Chapter 872: Ancient Shadow Dragon
Sean motioned for them to take the initiative to let in some of the Twisted Nightmares and hand them over to the rapidly growing army of ant soldiers to fight in the initial lair to defend the city.
Sean's transformation of the original lair is comprehensive.
The Mage's Tower is just one of the core points.
During the construction of the Mage Tower, the ant soldiers born from the original queen were not idle.
Although they are not as good at manipulating the power of the World Tree as the Life Sacrifice, they are good at digging holes.
Sean's ultimate goal is to hollow out the original lair and turn it into a veritable battle fortress.
Once they enter the narrow passage, the combat power of those flying nightmares will be greatly reduced.
This has been further verified by actual combat.
Here, the flight ability of the Flying Nightmare is not only greatly reduced, but the numerical superiority is also limited.
No amount of twisted nightmares will be kept out and become the star ascension experience of the elite ant guards who stick here.
This tug-of-war is two days and two nights.
Eight armies of twisted nightmares joined the siege of the original lair, each numbering at least 10,000.
The last one is particularly large, the sum of the first seven.
The leader is no longer a shadow general, but a shadow mastermind.
People are still divided into three, six, nine and so on!
The Shadow Mastermind is no exception.
Compared with the surrounding shadow masters, the two shadow masterminds that Sean killed outside the Emerald City and in the original lair were really as shabby as they were.
The gap is as big as a baron in the backwoods and a duke with a strong army.
Not only does this shadow mastermind sit on an army of hundreds of thousands of twisted nightmares, but his individual strength is also extremely terrifying, and he is impressively in the form of a dragon—an ancient shadow dragon wrapped in shadow energy.
Compared with it, the size of the Bright Golden Crane and the Bright Mantis immediately shrank a lot, and they became inconspicuous little beans.
This ancient shadow dragon was surrounded by two teams of twisted nightmares of special size, which were like a combination of a bird and a flying dragon, and were the size of the Bright Golden Crane.
Sean recognized at a glance that these shadow wyverns looked very far from the Bright Golden Crane.
In fact, the roots are all the same, they are all evolved from the Shadow Giant Bird that chased Sean before.
It's just that the reasons for upgrading and evolving are different.
In terms of shape, these Shadow Wyverns must have a direct relationship with the Ancient Shadow Dragons, perhaps due to the direct access to the power bestowed by the other party.
This is a special ability given to Sean by the Law of Life Rune, allowing him to trace the roots of these creatures.
Against the Ancient Shadow Dragon, the Bright Golden Crane naturally had no way to carry out the decapitation tactics like before.
Instead, retreat to the edge of the city shield of the original lair as quickly as possible, and can retreat to the city shield at any time to find shelter and prevent being decapitated by the opponent.
Not only did the Ancient Shadow Dragon not perform this trick, but after the army of Twisted Nightmares led by him appeared, even the Twisted Nightmares, which had already invaded the original lair, withdrew one after another, and lined up behind the Ancient Shadow Dragon, looking neat and orderly.
It is precisely because of this that Sean has a high opinion of this ancient shadow dragon, because the posture that the other party is putting on now is obviously to talk first and then fight.
Even scarier than twisted nightmares are twisted nightmares with brains.
The Ancient Shadow Dragon gently stirred the dragon's wings, and then appeared outside the city shield of the original lair, hovering there, an overwhelming coercion spread, and a majestic low roar resounded through the sky, "Surrender or die!"
There are hundreds of thousands of twisted nightmares as a background, plus his huge size, and his natural dragon power.
The Ancient Shadow Dragon is the embodiment of its might and domineering.
It is believed that most of the shadow creatures in front of it have no courage to resist at all, and they kneel and beg to surrender.
Sean didn't even show up, and silently replied to the ancient shadow dragon that seemed to have a mind of its own.
Because there is no room for détente on either side at all - what is there to talk about life and death?
Even like the Bright Golden Crane and the original Queen Ant, the transformation camp can't do it.
This kind of thing that steps on the line between life and death is the privilege of those who have entities.
Neither Twisted Nightmare nor Sean has.
