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Chapter 249 Strange Demon Sacrifice
"Get out, it's not suitable to stay here anymore."

In this kind of underground, although there is an exit leading to the outside, it is one-way, the air does not circulate, and the flames will soon exhaust the oxygen.

Not to mention that the smoke from incomplete combustion can kill people.

When I went outside, I saw William with a nervous expression. The distance inside was not far, so I could naturally hear the voice coming out. He wanted to go down several times, but he was used to sticking to orders before he got new orders. Or choose to stay outside and take precautions.

Now seeing the lord and the others come out safely, they are also relieved, and the pressure on their bodies has been relieved by half, but they still can't help but wonder what's going on inside.

"What happened inside?"

Barristan and Boudica had weird expressions on their faces. After all, the scene was hard to describe in words, and the successive changes made them both feel uncomfortable.

Without the main force of the lord, their mentality would have collapsed when facing that kind of monster in the environment of the underground tomb, and they would have escaped instead of coming out like this now.

Lance was fine, and briefly explained the situation of the mausoleum.

Rituals built of flesh and blood, giant cytoplasm, twisted maggot people...

He said it lightly, but William could tell from the expressions of the other two that it was not that simple.

Of course, Lance also noticed this, and couldn't help calming down the emotions of the two of them to relieve the pressure.

"There is nothing to be afraid of. Fear comes from the unknown. When you see it, understand it, and find a way to deal with it, the situation becomes very simple.

For example, the cytoplasmic body just now looks scary, but its attack method is actually very simple. It can be seen that it swallows the prey into the body with its huge size, and slowly digests it after suffocating it. After observing their habits , as long as it's split it's not much of a threat.

As for the maggot man, it seems that he can change his state according to the food he devours, but in fact he relies on maggots to bite. It is difficult to swallow a person in an instant before the number reaches a certain level. The biggest danger is getting sick, even if there is no Molotov cocktail , I can burn it to death with a torch..."

Lance revisited the situation with them. In fact, the situation was not too critical, but the dark environment made them scare themselves, and there was an inhuman monster that they had never seen before, so it was natural.

As long as you walk with him a few times, you will be able to adapt quickly, because people will accumulate experience, the most obvious of these people is Boudica, who has always been bluffing before, and his mentality has improved since he recovered from the injury A lot, at least not so impatiently.

Leonard, Disma, Barristan... Each of them came out of life and death, and their fighting ability is beyond doubt. The experience and mentality of a monster.

It can only be said that the ancestors still know how to play, and come up with so many strange things, I am afraid that the monsters in the entire empire have a total of one stone, and Hamlet monopolizes eight fights.

After seeing the rest and recovery state to relieve the pressure, Lance also waited until almost the same time, but he did not leave, but went underground again.

It's a good habit to make up the knife. He doesn't feel at ease if he doesn't see the enemy die. The lack of security for this hopeless world makes him have this kind of somewhat sick mentality.

There were no accidents. This place is a masonry structure. There is no excess combustible material, and there is not much oxygen for combustion. When he came down, there was only a pile of coke left on the spot, which turned into dust when he stepped on it.

There were some scattered remnants of maggots, but they were also caught by him, and a small piece of cytoplasm on the ground was also put into a bottle, intending to take it back and study it.

The ancestor arranged this ceremony here must be doing something. Although he destroyed it and couldn't see the effect, Lance was still very curious.

There is still a lack of talents proficient in mysticism...

Thinking of this, Lance felt a little uncomfortable. Extraordinary knowledge in this world is too scarce. It is a tool that can change the status quo and develop productivity, but it is shelved. It is really a waste.

Lance naturally understands the side effects of extraordinary power, but restriction does not mean blockade or monopoly.

The feudal and religious forces are too strong. Under the suppression of these, if there is no change, the development of the world may be like this in a thousand years.

But these are not what he needs to consider now, he needs to do it first after surviving the hands of the ancestor.

