Chapter 142 Light and Darkness
Countless torches lit up in the darkness, and the scattered team of thousands of people was relatively large. After the torches were lit up, they decorated the large open space in front of the gate of the Dark Tower like stars.
As there were more and more torches, more players and NPC soldiers began to gather in this open space. Although everyone was considered members of the Holy Light Council and was working towards the same goal, in essence, the Empire and the Alliance still belonged to two different organizations, and it was impossible to truly achieve integration so quickly. Moreover, after yesterday's battle, everyone understood that there was actually no formation or general command in such a large battle group. Every point on the battlefield was a small battlefield. Only when each small team was victorious can the battle win as a whole. Therefore, compared to yesterday, everyone divided the division more clearly. Not only did the Empire and the Alliance clearly form their own teams, but the Empire and the Alliance were also divided into small teams based on guilds or organizations. Everyone tried to get close to avoid being alone, while the other scattered forces also stood together.
As heroes and temporary commanders of this battle, Yi Xuan and Edward stood at the front of the team. Behind them were Edward's Green Watchmen team and the Holy Light Knights led by Yi Xuan. Yang Kai explained that he was here to support Yi Xuan. Therefore, he neither paid attention to any status nor required any status in this battle. A savage chief was following Yi Xuan's Holy Light Knights. Everyone lived together, and obviously had already incorporated himself into Yi Xuan's guards.
Yi Xuan pulled out his sabre and waved his way to the gate of the Dark Tower, and was about to announce his advance. At this time, Edward's dwarf hero who led the alliance reinforcements last night was no longer there.
"I'm sorry, you, I think Elder Edward should be the first to enter the Dark Tower. Only in this way, my unruly subordinates will be convinced." Although his tone was polite, this content sounded uncomfortable.
Yi Xuan frowned. His purpose was to rescue Zhao Beifeng. He thought there was no need to worry about the question of who was advanced and who was backward. He glanced at Edward, who was looking at the side with a leisurely face and didn't know what to look at, obviously he was supporting the dwarf's words.
"Okay." Yi Xuan didn't want to waste time on this issue, so he nodded happily to agree.
"Wait." Sir Lexa beside Yi Xuan hurriedly said to stop him, "Elder Yi, I don't think this is good. After all, the soldiers of the empire only occupy an important position in the coalition, and the top leaders of the empire are very supportive of your actions. Look, this honor of entering the Tower of Darkness cannot be given away so easily." Lexa smiled and didn't smile. Although she opened her mouth to the elder and kept silent, she had a determination that she would never want to give up in her tone.
"This..." Yi Xuan didn't expect that there was a problem with such a problem that was not a problem. No wonder human nature is the key to determining the outcome of everything. This is not a classic. Before you make money, will it be a fight for the money first? If you are defeated this time, will it not be that whoever enters the door first gets insulted? But in the face of the enemy, Yi Xuan could not say such a discouraging thing. Moreover, he also relies on the power of the alliance and the empire, so it is not easy to make it too stiff. Therefore, Yi Xuan said this and didn't know how to take it next.
"Sir Lexa, I have heard of you, what? I heard you joined in early, are you in a hurry to go in and die now?" Speaking to the Imperial Commander, the smell of gunpowder in the dwarf's mouth became much stronger.
"You may not know about this. It is an honor to die in our empire in battle. Unlike your alliance, you may think it is more important to come and clean up the battlefield." Lexus was still gentlemanly and cursed around the corner.
The dwarf hero didn't turn around at first, frowned and thought for a while and suddenly said furiously: "What do you mean? Are you saying that I am afraid of death and come late on purpose?" The dwarf hero brought people to him after fighting the battlefield yesterday. When he came, the people from the empire had arrived, so he might think that only his team was the last one to come, so it was particularly harsh to listen to Lexus's words.
Lexa took advantage of the word, with a proud look on her face, "You said this yourself, I didn't expect it to be because of this." This sentence further confirmed the dwarf's reputation of being greedy for life and fear of death.
"You..." As a warlike dwarf people, there is probably nothing more insulting than this. The dwarf was almost about to pull out his warhammer.
At this moment, Yi Xuan felt a sudden vibration under his feet. The vibration became more and more obvious. Even the Dark Tower began to shake, but soon, Yi Xuan found that it was actually the Dark Tower that was shaking, and the earth started to shake under his guidance.
Everyone looked at the top of the tower in surprise and doubt. They saw the dark clouds in the sky circling continuously, like a vortex, and the core of the rotation was on the spiral of the tower. I don’t know where something was stirring the shadow energy, and soon formed a pattern. Yi Xuan stared at the dark clouds for a long time. He felt that the dark energy was not only rotating, but also being absorbed by something.
