Our family is in decline

As everyone studied, they became more and more aware of the horror behind the stone slab. The strange power from the stars was enough to scare everyone.

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

There is no doubt that these things were made by the ancestor, but from what Lance knew about him, the ancestor did not do this for Hamlet, but more because he was worried that this power would affect his ascension plan.

But like all things... it may only be a matter of time before the horrors from between the stars penetrate the 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 ceremony. The things behind it have the strange power of erosion and pollution. What do you think?"

"Of course we are going in!" Boudica couldn't wait to express her position. Although she didn't understand much, she knew from their serious expressions that it was very dangerous. However, they failed to enter twice in a row. The retreat almost made her burst with trauma.

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

Amanda thought for a moment and gave her opinion, and then 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 should be due to him killing the ancestor and causing the power of the ritual to fade.

That is to say, it cannot be avoided no matter what.

Hearing their attitude, he didn't talk nonsense. He raised his hand and pressed it on the star chart of the pillar stone. The next second, a blue light flashed, and the half-human-high circle disappeared, revealing the unobstructed scene behind it.

Lance took the lead and broke in, and the rest of the team followed suit. At that moment, they felt an absurd feeling of being separated from reality.

That force was many times stronger than outside, and when you fell into it, it seemed as if space and time had been distorted beyond recognition.

When Lance used the blessing to eliminate their discomfort, their consciousness gradually returned to their bodies, and they opened their eyes to look at the bizarre sight.

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

Vast swathes of the land are strewn with the fossilized remains of humans, farm animals and crops, as if they had aged over countless years in the blink of an eye.

It was still broad daylight outside, but after entering here, the sun disappeared directly and was replaced by a hazy starlight.

The stars above the farm are no longer in their original positions, and there are no identifiable constellations in the night sky. The position of the North Star is also completely off, as if these night skies do not belong here and now...

Fortunately, looking back, the exit had not disappeared, which prevented their emotions from falling into the tension of cutting off their retreat.

"Boudica, open the way." Lance adjusted his team and found himself at the end.

He is not retreating, but protecting the third caster, and in the end he is able to gain their status and control the overall situation.

Boudica didn't waste any time, just picked up the weapon and walked towards the outside of the birch forest. But this time, as if something was alarming, the scattered petrified remains that had fallen on the ground started to move.

Under the strange luster, the fragments seemed to be pulled together to form several strange figures.

It has to be said that the petrification has retained many details. From the decoration on the body and the hoe he was carrying, he could immediately recognize that this was a farm worker. However, his sad face was also left, looking up at the sky emptyly, as if Still praying for rain like before.

The strange thing is that the rickety body has cracks and has been broken into pieces, but at this time it is pulled out by some kind of force as if it has lost the restraint of gravity. A strong fluorescence is revealed from the cracks in the torso, and even that The eye sockets on the face and the open mouth are all visible.

The four farm workers seemed to be attracted to living creatures as soon as they appeared. They staggered around and swung their hoes at them as if they had been working repetitively year after year.

Work tirelessly!

The team that was still observing the monster also moved. Boudicca raised his ax gun to block a blow to the head, then roared and kicked out, hitting the chest.

The force instantly kicked the farmer and worker in front of him to pieces, as if the stone statue that had lost its power was once again attracted by gravity and shattered and scattered on its own.

But Boudica didn't stop at all. He swung the ax gun in his hand and chopped up another farm worker who came close to him. He rushed forward and killed several others in a few or two strokes.

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

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

But this time it was not re-condensing. It seemed to absorb the power of the corpse and grew rapidly. It soon formed a cluster of columnar crystals of different lengths that could be half a person tall. It also emitted strange and rhythmic fluorescence as if it could breathe.

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

"Get out of the way!"

Boudica pulled away without hesitation, and the next second the crystal cluster exploded, covering a small area. Countless tiny crystal fragments scattered, directly piercing Boudica's clothes and scratching her.

Lance raised his shield to block Amanda and the others, and then quickly called back to Boudica, because the others were also about to explode.

The scene became quiet after a few explosions. Boudica only had some flesh wounds, which was nothing, but they had already felt the malice here.

Lance went forward to check Boudica's wounds, and found no erosion or pollution. He activated the flesh reconstruction to heal the wounds, and the crystal fragments that were pierced into them 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 extracted the life energy were completely worthless, like shrunken grains. Let's call them shrunken monsters for the time being.

