Chapter 2148: Ash Annihilation at Dawn (80)

At the same time (?), in the base of some secret organization at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

The sound of gathering has been urging everyone in the base to march. And the people who infiltrated this base in disguise also walked according to this gathering signal, and were about to enter a huge hall in the center of the base.

In one of the passages, where no one was walking, two people were walking side by side. Although they wore the clothes of the guards and disguised themselves as Twilight Cultists, their stature was slightly shorter than the others, and it was easy to be exposed when walking with other Twilight Cultists, so they specially chose such a passage where no one else was walking.

Before entering the hall, one of the two suddenly stopped and sighed, "It's finally time for this turning point." Are you ready, Husky?"

The voice is the voice of a young man.

"Stupid, don't call me by my name in a place like this. Another man in disguise replied, also a young voice.

"It's okay anymore, isn't it meow?" said the young man who spoke first, "and if we fail at this turning point, we will just use [the door] to jump to the same time in the next parallel universe and challenge this turning point again." Even if you fail 10,000 times, 1 million times, until you succeed. ＂

"If it's that simple------ his companion sighed, "Forget it, no more." Let's go, Hal. ＂

Two young men walked into the temple to meet this fateful moment.

At the same time, Palamides also wore the same Cultist guard robes that had been found in the corpses, and entered the main hall of the assembly.

The leopard's tail is very obstructive and easy to reveal his identity, so he wraps his tail around his waist like a belt. Although it affects his balance when he walks, he doesn't need to fight right now, so it doesn't matter.

The dark hall was so dark that even the ceiling was barely visible. However, as a leopard man, Palamides still had some night vision, and he could vaguely see that the ceiling was about thirty feet above the ground. It was almost made up of a layer of non-reflective material, but there were still brackets between the non-reflective partitions, presumably steel brackets, and they vaguely reflected the lilac light that slowly seeped up from the cracks in the floor, so Palamides could see it.

And this floor is also wonderful, and the light oozing from the cracks in the floor is the only light in this assembly hall. Luckily, the light on the floor is very uniform (I wonder what technique was used to spread the light evenly?), which allows people walking on the road to at least see each other clearly. Or rather, it's a great arrangement. Even with his face hidden under the triangular hat, Palamides feared that the disguise would be revealed. The surrounding light source is so dim and it shoots from the ground, people's vision is greatly limited, and it is not so easy to see through the disguise of Palamides. There are advantages and disadvantages, Palamides originally wanted to find Arthur and Merlin who also disguised themselves as disciples as possible in this sea of people, but now that the vision is so poor, it is estimated that it is impossible. Even Vivien, who promised to answer him in secret, Palamides worried that she might not find him in the midst of the crowd.

If there's a battle coming up, let's just hope you don't accidentally hurt your allies in the chaos. No. The leopard warrior subconsciously shook his head. How can it be injured by mistake. After all, it was a seasoned warrior like King Arthur. Even if there are 10,000 accidents, they can easily defuse all the dangers they approach, so they are unlikely to be injured by mistake.

But what the hell is going on here, the atmosphere is really weird. Palamides stole a glance at the device that the Twilight Cultists had used to assign work. It was this thing that led Palamides to this temple just now. And now that it had served its purpose, the lights on the panel were all extinguished, like a broken piece of metal without electricity. Although there should be no useful information from this thing, if you bring it back and analyze it carefully, you may find something, so Palamides did not rush to throw it away, but secretly took it off and hid it.

After the cultists gathered, the original noise gradually fell silent. The people here seem to be waiting for someone to arrive, or something to happen.

Palamides swallowed a mouthful of saliva, secretly observing everything.

floor, opened.

In the middle of this huge hall a hundred yards square, in a place where no worshippers were standing, the floor was gradually opening outward along the point where it had been originally opened. The so-called opening is actually the entire square floor tile collapsing downward, sinking into and disappearing into the mysterious subspace. And in a purple space where you can't see through the depths, something is floating!

