Elden Clergyman

This time, even Lord could see that she seemed to be weaving something.

After making up stories for a while, Alice seemed to realize something and turned to look at Lord.

"Give me a fragment."

Lord was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously raised his hand. The fragments that had previously dissolved in his body reappeared, and were then entangled by the golden threads and floated into the air.

Is this... unzipping?

Watching the golden threads peeling off the black fragments bit by bit, Lord subconsciously thought of this description.

Or to be more precise.

Forcefully restore and decompress a damaged archive.

Soon, as time went by, he also noticed that as the black fragments were peeled off, the surrounding space began to distort, dark fog gradually emerged, and even the black fragments themselves were expanding little by little, as if a crack had appeared in the barrier of the world and was constantly spreading.

Alice's expression grew serious, her brows gradually furrowed, and sweat began to appear on her forehead.

Although she had anticipated that this would not be easy before starting the action, and even found a pair of fingers with a divine tower to reduce the burden, it still seems a bit difficult...?

Her hand was held.

As the remaining flames rekindled, a warm current of the soul flowed into her body along the contact points, making up for her previous consumption.

Alice turned her head and glanced at Lord beside her with some surprise.

But at this moment, Lord closed his eyes, as if he was sleepwalking, and was unconsciously supplying her with power.

Supported by this power, Alice successfully completed the decomposition and reconstruction of the fragments, reconstructing the destroyed, disordered chaos into a new, understandable order.

However, this is only preliminary understanding. There is still one last step to achieve true order and stability, or even rebirth.

His hands loosened and Lord opened his eyes.

For him, only a moment had passed since Alice started to act reluctantly until now.

A second later, he saw the dark fragments in front of Alice disappear, replaced by a black vortex that appeared out of thin air.

It floats in the air, constantly spinning and twisting, swallowing up the surrounding light and space. It is deep and dark, and just looking at it gives one the illusion that one's soul will be sucked in.

But looking at the black vortex, Lord's expression became subtle, even a little... nostalgic?

Isn't this the portal to the Soul 1 Urasil DLC? Xiao Gao is dead, so they're reusing Soul 1's assets, right?

After completing all this, Alice dispersed the golden light on her hand, slowly turned her head and looked at Lord.

"Go."

Alice looked at him and said calmly, "This is all I can do for now. The rest depends on you."

To be honest, Lord didn't understand what she wanted to say.

But it doesn't matter. As an old soul, when he saw the black hole, he knew what he should do.

He took a step forward, walked to the front of the cave, and slowly stretched out his hand.

Black air currents emerged from the black hole, forming strands of silk threads that looked like tentacles, wrapping around his fingertips.

Lord subconsciously reached out and held it.

A scream sounded.

The next moment, he fell into darkness.

When he opened his eyes again, the scene around him was no longer the top floor of the Divine Tower, and Alice was no longer around.

Looking around, he found that he seemed to be back to the place where he had just defeated the evil omen and had just arrived at the main gate of Stonewell City but had not yet officially entered.

Then, without waiting for his further reaction, a line of small words popped out from the system, accompanied by a low sound effect, and slowly appeared in front of him.

[City of Pus·Stonewell]

[World State: Complete Disorder]

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Chapter 29: The most useful episode of holy attribute damage

[City of Pus·Stonewell]

[World State: Complete Disorder]

[Special Area: City of Human Pus]

[City of Human Pus: Dark attribute spells, prayers, and combat skills consume less focus and deal more damage.]

Is this a copy?

After thinking for a moment, Lord suddenly realized.

Oh, I see. No wonder Greg is so weak. It turns out he was waiting here.

But this copy...

Lord looked around and after repeated observations, he confirmed that this was the city of Stonewell.

The light was much dimmer, with depressing black clouds floating in the sky and faint black fog in the city, with a few red spots flashing in it, like the gaze of a hunter staring at its prey.

It's just an enhanced version of Stonewell.

With this in mind, Lord took out his hound tusk, jumped down along the familiar path, and encountered the familiar 'Blue Steel Eagle'.

But this time, the Green Steel Eagle with red light flashing in its eyes not only had more blood than before and a much stronger desire to attack, but also had an additional skill of throwing the blade on its foot from a long distance and then returning it.

Although his reaction was fast enough, it was his first encounter after all, so Lord still couldn't dodge it completely. He was hit and a piece of his health bar fell off.

It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt.

I continued moving forward and saw a blessing. I lit it up and sat down, but the missing health bar didn't increase at all.

Touch the blessing again and a prompt pops up.

[Order is broken and cannot be restored]

Ah this...

After confirming that the blessing could not restore the status, Lord took out the Holy Grail Dew Bottle, took a sip, looked at the full health bar, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it’s just the fire that won’t recover, and the other methods seem to be okay.

Thinking of this, Lord stood up again, walked along the path for a while, and saw several familiar exile soldiers.

After killing him with a few sword strikes, Lord moved forward again and saw a strange exiled soldier.

He just stood there, without any weapon in his hand. After seeing Lord, he just walked towards him slowly, and then after getting close to him——

boom!

