The heavy and ancient metal gate was slowly pushed open, and the loud sound of the gate moving seemed to come from the ancient abyss of time and space, and when the gate opened, the scene in the ceremonial hall fell into Hao Ren's eyes.

There were no monstrous "monsters" in it, and there were no dozen or so saints who went mad, but the things in the hall were more dangerous than all of them.

A huge rune circle was still running in the ceremonial hall, countless glittering mysterious symbols were slowly moving on the ground and in mid-air, and the huge energy that filled it was about to burst out at almost any time, and at the energy focus of the rune array, a pitch-black sword was suspended in the air, its material was as dark and deep as the universe itself, and the sword body was "inlaid" with bright points of light like stars.

The black sword was suspended without gravity under the support of the rune array, like a rift leading to the depths of the universe, and a few meters above this sword, a huge cloud of dark energy was developing and growing, it was as black as ink, and its form was like a black water mass with countless ripples on the surface, its scale had reached more than ten meters wide, and it was still growing. The liquid mass twisted and surged to change shape, surging like a heart, and something terrible was about to burst out of this heart, and it pulsated violently - poof, poof......

“…… Terminal, call the battleship, we may need some technical support. ”

"Nolan is connected and is moving her to this space via Chrono Displacement, but this could lead to an unstable ...... in Colpers"

"We've got the most volatile thing in the world in front of us - let her get in at once!"

"In the space-time replacement, the battleship will enter in five minutes," bursts of blue light flashed on the surface of the data terminal. Symbols and lines slid quickly across its casing, "But the battleship's main guns don't solve these kinds of problems." A rash attack could cause the balance to collapse, and the energy in this hall would be released. ”

"But we need at least the strength of the Giant Tortoise Rock. Whether it's a battleship shield or a weapon of destruction, it's stronger than what we have at hand," Hao Ren said quickly, and as he spoke, the magic reaction in the ceremonial hall continued, and a sensation like a slight pinprick spread from everyone's skin, Hao Ren found that there were subtle sparks jumping between his hairs, and at the same time, he began to hear some chaotic noises, which sounded as if they were directly in his brain, even if he covered his ears, it had no effect. "Everybody with a life support collar! Electromagnetic and radiant barriers can mitigate the effects of energy fields! ”

Everyone at the scene immediately put on the life-support collar they carried with them - after running around with Hao Ren many times to challenge various extreme environments, this kind of collar has become a daily carry for everyone in the family. Hao Ren took out a few spare collars from his personal space and quickly fastened them around the necks of Claude, White Fire, and Tutannin.

These life support collars themselves are not special equipment to block mental interference, but their protective function against the strong electromagnetic and strong radiation environment in the universe itself has a certain mental barrier effect, and the energy entrenched in the hall is not a real mental attack, it is just a powerful energy field, which can just have a mental impact on people within the scope of action. As a result, after the life support collar was activated, everyone's condition was immediately relieved, and the visual and auditory hallucinations quickly faded.

Bai Huo subconsciously touched the collar that was suddenly buckled around his neck. She didn't have time to ask what it was, but she knew that the metal hoop had helped her block the terrifying atmosphere in the hall. She looked at the black long sword floating not far away in shock: "What the hell is that!?" ”

"Weapons, the worst and most troublesome weapons in this universe!" Hao Ren said quickly as he let the data terminal detect the surrounding energy readings. "I was hoping to recover this terrible thing in a more stable way, but your saints not only activated it, but also drew energy from it! They have no idea what they are extracting! ”

"Crackling ......"

The black energy mass suspended above the long sword suddenly emitted an unsettling crackling sound. Purple-black lightning leaked out of the energy mass and bounced around in the air. All the metal products in the hall suddenly broke free from the constraints of gravity and slowly floated into the air. And under the pull of some invisible force, it floated towards the mass of energy. Metal ritual objects, enchanted swords, silver vessels, and candlesticks—all of these things floated up and turned into powder in mid-air, mercilessly devoured by the mass of energy—even though these ritual objects may have been immensely powerful, even if those enchanted swords may have struck "gods" as powerful as Odin and Zeus in Ragnarok thousands of years ago, they were as fragile as sand!

And between that black energy and the god-killing sword, wisps of dark shadows were already visible to the naked eye.

"It's reacting faster!" The data terminal shouted, "This machine has detected a catalytic reaction...... There's something here that's catalyzing the whole charging process! It must have been something we just brought in! ”

"Something is stimulating that sword?" Hao Ren was taken aback, "Hurry up and find the source!" ”

The data terminal quickly processed all the data it could collect, and countless dazzling data and symbols refreshed and wandered around it, and finally it suddenly rushed to Vivien: "Vivien is the catalyst!" ”

All eyes immediately focused on Vivian, who was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted: "The mission of this sword is to kill the gods......"

Before she could finish speaking, she had already disintegrated into a large mass of small bats, and rushed out of the hall like a whirlwind.

And Hao Ren looked at his right hand for the first time: "Will the divine blood on my body also have the same effect?" ”

The data terminal quickly re-calculates the data: "...... The reaction speed has returned to normal, and it seems that the divine blood you are carrying is not enough to activate the sword, it only responds to the more primitive divine blood that Vivien is carrying. But the progress of the reaction that has advanced cannot be reversed, and the equilibrium will be broken after thirty minutes. ”

At this time, Vivien's voice came through the communicator: "I'm in the passage outside the hall now, how is the situation over there?" ”

"The good news is that it's stabilized again, and the bad news is that we only have thirty minutes to stop this thing from blowing up the Spiritual Clock Tower."

"Correct, it's blowing up the whole of Colpers," the data terminal suddenly plugged into the communication channel, and it opened a new set of holographic projections, which showed the connection map of the Spirit Clock Tower and the various suspended temples in Colpers space, a huge energy field was forming between all these buildings, and it was surging at a certain frequency, like a heart, "This machine needs to correct one thing: the black thing in mid-air was not drawn from the god-killing sword, and the saints did not draw anything from that sword. ”

Hao Ren was stunned: "Isn't it the power of the sword?" What is that? ”

"The source of that energy is the Spirit Clock Tower itself - it's the 'arcane power' that Claude mentioned earlier," the data terminal let out a loud whistle, "but it's polluted, the source of the contamination is the Godkiller Sword, and now this pollution is spreading throughout the space." This sword is an unprecedented 'virus vector' that not only erodes the will of the witchers - it is polluting the ancient energy system of Colpers. ”

Almost at the same time as the voice of the data terminal fell, Yizax suddenly frowned: "La Niña just sent a message, and the front-line soldiers reported that the energy nodes that were blown up before are being re-lit one by one. The runestones in those nodes must have been destroyed, but their energy cores are activating out of thin air. ”

Tutain was still a little confused, but he only knew the matter related to those energy nodes: "Rune stones are just things that we set up later, and those energy nodes can run on their own. It's just that in the last few thousand years, they have never been actively activated, and we have to use external forces to activate them. ”

"In other words...... "Hao Ren looked at the god-killing sword, "because of this sword, all the ruins of Colpers are truly awakening. ”

A cold sweat broke out on Lily's forehead: "And it was polluted as soon as she woke up...... No wonder the temple of the goddess of creation was broken by a bunch of mortals! ”

Bai Huo's gaze wandered around the ceremonial hall, and even in this situation she remained calm, and suddenly asked a question: "Where are the saints?" (To be continued.) )