Du Ze subconsciously closed his eyes the moment he crashed into the tower, and when he opened it again, he and Xiu had arrived in a completely different space.
This is a spacious rotunda, about half the size of a football field. There are several stone platforms around the hall, like some pedestals. The 12 o'clock direction is a huge door of light, which is not too dazzling to block the situation inside. Except for the door of light, there is no entrance or exit in this entire hall. The door of light should be the entrance to the first floor of the tower. The rotunda was crowded with people, and Du Ze glanced at it and felt that there were too many people to squeeze any more, but even if the Thunder Legion behind had entered, the entire hall was still in the kind of situation where it was just crowded, and there would be no more people. Crowded state - wait. It was only at this moment that Du Ze realized that something was wrong. There were people in the front, back, left and right, but there was no physical contact. Even the feeling that Xiu was hugging him before did not know when it disappeared.
Du Ze looked at Xiu and found that Xiu hadn't let go of him. Xiu stood beside Du Ze, and his outstretched hand seemed to want to touch Du Ze. His hand didn't touch people like the physical body passed through the virtual body, but the two of them were not in the same space at all. Nearly, the space is infinitely extended and dislocated.
Xiu frowned, he didn't like this feeling, Du Ze was right in front of him, but he couldn't catch him.
— just as this man has always made him feel.
He knew that he was insecure, but it was because he cared too much about this person that it was particularly serious.
Du Ze saw that Xiu seemed to say something, but the misplaced space blocked even the sound. Du Ze later realized that the entire hall was too quiet. Everyone was huddled together to speak, but no sound came. Xiu also realized this, he pointed at the door of light, as if he was signaling to go through together.
Because everyone was in a different space from each other, Du Ze followed Xiu to the door of light without any hindrance. At the moment when he was about to approach the Gate of Light, an invisible force made Du Ze raise his hand, and a black flame floated on his palm. Du Ze couldn't describe this feeling. The moment he saw the black flame, he naturally knew that this was his "credential": he could use this tower to become a god, or he could give up his certificate in the rotunda— Disqualified to be sent out by the tower, or give it to someone else.
Du Ze looked at Xiu and found that Xiu was staring at him, and black flames appeared on the demon's hand. Without any hesitation, Du Ze handed over his credentials to Xiu. The black flames spontaneously merged into one as they approached. Du Ze looked at the flames in Xiu's hands, feeling a little proud for some reason.
Even if he didn't come to this world to know Xiu, Xiu is a kind of belief for him. For readers, they watch the protagonist do everything in the novel, pin some of their unfulfilled dreams on the protagonist, and watch the protagonist complete it. As long as the protagonist succeeds, even if it has nothing to do with them, readers can get great satisfaction and joy - that is the protagonist they like and their ideal self.
The back of his neck was held down by a hand, and Du Ze raised his head and was kissed by Xiu who leaned down. After the fusion of the black flames, the two seemed to be classified into the same space again, because it was too sudden, and Du Ze had no time to react. Xiu Dian opened Du Ze's lips that were slightly surprised, and seemed to know that Du Ze would be shy. This time, Xiu closed his wings to cover the two of them, but in the eyes of others, it seemed like he was stealing the bell.
The demon sisters watched as Xiu spread out his wings to reveal himself and Du Ze, no matter how cold the black-haired young man's face was, his slightly red and swollen mouth revealed the beauty in it. Alice handed the voucher to Verla, Verla walked over, and carefully handed over the black flame that fused the two in her hand. After grasping his own stupid cuteness, Xiu's emotions finally rose up. He took Verla and Mor's black flames. When it was Ariel's turn, the elf princess was expressing something in a row. After reading Ariel's gesture, Du Ze finally thought of the loyal mechanical puppet who was helping him with the fat chirp.
"Old John, can't come."
For them, the living beings in this hall are in different spaces and cannot be reached; but from the point of view of Old John, who is not a living being, the entire hall is really crowded with people, and everyone will stop him from moving forward.
"I'll pick him up."
