Chapter One Thousand and Thirteen

The crosssword drew a spiral smoothly in the air, and the clash of magic and flame rattled and grinded—even if the moment of the exchange was so brief, the tooth-aching sound lingered...... Ariel's brow furrowed, and he switched his sword to his left hand. The huge vibration from the sword body was unimaginable, especially in the rush to block all the tentacles attacking the two of them, it was inevitable that she would lose the strength of her hand, and the series of vibrations made her wrist sore, and she could barely hold the sword for a while.

It's not impossible to kill it, but it necessarily consumes a lot of power, and most importantly, there is no time. Now that it has lost its speed, I can only find a way to distract it...... Anyway, the transparent crystal walls, just behind the dark monsters. Just get Edward there, and he can at least do something......

"You go first!"

The crosssword spun out in an arc behind his back, once again smashing open three rounded black energy tentacles, and the noise of friction drowned out Ariel's words...... The six wings of the Blazing Sky Servant spread out and soared upward! But at that moment, the sharp pain that exploded from one of the wings made her grunt!

The darkness that flew away in her eyes shook her heart...... Obviously, she didn't expect that the tentacles that had been severed by this activation spell had not dissipated directly, but were still under the control of that spell! Although most of the energy from the body had dissipated, and the damage to her wings was not severe, but on her side, the activated destruction orb had already stretched and elongated, wrapped from one side!

If encased in it, the energy of magic. Will erode his body into ashes......

You have to get out of the way......

But it's too late......

What is there to help......

Edward......

The darkness widened before my eyes, and countless thoughts rushed through in an instant, but none of them seemed to be able to help me out of this predicament—and there was a blank slate. It seems that only that name remains.

"Well, as the proverb goes, tentacles are the natural enemies of a female knight and a female angel...... Once you run into them, it's easy to miss and get caught. ”

The man's voice rang in her head, and then, with a pair of arms around her shoulders, pulled her away from the darkness...... The voice is still weird, but with some mockery. But inexplicably, the corners of Ariel's mouth curled silently, "There's such a weird proverb there......" she said softly.

Although the danger seems to be creeping around, it doesn't seem to matter anymore......

Darkness swept around him, as if it were nothing more than a cloud of smoke. And the crystal wall was already close at hand! Then the wind howled in the space suddenly and violently! Edward's hand stepped forward, and collided with the wall with a crisp crack. A small piece of space above the pale five fingers had been twisted, torn, and collapsed in the light! Hold this frenzied spatial rift in your hands.

A rumbling roar shook the space. The walls were pulled and shaken like frost into strange ripple shapes, and finally exploded into countless powders! The dust was scattered, and a gap more than a person wide had appeared in the wall! However, as soon as the crack opened, it began to twist and squeeze like a living thing, and in the blink of an eye, it had already closed halfway! The narrow gap had a strange shape, what position did the two people use...... Well, it's the action that can't be passed either!

"Hell!" the psychic cursed in his heart.

While it seemed that it would take one more shot to open enough gaps, his blow just now was extraordinary. That's the invocation of divine power with spiritual power...... A kind of imitation of the space god, but after all, it is not the real god power - in a hurry. Just using it for a little bit already gave him a splitting headache, and his mind was churning like boiling water!

The point is, these walls are not made of divine power as he imagined, but real crystals - although the colored light flowing from them is indeed divine power, but it is extremely weak, and it can only ensure that these crystals can have the strength to support this superstructure that looks like the Tower of Babel.

However, this faint divine power had good fluidity, and the moment he touched it dissipated and faded, and when his spiritual power broke through the wall, it quickly returned!

Is this a means of dealing specifically with yourself?

I didn't have time to think too much, and the space on both sides was blocked by colorful flashes of light—the brief pause was enough for a few giant activation spells around to react, and they rushed forward without hesitation!

"That's right, I'll use you for it!"

The spiritual power silk wool generally unfolded layer by layer, weaving a solid invisible wall around the body, and the smart and cruising outer layer and the ruined energy intertwined into colorful fireworks, but the eruption-like tentacles were also attracted and slid towards the crack in the wall!

There was a loud roar! A roar of the storm followed! A surging wave of air pushed the bodies of the two men, and in an instant they had passed through the hollow that had been expanded, and rushed into the tower!

"Hell ......"

The defense woven by the spiritual power was slammed into the hard obstruction, and the soft flick unleashed, freeing the two of them, and the psychic warlock's throat swelled, forcibly swallowing the fishy sweet blood in his throat into his stomach. Take another deep breath and lift your gaze.

