Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

After the "Glorious Knight" Krull took Adele and Evans away, Luo Xiu followed Krull's instructions and went to the location of the "Bishop of the Judgement" Raymond.

That was the entrance of the original "Black Crystal Factory", where Raymond and the other two Glorious Knights suppressed Baberon at the beginning.

The entire factory was destroyed in the huge explosion, but the entrance was not seriously affected because of the narrow corridor and cast door. Luo Xiu found his way up from the ruins, and he soon saw the figure of the "Bishop of the Judgement" Raymond.

He was a middle-aged bishop with a beard. He was standing in the open space in front of the entrance, with a "cocoon" in front of him, like a golden thread.

——【Holy Binding】, that is the holy art mastered by the "Bishop of the Judgement", and it is a higher-level variant of the "Imprisonment of Evil Temple".

The one in the "cocoon" was the "hidden elder" Baberon... Luo Xiu had already felt the surging spiritual energy from it, but it was dying due to suppression, so he walked towards Raymond's position.

Sensing someone approaching, Raymond turned his head and looked over.

And when he saw that it was the new bishop "Luo Xiu Carlos" of Red Maple City, a hint of surprise appeared on his face accordingly.

"It's me, Bishop Raymond." Luo Xiu smiled at him, looked at the "cocoon" beside him and asked, "Is Baberon in it?"

"Yes." Raymond nodded.

"Where are Olivia and Krull?"

"They escorted Bishop Richester, Gulanbato and Evans back to the church first."

Luo Xiu replied to Raymond, "Richester, Gulanbato and others were all seriously injured and must go back as soon as possible. I am in good condition, so Lord Krull asked me to come to you and escort Baberon back with you."

"That's it." Raymond nodded, "I understand."

"'Hidden Elder' Baberon, did he show any abnormality?"

"Abnormal..." Raymond showed a look of After thinking for a while, he replied, "There is nothing unusual. It's just that Baberon didn't resist much during the whole process, and only summoned the 'Sky-Bearing Giant' to resist the attack. After we destroyed the puppet, Baberon even removed his shield, as if he wanted us to kill him..."

"But of course we didn't do that - as you said before, because there is the case of 'Dragon Hunter-Los', unless it is necessary, we will try to capture Baberon alive instead of killing him."

"That's good." Luo Xiu nodded.

He didn't specifically tell Raymond and the others to capture Baberon alive, but just let them act according to circumstances. Now is the best result.

And according to what Raymond said, Baberon, the "Hidden Elder", really mastered the same taboo technology as Rockland - the taboo technology of [Black Devouring Life Core].

It's just that Rockland's ability to revive through the puppet is a coincidence, and Baberon may have done it on purpose... But in any case, as long as his physical body cannot die, he can't do the thing of reviving through the shell.

Afterwards, Luo Xiu showed the back of his hand to the "cocoon" that bound Baberon, and the holy seal light patterns appeared on it.

——【Lightless Cage】!

The dark curtain quickly enveloped the surroundings, blocking any possibility of Baberon's escape. Luo Xiu looked at Raymond and said:

"Temporarily lift the [Sacred Binding]. We must first confirm his condition before we can escort him."

Looking at the black curtain surrounding him, Raymond's face once again showed a look of surprise.

But the surprise did not last too long. Raymond nodded, and he also raised his arm and turned his palm up, and a bright light and fire condensed in his palm.

Just in front of Luo Xiu and Raymond, the golden silk threads on the surface of the "cocoon" that imprisoned Baberon began to fade and peel off, gradually revealing the figure of the prisoner inside——

It was an old, thin human figure, and it was indeed the "Hidden Elder" Baberon!

——Wow!

Suddenly, inside the half-untied giant cocoon, Baberon began to struggle violently.

Baberon was imprisoned only physically, but his mind remained awake. He finally found an opportunity - Raymond actually untied the [Sacred Binding], which gave Baberon room to operate!

As soon as he was freed from the restraints, Baberon saw Bishop Raymond at first sight. The other two "Glorious Knights" seemed to be gone, and there seemed to be someone standing next to Raymond, but Baberon had no time to see clearly.

He rushed directly in the opposite direction of Raymond!

——Bang!

