Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

March 15th, 768th year of Tianqi Calendar.

The open beta of "God's Destiny" begins on its 20th day.

late at night.

Red Maple City, Mawei Street, Kailan Lane No. 13.

--boom!

In the deep alley, a huge vibration suddenly erupted, and golden light bloomed from the ruined building. Along with it, two broken figures were swept out by the huge impact and fell to the rugged alley. The ground smashed into the ravines on both sides that exuded a turbid smell.

On their bodies, they wore gray robes that almost completely covered their bodies. Only two holes were cut out in the cloth cover on their heads to expose their eyes; and on the chest of their robes, a broken, flame-like shape was woven in red. The palms were burning like fire, and this strange pattern had been dyed red by their blood.

Their clothes are very recognizable - and their identity is actually the esoteric cultists named "Burning Hands" who believe in the way of [Red Lotus].

Two [Red Lotus] second-level esoteric cultists were currently embedded in the stinking ditch. Their flame robes had been torn to pieces in large areas, revealing large areas of burned skin underneath.

Apparently, they were being hunted——

"Ahem..."

One of them coughed twice, and black blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. His pupils couldn't stop trembling, and he looked at the opposite side in horror - watching the people slowly walking out of the broken door on the first floor of the building they fell out of earlier. Two golden figures.

It was a "priest" holding a silver sickle and a warhammer, and wearing scale armor engraved with gold patterns; and next to him was a paladin wearing silver-white heavy armor. He was holding a taller than man in both hands. , a giant sword engraved with sacred inscriptions.

They were approaching the two esoteric cultists step by step, and the sacred aura emanating from their bodies made the two esoteric cultists tremble.

Just now - about half an hour ago.

They suddenly appeared in the stronghold. A priest and a paladin picked out nearly the entire "Burning Hand" secret cultists stationed here!

It’s not that the esoteric cultists had no resistance, but they couldn’t kill them, not even the two “Saint Protectors” who suddenly appeared!

The power represented by these three words, the "Saint Protector" of the church, has become synonymous with fear in the hearts of the secret cultists who have been dormant in Red Maple City for the past half month.

The fear that kept rising from the bottom of their hearts made the bodies of the esoteric cultists tremble uncontrollably. They held on to the edge of the ditch with both hands, trying to pull their bodies out of the deeply embedded stinking ditch——

But they got stuck.

As soon as they fell out of the stronghold building, they crashed into the ditch. The already loose bricks on both sides of the ditch were completely collapsed due to the impact, knocking the esoteric believers' bodies apart. The lower body was stuck inside——

No matter how hard they struggled, the esoteric cultists could not dig themselves out of the stinky ditch. The priests and paladins in front of them were getting closer and closer, and the weapons in their hands once again emitted fine golden light.

"W-Wait a minute!"

"Wait a minute, please..."

One of the Tantric cultists began to cry. He no longer held his hands tightly on both sides, but hugged him and raised it above his head, making what he thought was a "surrender" gesture.

When another Tantric cultist saw his companion doing this, he also raised his hands and begged the two "Saint Protectors" for mercy.

Just as they wanted to see, the two "Saint Protectors" of the church in front of them looked at each other, then stopped in front of them and squatted down.

"I, I..."

As if seeing life, a esoteric cultist's eyes burst with hope, and he hurriedly said:

"I know! I know where our 'Burning Hand's' money and treasures are hidden!"

"As long as you are willing to let me go... uh uh, I am willing to hand over all those money and treasures to you!"

When he said this, the esoteric cultist on the other side widened his eyes, with an expression of shock and anger on his face.

It was not the anger caused by the "betrayal", but the "companions" who took the lead in grabbing the only life-saving straw!

"…oh?"

The "priest" had an expression of interest on his face. He first looked at the esoteric cultist on the other side with frightened and angry eyes in his eyes, and then asked the esoteric cultist who was the first to beg for mercy:

"Where is that?"

"You - you have to let us go first, at least let me go..."

As if confirming the password to the door to survival, the esoteric cultist being questioned hurriedly said:

"Let me go, I...I will take you there..."

"..."

"What do you think, Old Crocodile?"

The "priest" did not respond to the secret cultist's begging. Instead, he turned his head and asked the "paladin" beside him with a calm expression.

"Hey, let me try it, Thomas—"

"The crocodile is stewed in an iron pot" - he suddenly laughed out loud under the visor of his paladin armor.

He stood up at the same time and slammed the giant sword in his hand to the ground, making a "dang-" sound.

This made the two esoteric cultists tremble violently, obviously frightened by what he had just done.

"Tell me now where the money and treasure you mentioned are."

The gaze under the predator's visor glanced directly at the secret cultist who had previously begged for mercy.

But he was obviously frightened, and he hesitated for a long time without being able to speak completely. However, his fellow Tantric cultists next to him suddenly saw a new way out and shouted loudly:

"——Me! I know...I'm going to say it now, so let...let me go!"

"you!"

The Tantric cultist next to him suddenly woke up, the light of shock and anger transferred to his eyes, and shouted angrily to his former comrades:

"You can't do this! Korok! That was me first! I said it first!"

