Chapter 142: Dark Shadow Evil

Spirit After entering the passage, Crown found that it tilted downward in a spiral.

Judging from the sense of direction, the passage is generally away from the castle on the ground and extends to the back of the castle.

He roughly calculated their distance from the ground and concluded that they had gone five or six meters underground, and the passage was still going downwards.

In the tunnel, there were more and more black tree roots, drilling in and out of the soil.

Crown thought of the huge, tangled tree roots that had entangled the temples at Angkor Wat in his previous life, but this place was underground and the atmosphere was much more depressing.

Nick walked silently in front, and the figure illuminated by the light twisted and moved in the tunnel, like a ghost following closely.

After more than ten minutes, the priest stopped.

Crown caught up from behind and saw a large semicircular hole that was more than three meters high. The tunnel behind it branched into three paths.

On the wall of the big hole, the huge claw marks became clearer.

The team members filed in. Liya walked forward with an oil lamp and touched a few of the marks. She confirmed, "The soil at the cuts of these marks is still very fresh, which means they were caught in the past few days."

She bent down and searched carefully on the ground, and found a few vague footprints.

Leah measured it with her hands for a few times and continued, "The monster should be a creature that walks upright on two legs. Its feet are about 40 centimeters long and have three thick toes."

She pounded the ground with her hand, paused for a moment and said, "It weighs about 600 pounds, about the same as an adult male brown bear."

"Six hundred pounds, it's a really big guy. In this narrow tunnel, there is no room to hide." Nick grinned and said, "But it's still within my tolerance. Rest for five minutes and get ready for battle. What time is it now?"

"A quarter past two," replied Crown.

"Let's search for another hour. No, just half an hour. Then we'll evacuate immediately regardless of whether we gain anything or not," Nick put down his shield and flail and flexed his fingers.

The members of Leah's team began to apply sword oil to their weapons. Klauen thought for a moment and said, "Everyone, can someone lend me some evil spirit oil? Curse oil is also fine."

"I'll lend it to you," Luo Lin raised the bottle in her hand and handed it over: "I have a lot more."

"Thank you," Crown took it and quickly applied it to the sword.

The evil spirit oil is a yellow grease. When applied on the sword, you can smell a faint fishy smell.

When Nick saw that everyone was ready, he picked up his weapon and walked in through the leftmost passage. Everyone followed him, maintaining the same formation as when they came in.

The passage at the back is much taller than when we first came in. It should have been specially dug by some unknown monster.

. . . .

After Nick led everyone down the passage, Jason and the others vigilantly observed the situation around them.

They placed four oil lamps filled with holy water around the underground cave entrance, and the bright white light illuminated half of the hall.

Mara couldn't stand the awkward silence and said, "Jason, can I ask how long you have been a second-level extraordinary?"

"It's been five or six years," Jason responded calmly.

"Is that so?" The female knight's tone seemed much more relaxed. "Then how long has Clown been a second-level transcendent?"

"As for him, I didn't ask him in detail, but I guess he just got promoted not long ago, no more than a month."

"Ah?!" Mara gently covered her open mouth with her hand, then used her thumb to press her jaw closed.

"Ah what?" Jason glanced at her. "I can't believe it either, but Captain Nick doesn't have to lie about something like this."

The female knight fell silent, feeling a little blocked in her heart.

After a while, she said leisurely: "I really don't know how he practiced to be so powerful."

"People are gifted, and some people do have abilities far beyond ordinary people in certain things," Jason said calmly.

He has seen many people who are more talented than him, but there are only a handful of people who are better than him now, and some of them are no longer alive.

Now he has understood that he is just an ordinary person who works hard and is somewhat lucky. As long as he has his own pace in life and works hard, he will be able to stand on a high place and overlook the scenery.

In fact, it is also a kind of insight after helplessness, because he realized the meaning of comparing people to others and comparing goods to others. Take Fanny Seath, the daughter of his teacher, as an example. This pastor is someone he can never surpass in his life.

"Something's happening, be alert." Jason felt the air temperature was dropping slightly, so he immediately opened his eyes and looked around alertly.

A faint foul smell began to penetrate their noses, and they both knew that there must be an evil spirit lurking nearby.

The temperature dropped even more, and the stench became stronger.

Jason sneered, showing his grim white teeth: "This group of evil spirits didn't come earlier or later, it's obvious that they look down on us, hehe."

