Knight and Wand

Chapter 378 Breakout
Looking back at Olivia who was also confused, Leon quickly calmed down after a brief moment of confusion.

This thing before us, which is suspected to be the artificial intelligence of an ancient magic civilization, might have malfunctioned in its recognition function over a long period of time. After all, this so-called "Spirit Palace" now looks like it has been polluted beyond recognition by the blood demon.

However, he had no intention of correcting it. This ancient magic projection, suspected to be from the Lorelit civilization, had mistaken him for the King of Law with the highest authority. He was really lucky, and now was not the time to honestly correct the other party.

"Okay, Chief of Intelligence, I know very well that the so-called blood witch Skoosh may be ahead, but now I can only use the path it has opened to return to the main material realm. Don't stop us."

The azure projection of the Planeswalker's expression returned to a dull state after exclaiming just now.

After a moment of silence, the figure called Suvel by the Kleinians spoke in a proper voice:
"I have no right to stop you from passing, my lord. I am only offering a logical suggestion. The blood wizard Skush has been sealed again. Although it has been detected that it has become extremely spiritual, it is still in a sealed prison. Its overflowing power cannot open up a channel to the material realm.

Referring to the past 365,800 cases of meaningless incitement to this machine, logical deduction is made: Skush is trying to defraud. In the current scope, only you have sufficient authority to remove the seal of the prison. "

After hearing this, Leon was shocked to realize what this magic AI meant. Skush was sealed and unable to send himself out of the spirit world?

"You mean, I have to release Skush first, so that it may have enough power to send me back to the material world?" Coming to his senses, Leon looked at the flesh and blood tunnel behind Suville's projection, and couldn't help cursing in his heart that he had to be more careful when dealing with this bunch of evil demons.

I don't know if it was Valari who sealed Skoosh here again. If what the ancient projection in front of me said was true, Skoosh might want to trick me into the depths of the prison first, and then threaten me to leave the spiritual world to help him break free.

"If the blood demon is lying to me, how can I leave the spirit world?" Leon frowned and asked the projection of the magical intelligence here.

He was reluctant to trust the seemingly harmless energy projection before him, but compared to the Blood Demon, the credibility of this existence before him was much higher.

"Record sorting. Errors have been reorganized and the route has been corrected. Please return to the hall in front." The magic projection of the mage Suweil shook and distorted, and then he raised his right hand and pointed to the hall from which everyone came.

"I can lead you to the starship hub of the Spirit Palace. The 'Void Compass' can locate the realm my master has visited and help you return to the material realm."

However, before the projection finished speaking, a creeping sound that gave people goosebumps came from all directions, and the Chief Intelligence Officer looked at the surrounding flesh and blood corridors expressionlessly.

"Attention. A large number of aggressive spiritual creatures have been detected."

There was no need for him to warn anyone, as the twisted limbs that emerged on the walls of the flesh and blood tunnel were immediately seen by everyone.

The red veins on the wall twitched and split between the sticky flesh, and a flesh monster shaped like a deformed fetus seemed to be hatched, screaming and swinging its tentacles as it pounced towards them.

The roar of gunfire and the waving of swords rang out, and the wide corridor was instantly filled with shouts of killing.

Leon and Olivia raised their hands and picked up the automatic cannons. Flames burst out from the thick muzzles, and the arrows with wild spirals bombarded the attacking deformed flesh and blood creatures, smashing them into pieces.

Looking back at the end of the team, I saw that the flesh and blood passage I came from seemed to be alive. It began to bulge and grow, and was about to close.

Leon made a prompt decision, turned around and ran backwards, with an arc of electricity suddenly appearing on his arm.

——Gungnir!!

Blooming thunder was thrown out from his hands.

With a loud bang, the flesh and blood that had not yet closed were pierced through and exploded into pieces.

Raising his hand to retrieve the heavy magic spear that was flying back, Leon turned around and shouted, "Lead the way! Chief of Intelligence, since you have a way to send us away, let's go to the place you said first!"

"Yes, sir." Su Weier's projection flew over the crowd and went straight through the bloody wreckage of flesh and blood blasted by the lightning spear, leaving a dark blue trail.

