road, and in a short while they cleared out the lost souls in this area.

"This is the entrance exam? It's too simple."

Libertas said with some disappointment.

"I don't think it's that simple." Liu Ping said.

“How come you see?”

"intuition."

"Your intuition has always been accurate?"

"allow."

"Then how did you get killed while robbing women?"

"It was an accident."

As Liu Ping was speaking, he suddenly found a metal light flickering in a blacksmith's shop by the roadside.

"Wait for me here."

He turned around and walked into the blacksmith shop, only to see that the place had obviously been evacuated, and there were large areas of blood on the ground.

A short sword lay on a chair beside the iron felt.

Liu Ping took the dagger, withdrew, and walked towards Libertas.

"Look, harvest," he said.

"That's right. Although this short sword is of average quality, it's better than the wooden spear in your hand." Libertas showed envy.

Liu Ping threw the dagger to him.

"You don't need it? I remember that knights can use all cold weapons." Libertas asked.

"I've always specialized in defense. This sword is more powerful in the hands of an assassin." Liu Ping said.

Libertas looked at him, suddenly laughed and said, "Okay."

The two suddenly felt something in their hearts, and turned their heads to look towards the corner of the street together.

I saw a soul-destroyed man whose figure had swollen several times lying on the fence, his eyes were blood red, staring at the two of them.

"This guy looks different from other lost souls." Libertas said puzzled.

"Be careful." Liu Ping said.

In the void in front of his eyes, rows of small burning characters quickly appeared:

"The lost soul after eating."

"It has mutated."

"Explanation: It has eaten enough human flesh and blood, and has become stronger."

Libertas held the dagger in one hand and the dagger in the other, and asked, "Flee or fight?"

The voice just fell-

The soul-destroyed man leaped vigorously, crossed the long street immediately, and landed in front of the two with a bang.

The lost soul first looked at the crude wooden shield in Liu Ping's hand, with a mocking look on his face, and then looked at Libertas.

Libertas is different, not only has a fruit knife, but also a dagger!
The lost soul stared at Libertas, and let out a low growl.

"It seems to be still sane - it seems that it can only be beaten." Liu Ping said.

"So?" Libertas asked.

"Go." Liu Ping said.

The two ran up side by side and quickly approached the lost soul.

Liu Ping originally held a shield to block in front, but saw that the lost soul didn't even look at himself, just staring at Libertas——

He simply pulled out the wooden spear from behind, shook it casually twice, then bypassed the opponent's raised hand in a hurry, and pierced into the opponent's body.

Click!

The wooden spear was too fragile and broke again.

"Do you still dare to know people by their clothes?" Liu Ping asked.

The soulless man swung his palm hard and hit the wooden shield.

Liu Ping was immediately sent flying.

At this moment -

A dagger pierced the back of the soulless man's neck and protruded from its mouth.

The lost soul fell to the ground immediately.

Libertas put away his sword and asked from a distance, "Are you alright?"

"It's okay, it's just that the shield has suffered a little damage." Liu Ping said.

He looked at the wooden shield in his hand and saw a few cracks on it.

If the attack just now comes a few more times, the shield will be finished.

Libertas came back and said, "After killing for so long, why don't we rest for a few minutes."

"Okay." Liu Ping said.

The two sat down on the side of the street.

After a while, several people appeared on the opposite street.

Liu Ping glanced at it and got up slowly.

"What?" Libertas didn't know why.

The teenagers on the opposite side recognized Liu Ping at a glance, and one of them was surprised: "Is he still alive?"

They stopped, whispered for a moment, and walked towards Liu Ping.

The leading boy said:
"Hey, Libertas, you go first."

"Huh? Why?" Libertas asked.

"We have some personal grievances with him," said the leading boy.

"You? There are so many people who have a personal grudge against him?" Libertas laughed.

The boy saw his posture, and took out a statue from his arms.

The holy light emanates from the statue, as if it can heal people around at any time.

"Our family has a heritage of healing."

"Although I fell into the eternal night, I will still become a powerful healer. If you are willing to retreat now, I will repay you in the future." The boy said.

(End of this chapter)