—Buzz!
A sharp arrow instantly broke through the air, penetrated the skull of a monster lurking behind the bush, and killed it on the spot. The strong penetrating power lingered for a long time, causing the arrow tail to tremble continuously.
This monster is not small in size. You can see the rough outline of a giant lizard, and there are obvious traces of alien disease on its back. Even if it was pierced by a sharp arrow in the brain, it still struggled in place for dozens of seconds. Slowly dying, because of its struggle, the low roars of various other monsters came from other places in the forest, seeming to be intimidating and warning.
Ignoring these growls, Suer looked around cautiously. She held a simple elf hardwood bow in her hand, and neatly loaded a bone arrow.
The elf girl who is familiar with the movements of various monsters and beasts in the forest now understands that the current forest is far more dangerous than usual. Many monsters that used to be hidden deep in the forest have all awakened. They are wandering in the forest at this time, venting their bloodthirsty rage. desire.
Fortunately, as before, no matter how ferocious these beasts are, they dare not approach the sacred mountain... But the deterrence of the sacred mountain is actually not very effective. When these monsters gather into a group, the last trace of reason left in their brains is lost to the madness of the group. Submerged, let alone the sacred mountain for sacrifice, even if there is an abyss in front of them, they will jump down without hesitation.
But—why
Soul was confused.
The gathering of beasts into a tide is a major event that has not happened many times in the long history recorded by the Watcher elves. And every time the beast tide starts, there is a very obvious foreshadowing: in September, there will be blood rain, and there will be waves along the coast. Tsunamis, earthquakes in various places or thunderstorms.
After these visions end, it will take another seven or eight days before the herds of beasts gathered together due to various mutations will turn into a tide of beasts, destroying everything around them while constantly killing each other.
But, was there any vision just now? earthquake? Indeed, there is, but the beast's reaction speed cannot be that fast.
"Miss Suer, according to your experience, when will these beasts start attacking us?"
The alchemist's voice came from the side of the thinking elf girl. Sur turned his head slightly and looked at Priest's teammate.
At this time, the four members of the elite team were quickly setting up a position.
The caster flexibly cast fossils into mud and mud into stone, and built a prototype of a fortress at the foot of the mountain, while the priest was leisurely inserting small crystal pillars into the foundation of the fortress, using holy light to It turned into a whole, and the knight was assembling various strange parts at the back. In just ten minutes, a simple inverted trapezoidal fortress about eight meters high was roughly formed.
"I don't know. We have never encountered a similar vision before."
Sur shook her head and jumped onto the fortress's arrow stand neatly. After she shot another monster with an arrow from a distance, she said slowly: "But if I had to guess, there is probably a buffer period of one or two hours - Strong monsters will eat weak monsters first, and only after they have eaten and drank enough will they have the strength to go crazy."
The alchemist nodded slightly. After he turned sideways and loudly informed his companions behind him of the approximate preparation time, he glanced at Sur, who shot an arrow and nailed a monster that wanted to get close, and then at Akela, who was still silent. Legal hub.
"The captain's vision is quite good." He thought silently.
Most of the elves are slender and thin. Coupled with their handsome faces, anyone will have the idea of 'weakness' from the bottom of their hearts. However, this is a complete illusion. The elves who live in the forest and shuttle between trees, Whether it is strength, agility or endurance, it is better than humans.
And Suer is undoubtedly a standard elf. The usually cheerful girl's face now has a hint of hunter's ferocity. Her long green hair is tied into a ponytail and floats behind her, and her golden-green eyes are slightly narrowed. , accurately find the location of every prey in the forest - the elf's slender body does not make Sur look weak and quiet, but because of the long bow in her hand, vigorous movements, and smooth body wrapped in hunting attire, people can't help but Reminiscent of the dangerous yet graceful cheetah.
If the alchemist didn't prefer the organs of a real World of Warcraft cheetah to a beautiful girl as strong as a cheetah, he might have tried to pursue it.
