Chapter 323 Abyss Parasitic Beast
Brian put down the long sword in his hand. At this time, in front of him, another skeletal giant wailed and disappeared into ashes. Caradna walked over and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
With the strength of the two of them, it is not that they cannot defeat the skeleton giant, but it is very difficult to do it cleanly and within a limited time without alerting any enemies.
After all, no matter how big the gap in strength is, the struggle before death is really a headache.
Looking at the experience numbers popping up in front of his eyes, Brian finally confirmed this.
When facing undead creatures, system prompts were particularly important, allowing him to clearly confirm whether the enemy was completely dead.
"Da da... da da... da!"
At this moment, a rapid sound of horse hooves came from the distance, breaking the silence in the darkness.
Hearing this sound, Brian immediately realized that it was definitely the death knight hiding in the tower who rushed out because of the death of his subordinate.
This is what he hopes to see the most. After all, there are many crises in the tower. Not only do the two have to deal with the death knights, but they may also face the siege of a group of priests from the Shar Church.
Finding a way to lure out the most powerful Death Knight is indeed the most correct approach at the moment.
“Get ready to fight!” He looked calm and immediately ordered Caradna.
Hearing this, the sorceress did not feel any surprise and quickly prepared for battle.
Obviously before the battle began, Brian had told her in detail about the skeleton giant and the possible plan to attract the death knight.
On the other side, the charging Death Knight saw that Brian and the two men not only did not dodge, but instead got into a fighting stance, looking directly at him without fear, welcoming his arrival.
"You dare to look at me like this, you are asking for your own death!"
He couldn't help but sneered, and immediately raised the knight's spear that was already surrounded by countless dead souls and dark energy, pointing straight ahead. Then he yelled loudly.
“Hiss——!!”
The nightmare, surrounded by the fire of purgatory, heard the voice of its master and immediately quickened its pace.
In an instant, surging flames flew out from under the nightmare's hooves, sliding out four long flame trails on the ground, so dazzling in the darkness.
The death knight leaned down, holding a spear in his hand, staring at the burning flame of life in front of him.
At this moment, he could not help but begin to imagine how charming the owner of the flame was, struggling in pain after being strung on a spear by him.
The moment they were enveloped in blazing flames and charged within the casting range of the two of them, Brian and Caradna looked at each other and immediately followed the previously discussed plan to greet the charging Death Knight.
——"Fossils become mud!"
A magical light flashed, and the path of the death knight's charge suddenly rippled with water-like lines, and the hard rock surface also instantly rippled. Melted into bubbling slush.
"Damn the living! I will let you taste eternity..."
Before the death knight could finish his hoarse and cold words, he exclaimed and fell into the quagmire that suddenly emerged, including people and horses. , and continues to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
——"Turn mud into stone!"
With a wave of Brian's staff, the mud around the Death Knight and Nightmare rolling in the mire suddenly solidified at a rapid speed and turned into Hard rock.
Seeing the trapped death knight, Brian showed a smile.
As he imagined, the death knight was most likely hit on the head by an orc's hammer, or was thrown headfirst to the ground when the priest of Shar Church took the body away.
Otherwise, he would not have fallen into his own trap so easily.
Then, he looked at Caradna beside him.
Obviously, for a death knight whose strength has reached the legendary realm, such a small trick cannot trap him for long at all.
At the same time, when the quagmire turned into solid stone, Caradna's carefully prepared spell was completed.
A dark purple ball with a diameter of nearly one meter, emitting terrifying energy that slightly distorted the surrounding space, was held in the hand of the sorceress, and under the control of her mind, it whizzed towards the death knight.
In a world where fire element spells such as the Shadow Plane are severely restricted, Karadna's chaos spells have become the main firepower output.
——"Mordenkainen Disintegration!"
Bryan pointed his staff, and before the chaos ball hit the death knight, the energy full of destructive aura suddenly struggled to escape. shrouded in death knights.
His body suddenly paused, and then the already dilapidated purple dragon armor, knight's spear and shield all showed dense, spiderweb-like cracks, crackling and rapidly melting. Make countless fragments and disappear into the air.
"Boom!"
Along with a loud noise, the chaos sphere exploded.
