Chapter 11: The Crystal Cage
At this time, tens of thousands of white bone soldiers had lost seventy-seven eighty-eight, and only a small part remained in the rear to guard all kinds of large-scale war equipment. There was a fire on the tragic battlefield, forming a wall of fire about 100 meters wide between the Dark Church and the Forest City, although it was raining heavily in the sky, but due to the fact that too much fuel was sprinkled on the treeman's body, coupled with the black magic fire after the bone warrior blew himself up, the heavy rain lasted for half an hour, and the fire finally gradually decreased.
This half-hour served as a small buffer between the battle between the Atlanteans and the Dark Church, and both sides took advantage of this time to catch their breath and plan their next steps. On the side of the Dark Church, after a period of preparation, with the efforts of several elders and dark mages, a large cloud of black smoke finally erupted from the page of the second page of the Necronomicon in succession, and these black smoke gathered and did not disperse, gradually condensing in front of the people of the Dark Church into the form of knights riding on high war horses.
Unlike the previously summoned Skeleton Legion, the Necro Knight summoned on page 2 of the Necrochanomic Book is equipped with a uniform black armor and a black knight's mask, and the armor and helmet wrap the head and body tightly, making it impossible to see the face and body. The horses under the crotch of the Necro Knight are also uniformly wrapped in black armor and masked, revealing only strong legs and black ponytails.
On the whole, this is clearly a heavy cavalry regiment, each necromantic knight is armed with a spear, a long sword hanging from his waist, a large shield on his back, and a short knife tied to his legs, looking neatly equipped and murderous.
On the side of the Atlanteans, the treeman warriors used to defend against the Bone Legion have been wiped out, and seeing that the opponent in the distance has mysteriously summoned a group of heavy armored cavalry, seemingly preparing to launch a second wave of offensive with the remnants of the Bone Warriors and siege equipment, the big leader calmly ordered the other leaders to prepare to meet the second wave of the opponent's attack according to the pre-plan.
In fact, the Atlanteans did not expect that the invaders would have such a strong strength, not only consumed all the spar shells, consumed some of the energy of the protective shield, and even wiped out their own powerful treant warriors. However, as an ancient civilization that lasted for 10,000 years, the Atlanteans naturally had other hole cards, and under the order of the Great Elder, several leaders took out a mysterious liaison from their arms, and under their orders, a huge crack suddenly appeared in the ground on the square in the center of the city!
As the crack opened to both sides, a wide staircase leading into the depths of the ground was revealed.
Deep underground, a strange sound was suddenly heard. As the sound of metal grinding got closer and closer to the ground, a large head made of metal finally emerged!
If I had seen it with my own eyes at this moment, I would have said that the Atlanteans would also make Gundam fighters. It turns out that the one who emerged from the ground was a tall robot with an Atlantean warrior hiding inside!
These robots are simple in shape, just a simple humanoid form, and even the facial features of the head are not obvious. Hidden in the belly of this massive robot, which is nearly fifty meters high, hides an Atlantean warrior who controls its movements, and these warriors control the giant robots powered by high-energy crystals through "joint function sensors" attached to their bodies and limbs, which Atlantis calls "creators".
When the "creator" was created 10,000 years ago, it was mainly used for heavy labor work such as urban construction and energy mining, similar to the various large machines currently used by humans, but the Atlanteans further anthropomorphized and comprehensiveized it.
The bodies of these robots are mainly made of steel, and under the skin of steel there are various steel bars and energy pipes similar to those of the human body. The super crystals that provide the energy of the robots are all natural energy collected from the world by the Atlanteans 10,000 years ago, and mainly rely on high-density electricity.
This super crystal is different from ordinary energy crystals, it is also a high-level storage battery that can be extracted from heat and light energy and converted into electrical energy, and these robots have been absorbing the heat energy from magma deep underground until now.
