"I... I..."
After hearing the shadow priest's bewitching words, the one-eyed old man didn't know how to answer for a moment. He instinctively wanted to refuse, but deep down in his heart, there seemed to be a voice encouraging him.
"Promise him... to embrace the true darkness... promise him... to embrace the true darkness..."
If anyone else happens to be here, they will see that the one-eyed old man is in some abnormal state and seems to be in deep confusion. However, Shadow Church is currently only him and the priest in front of him, and the person who caused this situation is obviously the priest himself, so the old man has tricked himself this time.
"Very good... you are hesitating, which shows that you do have true faith in our Lord, but this faith is not firm enough! Don't be confused, child! Let this priest help you make the most correct decision!"
I saw that the shadow priest in front of the one-eyed old man suddenly spoke in a high-pitched tone at this moment, with a sudden fanaticism, and called the one-eyed old man in front of him who was obviously much older than him as a child. Before he finished speaking, a shadow hand with sharp nails formed out of thin air and grabbed the intact eye of the confused one-eyed old man! "Ah!!!"
Immediately, a scream rang out in the dark church. The sound was harsh, but it seemed to be wrapped in something and could not spread outside the church at all.
The one-eyed old man finally broke free from the confusion in the severe pain, but now he had fallen into darkness and suffered from the pain of having his eyeballs gouged out.
As an old pirate, how could he endure such a bad attack? So he became surprisingly angry and waved the scimitar in his hand to slash at the shadow priest who was still in front of him.
However, before his attack actually started, he was completely suppressed by some kind of force, and at the same time, a fanatical voice sounded in front of him.
"Confused child! Remember the pain in your body! Remember the darkness in front of you! Remember the deepest coldness in your heart! Don't reject it! Accept it! Don't resist it! Love it! Because they will give you strength! Give you dexterity! Make you stronger than ever!..."
After the shadow priest manipulated a large number of shadows to control the one-eyed old man, he began to chant loudly, his voice became more and more fanatical, as if he was performing a grand ceremony, and this was indeed the case. As his chanting continued, the originally angry old man gradually became calmer and fell into a deep sleep surrounded by the surrounding shadows. These shadows were also gradually merging with him, especially his pair of eyes that had been completely blinded, with a large number of shadows pouring into them.
Several hours later, when night had completely obscured the port city, the shadow priest in Shadow Church finally completed his ritual, and the one-eyed old man in front of him was no longer suppressed by the shadow, but stood up straight reverently, bowing his head to thank him.
"Thanks to the grace of the priest, I have never felt so powerful."
The old man's empty eyes had been completely filled with shadows. At this moment, his temperament changed drastically, from the cunning old pirate not long ago to a dark and erratic old man.
"Don't thank me. I am just a servant of my lord. It was my lord who gave you this power, and this power is just a starting point... Go and fulfill your mission! Let the sinners who blasphemed my lord get the punishment they deserve!"
The shadow priest, whose face was hidden in the cloak, then told him to do the most important thing at the moment.
"Thank you my Lord!"
The old man didn't say much after hearing this. He responded like this, and his figure suddenly melted away like mud and disappeared into the dark church, never to be seen again.
"Haha... What a devout believer... I hope he can successfully complete his mission."
After the old man left, the corners of the shadow priest's mouth turned up slightly, as if he was very satisfied with his work.
At the same time, in a hotel room some distance away from this church, Wang Zhifan was lying flat on a high-end bed paved with swan feathers, practicing Great Dream Saber Scripture in his dream.
In this case, he did not stop controlling the few Dream Self clones placed outside. In other words, this kind of control itself is a kind of practice.
"My clone seemed to have noticed something leaving the church just now? With the powerful perception that I gave to the clone, it shouldn't be an illusion..."
Wang Zhifan quickly became alert. He originally imagined that the old man would find helpers to deal with him after escaping into the church. Now that he discovered this situation, it proved that the other party's helpers had leaked some traces of his whereabouts.
