Chapter Seventy-Two: The Betrayer
"This is the abyssal world behind the Abyss of Anos?"
Robzek was the first to recover, and he and Lolanda had used the Holy Light to turn into two giant ships to help the Ark land crash landing, this kind of power consumption was not a big deal for him, but it was a great test of spiritual cohesion and control. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
Like the warrior, he scanned the surroundings cautiously and solemnly, and it was obvious that he had also seen the whole picture of this abyssal plane in mid-air, so he couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "I have never seen this kind of abyss. β
"Yes, it's very different."
Joshua nodded, he had been to the Abyss many times, and those places were completely different from here.
The ordinary abyssal plane is not much different from the normal world, but its air is filled with a terrifying aura of decay and destruction, and many demons live in it, killing each other - that's all, except for some special environments, the abyssal plane is actually nothing special, except for some special environments, but the races and environments in which they live are different.
But this plane ...... But he sensed a strange aura, different from the abyss, different from chaos, it was a strange sense of holiness.
No matter what Robzek and the fighters thought, the others continued to recover from the bumpy impact of the previous one.
And it was at this time that suddenly a sound like thunder and thunder sounded, accompanied by the shaking of the earth under his feet, this huge sound spread throughout the entire empty floating mountain world, and even the light released by the blood moon flickered and flickered.
Everyone, including Joshua, was immediately attracted to attention, and everyone followed the prestige, only to find that the sound came from underground.
The sound of the earth roared like thunder, accompanied by the loud clatter of the earth being torn apart, as if some colossus was about to rush out of it, and in an instant they were fully prepared for battle, ready to deal with the possible enemy.
But everything was not what everyone imagined - it wasn't that something was breaking out of the ground, it was that the whole huge floating island was shaking violently.
With a terrible shaking, the silent suspended in mid-air, the huge stone island made of black rocks began to slowly displace, and it rose little by little, heading straight for the sky, the crimson blood moon!
The floating island, which was extremely huge, with a radius of at least nearly 100 kilometers, seemed to be pushed by some huge force, like a meteorite falling into the sky, and kept approaching it under the light of the blood moon, and in less than half a minute, the entire floating island had risen a distance of nearly several thousand meters.
The speed has exceeded 100 meters per second, close to the speed of sound, the surging wind pressure is suppressed from top to bottom, and the bottom of the canyon is where countless strong winds gather, everyone has no time to think about it while resisting this impact, Fina even turned into the body of a dragon, it crawls on the ground, protecting the weaker Ciel, and by the way, stabilizing the broken ark from being blown away by this hurricane.
"What's going on?!" The elven boy who had just woken up gasped: "Where are we now?" β
"The Abyss." The blonde paladin kindly replied, "We are being dragged towards that red moon?" Hell knows, that's it anyway. β
The distance between the Red Moon and the Floating Island was unexpectedly short, and in the short communication between everyone, in just a few minutes, the Stone Island approached the surface of the Blood Moon, it reversed one hundred and eighty degrees, and then slowly landed on it, because of the gravitational pull of the Moon, the people on the Stone Island did not fall into the endless void of this plane substrate.
Joshua frowned, he and Robzek looked at each other, and then flew into the sky, flying out of the Grand Canyon, condescendingly looking down at the entire surface of the Blood Moon.
Then the warrior saw a sea of black and red.
On the surface of this blood moon, there are no craters, no depressions, no land and mountains, no life and people, only a piece of filth, as if the black-red sea water formed by the convergence of countless turbid blood is slightly undulating, it emits a dim light, illuminating the incomplete pieces of earth in mid-air.
After the Black Stone Island landed on the Blood Moon, it slowly sank and was swallowed by the Blood Sea, and soon after, three holy rays of light could be seen working together, lifting a huge ark from the Stone Island, which was about to be swallowed by the Blood Sea, and placing it on the sea.
Despite its dilapidated exterior, the Time, which had lost most of its external structure, still floated on the water, a faint film of light enveloping its outer shell, preventing the abyssal aura from eroding its interior.
Just as Lolanda and Robzek were about to fly up and discuss with Joshua what the situation was, another loud bang sounded from the inside of the sea of blood not far away.
