Chapter 35: The Gargoyle
"Bang, bang, bang......" Seven or eight rectangular stone platforms the size of square tables fell from the smooth limestone cliff wall and landed on the platform in front of the Flower Gate on the other side.
"Poof, poof, poof......" It was as if the sound of some animal stirring its wings drowned out the popping of bubbles in the surrounding river of magma, and also the sound of fire elemental creatures frolicking in the river.
Everyone on the platform widened their eyes and looked up at the eight monsters flying on the lintel of the Flower Gate on the other side with a look of incredulity.
I saw that the eight monsters flying in mid-air had dark gray skin, and the skin was covered with a layer of gray fluff the length of the little finger; their bodies were similar to those of humans, except that the lines of their muscles were more pronounced and their muscles were more developed; their hands and feet were completely different from those of humans, they were all the kind of sharp claws with nails like sharp blades; their heads were very similar to those of sheep's heads, with a pair of black horns on their heads, their eyes were green, their mouths were large, and they were grinning to the base of their ears, and their mouths were full of sharp teeth, and there were still food residues on their teeth; behind them were a pair of huge wings, which were the kind of fleshy wings like bats, very thin, you can see the traces of black blood vessels on it.
"Oh, I remember," seeing the eight monsters flying in mid-air, Wang Xu remembered the eight stone statues he saw on the high cliff, and at the same time, he also understood that he had indeed seen them somewhere, and only after a moment, Wang Xu recalled that he had seen them in the literature of the ancient elves, and also remembered their names, so he shouted to the others around him: "Be careful, that's gargoyles, don't scatter!"
Since it was the first time for the knights to see the gargoyles, a specialty of the Eastern Continent, they were instantly frightened by their terrifying appearance, and they all forgot the formation they had practiced repeatedly, and they scrambled to retreat towards the edge of the stone platform, thinking that they should stay away from the gargoyles and not be eaten by them.
There was a commotion all around, and the exclamations of the knights, the screeching of the clashing of equipment, the yelling of Downs and Thornton at the knights, and the howls of Sangu were all intertwined and lively.
The eight gargoyles hovering on the lintel seemed to enjoy watching the chaotic scene below, they didn't attack, they just watched silently there, perhaps, they were waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the knights to be at their most chaotic moment, that moment, was the best moment for them to attack.
"Come back, don't mess up the formation!" Warren grinned at the chaotic scene around him, feeling that if he continued like this, he would inevitably be broken by gargoyles, and now he had to stabilize the army's heart, so he raised his staff, and the red fire crystal on the top of the staff emitted a dazzling red light.
Some knights saw Warren's call and rushed towards him, some didn't see it and struggled to retreat, and some saw it and didn't see it, and continued to do their own thing.
Unlike the chaotic crowd around him, Wang Xu always stood silently in place, looking up at the eight gargoyles hovering in mid-air, watching them flutter their wings, constantly recalling the records of gargoyles he had seen, and at the same time, constantly observing their weaknesses.
"Squeak, squeak......" Six sharp cries came from the bloodshed jaws of the gargoyles, and a muffled sound of "buzz ......" rippled in Wang Xu's mind, and Wang Xu almost fainted.
Wang Xu, who had regained his senses, turned pale in an instant, his eyebrows were wrinkled, his teeth were clenched, he was shocked in his heart, and he said, "It's not good, these gargoyles can actually use sound wave attacks, this kind of sonic attack similar to spiritual magic, even I almost fell on the road, and other people whose mental power is not as good as mine, I guess I can't bear it."
Sure enough, Wang Xu quickly glanced around, and saw that the people who were still retreating were lying on the ground in an instant, some of them had already fainted with foaming at the mouth, and some were rolling on the ground in pain with their heads covered, and even a few knights rolled down the river of magma, turning into a delicious meal for the fire elemental creatures in the river.
Standing at the scene, only Wang Xu, Warren and Sangu were left, Wang Xu's state was okay, at least he was not seriously injured by the sonic attack, and Sangu was miserable, he grinned, bared his fangs, panted, stared at his huge eyes, his eyes were full of bloodshots, the corners of his mouth were still drooling, and his hands holding the sharp axe were also trembling fiercely.
