Chapter 99
Compared to the frightened children and old people that Ye Bai encountered during the day, these figures with flames in their hands did not look so timid.
They gathered in one direction with a purpose, holding burning objects with flames in their hands.
The flames were big and small. With the help of Eagle Eye, Ye Bai, who now had a wider field of vision, could clearly see that some of them were holding torches, while others were holding a broken pottery shard with grease-stained fibers on it and lighting it.
At this distance, these people would not miss Ye Bai, but they all ignored her and did not communicate with each other. They just carefully and attentively maintained the flames in their hands while converging in a certain direction.
"The Purgatory here...are there no one arresting them?"
Just like Purgatory advocates chaos and everyone attacks all living beings indiscriminately, the Purgatory clan is also hated by everyone on the surface. Even though every race has worshippers, Ye Bai has the impression that Purgatory worshippers are red-named monsters in the eyes of any force as long as they appear on the land of the God Realm.
In Ye Bai's concept, cultists should be the kind of group that hides in the city and is difficult to find without careful investigation.
And now, with [Insight], Ye Bai could see that the level of this group of evil cultists in front of him was very low, no more than level 20. Not to mention mastering the Purgatory spells, they looked like ordinary believers who had just switched camps.
Cultists of this level would never act so blatantly in a town with even a little bit of control.
The paper figure replied, "It seems that Purgatory has indeed fully revived... Under the influence of the power of Chaos, you can now find Purgatory believers wherever spiritual life gathers."
Ye Bai's eyes involuntarily looked further away - as she walked into the ruined town, she saw a black stone fortress standing on the hills farther away. The fortress did not look abandoned, and there was a blue flag flying on it, which looked like the emblem of a certain family.
"The lord here doesn't care?" Ye Bai asked.
Obviously, there must be some forces active in the fortress that was originally similar to the lord's palace not far away from this dilapidated town.
However, this dilapidated town should belong to the jurisdiction of the fortress, but the ordinary people here live like gray mice, and the activities of cultists are rampant, and it seems that no one can stop them.
"I guess so." The paper man used his 'information vision' again and said to Ye Bai, "There is a successor of the bright bloodline in that fortress, but the bloodline is very thin."
"Thin..." Ye Bai nodded thoughtfully.
The Bloodline of Light is the signature special power of the Kingdom Faction. The power of light, like the panacea of the Kingdom Faction, has a wide range of applications. In addition to causing additional restraining damage to the undead, it can also cause considerable damage to other races equally, while the characteristics of other races more or less have factors of mutual restraint.
At the same time, the Kingdom camp, as the race that best fits the player group, has a bit of the traditional Western fantasy "hero" flavor compared to the other four races. The power of light in the Kingdom camp is generated through a sudden awakening, and then the awakener can continue through blood, allowing his descendants to obtain the power of light.
The more generations there are, the thinner the bloodline power will naturally become, unless it is awakened again.
Whether or not one becomes an awakener does not depend on bloodline, but entirely on personal efforts. Players who choose the Kingdom camp can awaken the power of light through a series of complex tasks and tests.
So, the owner of the fortress should be a wealthy and powerful awakened one, belonging to the aristocratic class in the principality. If Ye Bai wants to get more information about the divine world, he might as well go to the fortress to explore.
However, Ye Bai did not forget that there were more important things to do at the moment. Since he had discovered the Purgatory heretics so easily, he naturally wanted to find a way to enter Purgatory to investigate the situation first.
Ye Bai's eyes moved, and he immediately took out a candle from his backpack, lit it, and then walked to the end of the nearest team.
Sure enough, just as they ignored Ye Bai, now when she joined the team with the flame, she easily integrated into it.
This kind of situation where you can join or not is simply open preaching.
Following the team through the low and dilapidated shacks, Ye Bai went deeper into the town. During this process, she felt numb or gloomy gazes cast from some hidden corners.
The candlelight in Ye Bai's hand flickered just like her mood.
The town was in ruins not only physically but spiritually as well.
Hearing and seeing with one's own eyes are two completely different things. The sky city fell, the last ancient dragon disappeared, and the kingdom camp that should have had the most tenacious vitality was now in ruins. Ye Bai couldn't help but imagine that it would be great if he could open a large portal to teleport these ordinary people in the divine world to Baiye Town.
