Chapter 255: Chaos in the Suburbs (Part II)
"Damn!"
"Ugmar has openly invaded my kingdom for the sake of a Holy Presence and blocked my power!"
Valley of Twilight, Temple of the Night.
Priestess Sandora knelt on the altar facing the statue of the deity, and behind her, the shadow sorcerer and the Black Moon Monk were also on their knees, trembling, and a pale, bloodless face under their bowed heads.
Compared to the clerics who could directly withstand the will of the gods, the terrifying power that these two would-be heroes leaked out in the face of the wrath of the Night Lady was like being in a storm of arrows, suffering every second like ten thousand arrows piercing their hearts.
And under the altar, hundreds of players from the evil camp looked at each other.
Without any explanation, the master of the temple abruptly interrupted his speech and fell to his knees with a "plop". Players are speculating whether there is any emergency, and among them, players who have obtained the advanced class of the temple, or have a relatively high 'piety value', are staring at the huge statue of the god that is reflected by the light of the torch, flickering and dimming, and can clearly feel the divinity that is constantly poured across the plane.
Although Eren didn't hear the angry words of the Night Lady Statue, he could roughly capture the magical energy in the space that suddenly became intense.
Expressionless, he took the lead in kneeling on one knee on the cold ground, looking lonely in the crowd.
However, immediately following him, several other players with equipment and levels who stood out from the crowd also knelt down on one knee and greeted the arrival of the Night Lady with a respectful expression.
People inevitably have a herd mentality, especially in an evil realm like the Temple of the Night, and they must not make mistakes. The other players fall to their knees in the commotion.
Naturally, there is no shortage of rebellious players in the dark night. Defying the theocracy. They didn't bow their heads. Instead, she looked directly at the female idol in the darkness, her eyes shining with strange colors.
Thankfully, Sha'er, who was furious, didn't notice the Holy Arrivals who were on the verge of blasphemy, and she quickly calmed down and said to Sandora, "I knew the first time the hole in Susar's shadow network appeared. ”
"I allow the mistakes of my servants through negligence."
"But mistakes must be corrected, and at the same time they must be corrected with resentment. Revenge on the saboteurs! You have to let them know that violating the shadow web is like violating me! ”
After saying these words, the divinity that filled the statue drifted like smoke and returned to the void.
In the middle of the night, the atmosphere of the Great Altar was broken by the crisp collision of several blood-colored rings on it when Shando pulled up and held the Demon Crystal Scepter high.
Sandora walked to the edge of the altar step by step, looked down at the players below, and said in a deep voice, "I think." The Lady of the Night has given you a very clear divine will......"
"Follow her instructions and find the saboteur. Get revenge!! ”
"Revenge—"
The Black Moon Warrior Monk not far behind the priestess slowly stood upright, and the previously ordinary face suddenly became murderous. He shouted, and the players under the altar fell silent for about a second, and then responded in unison:
"Revenge—"
"Revenge—"
Alan was also drinking with the crowd. At the same time, he looked at the coordinates that had been automatically updated in the task panel:
Susal region, southwestern hills, Eagle Peak Valley.
After the approximate place name, there is a string of numerical coordinates, and the numbers are still changing in real time. Apparently, the saboteur marked by the Night Lady, is moving.
Glancing back and forth over the mission information, Alan suddenly stared at the reward text that had just been updated, and a trace of burning heat passed through the depths of his pupils.
"[Objective] Destroyer's Head 0/1."
"[Quest Reward]: 500 points of 'Piety Points', 2,000 points of Temple Contribution, and 1 random purple item of excellent quality."
A full 500 points of piety!
At first, Alan thought he was dazzled, and he read it many times before he was sure that the text in the [Quest Reward] column really existed.
Eren is very aware of the usefulness and value of 'Piety Points', regardless of the fact that he got the advanced class early, but the expertise and known spells are not much more than that of ordinary warlocks.
Warlock Lv6 / Shadow Warlock Lv5.
All told, he now has eleven spell levels, and if he continues to increase by 1 Warlock level, or by 1 Shadow Warlock level, Eren knows that he has the qualifications to learn the Four Rings spell.
For this reason, Eren has made a lot of preparations, the most important of which is undoubtedly the 'Piety Value', but he has worked hard for more than half a month, and the accumulated 'Piety Value' is only a few dozen points, just enough to buy a Spell Awakening Ritual Scroll for Warlocks.
Alan once calculated that 1 point of 'piety' is equivalent to about 100 gold coins, and the 500 points of 'piety value' of the task reward is converted into a very exaggerated amount of 50,000 gold coins.
What is the concept of 50,000 gold coins? Alan looked at the whole set of blue-quality equipment in his equipment slot, including a few rings, pendant ornaments and so on, and it would take at least ten or twenty sets to exchange for this huge amount of money.
