Chapter 38: The Heart of the Mountain V
The mixed memories are like flashback images, reappearing in the mind.
“…… Attack them quickly, quickly! ”
In the confusion, the time reflection could no longer remember how the monsters appeared, and the panicked cries of the rest of the team echoed in his ears.
He saw the rangers in the first detachment spread their bows. The gauntlets worn by the rangers gripped the bow's arms, the aether making the bowstrings pale and shiny, but almost none of the feathered arrows they shot hit the enemy.
One by one, the arcs of light that streaked through the darkness missed, and the monsters were born like crystalline humanoids, or a pale phantom reflected in the mirrored world, and they moved quickly, even faster than the hysterical screams of the detachment leaders:
"Stand shields in the front row and stop them!"
But the reflection of time watched as a cyan afterimage passed through the clumsy line of shield guards and slammed into the female ranger captain not far from him.
The sturdy Ranger Lady had her upper body bent back strangely, and flew up like a rag doll, falling to the edge of a sharp rock not far away.
Her entire lower body was almost gone, and her widening black pupils were like a void hollow, freezing the last moment of surprise on her look, as if she couldn't believe what was happening.
Time Reflection did not dare to look at the stiff face stained with blood, and the illusion he had had about this lady not long ago seemed to give him a certain sense of guilt—although he knew that none of this was the reality of another world, the young man could not help but open his mouth wide and almost suffocated.
The blue crystal monster turned to him again, and the time reflected that his hands and feet were cold, and he forgot for a moment how to deal with it.
But a tomahawk flew from the side and slammed into the crystal monster's shoulder, sending it staggering backwards.
With a roar, a big man came out from the side, and when the opponent lost his center of gravity, he crashed into it and flew away.
The big man held a large shield, pressed the monster to the ground with one shield, pulled out the battle axe from its shoulder with his backhand, and cut the opponent's head into pieces with one, two, and three axes.
Only then did he turn around, as if he was still angry, grabbed the collar of the reflection of time, and roared:
"What are you in a daze, you don't want to live anymore!? Get ready for magic! ”
Time reflected a spirit, and only then did they recognize that this berserker was their leader.
But a scream interrupted the two men's train of thought:
“…… There are more and more of them! ”
The big man turned around and frowned as he looked at the pale blue shadow emerging from the darkness.
"Retreat—"
He waved his hand vigorously: "Retreat to the cave in two ways, and the third detachment will stay behind." ”
Although he knew that he would be sent to death after the break, the iron guards of the third detachment still erected the big shield without hesitation, threw away the fighting heavy sword in his hand, took off the two halberds from behind him, and assembled them together.
Because they know that after the resurrection, the guild will give corresponding compensation, and if they escape here, they will only gain more than they lose.
"The magic guide detachment will go first."
Dahan turned around and pushed the time reflection: "Time, you stay for a while, add a buff to them and go." ”
Time Reflection took a breath, finally recovered from the previous trance, and nodded. He looked back at the blue shadows in the darkness, knowing it was dangerous, but it was not up to him.
"I'll let Rainbow stay and protect you," the big man patted him on the shoulder, "Be careful." ”
Large forces are retreating.
The Hydra guild also left behind a broken detachment, and the two detachments were like two thin lines, blocking in the center of the rift.
Time Reflection climbed up a rock, ready to cast a spell condescendingly, he silently calculated the distance, it was not close, it was just right.
However, he was trying to take a step forward to be safer, and he wasn't going to do it again because he failed to cast a spell. It was dangerous to stay here, but unlike the Iron Guards below, he still had a chance to survive.
But a hand stretched out from the black smoke behind him pulled him back, "You don't want to live anymore?" ”
A nightingale stepped out of the parting smoke, her graceful figure outlined nicely in her nightwalker, and behind her was a pair of sharp-toothed daggers on the left and right sides of the pitch-black magic furnace. Time Reflection knows the origin of these daggers, and they are said to be a pair of legendary magicians.
Just as he knew the identity of the girl.
Her name is Rainbow, and she is the Nightingale squad leader for this operation.
The girl's lilac eyes glanced at him, and she said in a cold tone.
She looked ahead again and said, "There's enough distance here, let's cast a spell." The Captain asked me to take you back alive, I don't want to see you turn into a corpse. ”
Time Reflection shuddered and nodded hurriedly.
He raised his wand and silently chanted a spell in his mind, the Iron Guard had engaged the blue crystal creatures, and he had little time left.
