Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 219 Reaction (5k6)

After tidying up his clothes as the "High Priest", Luo Xiu opened the barrier and allowed Anthony to enter the residence.

Anthony came straight to the residence, and Luo Xiu just came down from the second floor. They then went to the meeting room on the first floor to exchange the information they had obtained.

"At the side of the Supreme Court... I did meet the 'Great Inquisitor' Baines, and told him the information about the 'Death Adviser' Grion."

Anthony said: "But Lord Baines doesn't seem surprised."

"I told him about your and Pamier's plan to carry out the Holy Judgment on the 'Teller of Death' today, and asked for his help, hoping that the Supreme Being could send more people to the church to help us jointly eliminate the 'Teller of Death' and his pagans."

"But Lord Baines only responded to me indifferently, and did not express anything else. After that, we briefly exchanged some information about the situation of the Border Court and the Church. Baines then said that he was busy and left the courtroom."

"You said that 'Grand Inquisitor' Baines... he was not surprised by this information?" Luo Xiu looked amused. "In other words, he actually knew about the 'Death Adviser' a long time ago?"

"...I think so. It's just that Baines and the 'Border Court' he controls are reluctant to take action against the 'Death Adviser'. They hope that we can take full responsibility for this matter, and they [Supreme] can benefit from it."

Anthony nodded and continued:

"After Baines left the courtroom, I was about to leave the hall. But Baines' guards stopped me at this time. They said that according to Lord Baines' wishes, they hoped that I could stay in the side court overnight to fulfill their [Supreme] courtesy of host and guest."

"Maybe he doesn't want me to go back so soon... I can feel it."

"At that time, I didn't get any important information from Baines, so I agreed to his request and stayed in the border for the time being."

"Several senior officials from the Border Court who also belong to the 'Triple Fate' prepared a banquet for me. By the time the banquet was over, it was already very late."

"During the banquet, I left the table for a while on the pretext of something, and I did see something different."

"At that time, I was in the garden of the side courtyard, and I happened to see the side door on the other side of the courtroom. Shortly after I left, the side door of the courtroom quietly opened, and four royal knights walked out, escorting a figure who looked like 'Bains' in four corners."

"They walked onto a small path, probably leaving the border. Then, the royal knights who were half escorting and half monitoring me began to urge me to return to the banquet."

"So I couldn't wait and watch for too long, so I had to follow the guard back. After the banquet was over and I rested for a night in the bedroom they prepared for me, I left the side court early in the morning and returned to the church to tell you this."

"..."

"I see." Luo Xiu nodded and said, "If I'm not mistaken... the figure of 'Bains' that you saw should be his 'spiritual body'."

"Since Baines sent out his 'spiritual body', he must have gone to the hiding place of 'Death Talker' Grion. But I didn't sense his presence at the time... I don't know if Pamier will see him."

"..."

"That's all I want to tell you, Luo Xiu."

Anthony spread his hands, an apologetic expression immediately appeared on his face, "The Supremes in the Border Court are still wary of us... I'm sorry, I didn't get any useful information."

"No, Anthony. That's enough."

Luo Xiu responded gently to the former captain, "At least we know that the 'Great Inquisitor' did take action because of your visit. This is the biggest gain."

"What about you guys?" Anthony no longer responded to the previous topic, but changed the subject and said:
"When I returned from the border, you should have gone to Pender Street to carry out the Holy Judgment on the 'Announcer of Death'... Without the assistance of the Supreme, it would not be easy to completely wipe out the 'Lost' pagans in that large base..."

"Luo Xiu, so, what was the result of your execution of the 'Judgment'? Judging from your condition, you should not have encountered too much danger... But I don't think I saw Pamier and the others."

"..." Hearing Anthony's question, Luo Xiu did not answer quickly. A faint smile appeared on his face, and then he said to Anthony calmly:
"I asked Pamier and the Holy Inquisitors who accompanied him to stay in Pender Street to deal with the aftermath of the Judgment. None of them were injured or sacrificed."

"As for Grion, the 'Death Talker', I have killed him."

