142 Advent
On the edge of the lava lake, once the sphere of influence of the Temple of Death, many people crowded there on the cooled and petrified magma, some in amazement at the huge lava lake, others gathered around the survivors of yesterday's horrific catastrophe, and listened to them repeat their thrilling stories. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Hmph, yesterday I was looking for food here, you know, in the garbage of those rich people, hum, but suddenly I felt that half of my body was very hot, hum, and I turned my head, Mom, Ainemeo bless, the ground quickly turned into lava!"
It was an orc who was squirting saliva, and his huge nostrils were pitch black, as if he had been stained with ink, and he was about to snort twice before he could say a few words, and clear his nose: "Hmph-see my nose, the ground seemed to be collapsing and falling continuously, and everyone was desperately trying to escape, hum, the slow runners collapsed into the magma with those houses, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into ashes and flew up! Hum...... It's uncomfortable!"
"Wow, you're amazing!"
Someone in the audience exclaimed, 'You must be a fast runner, right?'
"Of course!"
The orc snorted proudly again: "It's not glamorous to say, if I really can't find anything to eat, I will occasionally go to the kitchens of those hotels and inns to 'borrow' some, and sometimes when someone finds out, it is all about running fast to avoid a stick, I have already practiced it, hum, you must know that most of the guys who started running with me did not run out!"
"Oh......"
The audience responded in a cohesive voice, and then someone asked, "Do you see what happened to the Temple of Death?"
"Hmph, no, and you don't have to ask anyone, although I was almost a kilometer away from the Temple of Death, hum, but after asking each other, I realized that I was already the closest one among the survivors - no one could escape any closer!"
'Oh...... So you don't know......"
The audience responded neatly again, only this time in a tone of disappointment. After all, this is a major event that has never happened in thousands of years, and the main temple of the god of death, Faharu, was actually leveled, and the inside story contained in this must be ...... It's amazing, it's exciting!
"Hmph, though, you're lucky to have met me!"
Just as the onlookers were talking to each other and preparing to disperse, the orc, who had not yet enjoyed the feeling of being the focus of everyone's attention, gritted his teeth in a hurry and threw out the news that he was pressing the bottom of the box: "Although I didn't see what happened to the Temple of Death, I met a junior apprentice who was repairing a magic bell on a tower near me at the time-hmph, this poor man was so frightened that he jumped straight from the tower, and he was about to die- Before he died, he told me that before a pillar of light came down from the sky and turned this place into a lava lake, the Temple of Death was already starting to emit a large ball of light!
"What? Is there such a thing? Is it ......?"
Sure enough, the people were immediately attracted again, and after listening to the mysterious story of the orcs, they began to speculate with interest, and the survivor, who was enjoying the feeling of being surrounded by everyone, did not notice that when he said "inside the temple" and "a great cloud of light", a person who had been walking quietly in the crowd, The stranger in the pure black robe suddenly stopped, and the face shrouded in the cloak turned towards him, a silent and cold fluctuation rippled from his body, and the surrounding crowd suddenly felt a chill, and then suddenly there was a darkness in front of them, as if a huge shadow had just swept over their heads.
"Huh, what about that guy?"
When the audience looked up and looked back, they were about to continue listening to the orc's speech, but they were shocked to find that the survivor who had been there foaming at the mouth had disappeared at some point.
When did you leave? Don't say hello...... Maybe there's a lot of news left unspoken!
The audience looked at each other, shrugged helplessly, and dispersed to listen to the other survivors.
......
Bang!
In the gloomy dark alley, a heavy body fell unconsciously, revealing a lifeless face through the gap in the black robes, and the huge black nostrils clearly identified the identity of the master, it was the orc survivor who was still talking about it, but now life had left his body and turned into a corpse.
The stranger stared at the corpse on the ground in silence, his black robe moved slightly, and the corpse under his feet immediately began to decay at a frightening rate, and after a few seconds, there was no trace of the survivor in this world, except for a cloud of gray dust on the dirty ground.
Turning around, the stranger stared at the sky for a moment, then suddenly raised his hand, his fingers changed gestures quickly at a speed that was indiscernible to the naked eye, and when he put his arm down, the sky in this area was obviously free of dark clouds, but it seemed to suddenly dim, a faint cry, howl vibrated in the air, if you listened carefully, but there was no sound, and the surroundings were silent and terrible.
