Chapter 1304 The Popes of the Past

There was silence in the Icon Palace. The vast and majestic temple was completely shrouded in a strange tranquility. A chaotic mist drifted in from nowhere and covered almost every inch of the palace ground evenly. In the darkness, there was another dusk-like glimmer filling the air, but there was no warmth in this light. Instead, it could only make people feel a strong sense of malice and a maddening gloom.

This kind of dusk light has never appeared in any chaotic tide, so Carathius and others didn't know what it meant. However, after Hao Ren came into contact with those illusions, he understood that it was Rock Marton's. sign.

It was seeping into the real world, first as the huge shadow floating over Luan City, and then as the dusk twilight filled the Icon Palace.

There were no survivors in the palace, but not a single body could be seen, and not even the slightest trace of battle could be found.

"There are no people...and no corpses..." Hao Ren murmured to himself in a low tone, "The church's most powerful fighting force was supposed to be gathered here, but all of them disappeared. You can't even see them. Traces of resistance.”

Lily ran back and forth in front of the team, leaning down from time to time to sniff the surrounding smells with her sensitive nose. Soon she ran back staggeringly: "Landlord, there is no smell of blood!"

Karasius took out a platinum scepter from his dimensional bag. The scepter released a constant warm white light in his hand, slightly dispelling the strong malice and madness in the air around him. His face was solemn: "It seems that everyone They all disappeared at the same time, otherwise there would be no trace left. What kind of power can do this? The magical array in the palace didn't even show signs of being activated... The magical array was created by the Pope's brain. Bo is under direct control, and with just one thought, the Icon Palace will enter the highest defense mode. No matter how urgent the situation is, His Majesty the Pope will not even have time to activate the magical array, right?"

Hao Ren didn't say anything, but a thought suddenly came to his mind: Unless the pope didn't want to activate the magic array at all.

"Uncle, where is the 'gatekeeper' you mentioned?" Lily suddenly asked.

Karasius pointed to the corridor ahead: "Through this corridor, through the garden area, there are teleportation arrays and spiral staircases leading to the upper floors of the Twin Towers. But now I don't know if the teleportation array can still be used, so I can only take the spiral staircase. ."

In the oppressive silence, this long corridor finally came to the end. After passing through an arch with complicated ornate decorations, a garden suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

This garden is quite large, and it is fully equipped with fountains, pools, and sculptures. It is like a high-end garden with exquisite structure and complete facilities. However, a dim dome can be seen above the garden: this garden was actually built indoors.

Surprisingly, the plants in the garden have not withered, and are even more lush and prosperous than usual. However, all the plants are covered with a layer of light gray and dim yellow colors, which is strange and twilight.

This makes everyone who is about to step into the garden suddenly become more vigilant.

Lily walked in front and was the first to step into the garden, while Hao Ren followed the husky girl. Suddenly, as Lily crossed a certain boundary, a faint white light filled her body.

This scene made the Husky girl stunned for a moment, but Hao Ren reacted instantly. He immediately took out his gun and long spear from his portable space and shouted a warning: "Be careful! There are minions of Chaos nearby!"

Lily's physique that automatically lights up as soon as she enters the Chaos Realm turns into a particularly useful automatic alarm.

Karasius had been with the Alpha Wolf for a long time, and of course he knew what the sudden release of Symmetra from the Alpha Wolf meant. The high-level monk instantly cast several protective spells silently on the knights and subraces around him. The barbarian soldiers were holding a staff in one hand and a sacred ball formed of energy in the other hand, speaking quickly: "From what direction?!"

At this time, Lily finally reacted and quickly turned to look at her tail. She found that the fluff on her tail had exploded uncontrollably, and the light floating on the fluff was converging in one direction.

"Underground!" the husky girl yelled, "The power of chaos is below! What is there underground?!"

Carathius was stunned for a moment and reacted for two seconds before hesitatingly said: "Underground in the garden area... that is the resting place of the Holy Spirit. It is where the holy souls of the past and present receive the protection of the goddess and achieve immortality..."

Lily turned back and glared at the senior monk: "I'm giving you a slap in the face! You're talking like a human!"

Hao Ren took over the words before Calasius could speak: "It means the tombs of past popes!"

As he spoke, he couldn't help but think of what the nightmare shadow said before it dissipated, and remembered the name the nightmare shadow mentioned: Benedict III, the Pope of the Holy Land more than two thousand years ago.

He couldn't help but curse secretly: "I'm so fucked up, that monster actually means this..."

And as he cursed secretly, the entire Icon Palace seemed to shake violently.

A low humming sound came from the garden underground, and the cold air broke through the ground, instantly covering the surrounding vegetation with a layer of frost. Immediately afterwards, the nearby soil began to fluctuate and surge with a magnitude visible to the naked eye!

