"What the hell is this?" Arthur couldn't help complaining after seeing this strange scene.
The people gathering there were indeed a group of bandits, which could be seen from their rough and dirty fur clothing, crude iron swords and axes, wooden bows and arrows, and leather armor. If it was a real religious gathering, if it was a real Order people, the guys here should at least dress a little more respectably.
And this is not the point. The point is why such an inexplicable red blood pool appeared in a bandit's den, and these guys were even obsessed with kneeling before this blood pool. Everything happened too much It was so sudden, so sudden, so unexpected that people thought they were seeing hallucinations.
"There was no reaction at all..." Hannover boldly walked up to one of the thieves and put his sword blade on the guy's neck to see if these people who were kneeling in worship were just pretending or if they were real. He knelt down with all his heart. As a result, the cold sword blade touched the thief's neck. The guy was still indifferent and continued to do what he was doing, as if he couldn't even feel the coldness on his neck.
"It seems that they were confused by some kind of powerful illusion." The fortune teller Nantes analyzed: "And it only happened recently. They still have guards guarding the door normally, but this group of people inside the base, Well, I accidentally opened something, and everyone was under an illusion."
"Such a powerful illusion? Is this possible?" Hanover asked: "And why, at this time?"
"It was precisely at this time." Nantes said: "They knew that we had invaded, and they also knew that they could not fight us with their own strength, so their leader took out the treasure at the bottom of the box and tried to use it to defeat us. Confront us. However, it is obvious that the power of their treasures is more terrifying than they imagined. This is the consequence of the treasures in their hands being out of control."
"So, what's going on now? No need to fight, we win directly?" Scout Bordeaux couldn't help but ask: "Tie these self-destructive idiots back one by one and hand them over, and that's it?"
"I wish it was that simple." Arthur had been staring at the deep pit where blood-red spring water gushed out since just now without blinking.
That thing was more unusual than any detail on the scene, and it was even more concerning. Such a strange pit suddenly appeared on the rocky ground, and it seemed to be a spring from the ground. Blood-red spring water gushes out from the deep pit. The blood spring should obviously spread everywhere and wet the ground, but in fact, after the blood spring came out, it suddenly disappeared after flowing out to a certain distance. I don't know if it seeped into the cracks of the rock floor. , or evaporated out of thin air. In any case, this blood spring can be said to be something that cannot be explained by common sense. Not to mention that this different world nine hundred years later with low photon civilization should not have such a thing, even if it is nine hundred years old In Arthur's original world years ago, this kind of thing existed beyond common sense!
And Arthur's focus is also correct. The strange blood spring is the source of the problem. Now the bandits who have been under powerful illusions and are kneeling there to worship the blood spring are no longer threatening, but the surging blood is There seems to be something emerging slowly from the spring!
"Something's coming out, everyone, be careful!" Arthur snorted.
His reminder successfully attracted everyone's attention. The mercenaries were on guard with weapons in hand, watching a dark red object slowly rise from the blood fountain.
The brain is trembling. The whole space is shaking.
What emerges from the blood spring is a brain-ball-shaped monster. Under the firelight, the gray-white to yellowish, wrinkled hemispherical surface is obviously the shape of a human brain. But except for the part that is shaped like a brain ball
, the other parts of the thing were very weird. Some bright red, network-like things, like nerve fibers, connected two spheres with a faint green light directly in front of the monster's brain-shaped body. Arthur suspected
Those two things are the eyes of this brain ball monster. In addition, there are more scarlet tentacles at the lower end of the brain ball monster, which are composed of blood-red nerve fibers that gradually become denser and curled up.
Thousands of nerve fiber tentacles of different sizes and thickness are twisting and turning in a complex, ghostly, and insect-like manner, making people feel sick to their stomachs.
Those tentacles were the last things to emerge from the blood fountain, and there would be no more after that - that is to say, the brain ball monster floated directly from the blood fountain. Even now,
It is also floating in mid-air strangely, without any external support, floating like a balloon.
"What the hell is this!" Hanover groaned. As a mercenary, he had seen a lot of weird things in his life, but this was the first time that they were so weird.
"Roar! Hiss! Ha! -------" That thing made a sound. To be more precise, it should not have any vocal organs on its body. It emits a shock wave that makes the air vibrate.
The shock wave spreads with the air and reaches people's eardrums, creating the illusion that the brain monster is making sounds.
"Well...!" Everyone felt that their heads were swelling and painful, and they began to cover their foreheads subconsciously.
