Knight and Wand

Chapter 360 Blood Sacrifice

Trap?
Leon glanced at Angert, who also looked surprised.

But he gave up the speculation in an instant.

There is no need. If the vampire undead wanted to attack him and others, they would have had plenty of opportunities before.

He raised his hand and lit the Holy Soul Lamp in front of the big bell that was shining brightly with red light, covering everyone to guard against the soul bell that was inexplicably activated. He had not forgotten that Azerien beside him could not resist the evil sound.

"Did you activate this altar?" The Blood Knight asked Leon cautiously, drawing his sword.

"What a coincidence. I was just about to ask you something." Leon led everyone back and immediately asked, "Have you seen this scene? Is this a sign that the Dark Gate is about to appear?"

Angert stared at the Soul Bell and denied loudly: "No, these bells have never reacted like this, otherwise we would have destroyed them all."

As they were talking, the Death Claw that stood up not far away suddenly flapped its wings and flew over, landing on the side of the crowd with a bang, roaring angrily as if facing some natural enemy.

Roar! ! !
Amid the deafening eagle cry, the griffin's feathers stood up.

Leon had never seen such a violent reaction from the Death Claw. Through the consciousness link, he could feel the anger and fear from the Griffin's soul at this moment.

"——Olivia, draw your sword!"

Without any hesitation, Leon shouted.

The girl clasped her hands together, and the sun magic pattern suddenly appeared under her hand armor.

Like a corona of daylight spots, it condensed during Olivia's chanting.

The gravity overturn caused by the holy sword shook the surrounding ruins and tiles into the sky.

The warhorse beside Azerien neighed in fear, and the dazzling light of the holy sword made the Blood Knights not far away retreat in fear.

Under these waves of gravity shocks, the soul bell in front also suddenly produced strange phenomena almost at the same time.

Countless dazzling scarlet magic patterns spread from the bottom of the Soul Bell, spreading to the surroundings, and in a blink of an eye covered the feet of the retreating people.

"Whatever it is, it's probably not a good thing. Get out of here!"

Leon made a prompt decision.

Hearing his companion's voice, Azerien felt as if he was facing a great enemy. He wisely pulled the reins beside him and quickly mounted his mount.

Angert summoned the wight warhorse and rushed forward, galloping at least to the left and right of the master, guarding Azerien as he retreated away from the Soul Bell, while roaring and summoning the undead army outside the town to assemble.

Olivia tightly grasped the gorgeous sword that had condensed in an instant. Just as Leon, who was at the back, was about to mount on the griffin saddle with her, waves of surging dark entities seemed to seep out of the surface of the blood-shining bell in front of them.

In the impenetrable darkness, red rays of light faster than sound, wrapped in terrifying impact, emerged from the darkness like tentacles!

The two reacted quickly and stepped away at the same time.

The griffin also flapped its wings and leaped up under Leon's urgent command.

——Boom! !

The solid ground seemed to be hit by a meteorite, the land was lifted up like waves, and the places where the red light touched were shaken instantly.

Olivia, holding a greatsword, flipped in mid-air and landed on a collapsed roof, screaming loudly.

"That's the Blood Demon's secondary limb!"

At that moment, she had seen clearly what the thing that attacked the two of them looked like.

Leon jumped far away in shock and dropped the lantern to his waist, then pulled out the boiling heart with his fingers.

Demon from the spirit world?!
Blood demon?
How can it be?

How could the demons, which had difficulty entering the mortal world, appear in the real world so easily?

But the hazy blood shadow twitching and rolling from the expanding dark curtain did not give him any chance to think.

The huge flesh tentacles, as big as a python, attacked the surrounding targets like a blood dragon, and one of them bounced up and directly hit the flying griffin.

The Death Claw, which had endured the heavy blow, howled as its sharp claws dug into flesh and blood, but was swung towards a tall building like a shaking whip, causing the stone building to collapse with a loud bang.

On the other side of the dust, a cold cry was heard, and a dazzling sword light flashed, sweeping towards Olivia's flesh and blood tentacles, and was cut into two pieces by the Holy Sword of the Sun dancing in the girl's hand.

However, when Olivia leaped and stood still again, she did not see the blood splattering.

The huge, half-real, half-illusory blood beard seemed like some kind of phantom that dissipated into the air.

Olivia defeated a tentacle with the unstoppable power of the holy sword in her hand. She glanced in the direction of her husband and saw a scene that shocked her the next moment.

There were far more blood tendrils than here, entwining and surrounding him. As soon as Leon activated the Boiling Heart, he could no longer care about Gungnir's condition. The thunder on his body turned into flashing lightning, and he swung his blade and danced while being chased by the tendrils of flesh and blood.

Olivia's eyes were instantly filled with golden light due to her shock and anger. She crushed the roof beams under her feet, and with a bang, she broke through the sound barrier like a golden meteor and slashed the demon's beard that was besieging Leon.

The extremely hard demon body could not withstand the sharpness of the Holy Sword of the Sun, and another blood whisker was cut off in mid-air.

Thunder and lightning seeped out of the tentacles with a loud bang, and Gungnir's rising molten flames pierced into the demon's flesh.

