The Embers of King's Teyvat Journey

No sooner had she finished speaking than a gasp of surprise rang out.

"Who opened this abyss portal?! They've gone to the outer reaches of the world!"

Chapter 722 Useful Thugs

2024-06-16

"???!!!"

Sensing an aura behind him that was even more bizarre and chaotic than the remnants of the demon god and the dead zone, the doctor immediately turned around and became alert.

Unbeknownst to him, a wide curtain of starry sky had been torn open behind him, from which abyssal monsters continuously leaped out.

However, their first reaction upon emerging wasn't to fight, but rather to be puzzled. They were puzzled as to why the environment here was so different from Teyvat.

According to the records of the Abyss Order, sometimes unlucky apostles would fall into small, fragmented spaces outside the world when they opened the wrong passage.

Some of these spaces are inhabited by life, and the plants there are very similar to those we see now. Therefore, the people from the Abyss Order are now very suspicious that something is wrong with the Abyss Passage.

"Impossible! I opened it strictly according to the coordinates. There must be something wrong with your eyes!"

"Then why did you open a portal? It's nearby, you can just run a few steps and you're there. Why bother with teleportation?"

"Aren't you guys incredibly lazy? Why are you blaming me for it now?"

"Quiet!"

The apostles were cursing and swearing, but after the Baptist of Deep Sin appeared, all the strife ceased.

"This is Sumeru. The location is correct." The Baptist of Deep Sin said simply, then opened a book of chapters.

There were no incantations, nor any fluctuations of elemental power; it simply took out a photograph from the scriptures.

Blue hair, mask, overcoat—target identified, let's get to work!

"Kill the tallest one besides us!" The Baptist of Deep Sin waved his hand, and the apostles behind him charged forward fearlessly.

"Boom!"

"Shhhhh!"

"Bang!"

Falling lava, flying water blades, and several water ice apostles surrounding the doctor, punching and kicking him...

As soon as the Baptist of Deep Sin finished speaking, the space immediately became noisy.

"Get out of the way!"

The lava meteorite falling from the sky was deflected by the doctor and flew to this spot, whereupon the Great Tree King pulled Narcida aside.

Under the siege of the Water Ice Apostles, the Doctor was covered in pure white frost. Fighting the Water Ice Apostles requires not only considering their superb combat skills, but also their close coordination.

"boom!"

"roll!"

With his hands covered in scales, and after a flash of sparks, the Doctor caught the arm blade that the Apostle was slashing at him with his bare hands.

His body contracted, then suddenly expanded, creating a shockwave that forced the surrounding apostles to retreat.

The space around him had cleared, but that didn't mean the Doctor could catch his breath. On the contrary, it meant the Singer and Priest behind him could now unleash powerful abyssal magic.

"Grace of the Abyss!"

"Light of the Abyss!"

Beneath the Church of Christ were the branches of the sacred tree, yet a scorching hollow suddenly appeared in the ground. Within the hollow, lava surged forth with tremendous force.

The doctor jumped back and forth on the ground. Getting burned by the lava was secondary; his main worry was that he might slip and fall into it. Who knew where the other side of the abyss passage was?

"Om!"

Flashing circular bolts of lightning expanded in mid-air, resembling shockwaves oscillating back and forth in water.

Every time the doctor approaches them, in addition to the burning and pain from being struck by lightning, a portion of his power is also devoured.

"Oh!"

The doctor let out an angry roar, and then his body burst forth with a speed much faster than before.

The expanding and contracting lightning in the air and the gushing lava pillars on the ground were directly smashed apart by his speeding body. Now, the Doctor is enduring the attacks of various magics and trying to get closer to the Singer and Priest behind him—they are just too troublesome!

A gust of wind rose beside the singer, and then a figure that was growing larger appeared in its eyes.

Without a doubt, it was the Doctor who had run over. But despite seeing his arrival, the Singer continued chanting the spell without changing its expression, channeling its power as if the Doctor posed no threat to it whatsoever.

"Die!" Taking advantage of his still-speedy state, the doctor swung his arm to the side, intending to finish off the chanter in one fell swoop.

However, just as he was about to strike the Singer, a sudden distortion occurred behind the Singer.

