Chapter 1: The Great Rout
"Boom, boom!" There was a deafening sound of cannon in my ears, and each roaring explosion sent off a huge wave of air above the ground. The impact is powerful, and there are constantly human soldiers in various leather armor and hideous-looking strange species being blown to pieces, or lifted into the air.
The great power of the rune cannon, this is the most numerous and powerful weapon in the army of the Valoran continent.
Inside the trench, a soldier in red leather armor turned pale. Outside, soldiers from both armies were constantly fighting. Fierce artillery fire exploded on the battlefield without hesitation, blood and death were intertwined, and the entire sky was painted a faint blood-red because of the fierce battle here.
"Damn! Bastard! "There were no more comrades around, and the entire trench was full of corpses, and even this pale soldier, half of his whole body was covered by corpses.
He struggled to crawl out of the pile, but despite the soldier's best efforts, his movements were still very difficult.
"Boom, boom!" There were several more explosions, and flying flesh and black soil fell from the sky, raining down on the soldier's head.
"Pounce! Strike! Spat at the mouth twice, the soldier felt that his mouth was about to get mud.
"Ahh Yes! Yes! With all his strength, the soldier finally pulled his body out of the thick pile of corpses that pressed against him.
The soldier's leg was wounded, and a huge wound was cut on the outside of his thigh, which was already somewhat infected because it had not been bandaged in time. The sharp pain in his leg made it impossible for the soldier to concentrate as much as he could. It's hard to even stand up.
"Damn it!"
"Sting!" The soldier was obviously in a bad mood, and he cursed damn in a low voice, and crawled forward with all his strength, approaching a relatively intact corpse less than two meters away from him in the trench.
Enduring the severe pain of the leg injury, the soldier tore off several long strips of cloth from the corpse's body, and connected the strips of cloth together to make a simple bandage, which the soldier used to cover the wound on his leg with blood and dirt.
Perhaps because the bandage slowed down the blood circulation in the wound, the soldier seemed to feel that the pain in his leg had been reduced a lot after bandaging his thigh.
Reflexively, from the bottom of the pile of corpses that he had just climbed out of, he pulled out his matching sword, a matching sword made of fine iron, the most conventional standard weapon in the human soldier legion, with only the simplest sturdy and sharp magic effects attached. Such a weapon can be bought for only a few gold coins in Valoran's shijie, which is full of street goods, and in the eyes of many strong people, such a weapon may be called tattered.
But it was such a most mundane weapon, and the soldier still persistently dug it out of the corpse. Holding his sword in his hand, a familiar feeling immediately came to his heart. This may be the heroes of the Valoran Continent who are frequently and more powerfully weaponized, and they will never be able to understand the love of these lowest-level soldiers for their own weapons.
This soldier is just the most ordinary soldier, he has no money to buy powerful rune weapons, and some are only standard weapons that the army is equipped with for him, but it is such a standard weapon, but it is accompanied by this soldier, from the Valoran continent There is a space crack in the otherworld, and when humans pick up arms to fight against the otherworldly army, they follow this soldier, and after fighting, this sword has accompanied this soldier from birth to death I don't know how many times, although this is just an ordinary rune weapon, even because of the continuous battle, There were already cracks on the blade, and there were many gaps on the blade, but even so, the soldier still didn't give up the sword at this time, what the soldier needed was not a sword, what he needed was a partner who fought side by side with him and died.
"Roar! After! Roar! ”
Outside the trench, the earth-shattering roar resounded throughout the battlefield, and hearing such a frequency of roar, the soldier struggled to climb horizontally along the trench.
The soldier knew it was the roar of the Otherworldly army about to charge.
The Valoran continent, because of the misuse of magical energy by the people of Shili on all sides, the frequent battles have completely destroyed the geological structure of this Shijie. Although the War College was later established and League of Legends was formed, all disputes between Shili were finally controlled in a virtual battlefield. The war is over, and the people of Valoran believe that the crisis of Shijie is finally over, but in the end, it turns out that people think too simply.
