Chapter 319: The Deep Bishops
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Tens of hundreds.
"Any god, please." Tus' mouth opened as if he had eaten a rubber fruit. "This is the first time I've seen such a large-scale boss battle in the Thane dungeon."
The Yousui Bishops Group, the word "group" is so apt.
Just now everyone was discussing whether it was too cheap for a character of the bishop's level to appear in groups like monsters in the Deep Cathedral. Now it is even more difficult to evaluate.
Matilda suddenly glared at Fingri. What did this guy say not long ago? "If I were to design it, I would definitely make hundreds of Deep Bishops appear, that would be interesting." "The current design of Sean is not exciting at all."
Very good, now I get what I asked for.
Fingri smiled sheepishly, but his eyes were fixed on the giant coffin surrounded by the Deep Bishops.
He could feel that a powerful creature had once lived in the coffin. Now that the powerful creature had left, the black mud flowing on the surface of the coffin was just his legacy. The black mud had the same aura as the black slime-like monsters on the first floor of the church. Their names were:
[Aldridge's Rotten Flesh]
It was not until then that he remembered the campfire image he had seen not long ago. The giant coffin in front of him seemed to be the coffin of "The Deep Saint" Aldridge!
In this way, it seems quite reasonable for the group of Youshen bishops to be here. Everyone comes together to guard the saint's coffin. The bishops do not seem to be of low status, but instead have a sense of religious mystery.
And the reaction of this religious mystery in this deep church turned into a sense of "terror".
Hundreds of eyes glowing red were staring at the adventurer, and the nightmare was materialized at this moment.
Compared to Sion's previous bosses, the Deep Bishops are less domineering and oppressive, but they do look quite scary.
The Youshen bishops raised their sacrificial weapons high in the air, and fireballs of all sizes suddenly appeared in the air, attacking everyone like a meteor shower.
The slow movement of the fireballs was only laughed at before, but now, when groups of fireballs appear together and slowly move towards people, a sense of oppression appears.
"Alaiya!"
Without Fingri saying anything, Alayya had already created a high wall of trees in front of everyone. Each tree was wrapped in frost. They seemed to be special trees from the Far North and were very effective in blocking fire magic.
The way Alayya creates plants to assist in combat looks very similar to the fighting style of Stellan's aunt Vainma, but the former must use seeds, while the latter creates out of thin air, so there is a difference in level.
Fireballs exploded continuously, but the high temperature could not dispel the chill brought by the depths. At this time, people focused their attention on Fingri, and it was obvious that everyone listened to him.
"Does the victory condition mean that all bishops must be killed?"
Fingri glanced at the crowd. If it was just the bishops, the Guzha team could handle it. Although there were a lot of monsters, each of them was quite weak. As long as they paid attention to the "magic" they used, perhaps the Deep Bishops could become the easiest boss in Sean's history.
"Focus on long-range attacks. Avoid close combat unless necessary. The magicians will release cold shields to block the fireballs. Everyone, remember, do what you can. Safety comes first."
Fingri patted his chest and smiled like a reliable adult: "Leave the biggest trouble to us!"
The battle was about to break out. Alayya spawned plants to divide the battlefield, locking up the members of Hasavi's team and the largest number of Deep Bishops, leaving only a small number of enemies for Guza's team.
The number of bishops has exceeded one hundred, and there is no point in counting them, but Fingerly noticed something as soon as the fight started.
Although the number of enemies has increased, it seems that it has not reached the level of qualitative change!
The bishops were basically fighting on their own, and simply gathered the scattered monsters here. They could easily kill their way in and out of there.
They also have large-scale attack skills, so it only takes a short time to win!
Fingerly killed one person with his sword, Matilda killed one person with his punches, and the bishop's body was flying up and down. The number of people who seemed intimidating before was constantly decreasing, and the situation seemed to be very good.
However, on the divided battlefield, panic shouts were heard from the Gu Zha team.
"What's going on?" Fingri jumped over and almost couldn't help cursing. He turned to Alayya and said, "What's going on? Didn't you only leave a few enemies for them?"
Alayya nodded in confusion. She only left a dozen bishops for the Guza team.
"Then look at what's going on with these guys!?"
Alayya leaned over to take a look, and the scarecrow was almost scared to pieces.
Originally, in order to protect the Guza team, they were separated from the dozen bishops and moved to the edge of the battlefield, thinking that they could stay there and rest assured after getting rid of the bishops.
Now this small space is packed with the Deep Bishops, and the Bone Squad is squeezed in, making people feel like they are packed in a can of sardines!
"When did there become so many?!" Because the visual effect of this scene was so strong, Alayya was so scared that she couldn't even speak. It was a clear voice of a child.
With so many people crammed together, even if the Guza team wanted to resist, they had no way to do so. The magic used by the Deep Bishop could not hit them, and in the end a primitive battle involving mouths and fists was enacted.
Fingri quickly jumped in to rescue people, but in the end only four people including Tus were rescued, and the rest died in the fight with the Deep Bishop.
"【Big Fireball】!"
Fingri cast a spell to catch all the Deep Bishops gathered here, but his brain was damaged, and the magic he used always had uncertain effects. The intermediate-level [Fireball] suddenly turned into a king-level magic [Fire Spreading Across the Prairie]. In an instant, a raging fire burned on the bishop. He was caught off guard and a large amount of magic power was drained away, so his eyes went black and he almost fell into it.
Until now, people still don't know why the Gu Zha team suddenly encountered so many Youshen Bishops, but it's useless to think about it. Counting the bishops who were burned to death just now, the number of enemies should only be in the single digits.
Fingri seemed to sense something, and while drinking the magic potion he looked at Aldridge's coffin.
