Chapter 1011 Strange
In fact, Hao Ren had a bigger question about the young demon hunter named Claude:
Why did he, as the attendant and herald of the First Saint, appear on the battlefield?
The person who captured Claude was an orc shaman. This orc shaman had followed the Mad Demon King in the early days of Yzaks's army. He was loyal and powerful. Yzaks summoned the elder shaman to ask about the situation on the front line, and also asked about "Claude" by the way. The old orc was deeply impressed by the young warrior he captured: "He charged into battle with the others and was a warrior during the battle. We didn't notice any difference between him and other demon hunters at first, until several A powerful paladin was seriously injured by him one after another, and we realized that this was probably a commander."
Yzaks frowned: "You said he was charging on the front line like an ordinary soldier? Were there any extra guards or followers around him at that time?"
"No," the old orc shook his head, the shaman ring jingling on his body, "If his features were more obvious, we would have noticed it from the beginning."
"Well... Anyway, you caught a very important guy, so you should be credited," Yzaks waved his hand and asked the old orc to step back, then turned to look at the others, "What do you think?"
"The guards around the Supreme Leader ran to the battlefield and charged into battle. This doesn't look like they were overthinking it," Hao Ren smacked his lips, "Tsk, what on earth are those saints planning?"
"Currently, the frontline of the legion has advanced to the boundary of the spiritual world clock tower," La Nina looked at the suspended sand table in the center of the room. Those palace models floating in the air basically had the mark of the Demon King's legion. From bottom to top, they seemed to be swallowed by shadows. Generally under the control of the legion, now only a few palaces in the "upper level" of Corpus and the strange spiritual world clock tower remain in the cult stronghold. Hao Ren and the others are currently on the front line. , the place where Claude was captured was in the nearest floating square - the battle there had just ended ten minutes ago, "The Presbyterian Order does not have many available soldiers, and their stubborn resistance in this situation is impossible." There's no strategy at all, it's basically just a random fight. That Claude probably just wanted to die heroically when he came out."
"Perhaps..." Hao Ren did not comment on La Nina's statement. Although it seemed that the Presbyterian Order had no way to save the day, just because the battle situation was desperate, the attendant of the First Saint abandoned his master and ran out to charge into the battle. This In his opinion, it was still quite suspicious, "What changes happened at the Spirit World Clock Tower?"
"Nothing has changed. It's still shrouded in shadow. And since early this morning, no one can be seen coming out of that tower." La Nina's voice was a little confused. "Now you can't see anything between it and the outside world." Contact, and because of the defense network, the scouts cannot get too close."
Yzaks and Hao Ren looked at each other and nodded solemnly: "Then continue to attack the surrounding energy nodes."
Under the order of the Demon King, the coalition forces, whose morale had reached its peak, launched an unprecedented final fierce attack on the last line of defense of the Presbyterian Order.
The remaining troops of the Presbyterian Order have all gathered around the Spirit World Clock Tower. Although their state is a bit strange, they still live up to their name as elites in battle. Facing the onslaught of the Demon King's legion, the demon hunters of the Order put up extremely tenacious resistance. The elder-level and master-level demon hunters brought a lot of trouble to Yzaks' generals, and they had to pay countless Only with twice the force can we maintain the advantage of suppressing the last few palaces and energy nodes.
But in any case, the battle situation has been decided, and the resistance of the demon hunters of the Order is only delaying the complete defeat.
When the frontline army rushed towards the last religious sect stronghold, Hao Ren and Bai Huo led a small team of elites to a place very close to the Spirit Realm Clock Tower through a secret route they had just opened.
The place where everyone settled was a rock platform floating in nothingness. The platform was empty, with no palaces and no high walls. Only the broken and messy fine stone bricks on the ground showed that this might be the remnant of a square. All the ruins in Corpus have independent gravity of unknown origin, but the gravity of this platform is very weak, and it is obviously tilted in the direction of the spiritual world clock tower. When standing on the platform, there is always a feeling that you are about to fall, The illusion of slipping into the void.
Hao Ren stood at the edge of the platform, casually took out a graviton bomb from his pocket, and threw it into the distance.
