Chapter 172: A Two-Sided Battlefield (Part I)

The light of the spark began to brighten, but it dimmed again. It wasn't because the fire itself was under attack, but because some deeper darkness was obscuring its brilliance. Thick dark clouds began to swirl in the sky, forming huge whirlpools in the sky, and the boundless chaos unswervingly moved forward, trying to engulf the fortress behind the order.

Countless glorious afterimages of magic flashed through the air, and in the blink of an eye, the explosion that shook the earth brought a series of storms and black soil, and suddenly it seemed as if there were a few more fluffy fluffy tails on the ground that were dangling to the sides and parting, and the artillery fire was in the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder was everywhere. The mercenaries with the modified magic spears in their hands didn't need to aim at all, because the people of chaos below had already crowded each other and merged into something even more chaotic. Even if you just shoot here with your eyes closed, you are guaranteed to become a marksman. But for them, it makes no sense.

"Fire charge!"

Thor raised his hand, and when he heard his order, the half-demon descendants next to him quickly took out the magazine full of red projectiles from their waists, and plunged it into the groove in front of the magic spear in front of them, and then they scattered and separated, aiming at their targets according to the original predetermined direction, and then, red light flashed.

The dim, disgusting tide of chaos was overturned at this moment, and the wall of flames up to a height of more than ten meters burned ragingly together, forcibly dividing the mud pond in front of him into countless small pieces, and before the people of chaos could react, colorful magical arrows roared and enveloped everything, and the scorching heat fell from the sky, burning and melting everything. Brilliant thunder leaped down, blasting the originally tumbling and congealed pieces of flesh into pieces. The glorious power of order rolled and lifted up vast expanses of dirt and debris, crushing together with the surging cold that shattered all those who dared to stand in their way.

The Wizard's turret glowed with an intense glow. The faint light that had been wrapping around the turret gradually became dazzling and bright, and at the end of the day, each ray of light turned into a dazzling sun. The light spread out like a tidal wave, rushing towards the enemies of chaos in all directions.

But the people of chaos are still moving forward, they have no intention of stopping, and the battle between order and chaos has been going on for tens of thousands of years, whether it is in the past. Now, or in the future. They will all fight forever until death, no, not even death can separate them. Chaos and order are eternal, they hate each other, they kill each other, they devour each other, and they fight the same battles over and over again in this spiral of contradictions.

Flesh and blood. The stones and dirt were blown up in the air, and before they could hit the ground, they were shattered again in the second round of artillery fire. The dilapidated tower showed its original strength at this moment. On the body of the old and dilapidated tower, the golden order circle unfolded one by one, and it seemed to be covered with spider webs from a distance. And at the nodes where the lines of these magic arrays are crisscrossed vertically and vertically, the magic weapons that were destroyed thousands of years ago and forced back the enemies of chaos once again bloomed with the brilliance they should have. The magic guide beams mixed with various forces rained down like a torrential rain, disintegrating the enemies in front of them and everything below them into formless, high-temperature steam. Black smoke rises and rolls, intertwining with the clouds in the sky. Hanging over this graveyard of the dead.

Beams of magic slammed into the Sea of Chaos like a knife tearing through rags, and a flash of hot white was followed by a shock wave that roared like muffled thunder, and the heat of the waves crushed everything to powder. The earth began to roll, twist, and bulge like the surface of the sea. Concavity. Bury all the enemies of Chaos that cover it. The small mushroom clouds that rose up were like signs of death, warning the enemy of the price to pay.

The smoke of gunpowder almost covered the entire battlefield, and the archers raised their longbows, and another beam of magic condensed light pierced through the darkness, and then the torrent of greedy flames flew like a waterfall of countless sparks. Even the chaotic form was transformed and melted in this sea of fire, like a burned candle, leaving only the most meaningless puddle of white wax oil. The storm barrier of countless dazzling sparks does seem to be solid and reliable against the erosion of the chaotic waves.

But that's just how it looks.

Chaos still pushed forward relentlessly, without the rigor and discipline of the undead army, but this crazy, scattered attack combined with endless madness brought everyone an unprecedented pressure. The madness that oppresses the brain and burns even the cerebral marrow only means one thing.

Kill.

Chaos twisted forward, their bodies torn apart by the light of the magic, reduced to powder by the powerful blast impact, but they continued to move forward without stopping. Even the Chaos Monsters that had broken through the bombardment of the cannon fire stopped as soon as they were illuminated by the light of the fire, and then shattered like fragile snow sculptures, but they could not stop their progress. They use their bodies, their own everything, to fill the void torn by the war in front of them. to stop the enemy's artillery fire and death. In order to destroy the spark of order, and let this land that was still favored by order turn into nothingness and chaos again.

