Chapter 895: Deep Well
"It...it lifted up the Golden Palace!"
After a brief moment of daze, Amy shouted in shock. She could never imagine that the plot would develop in this direction.
The evil of this world, or...the beast of the herd, it wrapped the burning Golden Palace and pulled it up from the ground.
The beast of the herd struggled hard in Lemongaton. Its every move stirred up thousands of ashes, making the surroundings gray and hazy. It was impossible to see the whole picture of its huge body.
But even so, Blogo, standing on the Ash Square, could still barely glimpse what happened to the amber flesh and blood from the messy ether reaction.
"I dedicate my body, mind, and spirit, everything, everything, to you."
At the top of the Devouring Beast, Hammer, who had fallen from a high altitude, half-knelt on the sticky flesh on the surface. At this time, he was still praying devoutly, but around him, the flesh and blood squirmed and extended countless scarlet mycelium. They climbed up Hammer's legs, torso, and head, along his throat, ear canal, and nasal cavity, and headed towards his body.
Soon, Hammer's prayer became unclear, and with a painful low gasp, he seemed to be caught in a spider web, and was completely wrapped by mycelium into a scarlet egg sheath.
"All this is for you, great lady, our mother."
As Hammer said the last prayer, there was no sound from the scarlet egg sheath, and then the egg sheath began to sink slowly, like a long nail piercing into the amber-like giant flesh and blood.
Berogo could clearly see the egg sheath extending in the transparent flesh and blood, and could also see that the Devouring Beast quickly proliferated countless blood vessels connecting the egg sheath.
It is evolving and proliferating.
Starting from the egg sheath, the glial cells wrapped it, replicated and proliferated crazily, and neurons were interspersed between them. It expanded rapidly like a balloon, occupying a large area in the transparent flesh and blood. At first, it was still in an uncertain liquid state, but within a dozen seconds, the liquid began to solidify, and the specific forms appeared one by one.
Brain stem, cerebellum, hippocampus, thalamus, cerebral cortex... It perfectly replicated all the structures of the human brain, and it could even be said that it was a human brain peeled off from Hammer's head, but this human brain was thousands of times larger than a normal human brain.
Thick nerves extended, connecting and controlling various parts of the huge body. This disordered and crazy monster was gradually waking up, like a terrifying machine with a driver.
"Oh, is this how to control it?"
The regent looked at the restless herd-eating beast below. Hammer merged with it and controlled it with his own consciousness, but the herd-eating beast was too terrible and too huge, and Hammer didn't have much time to leave the regent.
"Although I don't know why they are suddenly obsessed with this ruin, I have to say that this ruin is really fascinating."
The Regent sighed softly, his body arched, and when he was about to attack like lightning, the familiar ether reaction fell from the sky, full of anger.
"Stop!"
Accompanied by Holt's roar, the Regent turned around quickly, and the shadow blade in his hand squirmed and spread again, and in an instant it turned into thousands of shadow spears stabbing towards the top of his head.
But this time the Regent failed to repel Holt. He only saw the glow of the ether torn into a series of residual images due to high speed, and then Holt passed all the shadow spears and arrived in front of him.
The cold and sharp steel sword chopped down. Facing this simple blade, the Regent inexplicably developed a sense of crisis. He dodged sideways, and the blade chopped fiercely on the cliff behind him.
In an instant, countless cracks spread and spread along the traces of the sword blade, like a landslide, a whole cliff collapsed and shattered, and no matter how tough the rock was, it fell apart under this sword blade.
"Cut iron and break steel!"
The regent exclaimed excitedly, "It's in your hands!"
The secret sword of the third seat was recovered and sealed by the Order Bureau after the time axis disorder incident. The regent never thought that this secret sword would now be in Holt's hands.
Holt ignored the regent. At this moment, he was only angry, a kind of anger from being offended.
Since Holt took care of the abandoned land, there has been no major incident here, but today, the forbidden land under his care was actually broken by the regent.
The other party is a glorious person higher than himself, Holt can use this to defend himself, but he is unwilling to do so. For Holt, facing the facts, any defense except saving is a shame.
The secret sword stabbed out continuously, but the regent dodged them skillfully. The power of the Glory One burst out, and the power of the ether amplification reached the extreme, smashing directly on Holt's head.
In the regent's expectation, this sword was not enough to kill Holt completely, at most it would only injure him, but just when the slender shadow sword was about to fall on Holt's head, waves of ether ripples were released from Holt's body.
The first thing affected by the ripples was the shadow blade. As if immersed in ice water, the restless shadow blade immediately cooled down, followed by the regent's arm and body that swung the sword, and even he was completely wrapped in the ripples.
