Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest

——Dang! Thomas swung his sword fiercely, and the blade chopped heavily on the claws of the deformed undead, splashing a string of sparks that quickly dimmed.

The undead's claws were bounced off by the blade, and Thomas's sword finally opened a deep crack in its chest and abdomen, and black pus and blood squirmed out of it.

This was the last blow to the deformed undead in front of him. After completely reducing the opponent's blood volume to zero, the undead howled and twisted and was purified. Its strange body suddenly burst open and turned into spiritual threads and dissipated.

This is the second undead I "purified"... Thomas calculated and wiped the sweat that oozed slightly from his forehead.

After ending the battle in front of him, Thomas's blood volume was only half, and he retreated to the back in time and entered the healing circle of the auxiliary priests in the back.

A healing holy light ball floated towards him, turning into a soft white light and pouring into his body, making his limbs suddenly lighten.

The wounds on his body were healing slowly but visibly, and his health was recovering by "+1+1+1". Thomas took a short break and observed the players who were still fighting the undead on the battlefield.

At this time, some players were killed by the distorted undead, and they were soon resurrected in an open space near the back of the battlefield, which was the temporarily selected resurrection area.

Thomas learned from the players in the forum who had jumped seven times and took the lead that generally speaking, players would have two resurrection points in their permanent residence - one in the safe area around the current location, and one on the bed judged as the "player room".

But now the players in Red Maple City do not have such a thing as a "player room". Currently, the only resurrection point that can be selected after death is the nearby safe area.

Most of the players who were killed died for the first time, so the resurrection time only takes thirty seconds. But as the number of deaths increases, the resurrection time required for death will be greatly extended.

From 30 seconds, to 5 minutes, to 30 minutes, to one hour... The maximum required resurrection time is one day, and the maximum number of deaths allowed is seven times a week. If the number of deaths exceeds seven times within a week, the player will not be able to revive again within seven days, and will become a "spirit" state, and can only chat in channels and forums.

In addition, death is accompanied by certain penalties. For example, the storage of unused experience points is halved, the weapons held are lost, etc., which makes some habitual offenders who constantly revive SL through death in other games lose the space to commit suicide to a great extent.

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While observing the situation on the battlefield, Thomas's panel suddenly jumped.

The message of getting the kill reward popped up, and Thomas clicked to receive it.

[Kill the Deformed Undead (lv.7) and get 78 basic experience points]

[The level difference between the Deformed Undead (lv.7) and you is 6 levels higher]

[Kill above the level! Get 60% extra experience points...]

[Reward settlement, actually get 125 experience points! ]

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Killing a Deformed Undead can get 125 experience points! Thomas looked at the content on the panel with a gleam in his eyes, and had some ideas.

Killing two distorted undeads gave him a total of 250 experience points. Thomas wanted to invest the experience directly in upgrading, which was enough for him to upgrade two levels in a row.

But soon, he noticed another prompt on the panel - "killing above the level", which gave him extra experience points, or perhaps "getting stuck"...

Thomas was a little confused, so he opened the forum and found that some players had posted posts related to upgrading, and learned that upgrading one level would give him 1 free attribute point.

One free attribute... Thomas thought, his basic attributes are basically 5 points now, which is equivalent to a 20% increase in a single value! And at present, getting stuck will only give him 7 extra experience points, but it will increase the difficulty of the battle...

Because the reward for killing a distorted undead alone is not too high, Thomas knows that the main reward in the future will still come from the task reward of [Disaster of the Birth of Death]. Shortening the attribute gap with the distorted undead as soon as possible to reduce the difficulty of the battle may be the right choice.

After the attributes are almost upgraded, consider getting stuck... Thomas thought to himself, and he gave the upgrade command without hesitation.

The level jumped from lv.1 to lv.3. Thomas allocated all the 2 free attribute points he got to "strength". He felt that every muscle in his body was instantly full of vitality, as if there was a kind of fighting spirit burning in his body, so he waved his one-handed sword and rushed to the next dead spirit.

However, suddenly.

——Boom! Thomas heard a huge roar in his ears, and he looked up suddenly.

In the center of Gusta Street, a huge golden light burst out, rushing through the ominous black clouds covering the sky, like countless golden meteors!

Thomas saw that the heir of the dead god with a huge baby head seemed to be fleeing upwards again, but two golden figures suddenly shot out from both sides in his direction and launched a highly oppressive attack on him!

