Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 443: The Birth of the True Ancestor of "Mourning"! (4k6)

Kolos, who is both the "Executioner" and the "Apostle of the Holy Abyss", has a very fanatical and pious expression on his face. There is a blazing light in his pupils as he waits for his "Lord" to give him a positive answer.

Long before the defense of Red Maple City, Luo Xiu transformed the "Shadow Military Strategist" Koros into an Apostle of the Holy Abyss, just in anticipation of this day.

——Before the "Chief Executioner" Fafnir Rochester could react, Cross was the sharpest dark sword that Luo Xiu used when he entered Fafnir City.

He is ready to give Fafnir a righteous backstab at any time.

Even under Koros's fanatical gaze, he only saw his "lord" - the Shura nodded lightly and said:

"That time will come, Cross."

"but not now."

"I will give you a new task - as the executioner, you should master the method of finding the blood cave where the 'Lord of Blood Sacrifice' is located."

"I want you to contact the Lord of Blood Sacrifice as the 'Executioner', no matter whose name you use - your own or Fafnir's. Then give the location you get to my 'informer', and she will tell you what to do next."

"I will obey your will, my lord."

Koros responded to his "lord" in a sharp and thin voice, and then reverently paid homage to Luo Xiuxing.

Three dark black magic circles immediately appeared beneath him—they were teleportation magic circles. His figure gradually became illusory and blurred, and disappeared completely after a moment. He had been teleported back to Fafnir City, where he was supposed to be.

Luo Xiu stared at the place where Koros disappeared, his pupils under the black pattern puppet mask flickered with a dim light, and he was thinking about other things -

Although Koros was ready to open the gate of Fafnir for him at any time, now was not the best time.

Koros, the "Executioner" and "Apostle of the Holy Abyss", is a dark sword that becomes sharper as time goes by. Once he is exposed, he will lose his effectiveness as an "Executioner", but the more critical the moment, the more likely he is to deal a fatal blow to Fafnir and the other three "Executioners" stationed in Fafnir City.

As for now - Koros' greatest value to Luo Xiu is that he can quickly and secretly confirm the specific location of the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice".

There is not just one blood cave at the bottom of Fafnir City, but more than a dozen. The "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" and his flesh and blood servants are not necessarily entrenched in any one of the blood caves. Before Koros opens the passage to Fafnir City for himself, Luo Xiu must first confirm the specific location of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice.

After that, all he had to do was wait for Tatia, wait for Him to get news from Koros, and lock on the exact location of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice.

That wouldn't take too long, and other members of the expeditionary force would also need to perform other reconnaissance, deployment, and decision-making work, which would be enough time for him to carry out the behind-the-scenes operations.

"..."

While thinking about this, Luo Xiu's fingers were tapping lightly on the broad armrests of the golden throne.

Suddenly, he felt a violent tremor in his mind, as if something had separated from his heart. His eyes felt sore and his head felt a noticeable tingling sensation.

This was a sign of some kind, and Luo Xiu knew what it meant—

He then looked towards the royal palace. After Koros had left, the Faceless One, Intis, was still standing there with his arm around her.

"You can go back now, Intis."

Luo Xiu said to Index.

"Yes, I will follow your wishes." Index nodded.

Three dark circles appeared at her feet, and her figure became illusory and blurry, and soon disappeared from Luo Xiu's sight.

Up to this moment, only the "Lord of the Holy Abyss" and Luo Xiu were left in the royal hall.

He then opened the panel, and saw what he expected.

The "Deathrattle Demon" Mourner, He has completed His sublimation!
He is about to complete the final "birth" -

That was exactly the reason why Luo Xiu felt shocked earlier.

Luo Xiu was sitting on the golden throne, and the aura emanating from him had become deep and dark.

A dagger with dark inscriptions appeared in his right hand. He stretched out his left hand, and the dagger with dark inscriptions gently drew a hexagram shape in the palm of his left hand.

A little blood seeped out from the palm of the hand and turned dark black due to the influence of "Dark Corrosion". The wound on the palm healed quickly, but the blood that seeped out stayed in the cracks on the palm of the hand.

After completing these, Luo Xiu placed the dagger engraved with the Dark Erosion aside.

He kept his left hand slightly raised, while he slightly raised his right hand and turned his palm upward.

A ball of light emitting deep black mist slowly emerged and condensed in the palm of his right hand.

He also began the prayer of invocation:

"——The True Ancestor of 'Mourning'!"

"—I grant you a new form and medium,"

"——I grant you the second contract and blood."

"——This is the Blood Cup and the Holy Communion."

"——The face of death has been recast, and the pure soul has been reshaped."

"—I will witness the Nativity,"

"——I will bear witness to the true name,"

"——I will witness Nirvana!"