But the esoteric cultist named Keluke did not respond to him anymore. He just kept to himself and shouted loudly to the two "Saint Protectors" in front of him:

"Just outside the city! In...in the bear's den on Mount Carmel!"

"I, I have already told you! So... let me go! Let me go!"

"..."

"My sister said?"

"?"

The giant crocodile let out a hearty laugh under its visor, then raised the giant sword and struck it down on the head of "Kalok"!

--boom! !

The bright golden light surged again, and the surrounding temperature obviously increased a lot in an instant.

The upper body of "Kalok" was melted into the terrifying surge of annihilation light almost instantly, and there was no time to even let out the last scream.

Only the lower half of him was left - and the huge, terrifying fracture in the body that was cut off at waist level had been burned into charcoal by the holy flames, and not even a trace of blood spewed out.

Beside him, another esoteric cultist's eyes were trembling almost crazily, looking at the horrific scene in front of him in disbelief.

His brain had shut down, and his heart was filled with some intense hatred and regret.

——Keluoke is a big ****!

Check out the 16-9 book bar to see the correct version!

As long as he keeps the secret, he won't die...at least not so quickly!

Just when he was about to say something more to try and save his life, he suddenly felt that his brain fell into a blank, and accompanied by the same intense golden light surge in front of him as before——

--boom! ! !

Another "priest" - "Thomas the Tank Engine" also raised his hammer and dropped it. The warhammer enchanted by the Holy Light instantly smashed the esoteric cultist's head into pieces.

[Kill Lukács Barza (lv.14) and obtain 356 basic experience points]

【……】

In Thomas's panel, the content of such a kill reward quickly appeared.

He glanced briefly, confirmed that he had received the reward, closed the panel, made a "pop" sound, and said:

"It's a pity that there is no expertise."

Thomas complained, and he opened his "Task Panel" at the same time, in which a commissioned task - [Burning Ember's Judgment (Hard Difficulty)], was now in a "clearable" completion status.

"There was no explosion on my side, but that's normal - the secret cultists in this small stronghold are still too weak."

The big crocodile pulled out his giant sword from the half-cut body, shook the blood stains on it, and then put the giant sword back into the huge scabbard behind his back, and then a voice came out from under the helmet:

"It's not as good as the large stronghold we formed as a group before... Do you still remember that in the stronghold of the 'Beast Temple', there was a 'Beast Priest' with the fourth life path of [Red Lotus]? Damn it, I was actually released by him. Killed three times!"

"Haha, food!"

Thomas laughed casually. He knelt down and reached out to touch the body of the esoteric cultist in front of him. After a while of skillful groping, he took out two gold coins and four gold coins from the body of "Lukács Balza". silver.

"He's quite rich, hey..."

Thomas smiled, threw the gold coins into the air, caught them with his palms, and put them back into his pocket.

"In this way, I can return to the church and hand in the mission, which is to clear out the small stronghold of the 'Burning Hand'."

The predator said from the side. He opened his palm and found a gold coin and six silver coins in his palm. He had also completed searching the body of the esoteric cultist.

"Then it's the same as before? Old Crocodile, after we return to the church, we will split the reward 50/50 from the Holy Inquisition."

"Oh, and this unexpected gain - the place that the secret cultist mentioned just now. After you finish the task, will you go there to see it?"

"Everything you collect will be 50-50 when the time comes. If it's a valuable item, we'll see it later!"

"Okay." The predator nodded.

Thomas and the predators then returned to the small stronghold of the "Burning Hand" that they had defeated before, and searched it again. After confirming that everything was clean, they returned to the church with a full load.

This is them - as "internal beta" players, they officially "arrived" on the Fanor continent and "arrived" on Red Maple City in the open beta on the twentieth day.

In the past twenty days, as the "Saint Guardians", they were either performing the task of "judgment" or on their way to perform the task of "judgment" every day.

Since the Red Maple City camp won a complete victory in the defensive battle twenty days ago, there has been no particularly big crisis in Red Maple City.

The senior leaders of the church, side court, and Fangbeiyuan seemed to have reached a resolution to counterattack.

Now is the final stage of preparations for the three fateful stations in Red Maple City.

During this final preparation time, in order to completely eliminate the hidden danger of chaos erupting from within Red Maple City after the "Great Crusade", the church, the side court, and the Fangbei Court simultaneously disclosed information to the outer members of the "Adventors" .

The three major destiny stations also regarded all the discovered pagan strongholds dormant in or near Red Maple City as the targets of the "Judgment" mission, and issued a large number of commissions to the "Adventors".

This is what Thomas and Crocodile have been doing for a while.

A large number of commissioned tasks emerged, and as core players, they were also very happy to do it, and in the twenty days, by completing one [commissioned task] after another, they accumulated a lot of experience points.

Now, first-tier players like Thomas and Crocodile have already upgraded their levels to the upper limit of the "Second Destiny" level 20.

And they have just "judged" an entire "Burning Hand" small base.

As long as they go back and submit the commissioned tasks, the "merits" they have accumulated in the church will just be able to exchange for a "Silver Key" and thus be promoted to the "Triple Destiny".

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