Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

——'Bishop of the Dead' Passaro Adoya!

When he heard Lias say this name, Luo Xiu was obviously stunned.

He didn't expect that he could actually pry out such important information from Lias -

That's the "Bishop"! And he is the bishop of the old rival "Ancient Hermitage"!

In addition to "Executioner" Koros and "Hidden Elder" Baberon, he is the third enemy of the "Five Fates" that they know!

Fuck...

Luo Xiu's heart was surging.

Is this a foreshadowing of killing "Spirit Descender" Starro and destroying the "Ancient Hermitage" in Red Maple City?

The strong sense of crisis made Luo Xiu clench his fists involuntarily, and sweat kept oozing out of his palms and dripping down from between his fingers.

At this time, he looked at the "Great Inquisitor" Baines on the side, but found that his expression was also stunned for a moment, and his constantly trembling pupils had betrayed his inner astonishment.

It's no wonder that Baines didn't control his expression. It's difficult for anyone to stay calm when they know that the enemies they are about to face are three "Five-fold Fate" saints.

It's just shock and astonishment, but there is no despair or cowardice. Baines's psychological quality is already quite high... Luo Xiu thought to himself, and his eyes fell on Lias in front of him.

He carefully examined Lias's character panel again.

This time, Luo Xiu directly swiped through the long row of "skills", "skills" and "expertise" columns, and looked directly at Lias's "status" column.

In Lias's "status" column, in addition to the complicated gain and loss states, there are two inconspicuous status entries mixed in between the regular status entries.

[Death Binding Curse] and [Shadow Devouring Heart]!

As a believer of [Lost], Lias's profession is also related to "Curse", so it is normal for him to have various abnormal states.

However, for these two abnormal states, even if the name of the initiator does not appear in the entry details, Luo Xiu can easily guess that [Death Binding Curse] was planted on him by "Dead Bishop" Passaro, and [Shadow Devouring Heart] was the work of Koros!

The former can be triggered by "Dead Bishop" Passaro. Once it is triggered, Lias will soon die miserably.

This can be seen as a game between "Dead Bishop" Passaro and "Executioner" Koros secretly - if Passaro, who serves the Church, does have a secret connection with Koros, then the lives of the "Fang Heads" under Koros can also be seen as a weight for Passaro to fight for greater benefits for the Church and himself.

The role of [Shadow Devouring Heart] is similar to the former. Koros is also firmly in control of Lias's life and may "devour" his heart at any time!

Passaro obviously underestimated Koros's ruthlessness. The words "submission and coercion" are not in Koros's dictionary at all.

Luo Xiu has reason to believe that if necessary, Koros would not mind "detonating" his men in front of Passaro, so as to shock Passaro in turn and directly overturn his bargaining chips!

Although [Death Binding Curse] and [Shadow Heart Devouring] are now in the "unactivated" state, Luo Xiu has learned more from it.

From the status bar of the previously transformed "Former Fang Head" Bagri, there is no similar "heart detonator"-like restriction...

This should be a new insurance set by Koros to prevent the emergence of a second Bagri. Although maintaining them requires Koros to divide more spirituality and energy, it is indeed effective.

It has only been less than an hour since Lias was captured and brought to the dungeon of the side court for interrogation.

One hour is not enough for Koros to judge the real-time status of his "Fang Heads".

This is probably the reason why Koros did not immediately "detonate" Lias' heart - if the interrogation time was delayed for even half an hour, Koros would have a high probability of abandoning the pawn directly, and they would not have been able to interrogate so much information!

Luo Xiu couldn't help but feel fortunate, and the "Bian Court President" beside him knew nothing about these information.

While Baines was still digesting the huge amount of information he had just received, Luo Xiu had already begun to silently pray for two holy arts, and he immediately intensified the interrogation of Lias:

"So, where is the 'Dead Bishop' Passaro Adoya?"

"... on Gusta Street... No...."

Just before Lias was about to tell the specific hiding place, his voice suddenly stopped, and his two eyeballs suddenly bulged forward from his eye sockets.

"Hehe... Hehe..." Lias' throat began to surge with a phlegm-like sound, and his face also appeared and crawled with black lines one after another.

When Luo Xiu noticed the change in Lias, before Baines could react, his right hand had already emitted golden light and opened the barrier of "Triple Holy Guard".

The pale golden light curtains were stacked in front of Luo Xiu, and also protected the "Great Inquisitor" Baines.

After that, he continued to open the field of "Pure Glow", letting the purified light fill the entire prison.

And just when Luo Xiu finished all this, the change in the "Fang Head" Lias in front of him had reached its peak!

The fine, nematode-like black lines had spread all over Lias' body, and at the same time, his protruding pupils had become as turbid as ink.

From his eye sockets, ears, nostrils and even mouth, thick black smoke poured out like burning charcoal. Sometimes it rose, sometimes it settled, and finally accumulated on the ground and turned into boiling black water.

——[Shadow Heart Eater]! "Executioner" Kross, who was far outside Red Maple City, finally detonated it!

In an instant, the "shadow" swallowed Lias's heart. The blood volume displayed on his panel instantly returned to zero, without even giving Luo a chance to mend his knife.

