Deep Sea Embers.

Chapter 78 Thoughts on Fire
The explosion sound exploded in the basement, and a blazing fireball suddenly flew over from the side—but before the fireball approached, Duncan had already reacted.

His perception is much faster than his body, and he sensed something was wrong the moment the abnormal energy appeared in the basement, and at this moment, he subconsciously raised his hand to block it without even thinking about it!
A little scalding sensation came from the fingertips, but in the next second, the gushing fire of the spirit body was involved in the fireball with the momentum of recoil and deflagration. Duncan caught the fireball shooting from the corner of the basement out of thin air, The blazing fire was dyed a layer of dark green almost immediately, and the bursting energy instantly became docile and began to burn quietly in his hands.

Just like that, Duncan grabbed the fireball that had turned into the ghost fire, and slowly turned his head to look in the direction of the attack.

And the moment he turned his gaze away, the deep hound called "Agou" immediately jumped back, and a crack filled with countless shadows and black mist emerged out of thin air where it landed. It jumped in without hesitation, and the black iron chain dragged Shirley at the same time. The latter spat forcefully to the side before flying into the crack, and she spat out several bloody bullets on the ground.

In the next second, a person and a dog disappeared into the basement.

When Duncan heard the movement, he looked back in surprise, but only saw the last scene of the girl's skirt falling into the crack—this weird combination of human and dog just took advantage of him and ran away in a blink of an eye.

I still have a lot of questions I haven't had time to ask!
And it was all because of a surprise attack by a cult member with extremely strong vitality.

Duncan's mood became subtly upset. He looked in the direction of the fireball again, and saw the cult priest wearing a sun mask crookedly leaning against the corner of the wall, holding his last breath to maintain the posture of raising his arms. He seemed to be amazed that the fireball he summoned with all his strength was not only caught out of thin air, but even had his authority usurped, and he could see the dull state of those eyes through the golden mask.

"It's not a good habit not to make up the knife after the fight..."

Duncan's face was gloomy, and while he was talking about a dog-wielding girl who didn't know how to make up the knife after the fight, he slowly walked towards the cult priest who was seriously injured and survived.

He was still holding the quietly burning dark green fireball in his hand, and the power emitted by the fireball was quietly spreading in the basement.

With Duncan's every step forward, the oil lamps and torches set up everywhere in the basement seemed to be inexplicably inspired, and those dancing flames were dyed a layer of dark green one by one, and under the reflection of the ever-approaching gloomy firelight , the sun priest wearing a mask finally felt a fear stronger than ever——

He felt that the connection between himself and the sun god was rapidly weakening, and as one lamp after another was "usurped", the gaze of the sun god was leaving his soul as quickly as ice and snow melting in spring!

In the midst of great fear, a trembling voice finally came from under the mask: "You...you are not an ordinary heretic, what the hell are you..."

The last light turned into a dark green soul flame, Duncan stopped in front of the priest, he lowered his head slightly, his face looked very gloomy under the reflection of the spirit body fire: "I haven't finished asking just now, but I was caught by you." Interrupt, it's very impolite, didn't your mother teach you?"

While speaking, he noticed the state of the sun priest.

He felt that he had wrongly blamed Shirley—half of the cultist's chest had been completely flattened, and the broken ribs might have pierced his heart and lung lobes. necessary.

This priest is still alive because a more powerful and strange force is hanging his life, and that may be the "Sun God" in the mouth of these cultists.

But even so, Duncan could still clearly see that the life force was rapidly passing from the priest's body, every breath he took was becoming weaker, and his last breath was coming sooner or later.

Although the reason is unknown, it is clear that the Sun God's blessing is rapidly moving away from this priest.

"It seems that the blessings from the Sun God are not very reliable," Duncan shook his head, with emotion, "Your Lord has left you."

He just sighed casually, but he didn't expect this sentence to stimulate the already dying priest. The latter's eyes were tearing apart, and driven by the huge anger, he burst out his last strength, and suddenly came from Duncan under Duncan's unexpected gaze. A blood-stained cloth belt was taken out of the sleeve!

"I offer this body to the Lord! May the holy skeletal cloth purify the heresy in front of me!"

