457 Faith that spans life and death and I am my daughter
Bands of silver-gray light swirled around the River Styx, flying around the towering giant, constantly scouring holes in its body and dismantling the next piece of skeleton.
The Giant King's soul fire flickered violently, and the power of death in the entire space was also drumming and boiling, but under the restraint of the remnant of will, and under the dissolution of the power of the River Styx, its demigod power was difficult to exert, and it was only a futile resistance and struggle.
Bands of silver-gray light penetrated into its sockets, shuttling and churning in its soul fire. When the Pyrophile dimmed, the huge skeleton also collapsed like the sky.
The mountain-sized skull slammed into the underworld, and the entire kingdom shook, as if an invisible barrier was dissolving at this moment.
The voice of mania and the voice of sobriety sighed at the same time, "Finally...... Liberated", the soul fire in the skull flickered one last time, turning into small green rays floating up, dimming and dissipating.
The undead who were still attacking the Heroic Phalanx paused, like golems that had lost the thread that held them together, and they all collapsed.
Finally...... Victorious......
Li Qi let out a long breath, but he didn't feel relieved, maybe the last words left by the Giant King were too heavy, or maybe the experience of the two months in the realm of the dead was too heavy.
Looking at Alishan, who was waving a ribbon of light and urging the flooding of the River Styx, and then at the Styx Heroic Spirit below, his heart was hot again.
Although I have more responsibilities, I am not alone.
Moreover, I can finally return to the world of the living.
Li Qi looked up at the glimmer of light in the sky, thinking of his comrades, his witches.
Catherine ...... No, Elle should be able to explain, and she can accept it.
Aurora is not going to be able to do it, I'm afraid I will have to do more in-depth communication......
Otto interrupted his thoughts, which he was going deeper into a certain direction: "Cardinal, there are living people here!"
And the living!?
Near the Giant King's throne, a cage was found that shielded the breath of the dead, and two people were held inside.
A curly-haired halfling, a gray-haired human.
The halfling seemed to be a little familiar, and the human recognized it at a glance.
Wandering Paladin Norieh!Why is this guy locked up in the Giant King?
"Your Excellency, you have come to our rescue, thank you so much!"
Norrie cried bitterly and said: "I know that everyone likes to watch my show, but I didn't expect everyone to cherish me so much!
I really like to watch your show, but it's your posture of death, not your extremely narcissistic face!
Not to be outdone, the halfling man said: "Duke, I'm Peake! Frodo and Sam are good friends! I'm the one who spied on the Duke's information in Fort of Light!"
Of course, remember, it seems that this halfling is a better person to communicate with.
Richie asked, "So...... Tell me how you got here, right?"
Peake was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes a few times, and pointed at Norriet: "He found the mausoleum!"
Norrie exclaimed in horror, "You pressed down the teleportation circle!"
Li Qi's heart jumped, the mausoleum, the teleportation circle, could it be ......
Pique and Norrie continue to argue......
"The teleportation chamber you found!"
"You've got it covered!"
"You've pressed another teleportation circle!"
"You're sure of it, it's a teleportation circle!"
"You haven't had a formal shot with me so far! It's not fair, Norrieh!"
"You left me and ran away! Kem is on top, I can't believe there is a guy like you among the halflings!"
"I wanted to save you, but you sold me!O Tesolos, I have never seen such a vile and shameless paladin!"
"How long can you stay in the realm of the dead without this cage? I'm here to save you!"
Li Qi listened and listened, confirming that his inference was not wrong, anger flowed in his heart, and he said coldly: "Shut up!"
This disaster of the undead was actually triggered by these two guys!
Of course, it would be too much to say this, the Giant King was already looking for a gap in the plane, and without the two of them, he would also tear open his mouth from other places and invade the Divine Fall Plateau. But in terms of behavior, there is no doubt that these two guys are extremely evil, even if it is unintentional.
The two shuddered and looked at Li Qi in horror.
Norrie broke down, put his knees together, and knelt down and kowtowed: "Duke, forgive us! We didn't mean to! The Giant King locked us up in order to get valuable information about the Duke from us, and even forced me to sneak into Beta City to photograph the Duke and the Holy Maiden...... Uh, I sternly refused to shoot military secrets!"
