Our family is in decline

But it must be said that Lance's "fair words" stopped Amanda and the others from pursuing her, and allowed Audrey to take a breather from Amanda's weird accusations by reaching the steps.

The funny thing is that Amanda, the guy who disgusts her even more, has attracted most of the hatred. It is Lance who clearly controls and threatens her, but now she thinks that the lord is a good person.

Her understanding is that those on her side are good people. When the lord stopped Amanda from attacking her, he was speaking for herself. There is nothing wrong with this logic, right?

The real reason for this mentality is that she needs the "protection" of the lord to survive Amanda's constant "attacks", so the lord cannot be a bad person.

The inexplicable relationship was defined by Audrey herself, but Lance never cared about this.

His eyes were only forward.

The team walked down the passage, but not far away they discovered a very strange scene. Now everyone could not care about anything else and became alert.

They were believers who still roughly retained their human form, but whose flesh and blood had been severely mutated. Only some tattered clothes were left on their bodies, and large parts of their bodies were exposed.

The flesh has a common appearance under high-level mutations, as if the skin has been peeled off, and then the muscles have dissolved and festered. You can even see the exposed bones, and thick blood vessels are like ropes wrapped around the body in an orderly manner.

What's even more strange is that you can see huge tumors attached to their bodies. They are weird things made of flesh, blood vessels and black eyeballs. They blend with flesh and blood as if they have become part of the body.

These crazy guys have no hair or hair on their heads, and their faces have empty eyes and weird laughter.

At this time, they were kneeling on the ground, with their hands clasped together and raised high, facing the depths of the dungeon like a pilgrim.

Rapture cultists!

Not all cultists can become cult priests. These guys who are pious enough but have not yet fully grasped the power of the great blessing wander in the dungeon, making tireless pilgrimages day after day.

And the strange thing is that the arrival of the team didn't alert them?

No, it should be said that they didn't care about Lance and the others at all.

There was no intention of getting up to attack, but they were still worshiping, as if there was only one thing in the world worth doing.

There seemed to be about ten of these ecstatic followers, and they had already blocked the passage. Lance would not be polite to them.

"Kill them!"

Lance rushed forward first and slashed directly at an ecstatic member of the cult with his sword. He cut his head without any accident and followed up with the sacrifice without giving him any chance to eliminate him.

Obliterate!

In order to make up for her previous retreat, Audrey launched an attack right after Lance.

It can only be said that even though she was a woman, her attack was really ruthless. The iron pickaxe hit the head of the ecstatic believer, and the tip went directly through the top of the head, knocking off a piece of the skull.

With such force, I thought she was knocking Amanda.

These movements finally alarmed these ecstatic believers, but the strange thing was that they really had no intention of fighting back. Instead, they stood up and raised their hands in the air and gave a weird and scary smile to Lance and the others.

This weird scene made Audrey subconsciously want to stay away. She took a few steps back and yelled: "Damn it! What is this?"

What's even more outrageous is that one of the cult members actually bit his own arm. A whole piece of flesh and blood actually fell into his mouth, and blood seeped out from the corner of his mouth. Combined with the manic laughter, it was really indescribable.

Flesh and blood!

The strange power seemed to disturb the blood mist, and then Audrey discovered that the cult member whose head she had just knocked open was actually not dead.

The naked eye could see that the wound where the iron pickaxe hit the head was quickly filled with blood and flesh, and then he stood up unsteadily, twisting and shaking like seaweed and letting out a horrifying laugh like the other believers.

But this scene did not scare away the real warriors, Boudica and Amanda also came to kill.

The raised hands of those ecstatic believers suddenly clasped together, and a strange force connected them together.

Wall of flesh and blood!

Swinging axes and spears can cause exaggerated wounds on those believers, and sharp long whips can tear open wounds that bleed.

But these scars do not appear on the target, but are transferred to those who are guarding the ritual objects.

Although these guys in front will not fight back, they will feed their companions by biting their own flesh and blood.