For his own equipment, Alan has plenty of confidence. Not to mention the 'shadow' set that was exchanged for the daily quest of the temple every day, and after two months of painstaking work, the few magic rings in his hand that can expand the spell slot and increase the spell damage are really rare in the whole of Cormier.
At least, Alan has been paying attention to the equipment section of the official forum for so long, and there are still some gaps between the best accessories that have been posted and applauded by a large number of players.
"This mission ......" Alan felt his snort burning, this was the reaction of his inner emotions, and he also knew very well that the hundreds of dark night players present were probably all excited at this time because of the exaggerated mission rewards.
"Go—"
"Revenge!"
The priestess Sandora held the magic crystal scepter high on the altar, and her majestic voice spread through every corner of the temple: "The Night Knights are attacking!" The Black Moon Warrior Monks attack! ”
"Shadow Warlock Strikes!"
"The Night Lady tells us to complete our revenge first, and then we obey her oracle. Find out the saboteur and abuse him. Please my Lord. After my lord is satisfied. Let's move on to the next step – patching the shadow network! ”
Sandora's meaning is very clear, this time the Night Temple, hidden in the underground ruins of the Dusk Valley, is definitely going to be dispatched.
The goddess they serve is furious, and as the priest of Sha'er, Sandora understands the purpose of the Night Lady's presence. She came for the saboteur, and in that case, it was to appease the gods by directly abusing the saboteur. The best way to please the gods.
In just half an hour, the most elite guards of the Night Temple were all assembled in the Grand Altar Square.
Sha'er's church is particularly "secretive", and when they quietly rose to prominence after the turbulent times, joining Bane and Shirek as the leading dark church on the mainland, many people still knew nothing about this mysterious church.
Compared with the Bane Church, which is frantically absorbing believers, the Sha'er Church is sticking to the elite line, and the staff is extremely streamlined, and now Sandora has gathered all the people under her command. There were only five or six hundred people, which was exactly two or three times the number of Dark Night players.
Leader of the Night Knights. is a burly holy warrior on a heavy warhorse, quasi-hero level.
The Black Moon Warrior Monk team was led by the slender female warrior monk wrapped in a black gauze robe who had followed Shandora before.
The shadow warlock and shadow mage had the smallest number, only twenty or thirty people, led by a quasi-hero warlock, all wearing high-grade magic robes with dark purple lines and patterns, and the huge arcane energy in the space seemed to be undulating with their breathing, giving the surrounding caster players an extremely real sense of oppression.
Sandora stood on the altar, and the altar was filled with priests and apprentices who had not been incorporated into the clan, including a few Dark Guards.
"Soth, this time you are the commander, with Carl and Margaret assisting." "Remember our doctrine that you are not allowed to act without permission from the Night Lady or an oracle...... Except for the sake of business or to corrupt their faith, they must not have anything to do with believers in good gods...... Unless there is a threat to one's own life, one must absolutely obey the orders of the senior pastor of the church. ”
"Remember, the Night Lady will only teach her deepest secrets to her most loyal followers, and if the target is too powerful, then we have to hide ourselves and wait for the opportunity to act, and when the night falls is the moment for us to act."
The priestess recites Sha'er's teachings on the altar, and the cultists of the Night, including many players, bow their heads and pose as if they are listening.
Subsequently, the players who did not have a formation organization dispersed, and the players who were related to them all called friends when they left, and rushed to the mission coordinates while forming a team. However, most of the players in the evil camp were loners, and Alan pulled on the hood of his mage robe, completely ignoring the invitations to form a team from those players who knew him, and walked on the flat road of the front hall by himself.
When the player was almost astigmatized, the leader of the shadow warlocks, the quasi-hero professional Soth, who had not made a sound, ordered in a deep voice:
"Let's go—"
The knight formation at the front heard the sound and moved. Karl, the holy warrior who led the team, sat upright on horseback with a grim gaze.
The Knights followed closely behind the Warrior Monks, and the Spellcaster followed behind. The priest and the other clergy were not involved in the operation, they stood around the altar, no one spoke, and with a quiet, or rather cold, gaze, to bid farewell to their colleagues.
"After the abuse of that saboteur, the next step is to go to Musk's thieves' union and retrieve another shadow stone."
Sandora muttered from the altar.
In fact, she was a little helpless in her heart, if it weren't for the sudden arrival of the Night Lady and her furiousness, she would not have changed her plan of action at the short end and sent her elite to hunt down a saboteur.
In the priestess's eyes, repairing the Shadow Demon Net is the first priority, but as a priest, since the gods she serves are offended and unhappy, she must be appeased, otherwise it is easy for other priests to crusade in the name of ungodliness.
At this time, Charles, who didn't know that he had stabbed the hornet's nest, was engaged in a special gladiatorial fight with the female knight Li Lisi in the open space in the middle of the camp. (To be continued......)