Everything was noisy and boiling, as if a pressure cooker had reached a critical point, and in the blink of an eye the storm seemed to swell again, and the dark lightning fell on the dim and gloomy sky, and the force of destruction swept across the battlefield in an instant, and even the air seemed to be attracted at this time, and the frantic wind was guided to change the line of defense, spinning with lightning as the center, and then pouring into the earth. Accompanied by a murmur of countless voices mixed together, but the sound of this murmur is as loud as hundreds of millions of people are shouting in your ears, although the noise makes it impossible to discern the true meaning of their words, but as long as you rely on instinct, there is only one thing you need to knowβ€”β€”β€” and that is to pick up the weapon in your hand and kill all these bastards by all means.

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At that moment, a bright circle of light centered on the fire at the top of the tower spread out in all directions. And where it passed, the black clouds dissipated and the dark night sky reappeared. The chaos that enveloped the earth shattered and split, turning into dust. The ground that had been ravaged by the war resurfaced with fresh green grasslands. The aura is forward, and the chaos is backward. Absolute order suppresses absolute chaos. It's just a split second. The fighting stopped, and the battlefield, which was still in flames just now, returned to its original calm again.

But.........

The next moment, the clouds returned, and the destroyed chaos reappeared without the slightest hesitation, and the turquoise grassland withered and yellowed again, accompanied by the fall of black lightning. The overwhelming people of chaos and the roaring and shining magic light have once again become the protagonists of the war, marking the beginning of a new page of hatred and war between order and chaos that can never be solved and can never be ended.

"It" opened its eyes.

Even if you are hundreds of meters deep on the ground, you can feel the breath of battle coming from the surface. The trembling earth, the fluctuations of the impact affect themselves all the time. The familiar, intoxicating impulse of war was constantly stirring its nerves. The stench of chaos and even the permeated soil wrapped his body unscrupulously. The evil that could not be forgotten now came back in another form, the same provocative chaotic order as ever.

However, I can only be here.

Come to think of it. "It" slowly narrowed its eyes, wrapped the anger and killing intent in its heart again, and began to wait quietly again, "it" has been waiting for thousands of years, and this little time is just a drop in the ocean for "it" and "them", now. Just wait quietly.

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Marlene stopped, just now. She felt her heart beat violently involuntarily, and with that beat, a hot force flowed through her body. Although it didn't cause any damage to Marlene, it interrupted her spell casting, which made Marlene involuntarily grit her teeth and take a step back. Kankan dodged the attack of the metal structure. Seeing that the situation was not good, Anne rushed to Marlene's side with an arrow, waving the heavy gold shield in her hand, and opened the metal structure in front of her far away. Then a flash of silver light was seen, and Celia spread her wings and descended from the sky. Even the sword turned into a bolt of lightning and pierced through the enemy in front of him, which finally relieved everyone's current crisis.

"Marlene, how are you? It's okay. ”

Lijie came to Marlene's side and asked softly, as a spirit master, it is naturally necessary for Lijie to keep abreast of the physical condition of her teammates at all times. Therefore, she naturally noticed the strange state of Marlene in the moment before she cast the magic just now, and when she heard Lijie's anxious question, Marlene bit her lip and shook her head.

"It's nothing, Lijie, I'm just ............"

Although he said it, Marlene knew that the truth was not so simple, from the moment he walked into the door of order, something seemed to be trembling in his body, although the power of order here was very stable, and the magic power in his body was also running very smoothly, and there seemed to be no problem at a glance. But soon Marlene sensed that in the depths of her body, there was a faint but hot force slowly awakening. Before, it was beating every once in a while, like the heart of a life. But at that time, this fluctuation was still relatively weak, and it did not affect his own battle. But now......... This force had already affected his battle judgment.

It's strange, I don't remember my father telling me anything about this strange power, but where did it come from?

"What's wrong? Marlene? Any questions? ”

At this time, Rode, who had already ended the battle around him, also noticed the abnormality here, frowned and walked over and asked. In fact, Rhodes is also very depressed now, in general, in the copies of ancient ruins, in addition to the possibility of obtaining some rare equipment from some rare metal constructs. Really good gear is placed in locked chests. As a result, players usually have a source of equipment and items for clearing the Wastelands here, so they will always bring a class that is good at unlocking. And Rhodes now has Greyhill and Madaras in his hands, so naturally it is impossible to waste the two main combat powers. So he asked Greyhill and Madaras to open the box while testing the trap, but what made Rod want to cry without tears was that he didn't know if it was because of his black hand aura that would be contagious, and the two white elves Lori didn't see any shadow of the equipment in the box they opened, either gold coins from the ancient times or a lot of construction materials were piled up, and the best result was just to open a few high-level soul cores. What kind of god weapon Rhodes was expecting was not even a shadow. The desperate Rhodes even tried to ask the two white elves to open the lock, and then let Marlene open the box, but nothing changedβ€”β€”β€” it seemed that the moment the box was opened. Is luck already predestined?

