Chapter 40: Lian Zhan
Shadow Form is a great life-saving skill.
The Shadow Steel Golem, which is the priority attack creature, stopped its movements the moment the old thief's life reaction disappeared. Its simple wisdom cannot comprehend the situation. This gave the old god a chance to flee for his life.
If the old thief's opponent was only the Shadowsteel Golem, he would have done so successfully.
The tragedy is that he fell into Raven's calculations from start to finish.
In the last life in the Church of Ciric, Raven had come into contact with countless high-level wanderers, and even more thieves, both as enemies and as his own.
Almost all of the thief's reactions in any situation, Raven knew clearly. As long as he's not a genius thief who is really improvised, he won't be able to exceed Raven's budget.
The moment the old thief entered the shadow form, Raven activated the mist of covering, he stretched out his hands, and the extremely high shadow fit allowed him to easily take his strength out of the shadows, and his hands spewed out a cold and dark mist forward.
Originally, the fog was only used to stop the enemy and give itself a chance to steal.
This one involves another combo. This simple ice mist is harmful, and even the shadow form is not immune to this kind of damage similar to cold magic.
The shadow form also moves quickly, but much slower than the previous high speed that comes and goes like the wind.
Raven's mist of cover easily hits the old guy, causing almost negligible damage.
That's enough.
The in-ear system prompts the sound to be non-stop:
"You unleashed the Suffocating Shadow on your target, channeling shadow magic into his body, allowing his own shadow to stand in his way. If the obstacle succeeds, the target will be delayed for 10 seconds and will take additional damage equal to your CON modifier. β
"You threw 12 alchemy fires at the target, because the target is in shadow form, each attack increases by 5 Radiance and is vulnerable."
"You're in shadow form."
The target revealed his true form, and he was attacked again by the Shadowsteel Golem. The Shadowsteel Golem unleashed a blast of negative energy. β
"Target is dying! Due to the existence of special rituals, you will not be able to gain Kill Experience even if the target dies. β
After a series of prompts, Raven was presented with an old thief who was only half a body. After the old man was hit by the negative energy shockwave in his flesh and blood, he was torn alive by the Shadow Steel Golem.
"I don't understand...... I don't understand......" Van der Fala coughed up blood, and the focus of his eyes began to drift. His mind kept thinking about a question when he was dying, he was attacked by the Shadow Steel Golem after throwing the alchemy fire, why was Raven okay when he did the same?
"Oooh. I'm sorry, but I let the strangled golem lose it. β
"What?!" The old thief figured out that creatures that play with fire on the shadow plane will be attacked, and it would be a different matter if it was not a creature that played with fire.
"You...... You kid is despicable! β
"Despicable? Please, at least a paladin will say that to me. The word 'despicable' is unconvincing in you. β
The breath of indignation mixed with blood filled the old man's throat, and he wanted to curse something, but he didn't scold half a word after all.
In extreme grievance, the dead old man finally breathed.
At this moment, Raven felt that huge power was blessed on him, which included the strength of the Shadow Dancer, agility, physique and reflex bonuses, as well as the super agility of the old thief.
"Because of the special sacrifice ceremony, you have gained a temporary attribute bonus, and now you have 50 points of strength, 45 points of constitution, and 75 points of agility."
The system prompt surprised Raven. He never dreamed that the Shadow Festival of a mere gold-level shadow orb would be able to do this.
Suddenly, Raven thought of something.
It's a pity that I didn't have time for him to think about it.
"Huhu...... I really didn't expect that it would be Raven, you kid, who stayed until the end...... I thought I could settle accounts with that old guy. In the shadows, Ellison slowly stepped out. Behind his slightly embarrassed figure, a confused cloud floated silently.
Raven recognized it at a glance as a black hole monster, and scolded the old slut in his heart for being a traitor, even if he died, he would hurt others.
"This is a 'gift' from the old guy?" Raven sneered in the shadows.
Ellison's arm trembled visibly, and his teeth were almost crushed: "It's okay, this gift is the same for you." Levin! β
"Hehe, I haven't even started settling accounts with you yet, you just settle accounts with me first, interesting! It's fun! You've been chasing me for a long time, haven't you? You just want to kill me? I don't even know why you're killing me? β
"God says! You're going to die! Then you have to die! Ellison's eyes were filled with a frenzied fire.
"Damn*, I'm tired of talking to fanatics, and I don't have anyone to talk to." Raven rubbed his eyebrows.
"All trap warlocks must die!"
"Uh...... Well, that's a bit of dry stuff too. Raven finally knew that his killing had something to do with the Warlock, and of course, he didn't expect to pry anything out of the mouth of such a fanatical priest. Mere violence can hardly bring a priest with a strong will to his knees. However, Raven didn't have any special means in his hands, such as hallucinations, hypnotism, and the like.