He suddenly stepped forward and launched a sharp thrust. At the same time, the long sword in his hand reflected a flaming red halo.

The Fire Breath was activated. This signature breathing method of the Church of the God of Fire was second only to the Blazing Sun Breathing of the Church of the God of the Sun in terms of damage to evil spirits.

When his arm was fully extended, wisps of green smoke suddenly burst out from the tip of the sword. He twisted it, and the green smoke became thicker. A faint howl sounded, and then a few pieces of gray spiritual energy fell.

Jason was extremely fast, his sword was swift and his moves never missed, and every sword he struck could kill an evil spirit.

He moved around the mechanism, constantly killing the evil spirits that rushed in from his spiritual sense.

In contrast, Mara was in a much worse state. It took her several hits to kill the evil spirit and release its spiritual energy. Even her arm was attacked by the evil spirit, leaving several dark and purple marks.

She felt something unknown flowing through her body, and her strength was depleted quickly. If Jason hadn't come to her aid, she would have been hurt even more.

Thanks to Jason's superb performance, the two fought off the evil spirit's attack.

Then, Jason immediately found a stamina potion and drank it, then took out a firepower potion and a bottle of No. 2 holy water and kept them in his hand for use.

After doing all this, he began to calmly collect the spoils on the ground.

"Thank you," Mara whispered.

"I don't like being a babysitter for others. You should learn not to hold your teammates back," Jason said calmly. "What you should do most now is to recover your condition instead of standing there in a daze."

"I," the female knight said bitterly, but she could only purse her lips and look for usable potions in her backpack.

While Jason was picking up the spiritual essence, he remained alert to his surroundings. When he bent down again, he suddenly felt a strong sense of danger rising from the bottom of his heart.

He immediately dodged to the side, and in the process he raised his weapon and swung it above the place where he had just bent down - that was where the danger came from.

A black shadow quickly rose into the air, dodging the sharp sword that was slashing at it with a red glow.

Jason saw an evil spirit floating in the air, seemingly wearing black clothes and a black hood.

His pupils shrank and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.

Evil spirits that can be directly observed by the naked eye are very difficult to deal with, at least they are second-level evil spirits. Their clothes are actually condensed from evil forces and have strong elemental resistance.

He took a few steps back and returned to the floor where the mechanism was placed.

Jason felt that with the appearance of the black shadow, the temperature around him dropped again, and the strong stench filled the hall again.

The pressure brought to him by one evil shadow spirit was stronger than the pressure brought by so many evil spirits just now.

Perhaps, all the evil spirits in the castle have come. Mara unconsciously moved closer to Jason. She sensed through her spiritual sense that more evil spirits were coming from all directions than before. The fingers holding the sword turned pale because of the force.

“Prepare to fight to the death.” Jason raised his sword, the flaming light reflected his cold eyes.

He calmly drank the fire potion, then drank the holy water, leaving half in his mouth.

"Hehehe"

A sinister laugh was heard, and the black shadow's head twitched slightly as he waved his sleeves, and the evil spirits rushed up one after another.

When Mara and the other were dealing with the evil spirits' attacks, another gray shadow appeared, floating behind the black shadow.

Jason felt bitter when he saw all this. The large number of low-level evil spirits had already made it difficult for the two of them to deal with. With two powerful evil spirits eyeing them covetously, he was not sure if he could hold on.

If he had a teammate of similar strength fighting alongside him, he would have the confidence to resist so many evil spirits. Even if he was defeated, he could retreat calmly.

But now his teammates were really not good enough, and he estimated that they would soon give up. The attacks from the evil spirits came from all directions, and he was exhausted from dealing with the attacks from top to bottom, left to right, front to back.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Jason sighed in frustration. Two months ago, when their team was on a dangerous mission, his enchanted armor was damaged and had to be sent back to the church to wait for repairs by the master blacksmith. The leather armor he was wearing now could not provide any defense against evil spirits.

"Prepare to retreat, retreat into the passage and reunite with everyone," Jason shouted, using his secret skill, Cutting the Wind.

After he fought off the swarming evil spirits, he spat out the holy water in his mouth to ease Mara's crisis.

Then he immediately picked up the oil lamp and rushed into the passage.

Faced with the threat of death, the female knight also burst out with powerful speed. She ran into the passage first and the two of them rushed down the passage quickly.

