Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 197 "Exiled Rider" Mordred (5k2)

[You have arrived at the "Land of Exile"].

In front of Luo Xiu, the panel that was flashing with dark yellow light soon "shattered" and was swept into the dust along with the dancing sand in the sky.

Luo Xiu looked around. The Faceless Man Intis and five other apostles of the Holy Abyss were standing behind him, with expressions of surprise and shock on their faces.

The wind and sand obscured their vision. Even Index, who had the highest "perception", could not see what was hidden behind the storm.

But everyone could feel that an extremely surging and powerful spiritual surge was lurking just opposite the sand wall.

Luo Xiu noticed that the "shadows" behind him were feeling a sense of fear.

But this is normal, Luo Xiu thought.

Even I, who had the "quadruple destiny", felt a slight fear when I pieced together the three "crown fragments" and was teleported to this "land of exile".

At the origin of the storm, the "Exiled Knight" Mordred was waiting for these "intruders" to pass through the storm...

As the holder of three "Fragments of King Isol's Crown", Luo Xiu could clearly feel the exact location of the last "Fragment of King Isol's Crown".

And its position just happened to coincide with the surging and powerful spirituality, which allowed Luo Xiu to almost confirm the other party's true level.

Luo Xiu then became more alert, cheered up, and started walking towards the depths of the storm.

……

This is an ancient battlefield.

When he actually passed through the storm and arrived at the center of the "Land of Exile", Luo Xiu saw this scene.

The broken armor formed a small hill, and the broken half of the long spear was buried deep under the yellow sand. The feathers of the flags had long faded, but they were still fluttering stubbornly.

Skeletons, deep pits, broken walls, and dried-up rivers of blood all indicate that this place has experienced a war and a catastrophe, and these scenes carry such broken memories.

And at the end of the field of vision, there was the skeleton of a huge beast.

A knight was sitting on the skull of the giant beast.

He was a knight of not very large stature, and looked very petite compared to the giant beast under him.

He was wearing armor interwoven with red and gold, and his head was half covered by an exquisite feather helmet, revealing only his eyes and the lower half of his face covered with etched patterns.

The knight embraced a great sword, but its blade pierced through his armor and pierced through his chest.

Blood flowed out along the blade and gradually dripped onto the skeleton of the giant beast under the knight.

……

Luo Xiu, Index and other "shadows" were standing on the edge of the inner circle of the storm, facing the knight sitting high on the skeleton.

That is the "Exiled Knight" Mordred.

That was the "Honorable Lord", the "unprecedentedly powerful being" that everyone had mentioned...

The "Dream Thief" Pior's body trembled violently, and fear could not stop spreading from his heart.

That was a pressure from the "spiritual" level. Not only Pior, but all the shadows also had a similar feeling.

But no one said anything about retreating, because the "Lord" had already told them that this was a "trial", a life-and-death battle.

If one survives the "trial", one can reach a higher position in the "Holy Abyss", which is a great temptation for all the shadow apostles.

And from Luo Xiu's perspective.

Even though he was looking at Mordred's "tiny" figure from afar, Luo Xiu could still feel the heart-pounding power that was constantly shaking his heart and soul.

Due to the long distance, Luo Xiu has not been able to detect Mordred, but the source of that terrifying aura is undoubtedly far beyond the "Distortion" and "Distortion +" of the previous "Undead Knight" and "Wandering Knight", and is completely on a different level.

That was the real "madness", and it was even more than that. Luo Xiu could feel that the aura coming back from Mordred was at the same level as the "Star Shattering Ring" summoned by the "Generalist" Rocklan before, or even higher.

This means that the threat level of "Exiled Knight" Mordred should be rated at "Madness+"...

That is almost equivalent to a "saint" who has just entered the fifth level of destiny!
Compared with those "Knights who protect the country", the real "Knight Commander" has to span two major levels!
While Luo Xiu was watching from afar, the "Exiled Knight" Mordred from the end of his sight suddenly made a new move.

