Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 280 Fierce Battle (5k)

Heir of the Dead God? Just from hearing his name, Thomas felt a strong sense of shock and uneasiness.

In his eyes, the huge, black baby head was still struggling, constantly fleeing upwards along the direction of the black light column, as if trying to break free from some kind of restraints.

The dazzling golden light that kept shooting at him from below knocked him down again and again. He kept making shrill, sharp explosions, and the terrifying waves coming from the center became deeper and more violent.

——Boom! Boom! Huge noises continued to come from the center of Gusta Street. Suddenly, in Thomas's sight, the black light column suddenly shattered, and fragments of black gas quickly splashed out in the surroundings!

At the corner of Thomas's street, a thick, foul-smelling black liquid surged in like a tide. They were like tangled, twisted black maggots, rapidly approaching Thomas' feet.

"Hiss... Hiss..." A heart-pounding roar emerged from the strange ripples that continued to rise on the surface of the black water. Huge bubbles began to swell and burst, and hands with separated flesh and bones stretched out from them.

The thing crawled out quickly. One, ten, then hundreds of "Undead" were born from the black water. They were twisted and hunched like zombies, and their pus-filled, smelly "eyes" glanced around randomly.

Afterwards, they all turned their gazes to the "Holy Judge" Connor and the "Adventers" behind him.

What the hell is this? It's so disgusting... Thomas looked at the scene in front of him and his hands consciously clenched the sword.

The moment those monsters appeared, Thomas detected them through the panel.

【Deformed Undead (lv.7)】

[Race: Undead/Unintelligent Undead]

Threat Level: Dangerous

[Health: 153/153, Mana: 15/15]

[Physical Attack: 32, Spell Attack: 2, Defense Reduction: 10]

[Attributes: Strength 16, Constitution 15, Agility 12, Wisdom 1, Divinity 3, Perception 6, Resistance 10, Luck 1]

【…】

——Deformed Undead! Their total attributes are double that of the players, and they have a physical attack of up to 32 points. Thomas calculated that even with his own resistance and defense reduction, if he was hit by a deformed undead three times, he would die on the spot!

However, even so, Thomas still felt excited, more excited than ever before.

This is the first monster he has encountered since he came into this game as an "Adventurer"!

Compared to the serious and solemn "patrol", the bloody scene is more interesting!
When he thought this, most of the players around him had the same idea as him.

Just as Thomas was about to make a move, preparing to wait for "Inquisitor" Connor and other priests to attack first, and then he would find a "Deformed Undead" to chop it down.

Light and shadows flickered before his eyes, and it seemed that he had received a new task.

[Trigger limited-time mission: The calamity of death (?? difficulty)]

[Recommended level: lv.10, double destiny and above]

[Task type: time-limited task (countdown 2h59min56s)]

[Mission Description: The "Deathborn God" has arrived. He devoured the remnants of death and gave birth to countless deformed undead spirits, which are now roaming the streets of the city. It is your duty as a "Church Patrolman" to purify them and prevent them from spreading.]

[Main mission objective: Purify as many "Deformed Undead" as possible (Currently 0/2378, the number of "Deformed Undead" you have purified: 0)]

[Challenge Mission Objective: Purify the "Death Birth God"]

[Completion Reward: Basic Experience +2000; Purify "Deformed Undead" to get additional basic experience 500*kill count; Purify 3 "Deformed Undead" or more to get the "Rare" quality specialty "Demonic Breaker"! ]

[Rewards for completing the challenge: Basic experience +200000, "Legendary" quality specialty "Hunting God's Heir"! ]

【…】

Mission! And it was a "limited time mission"! Thomas paid close attention and quickly browsed through it, his already excited spirit becoming even higher.

For this mission, as long as everyone resolves the crisis created by the "Deathborn God", they will get a basic 2000 experience points, and as long as they kill a "deformed undead" in front of them, they can get another experience points... Great! So good! The speed of gaining experience this way is many times faster than that of the [New Home]!
Moreover, as long as you kill three "deformed undead", you can obtain a "rare" quality specialty... Thomas's mouth corners have curled up in a subtle arc.

In addition, this mission also has a "challenge target" - the reward for purifying the "Death and Birth God's Heir", which is an astronomical figure in Thomas' eyes at this time!
Putting aside the fact that purifying the "Deathborn God's Heir" could gain a "Legendary" quality feat, Thomas didn't know how to spend the 200,000 experience points if he could really get them...

However, Thomas still had a good idea of ​​his current strength - "I fight the heir of God?" This thought was strangled as soon as it emerged in his mind. He decided to focus on the present and focus on purifying these "deformed undead".

If this were a stand-alone game with a "save" function, Thomas would have to die a little to experience the "birth of a god". But this is an online game, if he lags behind other players and misses out on these key early rewards, it would be a big loss.

