"Where are the saints?" Bai Huo looked around, looking for the figures or remains of the eleven saints who should be here.
There are thirteen demon hunter saints in total. Bedolis has been confirmed dead in the banquet hall, but the first saint has never left his secluded room. According to the information provided by Claude, there should be Eleven saints are right.
But there wasn't even a single body here.
Lily immediately searched carefully with her eyes wide open and her nose sniffling, and soon found something: "These... are they left behind?"
She found a very dim off-white trace on the edge of the rune circle in the corner of the hall, and a few strands of black cloth could be seen beside this trace.
"...It's ashes," Hao Ren went to the gray-white mark and wiped it with his hand. His fingertips were stained with some fine powder, and he found some hard particles between the black cloth, "and they fragments of clothing and masks."
Bai Huo judged the location of these traces in the room, and immediately ran to other corners of the ceremony hall: "There are also here! And here"
Soon she found all the traces: eleven ashes remained on the floor of the ceremony hall, most of these ashes had probably been blown away by the wind and swallowed by the energy vortex in the hall, leaving only a gray Light imprints. These traces are distributed symmetrically like the numbers on the dial, and there is only one vacancy—that should be the place where Saint Bedoulis stayed when he held the ceremony.
"Sure enough, they are all dead," Hao Ren recalled the traces left by the saint Bedolis after his death. "The death situation is the same, turned into ashes and smoke, and the people left in the ceremony hall are obviously a little bit worse."
"When did they die?" Lily's brain suddenly became clear, "Did they die at the beginning of the ceremony, or did they die not long ago?"
The data terminal detected the information left by the ashes: "...the passage of time here does not follow common sense, so there is no way to determine the time of their death, but it is certain that the ashes were wiped out not long after the ceremony started. The energy remaining in the ashes can be Prove it."
Hao Ren immediately noticed something suspicious: "They died as soon as the ceremony started?! Who gave the orders during the entire civil war among the demon hunters after that?"
Everyone's eyes fell on Claude at the same time. The young attendant also had a look of astonishment, but he seemed to have some thoughts: "The instructions of the saints have been coming out of the hall—through secret techniques. We didn't feel anything unusual at the time. But indeed, the whole process None of them showed up, so no one can be sure if the saints were alive or not."
A chill gradually spread in the hearts of Baihuo and Tutan, and they realized one thing in horror: Except for Bedolis, eleven of the twelve saints who were in charge had all died before the mutation occurred. He had already died before, so who was in command of the war that took place in Corpus space after that? !
this sword? Or the "monster" attached to this sword
"Terminal. Check again to see if there is any intelligent activity here!" Hao Ren said loudly, and at the same time quickly took out various things from the portable space and placed them around the black long sword—from various explosives to Universal energy suppressors are available. In fact, he didn't know how to stop the magic charging process in the hall, not even the data terminal, but he thought that if it really got out of control later, blowing up the tower early might at least prevent Corpus The chain reaction of other energy nodes.
Y'zaks has already begun to print the devil runes in the original rune array of the ceremony hall. This is a very risky operation, like reaching out to take out a nail between two high-speed rotating fans of knives. A little carelessness would lead to the collapse of the entire complex reaction, detonating the polluted mysterious energy in advance, but the old devil operated with his strong power control ability and rich experience. Do your best to reduce the operating efficiency of these rune circles.
Although the magic reaction in the ritual hall has reached this stage, the influence of the rune circle on it is no longer so important.
The data terminal turned on all its sensors. Search for informational ebbs and flows of all suspected sapient activity nearby. If there is really an intelligent "monster" entrenched here and manipulating everything, then only by strangling the monster's body can the problem be solved.
However, after some searching, the data terminal gave a disappointing answer: "No, all the intelligent activities here are from you."
"How could it be..." Bai Huo couldn't understand at all, "In the past half a month, something in this hall issued hundreds of orders to the Presbyterian Church in the name of saints!"
"But 'it' really doesn't exist—unless 'it' has run away," White Fire's words were interrupted by a scream from the data terminal, "now all that's left here is an evil weapon and a mass of energy that's about to get out of control , we must focus on the immediate crisis.”