In front of me is a huge, immensely vast world.

The unusually gorgeous and smooth crystals stretched outward from both sides behind him, forming a slightly curved wall, but whether it was the wall or the ground under his feet, each crystal had an unpolished roughness, and the uneven surface reflected the brilliance of the magic lamp, covering the entire space with a layer of vague iridescent. And the space in front of him is so vast and empty, even Edward's eyesight can't see the edge of the space hidden in a piece of colored light!

"How are you?" a concerned whisper caused Edward to withdraw his gaze and meet the golden eyes, but the latter immediately looked away, "No...... It's fine, but ...... It doesn't seem like Azus is here......"

"Hey. There's no one here, what kind of arrogant are you playing...... None of the properties are ......"

"What?"

"Oops!"

The faint sound of wind and screams interrupted the unreliable communication between the two, and then the red light was seen through the tiny holes in the wall behind them. Then they gathered into the figure of Glesia.

"It's so dangerous, I thought I was going to die...... What the hell is that broken tree for, at this time to say that it has no strength?"

The princess of the devil, who seemed unharmed, gasped softly, and even stretched out her small tongue like a puppy, but the exaggerated performance made one suspect that she was only trying to let Edward see her plump breasts trembling: "Strange, there seems to be no shadow of Azus here?" There's something over there? Oops......"

Her words drew the two of them into the distance, but she pulled them back with a scream, watching the princess half-crouch on the ground. Exaggerated complaint: "I can't fly, it seems that there is a forbidden space here!"

"It's true that you can't fly. Ariel said.

Edward frowned, but he didn't care about the gloomy air around him, but the looming sight. A spiral that stretches upwards.

Staircase?

No. No.

In fact, when the three of them had crossed the distance of nearly three miles, the staircase had expanded into a massive structure that occupied almost the center of the view, closer to a tall tower...... The length of the 'steps' was close to 100 feet, transparent and pure, and they were stacked into an upward spiral by some kind of force, and in those long steps, a faint blue light was projected, and there was a bit of solemnity in the colorful background. But it allows one to see the zenith on it that gradually disappears into the hazy colored light, but the gaze is simply lifted. It inevitably produces a feeling of vertigo.

It's as if he's just an ant wandering around a human house.

"How long have we been walking?" asked Ariele, but as soon as she spoke, she was startled, and her crisp voice turned into an incomparably hollow echo that reverberated through the open enclosed space and eventually became a palpitating rumble.

"What, you know you're in a hurry?"

Glesia sneered, and she walked lightly towards the stairs, but she did not forget to stretch her arms lazily, so that the waves in her chest were turbulent again:

"No way, this is already the realm of Azus, if he wants to, even if he wants to turn the distance of a mile into ten thousand miles, and besides, he can completely twist the space to create an endless corridor that we can't perceive, and trap us here completely, according to Yugahitra, he even has mastered the law of time in this space, so if he wants, a few breaths can be used for a few years......"

The sensational parts of the Devil Princess's words made Ariel's brow furrow—of course, the Blazing Priest had a very precise grasp of the rhythm, and she knew that from breaking the wall into the tower and coming here at full speed, the three of them only moved on the scale of three hourglasses, which was not a long time. But these times are too long for a god,

"It's not so exaggerated, the time in the space is solidified from the beginning, and with Azus's ability, at most he can adjust the magnification, and turning a day into a year is already the biggest process," Edward looked up, and the 'steps' in front of him were getting bigger and bigger, "And I always felt that his attention still didn't seem to fall on us, at least not seriously." ”

"Or is he just trying to trap us?" Gracia suddenly reached out and fanned her cheek, "It's been so long, it's really ...... Hey, do you think it's so hot in here?"

The question went unanswered.

The devil's doppelganger is nothing but an image of an energy structure, so what kind of hot and cold feeling is there? Even if it is a devil's body, it is also a constitution that is immune to flames, so it is impossible to care about this problem. Not to mention that the Sixth Hell of Glesia is itself a volcanic wasteland full of magma, so how could she care about whether it is hot or not?

"Hey, it's really hot. The ignored princess raised her voice, and she suddenly approached the Psychic Warlock, allowing him to see the shiny drops of sweat on the tip of her nose, "Don't you all feel it?"

"You can bear with it. The Psychic Warlock ignored the princess's frivolous actions and walked to the front of the steps. He looked closely at the jewel-like staircase, "Or, it would be cooler in a higher place?"

