The Path of Ascension to the Priest

The Luowu Forest is at the northernmost end of Hades Town, and its location is so remote that it is almost out of the border of Edri. There are many tall mist trees growing here. Even in the cold winter, the leaves are still evergreen and lush. Vibrant.

When a group of people arrived at the entrance of the Luowu Forest, it was dark, and the knights who opened the way had already dismounted and quickly set up tents. After the carriage of Tang Qiu and others arrived, the comfortable and exquisite tents at the entrance of the forest were more vibrant than life. Vigorous trees are more attractive to the eye.

Tang Qiu got off the carriage, just in time to see Lucille's back disappearing at the door of the largest and most luxurious tent.

Anna picked out a fairly satisfactory tent, caught a glimpse of Tang Qiu out of the corner of her eye, turned around and waved to her, inviting with a smile, "Do you want to live with me?"

Tang Qiu tactfully refused, but chose the tent next to Anna to live in. Anna felt a little pity for her rejection but did not force it, and bent down and got into the tent.

Regarding the search for the black witch, Lucille's side showed that they were not prepared to help. Yelena and Jane had no idea about it. They ran to the place where they found the dead wood as soon as they got off the carriage, beckoning Tang Qiu over, "Grace, right here."

Tang Qiu walked over and looked at the place where Yelena was pointing at. It was an unremarkable open space with more weeds and dead branches than other places. She chanted a spell in a low voice, and the sphere of light appeared again and landed on the open space.

Yelena and Jane stared at the sphere of light closely, but the sphere of light remained motionless, well-behaved and docile.

Tang Qiu's eyes flashed, and Yelena screamed without saying a word, "This is impossible, I found it here."

A look of doubt also flashed across Jane's face, and she said uncertainly: "If the black witch really stayed here, the sphere of light should respond." Will the branches be stained with dark breath?

Tang Qiu tried to give a reasonable answer, "Perhaps this dead branch was dropped by the black witch when she passed by here."

Yelena: "..." She refused to accept this answer, and raised her head to ask Tang Qiu, "Can you find the black witch by following the dark breath on the tree branch?"

Tang Qiu said tactfully: "I'm afraid a priest can do this." Now she is just a little priest who has just been a priest for a few days.

Yelena was a little discouraged, and Jane patted her on the shoulder comfortingly, and suggested, "Let's go in and investigate, maybe we can find other clues about the black witch."

Tang Qiu nodded without any objection.

The Cavaliers brought by Lucille were thrown to camp a few thousand meters away from them. Only Lucille and Anna and two or three knights stayed here in Luowu Forest. The Cavaliers obeyed Lucille's order, The three of Yelena couldn't move, so when they entered Luowu Forest, they were only accompanied by the three little swordsmen from the same mercenary team.

Compared with the vigorous and capable Cavaliers, these three little swordsmen were a little unattractive, and even Yelena, who had a good impression of one of them, William, lost her mind a lot.

The Luowu Forest looks small from the outside, but after entering it, it turns out that it is an illusion that it is not that big, and that it is really big.

The foggy tree is tall and straight. After turning around a few times, it is easy to find the direction. Tang Qiu thinks that his sense of direction is not very good. mark.

After Yelena saw it, although she didn't express her disgust, she still felt that she was making a big fuss and wasting bright elements.

Then, they got lost.

Yelena felt a burning pain in her face, and couldn't help but glared at Tang Qiu angrily, "Didn't you mark it?"

Jane frowned and shook her head at Yelena.

Tang Qiu didn't pay attention to Yelena's stinging words, she touched the clearly marked tree trunk, doubts flashed across her face.

A little swordsman said uncertainly: "There seems to be traces of being scratched by sword energy here."

Seeing Tang Qiu turn his head to look at him, he stuttered nervously when he met those beautiful sky-blue eyes, "That's, I've seen others use sword energy like this, the marks, marks are very similar."

"But I'm not sure." The little swordsman was not very confident.

Tang Qiu smiled at him and nodded, then glanced at the tree trunk again, stroking the somewhat smooth tree surface with his fingers, thoughtfully.

It was completely dark, and they had to go out. The winter night was still very cold, and food and water were all in the tent.

It took 10 minutes to come in and an hour to go out.

The priest and the little swordsman, who were almost lost in the Luowu Forest, smelled the aroma of food as soon as they came out. The bonfire lit up the darkness. Anna was standing by the fire and was instructing a knight to cook mushroom broth. When she heard the movement, she turned to Tang Qiu beckoned and asked casually, "Excuse me, Your Excellency, have you found any clues?"

