Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 447 The decisive battle breaks out! (6k4! Please give me a monthly ticket~)

"..."

When Koros said this to the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice", the turbid, dark red silhouette trembled noticeably, and the edge of the cracked "mouth" on the face of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice squirmed, making a sharp sound:

"Are you here to spy on me, Cross?"

"..."

"You can understand it this way, 'Lord of Blood Sacrifice'."

Koros's voice was still cold, and his eyes flashed with a sinister light. He stared at the figure of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice and said:
"Your master - perhaps you are more familiar with the title of 'Dominator' or 'Controller'. The 'Chief Executioner' Fafnir has already ordered me to monitor you."

"Lord Fafnir has asked you to guard this 'forbidden land'. If the Empire's expeditionary force breaks through Fafnir City, the other executioners will bring their leader - a [Glorious] bishop, a holy deacon, and two [Supreme] generals here, to the bottom of this bloody cave."

"Until then, it will be your home ground, 'Lord of Blood Sacrifice'. You know what you should do."

"..."

"What should I do... heh."

The outline of the Blood Sacrifice Lord's body was still trembling and emitting a dark red light. His head suddenly turned completely around, and the cracked "eyes" on his face stared at Koros, while his "mouth" hummed and said:

"I don't care about Fafnir City, nor do I care about Fafnir Rochester..."

"Ever since my 'Blood of Thorns' was completely plucked out and wiped out by the minions of the Empire, nothing is left... Fafnir has kept me under house arrest here and told me not to go anywhere."

"Of course I can wait, haha, of course I can..."

"..."

As he spoke, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice suddenly raised his head, his cracked "eyes" staring at the direction of the "night sky" blocked by the layers of rock. The edge of his "mouth" was still trembling, and his tiny teeth were grinding against each other, making an ear-sore sound:
"Now... Koros. It's almost the full moon night outside."

"I feel a little... well, numb and itchy. My flesh and blood are resisting me. They want to turn over and become my master."

"During this time, I couldn't go out, and I never thought about going out..."

"..."

"It's just, Master Koros."

The "mouth" of the Lord of Blood Sacrifice suddenly trembled, and he let out a rather strange, sharp laugh, and said:
"You want to spy on me? It's up to you, Koros..."

"It's just that in a few hours... it will be time for me to offer my blood and fresh soul to the 'Throne of Destruction'."

"You want... hehe, do you want to stay and watch? The Destroyer will definitely like it, he will definitely like it..."

"..."

After saying this, the Lord of Blood Sacrifice no longer made any new sounds.

Koros didn't say anything more to him.

He simply secretly pulled out the colorful dagger that he had just taken back, and gently stroked the blade with his fingers. Under his cloak, his eyes, staring at the Lord of Blood Sacrifice, were flashing with a deep, dim light.

……

Early in the morning.

Fafnir City, the plain outside the city.

In the tents of the Red Maple City Expeditionary Force and the Snowd Expeditionary Force, the braziers that were originally used to make fire had been extinguished. Every ten soldiers held a torch, and the army began to move towards the direction of Fafnir City.

——The time for the decisive battle has arrived.

General Albert and General Lansas of the Supreme led two armies respectively, moving towards the east and southeast of Fafnir City. Bishop Ross Carlos led the clergy in the center, and under the protection of the Supreme Knights in the front row, provided the expeditionary army with the support of Glory.

Albert will launch an attack on the east gate of Fafnir Castle.

He was still quite concerned about the news he received from the "fang chief" in the afternoon.

And "Bishop" Rossu Carlos will also go with him to the east gate of Fafnir City. At least before entering Fafnir City, there will be no uncontrollable risks.

"Saint Deacon" Hubert, accompanied by "Winter General" Lansas, led his army to attack the southeast gate of Fafnir City. The view there was wider than the east side, more suitable for legionary warfare, and the main siege equipment of the expeditionary army was mostly transported by Lansas's legion.

As for the [Advent Legion], all the Adventers also received a unified order to launch an attack on the east gate of Fafnir City.

Albert had his considerations for issuing this order.

If it is true as the information brought by the "Fang Chief" is, the east gate of Fafnir City will be opened at four o'clock in the morning, and the group of adventers with double and triple destinies will rush in all at once, and this siege decisive battle will have been half won.

Even if this was a trick, it didn't matter - Albert had already seen that the expeditionary army's most ferocious large-scale combat force was the [Legion of Adventers] - if the enemy wanted to encircle and attack the east of Fafnir City, then facing that group of mad dog-like Adventers would be enough for the Dark Army to suffer.

Taking advantage of the night, the Red Maple City Expeditionary Force and the Snowd Expeditionary Force, led by Albert and Lansas respectively, advanced nearly twenty miles.