"Coming!" Hao Ren yelled, and at the same time he drew his gun and fired without hesitation.

A ball of blue light exploded quickly, and then countless crystal clear fragments exploded from the explosion point. Under the fragments, a twisted thing with black smoke and dust could be seen rushing out of the surface under the action of inertia - - However, the crystallization of nether energy erosion cannot be resisted by ordinary things at all. The black figure was covered by crystals as it rose. When it rushed out of the ground, it had turned into a huge crystal, and then shattered with a loud roar. The call could not be made.

However this is only the first one.

One after another, black monsters rushed out of the earth, and the power of chaos quickly filled the surrounding space. The shapes of those monsters were all kinds of strange, and they were not just lumps of flesh shrouded in smoke and dust as Hao Ren had guessed at the beginning - they were Some have a large number of tentacles, some are covered with eyes and sharp teeth, some are simply a standard meat ball, and some can still see vague human forms, except for monsters that still maintain slightly human forms. , they are simply like randomly deformed pieces of meat, and the only thing these monsters have in common is that they are all shrouded in chaotic black smoke, and they release powerful mental fluctuations!

Karasius suddenly exclaimed: "That's...the church symbol?!"

Hao Ren followed the opponent's gaze and saw to his surprise that among the group of monsters there was someone wearing clothes - it was a nightmare shadow that barely maintained its human form. It was covered with a tattered piece of cloth. The style of the clothes can be vaguely seen, but the pale golden ring emblem on it is clearly visible.

"Maybe they haven't had time to die yet," Hao Ren said quickly, "This proves that these are indeed the popes of all generations!!"

A huge shock swept through the church soldiers at the scene. These brave and fearless soldiers are still completely unable to accept the fact that the popes have been corrupted into monsters - this corrosion may have started a long time ago, over thousands of years. Over time, every pope who was sent to the Holy Tomb became like this. They may have been corrupted recently, but no matter what, these monsters came from the Holy Tomb, and they also had the logo of the church. There used to be a The fact that the monster named a certain pope from two thousand years ago was enough to make devout monks and knights lose any will to fight.

However, those monsters would not stop because of the wavering of humans. When the church soldiers were at a loss, they had already formed a black cloud in the garden area, followed by a swift and powerful attack.

That is the most dangerous, intangible, and irresistible force: psychic attack.

Waves of dizziness and various bizarre visions swept over Hao Ren. Hao Ren seemed to see the monsters wrapped in smoke and dust in front of him gradually condense into an unprecedentedly huge whole. They turned into a mountain, a storm, and a The source of endless and invincible power. In this power, a powerful voice echoed in his mind:

Surrender! Surrender to this power! Surrender to your fears! Surrender to your fatigue! Surrender to...

Hao Ren stared, and all illusions disappeared: "Submit to your uncle! My year-end bonus depends on this chance!"

"How could you..."

"Nonsense - you guys were still rotting in this basement while I was playing Inception with the demigods!"

However, even though Hao Ren and Lily (the husky didn't know what he did, but he wasn't bewitched by the mental illusion anyway) were able to break free from this powerful mental attack, the situation quickly deteriorated.

The reason is simple - they have to face more than just the monsters in front of them, and they are not the only ones being attacked at the scene.

More monsters - or the twisted souls of past popes are awakening in the underground tombs. The quantitative changes in spiritual attacks will sooner or later lead to qualitative changes, and those church warriors and sub-race barbarians composed of mortals do not have the spirit as powerful as Hao Ren. Resistance, their spiritual defenses are crumbling, and they can't hold on for long!

Illusions began to appear continuously. At first, they were just phantoms in the spiritual world, but gradually, even weird shadows appeared in the real world.

Those soldiers and barbarians with weak willpower have fallen into a trance, and their spiritual world has begun to become a springboard, allowing more twisted shadows to enter the real world.

Hao Ren felt that all his senses were declining, and all kinds of negative feelings that did not exist were popping up out of thin air. It was not yet critical, but he felt that it would be very dangerous if he continued like this. Even if he was fine, The ordinary people around him may also have big problems.

There was a "bang" gunshot, and another twisted soul was turned into crystal dust by his psionic spear. Then he turned to look at Karasius and shouted loudly: "You retreat immediately! Leave this to me - —I want to purify the entire mausoleum area at once!"

However, Karasius turned his head slowly, his eyes unfocused, as if he could not recognize who Hao Ren was at all.

"I'm going to put a stop to it...the one who seems to be the most reliable is actually missing..."

At this moment, Hao Ren's mental connection suddenly opened, and the voice from the data terminal came:

"Partner~ We have released beta 1.0 of the material transmitter. Can we try to transfer something to you?"

Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed: "Hurry! Send me a man with a combat strength of 20,000! There's a fight here!"