The former is made up of pure shadow energy, and there is only one result of allowing large-scale shadow energy to enter one's body, and that is destruction.
Sean is the same, because his ontology is not in this plane, and the body of the law, which is his direct carrier, is completely composed of positive energy.
It is estimated that this is also the reason why the goddess Abigail is relieved to hand over the task to him, and he only advances in the Abigail plane, not retreats.
"Kill them!" the ancient shadow dragon, which did not receive a response, was furious, and with a command, the twisted nightmare behind him rushed up like a tide.
Bang!
Countless small crashing sounds converged into a terrifying sound.
The warped nightmare army of the Ancient Shadow Dragons crashed into an emerald green aura barrier.
The sniping of the Bright Golden Crane and the Bright Mantis still had a certain effect, at least the reconstruction of the city shield of the last nest was completed, and the Mage Tower was no longer directly exposed to the attacks of the Nightmare Army.
The twisted nightmare, which came into close contact with the city's protective shield, basically didn't even have a chance to scream, and vaporized on the spot.
But there are enough twisted nightmares under the command of the ancient shadow dragon, and they are like moths to the flames, one after the other, fearless of death.
If there are enough moths, some of them will be burned to death by the bonfire, and the same bonfire may be extinguished by their corpses.
The current condition of the original nest clearly belongs to the latter.
The strength of the city's protective shield is directly related to its own territorial area, because it is related to the light of life provided by the World Tree per unit of time.
If it were only the impact of the Nightmare army itself, the city shield of the original lair would barely hold out for a while.
However, the Ancient Shadow Dragon was obviously not satisfied with the offensive speed of his subordinates, and personally went down to attack him.
Destroy Dragon's Breath.
A flaming dragon's breath erupted.
It's just that the color of this dragon's breath is not fiery red, but is composed of the purest power of destruction, showing a deep gray hue.
The Ancient Shadow Dragons didn't care much about the lives of the ordinary twisted nightmares, and the Destruction Dragon's Breath passed directly through them.
To these twisted nightmares, the Dragon's Breath of Destruction is as good as the Light of Life was to the original Queen.
If a small amount is absorbed, it will make them transform and mutate, and their strength will skyrocket.
If the amount is too large, far exceeding their physical load, they will burst and ignite by the way.
Where the Destruction Dragon's Breath passed, a very strange appearance appeared.
Those twisted nightmares not only did not dodge or dodge, but rushed towards it excitedly, and the twisted nightmares standing in the middle of the dragon's breath of destruction let out bursts of sharp screams of excitement, as if they were sprayed by the dragon's breath of destruction, which was a great honor for them.
Those twisted nightmares were frantically absorbing the breath of the Destruction Dragon, and their bodies and appearances were changing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This change is not a regular variation, but has a definite evolutionary direction.
Dragon wings, dragon horns, dragon body, dragon tail......
They were all moving in the direction of the dragon, at least the direction of the small shadow wyvern.
It's just that there are differences between individuals.
Some of them changed into dragon horns first, some formed dragon tails first, and some of their wings became dragon wings first......
It is precisely because of this difference that they look so varied and very weird.
However, there are very few who really take the opportunity to transform into small shadow dragons, and more of them are ignited by the flames of destruction in the process of absorbing the dragon's breath of destruction and transforming, and they fall into a raging burn, becoming the best accelerant for the destruction of dragon's breath.
There are also a small number of lucky people, who are on the verge of destroying the dragon's breath, absorbing just the right amount of the dragon's breath of destruction, and transforming into a smaller shadow dragon.
This kind of transformation is obviously not limited to its own strength and weakness, and it has a lot of improvement in IQ.
After these small shadow wyverns completed their transformation, they no longer moved forward thoughtlessly, but turned their heads and flew into the personal guards led by the shadow wyverns behind the ancient shadow dragons.
Obviously, they have now separated from the ranks of low-level cannon fodder and advanced to the ranks of high-level cannon fodder, even if they are consumables, they are high-end consumables.
Even if this is true of a twisted nightmare of the same origin, the city shield composed of the energy opposed to it will not be much better.
Soon, it was burned out by the destruction of the dragon's breath, and a thick and long hole was burned.