With his battle robe fluttering, Leon stepped on the huge demon limbs that looked like a bloody python under his feet, and nailed it to the ground with his magic spear upside down, but was knocked away by the demon's crazy struggle.

He instantly swung his blade to cut off another tentacle that was wrapped around him, and when he was blown into the air, the card of the Holy War Knight appeared in his palm.

When Leon was about to summon his tough guys to face this former demon enemy.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the dark curtain in the distance that had already enveloped and submerged the Soul Bell, and a burst of blood was rising into the sky, suddenly expanding at an incredible speed.

With nowhere to hide, Leon felt a chill all over his body. Even with his lightning-fast reaction, he was unable to dodge and was enveloped by darkness.

The expanding spherical black curtain suddenly shrank rapidly the moment it swallowed Leon.

The powerful blood tendrils that stretched out from the depths of the darkness seemed no longer able to maintain their hazy form and suddenly dissipated.

"——Leon!!!"

The girl watched in shock and anger as Leon was suddenly covered by darkness. She saw the dark curtain that swallowed her husband and then shrunk towards the origin of the Soul Bell mutation. Alarm bells rang in her heart.

Without a second thought, Olivia sonicated away at the fastest speed of her life, slashing down with the blade in hand, and crashing straight into the blackness.

The shrinking darkness sank into the surface of the Soul Bell and disappeared without a trace the next moment.

The heavy bell fell back into the rubble with a clang, toppling over helplessly, leaving only the griffin flapping its huge wings and running over, crying angrily and bewilderedly, searching for its lost companion.
Olivia's superhuman strength, which was enough to split the beast in two, hit nothing.

The Holy Sword of the Sun did not touch any expected entity. The powerful slashing attack, which was caused by insane and excessive force, caused the knight girl's body to roll like a top in the void where there was no support.

The dazzling light of the holy sword became almost the only thing visible to Olivia.

After she finally turned over, maintained her balance and stopped turning, she floated in the darkness and wanted to make a sound, to call out to her lover, but she could not shout out anything, and could not hear anything.

Suddenly, a strong hand grabbed Olivia's gauntlet.

The girl was slightly startled, but then she felt relieved. The light of the Holy Sword of the Sun illuminated Leon's face beside her.

Leon breathed a sigh of relief and opened his mouth, but still couldn't say anything. He could only use lip movements to comfort his wife.

He was really afraid of getting separated from Olivia in this space-like environment, so he held the girl's waist tightly with one hand and hugged her tightly, so that he had the energy to look at the strange place they were in at the moment.

There is a bottomless darkness everywhere.
This description is not accurate either.

Magic patterns appeared in Leon's pupils, and they switched to the magical vision of a spellcaster.

The darkness around you is just an illusion caused by the optic nerve being unable to receive signals and the brain being unable to perceive the surrounding information.

more specifically.

There was nothingness all around.

Apart from the magical light of the Holy Sun Sword at this moment, there was no light or darkness, no elements or matter around, and no primitive energy could be felt.

It seems to be very similar to the environment where Aphrodite's space-time magic was at the end, but also somewhat different.

Feeling the girl in his arms instinctively hugging him tightly, Leon patted her back to comfort her.

Although he didn't know what to do right now, at least he and Olivia were still alive.

Trying to turn his body, he used the vision given by magic perception to try to find any existence that could be called an indicator in the void. However, as soon as the two bodies changed angles, the things reflected in Leon's magic vision made him feel a tremor and shock from the bottom of his heart.

He couldn't tell up from down, left from right, but if the top of his head was above at this moment, then an inestimably large and dazzling crystal curtain was hanging above him and Olivia.

Countless indescribable brilliance floats within the refraction surfaces of the crystal curtain.

what is that?
Looking up at the boundless crystal screen, Leon was speechless for a moment.

Hiss. The crystal screen is shrinking? ?

Leon felt as if he could gradually see more and more outlines of the refractive surface of the crystal curtain.

Not just the outline.

As the crystal screen rose and fell and gradually came into his field of vision, Leon discovered that he and Olivia seemed to be in some kind of broad "silk string" that could be described as colorful.

The other end of the silk string seemed to be deeply connected to a certain mirror surface of the crystal screen.

This perception seemed somewhat contradictory, because compared to the "crystal curtain" that was so large that it was difficult to describe, the hazy line that converged in front of his field of vision was too small and could only be described as a "silk string."

Where exactly did the blood demon's tentacles pull him into?
The surrounding area does not seem to be a spiritual place.

Could it be the spirit world?
But this place doesn't look like the spirit world described in the magic book.

In a trance, he couldn't tell how much time had passed. It seemed that apart from his own thinking process, he couldn't even perceive the change of time.

Until he gradually saw the crystal screen in his field of vision becoming finer and finer, and even saw its outline faintly, and the string in front of him became longer and longer, Leon suddenly felt a chill down his spine.
It turned out that it was not the crystal screen that was shrinking, but that I was moving away from it.

With no actual reference to compare with, he finally discovered that he and Olivia were "moving" in this void at a speed beyond their perception.

He instinctively turned his head to look.

