Chapter 30: The Ancient Knight of Protection
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This steel-skinned corpse witch is really too difficult, relying on a gravity technique alone, it has increased its strength several times, if it weren't for Caroline, who also has a soul heart, using magic to assist her in combat, Feng Longde alone would have been beaten into a meatloaf by the steel-skinned corpse witch for a long time.
"The body of this steel-skinned corpse witch must have been a powerful warrior in his lifetime, brother, come and take a look. Caroline gestured to the headless body of the Steel-Skinned Witch.
In the previous few encounters with ordinary corpse witches, the corpse witches that Feng Longde saw basically had no clothes to cover their bodies, because even if they had the preservation effect of death breath, if the clothes were too inferior, they could not be kept intact;
"This steel-skinned corpse is likely to have been reincarnated from a warrior's corpse in the corpse pit mentioned in the diary, and its body was very strong during its lifetime, which means that the new soul of this body is much stronger than its kind in the beginning, and can devour soul energy faster. Caroline glanced at the head of the Steel-Skinned Witch rolling to the side, "Brother, please bring its head." ”
Feng Longde carefully kicked the body of the Steel-skinned Corpse Witch to the side, and shoveled up the Steel-skinned Corpse Witch's head with a paratrooper shovel, leaving only one head of the Steel-skinned Corpse Witch's mouth still opening and closing.
The Steel-Skinned Corpse Witch is a high-ranking undead creature with a soul heart, and such a vigorous soul is a rare source of energy for other souls. Absorbing the breath of death can strengthen the soul, but the cycle of devouring and digesting is very long; devouring the soul fire, there is a limit on the amount of devouring, and the soul energy obtained is only one-third at most, and the rest is the loss and leakage caused by devouring; but devouring a soul heart, the soul energy obtained is at least eighty or ninety.
If Feng Longde devoured a soul heart, he would be able to give birth to a new soul heart by himself. It's a pity that the foundation of Feng Longde's soul is too thin, and he will be full after devouring dozens of ordinary corpse witches' soul fire before, if he doesn't wait for the soul fire to stabilize and try to devour the soul heart regardless of it, then the object that may be devoured will become him.
On the contrary, Caroline was able to devour this soul heart: the soul strength was not inferior to that of the mourning soul of the immortal king during the Teutonic Empire, but now it has plummeted into a soul heart because it is too long and there is no death breath to replenish it. But Caroline's soul heart and the steel skin corpse witch's soul heart are not the same day, this soul heart is a delicacy that can be seen but not eaten for Feng Longde, and for Caroline, it can only be stuffed between her teeth at best.
Watching Caroline take the head of the steel-skinned corpse witch from the paratrooper shovel, and then smash the skull to crush the soul heart inside, Feng Longde's heart couldn't help but have a fluctuation of fear: for any undead creature, physical damage is not fatal, only this kind of soul damage is the most complete.
Feng Longde's current survival toughness is even inferior to that of an undead creature - only at the level of soul fire, his body is damaged to a certain extent, and his body cannot carry the soul, and the soul fire basically has no independent survivability, that is to say, if Feng Longde is hit by the enemy to the serious injury that his body can't even recover from his own regeneration ability, then there is no need for soul attacks, and the helpless soul fire will be extinguished by itself, so Feng Longde will be completely annihilated from the body to the soul.
Soul fires that weren't crushed were red, and soul hearts that weren't crushed were green, but if they were crushed into loose soul energy, they were all blue - the entire area of soul energy was consumed by Caroline, who only looked a little more spiritual.
Although the soul energy is blue, the life races that do not have soul perception can neither see nor feel this energy, and the breath of death is an existence phenomenon in which the soul energy in the space is too abundant, and in places where there is no direct sunlight and a large number of lives are dead, the abundant soul energy gathers together to produce the breath of death. The breath of death will be seen and felt by the living race, and the diary of the Kwantung Army Nakasa clearly describes it as a black mist, which will be cold from the heart to the body, and will transform the corpse into an undead creature in a short time.
