The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 567 Abyssal Webway
The strong smell of the abyss in the air made Richard frown.

What on earth did these goblins do? Couldn't they handle a few abyss demons? But before Richard could start investigating, a familiar force descended upon him.

"World Protection! How is that possible?" Richard said in shock.

The power that descended upon Richard was the world protection that Richard had obtained by exploiting a bug more than 500 years ago. But he had been away for so many years, so how could this protection descend upon him immediately after he entered this world?

Could it be that in all these years, this world has never had a world master? Or did the world master of this world die not long ago?
Before the investigation even began, questions popped up one after another.

Using the power of the gods, Richard got a slight feel for the number of believers in the goblin world. Surprisingly, after more than 500 years of development, the number of believers in the goblin world has not increased much, but the quality has improved a lot.

He has quite a number of devout and fanatical followers.

"It's strange. With the world in this state, the quality of believers has improved. Do the goblins in this world have any special hobbies?"

Richard shook his head and wiped out the weird thoughts in his mind. The most urgent task was to find out the current situation of the goblins as soon as possible, and then drive the abyss out of this world as soon as possible.

Richard could feel that this world had been made extremely weak by the abyss. If the abyss continued to erode it, this world would soon become an abyss world.

By then, it will not be him who will be blessed by the world.

"Let me see where the center of this world is."

A faint holy light shone in Richard's eyes, and the idols of the entire goblin world turned into Richard's eyes at this moment. Soon, he found the most luxurious church.

But just as he was about to leave, a call made him stop.

"My Lord, may your glory shine upon me."

Richard was slightly stunned when he heard the call.

"Who is this person? Why can he call me directly?"

Normally, the prayers of believers would not directly reach Richard's ears. Even for priests, Richard would need to actively listen to them before he could hear their prayers.

There is no other reason. Even the weakest gods have hundreds of thousands of followers. The larger gods have followers in the hundreds of millions.

With this number of believers, even if each of them may not pray much, their accumulated numbers will turn their prayers into a 24-hour non-stop information bombardment from the gods.

Therefore, the King of Gods in the dimension of gods established the statue as a transponder.

Every time a god is born, a corresponding statue will appear in the Pantheon. This statue will automatically accept the power of faith from believers and bestow blessings when certain conditions are met. When priests use the power of faith, the statue will also act as their agent.

According to Ulises, the formation of the statues directly laid the foundation for the civilization of the gods. After the appearance of the statues, the civilization of the gods was considered a real civilization.

However, there are exceptions to everything.

Under certain circumstances, some special individuals among the believers will bypass the response mechanism of the statue and directly convey their prayers to the deity himself.

But most of these people are the chosen people of God, and Richard doesn't remember that he has chosen people.

"Forget it, it won't take a while, let's go over and take a look first."

Richard was still very interested in an individual who could communicate directly with him. He didn't mind investigating for a while.

After determining the direction of the call, Richard's body turned into a stream of light and flew towards it rapidly.

……

On the battlefield, the Salamander warrior wearing alchemical power armor roared, and chopped the Abyss zombies in front of him into pieces with the chainsaw sword in his hand like cutting melons and vegetables.

Around him, the abyss zombies like a tide, and the abyss demons hiding among these zombies, were constantly approaching him.

The huge demon tide was endless, but there were only a dozen fire lizard warriors. In the center of these fire lizard warriors, a slender fire lizard girl waved her staff and continuously cast magic on the fire lizard warriors.

With the blessing of divine power, the damaged armor became as hard as steel, and the broken chainsaw sword was as sharp as a blade.

The magic of God has another name among believers - miracle.

But the amount of power of faith a priest can use every day is limited. As the fire lizard girl's staff no longer glowed with holy light, the surging demonic tide around her suddenly surged up.

The fire lizard girl did not panic. She removed the head of her staff and took out a blade wrapped in thunder from the box beside her.

"Uncles, I'm sorry to have troubled you." The fire lizard girl said in a low voice.

"This is our duty." A Salamander warrior replied.

The fire lizard girl attached the blade, and the ordinary staff instantly turned into a terrifying weapon.

"My Lord, may your glory shine upon me."

She prayed as usual, and then joined the formation of the fire lizards. She swung the long-handled knife in her hand, and the sharp blade wrapped with energy arcs cut off more than a dozen abyss zombies in half.

As a fire lizard, although she is not a member of the regiment, she has acquired good skills under the guidance of many fire lizard warriors.

But before she could do anything else, a voice sounded in her ears.