Leon looked at the surroundings that were being eroded by the blood demon, and knew that with such a sudden drastic change, Skush might have realized that he had come to his senses. He had failed to deceive her, so he planned to use force.

Leading the retreating team, there was a sudden sound of gunfire around him like thunder, and groups of bullets were whistling like rain with flashes of fire.

The wall of flesh and blood was smashed into pieces, and blood and blood splattered everywhere. Machine guns fired, and bullet casings fell to the ground with the footsteps of fighting and retreating. The smell of gunpowder and blood was intertwined. Occasionally, there were twisted creatures that penetrated the fire net, and the knights holding sharp blades would bravely kill them.

Finally, they retreated back to the previous hall of flesh and blood, where they saw a huge blood-red goat skull monster that looked like a two-horned demon. It was pulling its blood vessels and bones behind it and struggling to break free from the cracks in the wall.

The inhuman roar stirred up a bloody wind between its open sharp teeth, and the rumbling of its feet made the ground beneath its feet shake continuously.

Leon raised the automatic cannon and shot accurately at the huge head. The powerful bullets exploded on the head of the flesh-and-blood beast, causing blood and flesh to fly everywhere, but it did not stop it at all.

Olivia took the lead, rushing out of the formation with an automatic cannon in hand, and attacked from the side. Her right hand instantly flashed with light.

Seeing her charge, Leon quickly gave up the attack spell he had originally planned to cast, lowered the muzzle of the gun to shoot at the legs of the flesh beast, and the ammunition belt that continuously transported ammunition made a rattling sound, constantly throwing out the huge shells on the side of the automatic gun.

He held down the almost motionless gun and shouted, "Attack the monster's feet!"

At Sasha's command, the Dawn Order soldiers nearby lowered their guns and, together with the knights fighting alongside them, concentrated their firepower on firing at the beast's ankles.

The dense rain of bullets trailing flames hit the giant beast's legs, causing them to bleed red. It staggered and crashed into the giant pillar in the middle with a roar.

As the hall was shaking, everyone suddenly felt an abnormal gravity around them, and the traction made everyone's steps unstable. Olivia grabbed the ancestral greatsword that appeared in the condensed light with one hand, swept the enemy's lantern-like giant eyes, turned sideways to dodge the blood beast's giant claws, jumped up with force, and stepped on the back of the unbalanced beast while firing.

The sword arc passed, and the Holy Sword of the Sun, swung with one hand, penetrated into the back of the blood beast's neck under the girl's superhuman brute strength, and cut across as Olivia twisted her body.

The giant's roar came to an abrupt end, and its heavy body fell to the ground with a thud, its head and neck cut in half, bleeding profusely.

Olivia jumped off the corpse and had not yet relaxed her vigilance to turn to other enemies, but she saw countless fleshy tentacles emerging from the monster's neck. The tentacles merged into the corpse on the flesh and blood floor. It was actually twitching, supporting itself with its huge claws, as if it was trying to stand up again.

Olivia raised the muzzle of the gun in surprise and pulled the trigger. Shots of fire burst out and penetrated into the headless body with tentacles. Until the bullet chain accidentally jammed with a click, it still couldn't stop it from healing itself through the squirming of flesh and blood.

Waving the sword, the girl frowned and rushed towards the beast again.

Leon in the back glanced at the soldiers who were still firing to resist the monsters. Many Crusade Knights had emptied their ammunition and thrown away their useless guns, condensing their spiritual weapons and engaging in brutal close combat.

But even though they kept tearing apart the blood demon creatures that emerged from the flesh and blood tunnels and walls, the enemies seemed to be endless and could not be killed.

We cannot continue fighting. Although this is where the blood demon is imprisoned, it is also his lair that has been deeply eroded. If we continue fighting like this, we will be the ones who suffer.

Leon ran to the corner where Suville's projection fell, and fired his machine gun, smashing the twisted creature covered with tentacles. He frowned and asked the shadow: "This is a dead end! Which road are you referring to?"

"Behind this wall, the Blood Witch used its magic to cover up the original path of the Spirit Palace."

The wand of the Intellect Projection pressed against the wall of flesh and blood.