The ruined Shijie structure is definitely not something that can be slowly restored after the rune war is stopped immediately, in fact, the establishment of the War College only delays the pace of Valoran's Shijie's destruction.
Finally, what should come will come. From the first spatial rift that appeared from the city-state of Noxus, the second, Demacia, Bandle City, Ionia, one by one spatial rifts suddenly appeared on the Valoran continent, and the otherworldly life that poured out of the spatial rift began to invade the Valoran continent frantically, they fed on all life races, they had no reason, they were outright beast life.
The Valoran Continent ushered in a chapter of annihilation, and all parts of the country rose up to resist and organized armies to fight against the otherworldly life, but the powerful otherworldly army was definitely not something that any single shili on the Valoran continent could fight alone. In order to save Shijie, all the Shili on the Valoran Continent united for the first time and formed a coalition to fight against otherworldly life together.
Originally, it was thought that the strongest army of the Valoran continent would be able to completely defeat the invasion of the other world, but people thought wrong once. Under the tidal wave of otherworldly armies attacking day and night, and in the case of spatial rifts constantly appearing wantonly everywhere, the coalition forces of the Valoran continent were retreating one after another, and the battlefields everywhere were constantly routing, and finally most of the Valoran continent fell into the occupation of alien races. Holding on to a fortress is completely useless, because you don't know where the spatial rift will appear in the next moment, it could be a fortress, a town, or just your side.
This is a shijie with a lot of holes. Doomed failure, doomed end.
"Boom, boom!" The rune cannon on the human side roared hard, as if crying about the imminent fall of this human Shijie, and a cannonball fell on the soldier's side, and the powerful impact made the soldier lose consciousness instantly.
I don't know how long it has been, but in a trench that has almost been filled up on the battlefield strewn with corpses and scraps, and the mud mixed with blood trembled slightly.
"Uh An unrecognizable soldier emerged from under the dirt and struggled to his feet.
"Is it over? Great rout! The soldier was silent. The final defeat of Liliang was a desperate result, but the soldier was not surprised, in fact, before he was stunned by the bombardment of the rune cannon, the human race was already in a rout, and it was only a matter of time before the total rout was lost.
The key is here, this battlefield is the ultimate line of defense for human beings to defend against alien races, based on a huge stable barrier established by the War College in the center of the continent that gathers all human resources, and the final retreat of human beings, within this barrier, the space space is stabilized by magical energy to the greatest extent, and there will be no spatial cracks, and human beings only need to stick to the fortress on all sides to keep this Zuihou habitat. Humanity believes that victory will eventually come to intelligent humanity. It is impossible for the savage life of the other world to completely defeat humanity.
But it's all over. One of the most important lines of defense collapsed, and while there were still a few lines of defense after that, those would only delay the fall of the War College for a while.
"Oh! Drink! ”
The soldier dragged a tall corpse from the pile of corpses nearby, took out his sword, and violently cut off one of the corpse's legs. Ignoring the pungent smell of blood, the soldier calmly pulled out the dagger on his body, sat down on the ground, and used the dagger to shave off the flesh and blood on the thigh, and soon a white thigh bone appeared on the soldier's hand.
After calculating the length, the soldier chose two more corpses, cut off all of the thighs, and took one of the bones. With all of this done, the soldier tied the three bones together to make a simple crutch. On crutches, the soldier slowly left the battlefield full of endless death.
Avoid flat avenues. The soldiers knew that the road must be full of foreign troops, so they could only go up the mountain and take the rugged mountain road
The soldier hurried as fast as he could, he knew that if he was slow, there would be two endings waiting for him, one was that when he arrived at the War College, which had been reduced to ruins, and the other was that before he could reach the War College, the alien troops who were sweeping the battlefield behind him would catch up, and they would eat anything that could be eaten within their sight.