With eyes shimmering with white magic patterns, he saw that the other end of the "silk string" was actually connected to a "crystal bubble" sphere composed of an irregular multi-faceted crystal curtain.

In contrast to the crystal screen, the crystal bubble was constantly enlarging in Leon's eyes.

Like falling!

Turning his gaze back in horror, Leon took a last look at the crystal screen where he and Olivia were extremely far away.

In other words, it is the even larger "crystal bubble".

And around the huge crystal bubble, there is a purple crack that looks like a huge mouth.
There was no time to react in fear, and I couldn't tell whether it was just a moment or a long time.

When Leon felt gravity again, he could discern with his naked eyes that the nothingness around him had turned into countless light tracks that stretched out like a curtain of light and enveloped the two of them.

The feeling of weightlessness finally stopped.

Under my feet was a crystal clear, hard floor.

His eyes quickly adjusted to the dim candlelight surrounding him.

The breathing sounds of the two also reached each other's ears.

A strong and choking smell of blood suddenly rushed into Leon's nose, and he couldn't help but frown.

Along with the recovery of the five senses came an unbearable feeling of suffocation and fatigue.

My body felt as if I had slept without moving for three days and three nights. My muscles felt sore, numb and heavy, my joints felt extremely stiff, and the weight of my armor seemed to have increased several times.

But what made him most uncomfortable was the discomfort as if he was lacking oxygen that came along with the fatigue.

Olivia, who was panting, responded a little better.

The girl felt the endless darkness disappear, and endured the uncomfortable suffocation in her body. She pressed the hilt of the sword and raised her left hand, wanting to wipe the bloody vapor that had condensed into substance in front of her nose.

But Olivia inadvertently discovered that the joints of the iron gloves were difficult to hold together.

The iron fingers that were originally exquisitely nested between the knuckles seemed illogical, the finger sleeves were stuck together and could not move.

Before she could figure out why the armor was broken, Olivia looked up and suddenly stiffened.

With brute force, she twisted her right hand so that the joints could not open or close. She gripped the hilt of the sword tightly with her palm, and her eyes were filled with murderous anger.

In the dim hall, within the magic pattern array engraved at feet, countless headless corpses were kneeling in a posture of worship.

Blood flowed in the grooves of the engraved magic patterns, gathering into a pool of blood. Around it, indescribable horrific corpses were hung on cruel instruments that looked like torture instruments.

Leon, who was holding Gungnir's staff and covering his mouth and nose, also saw the cruel and blasphemous scene before him, which was like a cult sacrifice.

And myself and Olivia.

At this moment, he was standing in the center of the magic pattern of this bloody ritual.

Looking up at the outskirts where bloody corpses were scattered all over the ground, Leon saw a group of figures in white robes. Their pale faces looked at him and Olivia fanatically and joyfully.

There was a slight commotion, and whispers of someone communicating in an unfamiliar language reached his and Olivia's ears.

It was not Feru, nor Uriah, nor any other language Leon had ever heard.

At this time, the tall and thin figure crawling at the core of the magic pattern stood up.

He took off his hood, revealing a strangely handsome face underneath. His face looked just like a human's, but his skin was pale, and his mouth was full of bloody fangs, exposed without a trace.

vampire?
Leon listened to the guy speaking a series of excited words to him.

"****,******!"

Leon didn't know how to respond.

In other words, even if he could understand, the scene before him made him struggle to suppress his desire to swing Gungnir and kill all the vampires.

He held tightly onto Olivia, who was about to lose control of her rage, and tried to figure out their situation first.

But the change happened first on the opposite side.

The leading vampire suddenly twitched his nose and his expression changed drastically.

“***!!”

With a distorted face, his words turned into a sharp roar.

His eyes were ferocious and he pounced forward as fast as the wind.

However, what greeted him was Olivia's sharp blade that she no longer had to restrain.

The holy sword was so fast that it turned into a cold light, crushing the five fingers of the iron glove. With a swing of the sword, he beheaded the leading vampire.

Blood gushed out like a pillar, and the headless body was kicked away by Leon and fell into the crowd of "people".

His body felt so heavy that Leon felt his reaction was much slower than usual.

Looking at those robed vampires retreating continuously, he shouted in disbelief, raised his five fingers like sharp claws, opened his fangs and cursed.

Although Leon didn't know where this place was, he knew it was time to kill.

Holding Gungnir, he and Olivia, with their swords lowered, stepped over the pool of blood. He heard hurried footsteps coming from the corridor outside the hall.

The door was suddenly kicked open, and armored guards poured into the hall.

Leon couldn't help but stop, his eyes stunned.

The familiar black bulletproof vests tightly covered the bodies of the guards who rushed into the hall.

The robed vampires fled behind the equally pale-faced vampire guards.

In the hands of the guards were weapons whose shapes were so familiar to Leon that they couldn't be more familiar.

"--rifle?!"

next moment,
Seeing the vampires pulling the trigger, the muzzles of their guns suddenly burst into flames. Amid a series of deafening and crisp explosions, the guards pointed their guns at Leon and Olivia, spitting out whistling metal fire snakes.

(End of this chapter)