Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

Until dawn comes——

The originally deep and dark night sky was finally torn open with a pale white opening.

The sun slowly rose over the outline of the Blackstone Mountains, and at the same time, a moving black line spread out bit by bit on the vast plain outside the Kaffrey Fortress.

It was at dawn that the Red Maple City Expeditionary Force finally set off towards Caffrey Fortress, and the commander, "Thunder General" Albert, was riding an armored war horse at the front of the army formation.

When the outline of the Caffrey Fortress finally became clear in Albert's field of vision, he could already see that a huge hole had been opened in the fortress wall that was once as solid as copper.

Almost half of the city walls had collapsed, making the walls of Caffrey Fortress completely unable to stop the mighty expeditionary army. Albert just looked at the scene in front of him from a distance, with a shocked expression on his face.

Rossiu Carlos...he actually did it...

Even in the early morning, before dawn, I was still worrying about how to break open the strong wall of Caffrey Fortress.

But what he saw now had completely dispelled Albert's worries——

He and his expeditionary army have been able to enter the fortress unimpeded and began to carry out military projection into the hinterland of the Dark Principality-Fafnir Territory.

Albert was undoubtedly excited.

The battle against Caffrey Fortress... that may not even be called a "battle". It was just a surprise attack that destroyed Caffrey Fortress overnight, and this surprise attack caused basically no loss of military strength.

This is undoubtedly a very good start for the Red Maple City Expeditionary Force.

Albert was equally excited about this, but always a little, slightly frustrated——

Because he was not the first to conquer the Caffrey Fortress.

He knew very clearly that the glory this time should belong to the "Bishop", to the "Rosio Carlos", and to those "Guardians" who bravely detonated the "Skull of the Martyrs" Those who are right.

"..."

That's what Albert thought.

But such depressing thoughts were quickly forgotten by him.

He knew that he didn't have extra time to think about these unnecessary things.

What he has to do now is to lead the expeditionary army into the fortress ahead as quickly as possible.

Then he went to the official residence of the "Executioner" Zaska, and worked with the "Bishop" to organize and recover it, trying to collect some information from there that had not been grasped before.

As for the "bishop", Luo Xiu, who had led the clergy of the church and the knights of the "side court" into the fortress through the cracks in the city wall in the early morning, he seemed to have gone to the official residence first.

This was the news reported to Albert by several "Knights of the Guard" who had invaded the fortress together with the "Bishop".

The bishop should have sorted out Zaska's legacy, so now that he is going to the residence of "Executioner" Zaska, he only needs to cooperate with him in the proofreading work.

Albert thought about this.

At the same time, he stopped the armored war horse under his crotch, turned around and ordered the four "throne knights" accompanying him:

"Haburgon, Shar, and Ignaz, you follow me."

"Then, Frosa, you and the other 'Knights of the Throne' and 'Judges' will mobilize the army according to the established arrangement and stationed at Caffrey Fortress."

"yes."

The "Knights of the Throne" Haburgund, Shar, Ignaz and Frosa nodded to Albert on their armored horses to show their compliance.

Afterwards, Albert loosened the tight reins, let go of the horse, and galloped into the Caffrey Fortress.

The three "Knights of the Throne" who had been named to follow them also released their reins and rode their horses behind Albert. The four [Supreme] cavalry quickly passed through the crack and galloped into the Caffrey Fortress.

…

--boom! ! !

A huge explosion came from a not-so-wide alley in Caffrey Fortress.

The brilliant golden light surged up, along with the overflowing golden mist that continued to spread to the surroundings, which was mixed and softened with mottled blood light——

A "Black Fang" wearing black armor, with both arms cut off, lost half of his head in the explosion just now.

The corpse whose neck was covered in blood and flesh fell limply. After twitching on the ground for a while, there was no more movement.

"……call."

Right in front of where "Black Fang" fell, a [Glorious] priest put away his war hammer, raised his hand to wipe the blood spattered on his face, and murmured:

"This is the last one."

"Damn... this should be considered the longest battle I have ever participated in!"

"From two o'clock in the morning, fighting to now seven o'clock, I only had five hours..."

"Except for the two times when he blew himself up with two [Martyr's Skulls], the number of times he was really killed by those 'Black Fangs' and 'Hunted Heads' was, uh... it seems like four times?"

"I'm quite awesome!"

The pastor of [Glory] - "Saint Protector" and "Thomas the Tank Engine" - had expressions of excitement and unfinished expression on his face at the same time.

This time in the Battle of Kaffrey, he really had a "fighting experience".

