Until Antinoya brought Zhao Xu back to Arthur in the real world, he still had a dizzy feeling in his mind.
This period of time that traveled through thousands of years seemed to him to be a small "accidental encounter" event, but Zhao Xu had already roughly felt the trembling in his soul.
He even doubted whether he had left behind some fragments thousands of years before the gods fell and the cataclysm occurred.
The various possible directions of "losing memory", "assimilating the world", and "integrating into imprints" made Zhao Xu realize that "traveling" is not just a once and for all thing as imagined.
This also allowed him to re-examine the established fact that he could be "reborn".
A "secret" that he has not been able to figure out until now.
And when they returned to the altar in the cave again, Grazt, the Lord of Darkness, had already fled.
The place was still filled with smoke. When Graz'zt appeared, the black pus that was like an explosion of magma had cooled and condensed all over the place.
Perhaps the moment Zhao Xu turned back decisively and faced his "power of time" head-on, the demon king knew that his trick had come to an end.
This also made Zhao Xu feel relieved.
At that time, Grazte appeared behind Zhao Xu. He was so stiff, which essentially meant one thing.
Activating the ability to travel through time has consumed all its mobility.
It can't even control the ability to activate only on Antinoya and not on Zhao Xu.
At this time, Zhao Xu and Antinoya were both carefully looking at the demon altar in front of them.
It has to be said that Antinoya herself felt angry after being brushed off by Grazte.
"It seems like it's pretty much what you guessed."
Antinoya looked at the bottom of the altar, a stone tablet engraved with purgatory inscriptions, and said, "This altar serves as a lead for summoning. Once successful, these summoned creatures will offer sacrifices to open the final portal."
"A portal from the abyss to Arthur's world is a journey of pleasure for the devils, but it is the beginning of pain for the entire Northland." Zhao Xu lamented.
There are many strong ones in Arthur, but this is for high-end combat power.
As for the adventurers and soldiers in the entire Northland, and even the local defense forces, they have to face extremely powerful monsters such as the Coward Demon, the Babu Demon, the Six-Armed Snake Demon, and the Balor Fire Demon. The demon clan.
Unless the whole Arthur is trying its best to help, these low-end and middle-end demon armies cannot be killed at all. What limits them is only the throughput of the portal.
Moreover, these demons have been fighting the demons on the hell side in the bloody battlefield, and they have rich combat experience.
"That's right."
Antinoya frowned slightly, "The key is, I'm afraid that Grazte has left quite a lot of backhands like this in the Northern Alliance. Even if the official forces intervene and plow the entire land into three parts, it will be difficult to find all these hidden resources." An altar in a pit underground.”
"The army of hell and demons is preparing to descend on Arthur." Zhao Xu made a silent prophecy.
The neat stone tablets and the rough altars that looked not artificially made all indicate that these altars were produced in batches.
There must be a huge organization behind it that is constantly operating.
For Arthur, a disaster that was still painful in retrospect many years later, a disaster that could kill all the men born in a certain year in a small country, but for some Japanese devils, it was a ladder to heaven and a way to save their lives. The magic recipe.
Some things are just so cruel.
Zhao Xuming knew that the hands of purgatory had reached out to Arthur, but he couldn't uproot them and could only watch them spreading like cancer cells.
At this time, Zhao Xu remembered that in the mutant scorpion lair, apart from seeing Antinoya's "brass treasure chest" dowry, the ceiling of the lair was full of corpses hanging.
And these hanging corpses are exactly the same as those hidden in the underground pits.
Zhao Xu immediately told Antinoya about this past in detail.
"That's it." Antinoya nodded, "The nephew of Tang De who came to encircle and suppress you was probably the 'minion' extended by this force, but you cut it off at that time. "
"As for this matter, I'm afraid they didn't want to attract the church's attention, so they searched for it in the early stages and then left it alone."
Zhao Xuchu thought about it briefly and already understood what Antinoya meant.
The demons and demons invaded Arthur's Northland from two separate sides during the Demon Sealing Campaign. It was not an independent event at all, or it was a rare tacit understanding between hell and abyss.
Even on the demon side, it was not just Grazte, the demon king who suffered the fate.
