the last king of darkness

Chapter 117 Victory Journey
Rhodes smiled and replied: "This is a misunderstanding. If I am weak, how can I clean up the sewer alone? How dare I hunt and kill Doomsday Cultists?"

Heiyu had a sullen expression on his face.

"You can scout and kill enemies at the same time, so am I useless?"

Rhodes comforted: "Why? Your badge is very useful."

Heiyu immediately showed a smile: "That's right, this is an induction badge made from the ashes of evil spirits. Whenever an evil spirit approaches, it will vibrate crazily, but it's a pity that this is just a simple sensor. It can remind that there is an evil spirit nearby, but it cannot point out its specific location."

Rhodes smiled and said: "It's just for me to cooperate. The evil spirit seems to have the ability to teleport. I have clearly seen the direction just now, but it appeared when I turned my head."

"The evil spirit is a pure spirit body, which can travel freely in the spirit world. When it enters the spirit world, of course you can't see it."

"Then how can I see it?"

"Unless your spirit is also in the spirit world."

"Isn't the evil spirit unable to deal with it?"

"Why can't we deal with it?" Heiyu looked at him in surprise: "It's an instinctive behavior for evil spirits to enter and leave the spirit world. You don't think they will use this to attack or escape, do you?"

"Uh, won't you?"

Heiyu covered his forehead: "You must also be an orangutan without intelligence. You hate studying and only love to fight. All creatures infected by the black mist are irrational and will only act according to the instinct engraved in the soul. The same is true for evil spirits. They enter the spirit world from time to time, come back from the spirit world from time to time, without reason or purpose, when they are provoked, they will directly attack you fiercely, and the biggest difficulty for us to deal with them is that even if they are in the physical world, we cannot Invisible, their spiritual bodies have a strong concealment ability, and those whose spiritual vision is below fifty can't even see shadows."

"Then how do you fight them?"

"The scouts will give us a report, but the blind men in our fortress have very poor eyesight, and the report is slow and crooked. I had to use spiritual energy to protect my whole body, and hacked randomly with a knife."

"Can physical weapons harm spiritual bodies?"

"It's fine if you have psychic powers. By the way, I still don't know what it looks like, so tell me."

Rhodes briefly but accurately described the appearance of the evil spirit.

Heiyu shuddered: "It's terrible, but luckily I can't see it."

In this way, for the next two hours, they chatted casually while searching the wasteland for evil spirits.

Searching for evil spirits was purely a matter of luck. They walked all the way along the established route. Sometimes evil spirits would fly towards them, and sometimes they would suddenly appear in the air.

The induction badge does provide a lot of convenience. After all, Rhodes' soul eye cannot rotate 360 ​​degrees around the clock.

The neck will be broken.

Rhodes was not particularly satisfied with this efficiency, and they only hunted and killed thirty evil spirits in total when they returned.

It was Rhodes who did it all the time, and Heiyu yelled and yelled from the sidelines.

In the end, Rhodes was not even willing to use the spirit-sealing bullets anymore, and the real silver bullets could also deal with the evil spirits.

Its flaws are so big, it's almost like a free gift.

Two hours later, although Rhodes still wanted to continue hunting, Black Fish insisted on returning.

For it will soon be night time.

This is the darkest time of day, the power of fire is weakest during this time, and the power of black mist is strongest during this time, many monsters hiding in the wasteland of corpses will also come out to move.

The most dangerous thing is that many monsters that sleep in the depths of the wasteland will become sharp.

Those who possess the power of fire are likely to awaken these ancient existences.

Not only is this very dangerous, but it also poses an unexpected threat to nearby human settlements.

"Unexpected" is the last thing anyone wants to see.

Because of this, in the dark world outside the royal city, it is common sense to prohibit any action at night.

Heiyu found that this guy had no common sense. He was not only an ordinary orangutan without intelligence, but also an orangutan with super intelligence.

He didn't even know what an orangutan was, so he asked him if he knew what an orangutan was?

"Didn't you have a childhood? Didn't your mother tell you "Bright World" when she put you to bed? Haven't you heard "About the Red Hair of the Orangutan"? "The Little Princess and the Seven Snow White Dwarfs" Don't you know "The Little Girl Who Illegally Sells Kindling"? So many classic fairy tales are our spiritual food when we were young...you are so pitiful."

Heiyu's words made Rhodes finally understand why he was out of tune with them even though he had already mastered many customs and habits.

It turned out to be a lack of childhood.

Alright, I'll borrow "Bright World" to read when I get back.

By the way, I also brought my childhood here, so that you can see what is called "Pleasant Goat vs. Water Bingyue".

On the way back, Heiyu kept giving Rhodes various common senses. This guy is very talkative and very interested. Today's harvest is huge for him. Before, they couldn't kill thirty evil spirits in a whole day .

And it's easy.

That's what he said after returning to Jianguan Fortress.

Rhodes didn't care much, but the other four teams were very envious, and the Annabe team, which had the most number among them, only hunted down ten.

