Blood of Mercury

Roland had no idea of ​​confronting Marco from the very beginning.

Although the name Marco first appeared in the ears of players, after the separation of the Ring of Ashes and the Ring of the South Wind, he was known to some high-end players as the leader of the Ashes. But in reality, his fame was much earlier than that.

At that time, Roland studied Marco in order to get the profession of Ashes.

In the beginning, the Abandoned God was not a title as it was later, but only referred to Marco.

At that time, Marco's name was not Marco.

It only took him three months to obtain the seven-ring magic from Sivir, the goddess of war, and he advanced to become a silver-level honorary priest. Because of his outstanding talent, he was personally invited by Sivir to work in Zuul. As a district bishop in Saskatchewan, it can be said that he has a promising future at a young age.

However, no one knows that before he became the priest of the Goddess of War, he was a loyal believer of the God of Fire and Hammer, the God of Pain and Deception, and the Goddess of Life. Before he betrayed them, his rank was not lower than the silver rank. pass. When he used a pseudonym to enter the temple of the Goddess of War, his other three names were also wanted by the three temples with different strengths.

This is very incredible. The essence of a priest's soul will change after advancing to silver, and he will get closer to his own gods in order to obtain a longer lifespan.

No one has ever been able to convert to other gods after the silver rank and achieve higher achievements, not to mention the three-pillar gods on the neutral, evil and good sides. Roland, who has investigated here, also feels incredible, this product is simply an official deal. But he faintly sensed something was wrong.

At that time, Roland guessed that there might be another reason for Marco's miracle.

After Roland finally found out Marco's first name, everything came to an end. The hardships of his life experience and the **** stories of his stories even made Roland not know whether to laugh or cry.

Marco started out as a commoner, and his family owned a blacksmith shop. His family's talent is very high, but he suffers from a peculiar disease, the whole body will gradually become weak, the strength and constitution will gradually weaken with age until death.

Of course Roland knew that it was muscle atrophy, and there were already quite effective treatments in Baita at that time.

But Marco and his family lived in the remote mountainous area of ​​Caral, and the news was closed, and they had never even heard the name of the White Pagoda.

In their small place, because there is a natural iron ore, the people in the town fervently believe in the **** of fire and hammer.

At a young age, Marco showed amazing talent. In terms of attributes, Marco's natural perception is more than three, which is more than three times that of ordinary people, and he is very sensitive to magic.

Sensitive enough, he could see the aura of divine magic even when he was just born, and when he was eleven years old, he surpassed all the priests in their town and became a glorious priest of the silver rank.

When priests advance to the silver rank, there will be an opportunity for them to have a direct dialogue with the gods, so Marco's question is naturally how to heal his family's illness.

At that time, the White Tower was at odds with the gods, and the God of Fire and Hammer had no idea of ​​letting their family move to the White Tower for healing, and for some reason, the God of Fire and Hammer had a connection with their hometown. It's not close, under the interference of Stonehenge of Karadruid, even his age can't be sensed.

So, the God of Fire and Hammer took him as an ordinary pastor who was terminally ill, and lied to him casually that as long as he exercised his body and kept his faith, he could be saved, so that he could earn more in these days. The power of faith. Even because he thought Marco would die soon, he didn't even give him the position of the priest of the town.

Marco didn't care about those positions. At a very young age, he easily believed the words of his own gods, and then went back and told his father who started to get sick with great interest.

His father just gave a wry smile and said nothing.

Since then, his father has worked harder.

So, on the day his father became a Bronze Rank priest, his heart finally stopped beating.

Before he died, his father told him that he had been deceived. Not only faith, but also exercise can't cure this disease, because his grandfather was a soldier of the silver rank, but he still died on the day when he was forty years old.

Marco, who deeply felt that he had been deceived, angrily tore down the statue in the temple that night, and then fled with the whole family.

On the way westward, his sister fell ill. In desperation, he was deceived by the priest of the God of Pain and Deception, and worshipped with all his heart. No matter how his mother stopped it, they were defrauded of all the money and luggage, and he even thought that his sister was cured. Since then, she has never returned home and devoted herself to serving the Queen of Pain.

This time, it only took him two years to become a priest of the silver rank. Sighing at his potential, the group of priests who believed in the Queen of Pain frankly told him the scam at the beginning, sincerely invited him to join the team, and told him that the Baita's technology was enough to heal their family's illness.

