"Tsk, this thing is really smelly."
Watching the giant monster being torn to pieces in mid-air carelessly, Qi Ji wrinkled his delicate little nose in disgust, and a light shield with a diameter of nearly ten meters suddenly appeared above his head.
"Crash..."
Disgusting liquids and filth fell from the sky, but were completely blocked by the light shield. Not a drop of it stained her body. It was like a giant transparent umbrella.
When all the filthy things belonging to the giant's corpse fell to the ground, Qi Ji removed the light shield and walked step by step towards the regular and huge circular hole not far away.
There was a faint vibration under my feet, which became more and more intense, as if something terrible was approaching.
"Logically, I shouldn't care about these things... Who told me that I'm kind-hearted and can't bear to see others suffer? Alas, there are not many super beautiful girls as kind as me~~"
Qi Ji had a mischievous and playful smile on his face. With his hands behind his waist, he walked leisurely to the cave entrance.
On the ground behind her, there were a dozen strong men lying unconscious, but they did not look injured.
They were all strong workers who stayed on the "node" platform fixed on the rock wall, responsible for rotating the secondary platform below the tripod roller. When Qi Ji threw the giant alien monster out of the abyss, he took them with him.
If it wasn't for Qi Ji's "convenience", these people would have surely died. They wouldn't even have the ability to resist and would have been torn to pieces in an instant by the rampant evil spirits.
Julian and his men were already in trouble themselves, and had no time to rescue these poor guys who were left on the node platform.
"Since we have done good things..."
Standing on the edge of the cave entrance, with his toes slightly under the edge, Qi Ji stuck his head out and looked down at the abyss below that was eternally filled with sticky darkness.
A cluster of bright yellow light... loomed in the depths of the eternal and silent darkness.
She slowly stretched out an arm, spread her five fingers naturally, palm down, pointed at the darkness, and said with a happy smile:
"Then let's do it to the end!"
"brush!"
As soon as the words fell, the brightness of the bright yellow light suddenly soared, and the next second, a ball of yellow light broke through the darkness from the abyss and pierced the sky.
Soon after, a wooden platform carrying several people followed closely and left the abyss under the support of the pink light!
"Out!"
Hill's clothes were splattered with reddish-brown blood, and there were even a few black pieces of flesh hanging on her clothes. She herself was pale, her steps were unsteady, and she looked extremely tired and weak.
But at the moment when she finally saw the light of day again, she still felt a great relief, and her heartstrings suddenly relaxed uncontrollably.
Extreme fatigue immediately surged up over him, and even the blood mist of the "Cup of Gluttony" could no longer replenish his body and mind. He felt completely exhausted and almost collapsed to the ground.
Fortunately, her reason still worked. She knew she was not out of danger yet, so she forced herself to stay standing.
The condition of other people on the platform was not much better, some were even worse. Many people not only had reddish-brown bloodstains belonging to the evil spirits, but also their own blood. The hideous and terrifying lacerations were so deep that the bones could be seen, which was shocking.
Even though the second and third lines of defense formed by archers and Hill's long-range spells were extremely thorough, the scattered three or two evil spirits could hardly pose a direct threat to the team members.
But after more than half an hour of all-out fighting, it is impossible not to make any mistakes, and it is also impossible for every attack to hit the target.
In the last ten minutes... an evil ghost finally succeeded. It dodged the arrows loaded with spiritual power and jumped onto the platform, fighting with the mortal bodies of the team members with its strong mortal body!
After a thrilling and bloody battle, the evil ghost was finally killed, and Elder Julian, who was at the deepest part of the formation, was not attacked... but they also paid a heavy price.
Team 3, which originally had eleven members, now has only six people left.
"Great Elder, where is the support?! Where should we go!?"
She continued to tense her nerves, grasping the last handful of spell tinder with her hands with slightly trembling fingers, and turned her head to ask Julian who was half-kneeling on the ground.
This leader, who had a somewhat scary temperament, did not reply. He just silently withdrew his hand from the floor, stood up quickly, and then...
"……what?!"
Hill felt her feet suddenly go empty, and then she realized that she was being lifted up by Julian.
