Tower Defense Game: My Kingdom of Eternal Life

"Believers...priests..."

Cheng Shen secretly thought about the church's name for the divine blood monster, and had some subtle thoughts.

He looked at Guela's stall and said, "I don't have any materials for exchange now, what should I exchange for your goods?" It was certainly not without reason that Guela knew he was a newcomer, but still stopped him from trading.

"Everything of value can be recycled! Gra!"

Hei Jing's eyes shone brightly.

"gold?"

Cheng Shen asked, most of the previous rewards he received from the church were used to order medicines from the Holy Court.

Now I only have two gold coins and some scattered silver and copper left on me.

"No gold coins! Hunters don't need gold coins! You can use your organs or soul in exchange! Gra!"

Guerra showed a greedy face at this time.

If Cheng Shen had regained his body now, he would be able to satisfy the former requirement to the point that Gera would never want to do business with him again in his life.

"soul……"

Cheng Shen pulled out a thin, transparent substance from his fingers.

"What price can you give for my soul?"

he asked softly.

"A blood core?" Guerra's eyes widened when he saw the soul thread that he easily pulled out. He even forgot about his mouth habit. After he quoted the price, he regretted it again and again: "No, no, no, Guerra can pay half of it."

A blood core!"

"Too little."

Cheng Shen shook his head.

After his soul and spirit are integrated, the amplifying effect of the Blue Whale Meditation Method can directly affect the strength of his soul power.

But the increase value is much lower.

To withdraw one percent of his soul power, he would need to meditate for at least a whole day. But now that he didn't have two spare wheels with him, he had almost no time to meditate. Every ounce of soul power that he extracted was a real deal.

of weakening.

"I can temporarily give this soul to you. When I come out, I will redeem it with items of higher value."

Cheng Shen suggested.

"...How can you guarantee that you can come back? Gra?"

Guerra's face was full of distrust.

"If I can't come back, wouldn't this soul be yours? I only ask to be used as five appraisal scrolls."

Cheng Shen said.

He basically has no use for those divine blood boosting props, and his method of dealing with divine blood monsters does not rely on weapons or direct attacks.

As for the divine blood limbs.

Even if he wanted to undergo transformation, he could not find a doctor he could trust.

Under such circumstances, Cheng Shen would not dare to put his own safety in the hands of an unfamiliar person.

So the only thing he can use currently is the appraisal scroll.

With the scroll, he can know which parts of the divine blood monster are valuable, and then he can collect them back and exchange them with Gera for more items.

"Only five scrolls? Gra...deal!"

Guerra clapped his hands.

It took out a special vial and put a piece of Cheng Shen's soul into it, then twisted it a few more times without feeling reassured.

Cheng Shen calmly picked up a stack of identification scrolls from its stall, turned around and left.

He could still sense the existence of that soul.

Mastering the secret method of Demon Soul Thousand Body, every strand of his soul is equivalent to a clone.

Even if Guerra wants to use his soul for something, Cheng Shen will be able to detect it in time and either destroy it or kill it... For him, this is a sure-profit deal.

"Have you decided to enter the night?"

the nun asked softly.

"I'm ready."

Cheng Shen replied.

The nun placed one of her palms on the top of Cheng Shen's head. The movement was very gentle, but her hand was too big, as if a mountain was pressing down on her.

Directly covering Cheng Shen's entire head.

"Monsters in the night have reoccupied the hidden village. That area was supposed to be cleared by the next group of hunters. As long as you can retrieve the spine of a goat priest, you can complete your tenure."

The nun's voice rang like a hazy soul bell.

"Now, the night falls..."

dark,

It instantly enveloped Cheng Shen's mind and vision.

He began to feel that his body was falling continuously, and system prompts mixed with electric current noises sounded in his ears.

[Trigger mission—Hidden Village!]

【Hidden Village】

【Task】

[Difficulty: lv41~???]

[Explanation: When darkness enveloped the entire village and the sun never rose again, people with confused beliefs began to pray to the gods by any means, until they attracted indescribable gazes...

In the village where nightmares are entrenched, there are still a few heretics who were exiled by the church. Please kill a heretic priest and obtain its spine!]

[Reward: 800,000 experience, Divine Blood Core 3, Hunter Badge]

[Punishment: Loss of hunter qualifications]

[Time limit: 8 hours]

…

Soon, there was a solid feeling under his feet, and the fog around him still lingered. The cold and chaotic touch made Cheng Shen know that he had fallen into a nightmare.