"What's going on? An earthquake?"
"It's not like, I think it seems that the tower is about to collapse." The players whispered, but in such violent shaking and loud sounds, this discussion gradually turned into a shout.
"We won't be killed by the tower directly, are we?"
"What did you say? I can't hear it"
The rumbling sound became louder and louder, and in the end it seemed like someone was beating a drum in his ear. It was in this drum sound that Yi Xuan clearly heard the system prompts.
System prompts: The Dark Sage Zhao Beifeng is conducting a ritual to resurrect the Shadow God. When this ritual is completed, the Shadow God will come to this world again. Since the Shadow God is about to be resurrected, the dark energy controls the entire Dark Tower. The Dark Sage Zhao Beifeng has obtained all control of the Dark Tower. Currently he is located on the 99th floor to conduct the Shadow God's resurrection ceremony. In order to prevent the Shadow God's resurrection, he must kill Zhao Beifeng before dawn tomorrow.
After the system prompts, the rumbling sound gradually lowered, and finally turned into the buzzing vibrating sound at the beginning. It seemed that it was the movement when the ceremony started. No matter what, since it could make such a big noise, it seemed that the power of this ceremony was definitely not small.
Now there is time limit. Before dawn, it is really a long way to go to the 99th floor. Yi Xuan can't control so much at this time. How could there be any question about the American time to argue about the first merits? He waved his saber and shouted at the crowd: "Come with me." Then Yi Xuan raised his front hooves high under his crotch, let out his four hooves and rushed into the gate. A hundred knights and savages were closely behind him.
When Edward saw that he could not let him shoot the limelight alone, he hurriedly shouted: "For the honor of the holy light." He followed him in.
In this way, there was no more dispute between the Empire and the Alliance, and everyone rushed inside. When they reached the gate of the Dark Tower, they felt gloomy inside, and the chilly cold wind kept whirling out, as if there was a huge cave inside. Although the ten thousand-year-old lamps were still lit inside, today's Dark Tower was particularly gloomy.
Yi Xuan rushed to the hall on the first floor and looked up. The entire hall seemed to be shrouded in a layer of indescribable dark mist, which made people feel deeply uneasy. This is still Yi Xuan's feeling. Heroes with slightly lower templates or players with lower levels felt absolutely frightening at this time. In fact, this hall is still the same hall, and the layout is still the arrangement, but it makes people in it uncomfortable.
If those NPs can also be understood as expressions brought by system domination, then the player's feeling is a real and personal existence.
The number of members of the coalition forces this time is too large, and this hall is usually prepared for those players who make dungeons, so it can only accommodate three or five hundred people. At this time, most of the people entering the hall are still NPs, but whether they are entering the hall or outside the hall, the second system prompt sound sounded in their ears.
System prompts: The Expeditionary Force officially invades the Tower of Darkness, and the plot mission "Light and Darkness" is officially launched. Tips: The plot characters who die in this plot mission will die forever, and all things that happen during this period will be remembered in the history of the game.
Hearing this prompt, the players outside the tower cheered. They did not have to be afraid of death like NPEf, but they could also get their own glory and experience in this action, so such a prompt is definitely good news for them.
But it is not that optimistic for NP, especially for people like Yi Xuan who have real emotions. This mission also means life and death to them.
All the NPs had a solemn expression, but just a flash of it. Everyone understood that this was their own choice, either for honor, for the sake of nobleness, for the creatures in the world, or just for a promise from their friends. They all had to complete this plot task today, and they were only allowed to succeed and not fail.
"Okay, everyone just heard that our goal is the 99th floor of the top of the tower. Time is tight and the task is heavy. We must divide the work and cooperate." Yi Xuan turned around and shouted loudly to the people behind him. "Because our coalition has too many people and it is difficult to exert its strength in such a narrow terrain, I decided to disperse the team and operate. Our main line is to divide the troops into two groups: the first route, attacking the top of the tower from the stairs, aiming to consume the number of enemy monsters and restrain the enemy's troops. The second route, the portal operation, this route is led by me, I am led by me, I
Our main goal is to attack the top of the tower and organize the resurrection of the Shadow God. Next, the person who read the name is responsible for leading the team to sprint monsters along the stairs, and the dwarf Caldir..." Yi Xuan assigned everyone's tasks, intending to assign everyone who was not the same system as him to those relatively far-reaching roads, so that he can ensure that he will be the first to enter the top of the Dark Tower, the 99th floor. When will he attack? They have nearly 24 hours left. Even if they go to the portal and add time to kill monsters, it is probably enough.
