Chapter 60: "Death" and the Witch
As the feathered serpent emerged from its burrow, propping up its upper body and climbing and swimming along the unfinished "palace", Angel could feel the strength of his heart grabbing his heart, making it almost stop beating.
She subconsciously looked to the sides and found that Crane and the "Hanged Man" Alger were even more unbearable than herself, the two extraordinary people who had just been promoted to Sequence 5 just felt the breath of "death", and they already felt cold all over, and the slightest trace of gloom seeped into their bodies with every pore, making them freeze in place, unable to even raise the idea of dodging and escaping.
Maybe in the next second, in the power of "death", their hearts will completely stop beating, just like those "living corpses".
Fortunately, I'm already the "Despair" witch in Sequence 4, and after seeing the magical power of the "1-63" witch's mirror, my understanding of the world in the mirror is not comparable to when I first became a demigod...... Angel's thoughts raced, and his purple eyes reflected the huge feathered serpent in front of him, and then, the figure of this demigod transcendent creature quickly faded, and together with the surrounding moonlight and countless living corpses that were about to move, it turned into a translucent image like a glass through it.
Klein's heart, which had almost stopped beating, finally returned to normal, and he woke up from a dream, looked around, and found that Alger was also pale, holding the lantern in one hand almost unsteadily, and the other hand caressing his chest, as if he doubted that he was still alive.
The purple in Angel's eyes between the two almost turned pure black, she quickly looked around, and then spoke:
"It's a demigod-level feathered serpent, most likely the 'Grim Reaper' path, once you leave the mirror world, you will be affected by that power again, and you will be almost unable to fight."
World in the Mirror...... Crane reacted, looked around, and found that the space around the three of them was quite clear, and then it was as blurred as a layer of glass, and the feathered serpent in the distance still exuded suffocating pressure, but this power could no longer be transmitted to them.
Compared to the "Level 1" seal, although Angel pulled two teammates into this special, temporary mirror world, there was only so much she could do, she couldn't leave with the two of them, and she couldn't lock the feathered serpent in the distance into the mirror world alone, so that a few people could escape.
I'm afraid that it will take a complete digestion of the "despair" potion and even a promotion to "immortality" in order to do this......
Seeing that his subordinates had fallen one after another, the giant snake with white feathers opened its bloody mouth angrily, and let out a silent cry, the black scales trembled, and it seemed that more white feathers were about to grow below.
The "mirrored world" around her has begun to blur, and Angel also feels that the space she has "divided" from reality is about to shatter, not because she can't support it spiritually, but because she doesn't have enough control over this power.
A high-ranking witch who will never be afraid of a siege.
As soon as Alger frowned, Klein nodded calmly and replied:
"We'll cooperate with you in an attack attempt."
In an instant, the power that made people want to enter eternal sleep surrounded the three of them again, and without communication, Crane and Alger kicked their legs and retreated, trying to stay away from the source of this power, while Angel took the initiative to catch up, using the power of the high-level divine nature to resist the feathered serpent, who was also a demigod, and with his left hand, he turned the "knight's bracelet" into a long sword in his hand, and the power of "disease" quickly spread, enveloping the entire open space.
This is the power of "disease"!
"That force, it seems, the farther away it is, the less it affects us."
His gaze rested on the feathered, blackened scales of the feathered serpent with grease, the human, curly-haired baboon "living corpses" had become well-behaved and obedient under the power of death, and gathered around it, but farther away, the "living corpses" looked a little confused, or more irritable, as if out of control.
This powerful threat caused the vertical pupils of the Feathered Serpent to immediately lock onto her, and a pitch-black snake core spat out of her mouth, and her body, which was more than 20 meters long, was also tightly coiled, as if it was about to catapult at her in the next second.
He doesn't have to talk too much nonsense, and the protagonist of this battle has to be Angel, who has become a demigod, not two Sequence 5 that can barely help.
After a short thought, Alger also figured this out, and he looked at the unformed palace beneath the body of the Feathered Serpent, carved with various strange patterns, and said:
"Be prepared."
