Knight and Wand

Chapter 377 The Supreme of Beauty and Wisdom

".You will enter 'hell' with me. That is hell in the literal sense. Once you enter the spiritual world, I cannot guarantee your safety." Leon confirmed Sasha and others' determination for the last time.

"We have thought it through, sir. Whether we stay in this strange realm or step into the so-called spirit world with you, the risks are the same for us, but we have no experience or means to deal with demons. Rather than staying here and waiting to die, we might as well take the initiative to face the dangers that we can see clearly." Looking at the dark door between the evil tentacles that was like a bottomless well, Sasha responded in the affirmative without hesitation.

She looked back at the warriors she had trained personally, her eyes becoming even more determined.

"My soldiers are not mature enough, but they have the courage to sacrifice themselves. This is not just your battle, it's our battle as well."

Leon nodded. Since the other party had such awareness, he said no more.

Just as Sasha said, once she, the only spellcaster who could expel the evil spirits, entered the spirit world, it would be tantamount to waiting for death for them to stay in the spirit-like field where they could be targeted by demons at any time.

Especially for the Holy War Knights who emerged from the Neti Card, once the channel for the Blood Demon's summoning is closed, the Heroic Spirits will not be able to cross the two dimensions and maintain their existence. Rather than leaving these Kleinians alone, their survival rate may be higher if they stay by their side.

Leon turned the magic lantern's axis and switched it to the soul-protecting holy lamp mode.

A hazy curtain of light then enveloped everyone, stabilizing the souls of everyone present.

It not only strengthens the soul strength of the soldiers, but in the worst case scenario, once the local soldiers unfortunately die in the spirit world, the soul container of the lantern on the waist can at least recover their souls immediately. As long as they can return to reality alive, at least they can be guaranteed not to be devoured by the demons in the spirit world.

After making the only preparation he could, Leon walked to the dark well with a helpless look.

He didn't want to be an idiot, but the facts didn't give him a choice.

If the Blood Demon had not lied to him, then they really could not dispel the cursed field by conventional means of destroying the core. The fact that Canis had clearly destroyed the physical body of the spirit wizard, but the spirit-like field was still able to appear, was proof of this.

Now, there is no other way except to take the risk and use the power of the blood demon to return to reality from the spirit world.

"You better not lie to me, Skush."

"Hmph, whether you want to come in or not, the choice is up to you, mortal. If you don't hurry up, this rift will disappear." The low demonic voice urged.

Leon looked at a team of holy war knights. Several card spirit warriors nodded, stepped forward, and jumped fearlessly into the dark deep well.

Even if they encounter danger, the holy war knights will only return. From the perspective of the Neti card ritual principle, before the last spirit disappears, the scattered spirits will only return to their places in the Neti card ritual. Only when the last knight is eliminated will the Neti card be restored to its entity. This allows Leon to safely let the knights as multiple card spirits explore the way first without losing the Neti Card and their souls.

Several knights acting as vanguards jumped into the bottomless darkness, creating ripples.

He sensed that the magical connection was not interrupted. Although he was unable to locate the heroic spirits that disappeared in the Chaos Gate through his mind, Leon was sure that they were still able to move freely.

It seems that at least this blood demon did not open the passage in an extremely dangerous place.

"Hurry up. The door can't be held open for much longer!" The Blood Demon's voice sounded particularly impatient.

Leon stopped dawdling and patted Olivia’s shoulder: “I’ll go first.”

After saying that, he stepped over the flesh and blood tentacles and jumped into the darkness.

Unlike crossing the boundary, there was no process of crossing the void. In front of his eyes, there was a chaotic colorful and purple energy. After his vision became clear again, he felt his body falling. Leon looked at the blood-red below and hurriedly changed his posture. His armor and weapons collided and fell to the ground with a clang.

If this scarlet interwoven flesh and blood could be called ground.

The flesh underfoot was like a carpet, tough yet strangely elastic, making one's scalp tingle as if stepping on internal organs. As he fell, his steel boots crushed the tangled and strange organs and tentacles, and the debris and blood splattered all over the soles of his greaves and boots.

Turning his head and looking around, he saw twisted flesh and blood covering the entire environment. The surroundings were nightmare scenes that were enough to make ordinary people collapse, as if he had entered the body of a giant creature.

Is this the spirit world?

He had been mentally prepared for the distortion of the spiritual world, and instead felt at ease because the area around him was not the ever-changing spiritual abyss described in ancient books.

It looks like an area filled with twisted flesh and blood, which may be the territory of the blood demon.

In any case, there were no ambush demons, which made the blood demon's previous words more credible.

The holy lamp on his waist made this flesh and blood corridor exceptionally bright. He saw that several knights who had entered the spirit world earlier had dispersed to explore the surroundings.

