"Forsaken Land of the Gods" is near a road opened by City of Silver and leading to "Giant King’s Court".
From time to time, silvery lightning flashed across the dark sky, illuminating the ravine-filled, barren and lifeless ground.
An exploration team armed with animal skin lanterns and various weapons were fighting a ferocious-looking monster. They had broad shoulders, long arms, and tall bodies. They all had obvious giant blood. However, they were still retreating under the attack of the monster that was four meters tall and had arms stretched out like tentacles. They struggled to hold on.
What's even more deadly is that this monster, which City of Silver calls "Fallen Shadow", has a dark black mist on its surface, and strangely shaped monsters emerge from the inside from time to time, making people feel dizzy just looking at it, with murmuring runes echoing in their ears.
This means that "Fallen Shadow" already possesses a part of divinity, and can display divine patterns with mysterious knowledge on the body surface, causing any Low Sequence Beyonder to accumulate madness, affecting their combat ability.
If it weren't for the two Sequence 5 "Guardian" in the team, who are experienced in dealing with this kind of monster that has stepped into the Demigod field, this exploration team would have been defeated long ago.
But even so, everyone in this team was injured, and Spirituality and his sanity were on the verge of collapse. Among them, "Guardian" Rigg, who took the main attack, felt that the shadow illuminated by the lantern under his feet was constantly shaking, as if he was about to break away from his body, transform into another monster, and join the siege of the team.
This is the power of "fall"!
Rigg took a deep breath, put down the black iron stick in his hand, reached into the inner pocket of his clothes, and took out a small Charm. It was purple-red in appearance and had a translucent texture, as if it would break in the palm of your hand if you pinched it.
But before Rigg could make the next move, the two tentacles of "Fallen Shadow" that were thicker than his thighs took advantage of him holding the lantern in one hand and holding Charm in the other and smashed them down together.
At this moment, another "Guardian", Guna Lun, who was handsome but taller than Rigg, came out from the side, stood in front of him, knelt down on one knee, and inserted his weapon on the ground in front of him. The light of the morning light pierced the darkness, erecting an unbreakable invisible wall.
Bang——
The tentacles with divine patterns on the surface hit Wall of Dawn, only pausing for a moment before breaking it, allowing the light to return to darkness.
But Rigg had taken advantage of this momentary opportunity to condense the remaining Spirituality in his body into Charm in his hand, and recited a difficult-to-pronounce word with Ancient Hermes who was not very skilled:
"Petrification!"
Then, he threw the purple-red translucent Charm with his Pathway proficiency in any weapon or object. It passed extremely accurately through the head of Guna Lun who was half kneeling in front of him, and the two tentacles that were throwing towards them, hitting the deformed head of "Fallen Shadow".
The next second, the four-meter-tall body, which looked like a real giant among the exploration team, stopped moving. The crazy divine patterns on its surface turned into gray ravines, and its soft but powerful tentacles hung in the air, like two Distortion stone pillars.
The black mist surrounding all the team members, and the power that made the shadows under their feet move, also dissipated.
Huh...
Rigg breathed a long sigh of relief, picked up the weapon thrown on the ground, looked around, and found that all five team members, including Guna Lun, were still alive.
With just the Charm given to him by Chief Colin Iliad, a not-too-strong team defeated the monster that originally needed the leadership of the elder "Council of Six" to defeat the monster, without even losing its members in the battle!
"Pack up the loot, rest where you are, and then return to City of Silver. I want to report to the chief."
He ordered, taking the lead to walk towards "Fallen Shadow" which had become a stone statue and completely lost its life.
He wants to apply to the chief for more of this Charm!
Want more Charm?
After receiving the request of "Sun" conveyed by Mr. "Fool", Angel, who was hiding opposite "Saint Angelica Church" and secretly supervising the missionary process of his own bishop Trissy, was stunned for a moment, and then felt the joy of "having a pillow when he was dozing off".
After being promoted to Angel, Angel created "Calamity" and "Petrification" that can be activated and used by others. Charm is no longer difficult. Even without the help of the personality and power of "City of Calamity", the success rate is quite high, and it only needs to consume a certain amount of Spirituality and a strand of hair that transforms into a snake's hair.
After completely killing the snake hair as the base material of Charm, the missing parts of Beyonder Characteristic and Spirituality will soon return to the body without causing permanent damage. The only problem is that making too many Charm at one time will cause certain damage to the body and easily break the fragile balance of "madness" and "humanity" in the body, causing Angel to slip towards an irreversible loss of control.
Therefore, unless necessary, Angel will not use this "self-mutilation" method to make more Charm. After all, she has become "Catastrophe" Demoness, and she can fully use the same abilities as Charm with her own power.
So... you have to add money.
She withdrew her gaze from supervising Trissy, prayed to Mr. Fool, and asked this being to convey her willingness to sell more Charm. Of course, "Forsaken Land of the Gods" did not have the currency of Gold Pound. Mr. "Sun" could still only barter and seek help from other Tarot Club members.
