Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 488 "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx (5k5)

——A limited-time “annihilation” difficulty mission, [The Scourge of Quesanx]!
This was the second time Thomas had seen a mission of the "annihilation" difficulty level, the previous one being the [Grand and Sacred Expedition]!
Thomas' eyes suddenly brightened.

He didn't care that the forbidden sorcerers not far away had summoned seven or eight puppets and were gradually surrounding him. He retreated to a more open area while quickly browsing the content displayed on the panel.

[Trigger limited-time mission: The Scourge of Quesanx (difficulty of destruction)]

[Recommended level: lv.50+, fifth level of destiny and above]

[Task type: Time-limited task (countdown 23 hours, 59 minutes and 53 seconds)]

[Mission Description: You encountered the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir Rochester, and at the same time, you encountered the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx!
The great ancient dragon Quesanx was born in the "Age of Gods" period, and now he is the most terrifying scourge in the hands of Fafnir, the "Dragon of Destruction".

You can foresee that if left unchecked, Fafnir the Dragon of Destruction and Queshanks the Ancient Dragon will burn the earth to ashes, turn flesh and blood to ashes, and cause great suffering to all living things.

You can stand aside and watch - but as a member of the expeditionary force and a "Saint Protector" of the church, you have the responsibility and obligation to prevent the disaster from happening. 】

[Main Mission Objective: Eliminate as many enemies as possible, defend Fafnir City until the countdown ends, or hold out until Fafnir, the Dragon of Destruction, and Quesanx, the Ancient Dragon, retreat]

[Additional Mission Objective 1: Assist in killing Fafnir, the "Dragon of Destruction"]

[Additional Mission Objective 2: Assist in killing the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx]

[Basic Completion Reward: Completion of the main mission objectives can be settled. Basic experience +150000, free attribute points +15, "Rare" quality expertise - "Dragon Chaser" *1; the more enemies are killed and the higher the strength, the more basic experience and free attribute points will be obtained. 】

[Additional Completion Reward (Complete any additional goal): Basic Experience +100000, Free Attribute Points +10, "Epic" Quality Specialty "Dragon Slayer" *1]

[Special Completion Reward: Complete the final kill of "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir, and gain additional basic experience points +1400000, free attribute points +140, limited "God's Birth" quality specialty "End of Destruction·Fafnir"*1, and adapted destiny "Legend" quality specialty*1;

Complete the final kill of the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx, and gain additional basic experience points +800000, free attribute points +80, limited "God's Birthday" quality specialty "Echo of Sighs - Quesanx" *1, and adapt to the destiny "Legend" quality specialty *1;

Complete the final kill of the "Fivefold Fate" leader enemy, and gain additional basic experience points +100000, free attribute points +10, and 1 "Legendary" quality specialty for the adapted fate (up to 1);

Complete the final kill of the "Quadruple Destiny" leader enemy, and gain additional basic experience points +30000, free attribute points +3, and adaptive destiny "epic" quality expertise *1 (up to 1)]

【…】

"——Duo Shao?"

When Thomas saw this "annihilation" difficulty task and the reward for completing it, he couldn't help but shout out.

He was stunned when he saw that killing the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir could give him up to 1.4 million experience points and 140 free attribute points.

The reward for killing the "ancient dragon" Quesanx is slightly lower, but it is also quite generous. For Thomas now, it is still an astronomical figure.

Let’s not talk about the experience points first - for Thomas, who has reached the level cap and has maxed out his main skills, he really can’t spend all the experience points - the hundreds of reward points, or nearly a hundred free attribute points, can directly double his current strength!

This is real numerical inflation... Although I know that the probability of me getting the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir and the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx's tail blade is not high, people should always have dreams.

And that "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx - that must be the real body of the huge black dragon head that emerged from the scarlet ring opened by the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir.

It is still too far away from Thomas now, and Thomas cannot detect it with the panel, but it should be a very high-level and terrifying existence!

This can be seen from the task rewards of the just triggered task [Disaster of Quesanx] -

Killing a "Fivefold Fate" enemy only gives 100,000 experience points, while killing the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx can give eight times that number! Although the strength of the enemy is not proportional to the rewarded experience points, there is no doubt that the strength of the ancient dragon Quesanx is at least several times that of the standard "Fivefold Fate".

Judging from the current combat power of the expeditionary force, perhaps only the "Golden Sword Saint" Klein Fesera can confront it head-on.

At this moment, the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx was accumulating terrifying spiritual power from its exaggeratedly large bloody mouth that seemed to be able to swallow the world.

It can be foreseen that if it can successfully complete the charging process, it can almost make a corner of Fafnir City disappear directly from this world!
Thomas was thinking about all this until he heard the urgent sounds of "Little Train--", "Little Train--", then he came to his senses and closed the panel.

When he came to his senses, he saw three huge iron puppets like bronze walls appearing in front of him.
The forbidden warlocks who were about to be killed had already completed the summoning of the puppets, and the three giant puppets close to him had already made an attacking gesture towards him, swinging their iron fists!
--boom!!!!!

