Blood of the Hunting God

"Now is not the time to stop. The enemy may realize that our whereabouts have changed at any time. We must go deep into the city as soon as possible to avoid being discovered."

William has been guarding the cliff path they came down from, making sure that there are no members of the church on both sides of the road.Seeing that the group of guides hadn't recovered yet, I became a little impatient for a while.

"Very...sorry...vomit..."

The man who led the way shook his head with a distressed expression, and then spat out another mouthful of yellow water.

Are all the people in the capital of the stars this kind of weak fellows?

The hunters couldn't help but have such thoughts.

Compared with the comrades who fought together from Xingkong Town, these people are too bad, right?Is this the difference between border and interior areas?It's really hard to appreciate.

"The enemy will definitely come to search for our traces soon. Before that, we have to hide in this kind of city to avoid being found. Uh...Mr. Hunter, what do you think of us going there? The building density over there It's big, it should be suitable for us to hide, right?"

Not far away, Abigail and the hunter stood together. The two found a slightly higher place as a scouting point, and were judging the direction of the next move.

"Over there... no... this way..."

The hunter looked at the direction the girl was pointing at, shook his head after thinking for a moment, and then pointed to the other side of the ruined city.

Although the building density over there is high, if the enemy uses a large-scale destruction move, it will be difficult for them hiding in it to escape the move range in time, and it is very likely that the hiding place will directly become their grave.

Although the hunter didn't explain what he meant, but after Abigail and the hunter looked at each other for a few moments, the girl understood what the other was thinking.

"Well, that's true, I didn't consider this point, so the next step——Wow!"

Before the words in his mouth were finished, the hunter grabbed Abigail's body, hugged the girl and jumped off from the height.

And almost at the same time when the hunter took action, a huge black shadow suddenly rose from the ruins and appeared in front of everyone.

Chapter 23: Gargoyle Army

Is that... a rock?

At the moment that huge black shadow appeared, Abigail couldn't confirm what it was for a while.

With a dark and rough body structure like a stone, this behemoth with a body size of at least four or five meters suddenly rose from the ruins, and then fell to the ground suddenly.

At this time, everyone could see clearly that this thing has a body structure similar to that of a human, but the proportions of its limbs are obviously a bit out of balance compared to humans. The legs are smaller, and the arms are so long that they can be dragged directly on the ground when standing up. .

A pair of huge black rock wings spread out behind this thing, and a huge rock long ax was held in his hand.The ferocious monster-like head slowly opened, roared lowly at the hunters present, and then greeted them without hesitation.

"Gargoyle?! This city has been abandoned for so long, and there is still this kind of magical creation activity?"

Alhazred, who was a little surprised, spoke without hesitation and summoned a tentacle to attack this huge monster.

The huge gargoyle monster collided with the black tentacles in mid-air, and the huge monster was repelled a little distance during the violent shock, and landed steadily on the roof of a dilapidated house, directly knocking the building down with a sound of collapse. The house collapsed.And the black tentacles were also slightly pushed back by the impact, unable to continue to attack, and then dissipated due to the loss of the power of the mystic scholar.

"It can reach the explosive power close to [Black Beast]'s tentacles. It is indeed a creation of the old era."

Alhazred sighed in admiration, and the rock-built monster had once again greeted him.

"So what is this thing?"

As Karnis asked, he quickly turned over to avoid the blow from the monster.

Between the flying rocks William's hound followed

It jumped out and bit the thing's leg.However, the result of this blow was a crisp click, and then the hound, who had obviously injured its teeth, returned to William's side in a somewhat despondent manner.

"This is a magical creation from the age of the old gods. It is called a gargoyle. Its body is very strong. These rocks have been specially strengthened. Even high-powered artillery can't deal damage. Only by attacking the magic core of this thing can it be solved. Drop it."

While speaking, the mystic scholar held up the skeleton candlestick in his hand.

The power of darkness and blasphemy spread around him, and clusters of twisted tentacles burst open suddenly, attacking the huge gargoyle.

However, the huge monster immediately flew high, and the giant ax in its hand spun around, splitting all the tentacles that came. "

This thing is obviously completely different from the filthy monster, which mostly has no thinking ability. It can recognize the danger of the enemy's various tricks and use different coping strategies to fight. It is a mass-produced magic creation with thinking ability. .

However, despite saying so, the manufacturing process of this thing has been lost for a long time now.

"what!"

