Arcane Journey

Chapter 97 The Devil's Servant
Hesaiah pulled out the sharp rune sword, and with a flash of lightness and softness, she appeared in front of the patrolling Dilo dwarf warriors.

"Pfft!"

A cold light flashed across the blade of the mithril-glowing sword in her hand, and a look of hopeless fear floated on the shocked face of the Dilo dwarf warrior, and he fell to the ground on his back.

Another derro warrior raised his flaming sword in panic and fought back.

The sharp rune sword collided with the black blade suddenly, and the Dilo dwarf warrior was suppressed by Hesaiah's brilliant sword light and retreated one after another.

Brian caught a glimpse of the sword mage jumping out of flames and electricity from the edge of his sword, and he has already met his next opponent. He quickly appeared and attracted the attention of the dwarf wizard of Dilo.

"Who dares to trespass into my lord's forbidden place!"

The wizard who responded in a timely manner gave a cold shout at the moment the first soldier fell, and his first reaction was to distance himself from the sword mage, and began to chant spells in an ominous tone.

The Dillo dwarf wizard finished reciting the spell viciously, and moved his arm burning with black flames to Brian's chest.

——"Four Rings Spell: Flame of Darkness!"

In an instant, filthy magical energy spewed out, and scorching flames rushed towards him.

Brian, who had been on guard for a long time, recognized his magic from the moment the opponent cast a spell, and blessed himself with a spell shield in advance to resist this evil necromancy.

——"Astral Construct!"

The moment he successfully withstood the spell, he concentrated his mind, and with a thought, the volley sword shining with light blue crystal light passed through the darkness like a mist, and shot towards the dwarf wizard of Dilo.

The Dillo dwarf wizard looked startled, calmed down immediately, and recited the spell quickly.

——"Arcane Missile!"

But Brian's movements were faster, and in a whirl of thought, he raised his finger and shot five magic energy missiles at the opponent first.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Following five soft beeps, the five translucent force field missiles were all blocked by the flickering black light shield, and disappeared immediately.

Seeing that his magic was ineffective, Brian deliberately showed a surprised look to attract the other party's attention.

After seeing it, the dwarf wizard Dilo grinned wildly, and was about to throw out the prepared black energy bullet, when he was suddenly disembowelled by the volley sword behind him without warning.

"what!!!"

He groaned and struggled, black blood flowing like strong acid, corroding frightening scorched black marks on the hard surface.

"Target is dead!"

"Draining soul energy."

"Acquired experience points: 3000 points!"

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At the same time, the Dilo dwarf warrior on the other side was also stabbed through the chest by Hesaiah.

The moment she drew the sword, she suddenly turned her elegant figure, jumped lightly, distanced herself from it, and successfully dodged the acidic blood gushing from the deep wound.

Hesaiah shakes the sword lightly, and the blade emits a crisp hum, and the filthy blood stained on the blade is instantly wiped off.

"What's going on here?" She shook her loose brown-red hair, walked to Brian who was searching for the loot, and secretly asked her doubts in her heart.

If she hadn't been afraid of splashing her disgusting acidic blood on her body, she would have killed the last Dilo dwarf warrior cleanly.

Although this acidic blood didn't do much harm to her, if it really fell on the skin, she didn't dare to imagine the disgusting scene.

"They have all been transformed into servants of the devil, so they have some characteristics that belong to the devil of the abyss."

After inspecting the body of the dwarf wizard of Dillo, Brian frowned, sniffed the smell of incense and carrion in the air, got up and said to the sword mage, "Let's go, I suspect that the demon ritual inside is about to start. "

Hisaiah nodded, followed Brian's pace without thinking, and walked towards the 'Holy Law Auditorium'.

Brian led the sword mage carefully into the huge stalagmite tower.

They quietly hid in the shadow of the hall, probed to observe the situation inside, and suddenly found with a horrified expression that in the center of the hall, there was a big pit, and there were corpses and pieces of meat scattered in the pit.

