the last king of darkness

Chapter 89 Melee Mage
In the next few days, Rhodes continued to kill in the sewer.

The sewer in Iron Cross, which was once the most unsafe, has become the safest sewer in the first district of the outer city.

Residents no longer have to worry about monsters rushing up from the well, and patrol members don't have to worry about encountering unexpected monsters during patrolling.

Even pooping became extra comfortable.

The backlog of tasks in the sewer cleaning office of the Iron Cross District Defense Department has almost reached a year ago, and several clerks are racking their brains every day to find tasks in the pile of old papers.

They never thought that one day someone would force them to ask for tasks. They used to beg their grandparents to ask others to do it.

But let alone the guards, the new guards are not willing to go.

This is the first time they have seen people who like to go into the sewer so much.

Could this be the legendary "black rice bucket"?

Rhodes' deeds are no strangers in the Iron Cross neighborhood, and all his legendary experiences are also closely related to the sewer.

The first time he entered the sewer, he encountered the Doomsday Cultist and destroyed the evil ritual of the Doomsday Cultist. The second time he entered the sewer, he even assisted the hunting team to kill the threatening plague demon. The third time he entered the sewer was even worse. The clean-up of the doomsday believers killed nearly forty doomsday believers in one go.

The continuous stream of corpses coming out of the sewer stunned everyone.

And Rhodes, who is just a first-year freshman who has just entered the school for a little over a month, why can he have such outstanding results?
Everyone quickly had a reasonable guess.

That is his soul fire "black rice bucket" in the sewer, which can provide additional bonuses, just like a fish entering the water and immediately ashore.

This is the so-called "environmental adaptability", which was proposed by a well-known scholar. A certain kindling holder, under a certain environment, will be very adaptable, grow very fast, and have a particularly strong combat effectiveness.

Obviously, Rhodes, who has become a star in the Iron Cross neighborhood, is such a person!

Now that the weather is getting worse, the residents can no longer gather for activities, and the entertainment time other than drinking in taverns has been greatly reduced. Therefore, all kinds of gossip, rumors and legends are their main pastimes.

Rhode's story is undoubtedly of great topicality and excavable content, and it is closely related to them.

Unlike those powerful top figures, although they are very powerful, they are too far away.

Not only did they meet Rhodes himself, many people also chatted with him. He often appeared in the tavern, telling jokes with everyone, making people happy, and occasionally teasing the proprietress. He was very humorous, approachable, and brought a lot of happiness to everyone. .

Therefore, stories about him spread in the Iron Cross neighborhood at an extremely fast speed. People quickly exchanged all information and topics about him during the short time they went to work or bought food phlogiston. fake.

In this way, Rhodes soon had hundreds of romantic affairs, and had a one-night stand with hundreds of beautiful girls. His soul fire "black rice bucket" has hundreds of abilities, most of which are related to sewers and shit.

In his legendary stories, he would always rescue the girl who was kidnapped by monsters in the sewer, and send her home to have a romantic night (there are many detailed descriptions about this part, and it is divided into two versions, male and female. The female version focuses on Rhodes' abdominal muscles, length, and handsome profile when exercising), and then jumps into the sewer to continue hunting monsters.

However, because Rhodes is too young, the past stories are not too long. Otherwise, when he was ten years old, he started to save the beauty and spend a night with a beautiful young woman, which would not be right.

So, after developing for a period of time, they started to make up the story of Rhodes' future, which opened the steel door of a new world. For a time, all the women in the Trorian Kingdom did not escape his clutches. To make matters worse, men haven't escaped either.

Of course, everyone tactfully did not mention it in front of Rhodes, but the tavern in Iron Cross Street is full every day, especially when Rhodes often comes back, people are almost crowded outside, and many girls come to inquire every day The news of Rhodes and his room number made the tavern proprietress both happy and disappointed.

However, due to professional ethics, the proprietress of the tavern did not inform them of Rhodes' room number, and persuaded these little girls that Rhodes was very hard when he came back every day and needed to rest, so please don't disturb him.

The little girls had no choice but to go back in despair—now that the weather is getting worse and worse, everyone can't stay outside for a long time, especially after the evening.

Rhodes didn't notice all this.

The only thing he felt was that his humanity had suddenly increased. At first he thought it was the reason why he brushed humanity every day in the tavern.

But he soon discovered that even while he was hunting monsters in the sewers, humanity popped up from time to time.

Not sure why, but it's clearly a good thing.

During this period of time, his trip to the sewer was also very smooth, he could hunt and kill a large number of monsters every day, and he never met a doomsday cultist again.

They disappeared from sight in an instant, and I have never heard any information about them——

Generally speaking, in the Defense Department, there are often messages from various places. Trorian has many communication methods, and the crow messenger is just one of them. They also have psychic equipment similar to fax machines, and there are similar Instant messenger for wireless phones.

