"Huh?" Less than two minutes after leaving the battlefield, Pannis's footsteps suddenly stopped, and he frowned and looked behind him, but the dense woods obscured his vision, and he could see nothing but trees, vines, and shrubs.

"What's wrong?" asked Catherine warily, "Is there something behind it?" or is there something going on?"

"No, no, nothing appeared. Pannis said with some hesitation: "I just felt a flash of energy fluctuations, not for us, I just wonder why the energy fluctuations appeared, it can't be triggered out of thin air." ”

"It's not impossible. Freya held a disc-like hedron machine in her hand, looked down and said, "Since more than an hour ago, right under our feet, the leyline energy began to change slowly but continuously, phew, they know that we are here, and it seems that a welcome ceremony has been prepared for us." ”

"Damn, have they already started the ritual?" said Catherine, gritting her teeth, "we must go over at once, or it will be troublesome if the ritual is completed at a later time, whether or not the purpose of their ritual is to reopen the door of death, I don't think it is something we want to see." ”

"Maybe that's exactly what they're for. Pannis said thoughtfully: "They didn't start the ceremony until they confirmed that we had arrived, and at the same time re-extracted the leyline energy, I'm afraid the purpose is to tell us that we are going to make a big move, and if you want to stop us, we will come over immediately, maybe it's too late, this is not to give us time to hesitate and explore, maybe they have already laid a trap in front of us and are waiting for us." ”

"But even if we knew it was a trap, we had to jump in. Catherine smiled bitterly and said, "If it wasn't a trap, the price to pay would be too severe, and I wouldn't dare bet on the possibility of between." Do you dare?"

"Unfortunately, I don't dare, although I do want to turn around and walk away and see how they react. Pannis sighed, shook his head and said, "But this kind of major event related to hundreds of millions of lives really can't be tried casually, so like you said, knowing that it's a trap, we have to jump in." ”

"As long as we are cautious enough, there are even traps. It doesn't have to be a threat to us. Catherine was not so much encouraging everyone as she was encouraging herself: "Do what you want, don't worry about us, since you choose to come here, you don't plan to go back alive." Besides, grandfather and they were able to entangle three half-dead and seven or eight ghouls with the same number of team members at that time, and now that the half-dead have been eliminated by you, I believe that our strength is also stronger than grandfather's overall strength back then. Even if there are traps, there are not necessarily no opportunities. ”

"The problem is, you don't plan to go back alive, but I don't. And your grandfather didn't face countless demigod undead beasts back then, let alone an unknown number of necromancers. Pannis's voice was so low that the girls couldn't hear him, and they could only hear him finally raise his voice and say, "You have a sentence that you said before is very true. I'm afraid that the difficult road has just begun, and the rest of the road must not be easy to walk. ”

However, this time everyone seems to have guessed wrong. Since then, there has been no fighting, and the dense forest is as calm as the woods on the outskirts of the city, as if there is no danger at all, and it is hard to believe that this is the core of the most dangerous death forest in the world. Along the way, not only the distorted souls that could be seen everywhere before were completely gone, but even the transformed undead demonic beasts disappeared, no, to be exact, not a single living undead demonic beast was seen, and all the undead demonic beasts that appeared on the path of the team again had lost their ability to move and completely turned into corpses.

"What's going on?" Dilly the Manticore-tailed Lion sniffed at the corpse of an undead demonic beast, and said suspiciously: "There are no wounds, no internal or external injuries, it seems that he died violently for no reason." ”

"Isn't the transformation perfect?" Vivien squatted beside Dilly, her hands exploring the corpse of the undead beast, and said to herself, "I still remember the first time I encountered the undead beast on the snowy field, it also died on its own so inexplicably. ”

"Probably not, judging from the transformation of the undead that I encountered earlier, their technology is already very mature. Pannis shook his head and said, "With their current technology, even if there are failed works, it is impossible for eight Warcraft to fail together, such a coincidence is too exaggerated." ”

"That's right, the way these demonic beasts died, it seems that they first entered the undead without any reason, and then the death energy in their bodies was completely emptied. Vivien turned her head to look in the direction of the temple that Catherine had mentioned, and frowned, "Could it be that they are recovering death energy?"

