Section 31 Sacrifice

"The three elements burst, these guys are really crazy, aren't they afraid to blow themselves up?" Clark looked solemnly ahead.

The space around the small square is occupied by three colors of elemental energy, a miserable white ice blue, a deep navy blue, and a dark red that suppresses irritability.

But Xu Yun didn't have the heart to enjoy this so-called light show, the danger was really in front of him, the elemental energy of the three colors collided and rubbed against each other, and a dazzling electric light thunder snake burst out from their friction.

The invisible force rolled up the shattered pieces of the rock floor that had been shattered and overturned in the battle, and then annihilated them into gray-white particles little by little in the tearing friction of the three elemental energies.

Even the dilapidated ruins around the square were affected by this force, and the walls, which had been weakened by the wind of time, cracked and collapsed.

"It's coming." Sasria whispered.

In front of the giant sword in her hand, the surface of the crystal-like golden wall continued to ripple, and as soon as it was swept by the three-color elemental energy, a trace of crack appeared, and it was quickly repaired by the power of the follow-up supplement.

Rumble~!!

The three-color elemental light finally exploded after accumulating, rubbing, colliding, and expanding for more than ten seconds, and as far as the eye could see, it was instantly covered with all three colors.

'You, light pollution! ’

Airplanes~~~

Xu Yun's ears couldn't hear anything except buzzing, and the strong concussive force hit him so much that he felt that his internal organs were taken out with an invisible hand, and he smashed them one by one with a hammer twice.

Burst~!

The huge force squeezed a liquid from the esophagus and rushed into his mouth, and before he could open his mouth and spit out, the liquid gushed out.

Earlier, Sasria stood on the crystal wall around him that protected him, and a blinding layer of blood red splunged her.

The same dazzling red color not only appeared on the crystal wall, but also appeared in front of Xu Yun's eyes, and the field of vision was almost covered with more than half of the warning red light in the blink of an eye.

In the energy turbulence caused by the explosion of the three elemental energies, a golden color was firmly blocked in front of the three of them, and the three-color light brought by the violent energy turbulence initially covered all of Xu Yun's vision, and after a while, the three-color light gradually dimmed, and the golden light was revealed from the turbulence formed by the three-color light.

This golden brilliance stood in the torrent of mixed three-colored light, like a rock under the impact of stormy waves, never retreating half a point.

After a few more seconds, the turbulence caused by the three elemental energies gradually subsided from its initial peak, and Sasria stepped forward with her greatsword, her high-heeled metal boots tapping the ground step by step.

Xu Yun watched the back gradually fade away, and walked into the center of the elemental energy explosion, and he was accompanied by Clark who was holding two knives.

If it weren't for the fact that Clark was wearing a vest and big pants, and was carrying two common cleavers in the kitchen, Xu Yun would have been moved by the picture in front of him.

He sat down on the ground, gasping softly. Fighting with hilichurls before, fighting with hilichurl warriors, and running away under the pursuit of three abyss mages, although the total time of this battle was not long, but the physical strength consumed almost squeezed him dry, and now he received the energy shock, and after spurting out a mouthful of blood, he felt that the physical strength he had now was difficult to even support himself to continue standing.

The energy storm caused by the three elements gradually faded, and the light that polluted the vision receded. In addition to the rock element crystal wall that still maintained it, and the mouthful of blood that spouted from the crystal wall, Xu Yun was gradually able to see the side of the hall blocked by the energy storm.

The hall, which had been eroded by countless years of wind and rain, finally failed to survive this elemental catastrophe, and two thick metal doors fell to the ground, smashing the floor tiles into countless cracks. The wall facing the square had disappeared by half, and the ceiling had collapsed by nearly a third.

The gray dust piled up at the foot of the remaining walls, and it appeared to spread outward when it was blown away by the strong wind that broke out in the center of the square.

The scene inside the main hall was illuminated by the sunlight sprinkled by the collapsed canopy, and three abyssal mages were standing in the three corners of a triangular circle painted with black and red paint, dancing an inexplicably joyful and strange dance.

