Chapter 813: Ascetic
Leo used various means to obtain a large number of alchemy and pharmaceutical materials, and he did not use up all of them, but selected a lot of high-quality spiritual energy materials from them, and prepared to bring them to the world of Velon, trying to fuse the spiritual materials of that world with other materials to see what kind of magical effects they could produce.
However, for unknown reasons, all of these materials have lost all of their medicinal effects, and are highly decomposed, as if they had been left for a long time.
After discovering that the psionic materials were rotten, Leo hurriedly checked the psionic potions he made with these materials, and also checked the armor and weapons of the two, and the results made him a little relieved, the finished elixir, and the weapons and armor did not mutate.
"In the end, the loss is not very big. Leo rewrapped his things and put them on his horse, and said in a deep voice.
"Look over there!" Sylvia said, patting Leo on the shoulder, pointing forward.
Leo looked in the direction of Sylvia's finger, and saw a village looming in the rain and fog ahead, which seemed to be the destination of their trip.
When they saw there, they turned and mounted their horses and walked in that direction, and soon they were at the entrance of the town.
It's similar to other mountain towns, with a staked fence on the outside, leaving only a gate for access.
It's just that, according to the normal situation, this place is uninhabited all year round, and in the cold and damp environment of the mountains, whether it is the wooden fence on the periphery, the wooden gate, or the wooden buildings in the village, it should have been rotten and dilapidated a long time ago, just like the town of Lobe under the mountain.
But the situation here is completely different, everything here seems to be new, as if everything is the same as when the town was originally built, the only difference is that there is no one in the town at the moment.
However, everything here did not deceive Leo's eyes, and after he activated his spiritual vision and blessed the power of the True Eye, he looked around and said, "This place has been affected by the power of the Night God's Sigh for a long time, and has formed a place where illusion and reality coexist, even without the power of the Night God's Sigh to provide power, the residual power of this place can still maintain the real illusion here." ”
In his eyes, the town was completely dilapidated, the wooden stakes and gates on the outer walls had rotted and collapsed, and the buildings in the town were in a dilapidated state, as if all the houses would collapse at once if the wind blew a little stronger in the mountains.
Knowing that Leo was seeing something different, Sylvia asked, "Is there a way for me to see the real situation here?"
Leo thought for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Not for now, but I may be able to make you a pair of glasses with the power of the True Eye in the future, and then you should be able to see the reality of the world through those glasses." ”
As he spoke, he looked into the village again, and then, as if he had seen something unexpected, he let out a soft exclamation in surprise.
"What's wrong, what do you see?" asked Sylvia.
"Do you see the church of the King of the Hill?" Leo said, gesturing towards the middle of the village.
Sylvia nodded and said, "Well, I see!"
"Is the church you see intact?" asked Leo again.
"It's in good condition. Sylvia looked at Leo puzzled and asked, "Isn't what you see intact?"
Leo shook his head and said, "It's also intact." ”
At first, Sylvia didn't understand what Leo meant, but he quickly remembered that Leo was using his True Eye at the moment, and in his eyes, the village was all corrupt, and it stands to reason that the church built of wood should also be corrupt, and it would definitely not be intact.
Sylvia has been in the Orthodox Church for so long, and naturally knows very well about some religious buildings, although because of the frequent baptism of divine power, the building of the Church of God will be more difficult to decay and more durable than other buildings, but this does not mean that the church building is immortal, it will still decay, but the decay rate is much slower than other buildings.
Therefore, after a breakthrough in the construction project, as long as the financial resources and conditions permitted, each church would build brick and stone churches, and rarely used perishable wood.
This mountain village has been uninhabited for many years, and even if that church is baptized every day, it is impossible to prevent natural decay, and even if the wood on the building does not rot like the ordinary buildings in the village, it should not be preserved as well as it is now.
"Looks like there's something strange about that place!" Leo frowned, remembering the request made by St. Phosis to place the wood carving of the King of the Hill in the shrine of the church.
Thinking of this, he took out the wood carving of the king of the hill from the storage space, only to see that the originally plain wood carving was now emitting a faint light, and when he held it in his hand, he could even hear a majestic battle song.
"Isn't there supposed to be a wizard tower here?" At this time, Sylvia suddenly thought of something and said in a deep voice.
Leo also realized that this village was missing a wizard tower, which made him wonder, "Isn't this the village we're going to?"
After a moment of confusion, Leo shook his head again, the illusion of the town in front of him was clearly the result of the Night God's sigh, which he could sense from the slight resonance of the nightmare power. It's just that he can't absorb the power that formed the illusion here in the same way that he absorbed those few fragments.
"Let's go, go in and have a look!" said Leo, and rode his horse toward the village, Sylvia following closely behind.
As Leo approached the town, he removed the Eye of Truth, putting himself in the same field of vision as Sylvia, and seeing the illusion of the village intact.
When he arrived at the gate, he knew that the gate in front of him was fake and an illusion, but when he touched it with his hand, he could still feel the solid wood, and he still had a perception that this gate was real.
It was the influence of this perception that made Leo break the latch of the gate in the normal way, and then open the door and walk in.
After entering the gate, you will see a well-preserved village, but there is no one in the village, it is empty.
Sylvia walked in after Leo, holding her familiar repeating crossbow in her hand, looking around vigilantly, and after not finding any danger, she couldn't help but ask: "I remember that there are countless monsters and corpses in this village that cannot be killed, why are there nothing now?"
"Should it be ......" Leo, who also didn't find any dangerous objects, also showed doubts, but he suddenly thought of something, and said: "The things we solved in the forest before should be the monsters and corpses here, right?"
