Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 390: Bravely Enter the Kaveri Fortress! (7k2!)
Gutas, the "Dark Demon's Follower", was a dwarf with a strange aura all over his body. His hands, which were wearing gloves emitting a dark mist, were opened to both sides at the same time while he was speaking!

“——Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”

The "soul" lingering around him, which also exuded a deep and misty aura, kept making extremely shrill and sharp hisses. The "black demons" that had been refined by Gutas seemed to be pulled by something and flew towards Gutas' gloves.

Gutas grabbed them, then grinned and pulled the "dark demons" towards Thomas!

——Papapapa! !
There were crackling sounds in the air, and Thomas only saw that the black demons that were screaming miserably suddenly stretched like rubber bands, and black thorns appeared on their outer contours like cacti!
The originally immaterial "black magic" quickly condensed into substance as it was pulled towards Thomas. The air had exploded with bursts of firecracker-like explosions due to the violent shock. Thomas could clearly feel that the air around him had stagnated.

Before the "Black Demon" stretched out his whip to actually hit him, Thomas had already raised his warhammer and smashed it in the direction of Gutas, the "Dark Demon's Follower"!
The golden holy patterns engraved on the surface of [Hammer of the Saints] burst out with fine and bright golden light at the same time!

A curtain of light shining with brilliant golden light quickly extended from the surface of the [Hammer of the Saint] to the surroundings, completely blocking any direction that the Black Magic Whip could stab!

--boom! ! !

The golden light of holy light containing the spiritual power of annihilation suddenly collided with the whip pulled by the "black devil". The two energies collided and intertwined in an instant, and then surged outward with one complex light after another!

The black whip swung by Gutas was indeed blocked, but Thomas saw that the hideous and weird smile on the face of the dwarf opposite him was actually emerging more and more——

“Aa ...

Suddenly, Thomas heard the sharp, shrill scream again. He swung his hammer to block the black demon, and suddenly a dense black light burst out from his body. The blocking golden light curtain was corroded and penetrated as if burning!
In Thomas' eyes, the black devil that was originally a "whip" has now become a small snake.

It was still making a shrill, teeth-grinding hiss as it drilled towards Thomas' chest!

And the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas - the countless "Dark Demons" lingering and circling around him, also drilled into the eroded holes of the light curtain at the same time, and rushed straight to Thomas' body!
I am a black devil...

Thomas complained in his heart, his brows slightly furrowed, knowing that he had encountered a very difficult [Lost] destiny boss-level extraordinary person.

Although the level of "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas is only lv.26, he is obviously more difficult to beat than the level 28 [Red Lotus] "Fire Mad Warrior" on the other side!
As he was thinking about this, he pulled back his warhammer and slashed forward with the [Silver-Cutting Scythe] in his left hand!

“Eeeeeeeee——”

Wow!
The three twisting and wriggling "black demons" were cut in half by the sickle and turned into black mist and dissipated into the air.

But more dark demons had already passed through the holes in the light curtain, and were hissing and biting Thomas!

Thomas suddenly felt that his strength, physical strength, and the spirituality flowing in his body began to drain away continuously.

[Dark Magic Devouring] Abnormal status - in the panel detection he had been maintaining, such an entry appeared in the status column.

At the same time, he noticed that the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas's eyes, full of malice and captivating, were staring at him at the same time -

In just this fleeting moment, Thomas felt that the "dark demons" that kept gnawing at him seemed to fully materialize in an instant, forming thorny shackles that bound his body!
He was unable to move in an instant. Even though his true consciousness was still clear, the "Status" column on the panel had already shown the abnormal state of [Deep Soul Stealing] -

That is the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas... one of his methods of hard control?

Thomas thought that his vision was now out of his body, and he was observing what was happening around him in mid-air not far away from him with a God's perspective, almost as if he were an outsider.

This is the state of "soul-stealing", the real feeling of the players - and in fact, in "God's Destiny", the feedback of players when they are subjected to hard control is mostly like this. It will not really make the consciousness fall into dizziness, drowsiness and ignorance, but only temporarily lose control of the body they modeled.

And from this "outsider perspective", Thomas has seen that the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas has spread his short legs and is running towards "him".