The moment the voice of the data terminal just fell. A light suddenly lit up in the dark sky outside the clock tower of the spirit world, and the light expanded into a portal. A silver-white battleship slowly poked its head out from the portal. Hao Ren received a message from Nolan in his mind: "The Giant Turtle Rock Terrace has entered the battlefield, waiting for the next step."
Nolan entered the "battlefield" - in the previous battle, because all the weapons of this ship were too powerful, in order to prevent the psionic cannon from destroying everything indiscriminately (at the same time, the powerful radiation produced by the ship's guns would also affect Friendly troops on the battlefield causing terrible damage), Hao Ren always kept Nolan on standby at the rear, but now it's time for her to show up, so what can this ship do
Hao Ren's most simple and rude idea is to let the secondary gun of the giant turtle rock platform fire at the clock tower of the spiritual world, and the psionic energy will completely destroy everything within the range, including matter and energy, as well as time and space, the out-of-control energy The blob may be wiped out before exploding.
But the Sword of Killing God and most of the clock towers of the spiritual world will also be annihilated at the same time.
Hao Ren quickly eliminated the idea of bombing B in his mind, and at the same time, the energy cluster above the Godslaying Sword was further expanding. It enveloped the ritual hall like a dark vortex that swallowed everything, and passed through various The connection between the temples, this thing is also rapidly polluting all the energy nodes in Corpus.
At this time, the data terminal suddenly called out: "Partner, this machine found something!"
Hao Ren and Y'zaks said in unison: "What?"
"The key to the magic structure in the hall is not the sword, but the energy vortex above the sword," the data terminal said quickly, and the holographic projection showed the magic connection between the Godslayer Sword and the surrounding environment. "The sword is just an 'inspiration point. ’, but the key to maintaining the entire reaction process lies in that group of energy, which has grown so powerful that even if it loses the supply from the clock tower of the spirit world, it can sustainably maintain this reaction process continuously. If this The energy vortex is cut off... maybe everything can be stopped."
"Cut it off?" Hao Ren looked up at the black mass above the hall, and now the indescribable mass has spread to the entire dome, surging like pitch-black mercury, and bright blue electric lights burst from the mass It shot out, constantly smashing the surrounding building structures and the metal objects floating towards it, and in the center of the clump, some tiny spots of light were rippling, as if opening a crack leading to the starry sky of the universe.
But Hao Ren knew that it was not a crack in space, but an optical phenomenon that was the same as the surface of the Godslayer Sword, or... the Godslayer Sword was assimilating this mass of energy into something like itself!
A bold idea popped up out of nowhere.
He asked the data terminal in a hasty tone: "Can you send this mass of energy with you?"
"The transmission system of this machine is for small-scale personnel transfer, and the power of the personal data terminal cannot cope with this high-density energy group."
"Then can my portable space bear this thing?"
The data terminal guessed Hao Ren's thoughts in an instant, but it still dutifully analyzed: "... theoretically, it is possible, but it is very dangerous. If it explodes in your portable space, the security protocol will immediately cut off the connection between you and the portable space." Your brain will be severely damaged by such a hard cut. This machine estimates that it will explode after leaving this hall for at most twenty seconds."
"I'll throw it out before then," Hao Ren said quickly, and then contacted Nolan, "How soon can you enter the deep space of the watch world from Corpus? The farther you are from inhabited galaxies The better."
"Fastest?" Nolan also understood Hao Ren's thoughts, "The space passage was still open when I came in, but the Kuiper station is opposite the space passage... Ah, yes, I set up a gravitational fix near a star. An anchor point, which can be jumped from the Kuiper station to the vicinity of the anchor point in a few seconds."
"Is there anyone around that star?"
"No, it's an inanimate area."
"Okay," Hao Ren nodded vigorously, his eyes fixed on the dark energy above the hall, "wait for my order, I will put this thing in the portable space, and then you will take me away from the earth immediately, the farther the better—we will take this The thing is thrown into space.” (To be continued~^~)