The Swordsman of Faerûn

Chapter 254 The Gods of Disaster

With his eyes slightly closed, William sat cross-legged quietly on the meat-scattered ground, holding the autumn water knife in his palms across his knees, like a sleeping stone sculpture.

To launch [Soul Storm] is not without cost, except for the first time because you are in a special state of soul devouring, you can use [Soul Storm] wantonly when you are full of energy after devouring a large number of ghosts, under normal circumstances Every time William uses [Soul Storm], he consumes a lot of energy. Once the energy is exhausted, he has to immerse his mind in the autumn water knife in order to use the spirituality of the sword (after all, William uses his mind to nurture the water mill of the sword every day) The homework is not done in vain) to restore the lost mental power.

The Sons of Haksha are semi-spiritual monsters, so their flesh and blood rots faster than ordinary creatures (of course, it is also more smelly). When William opened his eyes again, there were only corpses on the ground. There were only a few traces left, and he looked at the empty battlefield, and he couldn't help feeling like a dream in his heart.

"William! Brother——" Misha'er's shout suddenly came from far away in the sky, and William looked up, only to see a person and a rider in the distance flying towards this side at high speed.When the flying one got closer, I saw that it was Mi Sha'er and Mo Xiao. The little girl looked a bit embarrassed at this time, the horned helmet on her head was tilted to one side, and her long fiery red hair was messed up by the wind. , with red eye circles, and tear stains on her delicate little face, the only thing that is quite special is that the little girl's right hand has been tightly grasping her fine gold thorn sword.

"Misha'er?!" Because of the contract, William could vaguely sense that Pegasus didn't feel any danger from Yasuna and the others, and he was a little strange about the little girl appearing alone.

Before Mo Xiao fell back to the ground, Mi Sha'er couldn't wait to jump off the horse. This dangerous act that seriously violated the "traffic rules" really scared William, and he hurried forward to catch the reckless The little girl held her in her arms pitifully, and asked with some doubts and worries, "Why did you come back alone? What about Yasuna and the others?"

Misha'er arched her little head in William's embrace, and said, "Fineya, Miluna, and Yasuna are still in the woods over there." The big beautiful eyes were filled with tears, and he looked at William with great attachment, "It's great to be able to lie in my brother's arms like this! William—"

William held Misha'er in one hand, supported the little girl's tilted helmet with the other hand, and said with a smile, "Don't cry, don't cry, come and tell brother, what's the matter? Who is so courageous to bully you?" my little Shall?"

Misha shook her head, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her small hand, but swung the rapier with the other hand, and said cheerfully with the remaining tears in the corners of her eyes: "No one bullies Misha. Brother, I want to help William is fighting monsters! Oh, why are those monsters gone?"

William laughed loudly and said, "Haha! Then you are late, the monsters have all been killed by my brother, my brave Misha can only wait for the next time!"

But when the subject changed, William frowned and said again: "You and Miluna are separated, this is not good news. We have to find Phinya and the others as soon as possible, and hope that there will be no accidents with them, otherwise"

Recalling the accident that happened when he first came into contact with Miluna, William couldn't help but feel his heart tighten. He picked up Misha'er and jumped onto Mo Xiao's horse, shouting: "We have to hurry up! Mo Xiao, go Find Phineya and the others." Pegasus Mo Zou raised his head to the sky with a long hiss, spread his hooves for a run-up, and took off into the air towards the dense forest in the distance.

Meanwhile, on the Material Plane, far beyond the Astral Realm, floats a world of constant corruption and collapse.At the center of this ever-spreading world of apocalypse, a strange island floats on a sea of ​​decay under a pale sky.The entire island was taken over by a monstrous temple, the walls of which had disappeared, leaving only the windows still in place, hanging in nothingness.

A crumbling gray stone passage rises above this sea of ​​decay, leading where not even the sight of the gods can penetrate.This may be the only way to leave this temple, but no god dares to step on this rugged passage, even the most daring and powerful existence among them, they are more worried that this passage will lead the reckless to even more horrible place.

Eternal Sleepless Eye - Heim, the guardian god, stands on the edge of this temple, watching his companions - the other gods - warily.All the gods came, and in this temple, human gods, orc gods, elf gods, dwarf gods, elemental gods, and even those demigods.

