Chapter Fifty-Eight: Just Two People Fighting (Part II)
All the believers of the god of nature stayed there, stunned at the wooden giant who came out of the god of nature, at the old man floating in the air, at the statue that was standing up and slowly moving the guardian statue, at what had just happened.
The fixed ideas in the minds of believers are completely incapable of giving a reasonable explanation for all that is happening in front of them. Magic, the miracle of the god of nature, the miracle was the wooden giant, or the guardian statue? Their minds were so confused that they didn't understand what it was or what they were supposed to do. Just standing there stupidly.
"Everyone, run. Come on. "There was only one man screaming hoarsely, but in the wide, crowded meadow was not enough to wake up thousands of dazed people.
"All retreat, quick, all retreat back to Airy. Asa shouted orders to the remaining soldiers. There weren't many soldiers left, and they took advantage of the fact that the disciples were in a daze and ran out of the meadow.
Asa turned, opening his hand to a gargoyle. In the current situation, it can only be destroyed one by one.
But suddenly, the body seemed to be whipped by a huge whip, and the muscles and nerves of the whole body were tingling and numb at the same time. As he fell to the ground in the dark, he heard a crackling sound above his head and vaguely smelled the scorching stench coming from his body. Finally, the thought that vaguely came to my mind was: too careless.....
Although Asa had been keeping an eye on the necromancer in mid-air, he didn't expect the attack to be so swift. He had forgotten that even top-notch air magic such as flying could be instantaneously lifted, and that medium magic such as thunderbolt and lightning was naturally more relaxed than spitting.
The necromancer in the air finally laughed as he watched the pesky trickster fall in smoke under his own electric shock. His otherwise ordinary old face looked weird and terrifying because of this smile. He ignored the astonished eyes of the crowd below and looked at the gargoyles in action.
The gargoyle's movements were still slow, but not as laborious as before. Including those whose bodies were already cracked, they walked towards the nearest believer, half-crouched down and stretched out their hands, and picked up the believer like a child holding his beloved toy. The believers did not yet have a clear mind to understand what was going on, and allowed the patron idol to lift itself. The gargoyle opened its mouth the size of a bathtub and threw the believers in its hands into it, biting it. The gargoyle's sharp teeth snapped together, and the screams only began before falling into the gargoyle's throat with the sound of the limbs deforming.
The cultists seemed to wake up to this, and thousands of people screamed at the same time and fled in all directions.
Not just the thousands of people in this meadow, but the rest of the Whispering Forest. Tens of thousands of people sent out at the same time sent out a sharp slap that pierced the sky of the entire Airy.
The blood and flesh of the cultists slipped into the gargoyle's body, as if a cup of the finest honey had been poured into a hungry man who was about to collapse, and the gargoyles were immediately much more agile in their movements under the nourishment of this excellent nourishment. They grabbed the believers all over the ground and sent them to their mouths, biting and swallowing, and the more they ate, the more energetic they became, the more energetic they became, jumping nimbly like a giant raccoon cat, frantically devouring the food that was automatically delivered to their feet.
Thousands of believers screamed in horror and ran desperately, many of them were pushed down by each other, others continued to step on their bodies to flee for their lives, and those who were trampled on screamed and reached out indiscriminately to hold their feet, so that more people fell, and more people behind them continued to run on the bodies of their comrades who were getting higher and higher, just to escape from this terrible place as soon as possible. On the small grass, the people who fled frantically were like a bunch of crowded maggots churning desperately with each other.
After each gargoyle devoured about a dozen people, blood flowed out of its mouth as its body shook, as if there was no room for food in the body, and the flesh had already overflowed to the throat, and at this time they all seemed to be full of energy, and the movements of those bodies that should have been stones were agile and soft.
The necromancer floating in the air landed, and as if not satisfied, he raised his hands to the gargoyles and chanted a spell that seemed to be out of tune.
The gargoyles stood still, trembling, and then opened their mouths, and a large puddle of foul-smelling black mud spurted out of their mouths, which were the flesh and blood of the people they had just eaten, and after straining through them, they had become like mud in the gutter.