"Let me see who wants to have trouble with me."
Since there might be an enemy coming, Wang Zhifan stopped practicing. He got up from the bed, let go of his ridiculously powerful perception, and completely enveloped the hotel.
"They haven't arrived yet... Then I'll go and greet them."
After confirming that the enemy hadn't arrived yet, he stopped hiding. He quickly activated Ghost Shadow Shoes's trick ability, passed through the wall and reached the roof of the building, and stood on it.
Looking around, he could see that this prosperous port city was still lively at night. Almost every street and every building was illuminated by kerosene or fish oil lamps. Even on the top of this hotel building, people would not be drowned in darkness.
"This should be conspicuous enough. I hope the other party is not Blind Man."
While he was thinking, he sat down on the roof, then took out a porcelain bottle from his pocket, unplugged the cork, and drank slowly. The bottle contained rice wine from the Limitless Sect copy world. It was fragrant, mellow, and had a long taste.
Drinking alcohol and waiting for the enemy to arrive is the mood of being Warrior.
About ten minutes later.
"Come out, let's have a good fight."
He saw Wang Zhifan throwing the empty porcelain bottle in his hand into the portable space, turning his head and looking about ten meters to the side of the roof. The place must have seemed empty and dark to others, but he knew that something was hiding there, peeping at him for more than a second.
"You did find me."
The figure of an old man immediately emerged from the darkness, as if a ball of black mud had swelled upwards to form a human shape.
"Is it you?"
Wang Zhifan immediately recognized that the old man was the one-eyed pirate. He originally thought that he was looking for someone else, but he didn't expect that it was this old guy. This misjudgment was not due to a problem with his perception, but because the other person's aura changed so much that it could be said that they were two people.
"It's me, old man."
The old man's voice sounded immediately, with a suppressed anger in the calmness, but also seemed to be full of pride.
"I'm a little surprised that you dare to come to me."
Wang Zhifan then looked at the old man whose aura changed drastically and said with a smile.
"Haha, because I am different. Now I am not afraid of your weapons. You will definitely lose."
As the old man spoke, his body suddenly spread out like mud, and then gathered into two black scimitars, slashing at Wang Zhifan in front of him at an incredible speed!
"A couple of times."
Wang Zhifan was not surprised when he saw this. He already knew that the old man was good at speed, so he had been on guard for a long time. In addition, his own speed was also exceeding the standard, so he did not feel too much pressure at this time.
"Formlessness."
"Ice Source Power."
"Dreamflower Saber Technique."
He immediately used his three methods, turning on Formless Specter Garment's skills to defend, using Ice Source Power to suppress the opponent, and at the same time using Dreamflower Saber Technique to launch an attack, and the weapon he used was Thunder Dragon Rageblade, which he had not used for some time, in order to achieve the maximum attack intensity.
When Thunder Dragon Rageblade, filled with a layer of brilliant phantom light due to the power of Great Dream Saber Scripture, attacked the dark scimitar in front of him, purple thunder suddenly appeared. Under the control of the ultimate ice power, this seemingly incorporeal thing was also affected. Although it was not frozen, its speed suddenly slowed down and it could not be avoided in time.
In an instant, Thunder Dragon Rageblade's own high physical damage and lightning damage, Great Dream Saber Scripture's additional physical damage and mental damage, Ice Source Power's cold damage, and Demon-Slaying Belt's additional radiant damage were all further enhanced by the dimming effect of the Chapter of Gloom necklace, and Blademaster was triggered. The double damage effect provided by the profession Lv8 Flow State and Ape King's Rage rings, the result of all the damage being concentrated at one point is quite significant, causing the dark scimitar hit by Thunder Dragon Rageblade to instantly shatter, and the other shadow scimitar that struck next to it was also shattered in the complex and terrifyingly intense damage.