"What's going on?!"
Everyone looked in the direction where the voice came from, and in the black and turbid sea of blood in the distance, there was a viscous wave, as if something huge was surging under it, and was about to break through the sea, and ten seconds later, a huge, twisted chaos rune condensed from the black-red sea water, and just like that, it was suspended straight upward.
This rune is so huge that everyone thousands of meters away can clearly see every detail of it - the rune is composed of blood-colored sea water mixed with countless strange crystal patterns, and there is an extremely filthy and strange aura circulating on it, it is constantly flowing and changing, but it gives people a strange sense of stillness.
As it ascended, the rune faded, as if it were about to travel to another world, but no one would sit idly by and watch it disappear like thisβJoshua and Robzek were not fools, and they thought for a moment about where the chaos rune that suddenly appeared on the Abyss of Anos came from.
What existence is based on the material of this abyssal world, creating a huge chaos rune, and then projecting it onto the Mycrof continent, gradually transforming a place in the other world into the appearance of this abyss!
The sea stegosaurus incarnated as the prototype took the lead in attacking, Fina's cyan dragon pupil flashed a flash of light, and the huge thunder magic power converged on her single horn, forming a cyan blue electric ball, accompanied by the dragon's layers of magnetic force, layer by layer of electric current acceleration, this condensed to the extreme cyan blue electric ball shot out violently, reaching more than ten times the speed of sound in an instant, and immediately hit the chaos rune.
As the sea stegosaurus's trick, if this thunderball really hits, even a mountain peak will collapse because of it, the violent thunder magic mixed with a powerful impact, enough to shatter the stone mountain base, this is a small city in an instant, a tsunami of fierce blows, is a golden pinnacle-level power.
But only if it is able to hit.
Just a ten-thousandth of a second before the thunderball was about to hit the chaos rune, a translucent grid-like shield suddenly appeared, it was indestructible, resisting the thunderball's advance, and after a few seconds, the thunder's magic could no longer maintain the solid structure, collapsing into hundreds of cyan plasma balls, and finally releasing large arcs of electricity in the air.
The Chaos Rune vanished and was projected to another world under a certain force, leaving the ensuing Holy Light and Red Fighting Qi empty.
"I didn't expect you to actually be able to come here."
After the runes disappeared, an old and faint voice suddenly appeared, echoing in the sea of blood: "It's amazing that none of the arrangements I left in the outside world can stop you. β
The voice spoke in the language of a dragon, with a complex and special tone, which could never have been produced by human vocal organs, but everyone present could understand it, because it was not only transmitted in the material world, but also echoed in the spiritual world.
"Sea beasts, great waves, storms."
The voice still reverberates, without the slightest emotion, as cold as an echo of metal: "Evil dragons, monsters, maelstroms." β
"The Church of the Seven Gods can easily break through so many obstacles with just one exploration team, and it is worthy of the name of the strongest force in the mainland......"
"It's stalling for time."
Interrupting with a voice, Joshua didn't have the heart to listen to this voice's nonsense, he had already noticed that another floating island was rapidly rising, approaching this blood moon, the warrior said coldly: "That was the thirteenth rune just now, the ritual has been completed more than halfway, we need to find out the other party's true body as soon as possible!" β
Although they don't know much about the current state, there is no doubt that the stopping ritual is the top priority, and even destroying the abyss rift has become secondary, everyone present is elite, and after receiving Joshua's reminder, they immediately reacted, and then used their own means to explore this sea of blood.
The upright-tempered Fina even mocked: "This old-fashioned explanation procrastination routine was not used by anyone decades ago!" β
The fluctuations generated by the natural divine arts, holy light, and dragon magic spread instantly, and the radius of dozens of kilometers was checked by exploration spells that were fine to the millimeter.
But nothing was found, except for the muddy blood, no one found any trace of this voice.
But Saya was an exception, with eyes that could see energy veins, and even special traces of emotions and hearts, her brows were furrowed, and the great nun seemed to grab the other party's tail through a hint of information transmitted in that indifferent voice.
