Chapter 294 Under the Church
Under the command of the bishop, the believers chanted the name of eternal truth, stepped on the misplaced space, and began a carpet search.
It was becoming increasingly difficult for the bishop to breathe. He was already too old. This was what it was like to carry the power of a god in a mortal body. The stronger the power exerted, the greater the harm to oneself.
Although the gods have the ability to minimize this kind of damage in theory, no god would do so - allowing mortals to use their own power is already a great blessing, why bother with so much?
Furthermore, not everyone can obtain such power, unless they are those agents with a high natural affinity. Otherwise, only those with a certain level of piety can apply for it. Even then, it depends on whether the gods are happy or not...
The bishop's vision began to blur, and his figure floating in the air was swaying and about to fall.
"Great eternal truth, I have to leave for a while. In order to keep your gaze for a longer time, I need to... replenish..."
The Eye of Truth slowly closed, and the bishop dragged his old body towards the church.
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"That's weird. This time there's only one eye, not even a clone. Why does it feel more difficult than last time?"
Underground, Ji Ruo threw his shoes several times in succession. The directions pointed by the toe of his shoes were very strange, and the feedback from his [First Line of Intuition] was also very confusing. The white line twisted into a pretzel in the air...
If it was just Ji Ruo, there wouldn't be any problem. After all, he had already practiced the Eight Extremes in the 'Iron Pole'. Although it was not yet perfect, he had developed the flexibility to be able to walk on flat ground at any angle.
The key point is that now there is more than just Ji Ruo. If Ji Ruo can run away, others cannot.
The space is messed up and I can't even open a door and run away.
The chaotic space will cause the transmission of the portal to deviate. If you rush in, it is equivalent to actively entering the chaotic flow of space.
It is possible to go back to Daxia. Transmission within the same plane only involves space, while transmission across planes involves time and space, which are two different levels. The spatial disorder of the initial transmission point will cause a certain impact, but it is not significant.
only--
What's the point of running back home whenever you encounter a little difficulty?
So Ji Ruo had no intention of running away.
"Last time?" Sheila asked, "You have fought with the truth before? But this is normal. The truth itself has no definite form, or rather, it has all forms, and each form has its own unique abilities. Even among the gods, the truth is a very special existence, born from people's exploration of the world..."
Ji Ruo was a little surprised when he heard this. Could it be that Sheila didn't know that Truth was one of the incarnations of the god of law Charles?
Emily scolded, "You really scared me just now, Sheila, next time you cast this kind of magic, can you let me know in advance?"
The situation was urgent just now. Everything lost its color and turned into the most primitive and crude lines. Seeing that the situation was not good, Sheila used her talent as an agent to cast non-chanting magic at the critical moment. The soil turned into huge waves, instantly covering several people and forming a hole, moving several people deep underground.
Not only that, the edge of the cave is also wrapped in a special aura, which seems to have the effect of isolating perception.
"If I hadn't reacted quickly, you would have been mashed into a pulp by that old man's look!" Sheila said coldly.
Emily scratched her head.
Liang Shixian asked curiously, "By the way, Sheila, what kind of magic did you use just now? I was buried before I could react. It was amazing."
"Necromancy magic·Burial magic." Sheila introduced proudly: "This is one of my favorite magics. The death energy it produces can isolate most shielding methods and cover up the vitality in the tomb. Whether it is used to store things or to escape, it is very useful.
Sometimes when the weather is too hot or you really can’t find a place to live, you can use it as a temporary residence, but the humidity is heavy underground, and living there for a long time is not good for your health..."
Liang Shixian was shocked: "Burial technique?! You use burial to store things?! No, you usually live in a place like this?!"
Not to mention Liang Shixian, even Ji Ruo was shocked: "You are an agent, but you don't even have a place to live?!"
"Isn't there such a thing?" Sheila blushed for the first time. "Besides, being an agent doesn't mean I have to have money. Gods don't need to eat, drink, defecate or urinate, but I do..."
Sheila mumbled something difficult to understand.
Things like 'Living in a tomb is free and can also improve your proficiency in burial techniques' and 'As a necromancer, living in a tomb is normal' made Ji Ruo laugh.
Emily also laughed out loud. Sheila couldn't help laughing and said angrily, "Why are you laughing? Where do you live?"
Emily blinked. "I live in the Emerald Palace in the Fairy Forest. What's wrong with that?"
"Ah this..." Sheila opened her mouth wide.
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
Seeing this, Liang Shixian quickly changed the subject: "By the way, Ji Ruo, what should we do next?"
