Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 596 Guarding
Bang, bang, bang...!!

Almost at the same time when Xin Lailai saw the attacking objects clearly, the next second, he saw a large number of objects falling on the magic chip like raindrops. If you look closely, you will find that these attacking objects are basically rotten eggs, iron pots, dung forks and the like, and they can basically not cause any effective damage to the magic chip.

"..."

Xin Lailai looked at this scene and fell silent. Not only him, but also Yamu beside him and the executioner who was rushing over from afar, all stopped attacking at the same time after seeing the scene clearly.

At a glance, one could see that on both sides of the street, ragged, skinny human ghosts were staring at Xin Lailai and the other person in the middle of the street. Among them were old people, children, men, women, ordinary ghosts with intact limbs who could move freely, and some weak ghosts who were so weak that they had difficulty moving and could only grab the gravel on the ground and throw it in the direction of Xin Lailai.

“Roar…!” “Ruaa…!”

Thousands of foul ghosts crawled out from both sides of the street, staggered towards the barrier formed by spell chips, and desperately hammered the transparent crystals that were almost indestructible to them with the weapons in their hands. Some of them pounced directly on the Blood Knights who were nailed to the ground, and used their bodies to block between the Blood Knights and them, baring their teeth at them like an eagle protecting its calf.

Zhila~!

A sharp sound of electric current passed by, and some human-shaped evil spirits tried to pull out the thunder spears that were inserted into the blood rider, but their bodies were instantly annihilated by the boundary thunder, causing them to roar in pain, but they still continued to rush towards the thunder spear that was enough to kill them instantly.

"Tsk, this is really...fucking awesome."

Yamu looked at the scene in front of him, sighed softly, scratched his hair in annoyance, and cursed as if to vent his anger.

Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai did not refute anything, but just watched the scene in front of him quietly, looking at the unclean ghosts who rushed out of the houses without caring about their lives and blocked them on the street with their bodies. She looked up at the hole in the city wall behind her that was blasted by the nun's miracle, and then shifted her gaze to the bloody knight in front of her who was roaring and trying hard to stand up from the ground, and remained silent.

They were not blind. They had seen the abnormal behavior of the Blood Knight when facing the miracle spell. Not to mention that the current scene had already slapped the answer in their faces:
The other party is protecting these 'people'.

Even though his body and mind had been completely devoured by filth, he, as the former knight commander, had already imprinted this duty of protection into his instincts, so that even if he died, he would still guard the city wall that had long been swallowed by filth.

Not only that, the 'people' living in this city have never forgotten each other.

Even though they have become demons, these former citizens of the White Kingdom have never forgotten the knight who always stood by them, and even sacrificed their own lives to protect the knight when the other party was in danger, using their bodies as shields.

"Roar…!"

Dense roars rang out from Xin Lailai's ears. He saw a group of filthy ghosts desperately rushing towards him, roaring at him with their rotten and shriveled bodies, as if declaring war on him. Xin Lailai just silently looked at the Deathbringer who was walking step by step behind him. After a moment of silence, he said:

"Let's do it."

Upon hearing this, the Death Executioner glanced at Xin Lailai and didn't say much. He just nodded slightly, raised the large sword in his hand, walked to the front of the roaring Bloody Knight with the magic chip opening the way, and slashed down with the sword.

puff!
The sound of flesh being pierced was heard, and the blade wrapped in deathly aura easily pierced through the Blood Knight's flesh, from the top of his head all the way to the ground.

For a moment, the world seemed to be quiet.

The Blood Knight, who was struggling desperately, suddenly froze, and his flesh and blood quickly turned into a dead gray. The surrounding filthy ghosts looked at the Blood Knight who suddenly stopped struggling, and they all froze there for a moment, as if their souls were cut off along with the Blood Knight's death, and then...

“Roar!!” “Roar, roar, roar, roar!!”

“Ruaaa——!!”