The strong radiant energy of the earth veins and the sickly soft light diffused in all directions in the hall, like clusters of tangible dark mist slowly creeping along the pit wall.

This place looks more like a waste pit of an evil experiment. The remains of the victims are all abandoned here in the end, piled up together, so that they emit a pungent rancid stench.

Brian also discovered that these corpses that had absorbed the radiation from the leylines gradually began to show signs of spontaneous recovery.

"Brian, if we get back to the surface."

Seeing this scene, the pale-faced Sisaiah felt a convulsion in her stomach. She forcibly looked away, not paying attention to the corpses and minced meat in the pit, and unconsciously grabbed Brian's arm with her right hand, using magic to transmit sound, whispered tremblingly:

"I must find an idyllic farm with a pleasant scenery. I am afraid that I will need to rest for at least a year before I can completely dispel the terrifying scenes I saw in the dark region."

"Then I suggest you go to the Fairy Wilderness, it should be the most suitable place for you."

Feeling the great power hidden under Hesaiah's slender and delicate body, Brian raised his eyebrows to look at her, then patted the soft little hand that was tightly clutching his arm, and comforted her with a voice transmission:
"If you don't want to see it, don't force yourself, just close your eyes and follow my steps."

To Brian's surprise, he just said it casually, and the noble lady lowered her eyes in a dignified manner, grabbed one of his arms with both hands, and almost leaned her whole soft body against him.

However, fortunately, the strength in her hands has eased a lot, and the pain in his arm has also disappeared.

Although the smell here was very strong, his keen sense of smell caught the vague fragrance from Hesaiah's body, and even heard her slightly rapid breathing.

For some reason, when he, who has always been calm and rational, smelled the fragrance of spleen, heart and lungs, he couldn't help recalling some beautiful and rippling images in his mind, and even subconsciously wanted to rub his arms against Hesaiah's soft skin. Delicate body.

He looked startled, and immediately realized that this was definitely not from his instinctive desire, it must have come from some kind of evil demonic ritual.

In fact, he had already guessed the true identity of the demon lord who spread the evil.

And it's all too clear that the demon lord's followers are best at throwing corrupt 'fasting feasts of pleasure'.

It is a horrific ritual that completely transforms believers into servants of demons.

For female characters, the difficulty of the will save for this ritual is doubled.

Thinking of this, a gust of cold air rose from Brian's back. He immediately came back to his senses, secretly heightened his vigilance, and focused his attention on the front.

The crater is 15 feet deep, and the ledge overlooking the crater is surrounded by sharp pieces of scrap metal, which seem to prevent creatures below the crater from climbing up the stone wall.

This is the fact.

Because he had noticed that there were seven zombies moving slowly in the pit, including three duergars and four dylo dwarves.

There is only one Dilo dwarf guarding the entire pit. He stands alone on the windowsill of the pit, ready to use a bow and crossbow to attack the zombies trying to climb out of the pit.

A crack in the southeast wall of the crater led to a narrow passageway, and the entrance to the tunnel was also filled with disgusting fungus and shards of viscera.

Obviously, this must be the passage leading to the demonic ritual.

With a thought, Brian manipulated the astral construct, and suddenly appeared in front of the Dilo dwarf guard at lightning speed. Before he could react, a sharp cold light flashed across.

The Dillo dwarf froze, and the bow and crossbow in his hand slipped off automatically. He held his blood-flowing neck with both hands, and fell headlong into the pit.

Brian ignored the screaming and struggling undead creatures in the pit, and led Hesaiah straight into the passage full of fungi and internal organs.

Here is a large, spacious cavern, and the air is filled with the smell of sulfur and waste chemicals.

The dense radiant energy of the veins filled it, shining on the stone roof and walls, creating a strange spiral texture.