In their eyes, the wounds of flesh and blood healed in an instant as if they did not exist, and they still stood on the road blocking the enemy. It was really like a flesh and blood barrier that was difficult to break through, guarding their gods.

"Focus on one and use corpse spores. The tumors on their bodies are their weak points."

But it's a pity that their enemy is Lance. From the simple battle just now, we can roughly understand the weaknesses of these ecstatic followers.

He split the tumors one by one with his sword, offered sacrifices with his backhand, and killed them directly, even if he was guarding them, it was useless.

The battle is about information gap. As long as you understand the enemy, you can have countless ways to win.

After hearing Lance's words, Amanda swung the flying knife and stabbed it accurately into the blood tumors full of black eyeballs. The burst of power weakened their tough bodies.

But Boudica knew how to do it without any command. He applied spores to the ax gun, and then attacked the target marked by the flying knife. The ax blade stained with corpse spores gave no chance of recovery.

When the output of violence kills one person, one person means everything in the face of the laughing believers who will not resist.

Audrey, who retreated back, seemed to realize that these weird-looking guys would not fight back. When she thought of Amanda laughing at her later, she quickly stepped forward and waved her pickaxe to join the fight again.

The battle quickly subsided, but there was not much joy visible on everyone's faces. Instead, they revealed doubts and exhaustion.

Because this is an extremely strange battle, a very easy but very difficult victory.

The easy thing is that these ecstatic cultists will only protect their teammates and restore blood, but will not fight back at all, just like targets.

The difficulty is because of the protective power and powerful recovery ability of these guys. It usually takes a short burst of enough damage to kill one.

Boudica couldn't hold back her breath during such a high-intensity battle, and even Amanda didn't complain about Audrey. She was simply too tired to talk.

Lance quickly sacrificed the corpses, blessed his teammates with backhand to boost their status, and spoke words of comfort and encouragement.

"Even if it's just a trivial victory, it's still a victory. No enemy can stop us."

The team's condition quickly recovered, and Audrey seemed to feel the power in those words. The fatigue was cleared away, and strength and full spirit returned again.

The repetition of this extreme state made her feel a strange kind of satisfaction, a kind of fullness.

Lance didn't care too much about Audrey's feelings. He was thinking about the reactions just shown by the ecstatic congregants.

If the cultists outside the dungeon may still have some thinking, they know that they are for ascension and have certain self-purposes.

Then these cultists in the dungeon have been completely transformed. They can't even be called humans, they are just humanoid flesh and blood monsters, let alone self-awareness.

The will that drives their actions is the god who guards this place and protects them.

Although Lance doesn't understand why "gods" need the protection of their followers?

How could there be such a weak God?

"Let's go, I can't wait."

It's irrational to try to understand abstractions, and even that's a kind of pollution, and once you start falling into it something's wrong.

So Lance simply ended his thinking and instead summoned the briefly adjusted team to set off again along the unobstructed road.

No cultists were seen to stop them along the way. It is conceivable that their number is much less than the cultists above where cockroaches are everywhere.

Here are all the elites of our ancestors, but I am fighting the elites!

At the end of the passage, you can see a stone arc, on which are inserted seven long swords shaped like swords with only blades but no hilts. The tips are narrowed and sharp, and the ends are hollow rhombuses, inserted in a unique pattern. The arcs form a familiar pattern.

There is only one way, and there is no doubt that this is the gateway to go deeper, but it is blocked by the drill inserted into it.

Lance also discovered that the metal drill was dark gold. This thing was almost exclusive to that ancient civilization. It seemed that it had something to do with those people.

Naturally, they would not be blocked by such a weird portal. While Amanda was still studying it carefully, Lance reached out without any scruples.

The drill didn't even touch the arc, as if it felt something, it actually popped out to make way for it.

The sudden movement scared the others, but it wasn't like Lance had never seen a sensor door before, so it wasn't anything high-end.

Take the lead through the weird portal and enter a platform. The ground is broken into irregularly shaped rocks, with blood flowing in the gaps.

