Chapter 344 The Lord of Nightmares

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Holy Fire Sacrifice Site.

Archbishop Horus looked worriedly at the king sitting quietly in front of the holy fire, and murmured: "Isn't it over yet? The battle in the spiritual world..."

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What Rhodes never expected was that the Soul Church in the Royal City refused to conduct a "full set of soul and body in-depth examinations" on him because the sewers were clogged.

According to the spiritual master in the church, the project will produce a large amount of highly polluted sewage and is not allowed to be carried out during the period of sewer blockage.

Is this okay?

I have become a high-level combatant, why can't I escape the fate of cleaning the sewers?

Rhodes was extremely depressed, but he had no other choice.

Anyway, cleaning the sewers also has a bit of soul, so it can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

snort!

Sewer, your king is back!

Rhodes found a sewer shaft and jumped in vertically.

What he is now is completely different from what he was back then.

At that time, he was only at the second level of spiritual power, and had only ignited a few stars. His output relied entirely on his spiritual spear, and all his killing of enemies relied on his right hand. The super-high spiritual vision brought by the eyes of the soul and his incomparable familiarity with the complex sewer routes were his greatest abilities. reliance.

Now, he has reached the ninth level of psychic power and has officially entered the ranks of high-level combatants. All seven stars are in full state, half of the stars are being "quantified", and the quantification of the core stars has been completed, and there are countless various means and items.

The map of the entire sewer is still firmly imprinted in his mind, and it has even become clearer by revisiting the old place, and the eyes of the soul have become more powerful because of the ninth-level spiritual power.

Along the way, Rhodes just wanted to walk in the sewer.

The strong oath armor completely ignores the attacks of any monsters in the sewers, and does not even need to open its psychic defense.

The Bone Boots allowed him to walk as fast as flying, and the Executor's Gloves greatly accelerated the speed of his star shuttle.

The Deep Sea Diver's trident makes his star shuttle even more powerful. The star shuttle that can be shot out in one second is as powerful as the thunder stone that took dozens of seconds to throw.

Rhodes flicked his fingers together, and the rapidly condensing star shuttle hit the sewer like a storm.

The monsters in the sewers encountered the greatest disaster in history. Rhodes swept through the entire sewers like a humanoid self-propelled cannon, blowing up all the monsters lurking in the filth.

The plague rats and rotten shrimps who were once respected as the "King of the Sewers" by the guards abdicated in an instant and were killed on the spot in the wild bombing. His Majesty Rhodes has arrived in his loyal sewer today.

Damn it, so unlucky.

Rhodes thought angrily.

Blast you maggots to death.

The cleanup work went extremely smoothly, but what made him unhappy was that the current Dark Devourer could no longer plunder the souls of low-level monsters, and Rhodes could only receive a certain amount of soulless souls.

It only took half a day for Rhodes to clean the sewers of the entire royal city, and most of the time was spent on the road.

How to complete the complex and complicated route of the sewer with the highest efficiency is Rhodes' unique skill.

There is no one like him in the entire human kingdom of Trorian.

Even if the king comes in person, it will not work.

A total of more than 500,000 souls were harvested during this trip, which is barely enough for Rhodes today.

And a big bag of monster ashes.

Rhodes didn't bother to count and threw it directly to the Royal City Defense Department.

The latter did not care at all that these were the ashes of the sewer monster and went straight to making soup.

——Ashes soup is very effective in the growth of middle-level combatants. The active power contained in it can accelerate the growth of their lives and souls.

This is also where Rhodes is very fortunate. He has jumped directly past this stage and avoided the tragedy of eating rice with ashes every day.

Rhodes' supernatural efficiency shocked the entire Royal City Army War Department.

All the defense chiefs, commanders, and captains on duty were alerted. They gathered one after another to look at Rhodes' battle report and marvel at the miracle he had created.

Although most people have long heard about Rhodes' amazing deeds in the sewers, such legends gradually faded away after Rhodes left the Royal City and went to Fanxing Town.

Later, except for those who experienced it personally, few people believed it.

But this time Rhodes returned as the king and returned to the sewers. In an instant, his legendary golden body was immortalized and never faded.

Faced with such a miracle, the Royal City Soul Church could no longer make excuses and could only invite Rhodes in.

Rhodes stepped into this famous Soul Church for the first time.

It is located in the upper part of the Royal City. It is an extremely magnificent and huge church. Its appearance is dark and soul-like, with a Gothic architectural style. It is tall, thin, pointed, with many windows and stained glass.

