Chapter 25: Grantham (8)
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"You don't expect God to punish the enemy, do you?" Link's expression made him know what he was thinking, and Blake shook his head, "Don't waste your last chance to save your life." ”
Finally, Is there a limit to the number of times God can be punished? Link turned his gaze to Gonzalez.
"The divine punishment of the first gods was not unlimited, because the power was too strong and limited by the law, and a god could only give the believer three chances of refuge. Counting the old town of the river valley, you have already used it twice, and don't invoke divine punishment unless you have to. "Gonzalez can be sure that Link is expelling Cyberion with divine punishment, if the Death Rider Lord is here, the fortress will not last for five days, and Nightmares can not only run on the ground, but also fly in the sky.
Link was a little worried, he had only established contact with the Wind Pillar at the moment, not counting the other three pillars, and there was only one divine punishment left, and he hadn't even seen the shadow of Frost.
Blake listened to it in his ears and remembered it in his heart.
Even if Link defeated Cybrion with divine punishment, why wasn't he corrupted by the Pillar of Water?
Blackton's Seal of Punishment determines that Link's side is neutral and good. The corroded camp of the Pillar of Water is biased towards Chaos, and the Pillar of the Earth of Order has also turned from order to neutrality under years of erosion, and the remaining two pillars are neutral and one chaotic, how can the camp of the Children of Nature be neutral.
Remembering that Frost was also from the Land of Exile, Blake clenched his hands behind him.
If it weren't for the fact that the fate of the Weaver wasn't projected on the Triangle of Fate, he would have wanted to use prophecy on Link to see what was so peculiar about the Exiled Lands.
Knowing that there was a limit to the number of times God punished him, Link still didn't give up the idea of going deep into the enemy army: "If, I mean, if you kill the commander of the undead, will the undead withdraw their troops?"
"There is no such thing as morale for the undead. Without the commander, adjutants, vanguard officers and other high-level undead, even if you kill all the corpse witches, the low-level undead will still surround the fortress driven by the instinct to absorb life. Fighting the undead can only lead to total annihilation for both us and them. Blake's tone was flat and shattered Link's expectations.
The Overwatch and the Supreme Commander of the Avenger Army could not discuss a good solution, so they could only passively wait for the undead to attack first.
The so-called sleepless undead didn't make humans wait too long, and a black mist rose from the rear. Swiftly 'float' towards the fortress.
When they reached the top of the fortress, it became clear that it was not fog at all, but a swarm of bats.
"Vampire!" the soldier bursts out with a negative emotion that is more terrifying than encountering a ghost.
Because they are incomplete dead things, somewhere between life and death, the barrier used to defend against the undead cannot stop them. Vampire bats that invade the enchantment are much smarter than skeleton corpses, targeting frail priests and the wounded. Although Dawn's magic was extremely lethal to these monsters, the number of bats was too many, and in a short time, more than a dozen priests were torn beyond recognition. Some were directly sucked dry of blood and turned into dried corpses. What's even more terrifying is that these victims transform into undead spirits shortly after their deaths, and pounce on other living creatures.
"There's a collar's undead here!" Blake pulled out his weapon with a solemn face, and Gonzalez summoned a flame gun, and the two searched along the circular battlements.
Link stood still, he wanted to help, but a strange feeling lingered in his heart. He couldn't move his feet, he could only watch the two of them go farther and farther.
A sense of crisis gripped Link. He knew that he was being targeted by the undead of the collar in Blake's mouth, but he didn't know where the guy was hiding.
What should I do? If you trigger the lightning, you may accidentally injure people nearby, but if you warn them loudly, the undead leader who has failed to attack the plan will definitely have no fear. My goal is to protect as many people as possible, if only lightning could track the target......
Trace...... That's right!
Link decides to try the law of cause and effect that Hull won't allow him to use casually in the illusion. In this situation, the danger of backlash can no longer be taken into account, and it is a big deal to provoke the last divine punishment.
