"Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree......

Leo muttered to himself.

He wasn't too surprised by the identity of a fourth-order promotion monster.

It's just that he suddenly thought of some details that he had overlooked in the past.

Whether it is the [Deep-Tainted Pure-Blood Knight] Flanders whom he has already defeated, or the leader of the Knights of the Sacred Tree who is about to ask for a crusade, this kind of monster with a specific identity and a name of its own should be the only one.

But in this way, if someone kills them, what if the subsequent Fire Contractor wants to be promoted?

Speaking out the doubts in his heart, in the face of Leo's question, [Vortex Girl] said in a cold voice:

"I've had this doubt before."

"In the case of [Pure-Blood Knight] Flanders, I was the first of all the living Burners to kill it."

"But, after about six months, the monster reappeared intact."

"So I suspect that the monsters that wander within the sacred tree of Frvedya are essentially dead, and the core imprint of their existence is controlled by something, even if their bodies and souls are cut off, they will not be able to truly solve them, and they will reappear after a while."

"They're like projections, the forms we see, not really exist."

After listening to [Vortex Girl]'s words, Leo had a thoughtful look in his eyes.

The second-order promotion monster is the [Wandering Sacred Tree Knight].

The third-order promotion monster is [Deep Dirt Pure-Blood Knight] Flanders.

And the fourth-order promotion monster is the [Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree].

All three are inseparable from the identity of the Sacred Tree Knight.

Suddenly, Leo remembered the pure-blood ritual.

Was this ritual that preached to resist distortion really as simple as it seemed?

Moreover, the Knights of the Sacred Tree ...... Sacred Tree Flvidea ...... [Power of the Origin]......

Leo shook his head slightly, suppressing the thoughts that were racing in his mind.

There is still too little information......

Many things may not be deduced until you enter the third floor area of the Burning Shrine and learn more information.

"I'm ready to go on a crusade against [the Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree]."

Leo looked at the three of them and said loudly.

"Be careful." "I know you're strong, but, purely threatening, the Great Lord of the Abyss that day was no match for [Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree]."

"The heyday posture must be stronger than the Great Lord of the Abyss, but after all, he was greatly weakened that day, and it can't be compared to the demon god level in the heyday of the [Knights of the Holy Tree], not to mention, you will also be affected by the 'Deep Suppression'."

"So, be careful."

Leo smiled slightly: "Don't worry, it's you, you have to work hard." Don't let me go into the core of the sacred tree to explore, and some of you can only cry and watch outside."

"Goodbye, then."

He stood up, resting his right hand on the campfire and roasting, choosing to teleport.

For such a long time, he had already made the preparations that should be made, and now that he knew the information, he naturally didn't need to stay longer.

The escaping sparks gradually covered the body.

After Leo left, the three of [Vortex Girl], [Liangwu], and [Sun] Nils glanced at each other, and then returned to their respective warband stations, ready to start attacking the Demon God level.

If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent.

……

The jagged light and shadow form the outline of the world.

Leo opened his eyes, and the location he was at this moment was the middle of the lower half of the [Inner Circle of the Sacred Tree].

Before, when he was sweeping the monsters, he just stopped at this location.

The dim light casts through the gaps in the gray fog that obscures the sky, slightly mottled.

Leo turned in the direction of the Sacred Tree's Everdea body and walked away.

Along the way, he sensed the aura of a very small number of monsters

These monsters may have been reborn, or they may have migrated from other regions.

Leo didn't pay much attention to this.

During this period of time, the sweeping of monsters caused him to have an indescribable aura, and now, even if it is an aberrant monster who has lost his senses, after sensing this aura within a certain range of close to him, he will subconsciously choose to run away and dare not approach.

As the distance from the [Sacred Tree Core] area became closer and closer, Leo could feel some subtle changes in his surroundings, a sense of oppression enveloping his body without dead ends, and just as he was about to mobilize the power of transcendence to resist, a certain rhythm emanated from his body.

The fluctuation resonated with the changes in the environment, causing the sense of oppression around Leo to dissipate.

"So, this is deep suppression......

Leo narrowed his eyes slightly, thoughtful.

He looked at the character panel in front of him.

With the sweep of the pure-blooded knights of the Sacred Tree during this time, his [Holy Source Power] is no longer what it used to be.

