Everyone knows that the New Horadrim Church, like the Old Horadrim Church, is an organization formed by powerful mages summoned by the Archangel Tyrell. Because of Tyrell's existence, this organization is under the protection of Sanctuary.
The significance of the earth is extraordinary. It represents justice and is also the hope of mankind in a sheltered place.
The humans in Sanctuary are a very hard-working group. On this land, they have experienced too many wars, including wars between angels and demons, wars between humans and demons, and wars between humans and humans.
The traumatized earth is approaching the limit of what it can endure, and so are humans.
But in order to survive, they still can only grit their teeth and fight. After the long-term war, the humans in this world also have some special qualifications, that is, they can respond extremely quickly when facing crises.
So when the New Horadrim Church sent messengers, the kingdoms of Sanctuary immediately took action. Large cities in the human world such as Westmarch, Lugoin, and Khanduras had already strengthened their forces immediately.
The city's defense forces and the beacon towers on the border are also on standby.
They gathered civilians, hoarded war supplies, recruited mercenaries to assist in city defense, and at the same time sent small groups of adventurers deep into the demon-infested wasteland in order to monitor the demon's movements.
Under this intensive plan, intelligence from all over the place was gathered, and the results soon appeared.
A team of adventurers composed of experienced Nephalems discovered a strange phenomenon when they explored the edge of the Land of Fear. The monsters and demons that were originally active in this land were unknown.
Why has the number decreased so much? Even in the process of going deep into the depths of the Land of Fear, we can occasionally find some fleeing demons. These demons fled from the hinterland of the Land of Fear in panic and fled towards the edge.
They seem to be avoiding something terrible...
This phenomenon attracted the attention of the adventurer team, and after discussing it, they decided to investigate.
The former name of the Land of Fear was called the Northern Grassland. It was the former barbarian highland. Because it was close to the Arreat Mountains, when the World Stone was destroyed, it was inevitably affected by a large amount of contaminated volcanic dust.
, as the wind drifted here, making this land unsuitable for survival, the barbarians who once protected this land also left, making this land increasingly barren. The name of the Land of Fear comes from
this.
Under this situation, the Land of Fear has also become a paradise for demons and monsters. The adventurer team carefully moves forward on this land, trying their best to avoid the monsters encountered along the way, but occasionally they will encounter
When the situation becomes unavoidable, the only option is to bravely break through.
Walking hard all the way, they went straight into the northern end of the Land of Fear. After arriving here, they suddenly found an empty and dead land.
There are no animals, no wild beasts, and no plants. Even the liquid flowing in the river is poisonous. Even demons and monsters can no longer be seen. Only a black tower stands on the empty plain, emitting
Smells of death.
"Could it be here? Is this the hiding place of the demon king Osiris who came?"
The members of the adventurer team thought so and looked at each other, wondering whether they should go and investigate.
The Nephalem in this team of adventurers include mages, crusaders, barbarians and demon hunters, and even a witch doctor, but there is no necromancer, so facing this city that exudes death,
They also feel a bit headache about the black tower of aura. After all, their numbers are limited. If they accidentally disturb the possible undead army, they may pay a heavy price here.
Finally, after some detection, the mage in the team said: "The space here has not been disturbed. The portal can be opened here. Let's go. If the situation is really not right, we can also use the portal to escape."
It was this sentence that strengthened everyone's determination and made them continue to explore the tower.
However, just three days later, a portal that suddenly appeared in the Barrier Fortress opened, and the remnants of this adventurer team appeared. In the end, only three people of the original eight-person adventurer team escaped, and they were Kai.
The other five people from the portal, the wizard, the witch doctor, and the crusaders, were all killed in the black tower.
Even the three people who escaped were still seriously injured and dying. The defenders in the barrier fortress quickly treated them and finally saved their lives.
After waking up, the three surviving people reported what they saw and heard to the defenders of the barrier fortress. The black tower was not the hiding place of the demon king Osiris, but the... strange demon's hiding place.
Habitat!
