Quadruple split.

Chapter 2333 The Unkillable Clergyman

"Yes, it is a literal massacre."

Monica pursed her lips and recalled with an unpleasant expression: "They were two strange men wearing ragged cloaks and black chains on their hands. They called themselves Oath Breakers of the God-Destroying Society. They seemed very excited and agitated when they first found us, until they found the two identical 'fake daggers', and then... then..."

"Just turned crazy?"

Mo Tan kindly provided a reference word that fits the context.

"Yes, that's right. When they found the two daggers, they went crazy on the spot."

Monica, who couldn't find an appropriate description for a moment, nodded and said in a dry voice: "They attacked us without any warning. One of the confidants of the Muse branch president probably never thought that the other party would suddenly kill him until his death. By the time everyone reacted and tried to resist, one-fifth of them had already fallen."

Mo Tan whistled and asked happily, "What's going on? Did you run into two legends?"

"You're overthinking it. If I really encountered the legend, how could I appear in front of you alive?"

Monica followed Mo Tan's instructions to "be more casual" perfectly, and said in a tone as if she was chatting with an old friend: "In my opinion, although those two are extremely strong, they should only be at the peak of the high level at most."

Mo Tan raised his eyebrows and questioned, "High-level peak? Not even half-step epic? Your next sentence is not going to be, you are the only high-level one in the whole team, and the others are just weaned?"

"That must be impossible."

Monica smiled and shook her head, saying, "Even though I don't have a good impression of that Muse branch president, I have to admit that the team he put together is of very high level. Although he is only the branch president of a small city's Thieves Guild, the average strength of the gang working for him this time, including me, is at a high level. Only a few engineering masters and alchemists have lower strength on paper, but they are also the best in their respective fields."

Mo Tan smacked his lips and sighed, "So? The way you prove your strength is that you were slaughtered by two 'Undead' of the same level in just a short encounter? Let's be honest, let alone a dozen high-level ones, even if it was a dozen Mudkachus, they wouldn't be slaughtered in the blink of an eye, right?"

"You may not believe it..."

Rebecca showed a very subtle expression and said with a wry smile: "If there really were more than a dozen Mudkachus, I'm afraid those two wouldn't be able to kill them that quickly."

"Oh?"

Mo Tan stroked his chin and asked with interest, "So what exactly is going on? What's so special about those two 'undead spirits' you mentioned?"

“First of all, they are very good at killing people.”

Given Mo Tan's identity, Monica naturally couldn't hide anything from him. Although she remained casual on the surface, she still told him everything she knew and answered in detail immediately: "According to my observation, the two people who call themselves Oath Breakers are exactly the opposite of those academic mages who have strength but no practical experience. Maybe their absolute power is not strong, but every action is extremely efficient and deadly. It can be said that their combat mode is completely born for 'killing'. This is one of the reasons why they were able to destroy our team in a short time."

"It can only be one of the reasons."

Mo Tan nodded slightly and said in a brisk tone: "After all, the combat method you mentioned, where all actions are completely for the purpose of killing, is rare, but it is not enough to achieve such an exaggerated feat. So apart from this, there may be some other reason that is more suitable for the 'finale'."

Monica smiled awkwardly and sighed, "As expected of Mr. Anthony, he even guessed my little trick of using understatement to heighten the drama of the story."

"I don't hate this cute little thought."

Mo Tan threw a wink at Monica and asked patiently, "So, what is the biggest threat to those two 'Oath Breakers'?"

“It can’t be killed.”

Monica gave a very straightforward answer, saying seriously, "It's literally 'unkillable'. Whether it's piercing the heart, severing the throat, or even chopping off the head, they can continue to move without any impact, and those conventional fatal injuries will also recover in just a few seconds."

Mo Tan showed a slightly surprised expression and once again raised the possibility that had been ruled out by the other party: "Undead creature?"

"At least according to my limited common sense, they don't look like undead creatures."

Monica patted the dagger on her waist and said seriously, "I once fought with them briefly, and even pierced one of them's heart with my own hands. The warm blood splashed all over my body. For undead creatures, the so-called 'warm blood' simply cannot exist, unless they are so bored that they absorb the blood of living people and infuse it into their bodies that have long lost vitality, and frequently heat their blood vessels, just to make others feel alive when they cut them."

Mo Tan clapped his hands and said approvingly, "Very insightful. Keep going."

"Also, even undead creatures have a core of soul fire deep in their hearts or skulls, unless they are a lich who is the only one capable of placing the 'Soul Box' externally."

Monica spread her hands and said with a subtle expression, "As far as I know, any clergyman, or anyone who has ever been a 'clergyman', can never be transformed into an undead creature, either actively or passively. That's why, even though I call them 'undeads', I still think those two guys are not undead creatures in the conventional sense."

"Just wait a minute."

Mo Tan frowned, rubbed his chin and asked, "From what you said, those two so-called oath breakers are actually two clergymen?"

"Yes."

Monica nodded vigorously and said solemnly, "I can swear on the weapon bestowed upon me by His Highness that the two members of the God-Destroying Society who claim to be oath breakers are the Paladin of the Dark Night Cult and the Priest of the Sun Cult."

Mo Tan pulled the corner of his mouth and said with the same subtle expression as Monica just now: "So what you mean is that the two people from the [God-Exterminating Society] are actually clergymen from the Dark Night Sect and the Sun Sect, that is... followers of the Dark Goddess Delia and the Sun God Tisu?"

"Is such that."

