Chapter 29 Core

"Rose, back off."

"Why?"

"I don't have time to explain now, so please stay away."

Although Rose felt strange, she still retreated into the distance. I took out all the explosives on my body and threw them in front of me. The skeleton devil completely ignored the explosives and continued to move forward. I have the detonating crystal in my hand. "Hey! Let's see who of us can explain better!" He smiled and activated the crystal.

boom! There was a loud noise accompanied by the violent shaking of the entire temple. The floor of the room collapsed. The shock wave destroyed the entire square, and even the surrounding walls collapsed together. Rose hid far away in advance and blocked her body with a shield. I also sent the Eternal Sword and turned it into a steel ball to protect her in the middle. Even so, she was still seriously injured.

After the shock ended, I felt burning pain all over my body, as if I had been roasted by fire! He lay in the ruins and rested for a long time before regaining his strength. He tried hard to get himself out from under the ruins, but found that the thing on his body did not move at all. It seemed that the thing pressing on me weighed at least a few tons. If it hadn't been for the support of the armor, I would have been flattened.

"Phoenix Dragon!"

"Zhizhi!" A familiar voice appeared outside. It seemed that the space blockade had disappeared.

"Fenglong, release Lucky and the others, and dig me out quickly!"

Suddenly there were several loud noises outside, the rocks that were pressing on me suddenly flew out, and the lucky big head appeared on top of my head. "Master, are you okay? What happened just now? The protective collars on several of us suddenly sucked our lives crazily, almost killing us!"

"Stop talking, dig me out first! My legs are still stuck in it!"

On the other side, Plague carefully removed the large rocks from my body, while Lucky quickly pulled me out. As soon as I came out, I found that I couldn't move my whole body, and my hands and feet were as soft as noodles. Xiaochun, Ling, and Aina were summoned to help me heal. After several treatments, my wound finally healed completely.

What I relied on to create the explosion just now is the guardian collar. When my life is low, the guardian collar will absorb the life of the magic pet to replenish me, and this attribute does not take into account the distance issue unless it is restricted by a special sealing spell. Although that devil is very powerful, he always has a defense limit. After the shell was destroyed, his protective ability should have dropped significantly. Although I was weak at the time, the defensive power of the magic dragon armor did not decrease, and there was also the protection of the mercury shield. The damage from the explosion consumed all my life and then began to consume the life of my magic pets. However, since I have a large number of magic pets, and the ones like Lucky and Tank are blood cows, their health is definitely enough. When I detonated the explosives just now, I was actually gambling. I was betting that the health of my demon pets would be greater than the power of the explosives, and at the same time, I was betting that the skeleton demon puppet did not have the previous defense. Now it seems that the first part has been won, and the explosives were not killed. It doesn't matter whether you win the latter bet or not. If you can summon a magic pet, you don't have to worry about anyone.

Suddenly I remembered that Rose didn’t know where she was! Contact Rose quickly via private message. "Rose, where are you?"

"I don't know! The roof collapsed during the explosion and I was buried, but I don't know the exact location!"

"Then just wait a minute, I'll start digging right away."

"OK."

He immediately ordered his demon pets to start digging several larger piles of rubble. Suddenly Lucky shouted: "There's something moving here."

I immediately ran over excitedly and dug rocks frantically. "Don't be afraid Rose, I'm here to save you." While digging, the rubble suddenly moved again, and a bare head stuck out. "Mei..." Just as he was about to call Rose, he suddenly got stuck. I'm dizzy! I didn't dig up the roses, so I dug up the devil!

"Stay back!" I shouted and backed away.

The pile of rubble exploded violently, and the skeleton demon stood up from inside. This guy didn't seem to have much damage except that he was covered in dust. There seemed to be something wrong with one of the four legs, as if it had been bent. His arms were also incomplete, his right arm was slightly deformed, and only one section of his left arm was broken. Only one of the two red eyes on his head is still lit, and the other one is constantly flashing blue sparks, so it is probably scrapped.