It just so happens that "Justice" Audrey may be promoted to "Manipulator" recently. The "Treant Mentor's Golden Leaf" she needs can be exchanged for it at City of Silver. We can conduct a multi-party transaction and each get what they need...
Thinking of this, Angel, whose wallet became shrunken after being filled again and again, felt happy. He looked at Trissy who was secretly hiding in the corner of the church fishing, and felt that her round face was much cuter than before.
But after discovering that the bishop "Witch Church" was becoming more and more lazy, Angel still frowned and entered a semi-meditative state. Among the countless prayer light spots around him, he selected the particularly bright one belonging to Trissy, wrapped it with Spirituality, hummed softly, and introduced a ray of his own breath into it.
The next second, Trissy, who was about to fall asleep behind the altar with squinted eyes, suddenly woke up, jumped up like a frightened rabbit, looked around, and found that the scary... no, the respectable Demoness Angel did not appear beside him, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
She adjusted her body, which was a bishop's robe with an extremely conservative cut and design, revealing only the upper part of her neck. She picked up the church Holy Bible written in gilt script and began to prepare for the next sermon.
In the Great Prayer Hall of Saint Samuel Cathedral, Bishop Electra is preaching new content that is different from "Night's Revelation", including comments on God of Combat and Earth Mother There were vague condemnations, comforts for believers who had lost family members and friends due to the war, and stories of Goddess believers risking their lives to save others when various places were attacked, which plunged the entire Prayer Hall into a deep sorrow and solemnity.
At the end of the sermon, the bishop said in a deep voice:
"... When Cons suddenly fell into the flames of war, the 'Calamity Angel' in front of Goddess protected the city. He was the shadow under Goddess's glory, making The believers survived the artillery fire and the butcher's knife. He held the authority of Goddess Misfortune and spread the wrath of destruction on the Intervening Sea, causing the pagans to fall into the sea of fire and be buried in the belly of the fish..."
This is...
Sitting in the corner of the Prayer Hall, Leonard, who was absentmindedly listening to the content of the sermon that condemned God of War Church and Church of the Earth Mother who invaded Loen as usual, was inspired. He straightened up and listened carefully to the content of the bishop's mouth, and his expression gradually changed.
After the sermon ended, he hurriedly walked out of the church and went to the square outside.
At this time, Backlund has entered winter, and due to the shortage of food, no one is feeding pigeons in the square anymore. Leonard looks a little lonely here.
He looked around, turned his head and asked in a low voice:
"Old Man, what Elektra mentioned just now... should be Angel, right? She did what Cons did!"
"You should call 'him' to show a certain degree of respect," the voice belonging to Pallez in his mind replied, "Whether it is your female colleague or not, you who attend that party every week should know better than me."
It is precisely because I know better that I am curious... Leonard frowned and continued:
"But, isn't He the Angel of 'Demoness' Pathway? Why did Elektra just say that He was regarded as the Angel of Goddess? The Angel of Darkness Pathway?
"He also mentioned the authority of Misfortune, which is part of Goddess Honorific Name. There are similar descriptions in Holy Bible, all of which are big shots in the church.
"Did Angel hide something? She actually transferred to 'Evernight' Pathway when Sequence 3 was promoted to Sequence 2? But Demoness and Evernight are not adjacent. Doing so will lead to loss of control and madness..."
He rambled on until he entered an alley and stopped in the shadows, his serious expression becoming a little more relaxed.
Pallez in his mind chuckled lightly and replied:
"Although there are many examples of successful jumps to different Adjacent Pathways, this should not be the case for your female colleague. Evernight left his deeds in Holy Bible in order to provide an 'anchor' for the formation of part of his faith and stabilize his status. This is actually a common thing in major churches. You can find many examples by reading more Holy Bible from other churches.
"As for the authority of Misfortune, in a broader sense, it partially overlaps with 'Calamity', just like death and dusk."
"How could I look at Holy Bible from other churches..." Leonard muttered silently, then changed to a topic more relevant to him, "Old Man, Aurora Order The church seems to have no time to deal with the matter of Demigod in East Borough. I reported it and no new orders were issued for a whole week... Do you think I should participate in the hunting operation of those party members against him?"
"If there are other Demigods participating, you can give it a try, otherwise it is best not to get involved too deeply, so as not to be used as cannon fodder... If you want to improve your strength, it is better to prepare for the gathering of 'fate Hermit' at the end of the month, sell the information of Jacob Family Treasure, and exchange it for a rare spirit, which will be of great benefit to your performance."
Pallez replied in a somewhat lazy voice, seemingly not interested in hunting Saint.
"Fate Hermit Society..."
Leonard repeated in a low voice, turned and left the alley and walked towards his home.
In Iris Flower Winery located on the outskirts of Backlund, Angel received a letter sent by an extremely fast invisible messenger.
Opening the envelope decorated with complicated patterns, Angel took out the letter paper and glanced at the letter's header.
That's a letter from Bernadette Gustav!