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

"It seems that the crystal is the key. It is the vitality condensed under a certain 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. The next time, we have to kill the crystal, and the location should be in the chest."

"The power contained in these crystals is actually very 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 them.

Lance sacrificed a small piece and really got a spiritual gift, which was much more interesting.

Because crystal clusters can be seen everywhere here...

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

Not staying for too long, they took a few more steps forward, and those farm workers appeared on the ground again, and then they were killed in a few strokes. Sure enough, destroying the crystals on their bodies could kill them.

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

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

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

The strange petrification retained the approximate state, and the more exquisite clothes than the farm workers indicated his status in his lifetime, 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 because of natural disasters, the landlord was the landlord, and the farm workers under him needed a foreman to look after them.

Now, these foremen have become like this under the strange invasion. Their bodies are more exaggeratedly mutilated, their feet are crushed, as if they are floating, and their limbs are more seriously alienated. The hand has grown an exaggerated claw-like shape, but the whole arm is broken, and it is only because of some kind of power that it does not fall apart.

The skull is gone, and the head is fluorescent like a torch stump, and the face is not as sad as the farm workers, but with a sense of rage.

As soon as the foreman appeared, he commanded the farm workers, just like in his life, even if he has become like this, he is driven.

Stir!

The foreman raised his hand and pointed at the invader. Under the blessing of the strange power, the fluorescence on the farm workers seemed to be a little more vigorous, and the originally slow movements were a little faster.

Everyone has noticed something, so naturally they can't let it go. Boudica rushed up immediately, and the farm worker didn't swing the hoe at the first time, but raised his hand as if he was working in his life.

Sowing!

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

"waaagh!!!"

However, with a roar, Boudica activated the scar of the lioness, and the shadow of the roaring lioness appeared on her body to dispel the fluorescence.

These guys' methods angered Boudica, and she swung her axe gun faster and chopped at the farmhand, but the farmhand actually knew to swing the hoe to fight back when he got close, which had never happened before.

But the gap in strength was too big, so Boudica easily dodged it and then chopped his chest with an axe, revealing the broken crystal inside.

However, the foreman did not stop, but continued to wave his arms at the farmhand.

Help from all sides!

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

Boudica didn't notice anything else, she just swung her axe and chopped, but this time she couldn't split the petrified body, obviously the monster's defense was strengthened.

The shells of these shrunken monsters are all condensed by the power of crystals, and the crystals that the foreman used to strengthen the farm workers are naturally strengthening the condensed power.

However, they are a small team, and when the foreman attacked, Amanda also raised her hand and threw out a flying knife with extraordinary power, directly piercing into the core through the gap, breaking the defense of the farm worker, and even killing him directly. The broken crystal means that there is no chance of distortion.

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

Boudica seized the opportunity and raised her axe gun to charge at the foreman. As long as she got close to the tip, she could pierce the crystal in his chest.

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

No trespassing!

It was difficult to understand why the petrified long whip could be swung, but the whip was so fast that the end of the whip was almost instantly stained with crystal fragments and whipped Boudicca, easily tearing the warm coat and leaving countless traces of small blade cuts on her body, and she bled immediately.

However, Boudicca was not dragged down by these simple flesh wounds at all. She stabbed out the axe gun as if she had no sense of pain, and the tip pierced into the foreman's body at once, but its body was fluorescent and flashing, as if a force field had dissipated the power, and it did not penetrate.

At this time, Lance finally took action, reconstructing his flesh and blood to eliminate the scars on Boudicca's body, and then raised his hand to shoot, but he did not aim at the foreman, but marked an open space.

"Amanda."

"Yes!"

Amanda understood something very tacitly, and threw out the windmill wheel blade that broke the invisibility. The power on it hit out a strange monster hidden in it.

A scarecrow tied to a wooden frame, wearing a tattered coat, with ragged cuffs and empty sleeves hanging down, and a noose on his neck for no reason.

The crystal in the body stretched directly along the cross skeleton, and the lower body grew crystal clusters from the waist, and the crystal in the upper body even pierced the head and stretched out, once again indicating what this thing is.

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

The scarecrow didn't know when it had approached, and the environment here gave it the best cover. If it weren't for Lance, it would probably have to wait until it launched an attack before it was discovered.

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

Threshing!

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

It was this delay that allowed several more farm workers to gather together, and with the foreman's blessing, they all showed even greater strength.

"Do it!"

Lance said, finally no longer observing their behavior as his purpose, but starting a real fight.