Throne of Magical Arcana

When approaching the Valley of Death, both Lucien and Natasha couldn't believe their eyes. The valley in the darkness did not have the gloomy and gloomy descriptions and rumors. It was filled with gray mist, and there were no mournful ghosts crying. The shouting, on the contrary, reveals an indescribable calm, which makes people unable to bear to disturb the deepest and deepest sleep. Moreover, looking far away, one can still vaguely see the soft and holy light emitting from the valley.

"Is this the Valley of Death?" Natasha looked back at the cold and terrifying forest to confirm that the two of them had gone to the right place.

And in that forest, frightening cries sounded from time to time, and the dead servants of the demigod lich were still searching for the whereabouts of Lucien and Natasha.

Lucien shook his head: "This is the Valley of Death. El seems really weird. I'll sneak in with my peeping eyes to investigate first, and I can't go in rashly."

After finishing speaking, Lucien took off the "Ring of Congus" first, and blessed Natasha and himself with many defensive and vigilant spells, then took out the crystal ball, rubbed it a few times, and let it spit out a thumb Large and small black meat balls, covered with deep folds.

The lump of flesh opened suddenly, revealing pale eyes covered with black lines, then split into nine, merged into the darkness, and headed towards the valley of death.

Lucien followed with Natasha, and hid in a cliff depression not far from Death Valley. This world severely suppresses mental power, and even the detection magic like "Peeping Eye" is far away. shortened a lot.

The abnormal darkness in the crystal ball disappeared, revealing what the peeping eyes saw, they were sneaking into the valley of death from different angles.

"That's it?" Natasha pointed to a certain part of the crystal ball, where a two-meter-tall ghoul-like creature was cautiously entering the valley of death, without paying attention to the peeping eyes behind it. "Congus's servant of the dead?"

"It should be, according to the time, they should have finished searching the forest, and Congus is still in the main material world, so he can't command them remotely, er, it's the soul prisoner." Lucien frowned slightly .

Natasha didn't know as much about various monsters as Lucien did, so she asked curiously, "Soul Prisoner? It sounds very powerful."

"Well, it's a weird and powerful undead creature. Don't be fooled by its ghoul-like appearance. Look at what's under the rotten flesh of its abdomen." Lucien happily explained, Remind Natasha not to be negligent with this undead creature in the future.

In order to see clearly, Natasha leaned against Lucien without any hesitation, her breathing was audible, which made him blush and feel uncomfortable.

"There are three tiny but clear faces on the ribs of its abdomen, and the expressions are full of pain." As the peeping eyes changed direction, Natasha finally saw the front of the soul prisoner.

Lucien pointed at the Soul Prisoner's abdomen solemnly: "This is the soul of the creature killed by it. Being able to imprison three means that it is a mutated Soul Prisoner, which is equivalent to a high-level one. These souls will bring it With enough energy to use spell-like abilities, it can be regarded as a warlock of the same level, who is good at necromancy and illusion. When attacking it with magic, the magic effect and some types of damage will be transferred to these three souls. Before these three souls are destroyed, the Soul Prisoner remains unaffected and is in a state of incapacitating the opponent's spells."

"Of course, direct use of physical attack-type magic can achieve very good results at this time. For knights, the main thing is not to confuse it with ghouls, and be harmed by its magic-like spells."

Dimples appeared on Natasha's cheeks: "It's really weird, let the peeping eye follow it and see what changes it will trigger in Death Valley."

Even if she didn't say it, Lucien would still do it, and had already made one of the peeping eyes quietly follow behind the soul prisoner.

In the valley of death, countless vines are densely packed, blocking the starlight, making it dark and dead.

As the soul prisoner and the peeping eye gradually deepened, the darkness became thicker and thicker, and there were fewer and fewer things that could be seen on the crystal ball. Finally, the nine scenes became pitch black, as if trapped in a world created by extraordinary power. In unusual darkness.

Lucien tried to drive the Peeping Eyes, but the command was ignored, and there was no response. The nine Peeping Eyes seemed to have completely merged into the darkness.

Suddenly, a soft ray of light lit up on the crystal ball, and the Soul Prisoner's figure emerged. It was fighting an angel with a pair of wings on its back, and in front of it was the morning-like bright realm.

At this time, Lucien discovered that six of the nine peeping eyes had disappeared, and except for the one following the Soul Prisoner, only two had passed through the darkness ahead.

"Angel? Where is this?" Natasha said in amazement during the telepathic connection.

Lucien quickly controlled the other two to change direction, bypassing the battle, and went deeper inside.

The Soul Prisoner is powerful, and it didn't take long to kill the "angel". He wanted to go deep, but was surrounded by more and more angels, and there were even many four-winged angels of strength and power. But this made it easier for Lucien's peeping eyes to sneak in.

The scene seen by the peeping magic eye gradually became clear, and Natasha's pale red lips opened uncontrollably, trembling slightly.

This is a beach gently caressed by the waves, and there are white souls on the beach. They are using harps and other instruments to play ethereal and beautiful chant, and send out pious and grand prayers:

"Praise the supreme Lord, praise the omniscient and omnipotent God of salvation..."

The entire beach is surrounded by holy light, as if you are in a group of light, and far away from the beach is a city with twelve gates, its length, width and height are the same, decorated with various kinds of gates such as agate and jasper. On top of this city, there seem to be six floors of similar gods, four of which can vaguely see similar joyful scenes.

