The speed of this shadow energy ball is not particularly fast, and its stability is also very poor. It only flew half way and its size was reduced by one-third.
By the time it reaches its destination, it may not even reach one-third. It faces the same problem. The cohesion of the spell energy is too poor and it automatically overflows.
The problem is, this thing is big enough.
Even if there is only a shadow energy ball one or two meters square, once it explodes, its power cannot be underestimated.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way quickly!"
"You can't resist forcefully, you can't resist forcefully!"
"Purifying light, use the purifying light of the military emblem!"
Both Sean and Marshal Dixon felt that their scalps were about to explode.
Facing such an unconventional enemy, they had been very alert and calculated every aspect as much as possible, but the unexpected situation before them was still inevitable.
Just like the East China Sea Kingdom had never imagined that they actually had a new weapon like artillery in their hands that could subvert the war situation.
The use of this inhuman power by the undead in the Empire of the Undead was also beyond their imagination before they saw it.
Fortunately, the opponent's unconventional tricks are very restrictive to use and have a long CD reading time, leaving a certain amount of reaction time for the Guards.
The soldiers of the Guards Corps were reminded as if they were waking up from a dream. They showed the Holy Light military emblem in their hands and threw the purifying light upwards.
Some soldiers even took out the Holy Light grenades and performed extreme maneuvers. They waited until the grenades were delayed to the last few seconds before throwing them at the shadow energy ball.
Both of these methods have a certain weakening effect.
The shadow energy ball itself is unstable and dissipates faster after being impacted and neutralized.
However, no matter how slow the shadow energy ball is, it is not as slow as a snail. The interception attack of the holy light grenade will miss in nine out of ten cases.
Moreover, Holy Light grenades are very lethal to friendly forces and should not be thrown casually.
"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw..." the commander of the mortar position shouted an order with his heart in his throat.
After receiving the warning, many gunners, without thinking, picked up the mortar with the barrel as hot as a soldering iron, turned around and ran away.
They didn't even listen to the cries of captains and commanders to "save lives first, fire guns later".
Their duty is to protect these mortars, and they are abiding by their oath of having men and guns present.
When the shadow energy ball hit the ground, only fifty or sixty centimeters were left.
The explosion that everyone expected did not occur.
It was more like a mouthful of thick phlegm, and fell to the ground with a pop. The shadow energy stuck to the ground softly, and soon disappeared and submerged into the earth.
"What's going on? Why didn't it explode?"
"Is the other party just bluffing? This thing is not as powerful as imagined?"
"Retreat, then retreat, be careful underground, there is a problem underground! Everyone get out of the way, use the Holy Light grenade, use the Holy Light grenade, blow it up!"
The soldiers of the Guards Corps who witnessed this scene looked at each other and were confused for a moment.
This silence only lasted for two or three seconds. When the shadow energy was completely submerged into the ground, new changes suddenly occurred.
The land where the shadow energy was submerged seemed to be boiling, rising and falling continuously, as if a huge creature was about to emerge from the soil.
The surrounding guards reacted very quickly and threw out the Holy Light grenades in their hands without hesitation.
Not one or two Guardsmen had this reaction, but a dozen or so.
Another grenade was staged on the spot, and the surrounding soil was blown away.
The land where the shadow energy ball was was directly lifted away, revealing the strange situation below.
The shadow energy ball is no longer a ball, but has turned into a giant octopus. Countless tentacles formed by shadow energy extend from above and are drilling around crazily.
Whether it is the shadow energy ball or the shadow energy tentacle, it is no longer simple, there is gray-green light shining inside.
The shadow energy outside the shadow energy ball is just a layer of armor. The opponent's real killing move is the soul fire wrapped inside it.
That soul fire is dominating these shadow energies and turning them into part of itself. It is not meaningless for the shadow energy tentacles to drill crazily.
It is collecting rocks, bones, etc., all solid materials in the soil, and then using its shadow energy tentacles to condense them into one body.
A monster made of mud, stone and bones is taking shape.
Although its appearance and composition have become stranger, in essence, it is still an undead, no different from other undead.