The invasion of the Dark Church has changed the original mission of these "creators", and with the help of their hard steel skin and immense strength, they have become a battlefield killer against the second wave of attacks of the dark church. One by one, the creators carried their axes that had been used for logging and reloaded to the sound of metal joints moving, and one by one they came out of the ground, and when all the creators were assembled, the total number was close to two hundred.
The fires on the battlefield were finally extinguished, leaving a field of black char and isolated white broken bones. When the smoke cleared, the Dark Church saw clearly that on the outskirts of the other city, hundreds of steel robots up to 50 meters high had appeared!
Seeing this, everyone, including Ogugins, was a little dumbfounded. A member of the Dark Church whispered to himself, "Fuck, what a pervert, and Transformers!"
On the side of the Dark Church, there are more than 800 heavily armed necromantic knights and some remaining skeleton warriors, who seem a little small in the face of the other party's tall "creator", but Ogugins is still confident, and orders the dark elder to order the charge again!
Eight hundred iron horsemen led by a knight of the golden spear slaughtered towards the battlefield with great vigour, facing the elite heavy knights, the Atlantean warriors riding in the creator's body did not realize the danger coming, and also struggled to operate the robot to face it head-on.
In the face of the huge and towering creators, these necromantic knights were undaunted, until they charged nearly a few hundred meters in front of the creator, stepping on the coke and embers under their feet, the necromantic knights suddenly turned into clouds of black smoke!
The clouds of black smoke converged in the air, and soon formed a tall human form, even slightly taller than the creator. After the black smoke finally formed and solidified, it turned into a huge sword-wielding warrior with a blurred face more than twenty meters high!
Dressed in black and gold armor and helmets in the shape of ancient Roman warriors, these warriors also had black manes raised high, and charged towards the creator with heavy swords nearly ten meters long in both hands.
The melee ensued, and the creators wielded their battle axes and slaughtered the swords of these heavy sword warriors transformed by necromantic knights. When the creator's tomahawk slashed at these heavy sword warriors, the blue electricity that surged on the tomahawk tore open the body of the heavy sword samurai and turned it into a large cloud of black smoke again, and these black smoke were re-condensed and became a complete samurai again, but the re-condensed samurai was not as strong and tall as before.
The samurai's heavy sword slashed behind the creator's body, leaving a deep wound on the opponent's thick steel body, and from the deep wound inside, large currents shot out from time to time.
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Just as the Dark Church and the Atlanteans were fighting to the death on the outskirts of Forest City, deep underground, I finally woke up in agony with a splitting headache. Damn, I don't know what that masked and armor-piercing Atlantis threw at me, and I didn't even see what it was before I fell down!
, so if that Atlantean wants to be against me, he can do it in an instant! That's terrifying, I thought. My head was still cloudy, and I observed my environment, damn it, I was already in a crystal cage.
The cage containing me is like a birdcage made of crystal, with a golden crystal as the cage skeleton, the transparent crystal seals me in the cage like tempered glass, the whole birdcage is hung in the air by a thick black and gold iron chain, and below is a bright magma, because this crystal cage can isolate the heat from the outside, people are not hot in it at all.
I looked around, and on top of the bubbling red magma, there were five identical crystal cages hanging from the cage that contained me, and the five crystal cages were hanging in the air exactly at the top corner of the pentagon. From a visual distance, the magma under his feet is only a dozen meters away from the cage, and the top layer of the cave above his head is several hundred meters.
Each cage was about seventy or eighty meters apart, and since they were all transparent, I could see that the other three cages were empty, except for the one directly opposite me, and there was a person locked up like me! I looked closely, and the man was bald, wearing a big black coat, lying on his stomach in the cage and sleeping with his eyes closed.
In the center of the magma below the five cages, a huge black object can be faintly seen soaked in red magma, and the black object is wrapped with many thick white and gold iron locks, each of which sticks out a dozen or so connected to the surrounding rock walls, and if you look closely, the black object is roughly like a huge centipede, and above the brain there are two horns sticking out.
