our family is gone

Chapter 826 Farm (2)

As everyone studied it, they felt more and more the horror behind the stone slab. The strange power coming from the stars was enough to scare everyone.

Perhaps the only reason this strange source of erosion and corruption has not spread is the mysterious stone slabs surrounding the farm, which prevent this new evil from spreading.

There is no doubt that these things came from the hands of the ancestor, but based on Lance's understanding of him, the ancestor did this not for Hamlet, but more because he was worried that this power would affect his ascension plan.

But like everything... it's probably only a matter of time before the terror from between the stars breaks through this barrier.

Lance wrote down all the contents of the stone tablet, and finally led people back to the largest pillar, which was engraved with the movement of celestial bodies.

"There is no doubt that this is a sealing ritual. The thing behind it has a strange power of erosion and pollution. What do you think?"

"Of course we have to charge in!" Boudica couldn't wait to express her opinion. Although she didn't understand much, she knew it was dangerous by looking at their serious expressions. But after coming here twice without getting in, the retreat almost made her trauma explode.

"I also think we can go in. We need to get more information to judge its danger. Besides, the seal has begun to fail, otherwise the power would not escape."

Amanda thought for a moment and gave her opinion, and at this time Alhazred also gave his opinion.

"It has nothing to do with the seal, let alone destruction."

Lance actually understood that the appearance of the farm was probably because he killed the ancestor, causing the power of the ritual to fade.

In other words, it cannot be avoided no matter what.

Hearing their attitude, he didn't waste any words and directly raised his hand and pressed on the star map on the pillar. The next second, a faint blue light flashed, and the half-person-high circle disappeared directly, revealing the unobstructed scene behind it.

Lance took the lead and broke in, followed by the rest of the team. At that moment, they felt an absurd feeling of being out of touch with reality.

The force was several times stronger than that outside. Once you fell into it, it felt as if space and time had been distorted beyond recognition.

After Lance cast the blessing to eliminate their discomfort, their consciousness gradually returned to their bodies, and they opened their eyes to look at the bizarre scene.

The once fertile land on the other side of the birch forest is now a lifeless wasteland where only crystallized wheat and mutated pumpkins grow.

Large tracts of land are littered with the fossilized remains of humans, farm animals, and crops, as if they had aged countless years in the blink of an eye.

It was still broad daylight outside, but once we entered here, the sun disappeared, replaced by a hazy starlight.

The stars above the farm were no longer in their original positions, and there were no recognizable constellations in the night sky. The position of the North Star was also completely off, as if the night sky did not belong to this time and place...

Fortunately, when they looked back, the exit had not disappeared, so they did not fall into the tension of having no way of retreat.

"Boudica, you lead the way." Lance adjusted the team and stayed at the end.

This was not a retreat on his part, but a protection for the third caster, and in the end he was able to obtain their status and control the overall situation.

Boudica didn't waste any time, she just picked up her weapon and walked out of the birch forest. This seemed to have startled something, and the scattered petrified remains that had originally fallen on the ground began to move.

Under the strange glow, the fragments seemed to be pulled together by something and formed several strange figures.

I have to say that the petrification has retained a lot of details. From the decorations on his body and the hoe he carries, one can immediately recognize that he was once a farm worker. However, his sad face is also left, with his head looking up at the sky empty, as if he is still praying for rain like he did back then.

The weird thing was that the hunched body had cracks and had broken into pieces, but at this moment it was pulled out by some force as if it had lost the restraint of gravity. A strong fluorescent light emanated from the cracks in the torso, and even from the eye sockets and open mouth on the face.

As soon as the four farm workers appeared, they seemed to be attracted by a living thing, staggering around and swinging their hoes at us, just like the repetitive labor year after year.

Work tirelessly!

The team that was still observing the monster also started to move. Boudica raised her axe to block the blow on the head, then she roared and kicked out hard, hitting the chest.

The force instantly broke the farm worker in front of him apart, and the stone statue seemed to have lost its power and was once again attracted by gravity and shattered and scattered.

