Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 723 The Dusk Beast Sleeps Here [5.5k words]

clang--! !

The sword swept across, and with the powerful sword force boosting it, it collided heavily with the spear in the old guard captain's hand, causing the bloodshot eyes under the skull sheep head mask of the old guard captain to freeze suddenly. Then with a bang, he was forced back several steps by Xin Lailai's sword, giving people the feeling that the originally indestructible city wall suddenly had a few cracks.

Return!
"Haha! Well done! Brother Black Sword! ! "

Randy, who was below, saw this and his eyes lit up. He laughed happily and praised Xin Lailai in his mind while decisively pulling the trigger. Two beams of light, one black and one white, shot up into the sky from the muzzle of his gun and headed straight for the old guard captain's head. Xin Lailai, who was in front of the old guard captain, did not hesitate at all. He forced the old guard captain back with a sword, then raised his head abruptly, a faint blue light flashed across his eyes.

Soul-destroying gaze, double shot.

boom--! !

The violent soul shock burst out, and the elemental/abyssal bullets enhanced by the gun master accurately bombarded the old guard captain's head, causing the old guard captain's movements to pause suddenly, and his head fell backwards uncontrollably, but he still forcibly swung the spear in his hand, blocking it in front of him with a terrifying fighting instinct, but...

Abyssal Blade Flow·Dragon Turbulence!
boom! ! !
There was an astonishing sound of breaking through the air. The White Mage, who had been accumulating strength to the limit, brushed past Xin Lailai and forcibly activated the Dark Steel Shadow state for the second time. He kicked the old guard captain, whose body protection energy was temporarily cooling down, with a side kick. The terrifying destructive power of the LV.20 kicking master exploded, kicking the black armor on the old guard captain's body to pieces. He also coughed up a large mouthful of black blood under the skull sheep head mask, and successfully experienced the feeling of the three people who were shot by him before.

However, before the White Demon could start chasing, a pitch-black spear with a tattered flag fluttering on it suddenly swept towards his head. The old guard captain who was kicked away by him grabbed the space beside him with his left hand and forcibly stopped his retreat. He turned around and shot at the White Demon. The rising bloodshot eyes and terrifying momentum were so terrifying that no one would have believed that this was a sign of the other party entering a weak state if they had not seen it with their own eyes.

This is the old captain of the garrison, the strongest warrior in the empire in the past. He is like an old beast that never surrenders. Even when he is in desperate situation, the sense of oppression he exudes is far stronger than those strong men from the three major forces on the surface who are immersed in internal strife and can enter the realm of grandmaster only because of the knowledge and foundation left by their predecessors.

Unfortunately……

Boom——! !

A golden light bloomed, and Xin Lailai's figure appeared, steadily taking over the White Demon's position and blocking the attack. The dark pressure emanating from his body collided with the dark red blood emanating from the old guard captain's body, reflecting the cold and calm eyes in each other's pupils.

If those masters of techniques that have been slightly diluted were here, they might be intimidated by the aura of the old guard captain who fought out of the battlefield in the abyss, but unfortunately, none of those who can stand here today... have not fought their way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood!
boom--! !

Two more soul-destroying gazes erupted, and the violent soul shock once again bombarded the old guard captain's soul as heavy as a mountain, causing him to stagger again and forcing him to reveal a huge flaw.

And it was during this brief gap that several explosive bombs wrapped in space fluctuations rushed out from the surroundings at extremely tricky angles, penetrated into the body of the old guard captain with the sound of flesh and blood piercing, exploded in his internal organs, and turned into a circle of invisible space fluctuations, which suddenly imprisoned the old guard captain's body in mid-air.

Faced with this excellent artificially created opportunity for output, Xin Lailai did not hesitate at all. He swung the Youlin Kongyu behind him heavily, took a step forward, and burst out with sword power. Together with the White Demon rushing from another direction, he slashed at the old guard captain on the left and right.

Tangled Blade·Domineering Slash!

Abyss Blade Style: Dragon Breaking Double Flash!
boom--! ! !
The powerful combined attack of the heavy sword master and the sword master broke out, smashing and cutting off the old guard captain's arms, and suddenly reducing the old guard captain's health to less than 40%. At this moment, a dark golden light suddenly bloomed from the old guard captain's body. It was the body protection energy that was about to recover from cooling, but...