And one of the figures was the "high priest" of the church, Luo Xiu Carlos!

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——Boom! The black flame hurricane summoned by the God of Death and Birth heavily slammed into the golden round shield of "Holy Deacon" Hubert.

Fine cracks spread across the surface of the circular shield, and the black flame hurricane continued to burn the surrounding air, whistling and sweeping, as if to devour and tear apart everything it touched.

But Hubert just stood there expressionlessly, and the Heart Lion resting lightly on his shoulder slowly reached forward, and one of its claws covered with arm armor raised the invisible giant sword upward.

Then, slash forward!

——Boom! A huge golden sword wave slashed out from the invisible sword. It silently cut through the thick air like a city wall, and lightly hit the edge of the black flame hurricane.

Whoosh, the hurricane that was still circling and raging stopped, and the sand and building debris swept in it lost their support and fell down one after another.

"So...hungry..." The heir of the dead was still murmured like a dream, but He instinctively felt panic.

So, while the huge black light column had not yet completely broken, He tried to escape again, and his huge head had already drilled into the center of the black column.

Luo Xiu looked at Hubert, and his sacred beast "Heart Lion" had come down from his shoulders and bent its back in front of him.

Hubert stepped on it, grabbed the illusory white mane of the Heart Lion with one hand, turned around and said to Luo Xiu:

"He is going to escape again. I can only use the "Heart Lion Slash" twice at most, and then I will no longer be able to resolve His attack."

"Have you seen it clearly, Luo Xiu? Although you have just been promoted to a saint, you must also join this battle."

After saying that, Hubert rode the Heart Lion into the air and chased after the Heir of the God of Death who was fleeing along the black light.

Luo Xiu also summoned the "Golden Pegasus" Pegasus, rode on its back, and chased after it at a faster speed.

He had been observing the battle between Hubert and the Heir of the God of Death, and indeed had analyzed some things.

For example, the incompleteness of the "Heir of the God of Death" was not only reflected in his body, but also in his mind. He was basically acting on instinct.

Moreover, the "Heir of the God of Death" had obvious weaknesses. He always deliberately avoided exposing his neck to Hubert, and the strange centipede-like body behind him was always coiled around his neck when not in use, as if protecting it.

He was escaping to the sky, so Luo Xiu took out the "Poison Bite" with his right hand, and drew a crescent-like arc in front of him in the middle of the pursuit.

Just above the "Heir of the God of Death"'s escape path, the air seemed to be torn open, and a ring emitting dazzling golden light emerged from it, blocking the Heir of the God of Death.

"——Hungry!!!" The Heir of the God of Death screamed in a sharp and long voice. His eyes, as big as a human head, looked at the dazzling light in front of him. His chaotic consciousness only wanted to break through it and go to the densely populated areas of the city to "forage" with relish.

Death! Only more death can fill his hunger. The more he fights here and those who block him for some reason, the more hungry he becomes, and the more he longs for a feast of death.

However, before he touched the golden ring, he felt the burning heat on his skin.

Several small but incredibly fast meteors fell rapidly from the ring. When they brushed through the air, they ignited golden flames and soon fell on the body of the Heir of the God of Death!

——Boom! Boom boom boom boom! The meteors smashed into bloody pits in the huge body of the Heir of the God of Death. He let out a shrill and tragic wail, and his upward momentum was blocked.

Hubert rode the Lion of Heart and caught up. The hammer in his hand had left an afterimage. The next moment, he threw it at the belly of the Heir of the God of Death!

A stream of light shot upward and hit the back of the Heir of the God of Death, cutting through the air and making a ringing sound like tearing metal-

Boom! The next moment, the sound of explosion sounded like a bell, and Hubert's hammer suddenly smashed a hole through the tail fin of the Heir of the God of Death!

He finally couldn't maintain the momentum this time and fell from mid-air again.

When he fell to the ground, the surging and dense air waves surged around like a tsunami. The houses were overturned and destroyed in circles. With the body of the Heir of the God of Death as the origin, the ground sank into a circle of pits in layers.

At the same time as the Heir of the God of Death fell to the ground, Luo Xiu held the Bite of Evil in his right hand and drew a cross downwards.

Two ten-meter-long and wide cross-shaped lights quickly emerged from the place where Luo Xiu's magic staff passed, and then quickly enlarged.

