Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 92: Hidden Will-O'-the-Wisp (Combined Chapter)

Anthony and Connor then found Pamier first, and then went to the north side of the mansion courtyard to meet Luo Xiu.

At this time, Luo Xiu had sneaked out of the mansion again. He saw the three "Holy Judges" greeting him from afar.

Luo Xiu then got himself ready and went towards them.

"Luo Xiu!" Connor waved the hammer in his hand, with an irrepressible smile on his face, "We got the evidence! Evidence of collusion between Rodif and the Ancient Priory..."

As he spoke, Connor raised the secret letter in his other hand and gestured to Luo Xiu.

Seeing this, an expression of surprise appeared on Luo Xiu's face.

"——I didn't expect to get new evidence." Luo Xiu said, "It seems that Rodif really couldn't keep his composure..."

"Then let's re-enter the mansion next."

Anthony said: "I will sentence him to his face and control him in the name of the Holy Court. Now that things have come to this, even those high-ranking people of the Supreme cannot say anything more."

……

The four of them then returned to the gate of the mansion.

At this moment, the light from Rodif's study was shining through the top-floor window, and a bloated figure also cast a vague outline on the window.

"…Rodif is in the study."

Anthony looked up and observed. He was about to knock on the door, but after thinking it over, he put his hand down.

Then he raised his foot and kicked hard at the door lock!
——Bang! The door was kicked open, and the door spun inward violently. Anthony led three members of the "Holy Judge" team and strode in.

They walked straight through the first three floors of the mansion and went straight to Rodif's study on the top floor.

The door to the study was not locked, so Pamier stepped forward, turned the handle, and opened the door.

"——Rodif! We have already..."

Anthony had already prepared the words for the meeting, but he suddenly choked up in the middle of the sentence.

He saw an extremely strange scene.

Right in front of him, "Lord of Rodif" was indeed sitting on a chair in the study.

However, his head was tilted to one side, his eyes were wide open, and his eyeballs were completely white; pale white, turbid saliva was flowing from his nose and mouth, and he seemed to be repeating some unclear sentences;

His hands and feet were twisted in unnatural postures; his body trembled from time to time, accompanied by rapid breathing and hoarse murmurs as if he was deeply frightened and terrified.

"...What's wrong with him?" Anthony frowned and then quickly stepped forward.

Luo Xiu and Connor maintained synchronized expressions. He looked at the brilliant white light emanating from Anthony's body, and his right hand was already covered with a layer of light golden mist.

Anthony reached out his hand and touched Rodif's forehead, feeling the spirituality surging in his body.

After a long while, Anthony withdrew his hand and said with a complicated expression: "...his spirituality is completely disordered, and his soul is also messed up...there is no hope."

"How could this happen?" Connor was stunned. "That evidence..."

"The evidence is still useful." Anthony said slowly, but his tone was a little low. "As long as he is not really dead, we can still put him on trial. It's just that... I always feel that this is not right."

Pamier added:

"He looks like something has disturbed his soul..."

"But it's possible that he was simply frightened out of his wits. From this position, you can see the battle between Connor and the 'Hand of the Mage'."

As she spoke, Pamier came to the window and opened it. From here, she could see all the traces left by Connor's previous battle with the "Hand of the Mage".

"...Let's assume it's the latter." Anthony nodded, but he always felt that there seemed to be some important voice missing.

Then, Anthony found the source of the "missing" thing. He glanced at Luo Xiu and asked:
"Luo Xiu, what do you think?"

"...I don't know either." Luo Xiu spread his hands and said, "But, 'Lodifu' seems to want to say something."

After hearing what Luo Xiu said, Anthony immediately turned his gaze back to Rodif.

Indeed, just as Luo Xiu said, Rodif's mouth seemed to be slightly whispering, and some small and vague sounds came out of it.

Anthony then leaned over and put his ear close to Rodif to listen carefully to what he was saying.

After a long while, Anthony raised his head and said:

"——'The Ancient Priory'——'Ponytail Street'——'Alley 16', Rodif seemed to be repeating these words over and over again."

"…maybe the location of their true 'base'."

Luo Xiu said at the right time, "I think we can understand it as the destination of the 'secret letter' that Lodifu wanted to send... I think it's worth a try."

Anthony did not respond for the time being. He closed his eyes and thought for a while before nodding and saying:

"Okay, I'll do as you say."

"Then let's take Rodif back to the church and control him. Then you just follow me..."

"Let's go to Alley 16 tonight."

……

After the "Holy Judges" brought Rodif back to the church for supervision, Connor woke up the sleeping pastor of the "Red Maple City Church" and asked him to follow the team to participate in the judgment operation of "Deep into Mawei Street".

With Anthony as the leader, the team of five members in total moved stealthily towards the location of "Alley 16, Mawei Street".