The sword world...is coming!
The fishy-sweet blood rushed up from the throat. Xin Lailai, who was standing in front of the old guard captain, did not hesitate at all. He used the remaining sword force in the air to wrap up the white magic beside him and stepped decisively, activating the sword barrier again despite the huge burden on his body.

hum!
A time-slowing field with a radius of 40m bloomed, and in an instant, the whole world seemed to slow down. Xin Lailai, who was in the field, slowly got into a posture of swinging the sword, took a step forward, and exerted force with his arms. All the remaining sword energy in his body burst out, and the deep ink in his hand instantly passed through the air, leaving several afterimages.

Blade Entanglement·Heavenly Dance!

Boom boom boom boom boom——!!

The combination of Juetian and Luanwu, which could only be successfully used in the sword barrier, exploded. Seven slashes with energy-cutting properties accurately bombarded the old guard captain's torso, instantly shattering the protective energy on his body surface, and finally -

Abyss Blade Style·Devil Blade!
A dark blade flashed by, and almost at the moment when the old guard captain's health was reduced to less than 20%, the white demon who was also in the sword barrier took a decisive step forward and stabbed straight into the old guard captain's body.

Om-! !

The sword barrier dissipated after 0.4 seconds, and the power of the dark magic blade burst out, instantly engulfing the body of the old guard captain, making him completely frozen in place. The blood light under the skull and sheep head mask suddenly went out, and all life was lost.

[Hint: Team member · White Mage, has killed the world-class unit · Duskblood Guard Captain]

The cold reminder sounded, causing the three people on the battlefield to breathe a sigh of relief at the same time. However, just as Xin Lailai was looking at the gradually disintegrating corpse of the old guard captain in front of him and was about to remove the core of the dark world from his chest, something unexpected happened -

"How can I... stop...?!"

A hoarse, obscure, low murmur suddenly sounded as if it came from all directions in the entire space, causing Xin Lailai and the other two to suddenly change their expressions. Almost as if out of instinct, they retreated hundreds of meters and simultaneously launched a variety of long-range attacks, decisively bombarding the old guard captain's body that was 100% dead. Finally...

Boom-! ! !
The heavy arm that should have collapsed suddenly raised up, and golden light burst out, protecting the world core on its chest while blocking all the attacks from Xin Lailai and the other two. The body of the old guard captain, who had been clearly confirmed dead in the paradise prompt, slowly stood up again in mid-air, and the extinguished blood light under the skull mask was rekindled like an eternal blood flame.

“Hey, you must be kidding. That’s the Devil’s Blade’s kill…”

A murmur of disbelief came from Randy's mind. Not only him, but at this moment, everyone, including Xin Lailai and Bai Mo, looked at the old guard captain who stood up again in front of them, and looked at the prompt that popped up at the edge of their sight. An unbelievable sense of absurdity and shock arose in their minds.

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[Tip: Changes in target information have been detected and the target information has been updated]

Name: Captain of the Duskblood Guard, Boroakesi (deceased)

Category: Overlord Unit/World Will Carrier/Abyss Guardian/Imperial Guard Captain/Last Warrior
Health: 0% (Dead)

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Willpower: 203 (real attribute, has exceeded the absolute limit of this world)
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Skill 7, Immortal Loyal Soul (World/Ultimate, Active, LV.EX): The will of the old guard captain has surpassed the world itself, replacing his soul to support his actions. When he dies, if his will has not disappeared, even if he dies completely, his life source will consume the power of the world and regroup under the drive of his will until the world dies.

*Tip: This ability requires a "super-huge" amount of willpower to activate. Based on the Pioneer's current willpower, the probability of successfully activating this ability is only 13.1%.

*Tip: The Duskblood Guard Captain resurrected by this unit is a brand new individual with the same will, not the old Duskblood Guard Captain at the time of death.

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True will…203 points.

When Xin Lailai saw the message that popped up in front of him, his brain felt like it was hit by a sledgehammer, and his entire mind went blank.

There is no blessing bestowed by the abyss.

There are no world-given miracles.

Just by relying on his willpower that was so strong that it was almost unbelievable, he was able to erode the world in the opposite direction... no, to be more precise, he conquered the core of the world and the abyss energy that eroded into his body!