The sorcerer needed to memorize his spells, but those spells wandered in his mind when they were too nervous to focus, out of order, and even vanished into thin air, like elves who didn't listen to their commands.
He tried a few times before he could concentrate his attention.
"It's pretty fast."
The nightingale girl muttered, and finally understood the reason why the head of the regiment had made her think favorably of this man.
But it was at this time that the ground shook slightly, but it interrupted the two of them. Rainbow looked at the loose rock wall on one side, and suddenly her face changed drastically:
"Be careful, back off!"
"Stop casting spells, come to me!"
But the reflection of time is only a little dazed.
He saw that Miss Nightingale's right arm had turned into a dark mist and rolled in his direction, and she looked a little anxious, as if she had seen something.
But the rock layer suddenly collapsed with a thud, and a crystal-like giant claw burst out of the ground, one step ahead of the pitch-black smoke, blocking between him and the other party.
At that moment, the reflection of time only felt that the heavens and the earth were turned upside down, and the rolling rocks carried him downward, and he only saw the monstrous face of the behemoth revealing from under the rock formation.
A crystal-shaped giant crab.
Rainbow glanced at him from afar and turned away.
It was the last sight seen in the reflection of time.
In a daze, everything was in the dark, but the sound did not disappear, I don't know how long it had passed, but he still seemed to be able to hear the sound of the battle.
He didn't know if it was a hallucination, or if he had gone through the battle again, until a violent tremor woke him out of his stupor.
His eyes opened a long, narrow slit, and there was light in his vision.
The orange glow was a burning wall of fire, the flames seemed to burn above the dark and dull ice, and the flickering light left many dark shadows on the gravel-strewn ground.
He was still confused, but he still instinctively recognized that the wall of fire was a magical effect, the path of flame of the elemental, or the flame charge of the crossbowman.
Then a figure came into his phantom vision.
Although he couldn't see the other person clearly, he could also recognize that it was a young man, wearing a brown trench coat that seemed to be covered with a shirt and waistcoat, and the other party was wearing a very heavy glove, and put his hand on his shoulder, shaking him a little.
"Hey, are you alright?"
The other party's voice was younger than expected, and even a little childish.
The other party turned around and said:
"Sugar Candy, you show him."
"No need to look at it," a girl's voice said impatiently, "I've seen it before, brother, are you stupid?" You might as well take him to a safer place than that, you don't see more and more of these things. ”
"Sugar Candy, are you really the priest of Milera, but I heard that the followers of the goddess are good-natured and patient, not like you, a little, a little ......"
"Something?"
"Yes, a little vicious......"
Two murderous gazes fell on Fang Yu, who immediately closed his mouth very undignified.
The conversation made the already somewhat muddy reflection of time even more distorted, reminding him of the tone he had spoken when he gaged with others in the guild chat channel, but it didn't seem to be in the current environment.
He groaned, as if he had just remembered what this place was.
By the way, what about the monsters?
Is there anyone else in the regiment still alive?
Just as he was thinking, all of a sudden, those familiar pale blue shadows appeared in his field of vision again. They emerge in the darkness like phantoms, and the stars appear in the distance.
Time Reflection opened its mouth, as if to remind the young man in front of him.
But with a bang, the ground shook slightly, and he couldn't help but subconsciously turn his gaze and saw a somewhat peculiar structure appear beside him.
It was slender, with a pointed hat, pitch black, and the edges of its armor trimmed with gold ornamentation, and it was tilting its head, and its arms were holding up a dark magic man, which was resting on its shoulders, and it was half-kneeling on the ground.
The young man straightened up.
He turned to look at the blue shadows and raised his hand in one of them.
The construct pulled the trigger, and the air almost shook slightly in the reflection of time, and smoke mixed with flames erupted from the muzzle of the magic guide gun.
A golden ray shot out of the mist, like a shooting star, intertwined with the blue shadow. The latter paused, clearly feeling threatened by the blow.
Combat Artisans.
Time Reflection opened his mouth, it wasn't that he hadn't seen a battle craftsman, but he had never seen this kind of construct.
"You can't hit them, get out of ......"
Although he didn't know where the other came from, he tried to make a hoarse voice, trying to tell the young man, and his sister, how terrible these monsters were.
But the next moment, the voice was stuck in his throat.
He saw the young man adjust his gloves and seem to whisper something, and in a daze, he actually understood the meaning of the sentence:
"Corrective shooting."
The dark blue shadow sped up, like a blue phantom across the breach.
But the reflection of time heard a loud bang, and a golden ray shot out from the direction he couldn't see, with a falling arc, and accurately hit the right shoulder of the blue shadow.