Caroline opened her eyes, her azure eyes seemed to really emit a blue essence, and Feng Longde felt that Caroline's soul was strong from the soul connection.
In fact, Caroline can completely devour all the death breath here and can't reach the limit of digestion, but according to Hoshino Jiro's diary and the current observation of the two, these death breaths are not only a means of counterattack to defend against prohibition, but it is also likely that they are also using the protective effect of death breath on items to protect something.
Caroline released six magical orbs of light, surrounding herself and Feng Longde to illuminate her surroundings, and began to examine anything of value. For a dragon spirit elemental body like Caroline with a soul heart, the eye is only the most basic organ to perceive the surrounding environment, and soul scanning and sensing elemental fluctuations can clearly understand a certain range of the environment like radar, but Feng Longde is still a dragon spirit prototype of soul fire and can't explore freely in a place shrouded in darkness and death, so he needs lighting very much.
The entire research area is littered with corpses, with the exception of the corpses of necrophils who have been reincarnated by the breath of death, as well as the rare human corpses that have not been reincarnated. The corpses of researchers in white coats, Kwantung Army corpses in yellow uniforms, and SS corpses in black uniforms were scattered on the ground, and they were not reincarnated as corpses because their bodies were so badly damaged, their torsos were broken or their limbs were badly damaged, and it was difficult for such a broken body to carry a new soul fire.
To be on the safe side, all the corpses here were piled up by Feng Longde and Caroline. After confirming that nothing of value had been found from the remains, Caroline unleashed a fireball, and a raging magical fire began to ignite the pile of corpses.
The corpses were gradually scorched, and the firelight that bloomed not only dispelled the nearby aura of death, but also illuminated almost the entire research area - the corpses were stacked in a shape similar to a cuboid, and the area illuminated by the firelight directly enveloped a considerable area.
The overturned shelves, the scattered fragments of weapons and bullet casings on the ground, the scattered military caps and steel helmets, the yellowed documents covered with blurred text, the most obvious thing is the continuous black stains on the ground, many of which are radioactive patterns.
"Bloodstains, after all this time, have become like this. Caroline just glanced at one and pointed to a place, "Brother, I think you need to see this." ”
Feng Longde looked in the direction Caroline pointed, and then the whole person was petrified.
Under the illumination of the raging fire and the magic ball of light, a circular translucent and semi-pitch-black barrier appeared at the end of the area in front of Feng Longde, and from a distance, it looked like someone had cut off a part of a giant preserved egg and thrown it on the ground. Originally, according to the diary, the barrier should have been filled with a large amount of death aura, but now it was obvious that it had poured out a lot after the catastrophe nearly seventy years ago, allowing Feng Longde to see the truth inside.
Majestic and majestic, cascading and nesting, like legendary warriors from ancient mythological times, eighty-one heavily armored knights dressed in black plate armor, burqas, and cloaks lined up neatly in a nine-by-nine phalanx in a barrier. Their whole bodies were covered in heavy black plate armor, and their expressions were completely invisible, the angular armor gave people a visual murderous aura, and the two-handed greatsword in both hands was as tall as Feng Longde, making people have no doubt that this two-handed greatsword of astonishing length and estimated weight could completely ignore the defenses of any heavily armored enemy.
The shortest of these heavily armored knights were about the same size as Feng Longde, each holding the hilt of the two-handed greatsword with both hands, and the tip of the sword pointed to the ground, and the balance bead at the end of the hilt was facing the position between the eyes of the weapon owner. Although he couldn't see their faces, and he couldn't tell anything from their standings, Feng Longde was completely stunned: not only did he find this obviously unreasonable style of painting in Huaxia, but these knights brought a sense of immense impact, just like the wordless shock brought by the souls of countless legendary warriors pouring out of Valhalla in the twilight of the gods in Norse mythology.
