Original God's Dark Priest

Midsummer Courtyard, outer area.

Ying, Xier and little Paimeng were moving forward cautiously. This was a secret place, and it was common sense that there were monsters in secret places.

The three of them walked to the depths of the secret realm in one breath but did not see any monsters, which made them certain of one thing, that is, Saphir had indeed come here.

Most of those monsters were killed by her.

Along the way, Ying and her companions saw the miserable corpses of monsters. All of them were killed with one blow, some had their throats slit, some had their hearts dug out, and none of them could survive the killer's second attack.

This method of killing is so consistent with Safire's style, and it is a complete proof of her deep understanding of this place.

After walking forward for a while, the three of them arrived at the platform that was originally guarded by Wuxiang Lei.

As Saphir stepped into the hidden area, the portal here was also closed, so what appeared in front of Ying and the others became an empty platform with nothing on it.

Little Paimon looked around, trying to find other traces here, but she was destined to be disappointed, because even the Formless Thunder could not last for a few seconds in Saphir's hands, so there was no possibility of any traces of battle.

However, after opening the elemental vision, Ying made a new discovery: "The concentration of lightning elements here is abnormally high."

"You mean, the lightning element?" Xier immediately took out a strange instrument.

This is a strange instrument similar to a sealed beaker. There is something like a clip in the middle of the bottle. There is a note on the clip, and it is unclear what it is used for.

Xier opened it and injected some grass elements into it.

This is a little gadget she and Falushan developed together, used to detect the concentration of elements in the surrounding environment.

The paper strip in the beaker is actually a special test paper made of mushroom material, and it is coated with a layer of spore powder. The moment it comes into contact with the grass element, it will enter an activated state. At this time, it is very sensitive. As long as there is a thunder element around, the test paper will flash with electric light.

This is similar to how many mushrooms in the Sumeru Rain Forest become activated after coming into contact with the lightning element.

And now, with Xier's activation, the lightning on the test paper kept flashing, and the whole instrument almost became a light bulb.

"Uh..." Xi'er was dumbfounded by the result, "Such a high concentration... In my impression, only Inazuma's Muxiang Blade Hazama can surpass it.

If the lightning element here is a little higher, I'm afraid there will be a thunder disaster."

"That's not the case. Lei Huo needs to fuse the remnants of the demon god, and there is nothing like that here. But the actual situation probably won't be much better than that. After all, everyone knows that too high a concentration of elements can easily breed elemental creatures." Ying reminded while analyzing.

Paimon didn't care: "Even if it was conceived, it would have been dealt with by Saphir. It should be safe here now..."

Before she finished her words, she heard Ying suddenly exclaim, "Little Paimon!"

Before she could react, she heard a "bang" behind her head, and then Xier, holding a purple-black sickle, flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground in the distance.

Everything happened in an instant, and little Paimeng felt her brain go blank. Ying's mouth opened and closed quickly, saying something, but little Paimeng could hear nothing, as if she had been exiled to a strange time and space isolated from the world.

Xier blocked a knife for little Paimon and was knocked away. Ying didn't have time to think, so he drew out the Chalk Sword and stepped forward to protect the frightened little guy.

Because she had been studying with Saphir for a long time, Ying also understood a lot of things. This time, the reason for the emergency was not that Paimon was unable to react, but because of certain characteristics of the attacker, she was "controlled".

"During battle, you can use some means to control the enemy, including soft control and hard control. Ying, if you want to develop your skills, you can start from this aspect.

Let me talk about soft control first. The most classic and common means of soft control is deceleration. This should be easy to understand. Literally, deceleration means reducing the enemy's speed. Anything is fine. According to the canyon theory of relativity, the enemy's deceleration is equal to our acceleration, so this thing can play a good role in many cases.

In this Teyvat, deceleration is also extremely common. For example, people who master the ice element can use the ice element to attach to achieve the purpose of deceleration.

There are many types of hard control, such as freeze, truth, sleep, knockback, knockback, fear..."

Afterwards, Saphir used the power of dreams to demonstrate various control experiences to Ying, so Ying recognized at once that little Paimon was terrified.

Without waiting for Ying to make further analysis, the warning signs in her heart reappeared. Without thinking, she instantly attached the wind element to her feet, forced herself to accelerate, and then rushed forward recklessly, barely blocking the next attack aimed at little Paimon.

