In the barren wilderness shrouded in darkness and mist, an abandoned nameless ancient city lurks silently on the land, where desolate ancient stones and rotten metal remains stand silently in the cold wind, as if guarding some secret after the death of civilization.In the center of this ruin, the long-extinguished furnace fire device pointed straight to the sky, and there was no trace of heat in the pitch-black tower.Near the furnace fire device, thousands of monsters corrupted by chaos quietly gathered, these berserk creatures that usually only continued to move blindly or fight fiercely were now quiet as pilgrims, they watched the furnace tower in the dark, not moving at all, strange and inexplicable.Such a scene had never been heard of even by the old knight Maurice, and no one even mentioned it in the ancient archives of the royal family.Veronica and her knights hid behind a low wall, each armed with full armor and swords, waiting for the moment to strike.This distance was the safe distance that the old knight had determined after several discussions with her: corrupted monsters had subtle perceptions, they were affected by the power of Chaos, but they were not fully transformed, so they could not be compared to ordinary Chaos minions.Outside of a certain range, they are deaf and stupid, but within a certain range (some scholars refer to this range as the "domination zone" of corrupted monsters), their perception is almost a hundred times stronger than that of ordinary humans, and they have the ability to directly "sniff" the breath of life like Chaos minions.Therefore, when ambushing Chaos monsters, distance is quite important.The knights carefully lowered their bodies, and although all of them had been through a lot of battles, these people were still quite nervous.Each of them has an imperceptible glimmer floating on their bodies, and this glimmer is the effect of the Order Charm: the power of the holy relic is like a lighthouse in the chaos, and naturally it cannot be obtained here, so the knights have all activated their Order Charm now like Veronica.They are like astronauts in spacesuits on emergency missions in space, and they have to complete the task of igniting a fire in order to survive with an extremely limited amount of time to move, which can cause a lot of stress.As for that holy artifact, Hao Ren had already taken it away temporarily, not that he felt sorry for the plate of the No. 5 Plastic Factory, but that thing's attraction to corrupted monsters was really huge, and if a corrupt monster with a "nose" sensed the location of the plate by accident, the whole lure plan would be abandoned.As time went on, the knights became more and more nervous, and the duration of the amulet of order was limited, so this lurking became the most testing thing for patience, courage, and discipline.The old knight tilted his head slightly to look at Veronica, and the meaning of the inquiry in his eyes was very clear: "Your Royal Highness, can that 'Ancient Guardian' really be reliable?"
”Veronica looked back with a determined gaze, but no one knew if her heart was as firm as her own expression.She looked up at the other side of the square.There, the collapsed walls of the building created an open gap, as if a giant monster had once rampaged into the square, and from the gap to the outside of the ruins there was an almost unobstructed pathway, the gap was the best way to lure away the monsters in the square.Veronica waited silently, for the agreed action to begin.After an excruciating silence, there was a light on the other side of the gap."
Boom!"
Two earth-shattering explosions were the beginning of the whole operation - Lord "Ancient Guardian" seemed to be quite skilled in the spells of fire and storm, and his attacks were always so fierce and terrifying, as the grand explosion and fire tore through the night, Veronica saw two stone buildings at the edge of the square fly almost entirely, and the shattered stone and metal rained down on several monsters near the breach, hitting the ugly and twisted monsters like broken sacks.The sudden attack caused all the monsters in the square to fall into panic and consternation - no matter what their strange silence was before, anyway, now they were all interrupted, these monsters with little reason to speak of were suddenly controlled by madness and anger, and the terrifying roars came from every direction, and several huge demon bears slapped away the weak monsters around them with a slap, and roared angrily in the direction of the explosion: these chaotic monsters didn't have much fear and reason to speak of, Most of them do not analyze the strength of their enemies or whether they are deceitful, and the only thing they can think of in the face of such an act that provokes their majesty is destruction!
At that moment, a figure jumped out of the smoke of the explosion, and Veronica clearly heard the angry shout: "Grandchildren!!
”This was followed by a continuous explosion of some kind of powerful beam attack, and the monsters at the edge of the square were swept to the ground by the beam.The corrupted monsters were completely enraged, and only to hear a roar of rage resounding through the sky, heavy footsteps rang out in a chaotic manner, and almost all the monsters in the square turned their heads to look at the gap, and then ran wildly.Veronica felt the ground shake under her feet, and even the ruined buildings beside her made a creaking and shaking sound, and the knights around her looked at each other in shock, and someone muttered in a low voice: "Goddess bless ......"