——Click, snap...the sharp, frosted sound was clearly heard by everyone.

"The Exiled Knight" Mordred, who had originally embraced the greatsword that pierced his body with his hands, suddenly stretched forward somewhat hesitantly and tightly grasped the hilt of the greatsword.

A deep red air wave instantly rose up from around Mordred, and the damaged blade of the greatsword was immediately stained with scarlet color and was pulled out of his body bit by bit!
And under the feather helmet that Mordred was wearing, his eyes that were originally closed suddenly opened. One pupil was dark gold and the other was scarlet red, mixed with many complex emotions such as coldness, depth, hostility, etc.

"How long has it been..."

"The Exiled Knight" Mordred let out a long sigh calmly.

Then, he raised high the scarlet-stained sword in his hand, and the surging spirituality in it immediately spread out to the surroundings, and quickly ran to the edge of the battlefield.

It was visible to the naked eye that the storm that had swept the edge of the battlefield gradually stopped raging when it touched those scarlet spirits.

But the storm did not return to dust, but was frozen at a certain moment - the sand and dust suspended in the air, connected by fine scarlet threads, quickly formed a huge net, a barrier, a high wall separating the inside and the outside.

"you……"

When the storm was forcibly stopped, Mordred's deep eyes turned to look at Luo Xiu and the "intruders" behind him.

"I am... Mordred..."

“This is my last battlefield.”

"I am an exiled, abandoned, wanderer watching over this isolated place..."

"I am also the lonely, unblessed, and corrupt guardian of the Court of Isol."

"..."

The "Exiled Knight" Mordred stood alone and proudly on the beast's skeleton, leaning on the scarlet sword in his hand, and narrated all this to the "intruders" in a calm voice.

Unlike the "Immortal Knight" Grievel and the "Wandering Knight" Miklos at the beginning, the "Exiled Knight" Mordred seemed to still retain most of his sanity.

Although his eyes were cloudy, they were mixed with a bright light, a light that a person with a corrupted soul could not possibly possess.

At the edge of the battlefield, Luo Xiu was standing in front of the barrier of the extinguished storm and watching, he had such a guess in his mind.

At the same time, he listened to Mordred continue to state as if he was "talking to himself":

"My king has become demented."

"Isol does not need knights, nor does it need any extra things to protect its 'authority'..."

"But they still need...someone to resist the disaster and suppress the shattered shadows of this land."

"My hometown is on the other side, and my grave is here."

"'Shadow of Disaster'... I did it. I did kill them..."

"And you, who suddenly appeared and disturbed my atonement slumber."

"You... are the new Shadow of Disaster..."

"..."

Mordred's words came to an abrupt end here. He then raised the scarlet sword again, and a dark red light quickly emerged and flowed around him, flashing a deep and dark light.

The dark gold in his eyes disappeared, and was stained by the red of his other eye. At the same time, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook violently, and something was about to break out of the ground.

"——Roar!" A huge roar suddenly resounded across the battlefield.

The lingering sound hovered above everyone's head. At the same time, Luo Xiu saw that the skeleton of the giant beast under Mordred's feet was rising from the ground like a small mountain!

Dragon skeleton! Luo Xiu had already seen clearly the identity of the huge animal skeleton. It was the skeleton of a giant dragon! However, there was no trace of flesh and blood left. Attached and flowing on the terrifying white skeleton was Mordred's scarlet spirit. That was the blood that supported the dragon skeleton's "resurrection", and Mordred was the heart of the dragon skeleton.

The giant dragon skeleton spread its bone wings that were dozens of meters long, with rising air currents rising around it, and it flew slowly and steadily into the sky.

Mordred stood at the position of the dragon's head, and the original golden patterns on his armor were gradually turning into bottomless black.

After a moment, he raised the scarlet sword high, and a dark and rich crimson mist quickly spread around him.

"--Roar!!!"

The skeleton dragon suddenly raised its head and let out a deafening roar towards the sky.

