After recovering some of his spiritual energy, Leo tried to use one of the dark attack techniques called Soul Flame. As he used his spiritual energy according to the method in his mind, a purple-black mass gradually formed in his left hand.

of flame.

Although it is a flame, it does not feel any warmth. Instead, it gives people an extremely cold feeling. This coldness is not just a feeling, because at the moment the flame appears, a layer of frost also condenses on the ground around it.

However, this is not the true power of the soul flame. According to the knowledge related to dark arts that Leo has obtained, when the soul flame reaches a certain level, it can directly attack the illusory soul, and its power has no end, because in more than a hundred kinds of darkness,

In the art, there are more than thirty kinds of dark arts related to soul flames. According to Leo's estimation, the most powerful ones can even cause damage to Omega-level advanced life forms. This means that the dark arts of soul flames can also be considered.

Strategic level.

It's a pity that soul flames can't be directly cast through spiritual energy like thunder guns. The power of soul flames is directly related to the soul crystal stone. For example, soul flames that can cause damage to omega-level advanced life forms require a source of energy.

It is the soul crystal stone of an Omega-level advanced life form, so this soul flame seems a bit useless.

Now Leo can think of the most suitable place to use the soul flame, which is to integrate it into the soul bonfire trap, use the soul bonfire trap to create soul crystal stones, maintain the power of the soul flame, attack the living bodies entering the trap, and make up for the soul bonfire trap.

In view of the shortcomings of weak attack power of living bodies, the complementation is insufficient.

In addition to the flaw of the soul crystal stone, Leo also discovered another flaw, that is, he can only use the left hand fused with the eyes of the abyss serpent to cast the dark art of soul fire, or to be more correct, all dark arts can

It can only be used with the left hand. Even though the right hand is also part of the body, it cannot be used. And perhaps because of the eyeballs of the abyss serpent, whether it is psychic energy or other powers used with the left hand, some power will inevitably be weakened, but it will

The infiltration of some other powers, some of which may come from the abyss, makes the psionic skills and witchcraft displayed somewhat different.

After a little understanding of the characteristics of the dark arts, Leo did not continue to try. Instead, he practiced quietly while thinking about how to integrate the dark arts into his combat system, and how to do it without affecting his own ability.

Under the premise, let the power of dark magic be maximized.

I don't know how long it took, but when Leo felt that his body was almost recovered, he stopped thinking, stood up, picked up the Fire Control Girl's scepter, walked out of the small hall, and returned to the prayer hall along the same path.

Although the human pus has been absorbed by the snake eyes, Leo can no longer use the human pus to disguise himself, but obviously the snake eyes of the abyss snake are more advanced. When Leo walked into the patrol area of ​​mutated monsters that had been eroded by the power of the abyss,

At that time, not only did the monsters not attack him, but they stayed away from him in fear, as if he was the embodiment of terror.

With the protection of Snake Eyes, Leo returned to the prayer hall in a shorter time.

The bonfire in the prayer hall is still burning. It is obvious that the more fuel in the heart of the ancient war tree is of great help in keeping the flame burning.

Leo walked to the bonfire, raised his hand and directly inserted the scepter in his hand into the bonfire.

As the Fire Control Girl's scepter connected with the bonfire, a ray of light emanated from the sun symbol on the top of the scepter and shot straight into the sky. However, after reaching a certain height, it suddenly seemed to be blocked by an invisible mirror.

The direction of Anor Londo at the top of the royal city was refracted, and then, the sky that was originally daytime turned into night without any warning, and there was no starlight in the night, only a cold silver moon hanging in front of the sun.

in position.

Although the change in the sky surprised Leo, it did not cause Leo too much shock or surprise, because before, Leo had already guessed that the scene in the royal city during the day was just an illusion, and now it only confirmed his previous belief.

Guess, but the confirmation process was a bit unexpected.

At this moment, the fire-resistant female scepter in the bonfire has returned to normal, but the sun emblem above the scepter is still shining with bursts of light, and it shines quite frequently, as if it is some kind of signal.