His eyes hidden under his thick eyelids were flashing with a deep dark light, maintaining the abnormality of "soul-stealing" on Thomas. At the same time, his hands wearing gloves emitting deep mist were reaching out to Thomas -

"Join me...become me..."

From the mouth of the "Dark Devil's Follower" Gutas, a strange and creepy whisper began to utter:

"Make it mine..."

"It will make the soul fall into chaos and filth, and become... my dark demon..."

"..."

He murmured like this, and at the same time, strands of interwoven black mist emerged from the outlines of his black gloves, like peeling off silk threads from a cocoon!
The black fog kept swirling and surging, and soon rushed straight to Thomas's head, tightly wrapping around and covering him like a black bandage, and began to search for something.

As the black fog lingering over Thomas' head grew thicker, Gutas's expression became surprised and even more ferocious.

He encountered the strangest thing in his life...

——He couldn’t find the soul of the “Guardian” priest opposite him at all!
"This... this is impossible... impossible!"

Gutas murmured in a low voice, which soon turned into a roar, and fierce light flashed in his eyes.

He searched Thomas' "body" but found nothing except blood and flesh!
No soul!

——It is just an empty shell without a soul!

This shocked Gutas so much that he was at a loss for a moment.

And just after he used the "Dark Magic" to control Thomas for ten seconds -

Suddenly, the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas suddenly realized that the spiritual surge of the "Great Shepherd of Purification" on the opposite side had suddenly returned!

The state of being hard controlled by [Deep Soul Stealing] was quickly lifted for the most part after Gutas's soul search failed.

Although the abnormal state of [Dark Demon Devouring] caused by the dark demons biting his body has not been eliminated, Thomas has been able to resume his movements.

The warhammer in his right hand quickly burst out with a golden light, and then he smashed it hard towards the head of the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas who was nearby!
--boom! ! !

Gutas was unable to dodge and was quickly hit by the hammer in Thomas's hand, causing a loud roar.

Golden heat waves rolled up one after another, and Gutas, the "Dark Demon's Follower", was soon smashed away by Thomas.

But he did not suffer a fatal injury. At the moment when Thomas swung the hammer to hit him, Thomas also saw that the black demons that had previously attached to his body and "devoured" him suddenly withdrew and returned to the surroundings of Gutas, the "Dark Demon Follower", at the same time, forming a thick "fog film" -

The "mist film" condensed by the black magic offset most of the damage of the war hammer, and the "black magic" condensed into a film immediately dissipated with a hissing sound. Gutas himself was just smashed away. There was blood on his head, but he remained conscious.

As a transcendent with the [Lost] triple destiny, although his major is in spells related to "soul", Gutas' body also has considerable agility and flexibility.

He rolled several times in the air and finally landed steadily on a small slope. The moment he landed, the dark gloves on his hands emitted a strange light and began to suck up the remaining "dark demons" around him.

“——Aa ...

The dark demons kept making shrill and sharp screams, but they could not resist the suction from the dark gloves and were soon sucked into Gutas's palm.

Gutas just grinned grimly, with a crazy look flashing in his eyes. He was stretching the dark demons sucked into his hands like ramen noodles, and turned them into "ropes" emitting dark mist!
Thomas clearly felt that after the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas failed to "plunder" his soul, he was obviously going to make a big move!
But Thomas was not going to let him hold it in any longer - just as the dark demons around Gutas who kept making "ah-ah" sounds were sucked into his palm, Thomas had already leaped high into the air!
The [Hammer of the Saint] in his right hand had been retracted to his waist. A golden spear emitting golden light quickly condensed in his palm and shot it in the direction of Gutas, the "Follower of the Black Demon"!
——【Primary Light Spear】!
--boom! !
Realizing that Thomas had condensed the holy art of annihilation, Gutas raised his head and pulled the half-stretched Black Magic Rope into the air, where it collided violently with the spear of light!
Waves of dense explosions rang out, accompanied by the constant interweaving, swirling and surging of golden and black light. Thomas's gaze passed through the still expanding light surge in front of him, and at the same time, he heard the bursts of shrill roars of the "black devil" in his ears.

“——Eeeeeeeeeeeee!!”

