Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 226 "Priest of Death" Asves

Red Maple City, Rust Street.

In the large base of the "Secret Prayers of Death", the "High Priest of Death" Asvis has just returned from the border and returned to his own "High Priest" base room.

At this moment, he was frowning tightly, and the fingers of one of his dry and thin hands were repeatedly digging at the empty eye socket of his left eye. The other hand was immersed in a clay pot filled with thick black liquid. On the surface of his scaly skin, several fine black threads were constantly wriggling like silk worms.

Asvis, the "Priest of Death", is the actual controller of this "Death Secret Prayer" base. The "Holy Tower Religious State" that worships the "Lost" sent them "Death Secret Prayers" to sneak into the empire, and Asvis was the first to go.

However, for Asves, he is more loyal to the Lost than to the Theocracy, so he is not actually interested in the disputes between the forces.

He is wholeheartedly pursuing the true meaning of "death" - the death of the body, the death of the soul, the death of others, the death of himself... He believes that he will eventually transcend the boundaries of "death", and ultimately rise above "death", becoming the master who controls another essence of life.

That is why, for Asvis, the "Priest of Death", the first and only thing he has to do before he can truly gain the power to "control" and "override" death is to "stay alive".

Only by living for a long time can one get close to the essence of "death". For this reason, Asvis did not hesitate to sacrifice his identity. For him, the "Holy Tower Kingdom" was just a springboard, and he had more than one choice.

Surrendering to the "Border Court" was the first decision Asvis made after arriving in Maple City. He also betrayed his comrade, the "Death Adviser" Grion, and indeed gained some trust from the "Grand Inquisitor" Baines of the Border Court.

The "Announcer of Death" Grion was killed shortly after Asvis handed over the letter to Border Court. Border Court also publicized the incident, which caused quite a stir among the "Lost" believers who infiltrated Red Maple City.

In the following week, the frequency of activities of the Lost believers in Red Maple City was greatly reduced. Everyone huddled up like turtles, waiting for the storm to pass before looking for an opportunity to launch a covert operation.

At this time, the "High Priest of Death" Asvis hid his identity again, and like his real comrades, he hid in the stronghold and did not come out.

However, Asvis could not hide safely. Although the fact that he betrayed the "Death Announcer" Grion was not exposed to other comrades, he also received a new task from the "Border Court" - the "Border Court" required Asvis to sort out and map out the distribution of all the "Death Secret Prayers" in Red Maple City during his hiding period.

If Asvis can complete this task, he will be able to obtain three months of asylum from the "Border Court". If he fails, the "Border Court" will reduce the asylum to one month, and after the asylum ends, Asvis will also be regarded as a "hunting" target.

"..." Asvis was a bit troubled by this. But he still decided to follow the requirements of the "Bianting" and was ready to sell out his comrades again in exchange for more chances of survival.

The black lines on his right hand, which was soaked in the black liquid, gradually stopped moving. Asvis stood up and walked to a side wall of the room in his base.

He raised his arm that had just been soaked in black water, and his dry, pale palm was in perfect contact with the wall. The next moment, the originally gray wall suddenly began to tremble, and fine cracks appeared on the wall and continued to spread around. Strands of dark black mist emerged from the cracks and wrapped around each finger of Asves's palm.

"——Sin-bound soul who died by swallowing gold, please open your secret treasure to me again."

Asvis murmured in a low voice, and the dark mist wrapped around his fingers dissipated, swirling and embedding into the wall, outlining several rectangular frames.

The next moment, the wall in front of Asvis gradually "melted" like ice melting into water. A square box that was originally hidden behind the wall then appeared.

It was a square box of simple shape, about half the height of Asvis. Its five sides were pure black, only the front was gray, and the middle connecting the two doors was bound by a chain wrapped in black mist, and a small black-scaled snake was clinging to the chain.

