Chapter 130: The Gate of the Abyss
What should the Abyss Gate look like?
A hole was opened out of thin air, and on the other side of the hole was another world? But from the other side of the hole, or from the side, you can't see anything unusual?
A huge gateway like a city gate, an open wooden door to another world?
Or will there be a majestic passage, covered with red magma-like rocks and a stench of sulfur, that connects to the world where the demons live?
Before today, a hundred people would have imagined a hundred ways to look like the Gate of the Abyss, for the image of the Gate is unknown in the written record.
Now that I can see it with my own eyes, I know that it is not that no one wants to record it in detail, but because the scene in front of me is too complex and seems to be irregular, it is difficult to record.
First of all, there are no openings, passages or anything like that. The invasion of the abyss is more like the overlap of two worlds, each with a part overlapping together. Looking at the place, sometimes it is a forest scene in a mysterious place, and sometimes it turns into the shape of an abyss. More often than not, the two places are like mirages, vague but coexisting.
Staying outside of the overlapping areas and looking from different directions can sometimes lead to a view of another world. Not to mention the iconic characteristic scene of the abyss, the most terrifying thing is the demon army gathered not far away.
Therefore, the so-called Abyss Gate is actually more like a chaotic labyrinth created by the overlapping planes. Ordinary people do not know direction at all after entering this space where the two worlds overlap – in fact, in this kind of place, the sense of direction is meaningless. -- Maybe my next step will be to come out from behind my back.
If you are not so lucky, after taking a step, the lower body will be at the distance of this step, and the upper body will appear in another place. In fact, this situation will not bring any harm to people, it is just a disorder of space, but in terms of physical cognition, he is still a whole. The usual solution is to exit this chaotic space by following the path it was, and you can return to its original state.
But is the state of spatial distortion fixed? Can anyone really be so calm and calm in the face of this situation and find the best solution?
In fact, the state of spatial distortion is constantly changing until the overlapping parts of the two planes are stable. At the same time, if the person who is trapped in it walks around in a panic, he may face more space for confusion and let his body run to more places.
And the more complex the situation, the less likely it is to recover. It's like a person who doesn't know how to play magic cubes, but only knows how to stare at one side, stare at a color to make up one side of the same color. But I didn't think that while I put together one side and one color, I wouldn't mess up the remaining five sides.
If you walk out of this chaotic space before you completely return to your original state, it means that some part of your body will still be in this space, and even if the space for people to hear and change color will be cut off. No matter how strong the defense is, it can't stop the rules of the world that say that a certain part of this body does not exist.
If you want to avoid this kind of thing, you have to rely on magicians who are well-versed in space. In addition to marking the boundaries of the realm of chaos, their most important duty is to stabilize the chaotic situation. And find the right way to go from one world to another in this spatial labyrinth.
After this period of hard work, the magicians on the demon side not only drew the boundaries of space, but also accelerated the move of the two worlds to devour each other. As long as the two planes are deep enough. The less chaotic the space.
Just a while ago, there began to be frequent lost little devils crossing into the lost land, and then being brutally killed by everyone. It is undoubtedly an important message that war is about to begin.
And just yesterday, the airship's unusual cruise, coupled with that abrupt and strange combat readiness order. It was like a summoning to the world, and the group of high-ranking people knew through some channel or method that a demonic invasion was imminent.
All the exercises that wasted physical strength were stopped. All people, all troops, stuck to their posts. Looking at the other world, there are also demons gathered under that world, with no end in sight.
Across the plane gap, creatures from both worlds are curious about the other. But they also knew that the moment the two sides came into contact, it was the beginning of the war. It's just in front of you, and it hasn't unfolded yet.
At the joint headquarters of the Great Sage's Tower, a young general proposed a strategy to invade the abyss first. In addition to controlling the flames of war in the demon's territory, it is the act of closing the abyss gate as early as possible.
Seemingly powerful arguments, in fact, no one with decision-making power would agree to such a stupid tactic. There are two reasons for this:
One, abandon the position in front of him, which was built like an iron hoop, and in turn rush into the demon army that was waiting for work. Generals with a little common sense will not make this choice.
In addition, crossing different planes, it is inevitable that there will be a short period of discomfort due to the gap between dimensions. Some people say that it is a curse given by a strange world when traveling to a different world. In any case, such a disadvantage will be borne by those who pass through the dimensional gap. So this person, should it be borne by the 'human' or the 'demon'. The answer seems self-evident.
