The Gate of the Past - The Temple of the Dead in Danacus (two chapters in one, 7,000 words, only one more today)
(For various reasons, today's two chapters are one, a 7,000-word chapter, only at half past nine in the morning, so don't wait in the evening.) )
A thousand gold-level knights, even men and horses, appeared out of thin air in the endless desert, and they spontaneously arranged neatly into a perfect cone-shaped battle formation without the need for someone to command, Nelly was wearing silver full-body armor, riding a spear on the gun rack on the side of the unicorn's neck, calmly watching the undead surging in all directions like a tide. Behind her, the bodies of a thousand illusory knights had almost condensed into a physical body, and the brilliant golden fighting qi was connected together, illuminating the other world shrouded in eternal night. The knights, like their leaders, each mounted a spear on their horses, and hung a heavy sword at their waist that was convenient for slashing, and their eyes flashed in the illusion as calm to the point of indifference as the leader Nelly.
"For life and justice, for glory and victory. Nelly's knight spear pointed diagonally at the sky, and the knights behind him seemed to get a signal, neatly putting down their armor, so that every part of their body was hidden under the heavy armor, obviously they were illusory knights, but when they put down their armor, they made a neat sound, although the sound of everyone's armor was weak, but thousands of people sent it together, but with a rushing smell of iron and blood, which made people feel indescribable. Nelly patted the unicorn on the neck, and with a pull of the reins, the unicorn hissed and stood up, clinging to the unicorn's back and shouting, "My knights, charge with me." ”
Thus began the battle formation, the knights in a conical formation were activated at the same time, and the horses began to move forward with small steps. The illusory knights, including men and horses and heavy armor all over their bodies, were close to two thousand kilograms by sight, such a heavy behemoth running, even if it was just jogging, the iron hooves were enough to make the earth tremble when they landed neatly, even if there was sandy ground to effectively reduce the sound of hooves, but the roaring hooves still made the people around them feel a tingling pain in their eardrums.
With the knights in front of him, Dilly regained his size, and the rest of the people who could not fly were all crowded on Dilly's back, and Dilly followed behind the knights.
"Maya. Kyle stood on Dilly's back, just in time to see the situation ahead of the knights, and as the slow-running knights were about to encounter the tide of the undead, Kyle shouted orders to the winged men circling around Dilly's sides.
"Praise the light. The Wingman sisters, who had worked together for many years, didn't need to elaborate on Kyle's instructions at all, and in mid-air, Darkfeather's Taya hugged her sister's legs from below, flapping her wings to keep the two suspended in the air. And the light feather's Yaya wings spread, and once again emitted a dazzling light: "The light shows us the way, so that we will no longer be afraid and cowered by the darkness." ”
At Maya's prayer, a pillar of light centered on her and extending a distance of five hundred meters on each wing shot forward from her two wings, the speed of light exceeded the speed of all mortal worlds, and in the blink of an eye, it had already passed through the battle formation of the knights and touched the enemy in front of it first. For undead creatures, the power of light has a rather terrifying lethality, and the oncoming enemies melt silently under the light like ice and snow, whether it is a low-level or high-level undead, even if it is a legendary-level enemy, they have no power to resist, and can only choose the only way to turn into nothingness in the light.
Nelly, who led the charge, had not given any orders to prepare for battle before this, and when she accepted the order and chose to let the Knights start charging very close to the enemy, she was fully confident that Kyle, who gave the order behind her, could make their charge unhindered. Sure enough, Maya's huge Path of Light completely cleared the way for the knights to charge, and the knights could slowly increase their charging speed without interference, allowing the horses to run faster and faster.
The roaring hooves grew louder and faster, and the two-kilometer longitudinal coverage of the Path of Light was just enough distance for the knights to prepare for the charge. When the roaring hooves were completely practiced and the speed of the cone-shaped battle formation had reached its limit, the two-kilometer journey was just over, and the knights maintained their highest speed, plunging into the dense undead like a tide like nails.