With a soft shout, Abigail, who summoned the moonlight greatsword, slashed heavily, and the light penetrated in an instant, and struck the gargoyle.In the exploding magic light, this huge monster was knocked down to the ground abruptly, smashing many building ruins in an instant.

The hunter's footsteps approached quickly at this moment, and landed on the gargoyle before it got up.

Sweeping his gaze over the monster's body, the hunter's eyes soon settled on the monster's chest, the only part of the rock-shaped monster that was protected by a metal plate.

The heavy Goddess Knight's giant sword was drawn from her back, and slashed downwards.

The light of the earth suddenly emerged, adding a fierce sword aura to the hunter's strike, and even the giant sword itself deformed with the hunter's swing, extending from the original length of nearly two meters to more than three meters in an instant, directly The gargoyle that just wanted to get up smashed back abruptly, and even left a bigger pothole on the ground.

This sword... in order to adapt to my habit of using a weapon with a shape-shifting function, did it change somehow?

Some thoughts skipped slightly in the hunter's mind, but his actions were not affected at all.The giant sword transformed into a cane in an instant. The hunter reached out and grabbed the end of the cane, and stabbed the sharp side at the metal plate that had been cut beautifully by the giant sword, easily pierced it, and then penetrated the metal plate The magic power core below.

Then, the huge monster lost its sound, and its whole body shattered, turning into broken stones all over the place.

Can feel the invisible reverberation pouring into the body, although not many.

"After destroying the magic power core, it was smashed directly. It seems that this thing has actually reached its limit a long time ago."

The mystic scholar stepped forward and picked up a piece of gravel, with a somewhat regretful expression on his face.

"As a magical creation once jointly researched by the old gods and anthropologists, the technical content of the gargoyle is definitely one of the best in the old era."

"This kind of thing has completely lost the ability to reproduce now. It's a pity. It would be great if we could get a more complete magic power structure. Tsk, but this still active gargoyle has been severely damaged. After the magic power core stops working, it will be destroyed immediately. Disintegrated."

The face of the chattering Alhazred was full of helplessness, one sentence after another, and he didn't know who he was nagging at.

However, since he went to hunt the Goddess of the Earth, the mystic scholar often sighed similarly to various ruins along the way, so everyone is basically used to this guy's reactions.

Except for those business groups who are not far away, who are a little sluggish for some reason.

"Hey, what are you still doing there, let's go."

Karnis yelled at them, but there was no response from them.

The man in charge just swallowed his saliva and wiped the sweat from his forehead. Then he finally came to his senses and stretched out his fingers to point in front of him.

"Well, if you want more moving gargoyles, my lord scholar, I don't think there is anything to worry about."

In such voices, the hunters gradually heard something different.

click - click -

It was like the sound of rocks rubbing against each other, gradually cracking the gap.

Shouldn't it be...

The hunter looked in the direction of the voice first, and then the hunters also realized the situation and turned their heads.

Then they saw a gargoyle monster that was no different from the one just now, slowly falling from midair with a huge ax in hand.

And behind this gargoyle monster, the second and third ones that fell down immediately... a total of more than 20 gargoyles carrying giant axes or giant swords.

In the old age of the old gods, gargoyle monsters, as mass-produced magic creations, would often form a specialized gargoyle army to overwhelm the enemy in huge numbers.And at this time, in front of these hunters, this legion once had

The glorious appearance, just like this, showed some broken fragments.

Chapter 24: Escape Time

boom -

Part of the broken building suddenly collapsed.

Rumbling--

Another piece of building ruins collapsed amidst the sound of explosions, sputtering a large cloud of smoke and dust.

The dark gargoyle monsters flew up one after another, and fell one after another, moving among the ruins.

Buildings were constantly shattered and collapsed under their attacks, and there were explosions one after another, scattering dust and gravel around.

And within the flying rubble, the figure of the hunter rushed out of it.

Abigail let out a mournful cry, and was held by the hunter's waist with one hand, and quickly ran past the ruins of the building as if carrying a suitcase.Several gargoyle monsters flew out from behind, brandishing a huge stone ax and smashing down, directly smashing the place where the hunter stepped on a moment ago.

Run, flee, and dodge horrific numbers of enemies.

It seems that there is a feeling of nostalgia, and the hunter always feels that this kind of thing has happened more than once.

But while Hunter misses it, and even enjoys it somewhat, it's clear that other people don't.