Warren's four people are not much better, Warren himself trembled and held the staff, his face was pale, his breath was short, his eyes were full of bloodshots, and he seemed to have no combat power at all; although Livka was also standing, but her condition was worse than Warren's, her eyes were round, her feet were no longer stable, and she kept shaking her whole body and pacing; Thornton also used her staff to support her body, so she barely stood there; Downs also used the giant sword as a crutch to stand.
At this time, a surprising scene appeared.
I saw that there was a knight, he actually stood there straight, his body did not shake at all, not only did he not retreat, but twisted and twisted towards the gate of flowers on the other side where the gargoyle was.
Looking at his brave act of sending him to death, Wang Xuxin said, no, what kind of person is he, isn't he a nervous disorder, one person wants to single out eight gargoyles, is he taking the wrong medicine.
"Oh. After looking at it for a few seconds, Wang Xu nodded clearly, and he saw that the knight who walked towards the gargoyle group was the knight who had been wiped out of consciousness by the demonic runes on the Cursed Bridge and became an idiot.
Sure enough, the Idiot Knight's actions angered the gargoyles in mid-air, and they had already decided to kill, starting with the Idiot Knight.
I saw that the two gargoyles rushed towards the idiot knight, and the other six rushed towards Wang Xu, and they had already seen that as long as they killed these standing people, the remaining ones who were lying down would basically be killed casually.
Originally, they planned to wait a little longer, wait for half an hour, and at that time, they would be able to recover their magic and send out a second round of sonic attacks, but when they found that after the first round of sonic attacks, there were few people below who could move, and those humans below were so weak that they exploded, so they decided not to wait and went straight to it.
Looking at the six gargoyles that were about to rush towards him, Wang Xu silently set up his flying sword, and then, rushing towards them quickly, when he was halfway through, he released a spatial crack net, and then, suddenly, turned around, and flew back to the platform.
The six gargoyles that rushed down quickly were not as flexible as Wang Xu, their downward inertia was very large, and the one that rushed to the front directly rushed into the space crack net, and with a scream of "chirp", it was cut into pieces of meat by the space crack net, and the blood rain was sprinkled all over the sky.
The remaining five gargoyles, although they were not directly cut to death by the space rift net, but they were even more miserable, two of them rushed more violently, were disemboweled, and fell directly from mid-air, fell on the platform, and looked like they were not alive, and the remaining three gargoyles, although they turned sharply, but it was still too late, and they were cut off their wings by the space rift net, and they also fell from the sky and fell into the river of magma, becoming a meal for fire elemental creatures.
"Bang, bang, bang......" In the rain of blood and the sound of corpses falling to the ground, the six gargoyles who originally rushed towards Wang Xu were already dead.
Warren and Sangu were stunned, originally, in this situation of one-sided strength and weakness, they all thought that they could not escape death, they didn't expect that Wang Xu completely changed the situation with just one move, and the strength and weakness were instantly displaced.
The most surprising thing is the well-informed and longest-living Warren, he has seen some space magicians, and he has also seen how they fight, most of the space magicians are fighting by releasing space blades or space black holes, he has never seen a space magician like Wang Xu, who takes advantage of the enemy's weakness, arranges traps, and then makes the enemy commit suicide, he is almost unable to express his love and admiration for Wang Xu in words, and he almost wants to kiss him fiercely.
Wang Xu didn't have time to pay attention to the feelings of others, he just flew back to the platform, and immediately turned his head to look at the two gargoyles that flew towards the idiot knight, only to see that the two gargoyles, one grabbed the shoulders of the idiot knight with a double grab, carried him and flew up, the other grabbed the legs of the idiot knight, and both of them pulled hard at the same time, in the painful howl of the idiot knight, he was torn into two pieces by the two gargoyles, and then, the two gargoyles threw the body of the idiot knight who was not yet dead into the river of magma and fed it to the fire elemental creatures。
The two gargoyles who were excited to finish their own business found that their companions had all been killed, although they didn't see who killed them, but only Wang Xu stood in the middle of the corpses all over the ground, and without hesitation, they thought that their companions were killed by Wang Xu, so the two of them turned their heads and ran away.
