Chapter Seventy-Seven: Once a Hero
The situation in Alexandria, the imperial capital, remained in crisis.
There weren't many living people left in the city, but the battle didn't end there. In the western suburbs, the war between dragons and dragons has reached a stalemate. The new Golden Dragon Empress has always been invincible in her own strength to resist the siege of the 6 dragons. This is not only because Grace herself is far superior to the strength of other Golden Dragon Clans, but also because her opponent, the Golden Dragon Clan's compatriots who are under the mind control of the fairy dragon, cannot exert their original strength, which is also an important reason. Not only that, after breaking away from the city magic array, the degree of control of the fairy dragon over these golden dragons who have become puppets will regress, and the longer it drags on, the easier it will be to get rid of the control of the fairy dragon.
However, the fairy dragon Fridilokaya, who is the manipulator, is also very aware of this, and she will never let the puppet that has managed to introduce the trap escape her control so easily. She divided the 18 golden dragons under her control into three groups, six of which besieged Grace in one group, while the other two groups continued the transformation ritual and the three groups took turns to replace them. Such a wheel battle, although it greatly delayed the progress of the soul replacement ceremony, it also successfully dragged Grace, so that the anxious empress of the Golden Dragon Clan could not get close to the core of the city's magic array at all.
The Golden Dragon Empress is not the only one who is anxious because she can't save her compatriots.
Within the illusion barrier, after confirming that he couldn't really save his friend by conventional methods, Owen decided to go off the rails.
"Come on!"
Owen unloaded all his defenses and allowed the sharp thorny vines to wrap around him, the spikes digging into his flesh and piercing Owen into a bloody man, but Owen gritted his teeth and endured the excruciating pain in his body while his mind drifted into a state of self-forgetfulness. Owen knew that if he wanted to rescue his friend without hurting Thunder, and completely remove this vine, a plant with Ray's spiritual power as nutrients, he could only do it by allowing his consciousness to enter the spiritual world where Thunder was sealed, and the only feasible way was to let these vines connect the two.
Forcing into the realm of selflessness is not a difficult task for Owen. Forgetting the weight of his body and the feeling of being a living person, the notion of time is abandoned, and Owen feels as if he has passed through a long, long, dark tunnel with no end......
I don't know how long it took, Owen felt as if he had come out of the tunnel, his eyes closed, but he could still sense the presence of bright light. Owen slowly opened his eyes.
Earth-shattering shouts rang in my ears, and the air around me was filled with the stench of blood. Owen, who regained his eyesight, saw the first scene of the hellish Shura-like battlefield of rolling yellow sand, broken halberds, and a sea of corpses and blood.
An army was rushing in the direction of Owen. They were not many in number, that is, about a hundred people, their bodies were covered with blood, mud and sand, and most of them were injured, which shows that they were the last survivors of this tear up, although they were scarred and exhausted, but the excessive secretion of adrenal glands made these soldiers forget the exhaustion and pain of their bodies, and desperately went to Owen to surround and kill.
Weakened, Owen was besieged in the middle by hundreds of ragged but murderous warriors.
"He's the only one left!"
"Destroy him!"
"Don't be afraid, we still have each other!"
......
The shouts of killing shook the world, but no one rushed forward at the risk of death, which shows that they are still very jealous of Owen.
Owen, who fell into siege for unknown reasons, although he didn't know the reason, he kept his calm and never acted rashly until the matter became clear.
I saw that the crowd of warriors parted a passage, and a shining young knight stepped out of the crowd, wearing golden armor and a crimson spear in his hand, majestic and heroic. Although he looked unfamiliar, Owen felt a familiar aura from the young knight.
"Ray!" Owen called out his friend's name almost reflexively.
However, the young knight was indifferent, he raised the crimson spear in his hand, pointed it at Owen, and a sneer flashed across the corner of his mouth: "Demon King Lemon, your servants have been wiped out, and now your time of death has come!"
Demon King Lemmon?!
Hearing this name, Owen felt a thrill in his heart.
The mainstream historical materials about the demon war 2,000 years ago have been artificially altered by the Central Church, and the world is naturally very unfamiliar with this name, while most of the more complete and close to real historical materials are kept in the National Library of the Snowy Federation. During the catastrophe of the Snowy Federation last year, in order to find a way to repel the demon Satan Mephistopheles, Owen broke into the National Library occupied by the living dead and read a lot of books about the Demon War.
The name "Lemon" belongs to one of the demon kings who followed the demon Satan Abaddon to invade the world of Olopa. At the same time, the Demon King Lemmon is also the main opponent of the "Dragon Knight" Auguston Rato and the "Ancestor of the Assassins" Kuens Agulema among the twelve heroes of the Demon Slayer. In the magnificent counterattack launched against the demon's base camp, the first bloody battle between the coalition forces and the demon army after setting foot on the Demon Continent was a fierce battle between the 50,000 elite pioneers led by Auguston and the subordinates of the demon king Lemon.
In the end, the elite vanguard soldiers annihilated their entire army, opening up and consolidating a landing area for the coalition's follow-up forces, and the dragon knight himself was defeated and killed in the final head-to-head with Lemmon's main general. Enraged by the death of his friend, the Assassin Ancestor traveled thousands of miles to hunt down the demon king Lemon, who had killed Auguston but had been battered by the Dragon's Power, and a few months later, he successfully avenged his friend with his own life.
This tale of friendship and revenge was held up as a good story for later generations - if not for the falsification of history by the Central Church.
And now, the young knight standing opposite Owen who was dressed and equipped exactly like Ray, since he was able to call out the name of the demon king, it is not difficult to speculate that he is the twelve heroes of the demon slayer back then, "Dragon Knight" Augustine Rato.
Originally, it was a joyful and glorious thing to meet the legendary heroes thousands of years ago, but at this time, Owen could only feel uncomfortable. Because the demon slayer hero in front of him obviously recognized the wrong person, and actually regarded Owen as the demon king he wanted to destroy.
"Take it easy, man. Owen spread his hands and smiled bitterly, "I'm a human, not a demon." Look closely. ”
"Shut up, Demon King, you're finished. It's time for me to win this game!" the young knight smiled a sly smile that was far from matching his glorious appearance.
"Game?" Owen frowned. He suddenly felt that the dragon knight in front of him was a little different from the image he should have in India.