"Your agility growth will continue for a while. During this period, you will not be able to adapt to the changes in your body, and many problems will occur." Leo looked at Joey who was completely immersed in ecstasy, reminded him, and then said

: "Your current situation is no longer suitable for me to continue to the upper level of the royal city. Let's break up here."

"Ah?" Joey was stunned, and soon realized that his situation was indeed not suitable for following Leo, or even for staying here any longer, and a look of regret appeared on his face.

He didn't know why he felt that if he continued to follow Leo to the upper levels of the royal city, he might be able to gain more and see more magical things, but he might also encounter greater dangers, and he might even really die.

here.

"Thank you." Joey suppressed the regret in his heart and said to Leo sincerely.

Leo nodded, turned around and looked at the bonfire again. Thinking of the abnormal situation that happened in time and space over there just now, he couldn't help but frown. For some reason, he felt that something might have happened in the prayer hall over there.

After sorting out his emotions for a while, he didn't think too much about the time and space over there. In his opinion, even if something happened over there, he wouldn't be able to help, or even qualified to help, so it was appropriate to focus on his own affairs.

Some.

After feeling that the bonfire would no longer reflect the scene of another time and space, Leo decisively stood up and left the prayer hall, walking towards a place called the small church marked on the data map. According to the data, there

There is a shortcut to the upper ancient city that avoids the upper passages guarded by Roderick Knights.

Although from the various situations seen before, it seems that the Roderick Knights all died in the civil war, but nothing is certain. Maybe some Roderick Knights survived, or even were contaminated by the abyss and became monsters. Although Leo

He was confident that he could deal with these Roderick Knights, but he was worried that he would encounter more dangerous entities in the upper ancient city, so conserving his strength as much as possible was the best choice.

When Leo left the prayer hall, Joey had no intention of staying here any longer. He seemed to have figured out a way to deal with the various changes that might occur if his appearance returned to normal. He directly activated the ring and his body gradually disappeared.

A pile of vigorously burning bonfires were left burning in the ruined prayer hall.

After Leo left the prayer hall, he walked around a secret path, walked through a bunch of houses, and came to the temple area near the city wall.

This is the only religious area in the lower city. This area is not open to the public. Only clergy are allowed in and out. If ordinary people in the lower city want to pray to the gods, they can only do so in the prayer hall. According to the Church of the Gods at that time

The saying is that this is a land of gods, a holy place, and should not be stepped on or defiled by ordinary mortals.

But in the information Leo saw, the writer gave this area a subname with the name "Filthy Place", and also added some notes, in which he mentioned some things about the clergy's activities here.

Some evil and cruel things, and also questioned whether the gods are really as great as the classics say, because they can't even detect the evil things under their noses, so how can they have the ability to protect the world?

It is not difficult to see that the man who explored the royal city was very disdainful and even somewhat hostile to the gods of Anor Londo. His purpose of exploring the royal city was more to uncover the ugliness under the gorgeous appearance of the royal city. In fact, he did

Here we are, a large number of unknown secret places were recorded in his information. Judging from the names he marked, those secret places are definitely not good places.

Just like the shortcut that Leo is going to now, the outsider from Dragon Academy named it after the Fallen Path, and mentioned the function of this path in his comments.

According to the laws and regulations of the religious religion, clergy are required to abstain from sexual intercourse, observe good deeds, and be lawful. However, clergy are also very good at finding loopholes. They have discovered from the laws and regulations that as long as they are not in a place blessed by God, then they

There is no need to believe in any laws, and the lower city of the royal city, except for the small garden and prayer hall, is not a place blessed by the gods, so they built an additional temple area in the lower city specifically for the priests in the upper city.

Personnel provide some so-called entertainment that is not allowed by the laws of the gods.

Leo didn't know what kind of entertainment these clergy received, but he could understand the mood of the Dragon Academy man exploring this place, because with his spiritual network perception, he found that there was a large one under these temples.

There are a large number of rooms in this space, and almost every room contains one or more living corpses.

It is not difficult to tell from the clothes of these living corpses that these are ordinary people in the lower urban areas, and each of them has more or less scars on their bodies. These scars did not appear after becoming living zombies, but before they became living zombies.

Yes, depending on the situation, he was tortured a lot during his lifetime.

Leo was not in the mood to pay attention to the dirty deeds of these clergymen, and there was no need to pay attention to them, because most of these clergymen died in the civil war, and even if they did not die, they were all corroded by human pus and turned into grotesque shapes.

monster.

What Leo has to consider now is how to bypass these monsters and head to the trail.

Although the hunger transmitted by the Chaos Stomach gave him the urge to devour all the monsters transformed from the clergy in front of him, his strong will was still able to suppress this physiological instinct, allowing him to remain calm.

Think and judge the situation at hand.

Leo soon discovered that these monsters, like other living zombies in the city, had fixed patrol routes and patrol areas. From their patrol routes, it was easy to see that they were all connected to each other. As long as one monster was disturbed, the entire area would be affected.

Other monsters in the area will also be alerted.

The same mechanical movement method also naturally has some dead spots. Leo used the mental network to explore all the patrol routes and areas of these monsters, and formed a complete three-dimensional route map in his mind, and found these easily.

The monster's patrol route has dead spots, and these dead spots are connected into a line that can be used for shadow jump.

However, Leo did not use this route immediately. Instead, he stood there, thinking about other things, and how the Dragon Academy man passed the patrols of these monsters.

Obviously from the records in that book, it is not difficult to infer that the person from the Dragon Academy can use some powers similar to witchcraft, but he is not strong and often chooses to avoid it, and he is not as able as Leo.