So after a few fruitless attempts, Rod had no choice but to give up the idea of opening the box by the way, and directly hit the idea on the dungeon boss.

"Rod, I'm ........."

Seeing Rod, Marlene frowned, and she shook her head. I wasn't going to say anything more. But at this moment, Marlene seemed to change her mind and nodded vigorously.

"Ever since I entered here, I have felt a little abnormal, as if there is something in my body that is gradually awakening. But I've never recorded anything like that in Shania's family or heard of it from my father, and while the awakening of this power doesn't seem to be harming me, I can't find out about it now. ”

"Is there such a thing?"

Hearing Marlene's words, Rhodes frowned, in the hidden mission in the game. It's not uncommon for NPCs to show similar signs. But there isn't much that can be done for players. Generally speaking, when NPCs are abnormal, players will follow them around, and as for the solution to the problem, most of them are discovered by the NPC himself and then let the player help him. For example, what to seal, what to protect, what to resist, and so on, and the player just needs to do their own thing on the sidelines, and in most cases, they will not interfere with the other party's actions.

If you extrapolate from the experience in the game. Now that Marlene was in the labyrinth created by the ancestors of the Shania family, she felt something in her body awaken again. Based on Rhodes' experience, this should not be too much of a problem. Merely......... Thinking of this, Rod glanced at Marlene with some confusion, he knew the girl in front of him very well. Like Lijie and Anne, Marlene is not the type of person who likes to ask for help, especially at this juncture. According to what Rod knew about Marlene, if it wasn't really untenable. She will never show weakness. So Rod just asked casually before, and he didn't expect Marlene to give such an honest answer, which couldn't help but make Rod feel a little strange. Thinking about it carefully, it seems that after coming here, Marlene's behavior seems very abnormal......... It always felt as if she was hiding something. Although Rhodes didn't know what Marlene was thinking, it didn't seem like a good thing to look at her.

"Then Annie, Lijie, you guys protect Marlene in the back and watch around, understand?"

In fact, if it weren't for Marlene's insistence on following Marlene this time, Rhodes had originally planned to arrange for Lijie and Anne to be in charge of the defense of the shelter and the tower outside respectively. And the elves with the holy sword cards killed directly into it. But Marlene insisted on following, so in desperation, Rod disrupted the original plan and let Anne and Lijie follow him. In any case, this is also a dungeon maze made by the ancestors of Shania, and maybe there will be a time when Marlene's help will be needed later. That's why Rod chose to let the two of them follow him, and now it seems that his thoughts are correct.

"That's good, Captain."

Hearing Rod's words, Anne and Lijie immediately nodded, and they were well aware of their mission. After all, apart from a few of them, only Rhodes is human. The spirits of the Holy Sword card do not need to be healed or guarded. So Anne and Lijie also knew why Rod would come with her, so during the battle, they always stayed by Marlene's side in order to prevent such a thing from happening.

"Let's go."

Rhodes glanced around, and after making sure that the surrounding structures were destroyed, he waved his hand, and then led the group to continue walking inside. Right now, when Rhodes and the others entered this corridor, the metal structure that was standing on the wall as an ornament immediately attacked them. However, for Rhodes and a few Holy Sword Elves, this level of attack was completely ignored by them.

However, Rhodes did not let his guard down because of this, if his memory is correct, then after walking through this corridor, they will have to face the final boss of the first floor. That's not an easy guy to deal with, especially in the dungeon maze created by this magic technique, the strength of the other party is very tricky.

In the blink of an eye, the group came to the end of the hallway, and Marlene picked up her staff, moved a little forward, and soon the metal door began to tremble, and then opened to both sides. But..................

"Huh?"

Rod frowned, in his memory, the magic guide structure in the hall that should have been standing quietly in front of him at this moment disappeared, and the entire hall was empty. There's nothing on the huge, flat platform, what's going on? Could it be that because the hidden plot is opened, even the boss has disappeared?

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Just as Rod walked to the platform curiously, suddenly, a warning broke out from the depths of his heart, and then Rod stepped back without hesitation. At the same time, a thick dark shadow suddenly fell from the sky and smashed heavily on the place where Rod was standing.

And after seeing the enemy in front of him clearly, Rod's face suddenly changed. (To be continued......)