They hissed, twisted, and struggled, and under the control of the Gutas gloves, collided with the holy light of annihilation again and again, and finally fell into true annihilation.

The "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas and the "Dark Demons" under his control had been annihilated to the point where only a few were left.

The expression on his face became more and more crazy, his eyes trembling uncontrollably with anger or fear, and he grabbed the remaining four "black demons" -

He was about to do something else, but Thomas did not give him the chance. Instead, he took out a severed finger from his arms, crushed it and threw it at him.

——That is the [Blood Fingers of Ashes]!
--boom! ! !

The bloody fingers quickly attached to Gutas' body and quickly pulled out streaks of blood. Then they expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, emitting a very hot temperature, and exploded at the last moment!

A surge of scarlet light instantly burst out from the bloody finger and engulfed Gutas' body in an instant.

This is an external "item" that can cause extremely high damage to the enemy!

At the same time, Thomas used the last half of his mana to condense a new golden spear that burst out with brilliant golden light in the palm of his right hand!

——【Spear of Holy Light】!
Compared with the [Primary Light Spear] that was thrown out tentatively before, the golden light it emits is even stronger, and the annihilation spirituality it contains is also much richer!
While Gutas was still deeply burned by the scarlet light, Thomas had already thrown the condensed light spear at him again!

--boom!!!!!

At the moment the Spear of Holy Light hit Gutas, the golden light instantly spread and dissipated, and the surrounding air was stirred up, making bursts of thunder-like roars mixed with flashes of blood.

All the "dark demons" raised by Gutas, the "dark demon follower", were completely annihilated in this fierce battle.

And the new blood that spurted out came from Gutas’ torn body!
He finally couldn't rely on the "Dark Magic" to block the knife anymore, and was hit hard by Thomas!
As a [Lost] magic profession, Gutas's own tankiness is not very high. Thomas maintained the panel detection of him, and at the same time took the [Hammer of the Saints] back to his right hand, and rushed into the light fog that was constantly surging in front of him with both sickle and hammer!

At this time, the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas only had one third of his health left.

Thomas' remaining blood was almost the same as his. At the edge of the surging light fog, Thomas noticed the moment when the light fog would dissipate. He raised his sickle and hammer high, rushed into the light fog, and rushed to the front of Gutas, the "Dark Demon's Follower"!

Just when the mist of light dissipated and Gutas was about to catch his breath,

His vision was suddenly occupied by a burly figure, and then a hammer flashing with golden light came down heavily on his head!
--boom! ! !

Blood splattered.

Gutas was hit hard by the hammer, which made him dizzy for a short time.

It was precisely because of this moment of delay that a fine silver light suddenly flashed in his field of vision, and the sharp blade of the sickle suddenly rushed over from the side and hit Gutas' shoulder heavily!
“——Ahhhh!”

Gutas roared in pain, the burns from the Blood Finger of Ashes tormenting him at the same time. The expression on his face became more and more ferocious and cruel. He raised his hands again, wearing two gloves emitting a deep and misty aura, and touched Thomas again in disbelief!
Even though he had suffered a failure before, Gutas still firmly believed that the "soul" must exist inside the other party's body, but he had used certain means to hide the "soul"!

——After all, how could there be anyone who really has no "soul"!
Gutas did know that in [Glory] and some "ancient heritages", there were indeed a lot of skills or secret knowledge of protecting the soul, and the "Saint Protector" on the opposite side must have mastered similar means.

And just now, in order to prevent his soul from being extracted, he had already used that method!
Now, his soul must be empty and defenseless!

As long as I can touch him with my gloved hands and extract his soul, everything will turn around! Gutas thought so, and he saw the "Saint Guardian" priest opposite him raised his war hammer again, and his hand wearing a dark glove had already touched his body!

"I won...I won!"

The moment Gutas touched Thomas' body with his gloves, the corner of his mouth raised up a playful and weird arc.

He was indeed filled with ecstasy, but this ecstasy quickly dissipated.

He once again searched the soul of the "Saint Guardian" priest in front of him, but the result was exactly the same as before -

He found nothing!
The body in front of him still felt like an empty shell to Gutas!

"How can it be……"

Gutas, the "Dark Demon's Follower", finally felt panic in his heart.

