Chapter 738: 第736章 坏了，这下我成最菜的那个了
Chapter 736 735.Bad, now I’m the most novice one!
The foreigners returned to the Black Flame Pass position not just to retrieve Lord Heather’s relics, they had other goals here.
But the appearance of the Dark Lord Infection represented a rather frightening sign, and even though both Lord Heather and the freed Dark Lord had been swept into the depths of the Astral Plane, it was highly probable that the evil god had spread his power before he was banished from the material world.
Its diffusion took the form of, for example, those Hunting Chosen seen by Grand Governor Hügson in the Mossy Valley.
In the Dark Lord’s current state, his divine choice would definitely be the reluctant Heather Lords, but that didn’t mean that he couldn’t use his higher-than-reality power to mold a group of “Dark Chosen”.
In the most extreme case, perhaps the Dark Lord’s Chosen are still trapped in the ruins of the position and haven’t left.
It was definitely not a good thing to let these dangerous creatures run around, so the clever little players immediately sent out a warning and report to the NPCs when they encountered the infected body, and this message was also forwarded by Adele to Murphy, who was currently in the Valley of Shadows.
The Vampire Governor immediately sensed the danger of this matter, and he quickly sent out a quest to the high-level players currently in the Valley of the Shadow:
[Ding! Random event-‘Darkness’s Flux’ has been triggered!
Event Content:
A group of explorers from Transylvania accidentally discovered the conspiracy of the Evil God during their return to the Black Flame Pass, the Dark Lord who had already been banished from the material world by Lord Murphy using the Astral Tear had left behind His taint, and a group of individuals suspected to be the Chosen of the Evil God were still operating on the outskirts of the ruins of the Black Flame Pass.
The brave explorers are trapped in the crisis, but the news they send back heralds a new crisis.
Lord Murphy is determined to extinguish this restless black flame before it ignites, so he enlists the brave men to accompany him to the Black Flame Pass to intervene in the scourge.
Quest Requirements:
Travel as fast as you can to the ruins of Black Flame Pass through the Earth Priest’s Earthwalking technique to find the Dark Lord infected and any Dark Chosen that may be present and perform a purification.
Quest Reward:
Unknown]
After sending out the quest, Murphy immediately found the Earth Priests in the valley and asked them to provide teleportation services for the players who were about to assemble through geomancy, while he himself took Velanthar and Bonnie and the Clan Chief’s personal guards through the teleportation portal to the Black Flame Pass.
According to Murphy’s estimation, the Dark Lord would not have had much time to choose a carrier for his power when he was facing banishment, and he definitely “gifted” his power seeds in an indiscriminate manner.
Those zombie-like jackal infected people are the victims who failed to carry this gift, they are just the residue of the evil god’s power, the real danger is still in the underground of the Black Flame Mountain Pass.
Therefore, Murphy’s goal is very clear, after he reached the mountain pass position that was dispersed by the alchemy flame burning, he entered the underground tunnels, as for how to accurately find the dark lord’s chosen ones in this complicated area that is even more dangerous because of the mountain pass’s topographical changes, this matter doesn’t need to have too much skill.
Remember the two cans of [Data Deletion] casual soda Murphy drank in the Swamp Exhibition Hall earlier?
That stuff boosted Murphy’s perception of subspace forces as well as individuals to a rather sharp point, allowing him to feel the dark aura spreading through the area once he entered the pit.
It was like a witch hunter’s locked-in perception of nature’s enemies, allowing Murphy to spot traces that were highlighted to his own eyes without even having to specifically look for them.
Unsurprisingly, the hiding place those guys chose to hide under the infestation of the Star World’s filth was here, to be precise, in the pit that the rats had dug out earlier leading to the very core of the Black Flame Pass.
Here deep into the earth so that they escaped the ravages of the astral world tear and was able to hide in the past few days, the filthy spiritual energy blocked the mutation breath of these guys, if not for the whim of the small players to run here “treasure hunting”, really would have to be hidden by these guys.
This wave ah, this wave is a small player once again to make great achievements.
“In fact, the problem is not too big, because the Star World’s filthy spiritual energy is equally deadly for these just-born Dark Chosen, they were given power by the Evil God would have interfered with the thoughts and spirit, this situation and then by the filthy spiritual energy to invade the thinking, it is very easy to trigger catastrophic consequences.”
Villanther, who was quite knowledgeable about these godly powers, followed Murphy all the way forward to track them down, as she explained for Bonnie and the other vampire proctors:
“The farther you go on the path of the cultists, the easier it is to go crazy, not only because the wretches chose the wrong object to kneel to, but also because the powers of the evil gods will always take effect against the mind and the soul, which is the most notable power characteristic of the subspace creatures.
They always get past the body’s protection of the soul to take effect directly where it really counts.
Or rather, they like to contaminate the souls of low-level creatures before twisting their flesh and blood.
Herein lies the reason why cultists are so good at hiding.
Most of their corruption comes from the inside out, and by the time all of a cultist’s flesh and blood begins to twist, it means that he has come to the end of the road, and in that form they are truly poisonous things, poisoning the world with even every drop of blood.