The sharp sound of the intersection of the sword blades exploded, and the impact caused by the collision of the ether directly shattered the surrounding rock walls. Large pieces of rubble smashed downwards and fell on the body of the beast of the group, becoming torn into pieces.
The lingering smoke was flattened by the whistling wind caused by the action. The regent landed steadily on the cliff, and Holt landed on the other side.
The two looked at each other from a distance. Even though they were full of anger, they still maintained their rationality.
The Regent did not continue to attack, but recalled and pondered the previous fight. Under the acceleration of the extreme power, few people could keep up with the Regent's sword, let alone block it and fight back.
But just when the shadow blade was about to split Holt, the Regent found that his speed was obviously much slower. In the eyes of others, this slowness was almost non-existent, but for high-level condensers like them, a difference of one second was enough to change the situation.
Suddenly, a slight tingling sensation came from the abdomen. The Regent lowered his head and saw that his decent shirt was cut open and the skin underneath was slightly scratched. If it weren't for the tingling caused by the ether residue that made him notice the wound, I'm afraid it would have healed before the Regent noticed it.
At this time, the Regent's eyes changed when he looked at Holt. Holt not only slowed down his attack, but Holt even accelerated in turn, fought back and hurt himself.
"School of Tricks? Can it control speed? Or... time?"
The Regent threw out one guess after another. You know, although the Glory is noble and supreme, it is not invincible.
Holter said nothing, just calmly burning the ether. At the same time, an equally powerful wave was released from him.
The power of the extreme.
"It's amazing," the Regent praised, "You are younger than I thought."
Young, the Regent did not praise Holt's age, but his alchemical matrix. Compared with the Regent, Holt is younger and his alchemical matrix is more advanced.
For other defenders, the Regent may show terrible suppression, but facing Holt, everything becomes unknown.
Holt's figure began to twist, and then he disappeared from the spot, and the cliff he was just on, as if it was hit by an invisible object, fell apart.
The Regent couldn't see Holt, but he could sense the rapidly approaching etheric reaction. He simply held up his shadow blade, and his own ether expanded and spread, like invisible tentacles, keeping up with Holt's speed.
Caught him.
Mystical Energy Mirror World Duel.
Holt felt an inexplicable sense of detachment released from himself, as if he was forced to travel through a winding path, and then a layer of ripples were released from all directions. All the areas touched by the ripples showed a strange sense of color reversal.
The gloomy cliffs turned pale, as if covered with a layer of white frost, and the hazy gray fog turned black, like a curtain covering the sky and the sun. Even the Regent in front of him began to change, and strange blocks of color hit him in a messy manner, like a child's graffiti.
Red, blue, yellow, all kinds of colors mixed together, forming a strange and uncoordinated pattern, printing a hazy and grotesque figure.
The abnormality was fleeting.
Holt was sure that he should have been hit by the Regent's secret power, but nothing happened except the strange visual change.
School of the Void?
Holt couldn't help but guess, but soon he found the abnormality.
Silence, the surroundings became quieter than ever before, and absolute silence suddenly descended on the abandoned land, as if a pair of big hands strangled everyone's throat.
"Hey! Don't be distracted!"
The Regent's figure twisted and appeared directly in front of Holt. The shadow blade was close at hand, but the Regent did not chop it down, but kicked Holt in the chest, kicking him several meters away.
"This is my world, only you and me, no one will disturb our duel."
The Regent landed steadily on the rugged cliff. He adjusted his clothes, turned sideways, and the shadow blade condensed into a slender rapier, as if the Regent was participating in a classical fencing duel.
Holt looked around and was sure that this was still an abandoned place, but it was not real, but a false mirror world.
"So you sneaked in by this means?"
Holt realized that the Regent had sneaked in by relying on the mirror world before. If he had not been sharp enough, he might have let him go.
"Compared to these, I hope you can focus on the next duel."
The Regent said, holding the rapier upright in front of his chest, his face full of holiness, as if he really regarded this as a duel about dignity and honor.
"I am a person with some obsessive-compulsive disorder, or it may be the so-called arrogance, but I do like fair duels and guarantee it with my dignity."
"Fair?"
Holt felt inexplicably absurd when this word came out of the Regent's mouth. This was a fight of blood and blood, and there was no fairness at all.
"It sounds so naive." Holt said sarcastically.
"Then I may be really naive," the Regent said indifferently, "or maybe I have a stronger sense of honor than you."
"What fairness do you want?" Holt asked again.
