Chapter Ninety-One: The Secret Ritual
In front of the counter of the Broken Blade Tavern, the strong man Stuart was so drunk that he couldn't help but burp, and the sour breath made the tavern foreman Florian frown, just looking at his old friend's face, and didn't get angry at him. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's late...... Belch...... Your tavern is closing, and it's time for me to go. ”
The brawny man Stuart slowly stood up with his hands on the counter, knocked away Florian's outstretched hand, and walked staggering towards the deserted street outside, staggering with some heroic sadness.
The tavern maître d'Hon, watching his old friend's back engulfed in the darkness of the night, noticed that the back of his hand that had been swept away by Stuart quickly became red and swollen, revealing a thoughtful look, and it took a long time before he let out a long sigh.
Florian cleaned up his mood and stretched out his hand to summon the tavern waiter, and several people worked together to clean the tavern, put down the dust-proof thick cloth door, and put the tables, chairs and benches in order.
Originally, the antechamber was where the waiters slept, but the tavern foreman allowed them to go upstairs to rest in their rooms due to the fact that the business of the Broken Blade Tavern was particularly deserted due to the proximity to the construction site of the city walls.
As soon as the strong man Stuart had reached the street, his drunken eyes immediately returned to clarity, and he stood in a gloomy corner and looked back at Florian, the tavern maîtreist, and opened his mouth, but did not utter a complete sentence.
The path he chose was full of risks, and he didn't have confidence in the future when he couldn't see the future, and Stuart wanted to come here to say "cherish!" to his old friend, but unfortunately he never had the courage to say it.
He looked around to the left and right, and saw that there was no one but himself in the empty street, so he stripped his right hand, which was hidden in his sleeve, from the bandage used for camouflage, revealing the stubble that had been cut off at the wrist.
Stuart closed his eyes, and then opened them suddenly, and a dark red coals flashed in his dark pupils, and he saw that the section of his severed right hand had been scabbed and closed, but under the thin skin, a thin snake-like thing kept wriggling.
"Parasitic fusion has been preliminarily completed, and there is no turning back for me. ”
Muttering strange things to himself that no one could understand, Stutt the strong man put a bandage over his severed hand and hurried into the deep iron night.
After a few circles in the streets and alleys, and finding that there was no tail behind him, he turned into a blacksmith's workshop, knocked on the door at the agreed rhythm, and after a few moments, even without permission, Stutt pushed the door and entered.
With the help of the hazy moonlight, he could see the open well in the middle of the huge workshop, walked briskly, and just reached the edge of the well, two men in black in robes suddenly appeared, as if they had surfaced from the bottom.
"The time is just right, the stars are in the right place, the ceremony is about to begin, and you will appear as scheduled, which must be the will of the great Lord of Silence. ”
"Glory to darkness, my all-knowing master, hidden guardian, bless your new brethren today who will be under your wing. ”
After each of the two men in black finished their prayers, they pulled out a dagger made of ground ribs, made a cut in the palm of their left hand, and placed it above the well, allowing the green blood to drip down.
"Tick...... "Tick" was so loud in the silence of the night that it was like two thunderbolts to Stutt.
The water of the well received the blood of the two secret priests, and the otherwise calm and waveless water surface was like a boiling hot soup, constantly pouring out splashes and foaming, constantly pushing around.
The bursting foam emitted a chaotic aura from the demons of the lower realms, lighting up the runes that had been carved on the walls of the well one by one, and finally activating a small interdimensional summoning array.
Such a strong demonic aura should have been discovered by the church members in Blackwater Town, but unfortunately, someone secretly set up an isolated magic circle outside the blacksmith workshop, so it did not trigger the relevant alarm.
The bottomless well, the boiling water surface slowly rose upward, and when it was parallel to the surface of the well, the foam that kept coming out became bigger and bigger, reflecting the moon and stars in the sky, and all kinds of creatures from the lower realm began to appear in the originally empty foam.
Among them, the Bottomless Abyss has the most Tanari demons, but most of them are low-level demons like children, like dreamlike bubbles, born and destroyed until the two secret priests find their desired target.
The man in black on the left and right of the well reached out almost at the same time and grabbed a fist-sized blister, inside which was a gelatinous monster with multiple tentacles in an uncertain shape.
When the Secret Priest selected the target, all the foam disappeared in an instant, as if it had been absorbed by the gelatinous monster, and after a sharp expansion, it exploded instantly, and a steaming cloud of sulfur-smelling gunpowder quietly dissipated.
Stuart immediately saw the half-human-tall Abyss Demon Gum Monster appear on the surface of the well, and just as he wanted to show his might, the two secret priests uttered a strange prayer that hissed like a snake's language, and an invisible force field rope bound it firmly.
"Hurry up and tear this sacrifice to shreds. ”
Stuart immediately unleashed a bone dagger of the same shape and immediately rushed forward, but instead of following the orders of the two secret priests, he shaved off the six tentacles of the gelatinous monster in one go.
Then he picked up the twisting and bouncing demonic flesh from the ground, pressed the still vibrant tentacles to the section of his right hand, and the twisted and wriggling muscles that were originally like thin snakes grabbed them in an instant, and quickly joined and fused into one.
"What are you doing?"
The two secret priests were furious, and they discovered that the newly selected members had not followed the established ritual steps for the sacrifice.
