bdsm-fiction Chapter 152 The Strange Statues and Survivors in the Monastery
Chapter 152 The Strange Statues and Survivors in the Monastery
The deafening explosion echoed in the closed chapel for a full ten seconds before finally subsiding.
The eerie green flames gradually died down, and the once magnificent chapel had now become a living hell.
The walls and ceiling were covered with charred bits of meat and broken intestines, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of burnt meat mixed with the stench of decay.
Chen Qi, holding a rifle, peeked inside and felt a wave of nausea wash over him.
"This power is incredible," Chen Qi said, swallowing hard and forcing himself to suppress his nausea.
Jiang Ming dusted himself off and stepped over the threshold expressionlessly.
[Defeated 35 Headless Blood Nuns (Lv.22) who were above your level, gaining 42000 experience points.]
Current level: Lv.15. Experience progress: 05000/100000.
The system prompts you to refresh the screen on your Retina display.
Jiang Ming glanced at the progress bar; the progress had increased significantly.
After reaching Lv.15, the experience points required to level up increase exponentially. It is no longer easy to level up quickly by killing monsters; you need to find high-level elites or bosses.
"Boss! We're rich! We're rich!"
Marlowe had long forgotten his fear and, leading the dire wolf, dashed into the chapel.
This goblin has a nose for money and loot that's sharper than radar.
He darted back and forth among the bits of meat and charcoal scattered on the ground, his little hands moving so fast they were just blurs.
"These poor alien bastards actually have spatial bags hidden on them!" Marlow pulled out a small leather bag covered in black blood from a pile of rotten flesh and excitedly held it above his head.
Those were relics left behind by the orc mage.
This guy was suspended in mid-air by blood vessels and then hit head-on by the shockwave of a fragmentation mine. His whole body was already shattered into pieces, but this space bag was preserved because of its special material.
Jiang Ming walked over and casually took the spatial bag.
When I probed it with my mental energy, the space inside was not large, less than half a cubic meter.
Besides several hundred otherworldly gold coins, there were also several bottles of low-quality recovery potions and an [Elemental Staff] broken in two.
"Junk." Jiang Ming curled his lip, tossed the gold coins to Marlowe, and dumped the rest of the items onto a relatively intact bench next to him.
Chen Qi also ran in to help clean up the battlefield.
Although the more than thirty headless blood nuns were blown to pieces, they still left behind a lot of good stuff.
Soon, Chen Qi came over carrying a large pile of materials.
"Brother Jiang, they're all here. These monsters are incredibly tough; even the landmines didn't completely shatter them."
Jiang Ming looked at the mountain of spoils piled up in front of him.
Sharp Nun Bone Blade (Green, High-Quality Material) *24
[Contaminated Faith Pendant (White, Common Material) *18]
【Concentrated Blood Crystals (Green Premium Material) *12】
Adding to the materials dropped by the two stitched monsters he killed outside the door, Jiang Ming now has a large number of flesh and necromancy synthesis materials in his storage card.
He didn't rush inside, but instead sat down directly on the bench.
The danger level inside the monastery is significantly higher than that outside.
Those nuns were just an appetizer; there's definitely something more troublesome coming up.
We need to first convert the materials we have into immediate combat power.
Jiang Ming picked up the broken [Elemental Staff], grabbed three [Sharp Nun Bone Blades], and finally took out a [High-Level Necromancer Crystal Core] from his storage card, which he had obtained at the Dongjiang City defense line.
Synthesis talent activated.
[Damaged Elemental Staff] + [Sharp Nun Bone Blade *3] + [High-Rank Necromancer Core] = ?
A dazzling purple-blue light burst forth in Jiang Ming's hand.
After the light faded, a bone spear about 1.5 meters long, pale white and covered with dark red blood vessels, appeared in his hand.
The spearhead gleamed with a chilling, eerie light, and faint wails of vengeful spirits emanated from within.
【Wraith's Soul-Chasing Spear (Blue - Rare Consumable)】
[Attribute Preview: Throwing weapon. Possesses extremely high armor penetration. Upon throwing, it will automatically lock onto the target's soul aura; upon impact, it unleashes a high concentration of necromantic energy, causing widespread soul-piercing damage.]
Jiang Ming weighed the bone spear in his hand; it felt excellent.
This thing is essentially a man-portable anti-tank missile with automatic tracking capabilities, making it perfect for dealing with tough or extremely fast elite monsters.
He followed the same method, using up all the remaining bone blades and necromantic crystal cores to synthesize a total of five [Wraith Soul-Chasing Spears], which he neatly arranged in the storage card's dedicated slot.
"Let's go, let's take a look ahead." Jiang Ming stood up, carrying the [Fire and Thunder Prison], and continued walking deeper into the chapel.
The entire chapel presents an extremely strange symmetrical structure.
The stained glass windows on both sides had long been covered with thick layers of blood and flesh, allowing no light to penetrate.
The further you go in, the thicker the red carpet made of intestines becomes, and you can even feel it pulsating rhythmically.