He touched the twisted earth wall, and even his outstretched hand was twisted into a curious shape in space. He quickly withdrew his hand and said, "It seems that even if we want to leave from underground, it will not be easy."
Ji Ruo thought for a moment and said, "That's easy, Sheila. Your basement should be moveable, right?"
"What basement? This is a tomb! It's a tomb!"
"Hey, it's almost the same. Can you move?"
"……able."
"That's good. Go this way."
"That way?" Sheila was stunned for a moment: "Isn't that the direction of the Church of Truth? Why are you going there? Why are you walking into a trap?"
Ji Ruo smiled mysteriously: "What do you know? The most dangerous place is the safest place. Now they are out chasing us. I guess there are not many people in the church. Let's go back and try to see if we can get in touch with the truth and ask Him for another reward."
"???"
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A moment later, under the control of Sheila, the simple mobile tomb arrived under the church.
"Are we really going up there?"
"Now that we're here, how could it be fake?" Ji Ruo patted Xila's shoulder and encouraged her, "Go up there while there's no one there."
"……All right."
Sheila swallowed, feeling worried but also expectant.
To be honest, even as the agent of the god of death, this was her first time experiencing such a thing.
Sheila even felt that compared to herself, Ji Ruo was more like a necromancer - using flying needle bees as bows and arrows, and slimes as bombs... In short, Ji Ruo did nothing that humans did!
Sheila controlled the tomb to rise slowly.
"Those believers would never have thought that we would come back again!" Ji Ruo said proudly, "And considering my relationship with Zhenli, how could my bounty be only ten gold coins? These guys must have secretly embezzled. This time we will ask Zhenli directly for it, without any middlemen making a profit from the difference!"
Several people: "..."
What do you mean by 'given your relationship with the truth, the bounty shouldn't be that low'?
What have you done to the truth?
God, there is no middleman to make a profit from the price difference...
There are so many things to complain about that even Liang Shixian doesn't know where to start.
suddenly--
Snap!
"ah!"
Suddenly, a small human skeleton fell from the slowly rising dome of the tomb, which scared Emily greatly.
"What is this?"
"It's a female skeleton." Sheila analyzed with a professional eye: "Judging from the body shape and pelvic shape, it should be a virgin girl..."
Before he finished speaking, the skeleton seemed to be affected by the deathly aura of the tomb. A hideous human-shaped phantom condensed from the skeleton and rushed towards the few people with a roar.
"Such a strong grudge!" Sheila frowned, and with a wave of her staff, she subdued the girl's ghost.
Ji Ruo: “…”
On one hand, he says that the other party is strong, and on the other hand, he easily subdues the other party... he knows how to play.
The vengeful spirit was pinched by Sheila into an illusory ball of light. Inside the ball of light, the originally cute face turned hideous and frightening because of the strong hatred.
No one knows what kind of cruel torture he suffered during his lifetime. After becoming a vengeful spirit, he was completely unconscious. He kept roaring and screaming, and there was no clarity in his eyes, only resentment and hatred.
Sheila frowned deeply.
There were traces of necromancy on the bones.
However, this is the basement of the Church of Truth, so how could there be vengeful spirits here?
This isn't the Church of the Dead... there isn't a dedicated church for necromancers.
Just as he was thinking about it, another skeleton fell out of the rising tomb.
As the tomb chamber continued to rise, more and more bones fell.
As a necromancer, Sheila is very professional. Although these skeletons are all female, they are not all naive girls.
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“Hoo~Hoo~”
The dying cardinal entered the hidden underground cell through a secret passage in the church.
There were dozens of cells on both sides of the passage, and in each cell there was one or more women who were half-dressed, with dull eyes and a strange smell emanating from their bodies.
The bishop frowned and casually walked into a cell.
He chanted in a low voice, the pupil of truth between his eyebrows completely closed, and a thick aura of death began to emanate from his body.
On the floor of the cell, the well-prepared instrument track was activated by the death energy.
Because the process is so bloody, I won't go into detail on the ceremony.
In short, the bishop's fangs suddenly extended from his lips, and his pupils turned scarlet.
The blood of the women at the center of the ceremony was drawn from their bodies and absorbed by the bishop, who also gradually regained his youth in the process.
"Not enough, not enough..."
the Bishop murmured.
The consumption this time was too great, and one cell could not completely make up for it. Moreover, he might have to borrow the power of eternal truth in the future, so he had to save more "vitality".
He walked to the next cell.
suddenly--
"I heard that places like this where many people often stay are usually built on mass graves. Is it possible that..."