After the graviton bomb broke away from the gravity constraint of the platform, it flew in a straight line into the distant dark depths, but before it could explode, it suddenly disappeared into thin air. If you observe carefully, you will find that it did not really "disappear", but seemed to hit something when it flew more than a hundred meters outside the platform. It was torn into pieces and cut into countless pieces, and then shattered. The crumbs were torn into pieces again, until they were shattered to the point where they could not be distinguished by the naked eye before being swallowed up by the darkness.
This is one of the layers of defense networks in Corpus space.
The area around the Spirit World Bell Tower seems empty, and the various floating temples seem to be unobstructed. But in fact, these many temples and energy nodes are entangled together, and there are dozens or hundreds of layers of weirdness between them. The space is turbulent. If you rush into the darkness rashly, no matter how powerful the demon hunter is, he will be torn into pieces silently.
It wasn't until the Demon King's coalition destroyed 70% of Corpus' energy node connections that some loopholes finally appeared in these invisible twisted space defense systems, giving Hao Ren and his party the opportunity to get so close to the Spirit World Clock Tower. somewhere nearby.
And now the Legion is storming the last energy node on the Order's defense line, and Hao Ren and the others are waiting for the moment when these defense systems are shut down.
"You can already see the Spirit World Clock Tower from here, that's it." Master Tutanin stood beside Hao Ren, raising his hand to point to a shadow in the darkness in the distance.
Hao Ren looked up and saw a weird tower between the gaps in the stars. It was as weird as the one on the sandbox model. It had no regular shape and structure at all. It was as if a child had pieced it together with building blocks. Various geometric shapes are stacked together to form the shape of the tower. This tall tower floated silently in the depths of darkness. There were only a few bright spots on the tower, and other structures almost blended into the shadows. It was gloomy and dead, like an uninhabited ruin.
"Nothing happened?" Hao Ren was a little surprised.
"We are also surprised that it is too quiet," Tutanin said slowly. "Normally there are always more lights around it, but now most of the lights have been turned off, and there are no personnel on guard outside the tower. , I don’t know what the saints are doing inside.”
"According to La Nina's report, this state of the Spirit World Clock Tower has lasted for nearly a day," Yzaks said in a deep voice. "Now the demon hunters on the defense line of the Order are almost fighting on their own, although they are resisting very hard. It’s intense, but it’s obvious that there is a lack of unified command. Thinking of the Claude captured before, I suspect something happened inside the clock tower.”
Hao Ren turned around and looked behind him. Since the four members of Nangong's family did not have enough combat power to stay behind to take care of the wounded, he came here with Vivian, Yitzhaks and his daughter, and Lily. In addition, Bai Huo and Tutanin also brought Dozens of master demon hunters, this small team has less than a hundred people in total, but it is currently the group with the highest combat effectiveness. When the defense outside the spirit world clock tower is lifted, this team will be the first to rush in and open the door. gap.
After seeing the strange state of the clock tower in the spirit world, the master demon hunters looked worried. Although no one said anything, the worry was quite obvious. Obviously, even though they had broken with the Presbyterian Order, they were still worried about the situation in the "Holy Land".
Yzaks folded his hands on his chest silently and looked in another direction deep in the darkness. There is a tall tower that floats independently in the void, like a torch. Flames can be seen exploding around the tower. It is obvious that a fierce battle is going on on the front line. He silently watched the flash of light coming from the direction of the battlefield, sensed the status of his demon army, calculated the timing of action, and suddenly whispered softly: "It's almost time."
Almost at the same time as he finished speaking, a bright light suddenly burst out from the sky above the torch-like energy node. The node's own defense was overloaded and the control rune stones were detonated. The last line of defense of the demon hunters of the Order collapsed.
The ancient defense systems of Corpus are indestructible, but they are activated by a series of control devices set by the witcher later. When those rune stones explode, the ancient defenses will shut down immediately. Hao Ren saw something as transparent as a water curtain twisting in the dark space around the Spirit Realm Bell Tower, and knew that the time had come: "Let's go!"
The elite assault force quickly left the platform and flew silently towards the distant spiritual world clock tower. They did not encounter any obstruction and soon arrived in front of the strange tower.
However, after seeing the condition of the Spirit Realm Clock Tower at close range, Hao Ren couldn't help but be stunned: "Is this... normal?"
The clock tower in the spiritual world is actually in a state of being eroded by darkness!