Chapter 172: They're Finally Here!
The atmosphere in Shurima's imperial capital had been suppressed to the extreme, and everyone raised their heads and looked at those transcendent figures in the western sky.
There is no doubt that the future of the Shurima Empire, their future, will be concluded in the clash of these figures.
Outside the imperial capital of Shurima, Azir and Zelas looked at each other in the air, and behind the two of them were more than a dozen Bakai and Ascension warriors.
Azir's hand clenched the scepter of domination in his hand, and his heart was extremely heavy.
Although he was ready to fight to the death, looking at the eager and slightly frightened eyes of the people of Shurima in the rear, and then looking at the few thousand Shurima troops below, he couldn't help but feel a sadness in his heart.
Just restored, these are already all the human soldiers who have been gathered for this time.
A team of 1,000 people, such a scale is not a very large force even in those small countries, not to mention that their opponent is the thousands of Believers of Destruction in Zelas.
Azir didn't know how he was going to win the war.
Zeroth had come so fast, so fast that Shurima had only created an Ascended One, so fast that he hadn't prepared for anything.
As if sensing Azir's strangeness, Zeroth's mournful voice came again:
"Azir, is this Shurima's army, I remember that Shurima's most powerful army was not the Ascended Legion? Where did they go? ”
Azir's eagle eyes stared at Zelas in the distance, and his tone contained endless killing intent:
"Zeroth, you are not destined to see it, because you will die here today!"
"Hahahaha~!"
Zelas's laughter was still unbridled, and he looked at Nasus and the others behind Azir, and he couldn't imagine how he would lose this war.
In fact, he had already come to the outside of Shurima's Imperial Capital, but he still chose to watch the Ascension Ceremony take place.
Because he wanted Azir to see for himself the gap between Shurima's Ascendant and the Ascended One he had created.
After saying that to Azir, Zelas looked at Renekton beside Nasus again:
"Renekton, I didn't expect that your power was so strong that you could even leave Nerima with the Sun Emblem. But you didn't kill Nasus, you disappointed me so much. ”
Hearing Zeroth's words, even more doubts rose in Renekton's big head.
Wasn't it Zuo Chi's job to steal the Sun Emblem from Nerema? How did it become him?
However, the thought of the seduction he had received when he was in the Emperor's Tomb gradually glowed with blood.
Because of this despicable person in front of him, he stretched out the butcher knife in his hand to his most beloved brother, and he almost killed his brother with his own hands!
"Zelas, lowly slave, I'll chop you to eight pieces!"
Zelas shook his head and chuckled, "Then I'm really looking forward to it." ”
Again, there was silence between heaven and earth, and all that seemed to be the whistling of the wind sweeping through the yellow sand seemed to be in everyone's ears.
Zelas and Azir looked at each other, and there seemed to be an electric light rising from the sky between them.
At one point, Azir's scepter of leadership was slowly waved forward: "Soldiers, for the sake of Shurima's future! ”
"Kill!"
In an instant, the terrifying coercion completely exploded, and Nasus, Renekton, Cassadine, and Zuo Chi behind Azir rushed out in an instant.
According to the tactics formulated earlier, the four of them found their own opponents.
Nasus, Renekton, and Cassadine each faced one Baquet, while Zuochi faced the remaining nine Baquet!
"Boom!"
The ascension forms of the three ascending gods were fully activated, and the huge figures nearly thirty meters tall swung towards Bakai in front of them with the power of destroying the heavens and the earth.
Whatever their former identities, from the moment they chose to side with Zelas, they were destined to meet the Ascension Swordsmen.
For a moment, a violent roar began to resound in the desert outside the imperial capital of Shurima.
And when Nasus's War Scepter collided with the arcane weapon in Bakai's hand, a palpable look of shock flashed in his eyes.
Because he can clearly perceive that his opponent's strength is not weaker than him in the slightest, and even stronger than him at some times!
"Blight!"