Visibly to the naked eye, the figure of "Hunted Head" Lias quickly shriveled up, and the position of his chest corresponding to his heart gradually eroded from the inside out into a terrifying hole filled with black water.

The erosion of "shadow" did not stop for a moment, and soon, half of Lias's body turned into black water.

The remaining body of Lias, which has not yet turned into water, is hanging in the shackles at the end of the iron chain like the body after a "car break", shaking extremely strangely in the black smoke.

And this last part quickly disappeared, and the place above the shackles became empty in an instant, leaving only the thick black smoke that was still rising or settling, and a sticky black water that exuded bursts of stench.

These products that detonated [Shadow Heart Devouring], when they spread to Luo Xiu's side, they were purified, decomposed into immaterial spirituality and dissipated. The "corrosion" power did not affect Luo Xiu and Bain at all. Si's body, and the clothes they wore were not stained.

It was not until the "pure glow" completely purified the black smoke and black water that Luo Xiu withdrew the two holy spells and said to Baines:

"It's a pity that Lias is dead. That 'Executioner' Kross seems to have noticed something. He may have acted preemptively."

"But we have received quite important information - the 'Bishop of the Undead' Passaro Adoa has sneaked into the city and is somewhere on Gusta Street."

"We have discovered a new threat... As desperate as the facts are, it is better than being kept in the dark."

As he said that, Luo Xiu spread his hands and made a helpless expression towards Baines.

Baynes has also recovered from his previous state. He looked at Luo Xiu, then at the shackles that had previously locked Lias but were now empty, shook his head and said:

"Hmm...yeah. Mr. Luo Xiu, you are right."

"At least this is not the worst situation. Dying soberly is a hundred times better than dying knowing nothing."

Baynes said this calmly, with a faint smile of inexplicable relief on his face.

Well, I thought before that Baynes was "calm"... Why does he look so indifferent now... Luo Xiu sneered.

"Knight of the Throne" Frosa also came over at this time and said from the side: "Lias is dead, Lord Luo Xiu. But the information he confessed is too shocking, and the 'side court' still needs some time to digest it."

Baynes also said: "Well, that's exactly it. The appearance of an 'executor' has already made the situation delicate, not to mention now, three such enemies have appeared at once... I have already A letter of request for help has been drafted to the lord, but before reinforcements arrive, we have to ensure that we can survive until then. "

"Yes, I understand." Luo Xiu nodded, and then added:

"Now is the most dangerous moment for Red Maple City, but I will always believe that the turning point is hidden in the crisis."

"Now that Lias is dead, I plan to go back to the church first and won't stay any longer."

After saying that, Luo Xiu gave a slight salute to Baines and prepared to return first.

The interrogation of Lias was over, and there was no place left in the side court to stay any longer. Baynes and Frosa immediately escorted Luo Xiu out of the dungeon and sent him to the door of the side courtyard.

After a brief farewell to Baynes and Frosa, Luo Xiu immediately rode on the "Golden Pegasus" and returned to the church in the night.

…

Red Maple City, Glorious Church.

In the half hour it took Luo Xiu to go to the side court and participate in the interrogation, the church's clergy had almost finished cleaning up the mess caused by the battle.

The damaged buildings could not be restored, but the ruins of the crumbling buildings had been cleaned up.

The corpses of those "monster heads" have also been completely burned by the "holy flame", completely eliminating the possibility of "distortion" of their corpses.

After that, the church entered a state of "martial law", and some clergymen had gone to blockade the surrounding streets. The remaining clergymen, under the command of Anthony, patrolled the church all night long.

This is a consistent arrangement - to prevent enemy remnants from hiding in nearby streets, and to maintain peace and keep civilians from panicking.

…

Luo Xiu returned to the church and went straight to his "high priest's residence" as usual.

But halfway through the journey, I remembered that the "Daji Residence" had been completely destroyed in the previous battle.

At this time, the "Original Residence", an original two-story building, was destroyed until only the base remained.

Fortunately, the small tower of the "Boundary Matchmaker" is still intact, and it will be quick to rebuild the residence later.

…But I definitely won’t be able to go back “home” tonight. Luo Xiu then turned around and walked towards the Holy Office.

After entering the Holy Office and opening the door of the "bishop's room", Luo Xiu made do with spending the night here.

…

Early next morning.

Luo Xiu, who had been lying on a soft chair all night, rubbed his sore waist.

He stayed up all night, just to prevent the enemy's possible second raid, and even more to prevent "Executioner" Kross from ending up in person.

But fortunately, this extreme situation did not happen, and the possibility of them sneaking in during the day was much smaller than at night, which gave Luo Xiu enough time to prepare.

Luo Xiu then sat up and started his daily routine.

The only advantage of sleeping in the office is that it saves the trouble of rushing... Luo Xiu thought self-deprecatingly, he quickly finished the day's work, then opened the panel and calculated the time when the "Wandering Explorer" cooldown ended.

At the moment when the cooldown ended, he reopened the "Hex Master" Laqishi's kill reward interface and recalculated it without hesitation.

[Regenerating the reward for killing the mad hex-level boss...]

[Regenerated the kill reward]

[Obtained the expertise "Battlefield Mage (Rare)\