The Death List Novel - Chapter 253

Chapter 253 The War Began
More than half of the final selection for the urban contest had already begun, with less than a hundred of the 170 candidate apostles remaining in the Stairway Hall. The losers either died or left the General Assembly Hall.

At this moment, one of the teleportation gates at the front desk of the General Assembly Hall rippled and a youth wearing a demon mask and a leather trench coat stepped out. The young man seemed to have experienced a bitter battle, and the wound on his left arm could be seen deep into the bones. As soon as he exited the portal, he immediately took out a bandage from his storage space and wrapped it around his arm.

However, to the astonishment of some of the apostles who were paying attention to him, the youth whose arm had been heavily injured was actually a victor. It wasn’t surprising that they knew each other like this. After dealing with his injuries, the young man did not leave the staircase hall. Instead, he found a seat and sat down.

After winning the selection, it was only half a day before the battle for supremacy in the city officially began. Staying at the headquarters of the Chaos Alliance was the best choice to avoid being watched by other apostles.

Qin Lun leaned back against his seat and slowly chewed on the food. He was thinking about the battle that had just passed. His battle with Oddo wasn’t as easy as it seemed. The Eye of the Clock, the Pentagram Crystal Mirror, the Gale Steps, the Detection Aura … Apart from the Hellfire Devil Hound and the extra magic scrolls, his core skills were basically used.

Compared to Oddo, Qin Lun had also benefited greatly from this battle. This was the first time he had obtained several new skills. What delighted him the most was the ability to detect the Aura, the Hunter’s core profession. Since he could detect an alien form with a high-grade invisibility scroll attached to it, he believed that there would no longer be any beginner apostles in Atlantis who could hide their perceptions from the transformed assassins and thieves.

Thinking of this, Qin Lun took out the Adith cane and walnut wine he had just obtained and began to examine it.

[Walnut Wine: This item is brewed from walnut nectar collected by the elves of Manro World. One ounce of Walnut Wine can replenish 100 HP and 500 MP in half a minute and speed up the recovery of MP.]

The recovery food provided by the Shattered Universe was truly incomparable to the World Treasure Restoration Medicine. Not to mention the recovery time, even the recovery amount was only a fraction of the World Treasure Restoration Medicine’s.

Walnut Wine didn’t increase HP by much. It was a recovery treasure that favoured recovery energy. It could be said to be a top-grade recovery medicine for mages. This jug of walnut wine was roughly ten ounces in size. For Qin Lun, who only had 810 Energy Points, it was enough to consume seven or eight times.

“Attis Staff (Short Staff)

Quality: Dark Gold (Medium)

Material: Male and female Attis King Snake

Weight: 210 g

Length: 480 mm

Spirit: 5 points; Perception: 3 points;

Equipment Law Abilities: Virtual Spirit, Fast Technique, Light Technique, Fireball Technique

Illumination spell: The staff has its own illumination spell, no cooldown time, energy consumption of 3 points/minute.

Fireball spell: The staff carries a Tier 1 Fireball spell. Cooldown time is 10 seconds. Each Fireball consumes 20 HP.

Fast Magic: The staff allows magic professions to keep their minds clear, shortening casting time by a quarter, and equipping them with passive abilities.

Virtual Spirit: Actively summoning contracted creatures with the Adison staff. The male and female Adison King Snakes will simulate the soul of the summoned creature and generate clones of the summoned creature. The clone did not possess the intelligence of the original summoner, so it could only passively accept the master’s command. This skill will double the amount of energy required to summon a spell, cooldown 10 minutes.

[Prerequisites: Apostles must possess a spell core similar to a magic net. Basic mana must exceed 500 points and Spirit must exceed 30 points.]

Normally, all staff-type equipment would carry their own spells such as lighting spells and small fireballs, which could also be considered a necessary small spell for mages to survive in the wild. The value of the Attis Staff lies in the latter two self-contained skills.

Fortunately, most of the staff that reached dark gold quality were beneficial to shortening the duration of the spell. The value of the virtual spirit was immeasurable. To a summoner, this skill was simply a divine skill.

Although the Virtual Spirit also consumed double the amount of energy, the clone of the summoned creature did not require a spirit limit. In other words, using a single spiritual limit to summon double the number of summoned creatures unilaterally bypassed the spiritual limitations of the summoned creature.

Taking Kieran as an example, summoning Cyberlus required 385 HP. With the current maximum of 810 HP, he could summon two of them. However, with his 30 Spiritual Will, he was unable to recruit a second Hellfire Devil Dog.

Adith’s staff could bypass the spirit limit requirement, allowing Qin Lun to summon Cyberlus and create a clone of the Hellfire Devil Hound at the same time. Although this clone required Qin Lun to use his consciousness to command it, and the energy used to consume and maintain it was also double, no matter what, Qin Lun had obtained the combat power of two Hellfire Devilhounds in a short period of time.

