The Rat Man camp was as silent as death, and the dark corners were covered with all kinds of shimmering fungi, which reflected the corpses of the Rat Man lying on the ground loomingly, making this dark dungeon even more eerie.

The kobold warlock Lessers gleamed scarlet in his eyes as he wandered among the mounds of corpses devastated by terrifying rats, dire rats, and scavengers.

Looking at the fatal sword wounds on the corpse, Lessers couldn't help recalling the scorching blade and the half-elf ranger shrouded in a cloak.

He couldn't help shivering, tightened his clothes, and muttered softly, as if wondering why the dungeon was so cold today.

Then, without shy about the rancid and **** smell of corpses around him, he stretched out a pair of small hands and kept pounding among the corpses.

He grinned as he dug out a stained silver coin from the pocket of some rat-man corpse and wiped it clean with his sleeve immediately.

Suddenly, when this coin was about to be thrown into his pocket, ready to collide with other coins to make a pleasant 'clank' sound, the dragon-shaped pattern full of magnificent artistic conception on the silver coin reflected a light blue light, and it flashed away. .

The kobold warlock Lessers stared at the silver coin that disappeared from the light blue light with a look of doubt, and then turned to look at the blond girl sitting on the edge of the roof with her calves dangling.

Seeing this blond girl holding a sword in one hand and slashing at will, the kobold warlock turned his attention to the long sword in her hand.

I saw this long sword exuding light blue light. Every time it was swung in the night, a flash of blue light was left in the air, as if to tell the opponent how sharp its blade was and how sharp it was. How sharp is the arc floating in the air.

"I think male drow elves look very handsome." Kobold Warlock Lessers noticed that the corners of his mouth looked like a blond girl with a smirk, and couldn't help expressing his inner doubts:

"That's why I'm very surprised. After hundreds of years, haven't you seen a handsome drow? Even if you started training them from a young age, you can at least form a strengthening company now."

"I'm not interested in black skin. This kind of disgust permeates the depths of my soul, which makes me instinctively disgusted whenever I see it." The blonde girl squinted at the kobold and replied seriously.

Then she placed the long sword in front of her, stretched out the index and middle fingers of her other hand, stuck it on the sword body emitting a light blue light, and scratched directly from the hilt to the tip of the sword, the long sword in her hand suddenly become unpretentious.

"Look forward, don't lower your head!" The blonde girl looked at the drow elf characters engraved on the sword and couldn't help but read it softly.

Then, she sheathed her long sword, leaned her elbows on her thighs, held her cheeks in her hands, and swayed her calves on the eaves, letting the cold wind blow her slightly curly blond hair.

Suddenly, a magic light flashed in the pale green eyes of the blond girl, as if she saw something outside her sight, so she couldn't help but muttered, "The workmanship of his long sword looks too rough."

"Why do I always have a feeling that Chinese cabbage runs out of the vegetable garden on its own, looking for being arched by a pig." The kobold warlock did not dare to say a word, only slandered in his heart.

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The secret underground passage, the deepest part of the Temple of Tiamat.

As the Orc Juggernaut started a wild berserk, the sharp blade in his hand instantly split the last tyrant demon entangled with the paladin into two pieces, and the encounter with the devil also ended.

However, the joy of victory did not wash away the gloomy look of everyone.

They all focused their worried eyes on a figure sitting cross-legged on the ground in the corner.

"This is a test of one's own will. No one can intervene. If he wants to pass it, he can only rely on himself."

The goblin wizard Malvasia glanced at Thorne, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, as if she was enduring great pain, and said slowly.

Then she patted the wolf on the head lightly, walked to Thorne, and first glanced at the long sword that he had planted on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the goblin wizard locked his gaze on the demonic mark that flashed a strange red light in Thorne's left palm. Suddenly, her expression hidden in the pointed hat suddenly changed color.

So she immediately jumped off the Warg's back and walked in front of her. She first glanced at Andrina beside her, then raised Thorne's palm directly, and carefully observed the patterns and changes of the palm mark.

After a while...

Malvasa, who wanted to understand the reason, seemed to be frightened, her petite body trembled slightly, took a few steps back, and lost her voice: "It turned out to be the soul imprint of Calum, the king of Balor."

"The Lord of the Balor Flame Demon?" Andrina looked at Thorne worriedly, and cast her puzzled eyes on the goblin wizard.