- Only those who have true eyes or have practiced necromancy can see what is happening here, and at the same time gasp: after the stranger made that mysterious gesture, the resentful spirits within tens of kilometers of the vicinity were like being swept into the whirlpool of ships, unable to control themselves towards the center of the whirlpool, and in just a few tens of seconds, tens of thousands of necromancers had gathered in the sky above this dark alley, and even the light was dimmed because of it.
The stranger raised his head and silently stared at these wailing dead spirits, as if looking for something, and the next second, the eyes as calm as ice cubes suddenly flashed, and countless dead spirits didn't even have a chance to wail, they instantly exploded with a bang, turning into countless tiny water droplets, and then these water droplets continued to gather together, and finally condensed into a small black transparent liquid, as clear and beautiful as liquefied crystal, and finally slowly merged into the stranger's black robe, without a trace.
The darkness around them disappeared in an instant, the sky became transparent again, and above the dark alley, only a few selected souls remained, trembling as they looked at the terrifying stranger, not daring to move at all.
Tell me what you saw yesterday.
The stranger didn't speak, but his thoughts were instantly and unmistakably communicated to all the remaining undead.
......
"What a terrifying force. β
On a magic clock tower in the distance, a middle-aged man wearing a black and white magic robe and a snake-headed human body badge representing the god of destruction, killing, and violence 'Dialomte' in front of him looked in the direction of the dark alley with a serious expression. As a member of the Temple of Destruction, he could naturally see the number of undead souls that were numbing to his heart, but in just an instant, all the dead spirits completely turned into nothingness and returned to the most primitive essence - the water of the Soul Pool.
The guy who can do this kind of thing is naturally a close confidant of Faharu.
The middle-aged mage nodded slowly, a cruel smile flashing across his face. This news is to be reported to the temple high-ranking Faharu as soon as he investigates the matter, and a bloody storm may be near, and I seem to have smelled your seductive sweetness......
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The man in the mirror was pale, dressed in a splendid sacred robe, and was gracefully performing the rigid rituals of the Temple of Radiance, and his every move was full of style, but who could have known that such an extremely ordinary action would have taken Gregory four full hours to practice!
Maybe I should go to the Radiant Temple's library and look up some books about lichs?
The thought crossed Gregory's mind, and he fell into deep thought, and began to seriously consider whether he should do it, and the young face, though stiff, still had a friendly smile that had nothing to do with adjectives like 'twisted' and 'hideous'.
Resentment was there, of course, and his heart was full of it, but self-pity or madness and decadence were never his choice, and almost from the moment he understood his true identity, he was always fighting different enemies - before he was even ten years old, he was already in open and secret battle with his fellow candidates for the position of Great Sage, and the cruelty and danger were not under any slave life and death struggle.
Now, he is lucky enough to be alive but has become an alternative lich, and he has to fight almost everyone around him, and no one can share his secrets, only himself.
It's bleak......
Gregory laughed self-deprecatingly, but the smile did not reach his stiff eyes. He then continued to practice in front of the mirror, immersed in another nervous thought.
- The Council of Elders was coming, and he had tried several methods, but he could not hide his lifeless body, and this matter had become a boulder on his heart, and even if he could give up everything, the identity of the Great Sage must not be lost, otherwise his life, the ordeal he had endured, would be completely meaningless, and yet how could he blind their senses in front of a group of old monsters who were proficient in the magic of light, so that they would actually recognize a corpse as a living person?
Want an excuse to refuse treatment...... No, no, that's probably going to be even more suspicious...... It's really nerve-wracking, I'm afraid no one can do such a bizarre thing except those gods who are high up!
...... Wait a minute!
Gregory suddenly straightened up, and although there was no sparkle in his eyes, he could still see his excitement - just now, when the thought of 'I am afraid that no one can do anything but the gods' passed through his mind, he suddenly felt something familiar, and then he immediately remembered that he was faced with a broken soul, He also had such an idea when he was only breathing more than the corpse, but in the end, under the mysterious and powerful secret method of Tutang Carmen, S completed the coronation ceremony without any flaws, and no one noticed the abnormality!
Tutang Carmen!