It was not the first time they had seen Hao Ren toss this kind of movement, but the combat style of the Demolitionist is not something you can get used to once or twice: the knights are still inevitably moved in the face of this kind of violent force purely for destruction.Thousands of monsters rumbled towards the gap in the square, and soon Veronica's vision widened, and the Tower of Fire stood hundreds of meters away in the night, and there was not much shelter between her and the tower.But not all monsters have been led away - as Hao Ren and Her Royal Highness the Princess expected before, not every monster "eats ridicule", corrupted monsters are the product of chaos pollution, so all kinds of abnormal mutations are also one of their major characteristics: some monsters will stubbornly stick to the spot even in the face of provocation, while some more powerful monsters are a little more vigilant, when more than 90% of the monsters are led away by Hao Ren, those mutated or more "smart" guys still stay on the field, They spun around in circles, somewhat confused, as the last threat around the fire.The princess knight's sword is unsheathed: "Charge with me!"
”The knights immediately lifted the blackout spell on the blade, and a bright silver light immediately flashed from the darkness, and dozens of people jumped out of the low wall, roaring and rushing towards the tower of fire in the center of the square.The monsters reacted as soon as the humans entered their "Domination Zone", roaring at each other, catching up with Veronica and the knights at an astonishing speed, and slamming into each other solidly.In Veronica's field of vision, only the dark and heavy square tower in front of her was her target, and the fire was like a lighthouse in the dark night guiding the direction of the knight princess, she charged, the long sword in her hand swept to the side, and a wrist-painful impact came from the blade, and a black wolf-like monster was directly violently knocked out by Her Royal Highness the princess.The black wolf's flying figure in mid-air quickly cracked, and a pale silver light burst out from the wound on its abdomen, and the entire corpse was almost burned to ashes when it landed.Veronica continued to move forward, and after retracting the long sword, she felt her arms tingle faintly: if it was a normal fight, eliminating a corrupted black wolf would be a trivial matter for her, but it was not a sword kill like this, in order to save time, she used the knight's physical explosive ability, which brought extraordinary consumption and counter-damage.But it's getting closer and closer to the Tower of Fire."
Don't waste time with these monsters," Morion's voice rang out loudly beside him, "Defend the formation, cover the princess to go to the fire!"
”At this time, all the corrupt monsters remaining in the square and the surrounding streets and alleys have been alarmed, and the more and more monsters around it even make Veronica can't help but suspect that the guys who were lured away by Hao Ren just now have run back - of course this is impossible, but the original corrupt monsters in the square are huge, even if Hao Ren leads away ninety percent of them, if the remaining ten percent are gathered together, it will be a cold sweat situation.It's like what Veronica sees right now.Thirty meters from the fire.The wounded knights were replaced in the inner layers of the queue and continued to support the battle with military crossbows, while the other knights formed a powerful escort at Veronica's side, slashing a bloody path through the monsters, and the corrupted monsters pounced on them layer by layer, gnawing and tearing at the lines formed by the flesh and blood in primitive and brutal ways, and then slashed back layer by layer by these battle-hardened warriors, leaving behind a trail of burning ashes and human blood.There are ten meters left.Veronica felt that victory was in sight, and although the pressure was mounting, she felt that it was no longer a problem for her and the knights to break through this last bit of distance, and she couldn't help but start worrying about the situation of the "Ancient Guardian".She looked up in the direction of the outside of the town, as if trying to find the Guardian and the thousands of terrifying monsters in the darkness.Alone in the endless chaos and fighting thousands of monsters to the death, Veronica suddenly realizes what crazy she had let the "Ancient Guardian" do, which is already a surreal feat even in the exaggerated heroic tales of the bards.But the Guardian actually did.Even the old knight next to him, Morion, began to wonder if the Guardian was going to be gone like this.But just then, a blinding ball of light suddenly rose from outside the town.The ball of light peeked out of the darkness like a newborn moon, then illuminated everything with a burst of light, and then it quickly shattered, rising in a huge mushroom cloud in smoke and flashes.A deafening explosion and a tremor of the earth followed.The fire is already in sight.The knights quickly turned around, forming a solid barrier between the princess and the monsters, and the old knight Morian shouted, "Your Highness!
Ignition!
”Veronica was ready, and without hesitation, she turned her blade and cut a wound in her hand, and the blood with a little golden light in the bright red immediately flowed out, and she threw this blood onto the base of the Tower of Fire, and recited the ancient vow: "In the name of the goddess of creation, in the name of the ancient oath, in the name of Kolo, here are the keepers of the seventy-seven thousand seven hundred pillars of imprisonment, and the light of order will illuminate all things!"
”(To be continued.) )