Chapter 1636

"Of course. Just at the shore, as long as I give the signal, they can come over at any time."

Megan said, tugging at Xia De's hem in the rain; she had, after all, arranged a very thorough plan.

"Then let's not be in a hurry. Let's first see who exactly is working against us, and don't scare him away."

Xia De said, while holding the chains with both hands, and abruptly pulled the Sin Chains, which were entwined with three-colored "Moonlight Thorns," out of the four large snowballs. As the three-colored Moonlight Thorns turned into tiny specks of light and drifted into the air in the rain, roaring flames flowed from the source of the chains—that is, from Xia De's sleeves—and instantly extended along the entire length of the chains.

Even though they were in the rain, the burning black iron chains did not cause the rainwater to form steam at all; the fiery red light illuminated the surroundings, which reminded Xia De of the Balrog's weapon.

Yet the female sorceress beside Xia De did not think for a moment that these flames were merely for show; she looked solemnly at the flames, which could even be said to be somewhat dim, and sensed from them a very ancient power, even somewhat resembling the power of a nun she knew.

The "Sin Chains" do not possess any offensive power, but they are indeed a weapon, and therefore can be influenced by the spell "Flame Attachment," adding the power of the Primordial Fire.

"Please stay close to me; I can handle this."

Xia De's voice entered Megan's ears, and the female sorceress immediately moved with Xia De toward the higher side of the deck, while the unconscious captain was kicked by Xia De to the edge of the deck, stopping only after hitting the railing heavily.

The water ghost that climbed onto the deck reached out its claws toward the captain, but the chain with firelight that swept across split it open like a sharp blade.

The chains were swung in Xia De's hands, emitting a 'whoosh-whoosh' sound, and the afterimages even created an illusion similar to a fire fan beside him.

The undead boarding the ship were one after another severed by the chains and knocked back into the water, and Xia De finally arrived at the edge of the deck with Megan.

At this moment, the entire ship had already begun to tilt severely to the right, while the left side where they were was currently the highest point of the ship's hull. Looking toward the dark, rain-swept water surface, the dense mass of hands reaching out from beneath the water, as well as the water ghosts clinging to the side of the ship relying on a "corpse wall," truly made one's scalp tingle.

When Xia De was in Midhillburg, the undead he had seen in the gap between life and death were far more numerous than this. But the undead in Midhillburg were mostly spirits, while these were corpse ghosts existing as corpses, so the impact they gave was completely different.

"Do you trust me?"

While waving the scorching chains to sweep the water ghosts off the ship's hull, Xia De suddenly asked Megan behind him.

"Of course, what kind of silly thing are you saying?"

"Alright then, hold my waist tightly and jump down with me."

Xia De pointed one hand at the group of water ghosts below, and the brown-haired lady frowned slightly:

"What about this person?"

She was referring to the unconscious captain; because the other party was a man, Megan was unwilling to even give him a kick.

"You should have a potion for underwater breathing, right?"

"Of course."

So Xia De poured the potion into the captain's mouth and then left him on the ship. After Megan hugged his waist from behind him, Xia De also retracted the chains and then pulled the pendant from his chest out of his collar.

Megan was now behind Xia De, and her vision was greatly affected by the night rain, so she failed to see the pattern on the badge, but instead saw Xia De gently kiss the badge, and the badge immediately bloomed with a soft, warm white light.

That was the light representing the Miracle Element. Although the witch's power was limited due to her unstable soul, her perception and knowledge reserves were not weakened as a result.

She could distinguish the holy power from that warm light, but within that holy power, there was also an ancient, cold feeling inextricably linked to "death":

"Prepare to jump! Praise—"

Xia De felt the lady behind him had already hugged his waist tightly, so he took her and leaped from the deck, which was constantly descending in height. At the same time, he also softly said the second half of the sentence:

"Praise the Angel of Death!"

The soft white light instantly illuminated the entire water area, and the phantom of a huge angel with spread wings flashed over the heads of the two, followed by the holy power resisting the undead and evil, spreading in all directions with that round badge as the center.

The gift Priest Ao Gu Si gave Xia De allowed the witch-detecting badge to possess part of the power of the "Angel of Death." Corresponding to the power of the "Angel," when Xia De injects Qi into it, it can form a special area within a 30-foot (about 9.15 meters) radius centered on the badge, causing relatively powerful attacks on evil creatures such as evil spirits and demons.

Last winter at the Three Cats Inn in Tobesk, when confronting the demon of proliferating desire—Victor Fanni, Xia De had tried it once, and the effect was quite good. But since then, this badge had never been used as a weapon again; after all, Xia De rarely encountered groups of enemies, and this alchemical item was not needed to deal with a single enemy.