Open the [Spiritual Vision] and scan around to make sure there is nothing missing before turning around and leaving.

"Unprecedented success, the target task has been completed, now choose to go back, or continue to deepen?"

After coming out, Lance looked at the crowd and briefly explained the plan to ask for their opinions.

Of course, Lance can decide the direction of the team alone, but the task he said before coming here is to find and kill the killer who killed the serfs and interfered with the operation.

But now it has been completed, that is, the next task is beyond the scope of the agreement. Regarding this, Lance still wants to see the attitude of other people and give them the respect they should have as a team member.

Lance himself is more inclined to continue to explore. After all, this trip was a little too smooth, so smooth that he wondered if this was also a trap set by the ancestor to guide himself to find this place and destroy it...

This anxiety made him urgently need more information around him, and he could find the truth by jumping out of the route planned by his ancestor.

Moreover, this side has already exceeded the witch's corrupted area, and further up is unknown. He also needs to further explore and reconnaissance, so that he can start preparing to go north in advance.

But now the team is in good shape, and the combination of William and Figgs is also very suitable for exploring the map.

"Of course keep going!" Boudica held up her battle halberd with an excited smile on her face. She would rather fight the monster than go back and do nothing.

After all, everyone else has a job, either leading the army or leading the sheriff. She is the lord's personal guard in name, but in fact she is similar to Wangcai. It doesn't matter who protects who~
Before, she could go to the training camp to teach those recruits, but now they are all being pulled out to perform tasks, and she has nothing to do.

The boss is afraid that he will cause trouble and won't let him go casually. It's rare to come out once, and she doesn't want to go back so soon.

"I'm not old enough to need a rest." Barristan knew how to figure out what the lord was thinking. He also knew that this matter was a bit weird and needed to be investigated.

"I have no objection." William also had the idea of ​​starting a career. He didn't participate in the previous battles, which made him somewhat unwilling.

"Let's get started, the enemy will not wait for us."

Lance reorganized his team and started exploring with this place as a new starting point.

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The nameless village located in the wilderness has no exquisite buildings, nor towering city walls. There are only a dozen scattered thatched huts scattered in it, surrounded by a simple wooden fence that cannot be more simple.

These small villages are scattered all over the empire, and most of the reasons for their appearance are to avoid taxes, wars, or fleeing refugees to hide in the wilderness to cultivate themselves.

In such a place far from civilization, there are no vicious and vicious tax officials. Although the land is barren, everything they grow is their own.

These people will spend most of their energy on the fields, and they can go to nearby towns or passing caravans to trade the materials they need. They don't need money, or they don't have the concept of consumption, and they are all self-sufficient.

In some cases, as long as they survive the first two years of life, they will become rich, and they are more comfortable than most of the farmers in large villages or towns.

But the empire, or the church and the nobles in the territory usually turn a blind eye to this situation.

Because there are too many, it is like weeds that cannot be managed, and if the village is active, it will slowly develop over time, and when it reaches a certain level, it will have a population and reclaimed land.

At that time, missionaries will either appear to spread the gospel.

Either a tax officer will appear to check the tax.

What?You say you want to refuse?
That would appear to be the crusaders of heresy, to "cleanse" the place.

Or the army of noble lords who came to suppress the bandits came here to "put down the rebellion".

Of course, if they are lucky enough not to be discovered, or if the scale is too small to attract attention, then their good life can live on.

It's just that while enjoying such freedom, they also lost the protection of "order".

Compared with other risks, the empire and the church are actually the most kind, because bandits, robbers, slave catchers, or passers-by with malicious intentions will not wait until the leeks grow before harvesting.

Like now...

A woman in strange clothes raised a unique dagger and cut the throat of a terrified but motionless man, and blood gushed from the wound into the altar.

It was very weird, and there was no struggle until the blood flowed out, but the wide-open pupils gradually turned gray and lost their last look.

