Chapter 1491 Temple of Poseidon
Hao Ren and his party waited in a hidden place for a period of time. During this period, Little Bat took the risk to release several clones to investigate the situation, and finally confirmed that Hasselblad had successfully infiltrated the command center of the Crusaders as planned.
"The demon hunter's patrol has begun to adjust its route, and the few guard posts that can be seen are also moving to other places or changing shifts in advance," Hesiana said while receiving the information from the clone, "and what was discussed before The routes are the same... There will be a gap opened around the Temple of Poseidon that depends on the time difference. Tsk, it seems that Hasselblad is quite capable."
"I just don't know how he explained this temporary adjustment to the other demon hunters." Lily's ears twitched, "Letting go of such a big gap... Hasselblad is not the only supreme commander here. I'm afraid there will be another one soon. The commander of a holy army must be suspicious."
"So we can't waste this opportunity," Hao Ren said as he stood up and left, "Let's go, Vivian is right ahead."
Outside the Temple of Poseidon, the siege of the demon hunters is still three levels inside and three outside. The entire mountain is filled with patrols and guard posts of the Crusaders, as well as demon hunter barracks with large armies stationed there. However, right here Within this layer-by-layer surrounding network, an imperceptible gap has quietly opened.
Ordinary demon hunters at lower levels are unable to detect this change, which can only be discovered by overlooking the entire battlefield. They just mechanically follow the orders from the leader of the war group. The commanders at the middle and upper levels may feel a trace of violation from the series of sentry adjustments. However, they did not raise any doubts: this glorious divine war can be said to be over, and the overall situation has been decided. There is no possibility for the remnants of Olympus to make a comeback, and the rest of Mount Olympus has completely fallen into Under the control of the Crusaders, even the demon hunters would involuntarily relax their vigilance in this situation - including those commanders.
Sooner or later, vigilant upper-level commanders will discover these anomalies, but until they fix these vulnerabilities, Hasselblad will have a lot of room to maneuver to complete his "hole-making" mission.
Under his constant mobilization, the demon hunters' patrol units and observation posts had many more blind spots for surveillance without even realizing it. Hao Ren and his party quickly moved through these blind spots, getting closer and closer to them. A majestic but crumbling temple of Poseidon.
This was really a quite exciting experience - even Hesiana, who has always been bold, had to admit this when she recalled it afterwards. Around her are thousands of demon hunters. The collapsed palace walls and the rubble-strewn Mount Olympus can be said to be almost ten steps, one post, five steps and one sentry. Many times she can even see it from a distance. To those witcher outposts with shining runes suspended in them, and the patrol closest to her was even operating a few hundred meters away.
If she and Lily were not both special "alien", the innate hostile reaction triggered by the demon hunter would be relatively weak and would attenuate sharply with distance. It would be even easier to cover it up without eye contact, otherwise it would be light. Such a close distance is enough to arouse the patrol's vigilance.
Even so, they are walking a tightrope on the extreme boundary of this "safe distance".
Fortunately, Hasselblad's estimate of this "safe distance" was quite accurate. With the help of such a high-level "internal agent", Hao Ren and his party were able to sneak into the battlefield without any danger, and touched the large barrier of the Temple of Poseidon along the way. under.
On a slightly higher palace ruins, Lily quietly poked her head out to take a look below. She saw the witcher barracks neatly arranged in the open space below, and countless murderous and fully armed warriors were walking through the camp. Walking away, a group of large war machines driven by magic are being reorganized under the hands of demon hunter technicians. The crystallized "barrels" and scorching core devices engraved with runes show that they were used against each other not long ago. The great barrier of the Temple of Poseidon was bombarded, and after a brief adjustment, these war machines would be put into use again: until the last Olympian "god" died, the continuous firepower of the witchers would never be available. Rest.
Lily's fur from her ears to the tip of her tail stood up, then she retreated with her tongue hanging out, "It's really an era of mythology. The little fights between demon hunters and aliens in the 21st century are totally not enough here. It looks like the difference between Zhaojia Hutong Bandit Suppression and Normandy Landing..."
I don’t know how she came up with the story about the bandit suppression in Zhaojia Hutong.