Asvis then pressed his palm on the top of the box, and black mist immediately emanated from one of his empty eye sockets, and a large amount of black mist also evaporated from the six sides of the box. The small snake on the chain then quickly drilled into the box through the gap, and the chain wrapped around him also slipped off.

——The door of the box opened with a click. Three scrolls were sealed inside, and the scrolls contained the base distribution map that Asvis had not yet completed.

Asvis then reached into the box and took out the scroll, his eyes becoming gloomy and deep.

"That's it. That's enough. Soon, very soon I shall..."

Asvis murmured, but before he could finish his words, a huge explosion suddenly came to his ears.

——Boom! Just outside the room where Asves was, in the base of the "Death Mysterious Prayers", a violent explosion suddenly occurred. The power wave generated by the explosion even penetrated the wall, causing Asves to feel a knife-like pain in his back.

Asvis looked back in astonishment, and he saw that the door of his room had been blasted into a deep dent by an unknown force. If there was another explosion of the same power, the door of the room would be completely scrapped.

"What happened..." Asvis thought in his heart. He could probably guess that the base of the "Death Prayer" was invaded by foreign enemies, but he did not reveal his hiding place to any enemy except the "Border Court"...

There is no reason for "Bianting" to abandon the donkey at this time. They still need me to provide new information... Asvis thought. Apart from this, there are only a few chief priests who are "lost" in Red Maple City. They know each other's whereabouts. The only one who knows where he is hiding is "Death Announcer" Gren, but he is also dead...

Just as Asvis was still thinking about this, another violent explosion was heard from the outside stronghold.

——Boom!!! This time, the force of the explosion directly penetrated the room, blasting a huge hole in the door.

The aftermath of the dark purple light penetrated the door and then hit Asvis's thin body directly, causing his body to fly backwards and hit the wall heavily, creating a deep pit.

"Cough! Cough cough..." Asvis coughed violently twice, and two clumps of black sputum and blood came out of his mouth. His face turned pale.

The power of the explosion was beyond Asvis's imagination... It was definitely an attack that could only be unleashed by a transcendent being with at least the "Fourth Destiny"... Asvis's expression became solemn. He broke free from the crack in the wall and casually picked up a death staff on the table.

The door of his room had been blown down, and the completely dark environment outside the stronghold made Asvis unable to see who the intruder was.

However, the terrifying spiritual surge coming from the outside allowed Asvis to roughly judge the other party's spiritual level.

There were six different spiritual surges in total. The strongest reaction was undoubtedly from a "four-fold destiny" transcendent. In addition, there were two spiritual reactions between the third and fourth levels, and three spiritual reactions were at the peak of the "three-fold destiny", which was the entire configuration of the incoming enemy. After knowing the general configuration of the enemy, Asvis couldn't help but take a breath.

One four-fold extraordinary person with a destiny, five three-fold extraordinary people with a destiny... Only the "Bianting" can come up with such a configuration... Could it really be that group of "Supreme" people? Did they want to cross the river and destroy the bridge after they got benefits from me?
A fierce light suddenly flashed in Asvis's only remaining eye. He quickly thought of a way out and walked into the darkness of the stronghold with his staff in hand.

……

At this time, Luo Xiu had already broken through the last forbidden area of ​​the "Death Secret Prayer" stronghold on Rust Street.

Fenrir, the "Wolf King of Ashes", opened his bloody mouth. A ball of purple light surrounded by ominous black flames was rapidly condensing in his mouth, and he was about to launch the next attack in the opposite direction.

The two terrifying explosions before were the "Cinder Destruction Shockwave" released by Fenrir. It was a powerful attack that the "Cinder Destruction Wolf King" could use, and with the various auxiliary enhancements that Luo Xiu had given it, the power of its attack was no less than that of the true "Quadruple Fate" extraordinary people.

On the other side, the "Shadow Raven" was hovering in the sky at night. Half of its shadow was left in the church and condensed into a "real phantom", while the other half was scattered in every corner of this stronghold, capturing any pagans who tried to escape.