Yelena kept silent with a dark face, Tang Qiu looked natural, with gentle eyes, and shook his head honestly, "No."

All the time they wasted was spent finding their way.

Speaking of which, from the past few days in contact with Yelena and Jane, Tang Qiu felt that they were really overconfident in their own strength, as if they were newborn calves who didn't know how to be afraid.Or do they think priests are omnipotent?Especially against dark creatures.

He obviously hasn't learned a few light spells yet, but he is not at all worried about facing a black witch who doesn't know what rank he is.

When Tang Qiu knew that the black witch was not Irene, she had already considered several escape plans in her mind.

Anna brought a bowl of mushroom soup to Tang Qiu, asked her to sit beside her, and chatted with her about Eddie's funny stories, and the protagonist was almost always Charles II.

Tang Qiu listened quietly and gave occasional responses. She would not appear too gossip but would not make Anna feel left out. Drinking the hot mushroom soup warmed her cold body. Tang Qiu put down the bowl and saw her. Anna kept staring at Lucille's tent absent-mindedly, and couldn't help but look up as well.

Lucille's tent was quiet and without any light. If Tang Qiu hadn't seen Lucille go in with her own eyes, she would have suspected that there was no one inside.

Anna saw the doubt in Tang Qiu's eyes. She blinked and said with a smile, "The marshal is asleep."

With a ripping sound, the tightly closed tent was torn open, Lucille came out from inside, and walked in front of them expressionlessly.

Anna coughed dryly, "...it seems that I woke up."

Lucille walked to the entrance of Luowu Forest and stopped, looking up through the dense branches and leaves to see the bright full moon half-covered by the clouds, her expression was indifferent and revealed a trace of indistinct melancholy.

A pure black dress made her almost blend into the night, her long red hair lost its luster at night, her red lips were bloodless, only her complexion was still fair, showing sickness and weakness, she didn't look like that at all now It was Marshal Lucille who was admired by everyone in Edri, more like an ordinary girl who was weak due to illness.

Lucille's appearance surprised everyone present, including Tang Qiu.

Because it was completely different from the Lucille she saw at the banquet.

Anna walked over with a bowl of soup and said in a low voice, "Marshal..."

Lucille squinted at her, her dark red eyes flickered slightly, showing a bit of evil in the darkness.

Anna took a step back involuntarily, her spine felt a little chilly, but she resisted not turning around to leave so as not to be seen by others.

Lucille is not as approachable as Anna. Except for Tang Qiu, Yelena and Jane haven't even spoken to her, so although they are surprised by her somewhat weak appearance, they don't have much curiosity.

Tang Qiu was quite curious, but she didn't care to pay attention to these things at all. After Anna left with the bowl, her body appeared abnormal again. Just like in Fenlin Town, her heart suddenly beat uncontrollably. Quickly, the blood in the body boiled for some reason.

Another point is different from the time in Fenlin, she shook her palms, her joints were itching, Tang Qiu frowned, and tried to use a healing technique on herself, but it didn't work.

The fluctuation of the bright breath attracted Jane's attention. She looked over curiously, and found Tang Qiu's expression was a little strange, and asked, "Grace?"

Tang Qiu raised her eyes and smiled at her, then shook her head to indicate that she was fine. The heat rising in her body caused her to raise her hand and tug on the collar of the priest's uniform, and her chin was raised because of the upward perspective. She looked at the sky hanging in the night sky. The moon surrounded by stars was dazed in a daze.

Jane looked at Tang Qiu suspiciously for a while, and was about to look away when she was surprised to see that her long golden hair was slowly turning white from the end. Jane rubbed her eyes subconsciously, and then realized that she was wrong up.

The whiteness is just a little reflective because of the moonlight shining on her long golden hair.

A burst of cold fragrance suddenly came, making Tang Qiu's somewhat confused thoughts instantly clear, and her heartbeat gradually calmed down. She lowered her head, looked down at her itchy palms, and gradually regained her composure.

This aroma is the one she smelled in Metsä...

"What's the matter with you?" After seeing Lucille back to the tent, Anna returned to sit beside Tang Qiu and asked suspiciously when she saw her serious expression.

Tang Qiu shook his head, paused for a moment, leaned over to her side, and sniffed calmly, the cold fragrance seemed to be there.

"Grace?" Seeing her sticking close to her, Anna subconsciously straightened her waist, puffing out her proud chest.

"Hmm... what kind of sachet are you wearing?"

