Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

"Help him kill the 'Fen Tian Ao Long' hovering in the sky" - Lockland made such a request to Luo Xiu.

After that, Lockland said nothing more, but waited silently for Luo Xiu's reply.

Luo Xiu's expression was calm as usual, staring at the magic knight opposite with a scrutinizing gaze, and weighing the risks and value of this proposal in his heart.

From his words, Luo Xiu probably guessed the real reason why Lockland did not die.

- That is the "Black Devouring Life Core".

It is also the taboo knowledge recorded in "Said's Notes".

However, this taboo skill does not directly act on the puppet, but on the "warlock". It is a special means to improve the warlock's physique "puppetization".

Obviously, this is a very evil technology. Luo Xiu has also torn off the key part of the page recording the "Black Devouring Life Core", which makes Lockland unable to directly transform himself, but rely on the "puppet" for experiment.

When Rockland was still "alive", he might have used another forbidden skill to "copy" or resonate his own consciousness in the body of the puppet.

This allowed Rockland to manipulate the puppet with ease, and in the process found inspiration to use the skills of the Black Devouring Rune in the flesh, but by mistake became the container for Rockland's resurrection.

This is not just a guess. In the panel detection of "Dragon Hunter" Rockland, the [Black Devouring Life Core] item is quietly lying in the status bar.

Although Luo Xiu has determined the true identity of "Rockland" and can roughly piece together his real past from his words, Rockland does not know this, and he does not seem to be ready to tell Luo Xiu that he is "Rockland".

But this is normal-whether for Luo Xiu or Rockland, not revealing this true identity is conducive to smoother communication.

For Rockland, it is the confidence to hide, but for Luo Xiu, it is a more important weight and handle.

"How can I trust you?" Luo Xiu asked Rockland calmly.

His cold eyes did not fade at all, and the eyes that seemed to be able to see through the armor were staring at the other party, exerting a strong sense of oppression on Rockland.

Rockland was silent for a while, raised his left hand, and stretched it to his right chest.

——Puff! His sharp gauntlet, like a blade, pierced his chest like piercing animal flesh, and grabbed a ball of throbbing things from it.

"This is the heart, Your Excellency the Bishop."

Rockland said.

Luo Xiu's eyes fell on the thing that Rockland had just taken out.

As Rockland said, it was indeed a "heart" - a ball of blood and flesh entangled with each other, pumping and converting dark and dark substantial energy between blood and spiritual threads, that was the "Black Devouring Life Core"!

"I'm going to give it to you as collateral, Your Excellency the Bishop. You can crush it at any time."

Lockland said: "Although crushing it won't kill me, it's enough to injure me so badly that I lose any power to resist."

After that, Lockland was silent for a while, as if observing Luo Xiu's reaction.

After seeing Luo Xiu's eyebrows slightly raised and a somewhat moved expression on his face, Lockland continued:

"How is it? This is enough to prove my sincerity."

"..."

This is indeed very sincere... When Luo Xiu heard Lockland say this, he was also pondering in secret.

What Lockland said was not a lie, he just concealed something, but it was harmless - Luo Xiu knew that this action, which was equivalent to handing his life over to the other party, meant that he was indeed facing a greater crisis.

This was enough to ensure that Lockland would not turn against him in the short term, at least not backstab him before killing the dragon in the sky.

But Luo Xiu still asked tentatively:

"Heh. Aren't you afraid that I will crush your heart on the spot and then kill you in this 'lightless cage'?"

"This is the least risky option for me - after all, I am enough to deal with you alone, plus the bronze dragon in the sky. Killing you is not critical, but it can indeed save more trouble."

"..."

"No, you won't do that, Your Excellency the Bishop." Rockland shook his head.

"Because I still have value - whether as a puppet of the 'Dragon Hunting Armor' or a hidden helper in this war, the wise choice will always tend to the side that consumes less and gains more."

"Besides, I know more about the 'Hidden Elder' Baberon and the secrets of the Dark Army. Later, I will use the only information I know to redeem your heart. If you can accept me, I am willing to join you."

