Hao Ren and his entourage waited in the hideout for a while, during which the little bat risked releasing a few clones to investigate the situation, and finally confirmed that Hasselblad had successfully infiltrated into the command center of the Crusaders as planned.
"The demon hunter's patrol team has begun to adjust its route, and the few guard posts that can be seen are also moving to other places or changing shifts in advance," Hesianna said while receiving the information from the clone, "and the previously discussed The route is the same... There will be a gap around the Temple of Poseidon that depends on the time difference. Tsk, it seems that Hasselblad is quite capable."
"I just don't know how he explained this temporary adjustment to other demon hunters," Lily's ears trembled, "Let go of such a big gap... Hasselblad is not the only supreme commander here, and I'm afraid there will be another one soon." The commander of the Holy Religious Army is about to become suspicious."
"So we can't waste this opportunity," Hao Ren said as he stood up and left, "Let's go, Vivian is right ahead."
Outside the Temple of Poseidon, the encirclement of the demon hunters is still three layers inside and three layers outside. The entire mountain is full of crusader patrols and guard posts, as well as the demon hunter barracks stationed with large troops. In this layer upon layer of encircling nets, an imperceptible gap has quietly opened.
Ordinary demon hunters at the lower level can't detect this kind of change that can only be discovered by overlooking the entire battlefield. They just mechanically follow the orders from the leader of the battle group. However, they did not raise any doubts: this glorious war of gods has been said to be over, the overall situation has been settled, there is no possibility of a comeback for the remnants of Olympus, and other places on Mount Olympus have completely fallen With the crusaders in control, even the witchers couldn't help but let their guard down in such a situation—including the commanders.
While these anomalies will be discovered by vigilant upper echelon commanders sooner or later, until they remediate the holes, Hasselblad will have a lot of wiggle room to do his hole punching.
And under his continuous mobilization, the demon hunter's patrol troops and observation posts had a lot of surveillance blind spots without their own awareness. Hao Ren and his party quickly passed through these surveillance blind spots, getting closer and closer to that spot. A majestic but crumbling Temple of Poseidon.
It was quite an exhilarating experience—even the always daring Heatherana had to admit it in retrospect. Beside her is an army of thousands of demon hunters. On the collapsed palace walls and the ruins of Mount Olympus, it can be said that there are ten steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. In many cases, she can even see them from a distance. Go to those witcher outposts with shining runes suspended, and the nearest patrol to her is even hundreds of meters away.
If it weren't for the fact that both she and Lily belonged to the special "heterogeneous", the innate hostile reaction triggered in front of the demon hunter was relatively weak and would attenuate sharply with distance, and it would be easy to be covered up without eye contact, otherwise the light Such a close distance is enough to arouse the vigilance of the patrolling soldiers.
Even so, they are walking a tightrope on the limit boundary of this "safe distance".
Fortunately, Hasselblad's estimation of this "safe distance" was quite accurate. With the help of such a high-level "internal agent", Hao Ren and his party sneaked through the battlefield without any danger, and touched the big barrier of the Temple of Poseidon all the way under.
On the ruins of a slightly higher palace, Lily poked her head out and took a look below. She saw the barracks of the demon hunters neatly lined up in the open space below, and countless murderous and heavily armed soldiers walking towards the camp. Walking away, a group of large war machines driven by magic power are being reorganized by the demon hunter technicians. Those crystallized "gun barrels" engraved with runes and scorching core devices show that they were not long ago. The Great Barrier of the Temple of Poseidon is bombarded, and after a brief adjustment, the war machines will be brought to life again: the continued firepower of the Witcher will never be exhausted until the last Olympian "god" dies stop.
Lily's fluff stood up from her ears to the tip of her tail, and then she retreated with her tongue out, "It's really an age of mythology, and the little fights between demon hunters and aliens in the 21st century are not enough here. Look, it’s like the gap between Zhao’s Hutong and the D-Day landing…”
I don't know how the story of bandit suppression in Zhao's Hutong came out of her mouth.
