"Be on guard!"
The moment Thomas shouted, O'Neill and the others immediately took two steps back, shielding the round shield in front of them as they carefully stared at the body of the Rat-Man Priest.
The color of the Rat-Man Priest's body began to change. Its originally gray skin became red, and its thin body began to swell.
"Not good, retreat quickly! It's going to self-destruct!"
Seeing the changes in the Rat-Man Priest, Thomas immediately recalled a situation that his teachers had specifically told them in the main city.
When some dark creatures were desperate, they would choose to self-destruct and perish together with humans.
Many humans suffered greatly because they did not understand this mechanism.
After countless people verified it with their blood, they found that all dark creatures that were ready to self-destruct had some similar characteristics.
For example, their bodies were swollen, and their skin turned bright red.
If they encountered such a situation, they must immediately stay far away.
Otherwise, even heavy knights who were fully armored would be injured.
"You despicable humans! You want to run after killing my people? Stay and die with me!"
Seeing that it could no longer pretend, the Rat-Man Priest jumped up and chased after Thomas and the others.
However, as soon as it took a step forward, an arrow shot down from the roof and pierced through the Rat-Man Priest's calf.
"Ah!"
The Rat-Man Priest screamed and bent its calf, almost kneeling on the ground.
The Rat-Man Priest used its walking stick to stand up and continued to pounce at Thomas. It seemed that it would not stop until Thomas was buried with it.
At this moment, another three or four arrows hit the Rat-Man Priest's body one after another.
In particular, one arrow actually pierced through the Rat-Man Priest's foot. The arrow sank into the ground and nailed the Rat-Man Priest to the ground, making it unable to move.
Looking at Thomas, who was getting further and further away from it, the Rat-Man Priest cried out anxiously.
However, the more it cried, the faster Thomas and the others ran.
The self-destruct skill was irreversible. Once activated, it could not be stopped.
The Rat-Man Priest's eyes were spitting fire, but there was nothing it could do. It could only watch as Thomas and the others were getting further and further away from it.
Boom!
The Rat-Man Priest exploded with unwillingness and anger. It exploded into pieces of flesh and bone pieces, flying everywhere.
It was dead without a complete corpse.
Thomas turned around to look at the scene of the explosion. He felt a lingering fear in his heart.
If the Rat-Man Priest had not been controlled and let it pounce on him, he might have been seriously injured.
Thinking of this, Thomas looked at Arya, who was standing on the roof, and gave her a thumbs up.
Arya smiled slightly and returned the salute with a hand on her chest.
"Let's go and see if there are any spoils of war?" Thomas asked O'Neill and the others to return to the place where the Rat-Man Priest exploded.
At this time, the place where the Rat-Man Priest was standing had become a shallow pit with a diameter of one meter and a depth of half a meter. A green magic core lay quietly at the bottom of the pit.
Thomas picked up the magic core.
He could not help but feel a little depressed when he realized that it was just an ordinary level 2 magic core.
After spending so much effort, he had almost been injured just now, but he had only managed to obtain a level 2 magic core. It seemed like a loss.
"Let's go inside and check it out." Thomas remembered that this Rat-Man Priest was the last one to walk out of the house in front of him.
At that time, when they were surrounding and killing the Rat-Men in the courtyard, they did not deliberately control the volume of their voices. Therefore, the Rat-Man Priest was able to discover them the moment they launched an attack.
However, the Rat-Man Priest did not rush out immediately. Instead, it did not know what it was doing in the house. It only rushed out in a hurry after all its tribesmen had died. This meant that something was fishy.
"What is it that is more important than the tribesmen who are in a bloody battle?"
Thomas was very interested in this.
After receiving Thomas' order, O'Neill and the others raised their shields and rushed into the Rat-Man Priest's room.
A moment later, O'Neill walked out. "Sir Thomas, you'd better come in and take a look."
"Did you find anything?"
Thomas walked into the room out of curiosity.
In the middle of the room, there was actually an altar.
The altar was made of Bluestone. It looked like it was built hastily and was very rough.
On the altar, there were some crooked symbols drawn with blood.
Thomas had seen some when he was studying in the main city. These were the symbols used by dark creatures to worship their Evil Gods.
In the center of the altar, there was a large rat statue.
The rat statue was made of solid wood. Its appearance had been blackened by the smoke. It had obviously been worshipped for many years. The rat statue was two meters tall. It sat cross-legged and held a wooden staff in its hand. It was dressed like a priest.
It seemed to be an Evil God of the Rat-Men race.
Based on the situation before him, the Rat-Man Priest should have been worshipping the Evil God. Perhaps the ritual had reached a critical moment, and it could not split itself, resulting in it coming out so late.
"It's actually an Evil God statue!"
Thomas was overjoyed at the sight.
The Evil God statue was of no use to him. Even if he had captured it, he would not change his mind.
However, in order to maintain the spirituality of the Evil God statue, these dark creatures would usually use a magic core as the core of the statue.
Moreover, the longer the statue was worshipped, the higher the level of the magic core in its body would be.
Someone had once obtained a level 9 magic core from an Evil God statue and created a legendary-level building to block the dark creatures from attacking the city.
However, these Evil God statues were kept in very secret places by the dark creatures, so there was a limit to what humans could seize.
Unexpectedly, Thomas was very lucky today and found an Evil God statue.
Thomas pointed at the statue and said, "O'Neill, smash this statue!"
"Yes, Sir Thomas."
After receiving Thomas' order, O'Neill immediately took out the bronze swords on his waist and chopped the Evil God statue into pieces.
A blue magic core rolled to Thomas' feet.
"It's a level 3 magic core?" Thomas' eyes lit up.
After all, only a level 3 dark creature had a certain probability of dropping a level 3 magic core.
And he had only killed a group of Rat-Men of the highest level 2, and he had actually obtained a level 3 magic core. This was truly a pleasant surprise.
Moreover, there was actually a spell on this magic core called Amplification, which could increase the strength of the spell.
Looking at this spell, Thomas almost drooled.
He himself had a Super Enhancement System, which could increase the amplification of buildings. Now, this magic core itself also had an Amplification spell, which could increase the second amplification.
He wanted to see what a building that had been amplified twice would look like.
Thomas couldn't wait to test it out.