The changes in the scepter and the sky did not have any impact on Leo. After he determined that the scepter showed no signs of continuing to change, he turned around and left the prayer hall, returning to the temple area along the same route, where the statue of the God King was.

A secret passage leading to the upper ancient city was found in the base. After finding nothing unusual, they walked into this secret passage that could allow three people to walk together.

Just when Leo entered the secret passage, three figures appeared in the ruins of the prayer hall. These three figures were all wearing different armors. One was wearing a simple but extremely eye-catching brass armor, and the other was wearing a simple but eye-catching brass armor.

One was wearing a set of silver-white ornate armor, and another was wearing a stone armor. All the armors covered their faces and bodies, and their appearance could not be seen. Only from their huge figure of more than six meters,

It is judged that they are all non-human beings.

Among them, the man wearing brass armor walked to the bonfire, squatted down slightly, and reached out to touch the sun emblem above the scepter. The sun emblem immediately burst out with dazzling light, illuminating the entire ruins of the prayer hall, and then

What happened in this prayer hall was re-enacted in the form of phantom fast-forward. After about half an hour or so, the image finally settled on the moment when Leo inserted the scepter into the bonfire.

At this time, the three warriors walked to Leo's illusion and squatted down to look at Leo carefully. Finally, it could be seen from the movement of the helmets of the three that their eyes all fell on Leo's left hand.

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In this illusion, Leo's left hand was completely different from other body parts, turning into a strange hand with snake eyes on the back and a black oil-like substance on the surface.

After the illusion dissipated, the three warriors stood up, each took a look, and then nodded tacitly, and then left from different directions and entered the streets of the lower city. All living corpses and monsters blocking their way looked like

They were harvested by them like weeds, and they searched every place carefully. It seemed that they were looking for Leo, but they didn't know that the target they were looking for was no longer in the lower city, and was bypassing it through the secret passage.

Enter the sacred gate and enter the upper ancient city.

At this time, Leo, who came out of the secret passage, dusted himself off, turned around, and looked at the exit of the secret passage, as if he was thinking about something.

Although there were some living corpses in the secret passage, it did not cause Leo any trouble. The biggest trouble for him was that the secret passage was basically a maze. It took him a lot of time to find the way to the upper ancient city.

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The original diggers of this secret passage may have just wanted to create a shortcut for the clergy in the upper ancient city to relax in the lower city, but it is obvious that later people no longer just regarded it as a simple secret passage.

The people built it into a private space belonging to the priests, and also opened up more than one shortcut to different areas of the royal city.

Just like Leo took the wrong path just now and ended up in the underground cemetery below the royal city.

According to the information recorded in the manual, the underground cemetery is a special existence in the royal city. It is the kingdom of the dead. Not only ordinary people in the royal city will be buried in the underground cemetery after death, but even the gods will be sent there after death.

Underground cemetery.

After being buried in the underground cemetery, the deceased will be resurrected according to their status and become a member of the kingdom of death. Ordinary people will become skeleton warriors, while divine beings will become death attendants. They will all serve the incarnation of death deep in the underground cemetery.

In front of the seat.

No one knows what the incarnation of death is in the underground cemetery. Even the gods don't know much. They just know that there is a mysterious existence in the underground cemetery that cannot be talked about in words. This existence has the same status as God King Gwen.

You will not feel inferior just because you are under the royal city.

The moment Leo entered the underground cemetery, he encountered some skeleton warriors.

Obviously those skeleton warriors were not contaminated by the power of the abyss, so the snake eyes on the left hand could not stop the attacks of these skeleton warriors.

However, these skeleton warriors are not very powerful in Renault's eyes. Apart from their fearless fighting style, they are slightly inferior to ordinary human warriors in other aspects.

But these skeleton warriors still caused some trouble for Leo at the initial moment, because even if Leo dispersed these skeleton warriors, the skeleton warriors would still quickly recover as before, and there was no recovery limit, which made it obvious that they were just a few.

