Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 7 Shadow-Eating Wolf
The copper-forged ring on Luo Xiu's finger flashed a layer of lavender luster on the ring surface, and countless phantom tentacles burst out and merged into a big hand.

The pale red soul of Morris, which was constantly swelling and shrinking, was dragged out of the ring by the phantom hand.

Luo Xiu pressed his palm down, and Morris's soul was squeezed and melted into the etched wolf skin.

The etched wolf skin began to tremble violently, and the abyss engravings drawn on the surface emitted an extremely strange and dangerous dark luster.

Luo Xiu took a step back and watched the changes in front of him closely.

At this time, the soul and the carrier are merging and assimilating... Luo Xiu knows that this is dangerous to a certain extent and will take quite a while.

Luo Xiumo counted his own heartbeats.

When the heart contracted and beat for the one hundred and eighth time, a large amount of purple mist like thick fog gushed out from the purple lines etched on the wolf skin, and gathered and merged into a giant purple cocoon.

"This is considered a success..."

Luo Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. At this point in the "Abyss Beast Summoning", he had passed the stage with the highest failure rate.

And after this, the most exciting thing is——

Blind box opening time!

Although Luo Xiu has used etched wolf skin to limit the range of the Abyss Beast summoning, the specific type of Abyss Beast to be summoned cannot be determined until the summoning is completed.

After a while, cracks began to appear on the surface of the cocoon.

The soft sound of "beep-beep" echoed, and the cocoon shell began to shatter and peel off like glass.

A black and red claw was the first to break out of the cocoon!

Then, a wolf-like creature with a skin like thick fog and fur as eye-catching as blood appeared in Luo Xiu's sight.

——It was a deep beast with the appearance of a wolf, but it was twice as big as an ordinary wolf; its front half was condensed into substance by some kind of force, while its back half had no substance, and was composed entirely of phantoms and blood mist.

At this moment, it was carefully observing everything around it with its pair of golden eyes.

"Shadow-eating wolf..."

Luo Xiu murmured softly. Although this was not the strongest abyss beast that Luo Xiu expected to summon, for Luo Xiu, whose luck was only 1 point, this was already a very good result.

At the same time as he successfully summoned the Shadow-Eating Wolf, the summoning panel of the "Shadow-Eating Wolf" popped up in Luo Xiu's field of vision.

[Shadow-eating Wolf (lv.18)]

[Race: Monster/Contracted Abyss Beast]

Threat Level: Dangerous

[Health: 120/120, Mana: 12/12]

[Physical Attack: 28, Spell Attack: 16, Defense Reduction: 8]

[Attributes: Strength 14, Constitution 12, Agility 12, Wisdom 8, Divinity 4, Perception 14, Resistance 8, Luck 4]

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[Skills and Features List]

[Shadow Eater (Inherent Skill): A hunter that feeds on shadows. Attacking an enemy's shadow is considered an attack on the hunter's body.]

[Devouring the Black Abyss (racial trait): A creature born from the abyss, it has the ability to devour the power and soul of others and use it to enhance itself. 】

[Contracted Beast (Contract Characteristics): This creature is summoned by the contract and is subject to the restrictions of the contractor - in the current state, the maximum level with the contractor does not exceed 10 levels. If it exceeds the threshold, it will be dynamically adjusted to the threshold. ]

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"Tsk...tsk..."

The Shadow-Eating Wolf let out a deep roar from its throat, and its phantom tail drooped as it slowly approached Luo Xiu. According to the level conversion, the Shadow-Eating Wolf was equivalent to a transcendent whose basic attributes had reached the second level of destiny, and was classified as a "monster", or "magic beast".

When the Shadow-Eating Wolf walked to Luo Xiu's feet, it leaned down and sniffed lightly, then stuck out its tongue and began to lick the surface of Luo Xiu's boots.

This was a gesture of goodwill. Luo Xiu squatted down and reached out to gently stroke the Shadow-Eating Wolf's back.

Although the Shadow-Eating Wolf has flaming fur, it feels quite soft and smooth when touched.

As Luo Xiu's palm caressed it, the Shadow-Eating Wolf began to half-close its eyes, and a soft "Awooooooooooooo~" sound came out from the corner of its mouth.

This gave Luo Xiu a certain illusion...

I felt like I was touching a husky with a different fur color...

However, after coming into contact with the "Shadow-Eating Wolf", based on the Shadow-Eating Wolf's reaction, Luo Xiu also let down his guard against the possibility of "backlash".

The Shadow-Eating Wolf is an extremely ferocious abyss beast, but once it is tamed, accepts and identifies with its master, it will become quite docile. This was Luo Xiu's experience in his previous life.

"Be good, be good..."

Luo Xiu gently stroked the back of the Shadow-Eating Wolf, thinking, "What should I call you... Xiu Gou? Xiao Ha..."

"Awooo?" The Shadow-Eating Wolf tilted its head and stopped licking the instep of its feet. It looked at Luo Xiu with a puzzled look, expressing its protest against these names.

After thinking hard for a while, Luo Xiu finally found inspiration from the mythological stories of his previous life and decided on a suitable name.

"It's decided!" Luo Xiu clapped his hands, "From now on, I will call you Fenrir."

"Awooo!" Fenrir wagged his tail happily, as if expressing his love for the name.

From Luo Xiu's perspective, he gave Shadow-Eating Wolf this name because he had high hopes for it...

He actually hoped that Fenrir could become stronger as soon as possible and eventually become a powerful mythical beast like the "Giant Wolf Fenrir" in the Norse mythology of his previous life.

But it's too early to think about these things now. There are more important things to do right now.

Luo Xiu never forgot that there was still an enemy that had not been defeated!
If the blood disciple named Ford is let go, the course of subsequent events will be unpredictable.

"Fenrir, let's go..." Luo Xiu stood up and took Fenrir out of the abandoned house and walked towards the deep shadows of Dawn Town.

……

At the same time, in a deep alley in Chenxi Town.

"Huh, huh..."

The sound of heavy breathing echoed in a shadow somewhere.

The figure under the dark cloak was breathing heavily, his body covered with conspicuous and horrifying scars.

"Damn it, damn it Morris..."

The figure in the cloak was none other than the Blood Cultist Ford. He felt the danger approaching from behind, while tightly holding in his hand the bone whistle that Morris had given him not long ago.

"What's this bone-breaking whistle... What's this power you lend me..."

Fold's eyes widened, and he cursed viciously:

"I blew this damn bone whistle, but nothing happened... nothing happened!!!"

Shortly after sneaking into Dawn Town, Ford encountered the enemy he least wanted to encounter.

——Intis, the traitor of "Blood of Thorns", stole the "Two-Faced Doll" and escaped!
He was ambushed by Index and suffered serious injuries. He escaped from the nearly brutal battle under the cover of night and hid in this remote alley.

Judging from the way Index attacked, she had already prepared an ambush for those who were chasing her!
At this moment, Index, following the trail of blood, was getting closer to where Ford was hiding.

(End of this chapter)