With a wave of the necromancer's hands, the gargoyles that had emptied their bellies all rose into the sky, their wings spread out, looking like giant, hungry bats, and they pounced on the fleeing believers. This time, instead of stuffing the believers into their mouths, they raised them above their heads, squeezed and twisted them in their giant claws, and let the blood flow out and drip into their mouths like squeezing juicy fruits. They do not pay attention to those who are trampled by their companions and are dying, but chase after those who are the fastest and most energetic. Tens of thousands of believers are like a very large and sumptuous feast, allowing them to choose the most delicious and nutritious of them.
The meadow-covered believers have gone completely insane in fear. Even desperate attempts to escape seemed futile, gargoyles could easily grab one or two with a single jump or glide, screaming before the limbs shattered and the blood flowed loudly, and these huge blood-laden bats kept throwing away their shriveled limbs and pounced on another alive one. Blood and limbs are the only hues here, screams and wails are the melody, and what was once a pious and holy meadow is now a slaughterhouse like never before.
Not only that, but beyond this meadow, a similar scene was playing out next to the more than a hundred gargoyles in the circle that surrounded the Whispering Forest.
Eventually, the gargoyles stopped chasing and eating, and the blood in their bodies began to spill into their mouths again. The necromancer flew onto the head of a gargoyle, and together the gargoyles let out a strange cry that rang through the sky, and rose from the ground to the sky.
The escapees on the grass fled far away, leaving only their half-trampled companions, soaked in a sea of broken limbs and entrails, wailing half-dead.
Gargoyles also flew in the other direction of the Whispering Forest, gathering together with those flying up here, and then hovering in the sky above the outer edge of the Whispering Forest to form a circle. The gargoyle's circle rises in height, higher and higher, until from the ground it looks like just a hundred oddly shaped birds.
The necromancer who flew up from the gargoyle on the other side shook his head at his companion and sighed, "I never thought that those elves actually sent out the deadwood guards, and almost ruined our plan. But as long as we're flying up now, we should be fine. He looked at the gargoyles beside his companions, many of them had cracks in their bodies. "You seem to have a serious injury over there?"
The old man snorted coldly: "A human kid came to make trouble, it seems that the kid who stole the leaves of the World Tree that the elves have been wanted by the elves should be the kid sent here by Old Man Ronis to deal with the infidels." And he should have been the one who eavesdropped last night. ā
"What? is he?" the necromancer looked a little surprised. "Did you fight him, then?"
"Killed. The old man's necromancer's voice was cold and short.
The necromancer was stunned, thought for a moment, and didn't speak.
The old man looked down at the Whispering Forest below, the outline of which was clearly outlined by a patch of scarlet outside the forest, and he nodded in satisfaction. "That height should be right. Let's get started. He raised his hands and uttered the incantation, and all the gargoyles' mouths opened at the same time, blood squeezed from the bodies of thousands of people spurted out of their mouths.
The blood did not fall, but all turned into a mist in the air. The blood mist seemed to be solidified, solidified in the circle formed by the gargoyles, and even the strong wind in the sky could not be blown away at all, so the high altitude above the Whispering Forest became a blood cover over the Whispering Forest. The smell of blood carried away by the wind could be smelled all over the entire radius of Airy.
But the smell of blood was nothing compared to the grass. The stench of filth spit out by gargoyles, the twisted corpses and entrails that had been squeezed out of the ground, and the moaning of countless half-dead people.
A figure suddenly appeared in the shadow of the ancient tree, and then walked out of the forest.
Her long silver hair, beautiful face, and her armor and clothes made of insect shells were crude but could not hide her perfect body. Such a girl with the extreme beauty of pure nature actually appeared on such a bloody and hellish meadow, which looked extremely grotesque. It's a pity that the believers who are still alive on the ground are desperately using all their remaining strength to move their bodies outward, and they don't even dare to turn their heads, and they don't see her at all.
She looked up at the sky and saw the blood-colored mist and the gargoyle circling in a circle, and looked down at the grass outside in infinite astonishment. Suddenly, she spotted Asa on the ground and walked quickly.
She crouched down beside Asa and muttered a language that no one understood, a green glow on her hands, and pressed it against Asa. A green glow covered Asa, and he let out a long breath and woke up.
