Chapter Seventy-Seven: Thoughts on Fire

A pop exploded in the basement, and a blazing fireball flew past it—but Duncan had reacted before it could get closer.

His perception was far faster than his body, and the moment the abnormal energy appeared in the basement, he sensed that something was wrong, and at this time, he subconsciously raised his hand to block it without thinking about it!

A little burning sensation came from his fingertips, but in the next second, the spirit fire that erupted out of the flames was swept into the fireball with the momentum of recoil and deflagration, Duncan grabbed the fire from the corner of the basement out of thin air, and the blazing fire was almost immediately dyed with a layer of dark green, and the bursting energy instantly became obedient and began to burn quietly in his hands.

Duncan grabbed the fireball that had turned into a ghostly green spirit fire, and slowly turned his head to look in the direction where the attack had come from.

And the moment he looked away, the ghostly hound called "Ah Dog" immediately jumped backwards, and a crack surging with countless shadows and black mist appeared out of thin air where it landed, and it jumped in without hesitation, and the pitch-black chain dragged Shirley at the same time, who spat hard to the side before flying into the rift, and several bloody bullets were spat on the ground by her.

In the next second, a man and a dog disappeared into the basement.

Duncan looked back in surprise when he heard the movement, only to see the last scene of the girl's skirt falling into the crack—the strange man-dog duo just ran away in the blink of an eye.

I still have a lot of questions that I haven't had time to ask!

And this is all because of the sudden sneak attack of a cultist with an extremely strong vitality.

Duncan's mood was subtly unhappy, he looked again in the direction where the fireball was flying, and saw the cult priest wearing the sun mask leaning crookedly against the corner, holding his last breath to maintain the posture of raising his arms, he seemed to be shocked that the fireball he had summoned with all his strength was not only caught out of thin air, but even usurped the permission, and he could see the dull state of those eyes through the golden mask.

"It's not a good habit to not make up the knife after the fight......"

Duncan's face was gloomy, and while muttering about a certain dog-picking girl who didn't know how to mend the knife after a fight, he slowly walked towards the cult priest who was seriously injured but not killed.

He still held the quietly burning green fireball in his hand, and the power of the fireball was quietly spreading in the basement.

With every step Duncan took, the oil lamps and torches set up all over the basement seemed to be inexplicably inexplicably inspired, and the dancing flames were dyed a layer of dark green one after another, and under the ever-approaching gloomy firelight, the masked sun priest finally felt a fear stronger than ever—

He felt that his connection with the sun god was rapidly weakening, and as one light after another was "usurped", the gaze of the sun god was rapidly leaving his soul like the melting of spring ice!

In great fear, a trembling voice finally came from under the mask: "You...... You are no ordinary heretic, what the hell are you......"

The last light turned into a dark green soul flame, Duncan stopped in front of this priest, he bowed his head slightly, and his face looked particularly gloomy under the reflection of the spirit fire: "I didn't finish asking just now, I was interrupted by you, this is very rude, didn't your mother teach you?" ”

As he spoke, he noticed the state of the sun priest.

He felt that he was wrong about Shirley—half of the cultist's chest had been completely deflated, and the broken ribs might have even pierced through his heart and lobes, an undoubtedly fatal wound that theoretically had no need to be mended.

This priest is still alive because of an even more powerful and strange force hanging on his life, and that may be the "sun god" in the mouth of these cultists.

But even so, Duncan could clearly see that life was rapidly draining from the priest's body, and every breath he took was getting weaker, and his breath was coming sooner or later.

Although the reason is unknown, it is clear that the blessing of the sun god is rapidly moving away from this priest.

"It seems that the blessings of the sun god are not very reliable," Duncan shook his head, and said with emotion, "Your Lord has left you." ”

He just sighed casually, but he didn't expect this sentence to stimulate the already dying priest, who suddenly burst out with his last strength driven by great anger, and suddenly took out a bloodstained cloth belt from his sleeve under Duncan's unexpected gaze!