Brian moved his eyes away from these weird lines, because he felt that the longer he stared, the blurrier his vision became, and the thought of wanting to release a big fireball to burn the entire cave faintly rose in his mind. Crazy thoughts of razing to the ground.

He suppressed the thoughts in his heart and reminded the sword mage beside him.

Then, he saw a natural platform reflected under the campfire not far away.

Five Dillo dwarf wizards in black robes sang evil carols together, and shouted out the name of the demon lord 'Graz'.

In a fungal patch of grass beside the platform, pairs of derro lie disheveled.

Their limbs were entangled without any hesitation, and they uttered low moans intermittently along with the evil chant.

Imagining the essence of the ceremony, Bryan suddenly felt nauseous, and his stomach couldn't help convulsing and rolling. The sword mage beside him even wrapped his arms tightly around his arms, clearly showing the purest disgust in his heart. On the delicate face.

Even so, Brian, who was hiding in the dark, was not in a hurry to make a move. Instead, he watched the progress of the ceremony carefully, enduring the scene of chills and discomfort with his calm eyes.

He saw a sudden burst of scarlet soft light from the magic circle in the center of the platform, and the power of the spell gradually converged on a chained Dilro wizard in the center of the ceremony.

The last scream of the helpless dylo dwarf was accompanied by a clatter of bound chains as his back slammed away from the marble of the altar.

Then, frighteningly rapid changes began.

A black sprout slowly grew from the thumb of the Dilro dwarf's hands.

Two long, slender black fingers sprouted from his hands, twisting like buds, as the unholy chant changed.

From a distance, it looks like a sharp claw from an abyssal demon.

His cry also suddenly turned into a weird moan, as if caught in an entanglement of pain and pleasure.

Seeing this, Brian finally understood that the three Dillo dwarves they killed in the 'Sacred Law Auditorium' were probably also transformed through this evil ceremony.

It reminded him of the conspiracy about the dylo dwarves.

After the demon lord came to the Underdark, the scholars of the Dilro gathered a group of apprentices through intimidation and lobbying, and tried to spread evil and chaotic rituals in the city of Aldus.

They also knew that the Golem race was the backbone of the Deep King's power, and they decided to inflict upon them the madness of the demons of the deep, and use this as a curtain for a sinister plot to dedicate the city to the demon lord.

In other words, there is definitely another settlement of cultists hidden in the entire vortex tunnel.

Here the ritual transforms the derro dwarven wizard into a demonic servant, while the other involves corrupting the golem through a Broken Spire.

Brian carefully counted the number of Dillo dwarf wizards, and found that there were only 12 wizards in total, and their highest strength was around level 10 of the second order.

This made him realize that those Dillo dwarf wizards whose strength reached the third level are likely to be guarding the next altar.

After figuring out the problem, Brian patted Hesaiah on the shoulder, signaling her to hide here and not to show up. He can deal with these cultists alone.

When Hesaiah heard this, he hesitated for a moment, and then gave him a grateful look.

Although she couldn't bear to look directly at the obscene pictures at the altar, she would also stand up if the lives of the two were at stake.

In fact, what really scared her was the weird fragrance in the air.

This smell of blood and incense ash made her feel hot and unbearable, her forehead kept dripping with sweat, and even her breathing became a little cramped, and she always wanted to stick to Brian's side involuntarily.

If it weren't for her strong self-control ability, I'm afraid she might lose her mind because of it.

Of course she knew what this meant, so she didn't dare to imagine what unspeakable changes would happen if she went too deep into the vicinity of the altar and was affected by that evil obscene aura.

Brian pulled out his staff and emerged from the shadows.

- "Fireball!"

With a thought, he neatly activated the spell in the staff.

A dark red fireball the size of an ogre's head, dragging billowing smoke, first smashed into piles of Dillo dwarves whose limbs were entangled with each other in the fungus.

"Boom!"