This was also the reason why Qin Lun had gone to great lengths to pretend to be in need of a beating in the battle, and even took out the Earth Dragon Lizard leather armor to trick Oddo into signing a soul contract with him. Even if Qin Lun couldn’t maintain the energy consumption of the Twin-Headed Hellfire Demon Hound for a long time, he could still use the Adith Staff as a trump card in a special duel environment like the City Hegemon Battle.

Half a day passed in a hurry, and the final selection had already ended. There were still about eighty more elementary apostles left in the staircase hall. Some of them only left a little before returning to the hall. It seemed like they were going to the half-plane trading square to make their final preparations.

In the final selection, some of the apostles lost the battle. It was estimated that these people would take advantage of this time to sell some of their equipment and recover their treasures to make up for the loss of some of their invitation collateral. Unfortunately, Qin Lun didn’t have any extra broken crystals in his hands, otherwise he could have collected some more recovery treasures.

This urban contest was like a shuttle card game with increasing weights. Only in the end would there be a real big winner. At this moment, some of the apostles in the synagogue were gathered in twos and threes and whispering softly. These people should be large teams, or old friends that they were familiar with.

Now that the internal selection had ended, it was only natural that they should contact each other as soon as possible and agree on a code. So that they could quickly gather together when they entered the battlefield. No matter what, they were now partners on the same front.

Qin Lun stayed in an inconspicuous corner and looked at the other apostles on the field. No one came looking for him, and he didn’t want to get close to anyone else. At this time, the so-called alliance was only a superficial effort. If it wasn’t for the fact that they were close to each other, no one would dare to entrust their backs to their own people.

As time passed, all the apostles in the staircase synagogue trembled and turned their heads to look at the front desk of the synagogue.

After the selection, the dozen or so teleportation gates on the stage had already disappeared. However, at this moment, a three-meter-tall and two-meter-wide azure portal appeared in the center of the platform.

At this moment, Qin Lun’s death list also sent a prompt.

“Apostle 70053, the urban battle has officially begun! Please enter the portal within ten minutes and be disqualified from participating. The rules and contents of this battle can be viewed in the Apostle Soul Seal.”

Qin Lun slowly stood up from his chair. He wasn’t in a hurry to walk to the teleportation light door at the front desk of the hall. Instead, he removed the bandage on his left arm and checked his injuries.

It had to be said that the apostle’s Law Body was indeed heaven-defying. Under the effects of the healing bandages and ordinary recovery food, the left arm that had been deeply wounded had recovered in half a day, leaving behind only a tender pink scar.

Qin Lun tossed away the bloodstained bandage and followed the crowd towards the portal. After stepping into the azure portal, Qin Lun’s body suddenly transformed into a mini human-shaped figure, flying forward in the teleportation tunnel that was like the Avenue of Stars.

A moment later, a bright dot of light appeared in front of his consciousness. It rushed out of the dot of light, and the Law Body began to rebuild within an oval shield.

As the dizziness caused by the teleportation slowly subsided, Qin Lun slowly opened his eyes and sized up his surroundings.

This was an apartment that had long since been uninhabited. It had three rooms and one living room. The furniture in the room fell to the ground in a mess and was covered in a thick layer of dust. It could be seen that the owner of the room was in a hurry when he left. There were also some messy clothes in the closet opened in the bedroom.

Qin Lun inspected the apartment and was quickly attracted by an item on the ground. It was a tattered doll. Qin Lun took two steps forward and picked up the doll to carefully examine it. A complicated expression appeared on his face. He never had a doll!

Just as he was about to throw away the garbage, he raised his arm halfway, but he suddenly remembered something. He slowly retracted his arm and stuffed the doll into his arms.

The curtains of the apartment room were closed. Qin Lun raised them slightly and looked outside. The outdoors of the apartment was a bushy alley. Both sides of the alley were basically seven or eight-story residential buildings. It seemed that the place he was in was a residential area.

Most of the buildings in the neighborhood were covered in moss and vines. Some of the walls of some houses had collapsed, revealing the furnishings in the rooms. It looked like a desolate and ancient scene of doomsday.

The pupils of Qin Lun’s eyes instantly turned into clockwork. The three hands inside twitched slightly. He used his Heavenly Spirit Eye and the detection halo to scout the surroundings and discovered that he was the only apostle nearby.

“Looks like it should be a random teleportation!” Qin Lun muttered to himself in a low voice. He gently lowered the curtains and patted the sofa in the room. He sat down and looked at the detailed rules and contents of the death list regarding this urban hegemony battle.