The air was filled with a pungent burnt smell, as well as a strange smell that seemed to be ionized.
The forest in quite a large area was burned, and a certain existence with powerful heat once raged here. It destroyed thousands of ancient trees with high temperature, leaving behind a burnt mark with thick smoke and heat. As far as the eye can see, you can see tree trunks that have turned into charcoal and fell to the ground, explosion craters of different depths, and fire points that are still smoldering in every corner and have not been completely extinguished, and a thick layer of ash covers On this scorched earth, it looks like gray-black snow flakes.
On the edge of this scorching land, the black pine forest is wriggling and healing. The giant trees and bushes that were pushed by the shock wave made a rustling sound and re-grow at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, their healing is obviously hindered: Only the vegetation on the edge of the scorched earth can grow smoothly. In the place completely burned by the flames, there is no sign of plant recovery at all.
The powerful life cycle of the Black Pine Forest was actually blocked by the power from the Gorgon Abyss - it took the imperials hundreds of years to "dig" a Greenway on the edge of the Black Pine Forest, but a lord-level Gorgon demon Easily and permanently burned an area deep in the black pine forest.
This surprised the Broken Sword Knight Kaim who knew a lot about Gorgon demons.
Seeing the burning land in front of him that was still smoking and showing little signs of healing, the dark-skinned warrior showed an expression of disbelief: "I've been away from here for a long time...these burnt black pines have not regenerated ?”
"Is this abnormal?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. He thought it was caused by the Gorgon demon power and a normal phenomenon in this world, but he didn't expect even Kaim to be so surprised.
"It's not quite right," Kaim nodded, "Although there have never been Gorgon demons raging in the black pine forest, scholars have been researching on the two, and theoretically Gorgon's flames cannot burn The life cycle of black pine forests is endless, but the woodlands in this area are showing no sign of recovery ... something is not quite right."
Lily, who is usually full of novels, opened her mouth and said, "Maybe the 'demon lord' still has a protagonist template, and has an ability similar to 'field'."
"What is a domain?" Cam was at a loss. "Is it some kind of magic?"
"Don't worry about her, the temperature in this place is high, and her mental state will be affected," Hao Ren casually pulled Lily aside, and observed the large scorched woodland in front of him, looking for anything related to the "demon". "Speaking of which, we have dealt with demons a lot, but we really don't know much about Gorgon. Are they territorial?"
What he said is not nonsense at all. He and his little friends deal with demons quite frequently. The content of dealings includes but is not limited to fighting landlords, playing mahjong, cooking hot pot, eating barbecue, and asking demons to change gas tanks every now and then. , if you want to check the level of demon knowledge, Hao Ren dare to say that he is at least a master level.
"Territorial awareness? Not only is it strong, Gorgon demons can be said to be crazy in this regard. As long as they take root in one place, unless you smash them into pieces, you can never get back the occupied land, or even Even being near that land is delusional."
While talking, Kaim took off his weapon from his waist, that is, that weird black metal short stick. The close-fitting armor on his body glowed with a halo that was so weak that it was almost undetectable. The dim streamer moved between the gaps in the armor, and the short stick made a light buzzing sound, and then its two ends suddenly extended two There is a meter-long red light beam.
Hao Ren was searching for traces of the enemy. When he saw that the Broken Sword Knight suddenly transformed into a double-edged lightsaber, he was taken aback. I have to say who the Force is with?"
Kaim was tensing his nerves to watch his surroundings, but he was confused by Hao Renyi: "What is the original force? Only the knight's oath and the glory of Her Royal Highness are with us..."
"Oh, it's okay, your weapon is too easy for people to cheat." Hao Ren hurriedly smiled dryly to cover up his embarrassment, "By the way, you Broken Sword Knights usually don't usually team up with outsiders, do you?"
Kaim frowned, not knowing why Hao Ren cared about this: "Knights of the Broken Sword usually operate in small groups, and indeed they seldom team up with people other than us. Is there any problem with that?"
Hao Ren watched Kaim put the double-edged lightsaber behind him, bowed his body in a warning gesture, and nodded slightly: "No wonder, the thing you use is really not very safe. People standing behind you can easily When you retracted your swords, you were stabbed to death... "
Cam felt that if he continued to communicate with this inexplicable guy, he would probably go crazy: What is the World Tree Temple for? Are the people who come out of it out of their minds
And just as these thoughts that had nothing to do with combat were churning in his mind, a sudden sense of vigilance seized his nerves.
The combat intuition cultivated in countless battles quickly made the veteran soldier make the most correct choice: he shouted a warning, and at the same time his body exploded at the fastest speed, jumping to the side at the nick of time, and at the same time Swing the lightsaber in your hand to block!