Lane No. 16, Mawei Street, was originally a wine lane of a manor.

The original owner of "Mawei Manor" once wanted to build a small wine alley with regional wine culture characteristics, but eventually went bankrupt due to poor management.

The later acquirer rebuilt "Mawei Manor" into a casino based on its original foundation, and "Wine Lane No. 16" was converted into Warehouse Lane, but some traces of the original wine lane were still retained.

……

The warehouse doors covered by curtains were all closed. This was not a night market or a residential area, so there were few people wandering around here late at night.

It is for this reason that this place is very suitable for hiding certain secret organizations.

At this time, according to the existing information.

The "Spirit-Descending Followers" of the "Ancient Hermitage" have been severely injured by the backlash, and their maximum combat power has been reduced by at least half.

The remaining [Lost] double-destiny pagans were dealt with by four [Glorious] double-destiny transcendents.

Everyone's responsibilities had been assigned, and tactics had been arranged on the way. Everyone had arrived at "Mawei Street - Lane 16" and began looking for a possible entrance to the stronghold.

When the group passed the entrance of a deep alley, Anthony suddenly stopped.

"...I heard the gloomy spiritual wind coming from this deep alley." Anthony said.

Everyone stopped as Anthony stopped.

Among all the followers of [Glory] present, Anthony has the highest "Perception" attribute.

The abnormal spiritual surge that he "senses" is most likely the enemy's real stronghold.

Anthony then took off his hammer and led his team deep into the alley.

……

"Two 'holy servants' are guarding the entrance to a warehouse covered with black curtains."

Pamier's voice rang in everyone's ears. The "Holy Inquisitors" were hiding behind a pile of wooden boxes, observing the situation in front of them.

From Anthony's "perception" perspective, this is the source of the strange spiritual surge. If nothing unexpected happens, this is the real base of the "Ancient Hermitage".

This time, they obtained the information from the "Lord of Rodif", and relying on this intelligence advantage, they prepared to catch the "Priority" off guard.

Anthony condensed a golden spear of light in his left hand. He revealed his figure to the two "holy servants" and threw the spear in his hand with force!
——Shh! The spear of light split into two in mid-air, piercing through the chests of the two "holy servants" respectively. Blood splattered, and the two pagans fell to the ground.

The "three-pointed knives" that they were holding in their hands fell to the ground with a clang. The thick grease mixed with the flowing blood gave off an inexplicable fishy smell.

Anthony held a war hammer in his right hand, and his left hand had turned translucent gold again. He smashed the cover of the entrance with one hammer, revealing the entrance leading deep into the stronghold.

Then, Anthony strode deeper inside, and the other "Holy Judges" followed closely behind him.

With the light emitted from Anthony's left hand, everyone was able to see the true appearance of the interior of the "Ancient Hermitage" base.

This is a long and narrow underground secret room that connects the upper and lower parts.

Above is an ordinary warehouse, but inside the warehouse is a wide staircase leading to the lower level, which connects to the deep darkness and leads to an unknown destination.

Anthony opened his senses and stepped down to the lower level as cautiously as possible.

The moment Anthony entered the lower secret room, five or six cursed beams shot towards Anthony's position from the deep shadows!

It was a dirty light that was sometimes scarlet and sometimes purple, and it shot towards Anthony from different directions like a moving snake.

Suddenly faced with a surprise attack from the enemy, Anthony clenched his left hand and condensed a golden round shield out of thin air, then held it horizontally to the direction where the curse beam was focused.

——Boom boom boom boom! Five curse beams simultaneously hit the round shield, and the golden light and shadow instantly dimmed, and a hissing sound came out of the shield.

The next moment, the light shield exploded, and a faint purple light flashed on the surface of Anthony's left hand.

"This is a spell cast on me by the enemy's 'Spell Master'. A real 'Superhuman' is attacking us, which means we have made the right decision this time."

Anthony said this with a relaxed tone, and at the same time he casually cast a purification spell and applied it to himself to purify the effect of the "mild curse" he had just been hit by.

The next moment, the rustling sound came again from deep within the stronghold.

It seemed like something was swarming towards their location.

Luo Xiu then cast "consecration blessing" and "consecration prayer" on everyone. After that, he untied the cloth wrapped around the head of the "Moon-cutting Scythe" in his right hand and infused his own spirituality into it.

——Buzz! The Moon-Cutting Scythe suddenly emitted a buzzing sound, and at the same time, a slight vibration was heard from the staff.

A layer of light blue rune luster quickly flowed over the sickle of the Moon-Cutting Scythe, and the "runes" activated by the spirituality gradually accumulated into energy on the sickle blade.

Luo Xiu then held the "Moon-Cutting Scythe" in both hands and swung it deeper.

