Pastor's Tantra

Although it was the first BOSS of the first dungeon... but because the name was so difficult to remember, Aiwass had long forgotten it.

In order not to waste his teammates' time, Aiwass always skipped all the CG cutscenes in this four-player book.

He had no idea what Ademar looked like outside of combat. I just remember that he was a hunchbacked giant with purple cobwebs all over his skin.

They called Ademar Xiaozi at the time.

For this is the first enemy beyond the path. In the early days, players rarely saw other BOSS and NPCs with purple light effects, so they named them intuitively.

The reason why it is called Xiaozi is because there is a "big purple" behind this copy. In another copy, there are enemies called "Old Zi" and "Zimei". When version 2 started and there were more enemies beyond the road, they stopped calling like that.

Along with the memory, there is also the extremely simple mechanism of the "evil bartender"——

Ademar was seen holding the counter with both hands, and his arms became swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye, directly bursting his sleeves.

He suddenly swung out his right hand at an extremely fast speed, as if he was surrounded by a strong wind.

"[Steadfast style]."

And Aiwass, even before he waved his palm, commanded from behind as if he had predicted it.

The moment I heard the order.

Haina's body acted spontaneously before her brain acted. The light wheel at the bottom of her pupils suddenly rotated. She turned the sword sideways and placed her left hand against the front half of the sword. The center of gravity of the body sinks and the right leg kicks off the ground. In the blink of an eye, he made a posture to resist the impact.

--choke!

It was obviously the contact between the palm and the rapier, but it made the sound of a giant hammer hitting the iron felt.

The sword body, blessed by the law tactics of the authoritarian way, firmly blocked this blow!

Haina could clearly feel a huge force rushing towards the sword.

If she hadn't obeyed Aiwass's command reflexively and used the "firm style", she would probably fly out now and hit Aiwass in the wheelchair behind her!

But at this moment, her body was like a poured foundation, completely channeling this power into the earth!

After the blow, she instinctively saw the opponent's attack breath and launched a sharp counterattack!

With a backhand sword, he slashed along the lower side of the rebounded right arm, tearing it all the way to the left shoulder.

Blood spurted out, and the evil bartender stumbled back in pain and hit the wine cabinet behind him.

A wine bottle fell down due to the collision, making a crisp cracking sound when it hit the ground.

She kept in mind the instructor's instruction of "don't rush forward" and instinctively wanted to return to the original standard posture.

However, Aiwass issued the order just right.

"[Giant Slam]."

--Is it really possible?

A thought of hesitation flashed through her mind.

The giant punch needs to be charged up, and it cannot move or parry before it is slashed; and it cannot change its moves after it is slashed out, so it can easily be avoided and counterattacked by clever enemies.

According to the instructor's instructions, this move should be used when it is confirmed that the opponent is unable to counterattack or dodge, forcing the opponent to choose defense - and then crushing the opponent's defense.

After gaining an advantage in the first confrontation, you should use [Blade Polishing] to temporarily increase the sharpness of the sword, or use [Screaming Technique] to take advantage of the opponent's defeat to intimidate and make the opponent further weakened. . You must control the distance between the other party and yourself, not too close or too far. You must always keep the opponent within the range of influence of [Charge Slash], and at the same time ensure that there is enough open space behind you, leaving yourself room to retreat, dodge, and parry.

...Oh, no, it seems to be Mr. Aiwass behind me. So should I step aside first?

But in that case, would it expose him...

While her brain was rapidly thinking complexly, the moment Haina was distracted, her body, which had been trained many times, started to move on its own.

After receiving Aiwass's order, she took a deep breath, held the dagger in both hands, and hunched her back slightly like a cat before hunting.

After about half a second of accumulating power, her body shot out with electricity.

A sharp and cold white light like an arc moon flashed in the air, and the counter in front of the wild elf bartender was cut open by her sword.

The huge impact caused the bartender's body to freeze in place instantly.

Even the left arm that the bartender subconsciously resisted and blocked in front of him was cut off!

His forearm bones had severe fractures. The purple left hand, which looked like it was severely swollen, fell to the ground. The bartender let out a shrill scream, and the purple lines on his body quickly disappeared along the original path.

The scream was so shrill that it startled Haina.

And his gesture of breaking away from the fighting state made Haina wonder whether she should continue fighting with the opponent.

At this moment, Aiwas's serious voice came again.

"Haina, get out of the way."