The "Golden Sword Saint" Klein Fesera followed behind the two armies on horseback, sword in hand.

He would not participate in the siege. His mission from beginning to end was actually just one - to defend against the possible attacks from the "Hidden Sage" Hoffman at any time. Once there was a surge of hostile spiritual energy of the Sixth Fate, Klein would rush over with his sword and start a fight with him.

He is the necessary guarantee to prevent Hoffman, the only enemy at the "Sixth Fate" level, from affecting the outcome of the upcoming decisive battle.

……

Luo Xiu rode on the "Golden Pegasus" and rode side by side with Albert, galloping in front of the Red Maple City Legion.

The sky was now completely dark, and the sandstorm that had raged during the day had now stopped. All that remained was the long roars of wild beasts and the humming of night birds from time to time coming from the entire prairie.

From the gaps in the dark clouds high in the sky, pale blue moonlight was gently shining down, preventing the entire scene on the prairie from falling into complete darkness.

And Luo Xiu could also see clearly the outline of the city wall of Fafnir at the end of his field of vision.

He stared at the increasingly clear Fafnir Castle, and rode his horse lightly across the skeletal plain with a "thump, thump" sound, without communicating much with Albert.

Because the mental state of the [Supreme] general next to him was completely different from his calm and composed self, and he was in a highly tense state.

After all, Albert was not like himself. Through an "executioner", he had basically grasped the actual garrison situation of Fafnir City.

In addition to Koros, there are actually "Apostles of the Holy Abyss" mixed in with the "Black Fangs" and "Fang Heads" in the city of Fafnir, such as "Guillotine" Bagli.

Koros was carrying out the mission for the Lord of Blood Sacrifice, and any disturbances in the city of Fafnir would be transmitted to him in real time by other dormant Holy Abyss Apostles through spiritual conduction.

His main target this time was actually only the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice", but Albert had a lot to consider...

"..."

Thinking about these.

Luo Xiu was counting silently in his heart at the same time -

three,
two,
……

One.

——Boom! !
Just as Luo Xiu was counting down to "one" in his heart, the earth shook violently.

When they were only about three or four miles away from Fafnir City, beams of scarlet flames suddenly lit up on the city walls of Fafnir!
From the battlements of the southeast wall of Fafnir City, a group of monsters that looked like giant lizards appeared. They jumped into the brazier that had just been ignited, and their scales became as red as steel due to the burning flames. Then they quickly climbed down the wall of Fafnir City and rushed towards the expeditionary force like crazy!

“——Aa ...

They roared, and more and more fire lizards with their scarlet scales flashing climbed down the city wall, howling and running wildly on the skeletal field, like a burning wall of fire that was rapidly approaching.

——【Earth Fire Dragon】, it is a sub-species of dragon with a thin ancient dragon bloodline. It is recorded in the "Threat Collection" distributed by the Holy See to various churches that this kind of monster is indeed inhabited in the Dragon Skeleton Mountains surrounding the city of Fafnir.

Those were the first batch of monsters released from Fafnir City—and they were rushing towards Lansas's army.

Their charge was not a frenzied and disorderly charge born of animal instinct, but a charge with a rhythm and order of arrangement, as if they were being commanded by a "leader" with extraordinary intelligence, or some other existence that was superior to these earth fire dragons.

As Luo Xiu watched from afar, he saw another figure bathed in bright red appear on the southeast wall of Fafnir City. The flames burning in the three or four braziers around him cast a striking red light on the outline of the figure - it was a tall and strong demi-human. His upper body was completely naked, but his upper arms and neck were covered with dark red dragon scales, and on his neck was a red dragon head with black patterns.

——That’s “Dragonborn”!
Moreover, he is a "Dragonborn" with a high degree of dragonization - his arms have almost retained the complete form of dragon claws. At this moment, he is raising his dragon claws and raising his neck to make a deafening roar.

The group of earth fire dragons suddenly became extremely excited upon hearing his roar, and their speed in rushing towards Lansas's legion suddenly increased a lot!
——The figure that appeared on the southeast wall was none other than one of Fafnir City’s “Executioners”!

The executioner of [Red Lotus], Barcard Frederick, is himself a "Dragonborn" with relatively pure ancient dragon bloodline. He has a very strong racial suppression power over the sub-dragon species with thin ancient dragon blood flowing in their bodies.

