The population is growing, faith is coalescing, civilisation is moving forward.
Everything in the Pixel World was moving in a good direction.
However, Isabelle went against the norm and took the initiative on a rare occasion.
“My lord, I request to enter the [Black Abyss] and fight for your faith.”
Lu Yao was acutely aware.
She was in a mood.
This was also a side effect of wisdom.
Not-so-wise Blood Knights were free of these aspects of stress.
Headless, without worries, life was simple and straightforward. He only recognised orders, and whoever Lu Yao said to cut, he would cut, only more, not less.
Isabelle was different, she mostly displayed a calm and collected demeanour. But her basic thinking was no different from a normal person.
She had her own sense of dignity and honour, as well as her own judgements and thoughts.
It was just that most of the time, she kept these personal wills partially hidden in her heart and faithfully carried out the orders Lu Yao gave her.
However, this time, for some unknown reason, Isabelle seemed to have her self-esteem a little bruised.
Lu Yao thought to himself that he had to find a euphemistic reason.
So he typed.
— It’s just a different division of labour, it’s fine for the Blood Knights to do this part of the rough work.
Isabel knelt down on one knee and continued, ”My lord, I know that my fighting ability is inferior to Nevid’s. However, I requested to enter the Abyss, not because I’m not self-important enough to want to challenge those powerful opponents, but because there are other places to utilise my abilities.”
“My lord, you are sitting in the city of ghosts, Saniro, where numerous ghosts have already coalesced and the group’s faith is stable.”
“And in the periphery of the first layer of the [Black Abyss], there are still some ghosts roaming around, most of them are not of low rank. But there are also weaker ghosts that are hiding from the predation of their powerful counterparts.”
“I was wanting to try [Mass Prayer] to persuade them and bring them to Saniro, so that I can provide you, my lord, with more power of faith.”
Lu Yao looked a little ashamed.
Me.
Isabelle didn’t care about personal glory or loss at all, all she thought about was adding to her god’s cause.
This is a loyal servant who is dedicated to public service!
–Good. Be safe.
“Yes, my lord.”
Lu Yao used the key to open the entrance, and Isabelle was able to enter the golden gate of the [Black Abyss].
He fixed his viewpoint on Isabelle’s head.
Just as Isabelle said, she was very careful in the Abyss.
Outside, LV26 Isabelle summoned the Holy Sword and went to most places casually.
In the [Level 1 of the Black Abyss], on the other hand, her level was completely inadequate, and even dealing with ordinary ghouls was extremely difficult, and she was in danger if she was not careful enough to be surrounded.
Isabelle kept using the [Mass Prayer], looking for the dead who were willing to talk to her.
On the other hand, Blood Knight Nevid continued to fight the ghouls in a meaty battle.
After taking a break and recovering his blood, the Blood Knight then entered here again. Currently, his bloodstain had recovered to half, which was enough to deal with the minions on the periphery.
After the death of Ghoul the Ghoul Hunter, the number of ghouls did not decrease.
This made Lu Yao realise that Gur was merely an elite monster leader in the periphery, only controlling a portion of the ghouls.
It was obvious that the big ones were still inside.
Lu Yao then incidentally asked the Blood Knights to clear out the ghouls in the periphery of this area and practiced levelling in the meantime.
It was also easy to keep an eye on the status of the two Apostles. Tap on the temple to find Isabelle and Nevid’s avatars, with real-time blood bars underneath.
This was also something Lu Yao found out later on by fiddling around.
Once Isabelle or Nevid were caught in a battle, their avatars would be covered in a light red colour, and their status was very recognisable. Clicking on their avatars would immediately jump to the area they were in.
The simulator has no tutorials, and Lu Yao is a single player streamer, so he can only keep feeling his way around. There were many inconveniences and twists and turns, but he was in a good frame of mind and saw these as a fun way to explore the unknown.
Half an hour later, there were results on Isabelle’s side.
“My lord, I have found a group of dead people who are willing to follow you and offer their faith.”
Lu Yao took a glance.
There were several ghosts floating around Isabelle, the lowest rank was LV8, and the highest ranked LV16 was called Dinar. These few ghosts were led by Dinar, and were the only Abyssal ghosts around that were willing to submit to Lu Yao.
They were not ordinary humans and bore the racial title of [Undersea Wanderer].
The Undersea Strollers looked a little like the Corruptors, both showing an almost necrotic state. While the skin of Corruptors was light blue, their body surface was dark blue.
Lu Yao tapped on the Dinar’s detail panel.
……
[Undersea Wanderer Lv16] Dinar
Attack 6 Defence 9 Knowledge 14 Mana 14 Luck 1 Morale 1
[Abilities
Water Elemental: Can continuously restore life value in water, attacks come with water elemental damage.
Evasion LV5: Can evade damage caused by some attacks. The probability of this is higher when compared to one’s weaker life.
……
The panel is mediocre.
However, Dinar’s character stance made Lu Yao pay more attention.
Dinar’s dark blue chest had two long rows of gills, and his limbs were long, with webbed hands and feet.
He had a pair of beastly eyes with large whites and small black pupils. In the risograph, Dinar is on his knees, making a pilgrimage towards a vaguely formed building in the distance.
There is also a personal motto under the risograph.
–The former glory has sunk into the abyss, we must do everything we can to survive, even if we lose everything, as long as we live there is still hope.
These few Undersea Wanderer ghosts, Lu Yao gave them to Isabelle to place.
Now, he had to spend his attention on another more pressing matter.
The Golden Leaf appeared on the screen once again, and this time it floated in the upper right under Population and Faith.
Lu Yao clicked on the leaf.
The screen displayed.
[The Spirit of the Forest has awakened the Tree of Sylvanus, please go and pick the treasure above the Tree of Sylvanus.]
Lu Yao immediately dragged the mouse and returned to the [Golden Wilderness] within the castle.
The leaders had a saying.
You must grasp both hands, and you must be tough with both hands!
[Golden Wilderness] and [Black Abyss], none of them should be missing, I want them all!
The Heavenly Giant Tree once again appeared on the golden-coloured wilderness.
Between the dense branches and green leaves, starlight flickered.
Lu Yao clicked on the tree.
Two cards with props printed on them flew out of the tree.
A tall tower building called [Monolithic Totem].
A white horse sculpture called [Ghost White Horse].
……
[Monolithic Totem LV2]:
Lifesteal: 1000/1000
Damage: 24
Defence: 12
Speed: 10
[Totem].
Selects an area for permanent placement, automatically attacking everything within range that he believes in.
……
Seeing the description of this Monolithic Totem, it would be false for Lu Yao to say that he wasn’t moved. This Totem Turret was very suitable to be used as a defensive gate, using it as a base to pull up a whole set of defence lines.
But then he thought about it.
There didn’t seem to be a need to pull up any defence lines in this Broken World. Attacks were almost always self-initiated, and there weren’t many other forces that could fight their way through.
At best, two trainee god players could only use their faith to bombard each other, and then they weren’t afraid of themselves.
Offence was the best defence, this was something Lu Yao agreed with.
So he turned his gaze to the next one.
With just a glance at the description, he immediately decided: you’re it!
……
[Ghost White Horse LV5]: +1/hour Faith, +10 Defence, +20 Speed, +200 Lifesteal, not limited by terrain. Calling on the spirit of the white horse opens [Advanced Camouflage LV5].