Xiu walked back and said something to Old John. Old John nodded and handed the little phoenix to Xiu, and then saw a flash of gray light. The mechanical puppet was probably fitted into the space ring by Xiu. Du Ze watched as Xiu walked back with the unusually honest ball of fluff, and when Xiu let go, the fat chirp bounced towards Du Ze's head like a cannonball, landed with precision, and spread its wings as if it had just jumped off the machine. gymnast. "Chibi~"
Regarding the fluff that always nestled in his hair, Du Ze's attitude has changed from being a pain at the beginning to now accepting his fate. Xiu held Du Ze's hand. He couldn't contact Rachel and the others because of the spatial dislocation. He made a gesture to the Thunder Legion and led everyone into the gate of light.
Even though the light of the light gate was not bright, the moment he entered, Du Ze had to narrow his eyes, and his vision went blank. After it is extremely bright, the whiteness caused by the light fades little by little, and the image is gradually formed on the retina. Du Ze looked at the scene in front of him, and for a moment completely lost his language function.
It's not like being in a tower at all, it's in another world. This world is only a black void, and their place is a circular arena, the surrounding auditoriums and arches are in the style of ancient Rome, and the burning torches dispel the darkness of every corner of the arena. Du Ze swept around the people around him. It was exactly as Heidi said. Except for the followers, whether it was the Thunder Legion or other creatures who entered the Gate of Light together, they were all gone now. went.
Xiu released Old John, and everyone began to look around. This circular arena should be the first trial of the tower. Du Ze stared at the pattern on the ground. Although it looked like a complicated pattern, it was actually some kind of language—because he could understand it, its meaning was very simple, just a number "72". Alice was also looking at the ground. She seemed to remember something and looked up suddenly. In the dim firelight, she could vaguely see a circular outline of the same size above.
"I think I know where this is..."
Seeing everyone looking over, Alice pulled the corner of Vera's clothes, showing a shy smile.
"I read in some ancient books that the Demon Race once had a very famous building complex, and its name was Demon God Arena."
When Alice spit out that name, the flames on all the torches in the arena skyrocketed. A man holding a serpent of hell appeared in front of everyone. His expression was grim and his eyes were empty. As soon as he saw Du Ze and the others, he launched an attack without a word.
Xiu's reaction was the fastest. He held the magic knife and slashed him and the big snake in half with one knife. In Du Ze's opinion, the battle was over before it even started. The dead man turned into ashes and was blown away by the wind, forming runes in the air, and those runes spiraled to form a magic teleportation array leading up. Everyone looked at all this, only to feel inexplicable.
Xiu shook off the blood on the magic knife and looked at Alice. "go on."
Alice settled down, she pointed to the top of the teleportation array. "If you guessed correctly, it's the same arena above. In the first era, the demons built the arena for power rankings. There was only one at first, but since Baal showed his strength in this arena, No one dared to challenge again. So the demons built a second arena under the first arena, but it was quickly occupied by Agares... Until the end, the demons built a total of 72 arenas Arena. Legend has it that the 72 Demon Gods are ranked according to the order of the arenas, and these arenas were later collectively called the Demon God Arena.”
Du Ze looked up along the magic circle and found that it did lead to a circular building. Alice clicked the magic pattern on the floor and explained: "This is the '72' of the ancient magic language, which means that this arena is guarded by the 72nd-ranked demon god - that person should be the demon god Andumari just now. ."
"He is very weak." Xiu said, as a demon god, he was only at the level of a swordsman.
"This... I don't know." Alice replied uneasily.
The demon god Andumari had long since perished in the Second Era. The snake-wielding man just now looked like a puppet, obviously a shadow of a demon god created by the tower. Xiu looked at the magic teleportation array and asked Alice, "Who is it?"
"If it is the Demon God Arena, it should be the seventy-first Demon God Dan Talin."
Du Ze almost sprayed. They just broke up with Dan outside the tower of God, and now they are about to "meet" again. A certain idiot can't wait to meet "Devil God But Tarin". Xiu noticed that Du Ze was about to move, he curved his mouth and grabbed Du Ze towards the teleportation formation.
"Let's go."