She made a wrong step and jumped half a step to the side.

——Only the sound of gunshots was heard.

The bartender's left eye was shot through by a bullet, and blood spurted out from the back of his head. Blood bloomed like flowers on the wine cabinet behind him.

His body slid down slowly and weakly, dragging a deep red blood trail.

She didn't even see where Aiwass hid the gun. He was still sitting in the wheelchair, quiet and motionless. There was a faint white smoke coming from his black cloak, and the corners of his mouth under the cloak were slightly raised.

From Aiwass' perspective, tiny white light spots gradually emerged from the corpse and poured into his body.

[Kill the second-level transcendent and gain 14 free experience points]

Aiwass smiled happily.

Let me take the lead, thank you.

Although there is quite little experience in directly killing monsters in "The Ring of Ouronomy", leveling mainly relies on tasks, crafts, buying books and reading, as well as the reward experience of daily dungeons... but mosquito legs are also meat.

Not to mention, he is currently at a low level. The benefits of gaining levels by eating free experience are quite high.

These 14 points of free experience, plus the 24 points given by the demon scholar who counterattacked before, averaged over the three skills of the demon scholar, which can almost upgrade him to four levels.

He can also allocate some experience to the priest profession and open a path to the second level. Then upgrade the Demonologist to three levels. This is the plan with the greatest short-term benefits.

Or you can stay for a while and wait for him to learn other skills on the path of devotion - such as "Sacrifice Fire", "Illumination", and "Blessing", skills that are easier to use than "prayer" but difficult to level up. , and then add experience. This experience can directly raise the priest level to level five at the lowest. This is the most cost-effective way to improve in the long run.

After all, "Demonology" can be steadily improved by reading mysterious books on demonology; "Basic Prayer" can be steadily improved by praying at least twice a day for three minutes each time; and "Demon Contract" requires him to do nothing. You can slowly get strength replenishment from the shadow demon.

Only the "Basic Ritual" is a bit troublesome. The main trouble lies in the word "basis".

Its level is too low, and the level of the ritual Aiwass used to make the "Shadow Blade" was too high, and it can't even gain experience. Aiwass really couldn't remember this kind of low-level ritual—a ritual that would allow him to memorize formulas, at least the ones he usually used, or the formulas that he could hang out to slaughter pigs.

From this perspective, the Demonologist can still level up just by leaving it alone. It is much more difficult to improve the priest profession, and basically you can only grind slowly.

If the priest can be promoted to the second level as soon as possible, it can prove that he is a "dedicated person".

Otherwise, how could he have such a smooth journey on the road of devotion?

Is your level of dedication to the path higher than mine? Why do you say I'm not a good person if you're not as tall as me?

That is an invincible life-saving card! He can also naturally become a key student and benefit from the resources of the seminary... In this way, he is not a "bad student who took three months off at the beginning of school", but a "genius who is weak and sick but pious and kind".

But in this case, these 38 points of experience are a bit small...

Aiwass's mind was full of thoughts, and new bad thoughts came to his mind just for a moment.

Haina looked at the corpse, feeling a little dazed. Obviously, she was not like what she said, because she had "killed people before" so she could kill him calmly.

Before she could react and ask why Aiwass suddenly wanted to kill the man.

Aiwass complained about the villain first, and asked before him: "Why didn't you just behead him? He can't be stopped."

"……ah?"

Haina's mind went blank for a moment, and then she explained in a low voice: "Because he is much weaker than me. I saw that he had lost his ability to resist, and I thought I should be able to capture him alive..."

Indeed. This man's combat intuition is indeed quite accurate.

Aiwass secretly agreed with Haina's statement.

If things had ended here and they left directly with the captured evil bartender, the case would have been closed.

However, Aiwass can't really let the Supervisory Bureau torture him - what if he confesses me?

Although the Moriarty family was somewhat influential, he could not say whether his adopted son would be convicted if there was clear evidence.

So Aiwass changed the previous topic and said sternly: "Then have you noticed? When he sees you showing the way, his first reaction is to resist or even attack you.

"What does this mean? It means that he has no intention of pleading guilty and committing suicide!"

——Nonsense, a vicious gangster with a life and a weapon in his hands, who would be sentenced to death if caught, suddenly encountered a note he found alone, how could he just click on it? Even if you don't fight back, you should at least try to escape.

Aiwass complained in his heart.

But there was no wavering on his face.

