Chapter 209 Are you interested in controlling a parish?
The black shadow was only the size of an ordinary dog, its surface covered with a layer of black smoke, and its body outline kept changing, as if it was constantly being reshaped by an unknown force.
Its head was flat and long, with a pair of fiery red eyes, a protruding lower jaw, and a slightly bluish-red tongue that was as long as an adult's forearm.
The tongue is covered with barbs.
I've been guarding against you!
The moment the shadow pounced, Klauen raised his sword and slashed it upwards, and the bullet was released synchronously with time.
How can you guard against thieves for a thousand days if you are a thief for a thousand days?
He never relaxed at all, just to lure out this monster hiding in an unknown place.
To be on the safe side, he directly released most of his strength.
The flame breath was running, and the hot stream of life was injected into the sword. The gold color covered the fiery red, and the secret technique of cutting the wind was used. Sword shadows pierced the black shadow that was rushing towards him.
The sharp sword pierced the black shadow, but it seemed like it pierced into a cloud of mist. It did not feel like piercing a solid entity at all, but there was a strong resistance.
Golden flames spread across the sword, igniting the monster's body, causing wisps of smoke to rise, but were extinguished by the black mist on the monster's body.
The black shadow's long tongue licked the back of Klauen's hand, and the golden light film protecting his body shook.
A whimpering scream came from the black shadow's mouth, and a deep feeling of disgust and discomfort rose in Clown's heart.
Quickly distancing himself from the shadow, he saw that the previous attack did not leave any visible damage on the enemy's body.
What is this? The phenomenon of the monster being hit was beyond Crown's understanding. He had no idea what type of monster the enemy was.
It has no physical body, nor is it a spirit. It is just a blurry mass of light and shadow. Looking at the black mist on it, it gives people a strong sense of foreboding.
The black shadow let out an inexplicable whimpering sound, and its body quickly grew in size, becoming as big as an adult bull.
It moved around Crown, and the sound it made was like a soul-seeking demon, constantly hitting Crown's eardrums. Every time its sharp claws stepped on the ground, it was like the sound of a drum.
The pulse of the beating spreads along the earth, giving people a strong sense of oppression.
What the hell is this? Can you be more awesome than the evil god?
Clown felt his heart beating violently, and he immediately changed his mind. He pretended to launch another attack and rushed towards the enemy, while the Sun Flame Technique in his other hand was held in reserve.
To deal with these evil things, the best thing to use is the skill attached to the Golden Light Spell.
Yangyan Jutsu is a pure energy attack. It is very powerful against the statue of evil god, and it should be no problem to deal with a mutated vicious dog.
There was no fear in Clown's heart. In the previous fight, although his attack did not have much effect, the enemy's attack had no effect at all.
The golden body protection was not broken. Under the golden film, there was a layer of source armor and tough skin.
He did not wear heavy armor today because he wanted to maximize his speed advantage.
The bull-sized monster found that the enemy was rushing towards it again. As if it had been severely humiliated, it let out a manic bark and charged at the enemy, then met with a scorching golden sun.
A violent "sizzling" sound was heard, as if sodium was thrown into the water, and bright golden flames burned on the black shadow's body.
Klauen dodged to the side, avoiding the attack from the black shadow.
His hands kept swinging and Yangyan Jutsu was continuously released.
Knowing the powerful effect of this skill, how could he miss the opportunity to give the enemy a beating?
The monster was stunned and its body shrank rapidly. It turned and rushed towards the boulder, but its speed was much slower than when it first appeared.
The black smoke on its body had been completely burned away by the golden flames, revealing its blackened muscles, which were also burning with golden flames.
Its whole body is like a burning torch.
Clown discovered that, with the special effects of dynamic vision and precise etiquette, the Sunfire Technique he released seemed to have an automatic tracking function.
The monster dodged left and right desperately, but failed once.
When the Sunfire Technique hit the target again, the monster's body slammed into a boulder with a "bang", like a puppy hit by the shock wave of a high-yield bomb.
Klauen released two more Sunfire spells to finish off the monster. This time, the monster's body was burned and shrunk a lot, becoming only the size of a kitten.
Seeing that the monster's body was still unmoving despite the raging golden flames, Crown felt relieved and walked forward to collect the spoils.
As he approached the monster, he suddenly felt an inexplicable warmth flowing into his body, and a faint sense of joy rose from the bottom of his heart.
This feeling was abrupt and fleeting, but it was very similar to the feeling when a skill was advanced. However, his current skills were still a long way from being advanced.
He stopped immediately and summoned a golden wall to check whether it was just his illusion.
The golden light was shining, and the purple font at the top center immediately attracted his attention.
[Golden Light Mantra: 5555/100000; Level 2]
Skill proficiency has increased by more than 1,100 points compared to before entering Lingxu.