As the first god to be summoned here, Haim's heart was full of fear and doubts. Since becoming a god, this was the first time he encountered such an inexplicable and uncontrollable situation.Obviously, he was not the only one who encountered the same situation. One after another gods were forcibly summoned here one after another. Every god was extremely afraid and confused.

This terrible call is a terrible and terrifying nightmare to all gods.To Mystra, the goddess of magic, it looked like a blunder of the stupidest magic; to Sina Flame, the beautiful goddess of love and beauty, it was an ugly and disgusting rotting troll, dragged the goddess to the fate for which it howled; to Bane, the Dark Lord, that call was more hated than the brightest justice, and when the Dark Lord was forcibly taken from his kingdom, he succumbed to order The radiance burned his wicked soul.

Heim moved his eyes a little, and looked at each of these former arrogant, arrogant, or cruel companions with anxiety, even the most powerful among them.Mystra, the Lord of Darkness, Bane, and the Lord of Death, Mokui, were arguing with each other sharply. On one side, Lila, the goddess of joy, had a slightly melancholy expression on her face, and her hands kept stirring each other.Beside her, Irmat, the God of Suffering and Endurance, was dancing and dancing with a sly smile, talking nervously to himself from time to time.

As Heim observed his companions, a group of gods less affected by the call gathered around him.They thought that the guardian god who arrived at the earliest must know something. The dignity and restraint of the gods were no longer important to them. They kept threatening and shouting at the guardian god, wanting to know more from Haim. Much news.
"My home is destroyed! My temple in the astral world is shattered!"

"I have lost all my petitioners, and my kingdom of God is almost"

They kept complaining to Heim, but the Guardian God ignored them, because the surrounding environment had undergone some unpredictable changes that the gods could not predict.
The pale sky above the island was originally dotted with some black stars, but now it radiated light that even the gods could not look directly at, and some runes were condensed on the ivory sky.Haim struggled to read these runes, but his strong body of God kept shaking.

"Everything has become a thing of the past. Our knowledge, our beliefs, and our laws have all been turned into eternal lies. The age of the gods is over."
When Heim finished reading these, the runes disappeared.The sound of distant thunder drifted along with a dark cloud carrying black lightning, and the temple was shrouded in cloud.The white sky was obscured by clouds and mist, and the gray passage sank into the sea of ​​decay.Haim couldn't help suspecting that this was a trick played by a summoned god to intimidate other gods, but he quickly dismissed this idea, knowing that this rune was made by a power stronger than all the gods present—all Sent by Io, the king of gods.
So powerful is Io's will - it is said that he created a balance between order and chaos in the mists of chaos at the beginning of time.In this balance comes life: first the gods in the heavens, then the mortals in the kingdom.In a word, Io is the most powerful god-king above the gods, and Heim is regarded by the creator Io as his right and left hand.

Haim said loudly to the restless gods: "Io gathered us here, of course he has a purpose! Please wait patiently here, everything will become clear soon." Then the guardian god calmed down and meditated The connotation of the will of Io, the king of the gods.

But Talos, the irritable god of destruction, waited impatiently. He stepped forward and shouted: "I say! Let all these tricks that should be destroyed be over! If our god-king wants to issue any will , He should directly pour everything he wants to express into our empty souls and minds with his supreme wisdom, instead of playing tricks here." Talos provoked the atmosphere as contemptuously as possible, trying to arouse the resonance of the gods in order to reverse This unknown panic situation.But none of the gods stepped forward to respond and pay attention to him, because they clearly knew the nature of the powerful King of Destruction's Seri, and the Destroyer was as afraid as they were.

All the gods kept away from the surroundings of Talos, fearing that the terrible fate of the Destroyer who might have offended Io would affect them.The isolated Talos closed his mouth resentfully, the other gods also remained silent, and the entire temple was terribly silent.And the silence that foreshadows an answer that shocks the gods more than any statement, represents a finality, the finality of the judgment of the king of the gods.And so the gods came to understand that their fate was decided long before they were called.

All the gods were getting more and more panicked. Whether it was a weak demigod or a powerful elemental god, every god was anxiously waiting for the final outcome, which came from the judgment of the creator, Io.

(End of this chapter)