Marco hesitated painfully for a long time, and then decided to join the team. He even cheated and robbed, and in half a month, he collected enough travel expenses and medical expenses.

But it would have been better if I had known it two years earlier.

After two years of delay, his sister could no longer be saved, and her mother died of hunger and poverty.

When he went back, he saw two tombstones. The two of them didn't even have a coffin, and the shallowly buried bodies reeked of decay.

He knelt in front of the tombstone all night, and the next day he took out his anger at the priest of the Queen of Pain, and slaughtered the priests who cheated money in one day.

So he was cursed by the furious Queen of Pain and launched the cultists all over Caral to hunt him down. At this time, the disease on his body had already begun to attack, and he was cursed by the Queen of Pain. Every day, his muscles atrophied at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after the extreme, they began to rot.

In the end, he was wearing rotten flesh, and at the most desperate time, he met a priest who was the goddess of life. She briefly relieved his pain with magic and became his friend. It was the happiest time for Marco since he betrayed the **** of fire and hammer. Later, the man inadvertently mentioned to him that the goddess of life can even resurrect the dead.

After hearing this sentence, Marco deeply remembered it. He confirmed with many priests of the Goddess of Life, and many of them had seen the miracle of the resurrection of the Goddess of Life with their own eyes.

With the endless nostalgia for his relatives, it took him only half a year to advance to the silver rank this time. His existence even directly alarmed the goddess of life, and her saintess came in person and performed divine descent.

But in the face of Marco's question, the Goddess of Life could only shake her head.

The resurrection of the divine art of life is limited to wizards who can save the soul and believers of the goddess of life.

Like his family's situation, the souls of all the family members will appear in the kingdom of the God of Fire and Hammer after death, and like his kind of betrayal, I'm afraid his family members have been tortured for many years.

The Goddess of Life said that her priest's fighting ability is very weak, and she has always been in the camp of the harmless, unable to provoke wars, and unable to help him regain the souls of his relatives. Then the goddess of life apologetically asked whether to mention another wish. Marco was silent for a while, and then raised the hope that his disease could be cured.

The Goddess of Life agreed.

But as soon as her saint left, Marco escaped from the Temple of Life, and sold her faith and soul to the belligerent and powerful goddess of war. She only hoped that she could teach the **** of fire and hammer on her behalf. .

After he became the silver rank, he got a desperate news from the goddess of war: the **** of fire and hammer is the dark line that the goddess of war placed in Caral-his correct vocation is the **** of weapons, it is The goddess of the goddess of war.

So Marco finally went completely crazy.

His soul was divided into four parts, and after swallowing each other, he successfully condensed into a complete and terrifying personality with his extraordinary will.

Marco changed his name to "Marco" that day, which means the deceived in the Carlar colloquialism.

He regarded all the gods as enemies, abandoned his identity as a priest to study the ancient culture of Duide, and finally developed a new profession with his extraordinary talent, a profession specially designed to deal with priests. He vowed to take all the gods off their thrones, or at least make them worse off.

He became a priest of the silver rank for the fourth time, and combined all the remaining powers from the past. All of Marco's attributes even surpassed the ordinary golden rank.

Then, he went to his hometown and killed all the believers of the **** of fire and hammer with extreme cruelty. The goddess of war was furious, and led a team of one gold and three silver to encircle and suppress Marco, who had just entered the silver rank with a new occupation.

Marco showed the power of his new profession in that war. He could easily interrupt the release of divine arts, the invisibility and phantom effects generated by divine arts were seen through by him at a glance, and his enhanced abilities were dispelled layer by layer. In the end, he killed all enemies above the silver rank.

Abandoning the grace of gods four times, he finally chose the path of being hostile to all gods - so he got the title of the god-forsaken.

Such a hard-working man, who could be described by Long Aotian, made Roland, who was reading his story at the time, dumbfounded, and scold the screenwriter for the second.

In the later battle against Marco, the information provided by Roland played a great role. With his support, the Peace Council easily solved him, while other guilds basically kept watching various priests and defenders explode instantly.

However, in this era when even silver can be a magistrate and gold is basically the highest military force of the duchy, Roland did not dare to confront him at all.

The name of Marco's robe is [Human Will]. He used the divine language that a priest can only write, and filled with blasphemous words slandering the gods with the blood of a golden-rank priest, making all the divine arts below the golden-rank all invalid. The effect of divine magic above the golden tier and below the tall spire is reduced by one-third—even if the immunity effect is only at the golden rank, it is still a very practical and high-end equipment in the age of the 70th-level cap.

