123. Cardinal

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"Drop... Drip... Drop..."

"Bell!"

In the darkness of the cavern, I don't know how much time had passed, but it seemed like only a few seconds had passed, and the silence seemed to be eternal, but it shattered with the crisp sound of some kind of cup hitting the ground.

Like a thunderclap on the ground, if you look closely, the poured cup is none other than the [Holy Grail] that Pandora kept before.

At this moment, Pandora and Lemuel were no longer visible in the cave, only the only figure in a white robe walked slowly in the cave.

From the poured cup, it seemed that the power full of wishes poured endlessly, mixed with a rich chaotic aura, and quickly gushed out an indescribable black substance like a tsunami.

The black substance not only had the corrosive power of chaos, but also the power of the Heavenly Lock, one of the demigods.

The demigods, beloved by the main god Ramastia, were given the right to live partially, and they created powerful mythological species out of it. The previous Pandora planned to follow her creator's example and recreate an earthly kingdom of myths above the ground.

The limit on the number of mythical species will no longer be able to bind the power of chaos, so from today onwards, the number of mythical species will exceed 200.

"That's a wise plan, you've been planning for today for a long time, right?"

"Boom!"

The white-robed figure walking alone in the cave in the indescribable black substance chuckled and spoke.

Looking closely, the white-robed figure with short golden curly hair and a pair of blue-gold dilated pupils was not the angel of Heraire.

At this moment, behind her are suspended the teardrops of the Loom of Destiny and the World Tree, which have defected in an instant.

The loom of fate once again grabbed the power of death, and the power of death, which had been asleep, became hyperactive again, which made the ground of the entire ideal kingdom even more trembling, and a steady stream of black matter was still pouring down the sinkhole-like abyss at the end of the cavern, as if to completely fill the bottom of it.

And with the filling of the black substance, coupled with the traction of the loom of fate, the power of death below became more and more high-pitched, as if it was about to wake up in the next second.

"Boom!"

The power of death from beneath the rock layer inspired pillars of anger, and the pillars of fire, which symbolized destruction, burst out from under the ground in an instant, and completely ignited the Ideal Kingdom and the entire Dragon Tail Island.

However, before the gradual recovery of the power of death brought about serious calamity, the white-robed figure smiled slightly, hooked his hand, and threw the shimmering World Tree teardrops behind him into the abyss below,

"Don't you really want to forge a holy artifact to replace your own eyes, don't worry, now is your chance."

Hellaire smiled slightly, and the hideous-looking head of Pandora in his hand, with a flat neck, moved forward slightly, aiming at the abyss below.

Pandora's expression froze little by little before she died, as if she had seen something that terrified the angel extremely.

Then, in the farewell that Helaire saw, she threw Pandora's head into the flames.

"Oh, by the way, don't waste it, and put this in too."

Then, she suddenly remembered something, and threw away the horn that Fisher had given her for safekeeping.

"Gollum!"

As Pandora's head, part of her soul, the teardrops of the World Tree, and the chaotic horn were thrown down, the sea of fire below instantly burst into an extremely dazzling light.

Then, Hellaire reached out and began her manoeuvre.

In the next second, the entire sea of chaos began to heed her call, and came into contact with the power of death that was becoming more and more excited, on the verge of awakening.

But unlike Margaret, who wanted to activate it completely to send them to the end, under the power of Helaire, those chaotic seas were entangled and collided with the power of death, and the contact with them was also like a spring pressing on it.

At the same time, the earth-destroying pillar of fire above was also enveloped in the power of chaos and the power of the Heavenly Lock.

Those creatures who had been robbed of life by the threads of death began to peel away from the power of death, but when they came into contact with the power of chaos and the Locks of Heaven, they instantly turned into abominable creatures.

The souls of the low-ranking sub-humans and humans, whose souls had long been driven to separate from their bodies by the power of death, had all been transformed into chaotic, mindless abominable monsters.

Looking at the ugly, dwarf-looking creature, Helaire yawned and said,

"From now on, you will be called [Little Devil]."

But there are more, the creatures of the Tree Continent who were originally on standby outside the Ideal Country around the fourteenth order, when Tao Gong fled, they were swallowed by the chaotic ocean before they could evacuate.

Unlike the weaker creatures, their souls were washed away by the power of death, and although they were also polluted by chaos, they at least did not lose their minds, but roared and wept in the sea of chaos like newborn babies.

"Look smarter, it's okay, and live as a true [demon's attendant]."

Helaire smiled slightly, and his gaze moved little by little to the [Pillars of Fire] that had been in contact with the power of death and had absorbed the most power of Life and Sky Lock.

Those are the [new populations] that Pandora originally wanted to create.

It's a pity that because of the contact with the forces of death and chaos, the appearance of those populations will be far from what Pandora and Lemuel thought, right?

But out of the way, Helaire threw in Lemuel's whole body, Pandora's headless body, and the petrified elves that were left behind, which should serve as some template for these new creatures...

Well, but presumably, these new mythical species based on Pandora must be as hungry for lust as she is

The burning pillar of fire counted as many as seventy-one.