There are no protruding spiked fences on both sides. Two tall humanoid statues can be seen outside the platform, but the weird thing is that they are naked and pose in a pose that is difficult for ordinary people to understand, as if they are struggling in extreme pain. in the environment.

The lower body of the statue is covered with something that you can’t tell what it is? Like a big hand, like twisted flesh and blood...

Coupled with the fact that the statue fell on the place where blood flowed, it seemed as if something wanted to drag them into the sea of ​​blood.

I don't know where it is, but blood is flowing like a small waterfall, and some splashes falling on the statue add a bit of liveliness.

However, before Lance and the others could carefully observe the environment of the platform, their entry alerted the cultists here.

Two of the ascended priests have familiar looks. Their upper bodies are naked, showing strong muscles. They wear disk armor around their waists. The skirts on their lower bodies are more delicate than the ones above.

It still has the skull helmet and the sharp claws that look like standard equipment, but the difference is that it is not made of black iron, but dark gold.

That dark golden equipment, that unique metal, it seems that the ancestor has indeed obtained part of the heritage of that ancient civilization.

The last one was an ecstatic congregant whom he had met just now. His ecstatic face and swaying posture were really familiar.

Two ascended priests, one ecstatic congregation.

The battle broke out without Lance even needing to speak, and the cultist rushed forward waving his arms.

New God Sacrifice Thorn!

Lance swung his sword and wanted to kill him, but suddenly he saw the body of the ascended priest revealing the crazy scene under his skin the moment he took action.

The flesh and blood mutation has covered most of his body. The tumor on his shoulder is clinging to his body, and a tangle of tentacles extending out is attached to his arm.

Along with the claws, there are also tentacles covered with spikes. The almost synchronized movements seem to control the body more like the tumor.

It makes people wonder whether the tumor is the brain? Or is it the head under the helmet?

Thinking that the cult priest didn't have a clear head just now, he realized that when the transformation was completed, this might be the origin of the cult priest.

But it was not Lance's turn to think too much. The fangs had collided with the claws, but what about the tentacles?

It was thrown directly from the arm towards Lance, and the rows of spikes on it were like razors, hungry for flesh and blood.

"boom!"

Lance directly took out the gun with his left hand, put it into the tumor on the Ascended Priest's shoulder and fired. After one shot, the thing was torn open, the black eyeball on it exploded, and the tentacles extending from it twitched and lost their strength. , hanging down.

After the cult priest made a move, he was on guard against these guys' "accessories". How could he be easily attacked?

"Watch out for that tentacle!"

Lance reminded him, and was about to kill the priest directly, but who knew the movement of the ecstasy cultist behind him, opening his mouth and biting the flesh and blood on his hand frantically.

Flesh and blood!

That magical power fed back, causing the tumor that Lance shot through one second to grow back the next.

屮! Those things turned out to be human shields and blood packs.

Lance realized the position of the Ecstasy Cult here, and raised his hand to mark it.

"Kill it!"

Amanda threw the flying knife to break the ritual power connected to the cultist, and Audrey also knew who was easy to bully here, so she also threw a poison dart and hit the cultivator's tumor. The toxin burst out and began to corrode the flesh and blood. This further plunged the congregation into a downturn.

At this time, Audrey picked up the pickaxe and came up. She twisted around and swung the pickaxe as if she were playing golf. From bottom to top, the sharp point directly penetrated the tumor on the waist of the congregant, and even came out through the back.

Amanda followed suit, took out a bottle of potion and opened it. The strange power invaded the members of the congregation under her control.

Even the flesh and blood blessed by the new god could not withstand it. The symptoms of poisoning and bleeding suddenly broke out, and the whole thing had fester and turned into pus and bones, completely wiping out the vitality.

Erase!

Amanda and Audrey were forced to join forces, but they also made a very cool move.

Both parties paused and couldn't help but look at each other, but the moment their eyes made contact, they looked away unhappily.

"Hmph~"

Too lazy to remember the chapter name...