The magic circle sent Du Ze and his party to the next location. Du Ze saw that it was still an arena of the same style, and opposite them, "Dan" with a book in his right hand stood there expressionlessly. After everyone came up, "Dan" attacked them. Even if he called his name, "Dan" didn't seem to hear it, he knew nothing but mechanical attacks.
Like the previous arena, the "Dan" here is just a shadow of the Demon God but Tarin. He has no thinking and low strength. He can be stopped by the Demon Sister Flower. For the first time, Du Ze saw Dan in the form of a demon god. Compared to the unassuming green-clothed businessman, who was wearing armor, Talin really had a bit of majesty.
Vera and Alice have a water attribute douqi and a fire attribute douqi. Both of them are at the level of swordsmen, but their tacit cooperation makes their strength far higher than that of ordinary swordsmen. Overwhelmed. But Tarin was completely suppressed and beaten, and there was no chance to fight back at all. Du Ze had to admit that even though he knew it wasn't that bastard Dan, he still felt so cool when he saw Sister Hua beat but Talin like this.
Just like carnival.
Because he was not the deity, "But Talin" was quickly eliminated. After his death, he also turned into runes to form an upward magic circle. Now the situation is very clear, the tower is clear that they want them to fight layer by layer. Du Ze always felt that this was the tower of God, in order to make up for the 72 main city plots that Mengzhu missed, and he deliberately released the 72 devils to make Mengzhu enjoy it.
The next two demon gods also did not cause any obstruction to them, until they came to the 68 arena, and it was the two beautiful demon gods, Belial, who appeared in front of everyone. In order to save them from the god of light, the demon god voluntarily chose to sacrifice. The demon sister Hua looked straight at the beautiful demon god driving a flaming chariot opposite her, her voice trembling.
"Lord Belial..."
Compared with other demon gods, it is not only difficult to do it emotionally, but also a bit tricky in terms of force. Xiu Neng felt that it was because Belial's body had been absorbed by the rules, and Belial on the opposite side was completely different from the previous Demon God's shadow, and his strength was not comparable to those shadows. Opposite them is a real devil.
"Alice, Vera?"
Under the unexpected gaze of everyone, Belial spoke up. Instead of attacking as soon as the previous demon gods came up, she looked at them calmly. When he saw the flowers of the Demon Sisters, Belial smiled. "You are here too."
The demon sisters burst into tears immediately. Xiu relaxed the magic knife, Belial obviously has his own thinking, maybe they can negotiate.
"I don't want to fight with you." Xiu said, "Can you let us pass?"
"Unfortunately, you have no way to enter the next arena except to kill me." Belial took out his weapon. "It's the rule."
Seeing Belial pull out his sword, the atmosphere instantly became tense. The demon sisters looked at Xiu and Belial again, their expressions were filled with helplessness. Belial looked away from Xiu and landed on Vera and Alice, her eyes were very gentle.
"So we have to abide by it."
Du Ze stared blankly as Belial inserted the sword into his heart without hesitation. Vera and Alice opened their eyes and wept, as if their hearts were so sad that they couldn't even let out a scream.
"... Belial... Your lord... "
Belial turned to ashes from her feet and dissipated, she looked at the demon sisters who were almost crying, and comforted softly: "Don't be sad, this is not death - I am here, between life and death. "
One half of Belial's body was completely turned to ashes, and she told a story similar to a curse in the tone of a fairy tale.
"I'll show up when the next climber comes up."
Everyone watched silently as the beautiful Demon God turned into ashes and withered ashes, the ashes turned into by Belial were woven into runes and formed into a magic circle leading to the next level. For the first time, Du Ze felt the cruelty of the rules. Those unconscious shadows of demon gods are fine. People with consciousness like Belial are imprisoned in this tower almost forever, welcoming tower climbers one after another. , or kill the climber, or be killed, and the cycle goes on endlessly.
Du Ze suddenly felt very heavy. The tower was built with the bones of all the main gods. In this way, when they reached the top floor of the Demon God Arena, wouldn't the boss they encounter be...
Devil Baal.