The exiled soldier's upper body exploded directly, and a large amount of dark, wriggling human pus gushed out of it, turning into a giant snake-like monster that smashed down towards Lord.

boom--

After dodging the attack, Lord's expression gradually became subtle as he looked at the familiar monster swaying in front of him.

This is the King of Pus and Fire?

In order to verify his guess, Lord took out the fire grease from the inventory and enchanted the hound fang in his hand with fire.

Although it is a tarnished weapon and cannot undergo any battle-gray changes or qualitative changes, due to its purely physical properties, the Hound's Fang can be externally enchanted, which is one of the reasons why Lord likes to use it.

After being enchanted, Lord rolled again, dodged another attack from the Human Pus, and struck back with a knife.

boom--

The moment the flame touched the human pus, it was like a spark dripping onto oil, instantly igniting it and causing the entire human pus to burn and emit a painful wail.

Lord took the opportunity to attack twice more, and finally used a combat skill to empty the opponent's health bar, leaving a white spot of light on the ground.

pick up.

[Obtain 'Residue of Humanity']

【Residue of Humanity】

[Can be used to enhance spells and prayers of dark nature]

[It can also be used to transform the medium of a spell, enhancing the power of dark arts.]

[The curse from the past still lurks in the deepest part of every soul today]

But is it really a curse?

[Perhaps, from the very beginning]

Our birth is sin itself.

Huh? Even magic can be upgraded in this game?

After examining the fragments, Lord raised his eyebrows and continued forward.

Because he had fought his way through Stoneville once before, Lord was quite familiar with the terrain of this place and would not have difficulty finding the way.

But the problem is that although he is familiar with the terrain, he is not so familiar with the monsters inside.

In addition to the Steel Hawk that learned Draven's R and the Exiled Soldier who transformed into the Cinder King, he encountered many strange things one after another afterwards.

Although the module has not changed, it has an additional active self-destruct skill, "Unconscious Resident", which deals pure dark attribute damage and has a large range.

A crossbowman holding a crossbow in his hand, with tiny human pus growing in front of him like spider legs. Although he can no longer shoot with the crossbow in his hand due to erosion, the human pus in front of him can not only shoot more and at a wider range, but also has the effect of accumulating poison.

There is also the more heavyweight Lost Homeland Knight. The Lost Homeland Knight itself is not weak among the elite monsters. After adding the red-eye special effect, it rushes and chases as fiercely as a monster, and one kick can summon a storm to cause 360-degree damage without dead ends.

And with the blessing of human pus, not only did his attack have a combo of human pus coordination, but he also had a long-range attack method that stretched out the human pus behind him and bit it, which made Lord say that it was a pity not to give him a golden mist gate.

But the most fatal thing is not the strength of the monster.

After exploring for a long time, they finally found a 'blessing point'. When they saw the words [Order is broken and cannot be restored] that popped up after they touched the blessing, Lord was stunned.

Yes, Lord knew that there were indeed those "Soul Wandering Gods" who could easily clear an area without taking any damage, and some had even done the hard work of clearing an entire series without taking any damage.

But putting aside the fact that this is reality and not a game, even if it is a game, those 'Gods of Soul Travel' have gone through countless practices before becoming masters, and the suffering they will endure when pioneering is no less.

Now, although the terrain has not changed much, whether it is the strengthening of monsters, the changes in configuration, or some new things, such as pus blocks hanging from the ceiling that fall when someone approaches, or poison pools accumulated in depressions that will accumulate poison bars when stepped on.

Although it didn't take his life, it did cause some damage, and by now, his Holy Grail bottle was almost half empty.

I've explored less than a quarter of the map, and half of my health bottles are gone. And the further I go, the more monsters there are and the stronger they become...

Was this a beating by a human?

At this point, Lord has considered abandoning the red tape.

But just when he was about to change to a larger size and take out his staff to shoot them all, he inexplicably felt something in his heart.

This place is too fragile now and cannot accommodate his true "power" at all. As long as he dares to switch accounts, this place will die in front of him.

But just when Lord was worrying about what to do next, a golden light lit up in the darkness.

[The initial order has been established, the summoning restrictions have been unlocked, the current number of assistants that can be summoned is 0/1, the number of blessing recovery times has increased, and the current number of recovery times for each blessing is 0/1]

[Summon the spirit 'Melina']

Lord's eyes lit up.

“So that’s the mechanism.”

Touching the golden talisman, Melina's figure slowly emerged from the darkness accompanied by golden light.

After she was completely focused, she opened her eyes and saw everything in front of her clearly.

"...Where is this?"

Melina looked confused.

"I don't know either." Lord shook his head and picked up the hound's fang. "But anyway, we just have to fight our way out."

Kill out?

Melina looked around, her gaze lingering on the monsters infected by human pus for a moment, then she tightened the knife in her hand.

Although she had never seen this kind of monster in the border area, she didn't need to see it, because any normal being would be able to perceive the madness and horror within it when seeing the twisted and wriggling madness.

It is a curse from the past, a curse from the soul, something that must be destroyed.