Even if it is a "deleted data test", it is good to be in the first tier of player strength and to explore the way for the official public beta. At least you can know more than most players and avoid many detours.

Thomas thought that the majority of players had the same idea as Thomas, but it was not ruled out that there were a few stubborn players who insisted on testing their mettle with the "Death Birth God's Heir".

However, since it was just a "deleted data test", Thomas did not stop them. He just quietly opened the chat channel and waited to watch the show.

While Thomas was browsing the panel and communicating with other players around him in the chat channel, "Inquisitor" Connor had taken a step forward.

"These are very dangerous enemies, but you, the swords in your hands are enough to purify them." Connor only said this, and then the hammer in his hand drew a golden circle in the air.

The other clergymen of the "first destiny" stood behind Connor and began to pray, summoning simple and easy holy light balls.

"——Roar!" The dozen or so undead in the front row seemed to have sensed the movement here, and they twisted their bodies and rushed towards Connor.

There was no special reaction on Connor's face. He just swung his hammer forward, and the golden ring flew towards the undead.

Then, with a loud "bang", the golden ring exploded at the center of the gathering of the undead. The golden light mist immediately spread, covering the thick death energy emitted by the monsters, and the three still howling undead were instantly turned into ashes!
So powerful! Thomas couldn't help but marvel at the Holy Judge Connor's use of this holy technique.

Connor opened the first gap, and other priests of the "first level of destiny" also threw holy light balls at the group of undead. Although they could not cause obvious and considerable damage like Connor, under the concentrated fire of multiple holy light balls, two undead were still annihilated in the golden light.

The first wave of the Undead's charge was blocked, and the players immediately launched a counterattack against the wave of monsters. They charged forward fearlessly and soon engaged in a fierce battle with the Undead monsters.

"Wait a minute..." Connor looked at the scene in front of him in shock. He had planned to stabilize the situation with the church clergy, and then let the newly recruited "church guards" join the battle, so as to ensure their safety as much as possible.

Connor knew that a battle like this was no joke, but what he didn't expect was... this batch of "Church Patrolmen" would be so fearless of life and death. Their faces were filled with a desire for battle, as if they were born to fight on the battlefield!
This made Connor's originally prepared tactics instantly ineffective. He temporarily switched to prayer and picked up his warhammer to join the close combat.

……

After Luo Xiu assisted the "Holy Deacon" Hubert to blast open the ground in the center of Gusta Street, a thick column of light containing a large amount of death spirituality shot up into the sky. Then, a huge head of the "Heir of the Dead God" emerged from the crack, trying to break out of the blockade set up by Hubert and Luo Xiu.

But he failed. When he was about to climb the black light to escape, a shining golden hammer was thrown upward from below with terrifying force and hit his body accurately, knocking him down from the sky!

"So...hungry..." The "Deathborn God's Heir" was still murmured like a baby, but his voice was trembling, as if he was hiding some intense pain. The golden hammer thrown by Hubert soon returned to Hubert's hand. He just looked coldly at the body of the God's Heir of the [Lost] Original Mother, which was stitched and spliced ​​together from pieces of rotten flesh, and finally infused with "true divinity" by some taboo means.

The huge head like a baby was almost the entirety of his body. Two arms that seemed puffy and short compared to the head were hanging on both sides of his head, looking twisted and weird.

Behind His neck was His hind body, long and ugly like a centipede. The underdeveloped body looked extremely deformed. Wisps of deep, ominous black mist enveloped Him, and the spirit of death was still emanating from it.

That is the "Death-Birth God's Heir"... Looking at such an ugly and twisted creature in front of him, Luo Xiu couldn't help but feel a strong sense of disgust from the bottom of his heart.

The moment He was forced out of the underground by Hubert and Luo Xiu, Luo Xiu had already completed the panel detection of Him.

[Incomplete Heir of the Dead God], that is a lv.52 monster, classified as a "god", and its threat level is at the disaster level, just like the "three-headed demon bull" Epiros who was previously trapped in the seal in the forest outside the city.

All of his attributes were ridiculously high, with "physique", "divinity" and "perception" being the highest, with all three attributes exceeding thousands.

Fortunately, He was not allowed to complete His birth completely, otherwise the complete form of the "Death-Birth God" would not be something Hubbard and I could handle... Luo Xiu thought with some relief.

Given the current situation, the strength of the "Death and Birth God" in front of him is not too outrageous and is still within the range that Luo Xiu can control.

Hubert was confronting the "Heir of the God of Death", while Luo Xiu was observing the battle situation and preparing for the prayer that would use the holy magic. At the same time, new content popped up on his panel.

That was to accept a new limited-time mission, [Disaster of Death]. The difficulty of the mission was an unknown indication of “?”, but the reward was quite generous.

Purifying the "deformed undead" born from the "Deathborn God's Heir" can not only get a lot of experience points as a reward, but also get a "rare" quality specialty "Breaker". In addition, completing the purification of the "Deathborn God's Heir" can also get 200,000 experience points and the legendary specialty "Hunting God's Heir", which made Luo Xiu's eyes flash with a deep light.