After a moment, she immediately raised her hand and pointed to the endless void thousands of meters away above the Blood Moon: "Joshua, Robzek, there!" It hides in the spatial crevices of this shattered plane! β
As soon as she finished speaking, she immediately used spiritual communication to transmit the specific coordinates to the minds of the two extremely powerful people.
The exploration team sent by the Church of the Seven Gods is extremely complete in terms of high-end combat power, the ocean druids and sea stegosaurus who have extremely strong combat effectiveness in the sea, the great nuns who can easily detect all clues, and the two paladins who are both defensive and offensive, this kind of team can easily solve most of the special events under the legend, plus the warriors, the spear used for attack is sharper.
"Good!"
After receiving the information, in mid-air, the warrior decisively bent his knees, and in the next moment, the power of destroying mountains and mountains gathered under his feet and exploded.
Boom !!
With his own fighting spirit as a plate, the warrior disappeared in an instant like a cannonball, and only a white air flow could be seen with a clear trajectory, rapidly approaching the void pointed by Saya, the thin air in the sky high in the abyss plane could not bring much resistance to Joshua, and could only vibrate with a huge roar when he broke through the air.
In the face of the completely invisible enemy hiding in the spatial crack, the warrior did not have any superfluous moves, he had long known how to fight with this kind of opponent, he adjusted the operation of the fighting qi in his body, let this life energy resonate with the free energy of the outside world, and entwined it in his hand, and then, Joshua raised this iron fist wrapped with black and red light flames, aimed at the void from top to bottom, and smashed it down.
Smack!
This wild and rough punch struck a layer of ripples on this shattered abyss plane, and a crisp cracking sound sounded, starting from the place where Joshua swung in the air, patches of black lines spread, and the space began to collapse.
-- The space in this place is surprisingly fragile!
Such a thought flashed through his mind, and then the warrior saw the existence that revealed his true body due to the collapse of the spatial rift.
It was a terrifying monster with a dragon-like body, covered in a dark crystalline exoskeleton carapace, with sharp crystal fragments stacked on top of each other like scales, covering its vital parts, and his head was wrapped in a layer of pale bone armor, and only a pair of dragon pupils that shimmered gray behind him could be seen.
The tail of this black crystal dragon is like a centipede, composed of countless body segments, and the dark crystals flow with majestic chaotic power, releasing an extremely intentional aura.
But where could Joshua manage so much, he took advantage of the moment when the space was shattered, and punched the other party's head.
Boom, boom!!!
In mid-air, there was a thunderclap, accompanied by layers of qi explosions, and the entire body of this crystal dragon was spun and flew upside down, falling into the sea of blood like a meteor.
But before it could fall, two holy light trails, one gray and one silver, rose straight up, Robzek and Lolanda soared into the air, and the two of them condensed two holy light cross hammers in the air, they clenched the weapon in their hands, and then aimed at the crystal dragon, hammering it upside down from the bottom up.
At this time, it didn't pay attention to fighting alone, and the qi wave with a trace of silver afterglow exploded, and the crystal dragon was hit into the air again, and the heavy hammer containing the power of holy light shattered the exoskeleton carapace of the monster with a single blow, and countless spiderweb-like cracks spread along the two deep hammer marks.
The body of this crystal dragon is huge, not counting the tail at least sixty meters high, such a huge monster is impossible to be beaten and beaten like a fly by an existence of the size of a warrior and a paladin according to ordinary physics, but the fighting spirit and holy light are such convenient things, the extraordinary power that can form an invisible position is not just an ordinary 'force', it can be condensed into an incomparably small point, and it can also spread into a vast side.
Next is the joint attack of Saya and Fina, and Hei also re-transformed into a dragon body, using dragon breath to cooperate with the attack, only to see the three combos of holy light, thunder and flame light hit the crystal dragon head-on, and the powerful energy flow even penetrated its body and burst out through its back.
After encountering a series of attacks, the crystal dragon exploded in mid-air, turning into a cloud of fireworks, and countless crystal fragments fell like rain, but the vigilance in everyone's hearts did not disappear, they did not feel the death of the other party, and a monster of the extreme level was killed so easily, even a fool could not believe it with his knees.
