Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 417 The Old Enemy (4000 words)
"Oh, what a pity, it's the first time I ate such a delicious thing, but I couldn't eat it anymore." Natalya sighed as she sat aside and watched Rhodes who was cleaning up the mess.

Rhodes held back a smile after hearing this, and was very happy in his heart.

Finally let out another breath.

"Can you nobles eat such delicious food every day?" Natalya asked, she remembered the food that Rhodes handed her in the tomb, which was also very delicious.

"No, most nobles also eat some very unpalatable food every day." Rhodes replied while putting the cleaned dishes into the space ring.

After doing this, Rhodes sat on the spot and used the mage ball.

Sure enough, like last time, he observed through the mage ball that there were many souls with grim expressions around him.

Rhodes felt that they actually looked similar to normal humans, but they seemed to be suffering some kind of torture, so they showed such a hideous expression.

"Can you feel the souls surrounding us?" Rhodes asked.

"There are souls around us?" Natalya, who was resting on the ground, immediately sat up after hearing Rhodes' words: "You say that, I also feel that something is wrong around me."

"You don't have to be so nervous, there shouldn't be any danger. I've seen these souls when I stayed here before, but they don't seem to dare to approach the bonfire," Rhodes said.

Natalya frowned, stood still and began to observe the surrounding situation: "I always have an ominous premonition, I suggest that we better leave this place as soon as possible, don't you feel that the surroundings are getting colder and colder? It should mean that we are surrounded by souls that hate the living."

Rhodes used the mage ball again and found that there were indeed more souls around.

"It should be all right." Rhodes just had a full meal, most of the blood was concentrated in the stomach, and the blood supply to the brain was reduced, so he felt a little sleepy and didn't want to move much.

"Didn't you pass by here last time?" Natalya turned her head and asked.

"Probably not." Rhodes replied, "What's wrong?"

"I feel like this should be the lair of some evil god. The place where you stayed last night was only the peripheral area, and the place where we are staying now is the core area." Natalya explained with her brows furrowed.

"Look at the two horses you brought. Although they look like they are standing there sleeping, you can try to wake them up and see if you can wake them up." She said again.

Rhodes walked to a horse and patted it a few times, but it didn't respond.

"What's going on?" Rhodes asked.

"If we rest here, maybe we will lose our lives in sleep like them, and become the same existence as the souls you saw." Natalya explained.

"Then let's go." Rhode bent down, picked up two burning branches in the campfire as torches, and he handed one of them to Natalia.

Rhodes thinks that it is better to avoid the troubles that can be avoided as much as possible. He doesn't know if the car will overturn in such a place, so it is better to be careful.

Although he thinks that he can save all these souls with a Tathagata palm.

"Let's continue going north, I have another matter to deal with in the Kingdom of Nord." Natalya said to Rhodes.

Rhodes nodded: "We happen to be going the same way."

He walked up to one of the traveling horses again and kicked one of the horse's legs so hard that it broke.

The traveling horse with a broken leg lost its balance and fell directly to the ground, but it still didn't respond, as if it was an empty shell.

"Let's go." Natalya said to Rhodes: "There is too much negative energy here. As long as we are alive, we will be affected to some extent. Even if we stay here for a long time, we will suffer from various diseases."

Rhode nodded, quickened his pace, and quickly walked north with Natalya.

Even in the very dim light of the moon, he could see clearly without tripping over the roots of the trees on the ground.

Rhodes felt very sleepy today. Even though he was sweating all over, he still couldn't keep his eyes open.

"Cheer up, don't fall asleep." Natalya noticed Rhode's abnormality: "Are you feeling sleepy? This is because the negative energy in the surrounding environment is affecting you and making you weak."

"Do you feel sleepy?" Rhodes asked, yawning.

"No, it should be because my mental strength is stronger than yours, so it can't affect me." Natalya replied.

Rhodes thinks that his mental strength is very strong, but it will still be affected by the surrounding environment.

"I think it's better to stop, we can enter the dream and join forces to kill that evil god." Rhodes said to Natalya again.

While the two were talking, they were advancing very fast, and the surrounding scenery was changing rapidly. The torches in their hands had long been blown out by the strong wind generated by their running.

"That is its home field. It has been operating there for at least hundreds of years. We will definitely not be its opponents. If we can find its real body in the real world, we can try it." Natalya replied.

"Why don't you use a space teleportation scroll?" Rhodes said with a yawn.

Just when Natalya was about to answer him, the scene around them changed drastically.

They went directly from a forest to a village.

"What's going on?" Rhodes asked.

"It directly dragged us into its world." Natalya replied.

"Oh, if I knew it earlier, I would have used the teleportation scroll. I almost used up the teleportation scroll in the desert before, so I thought I could save as much as I could." She sighed.

Rhodes felt a chill coming from behind him. He turned his head and saw a man wearing a strange mask and a white sacrificial robe standing not far behind him.

Rhodes knew this mask. In the original world, this mask was shattered by the "Wise Men's Calamity" when he was still using a long sword.

The person in the white sacrificial robe should be the death priest that Rhodes had met.

He felt that he should have been affected by this mask and entered this illusory world, just like the residents of Shiqiao Town who stayed on that mountain at that time.

Rhodes turned around and punched him, but he felt that he had no strength in his body, and his fist hit the death priest's chest limply.

"Lost lamb." The death priest shook his head. His voice had a special magic power, which made Rhodes want to give up the idea of ​​being his enemy and bow to him. Na who was on the side Taya half-kneeled on the ground directly facing the priest of the Death Cult.

Seeing that Rhodes was still standing there, the Priest of Death Cult shook his head.

