Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 516 Melee (5k2)

--boom!!!!!

After accumulating spiritual energy for dozens of seconds, the "Dragon of Justice" Quesanx blasted a torrent of destruction towards the Vaal Fortress below him!

Beside Him, Luo Xiu, riding on the "Golden Pegasus", was overlooking the scene.

He saw that on the wall of Val Fortress, the Executioner of [Intelligence], the "Filthy Mage" Anatoly hastily deployed a protective barrier, but it was as fragile as paper before the terrifying surge of Quesanx that was enough to destroy the world.

The jet-black and dark red light flowing in it hadn't even stabilized yet when it was disrupted by the meteorite fire falling from the sky. Then, layer after layer of undulating cracks spread out like broken glass, and several overlapping barrier light curtains were shattered in an instant!
"——Uhhh!!!"

The eyes of the "Filthy Mage" Anatoly had instantly turned bloodshot after being protected by the last two barriers, and the exposed skin on his face and neck had begun to show bulges as if whipped.

The shattering of the barrier affected his original spirituality as well. Anatoly was attacked by the "barrier" that he had opened and was connected to him.

Even through the constantly rolling bloody fog and flames, Luo Xiu had seen that the surface of Anatoly's skin had burst inch by inch in the next moment, and blood continued to gush out from his foreign blood vessels. Soon, Anatoly became a "blood man".

--boom!!!!!

The destructive roar of Quesanx was still continuing, and the last two barriers that could protect Anatoly were finally broken. The horrific roar then completely exploded on the wall of the Val Fortress and on Anatoly's body!
The executioner of [Intelligence], the "Filthy Mage" Anatoly, was unable to even utter a final howl when the horrific dragon flames burned his body.

His dry and skinny body was completely engulfed by the blazing scarlet. Soon, his spirit was also burned to annihilation and returned to nothingness.

The raging fire ignited by the roar of destruction was still burning on the walls of the Val Fortress, and a large hole had been blasted out on the top of the city where the "Filthy Mage" Anatoly had been before.

Most of the solid rock used to build the city had melted in the flames, and the dark red magma was flashing and mottled, and was already flowing down along the cracks in the broken city walls.

“…This is the first one.”

Luo Xiu looked down. The Executioner of Wisdom, the "Filthy Mage" Anatoly, was dead beyond death. Burned with him in the roar of dragon's wrath was another Executioner of Lost, but Luo Xiu did not remember his identity and name.

The rewards for killing the two executioners had already appeared in Luo Xiu's "Mailbox" panel. The battle was still going on, and Luo Xiu's eyes immediately turned to the other two places.

Deep inside the Val Fortress, the flames and smoke burning in the core district were becoming increasingly thicker.

That was the action that Koros, Bakad, Samanthaya and others had taken in the heart of the Val Fortress.

What they were targeting was the second crimson point marked on the "copper plate map" - that might be the location of the second "True Ancestor Demon", the "Phantom Spirit Lord" Alziaz.

Koros and his men have not yet reported back to him the news of their operation. However, judging from the fire in the rear of the Val Fortress that was visible to the naked eye, they should have succeeded.

After Luo Xiu looked at the back of Val Fortress for a while, he immediately looked to the other side——

That was the direction in which the "Sky Ring Paladin" Davild had successfully forced out the "Wild Hunt" Gabriel!

The "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel was indeed hidden underground in front of the fortress by the dark army within the Val Fortress.

In fact, Luo Xiu could already guess the plans of Fafnir and the executioners.

If the war unfolds normally, when the main force of the expeditionary force launches a siege from the front of the fortress, when the battle becomes increasingly intense, they will "explode" the ground and release the abyss beasts, along with the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel, thereby causing chaos among the expeditionary force.

Later, Luo Xiu received the plan about garrisoning in the Val Fortress from the "Executioners" such as Koros, Bakad and Samanthaya, and other Holy Abyss Apostles. It was indeed arranged by Fafnir and his other executioners.

If the expeditionary force didn't know that these treasures were buried in the Val Fortress, it would have suffered a heavy loss - but this would also cut off the retreat of Fafnir, his executioners, and the Dark Army to return to Fafnir Territory. However, this might be the reason why they were determined to fight to the death.

Perhaps since Fafnir retreated to the Val Fortress, he had never thought of returning to Fafnir Territory. If this could completely block the expeditionary army's path forward, it might be worth it for Fafnir.

While looking at the scarlet sky surging in the distance, Luo Xiu was thinking these things in his heart.

And now-

In the Val Fortress, Fafnir and his executioners' biggest trump card - the information about the [Abyss] monsters and demons they had hidden has been completely exposed.

The current situation of the war is that the expeditionary force has firmly seized the initiative.

Before the expeditionary army officially launched the siege on the Val Fortress, Davild was the first to "open" the "Gate of Hell" where the monsters were hiding. That was a special action that was finally decided by high-ranking people such as Luo Xiu and Davild after the guardians obtained the copper plate map.

Those abyss beasts will prioritize attacking the walls of the Val Fortress—because there are more and denser spiritualities there, which will be regarded as extremely tempting "food" by those hungry abyss beasts.

