The wizard starts by trimming the donkey's hooves

Chapter 495 Red Flare

"drink!!!"

All that was heard was a roar from the Swordmaster Tirion!

The sound waves containing the special will of the Sword Master, with Tirion as the center, created ripples and spread rapidly, immediately causing the surrounding mist to become disturbed.

When the sound waves reached those elite soldiers whose eyes rolled back, they all came back to their senses as if awakened from a dream.

They looked down at their physical condition and their surroundings with horror on their faces, but years of training allowed them to quickly draw their weapons, form a formation and retreat back to the team.

However, whispering is inevitable.

"what happened?"

"Why am I here?"

"Yes, I just clearly..."

From the conversation between these soldiers, Ryan immediately judged that this voice seemed to have the effect of confusing the mind, and at the same time, dragged people's consciousness into some kind of illusion.

As for why he, Tirion and Hernandez were not affected, it was probably because both the Dawn Wizard and the Sword Master had a strong resistance to this abnormal mental state.

However, Ryan will not take it lightly!
Because of the constant whispering, it was hard to tell whether it would have any impact on the three of them.

If this change is very small, in the current environment, it may be difficult to detect as time goes by.

"Your Majesty Hernandez, I think we should block the impact of that voice on these soldiers." Ryan turned to Hernandez beside him and said.

Hernandez nodded. He also saw that as Tirion's roar, which contained a special will, ended, these elite soldiers, under the influence of the strange whisper, began to undergo some unnatural changes.

"Pay attention, I will cast a Silence spell on you. You will not be able to hear any sound, nor make any sound."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hernandez immediately began to perform the spell.

"Silence spell!"

Hernandez moved his lips quickly, raised his hand and cast a spell towards the soldiers at the back of the team.

Then, all the soldiers looked surprised.

Because they found that they could no longer hear the whispering voice that was affecting their minds.

Although they also cannot make any sound, this is not a problem for them.

At this moment, Ryan, together with the Swordmaster Tirion, focused most of their attention on the front.

All I could hear was the 'click' sound, which became clearer and more frequent.

Suddenly, in the mist dozens of meters away, many shadowy figures over three meters tall emerged. However, these tall figures did not look like humans, but rather like some kind of animals.

"Swish!"

After confirming that the opponent was an enemy and not a friend, the Sword Saint Tirion shook his wrist, and in an instant, more than a dozen sharp silver sword lights attacked forward from multiple angles.

"Chi! Chi!"

The sword light cut through certain objects.

"Bang! Clang!"

The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard one after another.

"Mechanostrider?"

At this time, the elite soldiers in the rear could see clearly that the clicking sound just now was actually from the mechanical chocobo created by the ancient Goblin Empire.

"Strange. Logically speaking, the Goblin Empire has existed for thousands of years. How could there be mechanical chocobo patrols operating?" Hernandez couldn't help but murmur.

Ryan has the same questions as Hernandez.

It would be relatively reasonable if these mechanical chocobos were kept in some kind of closed warehouse and could function normally.

But if it has been operating like this for thousands of years.
This matter is very strange when you think about it!

After all, even dragons find it difficult to survive for so long, so how can these goblins?
Oh, right, goblins!
When focusing his attention on those goblin controllers, even Ryan's pupils suddenly shrank!
Because he saw that the goblins that were chopped into several pieces had wrinkled skin and looked like mummies.

It’s hard to imagine that these things were controlling the mechanical chocobo just now.

If these things are controlling it, then it would explain why the mechanical chocobo patrols have been able to go on for thousands of years.

But the question arises again, are the equipment also maintained by these goblin mummies?
Can ordinary zombies retain their consciousness before death?

Ren frowned slightly.

"Zombie?!"

"Undead creatures?" Sword Master Tirion frowned and turned to ask Hernandez.

"It seems that they are not zombies in the general sense. If these goblin mummies are transformed into zombies among undead creatures, they should not be able to control the mechanical chocobos." Hernandez said solemnly.

"In other words, the mummy is most likely just a superficial phenomenon." Ryan nodded and walked forward to take a closer look.

The hardened gold in his hand quickly transformed into a knight's sword, which moved the broken corpses on the ground.

suddenly!

A small black bug ran out from the side of the goblin's shriveled head, or to be more precise, from the ear, at an extremely fast speed.

