Chapter 141 Dedicated to the giant of fire that destroys everything!
The howling wind blew across the barren land, pulling away the billowing dust from the cracked soil.
Hino Dragon, who was seriously injured, shook his dazed bull's head and propped up his shaky body with a broken sword he picked up casually.
A few minutes ago—
Perhaps more.
He took his men who had rested for a long time and launched another attack towards the Demon King's army's position, fighting with the ogre troops who went out to fight.
ulating hand in hand� The battle was fought in darkness, with rivers of blood flowing, and corpses strewn across the fields...
He only remembered that he faced a monster with an iron chain around its waist and two giant rusty swords in its hands.
That guy was like a madman, rushing in front of all the ogres, waving the chains and swords in his hands, sweeping everything within the attack range regardless of friend or foe!
Hino saw with his own eyes that at least twenty...or even more ogres were rolled into flesh by the chains and blades in the monster's hands, and turned into rain of blood and scattered in the air.
However, the ogres following the monster were not afraid. Instead, their faces were filled with fanaticism and their morale was high.
They don't look like they are on a battlefield at all, but they are holding some kind of ceremony now.
They seem to have lost their sense of pain, are fearless, and even rush to death impatiently!
That bloody and cruel scene deeply shocked Xino, and also shocked the demon warriors wearing heavy armor behind him.
They felt that they were not fighting an army, but wallowing in the mire with a group of irrational lunatics.
Logically speaking, this kind of disorganized and irrational style of play will only speed up the death of those ogres, but in fact it is another matter.
When a demon swordsman chopped an ogre cannon fodder to the ground with the released sword energy, the half of the body that fell to the ground hugged his legs, and then the round and smooth head opened its bloody mouth and bit his thigh.
Of course teeth cannot bite through steel.
However, the scene of being hugged by the "halfling"'s thigh with half of his intestines thrown away was enough to make his SAN level go crazy.
Especially when thousands of ogres are like this, he is no longer surrounded by a single one, but by a large group!
When he wielded the sword, it seemed that what he cut off was not a body of flesh and blood, but earthworms with arms and legs!
It was not only physical torture, but also mental torture.
The mad arrogance is like a contagious virus, not only devouring the mind of the ogre, but also biting the tense nerves of every soldier of the "Hell Flame" Heavy Infantry Regiment.
Under this chaotic squeeze, their formation was quickly disrupted.
In addition, there is a huge monster waving the chains and swords in his hands, lashing everything on the battlefield like a whip.
A centurion tried to stop the guy and rushed forward with his sword drawn. However, after only a dozen moves, he was chopped into pieces by the whistling war blade.
The bloody scene stimulated the nerves of all the demon heavy infantry. In the chaos of fighting each other, some people finally began to escape... and their defeat to some extent encouraged the frenzied atrocities of the group of ogres.
Hino tried to reverse the situation and regroup the defeated troops, but something hit his helmeted head, and he fainted as soon as his eyes rolled.
Until now, he didn't know what hit him, and he couldn't even figure out whether it was magic or the club in the hand of the ogre.
Now that he recalled the situation at that time, he couldn't help but feel a shiver.
That monster wielding an iron chain is definitely more than just silver!
Perhaps the strength must be gold, or even platinum!
This cunning devil...
He actually cheated in the sacred duel! Send reinforcements in full view of everyone!
Hino Dragon was very angry.
Although he himself did similar things, at least he did it secretly!
At present, he doesn't know whether the eldest daughter of the Colin family has succeeded, so he doesn't dare to be happy too early.
But if he succeeds, I think that the Demon King may have gone back to see the Demon God, and he may win without a fight...
After experiencing two bloody battles that exceeded expectations in a row, Xino has already begun to think about retreating.
Especially when he found that he almost risked his life, he finally began to remember that war is not a child's play.
However, when Xino looked around to find the way back, he found that there was only a dead wasteland around him. Not to mention the familiar scenery, there was not even a body in sight.
This is...
Is it a maze?
No——
There are no stone pillars connecting the ground and the dome. Although it is also deserted, it is much brighter and more spacious than in the maze.
But in comparison, the poverty here is even worse.
The dry and cracked earth seemed to have lost all its water, and the sand blown by the wind seemed to be red, with a faint smell of rust, and like dried blood.
He raised his head, trying to find the dome in the sky, but the turbid wind and sand obscured his sight, causing him to narrow his eyes involuntarily.
