Knight and Wand - Chapter 385 Different ways

Under the dark purple flickering clouds, supernatural chaotic thunder continued to explode. The geological archaeological base that was once located here had long been replaced by a bottomless abyss.

The giant crystal pillars, like pillars supporting the sky, seem to grow from the center of the earth, rushing into the sky thousands of feet high, like a mountain.

The crystal pillar was crystal clear and refracted strange rainbow light, as if liquid stars were flowing inside it. Any skyscraper built by the Kleinian civilization would seem as small as grass in front of such a huge peak.

The light and shadow flickered inside the column. Sometimes, countless towering branches twisted and stretched, and sometimes, dark blue human arms twitched and waved, flesh tentacles twisted, and insect limbs changed. Every flicker carried the unwillingness and anger of trillions of creatures, experiencing the germination and destruction of life over and over again, and using the tremendous energy to try to tear apart this seemingly fragile transparent cage.

Outside the crystal column, a spinal tail whip was floating on the steps of the altar, supporting half of its skeleton upper body and swaying slowly in the air.

Between the open chest and ribs of the floating undead lich, brilliant rainbow light filled the gaps between the bones and curled around like tendrils. The crystallized eyeballs in the skull's eye sockets looked at the raging waves in the crystal column.

"This is the god born from the flashing sparks of trillions of spiritual wisdom. No wonder it seems to be inexhaustible even after drawing power in this way."

Karazk's inhuman hoarse voice was filled with obsession. Even the Emperor, who had been supreme to him in the past, seemed poor in the face of such power.

The lich's mumbling paused, and he folded his bloody and dry hands humbly and lowered his deformed horned skull.

But the desire made him consider his attitude and asked tentatively: "Forgive my stupidity, great lord, if you can get this power, why... why do you still want to..."

"You want to control the spirit~?"

There seemed to be a hint of mockery in the low laughter.

But the laughter in the dark stopped abruptly: "Then you shouldn't let me down, Karazik. Your students failed to trap him. I saw him coming. Ah. Skush, that ignorant blood wizard is also interfering with my plan."

Hearing this, Karazik was stunned for a moment, then became a little panicked, and quickly swore in a deep voice: "I have asked those mortals to prevent any natives from this world from approaching the ceremony site. I promise that I will kill the country bumpkin from the Western Continent with my own hands."

However, the voice in the dark brought an unexpected chill to the lich's words: "Are you laughing at me?"

"Please forgive me, Master, how dare I?" Karazik's soul felt a sharp pain, and his entire skeleton began to tremble in the air, somewhat confused as to why.

I just want you to delay him. No matter what secrets he has, the time has come, and no one can go against the will of the Lord." As the voice fell, the chaos storm that entangled Karazik dissipated again.

"If you can't do that, then make up for it by making the same sacrifice that your student made."

Hearing the last warning, Karazik's crystal eyes sparkled: "As you wish, I will do everything I can to ensure that the ritual is not disturbed."

The gaze above the curtain penetrated the increasingly chaotic and fragile curtain, moved away from Karazik's body, and looked at the imprisoned soul.

"Are you communicating with me? Has Gaia's power given you active consciousness?" The voice from the spirit world was still arrogant.

"I have seen a lot of my failures. Which fate are you talking about?"

The faces in the crystal column seemed to become dull, as if trying to simulate the thinking of intelligent creatures. However, looking directly at the infinitely extending waves of time, witnessing the interweaving and confusion of different planes, the contradictions between each other, and the future's shining star souls that sometimes turned into phantoms, fell silent in this vast and infinite scene.

".Even though you have been conceived for a thousand times longer than I have, in my eyes, you are still an ignorant and naive child. Klenien.

Otherwise, where do you think the power that is now binding you comes from?"

"He has not yet awakened, but he has also awakened. Don't be anxious. When you become one with my Lord, you will eventually understand that only immortality can break the destined end of nothingness." In the deepest part of the spiritual world, in the magnificent spire made of crystal, his calm voice echoed.

