I have to say that this did surprise Duanmu Huai.
The so-called divine knights, in the words of the empire, are psykers who have received the attention of the emperor.
The so-called "The Emperor pays attention to everyone, but there are always some people who are more favored by him" refers to this group of guys who have people above them.
Of course, this kind of attention is not random. Basically, the gods are all beings with powerful spiritual powers, so they receive the attention of the gods.
But this is not a good thing. For example, if Duanmu Huai meets a member of the evil god, he will definitely kill him regardless of the situation to avoid future troubles. And similarly, gods like Emilia will also be targeted by other evil gods or devils, and have a higher chance of being corrupted or killed.
From this point of view, this world can be regarded as a typical example of the success of the "Black Hole Project".
Originally, there are always psychic beings born in this world, and you can't prevent them from being born. This is just like there are evil gods in the world, and it doesn't mean they won't exist if you don't admit it. When the Black Hole Project was first implemented, issues regarding these psykers were considered. This was also one of the reasons for the second phase of the God-Creation Plan. If there were no local indigenous gods, psykers would be susceptible to subspace interference. , then they must all become the evil god’s thugs.
Therefore, it is necessary to create a large number of gods to divert the belief of psykers, whether they believe in local indigenous people or other gods. In short, as long as we can divert psykers who will be attracted by evil gods as much as possible, we can achieve a certain level of Slow down the opponent's recovery speed.
Novice Village and this world are typical examples. Various gods are as numerous as stars, diverting many psychics. So when the Evil God came here to hold a job fair, he discovered that the talents were basically monopolized by local companies...
Hey, this is very comfortable.
Speaking of which, people from the Knights and the Guard respected her when they saw her.
Only then did Duanmuhuai remember that when Emilia led them to investigate in Neverwinter City, both the patrolling knights and the soldiers from the security team would greet Emilia. Duanmu Huai didn't take it seriously at the time, he only thought that Emilia was popular because of her good looks. Looking back now, it probably had something to do with Emilia's status as a divine knight.
If that's the case, Aribes's purpose in sending Emilia to lead the investigation team would be very strange.
At the beginning, Duanmuhuai was disgusted when he saw Emilia and Luo Qixi. In his opinion, they were just two little girls in their infancy. It is estimated that Aribes just gave them a random task. So that they wouldn't get in the way, so they got involved with me. To put it simply, they used me as a nanny.
But now this idea is obviously untenable. Unless Aribes is a mole, how could he lead his own divine knight into the sewer?
Aren't you afraid that Tyr will strike her to death with a thunderbolt?
Or is this a test for the divine knights?
Forget it, it has nothing to do with me anyway.
But then again…………
"You'd better not rush so far."
Duanmuhuai held Amelia's shoulders and pulled her back.
"But, but here..."
"The pollution of the Corruption Scale is not easy to eliminate. You don't have much power left."
Yes, as long as Emilia moves forward, the growth in the place where her light shines will retreat, but most of it still relies on Emilia's own spiritual power, although the ones here are also They are just some fragile followers of the Corruption Scale, but Emilia's approach still has a hint of the Seven Injury Fist.
It's okay to fight like this for a short period of time, but once it turns into a long-term war, it's a different story.
"Huh...huh..."
Sure enough, Amelia was panting and sweating profusely at this moment.
"But, the evil here has not been completely purified..."
"Purify this shit. If you keep it, it will be a disaster. Just burn it with fire and it will be over!"
As Duanmuhuai spoke, he raised his war hammer and slammed it down in front of his eyes. The black flames instantly spread and exploded. In the blink of an eye, everything around him was enveloped in a blazing sea of fire. These black flames seemed to be conscious. He avoided Duanmu Huai and the others, just minding his own business and devouring everything he came into contact with.
"These monsters seem to be afraid of your flames, Mr. Duanmu?"
Emilia also discovered this. Those plague aberrations were obviously more afraid of the flames of Duanmuhuai than their own holy light. Although she didn't feel any evil power from the black flames, the aura brought by the burning flames really made her uncomfortable.
"It's normal because that's their natural enemy."
