Arcane Journey

Chapter 324 Abyssal Parasitic Beast

Bryan put down the long sword in his hand. At this moment, another skeleton giant was wailing and vanished into ashes in front of him. Kara Dena walked over, secretly relieved.

With the strength of the two of them, it's not that they can't defeat the skeleton giant, but it's very difficult to do it cleanly within a limited time without alarming any enemies.

After all, no matter how big the difference in strength is, the struggle before death is really a headache.

Looking at the experience numbers popping out in front of his eyes, Brian finally confirmed this.

In the face of undead creatures, the system prompt is particularly important, so that he can clearly confirm whether the enemy is completely dead or not.

"Da da... da da... da!"

At this moment, a rush of horseshoes sounded from afar, breaking the silence in the darkness.

Hearing this sound, Brian immediately realized that the death knight hiding in the tower must have rushed out because of the death of his subordinates.

This is what he hopes to see the most. After all, there are many crises in the tower. Not only will the two of them have to deal with the death knight, but they may also face the siege of a group of priests from the Church of Shar.

Finding a way to attract the most powerful death knight is indeed the most correct approach at the moment.

"Get ready to fight!" He froze, and immediately ordered to Kara Dena.

Hearing this, the sorceress was not surprised and quickly prepared for battle.

Obviously, before the battle started, Brian had already told her in detail about the skeleton giant and his plan to attract the death knight.

On the other side, the charging death knight saw that instead of dodging, the two of them had put on a fighting stance, staring at him without fear, welcoming him.

"You dare to look at me like that, you are looking for your own death!"

He couldn't help but sneered, and immediately raised the knight's spear that was already surrounded by countless dead souls and dark energy in his hand, pointed straight ahead, and then yelled loudly.

"hiss--!!"

Nightmare, who was surrounded by the flames of purgatory, heard the master's voice and immediately quickened her pace.

In an instant, the galloping flames rushed out from under Nightmare's hooves, and slid out four long flame trails on the ground, so dazzling in the darkness.

The death knight bent down, holding the spear in his hand, his eyes fixed on the burning flame of life in front of him.

At this moment, he couldn't help but start to imagine how charming the flame owner's appearance of struggling in pain was when he was strung on the spear by himself.

The moment Brian and Kaladna exchanged glances at the moment when they were surrounded by raging flames and charged within the casting range of the two, they immediately followed the previously discussed plan to meet the charging death knight.

- "Fossils are mud!"

A flash of magic flashed, and the path of the death knight's charge suddenly rippled like water waves, and the hard rocky surface was also melted into bubbling mud in an instant.

"Damn the living! I will let you taste the eternal..."

Before the death knight could finish his hoarse and cold words, he exclaimed, and he and his horse fell into the suddenly emerging quagmire, and continued to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye.

——"Turn mud into stone!"

With a wave of Brian's staff, the mud around the Death Knight and Nightmare tumbling in the quagmire suddenly solidified at a rapid speed, turning into hard rocks.

Seeing the trapped death knight, Brian smiled.

Just as he imagined, the death knight was probably hit on the head by the orc's mace in front of him, or when the priest of the Church of Shar took the body away, he threw his head down on the ground.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have fallen into his trap so easily.

Then, he looked at Kaladna beside him.

Obviously, for a death knight whose strength has reached the legendary realm, this level of tricks can't hold him back for a long time.

At the same time, when the quagmire turned into solid rock, the spell that Kaladna carefully prepared was also completed.

A dark purple magic ball with a diameter of about one meter exudes terrifying energy that slightly distorts the surrounding space. The sorceress held it in her hand, and under the control of her mind, it roared and smashed towards the death knight.

In the shadow plane, a world where fire elemental spells are severely restricted, Kara Dena's chaos spells have become the main output of firepower.

——"Madunkin's disintegration technique!"

With a finger of Brian's staff, before the chaos ball hit the death knight, the destructive energy suddenly enveloped the death knight who was struggling to get out of trouble.

His body suddenly stopped, and then the already dilapidated Zilong battle armor, knight spear and shield all emerged densely, like spider web cracks, and quickly turned into countless fragments with crackling noises, and disappeared in the air. in the air.

"boom!"

With a loud noise, the Chaos Ball exploded.

The eruption of terrifying energy seemed to open a space gap in the dim shadow plane, pouring out raging chaotic energy, ruthlessly washing away the painful and howling death knights and screaming and neighing nightmares.

The death knight, who was suffering from pain, with a strong will, shook his whole body, tightened the reins, clamped the horse's belly, and leaped out with the horse and man.

"Boom!"

The violent explosion echoed in the valley, and the rocks scattered like rain.

The raging chaotic energy has not yet dissipated, and the death knight, who has been baptized by ruthless spells, finally endured the pain that his soul would be extinguished at any time, controlled the nightmare lingering in the flames of purgatory, broke through the shackles of the stubborn stone, and appeared on the ground of the valley.

