It was already a little dark, and the cold winter wind was blowing the earth, and a long howl of beasts could be heard not far away, which set off the whole wilderness very desolately.

Walking out of the woods, you can see the Northern Crow D3 gathering place built on the hillside two kilometers away, the outer wall of the gathering place has been torn down, and the inside is filled with gunsmoke, and it looks like it has been attacked by the monster for a long time.

Originally, their mission on this trip to the wilderness was to recover the burning blood from the crows' hands, but with the destruction of the crows and the invasion of demons, the nature of the trip to the wilderness has also changed.

The battle for interests over the satellite program turned into a patriotic war for Sidney, and the satellite city became an outpost against the demons, giving it a more sacred and solemn meaning.

It's ironic that the more peaceful it is, the more humans like to kill each other.

And when disaster strikes, humanity will unite and share the same hatred.

"Look, there!"

A panicked cry rang out from the crowd of mercenaries, and Roy looked back.

At some point, a gloomy black cloud hung over the crow gathering place, like a dense fog that could not be dissolved, and began to drift in the direction where they were.

But that's not where their focus is.

Under the black clouds, a bone dragon about twenty meters tall slowly stood up in the gathering place of the northern crows!

No one knew when the bone dragon was entrenched there, and Hitomi Eun's face was ugly, and she remembered the loud noise that caused the tunnel to collapse before.

Is it the culprit?

The bone dragon's skeleton was as black as iron armor, and it stood on two legs, and when it stood up, it immediately looked at where everyone was, and then strode towards them!

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

The hind feet of the bone dragon stepped on the earth, making a dull thud, and the tremor of the ground could be felt even from two kilometers away.

In the face of the rapidly approaching bone dragon, everyone's faces turned pale, they wanted to escape, but how could they compare to the speed of the bone dragon's wild run?

"This eyesight is too good!"

Roy let out a low scold, approached Cynthia, and asked, "Are you sure you can fix it?" ”

"There is no problem with a bone dragon......"

Cynthia's face was solemn, "But if you add the Demon Lord, I'm not sure." ”

"Demon Lord......" Roy stared at the skull dragon.

Getting closer, he saw a figure standing above the bone dragon's head.

He was dressed in pitch-black armor, his body wrapped in shadows the same color as the black mist in the sky, and the skeleton's eyes danced with dark blue flames.

Miles of distance had come in an instant, and the bone dragon raised its foot, its twenty-meter-tall body like a mountain peak in the eyes of everyone, and it was pressing down on them.

"Joyeuse!" Arya drew her sword.

Under Joyeuse's protection, Cynthia's strength climbed to the ninth order, and she opened her palms to create a semicircular light curtain barrier that enveloped everyone.

The bone dragon trampled on the surface of the light curtain barrier, failing to shake it for half a minute, and at this time, a figure fell from the sky.

The Demon Lord jumped down from the bone dragon, drew the matching sword at his waist, and plunged the tip of the sword into the barrier from top to bottom.

The light curtain barrier, which had not been shaken in the slightest moment, was centered on the point where it was hit by the tip of the sword, and it quickly turned black and shattered, turning into fragments and dissipating into the air.

The black cloud in the sky was also completely shrouded in the heads of everyone at this moment, and at this moment, everyone only felt that everything was silent, as if they were in an abyss that would never see the light of day.

There is no sound, no temperature, no light, this is the realm of demons.

Countless corpses burst out of the ground from under their feet, and they clung to their trouser legs, as if to drag them into the abyss and merge with the darkness.

The neighing and screams of horses spread through the crowd in an instant, and the next moment, a light lit up in the demon's realm.

Like a candle lit in the night, Cynthia's whole body was shrouded in light, and she raised her sword blade, and in the shadow of the black clouds, she re-established a corner of light for everyone.

Immediately after, a beam of light broke through the churning black cloud with the raised blade and soared straight into the sky.

Holy Knight's eighth-order skill "Holy Judgment", this is a move she has used before.

The beam of light quickly grew into a pillar of light, and Cynthia urged the pillar of light to slash towards the demon lord, looking at the huge pillar of light that was oncoming, the demon lord also raised his sword.