Hearing Amelia's inquiry, Duanmuhuai showed a ferocious smile. The Corruption is the god of life, and the Black Flame is the destined death, the end of death for all things in the world. The two can be said to be completely opposite, so the scale of corruption will instinctively be afraid of Duanmuhuai's black flames. Of course - Duanmuhuai will not let these damn heretical bastards go just because they see them as pitiful.
Compared to Amelia and Duanmuhuai on the front line, Ogis and Luo Qixi in the back seemed a bit leisurely, but Ogis was really leisurely. She even held a book in one hand and read while walking. At the same time, the fingers of his left hand hung down and trembled slightly, and then the scattered invisible threads surrounded the surroundings, carefully cutting into pieces everything that dared to hinder him.
Luo Qixi, on the other hand, had a grimace, clenched her staff and looked around uneasily. The erosion inside the fortress in front of her also gave Luo Qixi a great shock - this was the first time she had grown so old. Seeing such a horrible, disgusting and weird scene, it can be called a scene from hell.
"Crash!!"
Just as everyone turned the corner, suddenly the wall next to Luo Qixi suddenly collapsed, and then a mutant roared and rushed over with a long sword raised.
"Wow!!"
Luo Qixi was so frightened that she froze when she saw the monster that suddenly appeared in front of her, with green and swollen body and full of twisted and mutated flesh. However, Ogis just pointed her left hand slightly at the side, and then saw the silk thread quickly condensed into a knight's spear, which directly penetrated the chest of the aberration, nailing it to the wall behind, and the next moment black The flames flowed down, completely engulfing the aberrant body in the blink of an eye, like flames meeting gasoline.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, look at you."
Duanmuhuai glanced at Luo Qixi with disgust.
"A mage will yell at you from behind. What use do you think you have?"
"I, I'm just a mage!"
Luo Qixi was almost crying now.
As for targeting me along the way?
"I'm not like you and Miss Emilia. I don't have the ability to fight in close combat..."
"What are you talking about? I'm also a mage, and I graduated from a serious magic academy."
"……………Aha?"
"Why?"
Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, not only Luo Qixi was stunned on the spot, but even Amelia turned her head to look at Duanmuhuai in surprise.
"Mr. Duanmu, are you a mage?"
"What? Don't believe it?"
Duanmu Huai snorted, raised his left hand and fired an [Ice Spear Stab]. Several ice spikes suddenly appeared out of thin air, and then roared past, turning the Nurglings not far away directly into skewers.
"???"
Seeing this scene, Emilia and Luo Qixi went numb.
"Wait a minute, isn't this the effect of some magic item?"
"Do you think I'm the kind of person who cheats? Let me tell you, even if I don't use a war hammer, I can hammer you to death with magic!"
"No, but you are wearing heavy armor. The probability of spell casting failure in heavy armor is wrong, so why are you dressed like this?"
"For a mage, just light up the flash spell and then use the whirlwind to attack and it's done! You are going astray!"
"Am I going astray?"
Luo Qixi was completely speechless.
She is one of the most outstanding graduates in the history of the Magic Academy. How can she be called astray? On the other hand, if you go to the academy and talk nonsense like this in front of the teachers, they...well, they don't seem to be able to do anything to you.
Recalling Duanmu Huai's fighting style before, Luo Qixi shrank silently.
"As for you...you can't use Whirlwind, but it's still good to learn how to sneak as a thief."
"I'm a mage, and you want me to learn to be a thief?"
Hearing this, Luo Qixi couldn't accept it immediately.
"What does it matter? After learning stealth and silent casting, you can hide and launch a surprise attack. Isn't this better than being attacked by others stupidly?"
What Duanmu Huai said is also a technique often used by players in this world. This world is very popular with players. One of the reasons is that the magic here is very diverse. Although the attack spells are basically a little weak in power and are looked down upon by players, other spells are very useful to players.
Just like the Mage's Mansion, it is basically necessary for players to play large-scale dungeons in the later stage, because most players of large-scale dungeons in the later stage fight in the world of evil gods, and when fighting in such a place, you can't even rest well. No matter where you rest, you will be polluted by the other party.