"The surge of the River of Time will never stop me from following the Immortal Lord and embarking on this long journey to fight against Yinnie and reverse the end."

The roar of the engine tore through the clouds, and several escorting fighters flew by. The moment the door of the transport plane opened, a strong wind carrying smoke rushed in, causing Leon's increasingly neglected black hair to sway in the wind.

If paleontologists had not discovered the remains of a primordial soup that could be the origin of life, this country might have been unknown to many people in the past.

"About to land." The pilot's hoarse report came through the headset.

The artillery fire of the ground forces had already plowed through the edge of the forest. The orange-red explosion points lit up and went out. Armored vehicles were covering a large number of assault troops that were looming in the firelight. The undead in the town below and the cult army that converted to Valari were completely wiped out. The main force of the cult was establishing defense lines and positions.

Thanks to the blood descendants' massive attack, the evil cult loyal to the so-called alien god has apparently not deployed heavy troops to obstruct this location for the time being.

Leon walked out of the cabin and looked up at the huge crystal peak in the distance that towered into the clouds like a pillar of the world.

He was completely convinced that the bloodline's information was correct.

Such a giant thing that is far beyond the reach of ordinary people can only be formed in the place where the overflow of spiritual power is most serious.

They boarded a chariot and quickly arrived at the edge of the withered forest. The escorting armored vehicles finally had to stop in the rugged outer wilderness.

Honestly speaking, according to intelligence, this area used to be just a small impoverished country on Klenion, and it obviously did not have the resources to transform the ancient natural landscape within the territory.

He had no choice but to jump off his mount and lead the fully armed Heroic Knights and the most elite cult troops on foot into the pitch-black and silent forest.

Leon wanted to pray that he was lucky enough, and maybe he could sneak through the dense forest and reach the foot of the crystal peak without being noticed.

The uneven shadows of the trees in the forest swayed in the breeze like ghosts. Thousands of fully armed cult soldiers, with the help of night vision equipment, carefully moved through the rugged forest mountains.

The knights following Leon did not wear night vision equipment. They were "ghosts" and their eyes could see another kind of vision in the darkness that living people could not.

The headset continuously reports the position and status of each unit.

After a long and rapid march, Leon's excellent sense of direction allowed him to constantly estimate the distance between himself and the giant peak.

Suddenly, Canis, who was walking beside Leon with a machine gun, slowed down.

Leon's eyes were stern, and he issued a warning in the headset: "Everyone, please be careful, there may be zombies hiding under the ground, be prepared to fight!"

But before he could finish his words, gunshots suddenly rang out in the forest on the left, and fire flashed in the direction of the flank of the cult company, and roars indicated that a unit had been attacked. Withered claws broke out of the ground, and figures that seemed to be awakened by the living roared out of the soil and pounced on the soldiers everywhere.

The ground churned like a living thing, countless undead crawled out of the soil, screams tore through the night, and the entire forest boiled.

Leon pulled the trigger and smashed the zombies that rushed out of the shadows one by one. He turned sideways and knocked away an undead monster that jumped down from the treetops. The fragments shattered by Gungnir burst like ice chips, and the semi-crystallized body of the undead monster flew backwards.

It seemed as if endless corpses kept rushing out from the darkness ahead, as if all the dead in this country had gathered in this forest.

Leon suddenly realized that this was an alarm used by the enemy to warn, just like the usual vigilance method used by mages.

The intention of low-key infiltration may have failed. Leon ordered the surrounding cult troops to cover on both wings. He no longer acted cautiously and immediately led the Crusade Knights to abandon the advantage of long-range firepower and rushed head-on into the dark tide of zombies, trying to speed up and open a path for the team before the enemy's army could react.

Feeling the surging waves of magic power ahead becoming more and more obvious, Leon and Olivia became more and more efficient in slaughtering in front of the team.

The voice ordering the rear to report the situation fell on deaf ears in the channel, and only the surrounding troops' requests to move closer to the center were heard.

"Other troops follow the knight company and keep moving forward. Leave it to me!" Leon stopped their intention.

