Chapter 18: The Battlefield
Pain!
It hurts so much!
Adur's bold attempt cannot be said to be a success, but it is not a failure either.
At the very least, he confirmed that he had indeed become an immortal being in a sense.
He watched his body being mercilessly crushed by the golem, and the bandages he had given him high hopes could not hold him up for a long time.
The extreme pain rushed into Adur's mind in an instant.
It's like throwing him in a blender and ravaging him repeatedly.
But after this extreme pain, Adur found that his consciousness was still in the bandage, and he continued to exist on the battlefield with a very special perspective.
The situation is much more cheerful now, and although the bandage failed to save Adur, it also blocked the Shellman's control of the golem.
Or rather, they are fighting with the Shell Man for control of the Golem.
There was still Adur's blood on the golem's chest, and the bandage was wrapped around the golem with the blood.
This is also one of the most difficult points for the Shell to understand, as other people's blood evaporates when they come into contact with the Golem, or is absorbed and stored by the Golem as an energy source.
But Adur's blood remained on the Golem's chest, and since then the control between himself and the Golem has been intermittent, allowing the men to survive the Golem's hands.
Now the connection between it and the golem was completely severed, as if the ball of blood had awakened.
But no matter how weird it was, it didn't have much time to worry about it.
Because it was also at war with the remaining three.
All three of them, except for the little fat man, all had traces left by their own people before they died.
However, the four of them are no different, and it can't be distinguished by one more person, which is a convenient thing.
Those traces were the sorrow of the dead husks, though the elders told it not to retaliate, and that protecting the Eternal Crystals was their most important mission.
The central decision made by the entire Shell Race in the face of this crisis was to dive, and they chose to sleep underground.
But it is not reconciled, it was born as the most dazzling one in the clan, with its own name, its own ideas, and a high degree of compatibility with the crystal.
One by one, the tribesmen died before it, and the abominable invaders exuded the wails of their people.
The invaders slaughtered their countrymen, tread their homeland like a back garden, and brought deep calamities to the shell people wherever they went.
How can such a national enemy and family hatred be forgotten!
So it made the boldest decision, which was to awaken the Golem and let the invaders know the wrath of the Shell people.
Blood for blood, tooth for tooth.
The Golem had been discovered by accident, perhaps too old, and the Golem had also been infiltrated by the crystals here.
It found itself able to establish contact with the golem and even manipulate it.
That's what happened after that.
Although most of the invaders died at the hands of the golem, it was able to catch up through a unique connection between the Shell Terres.
Even if the golem has an accident, it will try to kill the invader in front of it with its own strength.
Their condition is not very good, they have consumed a wave with it before, plus the physical exertion along the way, now it is completely enough to deal with these people.
Adur was in the air gazing anxiously at the battlefield below, and the peculiar shell man had intervened.
Even if he stopped the Golem, the protective shield that Klaus was carrying had already been smashed by the Golem.
Azir and Zelath were both mages, and Adur understood the strength of the mage's burst and the height of the cooldown.
They are still in a vacuum, and it will take time for their magic to recover and adjust their physical condition.
"Hurry, hurry!"
Adur could only silently hope in his heart, he could feel the ability of the golem as the bandage continued to devour the mist, and he had a faint connection with the blood on the ground.
Now Adul can only wait for the bandage to draw energy to reshape his body.
Adur also clearly understands that he is not really immortal, this may be an equivalent exchange in a sense, and the rules are still a difficult question for him now.
"Damn, it's this time!"
Zelas's face was visibly paler as he looked at the shell man who had resurfaced.
They had just survived another attack by the Golem, and this was still using the magic power in their bodies to support the shield, otherwise the shield would have been shattered in the previous attack.
This also led to the fact that there was not much magic left in their bodies at all.
Now that the golem stopped for unknown reasons, they finally saw the hope of survival, but they were blocked by this shell man.