He walked towards Rhodes step by step with a dagger in his hand. Rhodes wanted to move, but found that he couldn't move his feet.

The Priest of Death Cult raised his dagger and stabbed at Rhodes' left chest. Rhodes even felt the sensation of a sharp weapon cutting his skin.

At this moment, Rhodes felt someone grab his shoulder, and he turned around to see another Natalya appeared behind him. She reached out and grabbed herself, pulling herself back.

The next moment, the surrounding scenery changed, from the village back to the woods.

"What happened?" Rhodes asked.

He found himself leaning against a tree, with Natalia's eyes closed and her hands on his heart.

"You fell to the ground while running just now." Natalya replied, "I saved you. You want to treat me to a meal as delicious as today's dinner."

"I will treat you to something better." Rhodes said with lingering fear: "In that illusory world just now, what would happen if my heart was pierced by him?"

"You should die, and then you will recover soon, but that person should continue to torture you until you lose all your beliefs. At this time, you will be completely dead." Natalya replied.

"Can I find his location? Apart from this matter, I have other grudges with him." Rhodes asked.

"You have to use your senses to find this. You felt sleepy just now, and then you entered that illusory world. It should be that man who used the item bestowed on you by the evil god. If there is no accident, you can use this connection Find his location." Natalya replied.

Rhodes closed his eyes, he stood up and ran in one direction.

"Be careful, even if the item won't have any effect on you for a short time, it doesn't mean that person has no other means." Natalya followed up and reminded.

"It shouldn't be a big problem to deal with him, as long as you can wake me up in time," Rhodes said.

"You have to remember that in this world, you don't have the protection of that ancient god anymore." Natalya reminded again.

"Which ancient god?" Rhodes asked while running in that direction.

He had absolutely no idea what Natalya meant.

"Since you don't know, it's fine, I don't know very well, I only know that you used to have a god, and it didn't come from the Holy Spirit that you Nords believe in." Natalya shook her head.

Rhodes ran very fast, and it didn't take long for him to reach the direction where the feeling came from. In front of him were deserted temples and altars.

The Misty Mountains should be the lair of the Death Cult, and those ferocious souls were collected by them.

"This is indeed the site of an evil god, but it seems that this evil god is no longer in the real world." Natalya said.

"I don't have any enmity with that evil god, but I do have an enmity with one of his priests." Rhodes said while using the mage ball to observe the interior of the temple.

There is a powerful magic in the temple, which prevents him from observing the situation inside.

Rhodes definitely wouldn't rush into the temple foolishly, who knows how many traps there are.

He walked to the side of the temple, took out a giant steel hammer, and swung it towards the wall of the temple.

He planned to use this method to lure the mentally abnormal priest out. If he didn't come out, Rhodes was going to completely smash the deserted temple into ruins, making this evil god lose the way to continue to harm mankind.

Boom!
Rhode hit it with a hammer, causing a big hole in the stone wall.

Really strong.

Rhodes hammered on the wall several times in a row, expanding the hole several times.

Several dark figures rushed towards him from the surrounding woods.

Rhodes raised his sledgehammer to meet him.

These shadows should be those black-clothed assassins. Their speed is very fast, but Rhodes eyes are walking as slowly as ducks now.

There were several muffled sounds in succession.

Rhodes threw all these black-clothed assassins into the air.

Either their chests were sunken or their heads were sunken, and it was obvious that none of them could continue to live.

No wonder Hammer likes to use a warhammer so much, it feels really good to hit people with a warhammer.

Rhodes felt a sense of danger coming, he jumped up subconsciously, and then borrowed another force in the air to jump higher.

A sharp thorn pierced out of the ground following him. The final height of this thorn was more than ten meters high, about the height of a five or six-story house.

After Rhodes fell to the ground, he saw a handsome young man walking out of the temple.

His face was livid, and his body trembled slightly with anger.

"Damn it, you will pay a heavy price for what you have done. I will definitely let you return to the embrace of the Lord after suffering countless tortures." The young man said.

Rhodes sneered and rushed towards the young man.

Boom!Boom!Boom!
A series of thorns came out from the ground, and Rhodes approached the young man while dodging.

The spell used by this death cult priest does not belong to the magic of the world's normal mage system, and should be regarded as a magical miracle.

Rhodes rushed in front of the young man, clenched his fists and blasted at him.

"Stupid." The young man snorted coldly, and countless stabs rose around Rhodes, forming a huge cage, locking them both inside.

He felt that the energy in his body had stagnated, unable to flow according to his mind as before.

But his fist still hit the young man in front of him.

"Pfft!" The young man spat blood out of his mouth, flew backwards, and finally hit a thorn made by him before stopping.

Rhodes rushed to the young man again, lifted him up by the neck.

"Now you can also return to the embrace of your Lord." Rhode sneered and crushed the young man's neck. His body was not much stronger than ordinary people.

"Death is not the end." The priest of the Death God Cult who had his neck crushed said.

He drew out the dagger at his waist and stabbed Rhodes.

"Use more force." Rhodes looked down at the wound, only to find that there was no wound. Even with his extremely sharp dagger, the frail Death Cult priest couldn't pierce his skin, which was harder than steel. .

"Damn it, my body is really a shackle." The soul of the death cult priest came out from behind him.

Rhodes thinks that it should be the special effect of the dagger in his hand, which can keep his soul in this world, and make his soul look like a normal person to the naked eye, without even a sense of transparency.

"You will definitely regret your actions!" the priest of the Death God Cult said lightly as he stepped back.

Immediately afterwards, the tall thorns around turned into rock giants and surrounded Rhodes inside.

Rhodes took out Han Ye from the space ring, and rushed to the death priest hiding in the rock giant.

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