Asa was surprised to see Lua when he woke up and asked, "How are you? How did you get out? What happened to those deadwood guards?"
"It's all your fault. Lua's beautiful face was full of sadness and sadness. "I commanded the Deadwood Guards out of the forest for a serious violation of clan rules, and I have been expelled from the Whispering Forest by the Elders. Actually, I just wanted to ....." Tears were already streaming down her sockets. For an elf living in the Forest of Whispers, being banished from this sacred place of their homeland is even worse than death.
Asa looked up at the blood-red light curtain in the sky, patted her on the shoulder and comforted, "Don't be sad, maybe this is not a bad thing, it seems that we should leave as soon as possible." ā
High in the air, the old necromancer said to his companion after instructing the gargoyles to spit out all the blood: "It's up to you to do the next, can you really remember such a complex magic array after only seeing it once in the crystal ball?"
"Rest assured, with the help of so many devout believers, there is absolutely no problem. His companion smiled faintly and sat down cross-legged against the blood mist over the head of a gargoyle. "Alright, let's get down to our great feats. ā
The blood mist in the circle began to slowly condense in the air, gradually outlining a magic circle in the circle enclosed by the gargoyles.
"Is that what they're going to use against our forest?" said Rua on the ground, looking at the blood-colored mist with disdain. "It's useless, no matter what the power of the magic array is, there is absolutely no way to break through the divine power of the Sun Well. ā
"Not true. That'sā" Asa watched in amazement, as if he had seen the magic array there. High in the sky, as the magic array took shape, the circular space in the middle bounded by gargoyles was completely darkened.
"Why is it dark, they block out the sun's rays?" said Lua, furrowing her slender eyebrows in disdain. "It's useless. ā
"It's not a cover-up, they're going to .....," Asa finally remembered what it was.
In the shadows, a silvery curtain of light slanted towards the Whispering Forest in the shape of a funnel, and the dazzling tip of the funnel landed right inside the Whispering Forest. There was no explosion or cracking sound of magic as it should be, and as the forest was always doing, everything was quiet. The pillar of fire soared into the air calmly and swiftly.
"How so? Impossible, absolutely impossible. Lua was amazed. "No amount of magic can penetrate the barrier of the sunwell to reach the forest. ā
"That's not magic, the mana only stays in that circle, they use air magic to distort the sun's rays, and what falls into the Whispering Forest is only the heat from the light. Asa shook his head slowly. "The Whispering Forest is over. ā
Although Asa did not understand why Cedros's magic circle had been learned by the two necromancers to attack the Whispering Forest. But this is indeed the only and brilliant way to attack through the Sunwell Enchantment. Moreover, this magic array is hundreds of meters in the air, and no one can destroy it by any means.
The heat was blowing in your face, and even in the meadows so far away you could feel the ferocity of the flames in the Whispering Forest. The focus of the spotlight is constantly moving under the control of the necromancer, and the ancient trees and deadwood guards instantly lose their moisture under the intense light, then burn, and then dry the trees next to them, waiting to be ignited by the light or directly burned again. The sea of fire in the middle of the Whispering Forest expanded rapidly under the movement of the light curtain, and no amount of deadwood guards, elves, and unicorns could stop such an attack, and they could only wait in vain on the ground for the dazzling death in the sky to befall them.
Lua was about to run towards the Whispering Forest, but was pulled by Asa. "What are you doing? Go in and wait to be scorched together? There's no room for us to meddle here. ā
A blackened creature stumbled all the way to the edge of the forest, its appearance was all black carbon, and only the horn on its head made it clear that it was originally a pure white and holy unicorn. The roasted beast threw itself at the edge of the forest, struggling and screaming, and then completely dead.
Rua jerked her hand out of Asa and ran towards the Whispering Forest, her slender and agile form rushing into the smoky ancient trees in just a few arrows. Asa froze, instinctively trying to start and chase after him, but he stood still.
After hesitating, he suddenly recalled his first encounter with Xiao Yi in the lizard swamp.