"So, the immortal evil hidden in this piece of abyss iron is a demon lord from the abyss, not an ordinary Balor."

Suddenly, Thorne, whose expression gradually softened, heard the goblin wizard muttering to himself, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and got up and asked.

"I'm fine, I have successfully suppressed it." Then, he noticed Andrina's worried look beside him, patted the back of her hand, and said with a smile.

He had a deep understanding of the impact of the increase in the level of "Devil Power" in Twin Towers Town, so he was not surprised this time. The only thing that surprised him was that this chaotic will invasion made him struggle a little bit, as if he would fall into a desperate situation if he slackened a little.

And as soon as he recovered, he immediately heard the description of the King of the Baloo Flame Demon from the goblin wizard, so Thorne immediately became interested in the origin of this piece of deep iron.

"You got this ability thanks to the one from Winter City." Malvasia didn't answer Thorne's question directly, but glanced at his palm and weapon, and asked again.

"That's right." Thorne nodded.

"It's really messed up, the will of the abyss can't be resisted so easily." Malvasa got Thorne's affirmation, finished with a reproachful tone, and solemnly reminded him: "Thorne , you know? If you go on like this, you will die sooner or later."

"Is it that serious?" Thorne could tell from the other person's tone that she didn't seem to be joking. So looking at the mark on the palm of his hand, he said to the goblin wizard:

"While the process of acquiring this ability is certainly impressive, I think now that I'm fully used to this ability, I'm also able to handle the invasion of Chaos Will with ease."

"That's because you don't even know how terrifying the will of the abyss is." Malvasa rode on the back of the wolf again, pressed the brim of her hat, and a trace of fear flashed in her pale red eyes:

"Many scholars who have done countless studies on the bottomless abyss believe that the bottomless abyss is not a simple plane, it has a very unique will. But unlike the will that ordinary people understand, the will of the abyss does not have the ability to think, it is more Much like a pan-conscious aggregate, because the will acts entirely on instinct, and its instinct is chaos and evil."

"What you mean is that the will of the abyss is similar to gods, but the difference is that it does not require belief, and no one will believe in it. It more represents the abyss itself, representing absolute chaos and destruction." Andrina After thinking for a while, he said what he understood.

"That's right, so when a demon is promoted to become a demon lord, the will of the abyss will favor the demon and randomly give him a unique form or some kind of evil and powerful knowledge.

This is why, many demons have been living in the slaughter and destruction since birth, and have no time or interest to learn, but they can acquire a lot of knowledge that even the most learned wizards are amazed by. "

"I understand what you mean, that is to say, all the abilities obtained by this demonic mark in my palm are gifts from the will of the abyss." Thorne, who finally understood the cause of the problem, his expression sank, and he said slowly. : "That is to say, I am fighting more like the will of the abyss."

Obviously, the demon imprint in his palm is the condensed essence of the abyss demon's life. After being fused by him, this imprint will extract energy when slaughtering demons. Like a warlock, he will gradually awaken various abilities for his use.

But every time he ascends, he will usher in the erosion of the will of the abyss, which is full of chaos and destruction. If he is a little careless and can't resist, then the demon in the mark will get out of trouble again, and he will fall into a place of doom.

Therefore, what he needs to do is to improve his willpower, so that while he obtains this ability, he will not be eroded and affected by the will of the abyss.

"Now that you understand, I hope you can pay attention to this issue in the future." Malvasia's expression was still unprecedentedly solemn. She gently stroked the wolf's hair to ease her uneasy heart, and said to Thorne:

"If this is just an ordinary Balor, you may be able to resist it because of luck. Even if you can't resist, you can choose not to improve this ability and keep it as it is.

It's a pity that what you have in your hands is the life essence of Calum, Lord of Balor, who is the sixth cremation mound from the 21st floor of the Bottomless Abyss.

I don't know how the rambunctious guy in Winter City found this piece of demon metal, but I know very well that as a demon lord, they almost have the ability to be immortal.

The former King of Balor, Calum, was buried in the deepest part of the Doomsday Volcano in the sixth crematory for thousands of years, but failed to kill him.

Even if his strength has been greatly reduced due to unknown reasons, you have taken advantage of it to fuse it and gained some of his abilities, but it is definitely not something you can control.

