The Archbishop and the Devil, the Miserable Demon (5200)

Chapter 406: The Archbishop, the Demons, and the Wretched Demon Son (5200)

Until now, Cao Xing still hasn't gone to Eternal Frost Main City to spend his honor points.

There are two reasons.

First, the legendary weapon's level is too high, and Sarah cannot equip it yet.

Second, Eternal Frost Main City is simply too far away, and just the journey takes two or three days. Coupled with the fact that it is currently the "Zhuo Mas Claw" challenge period, it delays the schedule somewhat.

Moreover, in a few days, the new dungeon will open, and if any accidents happen on the road, he won't be able to make it back in time.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Cao Xing decided to go to Eternal Frost Main City only after the [Large Space Teleportation Array] is built.

As for whether other Survivors might get there first and exchange for the death gods dagger ahead of time, Cao Xing doesn't need to worry about it at all.

This is because the Church of Light has recently kept a low profile, and members of the Church of Light are rarely seen in the surrounding countries.

Therefore, the difficulty of acquiring honor points has increased manifold.

In addition, Cao Xing still has an S-rank quest, [Uproot], which allows him to monitor the situation of the Church of Light's forces in real time.

If someone really found the stronghold of the Church of Light and severely damaged it, and some Survivors obtained a large amount of honor points, then his quest progress would also increase by a chunk.

But obviously, after so many days, not only has the Church of Light not suffered any losses, but the quest progress has even dropped by 1%.

This means that the Church of Light may have increased its strength a bit recently.

Cao Xing sighed: "Thinking about it this way, there are still quite a few things to do next."

"First, I need to find the location of the gryphon nest and tame the gryphons."

"Then go to the Skawi Mountains to bring back the remains of the beast tamer's younger brother."

"And find a way to investigate the ancient battlefield to see if these undead can be captured and handed over to Duke Baradin to build an undead legion."

"Then go to Eternal Frost Main City to exchange for rewards, and by the way, check out whether the location recorded on this treasure map is the inheritance site of the Archmage."

"In addition, the outside "Zhuo Mas Claw" challenge and Zorma Behemoth challenge cannot be left behind."

"Even if we split up and act separately, we still need a large number of personnel."

At this moment, Cao Xing actually experienced the feeling of being short-handed for the first time.

Cao Xing quickly made plans in his mind and made a decision.

"It seems that this time when we go back, we can split into three or four legions to act!"

"Wait for the Centaur side to spare some personnel, and let them look for the gryphon nest."

"Muxue and Assam will each lead a team to continue challenging the Ice Nest Monster legion."

"And I will lead another team to scout out the strength of the ancient battlefield first."

"Try to improve our strength before the Oracle War arrives."

After making the decision, Cao Xing felt much more relaxed.

Anyway, he still has hundreds of thousands of points to squander, and can summon a large batch of territory residents.

Then, he glanced at the golden equipment that had just dropped.

[Skilful Mercenary Scale Armor (Gold)]

[Quality: Rare]

[Equipment Level: Level 40]

[Armor: 312 ~ 343]

[Attached Special Effect ①: Agility +120, Constitution +100, Critical Rate +20%]

[Attached Special Effect ②: Advanced Deflection (When taking physical damage, reduces 300 points of strength caused by this attack)]

[Attached Special Effect ③: Practice Makes Perfect (Increases own weapon mastery by 1 level)]

(Equipment Description: A specially made scale armor, only some battle-hardened mercenaries are qualified to wear it.)

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"The attributes of this equipment are not bad, it even adds 1 level of weapon mastery."

"It's quite suitable for agility-type classes."

Cao Xing glanced at the territory residents behind him, considering who to assign it to.

Right now Renice has the [Silver Wolf Coat] on her body, which is also a golden piece of equipment.

Although Elisa is also an archer, she doesn't have archery mastery.

Therefore, Cao Xing directly gave this scale armor to Sarah.

The [Practice Makes Perfect] special effect on it can raise her [Advanced Assassination Mastery] to [Expert Assassination Mastery].

Adding some output is also good.

The Dark Elf assassin respectfully took it and quickly put it on her body.

Meanwhile, Yaskin came over to report: "My Lord, the battlefield has been cleaned up."

