Deep Sea Embers

Explosions exploded in the basement, and a blazing fireball suddenly flew over from the side - but before the fireball got close, Duncan had already reacted.

His perception was far faster than his body. The moment the abnormal energy appeared in the basement, he noticed something was wrong. At this time, he subconsciously raised his hand to block it without thinking about it!

A little burning sensation came from the fingertips, but the next second, the spurting spiritual fire was involved in the fireball with a backlash and explosive momentum. Duncan caught the fire ball shooting from the corner of the basement out of thin air. The blazing fire was almost immediately dyed with a layer of dark green, and the bursting energy instantly became docile and began to burn quietly in his hands.

Duncan just grabbed the fireball that had turned into a ghostly green spirit fire, and slowly turned his head to look in the direction from which the attack came.

And the moment he turned his eyes away, the deep hound called "Agou" immediately jumped back suddenly, and a crack filled with countless shadows and black mist appeared out of thin air where it landed. It jumped in without hesitation, and the dark iron chain dragged Shirley at the same time. The latter spat hard to the side before flying into the crack, and she spat out several bloody bullets on the ground.

The next second, a man and a dog disappeared into the basement.

When Duncan heard the movement, he looked back in surprise, but he only saw the last scene of the girl's skirt falling into the crack - this weird human-dog combination took advantage of him and ran away in the blink of an eye.

I still have a lot of questions that I haven’t had time to ask!

And this was all because of a sudden sneak attack by a cultist with extremely powerful vitality.

Duncan felt subtly unhappy. He looked towards the direction of the fireball again and saw the cult priest wearing a sun mask leaning crookedly against the corner, holding his arms up with his last breath. He seemed to be shocked that the fireball he had summoned with all his strength was not only caught out of thin air, but even had its authority usurped. The dull state of his eyes could be seen through the golden mask.

"It's not a good habit to not touch up after a hit..."

Duncan's face was gloomy, while he was talking about a certain girl who didn't know how to last a last resort after a fight, while he slowly walked towards the cult priest who was seriously injured but not dead.

He was still holding the quietly burning green fireball in his hand, and the power emanating from the fireball was quietly spreading in the basement.

With every step of Duncan's progress, the oil lamps and torches set up throughout the basement seemed to be inexplicably inspired. The beating flames were dyed with a layer of green one after another, and under the shadow of the ever-approaching eerie firelight , the masked Sun Priest finally felt a fear stronger than ever before——

He felt that the connection between himself and the Sun God was rapidly weakening. As the lights were "usurped" one after another, the Sun God's gaze quickly left his soul like the ice and snow melting in spring!

In the midst of great fear, a trembling voice finally came from under the mask: "You... you are not an ordinary heretic, what on earth are you..."

The last light turned into a green soul flame. Duncan stopped in front of the priest. He lowered his head slightly, and his face looked particularly gloomy under the reflection of the spiritual fire: "I haven't finished asking just now, but you... "Excuse me, this is very rude. Didn't your mother teach you that?"

As he spoke, he noticed the state of the sun priest.

He felt that he had wrongly blamed Shirley - half of the cultist's chest had been completely deflated, and the broken ribs might have even pierced his heart and lungs. This was undoubtedly a fatal injury, and theoretically there was no chance of a last-ditch injury. necessary.

This priest is still alive because a more powerful and strange force is hanging on to his life. That may be the "Sun God" in the mouth of these cultists.

But even so, Duncan could still clearly see that life was rapidly draining from the priest's body. Every breath he took became weaker, and he would die sooner or later.

Although the reason is not known, it is obvious that the blessing of the Sun God is rapidly moving away from this priest.

"It seems that the blessings from the Sun God are not very reliable," Duncan shook his head and said with emotion, "Your Lord has left you."

He just sighed casually, but he didn't expect that this sentence would actually stimulate the dying priest. The latter's eyes suddenly burst into tears. Driven by huge anger, he burst out his last strength, and suddenly fell from the sky under Duncan's unexpected gaze. A bloody cloth belt was taken out of the sleeve!

"I offer this body to the Lord! May the holy cloth purify the heretics in front of me!"