Nasus's right hand swung out, and a cloud of purple-black energy attached to the body of the Bakai, but just when Nasus thought that Bakai's speed would weaken, he saw that the blue flames flowing from Nabakai's body actually directly shattered his soul energy.
These bodies have been completely transformed into arcane energy, and it seems that Bakai has become completely immune to soul and life magic.
"Bang!"
Caught off guard, the Bhakai slammed the hammer into Nasus's chest.
Nasus's massive body receded instantly, and the light in his eyes grew heavier and heavier.
He knew that if he wanted to defeat this Bhakai, or even kill him, it would undoubtedly cost him a great price.
And he is still like this against one Ba Kai, there are a full nine on Zuo Chi's side!
Nasus's heart had hit rock bottom, and the power gushing out of his body was getting stronger, and he must now do everything he could to kill his opponent and then go to the aid of Zuochi.
Otherwise, once there is any accident in Zuo Chi, then the last thing they can rely on will be gone.
The same happened to Cassadine and Renekton, who were in a bitter battle.
Outside the tripartite battlefield, Zuo Chi was suspended in the air, he looked at the nine Bakai in front of him, and the star iron long knife in his hand was immediately unsheathed.
He could clearly perceive that the strength of these Bakai had increased dramatically compared to the last time they were in the underground treasury of Neremaji, and they seemed to have become even less sane, completely reduced to the war machines of Zelas.
Not far away, nine Bakai were also watching Zuo Chi, who seemed to be waiting, waiting for Zuo Chi, who was alone, to react to the fight.
Finally, Zuo Chi's figure disappeared in place and rushed straight ahead!
The fiery power of ascension permeated the long knife, and Zuo Chi instantly came in front of a baye, the long knife in his hand rushing straight towards his chest.
Looking at Zuo Chi who came to him, the arms of the Ba Kai suddenly lit up with a dazzling blue light, and his hands were wrapped in this blue light and stretched rapidly, and soon, his arms turned into a pair of long whips filled with blue arcs.
"Smack!"
In the arc of lightning, the long whip rushed straight towards Zuochi, and at the same time, the other Bakai also differentiated their weapons in their hands and rushed towards Zuochi.
Obviously, even they didn't expect that Zuo Chi would really dare to rush into their encirclement alone.
Soon, the long knife came to the chest of the Bakai, and the long whip in Bakai's hand rolled one towards Zuo Chi's long knife, and the other drew towards Zuo Chi's body, and the other Bakai also came behind Zuo Chi.
However, it was at this moment that Bakai, who was less than half a meter away from Zuo Chi, suddenly saw the flash of red light in Zuo Chi's eyes.
"Forbidden Spell: Fire Knife Gale Slash!"
The temperature in the air is rising dramatically, and even colorless flames appear out of thin air in the air.
In an instant, a huge flame blade with a diameter of nearly ten meters appeared around Zuo Chi's body, spreading out in all directions with endless lethality.
This sudden scene made everyone present feel unexpected, they would never have thought that Zuo Chi, who was about to fight them hand-to-hand with a long knife one second, actually rubbed a fire forbidden spell out in the next second!!
The raging flames came in front of the nine Bakai in an instant, and they had almost no chance of dodging, after all, Zuo Chi had just used himself as bait to bring them all together.
"Boom!"
The Flame Wheel blade sliced through the bodies of these Bakai, and with a loud roar, all Bakai flew upside down.
The flames crashed against the earth, and even the yellow sand below was burned into crystalline glass.
In the sky, Zuo Chi's breathing was a little heavy, and he could clearly sense that the magic power in his body was almost instantly drained.
The red rune sigil at the mouth of the heart was glowing red, and its lines were slowly spreading in all directions.
Taking advantage of the fact that Bakai was repulsed, Zuo Chi reached into his arms and held the World Rune-Red tightly.
If he wanted to accumulate enough magic power to release the forbidden spell, the World Rune was his last resort.
