Chapter 163

After all, magicians should fight in the open, not in the depths of such a fortress. If they want to leave here, they must pass through the previous Forbidden Magic Hall, but the enemy is blocking them there.

Even if they want to pass through the wall... this wall cannot be easily destroyed, otherwise how can so many generations of emperors sleep peacefully?

But if they don't take it out now, the empire will fall apart, at least the emperor doesn't think so... If all his people die, the other princes who have been enfeoffed can still form a complete empire, and he can only give it a try.

Although it is a bit regrettable that the strongest Volame was buried in peace, there is no way... Volame's reputation is too great, almost threatening the emperor's authority, and he must not be left to the future, otherwise who will the empire listen to?

Even if Volame should have no second thoughts, he only wants to prevent humans from being destroyed by the demons and do his best to help the empire.

But how can the emperor believe in an outsider who has too high authority and is almost equivalent to the incarnation of the empire itself, and whose achievements are so great that they threaten the emperor?

After all, the empire's national day is to praise Volame, not the founding monarch.

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After breaking through the barrier of the Forbidden Magic Hall, Ash withdrew from the perfect state and restored the form that usually appeared in front of people.

After all, he didn't want too many people to discover his true body, and... he could also feel the magic that was spying on him besides the Forbidden Magic Hall.

Therefore, after completely destroying the Forbidden Magic Hall, he restored his human-like body and headed towards the predetermined route, intending to take advantage of the moment to completely kill them.

"Although there is some consumption, this level... In the final analysis, it is still just a small fish with a little strength, but all kinds of tricks are in line with Volame's character."

As Ash walked slowly towards the depths of the imperial capital, he muttered to himself: "But can't this empire try some new tricks? After so many years, it still relies on the old people who lived thousands of years ago? After so many years of relying on the old capital, there should be some progress... Well, if there was progress, there would not be so little territory left now."

At the end, he couldn't help laughing.

Of course, it shouldn't be a complete regression. There are some regressions and some improvements. There are also some improvements, but overall they are relying on the old capital. Otherwise, they would not have lost territory continuously since the unification of the empire and now shrinking in the former core circle.

After laughing, he looked calm and continued to move forward slowly.

Compared to before, the soldiers were pale and their eyes were full of fear. They kept retreating and no longer had the courage to fight with them.

In fact, they were already scared by the killing in the previous battle, but the military order was as firm as a mountain, so they had to bite the bullet and continue to rush forward to die.

"It's good this way. I don't like killing people." Ash whispered to himself, and his voice gently echoed in this space full of blood and death.

His steps were steady and firm, and he never stopped for a moment.

Every time he took a step forward, the soldiers shrank back like frightened birds, and the various enchanted weapons in their hands were trembling violently, and the "ding-dong" sound of metal collisions was endless, as if these weapons were not weapons to kill the enemy, but burdens that would drag them into the abyss.

Hearing Ash's muttering, the soldiers also felt like they had heard a fairy tale.

After all, Ash's whole body at this time exuded a strong and almost nauseating smell of blood. His blood-stained clothes and cold face made it hard for people to believe the truth of his words.

As they kept retreating, they soon had nowhere to retreat - they came to another closed hall.

In normal times, this place was just a passage, but there were various obstacles on both sides of the road to protect archers and magicians, and this was their last hope.

Twelve old men wearing wizard robes and holding magic wands - the strongest magicians in the empire in various time periods over the past thousand years, were now on full alert.

The dome of the hall was very high, and the walls were inlaid with glowing magic crystals, providing weak lighting for the upcoming battle.

A huge and complex magic array had been drawn on the ground, and there was a faint flow of magic in the array pattern. Groups of knights and soldiers were still blocking in front of them, becoming human shields for magicians who had no distance advantage.

There were even court magicians who all protected them in front of them, with the magic wands in their hands shining, obviously using their bodies to buy time for the ancient strongmen to release powerful magic to fight against the demon-like enemy in front of them.

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The whole hall was filled with a tense and oppressive atmosphere. A thrilling battle seemed to be about to begin.

The moment Ash stepped into the hall, he could feel the strong magic in the air. He showed a surprised expression when he scanned the twelve people:

"I always feel...I saw some familiar faces? Is this a dream?"

"——Get back! Villain!" Twelve magicians stood in a row, their eyes fixed on him. The leader, an old noble magician, suddenly took a step forward:

"Do you know that what is in front of you is the strongest in all human history! The legendary magician! And you face us... there is no hope of survival!"

"Stop bluffing. In this terrain, magicians are fighting me? Or... are they still a bunch of old antiques??" Hearing the scolding, Ash couldn't help but laugh, and when he heard this sentence I probably guessed it too.

These guys are magicians that have been preserved from various eras by the empire using sealing magic, so that they can save the empire from disaster in times of crisis.

It should indeed be possible to do it under normal circumstances, but the timing of using it... is obviously not right.