The dwarf hero was obviously very dissatisfied when he heard that he was assigned to the stairs group. However, Edward knew Yi Xuan’s final plan. These people were just delaying time. He would not ruin his and Yi Xuan’s overall plan because of their dissatisfaction. Therefore, Edward said to him seriously: "In this battle, only the division of labor is different, the honor is the same. You are also fighting to stop the conspiracy of the Shadow God Cult." After saying that, he felt that the weight was not enough, and he added another sentence: "As a soldier, you must obey the orders of the Holy Light Council. If you join the Holy Light Council, you must obey the orders of the Holy Light Council." The dwarf hero boss was reluctant, but had no choice.
"Okay, hurry up and act." Yi Xuan saw that the most thorny person had been persuaded, and immediately said to everyone. While saying that, he rushed up to the teleportation platform on the second floor, where he could find the teleportation shortcut to the 99th floor. However, as soon as he stepped onto the stairs leading to the second floor, a large number of monsters flashed out from the upstairs, and the battle began in a moment.
These monsters seemed to have crawled out of the darkness, and suddenly filled the gaps around them, and formed a ball with the players and NPs. Yi Xuan had no time to waste time with these garbage monsters. He winked at Yang Kai, shouted "For justice." Then he rushed up to the second floor. Yang Kai followed closely. The monsters could dodge, and they tried to get a few strokes and followed. The dwarf hero next to him who was dissatisfied just now immediately pulled out the war hammer and roared at a monster half-beetle beetle beside him. The dwarf tribe is very brave and fierce in nature. Once he fights, he doesn't care about anything. He no longer cares about how dissatisfied he is with the assignment.
Groups of monsters surged up along the way, densely packed like a tide, but Yi Xuan was no longer the same as before. Not only did he have the attribute bonus provided by the level 6 template, but he also had the powerful strength improvement brought by the bloodline of the first generation of Niefarem. In addition, he had the best luxury equipment, and his combat power was simply overwhelming. At this time, he felt that the holy light energy was like the essence in his body. Even if he did not use enhanced skills such as Blood Awakening, his entire ability had reached the peak stage in his previous life.
A holy light flashed, and his figure disappeared from the spot. While teleporting, it brought out a golden phantom and penetrated straight through the monster pile. When he appeared again, the monsters wherever he passed by turned into ashes in the dazzling holy light.
"Damn, what's the situation?" Yang Kai, who followed closely behind, was obviously surprised to see Yi Xuan so violently, and followed with the road he drove. "Lao Yi, are you too fierce? The blood volume of these monsters is not low, why did you just get wiped out without taking action?"
Yi Xuan looked at his whole body. At this time, his whole body was shrouded in holy light, and his whole body was like a golden god of war, particularly dazzling in the dark pile of monsters.
"I don't know, is it because my holy light has a restraining effect on the monster?" Yi Xuan said hesitantly. At this time, he remembered that when he was fighting with one of the eight knights of Shadow, the other party summoned a shadow spirit, but the holy light of the shadow spirit was very scared when Mary appeared. Now it seems that this is definitely not a coincidence. His holy light energy seems to be the nemesis of the shadow energy. As long as the energy is large enough, it can completely achieve the effect of instant killing.
"But your holy light was not that powerful yesterday." Yang Kai was still a little puzzled. Although it was a good thing for his brothers to show their power in the battle, if they didn't understand it, they would always be in a loss of confidence.
"Yesterday? Oh, I understand." Yi Xuan's heart was open. It seemed that this was because he strengthened the relationship between Nepharem's bloodline. Unexpectedly, in addition to improving physical fitness, the energy of the holy light also increased a lot. However, it was too late to say so much at this time. Yi Xuan saw that a monster had rushed up and a sabre cut down and said to Yang Kai: "I will tell you in detail when I go back, and now I will rush forward."
At this time, the monsters on the stairs had already started a full battle with the dwarves and the NP of the Alliance. The players who followed in, including the alliances and the empires, were very happy to see this strange mountain and sea of strange mountains and seas, rushed up and chopped the axes. As the front line became deeper and deeper, there were more and more contact points, and the battle was fully launched. For a moment, the first floor of the Dark Tower was shouting and killing sounds shook the sky.
Just as Yi Xuan led the heroes and players of the Holy Light Council to rush towards the top of the Dark Tower, the ritual of the Dark Tower was also tensely carried out. At this moment, the top of the tower that had never been opened like a player welcomed his first group of visitors, but the appearance of these visitors was not so comfortable.
