Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 327 Mutation
All the "Hidden Elders" of the Black Crystal Factory have been killed, and the saints of [Glory] have gathered together to prepare for the final cleanup.

But Luo Xiu suddenly felt that the ground seemed to shake violently, making him almost unstable.

"——Buzz! Buzz!"

At the same time, Luo Xiu heard a sharp, piercing buzzing sound in his ears.

——Those puppets from the battlefield that are in a state of violent overload!
The puppets around did not stop functioning due to the death of the "Hidden Elders" Elius and Gattuso!
On the contrary, since Gattuso's death, these puppets, which are without a master, have exuded even more violent spiritual reactions!
This was an abnormal situation, and Luo Xiu, who was aware of something, immediately looked at Gattuso's body.

He saw that Gattuso died with his eyes wide open, with an expression of fear and despair on his face, but the corners of his mouth were raised unnaturally, as if he was excited because he had successfully done something -

His fingers!

Luo Xiu quickly noticed Gattuso's fingers.

In his hand he held a piece of prismatic stone engraved with crimson lines. His fingers were embedded deeply into the stone like thorns, and a dark liquid with a foul odor gushed out from the center of the stone!

The liquid seeped into the cracks in the ground and within a short time after Gattuso's death, it had eroded into the deep rock strata!
Something "blew" as a result, and the entire factory seemed to have activated a final program, and the surrounding temperature rose rapidly, visibly to the naked eye.

In Luo Xiu's field of vision, the air in front of him began to twist and shake obviously due to the sudden increase in temperature, and all the movable puppets around him were also howling and running wildly, converging towards the center!
They entangled themselves with each other, and extended biological, sticky tentacles from the gaps to connect with each other.

More and more puppets have gathered together, hundreds of "twisted", dozens of "mad" and four "natural disaster" puppets, they are spontaneously merging to create a more powerful and terrifying "puppet"!
That is not the method described in "Said's Notes", but one of the most core forbidden knowledge possessed by the "Hidden Omniscients".

Right in front of Luo Xiu, hundreds of horrific puppets had merged and combined to form an extremely huge and strange shape.

It looked like a giant covered in mud, but on its "head" there were thousands of eyes like flies, flashing dense scarlet spots of light.

Its upper body is an extremely bloated steel body, with dozens of extremely long arms "growing" from irregular positions in the front, back, left and right. Half of them are holding up the head, and the other half are supporting the ground downwards, supporting the huge body.

Its lower body looked like a snake, or more like a giant worm, and it was deeply embedded in the ground. There seemed to be a strange light flowing on it.

Even for Luo Xiu, it was the first time he saw such a scene.

——[Aggregate Puppet·Violent Type III (lv.59)]!
On Luo Xiu's panel, the name and level of the monster in front of him were already displayed.

And under Luo Xiu's gaze, the tangled and twisted "aggregate magic puppet" had quickly broken through the limitations of "natural disaster" and was about to truly sublimate into the "destruction" level!

"--Roar!!!"

It roared, and its spiritual aura soon surpassed that of everyone present, and all this happened in just a moment -

Before it truly broke through the shackles and sublimated into "destruction", Luo Xiu took action.

He quickly mounted the back of the "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus, rushed to the front of the "aggregate puppet", and raised his arms towards it!
Golden lines flashed on the back of his hand, and an imprint of authority quickly took shape!
——“The Holy Seal of Breaking the Vows”!
Oh!

A light pattern with the same pattern as the holy seal on the back of Luo Xiu's hand was "imprinted" in mid-air and flew quickly towards the direction of the gathering magic puppet.

The holy seal hit it quickly, and a layer of bright golden light immediately appeared on the twisted monster's body!

At the same time, the aggregated puppet did break through the "destruction", but the violent power had not yet stabilized.

It kept roaring, but dozens of peripheral puppets were "peeled off" from its body like shaking a sieve!
The separated puppets soon fell heavily to the ground. They kept crawling towards the direction of the aggregated puppets, as if they wanted to return to the huge body, but the broken spiritual link could not connect them again.

The puppets that combine to form the huge body of the "aggregate puppet" are indeed "alien" spirits!
The holy seal cast on the aggregate puppet worked, Luo Xiu thought quickly in his mind.

At the same time, he turned around and shouted to the other five Glory clergy:
“——【Seal of Severing Discipline】!”

Among the five people, "The Enlightener" Richester and "The Shining Knight" Adele held the holy seal of [Severance of the Rings]. They reacted quickly, and rushed towards the aggregate puppet, showing it the back of their hands.

