Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 241 The End of the Curse
"—he broke through that wall!"

Behind the Red Maple City army, on the high lookout slope, City Lord Nelson was looking into the distance from the tower, a look of joy appeared on his face.

Behind that "cursed curtain" is the camp of the Dark Vanguard Army! Without the obstruction of that wall, the Red Maple City army can march straight in and carry out the final siege on the Dark Army!

With this thought in mind, Lord Nelson immediately climbed down the tower and said to the guard knights at the rear:

"I need to contact Lord Baines."

"The 'cursed curtain' has been broken. Now is a good time to 'behead' it."

"It's time to get the adults from Fangbeiyuan to go out."

……

In the center of the battlefield.

When Luo Xiu led the clergy to break through the "Curse Curse" and beheaded several "Cursers", his panel suddenly jumped and a new task appeared.

[Trigger limited-time mission: Red Maple City Showdown (nightmare difficulty)]

[Recommended level: lv.20, double destiny and above]

[Task type: time-limited task (countdown 11h59min)]

[Task Description: You have truly been involved in this decisive battle. Now, you will win the goal of this battle for your camp.]

[Current Camp: Nolan Empire——Red Maple City]

[Main mission objective: Kill as many enemies as possible from the "Dark Principality" camp, and drive the Dark Vanguard Army camp 20 miles away from Red Maple City (enemy targets are not limited to: players, NPCs).]

[Additional Mission Objective (Option 1): Assist in killing the enemy leader, 'Executioner' Afatak]

[Additional Mission Objective (Option 2): Assist in killing the enemy leader, 'Beast Tamer' Crowley]

[Additional Mission Objective (Option 3): Assist in killing the enemy leader, 'Guillotine' Bagli]

[Additional Mission Objective (Option 4): Assist in killing the enemy leader, 'The Cursebinder' Haziz]

[Completion Reward (Complete the main goal): Calculated based on the completion of the task. Basic experience +6000+, free attribute points +6+]

[Additional Completion Reward (Complete any additional goal): Basic Experience +5000, Free Attribute Points +4]

[Special Completion Reward: Kill any enemy leader to get an additional 10 free attribute points and an additional 'epic' quality feat*1 that matches your destiny (maximum 1)]

【…】

Luo Xiu had been on the battlefield for more than ten minutes, and he had also killed the hostile supernatural NPC, which triggered this limited-time task.

This is also how players in the previous life triggered battlefield missions. Entering the "battlefield where the war took place" for a period of time and "attacking NPC targets of either camp" during this period will trigger the corresponding mission.

However, the quest rewards for players during the "Double Fate" were not very attractive to Luo Xiu now. He took a quick look, confirmed that there was an "epic" quality specialty reward among the "special completion rewards", and then closed the panel.

Afterwards, he looked towards the "Cursed One" Haziz, whose aura was rising steadily among the group of sorcerers on the opposite side, and a look of vigilance and solemnity flashed across his face.

He knew what Haziz was doing. Haziz the Curse-Binder had released the curse that bound him, and he would devour everything he saw with the Curse, or be devoured by the Curse.

At this time, the blood-oozing bandages wrapped around Haziz's face were peeling off layer by layer, revealing his original, hideous face.

The long-rotten facial flesh, the foul-smelling pus, and the black, rotten blood were piled up on that horrible face.

From a distance, Luo Xiu could hardly even tell where Haziz's eyes were and where his nose and mouth were.

At the same time, the ominous spirituality that was drawn from his body had condensed into substance, transforming into streams of thick scarlet mist that swirled around him, corroding everything around him.

When he sensed the dangerous aura coming from the "Cursed One" Haziz, Luo Xiu stopped chasing after ordinary "Cursers" and instead rode the "Golden Pegasus" towards Haziz.

At the same time, he had also retracted the scarlet sickle in his right hand and replaced it with the epic staff "Poisonous Bite". The magic crystal core on the staff immediately burst out with strands of golden light, and instantly condensed a row of "Holy Light Annihilation" light balls.

At this time, skills such as "Thunder of Judgment", "Dragon Thunder Burning Ashes" and "Light Wings of Heavenly Punishment" were still on cooldown. Luo Xiu simply used the "Holy Light Annihilation" with the fastest rotation to test and suppress. At the same time, he summoned the "Holy Flame Wolf King" Fenrir and let Pegasus spread his golden wings of light.

Fenrir rushed straight towards the Curse-Binder Haziz, and circles of burning fire rings appeared around him, burning the substantial curse that Haziz continued to emit.

Pegasus soared into the sky, circling back and forth in the air above Hatziz's head, and quickly clusters of flying stars containing the spiritual power of "annihilation" gathered around him.