The roars and howls that covered the earth like a tsunami rang out crazily. The evil spirits on the street seemed to be crazy and rushed towards Xin Lailai and others regardless of everything. But the next second, a circle of invisible barriers spread out with Xin Lailai as the center, pushing away all the surrounding evil spirits and forcibly creating a vacuum zone about ten meters wide.

[Hint: Team member "Deathbringer" has killed the Overlord-class unit Dasius Lunt]

[Reminder: The team has obtained "Overlord Treasure Box" *1]

[Hint: The team has obtained "Filthy Pure White Crystal" *1]

A cold reminder sounded, and Xin Lailai looked at the treasure chest floating up from the ashes in front of him. After putting it into the storage space, he picked up the mottled crystals that fell on the ground and looked at the empty space beside him:
Boom!
A faint blue color flashed across the sight, and a cobalt blue mecha was seen descending vertically from the sky and landing heavily on the ground. Then, with the sound of a hatch opening, a small white figure jumped lightly and landed steadily on the ground with the support of a magic chip.

Xin Lailai looked at the Little White Saint, and after a short silence, she handed the mottled crystal in her hand to the other party. The Little White Saint held the crystal handed over by Xin Lailai, looked around at the evil spirits around her who were constantly roaring in anger, bit her lips slightly, and finally closed her eyes, and a pure white light rose in her little hand.

Om-! !

A soft and warm white light bloomed from the 'safe zone' formed by the magic chip, causing the evil spirits clinging to the outer edge of the barrier to freeze there. They stopped what they were doing and stared at the ball of light in the hands of Saint Xiaobai, as if they had remembered something.

An invisible circle of soul fluctuations spread out from the mottled crystal in the hands of Saint Xiaobai. After being illuminated by the white light, the dark red marks inside suddenly began to squirm wildly as if stimulated by something.

But before these dark red erosions could make any substantial moves, six extremely dazzling rays of light rose from the body of the little saint. The ornaments on her body inlaid with white crystals floated up and turned into six small white suns, illuminating the entire street. The traces of erosion on the crystal in the hand of the little white saint also began to dissipate rapidly, and soon it returned to its pure white state, leaving only a blood-colored spear mark engraved on it.

Wow——! !

The next second, a dazzling blood light burst out from the mark and turned into a blood-red vortex in mid-air. Then, a tall figure was seen gradually taking shape from the blood-red vortex and finally landed steadily on the ground, revealing a figure that was hunched over like a wild beast with a blood-red spear on his shoulder.

"Knight of the Royal Court" Dacius Lunt.

In an instant, the entire street became quiet. The filthy ghosts that were roaring and shouting desperately looked at the blood knight standing next to Saint Xiaobai, and suddenly stopped roaring and shouting.

Boom, boom, boom...!
A heavy treading sound was heard, and the Blood Knight formed by the power of the White Crystal looked up at the scene in front of him, then looked down at the Little White Saint beside him. After a brief silence, he walked from the Little White Saint to the front of her, then lowered his body little by little under the gaze of everyone, knelt on one knee, and lowered his head. The Little White Saint looked at this scene, looked up at the Blood Knight in front of him, and the other's face was reflected in her sapphire-like pupils. She gently reached out her hand and stroked the other's head, as if comforting him.

"I leave it to... you."

A hoarse voice mixed with a breath of tyranny sounded, and then the remaining soul fluctuations on the Blood Knight's body quickly dissipated, and the pupils that were flashing with scarlet light gradually dimmed and turned into normal dark red. The Little White Saint also slowly put down her hand, looked at the Blood Knight in front of her, and nodded vigorously.

Finally, Saint Xiaobai was seen passing the Blood Knight and looking at the evil spirits blocking the crystal barrier. After taking a deep breath, a look of determination appeared in her eyes, and she took the initiative to walk out of the crystal barrier.

Wow——! !

This time, the evil spirits surrounding them outside did not try to stop them as before, but retreated silently to both sides of the street, quietly looking at the Blood Knight and the Little White Saint in the middle of the street, as if they were seeing them off.

"..."

