The air was filled with a pungent burnt smell, as well as a strange odor that seemed to have been caused by ionization of the air.
The forest in a large area was burned down. A certain existence carrying powerful heat once raged here. It destroyed hundreds of ancient trees with high temperature and left a scorch mark of thick smoke and heat. Ahead.
Everywhere you look, you can see tree trunks that have turned into charcoal and fallen to the ground, explosion craters of varying depths, and fire points that are still smoldering in every corner and have not been completely extinguished, and are covered with a thick layer of ash.
On this scorched earth, it looks like gray-black snowflakes.
At the edge of this scorching land, the black pine forest is crawling and healing. The giant trees and bushes that were broken by the shock wave make rustling sounds and grow back at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, their healing is obviously hindered:
Only the vegetation on the edge of the scorched earth can grow smoothly. In places completely burned by the flames, there is no sign of plant recovery at all.
The powerful life cycle of the black pine forest was actually blocked by the power from the Gorgon Abyss. It took the imperial people hundreds of years to "dig" a Greenway on the edge of the black pine forest, but a lord-level Gorgon demon easily found it.
The ground permanently burned an area deep in the lodgepole pine forest.
This surprised even Keim, the Broken Sword Knight who knew the Gorgon Demon quite well.
Seeing the scorching land in front of him that was still smoking and showing almost no signs of healing, the dark-skinned warrior showed an expression of disbelief: "I have been away from here for a long time... none of these burned black pines are there."
Rebirth?"
"Is this abnormal?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. He thought it was caused by the power of the Gorgon Demon and was a normal phenomenon in this world, but he didn't expect that even Cam would be so surprised.
"It's not quite right," Kaim nodded. "Although there has never been a Gorgon demon wreaking havoc in the black pine forest, scholars have been studying the two. Theoretically, Gorgon's flames cannot burn.
The life cycle of the black pine forest is absolutely complete, but the woodland in this area shows no signs of recovery... something is indeed wrong."
Lily, who usually has her head full of novels, opened her mouth and said, "Maybe that 'demon lord' also has the protagonist's template and has an ability similar to 'field'."
"What is a field?" Cam was confused, "Is it some kind of magic?"
"Don't worry about her. The temperature here is high and her mental state will be affected to some extent." Hao Ren casually pulled Lily aside and observed the large scorched woodland in front of him, looking for anything related to the "devil"
"Speaking of which, we have dealt with demons a lot, but we really don't know much about Gorgons. Do they have a strong sense of territory?"
What he said is not nonsense at all. He and his friends deal with demons quite frequently. Their dealings include but are not limited to fighting landlords, playing mahjong, making hot pot, eating barbecue, and asking the demons to change the gas tank every now and then.
, if one wanted to test the level of demonology, Hao Ren dared to say that he was at least a master level.
"Territorial awareness? Not only is it strong, Gorgon demons can be said to be crazy in this regard. As long as they take root in one place, unless you break them into pieces, you can never get back the occupied land, or even
Even getting close to that land is a delusion."
As Kaim spoke, he took off his weapon from his waist, which was the strange-looking black metal short stick. The personal armor on his body glowed with a halo that was so weak that it was almost imperceptible, a dim stream of light.
Wandering between the gaps in the armor, the short stick made a soft buzzing sound, and then two red beams of light one meter long suddenly extended from both ends.
Hao Ren was searching for traces of the enemy. When he saw the Broken Sword Knight next to him suddenly transforming into a double-edged lightsaber, he was shocked and subconsciously said: "Wait a minute, you Broken Sword Knights, are you still there before the battle?"
I have to say that the Force is with so and so?"
Kaim was tensing up and alerting his surroundings, but was confused when Hao Ren interrupted him: "What is the Force? The only things that are with us are the knight's oath and the honor of Her Royal Highness..."
"Oh, it's okay, your weapon is too easy for others to interfere with," Hao Ren quickly smiled to cover up his embarrassment, "Speaking of which, you Broken Sword Knights shouldn't usually team up with outsiders, right?"
Kaim frowned, wondering why Hao Ren cared about this: "The Knights of the Broken Sword usually operate in small groups, and they rarely combine with people other than us. Is there any problem with this?"
Hao Ren watched Cam put the double-edged lightsaber behind him, bowed and made a warning gesture, and nodded slightly: "No wonder, the thing you are using is not very safe. People standing behind you can easily
You were stabbed to death when you sheathed your swords..."
Kaim felt that if he continued to communicate with this incomprehensible guy, he would go crazy: What is the World Tree Temple for? Are the people who come out of it mentally abnormal?
And just as these thoughts that had nothing to do with fighting were swirling in his mind, a sudden alert suddenly grabbed his nerves.
The combat intuition cultivated in countless battles quickly led the veteran warrior to make the most correct choice: he shouted a warning, and at the same time his body exploded as fast as possible, jumping to the side at the critical moment, and at the same time
Wave your lightsaber to block!
