Chapter 153 The only way to overcome the curse of chaos
The light shining from the dome shocked not only the four demon generals, but also the residents and adventurers active in Mist Town.
Looking at the suddenly lit dome, many of the human mercenaries patrolling with muskets on their backs had expressions of obvious surprise on their faces.
"What is that?!"
"Why did it suddenly dawn?"
"Could it be chaos..."
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The mercenary industry is very mobile, and many people have only been in the industry for a few months, and have never seen the previous Mist Town
Everyone exchanged surprised glances and whispered in low voices.
Hearing these rookies chatting more and more outrageously, an older mercenary curled his lips and finally couldn't help but say a few words.
"What's all the fuss about? This place was like this a year ago, but it suddenly stopped lighting up last year."
A young mercenary asked curiously.
"Is it because the Demon King went to conquer the surface?"
"The devil knows why," the older mercenary shook his head, squinting at the dome emitting silver light, "But my intuition tells me that this is not a good thing."
The other mercenary standing next to him grinned and said in a casual tone.
"Whether it's a good thing or not has nothing to do with us. Let the nobles worry about it. We just need to stand guard."
A powerful maze is never a good thing for the local human lords, especially since I heard that Archduke Campbell is in poor health recently and the principality may be about to usher in a change of power.
If the Demon King, who represents the forces of hell, cheers up first at this time, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the Principality of Campbell.
But for a mercenary, it seems too far to consider these things, and whether the Principality of Campbell is good or not seems to have nothing to do with him.
Can Archduke Campbell necessarily represent the interests of mankind?
He had no doubts about this before, but after dealing with those princes and nobles for a long time, he discovered that those people were actually no more noble than demons.
Saint Sith and the Demon God are just two sides of the same coin. It was precisely because of what he was thinking that he didn't feel any guilt for working for the devil.
It may also be because the Demon King has not shown his evil side yet, at least now he feels that this employer is not bad.
He believed that the respected Captain Alex thought so too.
That gentleman is a real nobleman. Even he is not worried about the rise of the labyrinth. It seems too funny for a mercenary to worry about these things.
The vision of the dome caused quite a commotion in Mist Town.
However, as time went by, when people discovered that the silver-white light had no effect on them, they all settled down one after another.
At the same time, not far outside Misty Town, the night elves looking up at the dome were shocked by the vision and could not let it go for a long time.
Looking at the moonlight that filled the forest, Helen's lips trembled slightly, and her eyes widened like ripe almonds.
"The devil is above..."
"This, this, this... is the crystal on the dome repaired?!"
Shirley, who was sitting next to her, exclaimed, her eyes also widened, and her face was full of surprise and disbelief.
Praise the Demon King!
He really kept his promise!
Although she had no doubts, she never thought that this day would come so quickly.
At this moment, the sound of a horn suddenly came from the forest.
Hhearing the long horn sound, the two people who were immersed in surprise a second ago instantly stopped the smiles on their faces and stood up from the tree branches alertly.
That is the rallying call!
Helen and Shirley looked at each other and immediately understood each other's eyes. Then they jumped down from the tree and their figures quickly disappeared in the misty forest.
The melodious sound of the horn spread farther and farther, and the hunters in the entire forest moved and gathered in the direction of the horn blowing!
The same scene didn’t just happen on the fourth floor of the maze.
Grak, who returned to the war palace, summoned his men. Nearly five thousand orc warriors picked up their weapons and gathered under the clan's flag.
From the war corridors on the sixth to ninth floors, to the desperate city on the tenth floor, and even the Ice Sanctuary and the Demon King's Palace on the lower floors...the mighty teams are all gathering in the same direction!
They are Reggie Dragon's family fortune that has not yet been completely ruined.
At the same time, it is also the final strength of the entire maze!
They were once scattered and gathered together again.
This time it’s not for anyone’s ambition—
It’s for themselves!
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Hunting with flags and loud drums!
On the fifth floor of the maze, green heads were swaying in the desolate wilderness, and their cloudy pupils were flashing with a bloodthirsty light.
Different from the fat-bellied ogre.
Their bones are taller and their muscles are stronger!
Other than their dark green skin and the fangs protruding from their mouths, their appearance is almost the same as that of humans on the surface!
Looking at the orc army gathering in the wilderness, the players who were spawning monsters all had surprised expressions on their faces.
"Is there any new activity here?"
"Damn it! So many people!"
The murderous troops gathered in the wilderness, and even the Chaos Gate, which exuded an ominous aura in the distance, dimmed its light.
