Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 218: Torture and Settlement

When the "Death Announcer" Grion fell to the ground, the glowing wings behind Luo Xiu gradually dissipated and converged, and then slowly descended to the place where Grion fell.

A huge deep pit was suddenly created on the ground, and in the center of the pit was Green's withered body that was riddled with holes.

At this time, the half of his body that housed the power of death had been completely shattered; the other half of his body had his shattered internal organs leaking out of the horrific wound. Blood kept pouring out and gathered in the deep pit into a foul-smelling pool of blood.

Grein was already dead. The extra red dots of kill reward that Luo Xiu saw in the panel mailbox had already determined the death of the enemy in front of him.

Luo Xiu then landed on the ground, lifted several sacred areas, recalled the ravens and wolves that had stayed at the ritual site, and walked towards the direction of Grion's body.

Relying on the blocking power of the "Seal of Broken Rings", Luo Xiu directly interrupted Gryn's last killer move. The "Lost" priest who fed on death died in Luo Xiu's hands with almost no resistance.

Among all the battles that Luo Xiu had fought with enemies with the "Quadruple Fate", this one was the easiest... Luo Xiu thought to himself.

The glorious authority he possessed just happened to perfectly restrain the ability of "The Teller of Death" Grion, so that Grion could not even really launch a counterattack before he followed the real death.

He then walked up to Green and quickly extracted his soul with the "Soul Manipulator". He then cast a holy spell of annihilation on Green's body, erasing the spiritual traces of "Dark Erosion" left by the Soul Manipulator.

Then, Luo Xiu turned around and looked towards the corner of Alley 6.

"It should be almost there..." Luo Xiu murmured in a low voice.

Earlier, all the Inquisitors who were assigned to block Alley 6 should have seen the scene where he rushed into the air while pinching the neck of the "Death Announcer" Grion.

If nothing unexpected happens, they are all rushing here at this moment, and they will arrive almost soon.

……

Sure enough, just a few seconds later, Luo Xiu heard dense footsteps coming from the corners at both ends of the alley.

Pamier arrived with the Inquisitors, and they all saw the scene in the air before.

Until this moment, seeing the broken body of "The Announcer of Death" Grion in the deep pit again, all the Inquisitors could not help but reveal shock on their faces.

Their young high priest had only asked them to guard the area around Alley 6 at the beginning, while he went deep into the stronghold alone. He alone killed his way through the entire large stronghold of [Lost]! He even killed the enemy leader, the "Death Announcer", on the spot in the sky!

Powerful... The "High Priest" of their wartime church was unexpectedly powerful... All the Holy Judges had this consensus in their hearts. When they looked at Luo Xiu, their expressions unconsciously added a touch of reverence.

Pamier, wearing the heavy armor of a Paladin, walked up to Luo Xiu. She took off her heavy helmet, looked at Luo Xiu with her golden-green eyes, then looked at the body of Grion in the pit beside her, and her expression became a little complicated.

"You... Luo Xiu, I understand. It turns out that the 'Fourfold Fate' is so powerful..."

Pamier murmured in a half-surprised and half-yearning tone, and then she asked Luo Xiu, "Is that the 'Announcer of Death' Grion? A Lost Extraordinary at the same level as the priests..."

"Yes, he is the 'Death Talker' Grion."

Luo Xiu nodded and said:

"He is suspected to be a transcendent from the Hidden Eye. Before I entered the base, he was holding some kind of promotion ceremony with dozens of pagans."

"I interrupted their rituals, sentenced all the heretics, and finally defeated Grion here. The biggest threat has been killed... Pamier. After that, it's your job."

"Pamier, you go and dispatch the Holy Judges to clean up this battlefield. In addition, there should be a lot of recyclable materials in the secret vault of their base. Send people to sort and organize them and take them back."

"Then, this neighborhood will remain under martial law, Pamier. Do not let civilians get involved. If the Supreme and the Wisdom send someone to ask, you can share the situation here with them truthfully."

"I understand." Pamier nodded, then she put on her helmet again and turned to issue new orders to the other Inquisitors.

While Pamier was leading the Inquisitors to perform their duties, Luo Xiu also left the street and walked towards a more hidden alley.

……

Lane 33, Pender Street.

Luo Xiu came here alone. After confirming that no one was watching and that almost no one would break in, the dragon claw mark on the back of his hand lit up with red light and the surrounding scene became illusory.

He activated the key to the "Lost Royal Court", and when the illusory scene before his eyes sank into reality again, he had arrived at the throne in the main hall of his own "Lost Royal Court".