"...?"

"You have killed Gryn? The 'Death Talker' Gryn?"

Anthony was stunned for a moment, and it took him a while to come back to his senses, "No... You said no one was injured, could it be that you..."

He vaguely sensed that Luo Xiu seemed to have said something extraordinary in a nonchalant manner.

"You heard it right, Anthony. No clergyman who went with us, including me and Pamier, was injured or killed."

Luo Xiu nodded slightly and said, "Because I was the only one who went deep into that stronghold. I have completed the 'judgment' of all the pagans, and the 'reporter of death' Grion has been killed in front of all the holy judges."

"..."

"……what?"

The expression on Anthony's face froze again, and his mouth opened unconsciously.

He finally confirmed that Luo Xiu had indeed said something extraordinary in a calm and casual manner...but Anthony was completely unable to understand what had happened.

In Anthony's opinion, even if Luo Xiu was promoted to the 'quadruple destiny', it would be unlikely for him to single-handedly fight against a 'quadruple destiny', three or four 'triple destiny' and dozens of 'double destiny' transcendents... This is completely beyond common sense. Only bishops who have reached the realm of 'saints' can do such a thing, and Luo Xiu obviously... should not have reached such a height yet.

But Anthony knew that Luo Xiu, as the 'high priest', would not lie about such a thing.

Anthony finally couldn't help but ask, "How... did you do it?"

Faced with Anthony's question, Luo Xiu remained silent for a while.

I couldn't tell him that I actually had the 'Void Guardian', 'Frenzy Glow' and other supermodel trump cards... In fact, with the former alone, I was enough to torture most of the extraordinary people with the same 'Quadruple Fate' to death... Cricket, a 'Death Announcer', I really didn't take it seriously...

But before that, Luo Xiu had already thought about how to answer similar questions that Anthony might ask. He quickly organized his words and said to Anthony:

"This is also a coincidence. At that time, the 'Death Announcer' Grion was holding a certain promotion ceremony. And the requirement for his promotion was 'death'. Most of the people in that stronghold were believers who were about to die."

"Soon after I entered the depths of the stronghold and met the 'Death Announcer' Grion, Grion triggered the 'death' curse that had long been engraved in the bodies of those believers, and transformed their souls into undead spirits and absorbed them into himself... Therefore, the other pagans in that large stronghold were actually killed by Grion himself."

Well... actually, it was the 'Frenzy Glow' that caused them to beat each other up... Luo Xiu added consciously in his mind.

"So that's how it is..." Anthony nodded thoughtfully. He felt that he had understood something in a trance.

But the puzzled expression on his face did not diminish much, and he continued to ask Luo Xiu:

"And then? Wouldn't it be possible that the 'Death Talker' Grion would become extremely powerful and difficult to deal with..."

"Uh...it was supposed to be like this."

Luo Xiu nodded, then he raised his arm and directed his spiritual power to the inscription of his "Holy Seal", causing the lines on the back of his hand to emit a faint golden light, before he continued:

"When I passed the assessment of 'Senior Deacon' Hubert, the glorious authority I was granted was the 'Seal of Severing Vows'."

"Grein absorbed those undead spirits. Almost all of his spirituality is 'heterogeneous spirituality', and I just successfully struck him with the 'Seal of Severing Rings'."

"..." Anthony was stunned again. But the doubt on his face was gradually dispelling, and he could already imagine the scene at that time.

Anthony knew that the authority bestowed upon Luo Xiu was the "Seal of the Holy Severing of Vows", and he was not too surprised by this.

It was only when Anthony connected all the things he already knew through Luo Xiu's words that he suddenly realized that Luo Xiu had already imagined the entire situation and constructed the rationality on his own for the fact that Luo Xiu had chosen the entire large-scale "Lost" stronghold by himself.

"So that's how it is..." Anthony couldn't help but murmur, "I completely understand, this is really a coincidence... But, this is also an inevitable coincidence."