Evil gods tend to be generous, but it is this very ‘generosity’ that will cause His followers to fall into the abyss.”
“Thank you for your little encyclopedia of cultists’ damned knowledge, Lecturer Villanther, but considering that we are currently hunting a dangerous group of Dark Chosen, could you please stop terrorizing Bonnie and her minions?”
Murphy spoke softly.
At Velancer’s odd chuckle, he touched his brow and addressed the others:
“They are just ahead! I can feel the Dark Lord’s characteristic light-eating power engulfing my senses, and there are quite a few of them, jackals and dog-heads as well as rats and dwarves . This Dark Lord really isn’t picky, and has quite the appetite.
Kill these guys.
We can’t let them carry the Dark Lord’s power and escape out of the Black Flame Mountain Pass, before we find the Light Eclipse Artifact, these things will simply cause endless harm.”
“Swish.”
Bonnie and her subordinates immediately drew their weapons, and Villanther also drew his two “newly-issued” thermite swords.
Although this thing is not as destructive as her original two Shadow Spider War Swords, but this is a divine weapon given by Master Murphy, so the commemorative significance is naturally extraordinary, and the Thermal Sword also has an advantage of not bleeding when cutting people.
It saved having to give the cute little players the odd favorability quest of helping her with her laundry again.
“Charge!”
With a command, Murphy and his vampire minions charged into the dark pit ahead.
It was exactly the same as before when the Dark Lord’s power was spread out, there was not a single source of light, and even the orange glow of the Thermal Sword when it activated would be swallowed up by the darkness, leaving Velancer to watch with an obscure look on his face as his weapon’s energy continued to deplete rapidly, flickering with arcs of light as if it were making poor contact.
There was something really strange about this Dark Lord’s power, it seemed to take effect based on the concept of darkness, and anything that could glow would be quickly extinguished in this realm.
But there was one kind of light that it couldn’t extinguish no matter what.
“Hmm.”
In a low moan of slight pain, a circle of pale light then lit up along the contours of Murphy’s body.
The purifying power, Omega, was as potent as ever, illuminating the darkness while causing the surrounding Chosen to scream in horror as they howled and tried to strangle the outsiders in the darkness and sacrifice them to the Dark Lord.
Their forms were already covered in a dark, smoky layer of “armor” that had obviously been altered by the power, meaning that the omega program had doubled their lethality!
The Necessary Evil, also wrapped in a circle of white light, was also buzzing, it was hurting, and the nasty sword didn’t want to be left alone with the pain, it desperately wanted to share the tingling sensation with its enemies.
So it rushed out at the first opportunity and put a sword through the heart of a fallen dwarf who was covering his gray eyes and screaming.
Oi!
You’re really making a lot of noise yelling at the top of your lungs, asshole!
This kind of super targeted destructive power is really delightful, the necessary evil’s weng chirping sound is even more, repeatedly piercing back and forth soon dispersed the gathering of dark voters, and under the illumination of the strange white light on Murphy’s body, Bonnie also Velancer also joined in this “good” against the slaughter of evil.
These dark voters are dangerous. In the dark field they cast, their movement and attack are silent and cannot be perceived, just like a ghost in the night, it is impossible to defend, and as a dark voter, their attack is not only the real damage by the divine power, but also with the bad effect of life devouring and spiritual pollution.
For Midnight Favored Vampires such a characteristic was also very tricky.
But still, Murphy has a special offense against the power of chaos, these dark elect who have not yet grown up can’t turn the sky in front of him.
With the Omega Purification power pressing down, it made the cleanup go very smoothly, but as the last Dark Chosen was cut down and the dark curtain shrouding the entire pit shattered open, Murphy soon discovered something troubling.
There were many footprints moving forward along this underground pit, in other words, a group of Dark Chosen had already left this gathering point even before they arrived.
The pit dug out by the rats ran through the entire mountain pass, and in the worst case scenario, there might have already been Dark Chosen escaping out.
“Can you do a divination?”
Murphy retrieved the Necessary Evil and turned back to Villancer:
“I know it’s hard, but please understand how I feel right now, we’re in enough trouble, it’s best not to let these Dark Chosen craft any more stormy developments, especially if we’re already feuding with the Dark Lord.”
“A conceptual force like the Dark Lord would obviously interfere with the results of the divination.”
Veranthir responded with some difficulty:
“I will try my best to divine the direction of their escape, but with all due respect, master, even if they are able to break out of the ruins, they will have to pass through the area with the thickest entrenchment of filthy spiritual energy, and with their current state of mind, they simply can’t withstand that kind of scrubbing, and even if they escape, they will still turn into a group of madmen and psychopaths shouting the name of the Evil God.”
“Well, so you think it’s a good thing to let a group of lunatics and psychopaths who harbor dark divine power roam around the Dark Mountain Range nowadays?”
Murphy said with a stern face:
“You’re also from the depths of the Dark Mountain Range, Villancer, aren’t you afraid that they’ll bring that dangerous light-eating power into the Eternal Rift?”
