When Keli grasped the handle of the ancient dagger and pulled it out with force, the ruins hall suddenly became quiet.
The two groups, who were cursing and fighting fiercely, stopped in unison and stood motionless, as if they were petrified.
They felt that something extremely terrifying was approaching, or was awakening, and everyone could hear bursts of thunderous heartbeats and dull roars in their ears.
Getting closer, getting more urgent, and getting clearer.
Gradually, the heartbeat and roar gradually turned into some kind of inarticulate murmur, penetrating their eardrums and reaching their minds.
Although I couldn't understand what was being murmured in the babble, the deep and distant tone was not harsh, nor did it cause anyone discomfort. On the contrary, the mood gradually calmed down.
The same illusion appeared before their eyes - in a prosperous and lively ancient city, everyone was kneeling on the ground, worshiping a majestic figure in the sky.
No one dared to raise their head and look directly at that great being. They only dared to tremble under the shadow of his wings that covered the sky and the sun. They could only daydream about the extraordinary honor from the shadow cast by him on the ground.
The people in the ruins were affected by this illusion and couldn't help but kneel down. They happened to gather around the floating altar again. For a moment, they couldn't tell whether they were worshiping the person in the illusion.
Great existence?
Still worshiping Keli who stood in the middle of the altar, holding an ancient dagger.
Keli didn't see the illusion in front of her. She just carefully looked at the dagger in her hand. Through the dim light around her, she could vaguely see a streak of light passing through the surface of the dagger in the gaps between the rust marks.
She stared at the dagger for a while, then quickly came back to her senses. Then she noticed that the surroundings had actually quieted down. For some reason, the people below suddenly stopped fighting and knelt on the ground to worship?
The situation was a bit strange, but Keli didn't dare to think too much and quickly put the dagger into the space storage bag on her waist.
The moment the dagger disappeared into the storage bag, the illusion in front of everyone disappeared, the murmurs filling the ears became sharp and hoarse, and a severe headache that seemed to be broken into pieces also struck.
The man who was kneeling on the ground fell down. Black blood gushed out from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose at the same time. He let out bursts of painful roars and struggled on the ground.
"Uh...ah!!! This is...spiritual pollution!"
With a painful expression on his face, a legendary strong man from the empire bit off one of his index fingers, and a large stream of blood spurted out from the wound.
As soon as this blood was released into the air, it burned fiercely and turned into wisps of blood-colored mist, then flew towards the other four legendary companions and Professor Kant, shrouding them.
The five people shrouded in blood mist regained some consciousness. Even though they still had splitting headaches, they were finally able to take action.
Unfortunately, he himself seemed to be experiencing some kind of terrible torture, his face was as pale as death, and he was twitching on the ground in pain.
This strong man actually ignited his spiritual power at the critical moment and protected his teammates.
"Run! Don't let Mr. Andro's sacrifice be in vain!"
Professor Kant shouted.
The two eighth-level men immediately picked up Professor Kant and the self-sacrificing Andro, and ran away regardless.
Di Keli also flashed, returned to the ground from the floating altar, and followed quickly with her short legs.
With the help of the deformed armor, their running speed was much faster than ordinary people. They left the hall in the blink of an eye and reached the upward passage. However, the passage was quite narrow, which suddenly restricted everyone's speed.
Professor Kant couldn't help but look back. The hall that had been filled with various lighting equipment by the empire and barbarians suddenly became dark, but it was not normal darkness. It was more like it was swallowed by some indescribable deep darkness.
generally.
Magic lamp tubes for lighting were originally hung on the left and right walls at regular intervals in the passage.
These lamps were going out one by one, and the darkness was chasing them from behind, getting closer and closer to them.
"Hurry up! Hurry up!"
Professor Kant shouted loudly.
"Let me clear the way!"
A burly eighth-level strongman rushed to the front, with large swaths of electric light flashing from his body. His whole body was like a drill, and he spiraled forward, bringing with it a burst of flying sand and rocks, which covered the original bumpy ground.
The hole was drilled quite a bit wider.
With his help, everyone's speed suddenly became much faster, and they finally rushed out of the underground ruins before the darkness behind them.
At this time, it happened to be a starry night outside, and even the faint starlight gave them the illusion of seeing the heaven and earth again.
An eighth-level strong man turned around, took out a few cards like playing cards from his hand armor, twisted them between his fingers, and flew out towards the hole.
Several cards were inserted into the walls around the entrance of the cave, and exploded with a 'bang', causing the surrounding rock walls to collapse, temporarily blocking the entrance to the cave.