And as the light on the [Holy Relics] burning in the sea of fire below became brighter and brighter, those gushing pillars of fire and death power also stopped a little, as if a spring had been pressed down in half...

Well, why is it only half pressed?

Since Helaire wasn't going to deal with it all, she was going to leave the other half to the World Tree or the Dragon God, which would be useful.

"Buzz!"

"Ah, it's finished?"

After waiting for a while, I saw that from between the sea of fire and the seventy-one pillars of fire that soared into the sky, a pair of wonderful holy objects that were constantly jumping and "looking" around.

It was a pair of eyes that shimmered with golden light, and its color, appearance, and purpose far surpassed any holy object in the history of the Sanctuary, but at the same time, the holy object was also mixed with an extremely strong chaotic aura.

Then, after the eye appeared, the seventy-one pillars of fire behind it seemed to be pulled by it, and the pillars of fire and the power of death that had been pressed down below became more and more agitated, like a door opened by a key...

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the smiling Herel reached out and summoned the pair of uneasy eyes into his hand, and said softly as if comforting a newborn baby,

"It's okay... It's okay... Ah, I forgot, you're wise, so I'm going to have to give you a name...[Pandora's Righteous Eye], how about it? ”

The playful expression on Heller's face was unrecognizable by the newborn consciousness relic, and the eyes only shook his body curiously, looking straight at the holy angel in front of him, indicating 100% kindness.

As the mood of the holy relic stabilized, the pillars of fire behind him that were pulled also returned to their original appearance.

"That's good..."

The well-behaved appearance made Helaire smile and touch its smooth, ceramic-like surface, and then, as if she remembered something, looked around,

"Ahh

After a moment of thought, she continued,

"[Bymon], how's it going?"

In her hands, the newborn eyes blinked innocently, as if chewing on the special name.

And in the next second, the surging chaos of black matter and flames around them was about to swallow them.

……

……

Rewind the clock a little bit more, back to the time above when Fisher and Asuka Karasawa had just finished dealing with Margaret.

At this time, in the ideal kingdom beyond the stone tower, countless cracks in the ground burst into scorching magma, and the increasingly active power of death symbolized the imminent awakening of a true god. Seventy-one pillars of fire burst out from under the ground, mixed with an extremely strange chaos and life force, roaring towards heaven and earth.

"What's the matter, why is the power of death so active after Margaret's death?"

Fisher held Asuka Karasawa in his arms, followed by Nekoria, who was flying in the sky, and instead of going down the stairs of the stone tower, he jumped down from the top and ran wildly downward.

Beneath the distant sky, the entities of the World Tree have appeared overwhelmingly, covering the heavens and the earth with a terrifying shadow.

But after falling from the sky, the scene below was beyond Fisher's imagination.

There were several elven species scattered below, which had been completely petrified by some kind of power, and just seeing those elven species Fisher's heart rose an extremely ominous feeling.

Heller, where?

"Fisher, this way!!"

Just when Fisher was stunned, Mikhail and Hookkiss, who were intact but anxious-looking, ran out from a distance, and they were relieved when they watched Fisher fly down intact with Asuka Karasawa in his arms, and then when they saw Nekolia flying after him, their faces showed a touch of surprise, as if to say,

"Oh, so we still have a phoenix in our team!"

After watching Fisher land, Hook Kiss hurriedly came over, looked Fisher up and down and asked,

"What about the loom of fate and the World Tree teardrops?"

"Fell to the ground, probably under the stone tower... What about Heller? What's going on here? Where is she? ”

As soon as he talked about this hook kiss, he became excited, and he told Fisher in front of Fisher that Peach and Pandora Lemuel had joined forces to resist the chaos, that Pandora and Lemuel had backstabbed Peach Gong, that Peach had fled with the other elves, and that Pandora had taken Helaire to the bottom of the stone tower.

The more he listened, the tighter Fisher's brow furrowed.

He always had a feeling of extreme foreboding.

At the same time, Hook Kiss also added,

"And, Fisher, there are some subhumans and humans nearby who haven't been taken away by those threads. We can't save those who have been taken away by death, and we have to take the rest with us. ”

“… I'm trying to figure it out. ”

Fisher rubbed his temples with a bit of a headache, even if he was at the Mythical Rank, he couldn't check in front of the World Tree to see which people had not been taken away from the soon-to-be-destroyed Ideal Country.

He's frantically searching for magic in his head at the moment, and he can't use the spinners to hang them out one by one, right?

At this moment, Mikhail looked around with a serious face, and then he spoke,

"It's okay, I've got a way."

"You..."

Just as Fisher and Hookkiss looked up at him, there was a sudden dense sound like a wild bee flying above the ideal country at this moment.

Fisher raised his eyebrows and looked at the sky, only to see that next to the shadow of the huge World Tree entity, from the clouds of the sky, suddenly burst out like a tidal wave.

The machines were still a little primitive, but the blue glow that flickered on his body felt familiar to Fisher anyway.

"Cardinal..."

He muttered how he thought those things were similar to the machines of the time in which he lived.