She looked at the final great elder of the Church in disbelief, only to see that after he lifted herself up with one hand, he immediately stopped the "Heart Gu Dance", and the pink light that was holding up the platform suddenly dissipated.
This wooden square platform, along with the four surviving team members on it... also fell, falling into the abyss below where the demons were dancing wildly.
The astonishment and fear on the faces of the comrades who survived the disaster also quickly appeared.
“Great Elder, what are you doing…!”
Hill couldn't believe what he saw. As one of the top leaders of the Last Kingdom and the chief elder of the Last Church, Julian...actually abandoned his team and ran away with only himself! ?
why? !
Julian did not answer her. Pink and indigo mist lingered around the two of them, blurring their figures, and they rushed away from the entrance of the "Abyss" at an extremely sharp speed, like an amorphous ghost.
Only the four team members who were filled with despair were left. Little by little, they were swallowed up by the darkness in the abyss and the manic and bloodthirsty deformed monsters in the darkness.
No one saw the petite figure standing leisurely at the edge of the cave entrance...gently pressing down with her outstretched hand——
"Boom!!!"
The flames that shot up into the sky, like a world-destroying fire sent down by the gods, suddenly exploded in the center of the circular hole!
The sacred and violent flames instantly covered the dark abyss of eternal silence. Under this irresistible divine power, all visible and invisible matter instantly returned to the original state of the first moment of creation.
The blazing flames that annihilated everything expanded in the void, wantonly pouring out heat comparable to that of a star in all directions, like a gorgeous flower blooming on the earth.
No matter whether it was the evil spirits or the ruins of the buildings around the cave entrance, when they came into contact with the raging flames, they were burned by the indescribable high temperature and not even a trace was left.
A loud noise that pierced the clouds and split the rocks, accompanied by a hot air wave, rose slowly in the center of the ruins of this city.
Light! Light! Light!
As far as the eye can see, there is only light.
Snow-white light, bright yellow light, orange-red light.
Dazzling light, endless light!
Even the headquarters of the Last Kingdom, which was nearly a hundred kilometers away, was engulfed in a vast expanse of white light. Apart from the dizzying bright light, nothing could be seen.
Even if you close your eyes, the light still penetrates violently through your eyelids and stings your eyeballs.
At this moment, the people living in this distorted land...
For the first time, I saw the "sun" that only existed in ancient myths and legends.
[End of Volume 4: The Abyss of Eternal Death and Silence]
Volume 5: Building a Heaven on Earth from Scratch (Part 2)
Chapter 465 Dilemma
"Pfft!"
The body reconnects with the long-lost land.
Hill forced himself to get up from the ground with exhausted limbs, staring at the gray-robed figure in front of him with wide eyes in anger and confusion:
"Great Elder, what are you doing?!"
Julian retracted the pink and red mist that was spreading around the two of them, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked up at the lead-black clouds with a pale face, without looking at Hill who looked very embarrassed, and let out a long breath:
"Save your life."
"What about the lives of others?! You left them behind!"
Hill's fists were clenched until the knuckles turned white. He suppressed his anger and tried his best not to make his voice too loud.
"Explain, where does your power come from?"
The great elder who was at the top of the hierarchy did not answer her question. He put his hands behind his waist, raised his chin and looked down at Hill with an extremely arrogant attitude. His black eyes seemed to be covered with frost.
"You are just a civilian member responsible for geological surveys and topographic mapping. You do not have the talent for extraordinary cultivation. Moreover, the skills you just displayed are very different from the 'Silent Soul Sorcery'."
Seeing that the other party completely ignored his question and instead asked a question that hit his soft spot, Hill suddenly saw Julian's answer to his question from his icy eyes:
You, a mysterious character with unknown power, are more valuable to the Last Kingdom than those few warriors.
This is why he survived, while those few warriors who were loyal to the Last Kingdom were abandoned.
The situation was urgent at the time. Julian, who had been performing high-level witchcraft at a high intensity, was already quite exhausted and it was difficult for him to carry everyone to escape from the pursuit of the evil spirits...
Therefore, some people will inevitably be abandoned.
