Chapter Twenty-Four: The Cathedral, Silent Hill
Blood is the carrier of the soul.
The soul is the currency of the gods.
Therefore, under the system of belief in the gods, especially in the initial stage, primitive bloody sacrifices are often unavoidable, and all beings are lambs shepherded by the gods, although it is more in the long-term interests to let the flock continue to multiply and grow, but occasionally slaughtering one to satisfy the appetite of the lower stomach is undoubtedly also pleasing to my god.
Under the terrifying pressure and polishing between life and death, people can see themselves more clearly, and their souls will be pure due to the burning of emotions.
At the beginning, Archbishop Dolma Leo, who was in charge of the place, was not so crazy, and she chose to sacrifice herself at first, not a full sacrifice, of course, but it was enough to prove her faith...... This somewhat terrifying woman gouged out her eyes with a double knife after the ritual of the Holy Great!
As blood trickled down her cheeks, silver radiance filled her eyes, granting the mortal a considerable amount of power: the Pupil of Energy, the Eye of Truth.
"God said, 'He who loves me will find what I love, even if he encounters a sword in the midst of fire, he will be saved.'" Scanning the surroundings with those silver eyes of burning energy, Archbishop Dolma Leo whispered, at this moment, her majesty made countless believers around him choose to kneel, and the archbishop now gained supreme and unrivaled authority in the church.
“...... This guy should have a god bloodline, or the legacy bloodline of the great wizard Anglie, if Master Anglie chose the path of becoming a god back then, this woman would really be a godborn, and it would be easy to be promoted to the Sanctuary or even become a demigod. ”
"What you said is the first or second generation of gods, when it is passed on to her generation, how can there be any power left, the reason why she can get the response of the 'god' so easily, I am afraid that the great wizard of the year Angli set up some mechanism here, and the bloodline descendants he left here will be treated with higher authority. "Daxiu Victor, Nakato Viren, Zoya Anster, Jeff the Knight, and Dara the Witch are like wolves roaming the flock.
It was at this moment that a wolf came out, and he chose to be a shepherd dog at least on the surface.
The dome of the cathedral suddenly spread a dazzling white light, and the witch hunter knight Jeff of the Sanctuary Rank, with the divine light diffused around him, slowly descended in mid-air, like a war angel who had descended on the earth to cleanse the world.
Jeff had already changed into his original armor and sword, and as he spread his power, he landed in front of Archbishop Dolma Leo with the Silver Scorpion Word, which he had just learned, and bowed deeply.
"Believer of the gods, knight Jeff, by the command of the gods, let the divine flame purify the darkness!" Inexplicably, although it was a language that had never been heard before, everyone understood what he said, and it was obvious that Jeff's actions at this time were approved by his companions.
And, in theory, this guy didn't tell a single lie, but he believed that he succeeded in deceiving almost everyone.
Archbishop Dolma Leo looked at the man in front of him with his flaming energy pupils, and at this moment, an orange-red flame suddenly flew out of the crowd and landed in front of Dolma Leo to re-transform into a human form, but it was Zoya Anst, who reacted extremely quickly.
"By the command of the gods, let the divine flame purify the darkness!" said the mage, as she said.
Becoming a shepherd dog, although exposing himself, he can undoubtedly get closer to the holy coffin, not to mention that Jeff and Zoya-Anster are the most unafraid of the energy pupil and true eye inspection of the five, Jeff is a witch hunter knight with a positive position, and Zoya has only recently joined the blood, and is a relatively neutral sculptor mage.
In contrast, the Pirate King of the Seven Seas, Nakato Viren, was covered in bloody sins, and his overly crude form was not suitable for a saint.
Dara the witch has her own secrets, her essence is extremely evil, and Zhu Peng ...... His current essence is a demon in human skin, and he may be a few points higher than Dara in terms of popularity, so don't go up to find excitement.
Unless the demon who plays with the necromancer is extremely powerful, blends light and darkness, or is an evil god himself, how can a righteous god control and use such a lackey.