"I suddenly figured it out, Luo Xiu. You dare to go deep into a place like that alone, because you have the 'Seal of Severing Discipline' and you already know that the authority is the nemesis of the 'Necromancers'?"

"Well, that's probably why." Luo Xiu nodded, not denying it. A bright smile appeared on his face, and he said, "In short, 'The Adverb of Death' Grion has been judged. Next, we just need to wait for the reaction of the people of the Supreme - I look forward to it." "Haha, I look forward to it too." Anthony echoed Luo Xiu and said, "This is the first time since the establishment of the Wartime Church that an enemy with a 'fourfold fate' or above has been judged in Red Maple City. The side courts of the Supreme will be shaken by this, I am sure of that."

When he returned to the topic of "Supreme", Anthony smiled, and the air was filled with joy.

……

Alley 6, Pender Street, Red Maple City.

Pamier commanded the Inquisitors to put the entire street under complete martial law. The body of Grion, the "Announcer of Death", had also been moved by the Inquisitors to an abandoned warehouse that was originally a stronghold, where it was piled together with the body fragments of all other "Hidden Eye" believers.

Unlike when Pamier was in Dawn Town, the way the Inquisitors now deal with the corpses of pagans is no longer to separate and isolate them and gently wait for the spiritual energy in the corpses to naturally dissipate. Instead, they directly gather them together and use holy magic to completely "annihilate" them into ashes. This is a more efficient method.

Only when all the pagan body fragments were gathered together and piled into a small hill did the Inquisitors who were responsible for carrying these bodies finally breathe a sigh of relief, expressions of awe appearing on their faces.

"Our high priest, he alone judged so many enemies..."

The Holy Inquisitors looked at the horrific pile of corpses in front of them, and the shock in their eyes became more and more intense. The overly bloody scene also made some of the young Holy Inquisitors feel a little nauseous, and they ran to the side holding the wall and retching.

At this time, Pamier was standing quietly in front of the pile of corpses, leaning on her sword with both hands. She stared at the horrifying scene in front of her through her visor, without moving her eyes for a long time.

It was not until her Holy Inquisitor came to her and reported that all the corpses of the pagans had been completely gathered that Pamier nodded and slowly raised the greatsword in her hand.

A dazzling golden light burst out from the blade of the greatsword in her hand, and the power of "annihilation" quickly gathered in it, gradually condensing into substance and extending into an even larger blade.

The next moment, Pamier raised the holy sword in his hand and slashed at the pile of corpses. The dazzling light turned into a surging wave of annihilation, completely engulfing the ominous mountain of flesh and blood.

--boom! ! !

The light blade exploded in the next second, and after a deafening roar, the surging holy flame began to burn fiercely, devouring the flesh and blood bit by bit, completely burning them into ashes of the catastrophe fire.

When the holy flame was finally extinguished and the flesh and blood of the pagans were completely turned to ashes, Pamier sheathed his sword and turned away from the broken stronghold.

"Team up, our mission is accomplished."

Pamier's cold voice came from beneath her visor.

"Follow me back to the church and report the completion to the 'High Priest'."

……

Pamier and the Inquisitors withdrew, and the blockade of Alley 6 was lifted.

After they completed the "cleanup" work, they quietly left as if nothing had happened here.

However, what Pamier didn't know was that, on the eaves next to Alley 6, at the edge of the position they had blocked before, several figures were lingering there, quietly watching their movements as they left.

Not until Pamier and the Inquisitors actually left Pender Street did these figures jump down one after another and come to the former base of the "Hidden Eye".

“Ah… this is incredible.”

A sighing voice came from under the cloak of one of the figures. He raised his arm and gently took off the half-covered red cloak, revealing a shiny, exquisite helmet with a silver-white glow underneath.

The other people around him also took off their cloaks, revealing the armor hidden underneath, thus revealing their identities.

——They were all the Royal Guard Knights of the "Border Court". Half of them had been "watching" in the nearby alleys for a long time, while the other half had just arrived and joined the knights in charge of surveillance.

"We have been monitoring for a long time and indeed witnessed the death of 'The Announcer of Death' Glenn Bruser."

