Chapter 41 - 41 41 A Priest Two Sheep_1
Chapter 41 - 41 41 A Priest Two Sheep_1
?Chapter 41: Chapter 41: A Priest, Two Sheep!_1 Chapter 41: Chapter 41: A Priest, Two Sheep!_1 “Damn it! That wizard seems to have gotten in!”
A knight near the window shouted loudly.
“Impossible, we’re guarding the windows, and his tendrils are being dispelled by my withering.”
“He can’t come in until the energy barrier is broken.”
At this moment, although the Night Priest Taniru’s face looked unsightly, he still had great faith in the Origin Energy barrier he had set up.
“I saw a ring of light on the attic window on the third floor behind us, and it seemed like a shadow just floated in.”
“He’s just a wizard, not a vampire, he can’t fly!”
Taniru angrily scolded.
“Besides, that ring of light is just the shadow of the Ashen Sun.”
“But there’s no Ashen Sun now.”
The knight argued honestly.
Taniru, infuriated by the knight to no end, angrily approached.
As he walked, he roared.
“In this Ashen Land, sometimes, the halo of ash can linger on the glass for an entire month.”
“And moreover…”
“There wasn’t any ring of light there at all.”
Taniru, having come to the glass, pointed at the window outside and scolded loudly.
The knight “Raymond” looked up for a glimpse.
The previous location of the ring of light was empty.
“Hmm… it disappeared?”
“I swear…”
Raymond was about to swear on the life of “Dave” that he hadn’t seen wrong.
But seeing Taniru on the edge of a rampage, he ultimately shrank back.
“Maybe I saw it wrong!”
But as Raymond turned away, he still muttered softly.
“But… there was a ring of light there just now.”
Upon hearing Raymond’s low mutter, Taniru really wanted to pry open the knight’s head to see if it was full of weeds.
“Dave!”
Taniru turned to another knight “Dave,” who was strictly guarding the main entrance as ordered.
“Lord Taniru!” Knight Dave responded respectfully.
“Go upstairs and check if anyone has come in.”
“No one has come in, Lord Taniru.”
Dave, standing his ground at the main entrance, said with utmost certainty.
“But you haven’t gone up to check!”
While continuously dispelling the vines outside, Taniru said, holding back his anger.
“But I’ve been guarding the main door the whole time—I’m quite certain not even a fly has come in.”
Dave was utterly convinced that no one had entered through the front door.
“Huff… Breath…”
Taniru took a deep breath to suppress his rage.
Before, he had already suspected that the Dark Sun could erode the minds of the Transcendents.
Now, it was perfectly confirmed by these two knights.
Sensing the vines on the first floor were nearly cleared,
Taniru gave a new order.
“You two come up with me to check the second and third floors.”
“But what if someone comes in through the main entrance?” Dave, who had but a few brain cells, had a moment of overperformance at this time.
“Then you’ll rush down and smash his kobold head!”
“But what if it’s not a kobold and there’s no kobold head to smash?” Raymond murmured softly.
If there hadn’t been a Necromancer outside, lying in wait.
Taniru would have already exploded with rage.
The fully armed two knights stepped on the stairway, thudding their way upward.
Taniru also subdued his inner fury.
Although these two guys could sometimes make one’s blood boil,
at least they truly dared to face danger when it arose.
Upon reaching the second floor, Dave looked around and then yelled down the stairwell.
“Lord Taniru, there’s no one upstai—”
“Bang!”
A gunshot with a threatening force interrupted Dave’s words and simultaneously blew open his skull.
Gurgling… Gurgling…
Dave’s body rolled down the stairs, coming to a stop at Taniru’s feet.
But even so, Knight Dave still wasn’t dead.
A knight’s robust physique was innate.
Moreover, Knight Dave had a talent ability like “Fatal Exemption.”
Taniru quickly activated his Cleric Ring Staff, and numerous black spheres of light swiftly fell upon Knight Dave.
The fatal wound rapidly recovered.
At the same time, Raymond instantly raised a massive, solid shield.
