Chapter 116: Nightmare (I)
High in the sky, there was the breath of the wind, which came from the distant blue sky world, and the wind that dispelled this annoying heat, the wind from the angels.
"It was really nice weather. Mira, who had been in the carriage, took the canvas and stared at Ulysses and Racha, who were seated together, and began to continue to paint the happy figures of the two.
The morning sun shines across the southern wilderness, and the growing crops and the weeds that are also thriving shake together in the light, exuding a fresh smell of grass and trees.
The sound of the caravan's hooves echoed through the middle of the road, and after about a week's journey, the caravan passed through the village of Mira and finally reached its final destination, Zelda, a trading city on the edge of the southern tribal region.
The name of the city is said to honor an adventurer who excelled at holding a sword in his left hand and a shield in his right. This legendary adventurer, who always wears a green hat, is said to have the blood of the fairy clan, and has many professions such as a part-time swordsman, knight, archer, wanderer, and the ability to transform into a moonlit night.
This great adventurer left many legends and relics in this area, and his footprints are recorded in the records of various tribes. What's even stranger is that the time he was active also took the form of irregular jumps, from thousands of years of ancient legends to adventure stories hundreds of years ago.
Recently, there has been news that on a small island not long ago, someone has once again seen the figure of this legendary adventurer who looks like he is forever young.
Along the way, Ulysses heard a lot about the city and the adventurer's legends, but strangely enough, he later remembered that the city did not exist at all.
No, not really, Ulysses remembered that he had vaguely heard the name once or twice in the tavern, but he had never really been to the city once.
However, what does not belong to Sister Mira's memory will not appear in this dream, since Sister Mila traveled with him and Raxia and came to this city, that is, did he really come to this city?
Ulysses stood in front of the city, the city where the adventurers were said to have been, and after countless generations, it had become a commercial city where many tribes in the south and many countries in the north traded.
Here, you can see a wide variety of tribal goods, as well as the latest goods from the north and west. Compared to the village of Mira, it is hundreds of times larger, and it is a veritable big city.
It does not belong to any country and is not controlled by any single power.
Now, the city is governed by three major forces, namely the Tribal Union, the Southern Church of the Supreme God Church, and the Southern Chamber of Commerce. These three forces are responsible for different aspects of the city, forming a stable co-governance situation.
With a permanent population of about hundreds of thousands, it is not as large as the millions of people in the capitals of the three major countries, but it is already the largest city in the south.
Even though it was the height of summer, the number of teams that could be seen in this field was more than ten times that of the entire village of Mira. In front of them, there were at least ten or so teams of various sizes heading towards the city in the distance, the largest of which was probably more than five hundred people.
In these caravans, you can see races and professions from all over the continent, from heavily armed knights to black-robed magicians, and even rare and unpopular professions.
Of course, the most striking of them is the profession unique to the southern tribal areas, and it is also the most special clergy of the Southern Church of the Supreme God Church - the battle witch.
Next to the shrine maiden, there is always a jungle warrior riding an agile four-legged beast, wearing tight leather armor with beautiful carvings, and carrying a long javelin and bow and arrow on her back.
The shrine maidens themselves were mostly dressed in cross robes, but a hole was deliberately cut in this robe, which was supposed to be sacred, revealing the deep cleavage and the ancient mark tattooed on the chest.
Flames, immortal birds, white tigers, and the tattoos of the battle shrine maidens are different depending on the tribe, but without exception, they all exude an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.
They are a profession peculiar to the Southern Church, a profession created by the fusion of the tribal region's own beliefs and the Cult of the Supreme God. They were also responsible for battles, sacrifices, prayers, and many other matters related to religion.
Although there are many traditional divine arts that they cannot use, unlike most priests who specialize in auxiliary and healing divine arts, they possess a variety of powers that have been passed down from ancient times due to the unique history of the southern tribal regions.
With countless years of evolution and artificial selection, those powers have been rooted in their bodies, and they have been perfectly integrated with divine arts, forming a unique priesthood of "shrine maidens".
Among them, the pair of twin witches who ranked first in the legends of the Southern Church were the most powerful and ranked first in the legends of the Southern Church, and were considered to be the strongest pair in human history, as if they were chosen by fate to be one-on-one.
The "Twins of Destiny" refers to the two of them, and legend has it that the power of the two of them is invincible, and it is precisely because of their existence that the Supreme Cult has to finally recognize the autonomy of the Southern Church.
Suddenly, Ulysses shook as he saw a familiar face among the witches.
Beautiful black hair, slender legs, and a majestic momentum that cannot be suppressed no matter how much you suppress it, is as dazzling as rutile in a volcano, even if it is a distance of hundreds of meters, Ulysses can confirm her identity.