Seeing this scene, my heart jumped, could it be that the black object soaked in the magma and entangled in iron locks was the body of a devil from another space ten thousand years ago? More than a dozen white and gold iron chains bound to black objects were tied to some large spars of different colors on the cave wall, and these huge spars were firmly embedded in the cave wall diagonally above the head and flashed colorful light, the light of a few spars had dimmed slightly, and a few spars were still shining.
Just as I was observing my surroundings and thinking about it, the masked Atlantean flew down from overhead, and he flew to the outside of the crystal cage where I was locked and took out a small diamond-shaped water crystal and inserted it into a recess on the crystal cage, a figure with runes appeared on the crystal wall on the side of the crystal cage, and I saw that he pressed it a few times, and a small hole appeared in the wall.
Through this small hole, he telepathically said to me, "Outsider, the Great Leader has ordered you to be imprisoned here for the time being, so you can wait here honestly. Don't try to escape, or we're welcome. ”
I didn't know what to say, but I was a little unhappy that I had become a prisoner and his sudden attack, so I deliberately asked him telepathically, "What if I want to eat and drink Lazar?" Unexpectedly, the other party replied coldly: "If you don't eat or drink, Lasa will solve it on the spot." ”
! I didn't expect the Atlanteans to treat their captives favorably, and if I were to be locked up in this crystal cage for a long time, I would definitely starve to death and suffocate to death. Damn, fortunately, Lao Tzu doesn't have an urgency to urinate now. Hey, I suddenly regretted it, why did I have to follow Heidi to this Atlantis city of Raush, and became a prisoner who couldn't eat or drink.
In this way, I sat bored in this crystal cage for a long time, there was no sound around me, and the bald head in the cage opposite kept lying still,, I don't know how long the Atlanteans will keep me in prison, and I don't know what the situation is outside.
In this lonely situation, anyway, there was nothing to do, so I began to meditate again, and the huge Jiaolong True Yuan filled with my body still needed a long time to digest and absorb, and I gradually settled down and sank my consciousness into the sea of spirit, as if the space around me suddenly expanded infinitely.
As the infinitely magnified sense of space continued to expand deeper and farther in my consciousness, for some reason, this time I felt a completely different feeling than before. In the past, although there was also a sense of amplification of space, consciousness did not have any repression and restraint in this constantly expanding space, and it was able to feel the fresh breath freely in the space of consciousness and be able to go out of the body, similar to a strong sense of liberation.
It's a pity that this time is a little different, although the consciousness space is expanding, but there is a strong depression in my mind, similar to a feeling of suffocation that I can't breathe the outside air, and the Yuan Shen has an obvious intuition that is confined, as if all the doors to the outside world are locked, and I can only turn around in my own house.
In this case, I guess that it is the crystal cage outside my body that completely isolates me from the outside world that causes this depression and closure, and even my primordial spirit is confined and cannot enter or exit. I tried a few more times, and finally I was completely desperate, it seems that the person who designed this crystal cage must have already designed all kinds of situations in the first place, let alone my little primordial god who is not very proficient.
After completely giving up the outward temptation, I didn't know what to do for a while. According to the original cultivation routine, after entering the meditation, they all feel and connect with the energy and information in the outside world and even the universe, so as to cultivate the spirit and carry out enlightenment, but when the outside world has been isolated, the original spirit can only be trapped in the physical body, so it can only not do what he thinks and go with the flow.
When all my thoughts gradually calmed down, the consciousness immersed in my mind slowly became chaotic, due to the passive confinement, I suddenly lost the direction of concentration, in this helplessness, I had to run the true yuan in the body over and over again, maintaining the natural operation of the Great Zhou Tiangong, and the ideology slowly became numb, allowing the qi in the body to naturally pass through the body.
In this way, the consciousness in my head gradually became numb, as if my head was empty, and the whole person was like a dead tree sitting on the ground, and all the vitality was hidden in the body, forming a special world where I was alone.
Later, I always wondered if this confirmed the idea of "ruling by doing nothing" in Taoist cultivation.