But his provocative words also made the aristocratic old man furious. But before the aristocratic old man could get angry, an elderly woman in the crowd looked at him, and her eyes widened suddenly as if she had discovered something:

"You...are you Lord Ash?!"

"....What? An acquaintance?"

"——I'm Joanna!" the old woman said excitedly, obviously excited to see her old friend again after a thousand years.

"Joanna... seems to have some impression?... Or maybe not?" Ash stared at the white-haired, stooped old woman, it was really difficult to recognize her.

"If you think about it seriously, I am the twenty-sixth disciple of Lord Volame! Didn't you ride next to me and attend classes with me before?"

"...She has so many disciples." After Ya Xiujing said this, she had some impression.

Thousands of years ago, Volamei had many disciples, and this Joanna was even more talented at that time, surpassing Fulian at that time in her middle age.

Although the two of them are not very familiar, they can be regarded as acquaintances.

Although this made Ya Xiu really surprised. Unexpectedly, he could still see ancient people from thousands of years ago here, but he sighed deeply, spread his hands and said: "Then? You should understand my position. What do you think?" Can you stop me? Or...do you want to end up in a bad old age? I personally don't want this."

A trace of hesitation flashed in Joanna's eyes, but was quickly replaced by determination: "Lord Ash, the empire is kind to me, and Lord Volamei also ordered me to protect the empire. Although I don't know why you do this, but I I can’t let you pass, but I can guarantee that if you leave now, I won’t pursue you.”

"The same words are given to you. If you leave, I won't chase you."

"....How could I leave."

"In that case, there is nothing more to say. For the sake of getting acquainted, I will send you to see Volame in the way of a magician."

Since the other party didn't have to retreat, he had no reason to retreat. His eyes instantly turned cold, and five black-purple light balls appeared around him.

This scene caused the court mages to quickly deploy defensive magic. The leader even reminded loudly:

"——My lords! This is murderous magic! It has extremely high penetrating properties! Please hurry up...!"

Before he could finish speaking, five dark beams of light poured out from the ball of light, hitting the translucent blue shields that the court mages had hurriedly deployed to defend against magic.

Bang--!

The loud noise was deafening, and a dazzling light erupted from the impact point, as if two stars were violently colliding.

The moment the light beam came into contact with the shield, layers of violent waves appeared on the shield, like a calm lake being thrown into a boulder.

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The dark beam of light struck the shield crazily, with power coming one after another like a raging tide.

The numerous court mages felt the impact of the attack and killing magic that was completely different from ordinary ones, but they could only grit their teeth, let the veins on their foreheads pop out, and try their best to maintain the shield.

More than thirty court mages joined hands and only focused on defense. However, as the light beam continued to impact, the defensive magic shields were layer by layer, breaking and disintegrating at an exaggerated speed, which shocked them:

"This, this is not! This is obviously not killing magic! His killing magic is obviously...!"

Before the magicians in the crowd could finish shouting, the leading palace magician opened his eyes wide and shouted at the top of his lungs: "——Stop being so nagging! Enhance your magic power! Hurry! Stack more defensive magic!!"

His voice had a clear tremor, and at this life-or-death moment, the extreme fear caused his voice to change its tone.

Other mages also followed suit and shouted with unclear meanings, which seemed to be just to increase their momentum... But in the current situation, their shouts were full of panic and confusion.

Bang ding! Bang ding! The sound of breaking could be clearly heard in the hall. The defensive magic turned into countless blue lights and shadows like broken glass and dissipated in the air. In just a few breaths, more than ten layers of combined shields were penetrated.

The light beam that broke through the shield remained powerful, even galloping like a runaway wild horse. Although the ancient magicians who reacted extremely quickly were stunned, they instantly displayed their strongest defensive magic when the shield in front was broken.

Some summoned huge rock walls in an attempt to block the light beam; some used wind magic to divert the direction of the light beam, or manipulated matter to form elemental monsters in front of them.

However, killing magic is already a cross-era magic. The improved killing magic not only has the property of restraining defensive magic, but also has a stronger penetration ability.

The several-meter-long rock wall was instantly penetrated like paper in front of the light column, turning into dust and floating away. The lava-like elemental giant bear and ice giant, however, relied on their powerful magic to hold on, but only a light column dragged them without any spare strength.

The strong wind containing huge magic power could only make the light column deviate a little, but could not change its unscrupulous sweeping trend. Instead, a flame column suddenly appeared to resist it slightly.

However, Ash just narrowed his eyes slightly, and the light column expanded instantly, breaking through all obstacles in an instant, like the roar of the god of death, making the shield knights blocking the front and the court mages protecting the ancient magicians scream uncontrollably.

But they could only watch the beam of light annihilate them, and desperately shouted: "No——!" The sound cut through the air, but could not stop the deadly force.

The bodies of the mages hit by the beam of light were instantly devoured, and their screams turned from sharp to twisted, as if their throats were tightly pinched by a pair of invisible hands.