"How about it? Your Excellency the Bishop, I think I have explained my proposal and position. It's time for you to tell me the answer."

"..."

When it comes to this point, the game-like briefing can be ended, and Luo Xiu has made his decision.

"Okay."

Luo Xiu's mouth corners rose, the hostility on his face gradually dissipated, and a faint smile appeared, saying, "I accept your proposal."

As Rockland said, from the point of view of interest interaction, Rockland's proposal has explained the benefits he can provide.

The previous question Luo Xiu added at the end was to make Rockland reveal more value.

Obviously, he succeeded, which is the most fundamental purpose of "testing".

And the "risk" must be taken, but in Luo Xiu's eyes, it has been greatly reduced by the true identity of "Lockland".

After all, although the "generalist" Lockland touched the taboo, it is indeed impossible for him to be in the same boat with the Dark Principality.

After hearing Luo Xiu's affirmative answer, Lockland nodded, and the scale armor on his neck made a small scratching sound. His right hand threw a small arc and threw the "heart" over.

Luo Xiu reached out to take it, looked at Lockland, put it in the storage bracelet, and then said:

"Okay, Magic Knight-maybe I should change my name, what should I call you?"

"... Los, just call me Los."

"Okay, Los." Luo Xiu nodded, a deep light flashed in his eyes, and said in a steady tone:

"Then, let's talk about your tactics. Tell me how you want to "kill" the dragon in the sky."

"..."

...

-Puff! Thomas held the sword with both hands and stabbed the blade, which had been cut to the edge, into the chest of the dark soldier opposite.

The soldier's face was already filled with fear and despair. At the moment when Thomas pierced his heart with a sword, Thomas actually saw relief in his eyes.

This touched Thomas a little, but he did not hesitate at all. Then he kicked the soldier in front of him over, drew his sword, rushed up and cut his neck with a sword.

The soldier fell backwards in a spin, his body twitched for a while and then stopped moving. Blood was still gushing out of the two fatal wounds.

Unlike when purifying those "dead spirits", even in this game world that is completely the same as reality, "killing" also made Thomas a little disgusted at first, but he soon got used to the bloody atmosphere of the battlefield.

This is just a game... Besides, the so-called "war" always involves blood. Even if we put it in a different way, Thomas is fighting "for survival".

After convincing himself, Thomas felt less uncomfortable, and he was also gradually getting used to the feeling of killing.

And just now he had killed the 23rd enemy - compared to the "deformed undead", these ordinary soldiers who had not entered the extraordinary were much easier to kill.

Earlier, he had also followed the team battle to kill three berserker soldiers with the corpse-pile tactic, and then followed a player team to challenge a wave of "Black Fang" with triple fate - but was killed instantly, wasting one resurrection opportunity.

Unlike the players who had already joined the City Guard, Thomas had not been able to trigger the [Limited Time Mission] again, so he became less interested in killing enemy soldiers, and then he only attacked the attacking enemies and began to act as a war correspondent.

It's more interesting to watch others bleed into a river...Thomas thought so, and his body involuntarily came to the vicinity where the two "saints" of the church were fighting.

He saw "Holy Deacon" Hubert smash "Executioner" Koros with a hammer, and then Hubert chased in the direction where Koros was smashed and hit him in the chest with another hammer.

It was visible to the naked eye that Koros's body, which was flying into a residual shadow, had a bright red blood line. During the process of being smashed, Koros seemed to do something, and his body was quickly wrapped in thick black fog. He fled the battlefield the moment Hubert's next hammer hit him.

"He escaped, the executioner..." Thomas sighed.

On the other side, he saw the puppets summoned by the "Hidden Elder" surrounded the church's chief priest Luo Xiu, and saw bursts of brilliant light burst out around Luo Xiu, shaking all the puppets away.

Afterwards, a two-headed dragon and another dragon-armored knight who looked very fierce were summoned by Baberon from the crystal pendant. Thomas's panel detection results for them were all? ? ?, and he could only see their names.