"Why are there so many of these things? And why do these things attack people? Shouldn't they be weapons made to fight against filthy monsters?"

Karnis, who was not far away, roared and quickly passed through several broken walls, but was almost hit by an axe from a gargoyle chasing after him. Just got up and continued running.

"These things fly too fast..."

William, who was running among the ruins with the hounds, was also miserable, and now his whole body was splashed with dust and mud.

"The cognitive function of these things has been damaged for many years. We have to run separately. If we gather together like this, our enemies will find us soon. Let's use the lighthouse over there as a meeting point. I'll go first !"

Alhazred used the tentacles to wrap himself around him and moved quickly. While running, he said to the people around him, and then he took the lead in breaking away from the team, leading more than a dozen gargoyles into the ruins not far away. .

Scatter and escape to reduce the pressure of pursuit, do you want to find a way to escape and then reunite?

Indeed, this is the best way under the current situation.

"Well, it seems that there is no better idea at the moment, Mr. Hunter, see you at the lighthouse later!"

Seeing that there was no way to get rid of these gargoyle monsters for a while, William also yelled and quickly retreated into the ruins.

Then Karnis also slipped into the tunnel under the ruins, so only the hunter and Abigail were left to move forward among the huge ruins, constantly avoiding the chasing gargoyle monsters them.

Lighthouse?

The hunter raised his head and looked at the lighthouse mentioned by the hunters before.

The distance is quite far, at least five or six kilometers away, even with the hunter's fairly good eyesight, he can only see a small point.

It may take a lot of time to rush over with so many enemies chasing behind.

This will take time, especially considering that they must operate as stealthily as possible to avoid the attention of real enemies.Well, we can't be in a hurry to meet up for a while, let's find a way to get rid of these guys first.

While thinking, the hunter took off again, ran over from the roof of a dilapidated building, and then fell down and rolled through several half-collapsed buildings. In the sound of the wind, he ran forward.

"Wow, Mister Hunter..."

Abigail struggled a bit, but she couldn't resist the hunter's strength at all, so she could only continue to be held by his waist, and was led to run all the way.

Actually, I can get down and run by myself...

The girl wanted to protest loudly like this, but she knew very well that there was no such time for the two of them to stop and communicate slowly.The hunter was also eager to escape, so he would just pick up Abigail and run away.

boom -

A gargoyle monster suddenly met him from the side, swung a huge ax and swept out.

The hunter took off at the next moment and landed directly on the outstretched arm of the monster. While the giant ax tore through the ruins of the building, he jumped again, landed on the head of the gargoyle, and then jumped onto the roof of a nearby building .

"Uh-uh..."

Abigail took a deep breath, and stretched out her hand to summon the Moonlight Greatsword.But the hunter's march was too violent, and the little girl couldn't control her body after a few twists and turns. The summoned sword came out of her hand and disappeared, and the ground and sky kept spinning in the girl's eyes.

No, it will be very difficult for Mr. Hunter to get rid of these things if things go on like this. They can fly and have an advantage over us in moving.

The girl knew very well that it was not impossible for hunters to stop and fight these monsters, but people from the church could come here at any time. In order to prevent being approached by the other party, the pace and intensity of the battle must be reduced, and they must act as stealthily as possible.And once the hunter really fights with these groups of chasing gargoyles, there is basically no possibility of ending the battle in a short time.

There are too many of them.

Calm down, calm down.

Once again being led by the hunter across the gap between the two buildings, the girl's eyes froze suddenly as she stared at the dark abyss revealed by the collapsed street below.

"what!"

The Moonlight Great Sword appeared in his hand in an instant, and then disappeared in an instant after bursting out with light.

The violent blow at this moment overturned a gargoyle that was rushing up from behind, causing the opponent to fall from the air and land on the street, then slipped and fell into the crack, and was stuck inside and couldn't move for a while. Flying with thumping gravel.

He stretched out his hand and waved it violently again.

In this instant, the moonlight greatsword emerged from the girl's hand like a phantom, and then disappeared, followed by a ray of light waving from her hand, sweeping across the house that the hunter just stepped over, directly destroying the entire building, and shattering the collapsed house. Blocks fell on the gargoyle and buried it.

Summon the Moonlight Great Sword instantly and use its ability immediately, and then unsummon it instantly. As long as you seize a reasonable opportunity, you can help Mr. Hunter at the critical moment.

Taking a deep breath, the little girl showed a determined expression at this moment.