The painful howls were mixed with the sound of the bodies being eroded and destroyed by magic, which was really creepy.

Among the dead who were annihilated by the beam of light, in addition to the court magicians and knights, there were even four ancient magicians who did not have time to dodge.

Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers and knights rushed up bravely without caring about anything else, but another beam of light instantly swept towards the surrounding soldiers.

The soldiers who had not yet reacted were horrified and widened their eyes, shouting desperately and uncontrollably.

But their screams stopped abruptly in mid-air.

Because most of their bodies, those areas that were touched, disappeared without a trace under that terrifying power, like ice melting and snow melting.

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The light column ravaged the hall mercilessly, and wherever it went, the soldiers were easily torn apart like fragile scarecrows, and blood splashed out and fell on the floor of the hall.

Some soldiers tried to resist with weapons, but the moment the weapons and shields touched the light column, no matter what kind of magic was attached to them, they were pierced like their bodies.

Just a sweep over, hundreds of soldiers were cut in half, causing screams, blood, and internal organs to rise and fall in this hall where magic light intersected.....

And all of this, under Ash's casually waving fingertips, intertwined into a song of despair.

The situation was far beyond expectations, and Joanna looked at this horrible scene, and a sense of despair surged in her heart uncontrollably.

But even so, she, with a solemn expression, held up her magic wand with the two people beside her, causing a huge magic vortex to appear in front of them, trying to absorb the light column into it.

Although the two light columns that were originally shot at them were indeed sucked into it, they were also constantly impacting the vortex, making the rotation speed of the magic vortex slower and slower, and gradually showing signs of collapse.

The three felt that the vortex was about to get out of control, but they still gritted their teeth and persisted, even though they all knew that they might not be able to resist for too long.

For all this, Ash just looked at it expressionlessly, raised his hands slightly, and added three more light balls and controlled the light column to continue to wreak havoc.

His eyes were cold and there was no mercy in his heart. At least in his opinion, those who blocked him... were not worthy of sympathy.

As the dance of the dream of zero hour pushed and moved, more and more soldiers fell down, and the magicians gradually lost their strength, and the whole hall fell into chaos and despair.

Under the sweep of the killing magic beam, the human body will be turned into powder in an instant. The blood of the remaining limbs and arms still gathered into small puddles on the ground. With the scattered limbs and arms, people can't help but wonder if they are in hell.

The ancient magicians tried their best to summon a stronger lava demon than before, carrying the dark red hellfire and rushing towards them.

Ash just flashed and came to the demon in an instant. He raised his hand and the dark lightning and slapped it directly on the head, knocked it to the ground, and kicked it down.

The lava demon exploded, splashing hot lava all over the ground.

The counterattack magic from other magicians hit Ash, and he didn't even need to defend himself. It was automatically annihilated and distorted in front of its powerful magic iron wall, and finally disappeared without a trace.

Two balls of light even appeared next to Ash again, increasing the intensity of cleaning the scene, and walked towards them slowly as before.

This scene made the soldiers, who were already fearful, completely collapse when their despair was broken again.

Some soldiers were even scared to the ground, and they didn't even notice that their pants were soaked in urine. Finally... one soldier couldn't bear the pressure first, and after screaming, he threw his weapon on the ground and turned around and ran away.

This action was like the first snowflake that triggered an avalanche. More and more soldiers followed suit. For a while, the sound of throwing away armor and helmets came one after another.

Even officers, knights, and magicians turned around and fled in panic without caring about their dignity.

.... In the chaos, Joanna couldn't see what was going on around her at all. She only found that there were fewer and fewer colleagues around her, but it seemed that she did not really rely on her strength to survive until now.

When they saw Ya Xiu's figure again, most of them had already fled. Ya Xiu suddenly stopped activating his murderous magic, but instead flashed and came to them in an instant.

The speed was so fast that they had no time to use magic. Without the protection of most of the melee personnel, they had no power to fight back.

No... with Ash's speed, those close combat personnel are not reliable at all.

But why did he turn into a ghost again when he was obviously a magic user? Nine-nine-this gull point, the ancient magic group magic users couldn't think of anything. clear.

After all, a magician who wants to achieve his level of achievement has no time to practice martial arts, and it is impossible for a human life to do both well.

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Unknowingly, only three ancient magicians, seven court mages, and a dozen knights were left.

But without exception, they looked at the young man approaching in the blink of an eye, with nothing but fear and despair in their eyes.

At this critical moment, a few people who had not seen the situation clearly, out of instinct or unwillingness, actually tried to activate magic and swing their swords.

But Ash remained expressionless as he let the long knife in his hand draw a cold arc in the air.

The sword flashed like lightning.

In an instant, several heads flew high into the sky, and blood spurted out like a fountain, forming a blood mist in mid-air.

The magicians who were about to cast magic and the knights who were about to step forward only had time to let out a short exclamation in their throats. The light of magic was extinguished the moment their lives disappeared, and the swords in their hands also fell.