The movement here attracted the attention of the entire battlefield, looking at the nine Bakai who were instantly repulsed, everyone on the battlefield was looking at Zuo Chi in the sky with stunned eyes.
Although Azir knew that Zuochi had spent a night in Shurima's treasury, he always thought that Zuochi was just doing useless work, and it was impossible for him to learn the forbidden spell, or even release it.
He had never imagined that an ordinary human could possess enough magical reserves to unleash forbidden spells.
Zelas also saw the situation here, he looked at Azir opposite, and there was a bit of inexplicable taste in his tone:
"Azir, I didn't expect that Shurima, who was about to be destroyed, would be able to find him as a helper."
Zelas had personally fought with Zuo Chi, so he recognized at a glance this person who had done bad things to him on the edge of the Great Sai Desert, but he didn't expect that Zuo Chi's strength had actually increased a lot.
When he encountered it before, he didn't have the ability to rub the forbidden spell by hand, otherwise how could he escape so easily.
None of this matters, though!
Zelas knew very well that if it weren't for the fact that the Bakai had approached Zuo Chi just now because of their light enemies, Zuo Chi's forbidden spell would not have been able to inflict extensive damage on them at all.
Now, with the experience just now, you only need to distance yourself from the battle, and you don't have to worry about the situation just happened again.
What's more, Zuo Chi can use a forbidden spell on his own is enough to be perverted, and Zelas doesn't believe that Zuo Chi still has the ability to continue fighting.
At this time, he must have been extremely weak, and he was almost powerless.
All Zelath had to do now was to completely crush the armies of Azir and Shurima not far away, and finally capture Zuochi and transform him into a killing machine like those Bakai.
"Whoosh! Sou! ”
Soon, those Bakai who had been repelled by Zuo Chi before rushed out from under the yellow sand again and came to the sky in front of Zuo Chi.
At this time, many scorch marks had appeared on their bodies made of pure arcane energy, but their aura was still strong.
With their previous experience, this time they did not rush to the left pool again, but surrounded the left pool in the middle with a trap momentum.
A dazzling blue thunderbolt emerged, and all Bakai unleashed a magical attack in the direction where Zuo Chi was.
In the face of these nine attacks, Zuo Chi, whose magic power had not yet been replenished, chose to raise the long knife in his hand and use the long knife to block the attacks of the nine Bakai.
"Boom!"
Zuo Chi's arm bent inward sharply for a few moments, and his body retreated far back.
Fortunately, in the case of long-range use of magic, the strength of these bayes will be reduced to a certain extent, and Zuo Chi can barely withstand the attacks of the nine.
Zuo Chi gritted his teeth to fend off these bay kai's ranged attacks, and he frantically channeled the power of the world runes into his body.
The meridians of his whole body were all burned by the influx of the world's rune power, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted.
As time passed, the wounds on Zuo Chi's body were increasing.
Although he was strong enough to defeat any of them, he faced a full nine!
In the hands of these nine Bakai with demigod strength, his strength is still too small after all.
And the Bakai in the distance watched Zuo Chi always choose to defend but not attack, and then looked at the more and more wounds on his body, and their hearts that had always hung back into their stomachs again.
They knew, just as Zelas thought, because of the previous forbidden spell, Zuo Chi's strength had been drained, and his strength had been reduced to a minimum.
Thinking of this, they no longer had any fears and rushed straight to Zuochi.
However, just when they came to Zuo Chi as before, they suddenly saw a crazy and rampant smile in Zuo Chi's eyes.
"Forbidden Spell: God Descends Thunder Waterfall!"
——
The gazes of Zelas and Azir met in the air, and at this moment, the emperor and the slave who had a common enmity no longer had any reservations.
After determining that Zuochi was no longer capable of fighting, Zelas chose to strike at Azir.
Zelath waved his hand forward, and the army beneath him that had been waiting for a long time rushed towards Shurima's army.
Now that you've decided to crush Azir's hopes, you'll have to crush everything he has!