Two dark red rays of light shot from a distance almost at the same time he took action, one of which hit the place where he was originally standing, melting a creaking pothole in the ground, while the other Blocked by the lightsaber, he changed direction and hit a black pine in the distance, breaking the giant tree in the middle.
And Hao Ren had already noticed the enemy before Kaim issued the warning. His shield system was activated instantly, and he raised the psionic saber that he had taken out from the portable space, and fired three shots in the direction of the scorched earth in the distance.
Three blue light beams hit something in the air, and a large block of blue crystals suddenly condensed in the seemingly empty air, and then a strange-looking thing suspended in mid-air appeared body shape, and turned into crystal dust all over the sky and shattered.
"Hybrid invisibility of optics, magnetic field, and thermal energy," the data terminal completed the analysis of the target in an instant, "but the gravitational force and information wave detection are effective - more targets have been detected and are being marked!"
In Hao Ren's field of vision, more than a dozen blurry red images suddenly appeared in all directions, and they were approaching rapidly.
These should be the "split organisms" that Kem mentioned before, the things that split from the Gorgon demon and are between weapons and creatures.
They actually have such a good invisibility ability? Why didn't Kaim mention such important information
Just as this question popped up in Hao Ren's mind, Kaim shouted, "Oops! The situation is wrong. This is not the enemy we encountered before—there are other Gorgon lords in the black pine forest!"
"I'm going, it's not a matter of intelligence deviation anymore!" Lily jumped up and yelled, but in the middle of the yelling, she suddenly felt a crisis from the side, so she didn't even think about it. She kicked towards the side, only to hear a loud bang, and a vague shadow was kicked out of the invisible state by her, flying past Hao Ren's eyes with a series of sparks and creaking sounds.
Even though she maintained her human form and didn't even change her ears and tail, Lily's brute strength was still not just for fun.
"Attention, it's not just the long-range model," Vivienne immediately reminded. At the same time, with her as the center, "rings of static electricity" with faint electric lights spread in all directions, and with the spread of the rings of static electricity, those The figures hidden in the air also emerged one after another as vague outlines.
Fine electric sparks covered their body surfaces, interfering with the invisible function of these "split organisms".
Everyone drew out their weapons, cast their best magic, and began to fight against the split creatures that appeared, but Hao Ren's eyes were attracted by the split creature that Lily kicked flying.
The fission body landed not far in front of his eyes, unlike the first attacker who was disintegrated into crystal dust by psionic rays, it maintained a fairly complete structure—although there were obvious fragments and disconnections in the middle. signs, but the basic form can still be seen. It looked like a bent lobster, shrouded in a mass of rapidly weakening electric light. A complex carapace with obvious metal features covered the monster's body surface. There were several jointed limbs made of alloy on its upper body, each A scorching blade of light protruded from the end of each jointed limb, but the lower body could not see any walking and supporting limbs, only a few circular devices emitting faint light.
Hao Ren recalled the moment the monster was kicked away by Lily, and realized that those circular devices emitting faint light should be used for floating operations.
Floating at ultra-low altitude, concealed and high-speed, with a photon blade—Hao Ren quickly summed up the characteristics of these "split organisms".
And looking at the metal body wrapped in the cloud of electric energy, Vivian couldn't help but mutter to herself, "No matter how you look at it...it doesn't look like a living thing."
The stealth and high-speed characteristics of split organisms, coupled with the combination of photon blades and laser beams, make them extremely deadly killers for ordinary soldiers, but fortunately, none of the people present were ordinary soldiers—even The weakest personal guard brought by Charlemagne also has the ability to fight against these Gorgon cannon fodder who are not even considered miscellaneous soldiers.
All kinds of magical halos criss-crossed in the scorched woodland, blocking the laser beams, and the enchanted swords waved into an impenetrable wall to resist the surprise attacks of those swift melee units. Taking advantage of this gap, Weiwei An, Hao Ren, and Lily cleared the fission bodies at an extremely fast speed.
Liya didn't intervene in the whole process. She felt that these "little things" were not a threat at all. Even Lily, who was not transformed, could kill all the enemies on the scene with a head hammer, so she simply chose to watch and focus on the main body. Practice one lesson at a time.
But at this moment, Hao Ren heard a deep roar coming from high above.
Kaim, who was using a lightsaber to cut a split body in half, suddenly changed his face when he heard the voice: "It's Lord Gorgon! It's here!"
Hao Ren immediately followed the prestige, and a huge shadow floated into the sky from the other side of the burned forest right in front of his eyes.
It was a gigantic monster like a manta ray, with a width of at least three hundred meters. It is surrounded by thunder and mist, and it has a biological appearance and body structure like those splitting bodies, but its whole body is made of metal, and among the constantly rotating metal, you can see The continuous flow of runes and energy flows.
That's the so-called "Gorgon Demon".