Chapter 168: The Residual Will
The interior of the forest, which should have been dim and decaying, was filled with orange-red light from dusk, and their intensity burned like fire, but it inevitably brought with it a sense that the splendor was about to be exhausted and irreversible.
Behind him is Colin Iliad, the gray-haired "Demon Hunter" Colin Iliad with two straight swords, and behind him on the right is Heim, who is carrying the hammer of "Thor's Roar", a "half-giant" of more than two meters is ready to exchange his seals with Darik.
The glow of the "Darkless Cross" grew darker and darker here, as if the sun had sunset on the horizon, leaving only a golden afterglow.
Of course, the people of Silver City had never seen a similar scene, they could only imagine it by the descriptions of ancient documents, and today, it was also the first time they had seen what dusk was.
Woo!
As the exploration team progressed, the wind began to sound in the decaying forest, which was so quiet that it was almost solidified, like countless creatures crying in the depths.
However, Derrick and the others did not feel the wind blowing on them at all.
Woo!
The wind grew more and more intense, and the heart was more and more shaken, and Darik suddenly felt a chill coming from the back of his neck, which stimulated his hairs to stand on end, and his body and mind were cold.
Normally, at this time, the instinct of a human being is to shrink his neck, raise his arms, block the back, and half-turn his body to observe the situation and prepare for the attack, but Derrick did not do this, because in a dangerous environment, reckless turning of the head often encounters extremely terrible things, and he has the chief and teammates behind him, and he fully believes that they can respond in time and put his life in their hands.
With a whoosh, the silver-white blade of the tiny electric snake flew past the side of Darik's neck, evaporating into the twilight with a vague, distorted figure.
At the same time, the "Darkless Cross" was stimulated by something, and Huo Ran got rid of the dim and gloomy state, allowing the light emitted to become bright and pure again.
The surrounding area suddenly came to dawn, and black shadows that could not describe the shape of the body stood out one after another in the morning light, and quickly dissolved.
When all this calmed down, Derick stared ahead and asked suspiciously:
"What are these? not like ghosts, ghosts, and evil spirits......
"Demon Hunter" Colin looked around and said slowly:
"Some kind of residual breath...... They seem to have combined with the power of dusk, producing a certain anomaly. ”
I've never seen anything like this...... Darek tightened his grip on the Darkless Cross and moved his other finger, which had not been pricked, to the thorn.
Relying on the targeted ability of the "No Dark Cross", the exploration team moved forward fairly smoothly, and it didn't take long for them to reach the depths of the decayed forest, and they could faintly see through the trees, the cliffs and orange clouds in the distance.
The damage was not too bad, and the branches and leaves were implicated in the air, blocking the solidified dusk and darkening the environment.
After carefully navigating this place, Darik's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw two standing, gray, mottled stone tablets.
Before he could take a closer look, the twilight light shining through the gaps in the branches and leaves was refracted strangely at the same time, intertwined, condensing a huge figure nearly ten meters high.
The figure is very vague, with an eternal meaning, like a reflection from the age of mythology.
It had a grayish-blue complexion, silver-gray armor stained with patches of blood, and a glow on its face that seemed to be the manifestation of the eyes, and its mere existence bent the surrounding trees and the void, making it difficult for everything to begin to decay uncontrollably.
Witnessing this scene, there was no reason, and a thought came to the minds of everyone present:
"Giant King, the ancient god Ormir!"
Joshua, Heim, Antilna and other members of the exploration team have particles on their skins one after another, revealing gray and blue little by little, and at the center of their eyebrows, there is flesh and blood wriggling, as if they are about to drill out some monster.
At the same time, they entered a state of near-loss of control.
They hadn't even seen the mythical creature form, and just as they approached the figure, the signs of loss of control appeared in no particular order, getting worse and worse.
Derik Berg was relatively fine, because the pure light of the "Darkless Cross" enveloped him, bringing a warm feeling that briefly resisted the erosion of decay.
By this time, Colin Iliad was already hunched down, carrying two straight swords smeared with ointment, and rushed towards the terrible figure with the speed of a hurricane.
However, the "Demon Hunter" did not charge in a straight line, he had a peculiar footwork, driving his body to sway from side to side, approaching the enemy in a wavy line.
The huge figure standing in the twilight watched all this with sunset eyes, without the slightest emotional fluctuation, like a carved stone statue.
Suddenly, the light on its face flickered.
It immediately fell to its knees and slammed its fists into the ground.
