The Gate of the Past - The Hall of the Dead in Danakus (two chapters in one, seven thousand words, o
(For various reasons, today's two chapters are integrated, with a 7,000-word chapter. Only 9:30 in the morning, don't wait until evening.)
A thousand golden-level knights covered their bodies and horses, appeared out of thin air in the endless desert. Without anyone to command, they spontaneously arranged neatly into a perfect cone battle formation. Neri was wearing silver armor and rode a gun on the gun stand on the unicorn's neck, calmly staring at the undead like tides coming from all directions. Behind her, the bodies of a thousand illusory knights had almost condensed into entities, and the brilliant golden fighting spirits were connected together, illuminating the other world shrouded by eternal night. Like their leaders, the knights were each wearing guns, with heavy swords hanging on their waists that were conducive to chopping. The flashing eyes in the illusory were as calm as the leader Neri to the point of indifference.
"For life and justice, for glory and victory." Neli's knight's gun pointed diagonally at the sky. The knights behind him seemed to have received a signal, neatly put down the armor, so that every part of their body was hidden under the heavy armor. They were obviously illusory knights, but when they put down the armor, they made a neat sound. Although the sound of each person's face armor was weak, thousands of people made a sound together, with a smell of iron and blood coming to their faces, which made people feel indescribable. Neli patted the unicorn's neck, and tied the reins. The unicorn stood up with a long hiss. She pressed against the unicorn's back and shouted loudly: "My knights, follow me."
So, the battle formation began to advance, and the knights arranged in conical shapes started to start at the same time, and the horses began to move forward in fine steps. The illusory knights combined with the horses and the heavy armor of the whole body. It was estimated that it was nearly 2,000 kilograms. Such a heavy behemoth was running, even if it was just a jogging. The iron hooves were neatly landed on the ground, which was enough to make the earth tremble. Even if the sandy ground effectively reduced the sound of hooves, the roaring hooves still made the people around them feel a tingling pain in the eardrums.
With the knights leading the way in front, Dilly increased his size again, and the rest of the people without flying were squeezed on Dilly's back, and Dilly followed closely behind the Knights.
"Maya." Kyle stood on Dilly's back, just able to cross the Knights' battle formation to see the situation ahead. When the slowly running knights were about to encounter the undead tide, Kyle whispered an order to the wingers hovering around Dilly.
"Praise the Light." The Winged Men sisters who have been with each other for many years can understand Kyle's instructions without any detailed explanation. In the air, Dark Feather's Dark Feather hugged her sister's legs from below, flapped her wings to let the two float in the air. Guang Feather's Dark Feather's Dark Feather spread her wings and emitted a dazzling light again: "The light guides us to the road. Let us no longer be afraid and cringe by the darkness."
Under Maya's prayer, a light column centered on her and each of the two wings extended 500 meters away from her wings was shot forward. The speed of light exceeded the speed of all mortal worlds. In a blink of an eye, it had already passed the battle formation of the knights and contacted the enemies ahead first. For the undead creatures, the power of light has a terrifying lethality. The oncoming enemies melted silently under the light like ice and snow. Whether it is a low-level or high-level undead. Even the legendary enemy has no power to resist, and can only choose to turn into nothingness in the light.
Neri, who was leading the charge, did not issue any orders for combat preparation before this. When she accepted the order and chose to let the Knights start charging at a very close position from the enemy, she completely believed that Kyle, who issued the order behind her, could make their charge unhindered. Sure enough, Maya's huge road to light completely eliminate the obstacles of the Knights' charge, and the Knights could slowly increase the speed of the charge without being disturbed, so that the horses would run faster and faster.
The roaring hooves were getting louder and louder. The frequency was getting faster and faster. The coverage length of the two kilometers in the longitudinal direction of the Road of Light just provided enough starting distance for the knights to prepare for charge. When the roaring hooves were completely trained into one piece. The assault speed of the cone battle formation had reached its limit, the two kilometers of the journey was just over. The knights maintained the highest speed, and plunged into the undead like a nail, like a tide.