A dozen skeleton warriors were easy to deal with, but they gave Leo the illusion of being in a battlefield with endless enemies.

However, things soon changed. The mark of the web-weaver on Leo suddenly activated automatically. Every time Leo killed a skeleton warrior, an invisible net would be formed to cover the skeleton warrior, as if fishing.

Usually, they capture something special on the skeleton warrior and put it back into the mark.

With the help of the Mark of the Web-spinner, Leo easily dealt with these skeleton warriors who had caused him trouble just now.

While the skeletal warriors were being dealt with, the Webweaver's mark did not stop working. It seemed to be alive, constantly conveying a direction to Leo, urging him to move in that direction, but that direction was in the underground cemetery.

the lowest level of the abyss.

Leo guessed that the reason why the Webweaver's mark appeared abnormal at this time was probably because he sensed the death aura of the mysterious existence deep in the underground cemetery. This death aura is very similar to the power of Death God Kain, and should also be Death God Kain.

Love the power gained.

Although the Mark of the Web Weaver kept sending out urging messages, Leo was not swayed by the Mark of the Web Weaver. He chose to retreat back to the passage the way he came.

He knew very well, not to mention whether he could successfully enter the deepest part of the underground cemetery. Even if he reached the deepest part and saw the real master of the underground cemetery, the kingdom of death, he would not come out at all, because either the God of Death, Kain, did not appear.

, he has to face this mysterious existence alone, or the Death God Kain appears, and he is involved in this battle that may involve Omega-level advanced life forms. No matter which outcome, he will die, so he

He quickly made the wisest choice, retreated through the shortcut and secret passage, and left the underground cemetery.

After that, he successfully found the correct path to the upper ancient city, and finally arrived at the upper ancient city. However, when he left the passage, he felt as if he had lost something most important, which made him feel like he was missing something.

The urge to go back and return to the underground cemetery.

Leo knew very well that this sense of loss was not due to his own emotions, but was affected by the mark of the web spinner, but it still had some impact on him.

In the end, Leo got rid of this influence, looked away from the exit of the passage, and turned to look around.

Perhaps knowing that the image could not influence Leo's decision, the Webweaver's mark no longer exerted any power to influence Leo's mind and fell silent again.

Leo ignored the matter of the Webweaver's mark, and all his attention fell on the ancient royal city within the city wall.

The exit of the secret passage is in a tower with a high wall. Looking out from the window of the tower, you can see the entire ancient city.

However, after Leo saw the current situation in the ancient city, he couldn't help but frowned, because the situation here seemed a little different from the information he saw in that book. It was mentioned in that book

In the ancient city area we arrived, although many places were dilapidated, the buildings were still relatively intact.

But now the ancient city in front of him is in ruins, with ruins and broken walls everywhere. There are only a handful of buildings that can be called complete. Judging from the remaining traces of these ruined walls, it is obvious that a great war occurred here, and the great war

Both sides are very powerful, at least level 7 psykers and above.

He doesn't care about what happened in the ancient city, who is fighting whom here, etc. What he cares about is whether the passage to leave here and return to Yam Island still exists.

So after he checked his surroundings with his sight, he began to find out where the passage was through perception.

In fact, Leo had already sensed it before entering the Royal City, but the content of his perception at that time was very vague. He just felt that the passage to Yam Island should be within the Royal City. But now as he officially entered the ancient city,

The perception that had been vague before suddenly became clear.

Through this clear feeling, he quickly found the exact location of the passage, and this location happened to be in the only well-preserved very large stone palace in the entire ancient city.

From the information in the book, Leo learned that the building was actually a place for divine warriors to rest and train. It was also the most dangerous place in the entire ancient city and the most likely to encounter some big troubles, because it was recorded in the book that there were also divine warriors.

The soldiers are still alive, and their location is exactly in the palace that he now regards as his target.

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