"I am the one of glory, this is unfair to you." The regent said stubbornly. In this regard, he also had irrational paranoia.
"No, this is fair," Holt shook his head, raised his secret sword, and drew a dagger from his waist, "You are stronger than me, and I am younger than you."
The regent was stunned for a moment, and laughed silently. He unabashedly took an offensive posture, with the sharp dagger pointing at Holt.
At this tense moment, Holt suddenly said, "Does your honor come from your sincerity?"
"Or... is it just a curse brought about by the protection?"
The regent's expression froze. He didn't expect Holt to say such a thing. The regent didn't make any excuse. The next second he rushed out like an arrow. With the blessing of the extreme power, he was like a flash. Holt tried to avoid the black thunder that passed by, but he gave up the idea as soon as it arose.
Can't escape.
The dark stabbing sword seemed to penetrate everything in the world, and at the same time, a huge explosion sounded deafeningly.
Holt's hearing was lost, and there was only a sharp buzzing in his mind. A heavy air flow hit his face. The Regent's stabbing was like an advancing storm vortex. The world seemed to be torn apart, tearing everything apart. The order is broken.
At this time, the power released by the Regent has reached the peak of the Glorious One. Holt can't imagine how he did it. Is it from the power of the Night Clan, or from the protection of the devil as Holt guessed?
There was no time to think so much, Holt's eyes burned, and he released his secret power without reservation. The ether filled the periphery of his body, weaving an insurmountable high wall.
The Prince Regent stepped into Holt's territory. First, he felt a strong sense of resistance emerging from all directions, as if he was walking into a quagmire. His fatal speed was actually slowed down by Holt.
More than that, the Regent found that every time he took a step closer to Holt, his speed slowed down in half. The Regent was indeed approaching Holt, but he became slower and slower, even slower and slower. To the naked eye, the Regent's movements completely stopped.
The regent did not stop. He still maintained a certain speed, but the speed was too slow. It would take several years to cover even one centimeter.
Secret Energy·Zeno's Wall.
Holt's eyes were bloodshot, and his extreme power burst out. While the Regent slowed down, he accelerated rapidly, creating an illusion that was almost like teasing time.
The sword that cut through iron and steel struck his head, and Holt roared and vowed to destroy the enemy.
…
The fierce battle between the Glorifiers and the Defenders easily changed the terrain. While they were fighting passionately, countless rubbles fell, making Bologg miserable on the ground, until the Regent and Holt were both involved. After entering the mirror world, the continuous collapse was relieved to a certain extent.
But the crisis has not been resolved.
Boluogo looked at the struggling herd-devouring beast not far away and couldn't help but comment, "It's like a glowing jellyfish."
"Glowing jellyfish?"
Aimu was stunned for a moment when he heard Boluogo's comment, "Are you serious? Boluogo, jellyfish?"
"Don't you think it looks like it?"
Boluogo looked at the group-devouring beast again. The huge mass of flesh maintained an extremely strange structure. Inside it was a blazing golden palace. The scorching light illuminated the flesh and blood extremely transparently, and in the golden Above the palace is a rapidly proliferating and expanding brain, plus countless tentacles supporting this huge piece of meat.
The first thing that came to Bologo's mind was a giant glowing jellyfish.
"Control yourself!" Aimu complained loudly while providing Boluogo with full ether.
Boluogo ran wildly towards the leader of the swarm, dodging gravel and tentacles dancing out of control. Even with a brain, this monster still looked extremely crazy.
"He can't fully control this monster yet, we still have a chance!"
Bologger sensed Hammer's weakness. After all, the herd-devouring beast was too huge, and the computing power of the human brain simply had no time to fully control it all. Just controlling the movement of the tentacles had already exhausted Hammer.
But even so, the power unleashed by the Swarm Devouring Beast is powerful enough to sweep away all enemies.
In contrast, Boluogo was as small as a fragile ant. The tentacles that swept and attacked were like collapsed stone pillars. They fell one after another, shattering the ground into pieces and blocking Boluogo's path one by one. But just like that, When it was about to catch up with Boluogo, it stopped again.
A distorted scream came from the flesh and blood, and the surface of the flesh and blood began to bulge, like a bubble bursting, and deadly flowing fire spurted out, like an erupting volcano.
Hammer tried to control everything, but Guangzhuo would not give in so easily. While the flesh and blood were sealed, it also concentrated terrible heat under the flesh and blood until it exploded like a bomb.
Wisps of fire were released, and the fire splashed everywhere, illuminating most of the world. Boluoge felt that he was marching towards the end, and he was advancing happily.
"How did King Solomon create the light?"