I don't know if I saw it but didn't debunk it, or if I really believed it. In short, Archbishop Dolma Leo of the Church of the Lord of the Silver Scorpion received two orders from the gods to expel the dark believers.
The gods had already sent relief troops to the world, and the believers around them naturally cheered and became more religious.
It is common sense that the gods will defeat the demons, and the light will surely defeat the darkness.
"Before we can counterattack and retake our homeland, we first need to remove the impurities from our ranks and keep evil away from us. As she spoke, Dolma Leo stepped down from the high altar under the protection of her loyal subordinates, her energy eyes scanning in all directions, her gaze like substance.
"You, you, and you, have been corrupted by darkness and evil and need to be purified. An old man, a young man, and a little girl, were pointed by Dolma's fingers.
It was also because of Zhuoma's guidance that Zhu Peng noticed that there were faint hell worms flying on the three people.
In this cathedral, the reproduction and parasitic abilities of the hell worms seem to have been greatly suppressed, otherwise it is the right choice to directly cremate all the people here.
In this church full of holy power, it seems that everyone has gained physical resistance similar to that of the warriors of the Holy Domain, and it is even less easy to be eroded, and even if it is eroded, it is not easy to die. But, who brought the Hellworm here?
Zhu Peng's gaze swept over Zoya Anster and Nakato Viren, especially Nacato Viren, who had been parasitic and had only drunk half a bottle of insecticide, and it could be said that a considerable part of it was carried by his own body and immune system.
Let's see if the Hell Worm is more ferocious, or if the body and immune system of your own Sanctuary level are assisted by half a bottle of insecticide to kill and exterminate the Hell Worm.
"Don't just look at us, maybe it's that old man? Have you forgotten, he was also parasitized by the insects of hell, the physique of an ordinary old man, what can half a bottle of insecticide do? Now his corpse has probably become a hive, and the insects of hell will naturally begin to spread here. Nacato-Viren's reminder reminded Zhu Peng of the hunchbacked old man again, and it was true, as a mortal, he was the most likely.
"My daughter, my daughter is my only relative in this world, she cannot be corrupted by the darkness, I beg you, please let her go. "A believer who had been guarding the archbishop was devastated the moment he saw his little daughter being forcibly dragged out.
He was Bishop Dolma Leo's most loyal chief of guard, but at this moment, the most fiery conflict between family and faith made his will and soul no longer able to bear it.
(I have not come to bring peace to the earth, but to the sword of the earth.) For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemy is a man in his own household. Whoever loves father and mother more than I is not worthy of me, and whoever loves his children more than I is not worthy of me. Looking at the father who was crying bitterly and in pain in front of him and the little girl who was wiping her father's tears blankly, Zhu Peng was more or less emotional.
It is said that the fairy road is indifferent and cruel, the avenue is heartless, and it is too forgetful. However, in fact, who is not cruel and indifferent to the way of progress and detachment in this world?
It's like someone said: I want to know if I am improving, if I am climbing up?
It's too simple, if you feel tired and miserable, then most of the time you are improving, you are climbing upwards, if you feel comfortable and happy, then most of the time you are regressing, social adaptability is declining.
This sentence may be biased, but it cannot be said that it is completely unreasonable, whether it is the path of the Tao, the path of wizards, or the path of faith, there is no easy way to go up, and if you find that your path is easy to follow, it often means that you are going downhill.
"Child, you and your daughter have pure souls, but her body has indeed been eroded by darkness. The Holy Flame will make her suffer for a while, but it will protect her pure soul from returning to the arms of the Lord again, and you, fight harder on earth, glorify the name of God, and one day you will meet your wife and daughter in the kingdom of God in glory, and enjoy that immortal happiness forever. Leaning over and kissing the forehead of the weeping man.