——This is the truth behind why the opponent's abyss secret is to use the power of the abyss to enhance the ultimate ability of one's own techniques, rather than the abyss providing some unsolvable ability like normal abyss life.

Xin Lailai had seen many Abyssal enemies with the ability to resurrect from the dead, whether it was the Abyssal Remnant Image in the Black Fourth World, the Dark Light Alien in the Black Bullet World, or the various Abyssal creatures he had fought in the Dead Sea Ruins. However, the immortality of these Abyssal creatures was essentially the "blessing" from the Abyss. Even if they could avoid conventional killing abilities, they would still have to die if they encountered a conceptual killing ability like the Demon Blade.

The resurrection of the old captain of the guards completely impacted Xin Lailai's understanding of "immortality", or in other words... washed away his understanding of the limits that individual will can reach.

Even though the body is dead.

Even if the soul is broken.

But as long as that terrifying will and obsession has not dissipated, the will that has been imprinted into every cell and every energy of the other party's body will still, under the influence of his obsession and the core of the world, continuously "awaken" the old guard captain who should have been completely dead again and again.

Boom!
On the battlefield, the body of the old guard captain who had stood up again was seen stepping forward slowly in silence. Compared with his previous movements, his movements gave people a sense of obvious stiffness and sluggishness. However, none of Xin Lailai and the other two dared to step forward to attack. It was not only because their current conditions were already extremely bad, but more importantly -

"Can this guy... really be killed?"

Randy looked at the old guard captain who was walking towards them step by step, looking at the tall but broken figure, and murmured. Xin Lailai and Bai Mo heard his words, looked at the figure in their pupils that seemed like it would never fall down, and did not speak, but they had the same idea as Randy in their minds.

Can it really be killed?

Perhaps there is a way, but in that case, it is almost inevitable to destroy the core of the world. Even based on the will and obsession shown by the old guard captain in front of him, Xin Lailai even doubted whether destroying the core of the world could really kill the other party completely?

Boom!
The heavy sound of advancing movement was heard again on the battlefield, and a bloody light like flames was swaying from under the skull goat head mask of the old guard captain, dragging his broken body and continuously advancing across the battlefield, making it impossible to imagine the scene of him falling down.

"There's no other way, Brother Randy! Brother White Devil! Help me create an opportunity, and I'll destroy the core of the world! ! "

Xin Lailai looked at this scene, took a deep breath, and a hint of ruthlessness and decisiveness flashed across his dark pupils. The demonic power in his body flowed, and he stared at the old guard captain in front of him. He was about to enter the state of annihilation with Ling Yuzi and completely destroy the core of the world.

Boom!
The sound of footsteps caused Xin Lailai's eardrums to tremble slightly. In an instant, the old guard captain's body at the end of his sight seemed to have sensed something. He suddenly raised his head, stopped, and looked at Xin Lailai with his bloodshot eyes.

'Laila!'

boom--! !

In an instant, a huge roar exploded in the mind of Xin Lailai who was looking at him, and a large number of images emerged in his mind uncontrollably, causing him and Ling Yuzi's consciousness to be suddenly washed away into a trance. It felt like an incomparably huge will suddenly descended into his and Ling Yuzi's minds, carrying their consciousness uncontrollably towards a huge river, and forced to watch everything that was witnessed by that huge will.

In a trance, a vast amount of images flashed before Xin Lailai's eyes. In the images, there were young warriors fighting on the battlefield, a young king being worshipped by countless people, familiar faces that they did not recognize at all but were familiar to them, a dark tide surging from the earth, and a look of despair that flashed by under the tide...

At this moment, the whole world seemed to slow down, and the scenes kept passing by, from the abyss monster rushing out of the earth, to the old warrior who fought endlessly in the army of monsters and became stronger, to the prosperous royal city being exiled to another space amid the crying of the subjects...

It was from this time on that no matter which picture was in which frame, the tall figure wearing a skull goat head mask would quietly stand in the corner of the picture, sometimes on a city wall accompanied only by the cold wind, sometimes on the edge of a square where people gathered, and sometimes on a battlefield filled with overwhelming abyss monsters...

As the scene changes, the figures around the old warrior wearing the skull goat head mask begin to decrease. He is like a watchman, picking up the shield that he is not good at using, hiding his weakness, and quietly guarding everything in silence, from the empire, to the royal city, to the different space, and even the hole in the abyss, and entrusting everything to the king who was later killed by his own hands...