Without the candlelight of the bishops, the entire venue fell into darkness again, but the twinkling candlelight once again emerged in the darkness.
"Clang." Fingerly's hand shook and the magic potion fell to the ground.
"Hey, is this true? How can he be resurrected?"
The entire venue was illuminated again, which also meant the resurrection of the Deep Bishops!
The bishops who had been killed earlier reappeared intact at this moment, and why did their number seem to have increased? A red light shuttled around the bishop, not secretly but not conspicuous either, and it was easy to be subconsciously ignored.
"Immortality? No, there must be something we haven't discovered!"
Fingri has set his eyes on Aldridge's coffin. Could it be that the coffin gave the Deep Bishop the ability to resurrect?
He wanted to order an attack on the coffin, but before he could say it, he saw the bishops of Youshen suddenly coordinated with the bishops around them in twos and threes and raised their weapons together.
The next moment, all kinds of "magic" such as red flames, black darkness, and white force appeared here. They surpassed their original slow speed and attacked everyone impatiently.
The sky is full of magic, this is the exciting combination skill of the Deep Bishops!
[One of the mechanisms of the Deep Lords group that Sion belongs to: after all members are killed once, their combined skills will be unlocked]
"retreat!"
The Hathaway team is best at combat and defense, but facing the magic all over the sky, Matilda cannot guarantee that her armor can defend against it, so she has to choose a more conservative strategy.
The Abyssal Bishops help each other and can create more powerful and faster magic, including attack and auxiliary magic. Although the casting speed is slow, once their magic attacks are combined in a chain, they can be quite tricky.
But that’s not the point.
The key point is that they used a dark purple magic that has never appeared in the Dark Souls game. Its effect is also very simple - accumulate [terror]. Just like the roar of the headless lion ape, any adventurer who has too much contact with this dark purple magic will fall into the situation of Leon that day.
[Mechanism 2: Dark purple magic will accumulate the "horror" state]
Gong Qiying added this mechanism to target defensive players. It is also appropriate to say that it is aimed at shield pokes. In short, it allows adventurers to concentrate fully in battle, paying attention to both ordinary magic and distinguishing dark purple magic.
After all, maintaining a high level of mental tension is also a means of draining mental strength, and the original group of Abyssal Bishops was really pitifully weak.
Once the state of terror reaches its maximum, the hallucinations they see will be very appropriate to this place.
“Ahhhh!”
A shield guard from the Guzha team relied on his magic shield to not dodge or evade, and took all the attacks from the Deep Bishop. Even though he was injured, he drank a lot of stamina potions. If he hadn't been in a terrifying state, no one would have been hurt.
In his eyes, the world was suddenly shrouded in a black ocean, but upon closer inspection, it was not an ocean, but something very similar to Aldridge's rotten flesh.
Wait, that’s the Deep Saint Aldridge!
The shield guard watched helplessly as Aldridge devoured him bite by bite. This guy was not a saint at all, he was simply a cannibal!
The sound of flesh being torn, the sound of teeth chewing, all these sounds combined together can drive people crazy!
It was only at this time that he realized that the Road of Sacrifice existed only for Eldridge.
"What’s wrong with you!"
Tus noticed that his companion had fallen down, and hurried over to check on him, only to discover that the other person's body was shaking constantly, foaming at the mouth, and looked like he was about to die.
On the other side, Matilda threw Fingri into the air, and he successfully hit the coffins of the Deep Bishops with Kalia Pierce, followed by a Hammer of the Sea.
The coffin shook and the bishops trembled.
“Is it effective?”
Before Fingri could show any joy, he saw the Deep Bishops resumed their actions without even looking at him.
However, the rotten flesh attached to the coffin fell off because of his attack, forming a twisted, wriggling human figure on the ground, which attacked the adventurers.
He guessed wrong. The coffin was not the key to the resurrection of Bishop Youshen.
"Why is that?"
It seemed that the battle had dragged on too long, and the magical power of the bishops was further enhanced, as if a deep magical rain had begun to fall.
The bishops' incessant whispers filled the church, and the eerie atmosphere grew thicker.
Matilda's armor became pitted and full of holes. It consumed too much energy in a short period of time and had no time to recover automatically.
Fingri's two swords were broken, so he used the last one, the repair light powder. Alayya looked at her shrunken seed bag and felt so sad.
The more critical the moment, the more focused Fingerly became, and he tried desperately to find a way to resolve the dilemma.
Then he saw a red light.
A red light streamed out from the bishop he had killed and penetrated into the crowd.
"No resurrection?"
He looked around and saw that after one of the bishops was killed, a new one would immediately emerge from the darkness. However, after he killed the bishop whose chest was glowing red, no new bishop appeared.
"Red light! Kill the enemies with red light on their chests!"
People trusted him unconditionally and immediately searched the crowd for the bishop with a red glow on his chest. Once this feature was discovered, the red light would become particularly conspicuous.
One bishop after another stopped resurrecting, and the range in which the red light could escape became smaller and smaller.
"Die!" Tus aimed at the red light and in the blink of an eye he was in front of the bishop.
However, this bishop was dressed a little differently.
The other bishops were all wearing red or purple robes, but the bishop who suddenly appeared in front of Tus was wearing white robes and a white crown, with a scepter in his hand symbolizing majesty.
[Mechanism 3: After the number of Deep Bishops is halved, the Archbishop will appear, and the red light will be fixed on the Archbishop]
[Mechanism 4: After the Archbishop appears, all the Deep Bishops will work together to release a big move that clears the field with an instant death effect]
These two mechanisms are relatively faithful to the original, except that the appearance time of the ultimate move is advanced.
The Deep Bishops raised their weapons high, and a black aura emanated from them, condensing into oppressive dark clouds in the sky.
Every adventurer had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.
(End of this chapter)
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