The azure blue image shone onto the wall, revealing a simulated corridor behind it.

Leon immediately stepped back, cast a spell, and stabbed Gungnir forward.

——Wind hammer!
A tornado with power far exceeding that of the material realm suddenly struck forward.

The terrifying cyclone bombardment tore through the wall of flesh and blood like the blades of a meat grinder. After a loud whistling sound, as expected, a passage was revealed among the circular cracks filled with scarlet minced meat.

Seeing that the huge hole in the wall created by the spell was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, Leon turned around and hurriedly called on the soldiers to retreat.

The formation then shrank, and the Crusade Knights and the Order's soldiers passed through the hole one after another.

"Olivia! No need to fight! Get out of here!" Leon looked at his wife who was covering the team. The girl was holding the monster, and the area around her was stained with blood. The bodies of the monsters killed by the sword and the artillery fire piled up like a mountain. However, even though Olivia killed and dismembered the huge blood beast twice, the huge two-horned monster still did not die.

Olivia had no choice but to give up the fight, and reluctantly dropped the machine gun that had emptied its ammunition, pulled away, tightly grasped the holy sword, and leaped back to Leon's side.

The two of them split open the healing wall and entered the passage guided by the magic projection behind it.

There were still gunshots in the team advancing ahead, and the view after passing the obstacle was still a tunnel of flesh and blood, but this made Leon basically convinced that what the projection of the ancient magical intelligence said was true.

The blood demon Skoosh had been covering up the fork in the road from the very beginning, probably just to trick me into reaching the seal that imprisoned it. If this projection had not mistaken me for a Dharma King for some reason, I would have been trapped to death in the prison by a flesh and blood monster of such a scale. Even if I didn't want to help Skoosh break free from the imprisonment, I would have no choice.

Feeling fortunate, he continued to lead the team forward following the guidance of the Suville projection in front. As they continued to go deeper, people paid the price of more than a dozen knights' souls returning to the Neti card, and finally fought their way out in the physical sense.

As he continued to walk on the hellish road that was almost covered with blood and flesh debris, Leon realized how powerless the Kleinian guns in his hands were when facing the creatures of the spiritual world.

The empty automatic cannon was like scrap metal and had long been discarded by him. The knights had only pistols and some ammunition, but all of them had changed back to the weapons they used in their lifetime and charged forward covered in blood and broken limbs.

Technological creations that could deal with ordinary creatures were unable to eradicate the enemy. No matter how many were killed, the monster corpses would be re-devoured by the tentacles spreading on the ground and walls of the Blood Palace and turned into flesh and blood monsters once again.

It wasn't until Leon swung the magic blade, summoning balls of flames that swept through and burned the flesh and blood to ashes, that he finally discovered their weakness.

Unfortunately, he was the only mage present who could summon flames, and was unable to burn enemies of this size.

Leon was secretly annoyed at this mistake, thinking that he should have equipped all the team with flamethrowers instead of guns before setting off.

While killing the monsters that tried to force him to return to the original path, he looked at the shadow of Suville that suddenly stopped in front of him.

There was a faint light at the end of the tunnel ahead. Leon rushed forward and then stopped suddenly.

The scene before him was enough to make one break out in a cold sweat. Even he, who was used to flying in the sky on a griffin, was slightly moved.

The closed blood nest suddenly became clear at the end of the broken tunnel, but what appeared in his field of vision was not the "outdoors" in the normal sense.

Instead, it is an endless, empty space filled with colorful colors.

There is no top in sight, and no bottom in sight; it is boundless and infinite.

Broken palace steps, huge stone floors, columns and other ancient architectural fragments float quietly and chaotically in this colorful and distorted space.

Looking up, the largest independent building island in the distance was hanging crookedly in front of the bottomless space, but the passage that originally connected to this place had long since drifted away to who knows where.

It can be seen that it has not been eroded by flesh and blood, and still maintains the magnificent and unique appearance of the ancient palace.

"What's going on?" Looking at the dead end in front of him, Leon gritted his teeth and looked at Su Weier's projection: "You'd better tell me that there is an invisible bridge in the middle that I can't see."