A faint sound was heard and the bishop was stunned for a moment.
"How could the mass grave be filled with the corpses of young girls? There must be something wrong with this church!"
"This is... the corpse of an elf..."
Several large lumps suddenly appeared on the ground in front of the bishop, and skeletons emerged from the ground.
Then the bishop saw a familiar white color in the bones.
"Huh? There's someone..." Ji Ruo scanned with his consciousness, and his face instantly turned gloomy: "I'm wrong, it's not a human, it's a beast!"
The bishop was delighted: "It turned out to be delivered to my door. God is really helping me!"
"Help you, Master!"
The ground exploded and Ji Ruo jumped out of the pit with an angry face.
The Eye of Truth printed on the bishop's brow suddenly opened, emitting divine light. With the power of truth, he built a prison of truth, intending to capture Ji Ruo alive.
"The great eternal truth will reward me!"
Just as Ji Ruo's shadow was moving, three shadow clones were placed everywhere in the blink of an eye, some were for fill-in-light, some were for anti-camera.
Ji Ruo himself summoned a transformation belt in mid-air, let out a low roar, and completed the transformation in a flash of light.
The prison of truth smashed into the light, but was stuck three feet away by the light of Ji Ruo's transformation and could not move. When the light dissipated, Ji Ruo was wrapped in handsome armor, and the prison of truth began to fall again.
The bishop was slightly surprised.
Ji Ruo clapped his hands, and the Wanhua Arsenal on his wrists surged and reorganized, turning into a giant sword that was nearly one meter wide and more than two meters long!
Wanhua Arsenal: Divine Sword Form!
This is a divine sword made from the body of the Truth Avatar. For the sake of its own image, Ji Ruo thoughtfully attached a layer of metal shell to the outside after it was completed.
However, due to the limited size of the Wanhua Arsenal, after the hilt was transformed to wrap around the feet of Truth, there was not much memory metal left, so the sword body became translucent, and the sleeping god inside could be vaguely seen.
clang——!
Truth collides with truth, and eternity confronts eternity.
The bishop's expression changed from ecstasy to contempt, and then from contempt to shock.
In just a moment, the prison of truth was cut in half from bottom to top by Ji Ruo's giant sword.
This is normal. After all, one side is the incarnation of the god, and the other side is just a partial power of the projection of consciousness. No matter how you look at it, Ji Ruo's "Divine Sword" is stronger.
However, Ji Ruo's "Divine Sword" was not unscathed. After all, the Divine Sword form had only been added to the Wanhua Arsenal for a short time. Although its strength had increased, it was still not as good as the Body of Truth.
The translucent metal shell outside the sword was shattered by the Prison of Truth, revealing the sleeping Truth clone inside.
The bishop's pupils trembled, all three pupils trembled.
Although his main belief is the Eye of Truth, as a member of the Truth Church, how could he not recognize the human form of his own god?
"Eternal truth?!"
The bishop was speechless.
Sheila and others climbed out of the big pit created by Ji Ruo one after another, and saw the scene in the dungeon. Even though Sheila was a necromancer, he couldn't help but get angry when he saw this scene.
“Blood Evil Reincarnation Fate-Defying Ritual?!” Sheila cursed angrily: “You scumbag! It is because of scumbags like you that the world has such a big prejudice against us, the Undead!”
She brandished her staff and sang for the first time.
The rapid and mysterious spell solidified into substance, manifesting as dark spells that clung to the dozens of pitiful skeletons.
The vengeful spirits roared and flew out, merging with their own skeletons. They plucked off their own ribs and transformed them into sharp weapons with the help of Shira's magic, roaring silently and rushing towards the bishop.
"Go! Use the power I gave you to take revenge!"
Emily was also very angry because among the skeletons were her fellow elves.
If she wasn't bad at fighting, she would have rushed up right now.
Liang Shixian rushed out and broke open the prison doors with his strong physical strength, rescuing the panicked girls inside one by one to prevent these poor people from being affected by the battle.
Emily chanted life magic to heal the poor girls rescued by Liang Shixian one by one.
Physical injuries can be healed, but spiritual injuries...
Liang Shixian looked at the bishop angrily, and Ji Ruo suddenly threw his four-dimensional pocket over to him.
"Squad leader, there are some clothes and blankets in there, please help get them, don't let the young ladies catch a cold." Ji Ruo Shenjian stood on the ground, raised his foot and stepped on the chin of the sleeping God of Truth, with murderous aura overflowing from his cold mask: "Here, leave it to me!"
Liang Shixian nodded vigorously: "Okay!"
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