Experiencing the infinite chaotic magic around him that was far beyond reality, Leon felt a long-lost sense of comfort all over his body. At this moment, he even felt as if he had endless power.

The rich spiritual energy flowing in every inch of space made Leon certain that he had indeed arrived at the legendary supreme realm.

Before he could say anything, there was another noise above his head.

Leon looked up and saw Olivia and the knights falling one after another from the dark ripples that opened up the dome of flesh and blood.

The landing process was not smooth, and some knights and soldiers of the Order who were unable to react in time slipped to the ground.

Fortunately, the tough flesh and blood ground did not cause them to suffer any injuries, but they still felt nauseous.

Several warriors from the Kleinian Realm just took a breath and were stimulated by the bloody and distorted environment around them, causing them to bend over and vomit. They didn't know if the air flow here was poisonous.

".Go forward, the passage ahead will guide you to leave the High Sky, keep going." The tentacles of the blood demon on the dome suddenly retracted, the rift in time and space disappeared, a red mist dissipated, and the black Neti card fell down.

Leon reached out and took the card.

On the card was a series of intertwined and wriggling flesh and blood tentacles, and on the back was a strange seal emblem. He had seen a similar pattern in the vampire sacrifice hall where he first appeared.

The Neti card contained the power of the devil, and Leon instinctively felt a little uncomfortable as if the treasure was stuck with feces, but right now was not the time to dispel the power of the blood devil.

Olivia suddenly pulled his arm.

"Leon, what's behind your head?"

"Behind the head?"

Leon raised his hand and touched the back of his head in confusion, but touched nothing.

Only then did he notice that not only Olivia, but everyone else present also cast their gazes over, eyes full of surprise, and Sasha and the other Kleinians were even more awed.

Leon was very surprised, but whether he used magic to sense or raised his hand to touch, he didn't touch any foreign objects: "What's wrong with the back of my head?"

Canis walked over, and with a strange expression, he gathered his sword and held the sharp blade horizontally in front of Leon.

"Behind your head, there's a circle of light that looks like a crown."

Leon raised an eyebrow when he heard that, and looked down carefully at the mirror surface of the blade.

The reflection was exactly as they had said.

There was a dazzling halo floating behind his head. There was a burning flame floating outside the halo, but he didn't feel any temperature.

Leon tilted his head and looked around. In the huge flesh and blood tunnel, the light and shadow swayed with the movement of his head.

He had just thought that this was just caused by the shaking angle of the light from the lantern on his waist, but he didn't expect that the reason was actually a circle of dazzling "LED" special effects that lit up behind his head.

what's the situation?
Leon concentrated his attention and explored the strange phenomenon behind his head, but his perception still did not detect any energy response.

He glanced at the team and found that except for himself, everyone else was still normal, without any strange phenomenon of halo above their heads.

Leon shook his head and temporarily put aside his confusion.

Now is not the time to study this. God knows what effect being in the spiritual world has had on me. Perhaps the surrounding chaotic forces and the caster's own magic have caused some unknown reaction.

"Come with me." He called on everyone to walk towards the darkness ahead. At the moment, they had not encountered any demons yet, so they had to take the opportunity to leave the spirit world as soon as possible. If what the ancient books said was correct, the danger of the spirit world was thousands of times greater than that of spiritual-like places.

The crowd moved forward quickly, running on the disgusting bloody ground with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

The feeling of being stepped on by the cystic hyperplasia made the soldiers feel uncomfortable all over, and the wriggling blood vessels and veins on the wall made them feel as if this environment had life.

The corridor is like a palace building. When passing some passable corners, you can see some normal walls and architectural decorations exposed in the gaps where flesh and blood tissue are not completely covered.

This meant that they were not inside the body of the beast, but rather the flesh and blood had corroded and covered the normal hall.

Leon didn't care where this place was. To be honest, even though he was in the horrible palace of flesh and blood and not exposed to the more chaotic and twisted spiritual abyss described in ancient books, the blood demon provided him with a relatively safe environment. He was fortunately lucky. It seemed that this demon's hatred for Valari was even deeper.

His running pace suddenly slowed down a little, and the view ahead became clear under the illumination of the spiritual lamp on his waist and the halo behind his head.

Beams of light from tactical lamps hanging on guns shone over, and a space similar to a central hall came into view.

In the center of the hall of flesh and blood, scarlet tentacles seemed to be wrapped around some huge bulge similar to a column decoration, forming an intertwined column connecting the upper and lower parts, but it did not block the way forward.

Leon led the way around one side and saw that there was still a huge corridor entrance ahead.