This was his temporary visit to the Lost Royal Court, and he did not inform the other apostles in advance. They were busy recruiting new "Holy Abyss" believers and presiding over the construction of the Lost Royal Court, so no apostles appeared in the hall to greet him.

And Luo Xiu had no time to inspect his royal court at this time. He immediately stood up from the throne and used the "Family Emblem" to notify Index alone to come and see him.

After waiting for a moment, a teleportation magic pattern appeared on the ground in front of Luo Xiu, in a place in the hall that belonged to Index.

Index's figure soon appeared above the magic circle, and gradually became clear and real from being blurry and unreal.

"My Lord." The moment she saw Luo Xiu, Intis knelt on one knee and saluted Luo Xiu as a servant. "I will obey your call."

"Intis, I need your bell."

As Luo Xiu spoke to Intis, he rubbed the mithril ring on his finger. A dark purple glow emerged from the ring surface, and a black soul light ball filled with chaos and death emerged from the ring and gradually turned into the appearance of Grion, the "Announcer of Death".

——That was the soul of the "Death Announcer" Grion! Luo Xiu released it from the ring now, and wanted to borrow the Intis bell to interrogate Grion with some questions.

"You...you..." Grion's soul seemed to recognize the young high priest who had killed him before. The outline of his soul light ball began to tremble unnaturally, emitting a breath of fear.

Before Grain's soul was controlled by Intis's "bell", Luo Xiu did not intend to ask him any questions. Intis, who was standing by, immediately understood the Lord's intention, took out the "Cat Soul Bell" from her arms, and gently shook it at Grain.

Ding-ling, ding-ling... After a series of crisp bells rang, the outline of Green's soul "stabilized". Its face restored its facial features when it was alive, and then a confused, lifeless, and dazed expression emerged.

Only then did Luo Xiu take out two pieces of letter from the ring - one was a threatening letter to Lord Nelson, and the other was a secret letter between Green and the "Priest of Death" Asvis.

"Let me ask you, 'Death Adviser' Glenn Bruiser. Did you write both of these letters yourself?"

"..." Grein stared blankly at the letter in Luo Xiu's hand for a few seconds before answering in a hoarse voice:

"……Yes."

"Heh... So, Starro, the 'Spirit-Follower', is he your disciple?"

"……Yes."

Luo Xiu nodded. He could at least confirm that the content of the letter was true and not fabricated by a third party.

However, he still had some doubts, such as why Green chose to send a cursed letter to City Lord Nelson at the same time as his promotion, which would only increase his risk of being exposed.

He then asked this question to Green, but Green replied:

"…for a perfect death from the inside out."

"Death from the inside out?"

Luo Xiu thought to himself with some doubt, but he could probably understand the meaning of Grien's words, that is, in addition to those believers who were willing to die for their crimes, Grien also needed "external death" to ensure the success of the ceremony.

This conjecture was soon confirmed. Luo Xiu heard Grayen continue to say: "I need more... more death... death turned into power... this is perfection..." "Curse... the curse on the city lord is a gift... it is in line with my revenge for my disciples, breeds fear, and can make death perfect..."

"Besides him...besides Lord Nelson...I have planted many more seeds of 'death'..."

"What a pity, what a pity..."

Having said this, Green stopped talking and fell silent again, waiting for Luo Xiu's next question.

And Luo Xiu quickly understood the situation behind this.

Unknowingly, the threatening letter with the death curse received by City Lord Nelson was actually a part of Green's promotion... However, he did not expect that his hiding place had already been exposed, and he would die at the hands of a high priest of the church just before completing his promotion.

These information were unknown to the Supremes who had allegedly revealed the hiding place of the "Teller of Death" to him. If he had not come to Red Maple City and served as the "High Priest" of the church, it would not have been so easy to wipe out such an enemy.

Even the "Death Talker" Green himself said that in addition to City Lord Nelson, he had also planted the seeds of death in other places in Red Maple City - those might be nobles in the city, or perhaps civilians. If the confrontation with [Lost] Green was delayed for a few more days, and the seeds of "death" were all blossomed, Red Maple City would suffer even greater losses.

As Luo Xiu pondered over this, his gaze towards Green's soul gradually became deeper.

At this moment, the dark color of Green's soul light ball was gradually fading, and there was little time left to maintain his complete consciousness.

Luo Xiu judged that he could probably ask Green two more questions.

After thinking about it, Luo Xiu quickly made a decision. He first asked Green about the location of the other "death" seeds he had planted, and soon got the answer to the question.

Most of them were residents concentrated in the main street and Mawei Street, with a total number of about a hundred people.