"Really. You're just letting me find my way!Demon!I hate you!" The Devil Princess's beautiful face distorted at once, but the cold in it was in contrast to the Psychiatric Warlock's silver eyes, and the cold in them made her shudder—the difference in strength between them was so far apart at the moment, and there was no task for her to do, and no one could guarantee that this guy would not absorb her to replenish her strength.

So, with a slight curse, she could only jump up the ladder. Then there is the second order, the third order.

The first ten orders seem to be safe.

He glanced at Ariel, and Edward stepped forward. Start the climb...... But after stepping through the third step, his steps suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" asked Iriel, but the Psychic had already reached out to pull her up and jumped straight down the stairs to the ground!

"It's so simple. And. We seem to have been fooled......" He looked around and smiled.

"Let's put it simply...... What kind of means are needed to guide a person's actions?"

The angels and demons were looking at him, so Edward sighed and asked.

"Whip them!" Glesia pouted, noticing the man's movements, and she jumped from it in a hurry, only to find that nothing had happened...... The feeling of being tricked again made her even more resentful of this person's 'bad taste'. A pair of red eyes turned endlessly, as if to think about where it would be better to whip the whip on the man.

Don't let me take my chances. Otherwise, be sure to whipped every inch of your skin with a razor vine whip......!

"Of course, coercive commands are the simplest and most direct, but they are also the least efficient......"

The princess's blatantly vicious thoughts naturally could not hide the psychic man's tentacles, but he didn't have the heart to entangle with her, but explained slowly: "The human mind is very interesting, and although it will give in when it is pressed by force, it will inevitably resist. Coercive means, if there is no force as a constraint, will often not only be regarded as the wind in the ear, but also have the opposite effect. ”

"So, it's better to seduce, huh?"

"Can you get him finished?"

Ireel stared at Glesia with a furrowed brow, her voice like a frosty spike - for this devil princess, the Blazing Divine Attendant did not retain a bit of superficial etiquette like Elena, and if it weren't for the fact that this devil princess seemed to be of some use to Edward's next actions, she would have solved this hidden danger that could cause trouble with a single sword.

But for some reason, the psychic didn't seem to be impatient, and began to answer Glesia's words slowly:

"Seduction is a better way. As long as there is a benefit that the goal needs, it will naturally make him act obediently. He closed his eyes slightly, and his voice suddenly carried a subtle and almost inaudible buzzing sound: "It's just that this method has special requirements, and if you can't give the other party the benefits that you really care about, then it will be difficult to lure the other party into being fooled." Therefore, the more advanced way is to manipulate people's subconscious. ”

The surroundings suddenly fell silent for a while, and only the voice of the man slowly echoed around them:

"It's like creating a desert around you, even if it's not hot and it's not dry, people start to feel thirsty very quickly...... And in an open area, it is easy for people to gather near a possible exit. If you fall into a desert with no end, you may wait to die in the same place, but if you draw a path on the ground, you will subconsciously follow that path, whether it is a real way out, or just a trap. It's subconscious......"

So, like the road in the desert, in an open space with only the ground and walls, a ladder suddenly appeared, and people subconsciously wanted to climb it...... So we shouldn't climb up?"

Glesia smiled and continued to ask questions.

Her smile was like a flower, but her red gaze was slightly stagnant. Stared at Ariel, who was standing quietly in front of him—the Blazing Divine Servant lowered his gaze as if listening to the man's words, but one hand was slightly constricted, and his five fingers were brought together......

She didn't have a sword in her hand, but if something unexpected happened, it could naturally be a cross sword burning with holy flames in her hand.

As a result, the princess of the devil can only concentrate quietly on the spirit.

"Of course it's not right to climb up, but not to climb...... It's also not right. Edward said.

He spoke slowly, but the subtle hum in the words was like a metal thump. And as soon as his words fell, the subtle clicking sound began to spread under his feet! On the colored spar, countless black-gray cracks stretched outward like spider webs, but in an instant, they had already expanded to a range of hundreds of feet!

Down!

Although he walked in through the wall at the bottom of the tower when he was outside, space is a very wonderful thing - who can be sure that the 'up' seen on the outside must be the 'up' on the inside?

Rumble!

Thick smoke and dust erupted from the cracks in the collapsed crystals, and the colorful crystals had instantly faded all colors, and a little red was cracking from the brilliant smoke! (To be continued......