The top two floors cannot be seen clearly with the ability to spy on the magic eye, but both Lucien and Natasha can guess.

"Profanity, this is the greatest blasphemy! Who is imitating Mount Paradise!" Natasha didn't pay attention to the content of the scriptures and theological knowledge, so she could be subtly influenced by Lucien and get along "friendly" with him, but this naked However, her imitation behavior stimulated her pious belief, and she felt that the creator was full of infinite malice.

"You are one, you are also ten thousand, you are an instant, and you are eternal..."

The sound of chant and prayer came through the crystal ball, Lucien frowned slightly, and even copied the prayers and various rituals in the "Holy Code" of the God of Truth? What is Francis trying to do? He really wanted El to be a "high imitation version of the God of Truth"?

I have to say, it's really creative... Lucien secretly admired, but turned around to see Natasha's hands trembling slightly with anger, but since Lucien was still in danger, the most important thing right now was to deal with half The god lich did not indulge himself to act according to his preferences, but forcibly suppressed his emotions.

Lucien was a little moved and couldn't help stretching out his left hand, holding Natasha's left hand that wasn't holding a sword, and gently exerting force to give her warmth and comfort.

Natasha's left hand twitched subconsciously, but soon understood what Lucien meant, her eyes softened, she nodded lightly, indicating that she was fine, and waited until the trembling in her hands slowly disappeared, she exerted a little force and twitched. Back to the left hand.

Outside of dancing and fleeing, it was the first time Natasha and Lucien held hands like this, and there was a short silence between each other's thoughts.

At this moment, a white-robed man with six pairs of illusory wings growing from his back appeared above the group of angels, he slashed down with a sword, transformed into a black hydra, and firmly suppressed the soul prisoner. Kill this high-level undead creature.

"Francis, is that him?" Natasha knew that Francis followed El, but she never thought that he had become a fake Seraphim.

Lucien quickly put aside his relationship: "I once transformed into El's church in order to obtain information, and met Francis, who is proficient in theology and has been guiding El according to the direction of the God of Truth. This fake mountain of heaven It must have been his instigation."

As for my desire to study the "growth and changes of the God of Truth" at close range, I must not let Natasha know about it!

"It's him! Isn't he the night watchman? How could he do such a profane act!" Natasha tried hard to restrain her shock.

Lucien was also surprised: "Is he a night watchman?"

Being chased before was so tense and depressed that Lucien forgot to ask Natasha why he cooperated with Francis, but he turned out to be the night watchman of the Southern Church? He is more like a blasphemer than himself, the nineteenth "Fallen Angel" in the purification sequence!

Natasha nodded earnestly and dignifiedly: "I didn't know he was the night watchman at first, neither did Daniel the Purifying Fire and Cardinal Masada, but when Francis talked with them alone, it seemed Take out some tokens, gain their trust, and then tell me that Francis is the twelfth 'Thinker' among the Night Watchmen, this mysterious Night Watchman who only has a code name."

"It is said that he was sent to the Northern Church's execution agency as a spy, and because of this, he was on the purification sequence. He is also a mysterious person whose information is not released to the public."

"Could it be that he really defected to the Northern Church? No, the Northern Church will not tolerate such blasphemy. Could it be that he has another identity?" Lucien seemed to smell a double agent.

Natasha shook her head: "No matter what, no matter what purpose he has, such blasphemy must be judged. When we are really out of danger, or you decide to do something to El, I will kill him with my own hands."

So serious, Lucien quietly wiped off his cold sweat, and then suddenly found Natasha looking at him with a half-smile: "You once infiltrated the Church of El, you should be responsible for this blasphemy, right? "

Just as Lucien was about to deny it, Natasha said seriously, "Don't lie to me."

After thinking about it, Lucien honestly stated the role he played, the "efforts" he made, and his desire to study the mysteries of the gods: "...to me, there is no malice, it is entirely for the sake of Study the reality of the world."

"I know you've been trying to influence me." Natasha sighed suddenly, "Probably because my attitude towards the Lord has been influenced by my mother and Granny Hathaway. I don't care, the Lord is closer to the cornerstone of chivalry in my heart, so I can accept your arcane achievements. Perhaps, in the future, I will completely let the Lord know in front of the results of your research and the undeniable facts. Become a spiritual symbol, but at least not now, I have my own bottom line, I hope you can respect me, hey, it doesn’t matter what you do in private, don’t let me see.”

Lucien nodded very seriously and promised: "Okay."

After the communication, both of them seemed to let go of some burdens, and continued to look at the "Paradise Mountain" in Death Valley.

Suddenly, the black, white and ash on Lucien's left hand spread out, freezing him again.

Under the influence of Aitna letting go of the control earlier, the frequency of fragments getting out of control seemed to become higher again.

Natasha swung "Pale Justice" solemnly and slashed at Lucien. After three consecutive sword strikes, the monotonous color was shattered and recycled, and without Lucien's control, the peeping eyes were completely swallowed by the holy light.

"Let's evacuate first." Lucien suggested, "I haven't figured out El's weirdness yet, and God's Domain is his home field, so we can't do it rashly, at least we have to lure him out."

Since using the magic on the "Ring of Congus" works on the outside world, Lucien was worried that it would lose the cover of Yinyue Aitna, and arouse the vigilance of the demigod Lich in advance, guessing that he could use the ring, So I plan to "capture" El by other magic.

As soon as the words fell, a figure flew out of the Death Valley, and it seemed to be El, targeting Lucien and Natasha!