Shadow Apostle

The mysterious man raised the candle and looked quietly at the location of the abandoned magic circle altar.

Click, click, click.

The sound of rocks breaking became more and more frequent, and thin cracks appeared under the altar.

The mysterious man picked up the candle and held it in front of him, walked slowly to the altar, kicked away the kneeling body next to him, and stood in front of the altar.

As there were more and more cracks, with a snap, the altar completely collapsed and exploded into pieces flying everywhere. However, it was not only the altar that cracked, but the rocky ground below the altar also exploded with the altar.

A dark square cave was revealed below. Within the square entrance, several steps led to the dark space below.

"It's really here."

After staying in front of the cave entrance for a moment, a low laugh came from under the mask, the voice was hoarse and cold. If Horst were here, he would definitely be able to hear that this was the voice of the mysterious enemy in the red mist in his dream.

"He was actually brought here and hidden by the Burnt family."

The mysterious man raised the candle and looked inside. The secret room was not deep, and there was a box slightly larger than a jewelry box at the end.

"Fortunately, the Berndt couple are stupid enough, otherwise it would be really difficult to trick them into using their own blood to open this place."

The mysterious man lingered at the entrance for a while, confirming that there was nothing unusual in the secret room, and then walked down holding the candle.

The sound of clanking metal came from the depths of the secret room. A few minutes later, the mysterious man walked out of the secret room carrying a small bag.

"Ha, it is indeed a relic of the evil god. Hum, the remnants of the evil god still want to leave something behind. It is a delusion. When you go back, please ask the Lord to destroy it. You will not leave any traces."

After opening the bag and confirming the contents, the mysterious man sneered viciously and tied the bag again. As soon as he raised his head, a sword tip suddenly appeared on his chest.

A stabbing sword appeared from the darkness behind him, stabbed into the back, thrust out from the chest, and directly penetrated the mysterious man's body. Then a folding fan stretched out from the darkness and pulled the trigger hard against his head.

"boom."

Gunshots exploded and shotguns flew.

The mysterious man's hood and mask were blown away by a shot, and then something even weirder happened.

The black robe was empty except for a strange shadow.

The shadow emerged from the collar of the robe and rolled into the air. The original black robe lost its support and hung down limply, hanging on the sword that stabbed out of the darkness. The cloth bag originally held in his hand also fell from the air to the ground.

The rolling shadows in the sky exuded an extremely cold air. For a while, Horst's eyes flashed with strange phenomena. Sometimes the red mist filled the air, and sometimes it was pitch black. At the same time, it seemed as if countless innocent souls were roaring in his ears, and the piercing screams continued. Absolutely, it's like being in the most terrifying hell.

"Why are you shouting so loudly?"

Seeing that the screams continued, Horst pulled out Serena and fired three shots at the black shadow in the air. The sound of the gunfire echoed repeatedly in the cave, overwhelming the screams of the black shadow for a while.

"How dare you destroy my plan." The black shadow roared in the air, "You guys just wait for our revenge."

"Revenge? It just so happens that we have a share here." Horst put away his pistol and sword stick, took off his hat and gave a gentleman's salute to the shadow, squinted his eyes and smiled, "Just because I want to help their family, you Are you going to get rid of me too? Since you calculated us first, you didn't think that we would give you a gift in return. This sword and shot are just to say hello to you, as a return gift to your morning greetings, the real Naturally, someone will settle the blood debt with you."

"You seduce ordinary people behind your back to get involved in the mysterious world, and you also lured the dead to sacrifice the blood of the whole family, and almost caused the death of our entire Burnt family, just to open this place?" Miss Burnt put down the lantern with a gloomy face, and picked up the shotgun in both hands. The gun pointed at the black shadow in the sky, "Although the Burnt family has declined, not everyone can be bullied. We have received your declaration of war. I don't know who you are, but it doesn't matter. I can take my time." Go and check, sooner or later your identity will be found out, and you will be given a gift from the Burnt family in return. Before that, please take care of yourself."

"I said in the morning that I will return that shot to you sooner or later, and I will keep my word." Horst slowly walked to the cloth bag on the ground, picked it up, shook it towards the black shadow, and said with a sneer, "We just accepted this gift from you. I'm really ashamed. If you have such an expensive gift in the future, remember to inform us in advance and we will pick it up ourselves. You don't need to go to the door with such a troublesome gift."

"Okay, Horst Drom, I will remember you. There are still many days to come, and we have plenty of time to settle accounts."

The black shadow snorted coldly, and took one last look at the cloth bag in Horst's hand. It suddenly stopped in the air, and then suddenly shattered, breaking into countless pieces like glass and dissipating in the air.

"call……"

Watching the black shadow dissipate coldly, until the last fragment disappeared, Horst sat down on the ground with a thud. Jessica on the side exclaimed and ran into the darkness holding a lantern. It took a long time to The comatose mother and brother moved over, and then they sat down next to Horst with relief and let out a long breath.

"There is actually someone peeping around, how did you find out, Mr. Horst." Jessica stared at Horst with her big blue eyes and said in amazement, "And how do you know he can't attack us directly? , according to you, he is level 4, it is too easy to deal with us."

"Actually, I don't know either, but the man asked him for help. Anyway, the cracking sound came from under his feet instead of from above his head. The danger is not very great. It won't make any difference if he tries. I didn't expect that he actually got him out. ." Horst explained, "If he could take action, it is estimated that the two unstable factors, you and me, would have been eliminated long ago. If we are alive until now, we will definitely not be able to take action directly, maybe because it is not at all. Entity. This thing seems to be very important to him, but he can't solve such an important problem with physical appearance. He must not be able to show up. Maybe the country or force he belongs to is not so friendly to us, so we don't have to worry about him looking for it for the time being. Come to the door. But what is this thing?"

"I probably guessed what this is." Jessica took the bag, opened it, took out a dusty scroll and looked at it, "Sure enough."

"Um?"

"The guidance map for primary soul awakening is one of the sacred objects of the church, but it is only the most basic one and is not an important sacred object. It just so happens that it is put together with the primary awakening maps of the other three fallen gods in the family. When the time comes, you will start from Pick a path among them that you plan to take.”

"Is this what I'm looking for?" Horst took the scroll and looked at it over and over for a long time. There was nothing noteworthy about the dusty scroll.

"This thing is just a blueprint. It will be useless to people who have used it, but it won't work without it. The process of awakening is actually very complicated. I will explain it to you when I get back."

"But why is this thing here?"

"Well, it should be in the Third Age. At that time, wars often broke out between the gods, and dozens of gods fell one after another. The gods that the Burnt family originally believed in also fell, and a few devout families brought some with them. Confidential documents and mysterious items escaped. My ancestor fled to the Kingdom of Norland and rebuilt his family here. He also hid the things he brought out. It should be this, but I didn’t expect it to be true. "

"You don't even know if it's true?"

"That was more than seven hundred years ago. So many generations have passed, and the records have long been lost. The family only thinks it is an ancient legend, and no one takes it seriously, let alone knows where it is. Even if there is These are all things I guessed after seeing it. I didn’t expect that someone would come after it for it. It must have been some hostile churches at that time.”

"Okay..." Horst played with the scroll and asked helplessly, "Which god did your family believe in at that time?"

Jessica frowned and recalled for a long time, then suddenly her eyes lit up.

"I remembered."

"Seems to be……"

"Abigail, Lord of Shadows."