The biggest feature of the cone battle formation is that it has the most powerful assault ability. As long as the main general who is at the front of the formation is strong enough, he can break into any solid defensive formation. After breaking in, the knights on both wings will withstand the pressure from the side, ruthlessly tear the local position, and pass through the center. Neri did this. She was rushing to the front and lowered her body, holding the rifle tightly with one hand, and wrapped herself and the mount together with her powerful fighting spirit.
The unicorn who controls the holy beast turned into a silver thread, tearing the enemy's formation without any obstacles. No undead standing in front of her can reduce her speed slightly. As soon as it comes into contact with her rifle or fighting spirit, it will be shattered and turned into bone powder all over the sky. Even a few powerful undead with half-body strength will fly out far away by the impact meteor after contact, and then be trapped in it by the dense undead tide behind, making it difficult to launch another attack.
Behind her, the Thousand Knights squatted the pressure on both sides and expanded the gap that Neli broke. These heavily armored knights held their rifles in one hand and waved their heavy swords in the other, while bringing great damage to the undead around them, constantly following Neli's pace. The illusory square flag fluttered behind each knight. As long as the square flag still stands, the knight will never fall. This is the glory of the knight.
The enemy's power is also powerful. As the cone battle formation advances, the square flags are constantly broken. The knights under the banner are too severely injured and turn into a tiny dot of light disappearing without a trace. However, whenever this time, the knights inside the battle formation will always appear in the position of the dead in time, take over the task of the dead in the battle formation and continue to move forward. The pale undead kept rushing down like a waterfall, but the knights went upstream along the waterfall formed by the undead, and soon advanced more than seven kilometers in the undead.
However, even the most powerful warriors will fall. The increasingly dense enemies gradually slowed down the Knights' impact speed, and fewer and fewer flags were flying. Finally, the Knights' rushing forward stopped, and the last dozens of flags disappeared, and the summoned Phantom Knights returned to the illusion. Only Neli was alone holding a long rifle, facing the surging tide of the undead alone.
A half-moon vacuum slash was emitted from the rear. The gap formed by the Dou Qi was a timely and clever gap that just appeared over Neli's body. It closed in front of her and cut into the bodies of the undead who were infinitely close to her. The vacuum slash is a common skill for melee professionals above the silver level. It simply uses Dou Qi to form Dou Qi to cut forward. However, this skill that everyone knows has amazing changes when used in Kyle's hand. Often, the Dou Qi Blade is only one or two meters wide. The width of the Dou Qi Blade is directly expanded by a hundred times. The thin Dou Qi Blade with a width of two hundred meters wide has an unstoppable sharpness. It completely clears the enemies around Neli who is about to be surrounded by the undead. Not only that, the Dou Qi Blade continued to fly forward, and pushed it for nearly a hundred meters before stopping the castration, and exploded between the enemies. It caused secondary damage.
Taking this opportunity, Dilly rushed to Neli. Kyle stretched out her hand, and Neli jumped on Deilly's back with Kyle's arm. The white unicorn hissed and nodded to Neli, his whole body became hazy and illusory, and finally disappeared from the spot.
At the same time, Ms. Mina, who had been sitting on Dilly's back, suddenly shook her cloak and floated up in her sitting position. A golden light burst out in the air. After the dazzling golden light dissipated, the shadow enveloped the space above Dilly. A golden dragon with a length of more than 100 meters flapped its huge wings and kept flying forward at the same speed as Dilly. The golden dragon has a streamlined and symmetrical figure, full of explosive power, and the scales covered with dense and lustrous shape. Under the illumination of the moonlight, it emits a cold and glossy light. After Mina regained the dragon shape, she raised her slender neck and roared a dragon to the night sky. The dragon roar was long and loud. With amazing penetration, it came from all directions.
"It is worthy of being the guardian created by Lord Yara himself, and it is worthy of being the strongest combat dragon clan under the gods." Even if you can see the enemy in all directions in the undead tide, Kyle can still calmly express his praise to Ms. Mina: "This perfect combination of power and beauty is enough to make everyone who sees it intoxicated."
"But I have an ominous premonition." Deere, the Scorpion-tailed Lion, said in a muffled voice: "very ominous."