That is a real war machine.
Steel made of blood and fire!
Their equipment cannot be called sophisticated, and can only be considered rough, but no one dares to doubt their combat effectiveness!
Standing in front of this bloodthirsty army, the heavy armored regiments that were fighting in the wilderness were like well-made toys!
Although they don’t know what happened, their intuition tells the players that it seems to be one of the Demon King’s trump cards.
After all, they all have green names on their heads.
And the enemy they are facing is the sworn enemy of the Necropolis!
Looking at the orc army forming a formation on the battlefield, the Kaa people active near the Gate of Chaos were also affected by the momentum, with bloodthirsty expressions on their withered and ugly faces.
They are like ghosts crawling out of the abyss.
The powerful opponent not only did not scare them, but also excited them who were so bloodthirsty!
A knight riding a tall war horse walked to the front of the battle.
Stern black armor covered every inch of his body, standing on the battlefield like a towering black tower.
Hands of obscure spells floated out from under the armor. He raised the long sword in his hand and pointed at the dome in the distance.
As the obscure incantation was recited, the long sword suddenly burst into flames like a lit match!
The flame crawled along the spine of the sword to his wrist, then crossed his forearm and covered his armor, and then enveloped the war horse under him!
Amid the neighing of a war horse, he was like a lit coal, completely bathed in boiling flames.
A surprising scene happened. The flames that destroyed everything did not burn him, but instead gave him infinite power!
A deep roar came out of his mouth, and thousands of servants around him also shouted and moved closer to him.
As if he were a flag!
"Kaa!!!"
In just a short moment, a huge army had already assembled in the wilderness. And standing at the forefront of this army are the ogres under Carson Skullbreaker!
It's just that at this moment, they are no longer fighting for hell, but like their leader, they are completely on the side of Chaos!
They believe it!
"Flame of Destruction" Kalmandes is "King of the Big Stomach" Buldada!
They are the same god!
Standing at the forefront of the orc army, Gerak, holding a battle ax, narrowed his eyes slightly, and there was a trace of solemnity between his brows.
There is no doubt about it!
That is the divine choice of Chaos!
Just looking at it from a distance, he couldn't judge the guy's strength at all. He could only judge by intuition that the burning flame came from another dimension!
Most of the power possessed by the Chosen Gods of Chaos comes from other worlds, and naturally cannot be measured by the standards of Osland.
Just as Gluk was preparing for the battle, the players standing not far away discovered a new situation from the edge of the battlefield!
On the horizon in the distance, dust was flying. As the roar got closer and closer, a giant insect as tall as a mountain appeared.
The dark blue carapace was like a moving fortress, and the entire land seemed to be shaking under his trampling, emitting an overwhelmed wail.
He is not the only one who came here.
There are thousands of descendants closely following him!
The dense swarm of insects was like an avalanche, forming a dark blue torrent on the gray-yellow wilderness, turning everything it passed into frost!
"Holy shit! Such a big beetle!"
Zhixue Xuebao's eyes were straightened, his eyes were completely glued to this thing, and the soul fire in the skull was shaking with a horrifying light.
The little devil Ayanami, who was floating next to him and fluttering his wings, swallowed.
“What the hell is this...”
"I don't know...but it seems that he is on the same team as us." Gou Shi's face was full of surprise.
He always felt that he had missed a few G plots.
When did their Demon King, who is just like the polished commander, become so powerful? !
The first person to come to his senses was "one gulp of the chemical pool".
How can such an exciting thing be enjoyed by just one person?
Happy to see the excitement, he immediately went offline and went to the official website to post a message to impress people.
"Brothers, hurry up and log in!!! Something big happened on the fifth floor of the maze!"
Not long after the post was posted, a long list of replies quickly refreshed at the bottom of the post.
Under the embellished description of the chemistry guy, the entire forum was as lively as a boiling oil pot, and players active on other floors moved towards the fifth floor.
Even some high-level players who were farming monsters in "Kaa Planet" were attracted by the situation on the fifth floor of the maze and spontaneously gathered here.
Looking at the giant frost beetle that appeared on the battlefield, the black knight standing at the forefront of the Chaos army had a look of surprise in his eyes.
But it’s just a surprise.
Different from other Chosen Gods of Chaos forces, the servants of Kalmandes have never known fear, and powerful opponents will only make them more excited!
More than that—
The stronger the opponent, the more powerful they are!
And this is the most difficult thing for Kalmandes’ servants!
