CHAPTER XXVI
"Hahahahaha!" A burst of rampant laughter suddenly rang out, followed by a male voice with a strange yin and yang voice, "How is it? My wall of flames tastes good, doesn't it? I dare to trespass into the territory of Lord Asmodeus, I am really killing myself! I, Fran, the guardian of the Nine Layers of Hell, will never allow you to pass through here!"
It's not good, Shi Di secretly shouted in his heart, he didn't expect the distance between this last wall of flames and Fran to be so close, as soon as they passed through the wall of fire, they entered Fran's line of sight.
Shi Di ignored the burning pain on his body, and reluctantly looked up in the direction where the voice came.
A half-human, half-ghost creature stood in the center of the altar not far from them, his face was no longer the face that a normal spirit race should have, but alienated into a shape like a skeleton, although it was a skeleton shape, but it was covered with a crumpled white thin skin on top of the white bones, and there was messy white hair floating under the armor, which looked indescribably weird.
He wore a heavy metal horned armor with a skull in the shape of his face in the middle, and he was wearing the same heavy metal armor with chains wrapped around it and a skeleton tied to his waist with iron locks. Although he was wearing a suit of armor, his hands were in an attack stance that only a sorcerer would have, and a red flame was gathering on his right hand at the moment, obviously aiming in the direction he and his companions were.
Now that everyone has not recovered from the pain of burning their bodies just now, if they are attacked at this time, most of them will not be able to avoid it, and they must immediately divert Fran's attention and delay his attack!
"Ahh Lord Fran, put away the fireball, don't hurt your own people by mistake!" Shi Di said quickly before Fran launched an attack.
"My own people, nonsense! Why haven't I seen you?" was so troubled by Shi Di, Fran really put the fireball back for the time being.
"Oh, you don't know this, Lord Asmodeis is so wise, there will always be a few people under him who carry out special tasks for him! No, we just came back from a mission, and we were about to go to the ninth floor to report to him!" Shi Di saw that Fran really started talking to him, and couldn't help but start talking nonsense, planning to delay it for a while.
"Terran eyeliner, then why do you still have the Spirit Race and the Blood Race among you?"
"Oh, there are also spirit clans and blood clans in the areas directly under the federal government, and these two spirit clans and this one blood clan are the people arranged by the lord in the direct territory of the federal government!"
Shi Di glanced at his partners around him, and saw that their states seemed to have recovered, and he couldn't help but relax a little.
"Obviously, there are two scents of blood...... No, you just said that you were going to the ninth layer to report to the lord?boy, you dare to lie to me?!" Somehow, Fran suddenly saw through Shi Di's lie, and quickly regathered the flames in his right hand, and when he raised his hand, a huge fireball struck at their position.
Fortunately, after Shi Di's delaying tactics, everyone was no longer as weak as just now, and they all flashed around, avoiding the fireball.
Fran didn't hesitate, and another fireball in his right hand struck Shi Di's position, obviously he hated the boy who had just dared to deceive him. At the same time, Fran's left hand was raised, and he chanted a spell in his mouth, and a huge tongue of fire devoured the positions of Yimiao, Tamer, Yansing, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and the other six, and the six people could avoid it, and the tongue of fire actually formed a ring of fire around them as if consciously, trapping them in the wall of fire.
Seeing this, Ke Meng and Anna glanced at each other, and with a tacit understanding, they outflanked Fran left and right, wanting to interrupt Fran's non-stop spell casting action. Fran let out a cold snort, his hands pressed into his chest to form a piece of fire, and his mouth kept chanting incantations, only to see the fire light erupt from his chest, and after landing on the ground, it turned into two groups of fire elemental creatures, one left and one right, blocking the two people who attacked him.
Ke Meng and Anna's attack was intercepted by the fire elemental creatures in an instant, and not only failed to attack Fran, but instead trapped themselves in the siege. The two of them swung their swords and slashed at the elemental creatures, trying to destroy them quickly so that they could attack Fran's side.
I have to say that Anna is worthy of being a well-trained warrior, the sword swinging posture is very standard, and the strength is also in place, coupled with the cold ice sword in her hand that specializes in restraining the spiritual power of the fire element, it is almost possible to destroy an elemental creature with one sword, it seems that it is not false that she has been practicing swordsmanship for more than ten years before. In contrast, Ke Meng was a little slower than her in destroying enemies.
At the same time, Fran's right hand continued to launch fireball attacks on Shi Di, forcing Shi Di to dodge left and right, while his left hand once again rolled up a tongue of fire and attacked the six people trapped in the wall of fire.
The situation was very critical, and she didn't care about her physical condition that had not recovered at all, so she forcibly launched an ice archery, only to see an ice blue light launch from her staff, colliding with the tongue of fire, dissolving the attack of the tongue of fire in the air.
After launching this ice archery technique, Yi Miao's already extremely pale face became even more bloodless, originally this was just a mid-level spiritual technique, which should be effortless for her, but along the way, Yi Miao's spiritual power was really too consumed, and it was barely enough to pass through the last wall of fire, and now it was already the end of the strong crossbow.
In this situation, I'm afraid that as long as there is another tongue of fire coming over, Yi Miao has no strength left to deal with it.
