Shadow Covenant

Chapter 171 "Miscalculation"

Accompanied by almost crazy prayers, the special breath from the abyss quickly swept through the acquired swamp. Kakun chanted a prayer that was almost depraved for him, while looking expectantly at the four coffin.

The corpses in it are all carefully selected skeletons, some purchased from other sources at high prices, and some of the remains of paladins killed by their own hands. It took almost a year to get together four of them, as the "death skeletons" that carry the power of the abyss. The "Knight" container is perfect.

If it weren't for the fact that the bone was too tough to crack this time, it would never have thought of using this near-killing hole card in an ordinary forest town.

But since the ceremony had already started, it naturally didn't want to cancel it.

Soon, when the breath of the abyss accumulated to a certain extent, a silent, invisible but tangible field suddenly expanded, and with Kakun's spell, most of the breath of the abyss in this field seemed to find a home , rushed towards the nearest coffin, and the coffin, which was lying peacefully on the black swamp, began to groan and tremble, as if sensing the awakening of the creatures inside, the coffin cover also began to creak and creak.

Finally, the breath of the abyss disappeared with the sea-inclusive abyss.

humming sound.

The leftmost cover of the four coffins opened a gap. Just when Kakun thought that the death knight inside was about to wake up, the cover of the coffin seemed to recall Newton's force again, and with a snap, it closed again. superior.

"what happened?"

This time it was the turn of the man-eating ape priest to be surprised, because within the scope of his knowledge, it was impossible for the abyss to have enough breath, the coffins were opened, and there was a reason to close them.

unless……

There was a mistake at the beginning of the ceremony!

Knowing this, Kakun is not too flustered now. In this case, the mistakes in the ceremony should be just minor problems, so he began to think hard about the omissions in the ceremony.

Is there a problem with the sacrifice?

It looked at the flying ape that was about to shrivel up. At this time, it was already extremely weak due to the touch of the abyss.

It is the strongest body, full of vitality, besides the caster, it can be called the most suitable sacrifice.

Or is it sacrificial prayer?

It looked back at the clansmen who still didn't stop, cruelly inflicting pain on each other, without any blasphemy.

not right either...

Several possible answers appeared in his mind one after another, but Kakun ruled them out one by one. However, halfway through his thinking, looking in the direction of Green Brook Town, a possibility suddenly popped up in Kakun's mind.

Could it be that the spell caster expected this and used countermeasures?
There may be many ways to interrupt the ceremony, but this kind of non-response is the only way to make it feel annoyed for no reason.

Because there is no sign at all, just like a machine that suddenly breaks down, the root cause of the failure is unknown.

But Kakun didn't struggle with it for too long, because the "fault" it was struggling with had already emerged by itself.

Humanity……

When he saw the golden eyes drilled out of the suddenly uplifted swamp land and was wrapped in mud, but he could still clearly recognize the pair of golden eyes that belonged to humans, his unstoppable emotions filled his small space like a wave. heart.

"Damn!"

In any case, it never thought that a human who had drilled into the ground interrupted the ceremony. It no longer cared about how he quietly touched its side, and it didn't want to care about how to resist the toxins under the swamp.

It only wants to pull out this abominable guy half body in the swamp, and let him understand what cruelty is!

"Stop him!"

These thoughts were only for a moment in its mind, but in reality, when it found that the human appeared, it had already raised its staff, roared at the tribe, and then used the fastest control spell in its hand without hesitation.

——"The "six-ring spell" sleeps forever. "

As a coercion spell of the Enchantment Department that can directly affect the mind, this is the best way it can think of. First catch it, then ask, and then carry out a series of concoctions after the inquiry is over.

Woody heard the weird tone and the breathtaking prelude. As he had fought with spellcasters many times in his previous life, he probably knew what kind of spell the Democo-heeled priest in front of him wanted to release. , but he naturally didn't think about going straight, but just dodged and retreated in the opposite direction.

His mission has been completed, this stage does not belong to him.

At the same time, a black shadow suddenly sprang from behind him, and rushed towards the man-eating ape priest who was casting a spell. If the eyesight was clear enough and the dynamic vision was good, you would find that the little creature was a fluffy flying squirrel. The white eyes the size of rice grains are full of courage and determination.