Sylvia was stunned, nodded, and said, "It's possible." ”
Although they made such a guess, neither of them was completely reassured, and they remained vigilant, and walked towards the church in the center of the village, and soon came to the church of the king of the hill.
"Do you feel it?" Sylvia suddenly asked Leo as she stood in front of the church.
"Feel what?" Leo asked, unremembered.
"The breath of the abyss. Sylvia said in a deep voice.
Hearing this, Leo frowned, and immediately invoked the power of the crystallized serpent in his arm.
Through the crystallized serpent, he also clearly felt that there was indeed a strong abyssal aura in this church of the king of the hill, which made him think of Death Valley.
Upon discovering this, Leo and Sylvia glanced at each other, then dismounted, prepared their weapons, and retreated from the church door to look inside.
The exterior walls of this church are made of this unique white pine, and then coated with a special white paint made of white pine branches and leaves, which can better protect against corrosion and moisture, and under the sunlight, this white building can also emit bursts of light, which looks very holy.
However, the interior of such a seemingly holy building was full of evil aura, and bloody corpses hung on the roof, these corpses continued to flow down as if they had just died, some blood flowed down the walls, staining the walls red, and some blood fell directly to the ground, forming a pool of plasma on the ground, which looked extremely slippery when stepped on.
Inside the church, a tall naked figure like a giant knelt in front of the shrine of the king of the hill, and the statue of the king of the hill in the shrine where the giant knelt had become a pile of rubble powder.
As if in repentance, the giant kept whipping his back with the ascetic flail, and each time he was whipped, there would be several more wounds on his back, and from the wounds a mixture of blood and black oil-like substance, the black oil substance would merge with the plasma on the ground when it fell to the ground.
"Bishop Wilson!" Sylvia suddenly said a man's name.
Leo turned his head to look at her, she pointed to the holy crown placed in the shrine, and said, "The Church of the Hill Kings used to have a Bishop Wilson who tried to solve the problem here, but it was ......" said, she didn't continue, because the end was already self-evident, and then she said: " Bishop Wilson was considered the most likely person to become the Pope of the Church of the Kings of the Hill at the time, and he was also considered the son of the King of the Hill, and almost everyone considered him the son of the King of the Hill in the world, as he was the only believer of the King of the Hill who could permanently maintain the Eucharist. ”
"The Holy Body of the King of the Hill?" Leo was stunned for a moment and said, "Is it the body of a giant?"
Sylvia nodded.
Leo didn't say anything more, drew his Abyssal Greatsword, and walked inside, Sylvia swapping his crossbow for the more powerful King and Queen.
Although the ground was covered with a layer of plasma, it was extremely slippery, but it had no effect on Leo or Sylvia, who distributed a layer of strength under their feet, and could directly ignore the slippery plasma, as if stepping on solid ground.
The moment the two entered the church, the giant had already noticed something, stopped growing in his body, and said in the slightly accented Chinese language of King Mares: "Who are you? Are you the ones who have come to help me get free?"
"Yes. Sylvia said, "Bishop Wilson, we are here for the Church to help you liberate, and to restore the incarnation of our Lord to the throne and cleanse this place of filth. ”
"That's good, that's good!" muttered the giant, slowly rising from the ground, then picking up the shield beside him, turning sharply, and yelling at them, "Then let me be free!"
I saw that compared to the back of the giant, the front of the giant had completely lost its human form, a completely distorted head was dissatisfied with the sharp tooth and strong mouth, and each mouth had a tongue with glasses inside, all of which became transparent from the neck down, and in his transparent body it was not internal organs, but hideous monsters, these monsters tried to get out of the giant's body, but they were always blocked by an invisible force.
Sylvia did not hesitate to raise the Giant and fired several bursting bullets in a row, although the Giant was seeking relief, it did not mean that he did nothing, his survival instinct still made him defend and counterattack in the face of attacks.
I saw that almost at the same time as Sylvia fired, the giant had already blocked the giant shield in his hand in front of him, blocking Sylvia's bullet in an instant.
However, it was clear that he had never encountered a burst bullet before, and when he thought he was blocking the bullet, the bursting force generated by the bullet exploded instantly, directly shattering the shield in his hand, and the residual power rushed towards him.
However, at this time, the blood plasma on the ground suddenly gushed out and directly wrapped him, turning into layers of buffer layers, weakening the power of the bullet explosion layer by layer.
Seeing that the bursting bullet had no effect, Sylvia immediately replaced the queen and shot at him.
As soon as the bullet was fired, the huge figure sank into the ground along with the plasma, easily dodging the attack that pierced the bullet.
Although Bishop Wilson dodged the piercing bullet attack, he couldn't dodge Leo's attack with the style, and at the same time as Sylvia fired the bullet and the opponent sank into the ground, Leo's figure moved quickly, instantly rushing down a corner of the church, and then saw him plunge the abyssal greatsword in his hand into the ground, and the abyssal greatsword still had his blood power attached to it.
A loud scream came from underground, and the entire church shook violently from the scream.
However, Leo did not stop attacking, a crystallized soul spear quickly condensed in his hand, and was directly smashed by him at the place where he was stabbed by the Abyss Greatsword, the entire ground instantly crystallized, and at the same time, some unpleasant sounds that had never been heard before came from the ground, and the ground began to arch upward, as if something wanted to drill out.
Seeing this, Leo immediately drew his abyssal sword and quickly retreated, while Sylvia on the other side also aimed the king and queen in his hands at the arched position, and shot one after another.