If the Great Wizard Angel really followed the path of the gods, then every word of Dolma Leo at this moment was true and sincere, but unfortunately, maybe even she didn't know it...... No, she was already an archbishop-level priest, or even a godborn, and had never clearly sensed the soothing of the gods from her heart, so had she never been confused?
The old man, the young man, and the little girl were burned alive in the end, and the corpses disintegrated as the flames burned, and a large number of burning hell worms poured out of their bodies, but these immature bugs did not fly far before they fell to the ground, which further confirmed Dolma Leo's words, their bodies have been eroded by darkness and evil, and the Lord Bishop is saving the purity of their souls.
After obtaining the blood sacrifice, the Holy Radiance in the cathedral has been strengthened, in fact, if it is really a god, the reaction speed is often not so fast, a server drives hundreds of thousands, millions of people, dozens, hundreds of regions, no matter how powerful it is, there will be some reaction delays, but not here.
The ancient great wizard Anglie has set up a server here with his own ability, and the gods of everyone's faith are in the holy coffin in front of them, and the reaction speed is so fast that it is instantaneous.
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In the days that followed, the power of the Silver Scorpion's faith and the magic of the dark demons intertwined and confronted each other like day and night.
Of course, the underground world is still dark, but the people in the cathedral can scatter out in search of food, daily necessities, and even rescue the few survivors.
During this time period, the power of evil is weakened, and the vast majority of evil demons are entrenched at a certain point, and their aggressiveness is greatly reduced.
Without the appearance of Jeff and Zoya, there is nothing the people in the cathedral can do with these demons entrenched in the darkness, and Anglie did not leave any power system in this world, the purpose may be to purify the faith, after all, if there are too many other powers that can manifest the gods, the human belief in the gods will naturally reduce the purity.
Therefore, in his world law setting, there is almost no magic power and fighting energy in this alien dimension, and even if he originally had it, after entering this small plane, it would gradually be lost with the squandering of power.
After becoming the shepherd dog of the gods, under the assignment of Archbishop Dolma Leo, the "saints" Jeff and Zoya have the responsibility of clearing the darkness, although the original intention is to help the cathedral cleanse the darkness and gain a balance of power between the two sides.
But now it's really being used as a knife, of course, it's still very unpleasant, but fortunately, Daxiu Victor, Nakato-Viren and the witch Dara don't really stop helping, they are also secretly helping to clear the darkness, but they can't be caught.
It is certain that there must be some hidden big killing move on that archbishop Dolma Leo, she is proficient in the ritual of faith transformation power, and she is the bloodline descendant left by Master Anglie in this small plane, anyway, no one on Zhu Peng's side wants to try the last killing move of this tough old woman, so they can only be as careful as possible in their actions.
The basic process is that during the day, the people in the cathedral will scatter out to look for food and daily necessities, and by the way, whoever finds the evil will notify the church guards, and even if the person is eaten by the demon, the area designated for him to search will be searched.
The vast majority of demons do not have the sense of sniping to change places with one shot, on the one hand, there are few suitable places for them to hide, and on the other hand, their own IQ is often not very high.
When night falls, the cathedral will ring the alarm bell, once you hear this voice no matter what you are doing, you must return immediately, otherwise the outside world will be completely the world of demons when darkness comes, ordinary people ...... No, even if a Sacred Realm powerhouse wanted to survive alone in this environment for a night, it would be too difficult.
At least, in the current five-person group, except for Zhu Peng, the mysterious witch Dara can give it a try, and the others, including the extremely powerful Nakato Viren, can hardly guarantee that they can survive.
One day half a month later, a giant demon of the Holy Domain level was searched out, Jeff and Zoya led the church guards to encircle and suppress, the day period itself is the most weakened demon power, and the holy power side is the strongest, plus the church guards are holding the silver scorpion emblem high around and reciting the holy words, under the suppression of the power of faith, this demon is getting weaker and weaker, and it is even difficult to hit a powerful attack in a range.
