Chapter 35: The Battle in the Quarry (Part I)
"Boom Rumble ———!"
The pale blue sword qi was like a goshawk spreading its wings forward, sweeping everything along the way into the violent wind and waves, and before the skeleton soldiers could raise their long swords, they saw the pale green eagle spread its wings and fly over their heads, and the wind and waves that followed it roared and swept them into it, and flew backwards like driftwood with these bone frames, and then slammed into the stalactite wall next to them and broke the shelf.
"Let's go!"
"Yes........."
Looking at the high-spirited Stone in front of him, Fang Zheng sighed helplessly, and followed him towards the depths of the tunnel. Frankly speaking, he is still very envious of Stone's swordsmanship, this great knight's strength is indeed good, especially AOE's methods are even more superb. Although Fang Zheng himself also had the Royal Cross sword technique from Arthas, and the power was not much worse than Stone's Storm Sword, he always felt a little awkward. I don't know why, this feeling became stronger after he passed the training of the free copy of Dark Souls, originally Fang Zheng thought that his feeling for this sword art was caused by his unfamiliarity with the sword itself, but after going through the training of Dark Souls, which was so cruel that people died, Fang Zheng found that this feeling did not weaken, but became more and more intense.
Especially looking at Stone's battle right now, the sword of the storm is a sword technique in his hands, which is as smooth as a dance. But when Fang Zheng performed the Royal Cross swordsmanship by himself, he always felt a little ......... Awkward, he can't tell where it's awkward, but it's awkward. Especially in this comparison, the feeling is even more obvious. If Stone's swordsmanship looks like a gear that keeps running with lubricating oil, then Founder's swordsmanship is a bit like an unoiled gear——— of course it can turn, but how it turns is another question.
After this battle, I have to talk to Stone about this matter.
Fang Zheng also knew that now was not the time to talk about this, so he didn't say much, just followed closely behind Stone. Miss M didn't come down with them, for Stone and Fang Zheng, it was safer for her to stay on it, and at the same time, Connie also needed someone to take care of her, Fang Zheng didn't have any good feelings for that neurotic female madman, so he just handed it over to the soft girl to deal with.
Now what makes Fang Zheng even more troublesome is actually Stone, this big knight's method is really as simple and rude as Fang Zheng thought, that is, he rushed directly into it, and then saw that the moving things were all slashed indiscriminately. At this time, Fang Zheng hadn't had time to make a move, and the skeleton shelves that had rushed over after hearing the wind had basically been dismantled into bones by Stone.
Fang Zheng just shrugged his shoulders helplessly, not saying anything. He is not a fool in two lives, of course, it can be seen that Stone is taking the opportunity to vent, obviously he also knows very well that Marte and the others are estimated to have gone and not returned this time, Fang Zheng is not very clear about the relationship between Stone and Malte, but at least it can be seen that their relationship should be good, otherwise Stone would not have come here to look for them. And now, if Stone wants to watch his colleagues go to death, he must be uncomfortable in his heart.
But as a mature knight, of course, Stone will not be like a fledgling hairy boy who will "everyone die together", he can only use this way to vent the depression and unhappiness in his heart.
It is precisely because of this that Fang Zheng wisely did not choose to mention his swordsmanship problem to Shi Dong at this time, it is estimated that even if Shi Dong's temper is good, he is not in the mood to solve his doubts at this time, let alone get along with Shi Dong for so long, Fang Zheng has long understood that this big knight's temper is actually not very good.
The necromantic resistance had no effect in front of Stone, and the necromantic soldiers who rushed in were smashed to pieces by Stone before they could even show their strength. As a result, they stopped appearing after three times, and I don't know if they were scared by Stone, or if the lich was no longer in the mood to care about their uninvited guests.
If it's the latter, that's not a good thing.
Stone and Fang Zheng quickened their pace, although the quarry was abandoned, but fortunately the tunnel looked quite solid, so they didn't have to worry about whether the top of their heads would suddenly collapse, but the deeper they went, the more gloomy their faces became, not only because the deeper they went, the stronger the aura of death became, but also because until now, the lich had not moved.
It's clear that the plan doesn't seem to be going so well.
"There it is!"
When the two of them turned a bend in the tunnel, they immediately saw a large hollow not far away. And when he saw the scene inside, Stone's face suddenly sank. Even Fang Zheng frowned at this moment.
