Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 389 Caffrey Fortress (5k2)

Fort Kaveri, on top of the city wall.

Within two minutes, Thomas, Crocodile and other "Saint Guardian" players had all climbed up the fortress's wall smoothly.

At this time, the dark guards who were patrolling on the fortress walls were not spared. A group of twenty guards had turned into cold corpses.

And the guards who patrolled late at night were just ordinary soldiers - Thomas only received a small amount of experience on his panel.

He then expanded his perception and used his "spiritual vision" to explore deep into the Kaveri Fortress.

It is just like turning on "Perception" when playing a game called "Assassin's Creed" - "Spiritual Vision" can penetrate most physical barriers and detect spiritual reactions emanating from "supernatural beings" within a certain range.

As a "priest", Thomas's "perception" attribute and corresponding ability are the strongest among the players. Generally speaking, it is Thomas who is responsible for searching for the enemy.

In the state of "spiritual vision", Thomas expanded his perception as much as possible, and he soon realized that there were two very strong spiritual surges about thirty meters below the side of the city wall.

There was a spiritual surge of dark red and purple, and a spiritual surge of dark brown and gray. In Thomas' experience, the former should correspond to the "Red Lotus", while the latter may correspond to the spiritual reaction of "loss" or "nothingness".

Such a concentration of spirituality and the destiny level of its source are obviously not low.

After spreading his perception for a while, until half of his mana was consumed by the "Spiritual Vision" state, Thomas closed the vision and opened the [Chat Channel] panel.

He directly opened the group channel of the Guild [Mirror of Radiance] and quickly input information into it.

【Thomas the Tank Engine (Group Leader)】: Uh... there is a strong enemy ahead.jpg
[Thomas the Tank Engine (group leader)]: There should be an enemy with a [Red Lotus] triple fate and an enemy with a [Lost] or [Nothingness] triple fate on the inside of the fortress gate. He is probably the leader.

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group leader)]: There are other spiritual reactions of varying intensities on the side. There should be about six enemies with the 'second destiny', and then there are thirty or forty ordinary people guarding, or enemies who are enlightened with the 'single destiny'.

[Carlos the Loyal Dog]: True or false?

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: Only one passage?

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: Well, there are two - there are two stairs going down on both sides, but they both lead to the same street inside the fortress.

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group leader)]: My suggestion is that we go in separately. I will lead eight people, and then Old Crocodile, you will lead another eight people, and we will go down the stairs on the left and right respectively.

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: Then - when you encounter special situations, you can use the little thing you found in the 'Burning Hand' stronghold before.

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: Yes
[Iron Pot Stew Crocodile (Administrator)]: Then - how about dividing the work? I'll lead people to deal with the 'Red Lotus', and you go to deal with the 'Lost' on the other side. You have more long-range means.

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: Then, the others will see the situation - if no one is watching you, go as deep as possible into the Caffrey Fortress. We will die anyway. The deeper we go, the more intelligence we can get.

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: That’s right.

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: I have already bought the [Apocalypse Mall], and we can be resurrected instantly three times

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group leader)]: In other words - there are eighteen of us in total, and including three resurrections, there are a total of seventy-two lives to complete this mission!

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group leader)]: And then - it would be best if we could find out directly who the highest combat forces are in the Cavernier Fortress, and then hand in the task directly to the bishop after resurrection!

[Golden Descendants of Savior]: Charge!
[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: I have already contacted other nearby players. When we are about to lure out the big monster, they will fly down.
[Alicia]: Before you act, remember to get the buff of "consecration".
【Thomas the Tank Engine (Group Owner)】: Received
[Golden Savior]: Received
【……】：……

In the [Chat Channel], the eighteen 'Guardians' of the "Mirror of Glow" quickly decided on their next actions.

They then walked to the bodies of a newly killed wall guard respectively - most of these guards were killed by cutting their necks, and basically avoided damage to their armor. The "Saint Guardians" then hurriedly stripped the armor off the guards' bodies and put it on themselves.

In this way, they became the new "Dark Guards" - after that, Thomas, Crocodile and others moved the stripped bodies to the side and hid them, and almost wiped the bloodstains on the city wall clean.

Then, the only two "consecrated priests" in the team - the two players with the id "Alicia" and "Holy Light Giant Hits Me!", were arranged into the teams of Thomas and Crocodile respectively, and applied the enhanced buffs of "consecrated prayer" and "consecrated blessing" to their teammates.

Afterwards, Thomas and the big crocodile led the eight players down the stone steps on both sides of the city wall.

They tried to keep their movements as quiet as possible, and when they turned the corner, they could already see the figures of the two strongest "Triple Fate" enemies.

One was a burly man with red hair that danced like flames. In his hand was a weirdly twisted machete with a jagged and broken blade, as if it had been gnawed by a dog.
He was almost naked, with only a metallic crotch guard hanging in the middle. His exposed skin was completely bronze, with exaggerated flame patterns painted on it, and a heterogeneous, constantly changing scarlet and dark red light flashed between the textures.