The terrible energy that broke out seemed to open a space gap in the dim shadow plane, pouring out surging chaotic energy, mercilessly washing away the painful and wailing death knights and the screaming and hissing nightmares.
The death knight, who was suffering from pain, relied on his strong will, his whole body was shaken, he tightened the reins, clamped the horse's belly, and leaped out with the horse and man.
“Boom!”
The violent explosion echoed in the valley, and rocks flew everywhere like rain.
The raging chaotic energy has not yet dissipated. The death knight, who was baptized by ruthless spells, finally endured the pain of his soul being extinguished at any time, controlled the nightmare lingering in the fire of purgatory, broke through the shackles of the stubborn stone, and appeared. On the valley floor.
Although the Death Knight successfully broke free, he was in an extremely embarrassed state due to the attacks of Disintegration and Chaos Sphere.
Through the dark energy lingering around the Death Knight's body, it can be clearly seen that his originally burly and majestic body has long turned into a emaciated skeleton, and the soul fire swaying in the eye sockets is like a candle. It will go out at any time.
The nightmare mount under him was even worse. In the last act of forcibly breaking out of the restraints, it had exhausted its last bit of strength. The purgatory fire lingering around it had long been extinguished, revealing its sluggish body. Amidst his rapid breathing, only a faint trace of white smoke came out of his nose.
Brian had long expected this situation, so the moment the death knight broke through the restraints, a glass bottle the size of his head appeared in his hand, filled with holy water that was like gelatin.
This is the highest level of holy water, and only the legendary priests of the temple can create it through divine magic.
Brian is well aware of the characteristics of the shadow plane, so he naturally prepared these very effective props for dealing with undead creatures in advance.
As the glass bottle suddenly shattered in the air, the gelatinous holy water was like a waterfall falling from the sky, washing over the body of the death knight who was howling in fear, and thick billowing white smoke rose.
Immediately afterwards, the holy water turned into a silver-white fire full of sacred aura, roaring and spreading in an instant. The death knight just opened his mouth, and before he could pour out his anger and curse against Brian, a surging in The holy flame was like a majestic torrent, pouring into his mouth, blocking the death knight's final vent.
Silver-white flames soared into the sky, and even the thick clouds in the shadow plane were illuminated clearly by this light.
Brian was not in the mood to watch the heart-warming scene. The moment he got the experience prompt, he and Caradna quickly walked towards the tower. The dark tower was surrounded by tentacle-like dark energy. On both sides of the tower, there were two pillars leaping out of cold white flames, and the flames dispersed desolately around them.
Through the light emitted by the pale flames, Brian just noticed that the ghost tower was actually supported by strange, insect-like arthropod-like load-bearing walls. On a platform with thick bones.
"Brian, do we really want to go in?" Karadna had already put the hood of the battle mage's cloak on her head at some point. Even so, it was still difficult to hide the shadow in the shadow of the hood. Pale face.
"Why do we have to enter this tower?" The sorceress raised her head and looked forward. Within her sight, there was a straight upward road leading to a mushroom-shaped fortress standing on the cliff.
"Actually, I don't want to go in either."
Brian shrugged helplessly and patiently explained to her, "But this is related to a ceremony, and I must Only by destroying it can we face the black dragon who is hiding in the fortress and is responsible for presiding over the entire dark ceremony."
"Otherwise, what we need to face next will be a person with the strength to reach a high level of legend. Ancient Black Dragon." He added the last thing.
Only by destroying the ritual in the tower, the black dragon Despier would distract himself from guiding the dark ritual in order to prevent all previous efforts from being wasted. The consequence of this was that he would not be able to deal with the two of them with all his strength.
This is also his only chance to kill the black dragon. Even if all his plans are successful, in Brian's opinion, the success rate of killing the black dragon and destroying the dark ritual is only 50-50.
Of course, it wouldn’t be such a troublesome thing if he was traveling with the little prince Brenas of the Ghost City.
After listening to his explanation, Caradna followed Brian and cautiously entered the tower.
This tower surrounded by shadows was so dark that no light spell could work.
Fortunately, the dark vision they had blessed in advance was not greatly affected by this. The brightness now presented in front of the two of them was like the dim light environment under the full moon, and it did not affect the two of them at all.
