The Palace of Icons was silent, and the vast and majestic temple was completely shrouded in a strange tranquility. The chaotic mist came from nowhere and covered almost every inch of the ground in the palace evenly. In the darkness, there was another twilight-like twilight that filled the air, but there was no warmth in this ray, instead it could only make people feel the thick malice and maddening gloom.
This kind of twilight twilight has never appeared in any chaotic tide, so Calassius and others don't know what it means. sign.
It was seeping into reality, first as a great shadow over Luan, and then as the twilight that filled the Palace of Icons.
There were no survivors in the palace, but there was no corpse to be seen, and there was no way to find even the slightest trace of battle.
"Nobody... and no corpses..." Hao Ren murmured to himself in a low tone, "This place should have gathered the most powerful fighting power of the church, but none of them has evaporated, and we can't even see their resistance." trace."
Lily ran back and forth in front of the team, leaning down from time to time to sniff the surroundings with her sensitive nose, and soon she ran back briskly: "Landlord, there is no smell of blood either!"
Calassius took out a platinum scepter from his dimensional bag, and the scepter released a constant warm white light in his hand, which slightly dispelled the strong malice and madness in the surrounding air. His face was solemn: "It seems that everyone They all disappeared at the same time, otherwise there would be no trace left. What kind of power can do this? The magic circle in the palace didn't even show signs of activation... The magic circle was formed by the pope's brainwaves. Direct control, just one thought, and the Icon Palace will enter the highest defense mode, no matter how urgent the situation is, the Pope will not even have time to activate the magic circle, right?"
Hao Ren didn't say a word, but a thought suddenly appeared in his mind: unless the pope didn't want to activate the magic circle at all.
"Uncle, where is the 'gatekeeper' you mentioned?" Lily asked suddenly.
Calassius pointed to the corridor ahead: "Through this corridor and through the garden area, there will be a teleportation array and a spiral staircase leading to the upper floor of the Twin Towers, but now the teleportation array is still not available, so I can only use the spiral staircase .”
In the oppressive silence, this long corridor finally came to an end, and after passing through an archway with intricate ornate decorations, a garden suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.
The garden area is quite large, and there are fountains, pools, sculptures and other things in it. It looks like a high-end garden with exquisite structure and complete facilities. However, a dim dome can be seen above the garden: this garden is actually built. indoors.
Unexpectedly, the plants in the garden did not wither, and they were even more lush than usual. However, all the plants were covered with a layer of light gray and dim yellow, which was strange and lifeless.
This made everyone who was about to step into the garden suddenly raise their vigilance.
Lily walked in the front and was the first to step into the garden, while Hao Ren followed behind the husky girl. Suddenly, as Lily crossed a certain boundary, a faint white light filled her body.
This scene made the husky girl stunned for a moment, but Hao Ren reacted instantly. He immediately took out his own gun and long gun from the portable space, and loudly warned: "Be careful! There are Chaos minions nearby!"
Lily's physique that automatically glows when she enters the realm of chaos has become a particularly easy-to-use automatic alarm.
Calassius has been with the wolf for a long time, and of course he knows what the Symmetra suddenly released from the wolf's body means. This high-ranking monk silently cast several protection spells on the knights and sub-races beside him. The barbarians were holding a staff in one hand and a sacred magic ball made of energy in the other, speaking quickly: "What direction are you coming from?!"
At this time, Lily finally came to her senses, and quickly turned her head to look at her own tail. She found that the fluff on her tail had blown up uncontrollably, and the light floating on the fluff was converging in one direction.
"Underground!" the Husky girl yelled, "The power of chaos is below! What's underground?!"
Calaxus was stunned for a moment, and after two seconds of reaction, he said hesitantly: "Under the garden area... that is the resting place of the Holy Spirit, where the holy souls of all ages have been protected by the goddess and become immortal..."
Lily turned her head and stared at the senior monk: "Wow you! Speak human!"
Hao Ren didn't wait for Calassius to open his mouth before taking over, "It means the tombs of the popes of all ages!"
While he was talking, he couldn't help but think of what the nightmare shadow said before it dissipated, and remembered the name mentioned by the nightmare shadow: Benedict III, the pope of the sanctuary more than two thousand years ago.
He couldn't help cursing inwardly: "Meow meow, that monster has such a meaning..."
And following his curse, the entire Icon Palace seemed to vibrate violently.
A low-pitched buzz came from the garden, and the cold air broke through the ground, instantly covering the surrounding vegetation with a layer of frost. Immediately afterwards, the nearby soil layer began to fluctuate and churn at a rate visible to the naked eye!