Almost at the same time, the three puppets punched Thomas hard!
Thomas' body suddenly flew backwards and his consciousness became blurred for a short time, but because he was a "player", he quickly regained consciousness and stabilized his body in mid-air.

Now, his attention was focused again, and Alicia behind him started to curse angrily:

"What are you doing, little train!"

Then, "Great Blessing of Light" Alicia cast two healing spells for Thomas, and Thomas pulled himself together, infusing the spirituality of "Glory" into the hammer in his hand again, and prepared to rush forward and smash the three puppets into pieces first -

But just as he took a step forward, the ground under his feet suddenly shook violently!
——Boom! ! !

Thomas lost his balance again and fell to the side.

This was force majeure. Thomas felt as if a magnitude 9 earthquake had suddenly erupted. Even though his "strength" and "physique" attributes were already much higher than those of the extraordinary people of the same level, he still couldn't avoid falling flat on his face.

The puppets in front of him and the several forbidden warlocks behind them fell even harder, and were thrown all over the place!

Thomas vaguely realized what had happened, and once again he couldn't help looking up to the sky -

He saw that the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx, with its huge dragon head sticking out from the scarlet ring, had completed its spiritual accumulation!

"--roar!!!!!"

The next moment, Thomas suddenly heard a deafening roar coming from the sky.

That almost ruptured his eardrums on the spot, and at the same time, a sharp "buzzing" sound broke out in his ears. Alicia seemed to be calling him again, but he could no longer hear it clearly.

Although his hearing was temporarily "shattered", his panel was still usable, so Thomas directly opened the [Chat Channel] and saw that in the guild group of "Mirror of Glow", "Alicia" was frantically @ing him——

【Ailixia】: @Thomas the Train@Thomas the Train@Thomas the Train
[Alicia]: Watch your feet! ! ! !

【…】

"...?"

Thomas quickly regained his balance and looked down at his feet.

He soon saw that not far in front of him, the earth seemed to be covered with a dim red light, and the range of the red light seemed to be a whole circle, and he was at the edge of the circle.

Thomas quickly thought that this might be the attack range of the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx!

But now he couldn't rush out of the range - the dark red color covering the ground had become deeper and deeper, and it was emitting a noticeable burning heat.

Thomas then stopped running, sent a message to Alicia in the [Chat Channel], and rushed towards the direction of the forbidden warlocks not far away!
At this time, the puppets summoned by the forbidden warlocks had stood up again and surrounded Thomas again, but they were still a step too slow.

When Thomas rushed to the front of those forbidden warlocks, the sacred staff that Alicia was holding in both hands was already pointing at him!

A bright golden circle appeared above Thomas' head and under his feet at the same time!

——“Spiritual loss”!
When Thomas rushed in front of those forbidden warlocks, Alicia used this ancient inherited skill to drain a large amount of Thomas' mana!
At this time, Thomas had also taken out the [Skull of the Martyr] and poured the last bit of mana into it, draining his own mana bar completely!

It was in the horrified eyes of those forbidden sorcerers—

A winner's smile appeared on Thomas' face, and then a dark red light brushed the outline of his body, and then it exploded!

--boom! ! !

--boom!!!!!

Two violent explosions directly turned those forbidden warlocks and the puppets they summoned into ashes!

They didn't even have time to scream before nothing was left.

……

"call……"

Alicia was watching this scene from a distance. She heaved a long sigh of relief, knowing that Thomas would be resurrected soon, so she was not worried about him.

Her eyes immediately turned towards the sky, and when her gaze moved upwards and was able to take in the entire huge black head of the "Ancient Dragon", the horrific dragon flame that had been accumulated in the bloody mouth of the terrifying dragon suddenly fell down like a meteorite from the sky!
--boom!!!!!

……

Fire from the sky has come.

The entire eastern section of Fafnir City's wall was directly swallowed by the surging scarlet. The ground then shook violently as never before, and almost all the creatures in the area that was previously covered in dark red lost all their breath in an instant.

That includes the expedition's guards, the Adventers, as well as Fafnir's dragonborn soldiers, Black Fangs and even Fangheads.

Alicia was standing just outside the dark red circle. She was not seriously affected, but the aftermath of the terrifying dragon's breath still pushed her back heavily, and then she fell heavily to the ground.

Alicia, whose butt was sore from the fall, stood up with the help of a staff that was taller than her, and opened her eyes that were slightly dazzled by the splashing dust.

She saw the scarlet mist rising up gradually dissipating.

A large area washed by the terrifying bombardment of the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx is gradually revealing its true hideousness——

The first thing to be affected is that the eastern section of Fafnir's city wall has completely disappeared.

There was a whole empty space connected to the ground, and on the ground there was a pit the size of a football field. Hot smoke was rising from it, and the remaining flames of the dragon's flame were still burning in a small area.

That was the center of the bombardment by the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx - Alicia didn't know why Fafnir became so cruel that he even demolished his own house.

Fortunately, several important leaders of the expeditionary force, such as Hubert and Pampas, who were still in the city, did not seem to be within the range of the dragon's flames. The bombardment of the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx seemed to be mainly aimed at blasting a gap in the city wall, and the secondary purpose was to seriously reduce the number of expeditionary forces.