Peake looked at Norriet in astonishment, rolled his eyes again, knelt down, pouted his ass high, and shouted in a shrill voice: "Yes! The Giant King forced me to find a relationship between Frodo and Sam, and to be a spy at the Duke's side, how could I do that kind of thing? The undead threatened me with bone-stained bread, and I didn't give in!"
"You two ......"
Li Qi laughed angrily: "It's all drama, take it away!"
He was in a hurry to go back, too lazy to entangle with these two guys.
The silver-gray light bands shuttled and intertwined, lifting the entire cage, and seeing Alisanne manipulating the light bands through the fence, Norrie and Peake grabbed the railing, and shouted with bright eyes, "Who are you, girl!?"
"Me?"
Alisa smiled lightly, "I am the goddess of the Styx......"
The two of them looked stiff......
Two bands of light burrowed into the cage and swirled around their necks, and although they did not touch their bodies, they exuded an extremely cold aura like poisonous snakes.
Alisa stuck out the tip of her tongue and licked her lips and said, "Just to test the effect of the power of Styx on living people whose spirits are not separated, uh......"
She covered her nose in disgust and pulled the light out.
The eyes of the two men in the cage rolled and they fainted at the same time, and the wet stains under them gradually expanded.
Ahead of him, Li Qi shouted, "Alishan, stop playing, lift us up." β
Alisa answered, and the ribbon of light fluttered behind her, holding her up in the air.
The bands of light wrapped around the cage swayed, and Norrie and Pique churned inside, curled up and crushed together, their heads buried in each other's soaked crotch.
..................
In the world of the living, time was pushed forward a little, and the huge bony hand slowly crossed the valley and stretched out towards the fortress of Tegjar.
Compared to the palms of the bones spread out, the fortress was the size of a human head, such a terrifying size that everyone felt suffocated.
Not to mention the machine gun and the four-rate magic cannon, the big fireball of the nine-rate magic cannon is as small as a candle.
Catherine's three-stage transformation, and the all-out attacks of the two legends, Rowanna and Numael, broke off the skeletal fingers one after another, but they could not prevent the palms that were already wrapped in thick fog and pressed like dark clouds from approaching the fortress.
Dao divine light rays shot out from the fortress, burning the dark clouds in despair, just when everyone subconsciously closed their eyes, waiting for the moment when the bone hand collided with the fortress, the dark clouds stagnated, and then collapsed.
The half-amputated arm with the palm of the hand, the gap in the autologous plane was broken, and it was broken into large and small bone residues in mid-air, and the head and face were smashed. The entire area was filled with mourning, and there was not much damage caused at this moment, but almost none of the magic vehicles and magic cannons in the area covered survived.
Despite being washed away by this hail of bones, from the command hall of the fortress to the soldiers on the front line, everyone could not suppress the excitement in their hearts.
Victoriousββ!
It must have been the Cardinal Archcardinal who defeated the Giant King in the Realm of the Dead, and they also cleared the ground of all of the Giant King's troops. From the main plane to the realm of the dead, after two months of undead invasion, everyone finally won the final victory!
The stone lamps and even torches of the divine light source were lit up layer by layer, illuminating the inside and outside of the valley as if it were daytime, and the dimensional gap in the center of the valley was no longer so terrifying, but showed a trace of magnificent and strange beauty.
The strong aura of the dead still poured out of the cracks in the plane, destroying the gaps, and the war was completely over, but people stood in disbelief, looking at the trance scene in the gaps.
The huge stone boat stopped at the edge of the gap, and rows of neat figures stood on the boat. They were tall, dressed exactly like the crimson warriors, and their faces were like living people, but their silver-white eyes were dyed with an inhuman divine aura.
"Ottoββ! Oh my God! Is it you, Otto!"
"Captain, you're still alive!"
The holy warriors of Ralph and Cheandia, and the Crimson Sanctuary of the Fergus looked at Otto in the front row and exclaimed in surprise.
"Mins, how are you doing down there?"
Tess and the other Silky Witches saw the petite figure lying on Otto's shoulder at a glance, and tears immediately fell.
The gaps that were originally like turbid water gradually calmed down, and the figures and faces of the heroic spirits became clearer.