Catherine dragged the long-dead corpse aside until the blood was almost gone, and then she let out a long breath, and murmured with tiredness on her face, "This is the last one."

Talking about Catherine sweeping through the arrangement of the ceremony, none of the 32 people in the entire village could escape. All of them were here at this time, and they all turned into corpses with a terrified expression and their throats cut with a knife.

Among them, men, women, and children were mixed, and even a babbling child became a corpse with gray skin and was piled up among them. From time to time, drops of blood dripped from the cut wound, and it appeared across the face of the other person. Alluring bright red.

It can be seen that these corpses actually form a triangle, and in the middle is a blood pool where blood gathers, and beside the blood pool is sitting cross-legged, a hairless monster that looks like a mummy stretched its hand into it.

Owner……

Catherine's eyes stayed on it, her expression was a little strange, and the hand holding the dagger under the wide cuff was slowly clenched.

Immersed in the ritual, as long as you kill him, you can...

Before she could think about it, a strange feeling came from the surroundings. Catherine withdrew her eyes in horror and lowered her eyebrows, because she knew that the ceremony had begun.

The blood pool formed by the blood of more than 30 people is very impressive, but at this time it has decreased sharply, as if being swallowed by something, or flowing into the void.

It wasn't until the blood receded that he saw that the monster's hand that went deep into the blood pool was tied with a rope, which was a triangular pendant.

At the same time, those corpses arranged in a triangle began to become weird. The flesh seemed to be pulled away from something. The flesh and blood shrank and disintegrated and decayed at an accelerated rate.

But the mummy-like body entrenched in it was rejuvenated at a speed visible to the naked eye at this time, the muscles swelled, the skin became firm and elastic, and the cheeks and eye sockets that were originally sunken like skeletons on the face also recovered. Nian bald.

"The contract is completed!"

During the speech, the bald head suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a strange light.

Sensing the state of his body, the bald wizard finally recovered from his long-term weakness.

Just thinking about the situation at that time still made him feel mixed with anger and fear.

You must know that there has never been a mistake in so many years. Who would have thought that a simple ceremony would instantly wipe out the powerful strange demons that originated from the void.

It's an unimaginable concept, but he lost most of his abilities after losing the protection of strange demons, which is fatal for a strange demon wizard.

Because most of his abilities come from the contract signed by the Void Strange Demon, and he borrows the power of the Strange Demon through offering sacrifices.

At the same time, because of the contract, he also suffered backlash and almost died. Fortunately, his years of accumulation played a role, and he finally survived.

And just now, people from a village were used as sacrifices, and with the help of the artifact in his hand, he re-communicated with a new Void Demon to sign a contract, and his body was restored.

The bald head is still full of awe for this matter, and even a little fortunate.

Although I was in a mess, at least I survived. As for that idiot, he lost control and became a fallen man.

This is a taboo for all extraordinary people, which directly led to the martial law in Totnes, and the official and church hunted down extraordinary people.

He had already lost his strength due to the backlash of the ceremony, and was even more frightened, so he ran away overnight.

He can be sure that all forces are looking for him, the person who experienced the first scene, and he is even suspected of being the murderer of that incident and is being hunted down.

Because this is not the first time he has felt the peeping from the void, which is why he is so eager to re-sign the contract with the void monster, and even held such a ceremony directly on the land of the empire.

Because he needed the shelter of the void to avoid those prying eyes, he didn't want to be involved in this matter any longer.

However, Totnes is afraid that it is impossible to go back, and the fluctuation left by the ceremony he performed was quickly discovered by those who were chasing him, and then caught up.

Inexplicably, he carried a big pot and fell into a fugitive. The bald head didn't know what he had offended, but he knew he couldn't stay for long.

"Let's go..." The bald wizard got up and led his servants away from here, heading north all the way. Only by going deep into the chaotic place can he confuse his tracks.

And he needs more sacrifices to regain his strength and please the newly communicated Void Demon.

The demise of a village is so random, and it is unknown when the bones are found...

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