Its blade was filled with extreme darkness, and the darkness condensed and surged into a black greatsword several meters long, slashing towards the pillar of light.

On one side is a huge pillar of light that stretches through the sky, hundreds of meters long, and on the other side is a black greatsword that is only a few meters long, although the former is overwhelmingly advantageous in terms of visual effects, but this is not the case.

Just like the light curtain barrier that had just been dyed black, the moment the black greatsword collided with the huge pillar of light, the surface of the pure white pillar of light was instantly eroded by darkness, as if ink was spreading on the white paper.

The blackened parts of the pillar of light quickly disappeared, becoming a part of the darkness of the demonic realm, not only did not cause harm, but made the realm more powerful.

With just one breath, the huge pillar of light was completely engulfed by the Demon Realm.

The light on Cynthia's side was squeezed smaller by the darkness, and she took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

If you want to defeat a ninth-order demon lord, it is really not enough to rely on the eighth-order inheritance skill alone.

What she was going to perform next was a ninth-order inheritance skill that she had never used before, and that she could only learn by climbing to the end of the inheritance ladder, which was unique to each inheritance.

She once thought that she would never be able to use this skill, because she knew that her talent had come to an end, and the eighth order was her limit, and it seemed that it was only one step away from the ninth order, but in fact it was like a moat.

Even if it is the direct bloodline of the temple family, there are still countless Heavenly Pride Sons who are stuck in the eighth order and cannot break through until death, and the ninth-order inheritors are rare in any era of Sidney.

However, the sword of law held by Arya, Joyeuse, gave her the possibility to break through the limit, and under the protection of Joyeuse, she was now a true ninth-order inheritor.

The two dark blue flames in the Demon Lord's eye sockets burned silently, unable to detect any of its expressions from the skull beneath its helmet, and then it raised its sword again.

The great sword that housed the darkness struck again, and Cynthia opened her eyes, and the pupils of her eyes burned with fiery golden light.

Just as Fang Cai's dark greatsword eroded the pillar of light, the bright light emanating from Cynthia at this time was also devouring the darkness in the demonic realm, dyeing the background pure white little by little.

Cynthia bathed in the Divine Radiance and slashed back at the Demon Lord.

Compared to the "Holy Judgment", this sword is not very powerful, but the result is completely different.

The whole world seemed to be reduced to an oil painting, and Cynthia's sword became an all-powerful eraser, and everywhere the blade went, even the trajectory of the sword was dyed a monotonous white.

The black greatsword blocked the path of her swing, and then the part where the greatsword collided with her blade was also dyed white, unable to stop it in the slightest.

The flames in the Demon Lord's eyes jumped violently, and the Demon Realm quickly contracted, covering its armor with a black cloak.

Cynthia's white sword sliced through the black cloak and armor with difficulty, slashing diagonally from its left shoulder to its right rib, nearly cutting it in half.

At the same time, the core of the demon lord's body was completely exposed, a red gem the size of a fist like a human heart, hidden just below its chest.

But that's all, the endless darkness quickly filled the demon lord's chest, completely hiding the core, and the moment it retreated, the injury also recovered, and the black cloak appeared again on its body.

It took two steps back, staring indifferently at the female knight in front of it.

Cynthia didn't pursue, she also looked at the demon lord with her sword, her shoulders slightly heaving.

With the ninth-order skill "Baptism of Divine Will", she was indeed able to inflict heavy damage on the Demon Lord, and if the opponent was not a demon, this blow was enough to win.

But the opponent is a demon, as long as it doesn't destroy the core, no matter how many injuries it has, it can recover again and again.

It's not that she doesn't want to hit the core with a sword, but she can't.

The Demon Lord's core can be hidden in the darkness of its body and can be transferred at will, unless it can crush its whole body into slag in an instant, or grab the core the moment it breaks its defenses, it will always have a way to manipulate the core to avoid a fatal blow.

However, no one could possess the strength of a single soldier to crush a ninth-order demon lord, not even a ninth-order inheritor.