Hao Ren pressed Lily's head to calm down the dog girl's slightly nervous mood. He also saw the militarization of the demon hunters along the way. Before, he only knew that the demon hunters had ended the age of myth and had spread throughout the world. The world has caused Ragnarok, but it was not until this moment that he realized why the prosperous Gods Dynasty was so vulnerable when facing the demon hunters - the gap in individual strength and power system was only one aspect, and more importantly The reason is still the latter's incredible level of organization and military discipline.
The Crusader is a professional army with strict discipline and reasonable structure. From top to bottom, everyone has only one goal, which is to destroy the enemy and win. The demon hunters who form the Crusader are a group that can completely abandon their personal will. Freaks who are almost ascetic saints, and what about their enemies?
They are just a family-style violent group that is addicted to pleasure and the illusory sense of achievement of ruling the world, and relies on simple and crude power to maintain order. Look at this Mount Olympus, and think about what you see in Hades: Even if the "gods" of Olympus possess some of the ancestral technology, even if they build such a magnificent palace, their essence is just muddled. Just family power.
A group of family-style armed forces whose greatest ideal was to rule several human city-states met a professional army that was determined to sweep the world. To be honest, Hao Ren was surprised that they had been able to survive in the Age of Mythology for so many years.
Looking away from the Demon Hunter's military camp, Hao Ren and his party quietly arrived at the back entrance of the Temple of Poseidon under the cover of ruins. A section of the palace wall here had been blasted with an opening by the Demon Hunter's war-level spell in the early stages of the siege. , but then the "gods" of Olympus used their lives to repel the invading Crusaders, and used the energy of the great barrier to block the gap.
After the war entered the current stage, the demon hunters gave up on consuming the lives of soldiers to attack the palace wall, and the "gods" side of Olympus had to shrink to the inner temple to prepare for a desperate fight due to a large number of attrition. This gap It has become a place that no one cares about for the time being.
The so-called Great Barrier is not a complete and single magic shield. In fact, it includes an anti-magic shield covering the entire temple, a layer of magic energy covering the palace walls, and thousands of scattered throughout the temple. Although the layers of defensive array temporarily protected the survivors in the temple, it also caused trouble for Hao Ren and his party: the temple refused to intrude on all outsiders, including them.
Magic cannon light bombs from several nearby witcher camps continuously bombarded the anti-magic cover above her head. Each round of magic cannon light bombardment made Lily's ears tremble, and the crack in the palace wall in front of her But it was covered by a layer of radiant energy shield: there is no road ahead.
Lily waved her alloy super-large sword and rushed forward, only to be bounced back from the original path.
Hesiana tried to analyze the structure of the energy shield, but she was better at shadow magic and blood magic. Facing the unique techniques of the Thunder Giant series, the little bat spirit was a little bit blinded.
In the end, hope fell on Hao Ren.
With some trepidation, Hao Ren pressed his hand on the barrier that looked like a flowing aurora, and prayed that his strange magic immunity talent could be of some use on this barrier.
After all, the Olympus series of magic also comes from the Dream Plane, Hao Ren thought that this thing should also be affected by his magic immunity talent.
As his palm pressed against the barrier, everyone heard a crisp sound like glass breaking.
The barrier actually shattered like this.
"Wow - if I had known that the landlord was so powerful, I wouldn't have gone up to him," Lily stuck out her tongue. Her hands were still numb from the shock of the shield she had just slashed with her giant sword, "Let's..."
As a result, before the husky girl finished speaking, she saw that the shield that had been broken by Hao Ren a second ago shook twice more, and was restored to its original state in an instant!
Hao Ren blinked and didn't understand what was happening: "This thing... also has a self-healing function?"
But this small problem can't stop him. Every examiner who has studied the theory of shield expansion will clearly know that there is no shield system in this world that can withstand unlimited damage. Even the shield created by God consumes energy. , not to mention the magic shield created by a bunch of false gods in Olympus. He immediately put his hand on the energy film again: No matter how many times this thing can be repaired, if it breaks a few more times, it will shut down sooner or later...
At the same moment, in the upper hall of the temple, Poseidon and the weak Zeus were listening to the news from a sentry.