Azir and Klaus weren't looking good, but they knew that the only way to survive was to kill the Shell Folk and escape before the Golem could continue to move.
Azir took a deep breath and seemed to have made a difficult decision.
"...... Zelas"
"I understand, Azir, you are ready to run, I will give you a broken queen, as long as I am alive, I will not let it hurt you!"
Zelas seemed to understand something when he saw Azir's expression, although Azir's cold-bloodedness made him a little sad, but it was not a big deal, after all, he was ready to sacrifice for him, but this sacrifice came a little too early.
"Live Azir, don't let me down, live well with my share, you must ascend to that position!"
With tears in his eyes, Zelas said his final goodbyes to Azir, but I don't know how sad there was in these tears.
After all, there is a difference between voluntary sacrifice and forced sacrifice.
"What the hell are you talking about, I mean you'll have to take care of my body later, I'll probably pass out.
Wait until you meet the royal family and remember to ask them to hurry up and send me to the fountain of life, so that I can still be saved, and you are ready to run away with my body! ”
Azir didn't anticipate Zelas's thoughts, and he yelled in anger.
There was no time for them to communicate on the battlefield, in fact, the Shell had already charged them when Zelas spoke.
Along with the charge, there is also the crystal magic unique to the shell people.
There seems to be a special field between the three of them, and the speed of the shell people in this field has obviously increased, and everyone's actions are constantly disturbed by the field.
"Hiss~"
With another scream, another crystal magic appeared on the shell man's body.
It was a makeshift crystal armor that enveloped the Shell Man impermeable.
In the face of people who have no ability to fight back, it does not despise it, but instead takes out its heyday posture and protects itself.
Azir didn't have time to explain to Zelas, so he stopped in front of everyone and began to sketch a rune that he had never seen before.
This rune was different from what Azir had used before, and there was no sign of magic involvement.
Normal runes condense outside the body and then shoot out in a flash.
But the rune is based on Azir's body.
At this moment, the runes no longer commanded the magical elements that were floating in the air, but Azir's body.
"Overloaded!"
As the rune took effect, Azir's entire body was covered with yellow lines, and his body would unblock the restrictions of self-protection, allowing him to temporarily enter a stronger state.
This rune was also the first time Azir had used it, and it was derived from a branch rune under the name of a world rune under the Academy's control.
According to the level of the academy, this kind of rune is also counted as a forbidden art.
Members of factions that are not the core of the empire are not eligible to access this rune at all.
It was also Azir's gift of adulthood, a rune given to him by the emperor at the time.
It doesn't have much power, but it's definitely the best rune for a difficult situation.
Adur was also a little surprised when he heard the name of this rune, after all, this is the ultimate move of the rune mage in the game, Ruiz.
The ability to be the son of the Rune Continent, the lover of the Rune Will, the largest wall hanging in the history of the Rune Continent, and the ability to see Ruiz, a rune collector who is open to five or five, as the bottom of the pressure box will naturally not be weak.
But Adur was more worried about whether Azir could really control this rune?
At this time, Azir felt that his brain was extremely clear at the moment, and his body was a constraint to him.
Suddenly, he had the idea of abandoning his body.
But fortunately, the master's precepts were still firmly in his heart, and the side effect of this rune, that is, this desire to get rid of the body, must be restrained at all, otherwise there is really no possibility of being saved.
At this time, Azir's mind was very open, and he could think about more things at the same time, just like the core display was suddenly upgraded to a separate display, and the processing efficiency was also significantly improved.
The movement of the shell people is so slow in his eyes, it can be said that it is full of loopholes.
Runes that used to require concentration can now be constructed in the air with just a slight movement of the mind.
"Lightning strike."
It was just a rune, but under the blessing of 'overload', small red lightning bolts were generated, which hit the key point of the shell man very quickly.
Its crystal armor seemed to cover its entire body, but in this state, Azir's eyes could clearly see the weak point of its energy.