It flew at an extremely fast speed, making a terrifying sound as it cut through the air. Mordred, standing firmly on the dragon's head, also completed the first chant of the "Ancient Heritage" skill.

The thick crimson fog quickly spread outwards and gathered above the battlefield, forming a rolling blood-red cloud.

The sound of thunder gradually emerged from the blood cloud. The next moment, dozens of red thunders wrapped with fine lightning flashed down from mid-air!
——Boom! Boom! The lightning accurately hit the place where Luo Xiu was standing before, but Luo Xiu saw the thunder pool on the ground and quickly avoided the bombardment.

The "Shadow Apostles" behind him also evacuated to the surrounding areas to avoid being blocked by the red thunder and losing all their retreat routes.

——Boom! Boom! One after another, lightning bolts fell from the sky, accompanied by the fierce sound of the bone dragon's whistling and flapping wings, chasing after all the intruders' evasive steps.

Mordred still held his sword high, looking down at the fleeing enemies below with cold eyes.

And the spirituality he infused into the sword continued to transform into violent meteoric thunder, indiscriminately bombarding every inch of land on the battlefield.

——Boom boom boom! Along with the roar of thunder, the dust on the battlefield was raised high by the thunder and fire, making the entire battlefield turbid.

The visibility was gradually decreasing, and the blinding yellow sand was disturbing everyone's sight. Only the "Exiled Knight" Mordred, who was riding a dragon skeleton and hovering in the sky, could have a clear view of the entire battlefield.

Suddenly, Mordred's attention was attracted by a dark figure on the battlefield.

After moving around to avoid lightning strikes and carefully observing the "Exiled Knight" Mordred in the sky, Luo Xiu stopped.

Seeing this, Mordred raised his sword again, the scarlet on the blade kept flashing, all the scattered red thunders suddenly disappeared and gathered towards the center of where Luo Xiu was.

The blood cloud above his head was still rolling, the thunder roared for a long time, and Luo Xiu also completed a new prayer at the same time:
"——The spirit of 'illusion'! The guardian of the illusion, the king who forged illusion into a shield."

"—I pray that you will come!"

"..."

——Boom! Countless scarlet lightning bolts struck from the sky, submerging Luo Xiu’s tiny figure in the rising dust.

But at the same time, the golden light overflowed from the origin, and the countless red thunders quickly dispersed to the surroundings, like running water washing on the smooth stone surface.

Amber, the "Guardian of Illusion", descended into illusion at the moment before the thunderbolt struck!

The virtual round shield infused with the spirituality of "holy light" blocked all the strikes of scarlet thunder, and Luo Xiu's figure was hidden behind Amber, and he was unharmed by the round of thunder.

"--amber!"

The "False Guardian" made a low sound, and his left arm, which was filled with gray mist, suddenly permeated with mottled scarlet color, "dissociating" the spiritual belonging contained in the red thunder.

That was "flame", with the ultimate purity and mixed with the "flame" attribute of corrosive power. Luo Xiu had already identified the damage type of the red thunder.

Before that, while Luo Xiu was moving around and dodging the lightning strikes from Mordred, he had also completed the detection of the "Exiled Knight" in the sky.

Just as Luo Xiu had predicted before, although the "Exiled Knight" Mordred retained most of his sanity, his humanity had been worn away by the long time from the Age of Gods to the present, and his soul had been bound and eroded by long-term loneliness. As a result, Mordred could no longer be regarded as a "human", but as a demon, a monster with a defined "threat level".

"The Exiled Knight" Mordred, his threat level is "Madness+" level, level 43. If classified according to the current extraordinary levels, he is the "Saint" who has just reached the "Fifth Destiny" realm!
Compared to the other "Shadow Apostles" with triple destinies, and even Luo Xiu with quadruple destinies, his various attributes are overwhelming, and his two highest, invisible attributes are "strength" and "divinity".

