Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 468 World 6

Chapter 468 #Sixth World#
Fafnir City, the seat of the church.

When color returned to Luo Xiu's vision, he had returned to the real world from above the Holy Abyss.

The tent belonging to the "Bishop" was still covered by the "Golden Barrier". At this time, Luo Xiu had taken off his mask and changed back into the white robe that symbolized his identity as a "Bishop".

Luo Xiu then removed the barrier, stood up from the main seat, and walked out of the tent.

In the church's headquarters, when Luo Xiu lifted the curtain and walked out of the "bishop's" tent, he saw dozens of clergy walking hurriedly to various places in the headquarters, with a look of fatigue on their faces.

The clergy stationed there were very busy when they first captured Fafnir City.

There are many supernatural matters that need to be handled by the clergy, such as receiving the spoils of war that carry taboos, cooperating with the "Border Court" to interrogate the captives of Black Fang and Fang Head, etc.

The clergy were also busy providing necessary treatment to the wounded in the decisive battle, and working with the warlocks of the Fangbei Academy to rebuild the defense system of Fafnir City.

Originally, these systematic affairs needed to be reviewed by the "bishop" personally, but Luo Xiu has handed this responsibility over to the two "priests" Howard and Gracia.

He was preparing to leave Fafnir City in the evening. Before that, he had almost completed the entrustment and transfer of these important work responsibilities.

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When Luo Xiu walked out of the "bishop's" tent, the several clergymen he saw in front of him had already noticed him.

The clergy then stopped their hurried steps and respectfully performed the sacrament to their "bishop".

Luo Xiu nodded slightly, responded to them with a smile, and then walked out of the church’s headquarters.

……

After leaving the church, Luo Xiu first went to the residence where Hubert was recuperating to visit the holy deacon.

Almost eight hours have passed since Luo Xiu successfully rescued the "Holy Deacon" Hubert from the control of the "Nightmare Witch" Samanthaya.

Hubert is now lying on the bed. Although he is still a little weak, he has recovered well.

According to Luo Xiu's detection on his panel, the health of the "Holy Deacon" had now recovered to about three-fifths of the upper limit.

He is now in a state between moderate and minor injuries. With the help of some high-level potions, his injuries will be healed by this time tomorrow and his condition will be back to normal.

Seeing Hubert's current condition, Luo Xiu felt relieved.

Hubert had not attended the high-level meeting of the expeditionary force because he was recovering from an injury. Luo Xiu told him in detail the discussions and resolutions made in the meeting chaired by Albert, and formally explained to Hubert some things about leaving Fafnir and hoping that Hubert would take over as the "acting bishop".

As for the content of the "handover", it is actually mainly about Hubert, as the "acting bishop", who will exercise full supervision over the many tedious aftermath affairs being carried out by the clergy of the church after the expeditionary force occupies the city of Fafnir, as well as dealing well with several other expeditionary forces that will soon join the city of Fafnir.

There is another thing, which is the most important and crucial - to always be on guard against the possibility of revenge from the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir against the expeditionary force stationed in Fafnir City.

After Hubert recovers from his injuries, Albert and Lansas will come to visit him in person and renegotiate with Hubert the strategic agenda on preventing Fafnir. Luo Xiu mentions this to Hubert now, just as a precautionary measure for him.

This was the transfer of the priesthood of “bishop” – although not in a formal setting.

Hubert listened carefully to everything that Luo Xiu conveyed and entrusted him with, and in the end he agreed without saying anything.

A similar transfer of holy power had taken place during the Red Maple City Church period.

On Hubert's side, he and Luo Xiu were familiar with the relevant procedures, and there was no need to explain anything too complicatedly if they handed it over again.

……

After that, Luo Xiu left the mansion where Hubert was recuperating.

After visiting Huberte and handing over some of his duties as "Acting Bishop" to him, Luo Xiu could now do the last thing.
He will go to the area of the border station of Fafnir City and visit the prison there.

The "Adventurers" discovered from the "slave army" originally stationed in the city of Fafnir were temporarily imprisoned there.

They are now guarded by the knights of the Border Court, and some news has been sent back from the Border Court.

For example, the "adventurers" of the slave army would "disappear" from time to time, and then "appear" from time to time;
They were always thinking about escaping from the prison, and would definitely try to sneak attack the royal knights if they had the chance, and their methods were hard to defend against;

The "torture" conducted on them is basically ineffective, and will only make them more resistant.