Unfortunately, Ye Bai knew that this was just an illusion. At her current level, she couldn't even take away Ottophis and the paper man, with whom she had a binding relationship.
As they moved forward, Ye Bai unknowingly followed the team to their destination.
This was a rather tall and wide building. Ye Bai quickly identified the structure of the building. It turned out to be a church with half of its roof lifted off.
Of the statue enshrined in the center of the church, only half of its foot, wearing a cloth boot, remained.
The Divine Realm Duchy's camp basically believes in a powerful ancestor who has left a name in the history of the region. Judging from the cloth boots, the statue in this church should have originally been a magic professional, which is consistent with the history of the Ova Duchy's close relationship with the Void Spirit Clan.
However, no one cares about the statue now. A group of Purgatory worshippers gathered together, spontaneously formed a circle, and lit a bonfire in the open space in the center.
There is an empty area in the center of the campfire, with carved magic circle grooves inside, and dark brown sediments can be seen in the grooves.
From the twisted lines, Ye Bai immediately recognized that it was the Purgatory text.
At this time, Ye Bai stood among a group of cultists. He glanced around and found that these people were no longer silent as before. Instead, they were looking at the magic circle in the flames in front of them with fanatical expressions.
Because the candle in Ye Bai's hand was burning, he blended in perfectly. It seemed that these people only recognized the fire and not the people.
Not long after, an old man who looked like a priest and was wearing a red robe appeared. He was holding a copper bowl and muttering in a mysterious manner, making strange and evil syllables.
Ye Bai used his insight to see the other party's message.
Purgatory Waiter
Level: 20
Health: 1000/1000
Skills: Devil Summoning, Fire Resistance
Weaknesses: Throat, heart
The opponent's health value is far lower than that of a normal professional, not to mention the elite template, even the ordinary template is not enough. Combined with what the paper man said about the revival of the purgatory power, Ye Bai guessed that this purgatory waiter should be a passive transformation, probably in the state of a semi-professional.
Ye Bai watched the situation unfold. After the Purgatory Attendant finished chanting the spell, he took out a reddish-brown liquid of unknown composition from the copper bowl. He passed through the flames surrounding the formation without getting hurt and poured the liquid into the formation.
A miraculous change occurred, and the reddish-brown liquid flowed spiritually, filling the magic circle.
"boom!"
The next moment, the flames around the magic circle roared, and the fire suddenly increased by more than three times. The color of the flames also changed from ordinary yellow to an unusual bright red.
"Put your faith in it, and offer your sacrifice—"
The Purgatory Attendant shouted in a long voice.
As the other party finished speaking, the believers around Ye Bai became excited. They had already prepared and threw the torches, homemade candlesticks and other items that they had been carefully guarding in their hands into the flames of the magic circle in front of them.
"boom!"
As these "sparks" carrying the power of faith were thrown in, the flames on the magic circle jumped and moved, slowly connecting to form a circular portal.
At the same time, the crowd in a corner parted, and two people wrapped in gray robes came out dragging a child of about twelve or thirteen years old.
Ye Bai frowned as he saw the gray child, whose gender could not be determined, struggling hard but still no match for the strength of two adults. He was dragged closer to the magic circle. It seemed that these people were going to throw the child into the portal.
"Wuming, can we reverse the magic circle now?" Ye Bai asked the paper man in a low voice.
The paper man replied, "Right away... This passage is still being opened. Be prepared. My reversal will only last a short time. You must enter as quickly as possible—right now!"
The moment the paper man's voice fell, Ye Bai, who had been ready for action, flew out from a group of cultists.
Following closely behind jumped out... a gray donkey that was totally out of place with the style of this place.
"Um?!"
Ye Bai's sudden appearance stirred the entire crowd. The Purgatory Attendant's eyes suddenly widened: "Who are you?!"
Of course Ye Bai would not answer him, and slashed at the Purgatory Waiter with a sword.
This half-baked Purgatory Servant who was converted only had two skills, one was fire resistance and the other was summoning a small demon. Seeing the mysterious man's fierce attack, he hurriedly covered his head to avoid it, but was still hit by a sword.