He just said word for word: "You can tell that he is much weaker than you as soon as you get started, or even before you get started, so doesn't he know? Since he knows, he still actively resonates with the path and attacks you - this What does it mean?"

It means that he knows that he can't outrun you, and in desperation he can only give it a try.

Aiwass said in his heart.

"……represents what?"

Haina hesitated.

She felt that her mind was blank - if she saw this kind of question on the paper, she thought she could give a perfect answer after thinking carefully. But now the fresh corpse was exuding the smell of blood, and she felt that her heart was a little confused.

"You think," Aiwass suddenly changed the topic, "When he first said that the food here was very expensive, he just wanted to persuade us to quit. This shows that he does not want to conflict with the Supervision Bureau..."

"Yes, I know."

"But then, I just asked you to draw the sword, not even let you do it - in this case, he took the initiative to attack you instead of running away or making excuses. Why did he dare to do this?"

"...So, he should have an ability that is very expensive to use and therefore cannot be used regularly...but at the same time very powerful?"

Haina tentatively replied.

Aiwass nodded happily: "That's right."

Don't tell me, it really does.

This reasoning is not wrong. This is one of the reasons why the evil bartender chooses to fight for his life, because he does not have no chance of winning.

The evil bartender's profession is a "devil" who transcends the path. When he is seriously injured, he can regain half of his maximum life in one breath, and then enter a demonized state that quickly deducts blood and strengthens all attributes.

It's just that your damage is too high, and it will jump to the next stage with just two cuts.

Use correct information and wrong thinking direction to deduce an equally correct answer. No one could realize what was wrong here - even after she took the body back, she would only get the result "Aiwass's judgment was correct".

"...So that's it!"

Haina was convinced: "Thank you, Aiwass! You saved me!"

Aiwass nodded steadily: "So when facing a vicious gangster, you must not hesitate. You want to stay alive, but the other party doesn't think so."

You see, she still has to thank us.

"Then what are we going to do now?" Nowadays, she is used to asking Aiwass and obeying his orders. "Shall we pack up the body and take it back?"

"Not urgent."

Aiwass pulled his cloak and said calmly: "It's not his turn to be the mastermind behind this matter.

"The real culprit is in the basement of this bar. She's been listening here for a long time.

"There's no need to confront her - just pour the liquor through the crack in the door, and then set the place on fire."

"...Isn't it a little too bad? What if she comes out?"

"Then let you deal with her."

After repeatedly verifying Aiwass's correctness, this time Haina finally no longer subconsciously thought of arguing.

She just looked at the basement expectantly, holding the unsheathed dagger tightly, eager to try.

"...It's really surprising."

Sure enough, then a woman's voice sounded from the direction where Haina was looking.

She slowly opened the basement door.

It was a bald woman wearing a bright red robe, with a strong build and skin as pale as a corpse. She was at least 1.7 meters tall, her left arm that pushed open the door was full of muscles, her breasts were swollen, and her pupils were faintly shining with purple light.

Haina clenched the dagger in her hand, lowered her center of gravity and was about to charge forward.

But then her pupils suddenly shrank and she stopped where she was.

I saw several purple runes appearing on the woman's right arm, grasping it with five fingers as if holding a ball.

An erratic spirit body like an innocent ghost wrapped around her fingertips, and a slightly bluish light gray mist gathered. Form an irregular ball about the size of a baby's head. The cold energy visible to the naked eye fluctuated like a heartbeat, and the deep cold gray wind, which was almost visible to the naked eye, rolled toward them in waves along the floor.

Haina did not recognize this spell. But she did clearly feel threatened.

The woman also clutched the magic ball that had been preparing for a long time and did not launch an attack.

that's right.

If she throws the magic ball over, it is possible for Haina to get out of the way at this distance; if she uses it to attack Aiwass, then she will definitely not be able to catch Haina's charge.

But Haina didn't dare to rush over. Because she didn't know what the specific effect of this spell was.

If this magic ball is eaten at close range, it may lead to direct defeat.

So she stood faintly in front of Aiwass, but did not block the trajectory of Aiwass's shot. The three fell into a brief stalemate.

"...Why did you know I was in the basement?"

The bald woman stared at Aiwass expressionlessly and asked: "Did I expose the evidence somewhere?

"……how did you do it?"

"It's experience."

Aiwass replied simply. Because this copy has more than one BOSS.

——Sure enough, it’s reasoning again!

How on earth did he guess that? !

Haina on the side felt refreshed and excited by this.

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