Hao Ren pressed Lily's head to calm down the nervousness of the dog girl. He also saw the degree of militarization of the demon hunters along the way. Before that, he only knew that the demon hunters ended the age of mythology. The world has triggered the twilight of the gods, but until now he realized why the once-thriving dynasty of the gods was so vulnerable to the demon hunters - the gap in individual strength and power system is only one aspect, the more important reason Or the latter's incredible degree of organization and military discipline.
The Crusaders are a professional army with strict discipline and a reasonable structure. Everyone from top to bottom has only one goal, which is to destroy the enemy and win victory. The demon hunters who form the Crusaders are a group of demon hunters who can completely abandon their personal will The almost ascetic saint-like freaks, but what about their enemies
It's just a group of family-style violent groups who indulge in pleasure and the illusory sense of accomplishment of ruling the world, and rely on simple and crude power to maintain order. Look at Mount Olympus, think about everything you see in Hades: Even if the "gods" of Olympus have some ancestral technology, even if they build such a magnificent palace, their essence is just a muddle It's just family power.
A group of family-style armed forces whose greatest ideal is to rule a few human city-states met a professional army that was determined to sweep the world. To be honest, Hao Ren was surprised that they could keep the Age of Mythology alive for so many years.
Looking away from the demon hunter's barracks, Hao Ren and his party quietly came to the back door of the Poseidon Temple under the cover of the ruins. A section of the palace wall here was blasted open by the demon hunter's war-level spells in the early days of the siege. , but then the "Gods" of Olympus repelled the crusader soldiers who invaded it with their lives, and used the energy of the big barrier to block the gap.
After the war entered the current stage, the demon hunters gave up consuming the lives of soldiers to attack the palace walls, while the "Gods" side of Olympus had to shrink to the inner palace to prepare for a desperate fight due to a large number of downsizing. It also temporarily became a place that no one cares about.
The so-called big barrier is not a complete and single magic shield, in fact it includes an anti-magic hood covering the entire temple, a layer of magic energy covering the palace wall, and thousands of magic shields distributed throughout the temple. Defensive magic circle, although the layers of protection temporarily protected the survivors in the temple, it also caused trouble for Hao Ren and his party: the temple refused all intrusions from outsiders, including them.
The magic cannon light bullets from several nearby demon hunter camps continuously bombarded the anti-magic shield above the head. Every round of magic cannon light bombardment made Lily's ears tremble uncontrollably, and the palace wall in front of her was cracked. But covered by a layer of radiant energy shield: there is no way ahead.
Lily swung her giant alloy sword and rushed forward, only to be bounced back the same way.
Heatherana tried to analyze the structure of the energy shield, but she was better at shadow magic and blood magic. Facing the unique skills of the thunder giant series, the little bat spirit was also a little blind.
In the end, hope rested on Hao Ren.
With a bit of apprehension, Hao Ren pressed his hand on the barrier that looked like a flowing aurora, and prayed that his strange magic immunity talent could be of use on this barrier.
After all, the magic of the Olympus series also comes from the Dream Plane, and Hao Ren thinks that this stuff should also be affected by his magic immunity talent.
As his palms pressed against the barrier, everyone heard a crisp sound like glass shattering.
The barrier was actually broken just like that.
"Wow - if I had known the landlord was so powerful, I wouldn't have bumped into it," Lily stuck out her tongue, and her hands were still numb after chopping the shield with the giant sword just now, "Let's..."
But before Miss Husky could finish her sentence, she saw the shield that Hao Ren shattered just a second ago shake twice, and it returned to normal in an instant!
Hao Ren blinked and didn't understand what happened: "This thing... also has self-healing?"
But this small problem still can't stop him. Every examiner who has studied the theory of shield expansion will clearly know that there is no shield system in this world that can withstand unlimited damage. Even the shield made by God consumes energy. Yes, not to mention the magic shield made by a bunch of false gods in Olympus. He immediately put his hand on the energy membrane again: No matter how many times this thing can be repaired, it will stop sooner or later if it breaks for a few more rounds...
At the same moment, in the upper hall of the temple, Poseidon and the weak Zeus were listening to a message from a sentinel.