The last time there was a large-scale battle of this scale was during the defense battle of Red Maple City!

But Thomas at that time didn't have the strength he has now.

Now he recalled that when he was fighting the defense battle, his performance was really like cannon fodder, not like now...

——Within the level of "Triple Fate", he can hit whoever he wants!

Thomas thought about this.

At the same time, he suddenly heard someone calling him from behind——

"Little Train, Little Train!"

"..."

Thomas looked back and saw the big crocodile, Alicia, and Sweating Soybean, trotting from the direction of the alley.

The big crocodile was still wearing the wide paladin armor, but the silver-white armor seemed to have more cracks from the battle, and there were dark, oxidized bloodstains on it, which had not been wiped off.

Beside the big crocodile——"Alicia", that was a girl wearing the pure white holy clothes of the church nuns, who was not tall and only about 1.4 meters tall.

There was a glow of excitement in her azure eyes, her flat chest was rising and falling slightly, and she seemed to be breathing tiredly; in her hands, she was holding a white priest's staff that was taller than her;

She looked much cleaner than the big crocodile next to her, perhaps because she always stood in a supporting position and was not too close to the battlefield.

"Sweating Soybean", he and Alicia's profession is the same "consecrated priest", but his temperament does not look like a "holy official", but rather like a charlatan who is swindling.

He wore a decorative monocle on his face, his clean face was meticulously groomed, and his hair was neatly combed back. Even after such a large-scale battle, it was not messy;

In his right hand, he held a golden staff that was only the length of his forearm, and in his left hand, he held a "holy code" containing the spirituality and knowledge of [Glorious]-

That was the "holy code" he exchanged from the church mission with his merits. By infusing spirituality (mana) into it, he could activate and use the three [Glorious] sacred arts of destiny recorded in it.

Big Crocodile, Alicia and Huangdou, they had just finished the battle on the other side.

Just 20 minutes ago, they teamed up with Thomas to hunt down a group of four "Black Fangs".

And a Black Fang jumped into the alley here halfway, so Thomas temporarily left the team and chased the "Black Fang" deep into the alley.

The crocodile, Alicia, and Huangdou continued to chase the other three "Black Fangs" until the other players surrounded them and killed the "Black Fangs" who were resisting stubbornly.

After that, the crocodile, Alicia, Huangdou and others came to meet Thomas.

They were still worried that it might be a bit difficult for Thomas to deal with the fleeing "Black Fang" alone.

But when they saw the bloody body of the "Black Fang" lying on the ground, they swallowed back the words they had prepared to ask for help.

"It seems that you don't need our help, little train."

The crocodile laughed and joked.

Thomas rolled his eyes at him and said:

"You're right, it took a lot of effort to chase him down."

"But you guys - have you solved it?"

"..."

"With Xiao Ai as the assistant and Huang Dou providing fire cover on the side, the three Black Fangs are dead as hell."

The big crocodile replied:

"Then, other players came to support us. The surrounding 'Black Fangs' should have been cleared out, but we also encountered two 'Fang Heads'."

"However, we didn't fight the two 'Fang Heads'. The two 'priests' of our church, Howard and Fran, appeared one after another..."

"In other With the support of the clergy and the knights of the Border Court, it was easy for the two priests to kill the two 'fang heads'. ”

“Indeed.”

Huang Dou took over the conversation, narrowed his eyes, and said with a somewhat regretful tone:

“It’s a pity... I didn’t get the head. The head of the ‘fourfold destiny’! I haven’t calculated what the reward of the ‘mad boss’ is. ”

“You are only the second destiny, Huang Dou…”

Alixia glanced over with a blue gaze, and said in a somewhat lazy Sanwu tone:

“I thought you couldn’t get close to their fighting range…”

“…”

“Yeah.”

Huang Dou stuck out his tongue.

As the four people talked, Alixia and Huang Dou took out the recovery potion from the storage ring at the same time, and handed it to Thomas and the big crocodile respectively, one bottle each of “primary life potion” and “primary mana potion”.

Thomas and the crocodile reached out to take it, unscrewed the bottle cap of the potion bottle, and drank it directly.

Most of the health and mana consumed in the previous battle were visibly restored to a healthy state after they drank the potion.

Just after showing off a bottle of mana potion, Thomas said:

"The priests who joined the battlefield later and the Supreme Knights of the "Border Court" should be able to plow the Kaveri Fortress again."

"To be honest, there are no monsters in the Kaveri Fortress until now..."

"That "Executioner" Zanska has died a long time ago. I feel that what we have to do next is to wait for the "Border Court" and wait for the "Thunder General" Albert to lead the expeditionary army into the city."