The dark army in the Val Fortress has not yet completely controlled those "Abyss Beasts" - the reversed blade will cut the throat of the dark army and become a reverse blade that will severely damage them.

And then——

The next move that Luo Xiu will make is to cooperate with the "Sky Ring Paladin" Davild to kill the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel before the most terrifying "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir in the Val Fortress can react, and completely eliminate the threat he will bring.

The plan is set.

Luo Xiu then rode on the "Golden Pegasus" and galloped towards the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel.

……

And before that, beside Luo Xiu.

"The Dragon of Justice" Quesanx, his three-colored overlapping dragon eyes are still staring at the Vaal Fortress below him.

Before the battle, Luo Xiu had already told Him - in fact, His only mission... or rather, Luo Xiu's only request and entrustment to Him, was to "suppress" the Val Fortress.

Until the moment when the "Dragon of Destruction" Fafnir finally appeared - before that, solving all the troubles except Fafnir was the job of the high-ranking people in the expeditionary force, such as Ross, Stuart, and Davild.

Quesanx thought about this in his mind.

So, even after Luo Xiu rode away on Pegasus, Quesanx was still accumulating the next wave of destructive spirituality.

The first surge of destruction against the Vaal Fortress was not the end. This was a long battle, for the expeditionary force as well as for Quesanx.

As he was thinking about this, he opened his gigantic dragon jaws that seemed to be able to swallow the sky and the earth.

The extremely intense spirituality within it has begun to accumulate again.

Below Him, above the outline of a complete wall of the Val Fortress, a dark red light appeared, like a circle drawn on the ground.

That is where Quesanx's next surge of destruction will cover.

The dark soldiers among them felt pain all over their bodies as if they were being pricked by needles, and fear had already emerged from the bottom of their hearts.

Their faces were also filled with expressions of horror, distortion, and despair.

However, the surge of destruction will only come as expected——

--boom!!!!!

The surging scarlet fell like fire from the sky.

It poured down heavily on the walls of Val Fortress like a torrent.

destroy.

The cycle of destruction -

The walls, one after another, melted under the roar of the Ancient Dragon Quesanx. In a flash, the perimeter of the Val Fortress was riddled with holes.

This is not an unfamiliar sight.

It was just that Fafnir had once controlled the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx and launched a destructive surge against Fafnir City, where the Imperial Expeditionary Force was stationed. That scene was now reappearing in the Val Fortress.

……

"My grass..."

Looking at the giant dragon in the sky not far away and the scene in front of the Val Fortress, Thomas let out a heartfelt and shocked sigh.

He and other teammates of the "Mirror of Light" are standing on the great rift valleys on both sides of the Val Fortress, serving as a hub connecting the front-line "Sky Ring Paladin" Davild, Davild's Knights Templar, and the main force of the expeditionary force in the rear.

At this time, Thomas had already seen that after the "Sky Ring Paladin" Davild pierced through the ground in front of the Val Fortress and released the terrifying "True Ancestor Demon" and "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel, the "Archbishop" Rossu Carlos and his "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx appeared and launched devastating bombardments on the Val Fortress again and again.

Also, a raging fire was burning behind the Val Fortress, and the extremely thick gray smoke had already clouded the sky above the fortress. Thomas didn't know what was happening there, but it was obvious that there must have been a massive chaos in the heart of the fortress.

This was a rare opportunity, and also the clarion call for the expeditionary force to officially launch an attack on the Val Fortress. The Knights Templar under Davild, who arrived here first, launched a charge towards the interior of the Val Fortress from the rift valleys on both sides and the front valley.

The Templars on both sides of the rift flew directly into the Val Fortress in a gliding posture. Because the executioner of [Intelligence], "Filthy Mage" Anatoly, had died, and the only two executioners who survived the destruction of Quesanx, "Silver Blood Dragonborn" Quillad, fled to the back of the fortress, leaving only one executioner of [Bitter Tea] struggling to support.

It is precisely for this reason that, within a short period of time, most of the magic towers built on the walls of the Val Fortress were unmanned.

The Templars who glided into the Val Fortress from the river valleys on both sides encountered very sparse resistance. With the help of other priests on the rift and the fire cover provided by the "Guardian" players, more than 200 Templars successfully landed on the wall of the Val Fortress.

Brilliant golden light burst out from their holy swords, cutting the first one or more dark soldiers they encountered into two halves.

The two Shining Knights with the "Fivefold Destiny" led the Templar Knights from both sides, which allowed the Templar Knights who had completed the landing to quickly form a cohesive fighting force. The rounds of breakthroughs and piercings they launched against the dark army stationed on the city wall were overwhelming compared to the dark guards who were already in a panic.

Soon, the first dark guards they encountered began to retreat, and the Templars drove those dark guards to the location where the "Ancient Dragon" Quesanx's destructive surge was about to fall.

Thomas was looking at this scene from the top of the wall of Val Fortress.

In another place - in front of the wall of the Val Fortress, the 120 Templar Knights stationed there were advancing steadily forward.