The Holy Light Grenade still has a lot of damage to it.
The shock wave of holy light formed by the distance explosion can easily break its shadow energy tentacles, causing the earth and stone skeleton limbs that it has finally condensed to fall apart again.
But this monster formed by the fusion of soul fire and shadow energy is completely painless and indomitable.
As soon as the shadow energy tentacles were broken off, new tentacles came out again to continue the previous work.
It is just an energy body. Regeneration of broken limbs should not be too simple.
This kind of limb regeneration is not without any consumption.
Every time it is regenerated, the shadow energy on its body will obviously weaken by one point, and the regeneration speed will also slow down by one point.
Seeing that the attack was effective, the surrounding guardsmen attacked with even greater vigor.
Holy light grenade!
No need to throw money away.
Purifying light!
It washed over it like a waterfall.
Wow!
With the last bit of soul fire being washed away.
There is no way to maintain the remaining shadow energy, let alone to condense the earth, stone and bones together.
Not to mention showing off its power, this monster didn't even have a chance to condense into shape, so it was beaten to pieces by the Guards and was immediately beaten to pieces.
But no one cheered excitedly.
Because just when they were surrounding Fatty and beating this ball of soul fire.
The super skull on the other side is firing like crazy.
Every five or six seconds, a shadow energy ball similar to the previous one would fly out swaying.
Smashed against other mortar positions of the Guards Corps.
There were too many of them, and the Guards Corps couldn't intercept them at all.
After these shadow energy balls landed, they immediately burrowed into the ground and began to condense a new type of undead.
There was an unlucky Guardsman who was covered by a shadow energy ball, and his body and horse were completely wrapped up.
A scalp-numbing scene appeared.
The shadow energy ball seemed to come alive, drilling into the bodies of the soldier and the war horse along their seven orifices.
"Ah ah... kill me, kill me quickly... uh uh..." The guard soldier screamed and shouted to his companions around him.
He was soon overwhelmed by the shadow energy, filling his mouth and nose.
As a large amount of shadow energy poured in, his body began to expand like a balloon, and everyone seemed to be able to clearly see the traces of shadow energy surging underneath his body.
"Attack, attack quickly, he is already hopeless!"
"What are you doing standing still? Carl is already ready to die. Why haven't you come to this realization yet? Do you still want to kill more of your companions? Kill this monster and avenge Carl!"
"Kill him, kill him quickly, he evolves a bit fast!"
The nearest front-line commanders, while shouting orders to the soldiers, with tears in their eyes, took the lead in throwing out the Holy Light grenades in their hands.
This kind of decision is the most difficult to make, and it also requires the most decisiveness.
This is not the first time they have faced it, nor will it be the last. As long as they are in the purgatory of war, there will never be a shortage of such things.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The series of holy light shock waves that exploded around the guard soldier directly tore his body in half, killing him on the spot.
The front legs of his body lost all life, and a blazing white light emerged from his back legs, trying to fly toward the Guards Corps flag.
It's just that the shadow energy surrounding his body is like a chain, tightly wrapping this blazing white light and preventing it from escaping.
If you observe carefully, you will find that this blazing white light has an outline, and its appearance is 70% to 80% similar to the guard soldier who just died in battle.
"No, Karl's soul is trapped."
"Hurry up and find a way to rescue Karl's soul, otherwise he won't even have a chance to go to the consciousness space and become a heroic spirit."
"You can no longer use Holy Light Grenade. The shock wave of Holy Light Grenade is indistinguishable and will destroy Karl's soul. Use the purifying light instead! The holy light of the Holy Military Emblem takes priority and will purify away the negative energy trapped in Karl's soul.
"
This situation completely confused the surrounding soldiers, including the low-level commanders.
The reason why the soldiers of the Guards Corps were so decisive when attacking their comrades.
It's because they still have enough confidence.
What they killed was only the body of their comrade, and his soul would be absorbed into the legion's battle flag. After returning to the military leader, he would be reborn in another way.
The premise of this rebirth is that the soul can be brought back.
If there is no soul, even the omnipotent lord can do nothing.