——

[Power of the Sacred Source Lv.5 (4148/10000)]: The sacred tree grants its guardian knight special powers, which can inflict burning damage equal to 30% of the maximum mana value to enemies when attacking.

(The Power of the Sacred Origin, which represents the bond between the Sacred Tree Knight and the Sacred Tree Flvedia, the higher the level of this skill, the less suppressed it will be when approaching the Sacred Tree.) ）

——

Each Sacred Tree Pure-Blood Knight in the lower half of the [Inner Circle of the Sacred Tree] can increase its progress by 4 points after killing, and during this time, clearing the lower half of the [Inner Circle of the Holy Tree], Leo will kill more than 1,000 monsters.

Thousands of pure-blooded knights of the Holy Tree have stubbornly pushed this skill to an astonishing level of lv.5.

This is already the current limit level.

If you want to be promoted to Lv.6, you need to wait for a long time, and wait for these pure-blood knights of the sacred tree to respawn in two waves.

But there is no need for this.

The power of the Holy Source of Lv.2 is similar to that of the Sacred Tree Knight in [Outer Sacred Tree].

Lv.3, which is equivalent to the pure-blood knight of the sacred tree in the upper half of the [Inner Circle of the Sacred Tree].

Lv.4, similar to the Pure-Blood Knight of the Sacred Tree in the lower half of the [Inner Perimeter of the Holy Tree].

And lv.5 has reached a new stage, and Leo estimates that it will not be weaker than the Demon God-level [Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree].

In this way, there is no need to worry about one's own energy being eroded by the opponent during the battle, and the power of the Saint Source at the lv.5 level, judging from the situation just now, is enough to ignore the "deep suppression" at the junction of the two regions.

Withdrawing his gaze from the character panel, Leo looked into the distance.

In front of a ruin that only ruins remained, a knight in tattered green and silver armor was half-kneeling, and the passage of time had left many marks on him, like an immovable statue.

It's been a long, long time since it moved.

The breath of the demon god level, even if it was only a slight leak, was enough to make no monster dare to approach within a radius of a kilometer.

Leo's gaze first looked at the ruins where [the head of the Knights of the Sacred Tree] knelt.

The building, which collapsed and suffered wind erosion for an unknown number of years, is no longer visible, but in terms of scale, it must have been immensely magnificent until it was damaged.

But now, things are no longer human.

In the center of the ruins, there was a statue of a god with only half of its body left, emitting a faint white glow.

Seeing this, Leo's eyes froze.

"Statue of the Goddess of Light!"

Although his face could not be seen, Leo was so impressed by the Goddess of Light that he recognized even the broken half of her body at first.

"Hoo ......"

With a light breath, Leo shifted his gaze to the half-kneeling [Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree].

The demigod high-level aberrant monster has regained its instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm.

I don't know

The existence of a demon god-level aberration has regained his senses and has the possibility of talking?

Although the probability is small, Leo wants to give it a try.

The last information Ji Holy Maiden Shireen, I thought I could get enough information from her mouth, who would have thought that she would fall into a long sleep after devouring her soul last time, although in terms of state, she is getting better and better, but the ghost knows when she will wake up.

If he can get some information from other places, Leo will naturally not give up.

What's more, in terms of identity, the identity of the head of the Knights of the Holy Tree + the Demon God level may not be lower than that of the Holy Maiden Shirin.

Because of the influence of the faint light emitted by the bust statue of the goddess of light, the existence of gray mist was thin within a radius of five kilometers around this place.

Leo walked towards the [Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree] step by step, he had no intention of hiding the sound of his footsteps, so when the distance between the two sides was still a kilometer, the stone-like [Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree] sensed something.

Finely sharded stone chips crumbled from him, and the armor, which had been dull and gray, regained a new luster in an instant.

The head of the Knights of the Sacred Tree stood up, turned to face Leo, and rested his right hand on the hilt of the sword on his right waist.

「…… Stop ......"

"Leave...... Otherwise...... Kill!"

The hoarse sound of sandpaper rubbing across a kilometer distance reached Leo's ears.

Through the slit in the helmet of the Captain of the Knights of the Sacred Tree, Leo saw a pair of cloudy and old reddish eyes.