When the name came to his memory, Gregory experienced a sense of gain and loss that rarely appeared. According to Tutten Carmen's usual miraculous behavior, perhaps he was really capable of making this wish come true, but not to mention that he had been mysteriously nowhere since his coronation, and that he had not even been in the Great Chapel when Gastius had descended, and even if he could be found, how could he explain his condition to him?
...... However, if you can't think of any way to deal with the elders' treatment, then the outcome will probably be no different, right?
The young sage was rarely hesitant, but after careful consideration, he quickly made a decision: no matter how much, he would find Tutang Carmen first, and at the same time, he could not slack off on his side, and he should also do his best to find a solution......
The sound of rapid footsteps came, and even if Gregory was now a little dull in hearing, he could still hear it clearly, and it could be seen that the person was running in a hurry.
"Your Excellency, Great Sage!"
Footsteps stopped outside the door, followed by an unfamiliar voice: "Some members of the Xi'an Council and some representatives of the nobility have sent letters to talk to you - the messenger is now waiting at the entrance of the Great Chapel." β
"Okay, I see, thanks. β
Gregory raised his voice slightly, turned and looked at himself in the mirror again, and after making sure that there was no trace, he walked out of the room with a slow and leisurely step.
What do those bureaucrats in the Xi'an parliament want to talk to about themselves?
After going to the Sacred Pool to fetch some Starlight Silver Dust and prepare to contact Tutang Carmen, Gregory walked towards the door of the Great Temple, and as he walked, he began to think habitually.
The legislators must have come to inquire and complain...... It just so happened that Xi'an's destruction was a difficult diplomatic affair to deal with, and it just so happened that the Great Sanctuary had also suffered a lot of damage in yesterday's battle, so he could put the blame on the hateful infidels, and use the power of the world to hunt them down - Sanin blessed that the guy who stuck the dagger in his heart would fall into his own hands, so that he could take revenge himself!
Kill him? How can that be done, it's too merciful...... He should be imprisoned in his body, let him see himself rot with his own eyes, let his nose be filled with his own rancid smell every day!!
In the distance, the figure of Kurui Zeman wearing two pairs of light wings and wearing a blood-red uniform appeared, and Gregory immediately came back to his senses from his dark imagination, looked at the newly promoted god son who stood there motionless like a statue, slowed down his pace and calmed down for a while, and then smiled and approached the past.
"Good day, Your Excellency Kurezeman. Good morning, Astelle. β
His signature childish smile regained on his face, except that the paleness of his face made him look weak.
"Good morning, Your Excellency Gregory. β
As soon as Estelle saw Gregory, she leaned over quietly, as far away as she could from Kurezeman: "I have prepared breakfast for you, please come here." β
"No, I'm not hungry. β
Gregory smiled again, "The messenger has been waiting for a while, go now!"
Thinking that the place of conversation must be outside the city, those noble lords will definitely not dare to step into the city gate again until they obtain the guarantee of the Great Holy Hall.
"Wait. β
Kurezeman glanced at Gregory, who looked 'weak', and after a moment's silence, took a few steps closer. "Don't tell anyone about my changes just yet. β
He stared into Gregory's eyes and whispered, "That will cause unnecessary panic and wavering...... All you have to do is claim that Gastius has returned to the Father. β
"Yes, Your Excellency. β
Gregory bowed respectfully, "What else do you command?"
"What is happening in the Great Chapel is also to be kept secret, just tell them that the infidels who are trying to break in have been wiped out. Kurezeman's cold voice sounded again: "From now on, only the three of us know about these two things, even to the high-ranking personnel of the Radiant Temple. β
"Yes. β
Gregory stooped down again, then turned around, and with that solemn step, met a human dressed as a clerk, and after a few words of greeting, he boarded a luxurious carriage with mud-stained wheels under his courteous guidance, and under the watchful eyes of a few paupers who had come to hear the news in the distance.
The starlight silver dust in his hand had been quietly spread on the steps in front of the Great Holy Hall in the silence of the young sage.
β......β
Kurezeman watched the carriage farther and farther away, no expression on his smooth face. Until the carriage disappeared for a long time, he still stood there quietly, but at a certain moment, he suddenly nodded abruptly and said, "I feel the same way." β
There was silence around them, no one spoke, and Estelle, who had witnessed all this, shuddered again and quietly moved her steps as far away as she could from the increasingly strange Kurezeman.
"Let's go back. β
As if he hadn't noticed Estelle's movements, Kurezerman turned around to return to the Great Sanctuary. The reconstruction of the barrier is not yet complete, and there is still a lot of work to be done......