"Hey, you are... a crawling child?"

The next moment, a pitch-black fireball fell from the sky, and the moment it landed, it turned into a sea of ​​fire. In the sea of ​​fire, both the Abyss Demons and the Abyss Walking Corpses were turned into ashes.

The zombies, like a tide, turned into ashes in an instant. Richard landed on the ground and touched the top of the girl's head affectionately.

"When I met you, you were just born. I didn't expect you to grow up so big in the blink of an eye."

The girl looked at Richard in a daze, or rather, at the battlefield behind Richard.

The demonic tide that had besieged them for three days was gone just like that? Before she could recover from the shock, she saw his uncles kneeling on one knee.

"My lord."

Richard waved his hand casually: "It's just a courtesy. I was in a hurry back then and forgot to let you go back to the secret realm. It was my negligence."

Many fire lizard warriors stood up, and at this moment, the fire lizard girl finally reacted.

"Are you the Sage?!"

Richard nodded slightly and looked at the fire lizard girl in front of him without saying a word.

The fire lizard girl was wearing a somewhat bulky alchemical power armor, which seemed to be a combination of crystal technology and dragon alchemy. However, Richard felt a hint of uncoordinated life in it, and thought that this alchemical power armor also applied flesh and blood colonization technology.

The girl is tall, with a pair of majestic dragon horns on her head. Compared with ordinary fire lizards, the dragon aura on the fire lizard girl is more intense, probably the result of excessive dragon blood.

But after reading it again, Richard still couldn't find the reason why the girl could call him.

Although she was born with Richard's blessing, that only made her a natural believer.

"What's your name?" Richard asked.

The girl said with some fear and trepidation: "My Lord, my name is Sora."

"Don't be nervous. I came here at your call." Richard glanced at the staff that fell on the ground beside him and asked, "Are you a priest?"

"I guess so, my Lord."

"What does it mean?"

"I was born with the ability to use divine magic. After discovering this, the Order of Miracles gave me the title of Saint and said that I am your chosen one."

"Canonized by the Pope?"

"Ah."

"That's not surprising."

Richard nodded slightly. The various titles of the church were not just names. Changes in titles would directly affect the use of divine arts by priests. The divine arts that low-level priests had to work hard to release could be done by the Pope with just a wave of his hand.

The title of Saint is equal to that of the Pope. Since the girl has been canonized, it is normal to call her directly based on the connection between the two.

"What's going on in this world now?" Richard asked the fire lizard veteran beside him, "Didn't I kill that big demon when I was promoted? What tricks did the goblins do to cause the abyss to spread like this?"

"My Lord, this is very complicated. At the beginning, our progress was indeed smooth." The old Salamander said slowly, "About thirty years after you disappeared, we entered the stage of full-scale counterattack. At that time, my brothers in the regiment and I charged forward with those transformed goblins, and even fought to the lair of the abyss.

But when we got there, the city of flesh and blood seemed to awaken and began to spew out all kinds of demons we had never seen before.

These demons are not newborns, each of them is very experienced. Although we can hold on, the goblins can't hold on."

Having said that, the veteran seemed to be trapped in the illusion of the past.

"Each of those demons had superb combat skills. They were comparable to us in terms of speed and strength, and far surpassed the transformed goblins. Under their offensive, our counterattack was blocked. As the number of these demons increased, the land that had been recovered was lost again, and the huge defense line began to show loopholes.

It’s all over.”

"Is there no Lord of the World?" Richard said in a low voice, "After I leave, a Lord of the World should be born in this world."

"Indeed, he was born. He is the pope you chose. But in those flesh and blood cities, a demon who was as powerful as him appeared. The pope tried his best, but he only severely injured the demon."

“…Okay, I understand.”

Richard now knew what was going on.

"Ulysses, the worst has happened." Richard muttered to himself as he looked at the abyss spore column in the distance that looked like a smoke screen.

"The Abyssal Webway is finally connected, but fortunately, this world has not fallen yet."

Richard didn't know why only one weakling big demon appeared in the Abyss Webway, but he guessed that it was probably related to their war.

The Abyss Civilization and the Gods Civilization have been at war for two thousand years, and the war situation must have been extremely tense. It is normal that such an insignificant little world in the rear is not taken seriously.

"Let's go back to the church."

Richard turned and walked towards the goblin city behind him.

Looking at Richard's back, Sora asked excitedly, "My Lord, is the counterattack about to begin?"

"Prepare to level the abyss."

(End of this chapter)