quicksilver blood

Chapter 23 Marco the Deceived

From the very beginning, Roland had no intention of confronting Marco head-on.

Although the name Marco first appeared in the ears of players, after the Ring of Ashes and the Ring of South Wind separated, he was known by some high-end players as the leader of the Embers.But in fact, his days of fame were much earlier than that.

At that time, Roland had studied Marco specifically in order to get the profession of Ashes.

In the beginning, God Abandoner was not a title as it was later, but only refers to Marco.

At that time Marco's name was not Marco.

It took him only three months to obtain the magic of the seven rings from Sivir, the goddess of war, and advanced to become a silver-rank honor priest. Because of his outstanding talent, he was personally invited by Sivir to live in Zul. As the district bishop of Saxing Province, it can be said that he has a bright future at a young age.

However, no one knows that before he became the priest of the Goddess of War, he was also a loyal believer of the God of Hearthfire and Hammer, the God of Pain and Deceit, and the Goddess of Life. Before he betrayed them, his rank was not lower than Silver Rank Pass.When he used a pseudonym to enter the temple of the Goddess of War, his other three names were wanted by the three temples with different strengths.

It's incredible.After the priest advances to silver, the nature of the soul will change, and he will be closer to his god to get a longer lifespan.

No one has ever been able to convert to other gods after the silver level and achieve higher achievements, let alone the three pillars of gods who are neutral, evil, and good.Roland, who has investigated here, also feels incredible, this thing is simply an official cheating.But he faintly sensed something was wrong.

At that time, Roland guessed that there might be another reason for Marco's miracle.

After Roland finally found out Marco's first name, everything came to light.The hardships of his life experience and the bloodyness of his story even made Roland wonder whether to laugh or cry.

Marco was a commoner at first, and his family opened a blacksmith shop.His family's talent is very high, but he suffers from a strange disease, the whole body will gradually become weak, and his strength and physique will gradually weaken with age until he dies.

Of course Roland knew that it was muscle atrophy, and at that time there was already quite effective treatment in the White Tower.

But Marco and his family live in a remote mountainous area in Karal, and the news is blocked, and they have never even heard of the name of the White Tower.

In their small place, because there is a natural iron mine, the people in the town fanatically believe in the god of furnace fire and hammer.

At a young age, Marco showed amazing talent.In terms of attributes, Marco's natural perception exceeds three, which is more than three times that of ordinary people, and he is very sensitive to divine arts.

Sensitive, he could see the aura of divine magic even when he was just born, and when he was 11 years old, he surpassed all the priests in their town and became a silver-rank honor priest.

When priests advance to the silver level, they will have a chance to have a direct dialogue with the gods, so Marco's question is naturally how to heal his family's illness.

At that time, the White Tower was at odds with the gods, and the God of Hearthfire and Hammer didn't have the slightest idea of ​​letting their family move to the White Tower for treatment, and for some reason, the God of Hearthfire and Hammer had a connection with their hometown Not close, under the interference of Cala Druid's Stonehenge, even his age cannot be sensed.

Therefore, the God of Hearthfire and Hammer took him as an ordinary priest who was terminally ill, and casually lied to him that he could be saved as long as he exercised his body and kept his faith, so that he could earn more during this period of time. The power of faith.Even because he felt that Marco would die soon, he was not even given the position of the pastor of the town.

Marco didn't care about those positions. He was still very young and believed his god's words very easily, and then went back and told his father who started to get sick with great interest.

His father just smiled wryly and remained silent.

Since then, his father has been working harder on blacksmithing.

So, on the day his father became a bronze priest, his heart finally stopped beating.

Before he died, his father told him that he had been cheated.Not only faith, but also exercise can't cure this disease, because his grandfather was a silver-ranked soldier, but he still died at the age of 40.

Feeling deeply cheated, Marco angrily knocked down the statue in the temple that night, and then fled with his family.

On the way to the west, his sister fell ill. In desperation, he was tricked by the priest of the God of Pain and Deceit to join the church and worshiped with all his heart.It was useless to stop his mother, so they were cheated of all the money and luggage, and he even thought that his sister's illness was cured.Since then, he has never returned home and devoted himself to serving the Queen of Pain.

It only took him two years this time to become a silver-rank priest.Sighing at his potential, the group of priests who believed in the Queen of Pain frankly told him the deception at the beginning, sincerely invited him to join the group and told him that the technology of the White Tower was enough to cure their family's illness.