"How would you like to handle the corpses of these mercenaries?"

Cao Xing said: "Just throw them into the pits they dug."

"Yes."

With that, Yaskin took action.

And Cao Xing also walked over, picking up all the weapons and equipment dropped by these mercenaries.

[Obtained: Advanced Heart of Power * 8]

[Obtained: Mercenary Elite Soul * 3]

[Obtained: Mercenary Standard Weapon (Green) * 54]

[Obtained: Mercenary Standard Light Armor (Green) * 36]

[Obtained: Long-barreled Musket (Blue) * 1]

[Obtained: Coins * 319231]

[Obtained…]

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"Three elite souls, not bad."

Cao Xing nodded with satisfaction.

Then he led the crowd rushing all the way towards the territory.

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Meanwhile.

In the southwestern part of the Gale Snowfield, in a desolate and uninhabited area.

There was a pitch-black cave there.

Two figures with terrifying auras arrived at the entrance of the cave.

One of them was wearing a yellow robe, holding a staff, and his aura was like a volcano about to erupt!

The other figure was very tall, emaciated, holding an ice crystal sword, exuding a bone-chilling cold all over!

It was none other than Archbishop Sullivan.

And the Otherworld Lord, Erzigar.

The Archbishop seemed to be contacting the headquarters of the Church of Light through some special means.

"Son of Light, I have arrived at the location you mentioned."

"There really is a hidden area here, containing a strong demonic aura inside!"

Moments later, a young man's voice came to Sullivan's ears.

"Very well, I will use the power of the Dawn Scripture to buff you once more."

"Then, you and Erzigar rush in and take back our Holy Scripture of Light!"

"Yes!"

Meanwhile.

A strong light emanated from Sullivan's body.

This light was like the dawn before daybreak, making people subconsciously close their eyes, and also boosting Sullivan's aura by another huge margin!

And the creatures inside the cave seemed to sense something.

A violent vibration appeared.

As if something was about to rush out!

The next moment, Sullivan waved his staff and commanded.

"Erzigar, charge in!"

"Roar!"

That Otherworld Lord let out a loud roar, instantly rushing out like an arrow off a bowstring!

The ice crystal sword in its hand contained intense cold air, and wherever it passed along the way, it seemed as if even the darkness was frozen!

And behind it.

Archbishop Sullivan raised his staff high, and the strong power of light dispersed the darkness!

Moments later, an angry roar came from the cave.

"Roar! Dammit! Our hiding place has been discovered!"

"It's the guys from the Church of Light!"

Sullivan sneered: "Cunning demons, you certainly didn't expect that you would have a day like this?!"

Meanwhile, three figures appeared in the darkness.

A young man with a gloomy aura, followed by two tall, powerful creatures radiating black Qi, which were two demons.

One of the demons questioned: "Church of Light, our Demon clan and you have minded our own business, why did you barge into our forbidden ground for no reason?"

Hearing this, Sullivan sneered relentlessly, "Is that so? Why didn't you say you minded your own business when you sent demon slaves to raid our church stronghold before?"

Hearing this, the two demons opposite were silent for a moment.

Then shook their heads and said, "It wasn't us who did it, we didn't send demon slaves to deal with you."

At this time, Sullivan also recognized that these two demons were a bit different from the demon that stole the scripture in Lake Doron City back then.

But his eyes still carried a look of disdain.

"If it wasn't you, it was other demons. Anyway, you dirty guys are all the same!"

The two demons looked at each other.

Because they really couldn't refute it.

Every demon is an evil, disorderly entity that loves to toy with human hearts.

Maybe some guy's brain short-circuited and went to attack other Church of Light strongholds.

At this time, another demon asked: "This has nothing to do with us, what do you want?"

Sullivan snorted coldly: "What I want to do, you are very clear, hand over the scripture to me!"

Hearing this, the two demons were even more confused.

"What are you talking about? What scripture?"

"Still playing dumb, huh?"

"But it doesn't matter, under the radiance of light, everything will be manifested!"

With that, Sullivan raised his staff, and the strong power of light instantly filled the entire cave!

And demons naturally have a sense of rejection towards this kind of power of light.

