Chapter 386 Devouring the Guardian of God
The method of how to effectively damage Pope Shalivan's phantom immediately spread among the adventurers.
Many people were excited about this, thinking that this information meant that they would soon be able to defeat the Phantom of Sullivan, so they became more excited about the challenge.
On the other hand, the Adventurer's Guild had selected members for the expedition team, but they remained silent and did not immediately participate when they learned about the mechanism.
During the day, Adventurer's Guild.
"President, let's wait a little longer," Luluwo said with a face that looked like she had stayed up all night to cultivate. "It's not easy to find so many people willing to charge at the leader even if they are cannon fodder. This is a good opportunity to collect intelligence."
The reason why the guild expedition team did not immediately get involved was not because of some mysterious reason like "it wouldn't be that easy if we just told them directly".
It's just to see what kind of surprises the adventurers can bring.
"It's rare to see adventurers so enthusiastic."
Sid looked at the information brought by Luluwo and nodded.
After multiple verifications today, the true mechanism of the Salivan Phantom was finally determined: only adventurers can cause normal attacks on it when they use their full strength, instead of having to meet certain rigid strength requirements.
However, causing a normal attack does not necessarily mean that it will cause damage. Ultimately challenging the boss still requires hard power, which makes people feel a little bit hesitant.
"By the way, President, it's rare to have so many people challenging the leader. Can we try that now?" Luluwo suggested.
Not long after, the Adventurer's Guild issued a commission for all adventurers.
With the sponsorship of the guild, adventurers who are committed to challenging the Phantom of Salivan can come to the guild to receive a portable photo stone. They only need to hang the photo stone on their head to record the scene of the battle with the Phantom of Salivan. After the recording, they can hand it over to the guild in exchange for rewards.
This is really like "a camera growing on the head".
The guild had people who were specifically responsible for analyzing the battle footage, trying to analyze and summarize Sullivan Phantom's fighting habits. This method was very effective, and in just two or three days, the guild had summarized Sullivan Phantom's most common moves and the possible derivative moves that could be connected, with the probability of each move also indicated.
Thanks to so many adventurers willing to challenge Shalivan's phantom to collect data, thanks to Gwyndolin's high popularity, and even thanks to Shalivan for imprisoning Gwyndolin, otherwise people would not be so excited.
From the beginning, adventurers fought independently in small teams to now working together to collect intelligence and analyze it, the efficiency has been greatly improved, which makes people sigh:
Big data is powerful.
If this trend continues, it will be the subjugation team's turn to appear in two days. Maybe before the subjugation team appears, an unexpected person will get the first kill of Sullivan Phantom.
Luluwo should be the most idle during this period. Once people no longer struggle with the pressure of life, they tend to become lazy.
The Skyrim strategy team has been slow to release strategies lately, and we haven't even started working on the Anor Londo strategy yet, because there are still fewer people who can go there compared to other areas, and we feel that making a strategy is just to recover the cost.
While waiting for the guild to finish analyzing the Sullivan illusion, she stayed at home - she built a house in the small safe zone of Lake Lienia - and someone would send her collected newspapers from all over the world every day, even foreign ones.
For example, now she is reading the newspaper of the neighboring Warrior Country.
"A small border country that supplies seafood to the Warrior Country has suddenly been hit by a disaster caused by parasitic monsters, causing seafood prices to rise sharply."
"The war festival is being prepared. In order to awaken the lost warrior glory of the people, the king wants to hold this festival on the largest scale in history. It is said that there will be strong men who are no less powerful than the sword master in attendance. Should I go and see it then?"
"The third prince of the Warrior Kingdom, Temud, failed to slay a dragon and was seriously injured. The evil Mad Dragon is entrenched in the border and plundering towns. Oh, I really want to see what the so-called Mad Dragon is like. How does it compare to the short-lived Sky Comet Dragon?"
"By the way, aren't the Warrior Kingdom and dragons allies? Why does it feel like a dragon rider hasn't appeared in a while?"
Luluwo closed the newspaper and said to the people around her, "Gus, are you interested in going to the Warrior Country for a tour? I'll pay for the travel expenses."
Elsa, who had disappeared from the public eye for a long time, was actually in this cabin at this moment, eating snacks and flipping through a novel, as if she didn't hear the other party's suggestion.
After returning from the Sen dungeon, she was a little confused about where to go. Finally, she was picked up by Luluwo by chance. She has been recuperating these days.
When she turned to the last page of the novel, she suddenly sighed heavily.
"What's wrong?"
"Discontinued"
Elsa had a very sad expression on her face as she gently closed the novel whose author was signed as "Xingchen Xiaolina". Apparently, this novel about the Four Knights of the King was quite interesting.
"Really? But I have her new work here. I just bought it a few days ago." Luluwo handed over a novel.
Elsa took it in surprise, with a look of surprise on her face.
