In fact, Hao Ren has a bigger question about the young witcher named Claude:
Why would he appear on the battlefield as the attendant and herald of the First Saint
It was an orc shaman who captured Claude. This orc shaman followed the mad king in the early days of Y'zaks's army. He was loyal and powerful. Y'zaks summoned the elder shaman to ask about the situation on the front line, and also asked about that "Claude" by the way. The old orc was very impressed with the young warrior he had captured: "He charged into battle with the others, and he was a warrior when he fought. We didn't find any difference between him and other demon hunters at first, until several A powerful paladin was seriously injured by him one after another, and we realized that this might be a commander."
Y'zaks frowned: "You said he was charging at the front line like an ordinary soldier? Did he have any extra guards or followers?"
"No," the old orc shook his head, the shaman ring on his body jingled, "if his features were more obvious, we would have noticed them from the beginning."
"Well... In short, you should be credited for catching a very important guy," Y'zaks waved his hand to make the old orc retreat, and then turned to look at the others, "What do you think?"
"The guards next to the supreme leader rushed to the battlefield. It doesn't look like they've gone over their heads," Hao Ren smacked his lips. "Tsk, what do you think those saints are thinking?"
"At present, the front line of the legion has advanced to the boundary of the clock tower of the spirit world," La Nina looked at the suspended sand table in the center of the room. The palace models floating in mid-air have basically been marked with the demon king's legion. From bottom to top, they seem to be swallowed by shadows Generally under the control of the legion, now only a few palaces on the "upper floor" of Corpus and the weird clock tower of the spirit world remain in the stronghold of the sect, and the place where Hao Ren and the others are now is on the front line , the place where Claude was captured was on the nearest floating square—the battle over there just ended ten minutes ago, "The Presbyterian Church has not many available soldiers, and they don't have many stubborn resistance in this situation." It's a strategy. It's basically a random fight. That Claude probably just wanted to die bravely when he ran out."
"Perhaps..." Hao Ren was noncommittal to La Nina's statement, although judging from the situation, the Presbyterian Church was hopeless. But just because the battle situation was hopeless, the attendant of the first saint left his master and ran out to charge the battle. This was still quite suspicious to him, "What changes are there in the clock tower of the spiritual world?"
"There is no change, it is still shrouded in a layer of shadow, and since the early morning of this morning, no one can be seen coming out of that tower." La Nina's voice was a little confused, "I can't see it and any outside world now. Contact, and because of the defense network, the scouts can't get too close."
Y'zaks and Hao Ren looked at each other and nodded in a deep voice: "Then continue to attack the surrounding energy nodes."
Under the order of the Demon King, the coalition forces, whose morale had reached its peak, launched an unprecedented final onslaught against the last line of defense of the Presbyterian Church.
The remnants of the Presbyterian Order have all assembled around the clock tower of the spirit world. Although their state is a bit strange, they are still worthy of their elite name when fighting. Facing the onslaught of the demon king's army, the demon hunters of the religious order put up an extremely tenacious resistance. The elder-level and master-level demon hunters brought a lot of trouble to Y'zaks' generals. They had to pay several times their strength to maintain their suppressive advantage over the last few temples and energy nodes.
But in any case, the battle has been decided. The resistance of the demon hunters of the sect was only delaying the time for the entire line to be defeated.
When the front-line army rushed to the last stronghold of the cult, Hao Ren and Bai Huo led a small group of elites. Through a secret route just opened, he came to a place very close to the clock tower of the spirit world.
The place where everyone settled was a rock platform floating in nothingness. The platform was empty, with no palaces or high walls. Only the broken and messy exquisite stone bricks on the ground indicated that this might be the remnant of a certain square. All the ruins of Corpus have independent gravity of unknown origin, but the gravity of this platform is very weak, and it is obviously inclined towards the direction of the clock tower of the spirit world. When standing on the platform, there will always be a feeling of falling, The illusion of sliding into the void.
Standing on the edge of the platform, Hao Ren took out a graviton bomb from his portable space and threw it into the distance.