If, if she was really just an ordinary civilian member, then Julian would have saved the others without hesitation and left her behind.
Realizing this, she choked and felt an inexplicable sense of guilt in her heart. Her face turned red and she didn't know how to answer.
She had originally intended to use the same words to deal with Julian as she had used in her previous private conversation with Deacon Otilia, but now...
She understood that her life, in a sense, was exchanged for the lives of four loyal and brave elite soldiers!
If she chose to deceive again and mislead Elder Julian to "evaluate" her own value, wouldn't that be a waste of their sacrifice?
What's more, even if he continued to prevaricate... that explanation could explain where his power system came from, but it could not explain the source of those spellcasting materials in his backpack!
More than half of those spellcasting materials were obtained through transactions with the "True Creator" and do not exist in the Last Kingdom at all!
Julian had seen the entire process of him casting spells madly and fighting in the abyss just now. With the great elder's vision and qualifications, he would definitely be able to discover the peculiarity and strangeness of these materials.
There is no turning back on either the emotional or rational path.
Do we really need to tell the truth? Do we really need to disclose the existence of the "True Creator"?
She instinctively wanted to seek advice from the "True Creator" himself, but the mysterious Outer God was no longer with her.
Just as he tried to report the situation to Him by silently reciting the honorific names of "Dark Night Queen, Twin Moon King" in his heart, he saw Julian's expression suddenly change slightly, and he turned his head and looked to the side:
"What are you doing following us?"
Hearing this, Hill was stunned and looked in the direction he was looking. He saw that an area of space about ten meters away suddenly twisted and rippled, creating circles of pure black ripples.
Soon, several figures slowly emerged from these strange ripples.
"Of course, we sent back those compatriots who were abandoned by the Great Elder."
The first person to walk out from the ripples was a thin figure in a gray robe with loose silver hair. His blue eyes stared at Julian, and he spoke coldly in an indistinguishable voice.
As she finished her words, the black ripples behind her completely subsided, revealing a dozen unconscious figures lying on the ground.
"Ah, it's them?!"
Hill recognized the identities of those people at once. The four survivors of Team 3 who were left behind by Julian were among them. There were also a few familiar faces among the rest. She thought they should be the strong workers who stayed behind on the node platform.
At this time, the unconscious people who had fallen to the ground were groaning one after another, and it was obvious that they would wake up soon. Seeing this, Hill hurried forward to help them up and hurriedly checked their injuries.
"You saved him?"
Julian swept his cold and gloomy eyes over those people, and then stopped at Ottilia who was walking towards him.
"I found it in the ruins near the entrance to the Abyss after the explosion, and brought it here with me."
Ottilia said expressionlessly, glancing out of the corner of her eye at the mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke rising in the distance. At this moment, it was still expanding and spreading outwards, and the dust and sand it stirred up almost covered the entire city ruins.
In the sky, pieces of ashes slowly fell, like dyed snowflakes, light, fragile and slender.
Julian heard the hidden meaning in the other person's words and frowned as if he was thinking:
"Is there a third person there? Is he the one who saved these people?"
"Who knows?"
Otilia stopped two meters in front of Julian, crossed her slender, pale hands in front of her abdomen, stood straight, and stared at his face with her blue eyes:
"There are more important issues right now."
"…What do you mean?" Julian's face darkened.
"Uh……"
Hill, who was taking care of the wounded nearby, looked back and forth between the two men with a confused and uneasy expression, and for no reason he smelled a hint of gunpowder.
What happened? Did Elder Julian and Deacon Otilia have any grudges against each other? Why did they look like they were about to draw their swords when they met?
Completely confused about the situation, she could only remain silent. She helped several survivors who had already woken up to sit down in front of a large rock, while she quickly prayed to the "True Creator" in her heart.
Otilia and Julian stared at each other for a long time, their pale lips pursed into a straight line, and suddenly looked away:
"… Never mind. It's not the right time yet."
After saying that, she turned and walked towards Hill, leaving Julian, who had a serious expression on his face, where he was.
He looked at Ottilia's receding back, as if he wanted to say something, but soon his gaze passed over Ottilia's shoulder and fell on Hill, and in the end he did not speak.
