Chapter 58: The Demonic Bell Rings
Where does the sound of wind chimes come from?
Crown's eyes looked in the direction of the sound, which came from the front yard.
Just as I was wondering, I saw Nick running out from the rest area wearing full body armor, holding a shield and a flail: "Let's go to the gate."
Without caring about anything, he followed the priest to the church door.
Under the eaves of the night watchman's hut at the gate, an ancient copper bell engraved with flame cloud patterns rang automatically without wind, making crisp sounds.
Crown suddenly remembered what the priest had said.
'This is the Demon-Scare Bell. It will ring when an evil spirit or monster appears nearby.'
He followed Nick's footsteps out of the church door, and a deep feeling of darkness immediately overwhelmed his soul.
Crown found himself in another world. There was total silence all around him, without a single sound. The golden light from the holy fire on the bell tower seemed to have dimmed.
My body felt like it was being stared at maliciously by thousands of pairs of eyes. A slight chill rose from my coccyx, along the spine, breaking through the top of my head, and it felt like a piece of ice was stuck in my throat.
Looking around the square, he found many people lying on the ground in all directions. They should be the people in charge of cleaning.
Some people's bodies seemed to be dehydrated, revealing dry and pale skin.
He looked up and saw the flame-like pattern on Nick's armor, and his heart sank.
The priest had clearly activated some hidden ability of his armor, something he had not done when facing the terrifying boar-headed monster.
He turned his head and found that the gate that was so close to him had also become blurry.
Nick turned around and looked at the people following behind him, saying with a half-smile: "I don't know whether it is lucky or unfortunate that a group of evil thoughts were born."
Knowing that the warriors in his church still had little knowledge of the supernatural, he immediately explained: "Animals all have emotions, especially humans. Accidental death will cause resentment. In an era when spirituality was not obvious, such emotions could not stay in the material world and would quickly dissipate with the death of the animal."
“As the spiritual tide rises, some extreme emotions such as fear, resentment, etc. will stay for a short time under the blessing of spirituality, but they will not last long.”
"After the battle, I observed the scene. Although the emotions of the animals that died today were strong, they were not to the point where evil emotions would linger for a long time."
The priest clenched his fists tightly and said in a voice full of regret: "It should be the monster's final act of devouring the vengeful spirit that caused the mutation. My ability focuses on providing various amplifications to my teammates, and I am not good at dealing with this kind of spirit. I thought it would not be a big problem, but unexpectedly, a collection of evil thoughts was born. This is troublesome."
The newbie in the supernatural world didn't understand and asked, "After the monster made a move before entering the gray fog, I felt a gust of cold wind blowing. Was it devouring the vengeful spirits? Didn't it devour most of them?"
As he spoke, he felt the air around him become heavier and colder.
"Haha, how is that possible?" Nick looked around and raised the shield in his hand.
A raging flame ignited on the tower shield. This time the distance was close enough, and Crown discovered that the fire was not a flame in the material sense. When his spiritual sense touched it, he felt a faint burning sensation as if his fingers were burned by fire.
As the priest raised his shield, a translucent gray object appeared four or five meters to the side of them, and then floated away.
This object is covered with tentacles and is as big as a fat sumo wrestler. There are many faint lights flashing on its body, red, green, and blue, giving people a weird feeling as if it has small eyes all over its body.
As the monster moved away, "Did you see that spherical thing with long and thin tentacles? That is the evil thoughts."
After hearing Nick's words, Clown responded, "Father, why don't we retreat? You are not good at dealing with spirits, and I don't have any means to deal with them. It would be better to ask the demon hunter to come out, so that we can be more confident."
The priest frowned: "You have comprehended the true meaning of the law of warmth. Although it is not an offensive power, it is still relatively easy to use it to restrain the evil thoughts, right?"
"Well, restraint alone is not enough. Should we call for help?"
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. This world also has a similar truth. Clown couldn't understand why the priest was unwilling to call on the witchers to fight the enemy together.
Afraid of paying too much gold shield? That's not right. From what I know about the priest, he is quite cautious. Although he is a bit stingy, he is never stingy when it comes to spending money.
Otherwise, how can we expect the villagers who make a living by working hard to return the holy water for treating the wounded?
"What does 'shaking people' mean?" This new word confused the priest.
"Call for help. There is strength in numbers, which will naturally reduce the difficulty of our battle."
"Do you know how spirit coins are made?" Nick said leisurely, "As the gray fog descends, ordinary currencies will depreciate, and the value of spirit coins will increase further."
"Spirit coins are the condensed substance obtained by extracting the spirituality of living things through the means of soul condensation, purifying impurities and extracting essence. The evil thought collection is a pile of spirit coins that have undergone preliminary extraction. If we spend more time to get it done, we will make a fortune."
"If the risk factor is divided into ten levels, with level one being the smallest and level ten being the largest, what is the risk factor?"
"Although the spirit coin is good, how can I gamble with my life? The risk factor is at most three or four. Our attacks are not enough to hurt the evil thought aggregate, and its attacks are not high compared to our spiritual strength. I am worried that it will find that it cannot defeat the two of us and run away. Although this evil creature is chaotic, it is good at escaping."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The risk is not high, the benefits are not small, let’s do it!
Once a decision is made, Crowne will go all out: “How should we do this?”
Nick chuckled and lowered his voice: "It's very simple. I will rush up to fight it and consume some of its energy. Then I will lure the evil thoughts to your side. You release your light of faith that contains the true meaning of the law. I will cooperate with you to launch the strongest attack. It would be best if I can annihilate it. If I can't annihilate it, I will knock down enough spiritual fragments."
"By then, even if the target escapes, there will be a lot of gains. Calling the demon hunter over will not only give up some benefits, but it will also be impossible to stop it if it wants to escape. It's not worth it."
Clown understood that he only needed to visualize the Golden Light Mantra: "Understood, let's get started."
The priest nodded at him, walked quickly to the center of the square, and began to recite the prayer during the worship service: "We are bathed in the glory of God. The holy light gives us the courage and strength to face evil. May the God of Fire illuminate our way forward."
In his spiritual perception, a spiritual flame rose from the priest's body and radiated light in all directions.
Can evil creatures really listen to you chanting?
This behavior left Crown completely confused and he didn't understand what the other party was doing.
His wonder did not last long as the evil thoughts took shape at the edge of the square.
“Hiss.”
It waved its tentacles wildly, and a sense of frenzy was transmitted in the air.
Crown knew the effect of the priest's actions just now, just like the MT activated the taunt skill.
The 'little eyes' on the evil creature suddenly flashed, and it rushed towards the priest who was chanting.
(End of this chapter)