Bang!
The ground shook violently, cracking a gap, so that Darik and the others could no longer control the balance of their bodies, and they staggered and were about to fall.
However, the "Demon Hunter" Colin jumped up first, jumped to a height of more than ten meters, and slashed out the double swords in his hand in a condescending manner.
At this moment, the figure that seemed to come from myths and legends pulled out an illusory giant sword condensed by the light of dusk from the crack in the earth, and swung it forward.
The orange storm of light suddenly took shape, sweeping towards Daric and the others who came after Colin the "Demon Hunter".
Wherever this vast expanse of light passed, the trees withered, the earth turned to sand, and everything irreversibly entered the path of decay.
Bang!
The storm brewing at dusk was blocked by an invisible wall, causing the entire forest to shake.
At some point, the "Shepherd" elder Lovia appeared on Darik's side, and in front of him was a tall, illusory figure covered in silver armor.
The blood-red figure knelt on one knee and thrust an illusory greatsword into the ground, creating an unusually solid invisible wall.
While!
At this time, the two straight swords of the "Demon Hunter" Colin also slashed at the surface of the huge figure that was nearly ten meters high and had the aura of an ancient god, inspiring countless electric lights that were wantonly unrestrained.
In the midst of the silver and white chaos, the terrifying figure was not damaged in the slightest, but the silver-gray armor covered with patches of blood dimmed a little.
With the help of the power of the rebound, Colin rose again, rolled over in mid-air, and attacked again.
- In the Decay Realm, he did not dare to release the mythical creature form, because it would most likely never be reversed.
Seeing that the phantom from the myth and legend had been blocked, Deric hurriedly followed the sudden tremor and burning of the "Darkless Cross" in his palm, and pressed his finger hard against a spike.
His blood poured into the cross with pain, and a vigorous and clear light rushed out, flying into the air, folding downward, and instantly enveloping the figure in silver-gray armor with eyes like a small sunset.
In the sacred, solemn, pure light, the huge and illusory figure froze, froze, no longer moving, as if it had encountered a natural nemesis, and the layer of silver-gray armor stained with the light of dusk showed signs of melting.
Seizing this opportunity, the Evil Ghost Knight in front of the "Shepherd" Elder Lovia pulled out the illusory greatsword that was inserted into the ground, and slashed at the enemy in an instant with silver cracks that sometimes disappeared and sometimes appeared.
Colin's two straight swords from top to bottom, like a burst of light, covered the head of the ancient figure.
Joshua, Heim and the others did not hesitate and launched their strongest attacks.
After three rounds in a row, the illusory figure that seemed to have traveled through time and space finally began to crumble, crumbling into a fire-like orange-red point of light.
"Demon Hunter" Colin fell to the ground, looked at this scene, and pondered for a moment:
"It should be that the remnants of the Giant King's guardian will and the environment here have been fused for many years, and they have a certain strength and form, and they belong to a type of evil spirit.
"What secrets are hidden here......
Hearing the chief's words, everyone turned their eyes to the front, to the place where the terrible phantom had been blocked just now, and the atmosphere was quite calm for a while.
Fortunately, it is just an evil spirit, restrained by the "No Dark Cross...... It's just a little bit of will, almost no power, after thousands of years, it's still so terrifying, what would the real ancient gods look like...... Uh, why did he have such a strong will to guard this place, because it was his parents who were buried?, Darerick breathed a sigh of relief, and with doubt and curiosity, followed the Chief and the others as they approached the two tombstones.
Call...... I don't need to do it...... I have to say that this "Darkless Cross" is so useful in the "Giant Court" that I wonder if this is Adam's purpose...... Above the gray mist, Crane also breathed a sigh of relief, and lowered the raised "Seagod Scepter" a little.
He then set his sights on the place that the Giant King's will would have to protect after thousands of years.
The first thing that caught his eye were two mottled old tombstones, on which were written the words "father" and "mother" in the Giant language.
They contain a mystery that can mobilize the forces of nature, and one can intuitively experience a mixture of nostalgia, sadness, pain and guilt at the first glance, and unconsciously become infected and make the spirit low.
Behind the stele is a tomb, but it has been destroyed, revealing two dark coffins below.
Someone lifted the lid of the coffin, as if to confirm something, which bathed the two gray bones lying inside in the light that pierced through the branches and leaves, dyed orange and blood.
Both of these white bones were in human form, one no more than 1.9 meters and the other no more than 1.8 meters.