Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 42: A Chance Encounter in an Underground Cave
The Lord of Nightmares said so and did so, and he re-extended his countless tentacles made of black liquid and shot them at Pisas and the others.
"Don't be afraid, he hasn't fully mastered that terrible power yet!" Anna's voice came, and Anna Kordra, who had served as a priest in the Temple of the Moon God, could easily tell that the Nightmare Lord in front of him was at a critical moment, and he was obviously not as easy as he said he could easily break away from the dream created by Nalarex. "He abandoned his original body and tried to use the power of the abyss to reshape himself and free himself from the shackles of dreams, and he was still connected to that core!"
"Undead, what's your choice?" Cowbryan spewed out several streams of venom, corroding away the few black tentacles that shot at him, and asked at Thassarian.
"Temporary allies, eternal enemies!"
"That's enough, Pisas and I will buy you time, you have to take the opportunity to destroy that core once and for all!"
Thassarian swept away the black tentacles with a sword: "Stupid elves, that will let those abyssal powers completely unshackled!" ”
"But that's the only way we have to live! Waldan the Eternal sealed this abyssal power with his own life, but at the same time, he also let his mind be eroded, and when the core was completely shattered, the abyssal power that broke away from the body would make Waldan's soul regain a brief lucidity! ”
Pisas showed his support for Cowbryan with his actions, standing up, losing his skin, the veins and muscles that made the elven warrior look like a terrifying monster, but he still grabbed his short axe and charged at the black tentacles.
Cowbryan stirred his membranes, and the blood-red breath swelled again, making his blood begin to boil, and the huge wind snake with red eyes didn't care about being eroded by those black tentacles, and screamed and flew up.
Knowing that these were the two elves creating an opportunity for themselves, Thassarian glanced at the platform below, the elite undead he brought with him were only two or three kittens left, the corpse witch had all been lost, and there were only three dark mages left, and even the necromancer had an arm torn off by the vines of Waldan, and in addition to Thassarian, there was only one flesh puppet left to support them to continue fighting.
Perhaps sensing a last-ditch chance, the soul fire in the necromancer's eyes burned violently, he raised his staff and controlled the flesh golem to walk towards Voldan with the poisonous sap, and several dark mages injected the last of their magic into the necromancer's body, and as the soul fire was extinguished, it turned into a piece of slag.
Thassarian wiped the blade of a longsword and temporarily added a layer of black death power to the weapon, and in the previous battle, Thassarian had found that death power could work well on those strange pieces of flesh, and he thought that perhaps those abyssal forces had the same weakness.
The desperate Pisas and Cowbryan forced Miklash to fight with all his might, he didn't expect that the female elf who presided over the circle would see through his details, as Anna said, he was now at a critical moment of merging the power of the abyss, and the previous bluffing performances were just to arouse their fear, so as not to disturb him, but he didn't expect these druids to explode strongly in the face of despair, which made Miklash regret why he didn't increase some of the erosion before.
The huge body of the wind snake made it impossible for Mikrash to devour the other party directly, the power of the abyss was not yet completely under his control, and the ability to devour it was also affected to a certain extent, and the boiling blood that burst out of the wound of the wind snake was also full of corrosiveness, dissolving small holes on the surface of Mikrash, hindering his fusion with the abyss.
This made Miklash angry, as a special being born out of a nightmare, his history can even be traced back to ancient times, but it was not until after the appearance of humans in the world of Entagre that he drew strength from the nightmare and emerged as an independent consciousness that could be called an individual.
He feeds on nightmares, absorbs the knowledge he needs from them, and considers them his own domain until he arrogantly tries to pull the entire world of Ntagri into a nightmare, when he is finally discovered by the Green Dragon Queen Ysera and imprisoned in the depths of the Emerald Dream. But the long captivity did not extinguish his ambition and strength, and dreaming was a skill possessed by every intelligent being, even the green dragon who guarded the Emerald Dream. By corrupting the green dragons watching him with a nightmare, Miklash finally gets the chance he always wanted, escaping to the side of reality with the help of the door opened by Nalarex.
Now, by fusing these abyssal powers, he will be able to wield more power than he once was, and Miklash will use this power to return to the Emerald Dream Realm, completely corrupt the Green Dragon Queen Ysera and her Green Dragon Legion, and achieve his great goal of engulfing the entire world with nightmares!
"No one can stop me!" Miklash shook his arms and shot out a large amount of black liquid, which from a distance looked as if a black membrane was expanding around him, enveloping Pisas and Cobline directly.
This is an opportunity! The opportunity created by the two elves with their lives!
Thassarian kicked his legs, almost grazing the ground and rushing towards the core, the sword in his hand clinging to his body, ready to stab at the moment to deliver the fatal blow.
"Hahaha, do you think I'll be defenseless!" The voice of the Lord of Nightmares came from the black ball, smirking and sneering, and the black liquid gushing out of the core seemed to be controlled, and rolled backwards towards Thassarian, turning into a black palm that grabbed the undead knight's neck.
"Die, undead! Your soul will be part of the nightmare, lost forever in the boundless realm of dreams! The black palm continued to tighten, and a large number of tiny spikes appeared in the palm, piercing into Thassarian's body, trying to inject the liquid directly into the body, devouring the soul fire.
Suddenly, a huge vibration came from under everyone's feet, and the vibration was so strong that even the core embedded in Waldan's body almost broke away from his body, but the strange flesh around him swelled rapidly, and the core was fixed again.
Then everyone could feel that Waldan's body was slowly leaning.
It turned out that the flesh puppet was under the control of the necromancer, and successfully walked to Waldan's side, and with the corpse explosion technique released by the necromancer who absorbed the magic of the dark mage with all his power, the flesh puppet built up with the power of flesh and death turned into a huge bomb, blowing one of Waldan's legs into a big depression, and even the platform under his feet cracked.