The soldier was covered with wounds, especially on his thighs, which seriously affected his speed of travel. After walking in the mountains for about a week, when you are thirsty, you drink the spring water and stream water in the mountains, and when you are hungry, you eat some non-poisonous mushrooms raw. In this way, carefully avoiding the scattered wandering of the alien race, the soldier arrived at the soldier, who went through hardships and finally walked out of the mountain. In the distance, the city where the War College is located is in the distance.
"Damn it!" The soldier seems to complain only about any bad condition.
In the end, just as the soldiers thought, the human side that lost the strongest line of defense, the next few lines of defense did not hold out for even a week, and the War College finally fell. There were corpses all over the ground, both human and alien.
The frontier armies of the alien race are only responsible for killing, and after the killing of one place is over, they will immediately move on to the next target, never stopping, because of the characteristics of the alien race, the soldier slightly lifted his heart a little shaken by the eventual fall of the War College.
Although soldiers are not eligible to join the War College, the War College, as the cradle of the birth of strong people on the Valoran continent, is almost a holy place in the hearts of low-level people like soldiers. But now the Holy Land is shattered. The once prosperous and heavily guarded War College is now not even visible to the corpse of a complete academy guard.
The soldier walked with difficulty towards the location of the War College. The War College is a sacred place in the Valoran continent, which is not accessible to anyone, and soldiers obviously do not have such qualifications. However, because the continent is facing an invasion from the otherworld, the humans of the Valoran continent have established a resistance base here, and the soldiers are fortunate enough to enter here during the last time the troops are resting, and they are quite familiar with the terrain here.
"Are they all gone?" Looking at the corpses in one place, and the ruins of the academy that burned in the distance, it was not difficult for the soldiers to imagine what a terrible battle had taken place here before.
Moving his stiff body, the soldier walked slowly towards the apothecary of the War College, the apothecary is the place where all kinds of magic potions are made in the War College, and a new generation of pharmacists is constantly produced, although the injuries on the soldier's body are not very serious, but it seriously affects the soldier's mobility, and it takes a long time to recover slowly, but if you use the potion, you can recover quickly.
Soldiers used to be unable to use magic potions, and a bottle of such a thing cost dozens of gold coins. But now, with the fall of the War College, the soldier wants to be able to get a bottle of magic potion to recover from his injuries quickly, and in such an environment, it is extremely dangerous to be injured.
"Damn! These bastards are really clean! "The soldier's idea is very good, but he ignores the power of war, and when the war academy is about to fall and everyone is facing despair, the soldier is not the only one who can think of taking some of the academy's contents with him before leaving. Magic potions are obviously a very good choice, not only are they extremely valuable, but they can also save lives at critical moments.
The warehouse where the potions were stored in the pharmacy was directly destroyed by brute force, and the inside of the warehouse was in a mess, all the potions were looted, and only some half-finished herbs scattered on the ground were still dancing lonely with the wind pouring into the building from the outside.
There are no potions, herbs can also be used, although the effect of these herbs is not as good as making potions, but after all, these herbs are also carefully cultivated by the War College, if it weren't for the war, if the time was very short when fleeing, even these herbs would not have been left here.
Since the pharmacy is like this, then don't think about it, the arsenal and the library must be the same.
The War College's arsenal, library, and apothecary, the three most important places in the War College, store the powerful runic weapons, magic materials, and magic potions in the War College. Although there were some speculations, the soldiers still took a chance to look at these places, and the arsenal had been emptied, even if there was not even a single low-grade rune weapon like the Dolan Shield. The soldier went to the library again, where there seemed to be a fierce scramble compared to the arsenal, and many of the shelves of books were shattered by the energy, and the floor was littered with paper.
"Ouch...... "Nothing," the soldier sighed lowly, "nothing." "When it comes to the importance of the War Academy, this library is undoubtedly him, and the rest of the arsenal and the things in the Apothecary Academy can still be manufactured and refined if they are gone, but the magic materials in this library have been accumulated by the predecessors of the Valoran Continent for generations.