Annabe watched Heiyu proudly showing off the evil spirit's ashes, and sighed, "Don't be envious. In front of him, I'm a core of stone and wood. Fortunately, he is more brittle."

Rhode said unhappily: "You haven't tried it, how do you know I'm fragile? Only those who have experienced it are qualified to answer this question."

He turned his head, raised his voice and asked:
"Heiyu, am I hard?"

Heiyu, who was bragging at the side, hurriedly replied: "Hard, hard, I tried it, and there is no one who is tougher than Brother Rhodes."

Annabelle snorted, "I must go with you tomorrow to see how hard you are."

"forget it."

Rhodes doesn't want to go with her. "Magic Liberation" is said to be one of the seven characteristics. It sounds like a powerful long-range attack method, and she is not weak in vision. She might snatch her own monster. Captain Blackfish is The most suitable teammate, short-handed, thick-skinned, and blind-eyed, can be used as a shield without robbing his soul.

Heiyu said happily: "Look, Brother Rhodes thinks I'm the best partner."

Annabelle glanced at him and snorted, "You guys have ghosts."

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In this way, Rhodes stationed at Jianguan.

The defenders of Jianguan responded enthusiastically to their arrival. As the end of the inner defense circle, they have always been ignored and have never received such great support.

I have never enjoyed the warmth of the guardian fire.

When the fire of human life took root here, its power became stable and powerful, and all within a radius of three hundred yards were illuminated by its light.

Although it was still small compared to the darkness on the wasteland, the soldiers all felt as if the sky had dawned.

Before the arrival of the guardian fire, they used the embers containing sparks separated from the guardian fire. Its power could not even light up the fortress. When fighting on the city wall, the soldiers also needed to wear red to resist the erosion of black mist. tear stone.

But now, they can run freely on the city wall, look into the distance, and use ballistas and other defensive equipment to attack monsters.

Most importantly, they can finally have a good night's sleep.

The number of people on duty at night has been reduced by more than half, and it is impossible for any dark existence to bypass the fire to attack them. As long as they step into the range of the fire, they will continue to burn until they are reduced to ashes.

The recovery speed of spiritual energy is also faster. Sitting beside the burning guardian fire and meditating, feeling the warm breath pouring into the soul and dispersing into the limbs and bones, this is definitely the highest enjoyment.

It was much better than taking potions and eating cold soul red crystals.

But it is a pity that the fire protection sacrificial field of Jianguan Fortress is the smallest one, with only ten places.

Moore, the fireman, is a very strict and eccentric old man, and he will drive out anyone who squeezes in.

"Beside the guardian fire, people who exceed the quota are not allowed to meditate. This is the basic rule." He warned everyone coldly.

Except for Rhodes, everyone can understand that this is to prevent the Guardian Fire from being damaged, resulting in a loss of power.

Under the arrangement of the garrison chief, Steel Hand, Captain Beowuld and Raistlin, a rule of taking turns to meditate was formulated, and the time for each person to meditate before the guardian fire was determined according to the time each person performed their tasks and the intensity of the battle.

And Rhodes, who has a brilliant record, is undoubtedly ranked first.

During this time, he and Heiyu went to the corpse wilderness to hunt evil spirits every day.

Start in the morning and work until you come back before night.

At sixteen hours a day, when he had to work twelve hours, he wished he could omit the time for eating and shitting.

Heiyu was full of energy on the first day, but he was listless on the second day, and lay in the fort on the third day and couldn't get out.

Rhodes could only change to a soldier to accompany him.

He can actually act alone, but he doesn't know the way, and he doesn't know how to use the astrolabe, and he can't find his way in the vast darkness. Tragic fate.

Moreover, it is also a good thing to have a teammate to back up.

In this unknown dark world, who can guarantee that no accidents will happen?
Rhodes can hunt about a hundred or so evil spirits every day, and the efficiency is not very high, far lower than his own expectations.

This is because evil spirits generally appear more in the evening, and less in the morning and noon.

Night time is the most, but no one is allowed to leave the customs during this time period.

And if it wasn't about the safety of Jianguan Fortress, Lian Xishi would not be allowed to leave.

What made Rhodes most unhappy was that when he sacrificed, he found that there were very few souls of the evil spirits, far lower than expected.

There are less than 80 soulless souls obtained directly from the sacrifice and the soul crit.

In other words, at the end of the day, he only had 8000 soulless income.

But even so, it far exceeded the original efficiency in the sewer.

The soulless soul at a distance of 50000 is nothing more than waiting a few more days.

Moreover, the soul of the evil spirit is not all useless, its spirituality is very rich, and there are at least two copies of a soul.

After sacrificing so many evil spirits, Rhodes gained about 800 copies of spirituality. These translucent jelly-like objects were piled up to half a person's height, far exceeding his richest humanity.

Rhodes had no choice but to put them all into the storage place. Its interior space is quite large and can be stored completely.

And the wasteland of corpses is also much empty than expected, unlike when Rhodes first heard its name, he thought it was full of monsters.

In fact, besides the evil spirits, there are only some motes wandering around.

For these things with only a few spiritless souls, Rhodes has no interest at all, and they are all handled by the guards.