After all, detection magic and curse magic rarely exceed the golden rank.

Although there were no very important divine arts in those days, the instant death arts of all levels from low to high that Sue the Crow was notoriously disgusting. Just in order to block the various low-level instant death spells of the dead crow, this dark purple rare robe can be sold for a legendary price.

Of course, in that era when high-end priests could wave fire and trigger more than 20 instant death judgments with a single attack, this robe was really useless, but in Roland's current era, it was basically synonymous with invincibility.

The most terrifying equipment on Marco was not his robe, but the steel whip in his hand. It was also reminded by him that the crows who sued for death began to use multi-section weapons one after another.

That weapon is called [Marco's Godless Order. Heartbroken Hand], a golden legend-level alien weapon, the type is a nine-section whip.

Not to mention the other attributes of this weapon, the defenders of the major trade unions who are disgusting with just one of the attributes are going to die.

Every time Marco is blocked, he will make a judgment based on his perception attribute. If he fails to pass, he will randomly explode an internal organ. If he passes, he will also cause a little damage. At the same time, if it is a priest occupation, the possibility of passing the judgment will be reduced. will drop three times.

In other words, no matter how high the perception attribute is, as long as it is a priest, there is at least a two-thirds chance of failing the judgment. For most guardian professions, perception attribute is not their main attribute, and even a considerable number of defenders are less likely to pass the judgment than priests.

The most terrifying thing is that if it is blocked with a shield at close range, then when Marco's nine-section whip swipes past the defender's shield, the defender must make nine judgments, and each fails. The judgment will explode a viscera regardless of physique. At the speed of Marco reaching level 70 to the pinnacle of the highest spire, the defenders and priests were dead within thirty seconds of the battle.

So the slain crows who could do multiple instant-death judgments for each attack came to their senses and practiced multi-segmented weapons from scratch.

There are those who practice whips, those who practice boxing, and even those who practice three-section sticks... At that time, the most famous one was a death crow from the Peace Council, who was the first pioneer among the players to get this profession. It took him half a month to learn the nine-section whip and take the whip that Ma Ke dropped, and he was in the limelight at that time, with two hundred and seventeen instant death judgments in one second.

Three days after that, the official released a patch that limited the number of times of triggering one-death judgments per second, which made this craze gradually fade away.

It was at that time that Roland learned a good whip technique, including the fancy evasion of avoiding the glimpse at the beginning.

It was precisely because Roland deeply knew that Marco was terrifying and that he was definitely not someone who could be easily killed by a few people in this era, that he never believed that Claude could defeat Marco.

From the very beginning, all his plans failed to defeat Marco. In the history of that world, Ma Ke did not encounter a bottleneck for the first time until the peak of the golden rank awakened. If the history of this world hadn't changed, even if Roland had a system to assist him in leveling, 80% of the time he wouldn't be able to catch up with Marco's progress before he encountered a bottleneck.

What's more, this is the ancestor who killed by leaps and bounds.

When Roland reached the golden level, he had already changed his Druid profession to a priest. Even if Roland had awakened, he would not dare to provoke him casually.

However, Marco's terrifying combat power does not mean that he has no weaknesses.

Compared with the Wind Whisperer, Marco is more used to crushing by force. Although his theory and charisma have attracted a considerable number of supporters, it is undeniable that in this time period, the overall brain of the Ashes without a think tank is not enough.

Compared to Marco, Roland was more wary of Wind Whisperers. That person didn't die until Roland crossed over - in many cases, one of the important criteria for measuring the strength of a boss is the length of time he lived. Like the kind of shady who lives for a long time and keeps moving, often belongs to the most dangerous group of people.

After seeing that the Ashes had all gone clean, Roland used the small barrier set up by his own blood to leave and returned to Pars again.

He cut off Pars's head and hung it around his waist. After wiping off the blood on the throwing axe, he activated an entanglement technique again and hoisted himself to the crown of the tree.

Roland took out his throwing axe, cut his fingers, and smeared a very small amount of blood on the wing tree, making six blood lines. In this case, in Marco's natural perception, there should be six people with strong vitality but deliberately hiding their breath.

Immediately afterwards, Roland stood at the height where he touched the blood, and after throwing Pars's head down, he imitated the voices of others with the false voice he learned when he started playing online cheating on Earth, and told Claude. Say hello.