The rune 'Lightning Strike' was like a series of sharp arrows stabbing into the weak spots of the crystal armor one after another.
Crystal armor is also magic after all, and as the node shatters, this layer of armor disappears.
The extra lightning slashed mercilessly at the shell man's body, blocking its offensive forcefully.
Something is wrong!
The shell man suddenly had the idea of retreating, and the aura of the person in front of him completely changed in an instant, and even the aura of the dead on his body was hidden, as if he didn't dare to open his mouth to let out its sorrowful scream.
His crystal armor had always been the hardest and most loved by him, but now it was crushed in an instant.
What magic can do a compound smoothing on this scale?
The shell man racked his brains and didn't get an answer.
It could feel that the Golem's connection had been completely severed, and the huge crystal magic on the Golem's body had disappeared without a trace.
There are too many secrets hidden in this group of people, and it is not at all an opponent of this group of people.
Although it was reluctant, it could only retreat underground again to see if it could find another opportunity to attack these people.
But where would Azir give it this opportunity, he could see the elemental fluctuations in an overloaded state clearly.
The fluctuations of the elements that belong to the shell people in the underground have nowhere to hide in his eyes, so that the underground is no different from the ground, and even more powerful.
"The ground moves!"
The Shell Man found that the terrain that could be easily changed in the past suddenly became extremely difficult, and the earth and stone were also flocked towards it under the influence of the earth elemental.
It seems that they want to keep it in the ground forever, so they use the soil to bury it.
The increasingly compact soil around it made its body make an overwhelmed sound.
It felt like it might really die here, its tail numbing first from the constant vibration and squeezing of the soil.
But it has no remorse in its heart, it just hates that it is not strong enough to leave all these murderers of its compatriots here.
"Enough Skarna, come back."
A fluttering voice came directly through the spiritual realm.
Thus did Skana disappear from Azir's view.
"How could it suddenly disappear, leaving no trace of any elemental trace? It must be hidden, I have to be careful, then it's in ...... Hmm! ”
With the disappearance of Skana, Azir's endurance has already reached its limit.
If it weren't for the strong determination to kill Skarna, which kept him struggling to hold on, the overload would have ended long ago.
Now Azir has ushered in a backlash, and the transitional thinking has almost exhausted his spirit, and at the cost of his body has also become thin and weak, as if he has been sucked by some terrifying being.
Before everyone noticed, Adur's body reappeared in the place where he had fallen.
The golem has also lost the support of its magic power, and has completely turned into powder.
Adul was also trying to get his consciousness out of the bandage and back into his body, and while he couldn't believe the name Skarna, it was the right thing to do now to return to his body.
Skarna, a.k.a. Crystal Vanguard.
This should be the first hero Adur has encountered since he crossed over, a hero who is still in his formative years.
Azir and Zelas can be ignored for the time being, after all, they are only qualified to become heroes after ascending.
The core of the power of the shell people is the crystal, and it seems that the current Skana has completed the combination of his lifesource and the crystal.
The crystal contains the most primitive earth-based magical energy, which can allow the shell people to unleash unique magic.
However, Adur has a little more understanding of Skana, and if it is a beast, then Adul can only call it cunning and wise.
But the shell man was called Skarna, and he was born with the blessing of the earth, and Adul somewhat understood what Skarna was doing.
Understanding is understanding, the positions of the two were different from the beginning, and even if they met Adul again, they would not show mercy.
But poor Skarna probably didn't know that what they were experiencing was far from a catastrophe.
Well...... In this case, there was only a moment of silence for these large scorpions, and at most Adur did not eat the shell meat that appeared on the plate later to show his admiration for Skarna.
Zelas was alone looking at the battlefield that had suddenly fallen silent, everything as unreal as the environment.
"Azir! Azil! You've got to hold on! By the way, and Adur, Klaus, you go and see Adur! ”
"How is it possible, I know you are sad, but how can Adur ...... Ahh ”