All-Professional Master of Darkness

Bang.

The fire bomb hit the last sand knight and took away its life. Gross licked his dry and cracked lips with difficulty, leaning against the stone and breathing heavily.

This is already the fourth day. His guess seemed to be pretty accurate since the Dark Crow attack. Murkrow did not appear again. Apart from cave hoppers and other demons, no one was seen along the way.

Gudu, Gross looked at the blood flowing from the bodies of the spear cats among the corpses everywhere, and swallowed involuntarily. Unfortunately, due to lack of water, the saliva in his mouth had already dried up. The blood on the ground that had not been swallowed up by the dry soil looked particularly tempting in his eyes.

"Sir." With a timid cry, a shriveled water bag was handed to him from the side.

"Claudia, I'm not thirsty yet." Gross was startled, then shook his head and smiled bitterly.

This dancer named Claudia is very well-behaved. Whenever the battle ends, this girl will consciously hand over some dry food and water bags. If he were not in a dry highland now, he would have been determined to arrange a good future for this girl. It's a pity that in two days, all three of them will have to live in this hopeless land.

Thinking of this, Gross couldn't help but regret the decision he made four days ago again. Now he is free from the Dark Crow, but he is now without water or food. Now that I think about it, it would be better to be captured by Dark Crow and leave it to fate whether he lives or dies. Subconsciously, he looked up at Lan Wu not far away.

At this sight, he was stunned again.

Lan Wu sat in the shade under the stone, with his eyes closed and a faint smile on his lips. Three weird skeletons and a skeleton mage stood under the scorching sun, scattered around as guards.

A faint demonic energy escaped into the air, slowly drifting towards Lan Wu. Gross saw this and shook his head again with a bitter smile. Until now, this guy is still so calm.

"Rodament, is there really no water nearby?" Lan Wu didn't know that Gross was envious of his own nature, and he was having a happy chat with Rodament.

"I remember that there seemed to be a temple in this area." Rodament raised his eyes and looked around, and replied in a deep voice: "There is a sacred spring in the temple. Just take a sip, and all injuries, big or small, can be healed. But it took too long. , I’m afraid it’s been buried by the desert now.”

Lan Wu's brows jumped sharply. The holy spring water of Fart is clearly the well water that exists in every map in the game. No wonder I haven't seen this kind of well water or things like skill temples in so many maps. It turns out that it really exists in some kind of temple.

"Think about it again." Lan Wu kissed his dry and cracked lips. Thinking of clean water makes me thirstier.

A person's food and water for two days are now divided into three parts. Being able to survive for four days is already the result of careful budgeting and saving. If we can no longer find water and food, we may die.

"Uh... I'll think about it again." Rhodament hesitated, raised his head and looked around. He was previously corrupted by demons and turned into a mummified mage, and now he has become a ghost. He wasn't worried about water and food. But without water, Lan Wu and the others couldn't last long.

"Sir." A timid voice interrupted Lan Wu's thoughts.

Lan Wu opened his eyes in surprise and saw Claudia squatting timidly next to her holding a piece of cut cactus. The tender green cactus meat was juicy, which immediately aroused his hunger and thirst. He quickly took the cactus and ate the tender and juicy cactus meat while thanking him repeatedly.

"thanks, thanks."

Claudia blushed, hurriedly shrank to the shade and buried her head in her knees. Seeing her fearful look, Lan Wu smiled and ate up the palm-sized cactus in three licks.

When he was hungry and thirsty, he added a little water and food, and Lan Wu was in a good mood. There was a desert nearby, not a single blade of grass growing. The sharp thorns of this cactus were carefully removed, and the stubble was shriveled. It was obviously a reserve of water and food that this lucky dancer had hidden long ago.

This cactus is also rare on this land. I could still find a few in the past two days after escaping the pursuit of Dark Crow. But since entering this desert, this cactus has also disappeared. Being able to hide such a cactus... Lan Wu suddenly regretted it when he thought of this.

Claudia managed to save a piece of cactus, but why was she so confused that she ate it all without caring about it.

"Uh... I'm sorry." Lan Wu was embarrassed.

"It doesn't matter. If you hadn't saved me that day, I would have been beaten to death by now." Claudia shook her head softly, still not raising her head.

Lan Wu was stunned and frowned slightly. He thought about it and suddenly remembered the dancer who was kicked out of the tavern by Glasgow when Gross brought Jehain's invitation that day. He was surprised and happy: "It turns out to be you."

As the saying goes, meeting an old friend in a foreign land. Although I was not familiar with this girl, I was destined to meet her again. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that we met again on this dry highland. His mood immediately improved, and he forgot about his thirst for a moment, and started chatting enthusiastically with Claudia.

Before Lan Wu traveled through time, he was considered an otaku. However, he was in dire need of diverting his attention right now, so he did an extraordinary job, making Claudia giggle with just a few sentences.

