Chapter 1809: Three Bishops of Naraku (I.)
Seeing Francesca being dispersed and completely dissipated, Roland couldn't help but gasp, and he was stunned for a few seconds before he recovered from the shock. Looking back at Rudolph, the man who had been forced to destroy the ghost of his deceased wife with his own hands, he knelt on the ground with his hands in his hands, crying out like a child.
Roland walked up behind Rudolph and reached out to try to pat him on the shoulder and say something comforting. However, apart from pale nonsense such as "mourning and change", what can I say?
A deep sense of sorrow and powerlessness filled Roland's heart, and when he thought that he was only a small supporting role in this tragedy, he already felt exhausted, and Rudolph suffered a thousand times more pain and suffering than himself, how could a few words of comfort be relieved? As a believer in the goddess of fate, it is really a great irony that fate is so cruelly tricked.
Just as he was sighing, a rapid and sharp alarm suddenly sounded behind him. Roland's heart sank, and he barely suppressed his distractions and rushed to the bedroom dresser. Pull open a drawer, and inside is a crystal ball, which is now glowing with magical brilliance, emitting an alarm.
In order to ensure the safety of the palace and prevent people with bad intentions from trespassing, there are "magic alarms" in the courtyards, corridors and palace rooms, and "detection crystals" are placed in the rooms where royal family members live, and once the magic alarm is triggered, the detection crystals will sound an alarm at the first time.
Roland touched the crystal ball and turned on the detection function attached to this magic guide, and the crystal ball immediately mapped the scene of the alarm trigger location, and three strange and strange figures appeared in the atrium of the palace, one of them also held the crystal ball in his hand, as if he was detecting something.
Luo Lan thought for a moment, his face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly waved his hand to release the 6-ring magic "Area Shield", covering the bedroom he was in and the surrounding buildings to prevent the infiltrator from casting a spell to detect, but he had to worry that his move to make up for the loss had come too late.
"Roland, there's something unusual out there?"
Rudolph was also alarmed by the alarm, and barely suppressed his physical and mental pain, and supported himself to his son's side.
Roland picked up the crystal ball, placed it on the dresser, and pointed out to his father the three strange figures.
"There are three guys from unknown sources who have broken in, most of them are not in good health, the palace guards have received the alarm and are rushing to the atrium to catch the intruder."
While the father and son were talking, a large group of uniformed guards were reflected in the crystal ball, pouring into the palace atrium through the front and back gates, surrounding the three trespassers, and the captain of the guard stepped forward, as if to inquire about the identity of the other party.
Roland touched the crystal ball and focused his probing perspective on the three strangers in order to see what they looked like, and he was secretly taken aback.
The three of them have strange appearances, and they don't look like good people.
The intruder at the head was dressed in a gray robe, holding a black wooden staff in his right hand, the head of which was carved into a coiled snake, and the eyes of the large snake shimmered green, as if inlaid with gems such as jadeite. The staff bearer is not of much age, with a human body, but on the neck of a cobra-like flat head, grinning in the moment of spitting out purple-black forked snake letters, the hem of the robe dragged a long tail covered with scales, is an extremely rare "snake man" in the Far East.
Roland once flipped through the history of the world of Varess in the library of the Great Floating City, it is said that in the "Age of Dragons", the snake people, as close relatives of the dragon vein clan, also created a powerful empire and created a glorious civilization, and now the Far Southeast Celestial Desert region was once the territory of the "snake man empire" in history. The Serpent Man has a talent far superior to that of humans in the field of magic, and most of the emperor's kings have been legendary warlocks.
However, with the end of the Dragon Age, the mighty dragon was forced to withdraw from the stage of history, and the snake man empire inevitably ushered in the day of collapse. These ancient nobles, who prided themselves on their blood, were defeated in the war with the Arcane Lords, and the Snake Empire was replaced by the Arcane Empire, the vast majority of the Snake Men were either killed in the war or brutally slaughtered by the Arcane Lords, and the few survivors fled to the depths of the Celestial Desert, where they still live a barbaric life of isolation to this day.
The once glorious snake civilization can now only be glimpsed through the strangely shaped ancient ruins in the desert. After thousands of years of rise and fall and civilization changes, the snake people have never changed their arrogant mentality, evil temperament and worship of the "snake god Mersok". Therefore, when Roland noticed that the snake man warlock actually had a very conspicuous "Naluo Evil Emblem" hanging on his chest, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised.
"The snake people have always despised the undead, but that guy is a believer in the god of death, is it ......?"
Roland has been treating the "Naraku Order" as a potential opponent over the years, and has spent a lot of effort to collect information on the top leaders of the Naraku Order. As far as he knew, from Pope "Black Robe" Outro and "Princess Naro" Tamara, the highest status in the order was the "Four Bishops", and among them was a snake man.
If the snake man warlock who broke into the palace was really a bishop-level high-ranking member of the Naraku Order, the two people who traveled with him were probably not small.
Thinking so, Roland shifted his gaze behind the snake man, and the first thing he saw was a scruffy warrior monk in ragged clothes and a sloppy face full of anger. The dark red complexion and the raised horns on his forehead indicate that this person has purgatory blood, and what worries Roland the most is that there is a mass of sarcoma on the back of his left palm, the shape of the sarcoma resembles a human face, and the facial features are readily available, sometimes squirming slightly, like a living creature, which makes the scalp tingle.
Next to the sloppy warrior monk was a tall and powerful man in a brocade robe, if you look at it from behind, this person is quite aristocratic, but when you look back, you are shocked - there is a head that looks like a tiger on his neck!
It is not uncommon for creatures with human beast heads in the world of Vares, such as beasts, in addition to the most common werewolves, there are also subclasses such as bears and tigers. The brocade-robed man in the crystal ball looked like a tiger man at first glance, but Roland denied this speculation after careful observation, because the man's hands grew in the opposite way of humans or tiger people—the palms were outward and the palms were turned inwards, as if a normal person's arms had been rotated one hundred and eighty degrees!
In Roland's mind, there was only one strange monster in the entire world of Vares, called the "Evil Beast Ghost", which matched the characteristics of a human body, a tiger head, and an eversion palm. In addition, what particularly impressed Roland was that this strange monster also had a more well-known horror title - "Rakshasa".