It is also a nightmare area with a black mist level.

The difficulty of this mission has reached the fourth level threshold right from the start.

Especially mission requirements hunting targets.

Priest, this should correspond to the second evolutionary stage of the divine blood monster.

The lowest level is the fourth-level elite level monster!

Cheng Shen was secretly speechless.

He does have the near-invincible skill of reincarnation, but the prerequisite is that the opponent's soul must be exposed.

The souls of most living things are wrapped in spiritual bodies.

A high-level monster's soul strength may be equivalent to that of an ordinary person who has not practiced cultivation, but increasing the level will definitely affect the increase in intelligence attributes. The mental strength of a high-level monster will never be that low.

This is also the reason why even if he masters the magical skill of reincarnation, he can't face high-level monsters head-on.

As long as he breaks through the opponent's mental barrier, the opponent can crush him to death countless times.

Fortunately, the target of this mission is not a monster with divine blood.

But heretics.

Otherwise, facing a monster that is almost impossible to damage with physical and magical means, he really doesn't know what to do except pick it up.

Translucent tentacles grew out of Cheng Shen's waist.

Invisible touch.

In the nightmare zone the power of the Invisible Lord is unleashed.

Cheng Shen's aura became more subtle.

Moreover, the invisible touch allows him to open a door back to the invisible church at any time.

This gave him another life-saving ability in addition to the means of return given by the nun.

Be cautious in releasing your perceptions.

Everything around him gradually appeared in his field of vision. It was a country road, with broken stone slabs half-hidden in the soil and overgrown with weeds.

Several figures in front of the road were quickly outlined.

They were wearing woven linen clothes, and the black cloth hoods they wore had holes in them, exposing their gray and stiff facial skin. The five of them were holding their arms around their shoulders, and were slowly moving forward at an odd pace.

Their whispered prayers passed through the dark mist.

"God's mercy enables us to love each other... God's mercy enables us to forgive others... God's tolerance enables us to trust each other..."

As they prayed, they began to perform horrific rituals.

Each of the five people took out a dagger from their arms and stabbed the others viciously. They gnawed at each other's flesh and blood like crazy, tore each other's internal organs, gouged out their eyeballs and stuffed them into their mouths to chew the pulp!

The strangest thing is that none of them screamed during this ceremony.

It was as if they were possessed by a demon and couldn't feel the pain. Even if their chests were opened and a bunch of internal organs were dragged out, they still hurt each other as if they couldn't feel it.

Cheng Shen watched with helpless eyes. In a matter of seconds, only the skeletons of the five living people were left. The pieces of meat and internal organs that had been removed from their bodies fell to the ground and mixed into a pile of meat paste, which was no longer distinguishable.

each other.

"A bunch of lunatics..."

Cheng Shen couldn't help but think of the heresy mentioned in the mission.

"Alfred said that only faith sects that can abide by church rules can stay and develop in the old city. There are currently three suspected false god churches in the city:

invisible,

blood moon,

night,

They all belong to regular sects that are honest and follow the rules..."

After the Blood Moon disaster occurred, I don't know how many evil faiths wanted to invade this land, and countless sects were born in the city, many of which used clever names like the Blood Moon and the Dark Night Sect.

However, after being cleansed by the Healing Church, they all became much more honest...

A large number of evil churches that practiced bloody sacrifices were either wiped out or driven out of the city.

The fanatic believer Cheng Shen saw in front of him was obviously one of them.

"The Goat Sect sounds unreliable, but some people actually believe it..."

He shook his head.

At least a formal sect will not let its believers kill each other for no reason... of course, except for those like demons who need to reap despair and pain through their believers.

Just as he was thinking about which way to go, something unusual happened at the ceremony ahead.

The blood flowing on the ground automatically gathered into a six-pointed star array, covering the broken flesh and bones. The wreckage began to tremble, and the bones in the flesh and blood mold lake were pulled toward the middle by some force, and were roughly spliced ​​together.

a certain moment.

Cheng Shen felt a powerful soul burrowing into the bones in the six-pointed star array.

The sheep's head skeleton, which was pieced together from the corpses of five people, immediately started to move.

"It turns out to be a summoning ceremony..."

Cheng Shen thought to himself.

After the monster arrived, it walked to the other side of the road. Cheng Shen thought for a moment and followed it from a distance. The monster summoned by the five people at the cost of their lives was obviously not idle.