Faced with the fleeing enemy, the black shadow and the gray shadow did not chase after them. Instead, they walked to the location of the mechanism, and the handle was turned by an invisible force, and the passage was closed.

As Jason and the other man were running down, they suddenly felt the entire passage begin to shake, with gravel and sand falling continuously, and then the entire stone slab above their heads began to fall.

The two had no choice but to run down harder, and when they reached the door of the room full of dry bones, they heard a muffled "boom".

Jason looked back and saw that the passage had completely collapsed, raising a lot of dust.

"It's over, we are buried here," Mara leaned weakly against the wall.

Jason took a deep breath, went forward to investigate the collapse, and then turned back. He looked at the female knight coldly and said, "Keep running and look for the main force. The collapsed passage cannot stop the evil spirits. We are not out of danger yet."

After saying this, he picked up the oil lamp and strode away.

. . . .

Nick raised his shield and slammed the red-eyed rat, as big as a swan, against the wall.

Crown waved the Star Steel Sword, cutting the rats that pounced on him ferociously in half.

"It's a dead end," the priest turned around the corner and said, "Retreat and fight again tomorrow."

He had just finished speaking when the passage shook as if an earthquake had occurred, and a lot of soil fell from the top of the tunnel.

Some team members lost their balance and fell to the side.

Nelson was startled and blurted out, "What's going on?"

"What happened?" Leah held onto the tunnel wall and turned to look back the way she came.

"Go back, now," Nick shouted, "Liya, go from the end of the team to the front, hurry up."

"Okay, everyone follow me," Leah responded loudly and started to jog forward.

"Hurry up, hurry up," the priest urged from behind.

When Leah ran back to the big hole leading to the fork, she saw Mara and her partner standing back to back, brandishing their weapons. Two human-shaped shadows, one black and one gray, were floating at the entrance to the hall.

"Hehehe"

The shadow laughed mockingly and disappeared into the dirt of the tunnel. As the shadow left, the evil spirits left one after another.

"Why did you come down?" Leah stepped forward, supported Mara who was about to fall, and asked anxiously.

At this time, Crown and Nick also ran back to the hall.

Jason saw the two people coming in, and walked forward a little breathlessly and said: "We were attacked by a large number of evil spirits in the hall, among which there were two evil spirit leaders with powerful physical bodies.

Finally, we had to rush down to join the main force, as the passage had now collapsed."

When they heard Jason's words, a trace of panic flashed across the faces of the others.

Crown asked, "Is the collapse serious? Is it possible to dig it out?"

"Huh." Jason sighed and shook his head. "I've checked. It's impossible in a short period of time. I'm sorry that I failed to complete my duty as guard."

Nick patted the other man on the shoulder and consoled him, "We will definitely leave someone behind to guard the passage, and we will definitely send more people down to investigate. If I were the one left up there, the outcome would be the same."

The priest turned around and said, "Their backpacks are all lost. Clown, get them both a bottle of holy water to replenish their strength."

Clown understood, found two bottles of No. 2 holy water, and handed them to the two men respectively.

Jason laughed, took the holy water and drank it: "It still tastes the same."

Mara's hands trembled a little as she took the holy water, but she drank it immediately without hesitation.

Seeing that neither of them had any unusual reactions, Nick relaxed his grip on the flail: “Rest where you are for ten minutes, stay alert, and be careful of evil spirits.

Nelson, give me your weapons one by one, and I will give you the Scorching Weapon Enchantment."

"Okay," Nelson responded and handed over his weapon first.

The priest uttered a few syllables quickly, and a ray of red light emanated from his fingertips and landed on the opponent's weapon.

Suddenly, the one-handed sword emitted a faint red glow.

After Nick enchanted everyone's weapons, he drank a bottle of holy water and said, "If I were a third-level priest, I could enchant everyone with a fire spirit shield, which would block the attacks of evil spirits. Unfortunately, it will take some time for me to advance."

The priest was not a man who showed off, but when he said this now, Crown understood what he meant and knew that he was trying to cheer up the players.

He immediately cooperated and said, "Father, when you advance, you must treat everyone to a big meal at the best tavern in Rhine City."

"Haha, no problem. Let me rest for a while, then we'll set off right away. I want to see what tricks the evil spirits and monsters here have!"

(End of this chapter)