Heart of the Castle

Chapter 745 Replaying the old tricks and reaping the fruits of oneself

Apart from cannon fodder troops such as imps, fire-throwers, and slave riders, the Dark Fortress also has more than [-] elite guard troops, and the number of incinerators and hellfire demons accounted for nearly a quarter of them. Rare among the usual formations of demon armies.

The abyss demon is actually a general term. There are countless planes in the bottomless abyss, and the races living in them are also different. The conflict between the burner family and the horned demon family may not be smaller than that of humans and other races. , and it is also very common to start fighting and aggression between various abyss planes.

However, these abyssal races all have a common feature, that is, a bloodthirsty and tyrannical temperament, and an endless desire for the flesh and soul of the innocent.It is precisely for this reason that they reluctantly assembled under the command of the abyss lord Amurhydras, and launched cruel and merciless attacks on the main plane time and time again.

Due to the bloodthirsty nature of demons, the Incinerators, who are good at manipulating fire elements to carry out long-range magical strikes, have become a heterogeneous group that is quite excluded and suppressed.The fireballs they fired would burn the demons' favorite living flesh into a pile of coke, and although the screams from the sea of ​​flames could slightly soothe the hunger of the soul, it was not enough to tear limbs or break bones. You can also hear it when you listen to it, and you will get more fun.

Of course the Burners were not happy with this, but they had nothing better than cursing in private.No high-level demon nobles like abyssal alchemists or abyssal balrogs have been born among the burners, and resisting flames is already a common ability of abyssal creatures, even if they are not very powerful purgatory rats or blood river storm rabbits , nor can it be destroyed by one or two bursting fireballs. In this regard, even ordinary human knights who have the power to protect themselves cannot compare.

In addition to the dark fortress guards, among the usual demon troops, long-range troops composed of fire monsters, incinerators, and hellfire demons only account for about one-tenth of the number, and there are even some commanders who are particularly cruel and violent, and advocate violence— ——For example, Ramsdong, the lord of the berserk war—there is no place for the Burners to gain a foothold under his command.

Charlemagne, the Lord of Terror, also didn't have a good impression of the Burners. In fact, he didn't have a good impression of any weaklings.There are so many incinerators and hellfire demons in his army. The reason is actually very simple. On the solid high walls of the dark fortress, the incinerators with long-range magic attack capabilities are far more powerful than those horned demon warlords and three-man warriors who specialize in melee combat. Head Cerberus is more suitable for fighting.

The outer wall of the Dark Fortress is as high as 40 meters, all of which are made of a one-meter-square block of obsidian. The surface of each obsidian is engraved with dense abyss magic lines. The defense power is equivalent to a medium alchemy tool. And these magic lines After being ingeniously inlaid, they are connected to each other as a whole, providing the dark fortress with an unimaginably powerful protective force.The width of the city wall is also impressive, enough for ten burly horned demon warlords to walk side by side, but now it has been filled with more than [-] hellfire demons and nearly [-] burners. The number of flame elements summoned by these demons It is so big that even the legendary powerhouse who has completely mastered the origin of flames like the Burning Dragon King Dalijia is not as good.

Of course, it is extremely difficult to control such a huge amount of flame elements. The burners live in the plane of the flame river, and their ability to control the flame elements is quite powerful, especially the hell flame demon who has completed all transformations, which is almost no better than the human demon. Mentors are inferior.Under the concerted control of hundreds of hell flame demons, the summoned flame elements devoured and fused with each other, finally forming a huge flame cloud stretching hundreds of meters.

However, this flame cloud is obviously very unstable. The faint roaring sound is almost non-stop from the inside, and the surface is also flickering. The tremors and turbulence have almost never stopped since the formation of the flame cloud.All the hell flame demons have exhausted all their mental power, and the red and black magic lines on their arms and faces are all shining brightly.

"Grand Duke Bookyates, prepare to launch a meteor shower." The Lord of Terror ordered in a deep voice.

"Obey, Your Majesty Charlemagne!" An Abyssal Balrog nodded, took two steps forward, then suddenly raised his arms and chanted an evil spell in Abyssal language.In less than a minute, hundreds of abyssal balrogs from the entire dark fortress all joined the dark chorus, and the spells chanted from more than 1 mouths echoed over and over again over the dark fortress.The tumbling flame cloud gradually stabilized, and the red, orange, and yellow flames gathered together, gradually condensing thousands of bright cores.

A look of satisfaction flashed across the blood-red eyes of the lord of terror, Charlemagne. The preparations for the meteor fire shower have been successfully completed, and the magic riot that may cause the failure of the spellcasting has not appeared. Now all we need to do is wait for those human troops to step into the trap and fall from the sky The fire meteor will reduce them all to ashes.

Seeing the two human phalanx slowly advancing more than 1000 meters away, the fearful lord's eyes were full of sarcasm and a vicious smile. In his evil mind distorted by bloodthirsty desire, the imminent death scene is So beautiful, exuding a strong fragrance of death, it almost made him want to cry.

Then inexplicably, that strange feeling resurfaced in his heart.

