Lancaster, underground sewers, Rotten Bones Church base.
Ugart felt that the situation was a little strange.
As the archbishop of the Rotten Bones Church, his body had long since turned into rotten bones, and he looked like a skeleton wrapped in a layer of black skin. He had lost almost all of his human senses, and now he was using the evil god's power that Lord Rotten Bones had given him to imitate his original senses.
But ever since he stopped being human, this was the first time he had felt this kind of panic.
Around six days ago, the originally peaceful sewers suddenly became noisy.
The croaking of the swamp fishmen who had moved into the sewers at some point in time and had taken up a corner were echoing incessantly. It was a sign that they were moving again, but their cries were filled with panic and rage, as well as a little fear. It sounded more like they were fleeing than moving, and there was no telling what was forcing them to leave this place.
The overlord of the south, a hundred-year-old Berserk Armored Crocodile, was roaring angrily after its hibernation was interrupted. In Ugart's memory, there shouldn't be anything in the entire sewers that would dare to attack it. Even he himself wasn't confident that he could win against it. Even if there was some ignorant brat that alarmed the Berserk Armored Crocodile, it would become its food in a few minutes. But ever since the Berserk Armored Crocodile was alarmed, it hadn't calmed down for a single day. Every time it was about to calm down, it would be angered by something again. Now, the Berserk Armored Crocodile's roars that were full of energy had turned into roars of weakness, but the thing that angered it seemed to have not disappeared.
Originally, the sewers were the noisiest. The rats that moved along the sewers all day long were like a noise generator. However, the noise-producing machine suddenly went silent. It was as if the hundreds of thousands of Hogwash Rats had suddenly disappeared …
Of course, these changes alone weren't enough to move his heart that had already stopped beating.
What really made him uneasy was that the number of believers under his command seemed to be decreasing.
This decrease wasn't because of defections.
As a believer of an evil god, it wasn't like he didn't have the experience of his believers defecting. In fact, he was forced to leave his original base because of the defection of his believers, leading the remaining believers to wander for a long time before finally finding this passable place as a new base.
Because of this, he had placed his most trusted aides in every operation to prevent those who weren't firm in their beliefs from defecting.
But even so, none of the believers that were sent out to investigate the situation had returned. Even the Black Corpse Flies they were raising hadn't returned …
"Zakara."
He strode to the front yard of the base and summoned his right-hand man on duty, Zachara, one of the three black-robed bishops of the Rotten Bones Church. "Tell the believers in Lancaster to find a chance to kill the hundred children chosen by our lord, and bring me their hearts and blood marrow!"
"But Your Majesty, if we do that, the nobles who promised to protect us will definitely turn against us …" Zachara said hesitantly.
"It's fine. The nobles of Lancaster are just a bunch of fat beasts. We just have to feed them enough Rions to shut them up." Ugart said in a low voice. "In comparison, the situation in the sewers isn't quite right. I'll have to bring forward my plan. As long as we prepare for the possession ritual, even if the monks of the Brilliant White Church come knocking on our door, I'm confident I can kill them!"
"If this is your will." Zakara bowed to him and prepared to leave to pass the message to the surface.
Right at this moment, the stronghold's entrance that was constructed like an underground courtyard was violently smashed open from the outside. After a wave of smoke and dust filled the air, a few figures appeared at the entrance.
"F * ck, I didn't expect there to be a hidden map here. I can't see it from the outside at all!" The leader of the group held a large sword and said excitedly. It seemed like the door that was smashed open was his masterpiece. "If it wasn't for you, Edward, saying that there must be something strange about this area on the map, I'm afraid no one would have discovered it …"
"Joe, don't be careless. There might be a hidden boss here!" The youth called Edward said calmly with a strange stick in his hand.
"There's someone there … There's a health bar above their heads! F * ck, there's words on the health bar. 'Rotten Bones Archbishop' and 'Black-Robed Bishop', one level 30 and the other level 25. I think we've entered a boss room! "A skinny youth holding a crossbow exclaimed.
"The system said that these bosses have a special reward system. As long as you deal 1% of the Rotten Bones Archbishop's health, you'll get 200 Revenge Points. If you deal 1% of the Black-Robed Bishop's health, you'll get 100 Revenge Points!" A young girl behind the group said weakly.
"I see. How can I miss out on a boss fight? Miss Jessica, please heal me, I'll go start the fight!" The eyes of the middle-aged man, who was the oldest and had the least amount of hair in the group, lit up as he said in a clear voice.
"Sword Skill: Sliding Slash!" He yelled, and with a strange footwork, he charged into the yard at lightning speed. The longsword in his hand was raised horizontally, and turned into a sharp white light that slashed towards Ugat!
But before the blade could even touch Ugat, Ugat had already stretched out his black, withered finger, and a black beam shot out from his fingertip, piercing through his heart.
His shocked expression froze on his face, and finally, his entire body turned into countless spots of light and disappeared …
"Uncle Marni!" Joe, who was also a warrior, stared at Marni's dead body in grief.
"I-I didn't have time to heal …" The young girl was stunned, not knowing what to do.
"They really gave it away for free …" The youth called Edward sighed, "Luckily I spent most of my Revenge Points just now. Anyway, let's all attack together and test out the boss first! "
Seeing that the group of youths seemed to want to fight to the death, Ugat was unperturbed and only clapped his skinny hands.
Then, more than ten high-level Rotten Bones believers rushed out from the base.
"F * ck, he can even summon minions, that's too despicable!" The ranger holding the crossbow, Eggface, grumbled.
The high-level Rotten Bones believers weren't as calm as Ugat, and hearing Eggface's words, they couldn't help but frown. You're just a piece of trash wearing a leaf (equipment), what right do you have to call us minions?
Although the situation was extremely disadvantageous for the invaders, what surprised Ugat was that they didn't choose to escape, and instead fought until they were all wiped out. Even the weak-looking girl didn't beg for mercy. As for Eggface, he was instantly killed by the focus fire of the cultists …
Ugat originally thought that it was those guys who caused chaos in the underground tunnels, but from the looks of it, they were too weak and obviously didn't have that kind of ability.
He frowned, feeling that things weren't as simple as they seemed.
At this time, a few unfamiliar voices came from outside the base that hadn't been repaired yet.
"Eh, the wall here seems a bit strange …"
"Oh? There's a hidden map! "
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