Monica sighed and said with certainty, "There are clergymen in the [God-Destroying Society] who regard all gods as the ultimate enemy. Not only that, their magic is simply... full of power in my opinion. Unlike those 'apostates' who can barely use magic, have not blasphemed the gods but are no longer blindly believing in them and the power of their magic has been greatly reduced, these people who call themselves oath breakers have very powerful magic. To me, they are no less powerful than the most devout fanatics of various sects." Mo Tan, who has been at odds with the native religion of the [Realm of Innocence] for a long time, and has devoted all his energy to studying the nature of its power and even regarded 'Ai Vanye' as a practical object for thorough transformation, widened his eyes and looked very happy, "This is incredible!"

It can be seen that something that makes the current 'Tan Mo' feel incredible is indeed incredible. You know, as the 'priests' who almost monopolize nearly half of the spellcaster system, the source of their power is naturally the gods they always talk about. It is also because of this that in terms of divine arts, in addition to the reference values ​​of strength, talent, accumulation, etc. that are similar to other professional systems, there is also a very influential trait, that is - piety.

This is actually very easy to understand, and it means exactly what is on the page. In short, the more devout the clergy are to the gods they believe in, the more powerful their magic will be. Of course, there is an upper limit to this 'greater'. Although the increase in this regard varies slightly for each person, based on the tireless analysis of countless researchers (mainly the mages in the City of Miracles), the conclusion that 'the upper limit is at most 20%' was reached many years ago. Even the Holy Alliance, the largest religious force, agrees with this conclusion.

In other words, if a priest with a combat power of 100 can raise his piety to the level where a single word from God can make him commit suicide on the spot, then in actual combat he can theoretically exert a combat power of 120. These extra 20 points cannot be compensated by other professionals in any way.

To quote a wise man from the Parliament of Truth when he was teaching his apprentices, "You can take drugs, so can the charlatans. You can change equipment, so can the charlatans. But he can increase his magic power by 20% with his crazy faith. What about you? Even if you call the fire element, the earth element, the wind element, the negative energy, or even the evil energy your parents or your wife every day, you will only be regarded as a fool."

Similarly, if one's faith is not strong enough or one is not loyal enough to God, even if one is not punished and purified by God for speaking blasphemously like Mika, one will still be affected to a considerable extent when performing divine arts. Compared to the theoretical maximum increase of 20%, the lower limit of the attenuation is - zero.

In other words, extremely impious clergymen are very likely to be unable to use their magic at all.

Then the problem is coming...

Even if we can agree that Mo Tan, a foreigner, appears to be pious enough, that Luke Tifilo, who dares to comment on the goddess' figure, is pious enough in his heart, that Yu Chen, who is favored by two gods, is assumed to be pious as long as he does not blaspheme, and that Ai Fanye, whose mental state has become somewhat delicate after undergoing a lot of "tests" by his master, still has the most basic piety -

Then do the clergy who joined the extremely terrorist and violent group "God-Destroying Society" have even the slightest bit of piety toward the gods from top to bottom, inside to outside, from appearance to essence?

"Haha~"

Mo Tan clapped his hands in delight and said cheerfully, "This is not bullshit!"

“Uh…hahaha, hahahaha…”

Although she didn't know why this Tan Mo... or Mr. Anthony was so excited, Monica still smiled twice with high emotional intelligence. After the former suppressed the rampant arc at the corner of his mouth, she asked cautiously: "Then should I continue?"

"explain."

Mo Tan waved his hand and spoke concisely.

"After we reacted, we put up a bit of resistance, but after realizing that those two crazy oathbreakers were impossible to kill and that any damage they sustained could be healed quickly, we finally collapsed after losing a third of our members."

Although they were on different sides, Monica still sighed for the fate of her temporary teammates and said with a wry smile, "After that, they naturally fled in all directions. The most despairing thing was that everyone would run back from another direction the moment they were out of everyone's sight, and they could not leave the 20-meter visibility range around the two oath breakers at all."

Mo Tan laughed, walked up to Monica, whose face was no longer pale, and gently lifted her chin: "If that's the case, then how did you escape?"

"because this."

Monica raised her face obediently, pulled out a dark, slender dagger from the leather sheath on the outside of her right leg and handed it to Mo Tan: "I took advantage of the chaos to snatch a 'fake', and used its power to escape from the two oath breakers, and then... well, I entered the dream you mentioned in a daze. Do you know what happened?"

"It's probably because after you solved the problem of 'lost', you went straight to the territory of the [Dusk Crows Eastern Expedition Army]."

Mo Tan took the [Shadowfang·Fake] handed over by Monica and said casually while holding it carefully: "This area was the final battlefield between those charlatans and the [God-Destroying Society], and the area we are in now is the stronghold established by the expeditionary force on one side of the battlefield, named 'Jackdaw Castle'."

Monica blinked and followed her train of thought: "And the place where we were initially led by this dagger..."

"Of course it's closer to the [God-Destroying Society]."

Mo Tan smiled, put the dagger in his hand directly into the bag, and said lightly: "You probably chose to go against the guidance of the dagger and broke into the territory of the mortal enemy of the [God-Destroying Society]. The moment you broke in, you were assimilated by the environment and sank into the 'dream' we just found ourselves in. As for me, after successfully waking up several times, I tried to wake you up as well, by slapping you in the face."

Monica's smile froze, but she quickly touched her face, which had not been slapped outside of the dream, and said seriously: "I understand. After all, the situation is urgent and you don't have many choices, so..."

“No, I actually have quite a few choices.”

Mo Tan shook his head and interrupted Monica, saying seriously: "For example, suppose I say the word 'violet' directly in front of you, and after you feel 'disharmony' with the dream, I use keywords such as 'female bee' and 'regent' that can give you strong stimulation, which can also wake you up from the dream."

"what?"

“Well, there are actually quite a lot of methods.”

"Uh... okay, so slapping is actually more efficient?"

"Not really. I think Violet's work is more efficient."

"Then why did you choose to wake me up by slapping me?"

"because I like it!"

"..."

Chapter 2324: The End

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