Chapter 5: The Enemy Meets
Demos ...... Demos –
Kareta snapped open her eyes. Her whole body was aching and cold, and she got up at an even speed, supporting her drowsy body with her arms all the time.
Underneath her was a square brick floor of marble, and it turned out that she had been sleeping on such a cold and hard brick floor like this.
Kareta didn't know how long she had been lying unconscious on the brick floor before her body was sore from its stony surface. Until now, the goosebumps on her skin from the cold have not subsided. The whole body was unusually weak, as if he had just experienced a big battle.
Kareta turned her head in horror, scrutinizing the surroundings to her left and right.
The dim light, the towering and direct carved marble columns, the ancient stone carvings of sacred beasts, and the familiar 100-meter-high stone arches.
Here it is...... Don't......
She suddenly trembled violently, and the goosebumps on her body immediately became thicker and more abrupt.
Dark Temple!
She immediately thought of where she was now, especially when she saw that a hundred meters in front of her body, it was the place where there was no gate or wall to directly connect with the deep dimensional space.
That's the terrace of the Dark Temple!
Having lived in the Dark Temple for a while, she has not forgotten this place. To be precise, this is the topmost floor of the Dark Temple, the East Side Temple.
Kareta remembered in a trance that she had had a terrible dream that she had gone to the desperate underworld and walked with many wandering spirits on the long road to the Yellow Springs. Just as she approached the entrance to the eighteenth level of hell, she met Demos. Together, they wrestle with the spirits of the dead, struggling in the winds that pull them to hell. In the end, it was Demos who pushed her out of the entrance to hell with his own arms......
But is it really just a dream?
Kareta looked gloomy, looking away at the dimensional space outside the terrace ahead, letting the cold breeze from there continue to sweep over her body.
Carreta vividly remembers what she had done not so long ago.
At that time, she devised a clever plan to enter the Aquaman's mansion in the human realm, and failed to ban his evil spirits with the Demon Pot, and then swallowed the blissful poison "Larenia......
Now, not only did he not die, but he actually came to the Dark Temple?
I heard from the attendants of the Dark Temple that the time and space of another dimension are connected to Hades.
Perhaps, the experience on the Huangquan Road is not a dream, but a fact that has happened. Otherwise, how could the never-ending march in that space, the battle with the many geistins, the punishment of karma, and the despair of being separated from Demos face to face be so real.
For now, Kareta preferred to believe that all of that experience was true.
Suddenly, a layer of cold sweat broke out all over her body, and she remembered the tragic image of Demos herself falling at the entrance to hell while pushing her away.
"Demos!"
Kareta let out a cry of surprise and covered her face with her hands in pain.
"You're awake at last, Kareta!"
An unusually familiar female voice came from behind him, sounding ruthless and undisguised hatred.
Cali –
Of course, Kareta knew who the owner of the female voice was, after all, the feud between them had accumulated too deep to forget.
She hurriedly turned to look. At the foot of a giant fairy stone statue in the innermost part of the side hall stood Cali, dressed in black and dressed in short arms, holding the long handle of the "python" axe in his right hand, and holding a crystal ball sealed with the Athena gem in his left hand, staring at Karete's every move with cold and sharp eyes.
Beside her, two long-necked dragons were about to move, flicking their thick arrow-like tails and pointing their big butts at Karet. Depending on the situation, their interest is completely absorbed by what is above their heads.
Kareta felt strange, so she looked up at the long necks of the two monsters stretched to the limit, and was immediately frightened by the sight of jumping into their eyes.
Just a short distance ahead of the horizon was a majestic marble pillar, and at the top of the pillar hung the unconscious José.
At this moment, he was hanging from the stone pillar with his arms outstretched, and the iron hook of a pair of iron cables on the pillar was through his collarbone. Above his head was a blazing lamp. The hot oil in the oil pan of the fire lamp was boiling, and the sound of "crackling" oil flowers exploding was constantly heard, which could be heard very clearly from a distance.
Occasionally, blood dripped from the place where Jose was pierced through his skin by the iron hook, and the two demon dragons dormant under the stone pillar would immediately fight for me, opening their mouths to catch the few drops of human blood that fell first, looking very greedy.
Kareta was shocked, but also a little surprised.
José is still alive! He's been brought into the Dark Temple?
This was Karete's first reaction when she saw what was in front of her.
From the excited reaction of the pair of demon dragons, she could fully deduce this conclusion.
To be able to be used as bait by these two ferocious demonic beasts, the first thing to do is fresh food.
Moreover, the deity who brought him and himself back to the Temple of Darkness after swallowing the poison must be Cali. If Jose was really dead, why bother bringing a corpse back to the Dark Temple?
Now, seeing him being hung in the temple by extremely cruel means, Carette is conjecturing about the fate of the evil spirit of the Sea King who lives in his body.
However, all kinds of questions flashed in her mind for a few seconds. After all, a strong enemy is in front of her, and she must concentrate and deal with it carefully.
Collecting her messy thoughts, Kareta rose from the ground, her gaze shifting, and once again in the same place as Kali's acceptance.
"See you again, Goddess Kali. ”
She said to Cali, in a calm tone.
"Yes......! See you again!"
Kali looked at Carette intently and responded, a look of complexity on her charming face.
While talking to each other, the two women's minds were repeatedly playing out past feuds.