No, this is not an ordinary shock wave, this is a spiritual shock similar to a kind of hypnosis! The sound wave shock transmitted to people's eardrums is only uncomfortable at best, but it will not make people feel this level of headache immediately!
Arthur felt something was wrong and quickly raised his Seraph Holy Sword. The Holy Sword was still unsheathed, so the edgeless sword body (scabbard) was still connected to the hilt, and the lightsaber blade was still connected to the hilt.
It has not been drawn out from the scabbard. The holy sword in this state can directly launch the photon explosion of [Spell Breaker] to offset any spell attack. There were too many people present, and they used it indiscriminately in full view of the public [
Spell Breaker] is very bad, but in this case Arthur can't care so much. After all, if it is a very powerful hypnosis spell, if it is not downgraded in time, the battle will be over the moment everyone is hit. They
You can only be paralyzed on the spot and let others slaughter you!
Pound!!------The blade of the holy sword radiated milky white light, flooding the entire dark room. The mental impact of the brain monster was resisted by Arthur's spellbreaker. At least Arthur felt that his head was swollen.
The pain disappeared for the time being. But when he turned around, he found other people besides him - including the bandits who were kneeling there and the mercenaries of the Crescent Mercenary Group.
Even Bedivere and Verne were perfectly hypnotized and lay motionless on the ground!
"Tsk." Arthur snorted. The activation of the spellbreaker was still a step too late, and in the end, only Arthur was saved.
Forget it. He glanced at the brain monster. Now it was a one-on-one situation. Although Arthur was fighting alone, no one else was monitoring him, so he could fight with all his strength, which was not a bad thing.
"Who are you?" Arthur asked loudly: "A monster? A necromancer? Or some kind of demon summoned by those bandits?!"
That thing didn't directly respond to Arthur's question. It's hard to tell whether it was because it had no mouth and couldn't respond, or whether it didn't bother to respond to Arthur at all. It just used the thickest of its countless tentacles to draw water from the blood fountain under its "feet"
What was taken out?
a book.
That book was different from any book Arthur had ever seen in his life. From the cover to the pages, it was made of some kind of special alloy with moderate hardness and softness. The book cover was particularly strong. The dark, slightly cold metallic reflective book cover accompanied the brain monster.
It opened with the touch of the tentacles, and what followed was the flipping of the flexible metal pages of the strange book, making a strange sound.
"Abyssal Code: Dimensions".
------Even if no one introduces it, countless words appear in the space around this book. These words appear in mid-air unnaturally, as if they are some kind of holographic image that can be seen by others.
I don’t know what kind of script these fonts are. In short, it is not English, not French, or even Latin. It is completely a wedge-shaped script that Arthur has never seen before.
Despite this, Arthur could understand those words. Of course, what he could "understand" was only the title of the book. Other smaller cuneiform characters could not be seen clearly without looking closely or carefully.
Even if you think about it, you probably won't be able to understand their true meaning. And in the current situation, it is very unrealistic for Arthur to get in front of the brain monster and read those small words carefully.
A weird brain monster appeared in front of Arthur, which was already weird enough. This brain monster also used its tentacles to take out a book to read, which was even weirder. This special "Magic Book of the Abyss"
"What's the use of it? Arthur felt that he could figure it out right away.
Although it was said to be reading, the brain monster did not actually make any sound. It probably just looked at the words that appeared on the book and recited them silently in the mind. But its reading has practical significance, and the people around it
The people who fell to the ground - all of them were the bandits who were kneeling to worship the blood spring - gradually got up, as if controlled by some powerful will, acting like puppets.
stand up!
They took off the human skin and began to demonize them. After breaking the skin, bright red flesh and blood gushed out from under the skin, becoming more swollen and bloody and rough. These bright red fleshmen dripping with blood began to look like
Roaring like a mad dog, they all looked towards Arthur!
Is that so? Is it because the psychic impact was resisted by Arthur's spellbreaker? The brain monster knew that its offensive would have no effect, so it woke up its servants and tried to deal with Arthur with a human sea tactic.
That's as you wish.
Arthur's right hand grasped the unsheathed Seraph Holy Sword, and his left hand used his alchemical glove to transform a crystal spear, preparing to kill. Strictly speaking, the blood-red flesh people in front of him were no longer human, and Arthur
Can kill monsters without mercy.
A flesh man rushed towards the King of Knights, raised the spear in his hand and pierced Arthur. However, Arthur easily sidestepped and threw the crystal spear out with his backhand, smashing the monster's head. (