Chapter 575

You owe me two lives.

Before he could finish his sentence, Cheng Shi stepped forward two steps, playfully examining him from head to toe, and sneered, "Everyone's personal belongings were checked before entering the prison. How could there still be things in your pocket?"

Cheng Shi's questioning stunned the man. His expression changed, but a ferocious look soon surfaced on his face.

"You're quite smart, but it's too late! Do it!"

As soon as the words fell, this short, sturdy man broke his own left ankle with one kick, took advantage of the other foot being freed from the chain, jumped up violently, used his waist to drive his leg to exert great force, and his whole body lay horizontally in mid-air like a whip. His right leg kicked fiercely toward Cheng Shi's head.

The tall, thin man beside him also took advantage of the situation, violently twisted his arms, ignored the excruciating pain of his broken wrists, tore his hands free, used his bound legs as a pivot point, swung his body wildly, and smashed his head toward Cheng Shi, who was close at hand.

This was a premeditated attack. The two of them grasped the timing very exquisitely, and the momentum of their self-sacrificing attack was also sufficient. If there had really been an injured garrison knight here, he might have truly fallen for it.

But unfortunately, they were facing Cheng Shi.

When Cheng Shi was on the scene, the ones who were premeditated were no longer these four prisoners, but this fake garrison knight!

The step he had just taken forward was intentional.

As a priest who often treated people, he had long observed the injuries on their wrists and ankles and knew that in a prison where one could not use innate abilities, the only way to break free from shackles was to self-amputate limbs, so he had anticipated the other party's actions.

But why did he still step forward?

Because he... wanted to extort them.

These four teammates must have been discovered and locked in the prison because he and Big Cat disappeared. Calculating it this way, it was actually he who caused the other party's imprisonment.

It was one thing to pit his teammates, but if he were to ask for things from the teammates he had pitted, Cheng Shi would feel bad.

So he prepared to pit them one more time.

Two negatives make a positive; after pitting them twice, it was as if he hadn't pitted them at all. Moreover, the other party had attacked him, so standing on the side of justice, he could righteously judge them!

After all, this was the territory of 【Order】!

Praise 【Order】!

So Cheng Shi also moved, but he overlooked one thing, which was that someone moved much faster than him.

Yu Mu!

The moment Cheng Shi's teammates attacked him, this Tree Servant had already fired arrows of dusk. The whistling sound of the wind passed right by Cheng Shi's side, and in the blink of an eye, it was about to hit the faces of the two men.

Both the tall, thin man and the short, sturdy man were frightened, but the two of them, in a state of exerting force, had neither the timing nor the strength to dodge this arrow. Seeing that they hadn't hit the injured knight in front of them, but the arrow was already right before their eyes, their faces turned pale, and they directly resigned themselves to their fate.

But just at this moment, only a "Zheng—" sound was heard, and a strong and powerful withered, thin palm suddenly appeared in front of them, directly grasping the incoming arrow, letting the tip of the arrow stop just before their chests.

However, the arrow stopped, but the people didn't.

The two men's surprise attack had no momentum to be retracted. With two "Bang, bang" sounds, they collided with the armored knight in front of them. They had thought that even if this powerful attack couldn't kill the knight directly, it would at least make his injuries worse and knock him to the ground, but they had thought too much.

The knight didn't move at all.

Not only did he not move, but the hand that had just grabbed the flying arrow was the one the knight had extended.

The four people were shocked and looked at the withered, thin arm that looked like an old vine with lingering fear, feeling incredibly stunned in their hearts.

【Decay】!

This is actually a 【Decay】... hmm? He is not a knight!

The tall, thin man suddenly realized. He bent his body and looked up sideways. After seeing that blood-stained face at close range, his expression changed again, and he shouted in surprise: "It's you!"

"Heh, it's me. Is this how you treat the teammates who came to save you?"

Cheng Shi sneered, casually threw away the withered vine thorn arrow in his hand, shook his hand, and hid the arm overflowing with terrifying 【Decay】 power behind his back.

He saved these teammates, and the means to save them was the "Fading" authority granted to him by 【Decay】!

The 【Fading Majesty】 effect attached to the authority allowed him to borrow part of the power of the authority to strengthen himself when attacked by blasphemy of the same faith. And just now, in order to verify this effect, he had extended his hand to the path of the arrow in advance, and then backhanded the arrow into his hand.

As for why a priest could react so quickly... that was naturally because the current Cheng Shi was no longer a priest. He was neither a clown nor a Fate Weaver, but a Warrior of Today!

Just at the moment Cheng Shi scattered the dice across the sky, he had already taken the opportunity to complete the Edict Execution and prepare to attack. He didn't expect Yu Mu's arrival to save him a lot of effort, and just now, he had quietly tested the effect of "Fading" through Yu Mu's strike.

It couldn't be called strong, because the word "strong" was somewhat blasphemous to the authority of the True God.

If one had to use four words to summarize Cheng Shi's current arm, it would probably be: Impeccable.

No weaknesses, full marks for strength, full marks for attack, full marks for defense. The only shortcoming was that there was no increase in speed.

But it was understandable. After all, the will of 【Decay】 lay in decay. Being able to make an arm as invulnerable as a ten-thousand-year-old vine was already a huge surprise for Cheng Shi.

Most importantly, when this arm touched the 【Decay】 power of the outside world, it could use the power of "Fading" to easily decay the 【Decay】 power that did not belong to him.

So this wave was 【Decay】 decaying 【Decay】.

After Cheng Shi's series of operations, the situation of these four people became awkward.

The other party was clearly a big shot. Although they were imprisoned because the big shot left the trial on his own, calculating it, the other party didn't harm them, so it could only be said that their skills were inferior and they were caught.

And just now, this big shot saved their lives again. Although they saw the other party's bad taste, how could a big shot's bad taste be called bad taste? That was called... sharing joy with the people.

So the four people were stuck in an awkward situation.

The two who didn't attack were fine, just with complex expressions and eyes full of embarrassment. As for the two who broke their hands and feet to attack, one was hanging on the rack with blood flowing from his leg, and the other was kneeling on the ground with a broken head and bleeding. Their faces were as black as ink, their whole bodies were shivering, and they didn't dare to say anything.

"Still fighting?"

Cheng Shi asked considerately, and this sentence directly silenced the scene.

"..."

"Since you don't want to fight, let's talk about compensation. You two are the masterminds, and you two are the accomplices. The four of you wanted to kill me, but were saved by me. Back and forth, that counts as you owing me two lives, didn't I calculate that right?"

"..."