Carret's first thought was of Ade, the handmaiden who had been murdered, and the dead Noah, and the many attendants who had been killed in the bloodbathed Dark Temple.
Today is the time to break off with the enemy, and no one can escape it—
And what Cali thinks about is the shame of being abandoned by the man he loves repeatedly, and his helpless loss.
However, when he looked at Kareta now, it was as if he had seen that the supreme power was close to him. She thinks all her efforts are worth it, because right away, she will let this damn rival in love honestly open the seal of the Athena gem for herself!
"Kareta, open this crystal ball obediently! while the man on it still breathes, as long as you do what I say, I will release him, and you!"
At this point, Cali didn't want to talk nonsense, she stretched out her right arm and pointed at the stone pillar hanging José with the axe of "python gold", and said to Carette in a stiff tone.
Carette replied very simply:
"Stop dreaming!"
Cali stopped arguing with her, and a few muffled tones came out of his mouth.
The two demon dragons crouching under the stone pillar received Kali's order, and immediately opened their teeth and claws, becoming even more excited than just now. One stretched out its front paws and scratched onto the stone pillar, throwing out a long snake-like purple tongue that flexibly wrapped around Jose's body.
With a "squeak", Jose's body was stretched out by it, and blood gushed out quickly from the parts of the two iron hooks.
The other dragon tilted its head and slammed its companion away, scrambling its mouth open to catch the human blood left behind.
"Jose—"
Kareta screamed, her right hand raised in the air, and volleyed her weapon to "wave" the Scepter. At the same time that Scepter appeared with the Holy Light, Kareta herself changed into a white fighting outfit.
As soon as the staff was in her hand, Kareta shook her wrist and swung the disc on the staff to attack the beast's long tongue.
The silver light sent a blinding flash of lightning through the dim temple, and it went straight at the monster.
With a wail that tore through its liver and intestines, its tongue was severed by Karete's attack. It screamed, shaking its body from side to side quickly, and then fell to the ground, purple blood gushing from its mouth.
"Poof" –
Half of the dragon's tongue wrapped around Jose's body had just fallen to the ground from a high place, and he didn't want to be caught in the mouth by another demon dragon, and swallowed it with his head up.
Kareta couldn't help but feel sick, I don't know how long these two monsters have been starving in this temple, how can they even eat the skin and flesh of the same kind?
However, before she had time to think about it, she gripped the scepter in her hand and continued to attack.
The dragon, which had swallowed the tongue of its companion, spread its broad wings and flew up, circling back and forth above Karete's head.
Seeing it flying around, Carette was distraught and swung her scepter to attack. For a while, countless silver lights were as dense as air bombs, intersecting each other like a big net rushing towards it, making it unstoppable and unavoidable.
The dragon was attacked.
But it was born with rough skin and thick flesh, and Carreta didn't use too much mana to try its skills, so when it was attacked, the dark green dragon skin full of fat cocoons only cracked the Dao wound, which did not endanger its life.
The dragon screamed in mid-air, enraged by Karete's attack. Swinging her tail and spinning for another week, she suddenly straightened her neck, opened her fishy mouth and faced the sky with her back to the sky, and she spewed out a mouthful of fire.
Before the fire was near, her body was reflected off by a wall of air invisible to the naked eye, burning on the dragon's body.
It struggled in the fire and hissed a few times, and finally fell, smashing the heavy stone bricks up and down for a long time.
Kareta ran over as the ground shook, raising her scepter in both hands beside the lying dragon.
Suddenly, the rainbow light soared into the sky, and the "wave" responded to the wish of the waiter, and the sharp edge of the staff's tail was bound to appear, extending infinitely downward in the blink of an eye, piercing the heart of the demon dragon directly. The monster's limbs kicked for a short time, and its head tilted to the side, and it was not breathing.
In an instant, his body was ossified into a stone statue.
Kareta suddenly remembered that just outside the terrace, on either side of the towering columns, there were a pair of giant statues of pterosaurs. Presumably the pair in front of him, catalyzed by Kali's spell, they came to life and became a tool for killing.
Kareta took the spell and restored the Scepter to its normal size.
Before she could catch her breath, another dragon opened its mouth and pounced on her. As soon as she cut off half of her long tongue, and saw her companion killed by her, the demon dragon became fierce and abnormal, and directly shook its huge tail and swept towards Kareta with the sound of the wind.
Kareta jumped out of thin air to dodge a blow, and the monster rose up and pounced on it.
When Kareta felt the evil wind throw at her, she twisted a little less in mid-air, and was hit by the monster's claw on her left arm, and her body was immediately lifted higher.
Karette screamed in pain and fell to the ground with an arm wound.
The dragon was furious by the blood that flowed from Kareta's arm, and he threw up his head and let out a wild roar. It flicked one more front paw, and slammed it viciously into her as she fell to the ground.
Kareta is on fire. She knew that if one of the dragon's claws fell on her, she would be slapped into a patty if she didn't die.
She didn't want to waste her time fighting such low-level monsters, she had to have more energy left to deal with Cali.
Thinking of this, just as the giant claw in front of her was getting closer and closer to her, she decisively raised the "Wave" Scepter.
The air around the dragon and Kareta plummeted, freezing below freezing. Its large claws were about to fall on top of Karet's head, and it couldn't move anymore.
Kareta hurried and flew with a cane, struck the ice dragon in the throat.