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After this blow, someone first held Thunder Dragon Rageblade with a calm expression and sensed the surroundings, guarding against the opponent's subsequent attacks. However, what puzzled him was that after several seconds, the enemy still did not move, as if it had completely disappeared.
"Escaped?"
Continuous sensing has no results, Wang Zhifan couldn't help but think so, but since he didn't sense any trace of the other party's escape, there was another possibility.
"It can't be this long... I just cut it once..."
He pondered this possibility in his mind, but he was not sure because he had not seen the body yet.
"Forget it... wasting my time, go back and continue practicing."
After waiting for a while, Wang Zhifan still couldn't detect any trace of the enemy, nor did he sense any threats, so he activated the wall-penetrating skill and returned to his room, where he continued to work on his training.
What he didn't know was that at the moment after their battle, in a church not too close away, the shadow priest hidden in his cloak had a slightly horrified expression on his face.
"The believer was defeated! He was defeated and died in an instant! But his enemy didn't seem to use the power of shadow? Instead, it was somewhat similar to the aura of the Cold Hell monarch... Could it be that those beings couldn't bear it anymore?"
He murmured, determined to pray this discovery to his Lord.
The night passed quickly, and the vibrant harbor life began again.
Wang Zhifan had been prepared for the old man to attack again last night, but the final result made him a little disappointed. He found that the old man should really be dead.
This was not his personal imagination, but a well-reasoned inference, because when he later tried to curse this guy with Grimy Holy Grail, the Holy Grail reacted very strangely. The target it pointed at was a large dispersed fine particle, as well as some unstable shadows, and these things were on top of the hotel where he stayed, where he had fought with the old man before.
"You two brothers should continue to recruit people today, and also ask for information about Forbidden Fruit Island. I'm going to check through other channels to see if I can gain anything."
On this morning, Wang Zhifan, Chen Ming, and Chen Can had some bread and jam for breakfast in the hotel, and then planned to separate from them, because he wanted to explore the potential of a new identity.
"Brother Fan, we asked many people about Forbidden Fruit Island during recruitment yesterday. Many sailors know this name, but they all regard it as the location in Legendary Tier. There are many things to say, but there is no more reliable information."
When Chen Can heard Wang Zhifan mention this, they immediately said that they had asked about it a long time ago, but unfortunately there was no substantial gain. The more they listened, the more confused the information they obtained became.
"It's okay, just pay attention to the screening. I'll go out first."
Wang Zhifan didn't have much hope for this. After saying goodbye to the two brothers, he quickly left the hotel and walked towards the prosperous area near the bay of this seaport city.
I saw that he first found an uninhabited corner halfway, then took out an ordinary wooden mask from the portable space and covered his face with it.
In an instant, his whole person underwent a huge change due to the effect of Mad Treant Mask, and he completely transformed into another person, specifically, the harbor inspector he killed yesterday.
The body of this old-fashioned inspector had already been put into a box and sunk to the bottom of the sea. No one else would notice his death in a short time. After all, Wang Zhifan had appeared disguised as him and specifically asked for leave, which was enough to last for a few days.
But at this time, Wang Zhifan plans to use this identity again, because he feels that this is a rare entry point that will give him the opportunity to access the information circle of the largest force in the copy world, which is exactly what he needs very much at the moment.
Not long after, Wang Zhifan, who had used Mad Treant Mask to disguise himself as a young inspector, came to Port Authority. This was a place where he often went for his daily work. However, he activated his money power and let others temporarily take over his task.
"Steven! Are you ready to come back to work! The port is very busy these days, I can't hold on any longer!"
As soon as he appeared at the door of this rather grand building, a colleague of the original owner happened to see him and said hello to him.
"No, my brother, I haven't finished my business yet. Please hold on for two more days."
Wang Zhifan, disguised as Steven, immediately replied. Then he said goodbye to the people here, entered Port Authority, and went to the department that specializes in processing maritime information. This place was the purpose of his visit this time.