Chapter 34: The Long Journey of Battle
Two hours ago, huge flowers of light bloomed layer by layer.
The petals formed by the spiral light curtain are covered one by one, tightly wrapping the stone pillars that serve as stamens, and the layers are dense and impermeable. Vivien clapped her hands lightly, and the petals, like soldiers who had heard the order, began to bloom from the outermost layer, rotating neatly. The movement of each petal is so gentle and beautiful, beautiful like a misty dream. But unfortunately, when beautiful flowers bloom, they only bring death.
The petals formed by the light curtain are invisible, blooming without any obstacles, stone pillars, rock walls, rubble, skeletons, nothing can stop it from blooming, not even a moment's delay. Each petal, under Vivien's control, stretched its body to its fullest, covering the space of more than a hundred meters around the stone pillar, and no object within the range, whether it was a creature or an undead, could not escape the fate of being washed by the light curtain.
The sound of "snorting" is made like cold water dripping into hot oil. In this land full of death, the Flower of Light bloomed unbridled, and the light attribute energy representing life and hope collided with the death energy that represented the despair of darkness, resulting in a fierce confrontation, which made the entire area covered by the Flower of Light full of this sneering sound, which sounded extremely uncomfortable.
Even the death energy ingrained in the air and in the soil reacted so violently, let alone the death energy contained in the skeleton and bone knights. When the petals formed by the light element brushed over the skeleton's body, the skeleton's body seemed to have been subjected to a violent electric shock, trembling and twitching frantically, even if the death energy could no longer support the body and fell to the ground, it still couldn't stop twitching, and in an instant, the impact of the bone joints sounded together, forming a strange rhythm.
Soon, something amazing happened. Vivien's light-attribute magical energy, although the effect is close to the life energy brought by Lina's divine magic. But it's fundamentally different. In the end, the light attribute magic energy is a kind of elemental magic energy, which is inherently very destructive, and the bodies of the skeletons washed by the light energy are not purified, but completely destroyed. The bones of those trembling skeletons on the ground originally contained a large amount of death energy. When the light energy invaded and the energy collided, the fragile bones could not withstand such a huge burst of energy, and soon large swaths of bone powder turned into clumps of bone powder, whether it was a skeleton or a bone knight, whether it was a low-level or a high-level. The ultimate fate is to turn into a ball of powder, and perhaps the only difference is whether it lasts for a minute or two. After the bones were shattered, the soul fire that had lost its support slowly rose into the air, like a firefly in the sky on a summer night, flying and hovering in the sky, and finally burned out the energy and completely dissipated.
As the flower of light bloomed one petal, more and more corpses fell to the ground, and with it, more and more soul fires rose into the sky. Look at the spectacular scene in front of you. But no one wanted to speak, everyone understood that every spark in the sky represented the small part of the soul of a deceased person imprisoned in the corpse, and although the scenery in front of him looked beautiful, the meaning it represented was inexplicably sad.
"Whew. Vivien gasped a few times and shook her body. Catherine held her backhand and asked with concern, "What, is it too much consumption?"
"Ok, a bit bigger than expected. However, it is still within acceptable limits. Vivien said, "It's just that what I see in front of me makes me feel a little uneasy, and nothing else." ”
"You're giving them back their freedom. "They are poor mutilated souls imprisoned in their own corpses," Pannis reassured, "and unlike Anne, they did not remain in the world as they wished. So your actions are liberating them, not hurting them. ”
"Thank you. Vivien smiled reluctantly, looked up and poured down two bottles of potion: "Lina is almost awake, we should start pushing forward." ”
"There was an unexpected surprise. Pannis touched his chin, looked down at the ground under the stone pillar, and said, "Vivien, this light magic of yours." It seems to have created a short-term vacuum. ”
Below the stone pillar, in all areas where the light attribute magic has been baptized, there is now not a single undead in sight. The undead outside the area wanted to rush in and tear the creatures to pieces, but there was still a lot of light energy left on the ground, and whenever the skeletons on the periphery wanted to step into the area, the skeleton would retract its leg bones as fast as it could, not daring to step into the area for half a step.
"Hey, what's going on?" Lina had just woken up from the meditation potion and saw the empty scene below, and asked strangely, "Why is there such a large piece of space?"
"The role of magic. Without further ado, Pannis jumped down with Lina, putting his feet on the ground and kicking up dust.