And at this moment, suddenly, the transparent barrier around the entire Akrafa hub that refused to allow outsiders to enter disappeared in an instant. At the same time, the door that had been closed immediately after Priest entered was reopened. , a figure shrouded in a repairing beam of light and seemingly about to fall appeared at the gate.
"Priest!"
The first person to react was Sur. She subconsciously ran towards the figure. Because the barrier of the Akrafa hub disappeared, there was no power to refuse her entry, so soon, the elf girl arrived at the edge. In front of the unconscious Priest, he quickly stretched out his hand, as if trying to help him up.
"team leader!"
The rest of the team followed Sur. They seemed to want to help Priest up with Sur, but were rejected by the other party.
"Don't come close... There are all kinds of turbulent information flows inside the repair light pillar, which is very dangerous!"
Probably because of the presence of his companions, Priest was energetic. He stood up leaning against the hub door, and then said weakly: "Stop staying outside, come in quickly, I have obtained the authority of the hub!"
After finishing speaking, Priest turned around and walked towards the inside of the hub. The five of them looked at each other for a while, and then quickly followed Priest's pace.
"Clark, Wayne, Constantine, Seid and Soul, this is no time for joking. What I say next is the truth."
As he entered the hub, Priest said in a hoarse voice: "It's different from what we suspected before... It's not that the ruins of the glorious civilization are built on this world, but the entire world is the ruins of the glorious civilization!"
"They created an entire world—and then sealed an evil god within it!"
Suer didn't understand what Priest said, but the four remaining people were stunned for a moment, and their hair stood on end.
"What...what? Are you kidding..." The caster subconsciously wanted to shake his head and question, but thinking of what Priest had emphasized at the beginning, he immediately suppressed the joke. On the other side, the priest The expressions of the knight and the alchemist are also very exciting.
Priest had already activated the automatic navigation system at this time, allowing the automatically speeding energy shield to lead everyone towards the center of the hub. He did not say much, but continued to say seriously: "In more than six thousand and seven hundred years, Before, nine legendary strongmen from the Glorious Era captured an evil god who was severely injured and weakened. Among the nine legends, there was a sage saint. With the help of the power of sages and gods, she created a world to bind him. "
"Wait, six thousand seven hundred years ago?!"
Hearing this, the most knowledgeable spellcaster among the people couldn't help but speak again: "But wasn't that war more than a thousand years ago? Also, since it can cause serious damage, why not just kill this evil god completely? wipe out?"
"Time is not absolute, it is relative."
Priest looked back at the caster, his tone was tired. He had obtained a lot of knowledge about the Age of Glory from the Hub's database, and knew that this was not impossible. Regarding another question from his companion, he patiently explained Said: "As for why this evil god is not eliminated, it is very simple, because if it is alive, it can bring greater benefits to the Era of Light."
"This evil god can transform chaos and order."
Outside the Akrafa hub, in the dark night sky, the nine-round scarlet moon shines with strange light. It can be seen that the body of the giant beast that had died long ago began to slowly and strangely squirm, with a large amount of broken flesh and blood. Blocks fell from their wounds toward the shaking world.
The flesh and blood of September contains an extremely strong aura of chaos. The blood they shed even turned into a rain of blood that invaded most of the world, covering every land evenly and evenly. But strangely, above the earth, , ripples of chaos also rose up. These ripples decayed matter and lowered the energy level. The moment two seemingly identical but actually completely different chaotic forces came into contact on the ground, they actually began to rapidly weaken and cancel each other out. Finally, it turned into countless turbid mudflows and swept across the earth.
The flesh and blood of September, which was far larger than before, fell from the sky like mountains, suppressing the veins of the earth's crust that were already crawling, suppressing the unknown things that seemed to be crawling underground bit by bit. Go back - and these seemingly ferocious and terrifying, full of hazy black mist, wriggling tentacles and jointed flesh and blood, gradually turned into the prototype of pure steel power after the two forces of chaos weakened and offset each other, and then decayed again Became ordinary material particles.