If you get close to it, I'm afraid that those who don't reach the demigod will die directly...... Angel guessed, and quickly made a plan for the next battle:
As soon as she opened her mouth to remind, there was an almost inaudible "bang" sound in her ears, like glass shattering, the mirror surface cracking, her eyes turned purple, and the figure of the feathered serpent in front of her was clearly visible again.
"I try to destroy the palaces built by the 'living corpses', maybe it has a special meaning for it."
Alger said suddenly.
After entering the high sequence, Angel's disease ability can no longer only work on living creatures, even if it is a "living corpse" or "resentful spirit", it cannot escape the influence of this epidemic that is beyond reality and belongs to the occult field.
In the next second, the dead adventurers, curly-haired baboons, tigers, and lions fell to the ground like harvested wheat, and "died" again.
Even more obvious are the weeds and shrubs under its body, and the closer it is to the position of the feathered serpent, the more obvious the withering and decay become, showing the strength of the "Grim Reaper".
"After leaving the mirror world, I will try to attack it, if it works, maybe I can kill it and solve the problem completely, if the effect is not obvious, you will go first."
Those "living corpses" were also like an army ready to go, turning around in unison, taking steps or directly using their limbs together, and pounced on the three of them.
As it moved, the ground below quickly cracked, more corpses emerged from the dirt, and shadows that were difficult to see with the naked eye surrounded the "Grim Reaper", and a small number of the living corpses that had died of the epidemic rose again, as if they had a third life.
It seems that the only way to kill it is to kill itself, otherwise the living corpses and ghosts will be endless, but the "disease" cannot be effective so quickly for the demigods, and it is difficult to be fatal...... As soon as Angel had this thought, he saw the feathered serpent entrenched in the unfinished palace suddenly kick straightened, and its thick, huge body shot out like sharp arrows, and the pair of wings that had been shrinking behind it spread out in the wind, allowing it to truly fly into the sky.
It turns out that the wings are not ornamental......
Running backwards, Crane suddenly felt the force that grabbed his heart and frozen blood cover his body again, and he looked back to see that the winged serpent with outstretched wings was cutting a parabola, pressing on himself and Alger, and the feathered wings that almost covered half the sky gave him a sense of despair that he could not hide.
By the way, the Grim Reaper path can be used with the Azk Copper Whistle......
In his desperation, Crane reached into his pocket with a speed that surprised him, lifted the spiritual wall that sealed the Azk Bronze Whistle, took it out of the cigarette case, and threw it into the distance.
The scene he was expecting did not appear, and the Feathered Serpent in the sky only glanced in that direction, without changing its own landing point.
Void?
This is the first time that Klein has been ignored by the other party since he got this bronze whistle.
He instantly linked the Feathered Serpent, the white feather, and the Spirit Order's "Artificial Death" plan in his mind, and without the slightest hesitation, he took out another copper whistle and threw it into the distance.
This is the bronze whistle he received from a member of the Spirit Order who can resurrect itself when he was in Beckland as "Sherlock", it does not carry special powers, but Crane has come to the revelation that it will be very dangerous to blow it through divination.
This ordinary-looking copper whistle had no effect that the Azic copper whistle had done, and the eyes of the feathered serpent that were about to land were fixed on it, and the huge feather wings flapped violently a few times, changing direction, and landing in a clearing in front of Crane's side.
The bronze whistle happened to be covered by its body, crushed into the dirt.
Escaping from the shadow of death, Crane hurriedly continued to run a few more steps, stopping at the dense forest around the clearing, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of "The Hanged Man" Alger taking the opportunity to change direction, and returned to the palace under construction while moving away from the Feathered Serpent.
Ignoring the living corpses and ghosts that would soon collapse from the disease, he swung a huge wind blade in his hand and smashed it into the foundations of the logs and rocks, slicing them into crumbling pieces of rubble with a constant roar.
This seemingly ineffectual action greatly angered the feathered serpent, and it gave up on Klein, who was close at hand, and instead looked at Alger, who was running farther and farther away, the wind blade in his hand kept waving, its wings spread, and it took off like a catapult in the same way as before, its body straightened, and almost instantly smashed into Alger, who couldn't dodge, and pressed into the soft dirt along with the living corpses around him who had just been put down by the disease.