"I offer this to the Lord! May the Holy Relic Cloth cleanse the eyes of heresy! ”

The priest shouted, stained with blood and shards of internal organs stained with a golden mask, and he raised the "Holy Relic Cloth" in his hand and offered the most thorough and crazy sacrifice to his Lord—

He sacrificed all of himself to set the cloth on fire to die with the heretic who had usurped the flame before him!

Duncan, however, only calmly watched the final mad sacrifice - although the priest did startle him when he suddenly took something out of his cuff, but after seeing what it was, he was completely calm.

It was the strange strip of cloth that the other party used to verify his "compatriot identity" when he first entered the assembly hall - but he didn't expect this strip of cloth to have such a terrible name as "Holy Remains Cloth".

Just as Duncan had predicted, the relics were silent and unresponsive, and the cult priest's deathbed sacrifice did not awaken any miracles.

The eyes under the mask showed a trace of confusion, and the cult priest struggled to support his body, looking at the holy object in his hand without the slightest movement in despair, and coughed up a mouthful of dirty blood again in disbelief: "I offer this body to the Lord......"

"That's what you want, I guess."

Duncan couldn't look at it, he shook his head, and raised his hand to the blood-stained tape.

In the next second, a cluster of dark green flames burst into flames!

The spirit fire ignited the holy cloth, ignited the dirty blood coughed up by the cult priest, and ignited the flesh of the madman, and the priest roared in anger in the spiritual fire: "No, no, no...... It shouldn't be like this...... The Lord will not turn his back, Lord...... The Lord will chastise you for this strange ...... Who are you?! ”

In the raging fire, the voice of the cult priest finally gradually weakened and dissipated, and the vitality supported by the extraordinary power could not resist the flames that directly burned his soul - or rather, it was precisely because of the existence of the extraordinary power that he was turned into ashes in this spiritual fire backlash.

The spirit fire had finally been extinguished, and the sun priest leaning against the corner had been completely burned out, leaving only a set of loose clothes and a golden mask that mimicked the shape of the sun.

Even the so-called "holy cloth" burned to ashes in the flames because it served as a "medium".

Duncan frowned.

To be honest, this was not the first time he had seen a corpse - the "sacrifices" he had seen in the underground cavern and the priest who had been "sacrificed" had already exercised his nerves, and he was only a little surprised at the moment.

Normally, his Psychic Fire only works on supernatural objects, as he had tested with various things when he was on the Lost - the supernatural that had been burned by the flames would be "usurped" to become Captain Duncan's belongings, and if it wasn't supernatural, even a piece of paper, it would not be affected by the Aposexual Fire.

The spirit fire had the effect of actually burning, and it was his own initiative that he was afraid that the cultist would really do something with the cloth, so out of caution he ordered the cloth to burn itself, and as a result, the cloth did faithfully carry out the order.

But he didn't expect the flames to burn the cult priest to ashes as well—which was not in line with the conclusions he had come to after the test.

It is normal for the Relic Cloth to be burned, as it is a transcendent item that will be affected by the fire of the spirit;

It is also normal for the cult priest's clothes to remain intact, because the clothes are clearly "mortal", and the spirit fire is like an illusion of parallel time and space to mortal things, and will not have the slightest effect - unless the clothes themselves have been enchanted, or some otherworldly materials have been mixed into the weaving process;

It was normal for the golden mask to remain intact, as Duncan was intrigued by the apparently otherworldly object, and as soon as the flames began to spread, he gave orders to prevent the mask from being damaged in the fire.

That...... Why was this cultist burned to ashes by the fire of the spirit?

Duncan crouched down in confusion, scrutinizing the gray-black ashes.

It's about the same as the ashes of the relict after it was burned.

Duncan had never tested his spirit fire with a living person, let alone actively used it to take people's lives, and this cult priest should be regarded as the first real victim of his flames.

At least, the first real victim under his conscious control.

Slowly, a bold idea popped into Duncan's mind.

Don't...... Can such a "mortal" who has been "blessed" for worshipping a particular god also be considered a "transcendent object"?