They were cursed with death in advance by Grion in various ways. About two days later, when Grion's original "promotion ceremony" was completed, the residents who were cursed with death would die collectively, thus "offering" external death to Grion.

After Luo Xiu wrote these down, he immediately asked Green the final question:

"Where is Asvis, the 'Priest of Death', hiding?"

"..."

"'Priest of Death' Asvis... He is in the largest base of 'Death Prayers' on Rust Street..."

After answering Luo Xiu's last question, the color of Green's soul disappeared completely, and his illusory body also dissipated, turning back into a soul light ball without intelligence, just a collection of pure spirituality.

Luo Xiu then put Grayon's soul back into the ring, and after praising Intis verbally, he activated the key to the secret realm again, left the "Lost Royal Court", and returned to the real world on Pender Street.

After walking out of the shadow of the hidden alley, the first thing Luo Xiu had to do was to return to the church and tell the clergy of the church's "preaching place" the location of the "seeds of death" that Green had planted.

Although Grion was dead, the curse he cast on the civilians had not lost its effect. Once two days had passed, the death curse would immediately take effect and take the lives of the civilians.

But Luo Xiu no longer needed to "save" the civilians himself. The first thing he did after returning to the church was to find Mayyev, whom he had just appointed as the chief of the missionary center, and gave him the task of dispatching clergy to the scene of the incident to inform the residents of Main Street and Mawei Street like this -

"If you experience any symptoms such as fainting, intermittent fever, coldness or even convulsions, that may be a sign of being cursed. All residents who have any of the above signs should come to the church within one day, and the clergy of the church will exorcise the filth for you."

Maeyev wrote these down, then went to the missionary place, organized the clergy and left the church to carry out the tasks assigned to them by Ross.

After that, just wait for the residents who may be cursed to come to the church, and use the holy magic of "Pure Light" to remove the curse for them... Although this method does not guarantee that all curses can be removed, it is enough to remove most of them.

This can also increase the church's credibility among the common people and will also be of great benefit to the integration of faith... Luo Xiu thought.

After sending Mayev to carry out the task of notifying the civilians, Luo Xiu finally finished assigning all the tasks temporarily, and then went to his high priest's residence to take a temporary rest.

After that, he only had to wait for Anthony, Pamier and Mayev to return after completing their mission. Only then could he make plans for the future.

While Luo Xiu was thinking about this, he had already arrived at his bedroom and lay down on the bed.

He then opened the panel and the interface of his mailbox. After performing the routine righteous single sacrifice, he clicked on the reward settlement option for "The Announcer of Death" Grion.

[Kill "Death Announcer" Grion (lv.40), gain 3762 basic experience points]

[Grein, the Announcer of Death (lv.40) is 10 levels behind you]

[Kill above your level! Gain 100% extra experience points...]

["Burning Soul" takes effect, gain 20% additional experience points]

["Evil Soul" takes effect, gain 30% additional experience points]

[The highest attribute of "Death Talker" Grion is "Perception"]

[You gain: "Perception" attribute +2]

["Glorious Judgment" takes effect, gain 4 free attribute points]

[Rewards settlement, actual experience points gained: 9405! ]

【…】

[Grein, the "Death Announcer", is a mad boss]

[Rewards for killing the Mad Doom boss are being generated...]

[Kill rewards generated]

[Obtain the expertise "Death Hymnist (Epic)", free attribute points*5]!
[Death Praiser (Epic): You understand death, praise death, and eventually become death itself.

Your "divinity", "perception" and "resistance" attributes gain a +10 basic attribute correction. You are immune to the "instant death" curse and related negative effects at depth and below. When using "death" type spells, the spell power is increased by 20%. The death spells you use will more easily trigger the "instant death" curse effect. 】

【…】

This is the reward for killing "The Announcer of Death" Grion... the epic-quality specialty "The Praiser of Death". Luo Xiu was quite satisfied with this harvest.

From then on, he was immune to "instant death" at depths and below, which might play a crucial role when he faced the "Lost" believers who also worshipped the way of death.

As for the increase in the power of the "death" spell in the second half and the increase in the "instant death" effect, it is not of much help to Luo Xiu. But even so, "Death Praiser" is still a qualified and practical "epic" quality specialty!
Luo Xiu thought about these things, then closed the panel with satisfaction, ready to seize the rare rest time.

He did not intend to leave his residence again until the clergy he sent out returned.

……

Until half a day later.

As soon as Luo Xiu woke up, he received Anthony's spiritual guidance through the "medium of barrier".

He had returned to the church from the side court, and immediately came to the high priest's residence, ready to report to Luo Xiu the feedback and information he had received from the Supreme Being.

……

(End of this chapter)