Perhaps his hidden deepest consciousness is accumulating power, and it is possible that he is ready to attack you at any time. "

"It turns out that the problem is so serious, I thought it was just an ordinary Balor." After listening to the explanation of the goblin wizard, Thorne, who realized the seriousness of the problem, said to himself, and then his expression immediately became firm:

"But I have no way out now, so the only thing I can do is to improve my strength as soon as possible, suppress the backlash of the mark, until it is completely integrated into my own ability."

"You can only do this, because you really don't have any way to escape." Seeing Thorne with a firm expression, Malvasa said with emotion: "It's crazy that you can only blame that group of people, crazy. It's starting to give up on everything."

"Since the doomsday volcano on the sixth cremation pile on the 21st floor of the bottomless abyss can suppress the Balor Flame King for thousands of years. Then, when you have the ability to go to the abyss, you might as well go check it out, maybe you will find something unexpected. ."

Suddenly, Malvasia seemed to remember something, looked up at Thorne, and reminded him.

"Have the ability to go to the abyss..." Thorne looked at his professional level and the mark in his palm that made him feel hot, and his eyes were firm again.

He knew that his road in the future might really become very difficult, because he felt an invisible pressure that was forcing him to keep walking until all threats were eliminated by him.

After pondering for a moment, Thorne knew that it was useless to entangle this question now, so he came back to his senses and began to check the new abilities obtained by the improvement of "Devil Power":

Demon Power lv3 (202500)

Charisma +1, Intelligence +1

Skill: Knowledge (Demon) 10

Spell-Like Ability: Wall of Fire (22/day)

Special Ability: Bloodline of Flame lv1

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[Blood of Flame (lv1): You have inherited the powerful flame power from the immortal evil of the Balor Flame Demon King. This power gradually begins to penetrate into the deepest part of your blood and soul, allowing you to gradually possess the power of fire. Harness the destructive and destructive power of fire.

Regardless of your use of any power from fire, your attacks will inflict (own Charisma modifier) ​​points of fire damage that ignores all resistances, and when you take any fire-effect spells, your damage is reduced by 5. 】

"Wall of Fire is a good spell." Thorne first glanced at the newly acquired spell-like ability and breathed a sigh of relief, because he was actually a little worried about getting the "Burning Body" that was born with the Balor. ability…….

"Wall of Fire" belongs to the wizard's four-ring Evocation spell, and the ability is just like its name, summoning a wall of burning flames. For him, it is a good spell.

The Charisma attribute increased by 1 point, but he was not surprised, but what made him a little depressed was the increased intelligence attribute by 1 point, because among his six-dimensional attributes, only the intelligence attribute seemed to play the lowest role.

As for this demon knowledge and skill, after mastering it, it was directly raised to 10 points, which made him feel very useful, so that when he encountered demons or demons in the future, he could easily identify the names of these demons and the various characteristics he mastered. , it will be more convenient to deal with.

At this time, Thorne finally understood why Malvasia would take the lead in letting him kill the two Anzu demons when he encountered the devil.

The main reason is that in addition to possessing the powerful attack-type spell-like ability of "fireball", this devil also mastered the "spell-like instant" feat.

If Anzumo hadn't been killed by him first, then the group of them would most likely be hurt by the bombardment of the "fireball technique".

And the reason why he was able to acquire this knowledge and skills, Thorne believes that it is mainly due to the rich knowledge of the Balor Flame King.

In the end, Thorne set his sights on the newly acquired special ability "Blood of Flame".

If this ability is calculated by his 17 points of charm, it can strengthen all fire skills by 3 points, which does not seem to be a lot.

But what really makes him pay attention is that these 3 points of damage are damage that ignores all spell resistances. And this special ability, in addition to increasing its damage with the gradual improvement of its charm attribute, is also a special ability that can improve the level, which represents the infinite possibilities in the future.

In general, this ability inherited from the Balor Flame Demon did give him a powerful power, but it also brought a lot of danger, so that he had to take future plans seriously and use it to guard against the abyss. Erosion of will.

The way he knows now, in addition to improving his own will attribute as much as possible, the rest of the way, Thorne believes that the improvement of qi refining is the most critical factor.

So when he calms down, he must take time to study how to improve quickly.

At this moment, the brooding Thorne noticed Andrina who was close to him, so he involuntarily took a deep breath and sniffed the intoxicating fragrance. He resisted the urge to take him into his arms, but a touch of With a smile, he said softly, "I'm fine now, don't worry, there won't be any problems in the future."