Marco hesitated for a long time in pain, and then decided to join the group.He cheated and robbed, and within half a month he had enough travel expenses and medical expenses.

But it would have been nice to have known about it two years earlier.

After two years of delay, his sister could not be saved, and her mother died of hunger and poverty.

When he went back, he saw two tombstones.The two of them didn't even have a coffin, and the shallowly buried corpses reeked of decay.

He knelt in front of the tombstone for a whole night, and then turned his anger on the priests of the Queen of Pain the next day, and slaughtered the priests who cheated money in one day.

So he was cursed by the furious Queen of Pain, who launched cultists across the country of Karal to hunt him down.At this time, his illness had begun to attack, and he was cursed by the Queen of Pain. Every day, his muscles shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after reaching the extreme, they began to rot.

In the end, he was covered in rotten flesh, and at the most desperate moment, he met a priest of the goddess of life.She temporarily relieved his pain with magic spells and became his friend.That was the happiest time Marco had been since he betrayed the god of furnace fire and hammer. Later, the man accidentally mentioned to him that the goddess of life can even resurrect the dead.

After hearing this sentence, Marco remembered it deeply in his heart. He checked with many priests of the Goddess of Life. Many of them had witnessed the miracle of the resurrection of the Goddess of Life.

Under the endless memory of his loved ones, it only took him half a year to advance to the silver rank this time.His existence even directly alarmed the Goddess of Life, and her Saintess came in person and performed the divine descent.

But facing Marco's inquiry, the Goddess of Life could only shake her head.

The resurrection of life-type magic is only limited to wizards and believers of the goddess of life who can preserve their souls.

In the case of his family, the souls of all family members after death will appear in the kingdom of the god of furnace fire and hammer, and like his kind of betrayal, I am afraid that his family has been tortured for many years.

The Goddess of Life said that her priest's combat ability is very weak, and she has always been in the camp of the harmless, and cannot initiate wars, and has no ability to help him regain the souls of his relatives.Then the Goddess of Life asked apologetically if she would like to make another wish. Marco was silent for a while, and then asked to cure her illness.

The Goddess of Life agreed.

But as soon as her saint left, Marco escaped from the Temple of Life, and sold his faith and soul to the militant and powerful Goddess of War, hoping that she would teach him a lesson from the God of Hearthfire and Hammer .

After he became a silver rank, he got a desperate news from the Goddess of War: the God of Hearthfire and Hammer is exactly the dark line that Goddess of War placed in Karal—his correct priesthood is the God of Weapons, the God of Weapons. The Goddess of War.

So Marco finally went completely crazy.

His soul was divided into four parts, and after devouring each other, he successfully condensed into a complete and terrifying personality with his extraordinary will.

Marco changed his name that day to "Marco"—meaning deceived in Caral dialect.

He regards all the gods as old enemies, abandoned his identity as a priest to study the culture of the ancient Druids, and finally developed a brand new profession with his extraordinary talent, a profession born specifically to deal with priests.He vowed to bring all the gods down from their thrones, or at least make them feel bad.

He has become a silver-ranked priest for four times, and has combined all the remaining powers from before. All the attributes of Marco even surpassed the average gold-ranked priest.

Then, he went to his hometown and killed all the believers who believed in the god of furnace fire and hammer in extremely cruel ways.The goddess of war was furious, and led a team with one gold and three silvers to encircle and suppress Marco, who had just entered the silver rank with a new job.

Marco showed the strength of his new profession in that battle.He can easily interrupt the release of divine spells. He can see through the invisibility and phantom effects generated by divine spells at a glance, and he dispels the enhanced abilities layer by layer. In the end, he kills all enemies above the silver rank.

He abandoned the grace of the gods four times, and finally chose the path of being hostile to all gods—so he was called the one who forsaken the gods.

Such a hard worker who can be described by Long Aotian made Roland, who was watching his story at that time, dumbfounded, and scolded the screenwriter Second Second.

In the subsequent battle against Marco, the information provided by Roland played a huge role.With his support, the Peace Council easily dealt with him, while the other guilds basically kept watching various priests and defenders explode instantly.

However, in this era when even silver can be a magistrate and gold is basically the highest force in the principality, Roland dare not confront him head-on at all.