——Buzz!!!

When Luo Xiu finished reciting this, the air in a large area in front of him began to vibrate slightly.

The air began to split open one tiny crack after another as if cut by a cutting knife. A pitch-black mist seeped out from it like smoke, emitting a deep, rich, and "death" aura.

Luo Xiu stared at the scene before him.

As the hundreds of tiny cracks opened wider and the death spirit seeping out of them became stronger, Luo Xiu's left and right hands suddenly clasped together.

——Crackling!
As he clenched his palms, a series of dense and fine explosions erupted. The dark erosion spiritual light ball and the dark erosion-stained blood suddenly collided and merged, and began to erupt with a very violent reaction.

That formed something between entity and energy.

After a moment, Luo Xiu opened his palms, and the gray-black "mist" was completely released from his palms, and quickly rushed towards the death mist that seeped out of the cracks - Buzz!!!
A piercing, sharp buzzing sound burst out in the air, as if the howling of thousands of people in a confined room overlapped each other. The sound kept echoing and hitting every corner of the hall, causing Luo Xiu's eardrums to feel a little swollen and painful.

But he remained calm, his eyes still fixed on the changes in front of him——

The gray mist released from his palm had now completely merged with the death mist that seeped out of the cracks. They formed a black, mud-like mixture that fell and flowed on the ground, and began to boil from the center.

Hands that were dry and cracked, thin and with only skin covering bones, stretched out from the black mud. They opened in strange and twisted postures, and their fingers pierced into the black mud like sharp spikes, and trembled as they spread it apart in a ring shape.

This is the opening step!
The "separated" black mud did not gather together again, and underneath it was no longer the covered ground belonging to the giant palace, but a boiling and surging red river that flowed endlessly. A "giant cocoon" with cracks on its surface was located in the center of the ring hole.

——That is the giant cocoon that gave birth to the "Deathrattle Demon" Mourner and his new form!

His cocoon rose up until He was freed from the swaddling clothes of the "River Styx", passed through the opened ring door, and rose to the ground of the royal palace - all the mud containing the spirit of death then enveloped Him and penetrated into the interior of the cocoon, making the cracks on the surface of the giant cocoon increasingly reveal a mixture of scarlet and dark purple colors.

——Crack!

——Kaala la la la!

A tiny, rustling sound came from the surface of the cocoon.

The cracks on it grew wider and wider, and pieces of "shells" continued to peel off from its surface, turning into dark black smoke before falling to the ground and dissipating with the still vibrating air.

Luo Xiu watched the changes.

And in his mind, an ancient inscription suddenly appeared like a scroll opening.

That was demonic writing, which recorded the true name of the "Deathrattle Demon" Mourner after he was sublimated into the "True Ancestor Demon", and Luo Xiu's panel also provided a real-time translation -

[Mourning for the deceased lord, Sasseur, the mouthpiece of death]

That is the "Deathrattle Demon" Mourner, the first "real name" He obtained after His ascension!
He is now the true ancestor of "Death".

Under Luo Xiu's gaze, the giant cocoon in front of him was peeling off its shell faster and faster, until a certain moment, it finally peeled off all of its shell!

——Wow!!!

The surging death wave suddenly rushed out like a flood. Everything was washed away by the tide of death, including the cracks that kept opening in the air, the mist and black mud that contained death, and the circular door that opened on the ground.

The figure of the "Deathrattle Demon" Mourner - now the "Mourner of the Dead" Sather, finally appeared clearly in Luo Xiu's sight.

His entire body was still gray, but much darker than before, and covered with dense black lines of various kinds, with deep light flowing through them like ripples;
There are six eyes on that oval face, and strange words are engraved in each pupil. The patterns of the devil's words may carry some kind of hidden, profound and ominous power.

The sharp horns that symbolize his "devil" identity still protrude from his forehead, but the flames burning on them have completely turned into a dense black color;

His body was still shrouded in overlapping gauze veils, but his four arms had increased to six, extending outward from both sides, with three pairs of bloodless palms clasped together, one facing upwards, one clasped, and the other facing downwards, maintaining the same ritual posture as the "Deathrattle Demon".

As for His lower body - originally half real and half virtual, it is now completely virtual, becoming a complete "ghost" - that is the lower body shrouded in a dark mist, with black particles constantly rising and sinking in it, carrying the spirit of "death" flowing back and forth in it.

Luo Xiu looked at Him, at the newly born "Lord of the Mourning Souls" Sather.

The deep aura emanating from Him was completely different from that of the "Deathrattle Demon". Luo Xiu could clearly feel that He had become extremely powerful, far more powerful than before, and He was already a genuine "True Ancestor Demon".