Tammer took advantage of the moments that Yi Miao had gained to take out a few arrows infused with the spiritual power of the frost elemental from the quiver, and brushed them in bursts, and the arrows roared straight towards the vital points on Fran's body with the sound of the phoenix from the bow of the enemy.
However, Fran only waved his left hand slightly, and the few castrated and ferocious bows and arrows fell to the ground one after another as if they had hit an invisible wall in the air, and it seemed that ordinary archery skills did not work for him.
Tammer did not hesitate to pull the bowstring of the enemy bow again, and the phoenix roared again, the sound was exactly the meaning of "offend my divine might", Tammer aimed at Fran and replied loudly, "Although it is far away, it will be punished", and the enemy bow then let out a phoenix roar, responding to him "Kill without mercy"!
Whoosh, an ice-blue arrow turned into a huge ice-blue phoenix in the air, and with the sound of the phoenix's chirp, it flew straight towards Fran's heart.
Fran tried to stop the arrow with his left hand, but this time he waved his left hand, but it didn't have any effect on the arrow, and the arrow pierced through his heavy armor with an unstoppable force.
"Hmm......" Fran looked at the arrow that hit his heart in disbelief, black blood continued to flow out of it, and the severe pain made him have to admit the fact that he had lost this battle.
The flame elemental creatures that were originally summoned by Fran were annihilated on the spot, and the wall of fire that surrounded the six people disappeared in an instant, and it seems that when the person who cast the spirit spell fell into a state of near death, the spirit magic cast before would immediately become invalid.
Fran fell backwards hard, his heavy metal armor crashing on the ground, killing him instantly.
"Tamer! there's you!" Shi Di saw that Fran was gone, and rushed to Tamer's side excitedly, slapping him on the shoulder.
"It's not thanks to the bow you picked out for me. Tammer replied with a smile, pulling out his handkerchief to carefully wipe the oath bow in his hand, clearly cherishing it.
"What's the use of having a divine bow, and there must be a divine archer to use it! I think this bow is really not bad for you to follow it, and only you can give full play to its power!" Shi Di saw that the power of the enemy bow was really great, and he couldn't help but be really happy for his friend, and the 30,000 gold coins were really not spent at all.
"Miss Anna, how are you? Are you hurt, are you feeling unwell?"
"Miss Anna, you worried me just now! Why did you rush straight at Fran like that!"
"yes, I didn't expect this guy Fran to summon flame elemental creatures, and I was so anxious to see you surrounded by a group!"
Finally getting out of the wall of fire, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma immediately rushed towards Anna, and it was obvious that they were really worried about her safety.
"You say you're worried and anxious, where were you when I was in danger just now?!" Anna replied angrily.
"We're surrounded by a wall of fire!" replied in unison aggrievedly, it wasn't that they didn't want to help Anna, but they were trapped in the wall of fire and could only stare dryly.
"Gu Ci, come and see Yi Miao, her face has been very wrong since the beginning!" Shi Di noticed Yi Miao beside Tamer, her spirit seemed very tired, and she looked like she might fall down at any time.
"I'm fine. Yi Miao spoke, but the weakness in his voice revealed that the real situation was not the case.
"Yi Miao, you can't be as reckless as you are today, just now we should rest at the entrance until you are fully recovered before moving forward. There was a hint of reproach in Shi Di's tone, but the reproach revealed a deep concern for his partner.
"Hmm. Yi Miao responded in a calm voice, closing her eyes and resting.
In fact, it's not just Yimiao who needs to rest, the group has gone through many tests all the way to this place, and they have just gone through the fierce battle with Fran, and they are already exhausted.
Since he had just entered the battle with Fran through the third wall of fire, Shi Di had not had time to properly observe the environment they were in, so he had time to explore the surroundings at this time.
It is a circular altar with four braziers at the same distance around the circumference, and the braziers are burning with raging flames, illuminating the otherwise dim environment. There was a large six-pointed star on the platform in the middle of the altar, and Fran's body was lying in the center of the six-pointed star.
Shi Di walked around Fran and came to the back of the altar, where there was only a rectangular square table. Shi Di carefully probed the surroundings of the square table and found the mechanism in the upper left corner of the square table.
There was a distinct bulge on the leg of the table, a simple stone mechanism, which Shi Di rotated in a clockwise direction to open.
A black portal appeared above the square table.
"Found the entrance to the next floor!" Shi Di said as he turned to the others.
Although they found the mechanism, the group decided not to enter the next floor at this time, but to rest at the altar for one night to replenish their strength, and then continue to move forward when everyone's spirits have recovered.
There was a brazier available, which saved the need to raise a bonfire, but Lemon jumped up to a brazier, went down from the shelf, and brought it back to the crowd.
The crowd sat around the brazier, brought out food and fresh water, and prepared a full meal.
Easter Egg Theater?
Shi Di and his party: (enjoying the food with relish)
Fran: The ...... I say......
Shi Di and his party: (no one cares about Fran)
Fran: (flipping the table) Did I say you ate right next to my corpse?!Do you still have any basic respect for the dead?!ah?!
Director: Fran, come and get the bento! How many times have I told you, don't add your own lines to steal the show, you must have the consciousness of the trick!
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