The name of the robe on Marco is [Human Will], he used the divine language of a priest, and filled it with blasphemous words swearing at the gods with the blood of a gold-rank priest, making all divine spells below the gold rank invalid. The effect of divine spells from above the golden level to below the high spire is reduced by one-third—even if the immune effect is only up to the golden level, it is still very practical and high-end equipment in the era when the [-]th level was capped.

After all, detection magic and curse magic rarely exceed the gold level.

Although it couldn't block any very important magic spells in that era, the dead god spells of all levels from low to high were notoriously disgusting.Just to block Death Crow's various low-level instant death spells, this dark purple rarity robe can be sold at a legendary price.

Of course, in the era when high-end priests could wave skyfire and trigger more than [-] instant death judgments with a single attack, this robe was indeed useless, but in Roland's current era, it was basically synonymous with invincibility.

The most terrifying equipment on Marco is not his robe, but the steel whip in his hand.It was also reminded by him that the dead crows began to use multi-section weapons one after another.

That weapon is called [Marco's Godless Order. Hand of Broken Heart], a golden legendary-level exotic weapon, and its type is a nine-section whip.

Not to mention the other attributes of this weapon, just one of the attributes is disgusting, and the defenders of the major unions are dying.

Every time Marco is blocked by an attack, he will make a judgment based on the perception attribute. If it fails to pass, it will randomly explode an internal organ, and if it passes, it will cause a little damage; will drop three times.

In other words, no matter how high the perception attribute is, as long as it is a priest, there is at least a two-thirds chance of failing the judgment.For the vast majority of guardian professions, perception attributes are not their main attributes, and there are even quite a few defenders who are less likely to pass the judgment than priests.

The most frightening thing is that if a shield is used to block at close range, then when Marco's nine-section whip passes over the defender's shield in this way, the defender will have to make nine judgments, each of which fails. The judgment will ignore the constitution and explode an internal organ.With Marco's speed of reaching the peak of the 30th level and the highest spire, the defenders and priests were completely dead within [-] seconds of the start of the battle.

As a result, the dead crows who could make multiple instant death judgments for each attack were enlightened and practiced multi-section weapons from scratch.

Some practiced whips, some practiced boxing, and even practiced the three-section cudgel... At that time, the most famous one was a dead crow from the Peace Council. He was the first pioneer among players to get this profession.It took him half a month to learn the nine-section whip and took the whip that Marco dropped, 210 seven times a second for instant death judgments, and he was a giant dragon at the time.

Three days after that, as expected, the official released a patch that limited the number of instant death judgments triggered per second, which gradually made the craze fade away.

Roland learned a good whip technique from that time, including the fancy evasion of avoiding Looping at the beginning, also from that time.

It was precisely because Roland knew how terrifying Marco was, and knew that he was definitely not someone who could be easily killed by a few people in this age, so he never believed that Claude could defeat Marco.

From the beginning, all his plans failed to defeat Marco.In the history of that world, Marco didn't encounter a bottleneck for the first time until the awakening origin of the peak of the golden rank.If the history of this world has not changed, even if Roland has a system to assist in leveling, it is likely that he will not be able to catch up with Marco before he encounters a bottleneck.

What's more, this is the ancestor of the leapfrog murderer.

When Roland reached the golden rank, he had already changed his job as a druid to a priest. At that time, even if Roland's origin awakened, he would not dare to provoke him casually.

However, Marco's formidable combat power does not mean that he has no weaknesses.

Compared with Windtalker, Marco is more used to crushing with force.Although his theories and charisma have attracted quite a group of supporters, it is undeniable that in this time period, the ashes without think tanks have insufficient brains as a whole.

Compared to Marco, Roland was more wary of Windtalkers.That person didn't die until Roland crossed over - in many cases, one of the important criteria for measuring the strength of a boss is the length of time he lived.Like the kind of shady people who live for a long time and are always moving, they often belong to the most dangerous group of people.

After Roland watched those Ash disciples leave one by one, he left with a small barrier set by his own blood and returned to Pals again.

He cut off Pals's head and hung it on his waist. After wiping the blood off the throwing axe, he activated the entanglement technique again and hung himself on the canopy of the tree.

Roland took out his throwing axe, cut off his finger, and smeared a very small amount of blood on the winged tree, drawing six blood paths.In this case, according to Marco's natural perception, there should be six people with strong vitality but deliberately hiding their breath.