"You said that those demon hunters are frequently mobilized? And they also withdrew part of the frontal army?"
Poseidon held his Neptune Trident tightly, and his majestic face was full of disbelief at this moment.
An Olympian warrior in silver-white armor knelt in front of him on one knee: "Yes, great Poseidon, I saw them withdraw from the frontal battlefield with my own eyes, and several energy towers in the distance also disappeared. Moved places."
Poseidon turned his head to look at a female "god" not far behind him: "Athena, what do you think of this matter?"
As one of the twelve main gods, Athena does not have the stalwart figure of Poseidon and Zeus, but as the best individual among the genetically degraded "descendants of the small species", she has always been the think tank on Mount Olympus and won the Zeus' trust. Hearing Poseidon's question, Athena nodded: "This may be some kind of trap for the demon hunters, but it may also be an opportunity... After all, they are also creatures that will get tired and have emotions. After such a long time After the battle, some of their soldiers must be rested."
"Perhaps their commander also realized that it would be too wasteful to mobilize all the soldiers just to besiege such a palace," another Olympus "God" echoed, "Maybe this is really an opportunity."
Poseidon looked at the bed beside him, Zeus took a deep breath, and said in a weak voice: "Yes, a chance to break through... and Vivienne Ansesta's mental state is just stabilizing, maybe This is our last chance."
Poseidon nodded, and clenched his Neptune Trident, but just as he was about to say something, a bright blue electric light suddenly burst out from the trident, and the electric light hit Poseidon. body, a force was immediately drawn out of the latter's body!
The sudden energy backlash made the dignified "Sea God" cry out on the spot, and he even lost his balance and fell off the chair!
Zeus was taken aback, but subconsciously propped up half of his body even though he was weak: "What's wrong with you?!"
Poseidon held the Neptune's trident, and as soon as he uttered the word "I", a ray of light shot out from the trident, which also has the dual functions of a weapon and a temple control center, and hit him again!
This "Sea God" hit the street again...
But he struggled to get up in the next second: "After the temple..."
"Crack!"
"Shield..."
"Crack!"
"quilt… "
"Crack!"
In the end, Poseidon finally braced his willpower and roared: "Can you let me finish!"
Strange to say, after he roared so furiously, the energy backlash actually paused for a moment, which made him take a quick breath, and said quickly: "The road at the back door of the temple..."
"Crack!!"
"Who the hell did I XX!!"
This sudden and strange situation left everyone at a loss, but Athena was the first to react. She looked at the trident in Poseidon's hand, which was used to control and maintain the large barrier, and then thought of the other party's words , Immediately shouted: "The gap at the back door of the temple has been breached! Poseidon's energy is being extracted to repair the shield! Go meet the enemy!"
Several courageous compatriots left the hall with the soldiers, but Athena felt a huge wave in her heart:
What happened to the gap in the back door of the palace? The witcher broke through that shield? The situation is quite suspicious!
Even if it is a demon hunter, it is impossible to destroy the barrier at the gap so quietly. Even if it is destroyed, the barrier will be repaired instantly, and the strength after repair will be exactly the same as before the destruction, but look at Posei With Dong's appearance, the barrier was destroyed in the next instant. Doesn't this mean that the powerful barrier that gathered a lot of magic power and used the essence of Poseidon's power as "fuel" persisted even for a moment in front of the destroyer? Can't live? !
How can there be such unreasonable things in the world!
At the same time, Hao Ren's trio outside the back door of the temple (the little bat is temporarily stuffed in Hao Ren's pocket as equipment, so it doesn't count) is still working hard to make trouble.
The shattered barrier was back to normal again. Hao Ren specially let the barrier run for a while, trying to figure out its charging route, in order to close it from the source, but soon he found that instead of studying this It would be better to break it a few more times for technical work - it doesn't take much effort anyway, and he has a feeling that this thing won't last long.
"Scratches, cracks", the barrier was smashed into pieces by him again, but it was restored to its original state in the next instant, giving no time for anyone to take the opportunity to rush in.
Lily crouched next to Hao Ren holding her giant alloy sword, counting with a pure face:
"Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen..."