Chapter 167: A Powerful Keeper
The huge towering building stands quietly in the frozen dusk, without a sound around it, as if it were just an oil painting.
Walking through this environment, Derick Berg was even tighter than he was in the depths of the darkness, and the hairs on his back stood on end.
Upon entering the dusk-shrouded area, the entire exploration team, including Chief Colin Iliad and Elder Lovia the Shepherd, inevitably appeared to be in a state of exhaustion and decay, feeling like they were entering the end of their lives, and as they moved forward, they roamed the roads or rushed out of different buildings, and the rotten giants grew stronger and stronger.
After such a weakening of one side and the strengthening of the other, the advance began to become difficult, and after several fierce battles, the Silver City exploration team finally broke through the "blockade" and "interception" of those monsters, and came to an extremely quiet area where there was no sound at all, which made people's scalps tingle.
In this regard, the "Demon Hunter" Colin Iliad had to break the silence and remind:
"This means that we have truly entered the 'Court of the Giants', which is about to approach the core, and the danger level will only rise, not decrease. ”
After hearing this, a small number of members of the exploration team were shaken to a certain extent due to the influence of "dusk", in their opinion, although most of the time in the previous stage, they and others did not dare to stay, for fear of being surrounded by rotten giants, but after all, there was a situation where all the monsters in a small place were cleared, and they could rest and adjust for a while, and they got a lot of extraordinary characteristics. Magical materials and potion recipes, this exploration can be said to have gained enough, there is no need to go deeper, the most important thing to do at the moment is to find a suitable building, set up a forward camp, and prepare for the second exploration later.
In the face of such a proposal, Colin Iliad did not say much, but emphasized that the purpose of this exploration is to find out as much as possible about the "Court of the Giants" and accumulate enough information for various subsequent actions.
He then asked a team member named Antilna to "soothe" the wavering ones.
Since the "Shepherd" elder Lovia also supported the Chief, the few members of the exploration team quickly adjusted their mentality and followed the Chief quietly.
After a while, they saw a huge stone staircase, which was grayish-white in its entirety, but dyed with an orange glow, both brilliant and silent.
Each floor of this staircase is relatively high, and it would definitely be very difficult for a normal human to walk, but fortunately, the shortest Elder of this exploration team, Elder Luovia, is also close to 1.9 meters, and can control the wind.
On top of the huge staircase is the city wall so majestic that you have to look up to see the top of it, and there are many signs of destruction and burning on it, and in some places there are arrows of ordinary tree thickness, several meters long, causing some of the stones to collapse.
In the middle of the wall is a gate dozens of meters high, its color is more grayish blue, there are golden nails inlaid on it, and there are two guards standing outside who can create a strong sense of oppression just by looking at it.
They were five or six meters tall, wearing delicate and sturdy silver full-body armor, one holding a large sword, the other holding a giant axe to the ground, and behind each of them there was a cloud of orange-red light, like a single eye.
"Silver Knight ......" and "Demon Hunter" Colin raised his right hand and slammed the straight sword horizontally, stopping the members of the exploration team behind him.
- He had already pulled out the two straight swords he was carrying and coated them with different medicines.
Silver Knight...... Derick Berg's eyelids jumped slightly at the hearing, and his heart palpitated.
He had only recently come across some information from the Chief that only the upper echelons could know, and he had learned that Sequence 3 of the "Giant" path was called "Silver Knight", and that Silver City lacked the correct potion recipe, but it had corresponding extraordinary properties.
To Darik's surprise and horror, the gatekeepers of the core part of the "Giant Court" turned out to be two Sequence 3 demigods, which was one level higher than the strongest combat power of Silver City!
And this is only the area of the royal court's gate, if you can go deeper, you don't know what you will encounter.
After the fright, Derrick uncontrollably sprung up with a certain anticipation:
Perhaps, in the "Giant's Court", it is possible to find the potion recipe after the "Giant" path sequence 4.
In that way, the chief will likely become a "Silver Knight", greatly improving the strength of Silver City, and when the time comes, he will be able to further explore the "Giant Court", find more potion recipes, hunt more monsters, and obtain more and higher-level extraordinary characteristics and magical materials.
Subconsciously, Derrick glanced left and right, and found that Joshua, Heim, Antilna, and other members of the exploration team reacted basically the same as himself, both nervous and fearful, but also a little hopeful.
At this moment, the elder of the "shepherds", Lovia, took two steps forward, stood side by side with Colin Iliad, looked up at the gray-blue gate and the two "silver knights" who did not know what state they were in, and said:
"If there is only one, we have a chance to solve it. ”
What she really meant was that there were now two "Silver Knights", and even if we were willing to suffer huge casualties, we would not be able to clear out the enemy, after all, even if the Chief could control the mythical creature form and normally fight Sequence 3, the environment here would not allow him to make a similar attempt - the shroud of dusk brought decay, and what we could have endured may not be able to bear now.