But the former seems to be more expensive and not used much.

The latter has a very short call distance, only about a thousand yards or so.

Due to frequent stays in the Department of Defense, Rhodes finally figured out some commonly used terms here. They especially like to use steps and yards as distance units. A step is a small step taken by a normal adult (excluding dwarfs), about It is one-third of a meter, and one yard is three steps, which is about the same as one meter.

One thousand yards is about 1000 meters. This communication distance is shorter than that of a walkie-talkie, and it will be interfered by the black fog. It is impossible to communicate through the black fog.

Therefore, what the Department of Defense most often receives is the information sent by the crow messenger, or directly sent by the intelligence personnel.

They will distribute the information provided by the Wangcheng Army War Department to the defense departments everywhere.

This is something that Rhodes has only recently figured out.

The military warfare department is a powerful department responsible for all combat affairs. Each defense zone has a military warfare department.

The head of each War Department is the Guardian, but general affairs are the responsibility of the Chief of Defense.

On top of the military warfare headquarters in the major defense zones, there is also a general army warfare headquarters, which exists as its central brain.

The supreme commander of the war department of the general army is Wang, but the general affairs are in charge of by the first chief of defense.

The Wangcheng Army War Department is the war organization in charge of the Wangcheng defense area, and it is also the largest military war department in all regions. It will aggregate the information of the Wangcheng and pass it on to the defense department of each block every day.

In the past, Rhodes could always hear that there were doomsday cultists attacking residents or institutions in a certain block in a certain place, but in the past few days, there was no news about them at all.

Scarface was very nervous about this, but Rhodes didn't care. Anyway, these doomsday cultists were weak in front of him. His long-standing relocation case was solved.

After finding the real culprit, he must be forced to take a few mouthfuls of shit first to vent his hatred, and then kill him to fully understand the matter.

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During this period of time, Rhodes received a lot of humanity every day, with a maximum of more than 100 points, and generally fifty or sixty points.

In addition to what he found in the tavern, it didn't take long for him to make all twenty soul ashes.

Now, if he played all his cards, he could summon five deformed spiders, one necromancer hound, fourteen poisonous insects, and one phantom of Chief Dean Theodore.

This phantom of Theodore was his most surprising discovery.

Originally, he thought it would be a long-range fighter like Nightwing, but he didn't expect that when it was summoned in a critical moment, the phantom grabbed a big stick and rushed up, killing the rats.

It beat wildly like a god of war, killing nearly fifty rats in the blink of an eye.

Rhodes was stunned.

What the hell is this mage?

Isn't "Conjuration Talent" the aptitude talent for using spells?Why are the phantoms you create out of your soul shards warriors?
And so strong!
This is simply awesome!

Rhode's face was about to burst into laughter. If he knew it was so fierce, he should go straight into the depths of the sewer and get a big one.

Of course, Theodore told him that this phantom is only equivalent to a relatively strong level monster, far from being invincible.

But it is close combat, so it is much easier to cooperate.

You push it in front, and I shoot wildly in the back.

Coupled with so many summoned objects, consumption can also consume the invaders to death.

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In this way, Rhodes continued to kill until the last day before the invasion, the sewer cleaning office of the Defense Department couldn't find any more tasks, and the civilian staff cried.

Scarface kept persuading Rhodes to take a day off, saying that long-term battles are not healthy for the body, mind and soul. Excessive use of strength and frequent battles with twisted things will also make him twisted.

Moderate rest and relaxation are essential.

Rhodes accepted this opinion, but ignored the big scar face hinting that he would go to the girl to chat and sleep, to feel the warmth and beauty of the world.

He went straight back to the tavern, closed the door, and entered the dreamland.

in a dream.

Rhodes looked up and saw the densely packed soul flames floating above the soul altar.

These are the results of his time.

As soon as the thoughts move, they get their information.

36 [souls of mad sinners], 121 [souls of plague rats], 95 [souls of face-hugging poisonous insects], 61 [souls of maggots], 50 [souls of corpse flies].

There are also 331 [small pieces of souls], 166 [large pieces of souls], and 27 human souls.

Rhodes directly sacrificed the [small piece of soul] and [large piece of soul], and obtained 15110 soulless souls and 61 parts of spirituality.

Not bad, the biggest function of these soul fragments is to decompose them into spiritless souls and spirits.

Rhode glanced at his data, which has become:
Soul Strength: 140
Soul Stars: 2
Humanity: 609
Divinity: 45
Spiritless Soul: 16922
The cache also has 101 spirituality, 15 humanity, 1 flower of humanity, 12 living spirituality, 4 madness traits, and some materials.

Due to the last time the doomsday believers came to send warmth, plus some rewards from the Department of Defense, and Da Scarface applied for reimbursement of some supplies for him, Rhodes assets have expanded to 5120 silver ropes, with 310 real silver bullets and 90 real silver bullets. Lei Shi, and 40 spirit-sealing bullets.