At the very end of the chapel is an altar that rises half a meter above the ground.
The altar should have originally housed a statue of the Church of Glory, but now, a huge mountain of flesh, seven or eight meters high, stands there.
The mountain of flesh was still writhing, its surface covered with countless eyes and incomplete limbs.
At the very top of the mountain of flesh, the outline of a human figure can be vaguely seen, with its hands firmly nailed to an inverted cross by thick iron nails.
"What kind of hell is this place..." Chen Qi held the gun, feeling his scalp tingling, and dared not even breathe too hard.
Marlowe, however, didn't care about any of that.
The goblin's eyes were fixed on the edge of the altar.
On the base of that inverted cross, there is a ruby the size of a fist.
Even in the dim light, the gemstone still shone brightly.
"A top-grade blood diamond! This is absolutely top-grade!" Marlo's mouth was practically watering. He tiptoed up the altar, pulled out a small dagger, and prepared to pry open the gem.
"Don't move." Jiang Ming frowned and shouted to stop him.
But it was too late.
The moment Marlowe's dagger touched the edge of the ruby, the entire mountain of flesh suddenly trembled violently.
"Pfft—"
The countless eyes on the mountain of flesh opened simultaneously and stared intently at Marlowe.
Marlowe screamed in fright, tumbled and scrambled off the altar, and hid behind Jiang Ming.
Immediately afterwards, the ruby sank down.
"Boom!"
The stone slab in the center of the altar suddenly split open to both sides, revealing a bottomless underground passage.
An extremely strong smell of blood and rust wafted out of the passage, causing Chen Qi to stumble back three steps.
There were no stairs in the passage, only a sloping downward slide, the surface of which was covered with viscous blood.
"Boss, I...I didn't mean to," Marlowe stammered, shrinking back.
Jiang Ming ignored him.
He walked to the edge of the passage and looked down.
The passage was pitch black deep inside, and nothing could be seen.
But from that darkness came a rhythmic clanging of metal.
"Splash... splash..."
That was the sound of heavy iron chains dragging on the ground.
The sound grew closer, accompanied by heavy footsteps, causing the entire chapel floor to tremble slightly.
"Something's coming up." Jiang Ming gripped the hilt of his sword with his other hand, and a ghostly blue flame instantly ignited on the blade of the [Hellfire Thunder Prison] sword, illuminating the entrance to the passage.
Chen Qi immediately pulled back the bolt, aiming the gun firmly at the entrance of the passage.
"Splash!"
A thick, rusty iron chain, as thick as a child's arm, suddenly sprang out from the darkness and coiled around a stone pillar at the edge of the altar like a venomous snake.
Immediately afterwards, an extremely large and imposing figure slowly crawled out of the passage along the iron chain.
Using the firelight from the sword, Jiang Ming finally saw the monster crawling out of the passage.
It was a gigantic metal torture device, three meters tall—an iron... .
The entire torture device has a rough human-shaped outline, and its surface is covered with dark red rust and dried blood.
The two metal doors of the torture device were not fully closed, and thick, black blood was constantly seeping out from the gaps.
The most bizarre thing is that this inanimate object made of pure metal has four thick arms made up of countless bones and muscles.
The iron chain that was wrapped around the stone pillar just now grew out of the palm of one of the arms.
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Blood Iron (Lv.26·Elite)
[Danger Level: Extremely High]
[Characteristics: Extreme Resistance, Blood Chains, Pain Reflection.]
"Fire!" Jiang Ming shouted in a low voice.
Without any hesitation, Chen Qi pulled the trigger and emptied half a magazine.
"Bang bang bang!"
The armor-piercing incendiary bombs landed precisely on the iron metal casing.
However, the expected scene of sparks flying everywhere did not appear.
The bullets struck the rusty metal casing and made a crisp "clanging" sound, then bounced off!
One of the stray bullets even grazed Chen Qi's scalp, shaving off a tuft of hair.
"Holy crap! What material is this outer shell made of? Even armor-piercing bullets can't penetrate it!" Chen Qi was so frightened that he quickly lay down on the ground.
Iron was enraged by the gunfire.
Its four thick, bony arms braced against the ground, and its massive metal body launched itself into the air with an agility completely disproportionate to its size, hurtling straight at Jiang Ming.
In mid-air, the two metal doors on the front of the iron suddenly swung open!
There were no operating mechanisms inside the door; instead, it was filled with a mass of frantically writhing flesh.
The mass of flesh was filled with countless faces screaming in agony, and countless sharp iron spikes protruded from the flesh, aimed directly at Jiang Ming's face.
"Splash!"
Two blood-stained iron chains shot out from inside the torture device, blocking Jiang Ming's escape route from the left and right, attempting to forcibly drag him into the metal coffin covered with iron spikes.
"Boss, watch out!" Marlowe shouted from behind a stone pillar.
Jiang Ming stood still, without even blinking.
retreat?