And the fact is indeed as they thought, after being joined by everyone, a set of crystal dragons that were beaten into a flood of fireworks did not die, countless crystal fragments were like living creatures, spontaneously condensed, and in an instant, a dragon head composed of dark crystals was condensed, and a faint voice like an echo of steel reappeared.
"You guys are really strong, and you destroyed 9.25% of my body in one attack."
The time for it to recondense its body was very short, and it was so far away that even Joshua couldn't make it in time for a while, so he could only listen to it continue in dragon language, "If it continues like this, I will be completely destroyed by you before the ritual is completed. β
After the body was reorganized, the crystal dragon at this time was indeed slightly shrunk compared to before, and gray light shot out from the dragon's pupils, which was emotionless: "One of my few friends is also a dragon, it should die at your hands, although my strength is stronger than it, but I can't fight you head-on." β
"So."
Facing the warriors and paladins who were roaring at several times the speed of sound, it said indifferently, "I can only ask you to die here." β
As soon as the words fell, a sharp pain appeared in everyone's brains, whether it was Robzek, Lolanda and Sayya, or Fina, Hill and Black, even Joshua also showed a painful look on his face, his spirit was completely unable to concentrate, and his fighting spirit to maintain his forward speed quickly dissipated, unable to continue attacking.
Syllable!
The warrior fell from the sky into the Red Sea, his feet stamped on the viscous blood, the remnants of his fighting spirit at the end of the foul liquid.
But what puzzled Joshua was that the blood water was not like their appearance, it had a fishy smell, they basically had no smell, they couldn't even smell the saltiness common in seawater, and there was even a little weird fragrance.
But now is not the time to perceive these things.
Intense pain ran through his body, but the source was from the head, the warrior pressed his forehead with one hand, and a slight squirming sensation came out, and he was shocked to find that something in his skull was eating away at his brain and nerves, and releasing a large amount of nerve paralysis toxin.
This toxin, which he was also very familiar with, had a certain stimulant effect and could also isolate pain, just like the toxin found in the giant mammoth he killed in the Black Forest fortress two years ago.
That's the toxin of the Abyss token! But what...... Time......
His thinking ability declined rapidly, his head and neck began to harden, and endless hallucinations even began to appear in front of him, Joshua could only lift his fighting spirit, condense it on his head, and suppress the existence of the suspected derivative of the sea abyss - this effect was immediate, the sharp pain and hallucinations disappeared in an instant, leaving only a slight paralyzing feeling, but in this way, he could not attack, he could only stop in place.
The others were the same, Robzek, Lolanda, and Saya all had conspicuous lines of holy light on their foreheads, and they were either calm or seriously using magic to suppress the inexplicable parasites in their brains.
However, Fina, Ciel, and Black fell without any resistance because they did not have the means to effectively suppress the foreign body in their bodies and their low strength, and they were unconscious above the viscous sea of blood due to severe pain and hallucinations, and their bodies floated with the waves.
Fortunately, the density of the sea of blood is very large, and the buoyancy is enough, otherwise with the size and weight of the dragon, it would be difficult not to sink to the bottom.
ββ¦β¦ What's going on? β
This time it was Joshua's turn to delay the time, the warrior frowned, used his fighting energy to suppress the wriggling of the foreign body in his brain, and asked the crystal dragon not far away in a deep voice: "When did this thing parasitize in our body?" β
The monstrous dragon head composed of dark crystals did not change in the slightest, the crystal dragon just looked indifferently and stopped in place, and could no longer approach the group of people, there was no sadness or joy in its eyes, no excitement or anger, it just cast a spell again, infiltrated the spatial rift, and manipulated the ritual.
Beneath the Blood Moon, huge floating peaks were pulled up above the sea of blood with a rumbling roar, and then engulfed, absorbing a large amount of abyssal matter, and huge runes emerged from the sea of blood, and then projected to the other side of the world.
And at this moment, a slight footstep came from the dilapidated cabin of the Time, the sound was almost none, but it was so clear in the ears of the four remaining powerhouses, even if they distributed a large amount of power to suppress the parasite in the head, they also had extraordinary senses.
Everyone turned their heads in unison and looked at the cabin.
And Saya was the first to let out an exclamation: "Nono?!" β