"You said those demon hunters are being mobilized frequently? And they have also withdrawn some of the troops from the front?"
Poseidon held his Neptune Trident tightly, his majestic face full of disbelief at this moment.
An Olympus warrior wearing silver-white armor knelt on one knee in front of him: "Yes, great Poseidon, I saw them withdrawing from the frontal battlefield with my own eyes, and several energy towers in the distance also Moved location."
Poseidon turned to look at a female "god" not far behind him: "Athena, what do you think of this?"
As one of the twelve main gods, Athena is not as majestic as Poseidon and Zeus, but as the best individual among the genetically degraded "descendants of small species", she has always been the think tank on Mount Olympus and won the most favor. Zeus' trust. Hearing Poseidon's question, Athena nodded: "This may be some kind of trap by the demon hunters, but it may also be an opportunity... After all, they are also tired and emotional creatures. After such a long time, After the battle, some of their soldiers had to rest."
"Perhaps their commander also realized that it would be too wasteful to mobilize all the soldiers just to besiege such a palace," another Olympus "god" agreed, "this may really be an opportunity."
Poseidon looked at the bed beside him. Zeus took a deep breath and said in a weak voice: "Yes, a chance to break out... and Vivian Ancesta's mental state is stabilizing. Maybe this is our last chance.”
Poseidon nodded and held his Neptune Trident tightly. However, just when he was about to say something, a bright blue electric light suddenly burst out from the trident. This electric light hit Poseidon. On the body, a force was immediately extracted from the latter's body!
The sudden energy backlash caused the dignified "Poseidon" to scream miserably on the spot, and he even fell off the chair when he lost his balance!
Zeus was taken aback. Although he was weak, he subconsciously propped up half of his body: "What's wrong with you?!"
Poseidon was holding the Trident of the Sea King, and as soon as he could hold back the word "I", the trident, which had the dual functions of weapon and temple control center, shot out another ray of light and hit him!
This "Poseidon" hits the street again...
But he struggled to get up the next second: "Behind the temple..."
"Crack!"
"Shield..."
"Crack!"
"quilt……"
"Crack!"
Finally, Poseidon finally used up his willpower and roared: "Can you let me finish!"
Strangely enough, after he roared like this, the energy backlash actually paused for a moment, which made him take a breath and said quickly: "The door at the back door of the temple..."
"Crack!!"
"Who is it that I fucked?"
This sudden and strange situation left everyone confused and at a loss, but Athena was finally the first to react. She looked at the trident in Poseidon's hand, which was used to control and maintain the large barrier, and then thought of what the other party said. , immediately shouted: "The crack at the back door of the temple has been breached! Poseidon's energy is being extracted to repair the shield! Go to meet the enemy!"
A few brave compatriots led the soldiers out of the hall quickly, but Athena felt huge waves in her heart:
What happened to that gap at the back door of the palace? The witcher breached that shield? The situation is quite suspicious!
Even a demon hunter can't destroy the barrier at the crack so quietly. Even if it is destroyed, the barrier will be repaired instantly. The strength after repair will be exactly the same as before it was destroyed. But look at Bose. With Dong's appearance, the barrier was destroyed again in the next moment. Doesn't this mean that the powerful barrier that gathered a large amount of magic power and used the essence of Poseidon's power as "fuel" actually persisted for even an instant in front of the destroyer? Can’t live? !
There is no such unreasonable thing in the world!
At the same time, Hao Ren's trio outside the back door of the temple (the little bat was temporarily stuffed in Hao Ren's pocket as equipment) were still working hard to cause trouble.
The shattered barrier was once again restored to its original state. Hao Ren had left the barrier running for a while to try to figure out its charging route, hoping to close it from the source, but he soon discovered that instead of studying this The technical work might as well be to break it a few more times - it wouldn't take much effort anyway, and he had a feeling that this thing wouldn't last long.
"Crack, crack, scratch", the barrier was once again shattered into pieces by him, but it was restored to its original state in the next moment, leaving no time for anyone to rush in.
Lily hugged her giant alloy sword and squatted next to Hao Ren, counting with an innocent face:
"Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen..."