Even so, most fighters would not last a day.

After returning from a trip with Rhodes, they all lay down in the fortress like a dead pig for several days to recover.

And Rhodes is not only full of energy and energy all the time, he doesn't even need to meditate next to the guardian fire.

He gave up all opportunities to others, and moved the guards at Jianguan very much.

Of course, this is not how selfless Rhodes is, but there is a reason.

First of all, he doesn't particularly need to restore psionic energy.

The recovery effect of [Broken Blue] is very significant, the longer the combat time is, the longer it will last.

The intensity of the battle on the wasteland was actually very low, but the time was stretched to twelve hours, so there was no pressure on him at all.

Then, Rhodes found that when he was too close to the guardian fire, not only did he not recover faster, but he also felt very uncomfortable and had a strong feeling of rejection.

This feeling didn't come while the Guardian Flame was inside the lamp, but it became apparent after it landed.

As long as they are within twelve yards, there will be a strong induction, and if they are twenty yards away, they will not feel any discomfort, only a faint sense of warmth and comfort like them.

This reminded Rhodes of the hot holy grail in the trial of fire.

He didn't actually pass the test, and wasn't in the fire-bearer sequence.

Rhodes, who had completely let go of his heart, raised it again. There are many secrets about him that cannot be disclosed. You must be careful in your actions and don't show your feet. Otherwise, it may be revealed in a certain inspection, and it will be over.

Rhodes thought about it carefully for a while, and apart from some personality changes, the biggest flaw was the Polluter Sect.

After returning, we must find a way to step up the encirclement and suppression of them and kill them as soon as possible.

But now, no one doubts that aspect at all.

Steel Hand, Beowuld, Raistlin and others joined forces to persuade him, and they talked about the truth countless times, but after finding out that Rhode really didn't need to recover, they stopped talking.

Instead, they lamented how powerful Rhodes' second fire seed "grass" was. Why didn't they have such a powerful fire seed?
For a while, even the people in the Spirit Fire Sequence regretted it. If they had awakened to Starfire back then, they might have been the "grass".

For this, both the guarding soldiers of Jianguan and the members of the hidden branch are very envious. They come every day to ask Rhodes how "grass" feels, and even write the original text of "grass" on their clothes , weapons, armor and even the body, hoping to get the shelter of "grass", so that they can recover a little more spiritual energy.

There are also some weird guys who have tattooed this word in an indescribable place, hoping to obtain a more durable ability.

I don't know when, it has always been popular in the trails to link psionic endurance with another endurance, thinking that the two are interlinked.

It can be deduced from this that Rhodes' endurance simply surpasses that of ordinary people.

This troubled Rhodes quite a lot. No matter where he went, men and women looked at him with reverence and longing.

Of course, the content of their admiration and yearning is not the same.

There is only one person who firmly does not believe it, and that is Annabelle.

The senior sister of the fourth semester of the academy insisted that anyone who didn't try it herself is just a rumor, unless Rhodes and her try it, otherwise she will never admit that Rhodes is very hard.

But her small thoughts were mercilessly ridiculed by Mina, saying that she was an old cow who wanted to eat young grass, and her dung wanted to be served on the dining table.

This made Annabelle so angry that if Beowwood and Raistlin hadn't been stuck in the middle, they would have started fighting.

Although there is a little bit of disharmony, the overall work of Jianguan Fortress is very smooth, and it has never been so smooth.

The evil spirit hunting team achieved unprecedented results, greatly weakening the number of evil spirit groups, so that the incoming evil spirit impact did not have any impact on Jianguan Fortress.

The patrol teams of Beowuld and Raistlin cleared the large area behind Sword Pass with high efficiency, so that there was no delay in the supplies from the giant fortress, and the environment of villages and towns such as Back Rock Village and Southwind Town have been greatly improved. Jon, the guardian of the seventh defense zone, also wrote a letter to them to express his praise.

And the team that went to the Everglades to hunt and kill the creepers also returned with a full load, and successfully brought back many creeper ashes.

Under Mina's maintenance, the Psionic Generator can be used normally.

The spiritual energy it released strengthened the entire Jianguan Fortress along the established veins, greatly increasing its hardness, and also had the effect of greatly distributing the impact, making it very difficult to destroy.

The best news is that the battle at the Liguang Fortress in front of Jianguan was extremely smooth. The super-giant psionic cannon "Liguang" located at the top of the fortress evaporated more than half of the incoming Kuroshio. The attacker rushed out of the city gate and killed the remaining monsters to pieces.

Therefore, the tide of monsters that may overflow to Jianguan will be less, and the defense fighters at Jianguan will have more preparation time.

And after Rhodes replaced seven followers in a row, he finally gathered 50000 spiritless souls for making [Soul Firewood].

There are fewer and fewer evil spirits in the wasteland, and the income is almost lower than that of the sewer, so he doesn't want to go anymore.

So, after returning to the best room in the entire fort that Steel Hand specially prepared for him, Rhodes locked the door, buttoned up his sleeves, and entered the dreamland.

(End of this chapter)