Two golden holy seals floated, and two holy seal light patterns belonging to [Breaking the Vows] appeared again in the air above the head of the gathering magic puppet.

They fell rapidly and landed heavily on the body of the aggregate puppet!

"--Roar!!!"

The aggregate puppet hit by the [Break the Ring] Seal was still roaring, and its dozens of arms were waving wildly towards Luo Xiu, Richester and Adele.

It seemed to want to resist something, but it could not stop the process of spiritual breaking within itself.

——Crash! The dozens of puppets that made up its body peeled off from it and rolled down like a flood.

The remaining three "Shining Knights" rushed towards the stripped puppets, slashing with the Shining Holy Swords in their hands, and completely annihilated them in the holy light.

Just as Luo Xiu was detecting the aggregate puppet through the panel, its level first froze at the moment it reached lv.68, and then began to fall rapidly.

From level 68, to level 65, to level 63... Although it has indeed been sublimated to "Calamity Destruction", the threat is constantly reduced under the effect of the three "Sacred Seals of Severing Discipline".

Its level stopped falling only when half of the puppets that made up its huge body were completely peeled off!

It eventually stopped at level 61, but even so, the surging spiritual reaction within its body surpassed that of everyone present.

But it is still in a weak state having lost most of its strength, so taking advantage of this state, Luo Xiu, Richester and Adele unreservedly launched a massive attack on it!

Beams of light rose from under the feet of the aggregated puppet, several rings of magic array flashed with brilliant golden light, and the holy flame of annihilation fell on its head like a torrential rain!

——Boom! Boom boom boom!

The aggregated puppets also fought back fiercely, and scarlet rays penetrated the light layer of the golden mist and suddenly shot towards everyone!

Luo Xiu, whose outline was hit by the ray, had his "Triple Holy Guard" shield shattered on the spot. This meant that in a very short period of time, Luo Xiu had been attacked by more than 50% of his maximum health at least three times!

The shield of "God's Glory" has been flashing with bright light, which is a sign of shield refresh.

[Polymer Golem: Violent Type III]... I approve of this aggressiveness...

Luo Xiu muttered in his mind as he saw that dozens of gun barrels on the aggregated puppet were aiming at him again. He quickly cast a new [Triple Holy Guard] on himself and continued to suppress the aggregated puppet with his holy magic!
——Boom! Boom boom boom!

With "Glorious Knight" Adele as the vanguard to attract the main firepower, Luo Xiu and Richester continued to pour rain of holy light on it, making the damage on its body more serious.

And after dealing with the puppets that were stripped away from their locations, "Holy Flame Wolf King" Fenrir, "Burning Feather Raven" Misty Night, and "Golden Pegasus" also joined the battle to attack the aggregated puppets and supplemented the firepower.

There was also the "Double-Winged Angel" Tatia. "She" had already flashed to the commanding heights, and the Radiant weapon in her hand had transformed into a slender holy bow. She bent the bow and shot several brilliant white arrows at the aggregated puppet, which continuously pierced through her huge body!
"--Roar!!!"

The aggregated puppet was still roaring, but the power that penetrated the golden mist and counterattacked the saints of [Glory] had obviously weakened.

Not long after, the three "Shining Knights" who were responsible for clearing out the stripped puppets also joined the battle to defeat the aggregated puppets after completing their mission, which suddenly reduced the pressure on Luo Xiu, Richester and Adele.

As Luo Xiu continued to monitor the aggregate puppet through the panel, its health slowly dropped under the siege of the six [Glorious] saints, and finally fell below half.

But at the same time, the health of the aggregate puppet just dropped by half.

“——Roar!!!” It suddenly let out an unprecedented roar, then swung its tail and rushed towards the center of the factory!
Its power was so great that the "Shining Knights" Evans and Adele who stood in front of it could not stop it at all. They could only chase after it with their holy swords.

Luo Xiu, "The Enlightener" Richester, "The Shining Knight" Gulanbato and Had also chased after it, trying to stop it.

Although he didn't know what the Gathering Golem was trying to do, and what instructions the "Hidden Elders" such as Gattuso and Elius had implanted in it, Luo Xiu always had a bad feeling in his heart -

Under Luo Xiu's gaze, the aggregated puppet had rushed to the very center of the bottom of the core, and the eight slender arms that had not been removed began to dig into the ground frantically!

The black, copper and dark blue colors on its body were also rapidly turning into scarlet!
The temperature, which was already scorching hot before, rose significantly again after the mutation occurred on the aggregate puppet!

In Luo Xiu's perception, he felt like he was being roasted by the air like a raging fire - if the temperature was measured according to the standard in his previous life, he was in a huge oven with a temperature of over 500 degrees Fahrenheit!

