At this time, Antinoya turned her head and looked at the demon lord who suddenly appeared.
Suddenly her voice became a little urgent.
"Do not look back."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Xu noticed that Antinoya disappeared without a trace.
Her whole body was like a blister under the scorching sun, and there was no trace of it within the blink of an eye.
It seemed that Zhao Xu himself was the only one who entered the cave in the first place.
"Elastic ball!"
Zhao Xu immediately grasped the super magic instant scepter in his hand and cast this powerful defensive spell in this extremely dangerous moment.
Suddenly, a slightly shiny spherical force field immediately surrounded him. The translucent sphere itself at first glance was constantly flowing with layers of energy fluctuations. It looked like a bubble ball and could burst at any time, but it could not be destroyed.
The elastic ball is the strongest defensive spell among the four rings.
At the same time, it is also the most powerful enemy-trapping spell that Zhao Xu can currently use.
At this time, Zhao Xu was shrouded in this immovable barrier, but it did not affect his breathing and internal movements.
Inside and outside the barrier of this elastic ball, there are two worlds.
Nothing can pass through this sphere!
In his previous life, Zhao Xu had seen this spell on the battlefield and suffered a lot of losses.
At that time, they were a group of adventurers hired as flankers to round up a murderous and defected four-ring evil mage.
According to the information Zhao Xu received before the mission, the mage had very few spell slots left.
It's just that a camel is bigger than a horse. Even when the mage ran out of gas, he still easily slaughtered more than ten of his teammates.
Then, Zhao Xu saw the evil mage use his last remaining life-saving spell, "Elastic Ball".
At that time, Zhao Xu and other more than twenty adventurers, because there were no spellcasters, attacked the translucent sphere with all kinds of swords and axes, but to no avail.
It was delayed until the mage's reinforcements arrived, allowing the other party to escape smoothly.
Only the four designated methods - the erasure scepter, the negation scepter, the dissociation spell (sixth level) or the targeted dispel magic (the third level) - can try to remove the sphere first, and then try to attack the person inside.
For example, the Holy Avenger in Vivian's hand can cast advanced dispel magic. Because it is a regional dispel, it can't do anything about the elastic ball.
Therefore, this spell is powerful because it can be used to divide the battlefield, control some enemies, or protect teammates who have lost their combat effectiveness.
For ordinary warrior adventurers, this sphere is a life-long unsolvable existence.
If, as soon as we enter the early stage of the game, someone uses these magic methods on the majority of players, no matter how hard and tiring it is, some people will give up the fight and follow the method.
But after Zhao Xu successfully cast this heaven-defying protective energy evocation spell, he did not relax at all.
He knew that this spell, for Grazte, who could make Antinoya disappear in an instant, was just a waste of the opponent's "action" of dismantling it.
He still has to think of his own solution at the moment the other party takes action.
"Young man, it seems that this is our third meeting." Graz'zt's seductive voice came from behind him.
Zhao Xu followed Antinoya's last instructions to the letter.
Never look back.
He didn't even respond to the other party's words.
Facing an abyss demon lord that has witnessed thousands of years of history, no matter how many tricks you use, it will only be so in the eyes of the opponent.
All insidious tricks and calculations are the remaining methods used by these purgatory creatures.
Only if the power can suppress them is the real victory.
"oh?"
"Don't respond to me? It doesn't matter. Just listen to me. As long as you stay silent, it doesn't matter."
"For the first time, you took back the soul of Frank's wife from my hands. Those losers haven't caught them for me yet. I still remember this account."
Zhao Xu just hummed inwardly after hearing this, but did not refute it verbally.
Antinoya just glanced back and disappeared completely, so in addition to not looking back, he also tended to say as little as possible.
And Graz'zt's extremely arrogant words also revealed the true nature of the demons.
According to the other party's logic, a bet only means victory this time.
Doesn't mean the devil won't do it again.
Even contracts are completely ineffective against demons from the chaotic camp.
They are like nicknames, once you catch them you can never let them go.
"The second time, I asked you for a promise. To do this, I even sacrificed my chosen priest. The succubus itself was very loyal to me, but now it is imprisoned in a dark place by you. Under the sun's dungeon. This is the second time you have caused me losses."
Even if Zhao Xu has been given a mental barrier by Antinoya, he will no longer be affected by any mental spells and effects.
But just listening to Grazte's passionate words made Zhao Xu feel that he seemed to be really wrong.
He took a few deep breaths and tried to regain his composure and indifference.
I even started to control the thoughts in my mind, not to think too much, and to reduce the impact in this regard.
He knew that this was Graz'zt using his extremely powerful "negotiation", "intimidation" and "bluffing" skills alternately.
"Zhongxia, now I'm giving you a third chance. I hope you won't let me down this time, otherwise my anger will be unbearable for you."