While wielding two-handed broadswords, they also wore knights' swords and maces at their waists, and a fan-shaped shield depicting a black cross on a white background was inserted in the space on the left side of their bodies. For countless years, these knights have stood here like statues that have stood since ancient times. Their robes and cloaks showed signs of yellowing even under the protection of death, and their armor showed some signs of rusting, but the only place on their bodies that had not been eroded by the passage of time was the black cross inlaid with the black dragon shield, like a military flag with thousands of holes on a battlefield strewn with corpses.
While Von Longde was speechless in shock, Caroline silently walked over to the barrier, silently looked at the knights as lifeless as rocks for a moment, then leaned over slightly, and hammered the left side of her chest with her right fist.
"Wars are not endless, empires are eternal, souls are immortal, Teutonic are eternal, you have done your duty, warriors. ”
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Ten minutes later, Caroline understood the barrier in front of her.
"This is a defensive dark elemental enchantment at the city defense level, which uses the unique dark environment inside the mountain to obtain endless dark elemental charges, and releases most of the death aura in the enchantment to the surrounding area when it receives a high-intensity blow, thus causing a large-scale riot. As she spoke, Caroline pointed to a large pit in another research area, "There are a lot of corpses there, and they must have been embalmed before, so when the Kwantung Army tried to blow up the barrier with explosives, the rich death aura that leaked out was reborn into a considerable number of undead troops in a short period of time, sweeping through the entire Kwantung Army base." ”
"Are they still alive, then?" asked Feng Longde, looking at the lifeless knights.
"They are all deceased, and although they can't be known exactly with soul scanning under the shield of the barrier, they are clearly taking advantage of the slumber of the undead to stay here. The undead are able to sustain longer by minimizing the loss of their souls in their sleeping state, and their only flaw is that they are unaware of the movement of the outside world, so they use enchantments to solve this problem. ”
"How do you unlock the barrier?" asked Von Rond, who began to take an interest in the knights, who had probably been asleep since before the Teutonic Empire disappeared.
"I'll see," Caroline said, closing her eyes and touching the barrier with her soul, before concluding after a while: "This barrier cannot be opened violently from the outside, not even from the inside, and the only way to lift it is to touch the soul that requires a specific brand." ”
"Soul Touch?Specific Imprint??," Feng Longde asked suspiciously.
"Brother, if you need to quickly set a password for your phone in an emergency, how do you usually set it?" Caroline asked rhetorically.
"Me?" Feng Longde thought for a while, "If it were me, I would usually set up a combination of numbers that I could think of anytime and anywhere, after all, I don't need to remember this, I can think of it immediately at any time." ”
"That's right. Caroline nodded, "For anyone in the Teutonic Empire, especially the knights, the soul brand unique to the undead king is a 'combination of numbers' that they will never forget, and if you want to remove this barrier, you need to touch it with your soul, just like using a key to open a lock, except that soul fluctuations are the key, and the barrier is the lock." ”
"Huh?" Feng Longde was a little confused, "It stands to reason that during the Teutonic Empire, your status was only below that of the Immortal King, and the enchantments and other things shouldn't all be set up by magicians? ”
Caroline shook her head: "During the Teutonic Empire, I didn't show up much except for research and military activities, and at that time, the undead kings of all generations needed to come forward to manage all aspects of the affairs of the empire, so everyone is more familiar with the soul brand of the undead king and the ghost queen. ”
"Then what should I do?" Feng Longde shrugged helplessly.
"Concentrate your mind, perceive only with your soul, concentrate your soul energy at one point, and then touch the enchantment with your soul, let the enchantment analyze your soul imprint, and if it meets the criteria, the enchantment will be automatically lifted. Caroline explained, and then added: "If the soul fluctuation of the soul touch of a specific brand is not yours, the enchantment should automatically defend against you, brother, I will take action to save your soul, but the body may be completely destroyed." ”
Feng Longde: ""