In other words, this is the only enemy that Luo Xiu has encountered so far whose "divine" attribute is higher than his!
This is a very bad situation, which means that Luo Xiu's two major control skills, "Eye of the Abyss" and "Imprisonment Temple of Evil", are ineffective against Mordred.

Luo Xiu once speculated that the normal strength of "Exiled Knight" Mordred would not be much different from that of King Isol's other national knights, and should be at most at the level of "Quadruple Destiny".

However, out of respect for the hidden mission "Exile of Ruined" and its "hell" level difficulty, Luo Xiu still made sufficient preparations before entering this "Land of Exile" to face the once exiled Knight Commander of the Nation.

There is another task in Luo Xiu’s task list, which is an important reference standard for Luo Xiu.

——The hidden mission "Dusk and Night"! The mission that required the destruction of the entire "Blood of Thorns" allowed Luo Xiu to make the final preparations according to the configuration of facing the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice".

"Fortunately... after all the twists and turns, I summoned and contracted the 'False Guardian' first. It turned out to be the right choice..."

Luo Xiu thought with some relief, and the only one who could confront "Mordred" head-on was the god of his new contract, "Guardian of Falsehood" Amber!

……

"--Roar!!!"

The roar of the skeleton dragon echoed above the strong wind in the sky.

When he realized that the several red lightning bolts he had brought down were completely blocked by the new enemy that suddenly appeared, the face under Mordred's feather helmet suddenly became ferocious.

"A new... a new shadow of disaster..."

Mordred murmured, and the scarlet light on the blade of the greatsword in his hand became more and more violent, and the thunder contained in the blood cloud above the sky became more and more deafening.

The next moment, the skeleton dragon suddenly rushed towards Luo Xiu's position. Mordred, who was above the dragon's head, had the sword in his hand wrapped with fine scarlet electric light, dragging a long scarlet sword trail, and slashed towards the position of the "False Guardian" and Luo Xiu.

With this attack, Mordred and the diving dragon were like a giant sword with the power to break an army, diving towards Luo Xiu in a straight flight trajectory.

Before Mordred's attack arrived, the "False Guardian" simultaneously changed its form into the "Virtual Guardian". The large round shield that was overflowing with golden light suddenly transformed into a golden shadow, and then into a city wall emitting golden light.

"Illusion Barrier"! This is the illusion form that the "Illusion Guardian" can create, with the maximum shield value!
--boom!!!!!

In the next moment, as if thunder from the sky had struck fire on the earth, scarlet light that burned the earth flashed one after another, and all the thunder from the sky suddenly landed on the virtual barrier, making the sight of those "Shadow Apostles" who were watching from afar nearby instantly filled with overflowing crimson.

The red thunder heavily bombarded the position where Luo Xiu was, and Mordred, who was riding the skeleton of a giant dragon, also swung his sword and slashed after a moment!
--boom!!!!!

When the great sword wrapped in scarlet light slashed heavily on the barrier, the origin of the confrontation made a sound like an avalanche.

Yellow sand suddenly rose into the sky, engulfing Mordred, the "False Guardian" Amber, and Luo Xiu.

……

When all the "Holy Abyss" apostles finally regained their sight, they only saw the diffuse yellow sand and vague figures that could be vaguely discerned in it.

"My Lord...what kind of existence is that being fighting with you..."

"That is... that is our trial...?"

"..."

Countless voices of doubt, confusion, and awe began to slowly emerge from the depths of everyone's hearts.

At this moment, the apostles serving the "Holy Abyss" were just watching from afar. This was all they could do.

Now, at least not now...that was not a battle they could intervene in.

Everyone understands this very well.

The apostles of "Holy Abyss" all focused their anxious gazes on the center of the previous explosion.

At this time, the dust that was raised into the sky had just dissipated, and the figures fighting fiercely in it reappeared.

Suddenly, a figure covered in gray mist armor rose into the sky.

Behind him, a golden wing suddenly spread out.

That is the "Lord", that is the figure of "Shura"!

……

(End of this chapter)