Losing his balance, Voldan could no longer control his body as the platform collapsed, and finally fell towards the abyss below the cliff.
"Damn the undead! Do you think that's going to stop me? Finally realizing what was happening, Mikrash stopped devouring Cobryen and Pisas, and instead used all his power to control the black palm, trying to crush Thassarian, but the undead knight's long sword that was about to stick to his chest pierced into his palm, and the power of death made Miklash's control a little dull, which allowed Thassarian to finally struggle out of a gap and shoot the chains of death at the necromancer who was leaning against the rock wall because his magic was exhausted.
With a slam pull, Thassarian finally broke free from the grip of the black palm and returned to the platform with the pull of the chain, but the necromancer who was held as a fixed object was not so lucky, and the powerful pull threw him directly off the cliff, accompanying Waldan's huge body towards the dark abyss.
A few seconds later, a dull echo came from the abyss, and a powerful impact swept upside down with the wind, causing the entire crag platform to crack quite a bit.
"That's Cowbrien's wrath and determination!" Anna Kordella said sadly, after discovering that Cowbryan had inflicted blood boiling on herself, Anna knew the determination of this fellow disciple, "You'd better deal with those abyssal powers in your body, otherwise you will become their puppet sooner or later, just like Waldan the Eternal!" ”
Thassarian stretched out his hand towards Anna Cod: "Give me a knife!" ”
Anna took a dagger from the surviving fanged druids and threw it at Thassarian, she didn't think the undead would fight her in this state, and she didn't want to waste her time on Thassarian, the Nightmare Lord's message made her worry about her teacher.
Thassarian took the dagger and cut off the parts that had been infected by the power of the abyss without hesitation, the undead itself was a dead corpse, and it was not difficult to operate on his body, of course, this action seemed to the eyes of other creatures with a hint of madness and cruelty.
After cutting off the parts that were likely to hold the power of the abyss and throwing them off the cliff, Thassarian glanced at Anna Kodra and left the cliff of eternal life in silence. And Anna Cordra obviously didn't want to say anything more to this undead, and left with less than twenty fangs of the druids who survived, and she had to rush to the Dream Stone as soon as possible to make sure that the teacher Nalarex was safe.
After leaving the Cliff of Eternal Life, Thassarian leaned feebly against the icy rock face. Regardless of the fact that he didn't care about cutting off the problematic parts from his body like a Terminator, the abyss was actually eroding him worse than Anna Kordella had seen.
He could feel that there were still some abyssal seeds left in his body, these seeds were attracting the dark forces around him to pour into his body to strengthen themselves, Thassarian had to fight against it with the little death force left, he had to get out of here as soon as possible, back to the surface, so that these abyssal seeds could no longer absorb the dark power, and at that time, he might be able to slowly remove these terrible things from his body.
Holding on to the rock wall, the undead's soul vision allowed Thassarian to easily find his way out of the Wailing Cavern in the darkness.
But as he staggered through a stalagmite forest and over a waterhole, he realized that he had been surrounded by a group of orcs.
This group of orcs followed Yu Bin and Canos down to find the fireblade soldiers of the Great Druid Nalarax.
"This guy looks so miserable than you say!" Canos said to Yu Bin with an axe, Sassarian's breath is very weak, if Canos doesn't have heroic strength, I'm afraid he won't be able to discover Sassarian's existence in advance, and Yu Bin secretly observed, and found that it was the undead commander who fought with the centaurs on the Velociraptor Plains.
"Something must have happened in the depths of the Wailing Cave!" Yu Bin didn't think that those ooze monsters and cave velociraptors would make a hero-level undead look like this, "Maybe we can get some news from him!" ”
"I think it's better to kill him directly! Well, you're right, this damn place isn't suitable for orcs, maybe this guy would be a good guide! ”
Just when Yu Bin was discussing with Canos, Thassarian, who was surrounded by orc soldiers, suddenly burst out, he still kept the short knife he took from Anna Kodra, although his body was quite mutilated, and his strength had decreased a lot, but as a hero, he was still not something that those orc soldiers could stop. After knocking the two orc warriors into the air, Thassarian rushed towards Yu Bin.
His soul fire sensed that there was something in Yu Bin that could help him regain his strength and resist the erosion of the Abyss Seed.
In the face of the surprise attack of a heroic undead, it may be difficult for Yu Bin to react, but Canos, who was standing on the side, has always maintained his vigilance against Thassarian, and after discovering his surprise attack, Canos did not hesitate to cut it down with an axe.
Orcs like to go straight, and so do slashing people!
Facing Sassarian, whose thigh was cut off, Yu Bin couldn't cry or laugh, he could even see the soul fire through the chest of this undead knight, the soul fire hidden deep in the heart did not look like the state that a heroic undead should have, burning slowly and weakly, as if it would be extinguished at any time.
"There's something in you...... Something can help me! Thassarian held the ground with one hand and pointed at Yu Bin with the other, "Quick...... Hurry up...... My body ...... is being eroded...... If you don't want to...... Then please kill me...... I don't want to...... Don't want to be ...... An abyssal ...... Puppet! ”
A puppet of the abyss?
Sassarian's words made Yu Bin's heart beat hard, he felt that it was definitely not the whispering of the heroic undead in front of him, could it be the "abyss"?
Yu Bin raised his hand to signal that Canos didn't have to continue dismantling the poor guy, he walked up to Thassarian, squatted down, and took out the orb from the depths of the rotten swamp from the space bag hanging from his waist: "Is this what you said?" ”
Without waiting for Sassarian to speak, Yu Bin found that the orb, which was indifferent no matter how much he tried, actually began to glow with a lilac light when it approached Sassarian.