The two lights of the "Glory Cross" slowly but unstoppably pressed towards the head of the God of Death below.

The God of Death raised his head in confusion. He felt a burst of severe pain all over his body. He wanted to escape from here again in the direction of the dark light column, but he was weak due to his injuries and could no longer call on the rich spirituality in his body.

The two cross-shaped lights on his head, like the sword of Damocles, finally descended under the somewhat terrified gaze of the God of Death. It pressed heavily on the back of the God of Death, and then branded it into his flesh.

"——Hiss!!!" The severe pain made the God of Death tremble all over. The two Glory Crosses had penetrated into his flesh and bones, and thick black smoke with a burnt smell rose from his back.

His movements were hindered once again, and he could not move at all due to the unbearable weight on his back. At the same time, Luo Xiu and Hubert also landed on the ground.

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Hubert watched Luo Xiu skillfully use the holy art just now, and he was once again deeply shocked.

In less than half a month, Luo Xiu Carlos had already mastered two holy arts of the "Saint" level, which once again exceeded Huber's cognition.

He still remembered that when he had just been promoted to the "Fifth Fate" and became a "Saint", it took him nearly a month to master the first holy art that met the level...

He thought that Luo Xiu had just been promoted to the "Fifth Fate" and his strength could not reach the level of a true "Saint", but now Huber knew that he was completely wrong.

He underestimated Luo Xiu and underestimated him too much. However, this was a good thing in Huber's view, as he had more confidence in completely purifying the "Death Birth God Heir".

His mind was thinking about these things quickly, and at the same time, he felt that the surroundings seemed to be shrouded in a glorious palace, and a bright glow seemed to descend on his head.

Under Hubert's gaze, Luo Xiu, who had landed on the ground, had once again raised his staff. The outline of his body was covered with a layer of golden light, and he used his third "Fivefold Fate" holy art.

——The radiance of God is coming!

As the "Apostle of Divine Light", this is the strongest holy art of Luo Xiu after he became a saint. Hubert felt that the holy light was covering and protecting him, and the spirituality of [Glory] in his body was also jumping and boiling, and his state had reached an unprecedented peak.

And on the body of the "Heir of the Birth of the God", the holy light also covered Him. But the light was disturbing and burning the fire, constantly burning His body.

"So...hungry..." Hubert heard His shrill wail and felt that His state was visibly weak.

But even so, He suddenly raised his head and let out a deafening scream in an almost crazy posture!

"————Hiss!!!"

The whistling sound pierced through the eardrums of everyone present like a sharp spike, causing Hubert's head to feel a sharp pain, as if it would burst in the next moment due to the pressure!

At the same time, he felt that the spirituality that had just become active in his body was being suppressed and blocked by some higher-level "divinity". His vision was gradually occupied by darkness, and his consciousness seemed to be pulled out of his body and suppressed into the windless and bottomless valley.

This strange feeling also emerged in Luo Xiu's body at the same time. He inexplicably felt that an irresistible force was pressing on his head, trying to bury him underground.

However, before being promoted to "entering the saint", the more than 300 points of resistance attribute that Luo Xiu had selected in order to avoid spiritual detection allowed Luo Xiu to still have room to move under the heavy pressure of this divine power.

With the severe pain in his head, Luo Xiu summoned the panel and added all the remaining free attribute points accumulated before to the "resistance" attribute.

"Resistance" broke through 400 points, and the spiritual pressure of the God of Death suddenly eased a lot. Luo Xiu raised his arm with difficulty, and the red mark on the back of his hand flashed with light and darkness.

——Isol Time Lock!

Visibly, the movements of the God of Death in front of him gradually froze like ice, and the screams that kept piercing the eardrums gradually stopped.

In the space where his huge body was, time was frozen by the "Time Lock". The surging spiritual pressure disappeared for a short time, allowing Luo Xiu and Hubert to resume their actions for a moment.

Almost at the same time, Luo Xiu activated all the holy arts that he had accumulated for prayer, and Hubert's Heart Lion raised his invisible sword again.

Just when the time limit of the "Time Lock" ended and the time around the God of Death resumed flowing again.

——Boom!!!

Before He could release His spiritual pressure again to suppress the actions of Luo Xiu and Hubert, the terrifying spiritual surge surrounding Him had already caught up with Him.

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