Two dark red rays of light shot out from a distance almost at the same time he took action. One ray of light hit the place where he originally stood, melting a creaking hole in the ground, while the other ray of light
After being blocked by the lightsaber, he changed direction and hit a black pine in the distance, breaking the giant tree in half.
Hao Ren had already noticed the enemy before Kaim issued the warning. His shield system was instantly activated, he raised the psionic pistol that he had already taken out from his pocket, and fired three shots in the direction of the scorched earth in the distance.
Three blue beams hit something in the air. Large pieces of blue crystals suddenly condensed in the seemingly empty air, and then a strange-looking thing suspended in the air appeared.
The body shape turned into crystal dust and shattered into pieces.
"Optics, magnetic field, and thermal energy are mixed and invisible," the data terminal completed the analysis of the target in an instant, "but gravitational and information wave detection have effectively detected the appearance of more targets, and they are being marked!"
In Hao Ren's field of vision, more than a dozen blurry red images suddenly appeared in all directions, and they were moving towards this direction quickly.
These should be the "split organisms" that Keim mentioned before, things that are split from the Gorgon Demon and are between weapons and living things.
They actually have such impressive invisibility capabilities? Why didn’t Kem mention such important information?
Just as this question popped up in Hao Ren's mind, Kaim was already shouting: "Oops! Something is wrong. This is not the enemy we encountered before. There are other Gorgon lords in the Black Pine Forest!"
"Let me go, this is no longer a problem of intelligence deviation, okay!" Lily jumped up and shouted, and in the middle of the call, she suddenly felt a crisis coming from the side, so she did it without thinking.
She flew up and kicked to the side, only to hear a loud bang, and a vague shadow was kicked out of the invisible state by her, flying past Hao Ren's eyes with a series of sparks and squeaks.
Although she maintains her human form and hasn't even changed her ears or tail, Lily's brute strength is still no joke.
"Attention, there are not only long-range models," Vivian reminded immediately. At the same time, with her as the center, "rings of static electricity" flashing with faint electric light spread in all directions, and as the rings of static electricity spread, those
The vague outlines of the figures hidden in the air appeared one after another.
Fine electric sparks covered their bodies, interfering with the invisibility function of these "split organisms".
Everyone drew out their weapons, used their best magic, and began to fight against these split organisms that appeared in their physical form, but Hao Ren's eyes were attracted by the split organism that Lily kicked away.
The splinter body landed not far in front of him. Unlike the first attacker who was disintegrated into crystal dust by the nether energy rays, it maintained a fairly intact structure although there were obvious signs of fragmentation and disconnection in its middle.
, but the basic form can still be seen. It looks like a curved lobster, shrouded in a ball of rapidly fading electric light. A complex carapace with obvious metallic features covers the monster's body.
Its upper body has several jointed limbs made of alloy, and a scorching light blade extends from the end of each jointed limb. However, in its lower body, there are no limbs for walking and support, and only a few faintly glowing circles can be seen.
device.
Hao Ren recalled the monster's posture at the moment it was kicked away by Lily, and realized that those circular devices that emitted light should be used for floating actions.
Floating at ultra-low altitude, concealed at high speed, and equipped with photon sharp blades. Hao Ren quickly summarized the characteristics of these "split organisms".
Looking at the split body's metal body wrapped in a cloud of electric energy, Vivian couldn't help but mutter to herself: "No matter how you look at it...it doesn't look like a living thing."
Split organisms have the characteristics of stealth and high speed, coupled with the attack method of combining photon blades and laser beams, which makes them extremely deadly killers for ordinary soldiers. But fortunately, no one present is an ordinary soldier, not even Charlie.
The weakest personal guard brought by Man also has the ability to fight against these Gorgon cannon fodder, which are not even miscellaneous soldiers.
Various magical halos criss-crossed the scorched forest, blocking the laser beams. The enchanted swords were swung into airtight walls to resist the raids of those swift melee units. Taking advantage of this gap, Weiwei
An, Hao Ren, and Lily cleared the splinter bodies at extremely fast speeds.
Leah did not intervene during the whole process. She felt that these "little things" were not a threat at all. Lily could kill all the enemies on the scene with her headbutt without even changing her shape, so she simply chose to watch and focus on the main body.
Practice the above one lesson at a time.
But at this moment, Hao Ren heard a low roar coming from high in the sky.
Kaim, who was cutting a split creature in half with a lightsaber, suddenly changed his face when he heard this voice: "It's Lord Gorgon! It's coming!"
Hao Ren immediately followed the sound and saw a huge shadow rising into the sky from the other end of the burned jungle before his eyes.
It was a huge thing like a manta ray, with a width of at least three hundred meters. It was wrapped in lightning and clouds. It had the same creature-like appearance and body structure as those split organisms, but its whole body
The top and bottom are made of metal, and between the constantly rotating metals, you can see the continuous flow of runes and energy flow.