The biggest feature of the cone-shaped battle formation is that it has the most powerful assault ability, as long as the main general at the front of the formation is strong enough, he can break into any solid defensive formation, and after breaking through, the knights on both wings will withstand the pressure from the flank, and the local position will be ruthlessly torn apart, and it will run through the center. Nelly did exactly that, rushing to the front, she lowered her body, clenched the riding spear in one hand, wrapped herself and her mount with a strong fighting spirit, and harnessed the holy beast unicorn into a silver thread, as if it was not hindered by anything, tearing apart the enemy's formation. No undead in her way could slow her down in the slightest, and as soon as it came into contact with her spear or fighting spirit, it would be shattered and turned into bone meal. Even a few powerful undead with half-body strength will fly out as far as a striking meteor after contact, and then be trapped in it by the dense wave of undead in the rear, making it difficult to attack again.
Behind her, the Thousand Knights effectively withstood the pressure on both sides, widening the gap that Nelly had broken, and these heavily armored knights held their spears in one hand and wielded their heavy swords in the other, constantly following Nelly's pace while inflicting great damage on the surrounding undead. The illusory square flag flutters behind each knight, and as long as the square flag is still standing, the knight will never fall, this is the glory of the knight.
The enemy's strength is also strong, with the advance of the cone-shaped battle array, the square flag is constantly broken, and the knights under the banner are too seriously injured and disappear into a puff of fine light, but at this time, the knights inside the battle array will always appear in the position of the dead in time, take over the task of the dead and continue to move forward. The white spirits of the undead kept rushing down like a waterfall, but the Knights followed the waterfall formed by the undead upstream, and soon advanced more than seven kilometers in the opposite direction among the undead.
However, even the strongest warriors will fall, and the increasing density of enemies will slow down the Knights' impact and fly fewer and fewer flags. Finally, the momentum of the Knights' forward rush stopped, and the last dozen flags disappeared together, and the summoned Phantom Knights returned to the unreal, leaving Nelly alone with a long riding spear on her side, motionless and alone in the face of the surging tide of the undead.
A half-moon-shaped vacuum slash emanated from behind, and on the blade of light formed by the fighting qi, the timely and clever gap just spared Nelly's body, reclosing in front of her and cutting into the bodies of the undead who were infinitely close to her. Vacuum Slash is a universal skill for melee professionals above the silver level, and it is just a simple use of Dou Qi to form a Dou Qi blade to cut forward. But this skill, which everyone knows, changes dramatically when Kyle uses it. The Dou Qi Blade, which is often only one or two meters wide, is directly expanded a hundred times in Kyle's hand, and the thin Dou Qi Blade with a width of two hundred meters has an unstoppable sharpness, completely emptying the enemies around Nelly who are about to be surrounded by the undead. Not only that, but the Dou Qi Blade continued to fly forward, and it advanced for nearly a hundred meters before it stopped castration, exploding between enemies, causing secondary damage.
Taking this opportunity, Dilly rushed to Nelly's side, and as soon as Kyle reached out, Nelly took Kyle's arm and jumped onto Dilly's back. The white unicorn hissed and nodded to Nelly, and her whole body became hazy and illusory, and finally disappeared in place.
At the same time, Lady Mina, who had been sitting on Dilly's back, suddenly flipped her cloak and floated in her seated position, bursting with a golden glow in midair. After the dazzling golden light dissipated, shadows enveloped the space above Dilly, and a golden dragon with a length of more than 100 meters flapped its huge wings, maintaining the same speed as Dilly and flying forward together. The golden dragon had a streamlined, well-proportioned body, full of explosive power, and its scales were dense and shiny, emitting a cold glow in the moonlight. After Mina regained her dragon form, she raised her slender neck and let out a dragon groan into the night sky, which was long and loud, with amazing penetrating power, and spread far away in all directions.
