When approaching the Valley of Death, Lucian and Natasha couldn't believe their eyes, the valley in the darkness was no longer the eerie and bleak descriptions and rumors, the gray and white fog was shrouded, and there was no mournful ghost cry, but there was an indescribable calm, making people unable to bear to disturb this deepest and deepest sleep.
"This is the Valley of Death?" Natasha looked back at the cold and terrifying forest, confirming that the two of them had not gone in the wrong place.
And in that forest, terrifying cries sounded from time to time, and the necromancer servants of the demigod liches were still searching for the whereabouts of Lucian and Natasha.
Lucian shook his head: "This is the Valley of Death. El seems to be really weird, I'll sneak in and investigate with the peeping eye first, and I can't rush in."
After saying that, Lucian first took off the "Ring of Congers" and blessed Natasha and himself with many defensive and vigilant spells, and then took out the crystal ball and rubbed it a few times, causing it to spit out a black lump of flesh the size of a thumb, covered with deep folds.
The flesh suddenly opened, revealing pale eyes covered with black lines, and then split into nine, blending into darkness and heading towards the valley of death.
Lucian took Natasha to follow him, hiding in the depression of the cliff not far from the Valley of Death.
The abnormal darkness within the crystal ball disappeared, revealing what the Demonic Eye had seen, and they were diving into the valley of death from different angles.
"That's it?" Natasha pointed to a certain part of the crystal ball and said, "A ghoul-like creature more than two meters tall is cautiously entering the Valley of Death, completely ignoring the peeping eye behind it, "Congers' necromancer?"
"It should be, according to the time, they should have finished searching that wood, and Kangus is still in the main material world, so he can't command them remotely, uh, it's a prisoner demon." Lucian frowned slightly.
Natasha didn't know as much about various monsters as Lucian, and asked curiously: "Soul Prisoner Demon? Sounds amazing."
"Well, a very weird and powerful undead creature, don't be fooled by its ghoul-like appearance, look at what's under the rotten flesh on its belly." Lucian happily explained, reminding Natasha not to be negligent towards this undead creature in the future.
In order to see clearly, Natasha leaned on Lucian without any grudges, his breath audible, making him blushing and uncomfortable slightly.
"There are three tiny but clear faces on the ribs of its abdomen, and their expressions are full of pain." As the Peep Eye changed direction, Natasha finally saw the front of the Prisoner Demon.
Lucian pointed seriously to the abdomen of the Soul Trap Demon: "This is the soul of the creature it killed. Being able to imprison three means that it is a mutated Soul Prisoner Demon, which is equivalent to a high-level demon. These souls will bring it enough energy to use spell-like abilities, which can be regarded as warlocks of the same level, good at necromancers and illusions, and when attacking it with spells, the magic effect and some types of damage will be transferred to these three souls.
"Of course, at this time, you can achieve a good effect by directly using physical attack-type magic, for the knight, the main thing is not to confuse it with the ghoul and be damaged by its spell-like spells."
Dimples appeared on Natasha's cheeks: "It's really weird, let the Peep Eye follow it and see what changes it will cause in the valley of death."
Even if she didn't say anything, Lucian would do the same, having already let one of the Peeping Demon Eyes quietly follow behind the Prisoner Demon.
In the Valley of Death, countless vines were densely packed, blocking the starlight, making it dark and dead.
As the Prisoner Demon and the Peeping Demon Eye deepened, the darkness became thicker and thicker, and there were fewer and fewer things that could be seen on the crystal ball.
Lucian tried to drive the Peeping Eye, but the order sank into the sea without responding, and the nine Peeping Eyes seemed to completely merge into the darkness.
Suddenly, a little soft light lit up on the crystal ball, and the figure of the Soul Prisoner Demon emerged, it was fighting an angel with a pair of wings behind it, and in front of it was the same realm of light as in the morning.
At this time, Lucian realized that six of the nine Peeping Demon Eyes had disappeared, except for the one that followed the Soul Demon, only two had passed through the darkness ahead.
"Angel? Where is this?" In the psychic connection, Natasha said in shock.
Lucian quickly controlled the other two changing directions, bypassing the battle and going deeper inside.
The Prisoner Demon was so powerful that it didn't take long to kill the "angel", and wanted to go deeper, but was surrounded by more and more angels, and even many four-winged angels of power and power appeared, but this made Lucian's peeping demon eye more easily infiltrate.
The scene seen by the peeking demon eye slowly became clear, and Natasha's reddish lips opened uncontrollably, trembling slightly.
This is a beach gently lapping by the waves, and on the beach are white souls, who are using harps and other instruments to play ethereal and beautiful hymns, and make pious and grand prayers:
"Praise to the Most High Lord, to the All-Knowing and Almighty God of Savior......"
The entire beach is wrapped in holy light, as if in a light cluster, and in the distance of the beach, there is a city with twelve gates, its length, width and height are the same, decorated with various gemstones such as agate and jasper, and above this city, there seems to be six similar divine realms, four of which can vaguely see similar joyful scenes.
The top two layers cannot be seen clearly with the ability to peek into the magic eye, but Lucian and Natasha can guess.