It was one of the witches, and it was the witch who had a special relationship with Ulysses, and the lodger of the immortal Finnicos, Phil.
She was dressed in an alien tribal attire at the moment, with a cross amulet on her chest, and a pair of white rings on her slender wrists, a pair of rings that exuded a dangerous aura.
Like Angela, Rasha, and Yuria, she is not what she looks like in the real world now, but the posture of a girl.
Why is Phil here? Ulysses found that he probably had more blank parts in his memory than he had imagined.
Something that is not in Sister Mira's memory will not appear here, that is, did Sister Mira see Fei'er when she was a child? in this city called Zelda.
What was the news he had heard about the city? Ulysses had only a vague impression, after all, it was just a chat that he overheard when Cancala went for a drink.
"It's a pity...... Zelda...... Such a nice place to ...... now"
"yes, no way, no one knows about this kind of thing......"
What's going to happen here? What's going to happen? Ulysses has tried very hard to remember, but unfortunately he still gets only vague information.
............ Over the next few days, Ulysses didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, and he went to the flower show with Julia, Rasha, Mira, and Angela, and finally figured out why Yulia liked the blue forget-me-not so much.
It also made him really understand that he had indeed been to the city, and that he was with the Laxia women. But why the memories of this place were almost completely blank, he couldn't find any answer.
Originally, he thought that everything would go on so naturally, and that the trip would end in such a relaxed way, leaving good memories.
Unfortunately, he was wrong, completely wrong.
What awaited him, what awaited the city, was a sudden catastrophe.
It was really only a matter of moments, and as Ulysses walked down the hallway, ready to go and see his exhausted sister, who had played too much during the day, the whole city shook violently.
It was a very violent shaking, as if a large, invisible hand had slammed into the city, trying to pull something out.
Then Ulysses heard a chirp, a chirp that broke free and trembled even the sky and the earth.
And then there were earthquakes, successive earthquakes.
Looking through the windows of the hotel, you can see that the whole city is already in a panic. The fear of the coming catastrophe covered the city, and even the church and the tribal union could no longer control the situation.
The whole earth was crumbling with the violent shaking of the whole city, and many unfortunate people fell into the great cracks and let out miserable screams.
In the violent tremors, countless buildings were collapsed, and many of them even ignited fires, and the crimson flames rushed to a height of ten meters.
In the center of the city, a statue of a legendary adventurer armed with a sword and shield fell, reduced to countless pieces. From beneath the earth, an unusually ominous aura began to leak out.
When the entire city was half destroyed, the ominous body was finally revealed.
It was a ruin, a huge ruin that took up half of the city just by exposing the ground. Under the dark starry sky, this ancient relic exudes the vicissitudes of life, which is the traces left by thousands of years of time, the crystallization of intelligent life.
The part of the ruins that protrudes from the ground is a huge triangular section, with three different towers spread over three different corners, and when they appear and come into contact with the moonlight in the sky, some powerful force awakens.
From the position of the three corners, three cyan rays of light extended in different directions, initially three straight lines, but after destroying all the buildings in the path, these three straight lines began to twist and rotate, and finally formed a huge vortex centered on the triangular area.
This vortex is constantly spinning, with three towers at three points in the triangle as the core, unleashing a terrifying vortex magic like a typhoon, engulfing everything around it. Eventually, it became a tornado, a cyan tornado that connected the heavens and the earth, like a giant dragon.
Everything around the cyan tornado was torn into countless pieces in an instant, whether it was steel, buildings, or monsters, all of them were wiped out in an instant.
This is the Dragon Vein Forbidden Technique—Eye of the Storm.
Ulysses was completely stunned, looking at the devastated landscape in front of him, he finally remembered what the end of the city was.
Destroyed by an earthquake, that's what the adventurers in the tavern were talking about about Zelda. But what Ulysses saw now told him that this was not the truth, and that the cause of the destruction of the city may have been mostly an earthquake, but the root cause was this ruin.
Ulysses didn't know how the ruins came to be, but he knew what he had to do, and that was to protect the people he needed to protect.
Without the slightest hesitation, he summoned the Abyss Judgment and jumped from the window of the inn to the hall.
"Brother!" Yulia looked at Ulysses who came as fast as she could, and rushed over directly.
"You're too late. Angela carried her undead dragon lance, Filu Bedilu, and guarded Mira's side.
"What a big dragon!" Rasha exclaimed, looking out the window.
"Dragon?" Ulysses looked in the direction of Raxia's gaze and saw an immensely large creature floating in the air.
It has a long cyan body with seven pairs of transparent cyan wings, and it looks a bit like a transparent snake on the outside, but it exudes a terrifying power that makes even the soul tremble.
Fear, tyranny, ruthlessness, that is the breath of destruction for the sake of destruction, as if it was born here to destroy everything, to destroy everything.