At the same time, Lu Bin, who was resting on the second floor of the Alfalfa Tavern, was awakened by the vibration from the Book of the Traveling Mage, and he had been sleeping very lightly, so he did not fall into a daze after waking up.
Lu Bin immediately opened the Book of Brigade Mages, and his teammates had an additional negative status, just like the revenge mark he had been hung by the curse of the dark wizard.
There was no time to wake up Nina Wild, who was sleeping on the ground next door, Lu Bin grabbed the cloak and put it on his body, lifted the elf's one-handed sword with his left hand, and gently pushed open the window with his right hand.
Fortunately, Lu Bin wore the travel boots found in the elven waste capital Elondale, and even if he jumped from the four-meter-high second floor, he did not use the tumbling force to unload and did not injure his feet.
Identifying one direction, Lu Bin activated the rune spell "Oil on the Soles of the Feet" of the auxiliary system, and the speed immediately rose to the level of a senior thief, and he rushed through the gloomy alley.
Stuart's right hand was loaded with six tentacles in front of and back, and all of them controlled the demon's flesh in an instant, and although the two secret priests were furious, they could not force it to stop the ritual in the middle of the ceremony.
"I repeat, hurry up and tear the sacrifice to pieces. ”
Losing the tentacles for hunting, the gum monster's body trembled in pain, and the unrivaled brute force exerted itself, and even the invisible force field rope couldn't help but make a cracking sound.
The Secret Priest was already out of rage, but after Stuart repaired his right hand with demonic flesh, he quickly became very cooperative, the bone dagger waved like a blooming flower, and the barrel-shaped gelatinous monster suddenly flew with flesh and blood, and the slurry splattered everywhere, except for the well summoning array itself, landed everywhere.
The slurry of the gelatinous monster contained a rich magic element, and there were still fragments of flesh and blood that were alive and twisted on the ground, like leeches scorched by the sun on the asphalt road in summer, and they wanted to approach each other and merge into one again, but they were all quickly devoured by the invisible mouths.
In the empty blacksmith's workshop, the faint sighs came and went, and the emotions of satisfaction were naturally expressed, just like the feast of thick pulp held by the dark wizards - the fastest way for them to replenish the magic in their bodies was to eat the flesh and blood of demons, of course, they could not be taken directly, and they had to go through relevant rituals for detoxification.
At this time, the window in the weak position was pierced by two Arcane missiles, and the spoiler who arrived here following the position of his "teammates" was Lu Bin, who officially arrived at night.
Stuart reacted most astutely, and after jumping to the blacksmith's workshop to set up the finished weapon rack, he saw that the intruder was alone, ready to fight back.
At this moment, a large cloud of black mist poured out from the spell book unfolded by the stranger, and a zombie wolf jumped out with a gray smoke and attacked the three people present.
The Secret Priest's heart moved, "Controlling such a large number of undead creatures, which famous undead master is this?"
Fortunately, the ritual had been successfully completed, and they had all been blessed by the Lord of Silence, and now their bodies were filled with the source of spellcasting, and they were at the point where they did not vomit or feel unhappy.
In the face of the bite attack of more than a dozen zombie wolves, the two of them invariably teamed up to summon four small floating shields, protecting the four directions of the left, right, front and back, blocking all the attacks of the undead.
Lu Bin snorted coldly, grabbed a rancid lone wolf that was knocked away by the shield and had a broken neck in his hand, and sent it back to the place of bones through the sacrifice of the card, directly summoning the strongest "resentful soul" under his command.
The predecessor was the resentful spirit of the dark wizard Trahms, who rushed out of Lu Bin's sleeve, and after landing, he just came to the front of the floating shield array, and just waved a claw indifferently, and the scorching sparks splashed down in all directions.
The floating shield was scrapped in an instant, and the two hidden priests immediately took a step back in remorse, trying to distance themselves from each other, at least away from this high-level undead.
Lu Bin looked at the summoned resentful spirit, the attack power was so good, he continued to attack with confidence, and the book of the brigade mage disguised in his left hand automatically turned to a page of the arcane missile, and pressed it on it with his right hand, and the two-dimensional spell model was quickly filled with arcane energy and materialized, turning into a blunt sagittal missile.
"Go!"
He took advantage of the momentum and pushed forward, and the wrath slashed again with a very cooperative claw, this time directly knocking down the two floating shields, causing the two hidden priests to retreat again.
Seeing this, Stuart couldn't help but shake his head, "With only a defensive strategy, you will definitely not be able to defeat this bottomless necromancer." ”
Immediately he noticed that the intruder, who could easily suppress the two secret priests who could not move, seemed to hear his heart, looked sideways in the direction where he was hiding, and gently bowed his forehead.
The Hidden Priest, who was in the mutilated floating shield array, immediately noticed the person to whom the necromancer was greeting, and he became suspicious of Stuart, who did not follow the established steps in the ritual process, and this impression immediately took hold of his mind that was now held by fear.
"Traitor!"
Stutt immediately heard the secret priest rebuke, and although he didn't know exactly which god the two men were serving, he couldn't accept being accused of being traitors.
You know, once you bear this charge, no camp can accept the containment, and Stutt must fight for himself, and he has to stand up immediately.
Lu Bin waited for the "teammate" hidden in the dark to appear, and with only a small gesture of greeting his forehead, he forced this person out, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, revealing a triumphant smile.