In the battle of the Misty Grand Canyon, Raven didn't make much in terms of his own interests.
After finally destroying an army each of Cyric and Bane, and even overthrowing a legendary strongman, Raven didn't get anything directly.
Since people are not killed by others, there is no experience in killing people.
Most of the corpses of the monster army were disposed of by the follow-up troops of Mulan City. Mulan City is somewhat similar to a parliamentary system. Although the city lord has great power, it is unjustifiable to send out the Wind Demonic Arrow Regiment for such a big event and return without any gains.
The dragon scales and dragon skins of the dead dragons in the White Dragon Legion were completely cleaned up by the paladins. Most of the paladins and priests of Tom Church wore heavy armor, and the leather armor made of white dragon skin was mostly used to supply those
Knights Errant. These lightly armored knights who travel throughout the continent generally serve as the eyes and ears of the Church of Thom and Tyr.
The eldest legendary paladin left a note for Raven, which was a list of the seizures.
"According to the established rules on the mainland, those who provide accurate information can get one-tenth of the loot as reward. It will take us about a week to count and clean up the loot. As long as Halken's death is confirmed, you can do it after a week
Withdraw your reward from the Church of Thom or Tyr in any major city across the continent."
How much money can he have? Raven doesn't know, but it's definitely a lot.
The same is true for Mulan City, which also promised a tenth of the loot. Halken's monster army is quite capable of fighting, but unfortunately they are all monsters with low economic value. Can sub-dragon skin be as valuable as dragon skin? Those
What good could an ogre that was so poor with only a broken weapon and a loincloth have to offer? Anyway, Raven didn't expect anything from this.
What is really more useful is the reward from Phantom Goddess.
I gained another point of murder divinity from Halken. The Phantom Goddess not only recovered 8 points of divinity, but also gained more income. She was so happy that she rewarded Raven with an extra point of phantom divinity. What’s even more funny is that Laila actually
He also tried to drag Raven into the Phantom Church and promised to give Raven a candidate status for God's chosen one.
Raven really looked down on a destitute god like Laila. As soon as she refused, Laila snorted coldly and never dumped Raven again. She just said "I don't know how to flatter" to Raven.
After all, divinity is a good thing, especially divinity that has no side effects.
The divinity of each god enhances the human body in different ways.
If it is the divinity of the God of War, it would significantly improve the basic attributes of the body such as strength, agility, and constitution. The phantom divinity... has almost no improvement in basic attributes. One point of divinity will increase a total of 1 point of perception.
Since the phantom divinity is of a trait type, its biggest function is to give Raven the ability to create and copy phantoms at will.
When he ambushed Halken before, the phantoms of the mechanical horrors were Raven's masterpiece. The closer the relationship is with him and the more thorough he understands them, the more realistic the phantoms he creates will be, and of course the more mental power will be required.
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The most important thing is that thanks to the phantom divinity, Raven finally officially has his first life-saving skill.
Of the two points of phantom divinity, Raven only used one, and he saved the other point to upgrade the Black Moon Blade. He also considered using both points of phantom divinity himself.
After some thought, I gave up.
Having a little phantom divinity can be said to be a deal. What about two points? Except for the high priest or the chosen one, I have never heard of any god being so generous.
If you really use two points of phantom divinity, it will be like mud falling off your crotch, and you can't explain it clearly. The name Raven will definitely be labeled as a phantom goddess by outsiders.
After dealing with the Misty Grand Canyon, it’s time to deal with Halken.
The third day of the battle in the Misty Canyon, Mosha Empire.
Duke Darthniel was very bad. He was going crazy. For 48 consecutive hours, he drank like crazy and enjoyed his lovers like crazy.
He could not imagine how violent Bane's anger would be. He only knew that after losing most of the White Dragon Knights, Bane would never let him go easily.
If before this important battle, Duke Darthniel had not risked his life and informed Bane before the sacrifice, he would offer a Cyric priest as a sacrifice, maybe he could be a paladin alone on tonight's holy day.
Horned beasts, children or celestial creatures are Bane's favorite sacrifices to soothe Bane's previous anger.
However, everything is over.
Duke Darthniel really didn't know why he was so excited that he chose to inform this god of tyranny in advance.
Morn's head was completely useless.
What Bane likes is the living Priest Cyric, who still has a soul. In this way, Bane can more powerfully demonstrate his strength and brutality.
Now, it's all over! Bane is completely intolerant of any failure and will not hesitate to throw loyal but failed servants into terrible and harsh punishment to ensure that others will continue to fully comply with his demanding obedience.
dogma.
The Duke could imagine that the scene of himself being tortured to death would be transmitted to the mind of every Bann believer through divine revelation.
At this moment, the Duke's wife and children are being imprisoned in the secret room downstairs by someone he sent. Tonight, before Ben's holy day ceremony begins at midnight, he will execute them first. At least if the Duke does it himself, they can have
A decent death, at least their souls would not fall into Bane's hands and suffer near-eternal torture.