As if sensing Ulysses' gaze, it raised its head and let out a crisp chirp.
In an instant, all the matter around it was sliced into pieces, and the unbelievably powerful force of the storm sliced through everything around it like a cutter, and was blown into the sky.
Only this time it chirped, and a tenth of the city was destroyed by it. Seeing the power of this cyan creature, Ulysses finally understood how the city had been destroyed.
It is the Storm Dragon of the Elemental Dragon, a terrifying creature that will inevitably hatch in the second stage of the Dragon Vein Forbidden Law - Eye of the Storm, and is an elemental creature created by imitating the birth principle of the legendary creature - Feathered Serpent.
Physical attacks are all ineffective, wind magic is all immune, and energy attacks are halved, this is a killer among natural killers, a nightmare for all life.
Moreover, relying on the power of the leylines of the Eye of the Storm, the forbidden method of the dragon vein, this wind dragon is unkillable, and can be called a terrifying creature that is close to invincible.
"Boom!" As if the end of the world was coming, countless fragments flew into the sky as the cyan storm dragon took its route. Whether it is the strong walls, the beautifully decorated buildings, or the rigid lines, they are all shattered by the endless storm.
It doesn't fly very fast, but it gives people a sense of fear that is on the verge of being in danger, and that is the feeling of facing an irresistible natural disaster.
When it approached, even Ulysses felt a huge sense of oppression, which was the "enemy" he really encountered after coming to this world.
"Xiao You, let's retreat first. Mira looked at the storm dragon in the air, and there was worry on her pretty face that couldn't be hidden.
Sister Mira, is this your nightmare? Ulysses clenched the abyss in his hand, and what does not exist in Sister Mira's memory will not appear in this world.
That is to say, this cyan wind dragon really brought them such a great fear and threat at that time, although I don't know how they finally escaped, but now Ulysses does not allow such a thing to happen again.
If this is the culprit that terrifies Mira, then he will destroy it himself.
"Angela, Sister Mila and Rasha, they'll be left to you. After entrusting his important person to the owner of the red bridal dress, Ulysses spread his black wings and took the initiative to fly into the sky.
The cyan storm dragon flapped its seven pairs of wings, destroying everything around it with a slow but graceful cruelty. Like a newborn curious child, little by little, the crystallization of civilization that mankind is proud of, tearing and tearing apart like a toy.
Its mission is to destroy, to completely destroy, to smash everything around the ruins, leaving no breath of life behind. This is the instruction engraved in the imprint of its life, the purpose for which it was born in this world.
It is the messenger of despair, the embodiment of the forbidden law that punishes offenses against the resting place of the great Sky Dragon. Whoever it is, as long as it disturbs the sleeping of the Sky Dragon, it will automatically appear and destroy everything.
So, when Ulysses appeared in front of the storm dragon, he was greeted with a warm welcome. The black wings instinctively made the elemental Storm Dragon feel uncomfortable, so it didn't have the slightest politeness.
"Whew!" Facing Ulysses who flew over, the storm dragon roared directly.
"Boom!" a tornado appeared directly, tearing everything around Ulysses, whether it was buildings, weapons, or the ground, all of which were torn to shreds by this terrible cyan tornado.
In the face of such a powerful opponent, Ulysses did not retain his strength anymore, and directly sacrificed a trick that he had realized not long ago.
"Every day the sun rises from the ground, and even if you are surrounded by a relentless darkness, I will crush it for you with my mutilated body. Ulysses stretched out his right hand, and countless white points of light surrounded him and began to revolve around him.
"Every night will come, even if I am troubled by the impermanence of today, I still believe that the world will not change, only myself. Existence is our strongest weapon. Pointing his right hand at the storm dragon flying in the air, the storm of light and rain reappeared.
Countless white lights pierced the sky, effortlessly striking the massive body of the Storm Dragon. Each point of light contains a terrifying penetration that ignores all defensive areas, and when it hits, it also automatically triggers a light explosion that oscillates in space.
This is a starlight bombardment that even the eight-headed demon dragon Kasa can't bear, and each point of light will produce a blast of concussive space, infiltrating the power from the ancient starlight into the body of the storm dragon.
The huge body of the Storm Dragon, in front of these swarming points of light, was completely a huge target, and hundreds of large holes were punched out in an instant.
In each of the caverns, there are remnants of starlight fluctuations, preventing the Storm Dragon's regeneration and causing its elemental body to continue to collapse.
"Quack!" Just one fight, the storm dragon sensed the real deadly crisis, and quickly took out his strongest weapon.
It was a crystal, a crystal so pure that it had no other variegated colors, the crystal was in a perfect hexagonal shape, and in the center was the reflection of the world shrouded in a cyan tornado, and the shadow of the great storm dragon was engraved on this crystal.