Two pale blue moon blades separated from the sickle of the "Moon-Cutting Scythe" and quickly flew into the depths.

——Boom! !

The light and shadow of the blue moon blade illuminated the two walls of the passage, and countless strange "creatures" were cut off by the two moon blades halfway. The moon blades finally hit the deepest part of the narrow passage, making two dull rumbling sounds.

Anthony turned his head and glanced at the long magic staff in Luo Xiu's hand. He praised: "Your magic staff is good."

Luo Xiu nodded slightly in response, while also radiating his "perception" outwards.

His perception was not as good as Anthony's, but he could still sense whether there were any remaining dangers within a certain range. When he did not notice any strange spiritual surges in the depths, the team continued to move forward.

The ground was littered with strangely wriggling fragments of cursed spirits. Those were the "corpses" of the strange creatures that Luo Xiu had just chopped off with his sickle.

As they walked deeper, the sharp-eyed Connor was the first to discover a broken arm fallen to the ground.

Its owner should be the "spellcaster" who attacked Anthony before, but he also had one arm chopped off by Luo Xiu using the rune skill of his sickle staff - "Blue Moon Shadow Blade Style".

……

When the Inquisitors reached the end of the corridor, they stopped in front of a wide door on the side.

Strange and restless sounds continued to pour out from behind the door.

Pamier took a step forward and slammed the sword in his hand to the ground. At the same time, with himself as the origin, he built a golden wall with golden light flowing on the semi-arc surface in front of him.

That was the first time that Luo Xiu saw a layer of dense golden lines suddenly flashing on Pamier's "Paladin Armor".

——Blessing of Holy Light!
The inherent skills of the Paladin used by Pamier this time were much more advanced than those in Dawn Town, and could completely resist most attacks below the same fate.

Then, in the next moment.

Like the impact of an angry dragon, it suddenly rushed out from behind the door!

The turbid beam of light mixed with scarlet and dark purple broke the wooden door on the spot and crashed directly into the solid wall built by Pamier.

Countless streams of light dispersed in all directions, and the scattered light of the "curse" eroded all tangible objects around.

——Boom boom boom boom! The successive explosions caused the ground to shake violently, but such a strong impact did not cause Pamier's figure to shake at all.

"Pamier, the armor he was wearing was a Paladin's Armor that was rated as 'Epic' by the Church. It was an heirloom in his family."

While waiting for the impact to subside, Anthony said to Luo Xiu, "So, you just need to get used to scenes like this... You will see more of them in the future."

The "Epic" level is two levels higher in equipment quality than the "Rare" level.

Luo Xiu's eyes flashed with surprise: "No wonder... I see Pamier wearing this set of Paladin heavy armor every day."

If the equipment has been "worn" or "carried" by other NPCs, Luo Xiu's player panel will not be able to see the specific quality and values ​​of the equipment.

Therefore, when Luo Xiu learned that Pamier was wearing an "epic" equipment, he was still a little surprised.

What kind of family background... Thoughts raced through Luo Xiu's mind.

……

The idle chatter going on behind Pamier gradually died down as the impact subsided.

At this time, Luo Xiu was able to go against the direction of the impact and see clearly the source of the curse torrent.

There were eight "holy servants" and two leading "spellcasters". They were holding spell staffs of different shapes and shooting out powerful beams of curse from the staffs.

When the ten curse beams gathered together, they formed a terrifying curse torrent, but this torrent did not break through Pamier's stronghold.

When the light of the torrent of curses brought about by the combined efforts of these pagan monastic orders faded.

The believers were shocked to see that their targets were protected by a golden wall and were completely unharmed!

A trace of fear suddenly appeared on the faces of the believers.

While they were casting spells, the "Holy Inquisitors" rushed forward and killed the pagans.

Luo Xiu observed the changes in the battle situation and fought guerrilla warfare among his teammates.

Golden light flew everywhere, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the secret room was suddenly filled with a bloody smell.

While assisting, Luo Xiu targeted two "spellcasters" with the double destiny of [Lost], and when they were low on health, he accurately finished them off with "Holy Light Annihilation".

The maximum amount of experience points was obtained, and the rest of the holy servants were killed by teammates, and the room was suddenly filled with corpses lying all over the place.

"This is indeed the real base of the Priory..."

"These people are genuine Lost Believers."

Anthony said this, his eyes simultaneously looking towards another door in the room.

At this moment, he could already feel very clearly the extremely manic spirituality coming from behind the door.

That strange spiritual surge was not just in one place, but almost filled the entire room.

Like countless "ghosts", they are constantly wandering and sliding around, while at the same time unreservedly and wantonly emitting an extremely hungry spiritual restlessness.

"The last room should be in front..." said Anthony.

"Everyone, cheer up and be careful."

(End of this chapter)