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The atmosphere on the fifth floor of the maze is tense. Both sides are ready for battle. All they need is an order or a gunshot!
To be honest, Luo Yan did not expect that the play performed by Xino Dragon in conjunction with him would actually produce such an amazing effect.
Even for the sake of the remaining power of the surname Dragon, the speed at which this group of rebels defected seemed too alarming.
So much so that he couldn't help but wonder if he had wrongly blamed them... These guys were actually very loyal?
Of course.
· Discussing loyalty in a place where the law of the jungle is followed is as funny as discussing positions with goblins.
Luo Yan didn't know what those demons had imagined, so he could only try to analyze it based on what he had learned in Demon King Academy.
And with his afterthought analysis, he also came up with a reasonable explanation.
The disintegration of the labyrinth is not so much due to the ambitions' desire for power, but rather to the fact that the demons who have been struggling on the edge of life for a long time have lost their confidence in the rule of hell.
The previous Demon King brought them no substantial benefits, and every major decision was about choosing the lesser of two evils between bad and worse outcomes.
This is just like Hell never expected the Labyrinth of Thunder County to conquer a territory in the heart of the human world, but Reggie Dragon still launched a full-scale war without hesitation and put all his hopes on the victory of the war.
Even if they achieve the final victory, they will not be able to enjoy the fruits of victory, because they will soon face a crusade from the imperial army.
In this desperate atmosphere, it is impossible for the vast majority of demons to have much affection for the Demon King from the Demon City, and the only motive that restrains them from committing more irrational behaviors is the Demon God's faith.
But now it’s different.
With the gradual restoration of order, they who were dormant in the shadows regained hope and gained confidence in the future.
On the surface, this is a rebellion launched by local separatist forces, but in essence it is a game between local and central authorities over autonomy.
They do not really intend to escape from the system of hell.
After understanding this, Luo Yan calmed down a little, turned to the lair of the Soul of Rock and Earth, and inspected the development of the magma worms.
The growth rate of these little guys is quite amazing.
After a week of development, their number has changed from the initial tens of thousands of tadpoles to hundreds of millions of "insect swarms", extending all the way down along the fissures in the magma around the magma, penetrating along the edge of the labyrinth into the "upper mantle asthenosphere" tens of kilometers below.
There is a high temperature of thousands of degrees and a pressure of thousands of atmospheres, which is basically the limit for the growth of magma worms.
These little guys will not get too close to the magma, but live in relatively warm and moderately pressured magma fissures.
Like the roots of plants, they continuously absorb heat from heat sources and transfer it to crystals and other minerals that can store magic power in contact with them.
Hence, Luo Yan just connected it to the crystal on the fourth floor of the maze, and the crystals that could store magic power were naturally lit up.
It's as easy as plugging in a lightbulb, no spell required.
Because they only live in specific temperature and pressure ranges, they will not spread excessively and cause serious ecological crises.
Not only that, they will wrap around the magma veins like pipes, using their own adhesion to strengthen the rock mass around the magma, making the path of the magma flow more stable, greatly reducing the probability of the magma suddenly erupting from the illegally constructed area of the Soul of Rock and Earth!
Considering that the thermal energy underground is almost inexhaustible, the energy produced by these magma bugs can not only supply the lighting of the fourth dome of the maze, but also use the excess magic power in other areas of the maze!
At present, Luo Yan has asked the moles in Iron Fang City and the Goblin Engineer Oak to study this matter.
If the situation is optimistic, the facilities that Reggie Dragon created with the power of faith in the labyrinth will all be powered by clean energy in the future!
It is a pity that magic power cannot be reversely converted into the power of faith. The power of faith can only be collected through the prayers of individuals with souls.
Otherwise, Luo Yan wouldn't need to worry about the residents of Thunder City, he could just seal the maze and extract the magic power from the magma.
Standing next to Luo Yan, the immobile man who looked like a hill looked at the tribesmen not far away who were using stone buckets to fish out lava, and said in a slow voice.
"It's incredible... I originally thought these little things would irritate our fountain of life, but I didn't expect that they actually made the magma more stable."
More than that!
At first, he was worried that these bizarre creatures would affect the health of his people like moss, but soon he discovered that these little guys not only would not affect their health, but could also enhance their digestion and improve their "intestinal flora."
By the way, he also learned the term "intestinal flora" from the Demon King in front of him. He had never heard of a similar concept before.
Thinking of this, he admired Modu's technology even more.