The "real true name" He first obtained - [Mourning the Dead Lord·Sasser·The Mouthpiece of Death], has a total of three stages - that is the initial stage of being promoted to "True Ancestor Demon". As He continues to improve on the level of "True Ancestor Demon", He will also obtain new true name stages.

Although his current strength cannot be compared with that of the "Gluttonous Tyrant" Brigantes, he is already far stronger than ordinary saints of the "Fivefold Destiny".

At the first moment when the "Mourning Lord" Sather was born, Luo Xiu had already detected Him, and the panel quickly gave feedback -

["Mourning the Dead" Sather (lv.68)]

[Race: Demon/True Ancestor Demon]

[Personality: Chaos Spirit (Contracted)]

[Health: 95822/95822, Mana: 76523/166703]

[Physical Attack: 4790, Spell Attack: 24540, Defense Reduction: 7584]

[Attributes: Strength 479, Constitution 758, Agility 552, Wisdom 1387, Divinity 2134, Perception 1628, Resistance 632, Luck 421]

【…】

[Skills and Features List]

[The True Ancestor of the Dead (True Ancestor Demon, True True Name): "The Lord of the Dead Souls, Sasseer, the Mouthpiece of the Dead", this is the true true name. The power of the devil resides in the true name, and the true name is engraved on the Styx - the Styx is eternal, which means the devil is eternal (only visible to the contract holder, regular "detection" cannot see this entry). ]

[Remembrance of the Dead (Deathrattle Demon·Divine Authority): The Lord of the Dead·Sathel is immune to physical damage and will not truly perish. The souls eaten by the Lord of the Dead·Sathel can be "infused" into corpses without souls. These corpses will be transformed into "dead spirits", and the dead spirits that have lost their spirituality will be absolutely controlled by the mourner. ]

[Soul Burial Tomb (One-time upgrade, inherent skill): The Lord of the Dead Souls, Sather, can use targets with lower "divinity" attributes than him as containers to create a Soul Burial Tomb. Within a large range, up to 10 targets designated by the Lord of the Dead Souls, Sather (depending on the specific strength of the targets) will have their "souls" marked by the "Soul Burial Tomb" for 3 minutes.

If the "Soul Burial Tomb" is not destroyed within 3 minutes, the marked target will be affected by the "Deep Soul Reaping" effect that cannot be purified or immune, and enter a state of suspended animation for 20 seconds. In the "suspended animation state", the damage caused by the Mourning Soul Lord Sather is increased by 50%, the outbreak speed of the death curse is accelerated by 50%, and the effect of the final outbreak of the death curse is also increased by 50%. 】

[Curse of Deathly Evil (Inherent Skill): The Lord of the Dead, Sather, has mastered a series of death curses. The death curse cast by the mourner will add layers of "Deathly Evil". If the "curse" is successfully added with 2 layers, and the "curse" fails with 1 layer, when "Deathly Evil" is fully stacked with 5 layers, it can detonate a "Death Curse", causing a "Origin" trauma of 20% of its upper limit of life to the target. ]

[Deathrattle Burst (Inherent Skill): The Mourning Lord of the Dead, Sather, can apply layers of "Deathrattle" to the target he attacks, and the layers can be stacked without limit. When the target with "Deathrattle" loses a certain amount of health, a "death" type curse with a random effect and random strength will be triggered according to the number of layers of "Deathrattle", and the influence of the curse will spread to the surrounding area. If the target with "Deathrattle" dies, all layers of "Deathrattle" will be detonated at once, causing a large-scale "Dark Corrosion" attribute damage to the surrounding area, and a deep "Instant Death" curse will be applied. ]

[Lifeless Feeding (Passive Characteristic): The Mourning Dead Lord Satsuel masters the cannibalization of souls. Creatures that are close to the Mourning Dead Lord Satsuel (except for the contractors) or creatures that are attacked by the Mourning Dead Lord Satsuel will have their souls cannibalized until the complete soul is completely devoured - every time the Mourning Dead Lord Satsuel consumes a "complete soul", a certain amount of "health" and "mana" will be instantly restored, and a certain amount of attribute value will be increased, which can be retained permanently.]

[Contracted Deity (Contract Characteristics): This deity is summoned by contract and is subject to restrictions by the contractor - in the current state, the maximum level with the contractor does not exceed 5 levels. If it exceeds the threshold, it will be dynamically adjusted to the threshold. ]

【…】

"..."

Quickly browsing the panel content of "Mourning the Deceased Lord" Sather, Luo Xiu couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

He was satisfied with the strength of the newly born True Ancestor Demon.

While he was browsing the contents on the panel, "Sather" maintained his ritual posture and did not speak.

……

(There is one more chapter on 00.10, you can wait)

(End of this chapter)