RNP Chapter 3394: Wasteland Pursuit
Chapter 3394: Wasteland Pursuit
Chapter 3394: Wasteland Pursuit
In fact, during the final preparations, Theresa also suggested whether the team should release illusions to hide everyone when moving, but the Hound gave a negative opinion:
"You living people are as conspicuous as the sun in the wasteland. Illusions cannot hide the feeling that you are out of tune with this world. Instead of casting illusions, it would be more effective to cast secret methods such as [Breath of Wind] to speed up movement."
But at least the [Grace of the Dark Moon] that Shad had just used restored some of the witches' spirits. The effect of this magic was much stronger in his hands than in Sister Beren's hands, otherwise the nun would have used it long ago.
The fog was thicker than when Theresa and the nun took Shade back. In the silent wilderness, only the sound of footsteps echoed in the fog. Because they didn't want to attract too many ghouls, the lighting in the darkness was still provided by the old lantern in the nun's hand, and now the light of the lantern was shaky.
Everyone was ready for battle, and the first battle began four minutes after they left the cabin. A large rustling sound came from the depths of darkness, and then a flock of red-eyed crows flew from afar, cawing and gathering in the sky to form an almost dark cloud.
The only means of attack of these crow corpses is to spit black light with corrosive power toward the ground. Even a mid-level warlock can deal with a single one, but it is indeed tricky to deal with them when they gather in a large group.
So Shad at the end of the team and Miss Violet at the front of the team put up shields to protect the team, and then Sister Beren and Theresa attacked the crows in the sky together.
And the very professional Miss Liad figured out what it was faster than a hound:
"I encountered this kind of thing the first time I went to a tomb, but there were only a dozen of them. This kind of crow is usually a spy of a more powerful undead. Get rid of them quickly, or else something more troublesome will come after you. Their weaknesses are not fire or light, but water and ice!"
The freezing ray fired by Shade swept into the sky, and Theresa summoned a pure water unicorn that was almost a water elemental life form to rush upward. The Sixess Higher Medical College was at the bottom of the sea, and the witches who graduated from this college more or less knew some similar magic.
The crows were quickly cleared, but three still escaped far away. The group of people certainly did not chase them, and did not even have time to search the crows to see if they had dropped any burial objects, and continued to rush forward in a hurry.
Soon, a black building emerged from the darkness ahead, but it was still far away from the temple and was not their destination.
The building is located on a slightly raised stone ground in the wasteland, overlooking the surrounding tombstones like a watchman. It is roughly in the shape of a cross, and is made of gray-white stones with traces of weathering visible.
The front facade is a pointed stone door with reliefs carved on it that symbolize death and protection - crows, hourglasses, dead branches, and skulls holding swords. In the middle of the door is a line of ancient runes - [Remember Death].
The appearance of the solemn and cold building slowed the team down slightly, and something seemed to be moving faintly inside the dirty black glass windows of the building.
The hound didn't recognize what kind of building it was, and the Corpse Tree had never encountered it. But Miss Violet, who was holding a book, flipped through the pages and found out the general information of the building:
"This is the ossuary in the wilderness. When angels were still around, this place was used to temporarily detain those undead evil creatures that were like skeletons."
She turned another page:
"In the ancient times, the things imprisoned in this ossuary were regularly escorted to death by other angels or servants of God. But after the ancient gods left, let's avoid it. Even if only one of the things imprisoned here survives until now, we can't deal with it."
She led the team to go around the building from the left side, but after noticing that the living people were cautious and did not approach, the building began to shake violently.
Then it stood up.
Xia De thought of all possibilities, but he didn't expect that there would be two giant legs with flesh and bones wrapped around them under the black stone building, and two withered hands would break through the walls and stick out from both sides of the building. The two black windows on the front of the building were clearly the "eyes" of the building at this moment, and when the door was opened, the sound of the wind passing through the building was clearly the howling of a giant.
Densely packed spirit arms stretched out from the wall and tried to scratch the surroundings, which looked like the giant's sweat hair; and when it stood up, densely packed bones fell out from under the house due to shaking, indicating how many skeletons it had devoured in this wasteland.
Miss Violet remained calm, her expression unchanged:
"This is not an ancient evil object. It should be that the building itself has been endowed with spirituality. There is a magic in this book that can temporarily suppress this kind of thing. Sister Belen, I can maintain the magic for three minutes, you come and burn it. Shade, you and Theresa cast an illusion to cover up the sound and light of the battle."