There must be a "mysterious organization" in contact with the demon lords of the abyss in the entire North, and even Tang De is just an obvious node in this black network.
There are more than ten major forces in the Northern Alliance and even the entire Northland. The reach of this network is far beyond everyone's imagination.
Looking at Zhao Xu's heavy expression, Antinoya consoled him, "The Battle of Falling Star Lake was your first time to show your sword to the North. At that time, you could only rely on the power of the outside world."
"As for now, if you want to be Arthur's most invincible sword, you must have the courage and courage to slowly lift the net behind the scenes and let him become the touchstone for you to become a legend."
"Otherwise, you really think that becoming a legend can be achieved by killing monsters all the way. The knowledge of killing spells only accounts for a small part of the spell system. There are various infiltration and control spells waiting for you to develop and use."
The observant Antinoya, after seeing the actual altar, combined with another incident provided by Zhao Xu, she had already guessed the intentions of the abyss and hell.
After thinking about this clearly, Zhao Xu stood up on the spot, his eyes showing perseverance and anger.
The lack of food and clothing at the beginning of the time travel in the previous life, and the subsequent battle to seal off the demons, were two disasters that caused a sharp decline in the population of the entire earth.
Not even talking about the people on Earth, just the innocent people in the entire Northland suffered countless casualties.
Many small towns that were originally peaceful have turned into scorched earth, and some have even turned into a paradise for demons. Human corpses are hung all over the outer walls, and bones are piled into altar towers to offer sacrifices to the lords.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu's heart tightened, as if an invisible force was gripping him tightly.
His tone was indifferent, "Teacher, is it because the gathering place where the earth will travel in the future is the Northland north of the entire ice mountain range, so this possible disaster appears here."
Antinoya looked at Zhao Xu with soft eyes, "From the moment the first legendary mage accidentally entered the earth's universe, the possibility of implementing this plan has been possible, and it even has to be traced back to the end of the catastrophe. A covenant between the gods.”
"And on the other side of Purgatory, they will naturally arrange their layout accordingly."
"Gods, prepare enough believers for themselves for the future 'Battle at Twilight'. Similarly, the abyss and hell also need to replenish their souls as reserves."
"They will definitely invade Arthur, and choosing the location where people on Earth will travel is just a matter of maximizing their interests."
"It feels really uncomfortable to be treated like a chess piece and a pig."
Zhao Xu couldn't help but laugh out loud, but his smile had the implication that some emotion was about to explode.
"Even though Arthur's main gods have been able to get rid of the restrictions of believers, they will still develop their own followers and elects, and continue to expand their followers in Arthur."
"The harvested land is here. If you don't cut this handful of wheat, someone else will naturally wield the sickle during the harvest season. A stronger farmer will have the capital to annex others."
Antinoya points out the key to the battle of faith for thousands of years.
"This is what he taught me. If I don't want to be a farmer wielding a sickle to harvest, and I don't want to be a farmer who has worked hard for a whole year without harvesting anything, then I can be a traveler and witness the ebb and flow of Arthur. The rise and fall of history.”
"As long as I don't become a god, I will not be excluded by the will of the world and leave Arthur. I can wait for the end of this world with the peak strength of the world. That's why I can witness the death of the third goddess of magic like today. Appear."
"Teacher, is there something on the outer interface of Seventeen that can threaten you?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but asked curiously.
"That's for sure, but it's rare. Some existences are already conceptually unsolvable. Before you can understand why this world was born, you will never guess how many backhands are hidden in this world." Antinoya said with emotion.
"Then what's next for you? After verifying your identity in Oru City, getting the supplies, and returning to Falling Star Town, what are your plans?"
Hearing this question, Zhao Xu replied enthusiastically, "It's okay if I didn't know before."
"Now that I know that Tang De is the key, and there is this kind of 'network' that secretly supports the abyss around them, then I naturally want to eradicate it."
"Perhaps these people who betrayed Arthur had their own reasons. They would say loudly that Arthur could not defeat the extremely powerful forces of hell and abyss. They were essentially sacrificing some inferior tribesmen for human beings and other races. , to seek the continuation of the fire of the entire civilization.”
"But I think they should go down into the abyss and tell the devil these words."
(End of chapter)