Thick dark clouds blocked the moonlight, making the earth dark. From time to time, a bolt of lightning would light up among the twisted clouds. Only at this time would the earth be illuminated for a moment.
The cold wind carrying a putrid and fishy smell was howling, rolling through the rugged mountains and canyons. Deep in the valley, there was a dilapidated town. It was deserted, and the broken windows and broken eaves were blown by the fishy wind.
The crunching sound was one of the few sounds in this dead town.
A group of carrion crows were hovering over the town. Their dark feathers were shiny and moist, and they looked like they had a good meal.
There are several big trees in the town that have long since withered, and there are several shrunken bodies hanging on the bare branches. They are human corpses that have long been dried. These corpses are just swaying with the air flow.
, looking at the town below him with his sunken eyes. Most of the buildings in the town have collapsed. There are still traces of scorching on the building materials. Some broken swords were thrown away in a mess in the town.
Everywhere, looking at the black color, I don’t know whether it is the blood of their former owner or the blood of the enemy...
Here is an abandoned town in the human world of Sanctuary. There are countless towns like this in the Sanctuary. The territories that the pioneers spent decades building often collapse only in one place.
moment.
However, in this supposedly silent town, there was something slightly different today. From a collapsed church in the center of the town, dim lights could be heard faintly, and the putrid wind was accompanied by a faint gust of light.
There was no strange sound, as if it was haunted.
Late at night, about two kilometers away from the town, several war horses appeared. On the backs of these horses were several people who had covered themselves tightly. This group of people came on horseback and were approaching.
When we got to the towns, we gradually slowed down.
The leader jumped off the horse, stood on the ground, and opened the hood of his cloak. He was a burly and rugged man with a body like an iron tower and a face full of scars. His wild blond hair was tied up.
The hair is combed on the top of the head, and two heavy axes are slung across the back of the waist.
After he dismounted, the other knights also landed and stood together with the big man, looking cautiously at the dead town ahead.
"Kyle, is this here?" A relatively petite figure made a questioning voice, which sounded like a woman. She asked: "Are those remnants of Zakarum really hiding in this town?"
"The information should be fine, there are not many opponents!" The big man named Kyle said solemnly: "But there is no information about what these remnants of the Zakarum Church are hiding here, so we can only rely on ourselves to find out.
Exploring.”
"Then what are you waiting for?" Another man's voice came. It was a tall and thin figure. He took out a crossbow, held it in his hand, unstrung it, and said: "Kill all those guys.
, can’t you understand if you leave one alive and ask?”
"Let's go, in the name of the Horadrim!" The petite woman also took out a staff that was almost as tall as her. With her voice, the crystal on the top of the staff also flashed a fiery red light.
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A group of people headed towards the town. Thunder flashed in the sky, illuminating their path. The ghostly town looked so weird in this light, but they were fearless.
Because they are professional demon hunters from the Horadrim Church, "classes" with powerful power!
After entering the town, after some exploration, this group of demon hunters also discovered a strange light in the center of the town. However, just as they were about to enter the church, they were attacked by a large number of monsters.
These monsters seemed to have come out of the church. Each of them looked ferocious and launched a suicidal attack on the demon hunters without fear of death. At the beginning, the demon hunters were still patient and formed a formation to resist.
The demon hunters attacked, but after a while, the demon hunters realized that something was wrong.
The monsters are not powerful, but there are so many of them that it is as if a door to hell has been opened in the church, allowing these monsters to appear continuously.
"They are delaying our time. Something must be happening in the church!" the petite female mage said.
Everyone agreed with her guess, so the next second, the big man named Kyle roared angrily, holding two axes and turned into a whirlwind, killing towards the front. The monsters that rushed towards him were swung by his two axes.
Instantly turned into pieces of flesh and blood, under the path of the meat grinder, the other demon hunters quickly followed. After rushing to the church, the female mage held the staff with both hands, and the light of magic lit up on her body, and then
A meteor burning with blazing flames appeared in mid-air and hit the dome of the church straight.
There was a loud bang, and the roof of the church, which had already collapsed, was completely lifted off, exposing the interior.
However, the strange thing is that after smashing open the roof of the church, the demon hunters did not find anything unusual inside. Only a door to hell shining with blood-red light was slowly closing.
"Is it over?" Looking at the hell portal that was closing, the demon hunters were a little confused and felt that it would be too easy to solve it.
Not quite... right! Where are the remnants of the Zakarum Church in the intelligence? Why are they not seen?