"what?"

And the most important thing is that the black bug quickly jumped along the knight's sword, trying to pounce on Ryan's face.

"Hey!"

A flash of silver sword light passed by, and the black bug was chopped into pieces in mid-air.

But what was strange was that the remains of the black insect did not fall to the ground, but turned into a black smoke and dissipated in the air.

If there was anything left, it seemed to be only some barely detectable black dust.

At this time, the black bugs in the brains of other goblin mummies also rustled and crawled out one after another.

However, they seemed to sense that Ryan and his group were not easy to deal with, so they immediately fled in all directions.

"Want to escape?!"

Swordmaster Tirion swings his sword again!
Suddenly, a silver sword light followed behind each black insect.

In a flash, all the bugs were wiped out.

However, just like before, the remains of the black bug that had been split apart soon began to emit black smoke and disappeared.

"Was this the thing that was controlling these goblins just now?" Hernandez's expression became increasingly ugly.

"It should be. Your Majesty Hernandez, have you seen this kind of thing?" Ryan couldn't help but ask.

"No." Hernandez shook his head and said.

"However, I seem to have seen in an ancient book that there is a record of a monster called a xenomorph that devours the brains of intelligent creatures and controls their bodies."

"But the appearance of the alien bug is quite different from the black beetle-like bug in front of us."

"The most important point is that the other party has a clear entity, while this one looks more like a transformation of some evil energy."

"Yeah." Ryan nodded and said nothing.

This is true.

When Ryan first saw this black bug, he thought he had encountered a creature similar to the Zerg, but now it seems that is not the case.

"Or, let's send these soldiers out first. This place is not something they can explore." Tirion glanced at the group of elite soldiers behind him and said to Ryan and Hernandez.

"Okay." Hernandez nodded and said.

"I'm afraid it's difficult." Ryan shook his head.

"Huh?" The two couldn't help but look at Ryan in surprise.

Ryan pointed to the back and said:
"Your Majesties, look behind you. I just discovered it as well." Tirion and Hernandez couldn't help but look behind them. They saw that in the mist, the familiar houses on both sides of the street had changed without them noticing.

Although they were also private houses, the two were sure that many of them appeared for the first time, such as a store with a huge beer bottle billboard.

"Are these houses moving?" Sword Master Tirion showed surprise for the first time.

"No, it's not just the house that's changing, it's the ground itself that's changing," Ryan said in a deep voice.

Although the faint gear sound he had heard before seemed to be quite a long distance away, when he thought of the gears, Ryan guessed something.

"I suspect that the ground beneath this is not ordinary ground." Ryan bent down and reached out to touch the ground.

As a strong dark silver light bloomed in his palm.

The ground trembled slightly, and then the square marble blocks paved on the street broke one after another, revealing a hard object with a metallic color underneath, but it was immediately pulled out by Ryan using metal deformation magic.

"This is metal. There is metal underneath?" Hernandez couldn't help but look at Tirion.

For a city that covers such a huge area and is made entirely of metal, then the technology hidden in this ancient goblin capital is probably far beyond everyone's previous judgment.

"Well, and it's not natural. It's some kind of high-purity alloy." Ryan looked carefully at the dark metal in his hand, nodded and said.

"Then let's go directly from below." As Tirion was speaking.

Suddenly, a bright red light appeared in the air about a few hundred meters in front of their right side.

Even through the layers of mist, you can vaguely see the slightly glowing dark red light.

"Hmm?" Ryan squinted his eyes and looked over.

"This seems to be a distress signal from the Federation." Swordmaster Tirion said in a deep voice.

Although normal flares are much brighter than this one, if we consider the influence of the special mist here, the current brightness is reasonable.

"Just ask the sergeants."

In fact, there is no need to ask. From the actions of the soldiers who were cast with the "silence spell" and pointed at the air with excited expressions, it can be shown that this is indeed a special distress signal flare used by the federal army.

"It's not far from us. If it's really a flare, it means someone is still alive."

"That's right, and it's most likely the team Hiram is in." Ryan nodded, his eyes slightly shining.

If Hiram is alive, that would be great, as it means Ryan's Dawn killer move has been found.

"Why can't it be the two search teams before?" Tirion asked puzzledly.

"Tirion, do you think even the most elite military team can withstand the whisper just now?" Hernandez answered for Ryan.