"It's useless. We must run separately and contact the Empire and Scholars Association as much as possible to ask them to awaken all demigods as soon as possible! Prepare all rule-level sacred objects!"
Professor Kant lay on someone's back and ordered.
"What exactly is that?"
The strong man who opened the way before couldn't help but ask.
Professor Kant said nothing and only answered him with a look full of fear.
The man stopped talking, silently picked up his companion who was still twitching in pain, and ran towards the barbarian camp.
Keli was also separated from the crowd, her little face under the mask was tight, and a wisp of bangs on her forehead was suppressed by the helmet, and a small bunch of dull hair stubbornly stuck out from the gap.
Then, she ran wildly towards the mountain castle.
But the distance between the ruins and the mountain fortress is too far. It takes a whole day for the carriage to walk. But even with the help of the transforming armor, it is basically impossible for Li to run across.
She is too short and her legs are too short...
But luckily, after running out of the ruins valley, she passed by a small village and found a little donkey at the entrance of the village with a little milk cat lying on its head.
The two little animals were looking in the direction of the ruins valley together, with worried faces on their faces.
"Xiao Mi! Little donkey!"
Keli immediately became happy and ran over quickly.
"Meow meow meow!"
The little milk cat rushed over excitedly, and the little donkey also quickly came closer.
Time was running out, and Keli had no time to pet the cat. She quickly took off her armor, turned over and mounted the donkey, and patted its round butt.
"Quick, it's very dangerous here. A big and powerful monster is coming out. Let's go find dad!"
The little donkey was stunned for a moment, then stretched its neck and brayed a few times.
All kinds of animals in the village that were originally peaceful suddenly became excited. Suddenly, chickens and dogs were jumping around, and they ran out like crazy. Even the old sows and the little suckling pigs were knocked out of the pig pen and started running like crazy.
The old, weak, sick and disabled people left behind in the village were shocked. They got up quickly and set out together to chase various livestock. The whole village was deserted in the blink of an eye.
Then, the little donkey closed its eyes again, kept groping on the ground with its hooves, and swung its tail back and forth quickly, as if it was brewing something.
But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement.
The little cat didn't remember, so it jumped on top of its head, scratched it with its little paws, and urged its bestie.
The little donkey looked helpless and innocent, his ears drooped, and he shook his head.
Keli seemed to understand something strangely, and hurriedly rummaged through the bear's bag.
Finally, I found a sweet fruit produced in the village...
This was given to her by a kind-hearted neighbor when she left the village last time. She gave a lot of it at that time, but she didn't even have time to finish it. Fortunately, the storage bag has a preservation function, and the sweetheart fruit still looks like the one it just picked.
Keli quickly fed the sweetheart fruit into the little donkey's mouth.
The little donkey ate the fruit in several bites, and then began to shake its head again.
This time, something finally changed.
The muscles on both sides of its belly squirmed, and a pair of fluffy, snow-white bird wings grew out of thin air.
The little donkey flapped its wings twice, and its body gradually took off and floated, looking like it had turned into a flying messenger.
Keli's tight little face finally showed a smile, and she cheered quickly:
"Fly! Donkey! Fly!"
The little donkey flapped its wings, adjusted its direction, flapped its wings slowly, and flew leisurely towards the mountain castle.
The speed is too slow!
Keli was so anxious that she lowered her head and took out a sweet fruit from her bag, tied it to her sword with a hair ribbon, and hung the sweet fruit in front of the little donkey.
In this way, the speed finally improved a little.
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And in that hall that had been completely swallowed up by darkness, a little light suddenly appeared.
Red, bloody light.
That little bit of light was divided into multiple directions and rushed rapidly along the lines carved on the ground. Like a colorful red paintbrush that was only copying the pattern, it quickly outlined the scarlet pattern carved on the ground.
On the huge double wings of the pattern, several lines were tangled and fused together, turning into a pair of round blood pools that glowed slightly with red light, boiling slightly.
Looking down, it was like a pair of blood-red eyes appeared in the darkness.
Before they had time to leave, the people lying on the ground rolling and screaming suddenly became quiet. They got up from the ground, chanting inaudible words in a low voice, lined up in two neat lines, and walked to the two sides.
Beside the Wangxue Pond.
Their faces, illuminated by the faint red light of the blood pool, looked ferocious and twisted, with some kind of indescribable madness.
Then, one by one, they walked into the blood pool without hesitation and disappeared.
The blood pool turned from slightly bubbling to violent boiling, as if something was about to gush out from it...