It's just that after this half a month of fighting, Jeff is okay, as a knight, a considerable part of his strength relies on physical strength, and his own holy power is still more than half, even if he doesn't have this holy power, he can still maintain a considerable degree of combat effectiveness.
And Zoya Anst, as a beginner mage in the Sanctuary, has a weak foundation, and after entering this world, she has encountered a magic black hole, so today, even if she saves again and again, there is not much magic left, at most there are one or two layers left, and now at most she can add a swiftness to Jeff on the battlefield, or command the church guards.
At this moment, Zoya Anst regretted his choice to act as a shepherd dog half a month ago.
While this is indeed a step closer to the goal, it is of no practical significance, and it costs you the need to constantly participate in battles and consume a lot of mana.
By now, Zoya had already announced in the five-person group that she had given up the fight for the existence of the Holy Coffin, and all she wanted now was to return safely to the outside Overworld, and for a Sanctuary mage who had been weakened to the point of only one or two layers of magic remaining, this feeling of weakness had made her enough.
Finally, Jeff slashed the demon in front of him with a sword, and both of them hurried to the demon corpse to absorb the supernatural power that overflowed, and if they didn't absorb it at this time, these powers would soon be absorbed by this space.
Killing the Sanctuary Demon is the chance for the five to regain a little strength, and to calculate whether it is worth it, if the energy paid to kill this Sanctuary Demon is greater than the energy gained, then the deal will be lost.
"You didn't do much, but you didn't take any less benefits. Standing in front of the rapidly decomposing corpse of the demon, Jeff swallowed the overflowing power for a while, and then opened his eyes and looked at the greedy Zoya on the side, he was more or less unhappy, his own strength was the largest, the most, but his absorption of energy particles was definitely not as much as that of the other party as a mage.
"What else are you going to do? I've already announced that I'm quitting the fight for the contents of the holy coffin, why don't I sleep with you?" Zoya said as he looked Jeff up and down, as he seemed to joke.
Zoya Anster was both an aristocratic and a mage who was not bound by secular etiquette, and was not debauched in her private life, but she was also not very conservative.
"That's not necessary. Hey, Zoya, who are your two companions, and do you think they'll kill us after they get the treasure in the coffin?"
"Dara is not a good type, she is not even a human being, I think I can trust you after getting along for half a month, but I don't know the bottom of my heart for your two companions. "Half a month is enough to change a lot of things, especially the five people who were basically equal in strength, now some are strong and some are weak, in the face of huge interests, the weak side will naturally have a psychological change of alliance to protect itself.
"............" Zoya Anster didn't say anything when she heard this, but the seed had already been planted in her heart.
Although the "Pirate King of the Seven" Nakato Viren is generous and heroic, he is a blood-filled and murderous pirate himself. Although Daxiu Victor is a colleague of Bloodface, in an organization like Bloodface, colleagues who are not familiar with each other are used for sale.
Especially in the face of such a huge benefit as the inheritance of Angle, the legacy of the ancient great wizards, such a thing will even be peeped at by the gods in the sky, right?
If you change to the power that you have absolute superiority, then I am afraid that after you succeed, you will also kill all other insiders.
Although it will carry some guilt, it can be exchanged for a considerable degree of security, and there is no reason not to do it.
The reason why Zoya Anster did not respond to Jeff's words at this moment is because as a bloody face, she knows very well that once this kind of thing is spoken, it is difficult not to show it in the daily situation, and she is better, especially the Jeff in front of him is a knight, although his scheming is good, but in front of Nakato Viren and Daxiu Victor, I am afraid it is not enough to see at all.
If you conspire with him and form an offensive and defensive alliance, you may not get any benefit, but you will trap yourself in it.
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(The darkness of this world, which is itself condensing, must be accelerated.) Otherwise, if a demigod evil king is really condensed in the end, it will really be the power to overturn the chessboard. Dressed in shabby linen clothes, Zhu Peng walked forward with a bone cane in his right hand and a chubby little boy in his left hand.
