Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 144 The Hunted, and the Hunted (5k1)

The "Shadow of Killing" Setis had already brought his destroyers and blood followers and ambushed on the road that the "Great Knowledgeable" Rocklan had to pass.

At that conspiracy meeting, Setis, as the attendant of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice, knew the full contents of the plan.

"Wait until this afternoon, the Alchemist Academy's 'Great Universalist' Lockran will appear on this road. You... wait for him to walk into the plank road, then attack him together and force him to death!"

Setis gave these orders to his men. A "body destroyer" beside him who looked like a human being nodded slightly and said, "I will obey your will, Lord Setis..."

……

——Da da, da da.

The sound of horse hooves came one after another from not far away. The blurry figures of the "Great Universalist" Rocklan and his warlocks wearing blue striped cloaks were gradually becoming clearer.

When Rocklan and the alchemists walked onto the plank road in front of Setis' ambush site.

—Rustle! Suddenly, countless figures emerged from the long grass in front and behind the Rockland team. Dozens of blood disciples holding ominous scarlet blades rushed towards Rockland!

"Shadow of Killing" Setis was standing on the highest hill nearby at this time, looking at his blood followers, who had already blocked Rocklan's way forward and backward.

And on the outermost layer, there are six "triple fate" destroyers surrounding them, eyeing Rockland covetously.

At this time, Setis had already completed the chanting of the prelude of the forbidden technique [Killing Corpses] and was only waiting for the first wave of extraordinary corpses to appear. He could then quickly summon the "Killing Corpses" from the flesh and blood of those extraordinary beings to suppress Rocklan.

This time, Setis was well prepared.

At this time, Setis was always on guard against the "Great Universalist" Rocklan, alerting him to the possibility that he would take out the "Mad +" level puppet "Star Crushing Ring" again. However, according to the intelligence Setis had recently collected, the puppet with terrifying destructive power seemed to be able to launch an attack only once in a short period of time.

Therefore, this time, Setis also had a trick up his sleeve. He had already prepared a large amount of extraordinary flesh and blood in places where the destructive shockwaves of the "Star Shattering Ring" could not reach, so that he could fully display his forbidden skill of "Killing Living Corpses".

Setis looked down. At this time, the "Blood Disciples" and "Body Destroyers" had surrounded Rocklan and his warlock team from inside and outside. The absolute crushing of the extraordinary people in numbers gave the "Blood of Thorns" an absolute advantage from the beginning.

Even if Rocklan, who has the highest combat power in the Alchemy Academy, is a great alchemist with the "quadruple destiny", his body is weak and he needs to rely on puppets to fight most of the time. If he has to face six [Red Lotus] triple destiny destroyers at the same time, he will be in a very unfavorable situation.

"Come on... Rockland, use your 'Star Crushing Ring'..."

"This way, I can kill you without any scruples..."

"Shadow of Killing," Setis murmured, a subtle arc rising at the corner of his mouth, his eyes staring at Rockland's figure fanatically.

He had no idea how he could lose.

……

the other side.

The "Great Universalist" Rocklan looked around and saw many Red Lotus Destroyers and Blood Cultists who suddenly appeared and surrounded his team.

Rockland could recognize at a glance that those were the enemies from "Blood of Thorns".

In recent times, Rockland and this group of cultists have had countless conflicts. Rockland himself has even led a team to annihilate no less than four "Blood of Thorns" strongholds, so he is very familiar with their clothing and spiritual characteristics.

Rockland looked at the surrounding terrain again.

This is a narrow area with towering cliffs on both sides. It is only accessible in two directions: front and back. However, these directions have been occupied by the cultists of "Blood of Thorns".

The cultists of "Blood of Thorns" have completely blocked the Rocklan team's way forward or retreat. In the eyes of these cultists, the warlocks they surrounded were already trapped.

"……snort."

Rocklan snorted coldly, he raised his head and looked at the "Shadow of Killing" Setis who was overlooking them from a high place on the other side.

"It is you," Rockland said in a deep voice, "Thornblood's 'Shadow of Slaughter', you don't think you can kill me like this, do you?"

"Haha." Setis suddenly said with a grin, "This is certainly worth a try."

Then, Setis waved his hand, and the blood followers and destroyers who surrounded Rocklan rushed towards Rocklan!
Suddenly, countless violent spiritual powers surged and filled the narrow passage. The blood disciples waved their scarlet blood knives and swarmed towards Rockland, as if they would tear him apart and devour him in the next moment!
At this time, Setis was watching on the high ground. He was ready to appreciate how Rocklan dealt with the first wave of blood gangsters.

For this operation, the number of blood followers ambushed in the surroundings was far more than the first wave of cannon fodder. There were even more blood followers lurking in the dark, waiting for Setis's orders.

As long as Rocklan uses his trump card "Star-Breaking Ring", or these cannon fodder blood followers can use human wave tactics to dismantle at least two of his "Madness" level puppets, then he will make a profit!