In the center of the large hollow, more than a dozen corpses were lying on the ground, they were wearing Templar armor, but their appearance was unbearable——— their muscles seemed to have completely melted, leaving only skin wrapped in bones, which looked extremely terrifying. And beneath them, the slowly flowing blood was so clear that it was even a little dazzling.
Fang Zheng didn't know what they had been through, but it could be seen from the expressions on their faces after death that it must have been a very painful experience.
"You bastard!!"
Looking at the lich floating in the middle of the hollow, Stone roared, and then he raised his giant sword and slashed forward. With Stone's movements, the goshawk reappeared, only this time it was almost twice as large as before, accompanied by a sharp chirp, and the huge bird formed by the condensation of the air flow flapped its wings, and flew towards the lich in the air with a wisp of afterimage. In the face of Stone's all-out sword, the figure suspended in the air just turned its head and raised a staff in its hand that looked like it was made of dry twigs and lightly pointed it to this side.
The next moment, Fang Zheng saw a black beam of light shoot out from the staff and hit the body of the storm goshawk, and then an unimaginable scene happened——— the goshawk condensed by the power of the star spirit, which was completely composed of wind elements, actually began to struggle as if it was really like a living creature, screaming, it flapped its wings twice weakly, and then fell to the ground, quietly turning into dust. And Stone himself was not in a good situation, when that beam hit the goshawk, his complexion changed suddenly, and at that moment, he could feel a big cold hand as if reaching into his body and holding his heart.
But fortunately, his strong physique resisted the blow, otherwise, it would not be just his goshawk that would have fallen now. And even so, Stone's complexion changed several times, and he gritted his teeth, so that he resisted the power of death that penetrated deep into his body and persevered.
But for Stone, there is one more thing that scares him more than this. The other party can actually catch his storm sword technique and kill it directly, this situation will only appear in one case, that is, the power level of the opponent's mastery is much higher than that of Stone, so in the power duel between the two sides, the side with the higher level of power will show an overwhelming advantage, and show the form of the power law he masters. And this lich was actually able to "kill" his own sword power, this kind of power, in Stone's memory, only one person can do it!
"This is the power of the realm of death......... Are you Frank, Duke of Bones of the Council of the Dead? Could it be you?! ”
No way!
Hearing Shi Stone's inquiry, Fang Zheng was also shocked in his heart, during the time he was with Shi Stone in the Temple, he had not only trained in swordsmanship, but naturally he also had some understanding of the enemies of the Order Temple. At present, the temple has three major enemies, one of which is the Church of the Destruction of the Day, to which Fangzheng's original body belongs, and the remaining two are the Council of the Dead and the Dusk Legion, which is located on the border of civilization, and their goal is to completely smash all symbols of order and civilization. The pursuit of the Council of the Dead is more "lofty", they believe that the meaning of all life in this world lies in death, so death in this world is the eternal theme, and both chaos and order will return to the silence of death.
Frankly, if the Legion of Dusk and the Church of Doom had a common goal to join forces, then the Council of the Dead would be the enemy of almost everyone on both sides of Chaos and Order. After all, people don't care if you are order or chaos, they just want to pull you to feel the "true meaning of death", whether it is a paladin or a cultist, it must be insensitive.
Not to mention that the teachings of the Council of the Dead are so hated, they preach that "the goddess of order will fall" and then say that "the end of the chaos of twilight is coming......... It's all done offending both parties.
What's even worse is that this organization is full of undead creatures, and all the undead creatures on the entire continent are concentrated here, not to mention the lich, what kind of ghost things like the white bone dragon and even the death bringer are also among them. This is also the reason why in this world, both the order and chaos sides hate this Ten Thousand Dead Council but dare not attack them easily——— it is really the other party's strength is too strong, and if one of them can't get it, he will put himself in.
Not only that, but the most frightening thing about the Council of the Dead is that they are very good at "persuasion and education", and there have been many famous heroes in history who have tried to eliminate these undead fanatics living in the shadows, but unfortunately their endings are no different——— they set off in high spirits, and then lost the news, and then when they reappeared in front of everyone, they have become undead slaves.
Frank, the Duke of Bones, is one of the five members of the Council of the Dead, and is in charge of the realm of death, second only to the Speaker of the Council of the Dead, and can be said to be above ten thousand people under one person. Although Stone also guessed that this lich would be difficult to deal with, he did not expect that it would be such a tricky character.
This is in trouble!
Looking at the figure of the floating lich in front of him, Fang Zheng frowned.
He could be sure that Stone's previous plan would definitely not be used.