"He is worthy of being the guardian created by Lord Yara himself, and he is worthy of being the most powerful fighting dragon under the gods. Even though deep into the interior of the undead tide and the enemy can be seen in all directions, Kyle can still calmly offer his admiration to Lady Mina: "This perfect combination of power and beauty is enough to enchant everyone who sees it." ”
"But I had a sense of foreboding. But Dilly the manticore, said, "Very ominous." ”
The dragon glided along with everyone in the sky, and her huge size made her the focus of all the undead in the vicinity for a while. A large number of bone arrows and magic were released from the hands of the surrounding skeleton archers, skeleton mages, and necrophils, raining down on the dragon Mina. But Mina ignored these attacks as if she hadn't seen them, and as soon as the dense attacks reached Mina's side, they collided with the sturdy shield around her, which was easily defused and bounced off. The giant dragon raised its head to the sky, took a deep breath, and suddenly opened its mouth wide and spewed out to the position in front of everyone, and the dragon breath formed by the high-temperature flames fell from the sky, and the hundred-meter-wide flame dragon breath forcibly burned a path in front of everyone. Mina's spews out are not ordinary dragon breath, but special breath after high-intensity compression, and all the undead on the path, regardless of strength or weakness, have all turned into flying ashes, even the demigod undead can't escape this fate. This is the most terrifying thing about the dragon, under such a dragon's breath, although the demigods in the intelligent creatures can use their fighting energy to avoid being killed in seconds, but even so, they will be invaded by the residual power inside the shield, causing a lot of damage.
The spewed dragon's breath not only burned the bones, but even the yellow sand on the ground melted, causing the ground to condense into a smooth solid, and Dilly spread his limbs and ran at a higher speed on the smooth ground.
"Lao Tzu knew that he was going to be unlucky. Dilly complained miserably as he ran: "Burn me, burn me, you bastards are too vicious, you let Lao Tzu run barefoot on such a hot ground, bastards, you wait for Lao Tzu, there is always a Lao Tzu who wants to take revenge and come back, ah, ah, burn Lao Tzu, the soles of Lao Tzu's feet are going to blister." ”
Of course, there was no doubt that no one paid attention to his complaints, in fact, he only complained casually, in terms of the physique of a demigod, after being isolated by the Dou Qi shield, this temperature of melting the sand and re-condensing would not cause substantial damage.
At Kyle's signal, the Winged Twins rose into the air and flanked the dragon Mina, trying to keep her at bay from enemy attacks. Although most of the attacks from below can't have any impact on the demigods' shields, there are still a lot of undead leaders with demigod strength hidden in the dense group of undead, if they are allowed to continue to sneak attack, they will always bring a lot of damage to Mina, in terms of Mina's physique, these injuries are not enough to be fatal, but accumulating too much will seriously affect her combat effectiveness in the future, so Kyle gave the order as soon as Mina took off, and the winged twins immediately blocked most of the attacks in time.
No longer bothered by the enemy, Mina simply focused her mind on clearing the road. Whenever she spit out a long breath of dragon breath, she would flappe her wings and climb up, as close as possible to the no-fly space above, and after climbing to the apex, Mina, who had re-compressed the dragon breath in her body, began to dive down with the speed of Dilly's running, spitting out flames while skimming the ground, leaving a hot area hundreds of meters long on the ground, and there would never be a single undead in the area.
Dilly continued to grumble loudly as he maintained his running speed in an effort not to waste even a meter of pathway carved out by the dragon Mina. Whenever Mina re-climbs the height and compresses the dragon's breath, once Dilly gets too close to the enemy in front of him, someone on his back will send out a long-range attack to break through head-on, whether it is the carpet bombardment of thousands of hedron gun energy bullets, or the poignant rain of arrows like falling flowers in the sky, or even the vacuum slash half-moon slash of different sizes, in short, the support from the rear can clean up the front passage in time, so that Dilly's wild run will not be hindered in the slightest.
Some of the people who participated in this death-defying operation did not cooperate with each other for a long time, and some of them had not even met each other, but they had only heard each other's names, but these strong men who had first contact with each other actually cooperated quite tacitly under the deployment of Kyle, as if they had been cooperating with each other for many years. To achieve such an effect, in addition to Kyle's own excellent leadership, it is also inseparable from everyone's trust in him, everyone is willing to unconditionally complete his instructions, no matter how inexplicable this instruction is, because these people all believe in one thing, as long as the instructions can be carried out smoothly, the rest of the things will be coordinated by Kyle, and there is no need to worry. Everyone knows that the perfect Kyle never makes mistakes, the perfect Kyle never gets overwhelmed, and the perfect Kyle can deal with everything properly and meet one victory after another.
