He turned around and wanted to walk in the direction of the Natural Church, but suddenly stopped and looked at Shade again.
Shade raised his left hand, holding a red butterfly pendant:
"I know I can't beat you now, but you must know one thing - bringing the dead back to life requires a price. I know two girls. Even though God blessed them, they still paid a heavy price to get it.
Life longer than they should have. Do you know what the price is? Eternal bondage, the torture of separation and the cycle of time. Mr. Barton, what price are you prepared to pay?"
"Any price, pay everything."
He paused and looked at Shade:
"Mr. Watson, in half an hour, the power of real death will hit Hazama again, triggering the third major earthquake in Fort Midhill. This will also be the last major earthquake. At that time, I will guide Hazama City
All the undead souls in the mountain will attack the natural church; I will guide all the undead souls in the narrow Sikal Mountain to attack the mountainside and top of the mountain. At least eight figures of souls will launch the final attack on the three seals. Even if the church can stop it, I will
It will also allow the remaining undead to fuse into the final aggregate of death, which is the decisive battle.
No matter who I am, one of me will eventually be able to pass through one of the passages, enter real death, and bring back my true love."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"I hope you can get out of here."
Shade covered his right shoulder and shook his head. His arm was really broken:
"The church will start the ceremony in advance. The advance of the ceremony will make the seal effect weaker and will not be effective for three years. But at least, after the ceremony is successful, most of the souls in the narrow room can fall into coma again."
"Then let's see who is faster, the church or me."
The deformed middle-aged man walked into the fog alone, and his figure gradually disappeared.
"It's this troublesome race against time situation again."
Shade walked out of the ruins of the store, took back the [Night Watch], and picked up the kerosene lamp that fell on the ground. For his hand with multiple fractures, he could only suppress the pain with a little treatment with potions prepared in advance, and then walked along the street
Toward the natural church.
The battle around the Natural Church is not over yet. Relying on a high degree of mobility, the bride, riding on a crimson mount and holding a man's head, is engaged in guerrilla combat with two high-level warlocks from the church.
The two ring magicians, who belonged to the Church of Creation and the Church of Peace, could not leave the church too far away, so the woman on horseback could temporarily escape from the battle by staying away from the church. But she did not leave. Instead, she recovered a little and started again.
Harassment.
Sooner or later, this approach would give the church's ring magicians an opportunity, but before the church could fight back, the woman had already noticed Shade, who was limping out of the fog with his right arm hanging down and looking extremely embarrassed.
Tightening the reins, the crimson horse raised its front hooves in the air. The woman in the wedding dress waved the sickle in her hand and charged towards Shade from above.
Shade raised his eyes and looked at her:
"Do you think I'm easy to bully like this?"
People in the church also noticed Shade, who was wearing a black coat and a mask. Although they didn't know who he was, they didn't want to see him die under the scythe.
The two high-level magicians in the sky had already flown in, and Iluna, who was standing at the door of the church, also ran over with a small group of magicians.
Shade stopped and watched the woman on horseback getting closer and closer. As the latter swept towards him with a sickle, Shade's body dispersed into a group of red butterflies, allowing the sickle to sweep through the group of red butterflies.
Due to the speed of rushing down too fast, after the horse touched the ground, it slid forward for a certain distance before stopping. Shade, holding the red butterfly pendant, appeared behind the horse at this time.
He gently turned sideways to avoid the horse's hooves that kicked backwards, raised his hand with a clang, and held the dark scythe. After seeing the power of Joey Barton, Shade actually felt that the power of the scythe was so weak.
He was right on the side of the horse, so he could clearly see the wedding ring on the finger of the woman in the wedding dress holding the sickle.
The sickle shook off Shade's long sword and swept toward Shade's neck again. Shade thrust forward with his left hand, accurately hitting the woman's wrist, and then dodged backwards, avoiding the bullet sprayed from the man's head.
Black clouds and mist continued to retreat backwards.
With the sound of horse hooves, the blood-stained bride turned the horse's head, and the undead holding the sickle high appeared in front of Shade again.
This time, Shade also dodged the sickle sideways, and even used [Night Watch] to chop the horse on the body at the moment the two came into contact.
As the last nail, the woman is indeed powerful, but unfortunately she has been imprisoned by the church for too long, and her strength has been severely depleted. Moreover, she is not good at using a special weapon like a sickle at all, while Shade can barely call himself a "master of swordsmanship."
The two weapons exchanged blows several times in the fog. Although Shade could only use his sword with his left hand, he continued to cause wounds on the bride and the mount.