“I can’t wait for them to do that, Master.”
The Fate Weaver Maiden gave a maliciously full smile as she said:
“The Mejva family has suffered a great disaster, the other Shadow Elf families should also feel threatened and pressured, believe me, master, those fellow countrymen of mine are a bunch of bastards who don’t see a coffin, don’t expect them to accomplish anything until they are truly threatened.
Divination takes a bit of time, my lord, it is better to let your warriors continue their hunt through the ruins of this contaminated position for the rest of the day.
The Dark Lord has definitely spilled more power seeds than just this one right in front of us, the guy is cunning, it found a way back for itself before it was banished to the Astral Plane.
And with His hatred for you, I think you should have made preparations earlier.
Perhaps soon, a cult group similar to the Church of Baphomet’s Nightmare will be established, and one of their goals will definitely be to take your head for their god.”
Murphy rolled his eyes in the face of this warning.
Well, this situation wasn’t really that bad, if those guys really made a cult, their players would have another “team copy” to happily brush up on in the future.
Bonnie and the other vampires poured the alchemical kerosene on those black smoky corpses, and set a fire to purify these dark servants, in the smelly fire and screaming eerie black smoke dissipated, Murphy intends to leave this place, but just as he started, he froze in place.
The movement was noticed by the perceptive Velanthar.
The Spiderwoman leaned close to her master and asked in a low voice:
“What’s wrong? You have a hard look on your face, are you sensing something bad?”
“Well not really bad.”
Murphy looked at the one that popped up on his character card, “Congratulations! Graduated +1 from the first class of kindergarten!” hidden achievement, he rubbed his chin a bit sheepishly and said:
“The first silverer in the foreigners was born, just a moment ago, the awesome Grand Traveler completed her silver trial, a new era was pushed open by her own hands, I should feel proud of their growth.”
“Yes, you as the chief are still a black iron, while your men have broken through to silver one after another, and I heard that Adele is preparing for her own silver trial as well.”
With an odd tone, Villancer reached out and patted Murphy on the shoulder, as if to comfort, the spider lady whispered:
“Look on the bright side, my lord, you may not have to fight on your own in the future, there are plenty of guys more powerful than you who are willing to go through fire for your orders. I think you could… Uh, what’s the word?
Oh, yes!
You can just lay back and relax!
Anyway, no matter how much you chase, you won’t be able to catch up with the steps of those magical foreigners who are upgrading, right? Why don’t you just lie down directly at the point of departure and save yourself a run.”
“You know how to comfort people? You’re a priestess of the Spider Lady! Asshole, is this how you usually enlighten your followers?”
“Uh, our Shadow Elf’s spiritual enlightenment is usually in bed need I enlighten you on your boredom? I’d be willing to risk being thrashed by Lady Trixie to do so.”
“Wiranser.”
“Huh?”
“Bonnie has drawn her sword, so you better shut up.”
“Oh, okay.”
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In the ruins of position eight, Cat and Pomegranate Sister ventured closer to the area left and right, the two practically stepping over the clacking ice.
They weren’t sure exactly what had happened here, but the dozen or so Dark Lord Polluters frozen into ice sculptures in front of them, as well as the strange wreckage scattered around them like shards of ice and sand, all highlighted just how intense the battle that had erupted here earlier had been.
The most intuitive manifestation of this was that the temperature here was so much lower than the rest of the place, as if a Nord’s legendary Winter Essence had wreaked havoc here.
The two looked at each other and moved forward a little more alertly.
After circling around a broken rock, the two saw Yuan someone in the broken pit ahead, the hunter was frozen like a grandson, but was still holding the already unconscious Orchid in his arms in death.
The latter’s torso was sealed in a layer of seemingly light and thin, but solid ice, still maintaining the posture of exhaustion and slumber after the exhaustion of the battle, her weapon and shield were placed at the feet of Yuan Someone, all the infected bodies here were cleaned up by the two guys’ joint efforts.
“This is considered a successful advancement, right?”
Sister Pomegranate looked at the frozen orchid as she put away her weapon and said to Cat, who was leaning on the Blazing Sun Greatsword beside her:
“So, the power burst of the Silver Trial will affect the player’s form, look at Orchid’s legs that have grown another inch, and her long hair that is shaped like cold ice.”
“It’s also possible that it’s just the Nord’s Great Wilderness bloodline that’s so peculiar.”
Cat, who had so far maintained her original bloodline, said speculatively:
“After all, every race taps into the power of their ancestors in a different way, and you vampires, for example, certainly don’t mess with this kind of environmentally altered power outgrowth. But truth be told, the particle effect of this Silver Rank promotion is really cool, much more eye-catching than the dry potential release of the Black Iron Trial.”
“It’s a shame that Orchid could have gotten more of the Ancestor’s power, your damn pact racked her up.”
“People aren’t supposed to be intensity parties, it’s not like every girl is as good at bravery as you are cough cough, I’ll stop, alright. Hurry up and carry her back, can’t you see that Brother Yuan is freezing and rolling his eyes?”
(End of chapter)