After confirming that the old fishman was dead, the thirteenth ring warlock with the holy emblem pendant shook his head and spoke first:
"I don't know what grudges you have, but I have to leave here now. The head priest of the Scarlet Cult is dead, and there are still many things to be done outside. Although the sea rescue is doomed to fail, we still have to reduce the number of casualties as much as possible."
"Oh? Can't you see that he is the second chosen one?"
The witch pointed at Darkness, who frowned slightly, apparently still not understanding why he was being hunted.
"Of course I know."
The followers of the true god nodded and looked at Darkness, taking careful note of his appearance:
"But compared to the Chosen Ones, who we don't know how to deal with yet, it is my responsibility to save the innocent people who can be saved. I really want to bring him back to the church, but compared to the Whispering Poems, whose truth is still unknown, I want to do something more practical."
He prayed softly to the gods, then nodded slightly to Xia De to show his respect before leaving the corridor.
"Look, although the people of the Orthodox Church are sometimes hateful, they are worthy of admiration most of the time."
After the Thirteen Rings Warlock's figure completely disappeared, the witch spoke to Shade again.
"What is the Chosen One?"
Darkness asked softly. Of course, Shade and the witch would not answer him, but the half-demon on his right actually spoke:
"I seem to have heard of this..."
Of course it was not human language. That kind of language itself seemed to represent evil, and the tone was like the sound of sticky insects crawling on liquid.
"Yes, I remember now. That was the witch's great prophecy. Look, I just found out that you are the chosen one."
The voice was somewhat similar to the tone of desire that bewitched Shad. It was bewitching Darkness. Shad dared to bet that the devil already knew about the "Chosen One".
"The chosen one? Is this the plot of some chivalric novel?"
Darkness repeated, her brows furrowed slightly.
"Have you never doubted your strange dark power? Aren't you curious about the abnormal phenomena you frequently encounter? Are the whispers you hear in the darkness really just illusions? Oh, my Darkness, there is only one truth..."
The half-demon on his right hand wrapped around his neck and whispered in his ear, but both the man and the demon were looking at the enemies:
"What is the truth?"
"Perhaps, you can use the puppeteer's script, and we can try to find the answer together. Perhaps a ritual, a ritual that will allow you to fully know your own power."
The ancient demon seemed to know more.
"The script..."
"Ivan Darkness, do you really believe in the philosophy of the Blood Spirit School? Is it so easy to become a golden human? Don't you want to use other means to gain more powerful power?"
The demon asked in a low voice. Darkness narrowed his eyes slightly, then suddenly inserted his left hand into the demon's mouth and pinched out a brass ring.
The swollen right hand immediately shrank back to the size of a normal arm. The mouth in the palm of the hand opened and closed, as if it wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
"The Poet-level relic Fish Training Ring can make intelligent life that cannot speak human language speak. It originally belonged to the Scarlet Cult and was used to tame large sea beasts that could not speak. Now it is used by Ivan Darkness to make demons speak."
The witch whispered, and Shade suddenly thought of his cat. If Mia could get this ring...
"This relic is useless against creatures that like to eat fish, such as cats and penguins. Although it is only rated at the poet level, I didn't expect it to be useful against evil spirits and demons."
Xia De suddenly lost interest in the ring.
"Witch, what do you want?"
Darkness asked.
"I want to kill you, but killing you will release the demon in you, so I can't kill you."
She whispered, as if she was whispering to someone:
"What a shame our demonologists aren't in the Old World right now..."
She suddenly looked at Xia De, and Xia De's heart skipped a beat, but he was sure that his identity was not exposed.
"Help me catch him, and I won't give you a penny less than the promised 20,000 pounds."
"Of course that's no problem."
Shad nodded.
The witch pointed at Darkness, and a bright yellow beam of light burst out from her fingertips, but as darkness appeared between the two, the beam of light disappeared.
"Is this the only trick you have?"
The witch's life ring finally appeared behind her, and dense spiritual runes emitted spiritual light one after another. Before Shade could decipher her core spiritual runes, dozens of light beams shot forward from the surface of the life ring.
The dark area controlled by Darkness only swallowed two of the beams, and the remaining dozen or so beams of light bombarded in the direction of Darkness with a force stronger than that of the steam cannon.
Throwing down a leaf, the spirit runes behind him flashed with light. The body of the man who coexisted with the devil was really like a leaf in the wind, deftly dodging those deadly spirit rune attacks, but even so, the side of his body was still brushed by one of the black beams.
The light was like an eraser, directly erasing a quarter of Darkness' waist area. But he was immediately swallowed up by a vortex of darkness, and when he reappeared, the lost part of his body was filled with darkness. The wriggling darkness became a part of his body and quickly grew flesh and blood.
Shade had seen this look on the Fishbone Pirate Ship before, except that at that time half of his body was covered in this horrible darkness.
A rustling sound appeared in his ears. Darkness frowned and looked up. Black chains clinging to the old pillars of the temple fell from the sky. He wanted to dodge again, but he didn't expect that these black chains controlled by Shade would actually cling to his life ring.
The Chains of Sin can only work for a moment on a twelve-ring sorcerer, but Darkness is only a six-ring sorcerer.
"What?"