Gutas' gloved hands still refused to let go of Thomas' body. He continued to grope him up and down, still trying to find out where the "Saint Guardian" priest opposite him had hidden his soul.

But he only saw that a strange and subtle expression seemed to appear on the face of the pastor opposite him.

"——You are touching my **!"

Gutas didn't understand what he was saying -

boom--! ! !
Thomas held the hammer tightly in his right hand and smashed it down as soon as he finished speaking!
This time, the hammer that burst out with brilliant golden light hit Gutas' head hard, causing a blood flower with a faint red light to burst out!
Half of his head was knocked open, and the red and white inside splattered everywhere.

As for the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas, his last bit of health was finally reduced to zero after that attack just now.

He was already dead - the moment his head was cut open, he lost all vital signs.

Without twitching or making a final struggle before death, the "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas was simply knocked away by the force of the warhammer, and then hit the wall next to him heavily and embedded himself deeply into it.

Smoke, dust and rubble fell from the walls, and the Gutas embedded in them was completely motionless.

At the same time, a reward prompt for killing "Dark Demon's Follower" Gutas popped up on Thomas' panel.

This meant that the "Dark Devil's Follower" Gutas was truly dead, and Thomas ignored the panel for the time being and trotted over to Gutas's body.

His eyes were fixed on Gutas's drooping arms. The pair of strange gloves emitting a deep and misty aura were still on his hands.

——He has been coveting this pair of gloves for a long, long time!
From the beginning of the battle with the "Dark Demon's Follower", Thomas' attention was focused on this pair of gloves.

This was the first trophy he must take away after killing Gutas.

Thomas then raised the sickle and cut off Gutas's two arms with a "swish". His gloved hands fell to the ground with a "pop".

Thomas quickly picked up the two severed hands, and at the same time, he was alert to the enemies that kept coming around, and took off the black gloves from the severed hands.

At the same time, his panel showed the detection result of the dark gloves - [Hands of the Soul Defiler]. This is a "Blue Rare" quality equipment, and it really has a certain degree of effect of corroding or controlling the soul!
Before Thomas could finish browsing through the entire panel content of [Hand of the Soul Defiler], he had already realized that the other extraordinary people in the Caffrey Fortress had heard the noise and surrounded them!
Thomas then stuffed the [Hand of the Soul Defiler] into the innermost part of the armor and into the pocket of his tight shorts!
——The legendary "iron crotch" will not fall off with death!

And the things contained inside will reappear inside with the "resurrection". This is the mechanism that Thomas discovered in recent days.

In this way Thomas hid his booty and at the same time advanced deeper into Fort Caffrey.

While rushing forward, Thomas took out the [Primary Mana Potion] from his arms and drank three bottles in a row to restore his mana to full.

He drank three more bottles of [Primary Life Potion] to restore his health back to the highest value under the medium damage state, then opened the [Chat Channel] and the guild's "Mirror of Glow" group channel and sent a message to it -

[Thomas the Tank Engine (Group Leader)]: I just killed that 'Dark Devil' Gutas
[Thomas the Tank Engine (Group Leader)]: Damn, it was so hard to fight! And then the other soldiers that surrounded us were almost wiped out by my team.
【One thing to say】: Indeed
【Speaking frankly】: According to what the little train said, the four of us have already rushed into the city.

【Thomas the Tank Engine (Group Owner)】: @铁锅汤大crocodile

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: How are you doing over there?

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: You are so slow/disdain/disdain
[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: I have already rushed to Zhongjie Street
[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: I encountered a big treasure, I have died twice already!

【Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)】：?

【Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)】: What happened? Please tell me in detail.

[Iron Pot Stew Crocodile (Administrator)]: Damn it——Four fierce men with “triple destiny” suddenly jumped out

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: I met him and he melted within 20 seconds, and then there seemed to be two more further away.

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: Then, the last time I died was because I ran into a master with the fourth destiny!
[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: Hahahahaha, master, master

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: Damn, he used his ultimate skill on me as soon as we met, and I was instantly killed, fuck

[Iron Pot Stew Crocodile (Administrator)]: Then, that doesn’t seem to be the biggest boss of the fortress. I guess there should be an “Executioner”

[Sweating Soybean]: Indeed, I also encountered a big monster with "Quadruple Fate" here, Honglian's

[Sweating soybeans]: In addition to Lao Crocodile's, Xiao Ai also encountered one on the other side.

