Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 283 [Lament of Death (Golden Legend)]

In Luo Xiu's sight, the body of the God of Death was visibly collapsing and turning into ashes at a rapid speed, and His remaining materials were gradually peeled off from His corpse.

There were about seven "Death and Birth Spirit Crystals".

Because the birth of the God of Death was incomplete, it did not form a complete crystal core of the true "birth of God" level, but the seven birth of death spirit crystals were at least of epic quality, and two of them had reached the level of "legendary" material.

Although according to the rules of the Holy See, such high-level materials cannot be owned by the clergy individually, and Hubert will ask Luo Xiu to recycle them later, this does not prevent Luo Xiu from taking some for himself first.

After the body of the Heir of Death and Birth God completely collapsed and turned into ashes, Luo Xiu walked to the place where he fell and bent down to pick up all the "Death and Birth Spirit Crystals" on the ground.

There were two "Death Birth Crystal Blocks" and five "Death Birth Residual Crystals" in total. Luo Xiu put them into the bracelet, intending to embezzle one piece each and then store them in the Lost Royal Court.

Afterwards, Luo Xiu walked towards the place where the God of Death emerged from the surface.

What appeared in front of Luo Xiu was a huge pit that was big enough to swallow an entire small manor.

At the bottom of the pit was the base where the "Bishop of the Dead" Passaro once hid, and there were still some places that Luo Xiu wanted to explore there.

Because during the entire process of purifying the "Death Birth God's Heir", the "Bishop of the Dead" Passaro did not actually appear. Regardless of his current state of being dead or alive, according to Luo Xiu's guess, he should still be in the original stronghold.

And Passaro's "legacy" must have been left there. After the threat from Koros was resolved, Hubert would definitely come back to "reclaim" them. Before that, Luo Xiu also planned to plunder the stronghold first.

After all, Passaro is the "Bishop", and he must have a lot of good things in his hands.

With this thought in mind, a bright golden light appeared on Luo Xiu's palm. After casting several protective sacred spells on himself, he jumped into the deep cave in front of him.

……

dark.

There was no light at the bottom of the giant cave. The air here was extremely damp and stagnant, and the smell of death and corruption seemed to permeate every corner.

Wow! There was a shaking sound, and Luo Xiu turned his spirituality over in his palm. His brilliant spirituality had transformed into a swaying flame.

With minimal lighting around him, Luo Xiu could see clearly that he was in an entire underground cave that was sunken inward.

The bodies of more than a dozen pagans were curled up and embedded in the surrounding rock walls. Their bodies were shriveled, as if the last bit of moisture had been sucked out of their bodies. Their wrinkled faces looked terrifying and weird.

In the very center of this underground cave, a emaciated body in tattered clothes lay there. His condition seemed better than the pagan corpses around him, but he had also lost his life.

That was the "Bishop of the Dead" Passaro Adoya, and he was indeed dead...

The panel detection of the corpse in front of him had confirmed this, so Luo Xiu quickly walked in front of Passaro.

In Luo Xiu's eyes, he saw that Passaro's face still had an expression of fear, unwillingness, and despair. His eyeballs bulged out to an exaggerated degree, and he was holding a pitch-black staff tightly in his hand.

When he saw the staff, Luo Xiu suddenly felt a strong sense of familiarity.

——That was when the old man who was suspected to be the bishop of the "Ancient Hermitage" bought the Staff of the Dead during the antique auction at the "Black Sword Mansion"!

In other words, the "Bishop of the Dead" Passaro Adorya was indeed the old man who participated in the antique auction at that time. At that time, he had exchanged a piece of "Fragment of King Isol's Crown" from him... Luo Xiu thought with a sigh.

At that time, Luo Xiu did think that this old man of unknown origin might become an enemy, but now, "Bishop of the Dead" Passaro could never threaten him again.

Luo Xiu's gaze fell on the necromancer staff held tightly in his hand.

This staff is a little different from the one I saw at the "Antique Auction".

Passaro seemed to have made some renovations to it and embedded some ancient, mysterious engravings into it, which made Luo Xiu feel a sense of danger.

When he first saw it, Luo Xiu judged that the quality of this necromancer's staff should be "epic". But now, it may have reached "legendary"!
Luo Xiu then leaned over, pried open Passaro's fingers one by one, and took the necromancy staff out of his clenched hands.

