In fact, Hao Ren has a bigger question about the young witcher named Claude: why did he, as the attendant and herald of the First Saint, appear on the battlefield?
Claude's captor was an orc shaman who had been by the side of the Mad Demon King since the early days of Yitzax's army, and was loyal and powerful.Itzhax summoned the elder shaman to his side to inquire about the situation at the front, and also asked about the "Claude" in passing.The old orc was impressed by the young warrior he had caught: "He charged into battle with the others, and when he fought, he was a warrior, and we didn't notice any difference from other witchers at first, until several powerful paladins were seriously wounded by him one after another, and we realized that this was probably a commander." ”Izax frowned: "You said he charged at the front line like an ordinary soldier?
Were there any additional guards or retinues with him at the time?
”"No," the old orc said, shaking his head, the shaman's ring tinkling, "if his features were any more obvious, we would have noticed them in the first place." ”"Hmm......
Anyway, you caught a very important guy, and you should take credit," Itzhax waved his hand to tell the old orc to step back, then turned to look at the others, "What do you think?"
”"The guards around the Supreme Leader ran to the battlefield and charged, this doesn't look like it's too much of a brain," Hao Ren smacked his lips, "Tsk, what do you think those saints are up to?"
”"At present, the front line of the Legion has advanced to the boundary of the Spirit Clock Tower," La Nina looked at the suspended sand table in the center of the room, those palace models floating in mid-air have basically carried the mark of the Demon King Legion, and from the bottom to the top, they seem to have fallen into the control of the Legion as if they were swallowed by shadows, and now there are only a few palaces left in the Order's stronghold on the "upper floor" of Colpers, as well as the strange Spirit Clock Tower, and Hao Ren and the others are now on the front line, and the place where they captured Claude is on the nearest floating square- The battle over there had just ended ten minutes earlier, and "The Order of the Elders didn't have many troops at their disposal, and they didn't have much strategy to resist in this situation, and they were basically fighting in a mess.That Claude probably just wanted to die heroically. ”"Maybe......"
Hao Ren was noncommittal to La Nina's statement, although judging from the situation, the Elder Order had no skills, but just because of the desperate battle situation, the acolyte of the First Saint left his master alone and ran out to charge, which was still quite suspicious in his opinion, "What has changed on the side of the Spiritual Clock Tower?"
”"Nothing has changed, it's still shrouded in shadows, and I haven't seen anyone coming out of that tower since the early hours of this morning," La Nina's voice was a little confused, "I can't see any connection to the outside world right now, and because of the defensive network, the scouts can't get too close." ”Yizax and Hao Ren glanced at each other and nodded in a deep voice: "Then continue to attack the surrounding energy nodes." ”Under the orders of the Demon King, the coalition forces, already at the height of their morale, launched an unprecedented final assault on the last line of defense of the Order of Elders.The remnants of the Order of Elders have all gathered around the Bell Tower, and despite their strange state, they still live up to their elite name when they fight.In the face of the onslaught of the Demon King Legion, the Demon Hunters of the Order put up an extremely stubborn resistance, and the Elder and Master Demon Hunters caused a lot of trouble for the generals under Izax, who had to pay several times the number of troops to maintain the suppressive advantage over the last few halls and energy nodes.But in any case, the battle is decided, and the resistance of the Order's demon hunters is only delaying the rout of the entire front.While the army on the front line rushed to the last Order's stronghold, Hao Ren and Bai Huo led a small group of elites to a place very close to the Spirit Realm Bell Tower through a secret route that had just been opened.Where they landed was a rock platform floating in the void, empty of no palace or high walls, except for the fine stone bricks that were broken and messy on the ground, suggesting that it might be a remnant of some kind of square.All of the ruins of Colpers have independent gravity of unknown origin, but the gravity of this platform is very weak, and it is clearly tilted in the direction of the Spiritual Clock Tower, and there is always the illusion that you are about to fall and slide into the void when you stand on the platform.Hao Ren stood on the edge of the platform, casually took out a graviton bomb from the space with him, and threw it into the distance.The graviton bomb broke free from the platform's gravity and flew in a straight line into the far dark depths, but before it could explode, it suddenly disappeared into thin air.If you look closely, you will find that it did not really "disappear", but when it flew more than a hundred meters outside the platform, it seemed to hit something, and it was torn apart and cut into countless debris at once, and then the debris was torn apart again until it was indistinguishable to the naked eye before being swallowed by darkness.This is one of the layers of defense in the Colpers space.The surroundings of the Spirit Realm Clock Tower seem to be empty, and the various suspended temples seem to be unobstructed, but in fact, these heavy temples and energy nodes are entangled, and there are dozens or hundreds of strange layers of spatial turbulence between them, if you rashly break into the darkness, no matter how powerful the witcher is, he will be silently torn to pieces.It wasn't until the Demon King Alliance destroyed seventy percent of Colpers' energy node connections that some loopholes finally appeared in these invisible distorted space defense systems, giving Hao Ren and his party a chance to get so close to the Spirit Clock Tower.And now that the Legion is storming the last power node on the Order's defensive line, Hao Ren and the others are waiting for the moment when these defenses will be shut down."