"Huh?"
The expected severe pain did not occur, which made the Purgatory Attendant stunned for a moment, but then he felt relieved. The opponent looked like a powerful warrior. He thought that this sword would directly cut off his arm, but he didn't expect that it only scratched his skin a little, and the damage caused was not much.
The next moment, a sharp ice cone attacked from behind and directly penetrated the chest of the Purgatory Attendant.
'-1734'
The Purgatory Servant only has some resistance to fire, and has zero resistance to other spell damage, especially ice damage, which is the most effective against fire. This ice cone directly reduced his health to zero.
Then Ye Bai did not stop, turned around and rushed towards the newly opened teleportation array channel.
The two minions who were about to offer the sacrifice were also startled and paused.
Ye Bai moved smoothly and threw an ice bomb at each of them, piercing their chests and sending away the two evil cult minions with less than 500 health points.
The child who was still struggling suddenly broke free from his restraints, and when he saw Ye Bai falling from the sky, he couldn't help but stand there in a daze.
Ye Bai smiled at him, then reached out and grabbed the skinny little boy.
Under the little boy's surprised gaze, Ye Bai picked him up and then... threw him into the shed next to him.
——I’m going to fall to death!
When the child had this thought, he felt his body suddenly become lighter, as if he had grown wings, and he was floating with an upward thrust.
Behind the boy's back, where he couldn't see, a wing shape flashed by.
Second-level gravity instant spell, Light Feather Spell.
The moment the boy was thrown away, a hand stretched out from the teleportation portal behind him that was filled with a burning sulfur smell.
The hand was covered in abnormal red skin, had powerful muscles, and the fingertips were sharp, inhuman claws.
After entering this world, it skillfully spread out its palms, which was obviously its habitual action to accept sacrifices.
However, this time there was no sacrifice for it, and the boy had been thrown far away from the gathering center by Ye Bai.
At the same time, the paper man also started to move, and the teleportation array pattern carved on the ground moved like a living thing, and in the blink of an eye it turned into another strange structural form.
The vortex that was originally heading outward suddenly reversed!
The hand had been waiting for the sacrifice for a long time, and now it had stretched out its forearm and entire hind arm, and was even groping left and right, looking for the sacrifice that was supposed to appear.
The next moment, the portal's swirling vortex turned from outward to inward, and this sudden change in the channel's flow direction also created a powerful cutting force—
With a 'click' sound, the red arm fell to the ground, revealing a neat cut.
"Ah!! My hand!"
Faintly, sharp screams could be heard from the other end of the passage.
“Now!”
The voice of the paper man sounded at this time. Ye Bai jumped in without delay, and Ottophis followed closely behind.
At the moment when the figures of the man and the donkey were submerged in the passage.
"boom!"
The passage made of flames suddenly exploded violently, directly blowing away the cultists gathered around it, and the entire gathering center was destroyed by the explosion.
“Pah…”
The boy who was thrown out felt that he became as light as a feather. Then the thrust passed high in the air, and then he fell down just as lightly. He rolled on the ground and stabilized his body.
When he came to his senses, he found that he had been thrown out of the gathering area. Apart from his already dirty clothes becoming even dirtier, his body was not hurt at all!
"boom!"
Hearing the sound, the boy looked at the gathering area in surprise, a ball of bright fire reflected in his eyes.
The living people hiding in the darkness and living like gray mice in this dilapidated city were also attracted by the explosion and stuck their heads out to look.
Until the flames of the explosion died down, the boy's eyes flashed, and after staying there for a moment, he suddenly dived into the dark shed and disappeared.
Such a dramatic incident finally attracted the attention of people in the distant fortress.
After the explosion subsided, a group of people in armor came to the rally center.
"What did those Purgatory Cultists do this time to cause such a big commotion?!"
The gathering center after the explosion was now pitch black, with several charred corpses lying nearby. The patterns of the magic circle in the center had all been distorted into the simplest circular lines. Unless another Purgatory Servant who knew the summoning technique appeared, it would never be able to return to its previous appearance.
Apart from that, the only 'thing' that still existed next to the magic circle was a charred mark in the shape of an arm.
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