When the staff really fell into Luo Xiu's hands, Luo Xiu's panel showed its weapon interface.

[Equipment Name: Lament of Death (Golden Legend)]

[Equipment type: Staff/Extraordinary weapon]

[Equipment efficiency: Mana consumption reduced by 35%, health absorption increased by 35%]

[Equipment bonus: Divine attribute +76, Perception attribute +83]

[Equipment requirements: any fifth level of destiny, divinity attribute 326+, perception attribute 128+]

【Equipment Features List】

[Cursed Soul Cage (Weapon Characteristics/Inherent): "Death Lament" has the ability to capture, seal souls, and transform them into undead spirits. Currently captured undead spirits: 83 (First level: 2, second level: 13, third level: 48, fourth level: 20)]

[Evil Spirits (Active Skill/Inherent): Summon Evil Spirits of different strengths based on the number and strength of the undead spirits sealed in the "Cursed Spirit Cage". Evil Spirits are immune to physical damage, and every 5 times they cause effective damage, they will inflict a random curse of moderate effect on the target. A maximum of 3 Evil Spirits can exist at the same time, and each time they die, a certain number of undead spirits will be consumed to revive.]

[Death Lament (Passive skill/Inherent): When attacking with "Death Lament", there is a 1% chance of inflicting an instant death curse on the target. As the target is hit multiple times, the chance of inflicting an instant death curse on the target will gradually increase to 50%. After successfully inflicting an instant death curse on the target, subsequent attacks will advance the time for the instant death curse to be activated. (This passive skill can be turned off)]

【…】

As expected, it has turned into a "legendary" quality staff... Looking at the contents on the panel, Luo Xiu looked thoughtful.

"Lament of Death", this is a very standard staff suitable for the [Lost] spellcaster.

Although Luo Xiu is not a [Lost] transcendent, this staff also has a certain strength in his hands.

Moreover, the more crucial point is that -

As the lord of the "Holy Abyss" and as a "Shura", Luo Xiu indeed lacks a weapon that matches this identity!
All of his current powerful weapons are under the identity of the church leader "Rosius Carlos".

Although he has not been acting as "Shura" recently, he still needs to make some preparations for this.

The weapon "Lament of Death", which cannot be used in Luo Xiu's surface identity and is also banned by the Holy Court, is very suitable for use under the identity of "Shura".

Although it is not a special weapon, it is enough to hold up the appearance.

While Luo Xiu was thinking about all this, he was also thinking about another thing - so far, he often looked for the dwarf Mil to forge equipment and weapons.

Although he had purchased various puppet masks from Mil before, with his current status, he obviously could not buy or customize too many taboo things from Mil without any precautions.

Like when the Horn of Epirus was given to Mir, Mir had expressed his resistance to things that were too taboo.

"Holy Abyss" will continue to grow in the future. Based on this point, Luo Xiu cannot assign too many related customized jobs to him.

In the final analysis, the conclusion is that Luo Xiu needs to find a new blacksmith. Find a blacksmith who can serve the "Holy Abyss" exclusively and is not resistant to taboos.

For this, Luo Xiu already had a candidate in mind.

——That was Balin, the ghost craftsman of [Ku Tu], who was hiding in his birthplace, "Chenxi Town"! Luo Xiu was going to pack up and take away the secret organization behind him.

With this thought in mind, Luo Xiu decided not to linger any longer.

He took one last look at the base and found a box on a small round table deep inside. Inside was a ring inlaid with a Deep Magic Crystal.

There seemed to be some forbidden powers and knowledge of skills related to "Lost" sealed in it - but this thing was of no use to Luo Xiu, and he planned to hand it over directly to Hubert. After all, he couldn't just search the stronghold and then tell others that he didn't find any spoils.

Apart from the "Lament of Death" and this ring, there is nothing else of value in this stronghold.

Luo Xiu then activated the seal of "The Lost Royal Court", came to the giant palace and stored the "Death Birth Spirit Crystal" and "Death's Lament" here, then teleported back to the real world, took the Deep Ring and left the stronghold.

……

--puff! !
Thomas pierced through the body of the deformed undead in front of him with a sword, and completed the final purification of the undead before the last dozen points of blood were exhausted.

So far, he had purified a total of six undead spirits in this crisis at the cost of one death and resurrection.