Kakun noticed the flying squirrel, but he paid more attention to the humans who were delusional to break through. It thought that the flying squirrel was just a means to interfere with his spellcasting. Therefore, for this kind of thing, he Its counterattack is also very powerful. While hiding, it tapped the ground with the double-headed snake staff, and a magic ripple flickered, so a cloud of dark gray mist appeared in front of it at some point, like a lingering gloomy Sky.

——"Trigger technique."

——"Toxic Barrier."

……

After simply setting up defensive measures, Kakun focused all his attention not far away. He had already raised his sword to kill all the human beings in all directions among his clansmen. If it goes down, the body of its tribe can be divided into two, and Ka Kun knows in his heart that it can't go on like this.

Therefore, it speeded up the chanting of the incantation, and the urgency of the syllables allowed it to focus all its attention on the tongue, because it knew that when the last syllable fell, it was the moment when the battle was completely over.

However, when it was accompanied by the crackling sound, it made it feel a little confused.

It's under attack?

There are other accomplices?

Before Kakun's mind turned around, a bronze-colored dragon claw with a palm almost half the size of his body appeared out of thin air. The magical aura on the dragon claw disappeared in a flash, and the sharp minions rubbed For it, it is like a toy-like shield.

When looking at the rust-green vertical pupils narrowed into a slit through the slit, Ka Kun trembled all over.

No need to look at other features.

It recognized what kind of creature it was.

A giant dragon.

It is also the bronze dragon with the most stubborn personality among the metal dragons.

"Dragon...how is it possible!"

The original plan immediately disintegrated, the syllable fell, and the endless sleep that wanted to deal with that human changed its target at this moment, and chose to aim at the tip of the nose and the tip of the tail in front of it, a bronze color that was 20 meters long , a gigantic monster with flashing lights flowing through the gaps in the scales all over its body, the threat in front of it is obviously more important than the human beings who want to escape.

Although it is not clear how this giant dragon appeared in this strange town, the momentum and the palpitating sound of thunder from its body are not false. Its primary goal now has changed from killing intruders to...

Live!
……

When the figure behind him, like lightning tearing apart the sky, suddenly appeared under the dark stars with great power, Woody understood that the flower... No, the Bronze Dragon made a move.

This is the first time Woody has seen a living dragon, with an elegant and streamlined body, a huge and powerful body, with indestructible metal scales, and electric lights jumping in the gaps, the air pressure seems to follow this The appearance of the head dragon then falls.

Bronze dragons are easy to identify. Different from other giant dragons, the most notable feature of bronze dragons is that apart from the metal scales on its body, the most commendable thing is that its face seems to be wearing a mask, which has two characteristics of crawling and birds. Distinctive faces, noses and beaks of birds are not much different.

And its appearance also gave Woody a sigh of relief. After all, without it to share the pressure, it would be extremely difficult for him to escape from here.

However, due to the geographical location, Woody could only see the huge dragon shadow blocking the altar in this direction, and he did not see the priest's countermeasures.

Wouldn't he just die like this?

While guessing, he absent-mindedly relied on instinct to kill this group of depraved ape believers.

It seems that a ceremony to please Demogogan was being held here just now, and the bodies of these believers were covered with scars, so Woody even suspected that he didn't need to do anything, just slipped casually, and these guys with not tenacious vitality would be in a long time. After rushing and falling down, he wailed and ended his short life in a state of bleeding.

The soul returns to the abyss, sinks into the river of darkness forever...

Of course, that being said, Woody saw that there was no movement from the bronze dragon for a long time, and he quickly immersed himself in playing a kite game with this group of Demogorgon believers. The relationship between rituals, they have weapons in each hand, and the pain stimulates their sensitive nerves, what feeds back to them is not fear, but a sense of excitement and joy.

Therefore, in the face of believers who are not afraid of death, Woody can only choose to fight and retreat, use his flexible body skills to move through the swamp, and occasionally kill a few marginal cultists. Now he is like a man in the manor. The gardener pruning the branches has been wandering and wandering around the periphery.