The War College has fallen, but as long as these materials remain, the War College will be able to rebuild one day, but the greedy humans smashed the gates of this place at the Zuihou juncture, ransacked the place, and dispersed, it is entirely conceivable that many of them will survive in the end, and once they die, the part of the magical materials they carry will also be completely lost. The death of the warriors is not terrible, but the terrible thing is that after these warriors died in battle, no more warriors were born after them.
When the soldier saw the devastated library with his own eyes, the soldier finally lost his mind to rely on. Slide down the bookshelf and fall to the ground. The soldier had no incentive to flee the place. Although he knew that soon a second wave of troops from the alien race would arrive here.
"If there is no hope, you will die, there is no hope...... the soldier's eyes gradually turned into hollowness, and he muttered to himself, in the despair of the limit, the soldier's consciousness gradually lost.
"Huh?" Just when the soldier's consciousness was almost completely extinguished, a strange flash of light instantly stripped the soldier's mind from despair.
"What's that?" The soldier was now sitting at the lower end of the bookshelf, his eyes just in time to see the bottom of the stacked bookshelf, where the soldier saw a vague shadow that appeared to be a book.
"And one more!" The soldier's eyes lit up suddenly, and he couldn't imagine what kind of loss and despair the soldier felt in the face of the empty library. Originally, he thought that there would be nothing left in the library, but after he gave up, he suddenly found that there was still one! And one more! ”
"Roar, roar, roar! Roar, roar, roar! "At the moment when the soldier's consciousness was restored, the outside world, the earth-shattering alien roar resounded throughout the War College. A second wave of foreign sweepers is coming, and they're going to eat everything in sight.
The soldier struggled to his feet. Crawl to the last remaining book of magic. Pulled out of the bookshelves at the bottom. With the help of light, the soldier was able to see the book as it was.
It was a standard magic book, beautifully bound, with a hideous and terrifying skull embossed into the cover, silently resting there, seemingly forever waiting to provoke its arrogant soul.
"This, this can't be the book! Damn it! The soldier recognized the book as it was, and a clear memory came to his mind.
"Roar, roar, roar!"
With a roar that seemed close at hand, the soldier jerked back, and the alien had already rushed into the area of the War College library. They had already smelled the breath of the living, and they were rushing towards it.
Chapter 2: The Book of Mourning
"Damn, it's this book, no wonder it's here." The fall of the War College has already made the soldiers lose their only hope of survival, and a remnant of the magic book that originally Zuihou made the soldiers have a slight desire to survive again, as long as there is a slight opportunity, the soldiers are willing to use their lives to preserve a small piece of magic information for the Valoran continent.
But when the soldier recognized that the magic book was actually the book of mourning that no one had ever opened, the soldier's desire to survive finally dissipated in an instant. The roar of the alien beast was getting closer and closer, but the soldier had no intention of escaping or finding a place to hide, and slowly fell again against the bookshelf with a miserable smile.
"Hehe, the Book of Mourning, it's actually the Book of Mourning, no wonder you're being abandoned here." The soldier's pale face was filled with despair.
The Book of Mourning, a magic book that almost everyone on the Valoran continent knows, no one knows who wrote this magic book, but since the moment this book appeared in the War College, the Book of Mourning has been in a state of banning, and countless people have tried to open the lock on the outer skin of the book, but whether it is using magical means, alchemy, or the most direct means of violence, this book of mourning has never been opened.
This is known as the most mysterious magic book in the Valoran continent, almost all magic powerhouses believe that there is a shocking magic hidden in this book, who has ever seen an ordinary magic book with the most powerful magic can not be blasted open and destroyed.
The book is a good book, but it is worthless if no one can read it, if it is peacetime, the War College will still collect this book of mourning and constantly try to unlock his secrets, but when the Valoran continent is about to collapse and the War College falls, this book of mourning is cumbersome even if it is carried.
The soldier held the book of mourning, and his face was full of laughter. Quietly looking at the book of mourning, the soldier could already hear the sound of aliens running towards him in the corridor of the library in the distance.