A person's name came out, and everyone was shocked to find that the front row was almost all martyrs who had died in this war, and their portraits were hung on the wall of the teleportation hall.
It is rumored that they became heroic spirits and guarded the River Styx forever, ensuring that mortal souls could plunge into the River and attain eternal liberation.
The official statement of the Fei Communist Party has not officially stated this statement, except for a few people who saw the red circle on the portrait with their own eyes, everyone only regarded it as a comforting statement, but they didn't expect it to be true!
More and more people gathered in front of the gaps in the surface, crying and shouting, but the sound seemed to be unable to penetrate,
Some were so excited that they rushed to the gap in the plane to reunite with their relatives and friends, but the Heroic Spirits raised their hands in unison to stop them.
When Richie appeared, the emotions were finally ignited.
People cheered, wept, and greeted their cardinal.
Li Qi stepped out of the gap in the plane, nodded to the living, and then turned to look at the Heroic Spirits in the gap.
He didn't say a word, but slowly raised his hand and saluted.
The heroic spirits' silver-white eyes suddenly lit up, their chests were held high, and they saluted neatly.
Several voices shouted in high spirits: "Salute ββ!"
It was Wilson, Gambitt, and even Catherine, who stood beside Litch and saluted him.
There was a loud bang, and the other living people reflexively stood up and saluted.
Through the gap in the plane that swayed slightly like a transparent light curtain, the living and the dead saluted each other, needless to say, everything was in this salute.
On the ridge in the distance, feeling this awe-inspiring and solemn atmosphere, Rowanna sighed leisurely: "This is a faith that transcends life and death, this is the first time I have seen it." β
"It is not surprising," said Numa Air, "that the Duke of Prell carries not only the breath of the River Styx, but even the breath of the Lord of the Dead, though it is rapidly dissipating. β
Rowanna shook her head: "No, I'm not talking about Richie, it's these mortals, weak, lowly mortals. β
Looking at the people inside and outside the gap, relative to the saluting people, Numan'el's eyes flashed thoughtfully.
The stone ship carried the Heroic Spirits away from the dimensional rift, and the living were also asked to leave, and the next step was to blow up the dimensional rift with a large amount of "Slime Charged Burster", commonly known as "No. 37 Explosive".
Although the Giant King has been destroyed, as long as the gap in the plane is opened, the breath of the dead will continue to pour into the main plane, eroding the world at the same time, it will also stimulate the breath of the dead and the fragments of remnant souls in the main plane to breed the undead. The rift itself is also unstable, and it will become a loophole for powerful beings to enter the main plane through here, and must be completely destroyed.
Li Qi smiled and walked to the crowd, hugged Wilson Gamblett and the others one by one, and then hugged the witches, and then the witches were hung all over his body, and a certain oversized hug was not sensitive.
"Where's Aurora?"
Eve and Vicky are busy in the rear, and although Aurora is in Beta, it is time to receive the news. didn't see her appear, and Li Qi, who already had a ghost in his heart, was even more weak-hearted.
Finney grabbed a place with the witches on his shoulder, and said casually, "Maybe I'm talking to the goddess."
Something is wrong!
Li Qi was complaining, but saw that everyone turned their heads to look behind them.
Carrying an unknown number of witches and turning around, Li Qi's heart was shocked, and he was almost crushed to the ground.
Alissa!
Alishan introduced herself vaguely: "Hello everyone, I am Alishan, and I am also a saint. β
The others didn't react much, and Wilson Gamblett had a solemn look on his face that knew the inside story, this was the Styx Witch!
Finney said in a dejected tone of giving up, "Ha, there's one more!"
Trying to compress to a normal size, Rolling handed Alishan a bamboo shoot, and the Witch of Destruction, who turned back into Ellie, held her arms and tilted her head, as if to gauge the combat strength of her new partner. Her eyes flickered, her expression solemn, and she was obviously a little jealous of Alishan.
Only Tina seemed natural, circling around Alisa a few times, sniffling, nodding and saying, "You smell very kind." β
From the perspective of divine power, the two of you are indeed relatives.