"Look for it! There might be some mechanism here!" The big man holding a pair of axes shook off the broken limbs hanging on his body and took the first step.
A group of demon hunters searched everywhere in the church. After their careful search, they finally found something!
It was a secret door close to the back of the bookcase. When the demon hunters found the mechanism and twisted it, the secret door opened with a clicking sound, revealing a narrow passage inside that could only accommodate one person.
, and looking at the direction of the passage, it seems to lead to the underground of the church.
Taking out their torches, the demon hunters were vigilant and began to enter the passage one after another. They had already seen that the gate to hell outside might be just a warning method. The remnants of the Zakarum Church should be hiding underground.
In space, if they don't hurry up, they might escape.
The stairs going down were unexpectedly long. After walking for nearly 20 minutes, I could faintly see the light in front of me, and I didn't know how deep into the ground it was.
At the exit, the demon hunters carefully leaned out to observe, but what they saw was a huge underground hall, with torches burning all around, illuminating the strange blood-red demonic writing on the wall. In the middle of the hall,
A giant six-pointed star is etched into the ground.
At the tip of each six-pointed star, there are dozens of believers wearing the clothes of the Zakarum Church lying at the moment. These believers have fallen into a pool of blood, but look at the enthusiasm that still remains in their eyes and the grip on their hands.
With their hands on the hilt of the knife on their abdomen, it is obvious that they committed suicide.
The blood of these believers is now flowing along the grooves of the etched six-pointed star, gradually perfecting the pattern.
"Self-sacrifice??" The demon hunters were startled, and then they immediately reacted and looked at the position in the magic array.
There, a Zakarum cultist wearing a priest's robe was chanting incantations quickly, once in demonic language, and again in human language, repeating it endlessly. As he chanted, within the six-pointed star magic circle
The flowing blood also began to glow with an ominous blood-red light!
"Quick! Stop him!"
Kyle shouted, and immediately rushed towards the magic circle with his two axes in hand. The other demon hunters cooperated with him tacitly and followed suit.
The demon-hunting arrows with scarlet light were the first to be shot at the priest who presided over the magic circle. However, as soon as these arrows entered the range of the magic circle, they immediately lost power and fell down, a huge red arrow.
A mask of light appeared, enveloping the entire magic circle.
The charging Kyle was also blocked by the light shield. He hit the light shield with his head and slashed at the light shield angrily in pain. The rest of the demon hunters also assisted, trying to break the light shield.
The priest who was chanting seemed to understand that he couldn't stop these demon hunters for long, so he chanted faster again.
"Damn it! He wants to summon demons!" The big man Kyle roared: "These guys don't want to resurrect their master Mephisto, do they?"
"Impossible. Although Mephisto is sealed, how can it be so easy to resurrect him?" The female mage replied in her busy schedule: "Don't think so much, it's true to stop him quickly!"
So a group of people stepped up their attack again.
But at this moment, the priest's singing voice suddenly stopped, and the blood-red light shield covering the magic circle suddenly disappeared at the same time, almost causing Kyle, who was at the front, to crash into the magic circle.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough, stopped in time, and stood at the edge of the magic circle.
The emergence of this abnormality shocked the demon hunters, thinking that the priest's ritual was completed and a powerful demon was about to emerge. However, they later saw the priest in the formation suddenly let out a horrific roar.
The skin and flesh on his face quickly withered, and his entire body shrank in size. It was as if all his energy and energy had been sucked away in that moment, and he instantly became a decrepit man.
A trace of dark soul light swarmed out from his eye sockets, mouth and nose, seeped into the magic circle and disappeared. When the soul light disappeared, the priest collapsed to the ground with a snap.
"Is this...backlash!? His ritual failed!?"
The demon hunters quickly reacted and looked at the magic circle with uncertainty as the light gradually dissipated.
Kyle was startled and couldn't care less. He rushed forward to the priest, squatted down and grabbed his collar. While he was dying, he asked: "What did you do?"
!?Who do you want to summon?”
The priest did not answer him. His face was as haggard as a mummy. He just opened his mouth with difficulty and said in a hoarse voice: "Not enough, the sacrifice... is not enough... My lord, we cannot... complete what you have asked us to do."
…”
After saying this, the priest died completely.
Kyle heard some scattered words and couldn't figure out what was going on, but he understood what the priest meant by "my lord". That was Mephisto, the King of Hatred.
What was Mephisto's order? What exactly was it?
"Damn it!" Kyle thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out, and punched the ground angrily.
"It seems... we have to report this matter!" The female mage sighed: "I hope... Tyrell can give us guidance..."