Slowly took out a crystal bottle from his arms, the style of the crystal bottle is the most ordinary, through the transparent crystal bottle, you can see the dark liquid in the crystal bottle.
Staring at the crystal bottle for a few seconds, the soldier finally had a grim smile on his face.
"Hmph, even if I die, I won't let you eat at ease." At this moment, the soldier finally made up his mind, resolutely opened the crystal bottle, and when he looked up, all the liquid in the crystal bottle was poured into the soldier's mouth.
The black liquid quickly burrowed into the soldier's tongue at the entrance, and the next moment, the liquid had been completely absorbed by the soldier's body.
"Hehe, come on, eat, it's a pity I'm not so tasty." A trace of black gas gradually appeared on the soldier's face. The vitality in the soldier's body was rapidly passed by the pouring of the black liquid, which was a bottle of extremely poisonous poison. It was a bottle of highly poisonous poison prepared by the Valoran Continental Alliance for every soldier, and the alien race fed on any life, and every piece of flesh and blood was the energy that strengthened them. They devour humanity, not even the dead corpses of their own kind.
The poison will completely corrode the soldier's body, and the poison will spread to every piece of flesh and blood on the soldier's body. Such flesh and blood contain extremely poisonous toxins, and the poisons are so strong that even the bodies of foreign races cannot resist them.
"Even if I die, my corpse will take away two alien pads."
"Roar!"
The soldier's heart was shrouded in despair, shrouded in anger, shrouded in hatred, shrouded in unwillingness, leaning against the shelves, and the fastest alien had already rushed into the library. And after discovering the soldiers, it was like a zombie with blood.
"Roar!" Roaring and rushing towards the soldiers.
"Ahh Die with me! Adversity! Poof! The soldier looked at the alien movements, and at the same time felt that the toxins in his body had completely exploded, and he felt that his soul was gradually leaving his body, and he knew that his time had come. Crazy daxiao. The soldier screamed, ignoring the terrifying alien race in the eyes of humans. With the strength of zuihou in his body, he vented his hatred for the alien race. When Zuihou's resentment roared out, a mouthful of black blood spurted out of the soldier's mouth, and the black blood turned into a blood mist, floating in front of the soldier, the blood mist slowly fell, and finally spread evenly on the book of mourning, when the black blood touched the book of mourning, since the day it was discovered, the book of mourning has never had any vision. But at this moment, when the Book of Mourning came into contact with the blood mist spewed out by the soldiers, a black misty light instantly appeared. A depressing aura poured out from the Book of Mourning, and a strange and unfamiliar Liliang instantly filled the entire library, and under the effect of this liliang, the entire library was swept by a huge wind.
"Peng!" The rapidly sprinting alien beast suddenly stopped in mid-air at the moment when it was about to touch the soldier's corpse, and an invisible liliang surrounded the soldier's corpse. And at this moment, the soldier is completely unconscious. No, he was still conscious, but his consciousness had fallen into a deep sleep, and the soldier had just fallen into a deep sleep. In his mind, an ancient voice ignited a bright light in his consciousness space.
"The Book of Mourning, the Dying Soul, the Heart of Despair, can only be reached!"
"Damn! This joke is too big! "This is a signal of consciousness before the soldier's consciousness disappears. After that, the soldier fell into a deep slumber.
The soldier didn't know that just after his consciousness was asleep, at least hundreds of powerful alien beasts rushed into the library, and these alien beasts came here for only one purpose, that is, his fresh human corpse, these alien beasts frantically attacked the soldier's corpse, but they were all blocked by an invisible energy shield.
The Book of Mourning, with it as the center, the energy factors scattered in the War College frantically converged towards the Book of Mourning, and the Book of Mourning was like a devil who had been hungry and thirsty for hundreds of millions of years, frantically devouring these energies, when the energy was absorbed to a limit. With a blinding black light. The next moment, inside the original library, the book of mourning was gone, the corpses of the soldiers were gone, and the aliens who had piled up in the library were gone.
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Space fluctuates, in times of despair, desperate situations.
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