Charlemagne couldn't help but let out a low growl in frustration, but the sound was drowned out by the roar of the flame cloud, and even the demon lords around him couldn't hear it. "What's the problem?" The horror lord's ugly face, which looks like a monkey and a bison, showed a strong expression of doubt, "Those human beings are about to die, why do I feel... Very disturbed?"

Charlemagne leaned out and looked in the direction of the human phalanx. The Dark Fortress was more than 1000 meters away from the human phalanx, and there was an air distorted by the flame cloud. , You shouldn't be able to see the other party's expression clearly.But Charlemagne found the young griffin lord in the crowd all at once, and felt that he had indeed seen his expression, resolute, calm, with brave and fearless eyes, tightly pressed together Lips, and that faint sneer.

That's not the expression of a checkmate!

The fearful lord's heart skipped a beat. In his long life, he had seen countless lives die in front of him. Even the bravest and most fearless knights or violent and bloodthirsty orcs faced inevitable death. , will also show a weak and desperate expression.That is the instinct of life that desires to survive, and it cannot be obliterated by relying on tenacious will or hard training.

"Besides the shield of divine power, do those humans have any hidden cards?" This thought flashed across Charlemagne's mind like lightning, and the Lord of Terror turned around quickly, opened his ferocious mouth, and prepared to advance Give the order to launch a meteor fire shower.

Although it can only attack the first half of the human phalanx if it is launched now, and the divine power shield can last for a period of time, it is likely to cause most human soldiers to escape the range of the meteor fire rain, but it is better than that that makes him feel The omen of uneasiness came true even better.

"No, maybe we should wait a little longer, as long as half a minute passes, the losses suffered by those humans will be doubled. According to intelligence, the Griffin Lord Li Weiston only lived less than twenty years, and his face The fearless expression on the face may just be caused by ignorance..."

The order to launch the meteor fire shower was like a raging fire burning the throat of the lord of terror, but he was still hesitant in his heart, but it didn't take long, and Li Weiston kindly let him not have to hesitate about this matter.

"Master Merister, activate it!" The clear voice of the young man was directly transmitted to the heart of the fire magician floating above the clouds through telepathic communication.Juno Ann Merister agreed, and then raised the gorgeous wand inlaid with a huge flame gem, and pointed at the huge cloud of flames floating above the dark fortress.

"The power of the source, elemental disturbance, fixation, sealing, and disorderly expansion!"

A faint dragon chant came from the sky, which was almost covered by a series of roaring noises from inside the flame cloud. Only a few people noticed this sound, but what happened afterwards made the Lord of Terror Charlemagne Dun's face suddenly became very ugly.

The flame cloud suddenly expanded uncontrollably, followed by a turbulence ten times more violent than before, and the roar was deafening.Many of the Balrogs who were chanting spells showed extremely strenuous expressions, and the Balrog Lord Bukeyates, who united all the Balrogs of the Abyss to cast their innate magic, trembled violently, and then let out a cry that made the blood all over his body tremble. Condensed ear-piercing wailing.

"Your Majesty, Charlemagne, is a legendary powerhouse... a legendary powerhouse who understands the original power of flames is interfering with our spellcasting!"

"When will there be another legendary strong man who understands the original power of flame among human beings?" Charlemagne called out almost in disbelief.The power of flame is the most powerful among the four elements, and it is also the most difficult to control. Not to mention human beings, even many abyssal lords who have been immersed in flame magic for hundreds of years are also difficult to touch. That road means the threshold of legend.

"Your Majesty Charlemagne, think of a way, the Balrogs are almost out of control of that magic!" Captain Bass screamed and reminded, even grabbing Charlemagne's arm with his claws regardless of the danger.Only then did the Lord of Terror wake up from his abnormal hesitation, and the sword of fierce fire in his hand suddenly pointed at the turbulent flame cloud.

As one of the seven lords of the abyss, Charlemagne has the most common source of power in the abyss.This original power has almost no characteristics, and the formed domain is called Eternal Purgatory, which can greatly strengthen the demon troops within the range of action, but it is not very useful in fighting alone.But relatively speaking, the original power of the abyss is a derivative based on the origin of darkness. Except for being restrained by the original power of light and sacred attributes, it has a minimal restraint effect on most of the original power.

The same is true for the original power of the flame that is disturbing.

The Fierce Flame Sword turned into a dull light, and suddenly pierced into the depths of the flame cloud, followed by a series of low-pitched explosions.The Abyssal Balrogs cursed and tried their best to control it, finally allowing the flame cloud to survive the violent turmoil caused by the confrontation of two original forces.Afterwards, the black light turned into by the sword of Fierce Flame wrapped around a light struggling desperately like a red snake, flew out of the flame cloud, and landed in the giant claw stretched out by Charlemagne, the Lord of Terror.

The fearful lord's forehead felt a sharp stabbing pain. The original power of the flame was not very powerful, but it was extremely indelible. Obviously, the owner's understanding of the origin of the flame had reached a very high level.What made him feel even more unbelievable was that he was no stranger to the original power of the flame, especially the unique aura with a hidden dragon power, which clearly belonged to the burning lord Dariga!