Then she looked at the words "Star Dalinai" written in the author column and fell silent.
When a book becomes popular, there will naturally be imitators. After the popularity of Sen Dungeon increased, more and more novels with its characters as protagonists emerged. Some of them sold well in the market, so more and more authors got involved.
However, with more authors, there were not enough characters to write about in the Sen Dungeon. Inevitably, characters written by some authors would collide with each other, and some fake and shoddy characters would emerge.
What else could Elsa say? She could only hope that the real Xingchen Xiaolina would resume updating soon.
"By the way, why don't you go back to the Light Eagle Regiment to show your face? It's been a long time since you went back, right?" Luluwo asked.
Elsa shook her head and said, "I went back once, met a few people, and came back again. There was nothing to do there."
So you come to help me finish the snacks, right?
Luluwo found a few more novels and threw them to the other party, then continued reading the newspaper, thinking about whether she should really go to the Warrior Kingdom to participate in the festival for fun.
But then again, looking at Elsa's current performance, has she successfully poached someone?
At the same time, Irithyll in the Frost Valley.
There are people in the Light Eagle Group who are keeping an eye on Elsa, but there are probably only a few of them.
For example, some members she has a good relationship with, such as her stormtroopers, and Sally.
"The warriors can't hold on any longer. Where is the magician? Put out the fire quickly!"
"No, the magician is already on fire!"
Inside the cathedral of Irithyll, Sally was leading a group of mercenaries in a battle with the phantom of Pope Shalivan, and the battle was extremely intense.
Because many of the mercenaries were indeed burned.
The remaining people were still fighting hard. Logically, they had discovered the mechanism of Sullivan's phantom and should have fought more beautifully, but now their miserable appearance was no different from before.
The main reason was that the main force Eliphis was not here at the time, and those captains who were good at fighting were not here either. There were only the elite mercenaries led by Sally here.
"Elsa, when can you come back?" Sally looked at the defeated mercenaries, feeling numb all over.
His combat capability is only at the elite level. If a real fight breaks out, he may not be as good as Tammy from the Sky Raiders Group.
The reason why there was no one with high-end combat power to join them in fighting against the phantom of Pope Sullivan was because everyone was divided into several groups and were all fighting at the moment. Without a captain, Sulli's side naturally became the weakest in overall strength.
As for why the Light Eagle Group wanted to fight to the death with the Phantom of Sullivan, it was to please Eliphis.
After more than ten days of isolation, Eliphis finally walked out of the room, but he was surrounded by a suffocating low pressure.
He went back to doing what a team leader should do, handling affairs as correctly and smoothly as before, but the smile on his face was gone, and in his spare time he just stared at the stars in the sky in a daze.
The leader suddenly became like this. As the core members, Sally and others were naturally worried. They tried various ways to make him happy, but all failed in the end. They could only turn their attention to the Sullivan phantom.
If we can kill this culprit, the captain will be happy, right?
However, the other teams whose captains are still there may still have hope, but Sally's side has no hope at all. Without high-end combat power, there is no point in fighting.
Sally also couldn't understand why Elsa suddenly stopped coming to the Light Eagle Group. When he tried to persuade her, she showed an expression that he couldn't describe.
When he saw that expression, Sally couldn't help but wonder what had caused the other person to change like this. Unfortunately, every time he thought deeply, the red light flashing in his eyes would always make him stop thinking.
Moreover, the recent batch of new mercenaries who joined the group have a high rate of running away, and no one knows what is going on.
If this continues, it might eventually turn into an extreme situation where "the Light Eagle Group is not disbanded, it's just that no one comes."
That was something he, or Eliphis, definitely didn't want to see.
The most urgent thing is that Sally has to find Elsa first.
"Ahh, really, I quit!"
At this moment, a mercenary who was struggling to resist the attack of Sullivan's phantom suddenly threw away his shield and crashed into the Sword of Punishment. He was quite smart and knew to find a more painless Sword of Punishment before committing suicide.
"Gwyndolin has released me from the Darkmoon Oath. Why should I help her fight Shalivan?" The mercenary died after leaving his last words.
Um, aren’t we here to fight the Sullivan Phantom just for the captain? Sally wanted to say this, but the other party couldn't hear her anymore.
There are many mercenaries in the Light Eagles who go to Thayn when they have nothing to do. They can exercise their muscles and earn some extra money at the same time. Some mercenaries are deeply involved in it, just like the one just now, who has become a senior Darkmoon Sword. However, he was released from the Darkmoon Oath because he entered the Fog Gate in Anor Londo.
Sally did some research and found out that there were several other mercenaries in the Light Eagle Group who had also been released from their oaths.
It’s amazing! When did you all enter Sion? I clearly remember that I assigned quite a few tasks for you!
With the first person to collapse, the morale of the other mercenaries also dropped, and the battle ended in just a few minutes.