He knew that this limited-time task could be triggered by all players participating in the event. Through the sharing and discussion of players in the forums and channels, Luo Xiu had also confirmed this. Most of the players in the city had already known about this emergency and were gathering in the direction of Gusta Street, which was in line with Luo Xiu's purpose of guiding the players.

Afterwards, Luo Xiu hid the panel and began to concentrate on preparing for the battle with the "Death and Birth God" in front of him.

“——Roar!” Suddenly, the God of Death raised his huge head and let out a deafening roar.

The two short arms hanging around his neck immediately started to burn with black flames, and the centipede-like half of his body behind him quickly crawled on the ground and pounced towards Hubert.

He opened his arms at the same time, and the burning, forbidden black flames immediately formed two huge vortexes of fire, roaring and sweeping towards Hubert!

Crack! Wherever the black flame whirlwind passed, the houses instantly broke apart and collapsed like powder. The disintegrated and shredded parts circled on the edge of the whirlwind like sharp blades, and when they cut through the air, they made a crackling and exploding sound like a blade being drawn.

The air suddenly became stagnant, and Hubert's expression became more serious than ever.

He looked warily at the Heir of the God of Death who was rushing towards him madly, and at the same time recited some sacred and ancient prayer.

"——I declare this on the oath of cleansing my sins."

"—I pray in the name of Hubert."

"——My body, my soul, I carry everything on my back."

"——Everything is dedicated to the Lion of Heart."

Just before the whirlwind of black flames arrived, Hubert gripped the handle of the warhammer with both hands and raised it horizontally above his chest.

A circular shield shining with golden light appeared in front of him, separating him from the black flame whirlwind.

Behind Hubert, another illusory figure of a beast shining with golden light faintly emerged.

It was a pure white lion wearing armor.

It lay on Hubert's shoulder, its eyes burning with golden light fixed on the Heir of Death and Birth opposite it. In its hairy claws, a huge sword emitting dazzling light that could not be looked directly at was slowly condensing.

……

--boom!

Connor swung a hammer suddenly in front of him, and half of the body of a deformed undead was instantly shattered, while the other half of the body also twisted and turned into nothingness.

As a leader among the extraordinary people with the "Double Destiny", every swing of Connor's hammer will completely "purify" a deformed undead. Although the undead are still pouring towards Connor, they cannot pose much threat to him in a short period of time.

While accurately smashing the warhammer on the head of each "deformed undead", Connor was also paying attention to the battle of the "Church Guards" around him.

The enchanted swords assigned by the church to these "patrols" slashed the undead's bodies again and again with their sharp blades. The scorching golden light flowed over the cuts on the undead's bodies, constantly burning their dead flesh and blood.

"Hiss...Hiss!" The undead let out painful, shrill howls. Their deformed arms suddenly twisted into sharp claws dripping with black liquid, and they frantically clawed at the surrounding "Church Guards"!

Connor witnessed this scene. He was entangled by a dozen undead and could not go over to provide support. He could only wait for the inevitable outcome in anxiety and pessimism.

As Connor watched, the "Church Guards" who were at the front were suddenly surrounded by the undead monsters. They attacked the guards like crazy and quickly tore their bodies into pieces.

Blood continued to flow out from the broken limbs, gathering on the ground into a bloody, sticky pool of blood. More and more undead spirits surged up, "sharing" the bodies of the freshly killed patrolmen, and soon they had eaten them up.

"..." Looking at the hellish scene before him, even Connor, who had seen similar horrific scenes, couldn't control his eyes from twitching.

"May your souls go to the eternal heaven..." Connor prayed silently for the victims in his heart.

However, just as he finished praying for the sacrificed guards, he saw that in the center of the gathering of the undead, strands of white silk threads suddenly floated out, and "weaved" a new figure that was the same as the previously sacrificed guards on the open space not far away.

Just like puppets appearing out of thin air, their figures gradually changed from illusory to real, and the "patrolman" who had just died actually "came back to life" in front of Connor!

"......?" Looking at the strange changes happening in front of him, Connor's attention was completely shocked by such an incredible scene. He didn't even notice that his arm was scratched by the approaching undead and left a bloody scar.

The "reborn" patrolman swung his arms, excitement flashed across his face, and he shouted:

"——I'm fucking resurrected!!!"

Afterwards, even though the sword in his hand had been lost in the tide of undead, he still rushed into the pile of monsters in front of him without fear. Under the cover of other guards, he picked up the sword he had lost before and slashed at the nearest undead.

Just like when they first joined the battle, fanatical and fearless.

"..."

"Who are they?"

Connor muttered in a daze. He smashed the body of the approaching undead. At this moment, he felt that his worldview was collapsing rapidly.

……

(End of this chapter)