But it was about 1 or 2 minutes later, and the urgent sound of Huamao came from his mind.

"Get out of here, quick!"

Hearing this sentence, Woody, who was still entangled with the cultists, immediately stepped on a solid dead tree trunk, then kicked his toes, like an eagle, spread his wings, and immediately leaped to a place not far away. On the other dead tree, after a few ups and downs, it left the position tens of meters away from the center of the altar in the opposite direction.

Although I don't know why the bronze dragon let me go, but lack of trust is a taboo in adventures. Since Woody agreed to come here with it, naturally he will not ask why at this time, and run away. Yes.

Sure enough, when he left with his forefoot, above the sky above his head, the starlight was obscured by dark clouds at some point, but the supposedly dark night was extraordinarily bright.

Because... Woody looked up.

I saw thunderbolts surging above, and the next moment, dozens of thunderbolts were like meteors across the sky, and in the blink of an eye, they came straight to within a hundred feet of the giant dragon, and the air couldn't help but blow. The frightening whine, as if fearing the roar of heaven and earth.

"Lightning storm?!"

Woody swallowed, didn't even look at it, turned his head again and moved hundreds of feet away from the original place before daring to look back.

At this time, the original swamp had been baptized by thunder and lightning, and the cult believers who had gathered in a group had disappeared without a trace. There were only large pits of different depths. The roaring sound continued, and Woody could also smell the burning smell that permeated the air.

It's really a typical case of no distinction between the enemy and the enemy.

But the power of this lightning storm should be close to legend, how could it be released by an underage bronze dragon.

Woody had seen other spellcasters use lightning storms before, but compared to what the bronze dragon in front of him unleashed, it was like a goblin and a dragon.

Before Woody could recover from the shocking sound brought by the lightning storm, a larger energy storm swept over in an instant.

Woody felt the change of breath, he quickly found a position with excellent view, stood on the crown of the tree, looked towards the position of the dragon from the highest point, but when he looked at the foot of the dragon, the red The situation of the figure suddenly became tense.

I saw that the two-headed snake staff of the man-eating ape priest had long since disappeared, and his robes were also torn, and he was in a terrible state of distress.

But at this time, it is holding a snake-shaped curved blade and a bony head that looks like an ape in its forehand, not to kill the dragon in front of it, but to push it into its heart amidst its own laughter , the blood spurted out just sprayed on the skull it held.

No, this is a soul sacrifice!
It is desperate!
No, it was death!
Woody wanted to remind him aloud, but neither telepathy nor verbal shouting would help at this distance, and it would be too late to rush there. He could only hope that the bronze dragon would have countermeasures.

However, the speed is still too fast.

From the suicide sacrifice to the energy storm, there was no time to react. Even if the bronze dragon subconsciously kneaded its body into a puddle of mud with its claws, the storm still did not stop. Instead, it intensified like a tornado and spread quickly. It opened, and the four coffins that were originally floating and sinking on the swamp also completely disintegrated in this storm that could blow trees down.

The figures in it also emerged.

Three human beings wearing armor and a humanoid creature with obvious dragon-like characteristics. From the outside, they look like a kobold, but they are taller and slender than ordinary kobolds. Without exception, these three humans The skin of the kobolds and the red scales of the kobolds all showed a dull and dead color without exception.

All corpses.

But in the next second, they opened their eyes at the same time, the thick soul fire bloomed in the eyes, the gray-white mist of necromancy overflowed under the armor on their bodies, and behind them, the energy storm gathered a huge The crimson abyss door, Woody, who has many memories of travel in the plane, recognized it at a glance. This is the most chaotic abyss portal leading to the outer plane.

It's just that this portal is not the kind of portal that can be used by the demon army, but a typical demon lord's incarnation.

There is a time limit, and you can't go too far from the portal.

It is the last resort of the demon lord when the plan fails, and it is used to plunder the soul of the main material plane.

In the terminology of this player, this is generally called a guarantee.

Naturally, guaranteeing the bottom line will not make people feel at ease.

Then, from the other side of the abyss, there came a roar from the wild.

And the bronze dragon's originally frightening power, in front of this, is like a child.

(End of this chapter)