[Sweating Soybeans]: We have already encountered three enemies with "quadruple fates"

[Sweating Soybean]: We have recorded their fates and names, but the level difference is so great that we can't see their specific occupations.
[Iron Pot Stew Crocodile (Administrator)]: Damn, I died again while chatting

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: I encountered a new "quadruple fate" again, and it is still a bitter tea

[Sweating soybeans]: Bitter tea? Bitter tea! .jpg
[Iron Pot Stew Crocodile (Administrator)]: I only have one resurrection scroll left, so sad.
[Iron Pot Stew Crocodile (Administrator)]: The last time I resurrected was to recycle my equipment, and then find a chance to go back. Come on, guys.

【Thomas the Tank Engine (Group Owner)】: Received
【……】：……

……

The crocodile has already rushed to a very deep place...Thomas thought.

While keeping his eyes on the panel, he continued to rush deeper into the Caffrey Fortress.

Along the way, he had sensed dozens of terrifying spiritual surges locking onto him, and just from what he could see with the naked eye, there were at least four hostile transcendents with "triple destinies" patrolling the streets not far from him.

They also saw Thomas, and rushed towards him with a roar. Lights of various colors surged and shot towards Thomas one after another.

But Thomas just wanted to run away, so he even put all his 8 free attribute points that had been idle into the "agility" attribute, which greatly increased his running and reaction speed.

Most of the light waves that bombarded him missed, and the ones that actually hit him hit his shield, causing less than half of his health in total damage—

Thomas, who was intent on escaping and gathering intelligence, actually rushed straight into the depths of the fortress.

Along the way, he encountered seven "triple destiny" and several "double destiny" hostile extraordinary people. Finally, halfway through the main street, he ran into an enemy with a quadruple destiny, [Ku Tu] -

"The Fang Head", [Ku Tu] "The Fatal Swordsman" Lundina, that is the woman wearing a corset and with green hair.

In her hand she held a twisted dagger, from which spewed green, poisonous smoke.
And her snake-like eyes fell on Thomas at the same time!

Before Thomas could react, he saw that the fatal swordsman of [Ku Tu] in front of him had disappeared from his original place!

The next moment, Thomas' neck, heart, and abdomen were pierced with seven holes at the same time!
Black blood that had turned black due to poisoning flowed out from the wounds on Thomas' body. His life points, which were already very low, quickly dropped to zero, and his consciousness directly entered the perspective of resurrection cooling.

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: Oh shit?

The moment he died, he opened the group and sent a message to it -

[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: I died too, and died so quickly! (appreciation)

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: Hahaha, what a dish!
【Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)】: Predation, bro

[Thomas the Tank Engine (Group Leader)]: Were you just killed by the “Fatal Swordsman” Lendina who is at the fourth level of Bitter Tea?

[Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)]: Uh, it doesn’t seem to be
[Sweating Soybeans]: Okay, then we have discovered four enemies with “quadruple fate”!
[Thomas the Tank Engine (group owner)]: I am almost resurrected, I will just keep going
[Alicia]: Go!
【Sweating Soybeans】: Go!
【Iron Pot Stewed Crocodile (Administrator)】: Charge!
[Human High-Quality Repeater]: Go!
【……】：……

……

"Why...so many strange people sneaked into the fortress today..."

"Fangshou", [Ku Tu] "Deadly Swordsman" Lundina, she pulled out the poison sword from the fresh corpse she had just killed, muttering with a frown on her face.

She then walked to the side street and continued her patrol.

She didn't notice...

The body of the "priest" she had just killed thirty seconds ago completely turned into spiritual threads and dissipated shortly after his "death".

And another identical figure quietly resurrected not far away.

Thomas ran lightly to the place where he had died before.

While the "Death Swordsman" Lundina was not paying attention, he secretly ran back to the previous point of death and recovered his weapons and equipment.

Afterwards, he quietly fled in the opposite direction of the "獠首" he had met by chance.

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(End of this chapter)