He asked Canis to continue leading the team forward, and then called Olivia to run at full speed towards the silent location.

Before she got close, Olivia smelled a strong scent of blood.

In an instant, hundreds of mutilated corpses of the cult soldiers were scattered around the woods.

The soldiers armed with guns were slaughtered without any resistance, but there was no sign of anything that could kill them except for the corpses of zombies and living people on the ground.

"Be careful!" Olivia frowned slightly, and suddenly dodged and chopped down some invisible object with a sword.

Only half a beat slower than her, Leon turned around and swung the gun blade, and the molten flame flashed, destroying the wind breath that attacked from different angles.

The solid ground collapsed in an instant, and the surrounding land rose up like a giant mouth, surrounding them with a deafening roar.

Battle Magic!?"Hold on!" Leon shouted.

He stretched out his wings of light, lifted up the girl behind him, and flew into the air.

——Boom!The soil layer, which looked like the mouth of an animal closing, suddenly collapsed with a force of thousands of tons. The dead trees in the forest were knocked down in large numbers, and the earth shook for a moment.

Spells of this level are far beyond the imagination of ordinary spellcasters. If he had not dodged just now, he would have been crushed into meat paste by this horrific mass.

".I thought I had to crush a lot more ants before I could find you."

A hoarse sound like bones rubbing against each other echoed throughout the woods. It was actually the Feru language that Leon could understand.

"Out of respect for a wizard lord, let me see how you can gain the respect of the Venerable." A corner of the woods shone like starlight, and Leon instinctively dodged and fell into the woods before the danger came.

Leon retreated far away, and with a cold sweat on his face, he ordered all the troops in the communication to stay away from this place, then folded his light wings and hid in a depression.

He suspected that he had just run into Valari himself by chance, but the other party's provocation did not sound like something a proud demon would say.

Olivia pushed Leon away violently, looked back for a brief glance, then threw away her local weapons, holding the holy sword, and ran into the woods at full speed.

Leon raised his eyebrows, suddenly realized, and immediately spread his wings again tacitly.

With a loud shout in response, he activated his boiling heart, flew to the top of the dead tree, and with his spear in hand, he sped towards the spot where he had just cast the spell.

The phantom pain in his waist became more and more obvious, and for a moment he had a glimpse of the illusion of being cut in half. Leon turned around and threw out a Neti card, and once again escaped into the woods in a very dangerous way.

The roar of the alien giant bear shook the earth, and the frenzied mountain bear rushed towards the direction of the light according to Leon's will.

The skeleton undead half-peeked out of the shadows, with crystals flickering in its eye sockets.

The dead trees blocking the giant bear's path suddenly came back to life, and the powerful vitality prompted countless branches to wrap around the giant bear's limbs and body, and then kept breaking, one branch broke, two branches broke, three branches broke. The densely packed giant trees strangled the bear monster layer by layer until only its futile roar was left.

A loud bang came from behind the lich. Although he was a little surprised that indigenous soldiers were approaching, he didn't even bother to turn his head.

Overthinking.

The firelight that crashed into its back drew a U-shaped arc and turned to fly in the direction it came from.

However, before he could turn his head, his cervical vertebrae were broken.

The horned skull flew around, and almost at the same time, a cracking sound was heard, allowing Karazik to see his bones as hard as star steel being shattered by the perfect Z-shaped slash.

How can it be?

Ah. So it's the Holy Sun Guard.The skull fell to the ground, and the sharp sword blade immediately pierced through the skull and nailed it to the ground.

"It's solved."

Upon hearing that he had succeeded, Leon stopped running, folded his conspicuous wings of light, took back the roaring Callisto, and rushed towards Olivia.

It seems that the opponent has amazing magical powers, but little practical experience. The thought just came to his mind, but the moment he saw the skeleton under Olivia's feet, the surroundings instantly turned gray and made him stop in his tracks, and he almost burst into swearing.

"You have been fooled twice. I have to lower my opinion of you. If you had flown away at the beginning, I might not have been able to catch up with you.Your Excellency is willing to use himself as bait, so am I."

(End of this chapter)