Instantly, all dark creatures on the field, including those demon slaves, all began to emit wisps of smoke from their bodies.

A terrifying burning sensation swept through their whole bodies!

That young man with a gloomy aura immediately hugged his body and shouted loudly: "Ah! What kind of ghost thing is this?"

"My body is going to be burned away!"

"Beelzebub, make this guy stop!"

He rolled on the ground in continuous agony.

The two demons said in gloomy tones, "You fellows from the Church of Light, stop it."

"We don't want to conflict with you, but don't think our demon race is easy to bully!"

Sullivan, however, said disdainfully, "Let's see how long you can hold out!"

Right before their eyes, the young man on the ground already had large areas of burn marks appearing on his body.

Seeing this scene, a trace of anger surfaced among the two demons' pitch-black facial features!

"Humble ants! What makes you feel that you can humiliate us noble demons?"

"A bunch of sewer rats, if you don't stop right now, I will chew your head to pieces!"

"Then come and try!"

Sullivan continuously cast the power of light, completely unfazed!

The two demons could no longer endure it, and an evil power emanated from their bodies!

Instantly, a terrifying battle erupted within this dark cave!

The surrounding mountains began to tremble in waves.

Boom! Rumble!

Throughout the entire cave, monstrous demonic power continuously erupted.

Intermixed with it was the strong power of light, as well as streams of terrifying sword aura.

Accompanied by the roars of demons from time to time, the mountains trembled violently!

The battle lasted for nearly five minutes.

After all, the two demons were no match for the archbishop and the heretic bishop.

Their pitch-black bodies were frozen by the Heretic Overlord's longsword, and black blood gushed out, dyeing the surrounding ground a pitch-black hue.

Even a large portion of their subordinate demon slaves were slain.

As for that young man, looking at the terrifying battle before him, he had long cowered into the corner of the cave, not daring to get close at all.

He cursed inwardly nonstop, "Damn it! What kind of situation is this anyway?"

"I've just become the Demon Son, could it be that I haven't even lived a couple of good days before perishing right here?"

Seeing that his two major demons under his command were being unilaterally suppressed by the opponent,

this young man also knew that if this continued, the two mainstays he had managed to recruit would be wiped out!

Thus, he pulled a black book out of his backpack.

"Rustle, rustle!"

The black book flipped open!

This young man chanted.

"…!"

"…!"

"…!"

Instantly, two clusters of pitch-black power descended from this book onto the demons' heads.

At the same time, the auras of these two demons surged by a large margin!

They simultaneously erupted with power far exceeding before, directly blasting the Heretic Overlord and the archbishop flying together.

"Cough… cough cough…"

After landing, the archbishop took a deep look at that young man.

"You do have some skills, but after all, you're just a puppet of the Demon Lord!"

"Ozgur, kill him!"

The moment he heard the command, the Heretic Overlord raised the ice-crystal longsword in his hand high, and then slashed out a terrifying sword aura!

This sword aura carried a terrifying destructive aura, exactly the same as when it was slashed towards Cao Xing back then!

However, not every Survivor could be like Cao Xing and hard-resist this sword strike.

And when the two demons realized the direction of the sword aura's slash, a strong look of panic even appeared in their pitch-black pupils!

"Stop!"

"Church of Light!!!"

Swish!

The sword aura swept across the Survivor's body without any hindrance, cutting him in half from the middle.

[-172355]

After a terrifying damage number,

the Survivor's body split directly into two halves.

Before dying, his pupils were filled with disbelief.

It seemed he didn't expect that his path as the Demon Son had just begun, only to die so easily.

However, no matter how unwilling he was,

the body cut into two halves already indicated that there was no longer any chance of resurrection.

"Thud…"

After the corpse hit the ground, it suddenly emitted endless black Qi, filling the entire cave.

The two demons stood dazedly in place, seemingly falling silent.

A moment later, a terrifying anger erupted within their bodies!

"Dammit! You actually destroyed the Demon Lord's vessel!"

"Church of Light, I'll kill all of you!"

Archbishop Sullivan was also somewhat surprised, as if he hadn't expected the Demon Lord's vessel to die so easily.

However, he still snorted coldly.

"So what if I killed him?"

"Let me tell you, if you don't hand over the Scripture, I'll wipe you out together!"