"Bang!" There was another sound of metal clashing. The moment she heard the sound, Ying felt her eyes go dark. As her rationality faded away, she instinctively reached out and held Xiao Pai in her arms. Then, she was knocked away by the powerful impact and fell heavily next to Xier.

The pain brought back her lost rationality. Ying rubbed her temple with her hand. Xier struggled to sit up with her. Together with Paimon who had finally recovered, the three of them looked around vigilantly, trying to find out who had attacked them.

"What kind of monster is this? Why does it have such strange abilities?" Little Paimeng was furious. She really felt that her consciousness was about to leave her body. The feeling was so uncomfortable that she didn't want to experience it a second time.

Seele stood up and used her sickle to support her body. Her face was solemn. "It's 'Fear Aftersound', an ability that uses the sound of weapons colliding to put fear on the enemy. It doesn't make sense that such a thing would appear in Teyvat."

"Now is not the time to consider whether it is reasonable or not. The problem now is what to do. Can we really defeat such an opponent?" Ying looked at the base of his right hand, which was cracked. One can imagine how powerful the previous blow was.

Xier shook her head. Her strength was much stronger than that of the average original god, but she did not dare to guarantee that she could defeat the opponent in this situation, especially since there was a little Paimon in the team who had no fighting power at all.

Just as they were thinking hard, a sense of oppression suddenly enveloped their hearts, which made Ying break out in a cold sweat on her forehead, and Xier's face turned pale in an instant.

They were very familiar with this kind of pressure and had seen it more than once, but before that they had just watched others bear it. But this time, it was obvious that it was directed at them.

"Is this...'Assassination Field'?" Ying felt like she was about to vomit. After realizing this, the identity of her opponent was self-evident. There was no one else in the world who could do this.

But Ying didn't think that Saphir wanted to kill her. It was an intuition. Xier was even more certain because she knew very well that in this place with disordered veins, anything could happen. Maybe Saphir had fought with others here before, so this afterimage was left behind.

But even if it's just an afterimage, it's not something they can solve.

Xier's hands holding the sickle were sweating, and under the pressure of the assassination field, she felt her legs shaking a little.

"Here it comes!" Ying reminded, and Xier immediately held up her weapon to block. There was another "bang" sound, and this time, Xier did not fly out again, but took two steps back, then took a blocking posture again, and then took the attack again.

After blocking three attacks in a row, the attacker's figure finally emerged. It was indeed a figure exactly like Saphir, but there was no trace of light in this person's eyes. It could be seen that it was indeed an afterimage caused by the disorder of the earth veins.

Ying did not miss such an opportunity. She attacked directly and chopped at the afterimage. However, the afterimage twisted away the attack with a strange posture at the moment when her attack was about to hit him, and then disappeared on the spot.

This scene did not make the two of them feel relieved, but instead made them more alert.

As we all know, the next second after Saphir dodges an attack, her opponent will be infinitely close to death.

How could Xi'er not know this? Her eyes shone with golden light, and she read out a string of obscure dragon characters: "Word Spirit? Time Zero!"

Time zero covered Ying and her surroundings. Little Paimon had already hidden far away, fearing that he would hold them back.

When Xier activated Time Zero, the figure of the afterimage was no longer elusive in her eyes. As the speed of time flowed closer, the speed difference between the two sides began to narrow.

Ying looked at the increasingly clear figure in her eyes and couldn't help but sigh: "This is just an afterimage, it's so difficult to deal with. If we really fight with the real body, I dare not imagine what will happen."

"Don't worry, it's much safer to fight the real body than the afterimage." Xier waved her hand and threw dozens of weapons, activating the Word Spirit Sword Control. The weapons followed her thoughts and began to chase and intercept the afterimage. "At least when you fight the real body, you can still beg for mercy if you can't beat it. If you fight this thing, you will probably die if you can't beat it."

Ying nodded in agreement, and watched as the afterimage swung the dagger in his hand to knock down all of Xier's swords. She simply raised her hand, and the rock elements began to gather.

The moment the last sword was shot down, a huge meteorite fell directly. Ying's face turned pale. This was the "Star" formed by her overdrawing all the rock elements.

It was created by imitating Zhongli's skills.

She knew that Huangxing would be unable to do anything about this afterimage, so she could only hope to suppress it with numerical values, which led to the creation of Tianxing, which imitated Zhongli.

But unfortunately, even the Sky Star was not strong enough to hit the afterimage that appeared based on Saphir's template.

In just a flash, the afterimage appeared behind Ying, raising the dagger and ready to attack her.