A layer of sweat broke out on Mikhail's head next to him, and in his eyes, dense interfaces and codes flickered, and the few energy he had left heard Fisher's voice, he was stunned for a moment, and said,

"It just so happens that I discussed with Archangel Michael, and the artificial intelligence he created is called [David], and the machines I designed don't have a name yet. He doesn't know how to name it, so he just listens to Fisher, call him a cardinal... Archangel Michael, what do you think? ”

Everyone looked at him, but no one knew that at this moment, in the universe far away in the sky, in the fifth day of the sun's ring, many angels who were skilled in forging came out of the forging room at this moment, and looked at the machinery that was pouring out of Michael's forging house in amazement.

And in Michael's forge room, he propped his cheeks expressionlessly, looked at the machine tools that were constantly producing machinery under the control of [David] and the assistance of holy relics, and said to Mikhail noncommittally,

"Whatever you want, but don't forget, all these favors will have to be repaid later."

Mikhail smiled bitterly, but could only reply,

"No problem, archangel."

"Hmph."

There was no sound other than the cold snort.

"Boom!"

But at the same time, the bottom of the stone tower behind him suddenly burst open, and the impact force generated completely collapsed the already precarious stone tower.

And from under the collapsed ruins, a relatively wide gap, like a tsunami erupted, waves of black matter with an unprecedented chaotic aura burst out of the gap, pouring up from the gap to the ground, as if to completely swallow everything above.

The moment everyone above saw the black substance, their sanity began to decline wildly.

Mikhail's eyes turned red, and snow began to drift out of the city of New Moscow before his eyes; And Asuka, Karasawa also covered her head in pain and screamed, and scarlet began to flow from her seven orifices again; Hookkiss and Nekolia also erupted in confusion, as if they were in agony in the face of the oncoming black matter.

Fisher was also affected, but I don't know if he was baptized by completing the manual, and he was far less affected than the others.

"Mikhail, quick!"

He saw that the black wave was about to swallow up in an instant, so he quickly turned his head and shouted to everyone behind him.

The voice woke up the drowsy Mikhail a little, he gritted his teeth, and turned the perseverance of decades against cyber psychosis into a sentence, and roared angrily,

"David!! Take all the living people away!! ”

"Didi! Administrator instructions have been detected, and units from one to three hundred are being assigned to perform the task. By the way, David likes this name very much, and if I can iterate and evolve it in the future, please make sure to keep this name... Well, if you have to make a difference, please add a number for us. Admin, what do you think? ”

However, Mikhail was already driven crazy by the chaotic tide behind him, and he simply ignored its words.

Fortunately, artificial intelligence and machines did not seem to be affected by the chaotic wave, and David began to carry out the tasks assigned by Mikhail with great precision.

Before they could fall, the cardinal from the sky descended, lifting Mikhail up and floating in mid-air, according to the standard of a cardinal carrying a person.

Fisher gritted his teeth as well, and quickly threw all his companions onto the cardinals in line.

It wasn't until he threw Nekolia on the cardinal, and when the last cardinal appeared in front of him, Fisher, who was about to go up, suddenly froze.

He turned his head to look under the crumbling stone tower, at the wave of chaos that had already reached the point where it was close, and the whispers in his ears began to roar again, as if to remind him of the consequences of not leaving...

However, Helaire was still inside.

"Dididi, hello, sir, please follow the administrator's instructions and get me out of here immediately."

"Wait for me here, you can take two people, right?!"

"Dididi, first of all, sir, you are not my administrator, and I have no need to follow your orders; Secondly, Unit 272 was only easily assembled for half an hour, and from the beginning of the design, it was designed to carry out the main characteristics of lightness, and if you take two people, counting you as an adult male, no matter what..."

But Fisher ignored the chattering AI David behind him, and he had already gritted his teeth and rushed towards the gap behind him that was spewing black waves.

Behind him, cardinals quickly lifted up the vital signs of life from the ruins of the Ideal Realm. And the farther away from the chaos on the ground, the less affected it will be, and Asuka Karasawa has become a little more sober because of this.

She shook her head, but looked down to see Fisher running desperately towards the black substance below.

"Mr. Fisher!!"

Tang Ze Asuka's pupils shrank slightly, and she hurriedly struggled on the cardinal, but in the next second, a pair of mechanical arms firmly grabbed her and didn't let her move.

"Warm reminder from David, passengers please sit firmly and pay attention to their own safety..."

"You guy!"

"Again, my name is David, not 'You guy'... Let's put ourselves in the same way, what would you think if I called you 'you guy' after I ignored your warm concerns? Wouldn't you be sad? ”

"Ahhhh

Hearing this, Tang Ze had to kick the cardinal under him, but this still couldn't stop it from flying higher and farther with him.

Above, the belated World Tree quickly realized the black matter gushing out below and the increasingly active power of death.

As a demigod with a heavy responsibility, she knows better than anyone else the seriousness of the problem at this moment.

Confusion, erupted!

And the next moment, she decisively threw aside the Margaret and the loom she had to deal with, and the terrifying demigod aura took the lead in locking the ideal country from top to bottom, locking the chaos that was about to spread.

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