The blazing fire exploded, the high-temperature flames raged, and the violent impact was accompanied by loud noises, causing the entire cave to shake faintly, and gravel rained down on the stumped limbs and arms of a group of Dilro dwarves.

The few who survived also opened their mouths to spurt blood, lying on the ground dejectedly and groaning in pain.

Seeing the tips from his experience, Brian discovered that this fireball instantly killed six Dillo dwarf wizards.

Immediately afterwards, he noticed that the five Dillo dwarf wizards who were singing carols around the altar stopped singing and walked to the edge of the altar, ready to take up weapons and prepare to fight.

Naturally, he would not let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, took out five or six short crossbow bolts, and waved the flaming rune staff.

——"Krugul Flame Arrow!"

In the blink of an eye, flaming arrows with crackling sound quickly passed through the air, hitting the chest of every Dilro wizard with precision.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The flaming arrows that hit exploded into a gorgeous magical flame with the dazzling light.

Although there were three Dillo dwarf wizards who propped up the gleaming magic shield for themselves in a hurry, they were still staggered and retreated by the aftermath of the explosion.

Just when they secretly rejoiced that they survived the disaster and were about to cast a spell to fight back, they didn't know that Brian had already manipulated his astral construct to appear behind them through "space sliding".

A splash of acidic blood.

The three Dilro wizards all fell to the ground and died under the front and back attack of Brian and the volley sword.

After cleaning up all the enemies, Brian took a deep breath to calm down the breath disorder caused by continuous casting of spells, and gave Hesaiah a look of refraining from acting rashly, and walked straight towards the altar.

As he walked forward, he put away his staff.

Just when he was about to walk near the altar and was about to destroy it, a teleportation circle exuding black energy suddenly appeared.

As the light of the magic circle quickly dissipated, a cultist with a human face and a cat's face stepped out.

I saw her raise her arm, revealing a white arm.

Immediately afterwards, without any casting or chanting of spells, an energy ball with dancing black flames was instantly released towards Brian.

—— "Dimensional Jump!"

Naturally, Brian sensed the opponent's malice at the first time, and promptly passed the teleportation spell to avoid the sneak attack of the flames and distance himself from the opponent.

Brian, who stabilized his body, immediately took the opportunity to look at the unexpected guest.

He saw that the other party was a woman in a black cloak with exquisite curves.

She was probably naked under her flimsy cloak, Bryan guessed.

The moment she lifted the hood, she revealed a face like a wild cat and long blood-red hair.

Her voluptuous body is lustful and fatally alluring.

"I am Xinaya, a voter of my lord Graz'zt. Who are you, how dare you be presumptuous here?" A cold light flashed in the woman's scarlet eyes, locked on Brian.

"Who am I? Of course I am a person who is destined to dominate rather than obey." Brian looked calm and composed, gave her a mocking look, and sarcastically said, "Do you think so, the devil's lackey?"

When Brian heard that the other party was the elector of the demon lord, he still couldn't help being shocked.

However, it was not as scary as imagined.

Because almost all the high-ranking believers of the demon lord Graz'zt call themselves the Chosen, so they are naturally not as scary as the Chosen of the gods.

Moreover, through his sensitivity to magic and visual detection, he discovered that the strength of the opponent did not even reach the fourth level.

It can be seen from this that she should have just become a servant of the devil not long ago.

Moreover, it was forcibly upgraded from the first or second order to the third order.

Hearing Brian's sarcasm, Xinaya was not ashamed, but proud, showing an evil smile.

When she saw Brian's face clearly, she was startled for a moment, and then a gleam of joy flashed across her face, "It turned out to be you. I didn't even look for you, so I sent it to my door."

"Ok?"

Brian squinted and gave her a suspicious look.

He knew immediately that the Demon Chosen was absolutely proficient at reading minds, and must have stolen the memory from Jeep the Dilro dwarf, and learned that he was a gifted wizard.