The dim light was like a circle, shrinking into a blurry point in the sky, emitting light that was not much brighter than a kerosene lamp.
That's the sun?
No...
It seems not.
Hino has been to the surface of the earth before, and always feels that the sun in his memory is much bigger and more dazzling than the one he sees now.
At this time, a gust of biting wind blew by, and the frantic airflow almost knocked him to the ground. Fortunately, he used the broken sword in his hand to support his body in time to prevent him from turning over.
But thanks to the sudden strong wind, the billowing dust covering his head was blown away a little.
Hino raised his head again and looked towards the sky again, but was stunned for a moment and his eyes widened involuntarily.
As he expected, this was not a maze, but it was not the world he was familiar with either.
Just next to the sun that was emitting dim light, a huge disk extended from the horizon to the sky, swallowing up one third of the sky!
"What is that...?"
Hino Dragon had a hint of fear in his pupils, and he couldn't help but take a step back, and the broken sword in his hand trembled slightly.
Fear of giant things!
That is the instinct of most creatures, even demons are no exception!
When faced with a huge and majestic unknown structure, the instinct engraved in his DNA reminded him to run away, but he didn't know where to run.
In front of that majestic giant that even dimmed the sun, everything around him seemed so small, whether it was him or the earth itself under his feet.
At this time, footsteps came from behind him.
The guy is more than two meters tall, and his burly body is not inferior to him. However, there is no trace of beauty in the bloated body, only rudeness and brutality.
That ugly face is even more so, it is comparable to or even worse than the ogre's face, just like the dry and cracked earth under his feet.
Hino did not dare to be careless at all. He stared nervously at the figure that was getting closer and closer, and tightened the half of the dagger in his hand.
Looking at Xino in a fighting posture, the shirtless warrior just sneered, and then threw a diamond-encrusted ax in front of him.
Looking at the ax that fell on the ground, Xino was slightly startled.
That is his axe!
"Ka! O!"
A low roar came from the man's throat, but Xino Dragon could not understand what he was saying.
Maybe that's his name.
Or, it’s theirs.
The man opened his mouth again and made a completely different hoarse sound.
And this time it’s a language that Xino can understand!
"He dies...you live."
"Who?" Xino looked at him warily, and while throwing away the broken sword, he picked up his battle axe.
Feeling the heavy weight in his hand, Xino finally found a sense of security as he held the familiar guy again.
However, looking at Xino who picked up the battle axe, the strange man standing in front of him chuckled, with an upturned crack on his ugly face.
The man pulled out the spear on his back, drew a few strokes on the dry land, and scrawled a monster carrying two knives.
Xino’s pupils shrank slightly.
Although this simple drawing is very abstract, he recognizes this guy!
"Are you in the same group?"
Hino swallowed and continued in a low voice.
"Where is your Demon King? I want to see him!"
The man did not answer his intention at all, but continued to speak in that dry and hoarse voice.
"Those who survived were chosen by Him."
"The dead became sacrifices!"
"He? Sacrifice? Wait, what do you mean?" Xino was completely confused, looking at the man in front of him in astonishment.
"Karmandes!" The man inserted the spear back into his back, and at the same time let out a low roar, with pious eyes, "The giant of fire that destroys everything! The main god we serve!"
Karmandes!
Hino vaguely remembered where he had heard this name, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.
That doesn’t seem to be common knowledge.
But when he heard the words "The giant of fire that destroys everything", a hint of surprise suddenly appeared in his big copper bell eyes... Although the hint of surprise was soon replaced by shock and panic.
"Wait... what do you want to do?" Xino roared angrily, "The only god I serve is His Majesty the Demon God Bayali! I don't care about being chosen by your bastard! Want to distort my beliefs? I see you are not awake!"
He was afraid.
Even forgot to rebuke them for their blasphemy.
The man sneered and looked at him with mocking eyes, as if he was watching a prey caught in a trap dying.
"It's not up to you."
"I don't want to be chosen."
"Then go die."
With these words, the guy who exuded a dangerous aura turned around and disappeared into the rolling dust, as if he had never been here.
Almost at the same time, a bone-deep chill crept into Xino's heart.
It feels like being stared at by death.
The dog beast hiding in the darkness was grinning at him and grinding its teeth at him.
Hino's chest kept rising and falling as he looked around at the dead wasteland, his trembling pupils fearful of the hunter who didn't know where he was hiding, and hating the panic in his heart.