"I need you to give me a promise."
"As long as you make this promise, I can even make your incarnation become a lord of the abyss and control one of the planes. Just imagine, this kind of overwhelming power is what Antinoya can give you just now Of?"
"After the demise of the Magic Empire, she is just a princess in name only respected by all races. She is in name but not in reality. What can she give you?"
"And you, as long as you promise me an illusory promise now, I may not even need it to be fulfilled in the future. What's so difficult for you?"
At this time, Graz'zt's voice was getting closer and closer, as if it had already walked to Zhao Xu's side and whispered in his ear.
However, Zhao Xu still calmly looked at the shield in front of him.
As long as it's still there, it means you're still safe.
"Oh. Or stay silent and fight with silence?" Graz'zt suddenly sighed.
"I once promised a lucky person a magic weapon, which was a cornucopia of gold coins that would keep popping out. Every time I reached in, I could take out 1,000 gold coins, but the price was the relatives and friends that the lucky person knew. My friend will die because of this. Guess how many times the other party tried to catch him?"
"I don't make the moral dilemma choices you demons have set up."
Zhao Xu suddenly replied.
No need to guess, he already knew what dimension Graz'zt would expand to next.
For example, what should we choose if the person who dies is not a relative or friend we knew.
Even as long as Zhao Xu started to answer "no".
Then in the next story model, the "treasure basin" will become a "healing basin", and next to it will be relatives waiting for his help.
It will gradually question Zhao Xu's heart by constantly revising the entire story model and blurring boundaries.
Once temptation fails, these demons of chaos tend to crush a person's "ideas."
This is also the reason why only a person with firm faith can become a qualified paladin.
Even paladins will encounter many moral dilemmas due to this.
Even Graz'zt only needs to ask a paladin that he has to eat the body of a dead baby in order to save a person. What should that paladin do
If it is negative, what about the people in a city
This kind of moral sophistry relies on preset dilemmas to set traps.
So Zhao Xu also refused for the first time.
After all, he had read a lot of the book "300 Questions about the Devil's Moral Dilemma".
And Grazite seemed not to have expected that Zhao Xu, who was standing in front, didn't have the innate human heart to gossip and listen to stories, so he refused so flatly.
After letting out a few dry laughs, it continued to change direction.
"Then you don't care about the safety of 'Anti Noya'? She was killed by me just now. If you hurry up, you can still save her. Maybe she will die from now on because of your saving grace. Totally devoted to you."
"Oh? Really? Then I have to crush her soul directly."
"No." Zhao Xu said, "I simply don't believe that you can do anything to your mentor."
Zhao Xu still found that he had been hit in his weak spot.
Although he was 99% sure that Antinoya would be fine.
But in the face of a "Devil King" who almost climbed to the top of the Lord of the Abyss, if the other party came in person at this moment, and then used special means to catch Antinoya by surprise, then the 1% chance of something happening would be The possibility still exists.
Therefore, Zhao Xu resolutely decided to speak out for this 1% possibility, and also tried to get the other party to reveal more information.
"Save me." Suddenly Antinoya's voice came, full of pain, as if she was struggling.
"I'm fine." Suddenly another voice sounded in front of the altar, and this was also Antinoya's voice.
It's just that the sound came from within the barrier of the elastic ball.
At this moment, Zhao Xu gently put down the right hand that he had just snapped.
He had just used Zero Ring's "Phantom Sound Technique" to recreate Antinoya's voice.
He also told Grazter behind him that simulating this kind of voice and this method of attacking his mind would be of no use to him at all.
"Interesting. I even doubt that Antinoya has done an offensive and defensive test against high-level demons with you."
Graz'zt couldn't help but praise, "I'm curious as to why you are so sure that I can't kill Antinoya."
"You know, those who have truly seen the methods Ernest left for Antinoya are basically dead. Only old antiques like us in this world can know how terrifying she is."
When Zhao Xu heard this, he couldn't help laughing.
Antinoya also teased him and said some ambiguous things to deceive him.
But one thing is, she never brags. She said that she could do this by visiting the Abyss at any time, or even teasing Graz'zt.
And with this kind of strength, there is no way Graz'zt can easily obliterate it.
He just estimated that the possibility was less than 1%, not that he really believed it.
Just like everyone is likely to be hit by a drunk driver who runs a red light while walking, the probability exists, it just depends on how big it is.
He also suspected that Antinoya just disappeared suddenly for a while, otherwise the devil could have shut himself down for a few days to weaken his will first.
"Why do you need a promise from me?"
After a long time, Zhao Xu couldn't help but ask. This was also a question he had thought about several times.
"It starts with a long story."
Graz'zt's voice became more distant and profound.
"If you don't mind, you can listen to me slowly."
(End of chapter)