"Azir, hypocrite, your ability to command armies was, and still is, so weak."
"I'll show you what a real army is!"
At the moment when Zelas's words fell, the army of Believers of Destruction, led by the powerful Desolanders, rushed towards Shurima's army.
Blazing blue energy erupted from the wastewalker's hands, which landed on the sand, triggering a violent explosion in an instant.
On the side of Shurima's army, looking at the army in front of him, which was several times his own, every soldier's hand holding a weapon trembled.
They seem to have foreseen their own end, which is to be buried in the yellow sand along with the city behind them.
However, while the Shurima soldiers were trembling, Azir's deep and majestic voice rang in their ears:
"Everyone, change your weapons to a long bow!"
Hearing Azir's words, everyone's bodies were stunned, and they simply couldn't understand why bows and arrows were being used at such a point in time.
However, looking at Azir's mountain-like figure in the sky, they chose to do so.
And just when they thought that their few mortal army of thousands was about to be directly dispersed by the Destruction Believers of Zeroth, they suddenly felt an extremely terrifying pressure.
Looking up suddenly, they all saw the golden six-pointed star circle emerging in front of His Majesty's body.
Azir stretched out his scepter, his talons in the air, and many golden six-pointed star circles immediately appeared.
The circles swirled on top of each other before slowly descending into the desert between the Cultists of Destruction and the Shurima army.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly, the earth began to tremble, the yellow sand began to boil, and the fine gravel was lifted up by an invisible force, and then began to pile on top of each other.
Under the gaze of the entire battlefield, a soldier with yellow sand appeared, and the spear in his hand was pointed directly at Zelas's army!
Just a few moments later, there were five thousand more Yellow Sand soldiers on the battlefield, and the number was still increasing.
"Boom!"
Soon, the Yellow Sand soldiers at the front collided with Zelas's army.
Soldiers made of yellow sand are highly immune to magical attacks, and while they are still impossible to compete with the mighty Reedwalkers, the advance of the Zelath army is still halted by the accumulation of numbers.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Azir's voice rang out again, and the soldiers of Shurima's army reacted immediately.
This time, they didn't hesitate any longer, drew their bows and arrows, and frantically vented the arrows in their hands towards the enemy in front of them.
Under the rain of arrows, although the ancient magicians on the side of Zelas have been unleashing magic to resist, there are still many believers of destruction who have died in the rain of arrows.
In the sky, the blue flames in the eyes of Zelas, who had witnessed all this, jumped with blue flames, and he had to admit that he had indeed underestimated the only Emperor Shurima in front of him who had ascended after Empress Setaka.
Unlike all the Ascension Gods, Azir not only has the power of Ascension, but he also has the ability to manipulate the sand.
With this ability, Azir is still a large army even if he is alone in the desert.
It's just that it's not enough!
The average Yellow Sand soldier may be enough to fend off the Cult of Destruction, but it will never do any damage to the Defiler or the Ancient Wizard.
What's more, the arrows in the hands of Shurima's army could never be infinite.
After the arrows are fired, they still have to choose to fight the Cultists of Destruction in close combat.
"Boom!"
Zelas unleashed a majestic blast of arcane energy at the Yellow Sand Soldiers, and in the explosion, nearly a thousand Yellow Sand Soldiers were shattered, turning into a cloud of Yellow Sand and unable to stand up.
"Zelas!"
Seeing this, Azir let out a loud shout at Zeroth, and at the same time, the scepter of domination in his hand was filled with an incomparably dazzling ascension force, and his body, which was only three meters long, was rapidly enlarged.
After the power of ascension was fully integrated into Azir's body, Azir's true ascension form was revealed to the world for the first time.
Under the light of the sun, Azir's golden eagle armor shone with dazzling light, and his eagle-like eyes were full of endless killing intent.
"Miscellaneous, come, fight me!"
Zelas looked at Azir in front of him, and a majestic gathering of arcane energy began to gather in his hands, and blue lightning was already all around him.