The dragon glided with everyone in the sky, and her huge body size made her be treated by all the nearby undead for a while. A large number of bone arrows and magic were released from the hands of the surrounding skeleton archers, skeleton mages and corpse witches, and raindrops attacked the dragon Mina like raindrops. But Mina seemed to have not seen these attacks, completely ignored them. The dense attack just arrived near Damina and hit the strong shield beside her, which was easily resolved and bounced away. The dragon raised its head to the sky, took a deep breath, and opened its mouth and sprayed it out to the position ahead of everyone, and the high-temperature flames formed.
The dragon breath fell from the sky, and the 100-meter-wide flame dragon breath forcibly burned a path ahead of everyone. Mina did not spray out an ordinary dragon breath, but a special breath after high-intensity compression. All the undeads on the path, regardless of strength and weakness, all turned into ashes. Even the demigods were unavoidable. This is the most terrifying thing about the dragon. Under such dragon breath, although the demigods in intelligent creatures can use fighting spirit to avoid being troubled by instant killing, even so, they will be attacked by the residual power inside the shield, causing considerable damage.
The spewed dragon breath not only burned out the bones, but even the yellow sand on the ground melted, making the ground condense into a smooth solid. Dilly spread his limbs and ran at a higher speed on the smooth ground.
"I knew I was going to be unlucky." Deely ran and complained miserably: "I burned me to death. You bastards are so vicious that I actually let me run barefoot on such a hot ground. Bastards, you guys are waiting for me, there is always one I want to take revenge. Ahhh, I burned me to death, my feet are about to blister."
Of course, no one would pay attention to his complaints. In fact, he just complained casually. As for the physical condition of a demigod, after being isolated from the Dou Qi shield, the temperature of recondensation after melting the gravel will not cause substantial damage.
The Winged Gemini rose up to the air at Kyle's sign, protecting the dragon Mina and trying to block the attacks from the enemy for her. Although most of the attacks from below cannot have any impact on the shield of the demigods. However, there are still many undead leaders with demigod power hidden in the dense undead group. If they are allowed to continue to attack, they will always cause considerable damage to Mina. With Mina's physique, these damages are not enough to be fatal, but accumulating too much will seriously affect her subsequent combat effectiveness. So Kyle issued an order as soon as Mina took off, and the Winged Gemini immediately blocked most of the offensives.
Without being bothered by the enemy anymore, Mina simply focused her energy on the cleaning road. Whenever a long mouthful of dragon breath was spitting out, she would flap her wings and climb up. As close as possible to the no-fly space above, and after climbing to the top, Mina, who had already compressed the dragon breath in her body again, began to dive down with the speed of Dilly running, sweeping across the ground, spitting out flames, leaving a high-temperature area of hundreds of meters on the ground, and there would definitely be no undead in the area.
Dili continued to complain loudly while maintaining his own running speed in order to avoid wasting even a meter of the paths opened by the dragon Mina. Whenever Mina climbs up again to compress the dragon breath, once Dili is too close to the enemy in front, someone will send a long-range attack on his back to break through head-on, whether it is a carpet bombing of thousands of crystal gun energy bombs, or a rain of arrows as beautiful as falling flowers in the sky, or even a vacuum slash of half a month of vacuum slashes of different sizes, in short, the assistance from the rear can clean the paths ahead in time, so that Dili's wild running will not be hindered.
Among the people who participated in this life-threatening operation, some of them had not cooperated for a long time, and some had not even met each other, but had just heard of their names. However, these powerful men who had first contact with each other cooperated very well under Kyle's coordination, just like they had worked with each other for many years. To achieve such an effect, in addition to Kyle's excellent leadership, it is also inseparable from everyone's trust in him. Everyone is willing to complete his instructions unconditionally. No matter how inexplicable the instructions are, because these people believe in one thing. As long as the instructions can be executed smoothly, Kyle will be arranged later, and there is no need for any worries. Everyone knows that the perfect Kyle never makes mistakes, the perfect Kyle will never be at a loss, and the perfect Kyle can deal with everything properly and welcome one victory after another.
