Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 383 Twenty Days Later
March 768, 3 in the Tianqi calendar.

The twentieth day of the public beta of "God's Destiny".

late at night.

Red Maple City, Mawei Street, Lane 13, Kailan.

--boom!

In the deep and dark alley, a huge noise suddenly erupted, and golden light bloomed from the long-dilapidated building. Two broken figures were swept away by the huge impact force, fell on the rugged ground of the alley, and smashed into the ravines on both sides that emitted a turbid smell.

They wore grey robes that almost completely covered their bodies, with only two holes punched in the cloth covering their heads to reveal their eyes. On the chest of their robes was a broken, flaming hand woven in red, and this strange pattern had been dyed red with their blood.

Their attire is very recognizable - and their identities are actually the secret followers of the "Burning Hands" who worship the way of the [Red Lotus].

Two secret followers of the double destiny of [Red Lotus] were now stuck in the stinking ditch, their flaming robes had been largely torn apart, revealing their skin underneath which had been severely burned.

Apparently, they were being hunted down—

"Cough cough..."

One of them coughed violently twice, black blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, his pupils trembled uncontrollably, and he looked at the opposite side in horror - looking at two golden figures slowly walking out of the broken door on the first floor of the building where they had fallen out before.

That was the "priest" holding a silver sickle and hammer, and wearing armor engraved with gold scales; and next to him was a paladin dressed in silver-white heavy armor, holding a giant sword taller than a man and engraved with sacred inscriptions in both hands.

They were approaching the two secret believers step by step, and the sacred aura emanating from their bodies made the two secret believers tremble.

Just now - about half an hour ago.

They suddenly appeared in the stronghold. A priest and a paladin picked off almost all the secret believers of the Burning Hand stationed there!

It’s not that the secret believers didn’t resist, but they couldn’t kill them no matter what, and they couldn’t kill the two “protectors” who suddenly appeared!
The church's "Protector of the Saints", the power represented by these three words, has become a synonym for fear in the hearts of the secret believers who have been dormant in Red Maple City for the past half month.

The fear that kept rising from the bottom of their hearts made the bodies of the secret believers tremble uncontrollably. They held on to the edge of the ditch with both hands, trying to pull their bodies out of the stinking ditch that they were deeply embedded in.

But they got stuck.

As soon as they fell out of the building, they crashed into the ditch. The bricks that had already loosened and formed the two walls of the ditch were completely collapsed by the impact, trapping the lower bodies of the secret believers inside.

No matter how hard they struggled, the secret believers could not dig themselves out of the stinking ditch, and the priests and paladins in front of them were getting closer and closer, and the weapons in their hands were once again bursting with fine golden light.

“Wait a minute!”

"Wait a minute, please..."

One of the secret followers began to wail. He no longer held his hands on his sides, but instead raised them above his head, making what he thought was a gesture of "surrender."

When another secret believer saw his companion doing this, he also raised his hands and begged for mercy from the two "protectors".

Just as they expected, the two "Guardians" of the church looked at each other, then stopped and squatted in front of them.

"me……"

As if seeing a ray of hope, a cultist's eyes sparkled with hope, and he said hurriedly:
"I know! I know where the money and treasures of our Burning Hand are hidden!"

"As long as you are willing to let me go...uh uh, those money and treasures, I am willing to give them all to you!"

When he said this, the secret believer on the other side widened his eyes, with expressions of shock and anger on his face.

It was not the anger caused by "betrayal", but the fact that the "companion" actually took the lead in grabbing this only life-saving straw!
"…oh?"

The priest showed an interested expression on his face. He first looked at the secret believer on the other side, whose eyes were filled with anger, and then asked the secret believer who was the first to beg for mercy:

"Where is that?"

"You-you have to let us go first, at least let me go..."

As if confirming the password of the survival door, the secret believer who was questioned said hurriedly:

"Let me go, I...I will take you there..."

"..."

"What do you think, old alligator?"

The "Priest" did not respond to the cultist's plea, but turned around and asked the "Paladin" beside him with a calm expression.

"Hey, let me try, Thomas—"

"A big crocodile stewed in an iron pot" - he suddenly laughed out loud under the visor of his paladin armor.

At the same time, he stood up and slammed the huge sword in his hand heavily to the ground, making a loud "clang" sound.

This made the two secret followers tremble violently, and they were obviously frightened by what he had just done.

"Tell me now where the money and treasure you spoke of are."

The eyes under the visor of the big crocodile swept directly towards the secret believer who had begged for mercy earlier.

But he was obviously frightened and could not utter a complete sentence for a long time. His fellow secret believer beside him suddenly saw a new way out and shouted loudly:
“——I! I know… I’m telling you now, so let… let me go!”

"you!"

The secret believer next to him suddenly came to his senses, and a look of shock and anger shifted to his eyes. He shouted angrily to his former comrade:

"You can't do that! Klauk! I said it first! I said it first!"