The long-dormant flame had been reignited by Shade, and the ash sword with cracks on its surface was once again pulled out of the flames by the nun. The 12th-level fire-wielding nun showed traces of "first flame embers" on her body. She nodded gently to Shade, then leaped into the giant's mouth, which was the door to the ossuary, and then directly entered the darkness.
Miss Violet chanted an ancient and difficult death spell. A huge black divine ritual array was nested around the giant, making its movements extremely slow.
Mia poked her head out of Shade's arms and watched the red butterflies flying upwards, while Theresa's illusion was a chaotic color. During the illusion, the giant's right arm grabbed the people below, so Shade enlarged his right arm while punching upwards, and knocked the giant back with one punch.
As it staggered back, flames had already lit up from the windows. Then, in just a few breaths, billowing black smoke floated out from the cracks in the house.
The flames completely surrounded the main body of the building at the beginning of the second minute. After more than ten seconds, it collapsed to the ground, and then a charred skeleton crawled out of the hole in the roof of the building.
"That's the main body!"
Without Miss Violet's reminder, Theresa and Miss Liad fired fireballs in that direction. After all, the nuns had proven that fire was very effective. The bombarded skeleton was completely integrated into the sea of fire in the house, and Sister Belen walked out of the flames with her back to the burning building, completely intact:
"Let's move on."
The building burned behind them, but they had no time to wait for the flames to die down to find out what was inside the ancient ossuary.
Soon after they continued forward, as if the wasteland knew they were fleeing, the sound of horse hooves became louder and louder. Shade looked back and saw the armored skeleton knights riding skeleton horses, charging towards them like a cavalry charge.
The Skeleton Knights were wrapped in blue flames, and their mounts seemed to be stepping on mist.
The hound turned back and this time recognized what it was:
"The Knights of Hellfire! Damn it! The only way to get rid of them is to completely extinguish the fire of our souls!"
The charging knights caught up with the team in the blink of an eye. Shade, who was at the end of the team, turned his spirit around and slapped back fiercely:
"Thunder wave!"
But except for the two knights who were charging in the front and were knocked to the ground, the remaining knights ignored the spreading lightning ripples and continued to charge.
Xia De turned around and stopped following the team, and ran to the left:
"You go ahead, I'll lead them away, and I'll catch up with you in a bit."
"Shad, how could we abandon you!"
Theresa was about to follow Shade, but Violet grabbed her arm sternly.
"Since Xia De proposed the idea, he must have his own ideas. Trust him."
She led the remaining three witches and two hounds to continue forward. Although the "Hellfire Knights" wanted to split into two teams to chase the two teams separately, Shade took the opportunity to turn around and transformed himself into a moonlight cross and slashed directly into the Knights. When he fled to the side again, the knights all chased in his direction.
As Shade ran, he pressed his hands to his chest, temporarily turning the cat into a toy. Then, as he ran, a silver light emanated from his body, and he immediately turned into his fastest state, moving through the dark tombstones in the form of a silver wolf, almost like a stream of light.
Since everyone has four legs, the speed of the silver wolf form is even faster than the undead mounts with blue flames behind it. After successfully opening up a distance, the running wolf suddenly turned into three on the spot, and then ran in three directions respectively.
The Hellfire Knights split into three groups and chased in three directions. After they had gone far away, the angel statue that was standing crookedly between the tombstones with its hands covering its face and wings curled up began to move. The concealment effect of the [Calm Stance] state was too good in this wasteland.
"I was worried that the illusion wouldn't work. Thanks to those blue butterflies."
With "her" to help point the way, Xia De was not worried about not being able to find the witches ahead. But when he turned into a silver wolf again to chase them, he felt sorry that he and his group did not have a suitable mount here.
Other types of summoned creatures cannot exist for long in this world due to the strong power of death, and once undead summoned creatures appear, they will probably get out of control immediately.
Shade had acquired the "True Death" spirit rune a long time ago, but he had never learned the magic to summon the undead. However, Silver Wolf suddenly realized another thing while running, that a certain magic seemed to be related to "True Death".
So the Silver Wolf suddenly leaped forward while running and jumped onto the small wooden boat that had just emerged from the ground in front of him. When helping old lady Otto last Sunday, Shade replaced the blessing in the Holy White Chapel with the dry land boat ability of the Ferryman God, so at this moment the boat really slid between the tombstones.