Whoop -
There was a sound of glass shattering, and Alger reappeared beside the dense forest at the edge of the clearing, with a hint of horror and fear on his face - he hadn't even had time to use the magic pocket watch just now, and if it weren't for the mirror double, it would have become a puddle of mud under the body of the feathered serpent.
But even if he escaped through a stand-in, Alger inevitably re-approached the demigod-level feathered serpent, and instantly his body stiffened under the death aura it exuded, his blood froze, and he stumbled to the ground.
The destruction of the temple built by the "living corpses" apparently angered the Feathered Serpent, whose solitary body rolled in a circle, threatening to crush the fallen Alger to the ground.
But in the next moment, the thick, feathered wings of the feathered snake were tightly bound by invisible silk threads, and strangely folded an angle and stuck to the body covered with black scales, and the snake body with a length of more than 20 meters was also entrenched again, leaving only the upper half of the height high, condescending, but slightly powerless to look at the initiator not far away.
Angel pulled the invisible silk thread with one hand, passed a wisp of black flame, cursed the body at that end, and threw the long sword turned into the "knight's bracelet" with the other hand, and accurately inserted it into the upper body of the feathered serpent, and the "sword of the dawn" collided with the black scales, making a sharp metal friction sound, only less than half a meter deep.
“……”
Feathered Serpent silently opened its jaw once more, looking up to the sky and roaring, beside it, another group of living corpses crawling out of the grave and ghosts that appeared out of thin air tore at the threads that bound it, blocking the passing of the cursed black flames, and at the same time burning itself to ashes, giving Feathered Serpent precious time to escape.
Although the latter's black scales glowed green, and his eyes were bloodshot, and he was caught in a growing disease, he still used brute force to break free of the remaining silk threads, and his wings opened again, rising from the ground in the fierce wind, and his strength was not lost in the slightest.
White feathers poked out from between the crevices of its scales, stained with yellowish oil, and the smell of death spread rapidly, enveloping the clearing, and the grass turned yellow in the blink of an eye, and the surrounding canopy was sprinkled with withered branches and leaves.
The force that almost stopped the heart and fell into eternal sleep reappeared, more and more intense, like substance.
"Tie it up!"
Throwing out the copper whistle and escaping the attack of the Feathered Serpent, Crane held the "Lemanor's Travel Notes" with a patina skin in one hand, and stroked the page with the other hand on the scorched yellow surface, but engraved with countless complex symbols on the top, and stared closely at the Feathered Serpent flying into the sky with his eyes, regardless of the stinging sensation of staring directly at the white feathers.
The invisible threads in Angel's hands poured out wildly, binding the body and wings of the Feathered Serpent, causing it to struggle violently again.
Even the long pale blonde hair tied into a simple bun at the back of her head instantly collapsed, and one by one knotted into finger-thick tentacles, but the surface was extremely smooth, growing and extending wildly, like thicker and stronger silk threads, instantly wrapped around the body of the feathered serpent on top of her head.
And her purple jewel-like eyes reflected the figure of the other party, and after a short pause, the huge body became transparent for a moment, as if entering the world in the mirror.
Its wings and body briefly ceased movement.
Angel couldn't pull a demigod directly into the mirror yet, but a momentary pause was enough.
Behind her, a violent, frantic roar rang out, and another aura of demigods emerged.
"Lightning Storm!"
Crane finally activated the extraordinary ability recorded in the note, and the only ability in the 38 pages that could harm the Quetzalcoatl.
Silver-white "pythons" leap out of thin air, weaving dazzling cobwebs in the air, lighting up the entire sky.
Then, they coalesced together and slashed at the "Sword of Dawn" that pierced the scales into the upper half of Feathered Serpent's body, easily bypassing the heavy snake scales and channeling the power of the storm into its fragile body.
Boom –
In the eyes of the three of them, the silhouette of the feathered serpent, which spread its wings and was almost completely off the ground, seemed to light up for a moment, leaving traces on their retinas in the night sky that had not dissipated for a long time.
(End of chapter)