Xier reacted quickly and raised her hand immediately, Word Spirit? Water Mirror!

A mirror made of water suddenly appeared behind Ying, and the afterimage's attack hit the mirror and was immediately bounced back.

Just when the afterimage was stunned by this sudden change, Xier raised her hand again: Word Spirit? Thunder Pool!

She quickly gathered the thunder elements gathered in this space and poured them all over the afterimage. With the coexistence of water and mines, the electric reaction occurred immediately and the afterimage was electrocuted and its body was frozen.

Xi'er's eyes lit up. This was a good opportunity! Word Spirit? Kingship! Gravity dozens of times greater than before instantly enveloped the afterimage, making her already paralyzed body unable to move. Then, she wanted to use Word Spirit? Judgment to end it all, but just as she opened her mouth to read out the dragon script, her eyes suddenly went dark.

"Ying! Take advantage of now!" Without caring about her own body, Xier shouted loudly, then covered her mouth and coughed out a mouthful of blood. Due to excessive use of the Word Spirit, her body was a little overdrawn.

Ying also didn't care about so many things. She directly made the starting posture of drawing the sword and slashing. The grass element was enchanted on the Cretaceous Sword. Then she pulled it hard. The ring-shaped blade light instantly wrapped around the body of the afterimage. Then she focused her eyes slightly, she sheathed the blade, and pulled it out again. This time, it was accompanied by a dazzling lightning.

Combined with Xier's previous thunder pool, Ying's two sword draws this time both produced "intensified" elemental reactions, and the afterimage suffered serious damage, but this was not enough.

Ying thought about it and closed her eyes. The Chalk Sword was filled with a thick aura of death. This was the ability bestowed by Saphir's blood: instant death effect.

"Kill!" Ying drew out the third blade without hesitation. This strike completely defeated the afterimage that Xier controlled with royal power.

The afterimage was defeated and took a few steps back, then showed signs of disintegration under the vigilant eyes of Ying and Xier.

But just when the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, the afterimage suddenly stopped dissipating, and then she tore off her tattered clothes. Then the black mist surged, and she changed into a brand new set of clothes.

When they saw this set of clothes, Ying and Xier's faces suddenly became extremely ugly, because they recognized that it was the nun's uniform that Saphir often wore.

"One bad news and one worse news. Which one do you want to hear first?" Something happened that shocked Ying and the others extremely. The afterimage, which originally had no intelligence, actually gained intelligence after changing its form, and even took the initiative to talk to them.

Ying and Xier looked at each other and chose to remain silent.

The afterimage over there didn't care when the two ignored him, and said to himself: "The bad news is, congratulations on defeating the first stage of playfulness and successfully entering the second stage.

The worse news is that you two... seem to be at the end of your strength. Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that this second stage is not the final stage. "

"Fuck off, run away!" Ying took out the Dongtian Pass and was ready to run.

Xier did the same, but just as they took out their things, they saw a flash of lightning, and their cave certificates were caught in the hands of Saphir's afterimage.

"What is this little thing?" Afterimage looked at the coin-like object in his hand with interest. "It looks quite delicate."

"Don't mess around! Do you know your identity? You are the shadow of our friend. If you hurt us, you will be killed!" Ying was a little lacking in confidence and warned.

Unexpectedly, the afterimage glanced at her calmly and laughed mockingly: "I am just an afterimage caused by the disorder of the earth veins. It will soon dissipate. Even if I kill you, who can hold me accountable?"

As she spoke, she exerted force with her hands, and the cave certificates of Ying and Xier were crushed into pieces.

"My original body is really interesting. Because of her special nature, I also developed self-awareness." After the afterimage said this, she raised the cross in her hand and a series of buffs were applied to her.

Ying was already in despair after seeing this scene, she never thought that she would die at the hands of Safir's afterimage. At this moment, she regretted it so much, she shouldn't have followed Safir here out of curiosity, but now, she couldn't run away.

Xier was also desperate, but she was still thinking hard, trying to find a way out.

Saphir's afterimage swung the cross in his hand and used a holy hammer, smashing down on Ying and Xier's heads. The next second, a strange shield appeared on the two of them, blocking her attack.

This unexpected change made her eyes narrow slightly, and she looked at the man who suddenly appeared on the battlefield where the halo had dissipated: "Oh? Is it the reinforcements?"

"Afterimage? Well, since it was the afterimage of Boss Phil that caused the trouble, I can't stay out of it. Erasing this afterimage can be regarded as helping her solve her problem."