"Here we come!" Hao Ren roared, drawing his gun without hesitation and shooting.
A mass of blue light exploded quickly, followed by countless crystal clear fragments that exploded from the explosion point, and under the fragments, a distorted thing that was emitting black smoke and dust could be seen rushing out of the ground under the action of inertia— However, the crystallization of psionic energy erosion is not something that can resist. The black figure was covered by crystals while rising, and when it rushed out of the ground, it had turned into a huge crystal, and then shattered with a bang, with a howl None were issued.
However this is only the first one.
One after another, black monsters rushed out of the ground, and the power of chaos quickly filled the surrounding space like a tide. Some have a lot of tentacles, some have eyes and sharp teeth all over their body, some are just a standard meat ball, and some can still see vague human forms, except for the monsters that still maintain a little human form, They are basically like lumps of meat that have been deformed indiscriminately, and the only thing these monsters have in common is that they are all covered in chaotic black smoke and dust, and they release powerful mental waves!
Calassius suddenly exclaimed: "That's... a church symbol?!"
Hao Ren followed the other party's line of sight, and suddenly saw that there was a man wearing clothes among the group of monsters—it was a nightmare figure that barely maintained a human form, and it was covered with a tattered piece of cloth that could only The style of the clothes can be vaguely seen, but a light golden circle emblem on it is clearly visible.
"Maybe it's because they haven't had time to die yet," Hao Ren said quickly, "This proves that these are indeed the Popes of all ages!!"
Huge shocks swept through the church soldiers on the scene. These brave and fearless soldiers are completely unable to accept the fact that the popes of all ages have been corrupted into monsters—this kind of corruption may have started a long time ago, accumulated over thousands of years. In the book, every pope who was sent into the Holy Sepulcher became like this, and it may have been corrupted recently, but in any case, these monsters came from the Holy Sepulcher, and there was a church logo. There was even a monster Saying the name of a certain pope two thousand years ago, these facts are enough to make devout monks and knights lose any fighting spirit.
However, those monsters would not stop because of the wavering of human beings. While the Church soldiers were at a loss, they had already formed a black cloud in the garden area, followed by a swift and powerful attack.
That is the most dangerous, most invisible, overwhelming force: psychic attack.
Waves of dizziness and various grotesque visions swept over. Hao Ren seemed to see the monsters wrapped in smoke and dust gradually condensed into an unprecedentedly huge whole. They became a mountain, a storm, and A source of limitless, invincible power, in which a powerful voice echoed in his head:
Surrender! Surrender to this power! Surrender to your fears! Surrender to your tiredness! surrender to...
Hao Ren stared, all illusions dissipated: "Surrender to your uncle! My year-end award depends on this!"
"How did you..."
"Nonsense—you guys were still dying in this basement when I was playing Inception with the demigod!"
However, even though Hao Ren and Lili (this husky didn't know what he did and was not bewitched by the psychic illusion anyway) broke free from this powerful mental attack, the situation deteriorated rapidly.
The reason was simple—they were not the only ones facing the monsters in front of them, and it wasn't just the two of them who were attacked at the scene.
More monsters—or the distorted souls of successive popes are waking up in the underground tombs. The quantitative changes in mental attacks will lead to qualitative changes sooner or later, and those church warriors and sub-race barbarians composed of mortals do not have Hao Ren's powerful mental resistance. Sex, their spiritual defenses are collapsing, and they can't last long at all!
Illusions began to appear continuously, at first they were only phantoms in the spiritual world, but gradually, even strange shadows appeared in the real world.
Those soldiers and brutes with lesser willpower had slipped into a trance, and their mental worlds had begun to serve as springboards for more twisted shadows to enter the real world.
Hao Ren felt that his various senses were declining, and all kinds of negative feelings that did not exist were popping up out of thin air—it hadn't reached the point of danger yet, but he felt that it would be very dangerous if it continued like this, even if he was fine, he would Ordinary people around me may have big problems too.
There was a "bang" gunshot, and another twisted soul was turned into crystal dust by his psionic saber, then he turned his head to look at Karasius, and shouted: "You all withdraw immediately! Leave this to me— I want to purify the entire mausoleum area at once!"
However, Calassius turned his head slowly, his eyes unfocused, as if he couldn't recognize Hao Ren at all.
"Damn it... the one that seems the most reliable has lost its chain..."
But at this moment, Hao Ren's mental connection was suddenly opened, and the voice from the data terminal came:
"Partner~ We tossed out the material transmitter on this side, let me try to pass something on for you?"
Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and then overjoyed: "Hurry up! Send me a man with 20,000 combat strength! There's a fight here!" (To be continued~^~)