"Why does my liver hurt a little!"

"..."

While Thomas was talking, he had already opened the panel and looked up.

In his task panel, the two commissioned tasks were completed in the "can be settled" state.

"Idle is idle," Thomas said. "Why don't you settle the two commissions now? Then go back to the streets of Caffrey Fortress to meet Captain Connor and the others."

"OK."

Crocodile, Alicia and Huang Dou all nodded.

Afterwards, Thomas gave "settlement" instructions to the two "Commissioned Tasks" in the task panel.

He first completed the commissioned task of "Dangerous" difficulty, [Bravely Entering the Caffrey Fortress], and gained more than 20,000 experience points, 6 free attribute points, and expanded 3 "Skill" slots, 3 A "skill" slot.

After that, Thomas's attention shifted to another "commissioned task" - [Kaffrey Copper Wall (Nightmare Difficulty)]. This is the highlight of the reward settlement!

Thomas rubbed his hands together excitedly.

It is in this mission panel that the total damage rate of "Caffrey Fortress Wall" is 93%, but one hundred [Martyr's Skulls] have been blown up.

Many players who carry the [Skull of the Martyr] actually do not use it to blow up the city wall. Instead, they take it to die with the "Triple Fate" or even the "Fourth Fate" Black Fang and the Tushou.

This indeed formed a strong deterrent to the dark transcendent beings in the fortress, but it was a pity that the walls of the fortress were not completely destroyed because of this.

Therefore, no player can win the ultimate grand prize-getting that one "epic" quality feat.

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But Thomas doesn't mind this, because even if the walls of Caffrey Fortress can be completely destroyed, he will not be the one who can obtain the ultimate prize of "epic" quality expertise——

On the contrary, he is more happy to see the result like this, without players suddenly becoming stronger.

With these in mind, Thomas has given the panel the command to "settlement"——

A burst of light and shadow floated in front of his eyes, and the red dots on [Kaffrey Copper Wall (Nightmare Difficulty)] dissipated, and new content quickly appeared on the panel——

[Completed the commissioned mission: Kaffrey Copper Wall (Nightmare Difficulty)]

[You and the other fellow ‘Saint Protectors’ finally blasted open the impregnable copper wall of the Caffrey Fortress with the determination to sacrifice your life and die as martyrdom. 】

[The task is being settled...]

[Obtain basic completion rewards: basic experience +56000, free attribute points +5]

[Caffrey Fortress wall destruction progress: 93%]

[Additional rewards unlocked]

[Obtain additional completion reward: "Rare" quality expertise*1]

【……】

["Rare" quality expertise has been generated]

[Acquire expertise: Disaster Breaker (rare)! 】

[Disaster Breaker (Rare): You have purified the spirit of death and have begun to understand the way to eliminate disaster. 】

[Acquire skill slot +2, skill slot +2, "Strength" attribute and "Physique" attribute +3. The damage you deal to undead monsters is increased by 30%, and the damage you take from undead monsters is reduced by 30%. Undead monsters whose level is lower than yours will spontaneously be afraid of you. 】

【……】

"Grass, it's the disaster-breaker!"

Thomas raised his eyebrows.

Thomas was impressed by this "rare" quality expertise——

That was during the internal beta, when the "Death God's Heir" appeared in Red Maple City - the "Disaster Breaker" was to purify more than three undead spirits spawned by the "Dead God's Heir", and then Bonus feats that can be earned.

The effect of this specialty is quite powerful. Among the "rare" quality specialties, it is quite effective, Thomas thought to himself.

Thomas felt satisfied to have this expertise once again.

He immediately opened the mailbox panel and collected the "kill rewards" temporarily stored there one by one. He gained a total of more than 20,000 experience points and 3 "rare" quality specialties.

It wasn't until he collected all the rewards that Thomas closed the panel with satisfaction.

He then looked at his teammates aside. Crocodile, Alicia and Huang Dou also completed the settlement at about the same time, each with their own gains.

"I feel stronger again."

The giant crocodile made a sound of satisfaction from under its paladin helmet.

Alicia said calmly:

"I have enough experience points to be able to reach the upper limit of 'Second Life Path', level 20."

"Soybeans should be about the same. After that, I want to apply for the 'Silver Key' from Captain Connor. Our achievements should be enough."

"really."

Huangdou nodded in agreement and said:

"After I get the key and advance to the third level of [Glory], I seem to be able to choose a higher-level profession."

"I want to choose the 'Sacrifice of Fire' - to carry out the ritual to the end!"