The boy hugged his dirty puppet tightly, and his originally beautiful eyes were a little dark at this time, as if they were shrouded in a haze.
He may never be able to escape the nightmare of being sprinkled with the blood of his whole family, and his little heart is covered by a wave of blood.
But Zhu Peng adopted him and took care of him, not because he pitied him, but because of the doll in his arms.
A demon puppet, a demon puppet who is so clever and mysterious that he can even hide the evil spirit of Dolma Leo, because this evil spirit is protecting the little boy, so Zhu Peng adopts him.
Even if a little boy makes it to the cathedral, even if he is guarded by a demon puppet, he will not live long if no one takes care of him.
There is a shortage of food, water, and all kinds of daily necessities, and this sluggish little guy does not even have the ability to provide such a basic foundation as faith, how can such an unaccepted and unneeded young beast survive?
"Although the demon has no position, I still don't understand why you chose this little guy as the master. He can't offer you anything, and he even needs you to take care of it. As they walked, there were bones dancing around them, wielding bone scythes to slash through all obstacles in front of their masters, pointing to the condensation of the dark power beneath the library.
(I'll give you a haunt and a hiding place for the demon, and you take care of the boy for me, so we don't have to talk about anything other than trading.) The demon puppet in the boy's arms turned red and passed it to Zhu Peng.
It was both a little jealous and a little afraid of its own kind of people who mixed well in the human world, compared to its own evil spirit existence, Zhu Peng's pure and powerful demonic bloodline made it almost crazy with longing.
But, at the same time, it knows that it can't get it, and at the same time, it's not what it wants the most.
Thinking of this, the demon puppet shrank again in the warm embrace of the little boy.
Seeing this scene in front of him, Zhu Peng frowned slightly, if he didn't know very well that it was difficult for human souls to quickly transform into evil spirits, he almost suspected that the demon puppet in front of him was attached to the little boy's relatives, but this was impossible, the power of this demon puppet was strong and secretive, as an evil spirit, it was difficult to accumulate power to this extent without a thousand years of accumulation, even if it was to keep hunting living beings and then keep succeeding, it would take hundreds of years or at least a hundred years of power accumulation.
After thinking about it, Zhu Peng had already arrived in an underground study under the protection of the skeleton guards, and a huge cow had become a sperm, and it stood upright and swung an axe to smash a huge bookshelf, and then rushed over with its head down violently.
"After the founding of the country, you are not allowed to become a jing, and you dare not listen to the words of the upper peak, do you really want to be eaten by the harmony beast?" sneered at the bone staff in his hand, and a huge magic array spread out and rotated in front of the necromancer, just when the giant cow that stood up with a menacing head swooped down, and the sharp horns were about to reach Zhu Peng's chest.
"Roar!!"
With the terrifying roar of the dragon, a huge black-red dragon pounced from the Yin Red Necromancy Array, directly turning the giant cow holding the big axe from horizontal to vertical, snatching it into the air and slamming it to the ground.
Because this is the basement, the scope of the battle is not completely separated from the entire building, but the ancient building itself is also shaking violently, and it seems that there is a danger of complete collapse at any time.
At the same moment, Zhu Peng held the boy in his left hand, and the bone staff in his right hand was quickly wrapped by the spiral bone drilled out of the sleeve, and finally formed a bone dragon spear like a drill bit.
Run, swerved sharply, and then greeted the behemoth that had been thrown down by the Dark Nether Dragon, the huge spiral-shaped bone dragon spear was violently swung at a black-haired young man who did not look majestic, and even had some thinness, to meet the behemoth that stabbed in midair...... Piercing, tearing, burning!
Under the terrifying red flame scorching effect, the shattered axe-wielding cow had already turned into a large amount of minced meat and energy before it hit the ground.
However, because of the subtle control of the strength, Zhu Peng's body formed an invisible protective force field, and it was clear that there was blood mist all around him, but he and the little boy in his arms were not even touched by the slightest bit of blood.