Not far away, Gross saw Lan Wu and Claudia chatting happily, with a gloomy look on his face. Just now, Claudia gave the last piece of cactus to Lan Wu, and then thought that she only deserved the few drops of water in the water bag, which were almost negligible. This is clearly a difference in treatment. But then I thought about it, if I hadn't insisted on taking the risk and moved on, I might have escaped back to Lu Gaoyin by now. He had to swallow this bad luck.

The scorching sun gradually moves westward. Gross regained his strength and snorted angrily: "It's time to go."

Lan Wu ignored it and turned to look at Rodament. The latter looked down at his feet. His heart moved, and he immediately asked through the contract: "Is that temple right here?"

"If I'm not mistaken, yes." Rodament raised his hand and pointed to the ground not far away. There's a little bump there.

Lan Wu took a closer look and fainted. That little bump is really no ordinary stone. Although only a little bit is exposed on the ground, you can still see the remaining artificial traces on it. This is a stone pillar.

The temple is right under my feet... How do I get the well water?

Excavation is certainly out of the question. I'm afraid that before the temple is dug, people will die of thirst. But without digging, how can we enter the temple buried deep underground?

"What are you waiting for?" Gross didn't see Lan Wu getting up for a long time, and his mood began to become irritable again.

"Sir." Seeing Gross' impatient expression, Claudia was so frightened that she secretly tugged on Lan Wu's clothes.

Lan Wu rolled his eyelids, patted Claudia's little hand, indicating that it was okay, then raised his head and shouted: "Hey, come here, I found something."

"What?" Gross frowned, but walked over as he was told.

"Look." Lan Wu pointed to the small half of the stone pillar exposed on the ground.

Gross followed Lan Wu's hand, and when he saw the small half of the stone pillar, his heart moved. He hurriedly stepped forward, knelt down and reached out to touch. Not long after, he raised his head in surprise: "Temple, this is the ruins of Zakarum Temple."

"Can you find the entrance?" Lan Wu was refreshed. Being able to tell the name of this temple in one sentence, this Lugaoin man must have a way to find the entrance.

"Yes." Gross gave an answer that everyone was happy with. He stood up and ordered without any doubt: "Go and look around to see if there are any similar stone pillars nearby."

"The temple established by the Zakarum Church in Lugoin will enshrine water from a well that has received divine blessings." Gross confidently showed off his knowledge. The Church of Zakarum spans the entire world. Each temple built in different places is different. Only the temple established in Lugaoin will enshrine a well water symbolizing life for adventurers to quench their thirst.

The three of them immediately took action. Not long after, the other three stone pillars were discovered one by one. The four stone pillars are distributed within a radius of 300 meters. If Rodament, an old ghost, was not familiar with the structure of the Zakarum Church Temple, it would not be so easy to find them.

"Inject fifty points of mana." Gross raised his hand and pressed on one of the stone pillars, urging in a loud voice.

Lan Wu didn't care to get to the bottom of it and asked why fifty points of mana were injected. He quickly pressed the stone pillar and started injecting mana. Not long after, a mysterious rune suddenly appeared on the stone pillar. When he saw the runes emerging, he immediately remembered the five stone pillars that opened Tristram. He quickly stood up, walked quickly to another stone pillar, and injected mana again.

When the second rune appeared on the stone pillar, Gross also completed his work. He stood up and stepped aside, raising his voice and shouting excitedly to Lan Wu: "Get out of there quickly, the portal is about to open."

Lan Wu had just stepped back a few meters when the four stone pillars suddenly became crystal clear and emitted a blue-white light one after another. Four light pillars met in the middle, and with a flash of white light, a blue and white portal appeared out of thin air on the ground.

Looking at this portal, Lan Wu's brows jumped sharply. This way of opening is very similar to the way Tristram opened it. The only difference is that the five stone pillars need to be in a certain order, and this one only needs to be infused with mana.

"Hurry in, this portal won't last long." Gross rushed into the portal first.

When Lan Wu heard this, he immediately pulled Claudia and rushed into the portal. The two of them had just entered the portal when they heard a soft popping sound, and the entire portal suddenly shattered, turning into dots of starlight falling down.

Bang, Gros holds a fire bomb, looks up and looks around. The firelight disc player dispersed the darkness here. This is a spacious palace. The surroundings were empty, and the stone carvings on the walls contained not only demons but also angels, which were exactly the stories in the scriptures of the Zakarum Church.

But what attracted the three people's attention more was the clear well water in the middle of the hall.

Seeing the clear water, the three of them rushed to the well and drank greedily. The well water was clear and sweet, just as Rodament said. After drinking the well water, the three of them were in full condition and did not even feel hungry.

The three of them were drinking happily when a vicious yell suddenly floated from the aisle at the other end of the silent hall.