You can already see the Spirit Clock Tower from here, that is."
Master Tutin stood beside Hao Ren and raised his hand to point to a shadow in the darkness in the distance.Hao Ren looked up and saw a strange tower between the gaps in the starlight, it was as weird as the sand table model, with a completely irregular shape and structure, as if a child was putting together a building block at random, and all kinds of geometry were piled up to form the shape of a tower.The tower floated silently in the darkness, with only a few bright spots on its body, and the rest of the structure almost melted into shadows, gloomy and dead, as if no one was in ruins."
Nothing happening?"
Hao Ren was a little strange."
We're also wondering that it's too quiet," Tutanin said slowly, "but now most of the lights are out, and there's no one to be seen guarding outside the tower, and there's no idea what the saints are doing inside." ”"According to La Niña's report, the Spirit Clock Tower has been in this state for almost a day," Itzax said in a deep voice, "and now the witchers on the Order's defenses are almost fighting separately, and although their resistance is fierce, it is clear that there is a lack of unified command.Thinking of the Claude I caught earlier, I wonder if something happened inside the Clock Tower. ”Hao Ren looked behind him.Due to the lack of combat effectiveness of the Nangong family of four to stay in the rear to take care of the wounded, and the people who came here with him were Vivian, the father and daughter of Izax, and Lily, in addition, Bai Huo and Tutain also brought dozens of demon hunter masters, this small team has a total of less than a hundred people, but it is currently the group with the highest combat effectiveness, when the defense on the perimeter of the Spirit Bell Tower is lifted, this team will be the first to rush in to open the gap.After seeing the strange state of the Spirit Realm Bell Tower, those demon hunter masters had some worry on their faces, although no one said anything, but the worry was quite obvious.Obviously, even though they had broken with the Presbyterian Order, they were still worried about the situation in the Holy Land.Yitzhax silently clasped his hands to his chest and looked in the other direction of the darkness depths.There, there is a tall torch-like tower that floats independently in the void, and the flames can be seen constantly exploding around the tower, and it is clear that the front line is in full swing.He silently watched the flash of light coming from the direction of the battlefield, sensed the state of his demon army, calculated the timing of his actions, and suddenly muttered softly: "It's almost." ”Almost at the same time as his words fell, a bright light suddenly erupted from the sky above the torch-like energy node, and the node's own defenses were overloaded, and the rune stones used for control were detonated, and the last line of defense of the Order's demon hunters collapsed.Colpers' ancient defenses were indestructible in their own right, but they were activated by a series of controls set up by the witchers in the later stages, and when the runestones exploded, the ancient defenses would immediately shut down.Hao Ren saw that there seemed to be a transparent thing like a water curtain in the dark space around the Spirit Realm Clock Tower, and he knew that the time had come: "Let's go!"
”The elite raiders quickly left the platform and flew silently towards the Spiritual Clock Tower in the distance, and they did not encounter any obstacles, and soon reached the strange tower.However, after seeing the condition of the Spirit Realm Clock Tower up close, Hao Ren couldn't help but be stunned: "This ......
Is it normal?
”The Spiritual Bell Tower is in a state of darkness erosion!
(To be continued.) )