The large orb at the tip of their staffs shone dimly and cracked.

As they danced and chanted inexplicable words, the purple-red glow of the triangular circle was getting brighter and brighter.

It illuminated the large stone bowl in the center of the circle, which could be used as a bathtub, and the three unconscious maidens were tied up in the stone bowl.

Xu Yun moved his gaze up and saw the other side of the magic circle, directly opposite himself, that is, in the direction of the gate, a mighty metal giant eagle statue stood there. The years have left countless mottled marks and thick dust on its body, and the sun shines on it without a single reflection, but its eyes are shining with a blue glow.

"Stop!" The elemental storm had not yet completely subsided, and Sasria had already rushed into the main hall against the crystal wall.

With an angry shout, the giant sword blocking in front of him rotated for half a circle, the golden crystal wall dissipated, and the rich rock element energy instantly enveloped the giant sword, once again enough to become a huge energy sword shadow.

The three abyssal mages seemed to turn a deaf ear, ignoring her at all, and only cared about completing their actions and incantations.

Purple blood continued to flow from the wound on the body of the Water Abyss Mage who was cut open by Xu Yun, and after these purple blood fell to the ground, it merged into the magic circle and was absorbed by the magic circle.

The other two abyssal mages floated out wisps of purple blood from under their masks, and the purple blood was like a living snake, flipped and twisted in the air and swam to the ground, also merging into the circle.

Rumble~!

The golden sword shadow fell, draped over the most injured abyss mage, and was once again blocked by the blister magic shield.

The rock elemental energy and the water elemental energy were stalemate for a moment, and the rock elemental giant sword finally deviated slightly and slashed to the ground on one side.

Kiss~

The power of the blister magic shield was exhausted after completing this block, and it burst and dissipated like a punctured bubble.

The Abyss Mage fell, and he fell on the circle, and a large amount of purple blood splattered from the wound again. Before he could roll over and stand up, Sasria's second sword had arrived.

This sword she was originally a horizontal slash, seeing that the blister was broken, the abyss mage fell to the ground, and the blood was absorbed by the magic circle, she suddenly changed her move before the blade was close to her, changed the horizontal slash to a horizontal slash, and swept the short body of Delius lying on the magic circle directly away, and hit the mural on the left side of the main hall.

Since the circle needs to absorb the blood of these abyss mages, if she just kills, even if it dies, the blood will continue to flow into the circle, and Sasria's primary purpose is, of course, to destroy this ritual, so naturally she wants to prevent the circle from continuing to suck blood.

The other two Abyss Mages were still performing their rituals, the energy glow in the orb at the top of their staff was getting dimmer, the purple blood coming out of their masks was getting more and more, and their strange dance movements were getting slower and slower.

“ki la si！！”

The two Abyss Mages stopped their movements at the same time, raising their hands high and shouting to the sky.

As the incantation ended, a violent air flow stirred up around them, and the mage's robes hunted in the air, and countless purple blood poured out of their bodies, and then turned into purple blood flames and burned.

The purple blood flame burned the mage robes, burned the staff to the slag, and burned their bodies to ashes, leaving only the white bone armor of the workmanship bhikkhu countless times more delicate, floating in the blood flame.

Sasria didn't know what they were trying to do with this ritual, and she didn't know how to stop it, so she just jumped into the center of the circle first, grabbed the unconscious three girls, and jumped out of the circle as the two abyss mages burned themselves.

"It's useless, you're too late, stupid creature of the gods." Dylius slipped off the fresco, purple blood re-dyeing the faded fresco.

Clark stepped out of the shadows in the corner, staring blankly at the abyssal mage who had burned himself to slag, flipping out one knife after another with his twin knives.

He was only a few steps away from Deleus, but looking at the mortally injured Deleus, curiosity drove him to want to hear what it would say in the end, and the knife in his hand was flipped over and slashed, it was really difficult to do.

"Because of this stupid and arrogant cub, we had to sacrifice ourselves to speed up the ritual.