The priest shouted, the golden mask was stained with dirty blood clots and visceral fragments, he raised up the "Holy Relic" in his hand, and offered the most thorough and craziest sacrifice to his Lord——

He sacrificed all of himself just to ignite the holy relics, and he wanted to die with the heresy who usurped the flame in front of him!

However, Duncan just watched the final crazy sacrifice calmly—even though the priest suddenly took something out of his cuff just now, it really shocked him, but after seeing what it was, his whole body was shocked. Calm down.

That was the weird cloth strip that the other party used to verify their "compatriot identity" when they first entered the meeting place - but I didn't expect that this cloth strip would have such an incredible name as "Holy Skeleton Cloth".

Just as Duncan expected, Sheng Kebuan remained silent, and the most extreme sacrifice of the cult priest before his death did not awaken any miracles.

The eyes under the mask showed a trace of bewilderment. The cult priest tried his best to support his body, looked at the holy object in his hand in despair, and coughed out another mouthful of dirty blood in disbelief: "I offer this body to the Lord... ..."

"I guess that's what you want."

Duncan couldn't see it anymore, he shook his head, and raised his finger to the blood-stained cloth belt.

In the next second, a cluster of dark green flames burst into flames!

The fire of the spiritual body ignited the holy shroud, ignited the foul blood coughed up by the cult priest, and ignited the flesh and blood of this crazy person. The priest roared in horror and anger in the spiritual fire: "No, no, no...it shouldn't be That's it... the Lord will not forsake, the Lord... the Lord will punish you for this strange... who are you?!"

In the raging fire, the voice of the cult priest finally gradually weakened and dissipated, and the vitality supported by the extraordinary power could not make him resist the flame that directly burned his soul—or in other words, it was precisely because of the existence of the extraordinary power. Let him be turned into ashes in this spirit fire backlash.

The fire of the spiritual body finally gradually extinguished, and the sun priest leaning against the corner was completely burned, leaving only a set of scattered clothes and the golden mask that imitated the shape of the sun.

Even the so-called "sacred skeletal cloth" was burned to ashes in the flames because it served as a "medium".

Duncan frowned.

To be honest, this is not the first time he has seen a corpse—the "sacrifices" he saw in the underground cave and the priest who was "sacrificed" had already exercised his nerves, and he was just a little surprised at the moment.

Under normal circumstances, the fire of his spiritual body only works on supernatural items. He has tested this point with various things when he was on the Lost Homeland - the supernatural things that have been burned by the flames will be "usurped" "Become the property of Captain Duncan, and if it is not a supernatural object, even a piece of paper will not be affected by the fire of the spirit body.

Just now, the fire of the spirit body had the effect of actually burning, which was his initiative—he was worried that the cultist would really do something with that piece of holy relic, so he ordered the holy relic to burn itself out of caution, but Judging from the results, the holy skeletal cloth did faithfully carry out the order.

But he didn't expect that the spreading flames would also burn the cult priest to ashes—this didn't conform to the conclusion he got after the test.

It is normal for the relic to be burned, because it is a supernatural item and will be affected by the fire of the spirit;

It is normal for the cult priest's clothes to remain intact, because those clothes are obviously "mortal things", and the fire of the spirit body is like a phantom of parallel time and space to mortal things, and will not have the slightest effect—unless the clothes It has been enchanted, or some extraordinary material has been mixed in the weaving process;

It was normal for the golden mask to remain intact, because Duncan was very interested in this apparently extraordinary item, and he immediately issued an order after the flames began to spread to prevent the mask from being damaged in the fire.

So... why was this cultist burned to ashes by the fire of the spirit body?

Duncan squatted down in confusion, carefully examining the gray-black ashes.

It is similar to the ashes after the holy relics are burned.

Duncan had never tested his spirit fire with a living person, let alone actively used this flame to take human life, and this cult priest should be regarded as the first real victim of his flame.

At least, the first real victim under the premise of his conscious control.

Slowly, a bold idea popped up in Duncan's mind.

Could it be... this kind of "mortal" who has received "blessings" because of worshiping a specific god can also be regarded as a "supernatural item"?
(End of this chapter)