A wizard like him is naturally the most suitable sacrifice or object of corruption for the demon lord Graz'zt, which made him secretly raise his vigilance.

——"Psychic power upgrade!"

——"The mind is blank!"

Brian concentrates, mobilizes the energy of the mind, and clears all the short thoughts and messy thoughts in his mind, so as to greatly improve his will immunity ability.

"Very well, it's really time."

Demon Chosen licked his lips in satisfaction, revealing two small cat-like fangs, "Give it up, mortal!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Brian suddenly felt that Xinaya's hinting spell was eroding his mind, trying to cut open his spirit like a thief's throat wiper.

Even though he had been prepared for a long time, he was still pale and sweaty from the impact of this force.

He instantly sensed that it was the light of consciousness of the demon chosen, and he understood what was about to happen.

After all, the master of the other party is a demon lord who is proficient in mind manipulation, and what is bestowed on the believers is naturally powerful dark forces such as mind reading and control.

Thinking of this, Brian slightly bent the corner of his mouth.

"Hehehe"

In the empty cavern, there was a slutty smile echoing constantly, and the crystal clear blood-red eyes of the demon chosen were like star rubies, emitting a bright shimmer.

On her cat-like delicate face, there is a charming spring color, and there is a seemingly sweet, but actually slutty smile on the corners of her mouth showing small fangs.

With her pair of slender and slender jade hands gently unbuttoning the belt of the cloak, a pair of surprisingly plump bouncing out.

Indistinctly, one could still see bright red welts on the gullies of the white and tender skin inside, and scarlet welts even appeared on the inside of her raised slender thighs.

With dull eyes, Brian greedily stared at the unobstructed spring scenery, and walked over with slightly stiff steps, step by step.

"Want to touch? It's long, slippery, and tender."

The devil's chosen mouth curled up, looking at him playfully, took his left hand, and put it on the welt on the inner thigh of her thigh.

The moment Brian touched her thigh, his eyes suddenly became clear, and a stern look flashed across his eyes.

At the same time, his right hand took out a gold-plated weapon from his arms like lightning, and pressed it directly on the soft and flat belly of the demon elect.

——"Mayoufu Micro Meteor!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There were eight consecutive explosions, and the fiendish elector, who had been crazily exported, erupted with fiery crackling sounds on the seductive body.

Xinaya let out a mournful wail, her abdomen was blasted to a bloody mess, the bones were visible, and the white intestines flowed down with the blood.

She glanced at Brian in surprise, and immediately lay down on the ground, scratching the floor and growling in a low voice.

Her alluring female body suddenly turned into a thick torso, her slender thighs became the hind legs of a lion, and her delicate and slender hands turned into sharp claws that shone with cold light.

Thick long hairs also grew on her face, which turned into a terrifying lion face.

The sphinx looked at Brian in horror, let out a low growl of demonstration, then turned around, jumped up, and distanced himself from him.

Brian was about to cast a spell to resist, but suddenly found that the other party was dragging blood dripping from his abdomen, turned around and ran away again, he relaxed, put down the movements of his hands, and stared coldly at her leaving figure.

After all, he couldn't guarantee how terrible a demon voter's counterattack would be.

This is also the reason why he didn't continue to add damage after seriously injuring it.

—— "Advanced Teleportation!"

Just when the human body lion was about to be shrouded in the light of the magic circle and teleported away, the graceful figure of Hesaiah holding the rune sword suddenly appeared.

——"Lightning hook!"

With a wave of her left hand, a crackling bolt of lightning, twisting like a snake, probed into the disappearing portal.

"what!!!"

Accompanied by the painful wail from the portal, the lightning hook that leaped with electric light caught the huge body of the human body lion, dragged it out of the portal abruptly, let it hang in the air from the ground, and struggled frantically.

Sisaiah was about to swung her sword to kill, when she was startled suddenly, as if she remembered something, she looked at Brian who was walking, shook a strand of hair from her forehead, and smiled:
"Although I don't know what this strange move of yours means, but I always feel that it is more appropriate for you to complete this final blow."