"Snapped!"

A twisted arm reached out from the abyss passage and dragged the Chanter away.

"call!!!"

The gust of wind whipped up by the arm tore a jagged gash in the ground, and the billowing dust did not obstruct the apostles' vision. Before the doctor could catch his breath, they attacked again.

Meanwhile, the previously locked-on chanter jumped out from the abyss passage on the other side.

This is precisely what makes the Abyss Apostles so troublesome. This is also why someone of Dain's strength, despite hunting down the Abyss Order for hundreds of years, still couldn't stop its growth.

They can run away anytime, anywhere. Apart from ambushing them, it is extremely difficult to kill an Abyss Apostle head-on—unless they are so fast that the Apostle cannot react at all.

"Do we... still need to intervene...?"

Naxida, seeing the colorful scene in the distance, asked somewhat bewilderedly.

Judging from this, it seems that these abyssal monsters can easily defeat the Doctor.

"Of course we need to. That guy called Doctor isn't as simple as he seems." The Great Tree King took a deep breath and then replied.

She had never even imagined fighting alongside monsters from the abyss.

"Here, you can plant this on the blue one and the white one later."

The Great Tree King turned around and plucked thorny, deep purple seeds from the exotic flowers and plants that had grown there.

“This thing… I understand!” Nasita took the seed, glanced at the apostle panting in the distance, and instantly realized something.

"Huh...huh..."

"You're no good. You've forgotten all your combat skills after digging in the dirt for two months?"

One of the water apostles, who had just parted ways with the doctor, made a joking remark to his companion before resuming the fight.

The apostle who had been teased by his companion stood up defiantly and shook his head violently.

"No... how could I be tired so quickly! It must be my imagination!"

"Take one of my moves!"

It charged forward with a loud shout, but although this apostle said so, its movements were a fraction slower than its companions, and its moves were no longer as crisp and clean as before.

In battles between the strong, sometimes being even a fraction of a second slower can be fatal.

"sieve!"

Seizing the opportunity, the Doctor swiftly broke through the impenetrable attack of the surrounding apostles. He arrived in front of the exhausted apostle and raised his hand to its neck.

"Squeak-"

Exhaustion affected the apostle's reaction; it didn't see when the doctor arrived, nor did it react to his fierce claw attack.

"laugh!!!"

The doctor exerted force with his palm, and black liquid seeped from the apostle's neck, corroding his palm and causing black smoke to billow out.

"Ho..."

The apostle struggled, but its resistance was extremely weak and could not shake the doctor in the slightest.

"Hmm? What's wrong with Latourova?" The Baptist of Deep Sin frowned. It didn't understand what was wrong with the apostle whose neck the doctor was choking. Logically speaking, it shouldn't have had a chance to intervene in the attack just now.

But for now... let's save that apostle first.

"Zidian!"

"boom!"

A swift and fierce bolt of lightning surged from the circular magic circle behind the Baptist of Deep Sin, instantly striking the Doctor.

"Humph!"

A burning pain shot through his back, but the doctor only groaned. He had finally seized the opportunity to kill the apostle, and he would not give it up easily.

"In that case, let me see if you have the guts to embrace the abyss."

The Baptist of Deep Sin raised one arm forward, and a deep, dark passageway appeared before the Doctor.

There were no arms inside the passage to compete with him for the apostle, but this time the passage became mobile, moving towards him.

Seeing this, the doctor hardened his heart. He had originally considered that the apostles contained forbidden power, and that he had used the method of "strangling" them to avoid being corrupted, but now it seemed that he could no longer care about that.

"boom!"

After a muffled thud, black matter flew out, and the headless apostle slowly collapsed.

Chapter 723 Chaos

2024-06-16

"laugh--"

"hiss……"

The splashing black matter corroded deep pits in the ground, and the Doctor, who was almost face to face with the Abyss Apostle, was naturally not immune to it either.

The jet-black ink droplets fell on his body, quickly expanding from a tiny spot into a large patch of black.

As the doctor retreated to avoid the abyss passage, he also cut away large chunks of flesh stained with black blood from his body.

The abyss passage swallowed the motionless apostle on the ground, and several twisted pieces of "charcoal" appeared on the ground.