Block the entire stairwell.
“Be careful… baa baa…”
Raymond had just begun to speak when his words rapidly turned into the bleating of a sheep.
Raising his head, Taniru saw a figure coldly floating inside the staircase, resembling Death itself, with shadows enveloping its body like feathers.
And on the stair next to it, Knight Raymond had transformed into a sheep.
Taniru felt something stir beneath his feet.
When he looked down,
he saw that Dave had also become a sheep.
Both knights were early Second Rank, with levels between 23 and 24.
As knights, their Knightly Sequence granted them extraordinary resistance to witchcraft such as infiltration, suppression, and transformation.
Witchcraft from wizards of the same level or even higher usually couldn’t transform them.
Moreover, they were not ordinary knights.
But even so,
in front of this Shadow Wizard, they stood no chance of struggling.
Both knights were like toys.
Although, as a Night Priest, he could undo transformation abilities,
it would require a significantly long casting duration.
Right now, Taniru dared not move even an inch.
Taniru believed that any slight movement of his
would allow this preposterous Shadow Wizard, whose methods were utterly unscientific, to lift the Tianling Cover from his head in an instant.
His Tianling Cover was not as hard as the knight’s.
A direct face-off between a priest and a wizard was certain death.
“Should I get the information from you, or should I get it from your corpse after I kill you?”
On the stair, Tuck coldly watched the Tower Apprentice Night Priest “Taniru.”
“If I speak up, can I live?” Taniru scrutinized the Shadow Wizard before him.
“As a priest, you possess extremely strong abilities of control removal, recovery, self-healing, and ecological adjustment.”
“Even if you turn into a sheep, you can still revert to your original form.”
“I will turn you into a sheep and let you go when the time is right.”
“The condition is that you give me a satisfactory answer.”
After a brief moment of consideration, Taniru nodded decisively.
“No problem!”
“This opportunist turns sides far too quickly,” Tuck thought to himself.
But Tuck was also aware.
Pledging undying loyalty to the Evil God Organization? What a joke.
It’s about taking advantage of the Evil God Organization while scheming for one’s own benefits.
In the cruel ecology of the Ashen Land,
there definitely were those who played both sides.
The Bloody Alchemist Eden Glaston did just that, dabbling with both the Evil God Organization and the High Tower.
And this Taniru before him was probably the same kind of person.
However… the Bloody Alchemist Eden Glaston had already begun his downfall, lost in the light of the Dark Sun Church.
Yet this man before him seemed to be self-aware.
He hadn’t fully embraced the Dark Sun Church.
At least, he knew to use his priestly abilities to purify the corruption of the Dark Sun.
“I like talking to smart people,”
said Tuck, his tone becoming more cheerful.
“Because… that means I have to kill fewer Transcendents.”
“In this Ashen Land, every killing slightly damages the ecology, signaling a degree of downfall.”
“I do not wish for my ecology to be anchored to this land.”
“Although I like it here, that doesn’t mean I wish to rest here eternally.”
“Don’t you think?”
Tuck revealed a sinister shadowy smile, his entire shadowy face was all fangs, aside from the mouth.
And Taniru felt a creeping chill rising up his back.
“You’re absolutely right, I have no desire to rest here eternally either,”
said Taniru, trying to make himself seem a bit abnormal, so as to better deal with this twisted individual.
“Before we start our pleasant conversation, there’s a little nuisance to deal with first,”
said Tuck, glancing at the two knights who had turned into white sheep of the Black Galan plateau mountain range.
“Hmm… Surely you’re not expecting these two heavily corrupted fellows to transform into ‘Dark Sun Twilight Knights’ and mount a last stand, are you?”
Tuck teased Taniru with a smirk.
In that instant, Taniru felt as if he had become a rigid puppet, his joints half rusted and immovable, his expression frozen on his face.
It was as if his underwear was seen through by the other.
“How… how could that be possible!” Taniru’s voice became hoarse and shaky, and he seemed to lose all his strength in an instant.