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And at this moment, the original 30-foot resistance range, because it was reinforced by Mithril via the 【Earth Furnace】, had a power diffusion range that covered at least a 50-foot radius area.

As that white light fell from the sinking yacht deck toward the water surface, in the pitch-black rainy night, the dense group of water ghosts gathered around the cruise ship was blown apart as if dropped into a hot wok of oil with cold water.

In the holy white light, even the water ghosts under the water flew out of the water from the bottom, accompanied by melting limbs, and severed limbs were washed away into the distance.

After Xia De and Megan had been standing on the water surface for at least three seconds, 50 feet away, one could see the dense severed limbs of water ghosts falling back into the lake one after another, accompanied by the sound of rain, 'thump, thump, thump'.

The white light on the water surface did not dissipate for a long time. Xia De gripped the hot round badge tightly—Megan's distance from him was clearly within 1 meter—and thanked Priest Ao Gu Si in his heart.

And the lady behind him only then recovered from the impact of the vast holy power just now:

"What is this? I have never seen such a powerful alchemical weapon!"

Priest Ao Gu Si's alchemical craftsmanship might not be as good as that of a wise great witch, but the materials the priest used were something the witch would absolutely never have imagined.

But now was not the time to discuss such things. After the water ghost group was wiped out by Xia De's strike, the remaining water ghosts that were luckily not within 50 feet did not continue to approach.

Xia De and Megan stood on the water surface observing the surroundings, and the abnormal phenomenon soon appeared. As Megan reached out to catch the raindrops beside her, she discovered that they were clearly tiny ice particles.

"The temperature is dropping, and the whisper element is spreading. Be careful, the enemy is coming!"

The rustling sound quickly spread from afar, and the extremely cold air darted from the water surface toward the direction of the sinking ship. While rapidly freezing the raindrops and the lake surface, the spreading white mist even clung to the sinking ship, two-thirds of whose volume was still on the water behind the two, and the speed at which the ship was descending slowed down rapidly.

This strange chill also spread to Xia De and Megan's shoes, but it was quickly cleared away by them. It's just that the feeling of extreme cold constantly darting from the soles of the feet to the whole body was not a very comfortable thing on a rainy night.

A slight sense of emptiness and indifference appeared in his heart. Looking into the distance again, one could vaguely see a small wooden boat moored on the large lake. That wooden boat was also the center of the spreading cold air, and at this moment it had already been completely frozen together with the ice surface.

There were a total of three people on the boat, two wearing black robes, whose figures could not be seen clearly at all in the rainy night. And the one wearing normal clothes was undoubtedly "Rotten Eye Barry." It's just that, at this moment, he looked to be in a very bad state; the left half of his body was covered with hard ice emitting cold air, and his left chest had been cut open and exposed. Xia De narrowed his eyes and could barely see that inside his chest cavity, two different hearts were beating.

One was a normal heart, and one was the pale relic heart seen in the morning.

"You see, my trap worked."

The female sorceress behind Xia De said with some self-satisfaction.

The ones who had just manipulated the water ghosts to attack the ship were undoubtedly these three people, and Rotten Eye Barry's situation looked in every way like it was caused by a relic going out of control.

Soon this was not just a guess, because Rotten Eye Barry summoned the life ring behind him. The three-ring life ring, which should have been made of brass, was now wrapped in a layer of hard ice, and the spiritual light of all the whisper spirit runes on the life ring was brighter than the other three types of spirit runes.

For a ring sorcerer affected by a relic's out-of-control state, strength cannot be judged solely by the ring sorcerer level and spirit runes; one also needs to consider the power of the relic. Therefore, although Rotten Eye Barry looked like he was about to die at this moment, what he could do before he really died was really hard to say before they fought.

"Although your trap worked, it also created a monster."

Xia De whispered, while Megan didn't know what she said, and their attention was entirely on the three people on the boat.

The other two people on the ice-covered wooden boat had already walked off the boat along with Rotten Eye Barry at this moment. They were not holding umbrellas, and those two unidentified black-robed people did not reveal their levels either. It's just that judging from their attire as clergy, they should also be members of the "Drowned Sect."

"Give back what you took!"

The man with one side of his body covered in ice said sternly, his shrill voice sounding like an evil ghost in a story in the rainy night. He took off the eyepatch on his right eye, revealing that magic eye with a black sclera and a white pupil. At this moment, the magic eye was spinning rapidly in his eye socket uncontrollably, and it was actually also in an out-of-control state.

For a ring sorcerer who transplants such organ-type relics into their body, once one relic in the body goes out of control, the riot of the whisper element will cause problems for all the relics in the whole body. Rotten Eye Barry was clearly beyond saving; in this state, even if he dug out the heart and magic eye to contain them, he would absolutely not survive.