Alisa smiled at Tina, bowed to the witches who were scrutinizing her, and said in a stern and well-behaved tone, "Hello, aunties. β
The witches let out a surprised sigh, Auntie!?
Then I heard Alisanne say, "My name is Alisanne-Preel, Richie's daughter. β
Daughterββ!?
The witches screamed, Richie's neck tightened, and Finney's little arms were strangled tightly, so I heard her snoring from her throat: "Daughter!?"
Ellie, who was about to hug Li Qi's words, stiffened, and her body instantly rose up to Catherine, her forehead against Li Qi's forehead, and her silver gray eyes flashed with cold light: "Daughter!?"
The crystal light behind Tina's back bloomed, and the outline of the huge scythe could be vaguely seen, and she gritted her teeth with a straight face and repeated: "Daughter!?"
..................
"Don't make such jokes in the future", outside Beta, Li Qi rubbed his neck and said helplessly.
"That's what it is," Alisa chuckled, "and you think so yourself." β
Li Qi coughed, "It's just between us." β
He was still a little worried: "Is it really okay to run to the main plane?"
"I'm a living person," Alisa said, "the soul is just the heart of the gods, and when it comes to the main plane, the power of the Styx is suppressed, which is indeed very uncomfortable, but it's okay to stay for a while, and it's ......"
She looked in a certain direction: "Alisa still has some things to conclude. β
Li Qi nodded clearly, this Alishan, of course, is talking about the mortal Alishan as the dying saint.
Thinking of something, he said again: "It doesn't include carving a tombstone for yourself, right?"
Alisa stuck out her tongue, "That's your business." β
"Oh, I should take a roast pig's head and engrave it on the tombstone, 'She and her favorite pig's head rest here.'" β
Alisa grinned, "I remember that your intention was to engrave 'You are with me', are you the roast pig's head?"
Damn, forget that this girl has all her own thoughts about her, and she remembers it better than she does!
While talking and laughing, the two came to a stream.
Alyssa walked towards a row of simple wooden houses in the distance, and Richie found a tomb not far from the creek.
Sure enough, the tombstone was empty.
At this moment, "You are with me" is meaningless, and Li Qi thought for a moment and carved on the tombstone "Arisa rests here." β
Alisanne has been given a new life, so let her end her fate as a mortal mortal as a mortal.
There was a knock on the wooden door, and Archbishop Duncan of the Church of the Dead coughed and opened the door, then froze.
He muttered, "Ah, Alishan, you're not ......"
The girl looked at him calmly: "I am Alishan, but not your daughter. β
Duncan was silent for a long time, and said bitterly: "I understand, you are now the incarnation of my lord walking in the mortal world, right?"
"No, I'm a neighbor of Persequith now", Alisanne's tone of voice was unfamiliar, and there was not much memory of the Lord of the Dead in the soul imprint she projected on Richie.
Duncan's eyebrows furrowed into earthworms: "Neighbor?"
"This ...... You'll get to know later," said Alissa, "and I'll help him give you a message, so you don't have to raise saints anymore, and your church can concentrate on holding funerals and guarding the cemetery." β
"This ......"
Duncan was incredulous: "How is this possible? How can we communicate with our lord and listen to my lord's oracles without a holy woman?"
Alisa shook her head, "He doesn't have to communicate with the living anymore, and the living don't have to listen to what He says. β
Duncan looked at her and said with a hint of hope, "How can I believe that this is what my lord will?"
"Do you want me to swear by Styx? That doesn't bind me at all," Alisa laughed, "because ah, I'm the ...... Styx."
There was a flash of silver-gray light in the room, and after a moment, Duncan looked at Alisanne dumbfounded, his body trembling violently, and he looked like he wanted to kneel but didn't know if it was appropriate.
"Don't kneel," Alisa said majestically, "In short, my existence is to not let mortals kneel to the gods anymore." β
She turned to leave, remembered something again, and turned back and said, "Also, although I am not your daughter, you can treat me as your granddaughter." β
Her expression changed, and the coercive goddess aura dissipated, and she grabbed Duncan's sleeve and said, "I will come to see you often, remember to prepare a roast pig's head for me." β
It wasn't until Alisanne was gone for a while that Duncan came to his senses and jumped to his feet and shouted, "Who! Who was she born to!?"