Sylvia looked in the mirror at the location of the scales on her neck, nodded with satisfaction, but then said with some disgust: "I don't like this kind of magic."

Sylvia's aversion to the purifying fire originated from the power of her bloodline. The power of the purifying fire made her bloodline power instinctively feel disgusted, and even affected her emotions.

Although it seems that the purifying fire has a strong restraint on the power of the Abyss Demonic Dragon, and the scales produced due to the out-of-control blood power disappear immediately after the expulsion spell of the purifying fire approaches, but in fact the Abyss Demonic Dragon

The power is higher in energy level than the power of the purifying fire, and the power of the Abyss Dragon can fully reproduce the power of the purifying fire.

But the problem is that for the power of the Abyss Dragon, the power of the purifying fire is like a pile of disgusting excrement. Even if the power level is higher and stronger, it will never take the initiative to come into contact with a pile of excrement.

That's why I chose to retreat.

In other words, the Purifying Fire relies on nausea to make powers such as the Abyss Dragon retreat.

Leo naturally knows the nature of the power of the Purifying Fire, because he has the power of the Abyss Serpent in his body, as well as the marks of various other gods. He can feel not only the power of the abyss, but also the marks of some gods in the Velen world.

They also have a strong repulsion and aversion to the power of the purifying fire. Only special powers such as the power of the Stone Throne, the devouring power of the Chaos Stomach and the power of nightmares are not affected at all.

Pennistan on the side was also distracted at this moment and saw Leo casting the magic of purifying fire. The expulsion magic is the most basic magic of purifying fire. Almost all parish priests of purifying fire know how to use it, especially in some cases.

During special festivals, the Purifying Fire will also come to her subordinate villages and towns to preach. When preaching, she will perform some magical spells to deepen people's faith, so she is no stranger to expulsion divine spells.

If she had some doubts just now about Leo's claim to be able to cast the magic of purifying fire and disguise himself as the purifying fire, then all these doubts have disappeared now.

At this time, there was a knock on the door suddenly from the room outside. Leo checked through the spiritual network and found that it was Father Tovia and the Lord Knight named Tuffman.

Leo asked Penistan to continue practicing in the house, while he and Sylvia walked out, opened the door, looked at the two people outside the house and asked, "What's the matter?"

Perhaps because Leo had made him feel afraid just now, Father Tovia shrank his neck and couldn't help but take a step back to Knight Tafman's side, then took a deep breath and said: "Tonight there is a round of rats."

The tide will pass through here and then escape back to the mountains. The church hopes that we can try to intercept it. The church knights sent by the church to support will arrive soon, and then these crazy rats will be completely eliminated here."

"How do you know there are rats passing through here tonight?" Leo asked.

Tovia said: "Not long ago, the church notified me through the holy fire."

Leo nodded and said expressionlessly: "Okay! If you want to do it, just do it! You don't need to come here to notify us."

After saying that, he turned around and went back into the house and closed the door.

"Wait," Tovia immediately stopped Leo and said, "We are here to inform you, hoping that you two can help us deal with this rat tide."

"Why should we help you?" It was not Leo who spoke this time, but Sylvia.

Tovia frowned and said: "The rat tide is the enemy of all humans. Anyone in front of the rat tide..."

Sylvia interrupted the other party and said: "The rat tide is not harmful to us, and they can't hurt us."

Tuffman, who was wearing a complete knight's armor, felt very dissatisfied when he heard Sylvia's words. He was about to say something, but was stopped by Tovia.

Tovia did not continue to persuade, and saluted Leo and Sylvia, then turned and left. Knight Tafman glared at Leo and Sylvia fiercely, and followed them.

"Just give up so easily?" Seeing Tovia's actions, Sylvia was a little surprised. She originally thought that the other party would use other methods to persuade her, such as the survivors in the city, etc., but the result was satisfactory.

What she didn't expect was that the other party left without saying anything, which made her feel baffled by Tovia's behavior.