As it turns out, everyone was not disappointed this time. The perfect Kyle never disappointed his teammates. When the combat dragon Mina proposed to let Nelly start charging, a perfect plan took shape in Kyle's mind. Until now, every step of the plan has been accurate and efficient, without any loopholes. In this desert filled with undead, in this land full of theoretical crisis, a group of people advanced in reverse against the impact of the undead without risk. In just an hour, everyone stepped on the road paved with bones and flames and pushed forward for more than 20 kilometers. The temple, which could not even see the blurry shadow, became closer and closer. With the remaining ten kilometers of distance, some races with better vision could already see the outline of the temple clearly.
"Ms. Mina." Kyle made a gesture to Cristo. Cristo cooperated to cast a sonic technique, which expanded Kyle's voice countless times: "Ms. Mina, please come down and rest for a while first. Don't consume too much physical strength and energy. You are the strongest combat power among us. The battles in the future still need your help. Don't worry, leave the remaining road to us and give us a chance to perform. You can't just watch you perform alone."
Mina was indeed a little tired. When she suggested that Catherine charge, she did not expect that the pressure of fighting would be so great. The demigod undead below continued to increase, and the threats brought to her were also increased simultaneously. Even with the protection of the winged sisters, the number of wounds on her body was still increasing rapidly. Many attacks had even broken through the defense of her scales, tearing open her thick muscles, and letting blood flow along the wound. And while bearing the attack, Mina also had to continuously dive and spit attacks. If it was an ordinary dragon breath, she might not feel tired for a day. But in order to achieve the ideal effect, she had to compress the dragon breath at a high concentration every time. This process would be unimaginable to other intelligent creatures.
Therefore, under the pressure of the two reasons, Mina's breathing offensive was already a little difficult, but when Pannis was somewhat opposed, it was her who proposed the charge, so even if it was difficult, the pride of the dragon clan forced her to persist until she reached the scope of the temple, and she could not see her forced along the way. But just as she was thinking so, Kyle's voice came at a time. Mina didn't know if Kyle had seen her forced, but in his words he cleverly avoided the evaluation of Mina's current state, and used the battle to save energy to deal with it as an excuse to ask Mina for rest. Moreover, on the basis of not affecting Mina's self-esteem, he even proposed the reason to give others the opportunity to perform, which made Mina unable to refuse.
"Even at this time, do you never forget to maintain the self-esteem of every teammate? No wonder so many people, whether they are old or young, respect you, and even if you have a message, you are willing to come here to entrust your life to you. But Kyle, you are not a god after all, can you really be like this until the end?" These words hovered in Mina's mind for a while, and finally didn't say it. She smiled bitterly in her heart, and after spraying the last dragon breath in front, she transformed into a human form according to Kyle's instructions, still maintaining a sitting position, slowly falling back on Dilly's back.
"Thank you for your hard work, Ms. Mina." Kyle did not forget to thank the dragon: "Your strength shocked us. With your help, this road has become much smoother than before. Thank you."
Mina's golden pupils flashed with a light of unknown significance. She smiled with a complicated expression, shook her head without saying anything.
"Are you ready?" Kyle did not expect Mina to answer, and turned directly to the direction of the black-robed mage: "Now I need your help. My old friend."
Feila was covered in the black mage robe from head to toe, only her pointed chin and thin lips were exposed from under her hood. Hearing Kyle's question, Feila's mouth curled up in a subtle curve. The extremely enthusiastic voice when talking about magic became particularly calm at this moment: "Punctuality is the virtue of the mage."
"Well, I'll just pretend you mean you're ready." Kyle shrugged and communicated with the eccentric mage. Always be prepared to guess what they mean: "Then, we're looking forward to your performance."
So, the only aggressive mage among the people in this trip took action. Among the thirteen people in the group, there are not many people who can be considered as spell casting professions, such as werewolf Finch, goblin Christo, elf Flar, and Winged Man Gemini, and even Kyle himself, they can all be considered half a spellcaster, but in the true sense, there is only one mage. When Fe pulls, he shows how terrible a super demigod mage is.