"Steel Claw, Tank, Plague, Xiaosan, Ling, the five of you stop him while the others go find Rose."

The Skeleton Golem looked at the creatures in front of him, and suddenly he did something unexpected. This guy actually turned around and ran, crashed through a wall and entered the back corridor, and then disappeared at the end of the corridor at a speed we couldn't imagine.

Ling, who was in charge of commanding the battle, looked at the direction of his escape in confusion and was at a loss. "Master...Master? This...?"

"Forget it, leave him alone! Come back and help find someone."

"Over here." Bailang's nose was the fastest to find the target.

We immediately went over and lifted up the large rocks in twos and twos, and then carefully cleaned away the small rocks. Soon a red ball was revealed, which was the protective layer of eternal change. Pushing away the stone, eternity turned into a small red ball and returned to my hand, and the rose squatted on the ground intact.

"Are you OK?"

"I was injured just now, but I have healed it myself after such a long time." Rose said while helping me climb out of the ruins. "By the way, what happened to the skeleton demon? Was it killed by the explosion?"

"No. The guy only broke one leg and one hand."

"Then where is he now?"

"Ran."

"Huh? What?"

"They were scared away by the plague."

"Does this thing still know how to be afraid?"

"I don't know. Just now he was arching under the rubble. I thought it was you, but when I dug it out, it was him. After seeing us, he turned around and ran away without hesitation for a second. His speed was even faster than Ye Ying's. be quick!"

"Anyway, you defeated him." Rose looked around. "We seem to have blown up the entire square. This should be the bottom of the square. It seems that the upper level of the square is gone too. You are really a destroyer!"

I laughed and said, "Destruction is the father of construction. Without destruction, there would be no construction." After that, I shouted to the ceiling. "Hey! You are so shy, we have already used up your most powerful generals. Is there anything else that is powerful?"

"Don't be arrogant. Even if you defeat my men, you still can't find me."

"Haha! You are really a coward. If you lose, you will just hide." Rose started to stimulate him again.

But it doesn't seem to work this time. This guy is obviously very tolerant. "Don't provoke me, I won't come out. This is called strategic avoidance, it's not just a coward or a brainless guy who acts recklessly!"

"It doesn't matter. If you don't come out, I will demolish the temple and dig you out one day."

"Stop dreaming. Until now, you have been wandering around the periphery of the temple. The real core area is built with materials that protect the seal of God. Not even you, not even God, can destroy this temple. "

"Then let's try it!"

Rose took my hand and said, "Open the map." I immediately pulled up the three-dimensional map. Rose smiled and said: "Finally, I got some useful information."

"Ah?" The voice was stunned.

I also smiled and said: "It was you who said how strong the core area is, and we have been wandering around the periphery. That means you are in the core area of ​​this temple. This is what you said yourself."

"No, no, I made a mistake just now, it doesn't count." This guy acted like a child.

We didn't care about him and looked at the direction against the map. As expected, the places we walked through were all peripheral areas, and we have never been to the real core area. According to the map, we should go up and forward to reach the core area. Put away the map and magic pets, and only bring a few small magic pets with you. If you encounter a place where summoning is prohibited again, you will have a few emergency responders around you.

I didn’t take the corridor this time. I encountered many obstacles along the way, but I just didn’t make any turns. I didn’t know how many walls were demolished along the way, and I quickly reached the core area. After breaking through the last wall, I recognized it at a glance as the core area. It is really special. A giant block is just floating in the hollow in the center of the temple. There is no connection with the surrounding walls on all sides. The thing is really floating.

"There is such a thing." I sighed.

Rose also said beside her: "It's so big! This is like a skyscraper floating in the air!"

"Has anyone seen the door there?" Xiaochun asked.

"have no idea!"

I waved my hands to both sides, "Spread out and find the entrance."