The other was a short, wooden-stump-like dwarf, wearing a pair of gloves that exuded a mysterious aura and a robe made of stitched human skin. He was leaning against the city wall, resting with his eyes closed.

After approaching to a certain distance, Thomas opened the panel and detected them immediately -

The bald and naked man is indeed the [Red Lotus] destiny, his name is Vegiruto, his profession is "Fire Mad Warrior", and his level is lv.28;

The weird dwarf on the other side is the [Lost] Fate, his name is Gutas, his occupation is "Dark Demon Follower", and his level is lv.26.

Judging from the strength alone, "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiroot and "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas are both at the upper-middle level of the "Triple Fate" extraordinary people. Because Thomas and the Crocodile have just been promoted to the "Triple Fate" and have little accumulation, they both felt a faint, deadly and dangerous aura from the two enemies of the "Triple Fate".

They then infiltrated the Cavernier Fortress more cautiously. At the same time, Thomas shared intelligence with his teammates in real time in the [Chat Channel] - "Mirror of Glow" guild group chat.

Because the players were wearing "Dark Guard" armor, and all information exchanges were conducted secretly through the "panel", even if they encountered other "Dark Guards" along the way, the other guards could not see their faces clearly in the middle of the night, which made their initial stealth quite smooth.

While continuing to move deeper and exchange information, they have sneaked behind the two strongest enemies - Thomas has come to the wall behind the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gusta, and the crocodile has come behind the "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiroot.

Perhaps it was intuition, or perhaps it was because he heard a slight but unusual noise behind him.

"Fireman" Vegito suddenly turned his head.

Eye to eye with the giant crocodile stewed in an iron pot by the "Fire Sacrifice Cavalry"!

The crocodile looked across at the "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiru, who had a look of surprise in his eyes, and smiled playfully, and greeted him:
"Hi~"

--boom! ! !

The crocodile had already raised high the giant sword that was shining with golden light, and then he chopped it down heavily!
The raging holy flame that was attached and burning on the blade rushed towards the face and chest of the "Fire Crazy Warrior" Vegito!
Wow!
The holy flame swirled up and suddenly engulfed Vegiru's body!
“—Hmmmm aaaaaaaaaaa!!”

There was a crackling sound of burning skin in the air, and the "Fire Crazy Warrior" groaned in pain and danced madly in the burning golden holy flame.

It worked!
Backstab of justice! .jpg
The big crocodile showed excitement, and immediately raised the Paladin's sword again, and the golden flame leaped up from the blade again!
At the same time, just as the giant crocodile was about to strike for the second time—

The terrifying crimson lines engraved on the body of the "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiruto suddenly burst into a blinding scarlet light!
At the same time, scarlet flames burst out from his body, gradually merging with the still surging and burning golden holy flames around it, dyeing the holy flames scarlet.

"Damn...damn!"

"Uhhhhhhhh!!!"

The body of the "Fire Crazy Warrior" Vegirut was expanding rapidly during the process of being bathed in fire. The burnt parts of him were copper-red, and his two eyes were half bulging out, with the whites of his eyes completely dyed scarlet! Inexplicably, the crocodile felt an invisible pressure enveloping him, preventing him from launching a second attack on Vegirut!
He witnessed the "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiruto completing the expansion and frenzy of his body, and felt that the extraordinary person with triple destiny [Red Lotus] opposite him had truly transformed into a wild beast!
At the same time, Vegiruto jumped high up. The machete and blade in his hand, which were wrapped in scarlet flames, had been burned red, and were getting closer and closer to the crocodile's head!

It was very obvious that even though he had been promoted to the Triple Destiny of [Glory], there was still a big gap between him and the extraordinary people at the true "Triple Destiny" level.

The crocodile was thinking these things.

When the "Fire Warrior" Vegiroot jumped high and his machete was less than one meter away from the crocodile, he suddenly felt the "heavy pressure" that had previously enveloped his whole body suddenly disappeared, and he thought that it should be the effect of Vegiroot's frenzy.

The crocodile had already raised the Paladin's sword, and the next moment he slashed it heavily in the direction of Vegiru!

--boom! ! !

The two waves of scarlet and golden light collided violently, causing a deafening roar, and all slightly fragile objects within three or four meters around were crushed into powder!

The scarlet and golden lights were still colliding, canceling out and annihilating each other, but in the end, Vegiru's power was greater. At a certain moment, the crocodile's feet were lifted off the ground by the surging fire storm, and he was smashed back heavily by the "Fire Crazy Warrior" Vegiru!
--boom! ! !

The protective shield that the crocodile had cast on himself was broken, and a huge roar came from his ears. He felt as if his lower back had hit the hard stone wall heavily, and his body was deeply embedded in the crack.

Blood was dripping from the corner of his mouth, and according to the detection on his panel, his health points were reduced by half because of the previous blow, and he almost entered the state of "severe injury", but he did not feel too much pain.

Because - just before being hit critically, the crocodile had adjusted the real body sensation in the panel to the lowest - to 5% of the normal value.