The reason why I didn't say hello to Kluveen was that Claude, as an apologist, would definitely know the top of the temple, which was probably part of the decoy tactics. There was another very important reason, that is, Roland saw Claude, the old man who came out, is definitely old and mature.

Sure enough, when he heard a completely unfamiliar voice greet him, Claude was stunned for a while and then reacted, and even wanted to ask Roland's plans while cooperating with Roland.

After all, he has already been beaten once by Marco's heart-breaking hand. Although the weapon is not as insoluble as the future, Claude's internal organs are full of cracks.

If a group of people came after Marco was fooled away, Claude was not sure that he could repel them with his half-crippled body.

Then Roland reassured Marco and Claude at the same time with a word from another voice—to be precise, only Marco was reassured, but Claude's doubts deepened.

That is the "Wind Whisperer", "Base 19" and Marco's Druid holy name revealed in Roland's words.

This has a technical term in social engineering terminology called pretexting. Roland won Marco's newcomer with news that only people inside the South Wind Ring could know. It was because of these three things that ordinary people would never know, that Marco believed Roland's words without hesitation, and was then scared away.

The moment he saw Roland appear, Claude relaxed, and at the same time he figured out a lot of things.

Or, I thought I had figured out a lot of things.

For example, why did Roland get stabbed in the back when he was in the lock of stubborn oak when he first saw Roland; or how did Roland suddenly disappear in front of everyone - that's different from what Claude thought at first, It was not the capture of Marco's whip, but other people who rescued Roland with the twist technique; also, Roland was clearly wearing a black robe, but he was able to use natural magic and his secrets to the Dark Scar and the Shadow Pterosaur. And knowledge of the organization Marco belongs to, etc.

——Claude was sure that the shadow pterosaur was indeed real. Because the Goddess of War also recorded this incident, but it was not as detailed as what Roland said.

He originally wanted to escape into the Lightless Scar at the last moment. It's just that when he met Roland, he entered the Lightless Scar some time earlier, and because of this, he met Marco who was out on patrol.

In Claude's mind, these fragments are closely combined.

If Roland is a member of a secret Druid organization that has been hunting down the rebellious Druid Marco, then it is understandable.

Claude guessed that Marco was indeed defeated by the decoy tactics, and his base was indeed copied, but the decoy was not the Claude he thought, but Roland.

At first, Roland acted simply as a bait. But when Claude and his party were walking in the direction of the Shadow Pterosaur, Roland thought of an idea out of pity and use.

He entrusted his partner, the one who later rescued him with the twist technique, to backstab him. Then Roland successfully entered his team.

Immediately afterward, Roland strongly persuaded them not to stay on the matte trail for a long time, but to enter the Dark Mark. Finally, after discovering traces of Marco's actions, his partner rescued him out of Marco's sight.

Then Roland went to report, their organization destroyed Marco's base very well, and then came to cooperate with Roland to threaten this side.

Being able to know Claude's name, Roland must be the first to speak. But Claude believes that the following people should all speak in their own voices~www.NovelMTL.com~ Because Marco can find the ability of both Claude and Claude outside the sight of No Light Trace , when Claude thought about it, he should have sensed that there were several strong people on the tree, and thus escaped.

After that, Roland, who had relatively poor fighting ability, did not follow him, but came to deal with the follow-up work first - such as comforting people's hearts or continuing to deceive.

So Claude's "good acting skills" didn't refer to Roland's voice change, but what he said before about Druid. Claude really believed it for a while... Now I look back and think about it. Lorde couldn't help but sigh that he was really old.

But speaking of it, he didn't want to blame Roland either. Because Marco is indeed their mortal enemy, and he is old and doesn't want to care about anything. Anyway, the result is good, that's enough.

But then again, seeing that Roland is young, but his brain, appearance, ability and even skin are all first-class, old Claude couldn't help but feel a little bit of love in his heart. Heart.

But he didn't know that the result of his guess was more than eight blocks away from the truth.

...So, in the case of reasoning, if there is no definite evidence, don't take the deduced result as the truth, otherwise it must be a wrong step.

Just like Claude at the moment.

——————

The book has been published for a whole week from today, and the update has resumed to two a day.

This chapter is a six-thousand-word chapter, two in one. For the convenience of reading, I will not disassemble the ten strings...