But Boudica did not stop at all. She swung the axe in her hand and chopped another farm worker who was approaching to pieces. She rushed forward and took care of the others in just a few moves.

"I think this stone is too weak..." Boudica complained with disdain. For her, this was not even a warm-up.

To be honest, it was a bit too easy, so Lance and the others didn't have time to take action. However, at this moment, the pile of stone-like corpses suddenly started moving again.

However, this time it did not condense again. Instead, it seemed to absorb the power of the corpse and grow rapidly. It soon formed a cluster of columnar crystals that were half a person's height and of varying lengths. It even emitted a rhythmic, strange fluorescent light as if it could breathe.

Although it had stopped growing, Lance could feel the energy becoming more intense, and he quickly shouted to Boudica.

"Get out of the way!"

Boudica withdrew without hesitation, and the next second the crystal cluster exploded, covering a small area. Countless tiny crystal fragments scattered and pierced through Boudica's clothes, scratching her.

Lance raised his shield and stood in front of Amanda and the other two to block those attacks, then quickly called back to Boudica, because the others were also about to explode.

The scene became quiet only after a few explosions. Boudica only had some minor injuries which were not a big deal, but they had already felt the malice here.

Lance stepped forward to check Boudica's wound and found no erosion or contamination. He activated the flesh and blood reconstruction to heal the wound, and the crystal fragments that were stuck in it were squeezed out by the muscles.

In order to get more information, Lance went forward to check the corpses. The petrified monsters after the crystals drained away their life energy were completely worthless, like shrunken grains. Let's call them shrunken monsters for now.

Three of the four farm workers exploded, but the interesting thing is that the first one who was killed instantly by Boudica did not explode. Instead, a larger crystal fragment was found on his chest. The only explanation for this is that the destruction of the crystal caused it to not grow and explode.

“It seems that the crystal is the key. It is the life force that condenses under some force, just like the crops that grow by absorbing nutrients from the fields.

The crystal is alive, and the petrified body is just a shell. Next time, we have to kill the crystal. The location should be in the chest."

"The power contained in these crystals is surprisingly pure and stable."

Looking at the crystal fragments in his hand, Lance suddenly seemed to have discovered something, and his calm expression finally changed.

Alhazred and the others also picked up the scattered crystal fragments on the ground and observed them, and found that it was indeed the case, and there was power in it. Lance sacrificed a small piece and indeed received a spiritual gift, which was much more interesting.

Because crystal clusters can be seen everywhere...

Through this battle, they obtained a lot of interesting information through simple investigation and also obtained a unique crystal material.

Without staying for too long, they moved forward a few more steps, and farm workers appeared on the ground again, and were killed in a few moves. It turned out that destroying the crystals on their bodies could kill them.

Lance intentionally left a corpse to generate crystal distortion, and then shot it to pieces. Sure enough, the explosion ended, leaving only crystal fragments.

After collecting these materials, the team continued to move forward, trying to approach the mill in the center, but they soon discovered that there were not only farm workers in the farm, but also more powerful monsters.

The stones were pulled and condensed into several figures that blocked the way of the few people. Most of them were familiar farm workers, and behind those farm workers appeared a figure that was taller than the ordinary farm workers.

The strange petrification preserved his approximate state. The clothes, which were more exquisite than those of a farm worker, foreshadowed his status in life. And what he held in his hand was not a hoe, but a whip.

No matter how poor the miller was, even if he could not pay taxes due to a natural disaster, he was still a landlord and his farm workers needed a foreman to look after them.

And now these foremen have become like this under the strange invasion. Their bodies are even more exaggeratedly mutilated. Their feet are shattered as if they are floating. The limbs on their bodies are more seriously alienated. The hands have grown exaggerated shapes like claws, but the whole arm is broken, and it is only by some kind of force that it does not fall apart.

The skull was gone, and the top of the head glowed like a torch stump, and the face did not have the plaintive look of a farmhand, but rather a look of rage.

As soon as the foreman appeared, he commanded the farm workers as if they were alive, and even though they had become like this, they were still driven.

Stir!