At the same time, the entire battlefield came to a standstill for a while due to the horrific change that had just occurred.

For example, Albert and Lansas, who were still engaged in a fierce battle just now, stopped their actions along with the executioners who were still entangled with them before, and looked at the scorched pit washed by the dragon flames in a daze.

However, Alicia recovered from her shock faster than they did.

After all, as a "player", even if you see such a scene in person, it will always be easier to calm down. In front of Alicia, Thomas, who had just "self-destructed", also completed his resurrection.

……

Thomas was not resurrected using the "Instant Resurrection Scroll".

He was resurrected thanks to his legendary expertise "Shelter of Divine Light". Ten seconds after his death from continuous self-explosions, he "revived" at the site of the self-explosions, and thus avoided the horrific bombardment.

"What the hell, what just happened?!"

As soon as Thomas was resurrected, he gave such a shocking cry:
“——Awesome!!!”

"No... How can we fight this?!"

He was indeed very excited at first - as a player, it was hard not to be excited when seeing such a handsome and powerful ancient dragon.

But soon, Thomas realized that something was wrong - he had a very bad premonition that the terrifying strength displayed by the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx seemed to be something that even the "Golden Sword Saint" Klein could not withstand.

Although he knew that it was the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx blessed by Fafnir, the "Golden Sword Saint" Klein was still entangled by the "Hidden Sage" Hoffman.

And judging from the situation, it seems that the two saints who have not yet taken action in the expeditionary force, "Holy Deacon" Hubert and "Lionheart General" Pampas, even if they are doubled, will not be a match for "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir and "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx.

Thomas began to panic.

At this moment, players in the [Chat Channel] and [Player Forum] were completely furious about "Quesanx".

As Thomas browsed the panel, he had an inexplicable premonition in his heart - he might face his first real defeat in "God's Destiny".

Wouldn't that mean the "annihilation" difficulty mission that had just been triggered would be wasted... Thomas felt very sad. After all, it would be difficult to trigger another mission with the same rich reward.

If that "bishop" were here...

For some reason, Thomas suddenly began to miss "the Bishop".

The "Bishop" Luo Xiu Carlos is the strongest man in the expeditionary force except for the "Golden Sword Saint" Klein Fesera. Maybe the bishop can turn the tide of the war... But I heard that Bishop Luo Xiu went back to Songyuan County, and I don't know when he will be back.

For a moment, Thomas's mind was racing with thoughts like these.

At the same time, he also raised his head and looked at the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx who was still roaring terrifyingly in the sky.

After the terrifying dragon blew out its terrifying dragon breath, smoke began to hiss out from its bloody mouth.

The attack just now almost destroyed the city. It seems that even the "Ancient Dragon" will not be able to launch a second attack in a short period of time.

And the scarlet ring in the air - that is the ring where the huge dragon head of the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx stretched out, and it is still expanding at this time.

"--Roar……"

"Quesanx" roared in a low voice, and its dragon claws had already stretched out from the edge of the circle. Not only did its huge dragon head break through the boundary, but its entire body also poured out from the door of the "circle"!

In Thomas' eyes, that was a black dragon whose body alone was almost as big as half the city area.

If it fully spreads its dragon wings, they can extend for hundreds of meters - that is truly "covering the sky and blocking out the sun".

Compared to it, the black dragons that Fafnir had released before were just cubs.

And that "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir - he spread out his jet-black, faintly scarlet dragon wings from behind at the same time, and flew in the direction where the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx broke through the boundary.

"...Ancient dragon."

Thomas had heard the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir. His whole body was emitting a scarlet light, his arms were spread out, revealing his chest burning with blood, and he was chanting in a low voice:

"My blood is for you, and your strength is for me."

"——Dragon with the same skeleton as me, submit to me!"

"..."

"Roar!!!!!"

As Fafnir chanted, the surface of the Ancient Dragon Quesanx began to burn with patches of intense scarlet.

The scarlet color spread over the scales on Quesanx's body like a tide.

Its color also changed dramatically at the same time, from a deep black like the eternal night to a scarlet red filled with the aura of tyranny and annihilation.

And its spirituality is recovering at a terrifying speed. It probably won't be long before it can once again launch that terrifying attack just now!

Thomas looked up at the scene.

He vaguely knew that something bigger might be coming soon.

He had never felt such a strong sense of oppression in "God's Destiny".

……

however.

The next moment, under Thomas's gaze—

"--roar!!!!!"

Suddenly, the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx suddenly let out a shrill roar!

Immediately afterwards, a beam of light emitting a strong golden glow pierced through the dragon wings of "Quesanx"!

--boom!!!!!

The terrifying, sky-blocking dragon had a huge gap in its left wing caused by the sudden attack.

This sudden change caused its spiritual power recovery to slow down drastically, and it and the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir looked towards the source of the attack almost at the same time.

It was there that they saw another tiny figure emitting brilliant golden light.

Fafnir knew who the figure riding the golden Pegasus was. Who was that figure?

That is the "bishop" of the Red Maple City Expeditionary Force.
"Bishop" Ross Carlos!

——He is back!
……

(End of this chapter)