The interior of the tower is different from the imagined space. It looks more like it is generated by folding space.
The two of them seemed to be in a long and deep cold cave, with all the surrounding walls made of rugged rocks.
"When paying attention to the front, I prefer you to look at the top of your head." In the darkness, Brian walked side by side with the sorceress and subconsciously reminded him.
Hearing this, Karadna looked up instinctively.
On the top of the two people's heads, you can see countless insect eggs the size of heads hanging there. Without exception, they split open, revealing the dark interior.
Judging from their shriveled, no longer plump appearance, there seems to be nothing inside.
"This...what is this?"
Even Caradna, who has experienced countless adventures, after seeing this densely packed insect egg home that can't even see the edge at a glance, He was also frightened and gasped, and his expression became ugly.
"These eggs have hatched for a long time." Brian shook her cold little hand and said to the sorceress in a comforting tone.
Hearing this, Caradna secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense body slowly relaxed.
However, Brian's second words immediately made her experience the tragedy of the roller coaster reaching the top again.
"It just hatched recently, about two or three days ago."
Brian looked at the shell of the egg, nodded thoughtfully, and said: " It was the energy provided by these hatched insect eggs that allowed the black dragon Despier to tear a crack in the magic network."
There is another thing he did not say, that is, the energy of each insect egg. Provided by mortal flesh and soul.
"Don't worry, the monsters hatched from these insect eggs have long been sacrificed, and we won't encounter them." Brian said with a smile to the sorceress beside him, whose expression was changing.
However, as soon as Brian finished saying this, he was slapped in the face by the next scene.
The monster's attack was far faster and more violent than he thought.
When the two of them walked deep into the tower cave, what they saw was something they had never imagined - an insect the size of a hand, with a naked flesh-colored body, and a human head. , with a twisted and ferocious face, flapping its bat-like wings, screaming and rushing towards them.
Brian stood in front of Caradna, the sword in his hand flashed with cold light, and these terrible monsters fell to the ground one after another and died.
Their ugly bodies fell to the ground like putrid grease, and then quickly turned into a puddle of meaningless, smelly black water.
"That's it."
Brian held the worm that was slowly rotting, melting, and shaking in his hand. It had six claws and looked like a human hand that had its skin peeled off, leaving only the muscles and The blood vessels, in the center of the 'palm', have a slender crack that opens and closes, with countless earthworm-like tentacles moving around inside.
“If this kind of bug encounters a living human being, it will rush up and hug their face regardless of its own safety, and then stuff these things into its nose and mouth to suck out the brains, so that they will eat it when they are empty. Laying eggs in the brain looks a bit like the method of an abyssal parasitic beast."
After Brian finished speaking, he threw the body that was about to melt in his hands to the ground.
After listening to Brian's cordial and detailed introduction, the sorceress beside her turned pale and subconsciously wanted to keep a distance from him.
Soon, the two of them finally reached the end along the cave inside the tower.
What appeared in their sight was a black pit that exuded a rancid smell, with thick black water intertwining and rolling like snakes.
A dozen or so figures holding swords and staffs formed a circle at the altar next to the pit below, praying devoutly.
The altar was covered with thick red, like dried blood. Silver symbols and magic words formed a circle with a diameter of 2 meters on the altar, gradually rising into the dark void.
"For the glory of the Lost Lady..."
The hoarse voice was only slightly higher than a whisper, but it was still very obvious in this silent night.
The work of the priestesses seemed to be completed successfully, and blood clots burst out from the altar.
In this rain of blood, black tentacles burst out like an explosion.
These black tentacles rose higher and higher, grew bigger and bigger, and grew into the shape of towering giant trees.
At this time, Brian, who was hiding in the dark, saw another creature made of pure shadow emerging in the center of the altar.
It's a huge, fat, bloated body.
It looks like a human being, or it once belonged to a human being, but now there is only a disgusting corpse left here.
The underside of its skin swelled up like a balloon filled with water. Its huge head was stuck between its shoulders, and its neck could not be seen at all.
The fat on the face is so squeezed that even the eyes can't be found - not to mention that the fat is still moving from time to time.
“It is indeed an abyss parasitic beast!”
Brian's performance was as calm as ever, and there was almost no emotion in his calm voice.
(End of this chapter)