At this time, it is very important to have a mage mansion. Although the space opened by a player is not large, it can completely isolate the influence of the outside world and allow the team to rest very comfortably.
Therefore, when players download dungeons in the later stages, they often see requests on the public screen such as "Let's play a group of 25 people with the psychic power of the mage's mansion++++".
This is why Duanmuhuai's first reaction after learning that Luo Qixi was a mage was to ask her for the mage's mansion.
After all, this thing is basically a must-have for later game play. If you don’t know it, you have to have a teammate who knows it.
Therefore, when players learn in this world, they basically have a hodgepodge of various professions. All kinds of skills, such as hidden bows and war poetry dragons, are all standard. A person like Luo Qixi who only selects mages, and they are also mages of the plasticity system, is really the kind of person that no one wants to buy, and even dogs don't care about.
Fortunately, Luo Qixi didn't know what was going on in Duanmu Huai's mind, otherwise she would have been angry to death.
Although Duanmuhuai's words were unpleasant, when Luo Qixi thought about it carefully, it was not unreasonable. After all, she was often discriminated against outside because of her own problems, and she had also experienced being hunted down. Sometimes you can use magic to solve it, but most of the time you can avoid it by relying on your small size. Luo Qixi had never thought about learning thieves' skills before, but after hearing what Duanmuhuai said...it seemed quite useful?
Do you want to study after you go back?
"Boom!!"
Just when Luo Qixi was thinking, a loud noise suddenly came. Looking up, she saw Duanmuhuai opening a door at this moment, and the cultists inside swarmed out. Then she saw those cultists were like flies. Duanmu Huai's head was smashed directly to the wall next to it, turning into a bloody mess.
"……………………"
This is definitely not a mage.
"Ah... I didn't expect that there would be outsiders."
However, at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded. Everyone raised their heads and followed the sound, and saw a devil standing in a magic circle not far away. It narrowed its eyes and stared at everyone, revealing a trace of Weird smile.
"It's the devil!"
Seeing the devil, Luo Qixi suddenly became nervous, while the devil looked at everyone and laughed.
"Hello, mortals. It seems that because of your arrival, these stupid fools can't complete the ritual. How about we make a deal?"
"trade?"
"Yes, there is a black magic book in the room inside. If you help me complete this ritual, I will also give you some small rewards..."
"They were summoning the devil, but the ritual was not completed."
At this moment, Luo Qixi also hurriedly spoke to everyone in a low voice. Although she was not a mage of the conjuration system, signing a contract with a being such as the devil was a required course for a mage. Of course, Luo Qixi knew it very well.
"Now the ritual is stuck at the last step. It was supposed to sign a contract and let the devil obey their orders. But because Mr. Duanmu killed the executor of the ritual, now the devil has no way to make a contract."
"What should we do?"
"I can try to take that magic book and banish it from this world."
"…………just do it!"
Hearing Luo Qixi's words, Emilia nodded.
"Exile this evil devil from the main plane and let it return to hell!"
"No."
However, Duanmu Huai suddenly intervened at this time.
"Can't let it go."
"Why?"
Amelia was shocked when she heard Duanmuhuai's words and looked at Duanmuhuai.
"Don't you want to make a pact with the devil?"
"Of course not...didn't you pay attention to its body?"
"Body??"
Emilia frowned in confusion, then turned to look at the devil inside carefully, only to find that there seemed to be signs of blisters and rot on its body...
"Wait, did you mean...?"
"It has been infected with the plague. We cannot let it go. If it is allowed to return to hell and the plague spreads, we don't know how many devils will be infected in the whole hell."
"But this has nothing to do with us."
Luo Qixi frowned. Being able to infect devils shows that this plague is indeed very powerful. But even if the plague spreads in Baator Hell, what does it have to do with them?
Duanmu Huai just glanced at her meaningfully.
"Don't you mages like to summon demons the most? Aren't you afraid of summoning someone who is sick?"
"hiss-----!"
Hearing this, Luo Qixi's face suddenly turned pale.
Indeed, as Duanmuhuai said, mages often summon some low-level devils as their servants. If this devil returns to Bato Hell and infects the devils in Bato Hell, then the mages will return without any trace. Unknowingly summoning a plague-infected devil back into the world...
