Part 5 The Red Priests Chapter 168 The Remaining Will
The interior of the forest, which was supposed to be dark and decaying, was covered with the orange-red light from the dusk, which was so intense that it burned like a fire, but inevitably brought with it the feeling that the splendor was about to end and could not be reversed.
Derek Burger holding a pure light condensed into the “no darkness cross”, walking slowly in front, behind the left is holding two straight swords, hair white “demon hunter” Colin Iliad, behind the right is carrying the “thunder god roar” giant hammer Heinrich Haines. On the right, there was Heinem with the “Thor’s Roar” hammer, a two-meter “half-giant” who was ready to exchange his seal with Derek at any time.
The light emanating from the Cross of Darkness was getting dimmer and dimmer here, as if the sun had already set to the horizon, leaving only a golden glow.
Of course, the people of Silver City have never seen a similar scene, they can only rely on the descriptions of ancient literature to imagine, and similarly, today is the first time they have seen what twilight means.
Woo!
As the exploration squad went deeper, wind sounds began to ring out within the decaying forest that was so quiet that it was nearly frozen, like there were countless living beings crying in the depths.
However, Derek and the others did not feel any wind blowing against them at all.
Whoosh!
As the sound of the wind became more and more intense and mind-shaking, Derek suddenly felt a cold sensation coming from the back of his neck, which stimulated his sweaty hairs and chilled his body and mind.
Normally, at this time, the human instinct is to shrink his neck, raise his arms, block to the back, and half turn his body, observe the situation, let the attack build up momentum, but Derek did not do so, because in a dangerous environment, recklessly turning his head often meets with extremely horrible things, and moreover, behind him there are chiefs and teammates, he fully trusts that they can respond in time, and puts his life in their hands.
With a whoosh, the silver-white blade wreathed in tiny electric snakes flew past the side of Derek’s neck, evaporating into the glow of dusk with a blurred and twisted figure.
At the same time, the “Darknessless Cross” was stimulated by something, and suddenly shook off its dim state, letting the light emitted by it become bright and pure again.
The surrounding area immediately came to dawn, a black shadow that could not be described in form and shape appeared in the morning light, and then quickly dissolved.
When this calmed down, Derek gazed ahead while asking suspiciously:
”What are all these? It’s not like the Spiteful Spirit, the Phantom, or the Evil Spirit ……”
”Demon Hunters,” Colin spoke slowly as he looked around the room:
”Some sort of residual aura …… They seem to have combined with the power of the Dusk to produce a certain mutation.”
I’ve never seen this kind of monster …… Derek’s grip on the “No Dark Cross” tightened, and moved his other finger, which hadn’t been stabbed, to the thorns.
With the targeted ability of the “Darknessless Cross”, the exploration team moved forward quite smoothly, and it wasn’t long before they reached the depths of the decaying forest, where they could vaguely see the distant cliffs and the orange-red clouds through the trees.
The damage wasn’t too bad here, with branches and leaves tethered in mid-air, blocking out the solidified dusk and darkening the environment for a moment.
After carefully skirting the area, Derek’s eyes suddenly lit up with the sight of two standing, gray, mottled monoliths.
Before he had a chance to take a closer look, a dusk light shining in through the cracks of the branches and leaves simultaneously underwent a strange refraction, intertwined, and coalesced to form a gigantic figure nearly ten meters tall.
This figure was very vague, and contained an unchanging meaning, like a projection from a mythical age.
It had a grayish-blue complexion, wore silver-gray armor stained with patches of what looked like blood, and had a glow on its face that looked like the setting sun, which seemed to be the manifestation of an eye, and its mere presence alone caused the trees around it to bend, along with the void, causing everything to begin to decay uncontrollably.
Witnessing this scene, without any reason, a thought surfaced in the hearts of everyone present:
”The Giant King, the Ancient God Ormil!”
The skin of Joshua, Heim, Antilna, and the other members of the exploration squad successively rose in particles, a little bit of gray and blue coming through, and at the location of the brow, there was a writhing of flesh and blood, seemingly about to burrow out some kind of monster.
They simultaneously entered a state close to losing control.
They hadn’t even seen the mythical creature form yet, and just by getting close to the figure, the signs of loss of control appeared in no particular order, becoming more and more serious.
Derek Burger was relatively fine, because the pure light of the “Darknessless Cross” wrapped around him, bringing a warm feeling, allowing him to briefly resist the erosion of decay.
At this time, Colin Iliad was already bending his back, carrying two straight swords coated with ointment, and running towards that terrifying figure at a high speed that caused a hurricane.
However, this “Demon Hunter” didn’t charge along a straight line, his footwork was peculiar, driving his body to sway from side to side, approaching the enemy in the form of a wavy line.