Hiss.
In the next moment, he suddenly stopped, his whole body tensed as if he sensed some great crisis, his eyes lit up like lightning, he turned his head suddenly, and stared closely into the distance.
At the intersection of his sights, in the bright morning sunshine, a stranger in a black robe was walking slowly.
The stranger's robe was so long that it not only covered his whole body, his face, but also a large part of the ground, so that his footsteps could not be seen as he walked, and the black of the robe was extremely pure, as if it had been cut directly from the silent midnight, and it was so black that it was beautiful, and as elegant and smooth as a flowing liquid, one was almost immediately enchanted by it.
......
At the same moment, Doug, who had just entered the laboratory, Linax, who was researching, and Fio, who was snoring shallowly on the bed and was half asleep, suddenly raised their heads together and looked in a certain direction in the distance in surprise.
......
Maybe it's because the black color of this robe is too pure, where the man in black passes, even the light seems to be dimmed, and along the path he walked, the large area of magic bluestone ground seemed to have suddenly experienced thousands of years, and it was weathered in an instant, and it was blown by the gentle breeze, and it immediately turned into mud and dust and scattered with the wind, the scenery was weird, but people couldn't take their eyes off it at all.
His steps are also very beautiful, every step he takes seems to be stepping on an invisible plane, and his body does not rise and fall in the slightest, if it were not for the slight swing of his arms from the front, anyone would think that he is flying forward in levitation.
Like a surging darkness, the man in black quickly approached the Great Sanctuary silently, and soon stood in front of the steps of the Great Sanctuary in the gaze of several pairs of eyes in the distance, his face shrouded in cloak did not move, but the surroundings were suddenly quiet like a ghost domain for a moment, and the sound seemed to be 'taken away'.
...... Faha Road!
Kurezerman moved his lips silently, the eye-like lines on his forehead instantly lit up like the sun, and calmly reached out to straighten out the blood-red robe on his body, and in Estelle's surprised, surprised, and unbelievable inhalation, he stepped out of the door of the Great Sanctuary and knelt down on one knee gently.
"Greetings to you, Lord of the eternal souls, Servant of Light. β
He did his due etiquette without humility or arrogance, but his heart was not as relaxed as it seemed. I didn't expect the consequences of that incident to come so quickly, and what was unbelievable was that it was Faharu, the Lord God of Death and the Lord of Souls, who came in person!
Sanin, of course, thinks that the other gods are clowns who usurp the power of the gods, and he does not dare to be arrogant enough to regard himself as the only god - at least, Fahalu, who was born at some point and has been in charge of the soul from the beginning, is an existence that even Sanin respects and disrespects, and although he is always silent, his ability is not to be underestimated. There is not peace between the gods, although human beings don't know that in the limited number of god-level wars that have occurred, Faharu has ignored them, but those who provoke him are easily erased like pinching worms!
Dressed in black, Faharu stood quietly in front of Kurezeman, seemingly blind to his respect, and slowly raised his head, and after looking at the exquisite divine patterns carved on the outer wall of the Great Sanctuary for a moment, he suddenly raised his hand slightly.
Kurezeman's heart immediately became alert, his body shook slightly, the wings behind him suddenly stretched out from his robes, and the huge wings hugged forward, covering his body tightly like a shield, and at the same moment, a cold, heavy, night-like dark energy emanated from Fahalu's hands, scattering like water waves.
'Boom!'
Kurezeman's body was like a leaf in a torrent, easily blown up, and slammed backwards into the barrier of the Great Sanctuary, and the barrier that had not yet been completely repaired immediately made a violent sound, instantly dimming a lot, and some of the weak stones had been weathered instantly
Can't you be better?
Kurezeman unfolded his wings, which were already slightly damaged, expressionlessly, his cold gaze stared at the black-clothed Fahalu, the divine pattern on his forehead shone brightly, his right hand stretched forward, and he whispered a 'ruling' in his mouth, and the wings behind him suddenly turned into countless feathers, flying like life, and quickly formed a gorgeous cavalry spear in his hand - even if he could never defeat a god, the dignity of being a son of God could not allow him to retreat:
"- In the name of my father and my god Sanin, the light of judgment!"