All of the records of killing demon lords in Sidney were all killed by multiple ninth-order inheritors.

As the only ninth-order person present, she could only compete with the Demon Lord, but she couldn't kill him.

Not only that, if she insists on consuming it, her physical strength and spiritual power will become less and less, and she will definitely not be the opponent of the Demon Lord in the end.

The scene was at a stalemate for a moment, and not far away, a group of demonic beasts rushed past them.

When the Demon Lord harnessed the Bone Dragon to launch a surprise attack on them, this wave of demonic beasts also climbed over the hillside and across the woods from the north side of the Northern Crow's gathering place, surging in their direction.

Perhaps they were afraid of Cynthia, or perhaps they followed the instructions of the Demon Lord, they did not choose to fight, but passed by everyone and galloped in the direction of the Sky Mountain Range.

The purpose is clear, their target is Sidnia, and all the human settlements along the way.

Roy saw everything in his eyes, he pressed his hand to his chest, felt the heartbeat from his body, and whispered in his heart, "God's heart! ”

"It's okay if you don't have to be so emotional." The voice of the Heart of God rang out, "What do you want to do?" ”

Roy replied briefly, "Kill the Demon Lord, the Bone Dragon, and all the demonic beasts in the vicinity." ”

"Sorry, it can't be done."

The answer of the heart of God was beyond his expectations, "To be precise, in the present situation, it cannot be done."

"I promised you that I would allow you to borrow my power for the time being. But because we haven't fused yet, this power is limited.

"It's okay to take you to appear in front of ordinary people, but if you want to kill the demon lord, it's definitely not enough, you not only have to merge with me, but you also have to pay a certain price."

Roy was silent for a moment: "You once said that you can come and go in and out of Sidenia freely, and have a considerable degree of autonomy, which means that even if you don't borrow the hands of outsiders, you can fully exert your strength. ”

"Your head spins very fast."

The Heart of God said leisurely, "You guessed right. But as I said, I only allow you to borrow my power temporarily, and it doesn't mean that I want to do anything for you.

"The former is that you are using power, and the latter is me using power, can you understand the meaning?"

"I didn't expect even you to play word games."

Roy sighed, "You are an old monster who has survived for at least a thousand years, I can't play with you, if you want to merge with me, just fuse." ”

"Thoughts change very quickly." God's heart chuckled.

"I was actually prepared, but I didn't expect this day to come so soon."

Roy sighed, "You're right, most people don't necessarily achieve what they want even if they risk their lives.

"Just like Hitomi Eun, if we don't arrive in time, even if she drinks the burning blood and risks her life, the Black Flag army will still be wiped out in the face of the siege of the Three-Headed Dogs of Hell.

"The fight is brutal, and everyone is giving it their all in order to stay alive. If I give up using my power because of a momentary hesitation, and miss the best opportunity to save everyone, I think I will regret it in the future. ”

"I have never been such a person, the heart of God. Since you've noticed me from the beginning, you should know that I've been giving it my all long before I had you.

"I'm not an indecisive person, and when I judge that the value of something is greater than the risk of it, I do it.

"Many people have died in this wave of demonic beasts, and many more will die when humans and demons go to war in the future, and now, the demon lord who controls demonic beasts is standing in front of us, this may be our best chance to fight back.

"So, I'm going to do it, I promised you a deal."

Roy stared indifferently at the demon lord who was confronting Cynthia, and hammered his chest hard, "Now, the heart of God ......"

"Give me strength!"

At this moment, it was as if the film in the screening had pressed the stop button, and everything in front of me stopped.

Is the world stagnant or is your own subjective consciousness stagnant? He didn't know.

All I heard was the laughter of the Heart of God, and it laughed, "So it's funny to talk about humans!" ”

The next moment, in the stagnant time and space, Roy's heart beat slowly.

"Knock-"

"Knock-"

"Knock-"

Time passed again, but the heartbeat did not stop, and all the creatures in the vast wilderness heard the long and heavy drum beat.

"Your price, I received."

The Heart of God retracted its smile and became indifferent, as if the gods had given its will, "Go, Roy. ”

"Now you can do anything."