To put it bluntly, the law of cause and effect is prophecy, and there is no special difficulty in itself, the key is whether you can use strong enough power to predict and withstand the damage of backlash. Therefore, it is necessary to pay special attention when exercising the law of cause and effect. It's important to maintain accuracy and avoid being broken. As a messenger of the gods, the power to cast the law of cause and effect can be provided by the gods, and all Link needs to do is reduce the chance that the law of cause and effect will be broken.
With the experience of creating Storm Fury, Link once again entered a semi-meditative state, with divine punishment in place, at least this time without worrying about being attacked. He prayed to Gathos: [Gather the wind elemental to form a chain of lightning, and each time it hits a target, it will jump to another target within two meters of it, and it will only be effective against enemies.] 】
Sensing the wind elementals converging in their usual degree, Blake and Gonzalez turned around at the same time, just in time to witness Link raise the fury of the storm and the lightning that entwined the blade of the blade slashed at the nearest vampire bat. After a thunderclap, it splits into several strands, and after hitting the target, it forks again, and so on, spreading in all directions. The number of vampire bats was rapidly reduced by the attack of a chain of lightning bolts that formed a web.
"It's a waste to use the law of cause and effect in such a place. As the feminine female voice sounded, the figure of a pale-skinned human female turned from light to bright, and vampire bats flew towards her, gathering together and turning into a blood-red cloud draped over her body.
"Vampire Queen Field...... "The well-informed Bright was probably the only human on the scene who could recognize this high-level undead.
Tsk~ I should have thought that Lady Wailing was the vanguard, and the commander must be this one, who was misled by Cyberlien, and thought that the Son of Nature had already killed the commander.
Blake thought that with the commander and vanguard officers out of the field, only the lieutenants were left, but he didn't expect that there would be a leader of the legendary rank.
Hearing the name, Gonzalez also knew who the undead with a bewitching appearance in front of him was. The only legendary leader of the Immortal Empire, his strength is on par with Cyberion, and he is the direct boss of Lady Wailing.
Without looking at Blake and Gonzalez who were gathered around, Field stared straight at Link in front of him, "Defeated by a child of nature who has won the chosen rank, Sebelion was too careless, and he told him to beware of the original divine punishment." ”
The coercion dissipated imperceptibly, and with each breath Link felt like his lungs had been inhaled into ice ballast. The stinging was unpleasant. Instinctively, he told him that the undead leader who came this time was even more powerful than the dead rider he had encountered before.
"Divine punishment is caused only when the life of the divine envoy is endangered, as long as it is not seriously injured, or ...... You don't feel like your life is in danger......" Field, who was floating in mid-air, slowly approached, Link was once again unable to move, and his body did not listen to the command of his brain.
It's not just him. Blake and Gonzalez were also too stiff to attack.
The nerves are paralyzed...... ...... that can invade the body silently Only breathing!
Rise to the wind, wind elemental. Link meditated in his mind.
Suddenly a strong wind blew away the toxins that filled the air, and Field raised his eyebrows, "Interesting, is it so interesting from the Exiled Lands?"
With one hand, he blocked the moon-shaped dawn light, the corners of the vampire queen's mouth raised slightly, and Blake's second sword fell limply before he could use it, and another field appeared behind him. Realize that you might be attacked in the same way. Gonzalez swept backhand, and the flame shot a red trail in the air, but he was still one step slower, and the third Field had already stabbed his palm into his chest.
Seeing Gonzalez hit the vital point in front of his eyes, Link rushed over as fast as he could.
"If you want the others to be safe, you'd better not mess around, I'm not going to suffer your third divine punishment. "With the living people in the fortress under threat, Field intends to end the siege that has dragged on for too long.
Lay Gonzalez flat. Link put his hand on the bleeding wound, thinking he was going to perform a healing spell. The Vampire Queen also specially added, "Don't waste your divine power, I cursed his wounds, which will not kill him, and make him incapable of fighting again." ”
Clutching Gonzalez's wounds, Link pondered in grief and resentment. Since there is such strength. You can go straight to the fortress from the start, so why bother besieging the city for days?