But the secret believer named Klauk did not respond to him, but just shouted loudly to the two "Saint Guardians" in front of him:

"It's just outside the city! In... in the bear cave on Mount Carmel!" "I, I've already told you! So... let me go!"

"..."

"My sister said?"

"?"

The big crocodile let out a hearty laugh from beneath his visor, then raised his giant sword and slammed it down on the head of "Kolak"!
--boom! !
The golden light surged again, and the temperature around it obviously rose a lot in an instant.

The upper body of "Kolak" melted in the terrifying annihilation light almost instantly, without even being able to utter a final scream.

Only the lower half of him was left - and the huge, horrifying fracture of his body that was severed at the waist had been burned into charcoal by the holy flame, without even a trace of blood gushing out.

Beside him, another secret believer's eyes were trembling almost crazily as he looked at the horrifying scene in front of him in disbelief.

His brain had shut down and his heart was filled with intense hatred and regret.

——Klok is a big bitch!

As long as he keeps the secret, he won't die... at least not so soon!

Just as he was about to say something to try to save his life, he suddenly felt his brain go blank, and the same strong golden light as before surged before his eyes -

--boom! ! !

Another "priest" - "Thomas the Tank Engine" also raised his hammer and the hammer enchanted by holy light instantly smashed the cultist's head into pieces.

[Kill Lukacs Balza (lv.14), gain 356 basic experience points]

【…】

The content of the kill reward quickly appeared on Thomas's panel.

He took a quick glance, confirmed that he had received the reward, and then closed the panel, making a "tsk" sound and said:

"What a pity, I didn't get any specialties."

Thomas complained as he opened his "Task Panel" at the same time. A commissioned task in it - [Judgment of the Burning Ashes (Difficult Difficulty)] was already in the "settled" completion state.

"I didn't get any explosions here either, but that's normal - the secret followers in this small base are still too weak."

The crocodile pulled out his giant sword from the half-broken corpse, shook off the blood stains on it, and put the giant sword back into the huge scabbard behind him. A voice came from under the helmet:

"It's not as good as the large base we cleared as a group before... Do you still remember the base of the Beast Temple, where there was a Beast Priest with the Fate of the Red Lotus Quadruple? Damn it, I was bitten to death by the dogs he released three times!"

“Haha, food!”

Thomas sneered as he squatted down and reached out to touch the body of the secret believer in front of him. After a skilled search, he took out two gold coins and four silver coins from the body of "Lukács Balza".

"He's quite rich, hey..."

Thomas smiled, threw the coins into the air, caught them with his palm, and put them back in his pocket.

"Now we can go back to the church and hand in the quest to clear out the small outpost of the Burning Hand."

The big crocodile said as he turned over his palm, revealing a gold coin and six silver coins, and he had also completed the search of the cultist's body.

"Then it will be the same as before? Old Crocodile, when we return to the church, we will split the bounty issued by the Inquisition 50-50 between us."

"Oh, and there's also this unexpected gain - the place that the secret cultist just mentioned. After we complete the mission, let's go there and take a look?"

"The looted items will be split 50-50 at that time. If they are valuable items, we will look at them later!"

"Okay." The crocodile nodded.

Thomas and the Crocodile then returned to the small stronghold of the "Burning Hand" that they had killed before, searched it again, and after confirming that it was clean, they returned to the direction of the church with a full load.

This is them - as "internal beta" players, they officially "landed" on the Fanor continent and "landed" on the Red Maple City on the twentieth day in the public beta.

In the previous twenty days, as the "Guardians of the Saints", they were either carrying out the task of "Judgment" or on their way to carry out the task of "Judgment" every day.

Ever since the Red Maple City camp won a great victory in the defense battle twenty days ago, Red Maple City has no longer been in any major crisis.

The top leaders of the church, the border court and the Fangbei Court seemed to have reached a decision to launch a counterattack.

Now is the final preparation stage for the three major bases in Red Maple City.

During this final period of preparation, in order to completely eliminate the hidden danger of chaos breaking out from within Red Maple City after the "Great Expedition", the Church, the Border Court, and the Square Monument Court simultaneously disclosed information to the peripheral "Adventers" members.

The three major destiny bases simultaneously took all the discovered pagan strongholds lurking in or near Red Maple City as targets of the "Judgment" mission and issued a large number of commissions to the "Adventers".

This is what Thomas, Big Crocodile and others have been working on for some time.

A large number of commission tasks emerged, and as core players, they were also very happy to do them. In the twenty days, they accumulated a lot of experience points by completing one [commission task] after another.

Now, first-tier players like Thomas and Crocodile have already upgraded their levels to the upper limit of the "Double Destiny" level 20.

And they had just "judged" an entire small "Burning Hand" stronghold.

As long as they go back and submit the commissioned tasks, the "merits" they have accumulated in the church will be enough to exchange for a "Silver Key", thus advancing to the "Triple Destiny".

……

(End of this chapter)