After the graviton bomb broke away from the gravity of the platform, it flew in a straight line to the distant dark depths. But before it could explode, it suddenly disappeared out of thin air. If you look closely, you will find that it does not really "disappear". Instead, when it flew to a position more than 100 meters away from the platform, it seemed to hit something, and it was torn to pieces and cut into countless pieces, and then the pieces were torn into pieces again, until it was indistinguishable to the naked eye was swallowed by darkness.
This is one of the layered defense nets of Corpus Space.
There seems to be nothing around the bell tower of the spirit world, and the floating temples seem to be unobstructed, but in fact, the numerous temples and energy nodes are entangled together, and there are dozens of hundreds of layers of strange barriers between them. The space is turbulent. If you rush into the darkness rashly, even the most powerful demon hunter will be torn to pieces silently.
It wasn't until the Allied Forces of the Demon King destroyed 70% of Corpus' energy node connections that some loopholes finally appeared in these invisible warped space defense systems, allowing Hao Ren and his party to get close to the clock tower of the spirit world. near place.
And now the legion is storming the last energy node on the sect's defense line, Hao Ren and the others are waiting for the moment when these defense systems are shut down.
"You can already see the Bell Tower of the Spirit World from here, that's it." Master Tutanyin stood beside Hao Ren, pointing to a shadow in the darkness in the distance.
Hao Ren looked up and saw a strange tall tower between the gaps in the starlight. It was as weird as on a sand table model, with no regular shape and structure at all, as if a child had put together random building blocks. A variety of geometric bodies are stacked together to form the shape of the tower. This tall tower was suspended silently in the depths of the darkness. There were only a few lights on the tower body, and the other structures were almost merged into the shadows. It was gloomy and silent, like a deserted ruin.
"No movement?" Hao Ren was a little surprised.
"We are also wondering, it is too quiet," Tutan said slowly, "Usually there are always more lights around it, but now most of the lights are off, and we can't see the guards outside the tower , I don’t know what the saints are doing inside.”
"According to La Nina's report, the state of the Spirit World Clock Tower has lasted for nearly a day," Izaks said in a deep voice, "Now the demon hunters on the defense line of the church are almost fighting on their own, although their resistance is very strong. Intense, but it is obvious that there is a lack of unified command. Reminiscent of the Claude captured before, I suspect that something has changed in the clock tower."
Hao Ren looked back. Because the four members of Nangong's family were not strong enough to stay in the rear to take care of the wounded, Vivienne, the father and daughter of Yizaks and Lily came here with him. In addition, Baihuo and Tutan also brought Dozens of demon hunter masters, this small team has a total of less than a hundred people, but it is currently the group with the highest combat effectiveness. When the defense around the clock tower of the spirit world is lifted, this team will be the first to rush in and open gap.
After seeing the strange state of the clock tower in the spirit world, the faces of those master demon hunters were somewhat worried. Although no one said anything, the worried look was quite obvious. Obviously, even though they have broken with the Presbyterian Church, they are still worried about the situation in the "Holy Land".
Y'zaks folded his hands on his chest silently, looking in another direction deep in the darkness. There is a tall tower like a torch floating independently in nothingness, and the flames can be seen constantly bursting around the tower, obviously the fierce battle on the front line is in full swing. He silently watched the flashes coming from the direction of the battlefield, sensed the state of his demon army, calculated the timing of his actions, and suddenly muttered softly: "It's almost there."
Almost at the same time as his words fell, a strong light suddenly erupted from the sky above the torch-like energy node. The defense of the node itself was overloaded, and the rune stone used for control was detonated, and the last line of defense of the demon hunters of the cult collapsed.
Corpus' ancient defense system itself is indestructible, but they are activated by a series of control devices set by the demon hunter later. When those rune stones explode, the ancient defense system will immediately stop. Hao Ren saw that there seemed to be a transparent thing like a water curtain distorted in the dark space around the clock tower of the spirit world, so he knew the time had come: "Let's go!"
The elite raiding troops quickly left the platform and flew towards the distant Spirit World Clock Tower without a sound. They did not encounter any obstacles and soon arrived in front of the strange tower.
However, after seeing the condition of the clock tower in the spirit world at close range, Hao Ren couldn't help but be taken aback: "Is this... normal?"
The bell tower of the spiritual world is in a state of being corroded by darkness! (to be continued~^~)