This is indeed in line with the characteristics of the players. Luo Xiu even felt that these "new players" of the slave army seemed a little conservative.

Out of caution, the "Adventurers" of the expeditionary force are not allowed to come into contact with the imprisoned "Adventurers" of the slave army.

However, some of the adventers from the expedition have already begun trying to contact them, but perhaps because the "platforms are not interoperable" and the border court's surveillance of them is quite strict, the players of the expedition have not been able to successfully contact these new adventers.

While Luo Xiu was thinking about all this, he had already arrived at the outskirts of the prison, and groups of four "Royal Knights" had appeared in his field of vision.

Behind them was the large iron gate leading to the interior of the prison, and in Luo Xiu's eyes, the complete "prison" looked like a huge black fortress.

This was where the "Chief Executioner" Fafnir imprisoned his enemies and serious prisoners.

In an environment like the Dark Principality, which can truly be called "completely free", criminals who can still violate the laws set by the "Dark Grand Duke" are basically extremely vicious.

Therefore, the prisons built in the fortresses and towns throughout the Principality were much more tightly guarded and solid than ordinary prisons.

In Luo Xiu's previous life, when he was still a real "player", he followed the expeditionary force into the territory of the Dark Principality. There were always some very brutal criminals detained in the "prisons" and "dungeons" in various fortresses and towns.

In his previous life, Luo Xiu had indeed treated them as hidden bosses, and it was the same now - the criminal NPCs imprisoned in those "prisons" and "dungeons" were also something that the expeditionary players had to appreciate after conquering every fortress or city.

"..."

While recalling these, Luo Xiu had already arrived in front of a group of royal knights guarding the prison.

When the royal knights saw that it was the "bishop" himself, they all saluted Luo Xingzhi with the standard respect.

Luo Xiu nodded in response to them, with a faint smile on his face, and said:
"Open the door. I want to take a look at the imprisoned Adventers."

"I will follow your orders, Bishop." The leading royal knight slammed his weapon to the ground and nodded solemnly with his head covered with a heavy steel helmet.

Then, a royal knight who was standing near the left side of the prison gate put aside the axe in his hand, took out a brick-sized key from his waist with his right hand, inserted it into the prison gate, and rotated it half a circle clockwise.

Kaka...

The sound of hinges, like the sound of grinding teeth, came out from the prison door.

The heavy iron door with mottled rust slowly opened to one side, and under the salutes and gazes of the four royal guards, Luo Xiu walked in alone.

What hit Luo Xiu in the face was a strong, corrupt smell.

A damp smell permeated the darkness, like an icy snake, sliding silently through every inch of space.

On both sides of the narrow passage, the heavy iron doors of the cells are covered with rust, like a big rusty mouth, and the serious prisoners imprisoned inside are like trapped beasts being swallowed by it, desperately waiting for death to come.

At the same time, Luo Xiu's gaze slightly looked behind the heavy iron doors of the prison cells.

The prisoners in the cells were either lying or sitting, with heavy shackles locking their hands and feet. The chains made a dull sound in the darkness, which always made people feel fear subconsciously.

Most of them were "Black Fangs" and "Fang Heads" captured on the battlefield, and many were serious criminals who had been imprisoned here for several years or even decades.

When they noticed someone coming in, some prisoners remained indifferent, while some raised their heads and looked in the direction of Luo Xiu.

Pairs of eyes hidden in the darkness exuded gloom. When Luo Xiu met the gazes of some of them, he could see that some prisoners had hideous faces, with madness and hatred flashing in their eyes. Others were silent, like zombies. The deathly aura emanating from them was like a real haze.

They were observing Luo Xiu, and Luo Xiu was also observing them, while walking deeper into the prison without stopping.

There were some prisoners who went crazy when they saw someone coming in.

As Luo Xiu gradually walked deeper into the prison, a condemned prisoner behind a cell suddenly stood up from the cold stone bench. His eyes were red as he rushed madly towards the prison door, his hands tightly grasping the thick iron bars, and he roared at the top of his lungs:
"Let me out!" "Damn it... Damn it, damn it!"

"My damn empire! I didn't lose... I didn't lose! Fafnir City didn't lose!"

The one who was roaring at the top of his lungs was a "獠首" who was captured on the battlefield.