"Fen Tian... what dragon? And 'Dragon Hunter'... uh, there's a string of question marks behind it..."

He couldn't see the full name of "Dragon Hunter" Rockland, because "Rocky" had been subjectively hidden, and Thomas's "perception" was not enough to see through it.

But this was not the key. Thomas then saw that the two new puppets summoned by Baberon chased Luo Xiu to the edge of the battlefield.

And above the battlefield where Luo Xiu was, a semicircular ball curtain suddenly appeared.

From the outside, it was completely pure color, reflecting black or pure white depending on the angle, like a giant egg growing on the flat ground.

"Dragon Hunter" was blocked in the ball curtain, while "Fen Tian Ao Long" was shielded outside.

Nothing could be seen from the outside. The bronze dragon kept spewing frost and flames on the surface of the ball curtain, but it could not break this cage.

About three minutes later, the surface of the "giant egg" gradually dissolved, and the scene inside was "seen again".

——Boom! Boom! Boom! Several huge noises continued to be heard, accompanied by the golden light that continued to diffuse and dissipate in the center of the broken "dome", like a sun rising from the ground.

The church's chief priest Luo Xiu Carlos was continuously releasing the holy art of light pollution, constantly attacking the "Dragon Hunter"!

Under Luo Xiu's high-density attack, the "Dragon Hunter" kept dodging in the gaps, and occasionally swung his sword at Luo Xiu to slash one or two counterattacks, but they were all blocked by Luo Xiu's defensive holy art.

They are still fighting... but our chief priest seems to be stronger. The bronze dragon in the air is still spewing frost and fire. The joint attack of the two puppets is almost equal to that of Luo Xiu Carlos... Thomas thought while watching the battle from a distance.

The bronze dragon in the air is still breathing. After Luo Xiu Carlos and the "Dragon Hunter" fought for a while, the target of the attack changed to the dragon.

In the middle, he blasted the bronze dragon with a long-range holy spell and broke its defense.

The "Dragon Hunter" who lost his opponent followed closely and pursued him relentlessly. The center of the three-party melee was getting closer and closer to the direction of the bronze dragon.

In this way, they fought for about two minutes, and suddenly-

The chief priest of the church, Luo Xiu Carlos, suddenly raised the staff in his hand, and the light on it flashed frequently. Blurred cracks suddenly exploded on the body of the bronze dragon, and it seemed to have suffered a lot of damage!

It stopped flying and landed on the ground, as if it wanted to crush Luo Xiu Carlos with its huge size advantage.

During its landing, several shining lightsabers appeared around Luo Xiu at the same time, and his staff also spurted out dazzling light, and the power of annihilation was constantly condensing in it.

And Luo Xiu was not the only one "accumulating power", the "Dragon Hunter" was also holding the Dragon Hunter Sword with both hands, and the blade had already appeared a dangerous scarlet light, and the terrifying spiritual aura was surging in it.

The "Dragon Hunter" aimed at Luo Xiu, and Luo Xiu aimed at the dragon that was constantly falling in the air. Thomas swallowed his saliva, looking forward to the scene that they would zoom in at the same time later.

After a short wait, at the moment when the Burning Sky Dragon finally landed.

——Boom!!!

Luo Xiu Carlos and the "Dragon Hunter" disappeared at the same time, and then two bursts of golden and scarlet slashes hit the two necks of the Burning Sky Dragon at the same time!

The golden and scarlet lights burst out at the same time, they intertwined and blended together, reflecting two completely different figures-

Luo Xiu had already changed to another black sickle, and cut off the right head of the dragon together with the previous Brilliant Sword!

The left head of the dragon was also not spared-the "Dragon Hunter"'s dragon hunting sword had been deeply cut into it, and the scarlet air wave had already swept, and then quickly wrapped around the blade, completely separating the dragon head from the body!

The two huge dragon heads rolled to the ground, and the headless dragon body stood for a while, and then collapsed like a hill.

"..."

"...Ah?"

Thomas, who saw this scene, scratched his head in confusion.

...

(There will be more in the evening)