……

However, Setis, the "Shadow of Killing", did not see the scene he expected.

——Boom! Several golden lightning bolts fell from the sky, instantly splitting the blood followers in the front into ashes! Then, just behind Rockland, those "alchemists" suddenly raised their arms and threw golden lightning spears in the direction of other blood followers!

“——Ughhhhhhhhhh!!!”

Shrill screams came from the blood disciples. The blood disciples who were pierced by the "lightning spear" had a huge, deep and terrifying hole on their bodies. No blood flowed out of the inner wall of the wound, but was burned into charcoal on the spot by the scorching lightning.

Fine golden electric lights continuously flowed on the remains of the blood disciples. This horrific blow would not kill them immediately, but it would leave them seriously injured and on the verge of death, while at the same time constantly tormented by the tremendous pain from the penetrating wounds.

"…What is that!" Setis' eyes widened.

That is absolutely, absolutely impossible. It is something that an alchemist can master!

The next moment, Setis saw the most unbelievable scene.

All Setis saw was that behind Rocklan, the "Great Universalist" of the Alchemy Institute, the "alchemists" suddenly took off their cloaks with blue stripes, revealing their true faces.

They were all people wearing the priest clothing of the "Holy See" Church and wearing the emblem of the "Holy Judge" on their chests.

They are not "alchemists"!
——They are all "Holy Judges"!
When Setis saw this scene, he was stunned for a moment.

How could the Holy Judge appear here?

Setis' eyes suddenly burst into tears, and he looked at the greetings between Rocklan and the "Holy Judges" below with a dazed look on his face.

"I didn't expect that they would actually ambush here."

Rockland smiled at a "Holy Inquisitor" beside him and said, "Thank you for your timely assistance."

"No need to thank me, this is just our duty."

Next to Rockland, a middle-aged "Holy Inquisitor" smiled calmly and said, "It was Priest Leonard of the church who suddenly called us back. That's why we were able to get here in time."

"But, speaking of which, we are wearing the cloak of the Alchemy Institute, and we can actually hide from the eyes of these cultists."

"It looks like Blood of Thorns isn't that great!"

"..."

As soon as the "Holy Inquisitor" finished speaking, the "alchemists" behind Rockland had all taken off their blue cloaks.

Except for the Great Universalist Rockland, who was the Great Alchemist of Wisdom, all other Alchemists were disguised by the Holy Judges of Glory! These Holy Judges were carefully selected, the elites among the elites, among whom there were eight Holy Judges who had reached the triple destiny, and the remaining half were also the best among the Holy Judges.

The Holy Judges immediately counterattacked the Blood Disciples. Countless golden thunderbolts fell from the sky, instantly turning large groups of Blood Disciples into ashes.

Batch after batch of "blood disciples" were killed in an instant. When the remaining blood disciples finally realized that something was wrong, they immediately began to resist stubbornly.

"——Roar!!!" A fierce roar came from behind the blood disciples. Two "Destroyers" as strong as hills suddenly emanated an extremely strong and manic spiritual surge.

The color of their eyes gradually deepened into scarlet as they rushed towards the direction of several "Holy Judges" who were harvesting large numbers of blood followers.

The next moment, the two Holy Inquisitors noticed something strange here, so they threw out their golden lightning spears, blasted the blood disciples who were blocking their way into pieces, and then ran towards the position of the "Destroyer" on the outer edge.

At the same time, when the "Holy Judges" around him had found their respective targets, Rockland took out a few pendants and injected his own spirituality into the crystals inlaid on the pendants.

Around Rockland, after a burst of light and shadow floated, two third-level magic puppets were summoned out from the sealed spirit crystal.

One of them is the "Battering Ram", and the other is a new puppet made by Rockland, which is named "Stone Fire".

"Battery Ram" and "Stone Fire" are both alchemical puppets of the "Madness" level.

The "battering ram" then rushed towards a "destroyer". In the process of sprinting, it had already swung up its round metal arm, and the huge iron fist began to rotate rapidly, accumulating power for a punch.

In front of the other third-level puppet "Shihuo", a dark hole appeared. Terrifying energy was constantly accumulating in the hole, and something could burst out of the hole at any time.

--boom! ! !

After completing a short period of energy storage, a fierce scarlet light stream suddenly gushed out from the center of the dark hole in front of "Shihuo"!
The coverage area of ​​this light stream was extremely large, and all the "Blood of Thorns" disciples on the path were instantly blasted into pieces by this scarlet light stream!

……

"Lockland! What kind of puppet is that?!"

Setis, who was watching from a high place, suddenly looked terrified and cried out in surprise.

Of course, he didn't know that the technology of "Black Devouring Rune" and "Corrupted Bone Alchemy" was applied to the body of Rocklan's new puppet "Stone Fire"!
Although the "Said's Notes" was an incomplete version, Rockland, as the "great knower" of the Alchemy Academy, naturally had his own means to reproduce some of the incomplete forbidden knowledge.