Their mission was not to attack the city, but to block it like a barrier - the land pierced by the Holy Slash of the "Sky Ring Paladin" Davild and the Last Judgment, released those "Abyss Beasts" and "Demons". Most of them were drilling into the fortress through the holes blasted by Quesanx on the fortress wall, and a small part of them were rushing towards the expeditionary force like a flood.

The Knights Templar stationed above the river valley are the dam.

They blocked all the Abyss Beasts and Demons that were attacking the expeditionary force in the opposite direction, not allowing a single Abyss Beast or Demon to break out and intercept them, thus driving them all to rush into the Val Fortress.

"So fucking exciting..."

Thomas murmured as he watched the scenes before him.

There was a bright light flashing in his eyes, and in the distance of his vision, the outline of the main force of the expeditionary force also emerged like a tide.

Soon, when "Archbishop" Luo Xiu and his clergy and saint protectors, as well as "Sky Ring Paladin" Davild and his Knights Templar, completely disrupted the walls of Val Fortress and the front-line defenses, that was when the main force of the expedition officially launched a siege on Val Fortress!
While thinking about this, Thomas had already taken out his war hammer.

Together with his teammates, Thomas has equipped the Rune Wings and is flying towards the Val Fortress!

Their mission is actually very simple.

Kill all the dark guards you encounter to clear a path for the incoming main force of the expedition.

Rivers of blood!
This is Thomas' most exciting thought right now!

……

--boom!!!!!

In the sky above the fortress of Val, the "Paladin of the Sky Ring" Davild, tightly grasped the giant sword in both hands, and repeatedly resisted the attacks of the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel. At the same time, the sky ring behind him was accumulating pure, annihilating spirituality, and in the gaps between Gabriel's frantic attacks, it launched a bombardment of heavenly thunder at Him!

The dazzling, scorching golden light rushed towards Gabriel's ferocious, hard and tall body, causing two of its twisted horns to break, with blood bubbling with hot bubbles.

But He was not actually hurt—the two broken demon horns quickly grew back. And in His head that was burning with scarlet flames, perhaps the mouth, a series of trembling hisses were already coming out—

"Wild Hunt..."

"Blood...Wild Hunt!"

Bathed in the blazing, annihilating holy light, the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel raised the blood spear in his hand. The dark spirituality accumulated on the tip of the spear had already condensed into substance, and the color of the surrounding holy light quickly dimmed. The spirituality that was originally [Glory] had been polluted, and then, was "absorbed" by the blood spear!

The next moment, the scarlet flames surged again and burst violently towards David's body!
--boom!!!!!

The terrifying blow directly exploded on the blade of the holy sword in Davild's hand!

The broad sword blade was already emitting a "hiss, hiss" sound, which was a reaction to some kind of erosion. It was visible to the naked eye that the golden light flowing on the holy sword had become dim, and even scarlet corrosion marks and holes had appeared on it.

"monster……"

Davild's eyes have become more serious.

This was the first time he truly faced a "True Ancestor" demon.

He could feel that the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabrio's fighting power was indeed quite terrifying - and the spiritual aura emanating from him was completely opposite to the fiery and sacred [Glory]. It was a dark and deep spiritual aura, which was indeed the complete opposite of [Glory].

That is the [Abyss]... Davild thought.

During the fierce battle with the "True Ancestor" demon "Wild Hunt" Gabrio in front of him, Davild's heart became more and more alert.

He was indeed shocked by the power of the Wild Hunt Demon, and felt that it was indeed quite difficult to deal with.

That is not only because the "Holy Court" lacks knowledge about these monsters of the "Abyss". Judging from the current battle situation, there are three most difficult points for the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabriel.

——It has extremely strange offensiveness, extremely tenacious vitality, and extremely terrifying corrosiveness.

Gabriel can tear space with the blood spear in his hand, and his attacks can be projected through the cracks he tore, which is often difficult to defend against, and Davild has suffered a lot of injuries as a result.

The injuries Gabriel suffered could also be recovered quickly. His recovery ability was so terrifying that it reached an outrageous level. Davild once cut off his head, but it grew back again in just three seconds.

Davild didn't know what the weakness of the "Wild Hunt Demon" was - although he had heard Luo Xiu say that this "True Ancestor" demon could not be truly killed, but "resurrection" was a matter for the future. The problem now was that Davild couldn't even solve the current threat!
In addition, the corrosiveness of the "Wild Hunt Demon" Gabrio -

Wherever the scarlet and dark spirituality of Gabrio's attack tainted the spirituality of [Glory] would be instantly tainted, and would quickly lose its purifying or annihilating activity.

And being hit by Gabrio's attack, the weapon enchanted with [Glory] - the holy sword held by Davild would be quickly destroyed.

If you are not careful and get hurt by it, the strange erosion will penetrate deeper along the flow of blood and spirituality, and even if you purify yourself, it will be difficult to completely eliminate it.

"..."

Davild frowned, thinking about these things anxiously.

What he didn't notice was...

Behind him, the originally calm air had become disturbed.

That had quietly torn open a crack, and the accumulated scarlet in it had locked onto him.

Locked his "Sky Ring".

……

(End of this chapter)