"That's right." After being reminded, Tirion immediately understood.

"Shall we continue on?"

"I agree. After rescuing Hiram and the others, we will evacuate immediately." Hernandez nodded and said.

"I have no objection." Ryan agreed naturally.

"Okay." Sword Master Tirion frowned instinctively and said.

Because although the enemies were easily destroyed by him, somehow, there was always an lingering haze in Tirion's heart.

This place made him uncomfortable.

Soon, the team adjusted its direction and began to move towards the location of the red flare.

Due to the silencing spell, that small team of elite federal soldiers once again explored the way in front and on both sides. With the help of special combat sign language, they could not speak or hear any sound, but it did not affect them at all.

minutes ago.

Inside the ruins, in the force field of the shield.

"Lord Hiram, this is the second last flare. We fired it once every hour before, and now we fire it once every three hours. There is still no sign of any rescue outside."

A second-level liquefaction wizard licked his cracked lips as he reported.

"We still have some food, but we are running out of water."

Although they had almost perfectly avoided the unknown horrors and dangers in the ruins under the dual protection of the shielding device and the isolation magic array, the problem was that they could not hold on for much longer.

"The energy of the shield is running low. In order to achieve the best effect, it has been running at full capacity. So, it can only last three more days at most." A hoarse voice sounded.

This was also a second-level liquefaction wizard from the Federal Mechanical Research Institute. He fiddled with the shielding device with a grim look on his face.

"Has the Federation given up on us?"

"No, but it is very likely that the rescue team has encountered the same trouble as us." The major of the exploration team shook his head and said.

"But the result is the same, isn't it? We won't get any help!"

"Damn goblins, damn monsters!" A young wizard was obviously a little out of control.

He has been staying in this area of ​​less than thirty square meters for a whole week.

"Sir Hiram, should we try to break out?"

The major turned to look at Hiram, the most senior person at the scene.

"Don't you think we don't want to? But before we met you, we tried twice. In addition to losing people, we also lost a lot of supplies. Otherwise, we could have held on longer."

Another wizard answered for Hiram who was in deep thought.

"Wait one more day. If there is no reinforcement tomorrow, we will give it a try." At this time, Hiram came back to his senses from his thoughts and said.

at the same time.

Ryan and his group quickly advanced in the direction where the flare had just appeared.

But maybe it was because they had just killed that team of strange mechanical chocobo patrols, but less than three minutes later, Ryan and his team encountered two more patrols.

“It’s happening more and more frequently.”

"The second time it was a minute and a half, this time, it was about forty seconds." Ryan said in a deep voice.

"It doesn't matter how many of these things come. It can be solved in a second." Tirion disagreed.

"Tirion, you don't understand what Lord Renn means. He means..."

Just as Hernandez was speaking, suddenly, there was a heavy metal collision sound from the front.

"Boom! Boom!"

This collision sound was completely different from the previous clicking sound, and the ground began to tremble slightly.

"It looks like someone big is coming."

"Hernandez, is this what you wanted to say just now?" Sword Saint Tirion looked forward, slowly drew out his sword, and said.

"No, what I want to say is that there must be something here that is controlling the actions of these goblin mummies." Hernandez shook his head and said.

"Huh? This is a prototype!"

Suddenly, Hernandez, who was speaking, opened his eyes wide and looked at the huge machine that came out of the smoke, shocked.

Ryan looked carefully and saw that the other party was a huge humanoid golem about twenty meters tall, but its style was very different from the Destroyer of the Walzig School.

There are no palms at the end of its arms, but three black gun muzzles. What is more conspicuous is that there are six thick gun barrels placed in the center of its chest, shaped like a Gatling gun.

But the diameter of these gun barrels is the size of an adult's fist. Obviously, this is a killing machine.

"Prototype? Is it the giant golem that Hiram controlled when he entered here?" Tirion, who was about to take action, was also stunned and said.

Because previous intelligence showed that Hiram entered the site with a prototype, a giant golem that was excavated from other goblin ruins and restored.

Now that the prototype has appeared, could it be that Hiram’s brain has been eaten away by the strange black bug just now?
Or is it that the other party is still in a safe place, but just can't get out?

For a moment, the Swordmaster Tirion did not take the initiative to attack.

(End of this chapter)