Although the performance of the finished creation is still far inferior to the original, it is still much more powerful than ordinary alchemical creations!
Setis didn't know that the "Great Universalist" Rocklan had also prepared more cards that were no less powerful than the "Star Shattering Ring" in the past month. This was all due to his in-depth study of the forbidden knowledge recorded in "Side's Notes".

--boom! ! !

"Shihuo" completed charging again, and a terrifying stream of scarlet light shot out from in front of it, blasting all the blood disciples on the other path into dust, and even blasting through the lower abdomen of a "Destroyer".

The Destroyer howled miserably, and then fell straight down. A "Holy Judge" standing nearby saw this and fired a lightning spear at the Destroyer's body, blasting it into ash and charcoal without leaving any trace of flesh and blood.

At the same time, the "battering ram" had also rushed to the front of a destroyer. It had completed the accumulation of power for the punch, and the heavy punch slammed towards the destroyer's body!
——Boom! A strong gust of wind suddenly blew up around the "battery hammer". The "body destroyer" was hit head-on by it, but there was a deep, bloody hole on the left side of its scaly chest!
"Ho ho..." The Destroyer who was bombarded, his throat rolled twice, making a difficult sound, and then he lost control of his body, and his huge body collapsed like a collapsing high wall.

……

This was an almost one-sided massacre.

"Massacre" was indeed the scene that Setis had envisioned. But he never expected that the ones being massacred were the "blood followers" and "destroyers" he had brought with him!
On the high ground, "Shadow of Killing" Setis was stunned and suddenly felt dizzy.

"What exactly...what went wrong..." Setis murmured absentmindedly.

At this moment, five of the seven "Triple Fate" destroyers he brought with him had been eliminated. Of the remaining two destroyers, one was by his side, and the other was still lingering on the battlefield below. It was only a matter of time before he was eliminated.

As for those "Holy Judges", the way they kill "Blood Disciples" and "Destroyers" is to completely use the sacred arts of "Thunder of Judgment" or "Holy Flame"!

These sacred arts completely destroyed the bodies of the Blood Cultists and the Destroyers, leaving almost no flesh and blood on the battlefield for Setis to use with his [Killing Living Corpses]!
"..." Setis looked at the battlefield below and felt his eyes burst with anger.

Suddenly, Setis gritted his teeth.

He made up his mind and prepared to go all out, to sacrifice the extraordinary flesh and blood that he had prepared in advance, and to forcibly summon the "Corpse of Slaughter"!
In Setis's eyes, this is the only way to save the situation.

He then raised his arms forward, ready to connect his spirit with the flesh and blood of those extraordinary beings who had been prepared in advance.

However, suddenly, Setis felt a sharp pain in his back.

He lowered his head and saw the tip of a dagger suddenly sticking out of his heart, and blood was flowing out of his wound!

Setis turned around suddenly, and his right hand turned into an illusory mist blade, slashing at the enemy who launched a sneak attack on him.

——Dang! The sound of metal colliding with each other burst out from the air. A black shadow was knocked away by Setis's slash, and was dragged back more than ten meters before it could stabilize its body.

That black shadow was the person who attacked him... Setis thought about it and guessed that he should have never seen him before.

After knocking the black shadow away, Setis raised his spiritual power and checked the severity of his injuries.

Although this attack pierced his heart, Setis was not panicked, because he had more than one heart. And the attack launched by the opponent did not make him feel spiritually threatened, which meant that the opponent's extraordinary level should be lower than his own.

But Setis was surprised that the other party could approach him silently.

"...Who are you?" Setis asked the other party in a deep voice.

But the black shadow did not respond to Setis's questioning. He just stepped back suddenly, and his figure disappeared from Setis's sight after a moment.

"A strange enemy..." Setis frowned.

He then opened up a layer of spiritual perception to prevent anyone from launching a sneak attack on him again. Then, Setis turned around and prepared to cast the forbidden skill of [Killing Living Corpses] again.

However, just as Setis turned around.

Setis' pupils suddenly shrank!
In Setis's vision, he suddenly saw a wolf with dark purple flames burning all over its body. It suddenly appeared in front of him like a ghost.

In such a hurry, Setis was caught off guard.

The demon wolf pounced towards Setis' face, and Setis subconsciously raised his arms to block it.

But the demon wolf seemed to have no entity. It went straight through Setis's arm and drilled into Setis's face!
The demon wolf disappeared in front of Setis's eyes, and instead, waves of severe headaches surged into Setis's mind.

A strange hissing sound began to echo in Setis' ears, as if he was in a closed iron cage. He heard the desperate cries of countless dying people.

“…This is…what is going on!?”

Setis held his head tightly with both hands, and his eyes were filled with more and more bloodshot.

What he didn't know was that he was the "Shadow of Killing" Setis.

On another high ground not far away, a pair of eyes were staring at him closely.

Thetis before was still watching the battlefield below.

But he didn't know that he was not the only one "wait and see"!
(End of this chapter)