Path of light

Chapter 649 650. Priests

Seven hundred ragged priests followed the magic wooden house and walked on the black sand.

They were probably used to long journeys in the desert. Each priest walked silently with his head down. As they moved forward, they covered their heads with hoods. Almost no one spoke. They never looked around, and even their breathing slowed down. It was said that this could save energy to a great extent.

Although they were not natives of the dark land, they had long adapted to life here.

Every two hours, these priests would sit directly on the sand and rest on the spot.

They drank water in small sips to replenish the water in their bodies, and occasionally took out dried meat full of dark breath and chewed it slowly.

Roy would only come over to communicate with them in the imperial language when they were resting.

The priests told Roy that the little holy light recovery ability in his body was almost used to resist the erosion of the dark breath, so the holy light power in his body would always be exhausted.

Recently, they got some elf cookies from Master Elaud.

Occasionally eating some elf cookies can also accumulate a little bit of holy light power in their bodies.

What they often say is: they are a group of priests abandoned by the goddess. Because they have committed unforgivable mistakes, the goddess no longer grants them holy light, so they have to stay in the dark land to redeem themselves...

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Roy has long known that this is a cursed land and their lives must be very difficult.

He is very curious about why these priests have been staying in Haiti.

After more than ten days of communication, Roy finally figured out the reason.

This is a temple expeditionary force with a very clear goal when entering the dark land.

They belong to the Bishop Ocasi Guard, with a total of 5,000 priests.

At the beginning, Bishop Ocasi led a mercenary group into the dark land, but did not bring his guard.

The main reason is that Bishop Ocasi believes that he is not sure how long he will stay in the dark land.

After the priests enter the dark land, the power of holy light cannot be restored, and their strength will be greatly reduced.

Bishop Ocasi asked them to stay at the Temple Expeditionary Force camp at the Dark Gate of Roland Continent. He hired a powerful mercenary group to go into the Dark Land with him to explore the unknown world.

They almost saw with their own eyes a majestic temple at the Temple Expeditionary Force camp, where priests gathered from all over the world to exchange divine arts.

And they have been waiting for Bishop Ocasi to return from the Dark Land...

Until one day, they received a letter from Bishop Ocasi from the Dark Land.

The content of the letter was to let them quickly enter the Dark Land to meet Bishop Ocasi, and the meeting point of the two sides was at the edge of Haiti.

They followed the instructions of Bishop Ocasi in the letter and rushed directly to Haiti in the Dark Land...

But they waited for many years, and they couldn't remember how long it was, and there was no news of Bishop Ocasi.

They didn't know how many times they had sent people to look for him. They only knew that up to now, more than 2,000 priests had died in the desert of Haiti in search of Bishop Ocasi.

Since they have not been able to find Bishop Ocasi, they have been forgotten by the Statue of Liberty in this black desert.

At the beginning, when they prayed to the Statue of Liberty, they would get one or two responses out of ten.

Later, when the priests prayed to the goddess again, they almost did not get any response from the Statue of Liberty. What made these priests feel even more desperate was that the Statue of Liberty almost completely cut off their material supply.

After the mysterious disappearance of the contact person in the Dark Land, the material supply here was cut off for a long time. When these priests sent people to the expeditionary camp of the Statue of Liberty in the Dark Land, they found that the entire expeditionary camp had been razed by the dark army.

All the expeditionary forces that entered the Dark Land from the Green Empire also became missing, including the Dark Gate, which became a ruin.

These priests who were forgotten in the Dark Land could only stay in Haiti, and the only reason they stayed here was to find Bishop Ocasi.

Because the holy light power of the priests was suppressed too much, they made a living by hunting monsters on the edge of Haiti, and their lives were very hard...

Roy sat among a group of priests, listening to them talk about their past experiences in the dark land.

The bloody sky gradually darkened, and the dark creatures around began to increase gradually.

Several great magicians came out of the magic wooden house and set up magic barriers around the camp one after another to hide everyone's breath.

It got dark quickly, and the roars of some dark monsters were heard from time to time.

Roy opened his palm, and a ball of warm light appeared in his palm.

The faint light slowly rose, illuminating the faces of the surrounding priests, and slowly dispelling the surrounding darkness...

A human priest patted Roy on the shoulder and whispered to him: "Child, don't waste your holy light power. Save some of it. There will be many places where you will need it later!"

"My holy light power can be restored in the dark land. I can draw the purest holy light power from the unstable dark aura."

Roy explained to the priests in front of him.

"I think at a certain moment, there is a possibility of some kind of conversion between dark elements and holy elements, just like the night after dusk, and the dawn after the dark night..."

Roy continued: "I have tried to hunt some dark creatures. After they die, they will release some dark aura, which can be transformed into the purest holy light power."

Because everyone was hiding in the magic light shield set up by the great magicians, Roy was not worried that the holy light power he released would be discovered by the dark monsters around him.

He even stood among the priests and purified an ordinary dark creature with his own hands, and explained to everyone what the unstable dark aura was.

The priests only thought that Roy's move was very magical, but when the priests tried, no priest could do it...

In fact, the priests knew very well why this happened.

They are believers of the Statue of Liberty, and the only way for them to obtain the power of holy light is "the blessing of the goddess".

It's a pity that they have long been unable to feel the existence of the Statue of Liberty, and there was no response when they prayed, so they could not obtain the power of holy light.