Oh, of course. Vivien had told him that a ship had been stolen from the institute by the Twilight cultists, and now that it had come out of the hall, Palamides didn't even feel the slightest surprise. However, the shape of the "ship" surprised the big cat, because he was initially told that it was a ship, but what actually appeared in front of him was more like a kind of train, and there was a drill head in front of it, as if it was used for exploration in the center of the earth, and it was equipped with a drill bit to drill through the hard rock underground. Its bottom was not the smooth bottom of a normal ship, but was equipped with steel tracks driven by countless wheels. The tracks weren't for paddling, they were more like they were used for land travel, or even for traversing some very rough terrain.

It's like an enlarged and lengthened version of a drill tank train. Palamides wondered. Isn't that one of the weapons that was eliminated in the human world thousands of years ago? He knew this because he was forced to study the history of human weapons as a general in the orc alliance, and he accidentally skimmed an account on the page of an illustration in an old book.

Is this the Explorer? Wrong wrong. This thing is a replica of the Explorer, and Vivien has built an identical exploration ship to deceive the Twilight cultists.

The fake Explorer, which was stolen from the institute, is said to be equipped with a * and a transmitter. It was by following the signals from the ship that Palamides had been able to find this deep-sea base.

Of course, whether it is * or the sending device, it should be installed in a very hidden place by Weiwei. Palamides' wife is a scheming scientist, and if she wants to hide something in a ship, how can anyone easily find it. * and the transmitter should still be there, and the fact that the ship is a forgery should not have been revealed, right? Otherwise, this group of Twilight cultists would not have gathered in such a place to stupidly celebrate their "victory" this time.

But that thing is ugly. The entire ship was pitch black, and the surface of its hull was irregularly glowing fuchsia and teal under the purple light from the floor. I don't know if it was designed like this from the beginning, or if the Dusk Cultists stole the ship back and painted it this color? Palamides didn't think his wife's aesthetic would be so bad, and he concluded that it was the latter.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" opened the hatch at the top of the ship, which resembled an observation deck, and from inside rose a figure, who immediately announced, "Decades, hundreds, thousands." After a long wait, after countless waits, finally, the dawn of our waiting is approaching!"

The guy was dressed in a red robe and had the tone of a missionary, needless to say, he should be the rumored cardinal of the Order of Twilight. Palamides didn't know if the cardinal who was speaking was the same cardinal who had been causing trouble at Vivien's institute before, but judging by the man's thin stature, his crazy and paranoid tone, and his high-minded and disgusting posture, he should have been eight or nine.

But...... What about the dawn?, Palamides couldn't help but laugh in his heart. Now it's for you cultists, in the darkest hour of midnight------ in every sense of the word. What can be the dawn of this group of cultists who are about to be exterminated?

"So------" the cardinal raised his hand aloftly, "let the ceremony begin!"

Ritual? What ritual? To put it simply, these Twilight cultists were circling around the exploration ship, muttering words in circles and mouths, not knowing what incantation they were chanting.

In order not to be exposed, Palamides could only pretend to follow, but he really couldn't quite understand the incantations that those people were chanting, so he could only keep his voice down and imitate it clumsily. It was only then that he began to regret why he had shrunk his ears and hidden them in the triangular hat he was wearing. If his leopard ears could be used properly, with the leopard man's own good hearing, it would be a piece of cake to hear those spells clearly.

But...... No exposure. His clumsy imitation was not even exposed, it should be because there were too many people on the scene. At least five hundred Twilight cultists walked around the ship with unsettling incantations, a scene that would have exposed a mere one or two people who were not acting naturally was almost impossible.

"Dummer than dusk, redder than blood. "As the other believers circled around the exploration ship, the cardinal aboard the False Explorer also chanted aloud,"

Time passes, but your power endures.

In your name, I will swear,

The dawn of the ashes will come!

＂

------Boom

The ground was trembling, and the air was trembling. In the darkness, something began to move. And the group of Twilight Cultists calmly continued to chant incantations in circles in the same place, as if all this had nothing to do with them!

"Palami, run away!" Vivien, ignoring the possibility of being monitored for magic, began to contact her husband with a telepathic technique: "There is a very amazing energy reaction in the center of that hall------ it is going to explode!!"