There is not much residual consciousness inside, and the actions at this moment are more like obsessions engraved on the body and soul instincts.

This obsession is to protect the buildings behind them.

Even if it's in ruins.

Leo was silent.

The words that had been prepared for inquiry were also suppressed.

The moment his eyes met, he had a preliminary judgment about the state of the leader of the Knights of the Sacred Tree—he couldn't talk.

Even the Demon God level has become like this under the distortion......

Leo felt a ray of sadness in his heart.

Demon god level, even if you look at the heavens and all worlds, it is also an absolute top combat power.

But even the Demon God level can't resist aberration.

Leo raised his right hand and grasped the hilt of the light-chasing sword at his waist, and his chaotic thoughts gradually turned into a calm lake like an icy lake.

Since you can't talk, let's use the sword in your hand to communicate.

The two looked at each other, and within a radius of several kilometers, even the sound of the wind stopped, and in this range, the edges of everything became a little blurred

The pressure grew bigger and deeper, until eventually, it exploded.

The raging frenzy spread in all directions, and the figures of Leo and the leader of the Knights of the Sacred Tree had already collided in the center.

"Qiang—"

The long sword of the leader of the Knights of the Sacred Tree is longer than the standard standard long sword, the main body of the sword is black, and the blade is silver, which is not gorgeous, but it has a piercing bone that makes people feel cold all over at a glance.

And Leo's long sword is pure green, and the sword body is engraved with six glittering ancient magic patterns, which looks gorgeous, but it is also deep and restrained.

Both are artifact-level weapons, and the moment the two swords blade, the space near the collision point emits a crisp "click" sound, which is the spread of spatial collapse.

The light-chasing long sword deflected, causing the opponent's long sword to slide to the side, Leo's gaze was condensed, and the power of transcendence erupted from his body, and the invisible sword qi broke out of his body, hitting the gap in the eyes under the opponent's helmet.

This kind of sword qi attack that is launched by the body instead of a long sword is not as powerful as using a long sword, but it has the advantage of being quick and very stealthy, making it difficult to dodge.

At this moment, in the face of the sudden attack of the sword qi at such a close range, even the leader of the Sacred Tree Knights would be too late to dodge.

But it also doesn't mean to dodge.

His eyes turned pure ice blue in an instant, and at the same time, an incomparable impetus pressed on Leo's body, pushing his body far away, and it struck

's sword qi was also crushed into pieces.

"Frost Hell World, Descending ......"

In an instant, except for the ruins of the building, which remained unchanged under the protection of the shimmer of the goddess statue, the rest of the square kilometers had become an icy purgatory.

Finely fragmented ice crystals fell from the sky, and countless sharp and huge ice edges sprang up from the earth.

The leader of the Knights of the Sacred Tree stood on top of the thickest ice ridge, looking down at Leo who had smashed into the ground hundreds of meters away.

"Hoo ......"

The exhaled gas turned into ice slag and fell the moment it left the body, and the temperature around it suddenly dropped to more than minus 200 degrees Celsius.

It is only a few degrees away from the absolute zero of minus 273.15, which is the forbidden zone for life.

The piercing sense of oppression came from all directions, Leo's face was solemn, compared to the "Crimson World" of the Great Lord of the Abyss, Scarlet, the "Frost Hell World" of the head of the Knights of the Holy Tree was even more powerful.

This is because this is the "world" that has not been curtailed in the slightest, and is in full swing!

Leo could feel the terrifying rejection of him from the "Frost World", as if he was an outlier in this "world", and as long as he was not eradicated, he would be constantly targeted by the "world".

"Really...... Peculiar feeling ......"

Leo sighed softly, and then, his pupils completely changed to pure blue and transparent.

All the magic power and sword intent are fused and sublimated in the body, and based on the [Transcendent Body], it bursts out with a powerful posture.

In an instant, within ten meters of Leo's place, the ice faded and became a realm of its own.

This is not the "world".

But the "world" could not affect him.

This is the power of transcendence, which is enough to rival the high-level power of the "world" with its energy form.

"Click—"

The boundary between the Frost Hell World and the transcendent power continued to appear as small black cracks, and they healed in an instant.

The knight's phantom condensed by frost and the phantom of the sword surrounded by the cyan hurricane each took one side and collided with each other.

The real battle of the Demon God has just begun!