There is no shortage of basic supplies.

Everything is ready.

Rhodes turned his gaze to the blue star.

It's time to get started.

With a thought, countless soul fires flew from the altar into the obelisk, forming a beautiful meteor shower and falling into the blue stars.

The flames of the stars began to burn violently, its light began to brighten rapidly, and its intensity began to rise rapidly, with an average of about two to three souls increasing a little intensity.

Rhodes invested about 240 souls before the strength of the blue star reached 199.
After that, the number stopped moving, and the flames of the stars began to shake violently.

Rhodes knew that he had reached a bottleneck, and desperately poured his soul into the stars, and the stars stopped shaking until the last few souls remained.

It stood still for a moment, then suddenly burst into bloom. The blue light covered the night sky, and the burning blue fire seemed to melt through the stone tablet and jump out of the night sky.

The soul of the entire obelisk glowed with blue light, dyeing the dream with new colors.

Tens of seconds later, the light gradually fell, and the blue flame was drawn into the stars like an ebbing tide.

In the night sky, a clear, bright, substantive but non-glare blue star was born.

【Broken Blue】

[Status: Constant burning]

[Star Energy: Awakening]

【Injection: Unavailable】

[Quantified: Ashes of the Ancient God]

【Position: Eternal Flame】

[Strength: 200]

[Description: Instead of complaining about being in the dark, it is better to move forward with a lamp]

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Rhodes stared at it fixedly, as if possessed by a demon.

In his soul, he has been able to directly sense this star, which is shining in the dark night of his soul, connected with his spirit, and he can use the power of this star as long as he thinks about it.

[Awakening]: Awaken the potential in the soul, draw power from the void, restore and greatly strengthen spiritual energy.

Joy bloomed in my heart for a moment, and it turned out that this is the star in its final state, as if breaking out of a cocoon and turning into a butterfly, showing its true appearance.

After achieving constant burning, there is no need to consume humanity to keep the fire from fading, and [Spiritual Recovery] has also evolved into [Awakening].

This ability is too strong!
Not only can it quickly recover and restore the soul, but it also inherits the recovery effect of [Ganoderma Lucidum Recovery].

At first glance, [Bitter Blue] is so inconspicuous, but it turned out to be so strong.

Rhodes is looking forward to the next star.

Turning around and looking at the soul strength on the obelisk, it has become 230, which is more than five times stronger than the original.

well.

Rhodes came to the back of the obelisk with confidence, touched the surface of the obelisk lightly, and the blood-red text snaked down.

Invade!

Invade!

Invade!

After a round of sunset, the invasion will come.

WARNING: You are about to enter the river of eternal death!
Raiders: Hunt the Red Spirit Tug in Dead River.

Invasion Environment: Nightmare Night.

Invasion and escape: no.

Invasion Threat: Mortal.

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Rhode's heart sank slightly.

Still must die.

However, he wasn't too worried.

Threat assessment only calculates the difference in soul strength between the two sides, and his soul is not only stronger, but also his means of killing enemies has increased.

In addition, Rhodes remembered very clearly that this information was vague before, and it became clear as the invasion approached.

This gave him a feeling that this dreamland seemed to be an entity operating in some unknown space.

Rhodes wrote down this guess, came to the soul altar, and listened to the souls of the remaining doomsday believers one by one.

Most are noisy voices of desire, but a few are useful information.

Among them, the "No. 13 Baker Street" and "Alex" are the most.

Alex is the fake consul, the black priest who loves to eat shit and run naked.

He has heard from the souls of many doomsday believers at 13 Baker Street, and it seems to be a key stronghold.

Alright, once I get through the invasion, I'll go and destroy your stronghold.

Rhodes sacrificed their souls casually, and obtained 51 soulless souls and 27 living spirituality.

The number of spiritless souls became 16973, and the number of living spirits increased to 39 copies.

Now, there are only three fire balls that once filled the sky above the soul altar.

Rhodes used 360 complete souls to raise [Bitter Blue] to the last position.

From this point of view, [The Devourer of Darkness] is definitely a special star. Rhodes only added the soul of [Prince of the North] from the beginning to the end, and it directly reached the [Eternal Flame].

In contrast, [Broken Blue] simply passed five levels and killed six generals. It first added soul firewood, and then added countless souls to reach the final state, but its strength is far superior to [Darkness Devourer].

Rhodes took a last look at the blue star, and a question came to his mind:
What exactly are stars?It is both like a star and like a bonfire, and its description changes three times as its status rises. These words are like epitaphs, making people feel as if they have a personality.

But these questions disappeared after only turning around in my mind.

Rhodes returned to the material world, closed his eyes to sleep, and quietly waited for the invisible sun to set.

(End of this chapter)