With 37 points in strength attribute, the word "retreat" simply doesn't exist in his vocabulary.
"Gravity spell".
Jiang Ming casually pressed down with his left hand.
An invisible gravitational field descended instantly.
The two menacing iron chains seemed to be pressed down by two mountains, suddenly slamming into the ground and creating two deep grooves in the hard stone slab.
The massive iron body was also pulled by gravity, lost its balance in mid-air, and crashed to the ground.
The moment it landed, Jiang Ming moved.
The stone slab beneath his feet shattered with a deafening roar, and Jiang Ming transformed into a blur as he charged towards the iron bar.
"You think you're so tough?"
Jiang Ming flicked his wrist, and a pale white [Wraith Soul-Chasing Spear] appeared in his hand.
Instead of throwing the bone spear, he used the momentum of his charge to channel all 37 points of terrifying power into his right arm, using the bone spear as a dagger to stab fiercely at the wide-open metal door!
"Pfft!"
The bone spear, with its extremely strong armor-piercing effect, pierced through the writhing flesh inside the iron without any resistance, disappearing all the way to the hilt.
"Awooo—!"
Countless human faces inside the iron simultaneously emitted piercing screams.
The high concentration of necromantic energy contained in the bone spear erupted instantly, and a dark blue energy storm raged wildly inside the narrow metal coffin, shredding the flesh and blood to shreds.
But level 26 elite monsters aren't that easy to kill.
Tie struggled frantically, its four arms wielding rusty iron chains, lashing at Jiang Ming like whips.
"die!"
Jiang Ming drew the [Hellfire and Thunder Prison] from his back.
The crystal core on the sword hilt burst forth with a blinding light, and the weapon's "overload" mode was activated!
The violent lightning and fire sword energy converged on the blade to form a crescent-shaped light blade that was two meters long.
Jiang Ming held the sword with both hands, exerted force from his waist, and slashed down fiercely with overwhelming momentum!
"Clang—Snap!"
The deafening sound of metal shattering echoed throughout the chapel.
That rusty outer shell, which even armor-piercing bullets couldn't leave a mark on, was as fragile as paper in the face of Jiang Ming's absolute power and overloaded thunder and fire sword energy.
The [Fire and Thunder Prison] forcefully split the iron in two!
The foul-smelling black blood mixed with charred entrails was sprayed all over the ground.
The two halves of the metal shell fell heavily to the ground, twitched a few times, and then remained completely still.
[Killing Blood Iron despite being above a higher level] (Lv.26 Elite), gained 28000 experience points.
[Loot obtained: 2x Steel Torture Instrument Casings, 1x Cursed Blood Chain, 1x Crystal of Painful Resentment.]
Jiang Ming shook off the blood and grime from the blade, his breathing became steady, and he didn't break a sweat.
This pure, violent crushing made him feel an unprecedented sense of comfort.
All skills and positioning are just fancy tricks in the face of absolute power.
"Brother Jiang... what did you eat to grow up so strong?"
Chen Qi got up from the ground and stared at the huge metal torture device that had been split in two, his eyes almost popping out of their sockets.
Jiang Ming ignored him and skillfully put the spoils on the ground into his storage card.
Those two [high-quality steel torture device shells] are valuable items.
Although it is covered in rust, the material is of excellent quality. With a little processing, it will definitely be a top-quality material for synthesizing heavy armor or shields.
"Let's go down and take a look."
Jiang Ming walked to the entrance of the underground passage and went down the slide first.
Chen Qi and Ma Luo quickly followed.
The passageway was much more spacious than I had imagined.
The walls were inlaid with crystals that emitted a faint red light, making it difficult to see the surrounding environment.
At the end of the slide is a long corridor.
On both sides of the corridor, dozens of iron-barred cells were densely packed together.
The smell here was even worse than upstairs, a mixture of excrement, rotting flesh, and the pungent odor of some kind of chemical agent.
Jiang Ming held up the burning giant sword and illuminated each of the prison cells.
The vast majority of the cells were empty, or contained only a few skeletons.
The walls were covered with bloody scratches from frantic clawing, a testament to the torture these people endured before they died.
"Boss, this one's got workers!"
Marlowe suddenly stopped in front of a cell, pointed inside, and shouted in a low voice.
Jiang Ming walked over and peered through the rusty iron fence.
In the corner of the cell, a figure was huddled up.
The man was wearing a tattered clergy robe, and his hands and feet were chained to the wall with thick iron chains.
His hair was a tangled mess, and he was so thin that he was just skin and bones. His skin had an unhealthy grayish-white color.
Hearing the noise, the figure slowly raised its head.
It was a gaunt, skeletal face with sunken eyes.
But his eyes were unusually bright, even with a strange clarity.
"Glory...has not abandoned us..."
The man's chapped lips moved slightly, emitting a hoarse, grating sound.
He stared intently at the sword light in Jiang Ming's hand, then suddenly grinned, revealing a chilling smile.
"Young man... are you also a follower of the Goddess of Radiance?"
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