He had had enough.
He is not a coward who is afraid of death, at least he doesn't think he is... However, at this moment, he is so scared by a guy who has not yet shown his face!
In the end, the suppressed anger turned into a roar, and with the muffled sound of the battle ax he struck on his chest, it spread across the wilderness.
"Get out of here if you want to fight!"
"See if I don't smash your dog's head."
That roar seemed to be the kindling that lit a bonfire. The boiling fighting spirit rose into the sky, dispelling the dust that enveloped the earth, and ignited the dead planet at his feet. A bloodthirsty and ferocious figure emerged from the billowing dust.
Two iron chains dragged behind him, and the mottled stains all over his body could no longer be distinguished from rust or blood.
"Ka! Oh!" Karsen Skullbreaker let out a muddy roar, then quickened his pace and rushed towards the horror holding the battle ax tightly.
The real duel finally begins!
Or——
A ritual to please the Flame of Destruction!
…
The sound of metal clashing echoed through the wilderness.
Driven by the survival instinct, Xino, who overcame fear, burst out with amazing fighting power, even faintly breaking through the boundaries of the soul!
The same goes for Kasen·Skull Crusher.
Hunted for killing and blood, the ogre chief also burst out with power that transcended boundaries, using his body and weapons to the extreme!
Under the gaze of the flames of destruction, both sides were fighting back and forth...
At the same time, there was another side.
Hino Dragon is not the only one who is confused about the whole world. There are also two skeletons, one tall and one short, standing here blankly.
The ID of the taller skeleton is Yiye Zhiqiu, and the ID of the shorter undead rat is naturally Huwan. One of the two looked up at the sky, and the other looked around confusedly, looking confused about the situation.
A few minutes ago, they were searching for loot on the battlefield, but it turned out to be dawn while they were walking?
"Fuck..."
"Where the hell did this come from for me?"
The two stared at each other for a while, and finally it was Ye who broke the silence first and coughed lightly.
"First of all, rule out that this is a maze..."
"Nonsense."
I thought he could say something useful, but after waiting for a long time, Hu Wan couldn't help but rolled his eyes in reality.
Having been complained about like this by a good brother, Yiye Zhiqiu felt a little embarrassed for a while, and touched the bridge of his nose with his index finger.
"I'm sorry... I'm a little confused about the situation now. You asked me to figure it out. Then the floor suddenly collapsed?"
Hushan shook his head and said.
"It's not that the floor collapsed, what I saw was a crack on the ground... It didn't seem like a crack, it was like a door."
It felt like there was a painting on the ground. He took a step forward and walked directly through the picture and walked into the painting.
However, the strange thing is that there is a desert behind him, and there is no so-called door or anything similar at all.
"...Well, to put it simply, it is something similar to a portal. What is not sure now is whether this portal is one-way or two-way."
, you can check the details online, it can be explained more clearly than I can..." Yiye Zhiqiu stared at the majestic outline in the sky for a long time, and it took him a long time to squeeze out a sentence from his throat, "Now I even doubt whether we are still on the original planet?"
Huwan glanced at him.
「Any questions?」
Yiye Zhiqiu was stunned for a moment.
"Aren't you surprised? It's as if we were on Earth one second and already on Callisto the next second."
Huhwan couldn't help complaining.
"Just a sticker... Do you think a game company would design a separate planet for a copy or level?"
It's impossible in terms of cost!
Because this sentence was so reasonable, Yiye Zhiqiu didn't know how to refute it for a while.
Perhaps it’s because this game is too real.
He can't help but think about problems from a real perspective, so much so that he forgets that he is sitting in a gaming chair wearing a VR helmet.
“I want to know what we should do now?” Huwan looked around, but he couldn’t see very far because of his height.
Ye Zhiqiu thought for a moment and said.
"Let's look around... It's probably not just us who were sent here, maybe there are others."
Just as he was speaking, there was a sudden movement not far away, and a skinny jackal appeared around the two of them at some unknown time.
It was like being blown by the wind. It appeared without any warning, as if it stood there in the blink of an eye.
The turbid pupils were filled with bloodlust and greed, and hissing came from between his clenched teeth, as if he had seen some delicious food.
The two of them looked at each other and saw a look of disbelief on each other's faces.
It’s strange!
When we were in the maze, no living creature had ever been interested in skeletons like them, but here someone actually drooled at them?
But now is not the time to be curious!