Leo guessed: "Maybe he is looking for reasons to accuse us in the future."

"That would be interesting." Not only did Sylvia not feel nervous, but she looked expectant. It was obvious that her current mood was still affected by the Abyss Dragon.

Leo shook his head, then looked at the direction the two people left and said, "I'm more interested in what they said about the rat tide."

"Is there a problem with the rat tide?" Sylvia asked.

"Of course there is a problem." Leo said in a deep voice: "Didn't I say before that the hive consciousness of the rats should have been dispersed by the Pope of the Church of Purifying Fire, and the influence of the hive consciousness has been lost. These heroes

The nature of Jerry rats will regain the upper hand, and a group of naturally timid Jerry rats will not be able to escape from human gathering places, so how can they form a tide of rats and attack humans."

Hearing this, Sylvia thought for a moment and couldn't help but smile: "It seems that our Father Tovia is not as honest and kind as he appears on the surface."

After hearing this, Leo quickly understood why Sylvia said that, and he nodded in approval, feeling that the sudden rat tide attack was indeed very strange, and it was probably a pre-set stage play.

If you think about it carefully, this mutated and violent rat tide is about to end. Now the Principality of Rus and several surrounding principalities are empty of houses, secular power is vacant, population is vacant, etc. Regardless of it, the positions of these principalities are empty.

The vacancies will definitely be filled in the shortest possible time.

Although Father Tovia performed extremely well during this rat tide, he not only saved his own life, but also saved many survivors, and even saved the parish's purifying fire. Such an achievement

This will definitely give Father Tovia a considerable promotion in his church duties.

However, his job promotion may not necessarily satisfy him. Even if a clergyman like him without any background is promoted, most of them are promoted to some nominal positions, and he cannot become the head of a diocese at all.

Fr.

Tovia should be very clear about where his weaknesses lie. The Rusian Principality and the surrounding principalities, which have not yet completely ended the rat tide, have now become fat in the eyes of many people. There are a large number of people with sufficient qualifications in the Church of Purifying Fire.

, people with strong backgrounds are waiting to fill a fertile vacancy. If he wants to stand out among these people and avoid the situation of rising up and down, he must find a way to make himself irreplaceable in the eyes of the church.

What kind of existence cannot be replaced? Naturally, it is a hero. The reconstruction of the Principality of Russ Church is inevitable. The Church of Purifying Fire should select one person from other nobles who have blood relations with Russ IX to succeed the Grand Duke.

A hero who faced off against the rat tide and saved a large number of survivors will undoubtedly bring a lot of convenience to the reconstruction work, so what Tovia has to do now is to make his reputation even better.

One floor, reaching a level that is enough to be called a hero.

Create a fake rat tide, and then use his magic and the power of the purifying fire to drive away the rat tide, save the refuge that was built with great efforts, and protect the last survivor of the Russ Cult Principality. Once such deeds are spread,

Now, his hero status will naturally come naturally.

However, what Leo is now curious about is how the other party is going to create this rat tide, because Leo has taken Pennistan through the surrounding forests and mountains in the past few days, killing all the rats he saw.

Now, there are no rat swarms around the town. Without rat swarms, there can be no rat tide.

However, Tovia's appearance didn't seem like he was faking it, which made Leo even more interested in the subsequent actions of this priest of purifying fire.

Time soon came to the middle of the night. Because of Father Tovia's warning, no one in the town took a break. Everyone, men, women, old and young, picked up useful weapons and stood on the temporary wooden wall.

, among which the elderly and children were leaning closely around the container of purifying fire, while others were guarding other parts of the wooden wall.

The person in charge of commanding the front line was the Tuffman knight, while Father Tovia led the two surviving young believers to kneel in front of the source of the purifying fire in the middle of the town, as if performing some kind of religious ceremony.

While praying, he threw some branches and other things into the bonfire.

