Chapter 42: The Stairway to the Underworld (To thank the reader for the violent purification
Luka was actually a soldier who fought in the war against the rift of Doom, which even Kratos didn't expect.
Kratos asked, "What are the threats in the Asian Valley?" ”
"There was a dense gray fog in the canyon at first, which affected the line of sight, but it did not cause any harm to the human body. But when the rift of Doom appears, the fog will turn a blood-red color, and I have witnessed a Debian officer, a powerful man with the strength of a hundred men, festering and dying under the erosion of the red mist. ”
As if recalling the scene of extreme fear, Luca was so frightened that his body couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Kratos knew that what he had to do at this time was to give these prisoners of war slaves the morale to fight, so he said in a low tone: "Okay, in that case, I won't hide it anymore." Do you think His Royal Highness the Third Prince will rely on you to accomplish the impossible?"
"I don't know yet, His Royal Highness the Third Prince has already made sufficient preparations, even if a thousand enemy powerhouses appear, they are just ants that are crushed in an instant, and they are nothing at all. But if you also want to be protected by the third prince, then tell everything you know, otherwise even if the third prince and I can get out of the way, I am afraid it will be difficult to save the lives of all of you. ”
Kratos's words took the prisoners of war slaves out of their fears, and they immediately believed Kratos's words when they thought of the noble status of the three Mycenaean princes.
Lukka resisted the fear in his heart and told everything he knew about the Asia Valley.
"The resurrected dead were scattered throughout the valleys of Asia, buried deep in the ground or exposed to the wasteland. But these are only the most vulnerable enemies, and hidden in the fog are terrifying monsters whose roars can break the hearts of humans. Blood splattered from the sky, and in front of him was a blurry red. ”
The vastness and smoothness of the Mesodas Plain made Kratos and the others very smooth, and after fifteen days of travel, the sharp dividing line between the Canyon of Asia and the Mesodas Plain was already looming in their sight.
There was no need for guidance, and the smoky area in the distance, which had an eerie gray color, was the Asiatic Canyon with the existence of the Doom Rift.
Camp for the night outside the canyon of Asia, and enter early the next morning, recuperating and making adequate preparations.
Kratos carefully looked at the smoke-filled scene in front of him for a long time, and then pulled Pandora in his arms to jump off the horse, bowed his head and whispered: "After entering the canyon, stay with Arthur Evans, if there is danger, you can leave by yourself, ordinary monsters should not be able to hurt you." ”
Although he knew that Pandora was the source of evil that even the ancestor of monsters, Typhon, feared, naturally there would be no danger. But he doesn't want to treat Pandora as a life without will, but as a normal woman who needs a man's protection, so he has taken care of her all the way, even if Pandora's eyes are always godless and empty.
Under Arthur Evans' disgruntled eyes, Kratos raised his head and shouted to the guards, "Everyone dismount, this smoke is less than the air, we need to get as close to the ground as possible." ”
Although they didn't understand what mass was, it was true that the smoke was thicker in the air than the ground, so everyone turned over and dismounted, settled the horses, and hiked into the Asia Canyon under Kratos' leadership.
Immediately after entering the Asia Canyon, the visibility in front of you is reduced to about a centimeter, and the gray smoke is filled with it, and only the undulating outline of the canyon can be faintly seen as far as the eye can see.
Before entering, Kratos had everyone tie two polished and smooth stones to their bodies, which were tied together and collided whenever their bodies moved, making a crisp sound, which was a good way to let everyone know where their companions were in the canyon where their vision was affected.
Kratos opened the way at the front, while Arthur Evans and Pandora were surrounded by twenty-three guards, and the team cautiously advanced through the canyon.
Feeling the grainy sensation coming from his feet, Kratos immediately recognized that the surrounding area was a desert-like sandy surface, and the stones were crumbled into granular form due to dehydration, sprinkling the ground like sand.
Kratos, who was walking in front, suddenly pulled one of the guards behind him to his side, and almost at the same moment, an arrow burst through the air and plunged into the ground where the previous guard was.
Kratos pulled the wooden spear from the guard's back and threw it into the fog without looking, but then heard a "click" in the direction where the spear was flying, sounding like the bone had been shattered.
"Yes...... It's a skeleton!"
Seeing the arrows that had partially rotted in the gravel, Lukka couldn't help but exclaim, it was actually the legendary skeleton soldiers from the underworld who attacked them.