The foreman raised his hand and pointed at the intruder. With the help of the strange power, the fluorescence on the farm workers' bodies seemed to be a little stronger, and their originally slow movements became a little faster.

Everyone had already noticed something and naturally could not just sit there and do nothing. Boudica rushed forward immediately, but the farm worker did not swing the hoe at the first moment, but raised his hands as if he was working in his previous life.

sowing!

What the farmer threw out was not seeds, but a handful of crystal fragments. The power contained in them suddenly exploded and turned into fluorescent dust that enveloped Boudica.

“waaagh!!!”

However, with a loud shout, Boudica activated the battle scar of the lioness, and the shadow of a roaring lioness appeared on her body, dispersing the fluorescence.

Boudica was angered by these guys' tactics. She swung her axe faster and started to hack at the farm worker. However, the farm worker actually knew how to fight back with his hoe when he got close to her. This had never happened before.

But the difference in strength was too great and Boudica easily dodged it, then slashed his chest with an axe, revealing the broken crystal inside.

However, the foreman did not stop his movements and continued waving his arms at the farm workers.

Help from all sides!

The crystals echoed with each other, and under the blessing of that power, the crystal in the chest of another farm worker seemed to be stimulated to sprout and grow, and even stretched out from the cracks in the body.

Boudica didn't notice anything else and just swung her axe, but this time she failed to split the petrified body. It was obvious that the monster's defense had been strengthened.

The shells of these shrunken monsters are condensed entirely by the power of crystals. The crystals that the foreman uses to strengthen the farm workers are naturally strengthening the condensing power.

But they were a small team, and when the foreman made his move, Amanda raised her hand and threw out a flying knife with extraordinary power, which pierced directly into the core through the gap, breaking the defense of the farm worker and killing him directly. The shattered crystal meant that there was no chance for distortion.

Alhazred was also ready to cast a spell. He raised his hand and used a [Weakness Spell] to mark the foreman.

Boudica seized the opportunity and charged at the foreman with her axe spear. As long as she got close enough, the tip would pierce the crystal in his chest.

But the foreman naturally refused and raised his hand to swing the long whip at Boudica.

No trespassing!

It was difficult to understand why the petrified whip could be swung, but the speed of the whip was so fast that the end covered with crystal fragments hit Boudica almost instantly, easily tearing her warm coat and leaving countless tiny blade cuts on her body, causing her to bleed profusely.

However, Boudica was not hindered by these simple flesh wounds at all. She thrust out her axe spear as if she had no sense of pain, and the tip of the spear pierced into the foreman's body. However, its body was glowing fluorescently, as if a force field had dissipated the power, and it did not penetrate.

At this moment, Lance finally took action, reconstructing his flesh and blood to eliminate the scars on Boudica's body, then raised his hand and fired a shot, but he was not aiming at the foreman, but marking an open space.

"Amanda."

"Yes!"

Amanda understood something very tacitly, and threw out the windmill wheel blade that could break the invisibility. The force from it knocked out a strangely shaped monster hidden inside.

A scarecrow tied to a wooden frame, wearing a tattered coat with torn cuffs and hanging empty sleeves, and a noose inexplicably tied around his neck.

The crystals in the body stretched out directly along the cross skeleton, with crystal clusters growing from the waist of the lower body, and the crystals in the upper body even pierced through the head and stretched out, once again foreshadowing what this thing was.

Even petrified corpses can be corrupted by crystals, so it doesn't seem so strange that a scarecrow would be deformed.

I don't know when the scarecrow has approached. The environment here provides it with the best cover. If it weren't for Lance, it would probably not be discovered until it launches an attack.

After being discovered, the scarecrow was still shrouded in a strange shadow, but it simply swung its empty arms towards the nearest Boudica, as if imitating the movements of a farm worker.

Threshing!

In an instant, a twisted and strange tree root stretched out from the empty cuffs of the thing and smashed towards her. Boudica was forced to give up chasing the foreman and dodge.

It was because of this delay that several farmers and workers gathered together and, with the support of the foreman, they all showed even greater strength.

"Do it!"

Lance spoke out, and finally stopped observing their behavior and started a real fight.