The blood rain and the flesh and blood of giant beasts continued to fall, setting off terrifying earthquakes on the earth. For a while, except for the place protected by the Mother Tree of Life, almost all areas were invaded. However, such a terrifying chaos invasion from both sides, finally But it didn't cause any bad consequences.
The soil became fertile, the mountains increased one after another, and the rock crust of the earth became thicker and stronger. After the power of chaos was weakened by chaos, it actually transformed into the original order, the prototype of the power of steel.
"This evil god named 'Debilitation' is not recorded in any classics. Only the database in the Akrafa hub has some of its information."
Outside the control room, Priest opened the three crystal doors and whispered: "Its power is weakness—the weakness of all things."
"Uranium will decay into lead and uranium, lead and uranium will decay into iron stone, and the high-energy magic will gradually reduce its energy and turn into more basic elements and ether. This process would have lasted for billions of years, but the weakened evil god It can accelerate it to just a fraction of a second.
No shield can block the attack of this evil god, and no attack can harm the body of this evil god, because in front of it, no matter how strong the defense is, no matter how powerful the attack is, it will only become fragile as time goes by. Something that can even reverse the growth of life and temporarily turn powerful legendary warriors into young children. ",
When he said this, the three spar doors opened. Priest turned his head and glanced at Sur, who did not understand but still listened carefully, and then said softly: "Wisdom, civilization and thinking ability are no exception. … The weakened evil god can affect the carrier of memory, causing knowledge to be lost, civilization to degrade, and even the motivation to think will gradually fade away, and finally turn into a ball of dead flesh with only instinct, or even no instinct."
"This, even in the Era of Glory, was discovered more than a thousand years later... and that was already too late."
"Hey, isn't this invincible?!"
Following Priest into the control room, the knight couldn't help but said in shock: "How could there be such a rogue power? How did such a powerful evil god get caught and sealed?!"
"Actually, the Enfeebled Evil God is not strong."
Priest sat back on the control chair. He closed his eyes and gave instructions to the Akrafa hub, and then said slowly: "It can even be said to be very weak - it can be forced back by less than ten legendaries. It is estimated that Only the Atmospheric Evil God is weaker than it. A powerful ability does not mean that it is powerful. The Weak Evil God's own foundation is not strong and cannot perfectly display its special abilities."
"What's more, the ability to weaken the evil god also has an effect on itself."
When he said this, Priest sighed and then shook his head: "The power of Chaos eroded Chaos itself, causing Chaos to decay - turning into a weird power between order and chaos. This kind of power can be transformed For the power of steel that created the world.”
Fire burns chaos and forges it into steel. Steel gives birth to all things. There is life and death, birth and death, rust, ashes scatter into the void, chaos condenses again, fire is born from ashes, and comes back again and again, endless reincarnation.
Suddenly, everyone in the elite team recalled the inscription engraved on the core building of the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Site.
The initial fire burned the chaotic void and transformed it into the original power of steel. The power of steel condensed and transformed into the world and all things.
But since it exists, there will be destruction. All things naturally have life and death, even the world... And the remains of the world after its destruction will regroup in chaos, and the flames will also rekindle from the ashes to recreate the world. This is the cycle of the multiverse, its never-ending rotation.
The Weakened Evil God weakened itself and accelerated the speed of the ashes' recondensation by an unknown number of times.
No one can know how to transform chaos into order, because no existence can observe the nirvana at the end of the life of the multiverse, at least for this extremely young multiverse, which is estimated to be about 1.6 billion years old.
But the evil god of weakness did it.
This gave the Era of Glory the opportunity to peek into the secret of the transformation of order into chaos.
"I actually never understood it."
Hearing this, the clergyman who was originally taciturn couldn't help but speak. He lowered his head, looked at the metal floor, and said in a puzzled tone: "Since the ancestors of the Glorious Era believe that order and chaos If the rotation of the world is so natural...then why are there evil gods?"