Andrina looked at the careless expression on Thorne's slightly pale face, as well as a faint smile, and lost her mind.

In the end, he swallowed all the worried words that had been brewing in his heart, and chose to stand quietly beside him, bow his head slightly, and remain silent.

Because she is very clear that as the relationship between the two gradually rises, there are many words that can be instantly understood with just one look. This is the so-called tacit understanding. So all she needs to do is let him know that she has always stood quietly by his side.

Seeing that Thorne was fine, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to work on their own.

Kutaig sat cross-legged on the ground recovering from the aftermath of the rage just now, while Malvasia walked to the gate of another world erected not far away and fell into deep thought.

Master Qingchen had a wound on his back due to the fight with the tyrannical demon just now. At this time, he was sitting cross-legged on the ground, while Peo stood behind him and used the paladin's unique "Lay on Hand" ability to heal his wound.

"Master Qingchen, you didn't say that your little crow felt the breath of jewelry, so where are these hidden treasures." After the treatment of Master Qingchen's wound, the paladin Peo asked with a smile.

When Master Qingchen heard the words, he first thanked the paladin Peo, then waved his sleeve gently, and the little crow flew out instantly, heading towards a dark passage in this natural cave.

"It's that passage." Master Qingchen pointed in the direction of the paladin and said to everyone.

Soon, everyone followed the little crow's guidance and came to the deepest part of the cave.

What then appeared in front of everyone was a pile of golden treasures under the illumination of the light technique. Although it was not exaggerated to fill the entire cave, it was still visually shocking at first glance, especially those scattered gold coins and gold nuggets.

Among the group, except for Malvasia and Andrina who always remained calm, Rao was the indifferent Master Qingchen. When he saw so many visually striking things, his eyes couldn't help but jump.

"There is only a small pile of treasures in such a big cave. It is obvious that these are all leftovers." Thorne, who looked calm, stepped forward to check and found that almost all of them were made of gold and silver. mainly, there are very few precious items such as gems left.

"It's good to be able to leave you a small fraction, what else do you want?" Malvasa walked forward with a faint smile, waved her hand lightly, and a magic light flashed: "Not bad. , worth more than 100,000 gold coins in total."

When everyone cleaned up the treasures in the cave, the group came to Tiamat's sculpture again.

"Mr. Thorne, I'm very sorry, I think I may have to go back temporarily." At this time, Paladin Peo took the lead in breaking the silence and explained to everyone:

"Since there is a temple of the evil dragon **** and a very dangerous gate to another world, I need to go back and report to the archbishop of the temple of Tyre immediately and ask them what to do."

"Okay, then you can withdraw first, there is nothing to do here anyway." Thorne said without caring much after listening to the other party's words.

Under the suggestion of the goblin wizard, they did not choose to destroy the gate to the other world of Baator, because the portal had been sealed, and the strength of several of them did not have the ability to analyze the portal.

In order to prevent the space chaos caused by forcibly destroying the portal, it can only be left here temporarily.

The paladin Peo reported it to the Temple of Tyre, which happened to help them solve this hidden danger, and could completely destroy the Temple of the God of Dragons.

Afterwards, the paladin Peo said goodbye to the crowd, then shredded a teleportation scroll and disappeared in the light of the magic circle.

"It seems that the Temple of Tyre attaches great importance to this paladin, and has specially equipped him with a city return scroll." Looking at the paladin's disappearing figure, Malvasia joked with a smile.

Then, everyone did not intend to stay here, and prepared to go to the red dragon player's lair.

"Thorn, if I plan to relocate some of the people in Horn Town to develop here, you have no opinion." The group walked, and Malvasa rode the wolf, caught up with Thorne, and asked. .

"This underground ruin is not my personal property, what can I say." Thorne was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile:

"Besides, the territory here is so large, and you don't have to worry about the lack of room for development. However, the only thing you need to pay attention to is the black dragon entrenched in the east. After all, these rat people were forced by the black dragon to go to the dark elves. Do you think you Can the people of this place develop steadily here?"

"Black Dragon is indeed a troublesome existence."

After being reminded by Thorne, the warg under Malvasia involuntarily slowed down, and she also lowered her head and fell into contemplation.

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