Instead, let the demons come over and take advantage of the geographical advantage of positional warfare to kill several waves of demon vanguards first. When counterattacking the abyss later, the enemies will be reduced a little. Such ideas are the mainstream opinions.
And just like that, a strange sight was formed. The armies of humans and demons faced each other through the gap in the plane, and they did not move.
It's not that no one tried to attack. But all means are blocked by the spatial labyrinth in the gap between the planes, lost in the endless corridors. Whether it's magic, arrows, or even trebuchet stones, if you hit them, they will only disappear like mud cows into the sea, silently, and disappear somewhere.
It is expected that it will be an incomparably bloody and incomparably tragic war. The initial beginning was actually that both sides stared at each other, and they were more patient than each other.
Unfortunately, patience has never been a good trait of the devil.
On the afternoon of the second day of the confrontation, there was obviously a lot of commotion on the demon side. And there is a tendency to get worse. Eventually, an army of demons broke away from the Great Army and headed for the gate alone.
This demon army is all tall and muscular guys. One can imagine the level of elite of this group of demons, as well as the self-confidence in facing all enemies.
The steady and neat pace of the drum makes this army not look like it is made up of demons. But the dark brown complexion, and the pair of horns on their heads, are all proof of their identity.
As the demon army advanced step by step, the hearts of the human side also beat with it, and cold sweat came out of his forehead. With such an elite, as the opponent of the first round, the magicians did not have much confidence. After all, the individual strength of demons is far higher than that of humans. And when the quantity is large enough, the quantitative change caused by it is also not something that ordinary people can resist.
The moment when the horn demons with double-headed swords in their hands, the only armor on their bodies, that is, the golden bracers in their left and right hands, stepped into the gap in the plane. Everyone's hearts were raised.
The figure is flickering left and right, flickering forward and backward, changing and unpredictable. Walking through the cracks in the plane is so unreasonable.
At the same time, a discordant voice was heard in the camp of humanity.
"There is no need for us to pay with our lives for the greed and cruelty of the former tower master. Especially the one who is responsible for all this, hiding in a safe place, but asking us to stand on the front line against the invasion of demons. This is not right. There is no righteousness in this war, let those who are ignorant and do not recognize the facts pay the price for the greed and sin of others. I'm going to leave the battlefield to protect the home I really should be protecting, not to help the crooks defend this broken tower! ”
Guarding directly north of the gap in the plane, the 500-member mage alliance of the Cadiz Branch of the Wizards' Association on the front line withdrew from the line of defense they should hold under the gaze of everyone. Any friendly forces that stand in their way will be brutally pushed away.
But if you have a heart to observe carefully, you will find that the arrogant and unreasonable people are also the group of people who take the lead. Behind are mostly dazed and blind followers, and in a confused situation, they follow the officer who leads the team and leaves. Because of this, the one who took the lead did not dare to do things in an absolute way, and killed people in order to leave, so that his rationality was completely lost.
But this move has already caused great commotion and discussion in the human camp. Not why, just because the Cadiz district will be the original first-line main force, and the defensive position can be said to be quite critical. Withdrawing now is tantamount to exposing a large area of weakness and hinterland in front of the demon army.
The withdrawal of the mage alliance has affected some small lords who are not determined. Their indecisive movements disrupted the order of the northern defense line. Some people want to follow along, and some people rush forward to fill in the gaps. The result was chaos.
And this change, how could the demon side not know to take advantage of it. The demon lord who commanded this army did not hesitate to choose to press the whole army. The rumbling sound was like the sound of the earth, and the inhabitants of the abyss, who could not see the edge, marched forward with a roar with high morale, and then forward.
At the same time, through the external monitoring equipment of the Great Sage's Tower, the people who witnessed all this, including the presidents of the four mage's guild branches, Orange Fruit? The students of Eton, and those who belonged to the old president's system, were outraged and incomprehensible by the actions of the Cadiz Order.
They all looked at the president of the Cadiz district with a blank face, Gray? Otto. Judging from this person's gaffe, he should also belong to the uninformed person.
But there are many things that do not mean that those who do not know are not guilty. Now that the defensive front has been torn apart, the north side of the Abyssal Gate is in chaos. It's hard to clean up, and it's even harder to stop the demons. Encountering a demonic attack under this chaos will inevitably cost you more lives.
However, the Sheephorn Demons are about to emerge from the rift in the plane.
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