Immediately afterwards, Roland stood on the bloody height, and after throwing Pals' head down, he imitated the voice of others with the false voice he learned when he was playing online deception at the beginning of the earth, and told Claude Say hello.

The reason why he didn't say hello to Kluveen, apart from the fact that Claude, as an apologist, would definitely know the high-level of the temple, which was probably part of the decoy tactics, was that Roland saw When he came out, the old man Claude was definitely old and mature.

Sure enough, when he heard a completely unfamiliar voice greet him, Claude reacted after being stunned for a while, and even wanted to ask Roland's plan while cooperating with Roland.

After all, he has already been beaten once by Marco's heartbreaking hand. Although that weapon is not as unsolvable as the future, Claude's internal organs are already full of cracks.

If another group of people came after Marco was fooled away, Claude was not sure that he could repel them with his half-disabled body.

Then Roland dispelled both Marco and Claude's doubts with another voice - to be precise, only Marco was dispelled, and Claude's doubts deepened.

That is the "Windtalker", "Base 19" and Marco's druid name revealed in Roland's words.

This has a professional term in social engineering terminology called pretexting.Roland won Marco's newcomer with news that only people inside the Ring of South Wind could know. It was because of these three sentences that ordinary people would never know that Marco believed Roland's words without hesitation, and was then scared away.

The moment he saw Roland appear, Claude relaxed, and at the same time he also thought through a lot of things.

In other words, I thought I had figured out a lot of things.

For example, why when he saw Roland for the first time, he was stabbed in the back when he was clearly in the Oak Mystery; or how Roland suddenly disappeared from everyone - that was different from what Claude thought at the beginning, It wasn't the capture of Marco's whip, but other people used the entanglement technique to rescue Roland; also, Roland was clearly wearing a black robe but could use natural magic and his secrets about the Aphotic Scar and the Shadow Winged Dragon. And the understanding of the organization that Marco belongs to, etc.

——Claude is sure that the shadow pterosaur is indeed real.Because the Goddess of War also recorded this incident, but it was not as detailed as what Roland said.

He was originally going to enter the Dark Scar to escape at the last moment.It's just that when he met Roland, he entered the Dark Scar a while earlier, and because of this, he met Marco who was out on patrol.

In Claude's heart, these fragments are tightly combined.

It would be understandable if Roland was part of some secret group of druids who had been hunting down the traitorous druid Marko.

Claude guessed that Marco was indeed defeated by the bait tactics, and his base was indeed stolen, but the bait was not Claude as he thought, but Roland.

Roland acted purely as bait at first.But when Claude and his party were walking in the direction of the shadow pterosaur, out of pity and use, Roland thought of an idea at this time.

He entrusted his partner—the same man who later rescued him with the Entanglement Technique—to perform a backstab on him.Then Roland successfully joined his team.

Immediately afterwards, Roland tried his best to persuade them not to stay in the matte trail for a long time, but to enter the dark trail.Finally, after discovering traces of Marco's actions, his partner rescued him out of Marco's sight.

Then Roland went to report that their organization destroyed Marco's base very well, and then came to cooperate with Roland to intimidate this side.

Knowing Claude's name, Roland must be the first to speak.But Claude believes that the next few people should all speak in their own voice.

Because of Marco's ability to find both Claude and Claude outside the sight of the Agnostic Scar, in Claude's mind, he should have sensed that there were several strong men in the tree, and that's why he fled.

Afterwards, Roland, who was relatively weak in combat ability, did not follow after him, but came over to deal with the follow-up work—such as soothing people's hearts or continuing to deceive.

So Claude's "good acting" refers not to Roland's voice change, but to what he said about Druid before. Claude really believed it for a while... Looking back now, Claude Lord couldn't help sighing that he was really old.

But speaking of it, he didn't want to blame Roland either.Because Marco is indeed their sworn enemy, and he is also old and doesn't want to care about anything.Anyway, the result is good, so that's enough.

But then again, seeing that Roland is not very old, but whether it is brains, appearance, ability or even shame, it is better to be first-class, old Claude couldn't help feeling a little love for talent in his heart. Heart.

But he didn't know that the result of his guess was more than eight streets away from the truth.

...So, when it comes to reasoning, don't take the deduced result as the truth without definite evidence, otherwise it must be a wrong step.

Just like Claude at the moment.

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This chapter is a [-]-word chapter, two in one.For the convenience of reading, I will not disassemble the ten strings...

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