The golden rays passed through its crystalline body, and a large hole exploded there, and time seemed to freeze, only to see the crystal fragments scatter one after another, one shining brighter.
Then the crystal monster flew upside down with the force of the impact, rolling on the ground several times.
This was followed by a continuous stream of shooting.
The young man stood not far from him, stretched out his left hand, and with each direction he pointed, one or more golden threads connected to the darkness in that direction.
The strange constructs were so accurate that they hit a crystal monster almost every two shots, and they followed one after the other, but for a moment the attack was sluggish.
Time Reflection saw the structure, and with each round of fire, it pulled back a long rod on the Wizard Gun, manually turned the chamber, and exited the cartridge case, and then proceeded to the next round of shots.
After six rounds of firing, it lifted the gun upright, pulled out the chamber, and began to reload, the whole process was smooth, as if it was not controlled by the constructor.
It's a real person.
Time reflection was stunned for a while.
Which guild is the other party from?
Is it someone sent by Twilight?
He only knew that Twilight was the largest guild in Nognes, and that the other party was also one of the partners of the Descendants of Flor here, but unlike the general guilds, the people of Twilight were rarely arrogant, they operated around the outer islands, and rarely even clashed with others.
To outsiders, the people of twilight seemed a little mysterious, just as these people seemed mysterious to him.
Time Reflection wanted to ask, but couldn't make a sound for a while.
At this moment, the pale blue phantom finally broke through the defense line and came to them, but the three constructs suddenly stood up at the same time, took half a step back, and pressed the mechanical arm on one side of the cylindrical magic guide.
I didn't understand what it was at first, but it was clear at this moment that it turned out to be a scabbard.
Do they also melee combat?
Before he could finish his thoughts, the crystal creatures that were rushing towards the young man suddenly fell in a distorted manner.
They split their upper and lower bodies and fell to the ground, shattering like glassware.
The three constructs were all retracted and sheathed.
Time Reflection opened its mouth wide.
???
"Brother Ed, there are monsters over here, they surround us!"
Another voice came, it was also a girl's voice, and it seemed to be a little younger than the previous one.
"Sky Blue, look in that direction."
The young man replied.
The reflection of time seems to have come back to its senses.
He was gradually regaining consciousness, and only then did he notice that the previous battle had not repelled the monsters, on the contrary, they were becoming more and more numerous.
Their figures gradually appeared in every fork in the cavern, on the steep rocks, in the shadows, and countless shadows.
The young man obviously had a headache watching this scene as well.
"They deliberately let us here, it's a trap."
"It seems that the log is right, these things have advanced intelligence, if they don't have such a level of self-awareness, it means that there is something behind them that directs them."
"I don't think they're at that level, Ed."
A deep voice came, and Time Reflection watched with some surprise as a majestic big cat man appeared in his field of vision.
It was a lion paladin, armed with a two-handed sword, standing in front of the young man.
The big cat turned around and said:
"Their level of cooperation is very low, I am afraid that they only have a low level of intelligence, and they only know how to fight instinctively."
"I think so too, Mr. Big Cat, there's something behind them." The young man replied.
"It's a lionman, little one."
The two of them were talking for some time reflection that he couldn't understand, but he at least understood the lion-man paladin's movements, he held the sword in one hand, stretched out his claws and turned his palm facing forward:
A golden ripple spread out in all directions centered around him, forming a wall of light that caused all the surrounding crystal monsters to crash into the wall.
Further, on top of the golden hexagonal wall of light, spears of light stretched out and stabbed at those monsters.
Although the spears of light were not enough to kill them, they made the intellectually retarded monsters suspicious, and the blue shadows stopped at the edge of the wall of light.
God's Barrier.
Time Reflection had recognized the spell, but the God's Barrier did not have an offensive effect, and after a moment's pause, he roughly thought of a term - Virtue Knight.
In this era, there are not many real knights to be found, and people call knights who can abide by the precepts of knights truly noble knights.
And the knight of virtue is an example of this.
"This spell can confuse them for a while," the big cat said, holding his right paw up, before speaking, "But we don't have much time left, Ed, make a decision." ”
"Now we still have a chance to break through, but once we go deeper, it's hard to turn back."
The young man turned around and came to the reflection of time:
"Are you alright?"
Time Reflection nodded forcefully.
He opened his mouth to ask if the other party was the next to arrive for support, and what was going on at the camp, but he was so weak that he could barely speak.
The young man held him down and asked:
"We've lost our map, you should have the map below, right?"