With such a temperature, if it were an ordinary person or a transcendent whose destiny was below the third level, they would have been roasted to a crisp in despair...

Luo Xiu thought to himself.

Even he, his exposed skin turned red due to the high temperature, and his robe began to burn in small areas.

Looking around, the other "Glory" saints were in a similar situation. Some of the paladin armor on several "Glorious Knights" had even turned red and emitted light white smoke.

Sensing that the surrounding environment would become even worse, the saints of [Glory] infused more spirituality into the "holy art", and the output intensity of the aggregated puppets was raised to a new level.

Brilliant light burst out, dust and smoke filled the air, and the air was gradually filled with the smell of burning iron. The roar of the aggregated puppets also gradually weakened.

But its eight digging arms had already dug down to a depth of three or four meters, revealing the surface of something buried underground.

Dynamite!

——It’s all explosives!
Buried at the bottom of the Black Crystal Factory was extremely high-density explosives!
The "Shining Knights" Adele and Evans, who were nearby, suddenly changed their expressions when they saw this scene. They drew their holy swords and rushed away from the aggregation puppet.

While running wildly, Evans shouted to his fellow members of the Glorious Army:
"Get out!"

"Get away from it, retreat quickly!"

As early as when the aggregate puppet dug up the last layer of soil on the pile of explosives, Luo Xiu had already seen clearly what was buried there, and rushed in the opposite direction almost at the same time as Adele and Evans.

The expression on his face was not good either. Luo Xiu still underestimated the madness of the "Hidden Omniscient" group of forbidden [Intellectual] believers -

Killing the "Hidden Elders" Elius and Gattuso is far from the end. The "aggregate puppets" that appeared later and the huge amount of explosives buried underground... When they built this factory underground, they had already designed its destruction!
"--Roar!!!"

The aggregated puppet howled, and its entire body suddenly burst into a scarlet light, and scorching flames began to burn from the ends of its limbs!
Richester, Gulanbato and Had reacted a little later and fled right after Luo Xiu, Evans and Adele!

While Luo Xiu was riding the "Golden Pegasus" wildly, he recalled Fenrir and Wu Ye at the same time, and recalled the "Double-Winged Angel" Tatya——

--boom!!!!!

The moment the gate of heaven that recalled Tatia closed, Luo Xiu's vision was filled with complete paleness.

His ears only heard a huge roar at the beginning, and then he could hear nothing. He only felt something trembling at a very fast speed, like a twisted thread, dragging out a sharp and thin sound -

The rising waves behind him rushed towards him like a tsunami, blowing both him and the "Golden Pegasus" away.

Luo Xiu only felt that his body was like a fallen leaf in the vast ocean, being carried away by the tide, drifting aimlessly and randomly.

It was not until his lower back hit something extremely sharp and the intense pain, almost tearing his heart and lungs, enveloped him that he realized it belatedly.

……

Until the aftermath of the explosion dissipated.

Luo Xiu slowly opened his eyes and saw the starry sky without any clouds.

The intense pain was still surging and devouring him, but he endured the pain and the first thing he did was to open his panel.

His shield was completely shattered, and his health points were blown away by half by the explosion. He is now in a "severely injured" state.

But fortunately I’m not on the verge of death… Luo Xiu thought with some relief.

Thanks to the many expertise he had acquired previously that enhanced his physical strength, he was much more resilient than other clergymen of the same level, which allowed him to move even when he was "seriously injured".

He then supported himself on the broken stone beside him, stood up tremblingly, and looked at the "Black Crystal Factory" in front of him that had turned into a sinkhole...

The other five "Glorious" saints who were previously in the basement of the factory were nowhere to be found. The first living people Luo Xiu saw were the saints who were guarding outside and suppressing Baberon.

They seemed to be shocked by the sudden and violent explosion and were searching for their comrades in the tiankeng. A "Glorious Knight" Olivia turned her head and saw Luo Xiu, so she trotted over.

"Are you okay?" Olivia asked Luo Xiu, "What happened underground just now? Such a violent explosion..."

"I'm fine." A forced smile appeared on Luo Xiu's pale face. "The two 'hidden elders' below are already dead, but the means they used to counterattack before dying were a bit too violent..."

"What about you? As I recall, you should be suppressing Baberon..."

"Raymond has him [imprisoned]."

Seeing that Luo Xiu was at least not in danger of death, Olivia breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"You should take a rest first. Or, if you still have the strength, please help us search for the whereabouts of our other comrades... I'm counting on you."

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(End of this chapter)