The priest shouted, dirty blood clots and internal organs fragments covered the golden mask. He raised the "Holy Cloth" in his hand high and offered the most thorough and crazy sacrifice to his Lord——

He sacrificed everything he had just to light the holy cloth and die together with the heretic who usurped the flame before him!

However, Duncan just watched the final crazy sacrifice calmly - although the priest did startled him when he suddenly took something out of his cuffs, but after seeing what it was, his whole body was filled with excitement. Calm down.

That was the strange piece of cloth that the other party used to verify his "identity as a compatriot" when he first entered the assembly hall - but he didn't expect that this piece of cloth would have such an outrageous name as "Holy Skeleton Cloth".

Just as Duncan expected, the holy cloth remained silent and unresponsive, and the most extreme sacrifice made by the cult priest before his death did not awaken any miracle.

There was a trace of confusion in the eyes under the mask. The cult priest struggled to support his body. Looking at the motionless holy object in his hand in despair, he coughed out another mouthful of blood without belief: "I offer this body to the Lord... …”

"I guess that's what you want."

Duncan couldn't stand it anymore. He shook his head and pointed at the bloody cloth.

The next second, a cluster of green flames exploded!

The fire of the spiritual body ignited the holy cloth, ignited the dirty blood coughed up by the cult priest, and ignited the flesh and blood of the crazy man. The priest roared in shock and anger in the spiritual fire: "No, no, no... it shouldn't be That's it...the Lord will not abandon you, the Lord...the Lord will punish you for being such a traitor...who are you?"

In the raging fire, the voice of the cult priest finally weakened and dissipated. After all, the vitality supported by the extraordinary power could not allow him to resist the flames that directly burned his soul. In other words, it was precisely because of the existence of the extraordinary power that he could Let him turn into ashes in the backlash of this spiritual fire.

The spiritual fire finally gradually extinguished, and the Sun Priest leaning against the wall had been completely burned, leaving only a set of scattered clothes and the golden mask that imitated the shape of the sun.

Even the so-called "holy cloth" was burned to ashes in the flames because it acted as a "medium".

Duncan frowned.

To be honest, this was not the first time he had seen a corpse - the "sacrifice" he had seen in the underground cave before and the "sacrificial" priest had already tempered his nerves, so he was just a little surprised at the moment.

Under normal circumstances, his spiritual fire only works on extraordinary objects. He had tested this with various objects when he was on the Lost Home - extraordinary objects burned by the flames would be "usurped" "Becomes Captain Duncan's possession, and if it is not a supernatural object, even a piece of paper will not be affected by the fire of the spirit body.

Just now, the spiritual fire had an actual burning effect, which was his initiative - he was worried that the cultist would really do something with the holy cloth, so he ordered the holy cloth to burn itself out of caution, and Judging from the results, this holy cloth did faithfully carry out the order.

But he didn't expect that the spreading flames would also burn the cult priest to ashes - this was not in line with the conclusion he reached after completing the test.

It is normal for the Relic Shroud to be burned because it is a supernatural object and will be affected by spiritual fire;

It is normal for the clothes of the cult priest to be left intact, because those clothes are obviously "mortal objects", and the fire of the spirit body is like a phantom in parallel time and space to mortal objects, and will not have the slightest impact - unless the clothes It is possessed by enchantments, or some otherworldly material is mixed into the weaving process;

It was normal for the golden mask to be left intact, because Duncan was very interested in this obviously extraordinary item. After the flames began to spread, he immediately issued the order to prevent the mask from being damaged in the fire.

Then...why was this cultist burned to ashes by the fire of the spiritual body?

Duncan knelt down in confusion and carefully examined the gray-black ashes.

It is similar to the ashes after burning the holy cloth.

Duncan had never tested his spiritual fire on a living person, let alone actively used the flame to take a person's life, and this cult priest should be regarded as the first real victim of his flame.

At least, the first real victim under his conscious control.

Slowly, a bold idea suddenly popped into Duncan's mind.

Could it be that... such "mortal people" who have received "blessings" because they worship specific gods can also be regarded as "extraordinary objects"?