"What a noise..." On Haqizi's hideous face, two pieces of rotten flesh trembled up and down, and he made a hoarse voice, "Bound to the cursed, I can't even have a moment of peace..."

In the next moment, the scarlet around Haziz suddenly flew rapidly, his skin began to fester, and his flesh swelled quickly; then, sticky tentacles grew out of his mouth, and bloody thorns grew on his body!
The blood that flowed out quickly covered Haziz's body, and his entire body was deforming at a speed visible to the naked eye!

But Luo Xiu did not want to appreciate this visual feast of Cthulhu. The more than forty light balls of "Holy Light Annihilation" floating and surrounding him flew towards the direction of Haziz!
——Boom! The flying stars of the "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus and the flame pillars of the "Holy Flame Wolf King" Fenrir also blasted towards the direction of Haziz at the same time. The dazzling golden and white lights bloomed instantly and quickly dissipated along the opposite light trails!

The scarlet light surrounding Haziz was completely submerged by the continuous bombardment of Luo Xiu, Pegasus, and Fenrir. Through the "spiritual vision", Luo Xiu watched Haziz constantly shrinking his spiritual defense until it was completely tightened to the extreme, protecting only his head and heart.

Even if the "Cursed One" Haziz wanted to lift the curse, the gap in hard power between him and himself was still too big... Luo Xiu thought.

Without the defense of the "Cursed Curse", it was only a matter of time before "The Cursed One" Haziz and a group of fragile sorcerers were destroyed.

The "Cursed One" Haziz, whose body was not as strong as a "warrior" to begin with, soon broke through the first and second levels of the Cursed One's shield. His spirituality began to falter and was on the verge of exhaustion.

But Luo Xiu's "mana" is still on a healthy level, and the cooling of his "Thunder of Judgment" has also expired.

Luo Xiu then stopped condensing the holy light ball of "Holy Light Annihilation" and began to chant a prayer quickly. The "Poisonous Bite" in his hand immediately emitted a bright golden glow, with traces of fine electric light wrapped around it.

The next moment, boom! The thunder struck down, hitting Haziz's deformed body.

The first thunder of judgment was the most powerful. It chiseled at the third shield that had already been blasted to pieces by Pegasus and Fenrir, and the light cracks on it expanded a little in an instant.

The bombardment of Pegasus and Fenrir continued until a certain moment, when the last shield of Haziz the Curse-Binder was shattered!

His body was completely exposed to the bombardment of Luo Xiu, Pegasus and Fenrir. From Luo Xiu's detection on his panel, the health of "The Binder" Haziz had begun to drop drastically!
That's it... Make it impossible for "Cursed One" Haziz to escape the bombing circle, don't let him have any chance to release the curse, just destroy him like this... Luo Xiu thought to himself, and at the same time, he infused more spirituality into the "Poisonous Bite", once again strengthening the power of the holy art released.

During this time, the cooldown of "Dragon Thunder Burning Embers" had also expired, so Luo Xiu released "Thunder of Judgment" and "Dragon Thunder Burning Embers" alternately, and scarlet and golden lightning bombarded each other, leaving one burning scar after another on Haqizi's body. "Uh ah ah ah ah!" Just below, in the smoke where Haqizi was, Haqizi's painful wail was heard.

Haziz's condition at this time was "seriously injured" and he was quickly entering the "near death" stage. There was only a trace of blood left before he could be truly killed.

However, just as Luo Xiu was monitoring his panel, when Haziz's health was about to "return to zero", a circle of scarlet light suddenly appeared around him, and a surging spiritual impact suddenly spread outward with him as the origin!
——Boom! Bang! Fenri, who was closest to the inner circle, was immediately swept away by the scarlet air wave. The "Golden Pegasus" was also affected, and the flying star shot towards Haziz collided with the cursed light surge from Haziz, and a dense mist of light bloomed in the air.

The Cursed Bound Haziz, whose body had been blasted to pieces and was on the verge of death, recovered a little in an instant. His health also rose from 1% back to 30%, briefly escaping from the state of near death.

——He also has the ability to be immune to fatal damage!
When Luo Xiu detected Haziz's panel, he quickly found a corresponding item in his expertise column.

Luo Xiu's attention was quickly turned back to Haziz. He saw that the blood-red tentacles that had emerged from all over his body had begun to grow again. The power of the curse was also condensing into substance around him, and his body was also expanding at an extremely strange speed.

He wanted to self-destruct! The self-destruction of the Curse Binder could release the curse to the greatest extent... Luo Xiu knew this very well.

But he would not give Haziz this last chance.

While seeing Haziz's body expanding, Luo Xiu had already raised the "Poisonous Bite" and infused sufficient spirituality into it.