"This is the power of knowledge," Luo Yan smiled, regardless of whether it had anything to do with knowledge, and continued, "Now do you still doubt my decision?"
"I don't dare."
Fudoweng lowered his head respectfully, without any trace of his previous rebelliousness.
Luo Yan could tell that this guy was completely convinced.
Of course.
This has nothing to do with knowledge or lack of knowledge. It is mainly because the Rock and Earth Soul Tribe has received enough benefits from the necropolis.
Not only did they get enough coal, but they also lived a stable life, and all they paid was some "excrement" that they had no use for.
As for the "stone eggs" contributed to the necropolis, it is not a big problem for the immovable beast.
In their scrawled culture, their lives begin from the moment they break out of the ground. When they cannot move, they cannot be considered complete lives, and naturally they cannot be considered part of the tribe.
After inspecting the situation of the Soul of Rock and Earth Tribe, Luo Yan then went to Iron Tooth City for a tour.
If the lair of the Soul of Rock and Earth is the reactor of the labyrinth, then Iron Fang City and the surrounding areas will be the future energy control hub of the labyrinth.
At present, his overall plan for the maze is basically centered on the general direction of "energy self-sufficiency".
In this way, he can save his precious power of faith and use it in more worthy places.
For example, improving the combat effectiveness of yourself, players, and monsters.
While Luo Yan was inspecting all kinds of strange props designed by the professional life players in the necropolis, Xino Dragon, who had just returned from the lower level of the maze, strode towards his direction.
"How is it? Do I still act like that?"
While speaking, that cow's face was full of pride.
Compared to the arrogance he had when they first met, this guy completely changed his face and completely transformed into the shape of a minion of the devil.
In fact, this guy's lack of opinion is not suitable for being a devil, and he will be led by others if he is not careful.
Hino himself actually noticed something.
This was one of the reasons why he made up his mind to follow Luo Yan.
Not just to overcome the curse, he also wanted to know how this human being was better than him besides being a little smarter than him.
Looking at Xino who was showing off, Luo Yan had a smile on his face and nodded approvingly.
"You did very well, even better than I expected."
Looking at the Demon King who nodded in approval, Xino said with an eager expression on his face.
"Then my business..."
Luo Yan nodded.
"Of course I will help you, but as I told you at the beginning, you still have to rely on yourself in the end if you want to break the curse of Chaos."
Xino said in a loud voice.
"I know, of course I will contribute, after all, it is my own business... But you have to tell me what to do."
"I was going to tell you."
Looking at Xino, whose expression was getting serious, Luo Yan paused for a moment, recalling the knowledge he had seen in the Padridge family library before, and continued based on his own understanding.
"The root of chaos is the lack of faith. When we allow extraordinary powers to act unchecked, chaos will find opportunities to spread to us. You should have realized that chaos cannot actually directly affect your body. The corrosion of chaos acts more on the parts of your spirit that have no place to be, such as amplifying the bloodthirsty side of your heart."
"Therefore, there is only one way to solve the curse of Kalmandes - that is to face the contaminated part deep in your spiritual world."
Hino fell into deep thought.
But Luo Yan didn't expect that heavy elm head to be able to think anything, so he shared his own experience.
"Before you came here, Novel, the strange fog, had targeted this place. Many people here were affected by Chaos and became "Mad Whispers.""
Hino asked immediately.
"Then what? How did you defeat the curse of the Mad Whisperer?"
Luo Yan continued.
"We broke the lies with unity, and ended the chaos with unity... Of course, the most important thing is that we defeated him and forced him to take the initiative to close the door of chaos."
Xino looked at Luo Yan with a puzzled face.
"But I have already defeated the ogre with a chain around his belly... I personally chopped off his head with an axe!"
"I know, otherwise you wouldn't be the God of Chaos," Luo Yan looked into his eyes and continued, "You have mistaken the opponent who needs to be defeated, or you and the ogre you defeated are both pawns of Kalmandes. Whoever wins is the same to him... This is the nature of the Flame of Destruction. They burn themselves and others, and the outcome is not what he cares about."
Don't care about the outcome?
How the hell should we win like this——
That’s not right.
The moment he started thinking about winning or losing, he seemed to have already lost!
Because the winner will become the new God's Chosen, the corruption of Chaos will continue to spread until all the fuel is burned out!
A drop of cold sweat broke out on Xino's forehead.
"So...who is the opponent I should defeat? Don't tell me it is——"
Luo Yan said without thinking.
"Do I need to say this? Of course it is Kalmandes, the "Flame of Destruction" himself."