Colin Iliad nodded, glanced at Lovia and Derick Berg, respectively, and observed the front for a while:
"At the moment, it seems that as long as we don't get close to that gate, the two guards won't attack us. ”
"Maybe we could try to lure one of the 'Silver Knights' out of the way and clean it up alone?" said the female warrior named Antilna, suggesting a thoughtful suggestion.
She has burgundy medium-long hair, and her facial features are not exquisite, but the combination is extremely atmospheric and very bright.
In this exploration operation, her main mission is to rely on a seal in her charge to heal the psychological problems of the team members and fight against enemies with spiritual abilities.
Antilna's specific idea was that she and the other members would lead away one of the "Silver Knights" and rely on the terrain and cooperation, while the Chief and Elder Lovia would join forces to deal with the remaining one, and strive to solve it as soon as possible.
This is a textbook way to deal with a similar situation in Silver City.
"Even having only one Silver Knight will be tough, and there's no guarantee that the Silver Knight you're pulling away won't directly manifest a mythical creature. "Demon Hunter" Colin calmly dismissed Antilna's suggestion.
Not to mention that the "Silver Knight" itself has powerful extraordinary abilities, as long as it reveals its mythical creature form, most of the members of the Silver City Exploration Team will not be able to look directly at it, and it will be affected, and it will be impossible to deal with it at all.
Without waiting for the rest of the team to speak, Colin Iliad glanced back and said:
"Go the other way.
"Darek found some information in the Reflection World of Afternoon Town, which recorded a passage in the area behind the 'Giant's Court'. ”
The "shepherd" elder Lovia's gaze immediately fell on Derrick Berg, indifferent, calm, and without a hint of emotion.
Derick subconsciously raised the "Darkless Cross" in his hand a little higher, restraining his indescribable tremors.
"Good. Lovia agreed with Colin Iliad's proposal.
So, the exploration team exits the large stone staircase and goes around to the left.
It didn't take long for them to see a rugged path, with a towering cliff on the right and a cloud of dusk light on the left.
Of course, the path is only relatively spacious for the giants, but for the members of the Silver City Exploration Team.
Step by step, Darek and the others were inspired at the same time, and they subconsciously looked to the side.
At the edge of the cliff, gray-blue swollen palms stretched out from the orange-red clouds, grasping there, dense and difficult to count.
If these are all giants, even if it is only a giant in Sequence 7 and Sequence 6, relying on this number is enough to wipe out the Silver City exploration team here.
Colin Iliad was about to swing his straight sword when Derrick suddenly felt a subtle sensation, and hurriedly raised the "Darkless Cross" in his hand a little higher, and pressed a finger against the tip of a thorn, dripping bright red blood.
The twilight of the Pure Crosses suddenly brightened and seemed to return to midday, and they surged fiercely towards the edge of the cliff, enveloping the grey-blue giants who tried to climb up.
These giants froze there at the same time, and their bodies faded inch by inch, and quickly dissolved.
They are not real giants, but the ghosts of the ghosts left behind by the tragic death of those giants, so the "Dark Cross" has a sense.
It is a saint-level seal in the realm of the "Sun", and it is the nemesis of the spirits, ghosts, and evil spirits.
After easily eliminating these monsters, the Silver City Exploration Team continued to move forward vigilantly, and after a while, they finally bypassed the mountain walls and cliffs and saw a gray forest.
In that forest, the trees are tens of meters tall and extremely thick, but the skin is peeling, the trunk is rotten, and the branches and leaves are withered, which intuitively gives people a sense of decay.
The branches and leaves should have been tangled together, creating a cover in mid-air, blocking out the light of dusk and darkening the interior, but by this time, due to the collapse and breakage of a large number of trees, the orange glow had sprinkled most of the interior of the forest that could be seen to the naked eye.
"This is the 'decayed forest' where the Giant's ancestors, the Giant's parents, are buried. Derick looked in front of him, silently calculated how long he could still use the "Darkless Cross", and spoke to the chief and his teammates.
Colin Iliad stared at the forest for a while and said:
"It's already destroyed, and even if there is still a danger of remaining, it's not too strong, and we can try to explore it. ”
"Yes, Your Excellency. Without hesitation, Derick responded, "My cross can stand against the environment here, I'll go ahead." ”
He remembered that Mr. "World" had warned him that there might be some kind of pollution lurking in that forest, and that the "No Dark Cross" could provide an effective warning.
The gray-haired Colin bowed his head lightly:
"Be careful around. ”
Daerik took a silent breath and took a big stride towards the "Forest of Decay".
At the same time, he took advantage of the convenience of walking ahead and whispered the honorific name of Mr. "Fool".
Then, Crane, who had been obscured by the dusk and had been disconnected for a while, was finally able to see the specific situation, but he couldn't expand his vision too widely.