(Two tricks...... Kill a Sanctuary demon with thick skin and high defense...... This guy seems to be much stronger than I estimated!) The demon puppet in the boy's arms has a mysterious light in his eyes, the puppet craftsmanship of this era is not as good as it was at that time, and the clown puppet in the boy's arms is not only not so cute in the eyes of people in the 21st century, but also a little scary, in fact, this is actually true.
Swallowed in the blood mist of the demons, after a while, Zhu Peng felt that his magic power had recovered to about ninety percent, and his own magic power was about five times that of a necromancer of the same level, and ninety percent of his magic power was enough to deal with most situations, especially because Zhu Peng had rich combat experience, and when facing most of the evil demons, he did not consume as much magic power as he recovered.
Coupled with the transaction with the little boy's demon doll, if it weren't for the magic black hole he had encountered before, Zhu Peng at this moment would have returned to his peak or even become stronger.
In the past half a month, Zhu Peng has killed more demons in the Holy Realm than the other four combined, if the king of demons that was originally condensed in the end was the peak of a demigod, after Zhu Peng's violent stirring, it would be good if it could now condense a demigod high-level.
Roughly cleaned up, and then walked out of the town library, took out some food from the blood stone as if it was found this time, just went out and found a man and a woman, Zhu Peng frowned slightly, but after all, he still walked over, and he had to coax the child to play from time to time after work, which was very annoying.
"Daxiu, here, here we are. Seeing Zhu Peng's figure, the girl among the men and women began to beckon from afar.
Because the library area is a large area, there are three people who have been assigned, although Zhu Peng can use hypnosis to ask the assigned manager to transfer himself to this district, but he is not easy to make it too obvious, the town library is a large area only by himself, so there are two people to accompany him.
The boy's name is Webb, the girl's name is Lola, and both of them have some clutter on their hands at this moment, which is obviously their harvest.
Originally, Weber was holding a small bag of rice, and he still had a sense of superiority in front of Lola, who was only holding a set of old curtains, but when he saw the corned beef and salted fish that Zhu Peng took out of the space equipment, he was stunned.
This is still Zhu Peng's deliberate oldness, and even sprinkled some soil on it, otherwise all the food in his ring is a high-quality ingredient selected by the servants, and if you don't deal with it, it will be too easy to expose the abnormality.
"How is that possible, how is it possible to have these things in the library?"
"I also found a cashmere blanket, isn't your mother afraid of the cold, Webb, and I'll ask the dispatcher to leave the blanket for you. Although the young man in front of him has always been a little hostile to himself, how old is Zhu Peng, as long as this little hostility does not turn into real malice, he doesn't bother to bother with him at all.
Webber's mother, Mrs. Doss, was a warm and chubby woman, who took care of her brother alone, and lent herself what little possessions she had, a tattered blanket. People like Zhu Peng, not to mention the grace of dripping water, it is always inevitable to repay the peach, you give me a blanket, I will at least return you a cashmere blanket to feel at ease.
Archbishop Dolma Leo implemented the rule that the subjects were evenly distributed in the church, but the excellent ones could get more survival materials, which not only ensured the majesty of the clergy and the stability of the situation, but also ensured the relative enthusiasm of the seekers.
It was in this context that Weber's childhood sweetheart Huixiu decisively gave up his teenage playmate and began to move closer to Zhu Peng's flattery.
In this small town, the young Hui Xiu is handsome, with a thin waist and long legs, which can be regarded as a bit of beauty, but for a person like Zhu Peng, he really has no interest in a powerful and practical village girl.
But Weber became hostile to this young man with whom he was not very familiar, although from Zhu Peng's point of view, he admired this straightforward and pure-hearted young man.
(Anyway, I recently started to adopt boys and admire teenagers, which is a little inconsistent with my previous painting style.) Joked to himself in his heart, Zhu Peng estimated the time and felt that the dark night was coming.