"Blasphemy, this is the greatest blasphemy! Who is imitating Paradise Mountain!" Natasha doesn't pay attention to the content and theological knowledge of the scriptures, so she can be subtly influenced by Lucian and get along with him "friendly", but this naked imitation stimulates her devout faith and feels that the Creator is full of infinite malice.
"You are one, ten thousand, momentary, and eternal......"
The sound of psalms and prayers came through the crystal ball, Lucian frowned slightly, and even the prayers and various rituals in the Truth Divine Church's "Sacred Scriptures" were completely copied? What exactly does Francis want to do? Does he really want El to become a "high-imitation version of the God of Truth"?
I have to say, it's really creative...... Lucian secretly admired, but turned his head to see Natasha's hands trembling slightly with anger, but because Lucian was still in danger, the most important thing at present was to deal with the demigod lich, and did not indulge herself in acting according to her preferences, and forcibly suppressed her emotions.
Lucian was a little moved, and couldn't help but stretch out his left hand, holding Natasha's left hand without a sword, and gently forced, giving her warmth and comfort.
Natasha subconsciously twitched her left hand, but soon understood what Lucian meant, her eyes softened, she nodded slightly, signaling that she had no problem, and waited until the trembling of her hands slowly disappeared, she pulled her left hand back with a slight force.
Outside of dancing and fleeing, Natasha and Lucian held hands like this for the first time, and they were silent for a short time.
At this time, a man in a white robe with six pairs of illusory wings growing from behind appeared above the angel group, slashed down with a sword, transformed into a black hydra, and firmly suppressed the prisoner soul demon, it seemed that it would not be long before he could kill this high-level undead creature.
"Francis, is it him?" Natasha knew that Francis was following El, but she didn't expect him to become an imposter seraphim.
Lucian quickly cleared up his relationship: "I once transformed into El's church to obtain information, and met Francis, who is proficient in theology and has been inducing El in the direction of the God of Truth.
As for her own fooling and wanting to study the "growth and change of the God of Truth" up close, she must not let Natasha know!
"It's him! Isn't he the Night Watchman? How can you do such a blasphemous act!" Natasha struggled to contain her shock.
Lucian was also surprised: "Is he the night watchman?"
He was so nervous and depressed that he was hunted before, so Lucian forgot to ask Natasha why he cooperated with Francis, but he turned out to be the night watchman of the Southern Church? He is more like a blasphemer than himself, the nineteenth ranked "fallen angel" in the purification sequence!
Natasha nodded seriously and solemnly: "I didn't know he was the Night's Watch at first, and neither did Daniel and Cardinal Masada, but when Francis talked to them alone, he seemed to have taken out some token and gained their trust, and then told me that Francis was the twelfth 'thinker' of the Night's Watch, a mysterious Night's Watch with only a code name."
"It is said that he was sent to the Northern Church execution agency as a spy, and because of this, he was purified into the sequence, and he is also a mysterious person whose information is not disclosed to the public."
"Did he really defect to the Northern Church? No, the Northern Church will not tolerate such blasphemy, could it be that he has another layer of identity?" Lucian seemed to smell a double agent.
Natasha shook her head: "No matter what, no matter what his purpose is, such blasphemy must be judged. When we really get out of danger, or you decide to do something to El, I will kill him with my own hands."
So serious, Lucian quietly wiped a cold sweat, and then suddenly found Natasha looking at him with a smile: "You once mixed into the El Church, there should be a part of your credit in this blasphemy, right?"
Lucian was about to deny it, but Natasha said seriously: "Don't lie to me."
After thinking about it, Lucian honestly stated his role, the "efforts" he made, and his desire to study the mysteries of the gods: "...... For me, there is no malice, it is entirely to study the reality of the world."
"I know you have been trying to influence me." Natasha sighed suddenly, "Probably because my attitude towards the Lord itself was influenced by my mother and Mother-in-law Hathaway, and I don't value the "Holy Scriptures" and "Canons". Perhaps, in the future, I will completely make the Lord a spiritual symbol in front of the results of your research, in the face of undeniable facts, but at least not now, I have my own bottom line, I hope you can respect me, hey, it doesn't matter what you do in private, don't let me see it."
Lucian nodded very seriously and promised: "Okay."
After communicating, both of them seemed to let go of some of their burdens and continued to look at the "Paradise Mountain" in the Valley of Death.
Suddenly, the black and white ash of Lucian's left hand spread out, causing him to freeze again.
Under the influence of Aetna letting go of control earlier, the frequency of fragments losing control seemed to increase again.
Natasha solemnly swung her "Pale Justice" slashed at Lucian, and after three consecutive swords, the monotonous and boring color was shattered and recycled, and without Lucian's control, the peeping demon eye was all swallowed by the holy light.
"Let's evacuate first." Lucian suggested, "El's eccentricity hasn't been figured out yet, and the divine realm is his home court, so we can't act rashly, at least we have to lure him out."
Since the magic on the "Ring of Congers" was used to work on the outside world, Lucian was worried that this would lose the cover of Silver Moon Etna, which aroused the vigilance of the demigod lich in advance, and guessed that he could use the ring, so he planned to use other magic to "capture" El.
As soon as the words fell, a figure flew out of the Valley of Death, it seemed to be El, targeting Lucian and Natasha!
(End of this chapter)