Good guy, repeated infection is happening. With the popularity of mages in this world, it is going to bloom in full!
"What should I do?"
"It's simple, let it stay, and then...I'll kill it!"
"Why?"
Luo Qixi was shocked when she heard Duanmuhuai's decision.
"This is not a low-level devil. Are you sure?"
"Of course, let's do it."
"……………All right."
Now that Duanmuhuai has made his decision, Emilia has no objection - as a paladin, if she can kill devils and devils, she will certainly not let them escape. Luo Qixi had no choice but to go to the study room inside, find the black magic book, and put it on the altar.
“…………Swear by a blasphemous name…………”
Chanting a mantra in a low voice, Luo Qixi raised his hands and drew strange symbols in the air.
"Unlock the shackles on this body and let it be free!"
As Luo Qixi's words fell, the next moment the light beam that originally bound the devil disappeared instantly, and the devil suddenly opened its claws at this moment.
"Ah, I really didn't expect that you would actually let me go free! It's great, the free air... There is also a paladin in it... I am very grateful to you, so what kind of reward do you want?"
"Ogis!"
Duanmuhuai was too lazy to chat with the devil in front of him. The moment the restraints were lifted and the barrier disappeared, he immediately shouted loudly. Then Ogis raised her hands, and the devil felt his limbs tighten, and he was completely restrained by invisible shackles. At the same time, Duanmu Huai raised his war hammer and rushed towards the devil!
"Stupid mortal!"
However, faced with the sudden attack, the devil was not surprised.
"What you are doing is meaningless, you can't kill me at all!"
"That's right, subspace creatures are difficult to kill, but..."
While he was talking, Duanmu Huai had already arrived in front of the devil. He struck down with a hammer, directly breaking the devil's legs and putting him to the ground. Then he raised his hand and grabbed the devil's head with five fingers. It's like an iron rod inserted into the devil's head!
"But it's not absolutely invincible. Go to hell! You subspace bastard!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!"
Along with Duanmuhuai's roar, the devil let out a shrill scream, and then black flames suddenly burst out from Duanmuhuai's hand, wrapping the devil in it. Then he shook his hand vigorously, and then lifted it up!
"Pfft!!"
The next moment, the devil's head was forcibly pulled out from his neck by Duanmu Huai, and the cervical vertebrae kept shaking underneath. However, the devil's head still maintained the position of screaming in pain, and it stared in horror. Eyes, staring at Duanmuhuai.
"No, who are you? How do you have such power? I can feel that my soul is dying... No, no, no, let me go back, let me go back..."
"boom!!"
The flames burst out instantly, and after a moment, there was nothing in front of him, and the devil disappeared.
"No way……"
Looking blankly at the scene in front of her, Amelia's eyes widened. Of course she knew that Duanmu Huai could definitely defeat the devil, but she didn't expect that the other party could actually kill the devil directly!
Generally speaking, devils cannot be killed at all! Even the Paladin can only use the power of gods to expel the devil from the main plane! However, just now, Amelia did feel the panic in the devil's tone and the complete shattering of its soul!
This is simply a power like a god!
Who is he?
The Tribunal...what kind of organization is it?
"Okay, let's call it a day."
Duanmuhuai didn't care about the surprised looks of Amelia and Luo Qixi. He stood up, clapped his hands and looked around.
"Then, next..."
However, before Duanmu Huai finished speaking, something suddenly happened.
Not far from the other side of the hall, a portal suddenly opened. Everyone turned their heads and saw Deszel and Vanswijk running out of it in a hurry. The former even had a smile on his face. With a proud smile.
"Hey, hey, Aribes, you must not know who you are fighting against! Just lie on the ground and wait for death. I will..."
However, before Deszell finished speaking, he saw Duanmu Huai and others standing in front of him, and his voice suddenly became mute like a duck that had its neck strangled.
"Oh, isn't this Knight Deszel..."
Looking at Deszell in front of him, Duanmuhuai clenched his war hammer, opened his mouth, and showed a fierce and ferocious smile.
"This really comes sooner rather than later..."
(End of chapter)