——"Poisoned Fangs"!
Luo Xiu activated the inherent skill of the staff and detonated all the "poison" marks at the same time!
——Boom boom boom boom! The 100 layers of "poison" marks that had been stacked up by "Holy Light Annihilation", "Thunder of Judgment" and "Dragon Thunder Burning Embers" all exploded at the same time!

This time, the "origin" damage of a full 50% of his health, minus Haziz's resistance reduction, still reduced his health back to 1 point!
And this only one point of life also came from Haziz's other expertise of locking blood, but it was of no avail.

Haziz's body then exploded with a loud bang, and those wriggling tentacles and cursed flesh were instantly blown to pieces. The dark green poison ran through his body and began to constantly gnaw and erode his flesh.

"No...no..." Haziz groaned in despair, but it was too late to stop the collapse of his body.

Visibly, Haziz's body collapsed after a struggle and the red mist containing the curse was gradually drifting away and dissipating.

The originally swollen and red piece of flesh also shrank rapidly, and the disordered spirituality used to "self-destruct" leaked out like air.

At the same time, the massive curses that had nowhere to be released began to "bite back" at their original hosts. Thorns began to grow out of Haziz's body again, but the "thorns" no longer stabbed his enemies, but himself.

At the same time, a huge amount of black blood gushed out of Haziz's mouth like a fountain and poured onto the ground. The black blood then turned into maggots, flies, and blood rats, which crawled, circled, and jumped around.

The backlash that Haziz suffered finally reduced his health to zero.

Because Luo Xiu was the one who caused the last damage before Haziz was cursed and died, the reward for the "kill" was also counted on Luo Xiu's head. After he confirmed that Haziz's kill reward appeared in his mailbox panel, he closed the panel and gave Fenrir another order.

The "cursed creatures" that had grown due to Haziz's death, after running around in the ownerless land for a while, began to spread to all parts of the battlefield. Fenrir, who had been blown away by the cursed air wave, immediately spewed burning holy flames at the maggots, blood rats, and flies in the air, burning all the remnants of the curse.

The body of Haziz was also burned up in Fenrir's holy flame. There was no longer any curse in the sea of ​​fire, only the charred remains of the previous fierce battle.

'The Cursed' Haziz, even if he is completely dead now... his curse is also destroyed, so my clergy and the army of Red Maple City will not suffer any losses... Luo Xiu thought about this, and then he gave Fenrir the order to move freely, and then rode the golden Pegasus to another battlefield.

……

"Haziz the Curse-Binder, he died in battle..."

Behind the pitch-black military camp, on the observation tower on the hillside, the "executioner" Afatak was gazing at the battlefield in the distance, muttering with a solemn look in his eyes.

He had not expected that Haziz would die so soon.

Afatak, who also had the fourth destiny, understood that the curtain of "curse" was not so easy to break through, and that was originally the basis for resisting the "high priest" of that church.

However, no one knows what means the "high priest" used, but the last and most crucial curse torrent that Haziz manipulated through the "curse curtain" was completely offset by the clergy of the church...

This fatal "mistake" eventually led to the breaking of the "Cursed Curtain", allowing the Red Maple City army to march into the heart of their own army!

The "executioner" Afatak, he could not figure out how the other party could do such a thing.

At that time, light was flowing in a chaotic manner, and even from a "spiritual" perspective, Afatak could not fully see what was happening.

He could only guess that it was a certain "authority" - the "authority" granted by the diocese before the "high priest" took office.

But does [Glory] really have such a Level I authority? Afatak wondered about this in his heart, and this doubt gradually crept up his brows, causing him to frown.

Unable to come up with an answer, Afatak simply gave up thinking and focused his attention on the battlefield ahead.

The death of "The Bound" Haziz would certainly put the overall battle situation at a disadvantage, but it did not cause any serious damage to Afatak.

After all, they, the "獠首", were outsiders to Afatak, and they could be used, so it wouldn't be a pity if they died...

A cold and gloomy expression gradually appeared on Afatak's face.

At the same time, his eyes turned to the forest not far away, where the real trump card of their Dark Vanguard Army was hidden.

And the "tamer" Klauer has also "awakened" the "trump card" and is ready to go into the battlefield at any time.

"It's time, Kadrak..."

Afatak said to the "giant" guard behind him without looking back:
"Go to the forest, find Claude, and tell him... it's time."

Just behind Afatak, a tall figure nodded slowly, then walked down the hillside with big strides and headed towards the forest.

Afatak said nothing more until the "guard" Kadrak left, but just looked deeply in the direction of the forest.

In a trance, he seemed to feel the gaze from the forest.

Right there in that forest, thousands of eyes were watching.

A greedy, frenetic, hungry gaze.

Those things that "should not exist" are about to rush out of the forest.

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(End of this chapter)