The middle-aged man looked behind him in surprise. Although the life ring was a real substance, it also had the tendency to disappear when faced with an attack. Very few things could directly attack the life ring. This was common knowledge among the ring sorcerers.
The chain wrapped around the life ring with difficulty, and the brass ring that was still rotating actually slowed down slowly. While the flesh and blood of desire could still exert its effect, Shade could be equivalent to a mid-level or high-level warlock. In addition, the other party's inner desire was really not low, so it was normal for the chain of sin to exert its effect.
"Ma'am, quick!"
Shade immediately reminded the witch and grabbed the chain extending from his sleeves with both hands. The chain wrapped around the life ring, but the life ring also resisted. The harsh sound of metal deformation and sparks showed that Shade could not hold on for too long.
Miss Aurora took a deep breath, and the light on the life ring behind her disappeared. Then, Xia De actually saw a golden staircase vaguely behind her.
"I learned this the hard way—"
She raised her right hand, and the luster of her fingertips and the familiar movements made Xia De look over in surprise.
"Feliana's Witch Light!"
The witch shouted loudly, and the golden light was not a ray, but a shock wave that spread out in the surroundings. The dazzling light shot towards Darkness, who was unable to move because of the fixed life ring, as if to destroy all obstacles in front of it and distort the boundaries of time and space.
It passed through Shad, but only made Shad tremble all over as he felt the power, and he felt as if he understood something.
The huge vortex of darkness summoned by Darkness tried to devour the dazzling and fierce golden light, but the full-strength attack of the Twelve-Ring Witch was simply not something that the Chosen One, who had not yet fully awakened, could resist.
In addition, he was restrained by Xia De at this time, so he could only stand still and endure the blow. At this moment, the right hand that could no longer speak actually swelled up on its own. This time, it was not flesh-colored, but black muscles that swelled up.
The entire arm was like a giant parasite that was parasitic on the middle-aged man. Amid Darkness’s heavy breathing, the right half of his body turned into a black texture like pus.
The pus-filled black right arm and body swelled up like a serous eruption. They were at least three times larger than the left side of the body. Shade was very curious about how he managed to stand firmly.
Of course Darkness would not answer this question. He used his swollen huge arm to block in front of himself, and then paid the price of almost evaporating his entire right arm, and really blocked the witch's attack. When Miss Aurora wanted to attack again, Darkness, whose right eye was covered with black pus and whose left eye was faintly red, actually smashed the ground with his huge black right hand that was quickly flowing with pus and recovering.
This relic itself is a spatial dislocation caused by a spatial anomaly, and below the temple, there are naturally rolling waves.
The hand smashed on the floor, causing it to shake again. The floor of the temple, which the old fishman priest's self-explosion had failed to destroy, was actually smashed into a hole by him, and blood-red seawater poured into the temple like a fountain.
He wanted to jump in, but the life ring on his back was still bound by the black chain. Darkness looked at Shad, and the red light in his eyes made Shad feel that his soul was punched... ...punched by the same force as Mia.
"Um?"
Shade glared at Darkness, and the latter's eyes suddenly flashed red, as if he had seen something incredible.
"Sin?" (Demon language)
The huge black right arm grabbed the chain and yanked it, trying to pull Shad in front of him. Shad stumbled forward, knowing that the other party's unreasonable physical strength was far stronger than his own, so he could only cancel the magic and retract the chain, then watch the huge monster jump into the waves under the hole in the floor.
The floor was slowly healing, as if the temple had a life of its own.
"Will you chase me?"
The witch looked at Shade, who immediately took a step back:
"The other party is the first candidate for the Chosen One, and I am seriously injured now. You can see my condition, ma'am. I don't have the strength like you. I can't do anything."
He is usually honest when facing witches.
"A cowardly man."
Miss Aurora obviously didn't believe this. The lady with brown curly hair sneered and jumped into the hole in the floor.
Shade heard a strange conch sound coming from below, but it was not the weird sound of the Scarlet Cult, but a light and pleasant sound. There were a large group of creatures swimming underwater, but they did not sound like murlocs.
"It doesn't matter what Miss Aurora summoned... His ability to manipulate darkness is really troublesome. And the devil in him... If the witch really can't catch him, Darkness will still have to find Iluna to suppress him when he arrives in Tobesk..."
He stood in the old temple, thinking, and waited until he was sure that the cracks in the temple floor were completely closed before he bent down, picked up the fishing rod and left.
Only Shade was left here. The dim light made the shadows of the statues scattered throughout the temple look extremely scary. After the battle, a strange silence fell. The stranger turned around with a serious face and looked at the bleeding bone emblem hanging in the deepest part of the temple.
He adjusted his clothes in silence, temporarily putting aside the matters of the witch, the fishman, and the demon, and calmed himself down. He took a deep breath, and then approached the holy emblem step by step.
Although I don’t know what will happen, I still have to have a sense of ceremony.
After saving Leicia, he had no intention of achieving any goals in Coldwater Harbor. He let the church deal with the fishmen because they were well prepared; Darkness let the witch chase them because he was ready, and let Iluna deal with the guy possessed by the devil in Tobesk.
The only thing Shad wants now is divinity.
With divinity, no matter how bad the situation is, it is no longer a problem for Shade.
Stranger, your desire at this moment is really strong.
She whispered softly in his ear.
"No, I just know what's important."
There was only that golden light in his eyes.