Divine Flame Crystal

Chapter 345 Where there is light, there is also darkness

It was a quiet night, nothing happened, the snow continued, and more people died in the otherworldly continent. After sleeping for a day, Xingluo and Ying began to move. The only place in the entire holy city that they had not been to was the Cathedral of Light. This time they planned to go in and see if there was anything going on.

Xingluo's mental power is now at the level of a great mage. If it is not directly covered, it is difficult for people of the same level to detect it. Xingluo used this method to detect it yesterday. Now with the Sky Knight-level Ying, he plans to make some big moves in the city, and then sneak in to see if there is anything he can gain. If light can restrain darkness, then darkness can also hide in light. The two are originally mutually integrated and cannot be separated from each other.

Xingluo found that the Cathedral of Light was unusually quiet today. As his spiritual power spread, there were no strong people there. They were probably done with their discussion yesterday and had left. Xingluo breathed a sigh of relief. He had been preparing to create chaos in the city, but this was too dangerous. It would alert the other party and easily expose himself. Since it was no longer necessary, he and Ying could sneak in directly. The two no longer hesitated. Xingluo used his spiritual power to avoid the patrolling knights, while Ying walked in the shadows and moved forward carefully.

The cathedral of the holy city at night is immersed in silence and mystery. The moonlight shines on its solemn and ancient stone walls, outlining its outline like a silhouette painting. The spire rises high into the night sky, and it looks more solemn and sacred against the backdrop of stars. The stained glass windows emit a faint light in the darkness, like the light of heaven illuminating the surrounding streets, creating an otherworldly atmosphere.

The candlelight flickered inside the church, igniting the piety and hope in the hearts of the believers. The echo of the evening prayer passed through the dome and spread to the empty square, making people feel the power and comfort of religion. Xingluo and Ying's infiltration did not attract their attention. No one dared to provoke the Holy See of Light. Habit had paralyzed their nerves. The garden surrounding the church was sleeping quietly in the night. Only the occasional night breeze gently brushed the leaves, making a rustling sound, as if telling the story of those years. Passing through the garden, Xingluo came to a prayer room, which was where he noticed something strange, but he didn't go deep into it yesterday.

With Ying here, there is naturally no need for the magician Xingluo to investigate the mechanism. Ying has been trained since he was a child, and some methods have penetrated into his subconscious. He can find the subtle differences in the walls that seem extremely smooth to outsiders. There are some concave bricks on the wall. After Ying's trial, he touched several concave places in succession in a certain order, and a gap opened in the wall that was just big enough for one person to pass through. The two entered a secret room, where there were strong fluctuations of light aura. Obviously, several magic traps had been set up. If it were other attributes, the two people might cause noise when they entered, but for light elements, Ying only needed to continuously release dark energy to neutralize these light elements. Of course, subtle adjustments were required to make the frequency of dark magic fluctuations the same as that of light magic elements. Only a well-trained killer could break these traps, and soon the two entered the secret room.

Then there was a strong smell of blood. The scene was chilling. The whole secret room was like a human body laboratory. There were damaged bodies everywhere, especially heads. All of them were cut open without exception, as if someone had taken something away violently. There was a huge instrument next to it, and the patterns drawn on it made Xingluo frown. This was a magic array he had never seen before. He briefly analyzed it and found that there were at least many magic arrays in it, such as amplifying the range of magic influence, concealing magic fluctuations, and confusing vision and hearing. This relic device was located in the center of the secret room, exuding a faint magical atmosphere. It was carefully carved into a huge ring structure, inlaid with countless crystal clear magic cores. These magic cores contained powerful magic power, flashing with faint blue or bright light, like a galaxy falling into the world.

The design of this relic device is very ingenious. The main part is an exquisite round arch structure covered with complex runes and magic arrays. They are intertwined to form a sophisticated energy network to guide and amplify the magic energy in the surrounding environment. In the center of the device stands a towering pillar, with ancient mythological creatures and magic rituals carved on the pillar. At the top is a transparent cover, which contains the core of the entire device.

When the relic device is activated, its magical influence will quickly expand to the entire empire and even beyond, spreading the originally limited magical effects to affect a larger area. When activated, the space around the relic device seems to become active, and the air is filled with ripples of magic, making everyone who approaches feel awe and wonder.

What frightened him the most was that there was a divine flame crystal in the core device that continued to emit energy. Xingluo looked there in disbelief. This was the Church of Light. Who could do such a thing here so unscrupulously? The answer was self-evident. Even though he had long suspected that these bishops of the Church of Light were somewhat hypocritical, he never dreamed that they had gone to this extent and began to slaughter more ordinary humans in order to increase their believers.

Xingluo didn't know why the Holy See of Light did this, but it was most likely related to the struggle for faith. Previous holy wars were all fought under the slogan of peace to create more killings and increase the number of believers. He should have thought that this time the poisonous snow was the work of the Holy See of Light.

At the same time, the Abyss Army, originating from the Abyss world of endless darkness and chaos, these demons have the ability to corrupt and erode the minds of living beings. In this catastrophe that invaded the alien continent, they swept in, targeting refugees and transforming them into demon slaves dominated by desire.

This transformation process is full of horror and pain. The refugees will first be eroded by the power of the abyss, their consciousness will gradually blur, and the fear and desire deep in their hearts will be amplified and manipulated. The high-level demons in the abyss army will cast corrupting magic to transform the victim's body and twist it into a terrible form with demonic characteristics: the skin will crack to reveal bone spurs and scales, the eyes will turn blood red, and sharp teeth will protrude from the mouth.

After the transformation, these former refugees became part of the demon army, lost their own will, and completely obeyed the orders of the Abyss Lord. Their physical functions were strengthened, and they possessed extraordinary strength, endurance, and affinity for dark magic. These demon slaves became tools for the Abyss Army to wreak havoc on the ground battlefield, carrying out the mission of destruction and killing.