Holding the crystal in its claws, the storm dragon quickly uttered a word that humans couldn't understand.
It is from the language of the dragon family, and if you have to translate it, this incomparably complex word represents the meaning of "eye of the wind"
This is the eye of the storm, the core of this forbidden art, the essence of the storm dragon.
When the Storm Dragon takes it out, it means that it really starts to go all out.
A huge magic array approaching thirty meters appeared in front of the storm dragon. Hundreds of complex lines crisscrossed the magic array, and after a flash of blue light, thousands of wind spears flew out of the magic array.
These spears of the wind fearlessly met the countless starlight summoned by Ulysses, and then exploded wildly in the air, forming cyan spirals one after another.
One, two, these Wind Spears are no match for Starlight. But in the end, tens of thousands of spears poured out of the huge eye of the storm, and each starlight was blocked countless times, resulting in the power inevitably greatly weakened when it finally hit the body of the storm dragon.
Ulysses couldn't help but be amazed that the power of the wind that this storm dragon could drive might not be as strong as the eight-headed demon dragon Casa, but in terms of total amount, this complete storm dragon was far more than the original incomplete eight-headed demon dragon Casa.
If all this came from Sister Mira's memories, how did he and them escape from this monster in the first place?
Is it Fei'er? The only person Ulysses could find in this city to compete with the storm dragon was this witch.
However, she was clearly in the cathedral...... Ulysses glanced from the air, and there were only a few places in the dark city where there was still light, the brightest of which was the one in the Southern Church of the Most High God, where it was obvious that the witch of the gods was there.
"Roar!" the Storm Dragon, recovering from Ulysses' terrible starlight bombardment, roared into the sky, and more, more violent winds began to gather towards it, filling the "eye of the storm" that it had unfurled.
Obviously, it was prepared to use this method to rely on its immortal body to carry the bombardment of Ulysses, and then crush Ulysses in one go.
Ulysses also relinquished control of Starlight and allowed them to attack at will, while slowly raising his sword.
This sword is not the one used against Angela, but the real sword of destruction.
With this sword, he didn't want to see the shadow of the elemental dragon that gave Sister Mira fear.
Sister Mira's nightmare is up to him to shatter.
A large number of golden runes flew around Ulysses, and endless darkness emerged from the abyssal judgment, enveloping Ulysses' entire body.
Black runes began to appear on Ulysses' cheeks, making the dark aura on his body more and more apparent. For the sake of this sword, Ulysses had begun to drive these dark inscriptions, which he was not yet proficient in.
The twisted darkness created a huge vortex around the Abyssal Judgment, and everything around it was pulled in by this vortex, not even the wind blade shot by the Storm Dragon could not escape the attraction of this vortex, and was swallowed up completely.
The Storm Dragon couldn't comprehend what this darkness meant, and it just kept roaring, gathering more of the storm's power, trying to accumulate enough to crush Ulysses completely.
It couldn't imagine how much the power that was now wrapped around the abyssal judgment had been compressed. If it weren't for Yuri Sister's suppression, he would have just smashed this force down and could wipe the entire city off the continental map in an instant.
Then, the Abyssal Judgment took away all the light, and centered on the black vortex that the Abyssal Judgment unfolded, all the darkness converged and formed a huge void.
In the hollow, Ulysses opened his golden eyes and looked coldly at the wind dragon on the other side, who was still trying to summon more storm power.
There was no mercy in those eyes, no hesitation, just a message that was "destruction".
And so, like the Golden Demon Lord Astaroth, who was born in the Sea of Chaos, Ulysses unleashed a sword that had nothing but destruction.
"Whew!" The storm dragon also attracted an even crazier tornado, this giant tornado connecting heaven and earth was enough to cover the entire city, making the average eighth-level powerhouse helpless, and those who were swept into it could only fall in the endless storm.
However, it encounters Ulysses, and the giant tornado encounters the Abyssal Judgment.
Deep black sword marks pierced the entire sky, engulfing the Storm Dragon and its eye of the storm. The Eye of the Storm Gem, which claimed to be able to resurrect the Storm Dragon countless times and would never disappear as long as the forbidden law was still there, was completely overwhelmed by darkness before it even had time to let out a mournful roar.
The Elemental Immortal Body, which the Storm Dragon was proud of, was so fragile in front of this sword mark that it was ridiculously ridiculous that the towers on the ground had not even had time to transmit the power to reorganize its body before they were shattered by the aftermath of the sword of Ulysses.
The Dark Scar, the power of the first form of the Demon King's sword technique, is so terrifying in the hands of the current Ulysses. As long as he is given enough time to prepare, the darkness that can be liberated by the abyssal judgment will be enough to devour everything in the world.
(To be continued)