"Don't think that just because you have the ability to resurrect, you are truly undying!"

"Under the radiance of the God of Light, the resurrection abilities of you guys will have no effect whatsoever."

Meanwhile,

Archbishop Sullivan directly raised his staff and sealed off the entire cave.

The two terrifying demons exchanged a glance.

"Very well, Church of Light!"

"You will pay the price!"

As the words fell, the bodies of these two demons began to expand rapidly.

"Listen up, all demons, I, the Mind Demon / I, the Gluttony Demon, have been killed by the archbishop of the Church of Light!"

"They destroyed the Demon Lord's vessel and smashed our stronghold!"

"Next, let these sewer rats know the consequences of offending our demon race!!!"

As the words fell,

their bodies exploded simultaneously!!

"Puff! Puff!"

At the same time,

in a bustling medical clinic in Merlind City, a physician who was diagnosing patients suddenly shifted expression slightly.

The next moment, a wisp of black Qi erupted from his pupils!

On the other side, in a certain manor in Eternal Frost Main City, a powerful entity suddenly opened its eyes.

Including the Orchid Kingdom, the Nakurod Kingdom, and the Velon Kingdom…

One seemingly ordinary figure after another stopped in their tracks.

In their hearts, a voice appeared.

"Let these sewer rats know the consequences of offending our demon race!!!"

At this moment, a trace of anger surfaced in the eyes of all the figures!

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On the boundless snowfield, a Mammoth carried everyone, galloping all the way forward.

After a long five-hour journey, Cao Xing and the others did not encounter any more accidents along the way.

Around twelve o'clock noon,

from afar, everyone had already spotted that territory.

Due to Cao Xing having the old Archmage Tyren add a layer of rock barrier to all the [Advanced Frost City Walls] that had already been upgraded recently,

all the current territory city walls had already reached a height of 10 meters and a thickness of 2 meters for quite a few sections.

Although compared to those major cities, there was still a considerable gap,

it was also getting closer and closer.

Meanwhile, Yaskin on the side looked at the territory, a look of emotion surfacing in his eyes.

"I haven't been back for nearly half a month, the changes in the territory are just too huge…"

"It's really hard to imagine that in such a short time, there could be such earth-shaking changes."

Cao Xing smiled and said, "It's nothing, as long as everyone works together, our territory can develop at an astonishing speed every day."

Hearing this, Yaskin beside him nodded heavily.

Then, everyone returned to the territory together.

Crossing the gate, they arrived at the buffer zone on the outer periphery of the territory.

After this period of construction, as well as a large amount of crafted flooring…

now the entire buffer zone was almost paved with a layer of flooring.

Cao Xing said, "Yaskin, and the other Wild Boar Warriors, you guys continue to go to the warrior camp for training."

"I'll call you if something comes up."

"Understood!"

Everyone gradually dispersed.

Cao Xing also jumped off Dabai's back, and then glanced at the territory's agricultural area.

A large amount of fertile land had already been reclaimed in that area, and the villagers of Grapevine Village were covering greenhouses; Agate Grapes and Silverdew Berries would soon be able to start planting.

Then, while observing, he came to the central area of the territory.

Meanwhile,

territory resident Cao Yi, as well as the Arctic People Du An, both greeted him.

Their faces wore eager smiles, "Lord, welcome back!"

"Lord, may you be in good health."

Cao Xing nodded slightly, and then asked, "Cao Yi, Du An, in the two days I've been away, has anything happened?"

Territory resident Cao Yi took the lead in reporting, "Lord, on the second day after you left, someone claiming to be from the Baron's Knight Order came to visit and had me bring a large box for you."

A large box?

Cao Xing seemed to understand something and asked, "Where is the box?"

The old man pointed to an open space ahead, "Right in front of your Lords Manor."

Cao Xing swept his gaze over, and sure enough, beside the Lords Manor, he found a large box.

Then he walked over briskly and opened it.

Immediately he saw that it was packed full with a large amount of crowns.

And hundreds of stones that appeared transparent but emitted strong spatial fluctuations.

A smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

"This new baron is quite sensible."

"I only asked him to send space crystals over to me, but I didn't expect him to send me a sum of money along the way…"