This ending makes me shudder just thinking about it.
But the Duke had no choice.
I took a big sip of wine, but the delicious and mellow wine in the past was now so bitter no matter how I drank it.
"Your Majesty the Duke... Your Majesty the Duke..."
The drunken-eyed Duke suddenly realized that the person calling him was his ultimate loyal guard. He had no doubt that if he died, this guard would definitely follow him to hell.
"Bastard! Didn't I tell no one to disturb me?" A wine glass smashed open the gauze curtain of the big bed and threw it on the guard's head.
Although he was doused, the guard showed no resentment. Instead, there was undisguised surprise in his eyes: "The man who calls himself Dark Crow is here. He said that Halken is in his hands and is alive. He hopes to talk to the Duke.
My lord, you make a deal."
The Duke's eyes instantly shone brighter than tens of billions of stars. He knocked away the limbs of his lovers and jumped out of bed.
"Quick! Invite him to the living room quickly. Oh, yes, let my wife and daughter wait in the side hall. And my treasures, move them to the side hall."
Suddenly hearing that the savior had arrived, the Duke seemed to have suddenly found his final salvation in the abyss of despair. Without any hesitation, the Duke was ready to risk everything he had.
A few minutes later, the Duke, who was hurriedly dressing up, saw Raven wrapped in a black robe in the magnificent living room. No, to be precise, it was Raven's newly obtained phantom clone.
Neither the Duke nor the most powerful bodyguard standing beside him minded this.
"I heard that the 'Black Will' Halken is in your hands? Is he still alive? Didn't he take away his soul?" Without even sitting down, the Duke hurriedly stepped forward. If it wasn't too rude, the Duke wouldn't mind directly touching him with his hand.
He followed Raven's phantom clone and asked him everything he wanted to know.
"A crippled high priest of Cyric cannot please the Black King, I know this very well." Raven's clone replied with a smile.
"Okay! What do you want?" The Duke strode to the living room and pushed open the door leading to the side hall, revealing the shocked wives and daughters behind the door as well as boxes of rare treasures guarded by guards.
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"As long as you give Halken to me, these are all yours. No, as long as I have everything, I can give it to you. Reputation, status, women, land... Even if I don't have it now, I am willing to start a war for you.
!" Duke Darthniel was obviously crazy. His eyes were red, and bloodshot threads thicker than spider webs were spread all over the eyeballs.
The Duke's wife and daughter, who suddenly faced Raven's phantom clone, were frightened at first. Under the Duke's powerful suppression, they all realized that the mysterious black-robed man in front of them was very, very important to the Duke. Even important enough for the Duke to sacrifice everything.
In the past two days, the duchess and the rich ladies have had enough of the inexplicable fear, and they have more or less heard about their fate.
Facing the fearful future, they decisively chose to surrender to their fate. Without any greeting from the Duke, they walked directly to Raven and knelt down.
The plumpness of the white flowers almost blinded someone's eyes.
It's a pity that he is just a phantom clone with a small fragment of Raven's soul. The phantom clone can't do anything except exchange information with the main body. If the main body is there, maybe he really can't control it and shamefully surrenders...
"My Lord Duke, you are out of touch with what you say. I am willing to offer Halken unconditionally, as long as I hope to gain your friendship, Duke."
Duke Darthniel never believed in free lunches or anything like that. He said "from today on you are my best friend" and other useless answers while waiting for Raven's price.
"Since we are good friends now, I hope the Duke can agree to my small request."
"Just say it."
"I hope to get that 'ultimate ice protection'."
Even though the Duke is prepared to do whatever it takes, it feels a little painful to hear it. The 'Ultimate Ice Guard' is a full-body leather armor made of ancient dragon-level white dragon skin. Just such a piece of leather armor can
Exchange it for a real dukedom in any empire on the continent.
Duke Darthniel also obtained this thing through the reward from Ben.
But since you have to pay for your life, you have to give it up even if you don't want to give it up. The Duke immediately ordered the guards to bring the 'Ultimate Ice Guard' to Raven. He didn't even express concern that Raven would not give the goods after taking it.
By the way, Raven reluctantly agreed to accept 1,000 god gold coins after delivery.
"Finally, I have a small request. I have some friends that the Black King doesn't want to see. They want to witness Halken's end. I wonder if we can make arrangements?"
The Duke readily agreed.
It was midnight, and there were bright lights on an open-air obsidian altar.
Halken, who was already hopeless, finally began to struggle fiercely when the black scarf that was blindfolded was taken away and he saw the unique altar of Benn.
Duke Dasniel smiled ferociously: "Asshole! Do you know how much I paid for you. But it's all worth it."
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Thanks to book friend Silver Horn Demon for the reward.