Then, he hit hard on something black and extremely hard——

Baberon looked up in a daze and saw a large black curtain in front of him that swallowed up the light. He was stunned for two seconds.

Then, the alarm bells in his heart rang loudly, and the sense of oppression from behind suddenly increased!

Baberon turned his head suddenly, only to find that the man he had not seen clearly before was already rushing towards him, with a brilliant light emitting from his right surgical staff!

A golden light gun pierced through Baberon's feet at the same time, and pierced through Baberon from the back to the chest!

——[Prison Evil Temple]!

To block Baberon's movements, Luo Xiu retracted his staff and swung his fist——

As Baberon watched helplessly, Luo Xiu's first punch had already arrived, heading straight for Baberon's face!

——Bang!!!

——"Merciful Punch"!

The huge impact hit Baberon's face, and a large area of ​​his nose suddenly swelled up in the middle. Blood gushed out of his nostrils and mouth in an instant.

Baberon's head was buzzing, and he seemed to hear some overlapping sounds in his ears, and he really saw who was the person who suddenly attacked him...

- Luo Xiu Carlos! That was the bishop of the Red Maple City Church, Luo Xiu Carlos!

Baberon was shocked, but the swelling on his face was not enough for him to show a corresponding expression.

That Luo Xiu Carlos, how could he appear here!

Before he could think about it, Luo Xiu's second punch had hit him again!

-Bang! ! !

This punch was still a direct hit on the face. Baberon could never have thought that his old face could make a sound like a drum.

This is the gold content of physical attack 5000+!

Baberon's nose was completely broken, and his jaw seemed to be dislocated, so even if he wanted to say something or shout something, he couldn't make any clear sound except "wuwu ah ah".

Then, he was hit by Luo Xiu's third and fourth punches...

Until the ninth punch, Baberon's face was bloody and his low health was also hit to the bottom, and he completely lost consciousness.

In the panel detection, "Hidden Elder" Baberon was completely in a dying state.

If it was just to capture him alive, this trick of Leonard Priest Church was really useful... Luo Xiu thought to himself, and then he turned around and looked at Bishop Raymond with a calm expression.

Raymond: "..."

I don't know if it was an illusion, Luo Xiu felt that Bishop Raymond was like petrified, staring at him with a dazed look.

"..."

He just... beat a "Hidden Elder" to death with a heavy punch?

...Is he really a "bishop"?

Thinking about this, Raymond heard Luo Xiu say to him:

"I'm going to search him, Bishop Raymond, we should make sure he poses no threat when we escort him back to the Church."

"Please prepare a new sacred spell of confinement, and after I finish searching him, you can control him again."

"Okay." Raymond nodded heavily.

Then, Luo Xiu squatted down and reached out to Baberon, who was already collapsed on the ground.

He first pried open Baberon's fingers, took off all six storage rings on them, and quickly searched the contents with the panel.

There were mostly some materials and magic crystal pendants of puppets, but the quality was not high, at most only "madness".

Luo Xiu then piled them all aside, and then reached into Baberon's tattered robe to grope.

Soon, in the inner pocket on Baberon's right chest, Luo Xiu touched something like a book.

His face remained calm, and he slowly pulled out the book.

It was indeed a notebook, carefully wrapped in white cloth, so Luo Xiu unwrapped the cloth strip by strip.

Then, he saw the cover of the notebook clearly.

——《Said's Notebook》!

After holding the notebook for about five seconds, Luo Xiu's panel suddenly jumped.

[Completed the serial task: The Stained Wail (Nightmare Difficulty)]

[You finally retrieved 《Said's Notebook》, bringing this long forbidden journey to an end. ]

[Task settlement...]

[Get basic completion reward: Basic experience +23,000, free attribute points +10]

[Get additional completion reward: Basic experience +56,000, free attribute points +30]

[Final reward of serial tasks: Limited epic feat "Shadow of Destruction" *1]!

[Shadow of Destruction (Epic, Limited): You have seen through the overlapping shadows, and the fire of the forbidden spell has finally returned to cold embers. 】

【Your "Wisdom" attribute increases by 24 points, and your "Perception" attribute increases by 18 points. Your "Magic Attack" attribute increases the "Wisdom" attribute value by an additional 2 points.