But the interior of the building is majestic and spacious. Huge pools made of soul crystals can be seen everywhere. Countless warriors clean the pollution in their souls here and purify the erosion of the black mist.

Standing on the towering altar are soul masters. They preside over the purification ceremony, and the huge soul power echoes in the church.

The person who conducted a full set of examinations for Rhodes was a soul master named Priscilla.

She once taught Rhodes a lesson. Her appearance showed no age, but she was very beautiful and had a quiet and distant feeling.

"Relax."

She said softly, and her slender and cold fingers traced Rhode's chest, like a stream of ice water flowing down.

"Don't be confrontational mentally. Imagine that I am the closest person to you. We are doing the most intimate things. We are integrated into each other and enter each other's bodies..."

Rhodes tried not to think too hard.

But her words were so confusing that Rhodes thought about indescribable places.

Priscilla frowned slightly. Her face was delicate and her eyebrows were like willow leaves. When she frowned, she had an unusually fragile feeling, which made people feel distressed.

"You're still resisting me."

"Uh... I didn't have to do this for my previous examinations. They just used a few crystals to look at me and that was it."

"That won't work."

Priscilla said firmly: "What you are doing is not a simple examination, but a complete set. I need to see every fold and every corner of your soul to make sure that you are not corroded by the black mist and that there is no pollution in your soul. Corruption, curse, traces of darkness."

Rhodes became slightly nervous.

Wouldn't she be able to detect the dreams in my soul?

Although there has been no such sign so far, according to what she said, it does not seem to be an in-depth examination.

"Master...my soul is very pure..."

"no."

Priscilla firmly rejected Rod's excuse.

"A lot of pollution is very hidden, especially monsters that exceed a certain strength. The blackening backlash caused by killing them is very powerful. Therefore, we have always disapproved of low-level combatants crossing levels to kill monsters. This may cause a lot of trouble."

She paused and said seriously.

"Queen Fra the Soul Devouring Insect cannot be killed by your level. You must undergo a complete inspection."

"But, I don't know how to relax..." Rhodes looked at her with innocent eyes.

A flash of light flashed in Priscilla's eyes, and she calmly took out a photo crystal from her arms: "Then look at this."

"what is this?"

Rhodes held the image crystal and input psychic energy.

"Fuck!"

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Priscilla's white onion-like fingers pressed on Rhodes' chest, and her spirit entered his soul smoothly.

Crash.

Crash.

The sound of water flowing repeatedly echoed in his ears. When Rhodes came to his senses, the inspection was over.

"Your soul is very pure."

Priscilla said lightly.

"Without any erosion, pollution, curse, corruption, or darkness, you possess a miraculous purification ability. It is said that this is the function of your fire black rice bucket."

Rhodes was stunned for a long time before he noticed Priscilla's crystal eyes looking at him.

"Uh, uh, yes, that's the ability of a black rice penny. As a rice penny, it's normal to eat some dirty black stuff."

Rhode's eyes met hers, and he moved away like an electric shock.

But Priscilla looked calm and said calmly: "Its purification is beyond imagination. No fire or soul characteristics can compare with it. I will report this to the Big Library and they will change your records. Next time something similar happens, you don’t need to check.”

"Uh, okay."

Priscilla turned and left. She was petite and her long robe was trailing on the ground, making her look like a little adult.

Rhodes was stunned for a while before he realized that the photo crystal in his hand had been taken away at some point.

Two burly followers dragged him out of the Church of Souls without any surprise.

With a bang, the door closed behind him.

It was only then that Rhodes realized that he had passed the test.

Looking back, I saw the side hall of the Soul Church behind me. There was an endless flow of people at the entrance to the main hall in the distance. A long queue formed in front of the main entrance. From time to time, fire bearers flew over quickly carrying stretchers and broke into the church.

Those were soldiers who were seriously contaminated and needed to be purified immediately.

The tense atmosphere infected Rhodes, making him clearly aware of what kind of battle mankind was fighting.

It has been around since ancient times and has never stopped for a moment. Human beings have no chance of winning, but they never give up.

Faintly, he heard the cheers in the church. These were the soldiers who had successfully rescued him.

But among the cheers, there were faint sounds of crying.

It goes on and on, like a soul-stirring tune.

Rhodes felt slightly sad.

I don’t know when we can truly live a peaceful and happy life.

It would be great if Project Holy Fire could succeed.

he thinks.

