Chapter 23: Lamia (Seeking Reading)
In the stone room, all the Elstarks raised their heads and looked at the black-haired and black-eyed youth on the high platform.
Su Ye stood in the center of the high platform, and he couldn't see the change in expression on his face, but at this time, his mind was spinning rapidly.
Originally, he was just trying to find a reason to fool these cultists and leave here before making plans. However, he underestimated the madness of the cultists, and now, they have been cornered.
This hellish "baptism", he will never do. Not to mention that after doing it, he will have to be tied to the same boat with the cult from now on, and Su Ye, who lives in peacetime, is also extremely resistant to murder.
At least the lives of those innocent must not be taken for his own convenience!
However, he could not break with the cult now. More than a dozen eyes are staring at him, but if he dares to make a move, one person can drown him with a mouthful of spittle...
Just when Su Ye was in a dilemma, several black-robed disciples came to the stage with the "high-level sacrifice" in the priest's mouth.
The first thing Su Ye saw was the "sacrifice" with a pair of red golden vertical eyes with strong hatred, long red hair like flames hanging messily at her side, and an iron collar of unknown material imprisoning her neck above her tall peak.
The lower body of the "sacrifice" is the body of a snake, and the scales on the surface of the turquoise skin glow with a faint luster.
The sacrifice prepared by the priest for Su Ye turned out to be a subhuman race, and it was also a higher race among the subhuman race, Lamia.
The Lamia race consists only of females, with the upper body of a human feminine and the lower body of a snake. With a high degree of intelligence, especially its own magic quality, it can be said that every Lamia is a natural magician.
In addition to this, the Lamians also possess the unique magic of the race, the Petrified Pupil.
When the magic is cast, any object that looks at them will turn to dirt and stone.
Because of this, Lamia was feared and hostile to other races. Nowadays, most of the Lamians on the mainland live in the mountains far away from the people, and they only leave the group when they reach adulthood, looking for husbands everywhere...
And the red-haired Lamia in front of Su Ye was already covered in bruises, and the blood marks from the whip could be seen everywhere on his body, shocking, his face was sickly pale, and only a pair of red and golden snake pupils still showed strong hostility when he looked at Su Ye.
It's not hard to imagine how she was treated inside the Order's dungeon...
"Let's start baptism." The priest on the side gave an indifferent command.
Su Ye took the dagger he handed over, and a strange red glow flashed in the pupil of his right eye, and then a panel popped up in front of him that only he could see-
【Julia】
【Sub-Human, Lami, Female】
[Age: 20 years old]
[Level: Lv.94]
[6 Dimensions: Strength 96, Agility 102, Perception 170, Intelligence 11, Charisma 89 (-100~100), Potential 7 (1~10)]
[Magic: Flame Burst Lv.4, Flame Tail Lv.3, Petrified Pupil Lv.2, Flame Breath Lv.2]
[Skill: Lamia Swordsmanship Lv.4]
[Status: Confined]
[Racial Trait: Petrified Pupil: You have the ability to petrify objects in your field of vision.] You will be able to restore the petrified object to its original state. 】
Then, he looked at the metal collar around the other party's neck—
【Magic Wizard: Magic Collar】
[Effect: Blocks the mana in the host's body and restricts the host's mana generation.] 】
[Weakness: Extremely poor resistance to external magic attacks]
“......”
"Let's do it." Seeing Su Ye standing still, the priest couldn't help but urge.
"For the sake of the god Elsdack!"
"For the sake of the god Elsdack!"
......
The audience shouted like a mountain shout, as if to encourage Su Ye to tear open the chest of the alien race in front of him with a dagger, and use the filthy blood of the alien race as a gift to the god Elsdack...
Su Ye held the dagger and walked step by step towards Lamia, who was imprisoned by the collar.
With each step, the cheers from the audience reached a higher level.
Eventually, he stood in front of Lamia, met the resentful gaze cast by the other party, and whispered, "Do you hate them?"
“......”
"Me too."
There was a look of consternation in Lamia's eyes, but it disappeared in an instant.
She knows that the human race is the most cunning and evil, and is accustomed to using lies to deceive others for their own benefit.
Su Ye didn't care what the other party thought at this time, he seemed to grasp the straw for survival, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I'll help you untie the collar, and as a condition, you have to help me escape from here."
Rumia's eyes flashed with doubt, she didn't understand why the person in front of her who looked different from other humans would make this condition.
However, Su Ye didn't have time to explain to her patiently, and lowered his voice and said, "If you agree, then blink your eyes..."
"......" Lamia hesitated for a moment, and finally blinked her left eye.
"I hope you don't lie to me!" Su Ye breathed a sigh of relief, threw away the dagger in his hand, picked up the magic guide gun he carried with him, and asked the priest, "I prefer to use this, is it okay?"
The priest looked at him suspiciously, this was the first time he had encountered such a request, and he couldn't help but nod.
Su Ye aimed the magic guide gun at Lamia and smiled slightly: "Miss Lamia, goodbye-"
Before he could finish speaking, four walls of wind suddenly rose from the high platform, separating him and Lamia from the black-robed cultists and priests beside them.
"Divine Messenger, you!?"
Just when everyone was stunned, only to hear a sneer, Su Ye pulled the trigger.
The beam of magic struck the metal collar around Lamia's neck with precision, and as Elstark's Pupil showed, the collar shattered in an instant after being attacked by the beam.
“——”
Lamia's eyes widened slightly, and the long-suppressed magic power in her body resumed flowing at this moment, her long red hair floated up without wind, and the scars on her body began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Not good!" The priest was the first to come back to his senses, and he saw a magic cyclone condensed in his palm, and shouted, "Stop him—"
Halfway through the sentence, it came to an abrupt end.
He was horrified to find that his mouth had lost sensation, and in less than a few seconds it had spread all over his body, and finally under the blank gaze of everyone, the whole person turned into a stone statue and fell backwards.
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The statue fell to the ground and fell into several knots.
The priest was not weak, and under the pupil of Elstark, Su Ye even found that his level had exceeded 70, making him the strongest among all the cultists present.
However, after Lamia activated the Petrified Pupil, he couldn't even resist, so he was easily reduced to a stone statue and lost his life.
“......”
The entire altar was silent for a moment, and the believers stared blankly at Lamia on the high platform, and a mood called "fear" quickly spread and climbed up everyone's backs.