The profession of this executioner, Baccard Frederick, in [Red Lotus] is "Alienated Demon", which is a higher-level profession than "Beast Tamer" in [Red Lotus], and is also a hidden profession in [Red Lotus]'s fifth destiny!
"Alienated Demon" is a fifth-level career of the Red Lotus that can only be promoted by sub-human or non-human races. Unlike the upper-level career "Lord of Evil Beasts" of the "Beast Tamer" path in the regular fifth-level career, the "Alienated Demon" requires lower attribute values ​​to tame most monsters, and consumes much less mana.
And this profession also has a very abnormal ability - the [Red Lotus] saint of this profession can "feed" his own blood to the magical beasts with the same bloodline as himself, so that their abilities can be greatly improved in a short period of time, and there is a small probability of "metamorphosis" and evolving into higher-level magical beasts.

This ability of the "alienated demon" can also work in reverse - directly eating the flesh and blood of a magical beast with the same bloodline as itself can greatly enhance its own abilities in a short period of time, and there is a small probability of inheriting certain abilities and characteristics of the eaten magical beast.

This is also the origin of the name of the profession "Alienated Demon". Luo Xiu stared at the figure on the southeast wall and thought about this.

He was a little moved——

As early as when he encountered the "Lord of the Evil Beasts" Monur in Latama City, he had thought about transforming an "alien demon" into an apostle of the Holy Abyss. He also learned from Koros that there was indeed an executioner of "alien demons" stationed in Fafnir City. Now it seems that this Barcard Frederick is indeed a good candidate.

But his focus will not be placed here first... Luo Xiu thought. He will still prioritize entering Fafnir City and get rid of the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice". If the "Alienated Demon" Barcard Frederick is still alive under the hands of Lansas and Hubert, he will be qualified to be transformed into a "Sacred Abyss Apostle".

Luo Xiu stopped paying attention to that side. He just listened to the roars of the group of earth fire dragons getting closer and closer, and he also felt a distinct chill on his body - the "Winter" Lansas had already taken action, and together with the winter knights under his command, they had pierced into the middle of the earth fire dragon tide like a sharp sword.

A fierce battle had already broken out on the plain over there. It seemed that the "alien demon" Bakad Frederick had summoned other waves of monsters, which were rushing towards the expeditionary force with great momentum.

The Red Maple City army led by Luo Xiu and Albert was almost reaching the east gate of Fafnir City.

Completely different from the obvious resistance encountered at the Southeast Gate, although the East Gate also sent out the Dark Army to resist, they were all small forces and none of them could be considered elite combat forces. Among the entire East Gate, Southeast Gate and South Gate facing the battle, only the city wall of the East Gate was still dark.

That doesn't look like there are garrisons there. Even the empty city plan wouldn't work like that. On the other side, the "Executioner" Barcard Frederick on the southeast gate was originally commanding the monster frenzy to attack the imperial army's formation. Suddenly, he cast his gaze towards the east gate, his dragon eyes filled with anger.

"Where's Koros!!"

"It's already this late, where's Koros!!!"

"He is in charge of guarding the East Gate, why is there no one to be seen!!!"

"..."

Baccard screamed, his voice was deafening, and the expeditionary forces could hear it clearly -

The executioners who were originally responsible for resisting the attack of the imperial expeditionary force outside the city were the "alien demon" Bakad and the "shadow military strategist" Koros. They were both extremely capable of fighting against the enemy. As long as they occupied a favorable position and made adequate preparations, they could completely become an army by themselves.

But Koros had not shown up yet - the troops originally arranged at the East City Gate were all Black Fangs and Fang Heads under Koros's command, but now not even a single one of them showed up!
"..."

If Luo Xiu hadn't known that there was really no one at the East Gate, he would have completely preconceived that this was a very poor empty city tactic.

Luo Xiu did not expect Baccard to roar like this. He just turned his head to look at Albert and saw that the face of this "Thunder" general was also full of confusion.

But he did not sense from his spiritual perception that there were any powerful or large-scale enemies ambushing inside the east gate of Fafnir City.
Almost subconsciously, Albert drew out the scarlet giant sword from his back and pointed it in the direction of Fafnir City.

"--charge!"

Albert issued a powerful command.

Then, he slammed his legs together around the armored warhorse under his crotch, and leaped out like an arrow, heading straight for the east gate of Fafnir City!
The supreme knights who had been waiting for the charge in the army also charged out along with General Albert who was riding far ahead of everyone!
Luo Xiu watched their backs and quickly caught up with them on his golden Pegasus. He saw the "alien demon" Bakad Frederick on the southeast wall who seemed to be busy dispatching Black Fang and Fang Head to guard the east gate, but Albert and his supreme knights were faster!

Watching the battlefield changing suddenly, Luo Xiu began to count silently in his heart again -

three,
two,
One.

——Boom! !
The ground was shaking, but it was not the sound of some giant creature or beast surging, but the East Gate of Fafnir City slowly opening outwards.

When the city gates were opened wide enough for three or four people to pass through, Albert had already ridden his armored warhorse and rushed in first!