Using methods of spatial movement such as shadow jump, and not having a body like Leo that could climb up various buildings and use himself to avoid obstacles, he could only choose to walk on the streets that had been opened like ordinary people.

However, in that book, he described everything about this place in detail, even the dungeon space under the temple, which vaguely hinted that he would not accept these monsters and underground zombies.

Attackers can come and go freely here.

This question is not a random thought, because he feels that the person from the Dragon Academy may have mastered a way to avoid being attacked by these monsters infected by the abyss. If he can find this way, then the next journey will be easy.

After all, it is recorded in that book that there are still a large number of powerful monsters in the upper ancient city. These monsters were already very powerful warriors when they were alive, and they become even more powerful when they become monsters. With his strength as a fifth-level psyker

, there is no guarantee that he can defeat these monsters.

Leo carefully recalled every detail of the book he saw, and analyzed and compared it. After about half an hour, he found a clue.

At first glance, the writing style used by people from the Dragon Academy to record the data on the exploration of the royal city is the same, but if you look closely, you will find some subtle changes in the writing style, and this change divides the content in this book into two

period.

There was a period when he had just arrived in the royal city. The goals of exploration were very messy, and the recorded content was also very simple. Most of the maps were drawn based on terrain and streets.

But after that, his writing style quickly changed and became a selective exploration target, and the exploration of the target was also very in-depth. There were even a large number of hand-drawn drawings related to the exploration target, but the map drawing was much simpler.

, instead of carefully marking the terrain and streets, they just recorded a route, and judging from previous encounters, most of the routes drawn later had groups of living corpses blocking the way.

Soon Leo found the turning point between the two writings. This turning point was the exploration of an ancient library in the lower city by people from the Dragon Academy. During this exploration, he was injured, and the monster that injured him was a

A monster infected by human pus.

The people from the Dragon Academy did not record his injuries in subsequent writings, nor did they mention the outcome of the monster, but three days later he was able to continue exploring the lower city of the royal city, and his writing style changed.

The injury recorded here is itself a doubtful point, because it is not difficult to see from this person's previous writings that unless he suffered an injury that took ten days and a half to recover, he would never write about his injury.

in the book.

But this time, he completely recorded his injury, which had never happened before. In other words, when he recorded these words, he thought that his injuries were too serious to die, and he completely wanted to save himself.

Complete the notes on the exploration of the royal city. But for some reason, his injury suddenly healed and he was able to move freely in just two or three days. This was completely inconsistent with his previous record of the injury. It was obvious what happened when he was injured.

This allows him to quickly recover from injuries and will no longer be attacked by zombies and monsters.

"Human pus!" Leo quickly thought of the monster in the hands of the people from the Dragon Academy and the key things that formed that monster, which also gave him an answer to the doubts in his heart.

Although there is no substantial evidence, Leo guessed through various anomalies that the person from the Dragon Academy might have been infected by human pus after being injured. It's just that the person from the Dragon Academy had eroded the human pus to

Contained, and restrained the further erosion of human pus, and made his body carry the breath of human pus, so that he would not be attacked by living corpses and monsters that were also infected by the abyss.

Thinking of this, Leo immediately had an idea in his mind and realized it immediately. He retreated from the original path to the main street, and soon found a monster formed from human pus.

It was effortless for Leo to deal with such a lone monster. Soon, Leo cut the monster into pieces and took out the human pus from the monster, allowing it to invade Dao's body.

However, this time Leo did not use the power of gluttony to devour the human pus that had penetrated the entire palm. Instead, he built a protection around the wrist to prevent the human pus from continuing to penetrate into the arm, completely

The human pus is confined in the palm of his hand, and is innately suppressed by the power of gluttony. However, even if the human pus has been integrated into his palm, it will still not cause harm to him or cause his palm to mutate.

The only difference from before is that the palms now turn light black and emit bursts of oily sheen.

After completely controlling the human pus in his palm, Leo did not restrict the weak energy fluctuations emitted by the human pus. Then he looked around and found a swaying living corpse, and entered the attack range of the living corpse.

within.

As he had expected before, under the influence of the breath of human pus, the living corpse seemed to regard Leo as a bucket. Instead of attacking Leo, he staggered past Leo and put

Leo thought it was like air.

But Leo didn't end the test. Then he used his strength to restrict the breath of human pus from leaking out. The living corpse that just passed by Leo immediately changed back to its original appearance and rushed towards Leo crazily.

, launches an attack on Leo.

Naturally, such an attack could not pose any threat to Leo. He easily avoided the attack and easily eliminated the living corpse.

After this attempt, Leo has determined how to prevent the person from the Dragon Academy from being attacked by zombies and monsters. The next step is to test the monsters.

Just when Leo started looking for suitable monsters to test the human pus, a building in the distance suddenly collapsed, and loud noises were heard, breaking the silence of this dead city.

"Is it the prayer hall?" Leo looked at the place where the sound came from, and judged the location from the raised dust. He couldn't help but feel surprised, because according to his estimation, the collapsed building should be the prayer hall he just left.

.

Seeing this, Leo immediately set off and rushed towards the prayer hall.

It didn't take long for him to return to the small square where the prayer hall was located. In the distance of his sight, the prayer hall that was relatively intact before had turned into a pile of rubble. If you look closely, these rubbles were all covered with weathering.

There are traces of it, as if tens of millions of years have passed since that moment.

However, Leo's eyes at this moment were not on the ruined prayer hall, but on another secret room exposed due to the collapse of the prayer hall.

At this moment, part of the secret room had collapsed, revealing the situation inside. What surprised Leo was that all the secret rooms were filled with corpses, the corpses of the fire defense girls.

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