Although there was nothing to indicate the direction, there were no forks in the road along the way. I guess what the blood demon meant by moving forward was to just follow one path to the end.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of bursting muscles beside him, and the scarlet column that wrapped the center of the hall broke into pieces, and pieces of broken flesh and bones fell down along with blood.

The sudden sound made the soldiers, who were on high alert, instantly turn their guns and point them at the cracked pillar of flesh and blood.

The crack revealed the object that was originally wrapped. It was a giant one-eye with the top shaped by unknown material. The pupil of the one-eye emitted wisps of bright blue light.

"It's the totem of the God of Dawn!"

Sasha exclaimed instinctively. This symbol of the ancient god was very familiar to both her and the surrounding cult soldiers.

Leon looked at the one-eyed statue, and he was more familiar with the pattern than the Clenians around him.

He had seen it too many times. This pattern is now the emblem of the Atias Empire, but in fact, the prototype of the One-eyed Demon Pattern is countless times earlier than the history of Atias.

That is the seal of the "Mysterious Court", one of the five major courts of the King of Law in Lorelit, and the symbol of the ancient King of Law Alias.

But unlike the people of Klenian who were surprised, Leon felt a chill down his spine.

As one of the three Dharma Kings who fell into the spirit world when the Lorelit civilization was destroyed, the sudden reaction of the totem of the Mystic Dharma King was definitely not a good thing, especially now that they were in the abyss of the spirit world.

"Sasha! Tell your men to run immediately!" Seeing that the flesh and blood wrapped around the statue's column were cracked inch by inch as blue magic light continued to penetrate and erode the flesh, Leon ordered everyone to speed up and flee the hall.

Let Olivia lead the Clenians to rush into the tunnel first, while Leon will be the last one to follow with a group of Crusade Knights.

Before he ran far, he heard a pulse of magic power behind him, and a gust of wind blew away the surrounding blood energy and suddenly hit him.

Leon turned around and opened a defensive spell to block, but the flying blue starlight passed straight through the honeycomb-like magic barrier and condensed into a ball of dazzling light in the corridor in front of the team.

Looking back, the team stopped in their tracks as their path was blocked by a large blue light curtain ahead.

But except Olivia and the Holy War Knights, no one from Klenion dared to raise their guns towards the blue light.

(Tassa language) "It's the God of Dawn!" Waves of exclamations came one after another among the soldiers of the cult.

"Great Suvel"

Seeing the familiar object of faith appear before her like a miracle, even Sasha was shaken by fear.

A hazy figure emerged from the azure light, holding a one-eyed magic wand and wearing a starlight robe with shining runes. It was exactly the same as the ancient god depicted in the statue of the dawn.

However, facing the Kleinians who were almost worshiping them, the azure illusory figure did not cast a glance.

Those magical eyes were always looking at Leon as he walked through the crowd.

Seeing the fierce reaction of the Kleinians, Leon came to the blue shadow floating in front of him vigilantly. Leon looked at the existence called Suville by Colonel Sasha, and tried to spread his magic power to detect the other party.

At this point, he was convinced that the god believed in by the Kleinians was an ancient Lorelit wizard.

However, when he tried to use his magical senses to probe, he was somewhat surprised to find that what was before him was not a spirit or soul, nor was it a demon from the spiritual world, but merely a condensed projection of magical power.

The shadow of Suvel, holding the one-eyed magic wand of the Secret Court, slowly floated down.

".Do not proceed further"

The ancient and pure Lorelit language came out of the shadow's mouth as if it could penetrate time, but it seemed a little dull.

"Why? What are you?" Leon frowned, wary of the actions of the ancient wizard's projection.

"Authorization confirmed, highest. Answer, I am. The Mage of the Court of Mysteries, the Chief of Intelligence appointed by the Planeswalker Suvel, in charge of the third area of ​​the Spirit Palace.

The front leads to the sealed prison, the prison is seriously damaged, the area is dangerous, warning, the criminal - number 193, 'Undead Blood Witch Skush' has lost control and escaped.
Error correction and updated data, criminal 193 has returned to prison, but the seal has been leaked, the Spirit Palace is severely damaged, and repair is impossible. The regional threat has reached its highest level."

Su Weier's projection reported information like a robot, slowly landed in front of Leon, and bowed respectfully: "Please do not rashly set foot in the dangerous area. Here, according to the Lorelit Code, I pay tribute to the supreme Lord of the Flaming Sun, my Lord."

Leon listened to the other party's warning and was shocked by the projection's humble attitude. He took a step back and asked, "Who? Who are you paying tribute to?"

The blue magic projection raised its upper body and changed its original mechanical tone to a rhythmic chant with a beaming face:

"To you! The Supreme Being of Beauty and Wisdom! The great Dharma King Ilaril!!"

(End of this chapter)