Give up the useless struggle, even if you take the sacrifice now, it won't stop the ritual from being completed. It sat up, leaning its back against the wall to keep itself seated, gasping for breath and whispering. I don't care if there's an extra deadly threat around me.

"O shepherd dogs of the new generation, when you are prostrate at the feet of the seven gods, do you think that they are just lowly servants?" Dylius let out a low, ghostly laugh.

"Shut up!! I'm tired of hearing your arguments, and this dirty trick of confusing people's minds doesn't work for me. Sasria put down the three girls who were tied together, and raised her greatsword to Dyleus.

“······· It is indeed difficult for different races to communicate with each other, and it is only His Highness that can give us fair mercy and the only justice in this world. It lowered its head and sighed faintly.

"Ah~~Whew~~" Dickens sighed and let out a long breath, "Is this reincarnation finally coming to an end?" Until the next time we meet, I hope you are alive and well. ”

"I'll leave it to you, Your Highness."

Dickens's hand on the staff slowly loosened, and the huge orb at the top of the staff, which had lost all color, silently disintegrated into a pile of ashes.

"Upper." Xu Yun's shout came from the square outside the main hall.

Sasria and Clark looked up at the same time, and beneath the dome, a purple crystal hidden in the darkness hovered there.

Its size was not inferior to that of the Favonius Eagle Statue, and its existence could only be seen clearly by the light emitted by the purple flame pillar formed by the two abyss mages burning themselves, shining on the smooth outer walls of its purple crystal, reflecting a little brightness.

The purple blood flame light ignited by the abyss mage gradually faded, and the flame pillar became smaller and smaller, but the light of the triangular magic circle drawn on the ground became brighter and brighter.

Cracks began to appear on the surface of the purple crystal, and wisps of heavy darkness seeped out of the huge cracks like water, and fell on the huge eagle sculpture as if it were drenched with a layer of viscous oil.

The azure light that lit up at the eye of the Eagle of the West Wind sculpture gradually deepened as the darkness fell over the statue.

"Blasphemy against the Hero!!"

"They want to pollute the souls of the Favonius with the dark magic of the abyss. The previous ritual was only to pay tribute to the Favonius and summon the souls of the departed heroes back to the present world, and polluting the Favonius was their purpose. ”

"Withdraw! There is no way to stop it. Sasria reluctantly looked at the purple crystals that were getting more and more cracked, and more and more darkness was sprinkled down, and it was gradually absorbed by the idol.

She no longer hesitated, picked up the knot that tied the three girls with one hand, carried them rudely behind her back, and quickly withdrew outside the main hall.

Clark stared at the disintegrating dark crystal, and glanced at the corpse of Deleus, which was disintegrating, disintegrating into dark shards before falling to the ground and slowly seeping into the ground.

Clark stepped on it, and when he lifted his foot, nothing touched the soles of his shoes.

Spit!

He spat and looked again at the Favonius Statue that had been half tainted by the darkness. A tidal wave of black smoke had begun to rise around the idol.

"The wind god is above, may you bless the immortal soul."

With one last salute to the Favonius Eagle, Clark rushed out of the temple before the black smoke reached him.

Galloping all the way, when running past Xu Yun's side, he picked up the clip under his armpit, Clark strode straight to the lava area that had not yet cooled at the edge of the cliff, and as soon as the soles of his feet were in the air, he jumped into the canyon with Xu Yun across this small piece of lava.

After Clark left, a violent wind rose on the top of the cliff, blowing the long-standing clouds away from the cliff, revealing the original state of this section of the cliff.

By the time she landed back to the ruins on the other side of the low cliff, Sasria had already released the messenger.

Xu Yun was rudely thrown to the ground by Clark, as if he had dropped a stone instead of a big living person. Xu Yun knew that he had caused a big disaster, so he didn't dare to say much, so he honestly turned over and got up, and waited for the hair to fall.

"This is the closest ruin to Mondstadt, reinforcements should arrive soon, and if you're lucky, the Patrol Knight might be nearby." Clark said to Sasria.

"It's useless for the Patrol Knights to come, in this case you need to teach the cleaners in the Inquisition." Sasria nodded.