Xin Lailai and others who were standing behind Saint Xiaobai looked at this scene without saying a word. They just watched the army of evil spirits retreating to both sides like the tide and recorded this scene in their minds silently.

"Let's go."

Xin Lailai spoke and took the initiative to walk forward, while the Death Bearer and Yamu nodded slightly and followed on both sides.

Boom, boom, boom...!
Two knights, one black and one red, followed beside the Little White Saint, their heavy footsteps echoing in the street. As they moved forward, the ghosts in front of them kept making way to both sides, and no one stood up to stop them. Until they arrived in front of the metal gate leading to the inner city, the ghosts that had made way walked back to the street, stood there motionless, and quietly watched their backs, as if they were seeing them off.

——Just like the Scarlet Knight who was dubbed the Guardian when he left the city twenty years ago, except that this time the direction was changed from outside the city to inside the city.

Om-! !

Finally, under the gaze of a pair of scarlet eyes, Saint Xiaobai followed Xin Lailai and others. With a sharp sound of breaking through the air, she was carried into the air by the nun and disappeared at the end of the city wall.

……

Royal City, inner city area.

Towering city walls stand on the edge of the city, magnificent buildings sit quietly on the silent streets, and tall towers rise from the ground in the distance, together surrounding the majestic palace in the center.

"In the end, we are made to look like villains invading someone's home."

On the city wall, Yamu glanced at the scene behind him, then cast his gaze towards the palace in the distance, smiled helplessly, and made a teasing remark.

"At least the result wasn't bad."

Xin Lailai replied calmly, staring at the palace at the end of his sight, sensing the scene fed back from the Star Luo Realm, his eyes slightly fixed.

"How about it?"

"Just like Lily said, the intensity of the filth in the capital is almost all concentrated in the inner city."

Xin Lailai glanced at the tall towers in the distance, looked at the flying dragon standing on the top of the tower like a statue, and spoke.

After purifying the pure white crystal that carried the power of the Blood Knight, Saint Little White also learned a lot of information from the soul fragments left behind by the Blood Knight. According to the other party's description, in order to resist filth, the royal capital at that time reactivated the elixir made from the power of filth, and transformed all the royal guards into undead soldiers with extremely powerful regenerative abilities, in order to fight against the almost endless tide of filthy ghosts at that time.

The problem was that using the power of filth to fight filth was a temporary solution, so the capital at that time only lasted less than a week before it was completely destroyed. Only the Blood Knight, who was the knight commander, was left to hold on until the arrival of the White Saint. The royal knights who had transformed into filthy ghosts stayed in the inner city forever.

As for the Blood Knight's subsequent return to the Royal City and his instinctive guarding of the city gate, that was after he had completely turned into a demon. At least in the memories obtained by Saint Xiaobai, the Blood Knight had been guarding near the outer city area after returning to the Royal City and had never entered the inner city. Therefore, the only information about the inner city was the existence of a large number of enhanced demons transformed from the Imperial Guards and the white crystals of the sixth, seventh and eighth guardians were all in the inner city.

"So, what are you going to do?"

"Wait, Ling Yuzi's defensive field has an 8000-second cooldown. Until then, we just need to stay here."

Xin Lailai replied calmly, glancing at the spell crystals surrounding him and the talismans with runes for shielding auras stuck on them, then he sat down cross-legged and recovered the mana he had consumed in the battle with the Blood Riders.

Seeing this, Yamu showed a hint of helplessness in his eyes. He rubbed his eyebrows gently, then sat down and entered into meditation.

Although he didn't want to stay in such a place for too long, just like Xin Lailai said, rather than rushing in without any preparation, it was the safest option to wait until the opponent's defensive field recovered and then entered.

After all, after experiencing the effect of this thing twice, he had to admit that team battles with and without the defensive field were completely two different dimensions of experience.

——Anyway, this was the first time in his life that he had such a great time fighting against a dominant unit.

——For a person in the lightning realm, the feeling of not having to think about how to defend and dodge and only having to focus all his energy on attacking is simply too great.

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(End of this chapter)