All he had to do now was to kill the hypocritical emperor in front of him, and then build an empire of his own.
"Boom!"
At that moment, a deafening roar suddenly sounded in Zelas's ears, and he noticed that a dense cloud had appeared in the sky above his head!
Turning his head sharply, there was a deep incredulity in Zelas's eyes.
Because right over there, seeing that Zuo Chi had exhausted his strength and was about to approach him again, the Bakai had once again been shrouded in the forbidden spell released by Zuo Chi.
“.”
Zelas had to admit that he really underestimated Zuo Chi.
But at the same time, he also understands that he must take down the Azir in front of him as quickly as possible, otherwise it will be too late, although the probability is almost none, but who knows if the nine Bakai will really die in the hands of Zuo Chi.
Thousands of years later, the old enemies of Zelas and Azir collided.
The power of the golden ascension collided wildly with the blue arcane energy, and Azir's massive body flipped over, and the scepter of war in his hand continued to slam down on Zelas.
As the most perfect Ascendant in existence, Azir's strength is by no means comparable to that of Nasus and Renekton, so even though Zelas has single-handedly fought against the two brothers, Nasus and Renekton, he feels tremendous pressure when facing Azir.
At this moment, the entire thousand-mile desert outside the imperial capital of Shurima was completely reduced to purgatory on earth.
Once again, a terrible war has befallen the continent of Shurima, and this time the scale is no weaker than the previous one.
The battle between Nasus, Renekton, and Cassadine and the three Bakai continued, and for them to be evenly matched, it really took a certain amount of time and price to kill each other in a short period of time.
Zuochi was once again surrounded by the nine Bakai, and this time, no one dared to approach Zuochi again.
These Bakai's bodies were already covered with scorched marks, and even their originally bright bodies had become much darker, and perhaps it would only take one more forbidden bombardment to completely lose their ability to fight.
At this time, they surrounded Zuo Chi in the middle, constantly throwing various attacks at him.
They had already seen that even if they didn't get close to Zuo Chi and just used a ranged attack, they could still grind Zuo Chi to death, but it would be much slower.
But it's clear that it's worth the extra time compared to being killed by a forbidden curse.
All you need to do is enclose the left pool in the middle, and if the left pool advances, they will retreat, and when the left pool retreats, they will continue to keep the encirclement.
In this way, it is definitely only a matter of time before Zuo Chi is consumed.
In the encirclement, after using the forbidden spell again, Zuo Chi's wheezing sound had become heavier and heavier, and even resisting the attacks of the nine Bakai had become very difficult.
Under Bakai's attack, the wounds on his body are becoming more and more numerous.
He had to admit that at this time, he was facing the strongest enemy he had ever faced.
There are nine demigods, and each of them is extremely powerful, enough to compare with the orthodox ascension god like Nasus.
Holding the World Rune tightly in his hand, Zuo Chi struggled, and the level of magic that Ruiz had unleashed before suddenly came to his mind.
Although he only had one World Rune in his hand, which was far less terrifying than the three Ryze, he knew very well that even if it was only one-third of his strength, it was still enough!
It's just that with such a level of world rune power, the price to be paid should be terrifying.
Even Ruiz has completely lost the ability to fight, so what about him, he has just learned rune magic, and what price will he pay.
What's more, next to the battlefield is the Imperial Capital of Shurima!
"Boom!"
Again, Zuo Chi was knocked back hundreds of meters by the force of the nine Bakai together, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood.
The marks on his eyebrows overlapped and flickered with each other, and many ancient god phantoms appeared behind Zuo Chi.
Each of these phantoms had a huge body tens of meters high, and the first time they appeared, the terrifying coercion filled the heavens and the earth.
Zuo Chi held the world rune alof, and a thick light shield of red light spread towards the entire battlefield, and soon the entire battlefield was completely enveloped.
Zuo Chi must be able to kill with one hit, and also prevent the aftermath of the spill from spreading to the imperial capital of Shurima.