The huge figure standing in the dusk looked at all this with sunset-like eyes, without the slightest fluctuation of emotion, like a carved stone statue.
Suddenly, the mass of light on its face flickered.
It whirled around and crouched its body, pounding both fists heavily on the ground.
Bang!
The earth shook violently and cracked open, making Derek and the others unable to control their balance anymore, staggering and about to fall.
But “Demon Hunter” Colin jumped up first, leapt to a dozen meters in the air, and in a condescending position, slashed out the double swords in his hands.
At that moment, the figure that seemed to be from a mythological legend pulled out an illusory giant sword made of dusk light from a crack in the earth, and violently swung it out in front of him.
A storm of orange-red light suddenly took shape, sweeping towards Derek and the others behind Colin the Demon Hunter.
Wherever this large area of light passed, the trees withered, the soil turned into sand, and everything irreversibly stepped into the decay channel.
Bang!
The storm brewing in the dusk was blocked by an invisible wall, causing the entire forest to shake.
At some point, the “shepherd” elder Lovia appeared on Derek’s side, and in front of her was a tall, illusory figure covered in silver armor.
The figure with dark red blood-like eyes knelt down on one knee and inserted an illusory sword into the ground, creating an unusually strong invisible wall.
When!
At this time, “Demon Hunter” Colin’s two straight swords also chopped at the nearly ten-meter-high huge figure with the ancient god’s aura on the surface of the body, stirring up countless electric lights that flaunted wantonly.
Between the silver and white chaos, that terrible figure did not suffer a little damage, only covered with blood patches of silver gray armor dimmed a little.
With the power of the rebound, Colin reared up, flipped in mid-air, and attacked again.
–Within the -Decay Domain, he didn’t dare to unleash the Mythical Creature Form, as it would most likely never be able to be reversed again.
Seeing that the shadow from the mythological legend had been blocked, Derek was busy following the sudden tremor and burning of the Darknessless Cross in his palm, and pressed his fingers hard against a spike.
His blood gushed into the cross along with the pain, and the vigorous and clear light then rushed out, flew into the air, folded down, and instantly enveloped the figure in silver armor, with eyes like a small sunset.
In the divine, solemn, pure light, that huge and illusory figure stagnated, fixed, no longer moving, as if it had encountered its natural nemesis, and the layer of silver-gray armor stained with the dusk light even showed signs of dissolving.
Seizing this opportunity, the evil knight in front of “Shepherd” Elder Lovia drew out a huge illusory sword that was inserted into the ground, and instantly chopped into the enemy with a silver slit that disappeared and appeared.
The two straight swords of “Demon Hunter” Colin covered the head of the ancient figure from top to bottom as if it were a sunrise bursting with light.
Joshua, Heinem and the others did not hesitate and launched their strongest attacks.
After three rounds in a row, the illusory figure that seemed to have traveled through time and space finally began to collapse, breaking up into orange-red points of light that looked like fire.
”Demon Hunter,” Colin said with deliberation as he dropped to the ground and watched the scene:
”It should be the residual guardian will of the Giant King and the environment here fused over the years, taking on a certain power and form, a type of evil spirit.
”What secrets are hidden here ……”
Hearing the Chief’s words, everyone cast their gazes forward, towards the place where that terrifying shadow had just blocked them, and the atmosphere was rather subdued for a moment.
Luckily, it is only an evil spirit, restrained by the “Darknessless Cross”…… just a little bit of will left, almost no power, after thousands of years, it is still so terrifying, what will the real ancient gods look like… …Uh, why does K have such a strong will to guard this place, since it’s K’s parents that are buried? Derek breathed a sigh of relief while following the Chief and the others as they approached the two tombstones with doubt and curiosity.
Phew …… don’t need me to do it …… I have to say, this “no dark cross” in the “Giant’s Court” is really good, so good that I use it. I have to say that this “No Dark Cross” is really good in the “Court of the Giants”, so good that I wonder if this is Adam s purpose …… Above the gray fog, Klein also breathed a sigh of relief, and lowered the raised “Neptune scepter” a little bit.
He then turned his gaze to the place where the Giant King’s will had been guarded for thousands of years.
The first thing that caught his eye were two old, mottled tombstones with the words “Father” and “Mother” written on them in the Giant language.
They contained a mystery that could mobilize the power of nature, and when one saw them, one could intuitively experience a combination of longing, sadness, pain, and guilt, which would unknowingly infect one’s spirit and make him depressed.
Behind the stone monument was a tomb, but it had been destroyed, revealing two black coffins below.
The lids of the coffins had been lifted by someone unknown, as if to confirm something, which bathed the two grayish-white bones lying inside in the light that pierced through the branches and leaves, tinting them orange and red like blood.
These two white bones were both in human form, one no more than one meter nine and one no more than one meter eight.