Hearing the word skeleton soldier, everyone couldn't help but have a frightened expression on their faces, although most people had never really seen skeleton soldiers, but the horror of the monsters in the underworld had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The grit exploded from beneath his feet, and the white bones of his hands gripped Kratos' ankles, and the sharp fingers tore red blood marks on them.
Kratos snorted, his leg muscles shook, and the terrifying power equivalent to 40 horsepower immediately shattered the bones of his hand, and the white bone residue was scattered all over the ground.
"Pay attention to the bones of countless dead buried under the desert, and no one knows when they will crawl out!"
The guards who received the warning drew their bronze swords one after another, and when the skeleton's hand bones stretched out, they immediately cut off, and the hard bones were immediately cut and shattered under the sharpness of the bronze weapons.
Before setting out, Kratos equipped all the guards with bronze swords and wooden shields wrapped in tough animal skins.
The third prince was so frightened by this terrifying sight that he had never seen before that he almost screamed, and in a panic he wanted to seek protection by his side, but when he was about to touch Pandora, he suddenly reacted, and his hand was quickly withdrawn as if he had been electrocuted, and at the same time he was vigilant about the desert under his feet.
Although Pandora was motionless, the nearby desert was silent, as if the awakened skeletons were afraid of her presence.
Crash!
The rough sand scattered in all directions, and skeletons crawled out of the ground, looking at everyone strangely with their empty eyes.
Kratos was also shocked when he was attacked, but when he saw the performance of the prisoner of war guards around him, he immediately relieved himself.
The individual strength of these prisoners of war is not very strong in Kratos's eyes, at most they are equivalent to ordinary elite soldiers, with about 1 or 2 horsepower.
But these prisoners of war are veterans who have experienced the baptism of the battlefield, and the fact that they can survive the tragic war is itself proof that they have enough strength. Although they were suddenly attacked by skeletons, the prisoners of war were only slightly panicked, and immediately calmed down and cooperated with each other, raising their bronze weapons to attack the enemy in front of them.
The skeletons had been buried in the ground for no known amount of time, and even the clothes in front of them had been completely corroded, leaving only a miserable white skeleton.
Each guard's weapon is bound to shatter the skeleton's bones, and although these skeletons look terrifying, their strength is not worth mentioning at all, as long as they are ordinary people with weapons in their hands, they can easily deal with it.
Kratos smashed a skeleton to pieces with a single punch, and he felt a wisp of red mist invisible to the naked eye drift out of the destroyed skeleton, which was then immediately sucked up by the tattoo on its surface.
Kratos also had a realization in his mind that for every 100 skeletons he killed, he would gain the equivalent of 1 horsepower.
Kratos was ecstatic in his heart, he didn't expect that the spell on his body would still have this effect.
Asia Canyon is known as the stairway to the land of the dead, and there are tens of thousands of skeletons buried here, and if they are all killed, how powerful will they be.
The number of these skeletons was about a hundred, and Kratos's strength increased rapidly to 50 horsepower after killing them all, and the muscles of his body also bulged abruptly high due to the rapid increase in strength, and his body was full of the feeling of explosive power.
Kratos looked up into the depths of the smoke, his eyes narrowing slightly, and when the brief break was over, he immediately led the team onwards.
Not long after he continued walking, Kratos suddenly spoke: "Luka, the last time the Doom Rift appeared, did you fight in an area with more smoke? ”
Lukka froze for a moment, and when he saw the faintly visible outline around him, he suddenly reacted, and after a moment of careful recollection, he said affirmatively: "That's right, I remember that the smoke was thicker than it is now, and we couldn't even see the weapons in our hands during the battle. ”
Kratos nodded slightly, and after taking in his surroundings for a while, he said to Kohler, "You look in the direction of the smoke, and keep a distance of about 30 centimeters from us. ”
Seeing the hesitation on Kohler's face, Kratos immediately added: "The sound of hitting the rocks can let us know each other's positions, this is just a marginal area, there will be no monsters with more than 100 enemy strengths, with the strength of Kohler the escapee, will you still be afraid of these sluggish skeletons?"
Kohler snorted coldly, but no longer hesitated, and jumped directly into the dense fog with a wooden shield in one hand, and when he walked 10 wrists away, his figure disappeared completely, but he could still hear the crisp sound of the stone colliding.
When Kratos entered the Asia Valley, he felt a strange sense of intimacy in his heart, as if he had returned home, and an indescribable sense of comfort spread to all the limbs of his body, and even the hunger that tormented him all the time was slightly lightened.
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