He only felt the pain of a heavy elbow hit on his lower back, and in his field of vision, he saw the "Fire Crazy Warrior" Vegiruto walking towards him with a grin and a knife in his hand.

Looking past Vegiroot's swollen, terrifying body, the crocodile also saw the other players - Thomas had also entered into a battle with the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas.

The "Guardian" players of other levels, who only had the second destiny of [Glory], had also started fighting with the extraordinary people from the Caveri Fortress who had heard the noise and rushed over to check the situation. All kinds of dazzling lights flashed in the air one after another, and the smell of blood filled the air.

The crocodile only saw this, but he had roughly confirmed the current situation of his teammates.

And his vision was soon occupied by the approaching scarlet body.

The "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiruto, with a fierce smile on his face, raised the machete with a red blade and was only about five or six meters away from the crocodile.

Sensing the danger approaching, the crocodile struggled to pull his right hand out of the crack, and at the same time reached into his arms and pulled out a burnt finger.

——【Blood Finger of Ashes】!
That was exactly what Crocodile and Thomas had discovered earlier when they went to the Bear Cave stronghold on Camille Hill outside Red Maple City, as described by the members of the Burning Hand cult!

It is a rare item of blue quality.

While taking out the [Blood Finger of Ashes], the crocodile used his fingertips to crush its finger bones!
“——hiss, hihi, hihi!”

[Blood Fingers of Ashes] emitted a shrill sound like a human wailing. At the same time, the finger with two phalanges began to wriggle strangely and twist crazily!

The bloody finger bent, straightened, and bent again repeatedly at an extremely fast frequency. The charred skin on its surface soon pulled out strands of fire. At the same time, the crocodile quickly threw the [Bloody Finger of Ashes] in the direction of the "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiroot!

Just like throwing a grenade - before Vegiru could react, [Blood Fingers of Ashes] had already touched the skin of his abdomen!
The scarlet fire threads drawn from the surface of the strangely twisting and squirming blood lipids quickly penetrated into Vegiru's skin, and in the next moment they expanded rapidly and finally exploded with a "bang"!

The scarlet flames around Vegiruto were instantly extinguished by the explosion of the bloody finger, and then - from the place where the bloody finger exploded, a vicious fire with a flash of black light suddenly burst out!
The "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiru was once again engulfed by the flames that originated from his own body.

His steps towards the crocodile were stopped at the same time, and from the spreading and surging black fire, the painful roar of the "Fire Mad Warrior" Vegiruto was heard again -

“Hmmmmmm!!”

It was also when he was engulfed by the black fire and waved his arms wildly, trying to put out the flames that were biting him like countless small snakes.

The giant crocodile has dug itself out of the crack in the wall and raised the Paladin's sword in the direction of Vegiroot!
--boom! ! !

A brilliant golden light burst out from the crocodile's paladin sword, and immediately slashed heavily into the surging evil fire in front of it!
At the same time, the dark evil fire that was suddenly ignited by the [Blood Finger of Ashes] was also suppressed by the bright golden sword light slashed out by the giant crocodile.

The dark and evil flames soon went out, and the bright golden flames once again enveloped the huge figure of the "Fire Crazy Warrior" Vegiruto.

But this time - Vegiruto no longer had any means to extinguish the flames that were gnawing and spreading on his body.

Even as Thomas was monitoring his faceplate, the health of the Fire Mad Warrior Vegiru was decreasing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and at a certain point it was reduced to zero.

Vegiruto's roar became increasingly fainter in the golden light of the holy flame, and in the end, only the subtle popping sounds of the flames burning his body remained.

bang——

Finally, the huge body of the "Fire Crazy Warrior" Vegiruto fell heavily to the ground, and at the same time, it shrank rapidly as if it had a leak of air.

An excited expression appeared on the big crocodile's face. Before he could confirm the reward for killing "Fire Warrior" Vegiruto, he immediately rushed into the depths of Kaveri Fortress.

If we could rush to the deepest part of the fortress in one breath, we could directly reach the dark mansion of the fortress!
Then you can see with your own eyes the strongest combat force guarding this fortress. Even if you are killed later, you can immediately report the situation to the bishop and receive the reward!

He thought about these things excitedly and ran even faster.

……

the other side.

Thomas was confronting the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas. The black gloves worn by the dwarf opposite him, Gutas, were emitting an ominous and deep light.

And in the robe he was wearing, which was made of human face skin, a number of "mouths" were constantly opening and closing, making shrill, heart-shaking sounds -

“——Aa ...

Each of those "faces" was a container for the soul that was "extracted" by Gutas using that pair of gloves!

The dozens of souls that had been refined and stuffed into the dough, under the control of the pair of gloves, lingered around Gutas, and were kneaded and stretched into various shapes at will by him.

At this moment, Gutas's soul-stirring deep eyes were squinting at Thomas——

"I will tear off your face and sew it into my robe..."

He spoke in a low, trembling voice:
"Then...plunder your soul and join me...become a part of me!"

……

(End of this chapter)