——Six undead spirits! Apart from the killing rewards that could be given by purifying the undead spirits, he could already obtain up to 5,000 experience points in the settlement of the limited-time mission [Disaster of the Birth of Death]!
At that time, you can raise your level to the current upper limit in one fell swoop!

Maybe there will be a little left...Speaking of how to advance after reaching the level cap? The priest I just talked to told me that I need to get a bronze "key" and master a skill called "glorious engraving"...Thomas thought excitedly, and he was full of expectations for these things.

While he was purifying the last undead, the group of deformed undead that were fighting another player not far from him suddenly dispersed. Their bodies suddenly trembled and then fell down.

Thomas saw that black smoke was billowing from the bodies of the undead, and their blood volume was rapidly decreasing, returning to zero in an instant before Thomas could react.

——I forgot to finish off the enemy! Thomas suddenly realized.

He thought with some regret, and then found that almost all the undead in the field were limp and smoking, and melted quickly like ice under the sunlight.

The dark liquid that had been flowing everywhere before also began to emit smoke like the undead. The black color soon faded, and the flowing liquid gradually turned into real water, gurgling into the gutter beside the street.

Is this... the end? Thomas thought in a daze, holding the sword.

Suddenly, as if he had realized something, Thomas looked up at the sky beside him, towards the location of the huge black pillar of light.

The beam of light had been completely shattered, and the ominous aura that made people's hearts palpitate had almost disappeared without a trace. The "Death Birth God Heir" had been completely purified...

This made Thomas, who had just experienced a fierce battle, feel a little dazed. A prompt for mission completion suddenly popped up on his panel, but Thomas did not open it immediately.

He recalled the scene he had seen before—the heir of the God of Death with a huge baby head suddenly flew into the sky, and two figures emitting dazzling golden light shot out from the side in his direction, and one of them was the "high priest" of the church, Luo Xiu Carlos...

Then, a crack suddenly appeared in the sky above the Heir of Death and Birth of God, and countless dazzling golden meteors fell from it. They fell heavily on the Heir of Death and Birth of God, and the dazzling golden light burst out and shattered above His head, accompanied by the Heir of Death and wailing miserably, and fell back into the ground with Him...

Thomas saw clearly that it was the holy magic summoned by the "High Priest" Rossu Carlos!

Thomas was so moved by the powerful and sacred beauty that he couldn't help but express a deep yearning in his heart.

"If only I could be as strong as him..."

"I heard that the high priest is only at the fourth level of destiny... Well, with the player buff bonus, as long as I keep playing and sacrifice more than other players, I will definitely reach his level soon..."

"..."

Thomas murmured, he raised his head and saw Connor, the captain of their "Holy Patrol Team". He also raised his head and stared blankly in the direction where the dark light column was shattered.

There was a dazed, disbelieving look in his eyes, which made Thomas feel a little confused.

Captain Connor... he seemed to be surprised by the powerful performance of "High Priest" Luo Xiu Carlos? This is not right... Haven't these native priests ever seen their boss take action?
Thomas thought to himself, and out of curiosity he walked to Connor's side and asked him:

"What are you looking at, Captain?"

"..."

"Promoted..." Connor muttered absentmindedly.

Promoted? Thomas was a little confused, but he heard Connor muttering to himself:
"Luo Xiu...he has been promoted again..."

"He has already reached the fifth level of destiny... wu... the fifth level of destiny..."

"..."

Inexplicably, Thomas seemed to hear a hint of tears in Connor's voice.

But he didn't notice this, instead he widened his eyes in shock at what he just heard -

The fifth level of destiny! Captain Connor actually said that Luo Xiu Carlos already has the fifth level of destiny!
And according to the information he had collected before, the people in charge of the other two garrisons in Red Maple City - "Bian Ting" and "Fang Bei Yuan" - were also at the fourth level of their destiny!
The leader of the church, Ross Carlos, has already reached the fifth level of destiny!
This could not but shock Thomas, because this new piece of news completely overturned his understanding of the distribution of Red Maple City's combat power levels.

The other golden figure who appeared with the high priest of the church and attacked the Heir of Death and Birth seemed to be at the same level as Ross Carlos.

In other words - when the strongest people in Bian Ting and Fang Bei Yuan were only at the "fourth level of destiny", the church already had two super-powerful people at the "fifth level of destiny"? !

Now I have to join the church! .jpg
When Thomas learned this, the expression on his face became more and more excited.

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(End of this chapter)