Heroes' Prison

Chapter 491 - 481: New Skills

Now, the Heroes’ Guild had just over four hundred members left, while the Angel Legion had only about two hundred. Moreover, the knights had been cut off and left with no one to block for them. They were immediately overrun by the Heroes’ Guild, which rampaged through the ranks of damage dealers and healers like a pack of wolves storming into a flock of sheep. The sound of weapons slicing into flesh rose in a dense cacophony.

"Oh! Damn it! How can their attack power be so strong!"

At this point, many members of the Angel Legion finally cried out in alarm. Initially, during the exchange of long-range attacks, they had merely felt that the Heroes’ Guild’s ranged assaults were much more ferocious than they had expected. But now, up close, they finally realized something was amiss. The attacks of the knights from the Heroes’ Guild, once landing on them, also caused massive damage, completely defying the common wisdom that knights had low attack power.

The Pope’s blue eyes, hidden under his black hat, swiftly scanned the knights of the Heroes’ Guild and finally noticed the dense array of Knight’s Lance tips. They were coated with a black substance, seemingly smeared with something.

"It’s all Demon Clan’s Blood of the Holy Domain!" the Pope recognized the black smear in an instant, and his heart gave a slight jolt. He had smeared his own magic wand with this substance and had not expected the Heroes’ Guild to use the treasured Demon Clan’s Blood that he held dear on everyone. How much had they used?

"Dear audience, we can now clearly sense that every member of the Heroes’ Guild seems exceptionally fierce, with even the knights possessing incredible attack power. They had smeared Demon Clan’s Blood before the match, and it seems all of this blood is of Holy Domain Rank! Otherwise, it couldn’t have been so effective. For this match, the Heroes’ Guild has really spared no expense, as during the recent Demon Vanguard invasion, only a small number of Holy Domain rank arrived, and even fewer Holy Domain Warriors were killed. The blood of these beings is extremely expensive, sold in the auction house by the gram! We can’t fathom the fortune the Heroes’ Guild has spent to import so much Holy Domain Demon Clan’s Blood. Now, to distribute such a precious substance to each member like this, seems like a wanton waste..." A few sharp-eyed reporters also began to comment on the oddities of the match, their tones even carrying slight blame, as if the Heroes’ Guild were squandering their resources like prodigal children.

The entire audience, however, looked on with envy, lamenting the generous benefits of the Heroes’ Guild and wishing they were part of it.

With the addition of Demon Clan’s Blood and the numerical advantage of the Heroes’ Guild, the Angel Legion was forced into constant retreat, their members rapidly falling, with fewer and fewer survivors.

In the sky above, the hundred or so members of the Angel Legion trapped by Huang Yi in the Void Battlefield were nearly bursting with frustration, anxious and pacing, yearning to go down and help. But they remained unable to leave the Void Battlefield. Some even couldn’t resist launching attacks towards the ground, only to be firmly blocked by the air wall of the Void Battlefield.

In this manner, the number of survivors in the Angel Legion steadily dwindled to the last few dozen, while the Heroes’ Guild still had roughly three hundred members. The numerical advantage had expanded to tenfold!

At this time, the Pope was still alive, his body covered in electricity. All magic skills, whether damaging or controlling, that hit him were all immunized. This skill actually belonged to Huang Yi’s "Body of Lightning and Thunder," except Huang Yi’s incarnation of the skill came as an attached skill with his equipment, while the Pope’s was a class skill, as he was originally a Lightning Mage!

As a veteran expert, the Pope had an endless stream of treasures at his disposal and received focused care from the Angel Legion’s priests, making him truly formidable in battle. His attacks were the greatest threat to the Heroes’ Guild, with members falling every time he raised his magic wand, unable to withstand even a single one of his moves.

"Lightning Net!" At that moment, the Pope swung his magic wand, and a blue-white electric net crackled forth, instantly hitting over twenty members of the Heroes’ Guild! The terrifying current struck them, charring their bodies.

In the next instant, those twenty-plus members of the Heroes’ Guild fell, without even a chance for healing!

"Lightning Chain!" The Pope did not cease his assault, unleashing another powerful thunder magic attack. A horrendous Lightning Chain instantly formed from his wand, striking at the Heroes’ Guild members.

The Lightning Chain bounced from one person to another in the crowd, connecting each of them. Wherever it passed, each person suffered massive damage and experienced a brief paralysis effect, losing their ability to move.