After finishing speaking, she handed over the rune sword in her hand, concentrating on controlling the frantically struggling sphinx.

Looking at the understanding sword mage, Brian took the sharp sword and took the life of the sphinx neatly.

"Target is dead!"

"Draining soul energy."

"Acquired experience points: 5000 points!"

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"Of course I'm very happy for you to do this, but don't deliberately keep your hands because of it in the future."

Brian handed the sword to Hesaiah, and deliberately said to her with a straight face, "After all, no one can guarantee when the accident will happen."

"At least I can guarantee that I can perfectly control this sphinx, and that's enough." Hesaiah snorted softly and replied stiffly.

Faced with this situation, Brian didn't know how to answer for a while.

After all, Hesaiah is kind enough to give him experience, if he reprimands her even if he doesn't know what's good and what's wrong, it will be too unkind.

"Well, do whatever you want, as long as you're happy."

He left a sentence, ignored the sword mage's angry eyes and the sound of clanging the sword into its sheath, turned to the altar, and began to search for spoils while destroying all the circles engraved on the altar.

In the process of collecting loot, he accidentally found a page made of three-layer mushroom caps in the pile of books, which was filled with the crazy words of the Dilro scholars.

And also describes three rituals.

The first is the growth of a third finger through a vile and bloody obscene ritual that grants demonic properties and powers.

The second is to mobilize the chaotic energy radiated by the leylines to drive the whole city into madness.

The third ceremony directly made Brian unable to sit still.

This turned out to use the red dragon egg as a medium, injecting the power of the bottomless abyss into it, and finally made the demon lord Graz'zt come to the main material world with his incarnation in the form of hatching.

"Sure enough."

After reading the general process of the ceremony, Brian put away the book, showing a sudden look.

In fact, when the gray ghost stole the red dragon egg, he remembered a powerful abyssal red dragon that appeared in the church of the material world, the demon lord Grazt, in the game world.

An evil red dragon with both true dragon blood and the power of the abyss.

Thinking of this, he realized that not only did he want to prevent the incident from happening, but he also had to find a way to get the red dragon egg and take it as his own.

As long as he finds a way to guide the red dragon to do good, he will most likely become the most powerful thug and mount when he grows up.

Then Brian saw a scroll tucked inside another book.

As soon as his expression moved, he immediately opened it to check, and found that it was a letter written in a broken dwarf language.

Nalak:
A lot of corpses!Stone Whisperer Hegram has traps.Trap trap trap.But Jeep is cunning and big, and his figure is still small!Jeep can hear them talking, then they say there are names, then Jeep hears the name, then Jeep writes the name down, and then gives you the name, so you have to give Jeep time.But you have to give Jeep a lot of corpses.Fresh and alive corpse, Jeep wants to fulfill the divine destiny!
- Jeep

"This so-called name is probably the real reason why Lewood was influenced by demons." Brian burned the scroll and nodded thoughtfully.

As for the corpses mentioned in the scrolls, it is likely that they were necessary for some kind of mad ritual that Gip was trying to perform.

A manifestation of the derro dwarf god Dikalazir himself - as the embodiment of the murderer.

Relying on bloody sacrifices, He built a carnage path for his people in the Underdark to follow it to glory.It's quite possible that Jeep is imagining that any of his setbacks (including his capture and captivity) are 'divine providence'.

He wanted to try to use a rigorous killing ritual to summon the incarnation of this mad god to the material world.

The killing ritual seems terrible, but Brian is not worried at all, because the killing ritual that Jeep summons the mad god will definitely fail.

"Where are we going next?" Hesaiah walked up to him cautiously and asked.

"Go to the depths of the tunnel and find a black broken spire." Brian said with a slightly dignified expression after finishing his belongings.

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(End of this chapter)