An inexplicable impulse stirred in my heart, with a bit of sadness that should never have occurred at this time. He looked up at a curtain of light under the blood-red magic array in the sky, and the white expanse seemed to have a bit of a holy smell. He thought for a moment, sighed, and rushed into the Whispering Forest.
The Forest of Whispers was filled with smoke, and Lua's figure was gone. But Asa knew that she must have run towards the Sunwell, for the elves must have been concentrated in the Sunwell by now. The barrier of the sunwell was still working, and Asa could feel the fluctuations in his body resonating with the sunwell, and he ran in the direction of the sensory resonance.
Running in the flames of the sky, it felt as if it was about to melt, and the dazzling light was still swaying from side to side, turning the originally vibrant, calm and majestic forest into a fiery hell in an instant, everything either burned immediately or curled up and scorched black, even the rocks on the ground could not bear it, crackling and bursting. A large area of charred black clearing has been burned in the center of the Whispering Forest, and the charred corpses of many unicorns can be seen everywhere.
Suddenly, the dazzling light stopped swaying everywhere and stopped in one place. Asa looked, that should be the direction of the sunwell.
Some of the moving pillars of fire swayed crookedly as if they wanted to walk towards Asa, these were supposed to be the last remaining deadwood guards, whose scorched bodies could no longer even bear their own weight, and they fell and fell apart after a move. Embarrassed to dodge the pieces of wood that were scattered in all directions, Asa ran a few steps to see the glowing place.
What caught his eye was a huge ice shield. All the elves were concentrating on the bottom to maintain the huge umbrella with magic, and Lua had already burrowed underneath to release her mana. The other elves, including Elder Crane, had no time to pay attention to her, and she had actually broken the rules of the clan and returned.
The elves weren't completely tied. After many people had died, they finally understood what kind of attack it was, so all the elves had gathered around the sunwell and worked together to prop up a huge semicircular shield condensed with ice overhead. The light converging from the sky focused on the ice shield, and most of the light was either reflected or bent. The rest of the light was still strong, but it could no longer kill them.
But this defense will definitely not last long. The elves are not very proficient in the magic of various elemental systems, and such defense is already the limit. The ice shield melted in the surrounding heat, and it was all replenished by the magic of all the elves, so it was only a matter of time before the ice shield dissipated.
Asa looked up, the gargoyle still spinning, a circle of shadows around what appeared to be just a small black dot manipulating the necromancer. The sunwell is not far away, and you can feel the magic power in your body. This is the only capital he dares to rush into. Here, his magic can almost be said to be limitless.
Asa reached into the sky, and a huge fireball came out, and the fluctuations of the sunwell immediately restored his mana, and another smaller, faster fireball whistled away after the first.
When the first fireball flew below the shadow, the latter one caught up with each other, and the two fireballs collided with each other and immediately exploded into a huge explosion. The air flow of the explosion dispersed the air that had been condensed in the magic array, and the sky returned to its original appearance, and the light curtain and shadow disappeared at once. The gargoyles in the air, which had been tightly formed into a circle, were also shaken up by this explosion.
Asa sighed. Thanks to the fact that he had witnessed Cedros use this magic array and understood the principle of this magic, he thought of this method to destroy it. He turned to the elves and shouted, "Grab the leaves of the World Tree and run now." ā
The elves had just lowered their ice shields to catch their breath, but Elder Crane immediately shouted, "Arrest that human." ā
"Wait. Lua hurriedly stood in front of Asa. "Actually, he was the one who came to tell us about the conspiracy of the servants of darkness yesterday, and he is our friend. ā
"We never had human friends, and we don't need to. Moreover, he is the one who stole the leaves of our world tree and the power of the sunwell. Elder Crane looked coldly at Lua and the human fugitive who had been wanted for a long time, and there was an unusually angry glint in his eyes. "And you, Lua. We've banished you from the Whispering Forest, and we didn't expect you to be with this human right away, a traitor to our elves. ā
"You fools, now is not the time to talk about this, that magic array may ....." Asa had not finished his sentence, and suddenly his eyes exploded. When he closed his eyes, he subconsciously grabbed Lua and jumped backwards, and the two rolled out together.
The screams of the elves were terrible, but only half a quick one, and then there was a complete silence.