Killing monsters can also increase proficiency? Clown felt unreal.
He can gain proficiency by visualizing the Golden Light Mantra to purify the evil spirits, but if he kills the evil spirits with weapons or Yangyan Jutsu, his proficiency will not increase at all.
The feeling just now was like absorbing an experience package, and my whole body felt refreshed.
Maybe this monster is special.
While he was thinking, strange changes occurred to the monster's body.
Its original remaining bones and flesh were like a collapsed sand dune, turning into tiny particles like gray fine sand.
A gray crystal core the size of an egg was revealed in this ball of fine sand.
There was surprise on Crown's face. The size of the crystal core is an important factor in distinguishing quality.
Flanders once said that a crystal core the size of a quail egg could serve as the energy core of a protective magic circle for a small camp.
I wonder how big a camp energy core this large can be used as. The value of this crystal core cannot be measured by money.
After carefully putting away the crystal core, he took out the tools and packed up the gray fine sand.
He had never heard of such a monster. Maybe these sands could also be considered treasures.
Crown dissected the strange elk again and found a blood-red crystal core the size of a soybean. He also pulled out a one-meter-long, finger-thick white tendon from the spine.
When his fingers touched the tendon, he actually felt that it was edible.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
He was familiar with this feeling. His cooking skills "told" him where on the beasts with slight physical mutations that were edible during the dissection.
Later, his cooking skills advanced to the limit, and his intuition for sensing ingredients became even sharper.
When I return to the material plane, I will first see if this tendon of meat will rot quickly. If not, I will try to see what effect cooking it has.
After putting away the spoils, he continued to explore forward.
. . . .
When Crown left Lingxu, he was overjoyed.
The church's purchase price for the soybean-sized crystal core was fifty gold spirit coins. During this exploration trip, he obtained a crystal core the size of an egg and six crystal cores the size of soybeans.
Even without selling the large crystal core, he would still earn three hundred gold spirit coins.
In addition, he obtained spiritual essence enough to make about 200 spiritual coins, and also obtained several food ingredients.
The most important thing is that the proficiency of the Golden Light Mantra skill has increased significantly.
[Golden Light Mantra: 6627/100000; Level 2]
He killed the strange black shadow monsters, and all the evil spirits he encountered were summoned by his golden light spell. As a result, his proficiency increased by more than 2,000 points during this trip to Lingxu.
In the carriage, Flanders saw the strange smile on Crown's face and wondered in his heart that no matter how happy this new bishop was, he would never show his joy so obviously. He thought that this must be some great thing that had happened to him.
"With a strange smile on your face, tell me what good thing happened to you."
Is it that obvious? Crown restrained his smile and told him what he had learned.
"A crystal core the size of an egg?!"
Flanders exclaimed, he knew what a crystal core of this size meant.
He rubbed his hands and said impatiently, "Take it out and let us see it."
Crown took out a gray crystal core and handed it to him.
The archbishop took it and exclaimed: "Apart from anything else, you are really lucky. This large gray crystal core can store a lot of energy.
Using it as the main energy core, we can build a shelter that is one-quarter the size of the cathedral district."
"Are you exaggerating?"
Crown was very surprised. It was one-fourth the size of the cathedral district, which was about the size of the town of Zach.
This quantification includes not only the buildings in Zak Town, but also the villages and farmlands under the town's jurisdiction.
He had learned about the structure of a sanctuary. Depending on the size of the sanctuary, four or more small sanctuaries would be built underground around it.
A large sanctuary will be built in the center of the sanctuary area, and the sanctuaries will be connected by magic arrays.
It sounds incredible that the energy supply for such a large area depends on a crystal nucleus the size of an egg.
Flanders returned the crystal core and said with a smile:
"The energy stored in a crystal nucleus is closely related to its volume. The energy stored in a crystal nucleus the size of a quail egg and that of two quail eggs can differ by ten times, or even more.
Moreover, it is only a main core, and it also requires more than a dozen crystal cores the size of quail eggs and several hundred crystal cores the size of soybeans as supporting auxiliary energy cores.
The crystal core stores energy and will be constantly purified. When the impurities inside it are purified, the energy that can be stored will increase further.
What creature did you kill to get this crystal core?"
Clown recounted the encounter with the shadowy monster and took out the bag of gray sand: "This is what remains after the monster's body was killed and disintegrated."
Flanders took it and looked at it for a while, then returned the bag of fine sand: "I can't recognize what this is either. When you go back, please collect the information about this monster and send it to me. This will enrich the database."
He leaned forward and said in a bewitching tone: "The Spiritual Ruins have been formed, and it is imperative to expand outward again. Otherwise, the crazy increase in population will drag the city down.
Would you be interested in taking charge of a parish?"
(End of this chapter)