Looking around, the soldiers of both the Watch Fort and the Avenger Army were demoralized at the sight of the Leader's defeat.
Why didn't these people kill them immediately, just make them afraid?
Suddenly remembering that the gods of the chaotic camp can absorb all kinds of negative emotions such as fear, jealousy, and madness, Link realized. It turns out that the purpose of bringing human beings together is to make them fear death, which can strengthen the godhead of death. The fact that the Watch Fortress has been able to fight guerrilla warfare for decades without being wiped out is not because the undead can't catch them, but because Frost and Cold deliberately let them go, and because they want to keep humanity in fear of death.
"Stop! Don't let your fear go...... Stop!" No matter how Link shouted, the human soldiers on the verge of mental collapse were still unable to resist the reappearance of vampire bats, and could no longer hold their posts, and the undead outside the fortress attacked again, and the rain of arrows shot many soldiers who were running around to avoid bats, and the whole fortress was in chaos.
"Even if you were to be aware of it, what could you do with your own strength? Without divine punishment, a chosen one like you, who had just become a child of nature, was nothing more than a human being with no divine powers. "The Vampire Queen is not at all worried about being revealed by Link the true purpose of their siege, anyway, he has already fallen into the palm of his own hand, and this time he will definitely replace Frost Cold as the new ruler of the Undead Empire.
She's right, I can't invoke divine punishment, I'm just an ordinary person, hateful...... I don't want to feel powerless anymore.
The curse sent Gonzalez to spasm and turn as pale as a dead man, and Link thumped the ground in anger.
Isn't there anything that can reverse this? Alex didn't sacrifice himself to use the gods for such a result.
If the fear of the people can be dispelled, and the Grim Reaper cannot absorb the negativity to strengthen himself, the vampire's plan will fail...... But how can I get rid of the fear in the hearts of the people? It is useless to shout alone, I have no authority among them.
Turning his head to look at the several clerics who could use the Energizing Technique, Link was desperate to see that they had been turned into dried corpses by the other clones of the Vampire Queen, and were now chasing and biting the surviving priest.
No, I can't give up hope, even if I am pessimistic and hopeless, it will only increase the power of death.
Summoning all kinds of things, Link tries to use his mental power to draw something that can save the decline. Suddenly, an object flashed in his mind, the Thunder's Destiny Treasure 'Charge', and the attribute of the item in the illusion can boost morale. In this situation, he can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, give it a try.
Like a figurative Storm, Link puts all of his willpower into the Embodied Charge.
With the recall of shape, color, ability. The horn gradually appeared on the blank page, from virtual to solid, from flat to three-dimensional, just as Link did in the illusion, the Storm was really projected from memory to the world.
Seeing Link summon a book-like object, Field thought it would be some kind of defensive artifact. But a long time passed, and nothing happened, so she sneered. Without divine punishment, it's just a piece of waste, and Cyberrion is so stupid that he doesn't listen to my advice, and the credit is mine......
Just as he fantasized about suppressing Frost and Cold, and becoming the Grim Reaper's number one henchman, Field suddenly appeared in Link's hand with an extra horn at some point.
Put the horn to your mouth. Link took a deep breath and blew the horn with heartfelt anticipation.
Toot –
A dull voice rang out inside the fortress.
Toot –
Vampire bats fell from mid-air.
Toot –
The soldiers, who were chased and dodged in all directions, woke up from their panic.
Toot –
The air of despair that permeated the fortress gradually dissipated with the sound of the horns.
Field pounced on Link and tried to snatch the horn from his hand. With a click, the sharp claws broke, and the vampire queen looked at the white horn with a shocked expression, her claws could cut even the hardest metal, and it was actually broken by this ordinary-looking horn?!