At this time, the other two instructors and assistant instructors who were in charge of leading the second-year apprentices greeted him.

"The people have been assembled, what is going on up there? There was so much movement. Hiro asked in a loud voice with concern.

"Three abyss mages, using rituals to summon the heroic soul of the Eagle of the West Wind and contaminate it." Sasria said succinctly.

"We knights are fine fighting, but we are helpless in the face of pollution. I chose to retreat first and call for support immediately, hoping that the church would come sooner. She continued

The knight bishop in charge of the second-year apprentice nodded, "In the face of pollution, the knight is indeed powerless. ”

Just now he found that there was a battle on the side of the main hall of the Favonius Eagle Temple, he divided the labor with Sasria, he stayed to protect the apprentice, and Sasria went up to check the situation.

After the division of labor between the two knights with the vision, Clark came over and said that he didn't see Timmy, so Clark and Sasria rushed forward in the shortest possible time, otherwise the instructors in charge of leading the team would first arrange for the apprentices to ensure their safety, and then go back to investigate the abnormal movements in the depths of the ruins.

"The abyss mage above has transported an extremely high concentration of dark magic, once this magic spreads, it will pollute all the area, arrange for the apprentices to withdraw from the ruins." Clark proposed.

"Will the church be able to get there before the pollution spreads to the leylines? Do you want to leave one person to help you block first? The second-grade instructor said.

Clark and Sasria looked at each other and shook their heads.

Just now, the second-year apprentice was training in the ruins, and after the battle, the bishop began to comment on the performance of each group on the spot, so he didn't go to the bottom.

The new apprentice in the first year is tasked with digging iron ore at the bottom of the valley, so Sasria follows suit.

"There are already signs of contamination in the leylines, and it's still unclear whether the leylines themselves are contaminated, or if the people on the abyssal side of the leylines have been manipulated. In any case, when the dark power on the top of the mountain spreads to this side, we can't stop it with our strength. Clark explained to the second-year head instructor, the knight.

"The dark magic must first pollute the soul of Lord Favonius of the West Wind before it spreads to the periphery, there should still be plenty of time, organize people to withdraw from the ruins." Sasria made a decision, and the team leaders nodded in agreement, and then went their separate ways.

Syllable~

Clark slapped Xu Yun on the back of the head.

"Stinky boy, how did you get up to the stone?"

"Tap! He had been seriously injured just now. Sasria glared at Clark and dragged Xu Yun behind her.

Turning and crouching, he began to look up and down carefully to see if there were any other wounds. As she crouched, the blade of the greatsword behind her slammed against the ruins floor, making a dull metallic sound.

Xu Yun touched the back of his head, which was a little numb, and didn't dare to look at Sasria. Her summer outfit was much cooler than winter's, with boots covering her calves and gauntlets covering her forearms, and she wore the summer uniform of the Order.

In the battle just now, strong elemental energy erupted from her body, and some of her body parts were torn when the elemental energy rushed out of her body.

It's no wonder that many of the costumes of the characters in the Genshin Impact games will be left empty, presumably to use the Wind Wings, and the other is to prevent the damage to this part of the costume when the elemental power bursts. ’

Xu Yun glanced at the northern hemisphere that was close at hand, and quickly withdrew his gaze.

"I'm not trying to do anything at all, okay? This kid is not a delicate little girl, but sturdy. Clark scratched his head a little depressedly, which was quite similar to Xu Yun's action of touching the back of his head, and he didn't care who learned whom.

"Delicate little girl?" Sasria stood up.

"Well, I won't tell you this, you're in a bad mood right now, let's talk about these three children." Clark could see that Sasria was holding a fire in her heart, and quickly diverted the conversation and pointed to the three girls she had rescued from the center of the circle.

The three girls have been untied, but they have not yet woken up, presumably because they have been drugged.

"These three children are not from Mondstadt." The girls were untied by the second-year apprentice's assistant instructor, who had already checked them in passing when he was untiring. "Looking at the characteristics, I judge that it is a native of the Solstice Country."