However, Zuo Chi did not invoke the power of the world runes at the first time, but still delayed.
He was keeping an eye on the other four battlefields, because if one battlefield gained an advantage and killed the people on Zeroth's side, they could send aid to his side.
That way, his pressure can be greatly reduced, and he can struggle a little more.
On the other side, on the battlefield between Azir and Zelas.
Just like Nasus and the others and the three Baquet, Zelas and Azir couldn't defeat each other in a short period of time.
Both of them seemed to want to unleash all their hatred that had accumulated for thousands of years on each other, and each of their attacks did their best, leaving no hands spared.
However, although the battle between the two commanders was inconclusive, the war of the armies below was one-sided after a brief balance of power.
After all, Shurima's Yellow Sand soldiers could not resist the footsteps of the Desolate Wanderer and the Ancient Demon Guide, and they had already come to the distance of Shurima's army.
It may not be long before Shurima's army of only a thousand men will be completely slaughtered.
And this scene is something that Azir doesn't want to see anyway.
Because he knew very well that once Shurima's army was slaughtered, then Zelath's army would have to face the civilians of Shurima in the imperial capital of Shurima!
At this point, Azir could only devote his attention to summoning the Yellow Sand soldiers again, and the number of summons was very large.
However, in this already evenly matched battle, his distraction was enough to push him to the point of no return.
"Boom!"
A surge of arcane energy slammed into Azir's body, and his body flew upside down hundreds of meters, slamming into the sand.
"Azir, hypocrite, what a foolish thing to do!"
Without giving Azir any respite, Zeroth's attack rained down on Azir like a storm.
For a moment, the place where Azir was was completely overwhelmed by the sea of arcane energy, and he couldn't even stand up under the bombardment of this force.
Gradually, Azir has been cornered by Zelas to the edge of the light mask summoned by Zuochi.
"Bang!"
Hitting the light again, Azir's body slipped off the mask and sat on the yellow sand, gasping heavily.
It was at this time that Zelas came to Azir and grabbed him by the neck.
"Hypocrite, when did you start caring about the lives of these ants?"
Zelas's power poured out of his hands and instantly spread to Azir's body, who let out a low roar of pain.
"Zeroth, you damn it!"
"Damn it, Azir, you're the one who betrayed you!"
Zelas said, his tone creeping to the brink of a rampage, as if he was recalling something he didn't want to recall.
With Zelas in the neck, Azir turned his head with great difficulty, his eyes on Zuo Chi in the distant sky.
It was also at this moment that Zuo Chi's eyes flashed with a look of heaviness and determination.
He knew he had to make a move.
It's just that he doesn't know what price he will pay for this war, and whether he is right to do so.
Obviously, he told Aatrox that if the situation was not for him, he would run away.
But in the current situation, how can he run away.
The hand holding the world rune was trembling violently, Zuo Chi's eyes began to gradually become bloodshot, and the sound of his heart beating became even more visible.
Gradually, the terrifying power of the world runes began to surge out without limits, as if an extremely terrifying apocalyptic storm was brewing.
Azir was pinched by Zeros, his hands gripping Zeroth's arms, his eyes still steadfast.
"Boom!"
Azir suddenly heard a violent roar behind him.
He looked towards Zuochi, but he found that it wasn't from Zuochi.
"Boom!"
Another roar was heard, and it began to grow more and more intense.
Suddenly, Azir felt Zeroth's grip on his neck snap loose, and he looked up and stared at the light mask behind him.
"Boom!"
Another roar came, and Azir only felt an incomparably majestic force coming from behind him, and he and Zelas were directly blasted out by this force and crashed into the battlefield below.
The eyes of the entire battlefield were focused on the place where the roar came.
There, a large hole was broken through the mask, and the harsh sunlight from the outside shone in.
In the shadow of the sun, more than a dozen figures standing side by side appeared in everyone's sight.
And the leader is a tall figure with wings on his back and a blood-colored giant sword!
(End of chapter)