"After the destruction of the world, everything fell into chaos, and the extinguished flames rekindled in the embers... This is a perfect cycle, but the evil god is not... It controls the power of chaos, but has the code of action to order life. They destroy Countless civilizations and worlds are like a reaper...or, in other words, they seem to be accelerating the process of order rotation."
"...Who knows, don't speculate on chaos."
Priest was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said: "We are just an ordinary gold-level exploration team. Thinking about this kind of thing is just disturbing ourselves - we have more important things to do than this."
With that said, Priest controlled the Akrafa hub and issued the last order: "Prepare the anti-chaos order stance... Start purifying the entire area!"
Immediately, with his order, the entire Akrafa hub began to rumble - with the silver metal mountain as the center, the endless free energy was stripped away, gathered, and then converted into a colorless mass at the top of the mountain. The existence of the transparent light pattern caused all the violent monsters within a few miles to stop attacking each other, and unparalleled pressure was gathering above the entire Akrafa hub.
And the next moment, the light pattern shattered.
An illusory ripple like a tsunami covered an area dozens or hundreds of miles away.
"Ahh-"
Suddenly, Sur, who was standing next to Priest, suddenly let out a painful scream. She knelt on the ground and even dropped the bow in her hand. After Priest noticed this, he quickly planned to get up. He helped him, but when he thought that he was still wrapped in the repair light column, and there were still countless surging information flows echoing inside the repair light column, he subconsciously stopped.
Can't touch her.
But soon, as streaks of black energy escaped from Sur's back and the wounds eroded by chaos, Sur's screams gradually became weaker - the elf girl fainted.
It can be seen that although the chaotic erosion behind the girl has not completely disappeared, it has obviously faded a lot.
"It's okay, it's just that the chaos erosion on the spine stimulated the nerves, and I was unconscious."
The cleric on the side did not forcibly lift Sur up. He just used the holy light to check the other party's physical condition. Then he took out a roll of blankets and asked the unconscious elf girl to lie down. He was a little confused: "Strange, since the hub With a purifying stance, why do those elves still perform sacrificial rituals?"
"Because the energy consumption is too high, it is much more cost-effective to kill a few people than to take an anti-chaos stance."
"Then why are you suddenly using it now..."
"Because there's no future—how long do you want to stay here?"
After asking the cleric, looking at the condition of the elf girl, Priest no longer intended to wake her up. He just turned his head silently and used the observation circle of the Accra Law Hub to look at the elf camp in the distance - the purification stance. He easily calmed down the beast tide that was about to break out and enveloped the camp.
"Thul, not just you, but the entire Looker tribe."
He whispered to himself, his eyes full of determination.
None of you should stay in this world, in this prison... You have been jailers for 6,700 years, and you should not gradually become prisoners under guard like this.
I will take you to see a wider world, and I will also take these elves and the bones of countless victims back home to my hometown.
Then, he issued the second order to the Akrafa hub.
"Start the hyperspace communication system—start sending full-frequency wide-area information!"
…far away…
The World Fleet and Joshua were shocked at the same time.
"...Coordinates...Chaos warning...Emergency...Come quickly..."
After silently listening to the message that space-time fluctuations are used as carriers and are extremely difficult to decay by the power of chaos, Joshua couldn't help but laugh out loud: "These little guys are a bit interesting."
It seems that even if they and others don't come to them, they can still pass the message back to Mycroft and get out of trouble.
On the other side, the natural teacher who was tracking the source of chaotic fluctuations in the void with Joshua asked curiously: "What? Is this the information about the missing exploration team?"
"Yes, it's theirs."
After collecting all the wide-area information, Joshua analyzed it for a moment, then nodded slightly and his expression became serious: "But the situation is not as good as I thought - to be precise, it is very bad."
"They are in the same place as the source of chaotic fluctuations—they are beside the evil god!"
I haven't had a cold or gastroenteritis recently. It's mainly because I sleep for too long. I often lose my energy as soon as I close my eyes and sleep directly in front of the computer desk...
But now I have recovered a little and can update normally.
(End of chapter)