The attacks you make will have a mandatory "peeling" effect - every 10 attacks you make, you will "peel off" one of the normal buff states of the attacked target. If there is no buff state that can be "peeled off", the target will be randomly inflicted with the debuff states of "vulnerable" and "weak", which will increase the damage received by the target by 10%, or reduce the target's physical and spell attack power by 10%. It can be triggered once every 0.5 seconds, lasts for 5 seconds, and can be stacked up to 5 layers. 】

【……】

When the task completion panel popped up, Luo Xiu gave the settlement instruction.

In order to ensure that "Sed's Notebook" is only passed to Koros and Baberon, and not be discovered by means of detection such as divination, this task has been delayed until now.

Now, after officially "recovering" this notebook from Baberon, a series of serial tasks related to the notebook have finally been completed.

The final reward is a "limited" epic specialty, which also provides considerable improvement. The main reason is that the additional ability is also quite rare among a series of "epic" quality specialties.

It can forcibly remove the target's "gain" state and impose "vulnerable" and "weak" state debuffs on the target. This is of great help to Luo Xiu in long-term battles. When facing the kind of enemies who rely on stacking a bunch of buffs to increase temporary combat power, this specialty can also form an absolute restraint on them!

Huh... Luo Xiu suddenly felt a sense of physical and mental comfort. He then put "Side's Notebook" on the pile of puppet pendants and slowly stood up.

In his panel, there are still two other "Hidden Elders" Aelius and Gattuso's kill rewards that have not been settled, but Luo Xiu is not in a hurry - he is going to wait until he has some time to be alone, and then pious "Sacrifice" to resolve them.

During the entire process of searching Babylon, Raymond was watching Luo Xiu from the sidelines.

He just watched Luo Xiu carefully caressing and examining the "trophies" found from Babelun one by one. He just regarded it as a normal inspection process and didn't think too much about it.

When Luo Xiu stood up, took a step back, turned to look at Raymond, and signaled him with his eyes, Raymond nodded.

Then, Raymond took out the scepter, pointed the tip of the scepter in the direction of Babelon on the ground, and prayed:

"——I swear as a 'criminal' to imprison this person in the holy shackles!"

Boom! Babelun's neck, wrists and ankles soon formed golden shackles with flowing golden light, tightly binding him in place.

Then, three more rings of shackles slowly rotated in the air, eventually forming three perfect rings, locking Babylon tightly.

After the shackles were locked on the neck, wrists and ankles, as well as the chest, waist and abdomen, pale golden chains extended from the surface of these shackles, like a cage net, completely wrapping Babelun Tie in it.

Through the perspective of "spiritual vision", Luo Xiu has felt that the spirituality belonging to "Hidden Elder" Babelun has been completely suppressed, and he can no longer mobilize even the slightest bit of spirituality in it. Even if Babelun wakes up at this moment, he can only blow his beard and stare, but cannot break free of Raymond's shackles.

Luo Xiu then leaned over and picked him up. With a wave of his left hand, he removed the barrier of the "Lightless Cage" and returned with Raymond to the direction of the main church.

…

When Luo Xiu and Raymond returned to Songyuan City, the "Holy Judges" of the General Church stationed near the Black Crystal Factory then took over the ruins of the factory and began to clean up the messy battlefield.

They quickly recovered all the materials, weapons, and equipment that could be recovered, and the Holy Inquisitors concentrated on melting down those scrolls that recorded forbidden knowledge, or the creations that were taboo in themselves.

They then specially dealt with the corpses of the "Hidden Elders" Aelius and Gattuso, using special means to erode and burn them on the spot without leaving any consequences.

As for the dwarves of the "Gravel" tribe and a very small number of surviving "slave workers", they were also pulled out of the ruins by the Holy Judges who arrived later and "escorted" them back to the headquarters in waves. The church is temporarily imprisoned in the prison of the main church.

After completing all the aftermath work, the "Black Crystal Factory" was finally burned to the ground——

…

Until the time of dawn arrives.

When the first carriage finally passed by on the nearby road leading to the city, all the people passing by saw was a deep pit filled with ashes——

No one knows what happened in that deep pit.

There is only scorched earth left there - the "Black Crystal Factory" has completely erased its traces, as if it had never existed.

Never.

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