Wang Xu was also dumbfounded, the reason why he stood in the middle of the gargoyle corpse was to wait for the two gargoyles to rush down to take revenge after they were angry, and then cut them to death.
Picking up the steel giant sword left by the idiot knight who had long been burned to ashes from the ground, and setting up the flying sword, Wang Xu rushed towards the two gargoyles flying towards the flower gate on the other side, and the flying sword flew at a speed that was obviously far faster than the gargoyle's flight speed.
The two gargoyles saw Wang Xu chasing after them, glanced at each other, and then, suddenly, turned around, and flew in both directions.
Wang Xu looked at their movements and sneered, he didn't plan to chase them, he just wanted to get closer to them so that he could make the next move.
At this moment, it was close enough to the two gargoyles, Wang Xu suddenly sacrificed four peachwood swords, and after the four peachwood swords left his hand, two of them flew towards a gargoyle, and the other two flew towards another gargoyle.
In an instant, the four peachwood swords quickly pierced into the eyes of the two gargoyles, and the two gargoyles who were suddenly blind screamed, although they continued to flap their wings twice in the air, but then, they each hit the cliff, and then, they fell from mid-air and fell on the volcanic rock platform, raising a thick layer of volcanic dust.
Wang Xu's process of slaughtering these two gargoyles, Warren and Sangu all saw it, and they were all frightened, they knew very well that Wang Xu's personal strength was not too high, at most it was equivalent to themselves, but they never thought that Wang Xu, who had absolute strength comparable to himself, could exert such a terrifying actual combat power, slaughtering gargoyles was as easy as killing chickens and cows, is he still human?
Flying back to the platform with the flying sword, Wang Xu put away the flying sword, walked to the two gargoyles who were blind and still struggling on the ground, and first took out two silver metal vats engraved with magic runes from his backpack system, and then, a sword pierced the heart of a gargoyle, and the blood spurted out like a fountain, and then, Wang Xu began to collect the blood of the gargoyle with a vat.
"What are you doing?" Sangu finally recovered from the gargoyle's sonic attack, he strode to Wang Xu's side, watching Wang Xu use a spatial container to collect the gargoyle's blood, so he asked inexplicably, "What do you want their blood for?"
"Well," Wang Xu turned his head to look at Sang Gu, pursed his lips in surprise, and replied in a low voice: "I told you a day ago, the demon is full of treasures, even if the bones and corpses are counted, this blood is the best thing, do you think I can let it go?"
"Huh," Sang Gu gasped, squinted at the evil smile on the corner of Wang Xu's mouth, and wanted to lower his voice, but he didn't suppress his roar: "Isn't this a little too cruel?"
"Well," Wang Xu turned his head to look into Sangu's eyes, and roared angrily, "When they killed our people, did they think about cruelty or not, how did the knight who was bewitched by the Bridge of the Damned be killed by them, was he torn in half, could I just put some of their blood and be cruel?"
"Well," Sang Gu raised his eyes and thought about it, then looked down at Wang Xu, nodded and shouted, "That's right." ”
"Don't get in the way with me," Wang Xu pursed his lips in annoyance, and commanded in a low voice: "You go over and help Warren and them, go and wake up those fainting knights, I don't have anything to do with you here, hurry up." ”
Sang Gu wanted to ask Wang Xu what he wanted the blood of those gargoyles for, but after thinking about it, he felt that even if Wang Xu answered, he might not be able to understand, so he didn't ask again, but replied to Wang Xu: "Okay, I'll go over and help." ”
With that, Sangu ran to the Warren and the four to help them wake up the fainting knights, while Wang Xu continued to collect the blood of the gargoyles.
After draining all the blood of one gargoyle, Wang Xu released another, and only after collecting the blood of the four living gargoyles did he stab them to death and put their corpses into his backpack system.
Just when Wang Xu had just finished collecting all the gargoyle corpses, and the four Warrens had woken up all the living knights, there was a muffled sound of "click...... and the strange golden gate, the gate of flowers on the other side, slowly opened in a piercing sound......