"Who the hell is this? Who the hell betrayed us? If there hadn't been a mutiny at the East Gate, you would never have been able to capture Fafnir! Never!"

"You are a bunch of termites, a bunch of cowards without honor! Let me out, I want to duel with you! Tell your despicable generals and despicable bishops to get out, tell Albert to get out, tell Lansas to get out, tell Luo Xiu to get out and duel with me!"

"Haha! You don't dare. Yes, you don't dare!"

"Wait for Master Fafnir to come back... Yes, wait for that master to come back! I will definitely kill all of you and pull your bones out of your bodies one by one, and make -"

--boom! ! !

The beast's head had not yet finished his words before he was instantly swallowed up by the surging golden light that suddenly burst out.

The ground of the cell where he was located shook violently, and the fierce beast-like roar of the fang-headed creature disappeared in an instant along with the surging golden light.

Luo Xiu's right hand was pointing at him, and there was a bright golden light in his palm that had not yet dissipated.

He casually blasted out at the fang head with the "Sword of Holy Annihilation".

Luo Xiu was too lazy to talk any more with him, so he just casually cast a sacred spell to wipe him out.

When the "fang head" was blasted into pieces, Luo Xiu's ears suddenly became quiet. The other prisoners who were ready to make a move were also strongly frightened. Some prisoners saw Luo Xiu's face clearly in the dim light and recognized who he was.

"He is... the bishop of the expeditionary army..."

"The bishop... the one who killed Lord Youan..."

"..."

After a brief silence, whispers gradually emerged from among the prisoners.

Luo Xiu clearly noticed that the number of unfriendly glances directed at him suddenly decreased a lot.

Most of the "Black Fangs" or "Fang Heads" imprisoned here have recognized themselves at this time. On the previous battlefield, they had witnessed the "Bishop" killing their executioner "Song of Elements" Euan Burroughs.

With the precedent of the "fang head" being blown into pieces, fear suppressed them so much that they had to restrain their rebellious nature.

And Luo Xiu just continued to walk deeper.

In the narrow corridor of the prison, the dim lights on the walls on both sides flickered unsteadily in the cold wind.

The faint firelight struggled in the darkness, casting a huge, overlapping shadow of Luo Xiu on the wall.

It was a shadow that made the prisoners tremble.

……

Until Luo Xiu reached the end of the corridor.

He no longer heard the same noise as before, and at the same time he saw a "Knight of the Throne" guarding the place.

The knight on the throne bowed slightly to Luo Xiu, then turned around and opened the last door deep inside for Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu's vision also became clear as the heavy cast door in front of him rumbled open.

He saw a sunken circular pool.

Water gushed up from the bottom of the pool, just enough to cover the ankles. Along the pool wall was a ring of protruding stone steps, on which sat ragged "slave soldiers".

Chains connected to the pool wall were shackled to the necks and wrists of the "slave soldiers", restricting their freedom of movement.

The moment Luo Xiu saw them, he also detected them with his panel -

It was indeed the "Adventer"!
This entry marking the identity indeed appeared in the first column of the character panels of these slave soldiers.

This allowed Luo Xiu to finally confirm their identities—

They are indeed "players".

All the content displayed on the panel is currently in text that Luo Xiu can "understand".

That's still in Chinese, at least the "panel" still has translation function so far.

In Luo Xiu's guess, since the players of the expeditionary force would not understand what the slave army players were saying when they came into contact with them, he himself might not understand it either.

The panel detection that Luo Xiu performed on the first slave army player showed that his ID was "Brobuda". Although he didn't know whether it was the result of transliteration, it was at least something that Luo Xiu could understand.

There are also those "values" representing the levels of various attributes, which are also displayed in Arabic numerals on the detection panel, which means that they can still be "quantified" to a certain extent.

Although "inability to communicate" is still a possible situation, since the results of the panel detection feedback are still something that you can understand, at least there will be no enemies that you cannot understand or are completely uncontrollable.

But just after Luo Xiu had performed panel detection on three slave army adventers,

His own panel suddenly flashed with light,

As if something had been triggered, new content appeared on the panel.

【Connected to new channel】

[The Sixth World (Internal Beta), has been connected——]

[“NPC exclusive template” has been updated! ]

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[#Sixth World#——"World Channel" has been opened! 】

[#Sixth World#——"Player Forum" has been opened! 】

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[#Sixth World#——Current number of "Adventers": 428]

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