Just when Charlemagne was trying his best to grasp the original power of the flame in his hands, and suppressed it with the original power of the abyss dozens of times stronger, another terrible turmoil came.This time it's not a new legendary powerhouse joining the battle, but those hellfire demons who are the hubs to control and gather fire elements suddenly rioted, some suddenly attacked their companions around them; some put their heads in their hands and fell to the ground moaning Get up; some let out piercing screams, and ran towards the interior of the dark fortress without looking back.

At least two-thirds of the more than 500 hellfire demons completely abandoned their positions, and the other third also fell into great chaos.

The lord of terror was so angry that his eyes were blackened by this sudden change. With one hand, he firmly controlled the original power of the chaotic flames, and with the other hand, he grabbed the chest of the leader of the flame demon closest to him, Lifted him abruptly in front of him.

"What the hell happened? What are you going crazy about?" The fearful lord's roar sounded like heavy thunder, and poisonous fire mixed with sulfur breath spewed out from his mouth. "Go back to the battlefield, or I will execute you all!"

"The Ember Lord is ordering us to leave!" Facing the angry roar of the Horror Lord, the leader of the hellfire demon was trembling all over, but he still screamed stubbornly, "We must obey the order of the Ember Lord! "

"Go to your Burning Cinder Lord!" The Lord of Terror threw the hapless Hell Flame Demon to the ground forcefully, and the terrible sound of bones and muscles breaking at the same time sounded, and the Hell Flame Demon died on the spot without saying a word. It exploded like overripe fruit.

However, this cannot solve the problem. Looking around, there are messy figures of demons everywhere on the city wall.Without the help of the Hell Flame Demon, which is equivalent to the great human magister, the incinerator's rough fire control ability could not control the summoned fire element at all, and the terrible pressure was directly on the shoulders of those abyssal flame demons, making them Feeling overwhelmed.Every second that passes, the turbulence of the flame cloud will intensify a bit, and it will accelerate towards the abyss that is completely out of control.

A white-hot flame suddenly shot up from the feet of the Balrog Grand Duke Buk Yates. For a moment, the Lord of Terror thought that the Grand Duke was about to use his last strength, but the white-hot flame turned into a fireball and rose into the sky. After getting up, the figure of the dignified Grand Duke Bookyates disappeared without a trace.

"Flame Jump!"

"Duke Bookyates has escaped!"

Several terrified voices sounded, losing the powerful control of the Balrog Lord, the flame cloud finally completely lost control, but it did not explode immediately, but contracted violently, and the core looked brighter than the sun's rays at noon several times.

The horror lord Charlemagne's eyes widened helplessly, and he finally realized what that strange feeling was.Ms. Cang Ye is right, that is fear, fear of failure, fear of death, and... the fear of facing unknown results!

The golden morning light shone from the eastern sky, making his eyes stinging. The Lord of Terror raised his head high and let out a howl of anger or despair, "Damn Darika..." For a moment, the bursting flame cloud turned into a huge wave tens of meters high and roared, completely swallowing the tall figure of Charlemagne.

At the same time, dozens of high towers and about two-thirds of the city walls of the Dark Fortress were also engulfed by the huge waves of flames.Even if a few legendary powerhouses who have comprehended the original power of fire join forces to cast spells, it is difficult to create such a terrifying scene: rioting flame elements sweep across kilometers, and obsidian, which can withstand the washing of magma, gradually deforms in the unimaginable high temperature; The huge wave of flames rolled forward, and at the same time, there was a roar of a thousand thunderbolts exploding at the same time, which was also mixed with sharp and piercing hissing sounds; several abyssal balrogs with flame immunity hadn't paid attention to the sweeping fire waves at first. However, when the waves of fire reached their bodies, these Balrogs suddenly let out screams, and countless terrible cracks appeared on their bodies. After a few seconds of stiffness, these Balrogs exploded together with the core of their bodies.

The thing that killed the Balrog was originally the meteor fire rain core they compressed with the flame element, and now these highly concentrated flame elements have been further compressed into sharp-edged thin slices, flying towards all directions at high speed under the extremely high pressure At that time, it was sharper than a blade forged from fine gold, and it took no more effort to cut through the solid muscles and bones of high-level demons than to cut butter.

The effect caused by the huge wave of flames sweeping through the array of demon defenders in the dark fortress is terrifying and bloody far beyond the limit of ordinary people's imagination.Whether it is the burly abyss alchemist or the abyss blaze covered in raging flames, they all have the ability to be immune to ordinary high-temperature flames, but they all fall to the ground amidst the waves of flames mixed with countless sharp blades. died.Their tough scales and skin were shredded, their muscles were blown away from their bones, their limbs were broken, their torsos were covered with piercing scars, and their internal organs mixed with thick devil blood flew in all directions.

The huge wave of flames raged on the walls of the Dark Fortress for 5 minutes. For many people who witnessed this scene, it was probably longer than five hours.In the end, all the flames rose up, like a huge death rose inlaid with black edges blooming above the black castle.

(End of this chapter)