After scolding, it's time to go to war.
Not only Raven, but even Ellison noticed that his surroundings had become smaller.
By the time there were only four candidates left, all four had nowhere to go. Under the influence of the power of the Orb of Shadows, the Plains of Shadows began to compress their space for movement.
It's a force-and-ring situation. Whether they want to or not, they will enter a two-on-two duel.
Two people, only one can live.
Only the victor will receive the Orb of Shadows.
Before the start of the fight, Raven finally asked, "Where are your guards?" β
"Vale won and chose to sacrifice himself." Ellison replied bluntly, with pain in his eyes that could not be concealed.
Raven could imagine what was happening. The old god thief used alchemy fire to attract the extremely difficult black hole monster. This monster, which is impervious to almost no physical damage and does not eat most magic damage, is almost invincible in many cases.
There are very few exceptions.
Ciric's lies and illusions are one of the few exceptions.
Divine magic is not omnipotent, and Ellison, as a silver-level priest, will certainly not be free to subdue such a terrifying monster.
If you guessed correctly, it was probably the Dark Guardian who sacrificed his soul to Ellison, and then Ellison exchanged it for a higher-order magic from Ciric, thus getting rid of the Black Hole Monster.
Moreover, because of the self-sacrifice of the Dark Guards. Under the shadow festival, his strength, constitution, and tenacity bonuses were added to Ellison almost intact.
This is in trouble!
Originally, it was enough to deal with Ellison, who was a silver-level priest, but now it needs to be strengthened...... If Raven hadn't gotten a lot of bonuses from other people, he wouldn't have had to fight at all, and he would have committed suicide.
Then again, Ellison tried to murder Raven three or four times. Raven found himself unable to hate him.
Ellison didn't kill out of selfish desires. His incessant murder is only rooted in the return of a favor to Ciric. His philosophy is only to fight and dedicate himself to the unification of the kingdom of God by Ciric.
For himself...... Raven doesn't see too much insidious cunning in him, but sees a lot of humanity in it.
At the very least, Ellison understands what loyalty is.
At the very least, he knows what it means to repay kindness.
"Ellison, I suddenly don't want to hate you, but I'm going to kill you." Raven announced coldly.
"In the light of my Lord, I am invincible! I'm interested to know, though, how do you defeat my army? β
It is undeniable that Ellison's younger brother is a bit too strong: a gold-level black hole monster, a silver-level faith guard, and a heroic shield guardian.
And that's not even counting the Priest's various stat blessings and healings.
Looking at the colorful brilliance on those monsters and summons, I knew that each guy had at least three or more divine spells blessed with these lights alone.
On the other hand, on Raven's side, there was only one lone silver-level strangulation golem rope one, which was still half-crippled.
Whoever comes in that situation will cry to death.
"Sinners! Repent! If you choose to serve our Lord, perhaps our Lord's mercy will spare your life. β
"Hahahaha! I'm laughing to death! The biggest joke of the year was born! Ciric has meanness and viciousness in his blood, and such a guy will have the word 'mercy' in the dictionary of his brain? In the end, Raven's voice was already cold: "If I have to say it, it's that Shirek's scum is not worthy of the allegiance of someone like you!" β
"Presumptuous!" Ellison was furious, really furious. Serving Ciric with his mind, he can't tolerate the slightest blasphemy against Ciric.
He raised his hand.
The newly collected terrifying monster, the Black Hole Monster, pounced on Raven!
Rope One suddenly blocked in front of Raven, and behind him, Raven canceled the shadow form, stretched his right hand forward, and then swept it to the right, and the middle finger of his index finger pointed to the void on the right, and the pure Nelas language came out of his mouth.
"In the name of Raven, the Warlock of the Neras Empire! I will inherit the glory of the Empire! Inherit the great institutional culture of the empire and strive for the revival of Nairas. Hereby I issue an amnesty by the power of the blood - to me! Lost golems who have lost their masters! β
The clanging sound of the system suddenly began to ring.
"Fifteen Shadowless Steel Golems have been found around you. You've surrendered these Shadow Steel Golems, now count your check bonus...... +2 for the Persuad, +3 for General Affinity, +5 for the Red Knight's Inspiration of the God of War, and you get a total of 10 bonus points. Based on your 20 charisma, now start checking ......"
"The verification is successful, a total of three golems have chosen to join your command permanently, and the remaining twelve golems have chosen to join your camp temporarily, you can now directly command the Shadowsteel golems under your command through soul connection, but you can only command the remaining golems through words."
The little brother is in hand, full of confidence!
"Little ones! Formationβ"