There was no suspense in the battle, and the blinding divine light disappeared silently into the sparkling and elegant robes of Faharu like a lump of salt thrown into the water, and the Lord of Souls easily choked Kurui Zeman's throat with a flat and indifferent hand.
The black shadows gathered in his other hand, and the gaze under the cloak slowly fell on the holy pillar of light, as if feeling the evil gaze of this god, and the pillar of holy light that reached into the sky suddenly became more dazzling, and the diameter instantly increased to ten times the original size.
Rumble!
As if in response, a huge pillar of holy light with a diameter of several kilometers suddenly descended from infinity to the Great Sanctuary, and Estelle's eyes were suddenly filled with dazzling white light, and in the blazing heat, except for the ground around the Great Sanctuary that was not damaged at all, all the other buildings around it melted as quickly as ice sculptures doused with boiling water. Gone, when the pillars of light were thrown into the Great Chapel like something tangible, the area around the former square was empty, as clean as a water-washed tabletop, leaving only the red floor with green smoke.
β......β
Outside the door of the Great Sanctuary, Faharu grabbed Kurui Zeman's throat with one hand, his eyes fixed on the blazing light in the Great Sanctuary, and the black robe on his body was windless.
"God the Father ......"
Kurezeman, who had been easily deprived of his ability to move by Faharu, raised his head and looked in the direction of the Great Sanctuary as wellβthe remaining Inquisitors were all prostrate on the ground, and at the end of the path, two rows of striking red uniforms, a massive, entirely light-filled human figure, was slowly walking towards it.
...... Sanin.
Faharu easily opened the Gastros in his hand, there was no fluctuation on his face under the cloak, and after the robe as black as midnight trembled slightly, the light around him suddenly dimmed a lot, easily creating a shadow in Sanin's light.
"Lord of the Eternal Souls......"
Sanin spoke slowly, and every word that came out of his mouth carried a heavy pressure, causing the whole earth to tremble with it: "Why do you do this?"
β......β
Faharu was still silent, but the two powerful spirits had already completed the exchange of information in an instant, and an angry expression immediately appeared on Sanin's face made of pure light, and with his roar, the surrounding space fluctuated around him, and instantly spread throughout the world.
In the face of Sanin's irascible denial, Fahalu was still silent and indifferent, but the black robe was windless, and the darkness around him immediately surged forward, and Sanin's blazing magma-like light was on top of it, and suddenly there was a clear cracking sound out of thin air, like a solid icebreaker, slowly but easily piercing in, surging towards Sanin!
"Roar!"
Even in the face of the fearsome Faharu, Sanin's dignity as a powerful deity prevented him from making any low gestures, and with his earth-shattering roar once again, white light flooded through the shadows, instantly destroying it.
β......β
Faharu's cloak covered face seemed to flicker, and then the black robe on his body suddenly stretched out behind his back like wings, and in an instant, he had risen from the square in front of the Great Sanctuary to a few hundred meters above the ground, and the wings behind him spread out like umbrellas, instantly forming a perfect circle, the purest dark energy began to surge towards the center of the circle from the edge of the circle, and the heavy pressure immediately spread, and the dust clouds in the air seemed to be blown by the wind, quickly radiating and scattering, and even the sky there seemed to be much darkerγ
Laugh at!
After a long and short two seconds, the dark circle stopped surging, and in the next moment, a trace of extremely thin black light suddenly shot out from Fahalu's fingertips, which sank into the ground in front of the Great Sanctuary in a bland manner, and it was this attack that seemed not threatening at all, but the brilliance around Sanin's body suddenly doubled, Huo Di turned to face the believers behind him and opened his arms: "In my name, I will bless you!"
The light extended from his body, instantly enveloping the entire Great Sanctuary, and each believer's body was even more covered with a shield that flashed with countless divine patterns.
At the moment when he had just completed this action, from the place where the black light just shot in, a thick darkness instantly expanded, like a phantom through the wall, not blocked by anything, and swept the entire Xi'an in a perfect spherical shape within ten seconds, only then suddenly faded away, and when it disappeared, from the very center, all the creatures, buildings, and even earth and stones were like the turbulence of time invested, rotting at a speed visible to the naked eye. Weathered, in the blink of an eye, the entire Xi'an city collapsed into a flat land without undulations, and large patches of gray dust flew in the air, but there was no sound of wind, and it was frighteningly quiet.
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