Resurrected at the bonfire, Sally and everyone else were silent.
What will become of our Light Eagle Regiment?
Just when the atmosphere fell into silence, he counted the number of people and suddenly found that a few were missing, including the mercenary who committed suicide at the beginning.
Never mind, let them be.
The mercenary who committed suicide was called Seru. He had been in the Light Eagle Group for quite some time, but unfortunately he had never been promoted to management.
At this moment, he was actually in the Church of Yurshika, standing in front of the Dark Moon Altar in silence.
He tremblingly took out an ear-shaped proof of agreement from his pocket and placed it on the altar, his eyes full of hope.
But the altar remained silent, completely rejecting his offering, so the hope in his eyes turned into despair, and then into anger.
"Asshole, can't you give me another chance? I just entered the fog gate accidentally!"
When the Darkmoon Sword oath appeared, Seru joined the Darkmoon Sword only out of curiosity, but soon became obsessed with fulfilling the duties of the oath and going on police missions everywhere.
He was so keen on fulfilling his duties as the Sword of Darkmoon not because he liked Gwyndolin or liked to help the invaded, but because he enjoyed the feeling, the feeling of being respected for killing people casually.
Since the Darkmoon Sword will attack invaders, its status in people's eyes is almost the same as that of the helpful Sun Warrior. Seru likes the feeling of being praised by people after killing invaders and killing in the name of justice, so he is keen on the activities of the Darkmoon Sword.
Judging from his behavior alone, he is actually quite decent.
Unfortunately, he couldn't suppress his curiosity in Anor Londo and entered Gwyndolin's Mist Gate, which resulted in the oath being lifted and he could no longer carry out invasion activities. This made him feel frustrated and angry.
I'm just curious and want to take a look behind the fog door. Does that mean I can cancel my vow?
You won't even give me a chance to rejoin?
From now on, he will become a staunch fan of Gwyndolin!
Seru angrily walked out of the Church of Yurshika and headed towards the Irithyll Bridge.
However, at this moment, a monster suddenly appeared on the roadside and blocked his way.
"Didn't we clear out the monsters?" Seru frowned and drew his weapon, suddenly realizing that he had never seen these monsters before.
Those were puddles of black mud, like a combination of a mud monster and a slime, and looked extremely disgusting.
This thing seems to have appeared in the Deep Cathedral, but it is not this big. Its name is [Aldridge's Rotten Flesh].
By the time Seru came to his senses, he was surrounded by black mud and had nowhere to escape.
"Why do all these bad luck happen to me!"
With a roar, he was engulfed by Aldridge's rotten flesh.
His consciousness seemed to have fallen into a dark space, with nothingness everywhere. Seru suddenly heard a voice calling him.
[Those who betrayed the Dark Moon Sword, wake up]
He suddenly woke up and saw an altar covered with black mud suddenly appearing in the pitch-black space. It looked extremely evil.
But his subconscious mind urged him to move forward.
[Since Dark Moon has been betrayed, should those who are dissatisfied with Dark Moon follow the example of their predecessors and raise the sword of revenge against Dark Moon? 】
Follow the predecessors?
When such a question appeared in Seru's mind, the following picture suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
They were several people wearing silver armor, the Silver Knights guarding Anor Londo, but now, they stood with the Pope's Knights.
What's going on? Why did they join Irithyll's side? Where is Gwyndolin?
A piece of information slowly appeared in his mind. Seru was confused at first, then he showed a crazy smile.
"Hehe, so there is such a thing. The Silver Knight can betray."
He suddenly pressed his hand into the altar filled with black mud, and magical words emerged.
[Do you want to make a pledge to "devour the guardian of God"? 】
"Of course!"
The guardian of the Devouring God, this oath stands on the opposite side of the Darkmoon Sword and can be considered to be in the Salivan camp.
When the dungeon discovers that an adventurer has been released from the Darkmoon Pledge, or has shown aversion to the Darkmoon Pledge, Aldrich's Carrion will come out and bring the pledge to the adventurer.
The story of the Dark Moon Swords defeating enemies and saving gods seems to be a very straightforward one, but it lacks twists and turns.
If we could add some opposing enemies to the Dark Moon Swords in the process, the level of excitement would increase.
What Gong Qiying likes more now is to divide the adventurers.
After all, having more camps to choose from is a benefit for adventurers, isn't it?
Among the adventurers, there will always be people who are not interested in the Darkmoon Sword, and there will always be people who like to play the devil's advocate, so they must be given a chance to choose a camp.
A few days later, no adventurer had successfully defeated the phantom of Pope Shalivan, and this craze gradually began to decline under the blow.
However, the tactical analysis of the Sullivan Phantom is close to completion, and countermeasures in various aspects have basically taken shape.
Thus, the expedition team organized by the Adventurer's Guild was officially dispatched.
(End of this chapter)
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