However, some priests soon discovered that when they were around Roy, their holy light power would recover faster...

Because there was always a sacred aura around Roy.

In the past two weeks, the priests liked to chat with Roy for a while. Their bodies, which had been completely dry, slowly recovered some holy light power. The wonderful feeling of regaining power was what the priests wanted most.

During this period, these priests also gave Roy a lot of help.

For example, they would tell Roy about their understanding of divine arts and discuss these divine arts with him...

In fact, Roy only learned blessing, judgment, purification and holy light from High Priest Reed.

As for the holy seal divine arts possessed by the combat priests, they had no idea at all.

The priests told Roy how to perform holy seal divine arts. After several days of hard work and hundreds of failures, Roy finally learned the first holy seal divine art - the Holy Seal of Light.

Roy stood on the black sand, watching a divine pattern disappear from his eyes, and then a holy light pattern appeared under Roy's feet.

A warm breath filled Roy's whole body...

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After half a month of long journey, the magic cabin finally arrived at the first hunting location with 700 priests.

Six elf magicians came out of the magic cabin and set up a huge magic circle in this black desert. The great magicians in the magic cabin also ran out to help.

Everyone buried some precious magic rune components in the sand.

These magic rune components are some of the oldest runes. It is said that some runes even belong to the Titans' writing. These magic runes are the true heritage of the elf magicians on the Elf Continent.

And most of these magic rune components that form the magic circle are extremely precious. All magic rune components are left over from ancient times.

Mage Wesley searched for these magic rune components from ancient ruins all over the Elf Continent, and created his own magic circle...

The magicians finished setting up the magic circle, and did not communicate with the human priests outside at all, and ran back to the magic wooden house.

A magic circle with a strong smell of water element was built in this way.

The priests almost watched silently around during the entire construction process...

These priests thought that they would be used in the next step, because since the magic circle was set up here, someone would have to take the risk to lure the lich hidden in the black fog.

The priests felt that the magicians would not do such a risky thing as luring the liches.

Only they would take this risk, and everyone was quietly waiting for the next battle mission, and they were quite looking forward to it...

But the next move of the magician in the magic wooden house surprised the priests. They did not leave this matter to the priests, but sent a Silver Moon Elf magician to attract the lich in the black fog.

This elven female magician has a flawless face, and wherever her eyes look, she will show full confidence.

The priests watched the Silver Moon Elf in a dark green magic robe walk into the sea of ​​sand, reach out and push open a door and go in, and then the whole person completely disappeared out of thin air...

Seeing her walk into the desert alone, a group of priests followed her...

Unexpectedly, they didn't even see the back of this elven female magician.

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After the magic circle was arranged, the magicians in the magic wooden house had nothing to do.

The magicians all went to meditate to ensure that they were in the best condition to deal with the next war.

This time, it was Oppaiya who ran to provoke the lich. Without the great magician Grams here, this dangerous thing could only be done by Oppaiya.

This time, Roy didn't run over to ask Oppaiya if she needed help...

He hid in the magic wooden house alone, sorting out his notes that he had copied in the past two days of learning the Green Empire language, while comparing it with the letter left by the priest in the Frost Dragon's Lair.

After studying hard for a while, Roy translated two sentences from the letter:

"She appeared in Roland Continent. When she was at her most powerful, she could even let the holy light pass through the endless sea and shine on the land of the Elf Continent..."

This sentence is not difficult to explain. Obviously, Bishop Ocasi is describing the power of the Statue of Liberty.

Roy was a little confused by the following sentence:

"She also has a huge influence in the dark land."

Roy really wanted to know who this sentence was for.

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In fact, during this period, Roy's Green Empire language has improved a lot. He can now communicate simply in the Empire language.

He can't help much in hunting liches, so before the liches come, he hopes that he can lie comfortably in the magic cabin to rest.

Oppaia was out for only half a day, and she led the lich ten kilometers away to the magic circle.

A big battle broke out immediately...

Six magicians appeared around the magic circle, and the six magicians stood at the six points of the hexagram magic circle again.

And the lich once again blindly broke into the magic circle.

With the appearance of the lich, an iceberg appeared in the magic array. The iceberg, which grew wildly upward, first froze the lower half of the lich's body. Two seconds later, with a crackling sound, the lich was completely frozen in the iceberg.

The lich's huge body was frozen in the ice layer, and countless ghosts rushed out from all around.

As the lich's body in the center of the magic array swelled, the entire iceberg exploded.

The lich let out a shrill howl to the surroundings, and countless ice cubes shattered in the sharp and piercing sound waves.

The magicians all held up magic shields, and the priests who secretly watched the battle from a distance only felt dizzy and nauseous after the magic sound entered their ears...

The black fog on the lich's body completely faded at this time, and the first thing it did after breaking free from the iceberg was to fly into the sky...

It wanted to escape, but it didn't expect that an iceberg would appear out of thin air above its head at this time.

Roy watched from afar and found that the Great Mage Cedric had actually floated up out of thin air. His body exuded a huge breath of ice elements, which were constantly injected into the iceberg above the lich's head.

In this way, the lich was completely attacked from both sides by the two icebergs

And four ice walls appeared around it, completely sealing the lich inside.

At this moment, the mages blocked all escape routes...