Chapter 8 High Priest

The two of them simultaneously supported the body and gently put it down.

After taking some time to throw the three bodies into the secret room, Roland and Hela walked along the passage towards the depths of the village.

Hela ruthlessly slaughtered every cultist she met, no matter whether they were men, women, young or old. As long as she met them, Hela would kill them without mercy.

And because he thought the high priest was very likely here, Roland reduced the frequency of his actions and maintained a high frequency of life detection, searching for the existence of the high priest.

Hard work pays off.

After Hela cleanly killed a patrol team, Roland, who had been maintaining life reconnaissance, stopped. After investigating several key locations, Roland found a three-ring life form.

Roland looked up at the high priest's position and whispered.

"Found it, it's here as expected, Hela, use the scroll and alchemy potion."

After hearing Roland's words, Hela nodded slightly and wiped the blood off the sword with her left hand. Then, she took out a bottle of alchemical potion, opened it, and poured the red liquid inside onto the sword.

The red liquid absorbed into the sword without any hindrance after it touched it. As the entire alchemical potion was absorbed, the black sword completed its temporary enchantment, and dense red blood vessels appeared on the sword.

Then, Hela stuck her weapon into the ground beside her, took out a bottle of yellow alchemy potion and drank it in one gulp. After drinking the alchemy potion, she did not hesitate at all, took out three spell scrolls from her arms, and used her magic power to trigger and use them.

As the effects of the alchemical potion and spell scroll took effect, Hela's mind became clearer, and a steady stream of physical strength surged from her body. Her skin gradually turned yellow, and a layer of stone skin emerged. At the same time, a transparent shield wrapped around her flashed slightly.

While Hela was making preparations, Roland was naturally not idle either.

However, apart from enchanting the weapons in the same way, Roland's preparations were somewhat different from Hela's.

He mainly drank alchemical potions, and drank seven bottles of different alchemical potions in one breath. At the same time, he used magic power to blend the liquids in his stomach.

Because they had a plan in place and had practiced in advance, in less than a few minutes, the two had made all preparations for the battle against the high priest.

Finally, the two looked at each other and confirmed that they were ready. According to the direction of their own reconnaissance, Roland walked in front, while Hela followed behind him with a long sword in hand.

In order not to waste the time of alchemy potion, the two of them directly killed straight ahead with the idea that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Under the undisguised attack of the two men, the quiet village suddenly became noisy.

The cult organization, which was originally a makeshift group, was completely unable to organize an effective defense. Only some reckless patrols or fanatical cultists would rush forward to die without any organization or discipline.

Therefore, Roland and Hela easily reached the position of the high priest.

Standing on the altar in the large open space, the high priest wearing a dark golden mask, a robe and holding a black staff stared coldly at the two people who walked into the gate.

Roland made eye contact with the high priest, and without any hesitation he threw out the prepared spell scroll.

Third-level spell—Sky Curtain.

A large-scale field spell was cast, and in almost the blink of an eye, the entire square fell into darkness.

A layer of gray-black material, like a curtain, wrapped up everything around it, isolating all contact between the outside world and the inside.

Then, the remaining spell scrolls also took effect. Third-level spell - cold storm.

Third-level spell - sharp wind.

Third-level spell - Psionic Storm.

Third-level spell - Wind of Death.

Four three-ring spells exploded at the same time under Roland's micro-manipulation, quickly covering the entire open space in front of him.

When the spell ended, black ice had covered the entire place except for the altar and the place where Roland Hela was standing. Almost all the people gathered here by the high priest were killed, and only a dozen personal guards near the altar survived.

After the spell ended, the high priest put down the staff in his hand, and the gray shield covering the altar disappeared.

Looking at the warriors and priests who were frozen into ice and had lost all signs of life under the altar, his hand holding the staff became much stiffer.

However, although he was a little angry, he also backed off when he saw Roland generously throwing five spell scrolls.

Spell scrolls are very expensive. Generally speaking, a wizard can only create spell scrolls of one lower level. There are so many three-ring spell scrolls. If there is a four-ring wizard behind the two people in front of me, either their family is very rich and has plenty of spell scrolls to squander.

Whatever the case, this was not something he could afford to mess with.

Therefore, the high priest stopped the guards beside him from charging and spoke to Roland.

"My two friends, if you turn around and leave now, I can still pretend that nothing happened."

Roland and Hela naturally ignored him and continued to act on their own.

The two walked towards the altar one after the other. Roland in particular threw out spell scrolls one after another as he moved forward, as if they were free.

Although he no longer used third-ring spell scrolls, first- and second-ring spell scrolls appeared in large numbers. On average, Roland would use an expensive spell scroll every five seconds.

Therefore, Roland threw out more than twenty spell scrolls before he took a few steps.

After realizing that Roland was determined to kill him, the high priest's face turned pale. He first held up a shield to resist all attacks.

Then, he looked at the last few guards beside him and took decisive action.

The black tentacles quickly pierced their hearts from behind, taking their lives instantly. Then, a large amount of dark elements poured into their bodies and began to forcibly transform them into undead creatures.

Since these guards were originally trained by the high priest to serve as undead soldiers under his command, there was basically no obstacle to their conversion. With the assistance of the altar, they were quickly transformed into first-ring undead soldiers.

Then, under the order of the high priest, these undead soldiers rushed down and killed Roland in a scattered manner.

Roland was naturally not surprised by the transformation of the undead creatures. In fact, if Roland had not thrown the spell scroll to clear the field as soon as he came in, the two of them would have had to deal with more than just these undead creatures.

Everyone who is frozen into an ice sculpture can be transformed into a soul.

However, after being killed by Roland, all the arrangements made by the high priest in their bodies became invalid, and the dark elements in their bodies all scattered. If the high priest wanted to transform them, he could only transform them into ordinary cannon fodder undead, but not into first-ring undead soldiers like the living bodyguards.

(End of this chapter)