In the middle of the tower is a huge platform. The platform is now covered with lines. There are many strange and twisted symbols on the pattern of a pentagram. These symbols and lines are connected to form a huge magic circle. Around the magic circle, two shadow priests in long robes are surrounded by waves of shadow energy. They stand at the two points of the magic circle at equal distances, surrounding the magic circle. At the center point of the pentagram, that is, the center of the magic circle, a man in a black robe is standing there. He kept twisting his body, as if he wanted to break free from some constraints, but his body has nothing except those faint shadow energy.
The shadow priests muttered words, and the pronunciations of these words were strange and short, and they sounded like they were singing, but they couldn't even form any tune.
Their bodies kept changing gestures as the mantras were recited. Suddenly, the two priests turned around and crawled their bodies against the person in the circle, holding their hands high above their heads.
They lowered their heads devoutly, looked at the ground, and the sound of spells in their mouths kept rising. With their hands raised high, they stood up, and then knelt down repeatedly. While they kept kneeling and standing, a strange atmosphere slowly condensed, but the person who was kneeling down seemed to be unwelcome at all. He kept twisting his body, and the blue veins on his face burst out. When he found that these efforts were futile, he was furious and shouted at the priests: "Damn it, you bastards, hurry up and let me go." It was not Zhao Beifeng or someone.
"Why? Don't you like the performance I arranged for you?" His face suddenly changed his expression and said in a completely different tone: "Zhao Beifeng, my most loyal servant, soon you can completely fall into my arms."
"No," Zhao Beifeng shouted loudly. His body was tightly bound by the magic array and could not move at all. The dark shadow energy was spinning around him, coiling, finding his vulnerable place, and suddenly rushed in. Immediately a chill came from that position. As he continued to invade into his body, he felt that his body was being deprived little by little.
At this time, Zhao Beifeng and Yi Xuan saw differently. Now he still seems to have his own consciousness. At least he knows that the ceremony in front of him is not a good thing for him, but he obviously did not understand why he has reached the point he is today.
He shouted at the shadow priests in anger: "You bastards, I am your master, I am your H6, hurry up and let me out." He felt furious in his heart. You must know that these shadow priests were all assigned to his subordinates by the system. In the past, they were completely obedient under his command, but why did they look different at this time?
The prayers of the priests continued, and the voice in Zhao Beifeng's ears rang again: "My subordinates? You call them subordinates? It's very interesting." Then he seemed to think of something and said with a smile: "But you are my subordinates too. If I order you to stand here, why do you want to resist?" The God of Shadow's voice was full of sarcasm.
"No, this is different from what we agreed before." Zhao Beifeng shouted loudly. "What do you want?"
"Oh? Is it different? What did we say before? I'm willing to give you the strength to prevent you from being killed by those players. I've done it, right? Now it's your turn to take on your obligations."
"But I never promised you to let you occupy me."
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha." The voice made a wild laugh, as if he had heard the most innocent and funny words at this time. After a while, he finally stopped the laughter and said coldly: "Then what do you think I was going to enter your body?"
His words made Zhao Beifeng speechless. Once upon a time, how could he not understand what this meant? It was just that at that time he thought things were under his control, thinking that he could get rid of such a fate with his own intelligence and mind. He even thought that he could defeat this so-called god in the end, but... why is this happening?
Zhao Beifeng thought silently in his heart, but for the Shadow God who already shared the same body with him, this silent thought seemed to be no different from saying it out loud.
"What do you think things should be like? What do you think you are? Do you really think you are an amazing person? No, no, you are just a puppet to me, a chess piece that I can mercy. Just open your arms to welcome your upcoming destiny."
"No, never." The God of Shadow's words seemed to stab Zhao Beifeng's nerves, causing him to shout suddenly, "He wants to live, he wants to pass the final trial, he wants to return to the real world, how can Zhao Beifeng die in such a ghost place, how can he die in such a ghost place?
Another shadow power rushed in, causing his soul to shake again. However, this time he did not try to seize control of this body again. He stopped struggling, closed his eyes and stood quietly. He wanted to keep himself awake with all his energy. This belief echoed in his mind: "Yi Xuan will come to save me. He will come to save me."
"Haha, it's ridiculous." Although Zhao Beifeng was just talking to him, he was now completely transparent about the Shadow God. The Shadow God's tone was ridiculous: "Do you think a mortal can defeat God?"
"Hmph." Zhao Beifeng finally calmed down and sneered: "Don't worry, he will stop your resurrection. Have you forgotten? The real core of this game is players. If you are really resurrected, players will not be able to fight. How could the system give you such a chance?" "Player?" The God of Shadow smiled "hehe". "Then let's wait and see."
Chapter completed!