Aimu witnessed the flowing fire burning through the body of the beast that devoured the herd. Even though it was dying, it was still deadly and powerful. According to the legend, if King Solomon was from the contract school, could this immortal fire be that he got it from the devil? Did it come from a deal?
Another thing is, what kind of power does Guangzhuo rely on to maintain it to this day? It can keep burning and once suppressed the power of the herd-devouring beast. After so many years, its ether consumption will be an extremely terrifying value.
Aimu couldn't figure it out. Maybe she could only understand all this by going to the Golden Palace, but now the Golden Palace was carried by the group-devouring beast again.
"Attention! Bologo!"
Aimu noticed something and shouted a warning to Boluogo.
At this time, Bologo also noticed the source of the danger. He saw Hammer controlling the beast of the pack, and in turn used the light to point the burning wound to the earth. The deadly flowing fire became his weapon, without distinction. The earth baptizes all creatures on the earth.
"That! That ruins!"
Aimu pointed the direction for Boluogo. The beast that devours the herd raised the Golden Palace from the ground, leaving a dilapidated ruins where the Golden Palace originally stood. It became a natural bunker and happened to be in the The place beneath the group-devouring beast is temporarily considered its attack blind spot.
The sea of fire rushed toward his face. Boluogo didn't hesitate at all. He cut a crack in the winding path with his sword and stepped forward into it. As soon as the figure got out of the winding path, he swung his sword again. With many slashes, he cut the short sword abruptly. The distance travel turned into a long distance to avoid the invasion of the sea of fire, until the tired figure staggered into the ruins.
Bologg had no time to rest. He got into the ruins, ran along the broken stairs, and ran deep underground. The tongue of fire followed closely behind him, and he almost caught Bologg.
"Huh... are we safe?"
Boluogo sat in the corner, panting, the ruins were shaking continuously, as if experiencing a continuous earthquake.
After losing its target, the Beast of the Swarm is trying to escape from Raymond Gaiton, but it has been entrenched in this city for so long that it has almost completely integrated with it. The tall spiers surrounding the Ashes Square have now become it. The cage blocks the path of the herd-devouring beast.
Boluogo inserted injections into his body, not caring about the danger of overdose, only focusing on returning to his best condition as soon as possible.
Aimu broke away from Boluogo's body. She was very curious about these ruins. After all, a few minutes ago, this was part of the Golden Palace, its cornerstone.
However, due to the destruction of the group-eating beast, this underground area has become a mess. The walls are full of cracks, and there are collapsed rubble and collapsed stone pillars everywhere.
"Bologo?"
Aimu seemed to have discovered something, and she called Boluogo.
Boluogo stood up with his sword in hand and followed Amu's etheric reaction in the darkness.
All the light was lost here, there was no light at all. Boluogo took a few steps forward vigilantly, and then Aimu's figure appeared in front of his eyes. She was looking at something, but there was nothing in the darkness.
"I need light." Aimu said.
Boluogo waved his hand, and the diamond-shaped shield burned, like a suspended torch, flying towards the end of the darkness. As the light dispersed the darkness little by little, the two of them gradually saw the surrounding things clearly.
Different from the artistic and mysterious decorative style in Raymond Gayton, this place is unexpectedly simple, with rusty steel corridors everywhere, and an extremely huge drilling machine, which stands quietly like a steel behemoth. In the darkness, a giant drill several meters wide hung high above the head, like a giant sword awaiting judgment.
But more than these, what really caught Bologo's attention was what was under the giant drill.
It was a dark well, so deep that Bologger threw a burning diamond-shaped shield into it, and it continued to fall until the diamond-shaped shield broke away from the limit of his own control, and still could not reach the end.
As for listening to the echoes of the fall? No response.
"In Sa Qin's research on the soulless, they mentioned a place called Abyss Well," Aimu said quietly, as if telling a distant story, "Boluogo, I was thinking before, How did they extract the original thing?"
Looking at the dark well, Aimu said, "Now it seems that the answer is simple, they just dug deep enough."
"Ether is external energy. Over thousands of years, it has been gradually transforming the material world, gradually deepening from the surface to the core... As long as you dig deep enough, you can always find substances that have not been impregnated by ether."
Bologg spoke softly. He felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity. No one could have imagined that the original thing could be found using such a simple and crude method. Then Bologg realized something.
The diamond-shaped shields exploded one after another, and the flames shot into the sky, completely illuminating the darkness.
In the dark corner, Bologg once again saw the skeletons holding hands, as well as a broken container... Bologg guessed that there had been many embryos there.
The embryo of the soulless.