At this time, Leo's spiritual net had been completely released, covering the entire town. Checking the situation inside the town, he soon discovered that with Father Tovia's prayer, the source of the purifying fire seemed to be

Suffering some kind of suppression, the strength began to weaken.

The weakening of the source fire is also like a chain reaction, which has an impact on the purifying fire on the surrounding wooden walls, causing their power to also begin to weaken. The most intuitive manifestation is that the flames begin to become dim and appear irregular.

of jitter.

Seeing this situation, even the most obtuse person would be able to detect that something was wrong. Under Knight Tuffman's orders, everyone clenched their weapons, and some experienced hunters in the crowd also fired shots.

A rocket lit the lighting bonfire set up outside the wall.

When the bonfire is lit, the dark environment outside is occupied by the light of the fire, and everyone can see the situation outside clearly through the light of the fire.

However, what puzzled everyone was that no traces of rats were found outside, and everything seemed normal.

Everyone thought that maybe the rats hadn't approached yet, so they waited for a while, but as they saw the bonfire gradually dimming, they still didn't find any trace of the rats, which made them wonder.

Knight Tuffman was also confused and ordered his deputy to temporarily take over his command. Then he returned to the town's purifying fire source. When he saw Tovia who was still praying, he couldn't wait to tell the situation.

Tell Tovia.

Tovia was stunned after hearing this. This was obviously different from what he expected. However, he did not show his emotions. He just said that maybe the rat tide sensed the power of the purifying fire and avoided this small town.

If so, then tell Knight Tuffman not to relax too much and continue to stay on the wall to avoid any accidents.

After Knight Tuffman left, Tovia did not continue the religious ceremony. Instead, he separated the two young believers and used the fire watcher's magic to connect the spirit and the purifying fire to see what happened.

What's up.

At this time, Leo had already taken back the spiritual net. He already knew that Father Tovia's trick was nothing more than to suppress the power of the purifying fire, give the rats outside the city an opportunity, and lure the rats with some

Special plants are thrown into the purifying fire and burned, allowing the unique smell of the plants to emit and lead the rats to attack the town.

As long as he lures the rats out, he will be able to use the fire watcher's ability to make the purifying fire burst out with stronger power and drive away the rats. In that case, he will be the one who saves the survivors and the refuge town.

Hero, and then spread this deed, his reputation will reach an unprecedented height, and the church will definitely give him more attention in the matter of rebuilding the Rusian principality and parish.

It has to be said that without Leo and others, Tovia's plan can indeed be realized. Unfortunately, in the past two days, Leo asked Pennenstein to evacuate and kill the Jerry Rats surrounding the other protagonist of this drama.

Light, lost this important role, the drama he directed was over before it even started.

Now Father Tovia is communicating with the Purifying Fire, trying to use the power of the Purifying Fire to remedy this drama. The result is predictable. Until dawn the next day, the expected rat tide did not appear, and the crisis did not come.

Although Father Tovia's shelter and treatment of survivors during this period and his stabilizing the hearts of the people in the refuge town played a significant role in making the thousands of survivors become loyal believers in the purifying fire, he

He also gained a lot of prestige, but what he had done still made some people feel dissatisfied with Father Tovia, who felt that Father Tovia was deliberately creating panic to rely on his own prestige.

As a result, Father Tovia's reputation not only did not increase, but actually declined. However, Knight Tafman, who had been waiting on the wall with the survivors all day, gained a lot of reputation.

Father Tovia was still confused at this moment and didn't know why his plan failed, but he soon thought of Leo, because it seemed that Leo was the only one in the whole town who would take Pennistan outside the town before.

I don’t know what to do in the forest, but now the rats outside the town have not appeared, which is undoubtedly related to Leo and Penisten.

Although he thought of this, Father Tovia did not dare to do anything to Leo, because he knew very well that if he acted randomly, he might have disappeared mysteriously before the church sent someone over, so he just
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