As it turned out, everyone didn't disappoint this time, and the perfect Kyle never let his teammates down. When Mina, the battle dragon, proposes to get Nelly to charge, a well-developed plan takes shape in Kyle's mind, and so far, every step of the plan has been accurate and efficient, without the slightest flaw. In this desert crowded with undead, in this theoretically dangerous land, a group of people advanced backwards in the face of the impact of the undead without any risk, and in just an hour, everyone stepped on the road paved with white bones and flames, and advanced more than twenty kilometers, the temple that could not even be seen in a vague shadow became closer and closer, and across the remaining ten kilometers, some races with better eyesight could already see the outline of the temple clearly.
"Lady Mina. Kyle gestured to Christo, who cooperated with him to cast an illusion, amplifying Kyle's voice countless times: "Lady Mina, please come down and rest for a while, don't consume too much physical strength and energy, you are the strongest among us, and you will need your help in the next battle." Don't worry, we'll leave the rest of the way to show us, and we can't just let us watch you perform alone. ”
Mina was indeed a little tired, and when she proposed that Catherine charge, she had not expected that the pressure of the battle would be so great. The demigod-level undead below continued to increase, and the threat they brought to her also increased, even with the protection of the winged sisters, the number of wounds on her body was still increasing rapidly, and many attacks had even broken through the defenses of her scales, tearing open her thick muscles, allowing blood to flow down the wounds. And while bearing the attack, Mina also has to continuously dive and spitting attacks, if it is an ordinary dragon breath spit, she may not feel tired for a day, but in order to achieve the desired effect, she has to compress the dragon breath with a high concentration every time, and the loss of physical strength and energy in this process is unimaginable to other intelligent beings.
Therefore, under the pressure of the combination of two reasons, Mina's breath offensive has been somewhat difficult to maintain, but with some opposition from Pannis, it is she who suggests the charge, so even if it is difficult, the pride of the dragon forces her to hold on until she reaches the confines of the temple, and her reluctance is not visible along the way. But just as she was thinking so, Kyle's voice came just in time. Mina didn't know if Kyle had seen her reluctance, but his words cleverly avoided the evaluation of Mina's current state, and euphemistically used the excuse of saving her strength to cope with the subsequent battle as an excuse to ask Mina to rest, and on the basis of not affecting Mina's self-esteem, he even proposed to give others a chance to perform, which Mina couldn't refuse at all.
"No wonder so many people, young and old, show respect for you, and even if you have a message, they are willing to come here and entrust their lives to you. But, Kyle, you're not a god after all, can you really be so perfect until the end?" These words swirled in Mina's mind for a while, but finally she didn't say it, she secretly smiled bitterly in her heart, and after spewing out the last dragon breath in front of her, she transformed into a human form according to Kyle's instructions, still sitting in a sitting position, and slowly fell back to Dilly's back.
"Good work, Lady Mina. Kyle did not forget to thank the dragon: "We are amazed by your strength, and with your help, the road has become much smoother than before, thank you." ”
Mina's golden pupils flickered with an unknown light, and she smiled with a complicated expression, shook her head and didn't speak.
"Are you ready?" Kyle didn't expect Mina to answer, and turned directly in the direction of the black-robed mage, "I need your help now, my old friend." ”
Fira was covered from head to toe in a black mage robe, with only her pointed chin and thin lips peeking out from under the hood. Hearing Kyle's question, the corners of Fira's mouth curled into a subtle arc, and her voice, which was originally extremely fanatical when talking about magic, became extremely calm at this time: "Punctuality is a mage's virtue. ”
"Okay, I'll just take you and mean it's ready. Kyle shrugged his shoulders and spoke to the odd-tempered mage, always ready to guess what they meant, "Well, we're looking forward to your performance." ”
So, the only aggressive mage in the group did it. Among the thirteen people in the line, there are not many people who can be regarded as a spell casting profession, such as Werewolf Finch, Goblin Christo, Elf Furard, and Winged Twins, and even Kyle himself, can be regarded as half a spellcaster, but there is only one mage in the real sense, Fira, and when Fira pulls up, it shows how terrible a super strong demigod mage is.