"I'm sorry, Supreme Lord, the Spiritual Palace does not have the facilities you mentioned." The Chief of Intelligence shook his head frankly: "After evaluation, it is not difficult for you to cross this distance."

Leon raised his eyebrows and took a deep breath to resist getting angry at a magic AI.

Listening to the fierce battle behind him that was still going on to hold back the flesh and blood monsters, he looked around at the floating building debris and thought of a solution. Indeed, being in the spiritual world, it was not difficult for him to lead the team across such a long space.

If this were in the continent of Omros or Klenion, it would probably be impossible to do this, but the good thing is that this is the spiritual world where the chaos magic power is filled to the point of bursting.

He raised Gungnir horizontally, held the wand tightly in both hands, and the white light in Leon's eyes was swirling with flames.

(Gulorelite)
"Obey my command!" Concentrating all the magic power in his body, a simple and basic magic pattern of object manipulation was outlined in front of him.

Exceptionally dazzling strands of magical light flew out from the magic circle suspended in front of him, wrapping around large and small building fragments in all directions like ropes of light.

Broken walls, stairs, and giant pillars were slowly pulled toward the tunnel entrance in the energy space-time distorted by gravity, and were rumbled together to form a "suspension bridge" or "floating boat" for footstools.

Although this length is far from enough to connect to the other side, it is enough for people to stand.

"Sasha! Take your people up first!" Leon turned around and shouted.

Upon hearing the order, the female colonel decisively ordered the soldiers of the Order to retreat after they had used up all their ammunition and could only stay behind the knights and be of no help.

One or two years of special military training only gave these former civilians basic military skills. Apart from her, there was no other Kleinian who could intervene in the brutal close combat with the monsters. Just a few carelessness along the way had caused some soldiers to be seriously injured. They were only saved from blood loss and death thanks to Leon's healing magic.

A dozen Kleinian soldiers supported each other and stepped onto the rugged terrain spliced ​​together by Lion, enduring the fear of the bottomless abyss around them.

The sinking feeling of emptiness wherever they stepped on it sent a chill down their spines.

Leon looked at the knight formation standing at the entrance of the tunnel to resist. He maintained the spell and only called on some knights including Olivia and Canis to evacuate, leaving dozens of Crusades to continue to block the blood beasts from chasing them.

After seeing Leon jump onto the suspension bridge, he immediately manipulated the light rope to throw away the broken floor in the tunnel. Sasha looked in astonishment at the knights who were still fighting bloody battles in the tunnel and had not yet caught up.

"Lord Leon, are we just going to abandon them like this?" She never thought that the man who had been protecting everyone so wholeheartedly all the way could be so cruel at the critical moment.

However, she was even more surprised that none of those brave knights had any complaints about abandoning their comrades.

"I didn't abandon them. As long as I'm alive, my knights are immortal." Leon waved the whip of light extended by the spell to wrap around the giant pillar behind him, pulling it to the front to extend the road, and answered without looking back.

In a sense, as long as the Neti Card is not destroyed, the immortality of the Heroic Spirits is comparable to that of the Demons.

After spending a long time building a bridge across the colorful void space like a relay, and stepping onto the tilted palace island, Leon pushed away the building debris and looked back at the spiritual palace from which he came.

The huge island palace complex suspended in this spiritual space was eroded and covered by countless flesh and blood tissues, like a giant entrenched creature.

Leon did not dwell on what had happened here in the past and present. He immediately cut off the magic power supply to the spirits of the knights on the other side.

The broken end of the tunnel flickered, and dozens of Heroic Knights disappeared in an instant, returning to the ritual of the Neti card.

He took back the souls of the warriors and didn't even look at the blood demon creatures standing at the entrance of the tunnel. It seemed that there was some power that prevented them from spreading over.

But at this time, Leon discovered that the projection of Suville who was guiding him was still on the other side and did not catch up.

The virtual image just bowed slightly and then disappeared into thin air.

Is it because the equipment range is limited due to the separation of the buildings, so it can't come over?
Leon was surprised.

He turned around and looked at the palace that Suweil's projection had guided him to.

Is this the so-called Starship Hub?

Leon sighed, praying in his heart that the void compass the other party had mentioned before would be a fool-proof operation.

(End of this chapter)