"Theoretically, they have the Temple of Danakus as a backing, and they have an almost inexhaustible amount of death energy, and they don't need to recycle it. Pannis shook his head and said, "It doesn't make any sense for them to do this except to weaken their own strength. ”

"The leyline energy is fluctuating even more violently. Freya, who had been holding the disc machine, kept her eyes on the disc when she suddenly interrupted Pannis's words: "I'm worried that the death of these demonic beasts has something to do with the changes in the leyline energy, oh, no, maybe I'm just saying the opposite." ”

"Should it be said that the change in the leyline energy has anything to do with the death of these demonic beasts?" Catherine's eyes shrunk, and she said in a dry voice, "You mean to say that this is another kind of sacrifice?"

"Well, it's not impossible. Panismo rubbed his chin and thought about it: "Ordering these controlled demonic beasts to stay in the designated position, and then extracting the absolutely conflicting life energy and death energy from their bodies at a certain period of time, and sacrificing the two energies at the same time, this is indeed in line with the style of the evil god's sacrifice, although it is still impossible to judge what they want to achieve in the end, but if these large-scale sacrifices are part of their ritual, then there is a reasonable explanation." ”

"Indeed, the demonic beasts we encountered along the way were not raised outside by the servants of the gods. Catherine nodded and said: "Those are just arranged by the divine servants in the designated place, waiting for the start time of the sacrifice, as for our feeling that the strength of those demonic beasts is relatively weak, I am afraid it is also because they are just consumables, and the real elite undead demonic beasts have not been sent out to die." ”

"If that's the case, can we already destroy some of their rituals?" Vivien asked, "Those monsters were killed by us in advance, and the sacrifice didn't go according to their plan." ”

"Are you sure that it is not in their plan for us to kill those demonic beasts?" Pannis asked rhetorically: "I'm not so optimistic, they arranged those demonic beasts alive on our inevitable path, probably so that we can kill them, but it saves them a process, and can also consume our strength, I'm afraid that in their plan, those demonic beasts can cause casualties to us is the most ideal result." As for these here, it should be the half-dead who calculate the time, and it is estimated that we will not be able to kill them within the allowable time, so we will do it ourselves. ”

"And the energy fluctuation you just felt ......," Catherine guessed, "Is it the effect of the sacrifice?"

"I have never seen such a strange form of sacrifice, and I have not even heard of it. Pannis shook his head and said: "So I don't know what the energy fluctuations are like when this kind of sacrifice, I can only say that it is possible, after all, the energy fluctuations I felt just now are also very weird, and I have never seen them before." ”

"But there is no trace of the circle here. Vivien searched around: "There is no energy remnant similar to the magic circle. ”

However, for the highest level of sacrifice, sometimes the circle is only an auxiliary, and it is only set up to enhance the effect of the sacrifice, and the necessity of the circle to save zài varies according to the purpose of the sacrifice. Lina was very familiar with this, and explained: "Even in some cases, especially when multiple points are sacrificed at the same time, as is the case now, all the sacrifice points themselves form a super-large magic circle, remember those magic circles that Master Fila set up in Bute......, to plunder the time? It can't be like that. ”

"Could it be that the servants of the gods did this?" As she spoke, Lina couldn't go on, and said with wide eyes and surprise: "This method of sacrifice has only appeared in mythology, and if you want to implement it, it is more difficult than you can imagine, and they really practiced it?"

"Don't forget, those half-dead are also survivors from the age of mythology. Pannis smiled bitterly: "It's not impossible for them to reproduce the sacrificial methods that only existed in the mythical era." ”

"Well, maybe you're right, I shouldn't have been so surprised. Lina sighed and said helplessly: "You can't consider them as normal people. ”

"What if we destroy these corpses now?" Catherine asked tentatively, "can it affect their ritual?"

Since these sacrifices have died, the sacrifices have ended. Lina shook her head and said, "There is no point in destroying the scene now, unless we can find the sacrifices that are not dead yet, and then move them elsewhere without killing them." However, I think that I am afraid that it is too late to do so, since the servants of the gods have personally extracted their lives, it means that this step has reached the final point in time, and the possibility of finding a sacrifice without death is almost impossible to exist. ”

"Huh?" This time, not only Pannis, but everyone else whispered almost at the same time, and everyone's eyes were pointing in the same direction, which was the direction where the temple was located in the memory left by Catherine's grandfather. Right there, a powerful energy fluctuation appeared out of thin air, entrenched in place for a long time. (To be continued.) )

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