A royal guard knight said, "The 'high priest' from the church took Grion high into the sky. A pair of wings intertwined with golden and white glow grew out from his back, and countless burning wing feathers shot out..."

"All those burning wing feathers exploded the moment they hit Gryn. After a round of bombardment, Gryn, the 'Announcer of Death', fell to the ground... I didn't see the scene clearly afterwards, but Gryn seemed to have died on the spot."

The knight said this, and then he spread his hands, somewhat helplessly saying: "To be honest, I have no idea what kind of holy art that is... I can't even tell whether the high priest is the one who is offering sacrifices to fire, enlightening the world, or judging sins..."

"..."

"It's all right. It's not your problem, Honoré."

Another old and gentle voice came from the knight Honoré. All the royal knights looked towards the source of the voice. The breathing sounds under their masks suddenly stopped, and the atmosphere among the knights became solemn.

The knight with the old voice continued, "That is the 'Light Wings of Heavenly Punishment'... The priesthood that can master this sacred art does not belong to any of the three great paths of Glory."

"If what Honoré said is true, then it is almost certain that the high priest of the church is the 'Holy Judge'. Ah... it's a pity that I couldn't be there in person. I only heard that the 'Glory' has such a holy position, but I didn't expect that the new high priest of the church is it."

The old knight's voice was filled with regret, while the knights in front of him looked at each other. Although they could not see each other's faces covered by helmets, they could all imagine each other's complicated expressions at the moment.

Because they had no idea what the "Old Knight" was saying...

After a while, Knight Honoré broke the silence and said to the "old knight" in front of him:
"...Lord Baines, we have never heard of the 'Holy Judge'... But the 'High Priest' of the church is indeed incredibly powerful."

Baines sighed and said slowly:

"Yes... This is beyond my expectation. Grion, the 'Death Announcer', had already seen the spiritual door to 'holiness'. But I know that he still needs at least one day to complete the ascension ceremony. Before that, I wanted to let the church explore the way for me. It would be great if the 'high priest' was willing to do it himself."

"Even if the church doesn't make any move, I will kill Grion before he can truly be promoted. I will never let him be promoted to the 'Fifth Fate' smoothly. That will only bring disaster."

"Even if the church really turns a blind eye to this, I can use this as a bargaining chip to gain an advantage in the subsequent negotiations with the church. Unfortunately..."

Baines paused for a moment before he continued slowly, "It's a pity that I still underestimated the ability of the high priest. He was entrusted with such an important task by the diocese at such a young age. I should have paid more attention to him..."

"Now, the high priest has dealt with the 'Announcer of Death' alone, which has put our Supreme Court on the brink... We have lost this bargaining chip, and now the advantage of the negotiation has fallen into the hands of the church."

"..."

"It's our fault, Lord Baines."

In front of Baines, several Royal Guard Knights bowed their heads and said, "We didn't have enough time to 'support' the High Priest. We still had a chance, but we missed it."

"Forget it... it's come to this, there's no benefit in saying more."

Baines sighed, but he quickly changed his attitude and said:
"This is good. At least we know the true strength of the high priest. At the same time, we also have one less difficult enemy like 'Death Announcer' Grion. Overall, this is a good thing."

"We need to re-evaluate our relationship with the church. Well... when the time comes, let Nelson go to the church again and convey the goodwill of our 'Bianting' to the high priest."

"..."

After saying this, Baines turned around and walked towards the corner of the street with his royal guards.

Just as their figures were about to disappear in the shadows of the alley, Baines finally said to the knight beside him:
"Hmm... Honoré. You should go to Rust Street again and have a secret meeting with the 'Priest of Death' Asves."

"Go tell him that the information he provided worked. 'Death Announcer' Grion is dead. I am satisfied with his sincerity in joining the army."

"According to the previous agreement, the 'Bian Ting' will provide him with asylum for three months. I expect him to continue to show sincerity, and the 'Bian Ting' will also fulfill its agreement and shelter him until the end of the period."

……

(End of this chapter)