There were no fancy light effects, no lengthy mantras, no complicated gestures, and Fila just stretched out her withered hand and pointed forward, even if she had finished casting. The movement was simple, but the effect was terrifying, and in the direction of his finger, the solid earth let out a groan-like roar. In the next moment, without warning, the earth cracked. A long rift valley with a depth and width of 100 meters appeared on the desert, and the rift continued to stretch forward at a uniform speed in the direction of Dilly's run, and the cracked earth caused all the undead who had been on it to fall to the bottom. But this is not the end, less than three seconds after the earth cracked, it quickly closed again, and hundreds of millions of tons of yellow sand were piled up again, burying all the undead swallowed by the rift valley under the yellow sand. Fira's speed was very good, and when the rift closed for two or three seconds, Dilly stepped on the original cracked position, and the place that was once occupied by the undead was now empty, and only the yellow sand on the ground allowed Dilly to pass.
Dilly was running hard, Fira was maintaining the spell casting state with seeming ease, and with the cooperation of the two sides, just relying on Fira's own revised version of the earth splitting technique, the remaining ten kilometers became a smooth road. The undead on both sides chased in vain, occasionally attacking with ranged skills, but by now, these scattered attacks had no effect, and the thirteen demigods came to the bottom of the stone steps of the temple without any waves.
"Master Clark. Kyle whispered, "It's up to you." ”
Due to the existence of the temple, Fira could not continue to use the modified Earth Splitting Technique to hurry, and had to stop casting spells in front of the stone steps, and on the stone steps of tens of meters, there were still a large number of undead.
"In the name of steel and fire. Clarke, the dwarf, answered, leaped high from Dilly's back, and landed under the stone steps with a huge two-handed battle axe in each hand. As soon as he landed, Clark began to spin rapidly, and the heavy giant axe drove Clark to spin faster and faster, forming a whirlwind of axe blades, and the burst of fighting energy continued to extend from the axe blade, making the attack range larger and larger, and finally covering the width of the entire stone steps. This meat grinder-like attack is a high-level skill for heavy weapon users, Whirlwind Burst, and can only be used by high-level professionals with sufficient control over weapons and limbs.
From bottom to top, Clark kept spinning and advancing a distance of dozens of meters, and finally stopped in front of the gate of the temple, and when he stopped, only the stone steps were left with broken bones on the ground, and there were no more undead to stand on. At the bottom of the stone steps, Dilly let out a low roar, flapped his wings and jumped directly up the stone steps, and the temple was finally completely displayed in front of everyone.
Looking closely at the temple, the building is very large, covering an area of more than three square kilometers, and the temple looks like a rare vaulted building nowadays, with twenty-four round stone pillars arranged horizontally on one side of the main entrance. The stone pillars are carved with patterns of unknown meaning, and the patterns look exquisite, but if you stare at them for a long time, you will feel dizzy. At the gate of the temple, two huge doors opened inward, and it was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen, and by the moonlight shining in from the outside, you could barely see two lines of huge characters engraved on the door, although everyone knew that it was text, but no one knew it, only Phila and Mina saw the words and their faces changed.
Looking down, the endless undead were chasing after everyone, but by this moment, the undead had lost their last chance to stop them from entering the temple. The strange thing is that although the outside is crowded with undead, the temple is empty, and there is no enemy in sight, and the pursuers behind chase until the entrance of the temple, and suddenly stop strangely, even if they are face to face with everyone, they will not step into the door.
"Looks like we can take a break for a while. Kyle stroked his chest and bowed to everyone like a curtain call: "Thank you for your trust in me during the battle along the way, now that I have come here, I am a fluke, I hope I did not disappoint my friends." ”
"Who would be disappointed in you?" said Vral in a voice like a song, "who else can make it so easy for everyone to get here?"
"Sorry for the interruption. Fila said to Mina with an ugly face, "This guardian, may I ask, this is the unknown divine soul fragment you are talking about?"
"Do you understand?" Mina said with a wry smile, "I just saw this line and realized that this was the place where he slept." But don't worry, he has fallen, and it is very likely that he has indeed turned into a fragment of a divine soul, if not a fragment, at most it is just a wisp of a divine soul that has just awakened. ”
"What?" Kyle noticed that Fira's mood was a little dissatisfied, and took the initiative to interject, "Do you know these words?
"Yes. Mina said bitterly: "I should have thought when I saw these undead, this is the supreme god of the god of death, the god of death, sleep and despair, the temple of the dead in Danakus. (To be continued.) )