Looking at the beast that was ready to move, Yiye Zhiqiu took the lead in raising his right hand, and the red flames condensed between the skinny knuckles.
A ball of fire condensed and formed like a solid body, and then flew towards the grinning jackal like an arrow from a string!
Seeing the hot flames coming toward him, the jackal dodged sideways and quickly pounced on the two people standing in the wilderness.
Seeing that the attack failed, Yiye Zhiqiu did not pause at all, and then shot another fireball to block the movement of the jackal, and at the same time recited other spells.
Huchan, who cooperated with him tacitly, had already pulled out the enchanted dagger, lunged forward, and stabbed the jackal's neck with the dagger in his hand.
A cold light flashed past, cutting off a few hairs at the base of the jackal's neck, but did not pierce its flesh.
At the same time, the jackal with its forelimbs on the ground turned around without hesitation and bit back at the undead rat that was attacking him.
Thanks to Huwan's reaction being fast enough and his agility high enough, he could avoid its bite by taking a step back, otherwise the previous blow would have been enough to send him away.
"What the hell? This guy has something!" Huwan exclaimed, taking two steps back and waving a dagger to drive away the jackal.
Yiye Zhiqiu smiled faintly.
"Did you just realize it?"
Seeing the jackal's hind limbs gathering strength and preparing to pounce, Hu Wan said quickly.
"Stop talking nonsense, is your spell ready?"
At the same time as he finished speaking, the ferocious jackal had already pounced on him.
Just as the sharp front paws were about to come into contact with him, three sharp thorns suddenly shot up from the ground, blocking the jackal's trajectory like a trident!
The jackal with its limbs in the air had nowhere to dodge. Noten could only watch as he collided with the sharp thorn!
The ground thorn penetrated the fur on his chest. The jackal let out a painful cry and struggled to roll to the side.
Hush the opportunity, Hu Wan stepped forward, the dagger with the inscription in his hand turned into a flash of green light, and cut through the throat of the jackal like cutting tofu.
The spurting blood sprayed in the air.
Hushwan shook off the blood on the dagger and was about to put it away, but found that the blood stains on the blade were scattered like gravel.
Is it so silky?
His expression was slightly startled.
At this moment, he discovered that it was not only the blood stuck to the dagger that had turned into gravel and dispersed, but also the body that fell next to the stabbing on the ground.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know."
Yiye Zhiqiu stared solemnly at the disappearing body, watching the red dots scattered like gravel blending into the rusty wind.
The dead body disappeared, as if it had been swallowed by some unknown entity, leaving only a scarlet crystal in place.
Hushwan reached out to pick it up, raised it above his head, and observed it carefully through the sparse light, and saw that there seemed to be some liquid flowing in the scarlet crystal surface.
The liquid is like blood and like the grains of sand in an hourglass.
"Is this a magic crystal?"
Ye Zhiqiu shook his head.
"It's a bit like it, but I can't be sure of the specifics."
Huwan said nervously.
"There's something evil here, I always have an ominous premonition... Let's not waste time and find a way back as soon as possible."
"Hmm." Kazuo Zhiqiu nodded, "I think so too."
In fact, it's not difficult to go back, dying once is enough.
However, both of them carry a lot of equipment, some of which they picked up and some of their own. No one can be sure that the things lost here can be recovered.
Putting away the scarlet crystal, the two skeletons, one tall and one short, continued on the road, wandering on the desolate land, looking for the way back.
At the same time, in the Demon City in the depths of hell, under the tower of the Demon King Management Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kamu Dragon was grabbing Grien's collar with both hands, roaring angrily.
"...If my brother is missing a finger, I will never let you go!"
At this moment, he is like an angry bull, and it is unclear whether he is making excuses or whether he is really worried about the safety of his brothers.
Perhaps both.
"Mr. Dragon... calm down first. I know you are worried about your loved ones, but now we may have more serious problems to face." Grien persuaded with a wry smile, but there was nothing he could do about this arrogant and unreasonable high-level demon.
There is really nothing he can do.
Even if he is the deputy director, the authority of the Demon King Management Department is too low. Even many people in the same department do not respect him, let alone these hell nobles with fiefdoms.
Just when he was helpless, a carriage suddenly appeared in his field of vision.
Grian's eyes lit up, as if he saw a savior, he shouted loudly towards the carriage that had not stopped yet.
"Dear Mr. Demon King! You are finally here!"