"Phew, bah, bah. Catherine, who was carrying Vivien on her back, also jumped down with Marcia, and as soon as Vivian landed on the ground, she was covered with a raised bone puff, and she couldn't help but spit hard and complained: "I don't know thousands of years of bone powder, I'm sick to death, next time I should develop a spell with a softer effect, so as not to make such a mess." ”
The dust that had been stirred up in the sky finally returned to its original calm, but the five people and five wolves standing on the ground were basically unable to see their original appearance. Everyone's face was covered with dust, their red lips were surrounded by white powder, and their hair was covered with bone meal, just like a farmer who had just come out of a flour warehouse, and even the breath that came out of his mouth would carry a splash of white ash.
After a cycle, everyone seemed to have found the rhythm of the breakthrough, and the five people cooperated more and more tacitly, advancing two hundred meters and two hundred meters in this canyon of less than two kilometers. But when the third cycle begins, several people are in trouble, and the hordes of undead seem to be under control, and under the control of dozens of bone knights, they play a game of hide and seek with the five. Whenever the five of them started to attack, the undead spread out as much as they could, and when the attack was over, they regrouped, greatly affecting everyone's rush speed.
After being teased twice by the undead, Lina couldn't bear this interference, so she simply repeated the method at the entrance of the canyon, summoning a boulder at the end of the canyon that was large enough to block the entire canyon, cutting off the space for the undead to retreat. On this side, the five of them no longer paid attention to the undead's scattering and gathering tactics, but just kept moving forward, squeezing the territory of the undead as much as possible. As several people continued to advance, the range of movement of the undead became smaller and smaller, and a large number of skeletons and bone knights were huddled together, completely unable to move in any direction, even with the control of the intelligent undead, there was no solution to the situation in front of them.
At this time, the tactics have changed, and the control of the intelligent undead has no other adverse effects except for making a few people feel very annoying, but it makes their advancement easier, and it can be very simple to gather the undead together in large numbers, and then ...... Nature is purification time.
Of course, it's easier said than done. Although Lina's magic and Vivien's light attribute magic are both large-range skills, theoretically as long as they are released, they will cover all directions in the range, and it doesn't matter much about how many enemies there are in the range. But in fact, if there are too many enemies in the unit, it will still have a big impact on the effect of the skill. Therefore, at this time, the skills of the two can no longer destroy all the undead within the range as before, but there are always some stronger undead who can hold on, which forces the two to release more magic and magic to attack the enemy.
Fortunately, the skills of the two of them, one mainly relies on the blessing of the gods, and the other mainly relies on light energy elixirs, and they will not consume much of their own strength, so they can barely persevere. But even so, after all, there were seventy or eighty thousand moving corpses gathered in the canyon, and the number was too many, and Lina and Vivian put their skills until they wanted to vomit, and then they were completely numb, and they were completely mechanical and stiff to use their skills.
Catherine and Marcia are even worse, as they need to stand in the way of Lina and Vivien, not only protecting the two spellcaster classes from harm, but also constantly squeezing the undead's position forward so that the undead can't take advantage of their numbers. Under these two tasks, the two of them have lost count of how many times they have raised their swords and shields to block, only to feel that the muscles of their whole body have gone from fatigue to soreness, from soreness to severe pain, from severe pain to numbness, and finally have developed to the point that they no longer feel anything like a limb that is not their own.
Finally, when the last white bones fell, the four ladies completely ignored the image, and even ignored the mountains of white bones and sparse bone meal on the ground, and completely collapsed on it, motionless as if they were dead. Everyone had the feeling that they could no longer face corpses and bones, and Marcia even made a declaration not to eat meat with bones for ten days.
After lying in the pile of bones for a full ten minutes, the ladies got up before Lina's terrain-altering magic effect was over, dragging their tired bodies together. Despite Vivien's potions and Lina's healing magic, they were unable to completely heal the injuries inflicted on several people, both physically and mentally. However, the girls know that the most difficult time has passed, the Holy Spirit Corridor has reached the end, and as long as they walk out of the place of worship and pass through the soul tunnel, they can reach their destination and solve the mystery of the reason for the expansion of the undead.
However, this illusion of the ladies was completely shattered after the disappearance of the boulder summoned by Lina.
Behind the boulder is the place of worship. Now there is a throne made of white bones in the center of the worship place, and a skeleton with thick bones stands on the throne, and around it, there are more than twenty skeleton knights of the golden rank. (To be continued.) )