Immediately afterwards, dozens of "Throne Knights", hundreds of "Royal Guard Knights" and "War Knights" rushed into the city of Fafnir like sharp arrows, and those cavalrymen who were not extraordinary also filed in. Within just a few minutes, thousands of cavalrymen had poured into the city of Fafnir!

Meanwhile, the east gate of Fafnir City was still opening as the Supreme Knights poured in, and soon it was open enough to accommodate about ten people on horseback!

Next came the [Legion of Adventers]. When those Adventers saw the open city gate, their eyes lit up.

They rushed in directly, and when they entered Fafnir City, they saw that the road leading into the city was already full of corpses - it was obvious that there had been a fierce melee here before. They were originally guards stationed here, but they had all turned into cold corpses, and the blood flowing from their bodies had not yet dried, obviously they had died not long ago.

No one knew what happened at the east gate of Fafnir City, except Luo Xiu - Luo Xiu was riding the golden Pegasus at this time. He did not enter through the east gate, but rode the Pegasus directly into the sky, crossed the city wall above Fafnir City and flew in.

At the same time, he looked down, overlooking the devastated remains of a battlefield inside the East City Gate where a bloody battle had just ended.

——This is a sign of a "mutiny".

It was also he who instructed Koros to launch a mutiny at a moment when the other three executioners were completely unaware of it.

Koros has been lurking here, preparing for this moment for several months.

The senior guards originally stationed at the East City Gate were gradually replaced by Koros's men over the course of a few months, and among those "Black Fangs" and "Fang Heads" who were replaced, a considerable number were "Apostles of the Holy Abyss" who had already undergone transformation.

They had received orders from Koros in advance, which was to raid and kill all the real guards here at the time set in the plan, and cut off all channels for transmitting information to other executioners.

After that, they opened the East Gate, and after completing these operations, they returned to various places in Fafnir City to hide.

This is the full picture of the "mutiny".

Luo Xiu stared down at the piles of corpses. He saw the knights of the Supreme and the players of the Advent Legion rushing into the city of Fafnir. Nothing could stop them.

At the same time, Luo Xiu rode the golden Pegasus downwards, until he caught up with Albert and rode side by side with him again.

"How is it, Sir Albert?"

While riding with Pegasus, Luo Xiu turned his head slightly and said to Albert:
"The revelation of the 'Divine Oracle' is visible - it seems that a 'mutiny' has occurred in Fafnir City, which is why we were able to enter the city so smoothly."

"...I don't know, Luo Xiu."

Albert was a little dazed. He was still riding his horse on the road in Fafnir. He turned his head slightly and responded to the words of the "Bishop". He said:

“I’ve never experienced anything like it.”

"This is so strange. Logically, this should be a conspiracy, but everything I saw, including the bodies of the dark guards we saw when we first rushed into the city, all told me that this shouldn't be a 'conspiracy'. No one would formulate such a 'conspiracy' that would do no good and benefit the enemy."

Now you see it... Luo Xiu complained in his heart.

He told Albert all this just to say hello to Albert first, and then he would find an excuse to part ways with Albert, and then go straight to the bottom of the blood cave where the "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" was, which was his most fundamental purpose.

Just when Luo Xiu was about to say something, he suddenly sensed a violent spiritual surge approaching him rapidly - that was the aura of another "executioner" in Fafnir City!

That was the breath of [Lost], it was an "Elemental Bishop" - "Song of Elements" Euan Burroughs. His figure had appeared in the sky at the end of Luo Xiu and Albert's vision, and hundreds of spiritual reactions belonging to [Lost] were densely coming from the front and around!
They were the Elementalists under the command of "Song of Elements" Youan, and they were also one of the three most threatening legions in Fafnir City. At this time, Youan, the "Executioner", finally received the news that the East Gate had been lost, and then he led his Elementalists here.

In addition to Koros, there was still one last "Executioner" who had not shown up. Albert was staring at the figure of "Song of Elements" Youan not far away, and said to Luo Xiu without turning his head:
"I'll deal with him."

"Go find and kill the other two executioners, Luo Xiu. Leave this to me."

The "Elemental Bishop" Euan Burroughs had flames wrapped around his body. He was a Lost Bishop who was good at controlling the element of fire, and Albert was also a saint who controlled "fire", so it was indeed easy to deal with him.

And Albert wanted to fight Yuan alone, which was within Luo Xiu's expectations and in line with his purpose.

He then nodded slightly, said "OK", and rode his golden Pegasus to a fork in the road, leaving all the clergy who followed him and the Adventers of the [Adventer Legion] to Albert.

In this way, he went alone, taking the shortest route straight to the furnace at the entrance of the "Bottom of the Blood Cave".

The "Lord of Blood Sacrifice" is hiding there—

It's pretty close.

……

(End of this chapter)