If you follow it, you may be able to find your mission goal.

"Hey, that's it?"

Perception flashed through the weeds nearby, and a plant with leaves that looked like black crystals caught his attention. Cheng Shen found out that there were no hidden monsters squatting around, so he immediately came to the plant to collect it.

[Obtain: Black Mist Grass 1!]

…

It's a plant from the nightmare world.

Cheng Shen had seen this herb in Guerra's exchange list.

He picked off a leaf and put it in his mouth to chew. The moment he bit the leaf, a thick black mist suddenly exploded in his mouth. Half of Cheng Shen's face was instantly dyed gray-black, and then quickly faded away.

.

"The properties of the medicine are a bit weird..."

Cheng Shen frowned.

General herbs either replenish the blood or replenish the spirit. Once he knows the properties of the medicine, he can roughly know what type of medicine can be refined.

But the medicinal properties of this plant are complex…

wrong,

It's not a herb at all.

"Pooh……"

Cheng Shen woke up and spit out the residue in his mouth. Not all plants can be used as medicine, and some are classified as making materials.

This black mist grass is used to refine props.

Cheng Shen remembered that in Gera's sales list, it was used to exchange for an item called the Black Mist Lantern.

The function of that thing is to disperse the black fog and provide vision.

"... I'll keep it for now. When I go back and exchange everything in Guerra's store, I'll make it myself..."

Cheng Shen thought.

After continuing to follow the monster for a certain distance, a village appeared within the range of his perception. Dilapidated wooden huts were located on both sides of the road, with rotten flagpoles and dense blood-red veins clinging to them.

This is a ruin that has been occupied by divine blood monsters.

"Woo!"

The tall sheep-headed monster made a piercing cry after approaching the village, and the blood vessels around it immediately squirmed, condensing into blood-red figures. Countless hounds crawled out from behind the corner wall.

These hounds, parasitized by the divine blood, have flesh and blood all over their bodies, maggots seem to be crawling inside their bodies, and their rotten tongues are dripping with foul-smelling mucus.

"Woof...!"

A big battle unfolded under Cheng Shen's watch.

The sheep-headed monster that descended from the corpse was almost as powerful as a fourth-level priest, and the first batch of monsters that appeared in the village were just low-level divine blood believers.

As soon as the two sides came into contact with each other, it was a one-sided crushing defeat.

"It seems that this wandering pagan does not get along well with the locals..."

Cheng Shen nodded slightly.

This is his chance.

Suddenly, a group of human figures broke into his perception. The sheep-headed monster attracted the attention of a large number of divine-blood monsters. They took the opportunity to climb out of the wall on one side of the village, apparently trying to escape.

"Is there anyone alive in this village?"

Cheng Shen was surprised.

But when he saw those people clearly, he knew what kind of people they were. The woman leading the group was wearing a gray robe, with a white sheep's head sewn on her bulging chest. She also held a handful of sheep's heads in her hand.

Staff.

The people around her were either wearing simple villagers' clothes or unfitting hunter-style leather armor and windbreakers.

All of them have fierce faces.

This group of people looked like a motley militia formed by the village.

But the murderous aura emanating from them is even more terrifying than those of soldiers who have experienced battles for a long time.

"The monster is here to rescue these besieged pagans."

Cheng Shen understood immediately.

"The woman in charge should be a goat priest, and she is quite strong..." The dark and shiny spiritual body made Cheng Shen afraid to get close. The opponent was at least a fourth-level lord or even a peak-level person!

Even the younger brothers around her are not easy to mess with.

boom!

The building is broken.

Blood-red tentacles filled with thunder and lightning chased them all the way. The woman raised her staff, and the flesh and blood of the believer closest to her was instantly drained, turned into deep black energy, and condensed into a huge sheep head and blasted backwards.

Suddenly,

The sky collapsed.

An explosion of power close to the level of a fourth-order lord instantly flattened the surrounding buildings, creating a blank flat land in the village.

The tentacles of flesh and blood shattered.

But the pagans also paid the price of a life.

The bad news is that this blow also completely blocked the pursuit from the village, preventing Cheng Shen from seeing the situation where both sides were harmed. Priestess led a group of pagans to escape from the village and ran desperately into the wilderness.

"The target of the mission should be these people. We can't let them escape. But with their strength, a frontal attack will definitely be useless..."

Cheng Shen's figure gradually disappeared.