Several humanoid pets, Bai Lang and two smaller phoenixes all flew out and started searching. The darts bounced back and forth between the wall and the core area and moved upwards, and soon reached the top. After a while, everyone came back except Dart, and no one found the entrance. This thing was completely sealed! Dart finally jumped down from the top, and the Phantom translated his words and said there was a strange place on the top that might be the entrance. We climbed to the top of this giant block, and there was something like an altar here.

I came nearby and took a closer look at the altar. It was a small altar of just over 200 square meters. There is a stone platform in the middle of the altar, about one and two meters high. There is a round clock dial in the middle of this stone platform. The shape is very similar to my round dial without needles. The only difference is that this one has hands. Having learned the experience of the temple gate, we immediately started looking for arithmetic problems. But unfortunately, we searched all over the altar and found nothing. Isn't this that kind of agency?

Rose tried to move the dial, and she could actually pick it up. At this time, the time display on the dial is twelve o'clock. Obviously, it needs to be dialed to the appropriate position to turn it on. Jingjing is now at a higher level and her body looks like a big girl, but her personality is still like that of a child. She squatted on the ground and looked up, and he discovered that there were words under the dial. We immediately turned the dial over and found that it was written in magic words, everyone we knew.

"I'll do it!" Ling took the dial and read. "The key to opening the door of time is time."

"No?" I looked at Ling and asked.

"Yeah! That's it."

"What kind of reminder is this?"

Rose said: "Don't worry, there is already a lot in this sentence. This is a riddle with three groups of meanings. 'Open the door of time' is the first part, and this door should refer to the entrance. 'The key to the door of time' ' is the second sentence. Since it is the door of time, it is illusory, so the key must not be a physical object but a certain condition. Finally, 'the key is time' is definitely the key hint of the answer. But I did not understand that the key is time. Part of the specific meaning seems to be to use time to open the door, but I don’t know what time to open the door!”

"I know!" I walked over, took the dial and put it into the groove, then looked at the system time and set the dial to the current time. There was a click, and the stone platform suddenly began to sink downward into the altar. It seemed that my guess was correct.

"Time is the key, that's how we understand it!" Rose sighed as she watched the mechanism start up.

The stone platform sank until it was level with the ground before stopping. There was another click, and eight pillars rose up around the altar at the same time. There is a round hole on the side of these pillars facing the center of the altar, which also seems to be for dials.

Rose and I walked up to one of the pillars and looked at it. There is also text written on this pillar. The result of Ling's translation is: "Give me eternal time and give you eternal power."

"What does this mean?"

"I don't know, let's look at the other pillars first!"

After walking around, I found that the words on all the pillars were basically the same, the only difference was the last two words. According to the order we look at, the last two words on the eight pillars are: "strength, agility, constitution, spirit, will, charm, luck, and wisdom."

"It seems to be our eight attributes!" Rose said after reading this text.

"I can see it too, but we only have one gold plate without needles. What should we do with the eight pillars?"

"Obviously we are not asked to choose 8 pillars here, but to choose one among them. Your disc should be the activation switch."

"So which one do we choose?"

Rose said: "I estimate that these choices will affect our next route. It is possible that the monsters that will come out in the future will be selected based on this choice, so we must be cautious."

"Of course I know I need to be cautious, but I don't know what the use of these things is."

Xiaochun suddenly said: "There used to be a betting corridor in the Temple of Light. You could choose one of four items, and the chosen thing would not appear in the corridor. This is probably the same principle, but in a different form."

Rose immediately said: "That means whichever pillar we choose, the monsters we encounter later will not have the characteristics written on the pillar."

I looked around at the pillars again. "How about we choose luck? Wouldn't it be great if we met a monster with extreme luck?"

"Choose wisdom, right? It's easier to deal with being stupid!"

Amynis interjected: "Choose will? The monster has a weak will. Wouldn't it be easier if I scare him away with a few illusions?"

Xiaochun said: "I think it's better to choose spirit. If a monster's spirit is weak, it will be difficult to display its overall strength."

Ling said: "Let's choose the system! The system is poor and the resistance is not good. I can solve it with two evil pollutions."