The reflection of time was still a little groggy, and he always felt that the face in front of him was a little familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember where he had seen each other.
Fang Yu obviously does not have that kind of daunting temperament, on the contrary, his ordinary and slightly delicate face is quite affinity.
He glanced back at Red, and the big cat nodded—the map was lost, so to speak. If it has never been, it is a kind of loss.
The Virtue Knight doesn't lie, and he can't think of any reason for the other party to lie.
Time Reflection nodded, straining his hand to his chest.
In case they get lost underneath this, each of them has a backup map. These maps were made by nightingales who participated in the excavation here over the course of several months.
Each miner has a copy of the map itself, and it's not a secret.
Fang Yu looked at the necklace on the other party's chest, and after asking the other party's permission, he picked it up, and he injected a little magic to activate it, and a three-dimensional map under the three-dimensional projection of the crack appeared in front of the two of them.
It is roughly divided into three levels, each with more than one passage leading downward, which were left by the people who carried out the mining operations here in front of them.
Fang Yu pointed to several of the passages and said to the Lion Paladin on the side, "Mr. Red, you see, there is more than one entrance and exit down here. I've visited the union's mines in Kapka, and almost all of the mines in Kaulin-Ishurian have been designed by alchemists. ”
"Unless these monsters are all over the mine, they won't be able to guard every entrance."
Red touched his beard, "So what are you going to do?" ”
"Hide and seek with them," Fang replied, "and collect what we want in the process." ”
"You're the head of the regiment," the big cat man bowed, "you have the final say." ”
Fang Yu turned his head and looked at the reflection of time, "Friend, we are going to leave this place next, can you still act?" ”
Time Reflection shook its head with difficulty.
"It's okay, we can take you away," Fang Yu replied, "but if we get into some trouble too, we might prioritize leaving you behind, okay?" ”
Time Reflection breathed a sigh of relief, he was betting that a team with a knight of virtue would never leave him alone. It turned out that his idea was more reliable than he had imagined.
He finally squeezed out a sentence: "I...... Got it. ”
Of course, he understands that this is already the best option.
Fang Yu nodded, and then turned around.
He looked at the monster that was hovering in front of the wall of light in the distance, and asked behind him:
"Parker, are you ready?"
But it was Kita who answered him, "Brother Ed, get ready." ”
"Found a structural weakness?"
"Well, thanks to Sister Sylvide's help, she's very skilled in architecture."
What else would Miss Ship Officer not do? Fang Yu paused slightly, but he knew that these were just common sense among the nobles.
In a world similar to that of centuries ago, the nobility and monks were the ones who had a monopoly on knowledge. He looked in one direction in the darkness and replied:
"Then mark them."
"Okay."
Kita's answer was crisp and forceful.
Time Reflection immediately heard a strange spell coming from it, and it was a sonorous spell that was neither a sorcerer's spell nor an elemental.
Then he saw three red lights in the darkness in the distance, one after the other, falling under the rock wall.
He also heard the young man speak again:
"Mr. Red, cancel the spell."
The big cat man retracts his paws.
The wall of light darkened slightly, and then vanished. The crystal monsters that were separated on the other side of the wall immediately became excited, and they converged into a torrent and swept in this direction.
Although Time Reflection knew that these people were prepared, they couldn't help but feel relieved when they saw this scene.
But Fang Yu put down his hand at this moment, and the several strange constructs lowered their arms in unison.
"Parker." He looked back.
"Look at me!"
A somewhat exaggerated, shrill voice came.
There were three muffled sounds, and the reflection of time immediately saw three arcs of light appear in the darkness, and three crossbow arrows with long trails flew in that direction.
They unerringly struck three spots of light that shimmered with a dark red light beneath the rock wall, and then burst into an astonishing glow from above the arrows.
The three tremors converged to form a deafening explosion that echoed beneath the rock formations. The reflection of time recognized it as an explosive crossbow, a skill that was useless at this level.
But they have an exaggerated effect.
A crack suddenly appeared in the rubble-strewn rock formation.
The crack soon widened into an unbridgeable breach, causing the wall to collapse with a loud creak, turning into a tumbling shard of rock.
The violent shaking formed a chain reaction, causing the rock walls to fall off one by one, like a collapsing mountain.
The rolling rock formations and gravel buried the crystal monster beneath it in an instant.
The smoke and dust that kicked up obscured everything and obscured everyone's vision.
And Fang Yu turned around in the smoke, and then clapped his hands and said:
"Let's go, hurry up."
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