"Open!" Sean shouted loudly, and directly threw the big brass camphor gun in his hand as a throwing spear, which was filled with light attribute magic energy.
puff!
The thrown brass spear accurately penetrated the core of the shadow energy ball.
This throwing attack clearly hit the core of the shadow energy ball. Although it did not explode, it also caused it to fall out of control.
Although it was only a few seconds, it was enough for the soul of the Guards soldier named Karl to break free and turn into a ball of light and sink into the flag of the Guards Corps.
The surface of the military flag fluctuated like water, and the mysterious feeling on it became more intense.
As early as four years ago, Sean had privately discussed with his wife Sophia the feasibility of trapping souls and using the mind space to create a second world.
Although he knew that this plan went against the will of the plane laws, he did not give up halfway.
The same means of doing things, but not necessarily the same end goal.
People like the God of Death, the Goddess of Night and Winter, intercept souls in order to achieve some of their own ulterior private purposes, even if they destroy the laws of the plane to a greater extent.
Sean's interception of souls was not simply to break the cycle of life and death, but to give these souls another chance to create more value and better protect this plane.
If the value they create and eliminate more enemies with ulterior motives far exceeds the interception of their souls and the destruction of the laws of the world's planes, I believe the merits outweigh the faults.
Needless to say, we encountered both expected and unexpected difficulties during the research process.
Sean devoted at least half of his energy to this topic and spent three years before he conquered it.
Three years seems quite short.
But don’t forget that these studies of his were conducted in the space of consciousness, and the speed of consciousness flow is far from what reality can match.
If there was no space for consciousness, the amount of work would take even a century to complete.
There are no fewer than a hundred plans to overthrow and start over, not to mention various revisions.
There is always a solution to most problems.
Some who have tried countless times but cannot find a way out can only consume the power of the law to reconcile the conflict with the laws of the plane.
This happens mostly when manufacturing physical objects.
The flag of the Guards Corps is one of the representatives.
This one doesn't look much different from the flags of other legions led by the Yongye Army.
In fact, Sean invested a full 500 points of law power in it. Its main function is to gather and nourish the souls of the warriors who died in the war within its scope.
This kind of military flag has a special name - the Heroic Soul Military Flag.
From then on, the military flag no longer had a purely symbolic meaning for the Yongye military leader, but an existence that must be protected.
The heroic flag of their own legion must not be taken away or destroyed by others. The more soldiers the legion suffers from casualties, they must also find a way to return the flag to the military leader.
This is a story for later.
So far, the only heroic spirit battle flag is that of the Guards Corps.
Because the power of the law in Sean's hands is insufficient.
The manufacturing process of the heroic spirit flags of other legions is exactly the same as that of the Guards Legion, but before investing 500 points of law power, they are all semi-finished products.
It's not that they don't have any effect at all, it can only be said that their effect is vastly different from that of the Heroic Soul Battle Flag obtained by investing the power of the law.
The range of the Guards Legion's heroic flag can reach five kilometers.
As long as the souls died within this range, there is a certain chance that they will be directly absorbed by the soul magic array above.
As for the chances of being sucked in, there are many reasons.
The strength of the soul itself is one thing. The stronger and more solid the soul is, the easier it is to be absorbed.
Being able to freely enter and exit the consciousness space is the minimum standard. If their souls cannot even leave the body, even Sean can't do anything.
If you leave your soul mark on the Heroic Soul Battle Flag and practice soul-keeping combat skills, this chance will also increase.
Since any legion has a heroic soul war flag, it is necessary for all soldiers to leave their soul marks on it. Regardless of whether they are from this legion or not, as long as they are under this war flag, it is valid.
The soul-keeping combat skill is also a compulsory combat skill for the soldiers of the Eternal Night Army.
Because its function is not only to increase the chance of the soldiers' souls being absorbed into the Heroic Soul Battle Flag after their death, but also to improve the soldiers' soul protection capabilities, making them less likely to be infected by soul spells.
, including facing the undead virus that was raging on the Odin grasslands, they are more resistant than ordinary people.
After all, what makes immortal viruses stronger than ordinary viruses is their ability to infect the soul.