Behind Luo Xiu were Intis, "Bloodthirsty Werewolf" Boozer and "Hunting Blade" Undertaker. They all received orders from the "Lord", so they came to Rust Street at the agreed time and worked with the "Lord" to clear out the heretic's stronghold.

At this time, most of the believers in the "Secret Prayers of Death" stronghold had been killed. Without the "High Priest of Death" Asvis taking action, with the combat power of Luo Xiu, his Abyss Beasts, and his apostles, killing all these pagans would be as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

There were originally four "triple destiny" and nearly fifty "double destiny" believers here, but they had all been broken into two or three pieces at this time, and fell at the feet of Luo Xiu and the apostles, turning into cold corpses.

And only after Fenrir's last two blasts cleared the area, waves of dark and profound spiritual shocks suddenly emanated from the room opposite that belonged to the "high priest" Asvis.

Weird whispers spread outward, mixed with the sound of slightly sluggish footsteps. The last person in this stronghold finally appeared. Under Luo Xiu's gaze towards the darkest "spiritual vision", "Death Priest" Asves took a staggering step, holding up the death staff, and chanted:

"——We are all born to die, this is an immutable constant..."

"——The body is the prison of death, and the soul is the way back to death..."

"——Return! Those who are lost in the realm of life and death, return!"

"——Burn the soul and turn it into embers."

"—burn the body and turn it into a fire."

"——Offer me your final death!"

"..."

Asvis, the "High Priest of Death", immediately released one gloomy and profound death spirit after another with the staff of death in his hand. That spirit immediately permeated the entire stronghold, and the power of "death" had occupied every inch of the corner.

At the same time, the corpses on the ground began to move strangely. Strands of fine black lines transformed into spiritual souls and drilled into the flesh and blood, causing those flesh and blood bodies that had long lost their vitality to move again, twisting and searching for their respective halves.

Even those pieces of flesh that had long been blasted to pieces had grown twisted limbs to varying degrees. They squirmed towards other pieces of flesh and pieced together to form new, twisted and terrifying flesh and blood monsters.

The spirit of death also penetrated into the aggregated flesh, blending into a twisted soul. The deep resentment before death that remained in the flesh and soul filled the newly born monster with a violent desire to kill. The murderous intent coming from all directions had already enveloped Luo Xiu, the Abyss Beast, and the "Holy Abyss" apostles.

——"Reanimated Undead"! That was the death spell that "Priest of Death" Asves cast the moment they met.

Asves, the "Priest of Death", has returned the souls of the pagans that were hovering in the stronghold to their original bodies. Unlike the ability of Grion, the "Teller of Death", Asves's power of "death" is to create undead spirits attached to the flesh. They are stronger and more violent than the undead spirits transformed from souls.

In order to prevent situations like today from happening, Asves had already engraved the death mark on all the believers in the "Death Mystery Prayers" stronghold. This allowed them to retain some traces even if they died and their bodies and souls were blown to pieces, so that they could be "resurrected" by Asves like this, becoming Asves's trump card for self-protection.

It was not until Asvis had cast the spell and the "believers" in the stronghold had been resurrected in a strange way that the "Death Priest" put down the Death Staff in his hand and slowly said to the invaders who had come from nowhere:

"You...are strangers who came from nowhere and are not my comrades."

"I don't know why you are here, and I don't want to know more."

"But now that you have come here and killed many of my comrades, you should understand how foolish you have been. You will eventually be consumed by the flames of revenge."

"Now, you are surrounded by the ghosts of those you killed with your own hands. You should know that you have no chance of defeating me."

After a pause, Asves leaned heavily on the staff in his hand, and the violent aura of the undead gathered around him subsided. Asves changed the subject and said:

"But now, I allow you to make a choice you will regret."

"Leave here, leave Rust Street. I won't stop you. I can pretend nothing happened."

"Thank my mercy. This is your last chance to survive."

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(End of this chapter)