Anna slumped her shoulders in disappointment, took off the sachet from her waist and gave it to Tang Qiu, "For you."

Tang Qiu took it and smelled it, frowned indistinctly, then smiled lightly at Anna, and said softly, "Thank you."

Not the aroma from the sachet.

What kind of smell could affect a priest?Dark magic?However, it seemed that only she could smell the smell.

Tang Qiu sat there for a while, absent-minded. Seeing that it was getting late, he bid farewell to Anna. He returned to his tent and began to look through the priest's handbook, wanting to see if there was any information that she should know but had forgotten.

Yelena, Jane, and Anna went back to their tents one after another. The flames of the bonfire became smaller and smaller and finally went out, and the knights with swords stood guard beside the tents.

Behind a bush overgrown with weeds, four or five swordsmen sat on the ground. Captain David stood behind the bush, observing the situation over there through the gap. After the bonfire went out, it became dark and he set off Look back.

"Captain, when shall we strike?" a baby-faced swordsman asked curiously.

"Wait tomorrow, lead those three priests to the depths of Luowu Forest, we will take advantage of this opportunity to attack." David took off the broad sword from his waist, carefully placed it on the ground, and then sat down by himself.

Babyface wailed when he heard David's words, "Should I continue to clear that priest's mark tomorrow?" He cried sadly, "That blond priest's light spell is too troublesome to clean up."

David thought for a while, looked at the other person, and asked, "How much dark potion is left?"

The swordsman took out a small glass bottle, only one-third of the black liquid was left in it.

David made a final decision, "Use this to bring them to the innermost part of the Luowu Forest. The terrain here is complicated, and it is not so easy for them to find it." They used the dark potion to easily lure them here, causing a lot of trouble in the depths of the forest. It is estimated that it will not be too difficult.

Their mercenary team has been established not long ago, but they haven't faced priests yet, so they don't know how strong these three people are.

However, even if he found out their strength, David would choose to attack Lucille without them.

Because no mercenary team is willing to be an enemy of the Holy See.

After making a plan for tomorrow, David selected two people to watch the night, and the rest rested and adjusted their status. The night wind was slightly cold, and David, who had already fallen into a light sleep state, never thought that he personally chose this one for the convenience of completing the task. There is actually a black witch hiding here.

In the depths of Luowu Forest, a crooked creek quietly flowed, the grass was stained red with blood, but it couldn't drown the corpses piled up on the bank.

A white figure was kneeling on the grass, her white robe was almost stained red with blood, and in front of her was a dark jar, which contained the "materials" she carefully collected. Her hands were slender, and her white fingers were stained with blood. Covered with mud and blood, a ray of moonlight shone in from the branches above his head, his pale complexion and bright red lips were looming in the darkness.

The black witch dragged a corpse beside her, raised the corners of her mouth, and inserted/inserted her slender fingers into the corpse's chest to dig out his heart. The heart that had not been beating for a long time was like a lump of rotten meat in her hands. He curled his lips and threw it into the jar with some dissatisfaction.

Hands dripping with blood floated above the jar. The black witch half-closed her eyes and murmured, difficult and incomprehensible spells floating in the dark night. The evil wind blew up the white robe on the black witch's body, making her look gloomy.

Following the Black Witch's spell, the jar suddenly ignited with a blue flame, a burst of white smoke drifted out, and the blood in the creek suddenly bubbled up. The Black Witch opened her eyes and slowly stretched out her hand.

A gray palm suddenly stretched out from the water and grabbed the black witch's hand. A monster as tall as two people emerged from the bottom of the water, with gray skin and a terrifying appearance, half human and half beast.

The black witch gave a low laugh, looked up at the monster with satisfaction, "Let this continent be completely plunged into darkness."

"Before the Dark God descends, the witches will fill the continent with servants of darkness."

"Laurel Garcia, I swear by the names of three generations of witches from the Garcia family."

At the same time, in a certain corner of Hades, Irene was shivering in the cold wind wrapped in a cloak. She looked blankly at the empty street, and her nose was red from the cold. It's very pitiful.

"Ah, you hateful priest." Irene took a small wooden stick and wrote Grace's name on the ground viciously, then scratched it off forcefully.

The palm of her hand stretched out for a while before it was frozen to the point of freezing. She threw away the wooden stick awkwardly, stared blankly for a while, and began to talk to herself, "I have to go to Bill's Empire."

"Priest, where can I find another priest?"

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There is another chapter tonight to write [-] words today