At this time, the shadow dragons who followed behind the ancient shadow dragon finally moved.
With a sharp hiss, he led the small shadow wyverns behind him to pass through the large hole dissolved by the dragon's breath of destruction, and rushed towards the mage tower with great momentum.
Wave!
Half a minute after the city's protective shield was broken, it flickered as a whole, like a bubble, and disappeared completely.
Those twisted nightmares that were blocked out rushed forward frantically.
But this flying charge only lasted for more than ten seconds, and all the twisted nightmares, whether they were shadow wyverns or flying locust nightmares, all involuntarily whirled and fell towards the ground.
What's even more bizarre is that in the process of their fall, their bodies are materializing little by little, not flesh, but petrified like mud and stone.
No matter how much they flap their wings, they can't maintain their balance, let alone borrow from it.
Their current state seems to have been rejected at the level of law.
And so it is.
The city shield that guarded the original lair is not completely gone, but it has changed in a different way.
The energy body is stone-likened!
Fly the veto!
Here's a new law that hangs over the original lair.
It has been said before.
Every tree city is actually a half-plane.
It looks as if it's on this Abigail plane as a whole, but it's not quite.
The big rules are the same, but the small rules can be adjusted according to themselves.
It's just that like the Emerald City, a city with people living in it, these rule adjustments are used to suit the survival of the residents there.
The initial lair under Sean's control naturally does not need to think about these, and can mobilize all the energy for battle.
Adjust the rules around the original lair to the battlefield that is most conducive to your class.
This is also known as home field advantage.
The law of the two.
Those ordinary flying locust nightmares basically didn't even have a chance to react.
Just like dumplings, they fell to the ground and fell apart on the spot.
With this level of killing, there is no way to completely kill them.
But the problem is that they are still in a state of stone statues, and there is no way to freely deform and combine them like the energy state.
There are a large number of ant soldiers waiting below, and naturally they will not let go of this great opportunity to beat the water dogs, and they will rush up to poke at them.
Once these twisted nightmares are killed, they will no longer remain in a stone state, and will dissipate on the spot.
This makes the law of manipulation the most shameful.
It can be tailored to your needs.
This kind of partial law change, the binding ability is naturally not as strong as the law of a huge plane, and it can be countered to a certain extent through its own strength.
Not to mention the ancient shadow dragons that have not yet entered it, even its fundamental junior brothers, the shadow dragons, can also resist this pressure from the law through the form of shadow flames.
Although it didn't reach the level of ignorance, it was obviously not as embarrassed as an ordinary twisted nightmare, and after staggering and stabilizing his body, he slid all the way to the ground, and the shadow energy that burned like a flame resisted the erosion of the power of the law, preventing himself from turning into a stone statue.
And the most intuitive manifestation of this confrontation is the increased energy consumption in the mage tower that maintains the operation of these two laws.
But Sean was not alone, the Bright Golden Crane and the Bright Mantis, who had retreated to the original lair, rushed out one after another, pecking and slashing at these shadow wyverns.
Whether it is the energy stone statue or the forbidden flight, it is a universal law, and it is not only effective on the side of the Warped Nightmare army, but also on the defenders on Sean's side, it also has the same effect.
It's just Sean's side, because of his own structure and class problems, is less affected than the Twisted Nightmares.
Whether it's the long-legged Bright Golden Crane or the Bright Mantis playing with twin blades, they are both better at ground melee combat than the Shadow Wyverns.
In the first round of riots, two Shadow Wyverns were besieged and pecked to death by the Bright Golden Cranes, and three Shadow Wyverns were hacked to death by the Bright Mantises.
In this kind of land warfare, it is still the Bright Mantis that has the advantage of the big swords.
"Field! I didn't expect to meet a knowledgeable person here! It just so happens that there is a lack of such talents under my command. The Ancient Shadow Dragon was not shocked or ecstatic, and roared wildly, "Let you see the power that truly belongs to the realm." ”
The Ancient Shadow Dragon vibrated its wings and swooped down, its body burning with flames of destruction, and plunged headlong into the realm of its original lair.
It's like a boulder smashed into the water.
It's not the waves that bind it, it's the splashes that it smashes.