But this was the Pope’s final frenzy, as the Angel Legion was dying off even more quickly, and no matter his formidable abilities, he could no longer stabilize the situation. With his allies diminishing, he could no longer dodge the attacks of hundreds of Heroes’ Guild members and was about to be killed.

The battle was incredibly rapid; not even half a minute had passed since the start of the match, but the Angel Legion was already facing its demise.

At this moment, all eyes in the arena were on the Pope.

The Pope was not like ordinary men; his capabilities could not be predicted by common sense. Although the Heroes’ Guild now held an absolute advantage, as long as the Pope was alive, there was still hope for the Angel Legion!

In the Void Battlefield, Huang Yi and the hundred-plus members of the Angel Legion watched the Pope intently, knowing that if he had any last-resort measures, they would be forced out at this final moment!

The next moment, the Pope’s health points were completely depleted!

But he did not fall!

No matter how the Heroes’ Guild attacked him, it was ineffective. He seemed to possess a skill similar to Huang Yi’s Last Stand, rendering him unable to die within a certain timeframe.

The bishop’s face remained calm as he glanced indifferently at the members of the Heroes’ Guild. The look in his eyes was as if he had become the true epitome of a bishop, looking down upon everyone from his high position, as if regarding them as mere mortals struggling in the sea of suffering.

His gaze then swept over the corpses of the Angel Legion members on the ground, his eyes revealing a sense of pity for the mortals, as if he couldn’t bear to see his followers strewn dead across the battlefield and wished to save them from their torments.

"Religious skills—Soul Dedication!" the bishop exclaimed, waving his magic wand and releasing eerie green lights that entered into the bodies of the 300-plus dead members of the Angel Legion on the ground!

Then, those bodies turned into bunches of blood lights and flew to the bishop, making his aura increasingly terrifying as his attributes climbed steadily!

And his depleted health points also rose rapidly, far exceeding the original maximum, giving off the impression of evolving towards a boss-like being!

With this move, everyone finally understood the bishop’s trump card!

It turned out to be a religious skill never seen before!

Up until now, only the bishop had created a religion, with others, including Huang Yi, still in the planning stages without establishing a religion. This left the role of a religious leader quite mysterious!

Now, for the first time, the bishop revealed the religious skills to the world, marking a whole new type of skill system, independent from racial skills, class skills, and exotic skills, as the fourth major skill system! Even many members of the Angel Legion were unaware of it—an utterly confidential skill!

The implications of this skill were epoch-making, akin to discovering a new continent!

The revelation of the bishop’s skill inevitably led to endless speculation. If the bishop had skills, would the core followers under his religion also possess religious skills? Apart from skills, what other benefits might a religion offer?

Some reporters thought even more broadly, making more connections: "Dear viewers, the bishop has just revealed a brand-new type of skill, the religious skill! However, as of now, only the bishop has established a religion, and more information about it is yet to be known. Additionally, through the bishop’s action, we can speculate about the Dragon Emperor. The bishop’s the first to create a religion, and the Dragon Emperor is the first to create a nation. Might he possess a King’s Skill? However, the Dragon Emperor is known for being a loner. In this martial arts tournament, the teams under Dragon Nation did not perform notably. And, in the individual match, the Dragon Emperor was dramatically eliminated by an instant-kill potion, without being pushed to the brink, so his ultimate moves were not revealed. We hope to receive news on this front in the future..."

At this moment, the bishop’s religious skill was still ongoing. One by one, spheroids of blood energy were absorbed into his body as he digested them. Each spheroid took about two seconds to be assimilated, and with over three hundred bodies of Angel Legion members turned into blood lights, they surrounded him en masse, queuing up for absorption.

During this time, regardless of how the Heroes’ Guild members attacked him, it made no difference; he remained standing tall. However, he wasn’t attacking either, as if he was unable to move at the moment.

Seeing this, the Heroes’ Guild had no choice but to shift their target to the knights who had earlier been captured by Huang Yi’s Net of Justice. They were the last remaining members of the Angel Legion on the ground, who mostly had already activated their knight’s life-saving skill, Knight’s Body, and were now waiting for its duration to expire.

The bishop’s attributes kept growing stronger, continuously soaring. The skill seemed designed so that the more team members died, the more formidable his strength would become, as if exchanging the death of his team for a powerful survivor!

Seeing this turn of events, many in the audience began to anticipate eagerly. The match had finally taken an unexpected turn, setting the stage for a spectacular comeback battle!

The bishop was poised to turn the tide and defeat the entire Heroes’ Guild with his own power!

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