Hope everything goes well.

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Temple of Fire.

After receiving the news from Rhodes, Dalin couldn't help but sigh: "As expected of you, Rhodes, there is no one more special than you in our new generation."

The messenger asked: "Your Excellency Dalin, what should we do?"

Dalin said with a smile: "Keep your promise and put him back into the frontline battle sequence."

"However, according to the prophecy of the White Tower, he is now in great danger and is not suitable to leave our sight. We do not have more high-level combatants to ensure his safety..."

Dalin pointed at the map: "Well, the level of danger here is relatively high, and there are many first-class threats."

The envoy was confused for a few seconds, and then suddenly realized: "He is a third-level combatant. According to convention, entering this area requires the king's blessing."

Dalin said with a smile: "Yes, let's do it like this, you go ahead."

The messenger bowed and left convinced.

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Rhodes was very happy.

Lord Dalin is indeed a man who keeps his promises. Not long after he completed the inspection, two envoys came to him, explained the situation to him, and asked him to go to the Holy Fire Sacrifice to seek the king's blessing.

"The King's Blessing" is a blessing given by the King with the power of the Holy Fire, which can comprehensively enhance the power of the recipient, and has a certain nature of the Holy Fire, which can suppress monsters to a certain extent.

When dealing with threats of the first category or above, combatants usually go to the Holy Fire Sacrifice to obtain the king's blessing, especially those with a lower combat level.

And the area that Rhodes is going to support happens to have many Type 1 threats.

In fact, such blessings are not uncommon. In addition to the king's blessing, the warriors in the palace also received the "Trorian blessing."

This is the blessing left by the original human hero of the Dark Age. The flame symbols on the collars of the palace warriors, as well as their ancillary abilities, are all from his blessing.

Rod happily went to receive the blessing.

The book of knowledge was almost overturned in my mind, and the little soul I gained from cleaning the sewers was used up in the blink of an eye.

Without a soul to repair the dream's protection, it was very anxious and kept talking about how terrible the invasion of high-level nightmares was. If the dream's protection was not strong, the nightmare could directly erode the dream and destroy everything.

Rhodes sacrificed all the souls on the altar, but it was not enough to fill the hole. He was reluctant to sacrifice the only remaining insect queen's soul.

The Book of Knowledge was very dissatisfied. Rhodes could no longer stand its nagging. He was also very worried about the upcoming invasion and was eager to get back into a new battle.

However, when he came to the holy fire sacrificial site located in the center of the upper city, the fire priest guarding the sacrificial site did not allow him to enter.

Rhodes tried his best to no avail. Fortunately, he still had the identity of the captain of the King's Hand, so he issued a pass for himself and managed to sneak in.

But as soon as he entered, he ran into Archbishop Horus.

He said directly: "Rod, the king cannot give you his blessing for the time being."

Rhode's face suddenly fell: "Why?"

Horus said solemnly: "The king's spirit is fighting in the spiritual world."

It was the first time Rhodes heard such a thing and he was surprised: "Spiritual world? The king fights in the spiritual world?"

"It is the spirit of the king."

Horus corrected.

"Human beings cannot exist in the spirit world for too long. The only way to enter the spirit world for a long time is to enter with spirit."

Spirit is the aggregate of spirit, the essence of thinking and will.

But the spirit that leaves the body and is separated from the protection of the soul body is very fragile.

The king can actually take the initiative to escape from the spirit and enter the spirit world to fight?

Rhodes looked around and saw the king sitting on the throne in front of the huge holy fire.

Since spiritual vision could not be used in the Holy Fire Sacrifice, he could not judge the king's state, but he could find that there was a layer of soul power surrounding his body.

The king lowered his head, as if sleeping.

"Why does the king use this method to fight in the spirit world?"

The fighting power of a single spirit is very weak. If Rhodes flew out alone, he might not even be able to defeat a sewer monster.

Wang's behavior can be said to be extremely risky.

"There's no way around it."

"The enemy is Latotip, the Lord of Nightmares in the spiritual world. It is very powerful and extremely polluting. It must be stopped in the spiritual world, otherwise the holy fire will be seriously disturbed."

Horus's voice was heavy.

"The king's battle situation is unfavorable. We may have to wait until the Sons of Fire finish the battle and come back to help."

"During this period, the king cannot bless anyone."

Rhodes' heart sank. Before he could speak, the Book of Knowledge suddenly shouted in his mind.

"Divinity! There is divinity!"