"I should choose 'Qihui'." Alicia said calmly.

"Speaking of which, the experience points I have accumulated seem to be enough for me to raise the level of [Glory] to 30, and level 30 seems to be the upper limit of the 'Triple Destiny'."

Thomas looked thoughtful and said:

"I might consider taking a second life path, or taking another career in [Glory] as my second career path..."

"In this case, we will have to go to the 'Holy Abyss' later."

The predator said:

"It seems that [Shengyuan Mall] has launched something new."

"Also, the 'Fountain of the Holy Abyss' has also opened a new function... Well, is this a version update? The Lord of the Holy Abyss seems to have opened up the 'experience storage and extraction' function for us."

"My experience points are actually full, but my level is stuck and I haven't been able to level up... I'm thinking about saving the extra experience points, and maybe 'selling' the experience points to other players."

"Or, I can take another [Ku Tu] life path, and combine the abilities of a warrior with a paladin, and I can become more muscular."

"It's just that I'm worried about whether the church will allow us to do this."

"After all, there are lessons learned from the past - players have received the 'Bronze Key' from the church's mission before, but they did not use the key to promote [Glory], but promoted [Void] to the second life path."

"Le, are you talking about 'Pure Love Huangmao'——"

"That's him."

"He... I remember he was excommunicated? Now he lives in the 'Holy Abyss' every day, and I can see him every time I go back."

"..."

While they were chatting, they all closed their respective panels and walked towards the exit of the alley.

When they walked onto the streets of Caffrey Fortress, they saw from time to time a group of three clergymen or a group of four "side court" knights patrolling, and they asked them about the protection of the church. News from the saints' gathering place.

The main purpose was to find out where Captain Connor was... and the priests who passed by also pointed them in the direction they should go.

They then walked excitedly in the direction shown.

And in their minds, they have begun to imagine that Captain Connor will give them generous rewards in the future.

…

Caffrey Fort, official residence.

Albert and three "Knights of the Throne" have arrived at the main entrance of the mansion.

But it is said to be the "main entrance", but in fact the door has long since disappeared - this once gorgeous official residence is now dilapidated, the stained glass windows have all been broken, and the doorless "main entrance" is completely open, revealing a mess. interior.

In the courtyard of the official residence of Caffrey Fortress, seven or eight corpses of "Black Teeth" and "Hunted Head" were lying.

There are not many traces of fighting around, and the spiritual reactions of the killed "Black Fangs" and "Hunted Heads" are also quite weak——

They were killed by a very fast and almost crushing force, leaving them with no room to fight back.

Albert spread out his spirituality and sensed his surroundings for a while.

He only felt that the surrounding air was indeed filled with a spiritual aura of [brilliance].

This spiritual aura is at the same level as Albert, and its origin can only come from one person——

The "Bishop" of the Church, Rossio Carlos.

Albert thought about this.

He reined in his horse at the same time, got off the horse, turned around, and said to the three "Knights of the Throne" following behind him:

"I'll go in alone. You guys will guard here and don't let anyone get close."

"yes."

"Knights of the Throne" Haburgon, Shar and Ignaz nodded to Albert, then got off the backs of their horses and headed to their posts in tacit agreement.

Albert then turned around again, his right hand lightly holding the hilt of the sword at his waist, and walked into the mansion.

He stepped straight onto the first floor of the official residence. After looking around, there was nothing worth paying attention to nearby, so he stepped onto the stairs and walked towards the upper floors of the official residence.

He went directly to the top three floors. The corridors here were narrower and quieter than those on the first and second floors, and the damage was not that serious. This was the floor where "Executioner" Zaska usually stayed. .

When Albert arrived on the third floor, he saw the door of a room at the deepest end of the corridor open.

And he saw another familiar figure at the same time.

——"Bishop" Rossiu Carlos!

A calm smile appeared on Luo Xiu's face. A pile of useful files had been piled up on the long table in front of him and placed on the left side of the long table;

On the right side of the long table are three luxuriously decorated boxes, which are filled with dazzling platinum coins, gold coins, and silver coins, as well as many priceless gold and silver jewelry that ordinary people rarely see in their lifetimes. .

"You are here, Sir Albert."

When Albert came to the third floor and came to the door of the deepest room, he heard "Bishop" Rossio Carlos greeting him with a smile:

"According to the agreement, my 'Saint Protectors' have indeed broken through the city wall without any danger."

"I have been waiting for you here for a long time, Sir Albert."

"I have sorted out the money, treasures and information that 'Executioner' Zaska left in his mansion, and they are all here."

…