In the picture, in a space where time flows abnormally fast, the old guard captain guards the remains of the king and the core of the world entrusted to him by the other party, fighting with the endless influx of abyss creatures. When he rests, the picture in front of him switches from the space battlefield shrouded in illusion to the endless land and sky...

One hundred years, five hundred years, one thousand years, three thousand years, five thousand years...

The picture changed, and Xin Lailai felt that the scenes in his mind began to quickly pass away, and the perspective in front of him kept switching between the space battlefield and the scenes of the old continent.

Fight, rest, fight, rest, and finally they even killed so many people that the behemoths in the abyss dared not set foot in the space battlefield anymore and only dared to wander outside the battlefield.

Not only that, as the picture progressed, he could feel that the will that was engulfing them was becoming more and more violent and tyrannical, especially when he saw the civilizations on land waging war and fighting again and again for various interests, that kind of tyranny and sense of destruction seemed to be destroying the entire world.

Just when that will was about to get out of control, the scene in front of him suddenly slowed down, and then he saw an extremely familiar scene -

That is the current Dark Glow Continent.

There are still wars, killings, and resources plundering, but it is no longer the same as before. The scene is no longer about humans fighting each other, but a war between humans and the behemoths of the abyss.

The scene continued to flow, from the fortress filled with laughter after being transformed by technology, to the pyroxene disease patients, humans and alien races gradually accepting each other in the coexistence zone, to the busy figures running around for the operation of the fortress...

In the picture, there are children surrounding an old professor who is in his twilight years and asking him to tell stories, there are pyroxene disease patients who are sobbing because they are saved, and there are warriors from different races who join forces to fight against the abyss monsters on the front line...

Gradually, Xin Lailai felt that the violent will that overlooked everything gradually became calmer, like a giant beast that gradually lost its murderous intent, and finally -

He saw himself.

"What do you call...?"

In an instant, an old voice with an incomparable sense of oppression sounded from Xin Lailai's mind, waking him up suddenly. In the nearly still world, he looked at the old guard captain in front of him. After a moment of silence, he spoke:

"Black Sword."

After the words fell, the old guard captain in front of Xin Lailai slowly lowered his head, stared at him for a while with the scarlet eyes hidden under the skull mask, nodded slightly, and spoke in a hoarse and low voice:

"The oath... was not...kept."

"But...your...power...will...everything...you do...is no different from...your oath..."

Hoarse words that exuded a huge sense of oppression exploded in Xin Lailai's mind, causing his brain to suddenly buzz. The scene in front of him shattered, and from various images that passed by like a dream, he returned to the extremely familiar desert battlefield. The time displayed on the brand interface at the edge of his vision was less than half a second.

"Therefore..."

A hoarse and low voice exploded from Xin Lailai's ears, causing Xin Lailai to snap back to his senses. Not only him, but also Bai Mo and Randy, who were also a little dazed, seemed to have heard something and suddenly looked in the direction in front of them, and then...

"You are qualified."

A deafening hoarse voice exploded in the minds of the three people, and a huge will like a tsunami swept through their brains, causing Xin Lailai and the other two to groan. Their vision shook briefly, and when they looked in front of them again, they saw that the tall figure of the old garrison captain standing on the battlefield had stopped at some point, and stood there quietly like an immortal statue, with the figures of the three people reflected in his extinguished pupils.

A strong wind blew past, and the body of the old guard captain collapsed in the wind, turning into pitch-black ashes all over the sky. Only a pitch-black world core fell from his chest and hit the gray-white gravel with a slight sound, half-buried there. Xin Lailai and the other two looked at each other, nodded slightly, walked forward, and Xin Lailai picked up the world core that fell on the ground, and then silently looked towards a certain place on the battlefield:

Gray and white sand whistled past in the sky. Under the ruins of the royal city, a broken spear was stuck on the throne, and the tattered flag on it fluttered in the strong wind.

The oath is long gone, only the loyal soul remains immortal.

Boom——! !

There was a roar like the collapse of the world, and the entire space battlefield began to crack into space cracks one after another. The ground under everyone's feet began to shake violently. Finally, the palace, which had long been overwhelmed, suddenly collapsed, burying the king's bones and the warriors' spears in the falling space debris.

The unyielding dusk beast sleeps forever.

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(End of this chapter)