There was no fancy holy light effect, no lengthy spell chanting, and no complex gesture marks. Feila just stretched out her thin finger and pointed forward, even if she had completed casting. Although the movement was simple, the effect was very terrifying. In the direction of his finger, the solid earth made a moaning roar. The next moment, there was no sign, and the earth cracked open. A long rift with a depth of 100 meters and a width of 100 meters appeared in the desert, and the rift continued to move forward at a constant speed along the direction of Dilly's running.
The stretching and cracking earth made all the undeads that were originally located on it fall to the bottom of the valley. But this is not the end. In less than three seconds after the earth cracks, it quickly closed again. Billions of tons of yellow sand piled up again, burying all the undeads swallowed by the rift under the yellow sand. Feila mastered the speed very well. When the rift closed for two or three seconds, Dili stepped onto the originally cracked position in time. The place that was once occupied by the undead has now become empty, with only the yellow sand all over the ground allowed Dili to pass through.
Dilly was running hard, and Feila maintained the casting state as if it was easy. With the cooperation of both sides, relying on Feila's own modified ground-breaking technique, the remaining ten kilometers became a smooth road. The undead on both sides chased in vain and occasionally launched attacks with long-range skills. But now, these scattered attacks can no longer produce any effect. The thirteen demigods came to the stone steps of the temple without any trouble.
"Master Clark." Kyle whispered, "Look at you."
Due to the existence of the temple, Feila was unable to continue to use the modified ground-breaking technique to rush forward, so she had to stop casting spells in front of the stone steps, and a large number of undead were still crowded on the stone steps that cost dozens of meters.
"In the name of steel and flame." The dwarf Clark responded, jumped high from Dilly's back, holding a huge two-handed battle axe in both hands, and landed under the stone steps. As soon as it landed, Clark began to rotate quickly. The heavy giant axe drove Clark to rotate faster and faster, forming an axe-blade whirlwind. The bursting fighting energy continued to extend from the axe blade, making the attack range larger and larger, and eventually covering the entire width of the stone steps. The attack of this meat grinder is an advanced skill of heavy weapon users - a whirlwind explosion. Only high-level professions with sufficient control over weapons and limbs can be used freely.
Clark kept spinning and pushing for dozens of meters from bottom to top, and finally stopped in front of the temple gate. When he stopped, only bones were left on the stone steps, and there were no undead that could stand. Under the stone steps, Dilly roared lowly, flapped his wings and jumped directly onto the stone steps. The temple finally appeared in front of everyone intact.
Looking at the temple carefully, this building is very large, covering an area of more than three square kilometers. The temple looks like a rare vault building now. On one side of the main entrance, twenty-four round stone pillars are arranged horizontally. The stone pillars are carved with patterns of unknown meaning. The patterns look very exquisite, but if you stare at them for a long time, you will feel dizzy. At the gate of the temple, two huge doors are open inwardly, and the inside of the gate is pitch black and nothing can be seen. With the moonlight shining in from outside, you can barely see two huge lines of words engraved on the gate. Although everyone knows that these are words, no one knows them. Only Feila and Mina change their faces while seeing the words.
Looking back below, endless undeads were chasing behind everyone tirelessly, but at this moment, the undead had lost the last chance to stop them from entering the temple. Strangely, although the undead were crowded with undead, the temple was empty and there was no enemy. The pursuers behind chased them to the entrance of the temple and suddenly stopped strangely. Even if they were close to everyone, they would not step into the gate.
"It seems we can take a break for a while." Kyle stroked his chest and bowed, saluting everyone like a curtain call: "Thank you for your trust in me during the battle along the way. Now that I have come here, I have succeeded by chance. I hope you haven't disappointed all friends."
"Who will be disappointed in you?" Flar's voice was like singing, and he whispered: "Who else can do it except you to get here with such ease?"
"Sorry to interrupt." Feila said to Mina with an ugly face: "This Guardian, is this the unknown soul fragment you mentioned?"
"Do you understand?" Mina said with a wry smile: "I just saw this line and realized that this is where he sleeps. But don't worry, he has fallen. It is very likely that he has indeed become a fragment of the soul. Even if it is not a fragment, it will be just a wisp of the soul that has just woken up."
"What?" Kyle found that Feila was a little dissatisfied and interrupted: "You know these words? Have you guessed the identity of the soul fragment?"
Chapter completed!