"Haven't you heard from Frost that the lifeweaver's relics can't be destroyed?" Link called in Hobbes to look after Gonzalez. He jumped straight into the horde of undead outside the fortress, and a chain of lightning turned the dense skeletons and the corpses hiding in them into ashes. Field chased after her, but she didn't dare to make a heavy hand, it was easy to induce divine punishment in Link's lifeless way, and she didn't want to end up almost being annihilated like Sebrien.
Seeing Link uninhabited by the undead, the soldiers in the fortress were reinvigorated by the Charger.
Seeing that Link had really turned the tide, the Vampire Queen was unwilling to fail like this. Just as she was about to evacuate the battlefield. When he killed Link by sacrificing the corpse witch, the dark clouds that had been obscuring the sky dispersed, and the sunlight hit the undead and suddenly ignited golden flames.
"Dawn Light!" Field's face finally changed, and she turned her head to look to the west, where a flock of griffons flew into the sky. The High Priest was present. It seems that there is no choice but to retreat. Ignoring the army of undead on the ground, the space around the Vampire Queen's body twisted strangely, and she teleported away from the battlefield before the next beam of light shone.
Blake, who woke up from a coma, just got up and saw the sky overcast and haze, clutching his chest and showing a relieved expression to Gonzalez, who was also regaining consciousness: "Reinforcements from the Dawn Headquarters are here, the High Priest is here, and the Vampire Queen has to leave." ”
Not seeing Link, Gonzalez was not at ease and asked the Hobbs Link people around him?
"Don't worry, Grand Duke, he's fine. Reinforcements arrived, and Hobbes replied choked up.
The griffin flew closer, and all the elite dawn knights of the dawn were boarded on it, they jumped down from mid-air, killing the undead like chopping melons and vegetables, the spells of the corpse witch did not have much effect on these high-level paladins, not to mention the divine assistance of the high-level priests in the sky, and the army of the undead who had almost trapped the entire fortress half a day ago was wiped out in an instant.
Seeing that the reinforcements arrived, Link didn't release the chain lightning again, and although he used the law of cause and effect on this spell that only works on the enemy, he was 100% sure that he would not fail to react to Dawn's reinforcements.
"Apostle of the Pillar of the Wind. A griffon landed beside Link, and on it sat a somewhat familiar face, older, but he still recognized it at a glance, the number two of the Dawn Sect, Francesca.
"High Priest!" Blake arrived, followed by Gonzalez, and Hobbs stayed inside the fortress to clean up the mess.
High Priest?!Link pointed to a middle-aged man in his early forties, "Isn't it the head of the Knights of the Dawn?"
"Rude!" As the other high-ranking priests who landed rebuked Link, "The High Priest had already been qualified for sainthood ten years ago. ”
Cut, what if you are holy, it's not that you can't help the frost. Link thought to himself, but Francesca, who was standing across from him, squinted and replied, "That's why you need a lifeweaver like you." ”
Link was stunned for a moment, and then reacted that it was a mind reading.
"High Priest, you leave Xindu, if Frost Cold takes the opportunity to sneak attack...... Blake is worried that Dawn's main combat force will be undefended in Xindu, if Frost Cold uses the strategy of attacking the east and west, the casualties in Xindu will be even more heavy than here.
"You can rest assured, there is a new capital of Hohenheim, and even if Frost does sneak attack, it will not be good. ”
Hearing that Hohenheim had gone to the new capital, Blake's face turned slightly pale.
The combat power of Mage City is no less than that of the Dawn Elite, but they are actually willing to help this time, except for helping the princes and generals to rise into the air, they have not seen any action in the past few decades since the invasion of the undead, which makes Hohenheim condemned by humans and various temples.
Francesca looked around, didn't see Alex, and turned his gaze to Gonzalez behind Blake: "Duke of Befast, where is Commander Alex?"
"Grandfather he...... Using the gods to descend to earth, he has passed away. Speaking of Alex, Gonzalez's mood was once again at a low point due to the arrival of reinforcements. (To be continued!)