After a brief exchange, everyone in the church had arrived. Iluna threw the sunshine gun directly in this direction, and the horse carried the woman and flew into the sky in the thick fog.
But on the horse's hooves, Shade's "Crimson Chain" was wrapped around him for some time. Even if Shade was not injured, he couldn't pull the horse down. He was not the strong man in the story. But the "Criminal Chain" imprisoned him.
The effect of mobility still exerted some power.
The horse in the air suddenly stopped for a moment, and the golden thunder spear that followed immediately penetrated the woman's heart.
The [Chain of Sin] relaxed, the high-level warlocks fell down, and Iluna also came over with the team around her.
The horse carried the woman and slowly fell to the ground, and then slowly lay down, making an unclear neighing sound. Gray smoke and dust continued to fly upward from the woman's body, but she just caressed her arms.
Holding human head.
"What's their story?"
Shade asked, not intending to stay away from the church ring magicians.
A middle-aged man with a twelve-ring warlock holding a long staff in his hand and a white dove standing on his shoulder said in a local accent:
"This is the undead Lady Maria three hundred years ago. Her husband was a well-known knight. On the night of their wedding, the knight was summoned by the lord and went to the front line. Lady Maria was the last to wait.
It is the knight's head and the knight's horse that the lord paid a ransom for."
He did not continue speaking, and the group of people watched silently as the last nail disappeared into the narrow space.
"Too bad, we haven't received the signal to eliminate her yet."
Iluna said with some distress, her eyes secretly glanced at Shade who was wearing a mask:
"Killing her in advance may cause early changes in Hazama."
Of course she knew who the person in front of her was. Even if Shade didn't take [Night Watch], she could guess that the strange person who appeared here at this time must be Shade.
"Don't worry about that, I know something."
Shade said, everyone looked at him, and the long stick behind him really attracted attention.
He coughed hard to show that he had suffered internal injuries and there was blood congestion in his lungs. Then he inserted the sword into the ground and took out a letter with his trembling left hand:
"I'm here to deliver a message. Can you also help me heal my injuries?"
He pointed to his drooped left arm.
"this."
The twelve-ring warlock of the Peace Church hesitated:
"Master of Swordsmanship, I wonder what organization you belong to?"
They all just saw the scene where Shade relied on his sword skills to fight against the blood-stained bride despite being at a disadvantage. The extraordinary system of this era preferred to use so-called "curses", and there were not many ring warlocks who were good at using cold weapons.
Therefore, they did not associate Shad with the Godcaller.
After all, the "God Caller" is characterized by its complex, changeable, and brilliant moonlight series of thaumaturgy.
"I am a lone traveler from the New World, with the goal of hunting demons. I heard that there is a Balrog in Midhill Fort. I came here last month, but the Balrog was not found. Instead, I encountered what happened here."
He handed the letter out, and the ring magician of the Peace Church took it and introduced his name. He was Newman Landau.
"I think you need help, and I need help too."
Shade covered his right shoulder:
"I drank some pain-relieving potion just now, but the effect is almost gone. There should be a doctor in the Church of Nature who can treat it, right?"
Mr. Landau, with the dove on his shoulder, nodded, opened the letter and took a look at it to confirm that there was nothing wrong with the letter, and then glanced at Iluna.
Iluna nodded, stepped forward and stretched out her hand to Shade:
"This, um, witcher, you also know the current situation. The church will not allow suspicious people to enter the narrow church. But you have gained our friendship, so after a small test, you can follow us
past."
Shade held Iluna's hand and found that the seventeen-year-old girl was trying her best to hold back her laughter.
A brass-colored wheel ring appeared behind her. As the life ring rotated, in the dazzling golden color, the life ring transformed into the dark golden scale.
The scales symbolizing the power of the ancient gods appeared and immediately dispersed the surrounding fog. Iluna suppressed her laughter and asked pretending to be serious:
"Good, evil?"
Time seemed to have returned to the midsummer night, which was the time when Shade and Iluna gained further trust in each other. Shade missed that time very much, and it could be seen that so did Iluna, who was so close at hand.
Shade didn't have to answer this question, because the balance behind Iluna tilted almost overwhelmingly to the left. It seemed that the good and evil of the outsiders had not changed at all in three months, and he was quite content with this.
After all, apart from trying to illegally possess someone else's cat, he hadn't done anything bad.
"Very good, sir, it seems you are a nice person, so order, chaos?"
The scale regained its balance, and then in the dark golden light, it fell to the left again as if it was pressed by fingers. Shade even thought that if it were faster, the entire scale would completely tip over.