The appearance of that demon was different from the demons that had appeared in Sanctuary before. It was a huge black octopus with no wings or claws, but it had densely packed and countless soft tentacles, scarlet
Devil's eyes are spread all over its head, and a strong aura of death and various elemental powers permeate its body.
This is a very terrifying and powerful demon. It not only devours humans, but also demons and monsters. Those demon groups who fled the fearful place fled precisely because they were threatened by the death of this demon.
This huge octopus demon is entrenched inside the black tower, and the tentacles extending from its body are also filled in the tower. During the process of exploring the tower, the adventurer team spent most of the time fighting these tentacles.
In combat, the powerful regeneration ability allowed these tentacles to kill endlessly. Before the adventurer team found the octopus demon's head, they had already consumed a large amount of potion supplies, so that in the final battle with the octopus demon
Defeated, the four barbarians and demon hunters in the team were the first to be devoured. There was also a Crusader soldier who took the initiative to stay during the evacuation to buy time for the rest. In the end, five people died there.
In a tall tower.
"That's at least a lord-level demon!"
The last remaining Crusader warrior recalled that the heavy armor he was wearing saved his life, but one of his left arms was torn off by the tentacles of the octopus demon. He stroked the broken wound,
He said with lingering fear: "But this is not the point. Although the lord-level demon is powerful, it is not unsolvable. The point is: we realized at that time that this powerful demon lord was entrenched here and might be guarding something! So!
That's why we went all the way to the top of the tower to find out... there, we saw what the devil was guarding!"
"Kanai's Box! It's a Kanai's Box!" the Crusader soldier said loudly in an exclamatory tone. Looking at his expression, even he himself didn't believe what he saw.
"Impossible!" His words indeed caused everyone to exclaim. A Nephalem dressed as a hooded mage said in surprise: "Isn't Kanai's Box placed in the core hall of the church?
!? How could it appear there!?”
"I also know that Kanai's Box is an artifact created by the sages of the Horadrim Church. After it was recovered by the heroes, it has been placed by the church. There are many solid guards outside. Of course, demons cannot
Steal it!" The Crusader soldier said: "But...but what we see inside that tower is really like Kanai's Magic Box!"
Everyone knew that this Crusader soldier who devoutly believed in the Holy Light could not possibly panic, but they still checked with the other two survivors and learned that they had also seen something that was suspected of being Kanai's Magic Box.
After that, everyone couldn't help but look solemn.
Kanai's Box is not a secret. At least many Nephalem people in Sanctuary know about it. This alchemical item was created by the sages of the Horadrim Church and the most powerful mages. It is considered a Nephalem.
A legend that everyone has heard.
However, although Kanai's Box has powerful power, this power is also very dangerous, so many years ago, the old Horadrim Church did not use it directly, but made a copy of it for use. This
The replica was the Horadric Cube, and the original Kanai's Cube was given to the care of the barbarians on Mount Arreat.
The unsealing of Kanai's Box happened not long ago after the World Stone collapsed. The Nephalem, who gradually regained their strength, recovered Kanai's Box and placed it in the newly established Horadrim.
Used in the church, during the battle against Diablo, the power of Kanai's Box provided the Nephalem with many powerful magical equipment, which was the key to the Nephalem's victory over Diablo.
This powerful and dangerous alchemical artifact is closely guarded by the New Horadrim, who not only use it to enhance the power of the resisters, but also prevent its power from being abused, so when I heard that Kanai's Box appeared in Fear
When the black tower in the land was guarded by a powerful demon, everyone was shocked.
The news was urgently sent back to the New Horadrim Church. The people in the church quickly contacted Tyrell to confirm and check the situation of Kanai's Box. When they saw that Kanai's Box was still placed deep in the core hall,
, and then I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
After relaxing, everyone in the church, including Tyrell, couldn't help but become curious about the black tower in the Land of Fear, because they had never heard of another copy of Kanai's Box.
So, under this situation, a larger Nephalem team was formed, and their mission was to go to the Black Tower again, led by three survivors, and be sure to kill the octopus.
Demon, and brought back Kanai's Box (suspected).
The team set off quickly, but little did they know that all their actions were being watched by the eyes of demons hidden in the air...