A Dianna said: "I think it's better to choose strength. The monster is weak in strength. We can beat him to death in close combat."

Jingjing said: "Let's choose agility, right? Monsters without agility are slow. We can run and fight, and we can always kill them."

faint! There are options for everything but charm. It’s a sure thing if you don’t choose charm. If a monster doesn’t have charm, it just looks ugly. That won’t be of much help to us!

"You each have an opinion, how do I choose!"

Ling suddenly said: "I have a way to copy a golden plate. Maybe we can choose two items."

"Can you copy?"

"Yes. There is a holographic mirroring technique in dark magic, which can create an identical entity. Within the time limit, there is no difference between the two objects. They are definitely fake and real."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? If I had known, I would have asked you to copy a few magic crystal cannons and use them to defraud money."

Ling said: "It's impossible. The holographic mirror is a kind of garbage magic. When it creates fake goods, the real ones will move, so even the maker can't determine which one is the fake. As soon as the time comes, the fake will immediately Disappear. Because you can’t tell the difference between true and false, and you can’t guarantee that what you sell is what it’s worth, you might lose more than you gain by selling the real one!”

"Halo! It doesn't matter now, just copy it quickly. By the way, how many copies can you make?"

"The holographic mirror technique can only be used once on an object within a certain period of time."

"That's okay, at least I have one more choice." I turned around and asked Rose. "Two items, how to choose?"

"Let's all vote?" Rose actually came up with such an doctrine.

The two winning bids in the Yi Lun voting results were will and wisdom. Everyone analyzed that if the monster has low intelligence and weak will, it would be easy to scare. Anyway, he is weak-willed and simple-minded and cannot distinguish between true and false. Under such conditions, any monster is easy to deal with, unless the monster has the ability to kill us with one hit before we find it. Of course, such a monster is impossible to appear.

Ling made an identical gold plate and put the two pieces into the column at the same time. The pillar with the disc immediately sank into the ground, and then the center of the altar suddenly began to sink downwards again, and a passage soon appeared on the ground. The entrance finally appeared.

"Roar!" A deafening sound came from the hole. We only felt that our eyes were blurred, and a giant creature jumped out of the hole. The cave was closed immediately after the monster came out. It turned out that this was not the entrance but the exit!

This monster looks like a gorilla without hair, and is extremely strong. It came out without any pause, raised its fist and hit Jingjing who was closest to him. Jingjing panicked and blocked it with her shield, and the huge force immediately knocked Jingjing away. Thanks to this being Jingjing, if the others had been killed. The monsters produced by these pillars should be balanced. If a certain strength is reduced, there will be other attributes to make up for it. The monster before him was unintelligent and weak-willed, and as a result it gained super speed and super strength.

In the blink of an eye, the monster that knocked Jingjing away rushed towards me again. "Ling, add fear to it!"

For a dark god of Ling's level, he must be very good at entry-level black magic like fear. Ling immediately shouted out without any preparation. "I don't know such low-level magic!"

Boom! What a miscalculation! I was hit hard by a punch, and I felt my chest tighten and I flew out.

"Emenis, it's up to you." I spread my wings and stabilized my figure in the air.

Emenes placed 12 identical phantoms in front of me in one breath, but the monster seemed to rush forward unaffected. This guy didn't seem to be seeing with his eyes at all, and illusions had no effect on him.

A Dianna suddenly hit the monster's head with a water ball. The moment the water ball came into contact with it, the water ball suddenly turned into an ice ball, and the monster's head was completely frozen in the ice. But the ice ball only lasted for a second before it was shattered. The monster in front of him was obviously the product of unilaterally strengthening its abilities to the limit, and neither physical nor magical attacks were very effective!

Our initial thinking seemed to be a little careless. Creatures with low intelligence are indeed stupid, but they are not easy to deceive at all. It is because their intelligence is too low and their understanding of things is completely different from ours. It is useless for us to deceive highly intelligent creatures in the same way we deceive them.