Although the death knight managed to break free from the shackles, he was in an extremely embarrassing state under the attacks of the disintegration technique and the chaos ball.

Through the dark energy lingering around the death knight's body, it can be clearly seen that his originally burly and majestic body has long since turned into a thin and thin skeleton, and the flickering soul fire in his eye sockets is like a candle that will be extinguished at any time.

And the nightmare mount under him was even worse. In the last action of forcibly breaking out of the bondage, it had exhausted its last trace of strength. However, only a faint trace of white smoke spewed out.

Bryan had already considered this situation, so the moment the death knight broke through the bondage, a glass bottle the size of a head appeared in his hands at some point, filled with holy water like creamy cream.

This is the highest level of holy water, and only the legendary priests of the temple can create it through divine magic.

Brian is well aware of the characteristics of the shadow plane, so he naturally prepared these props that are very effective against undead creatures in advance.

Accompanied by the sudden shattering of the glass bottle in the air, the creamy holy water was like a waterfall falling from the sky, washing over the body of the death knight who was howling in fear, and thick billowing white smoke rose.

Immediately afterwards, the holy water turned into a silver fire full of sacred aura, which roared and spread in an instant. The death knight had just opened his mouth, and before he had time to pour out his anger and curse on Brian, the surging holy flame was like a majestic The majestic torrent poured into his mouth, blocking the death knight's final vent.

Silver-white flames soared into the sky, and even the thick clouds of the Shadow Plane were clearly illuminated by this light.

Brian was not in the mood to watch the refreshing scene, and the moment he was prompted by experience, he and Kala Dena quickly walked towards the tower.

The dark tower was surrounded by tentacles-like dark energy. On both sides of the tower, there were two pillars with cold white flames, and the flames scattered to the surroundings desolately.

Through the light from the pale flames, Brian noticed just now that this ghost tower was actually supported by a strange, insect-like load-bearing wall, standing on a platform covered with thick bones.

"Bryan, are we really going in?" Kaladna had put the hood of the Battle Mage's cloak on her head at some point, even so, she still couldn't hide her pale face in the shadow of the hood.

"Why do you have to enter this tower?" The sorceress raised her head and looked ahead. Within her sight, there was a straight upward path leading to a mushroom-shaped fortress standing on a cliff.

"Actually, I don't want to go in either."

Brian shrugged helplessly, and patiently explained to her, "But this is about a ceremony, and I must destroy it in order to face the black dragon hidden in the fortress and responsible for the entire dark ceremony. "

"Otherwise, what we need to face next will be an ancient black dragon whose strength has reached a high level of legend." He added at the end.

Only by destroying the ritual of the high tower, the black dragon Despier will be distracted to guide the dark ritual in order to prevent all previous efforts from being wasted, and the consequence of doing so is that he cannot deal with the two with all his strength.

This is also his only chance to kill the black dragon. Even if all his plans are successful, in Brian's view, the success rate of killing the black dragon and destroying the dark ritual is only a half or five.

Of course, if he was accompanied by the little prince Brenners of the City of Shadows, it would not be so troublesome.

After listening to his explanation, Kara Dena followed Brian and carefully entered the tower.

The inside of this tall tower surrounded by shadows is completely dark, and any light spells cannot take effect.

Fortunately, the dark vision they had blessed in advance was not greatly affected by this. The brightness presented in front of the two of them now, just like the dim light environment under the full moon, did not affect them at all.

The interior of the tower is different than the imagined space, and it looks more like it was generated by folding the space.

The two of Brian seemed to appear in a long and deep cold cave, and the surrounding walls were all rugged rocks.

"When paying attention to the front, I want you to look at the top of your head." In the darkness, Brian walked side by side with the sorceress, subconsciously reminding him.

Kara Dena heard this, and looked up instinctively.

On top of the two of them, countless head-sized insect eggs could be seen hanging there, and they split apart without exception, revealing the pitch-black interior.

Judging from their shriveled, no longer plump exterior, it seems that there is nothing inside.

"This... what is this?"

Even Kaladna, who has experienced countless adventures, was shocked and her expression became ugly after seeing this densely packed house of eggs that could not be seen at the edge.

"These eggs have been hatching for a long time." Brian shook her cold little hand and said to the sorceress in a comforting tone.

When Kara Dena heard this, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense body slowly relaxed.

However, Brian's second sentence immediately made her experience the tragedy when the roller coaster reached the top.

"It's just hatched recently, about two or three days ago."

Brian looked at the shell of the eggs, nodded thoughtfully, and said, "It was the energy provided by these hatched eggs that made the black dragon Despier tear a crack in the magic net."

There is another sentence he didn't say, that is, the energy of each egg is provided by the flesh and soul of mortals.

"Don't worry, the monsters hatched from these eggs have long been sacrificed, and we won't encounter them." Brian said with a smile to the sorceress beside him with a fluctuating expression.

However, as soon as Brian finished his sentence, he was slapped in the face by the next scene.

The monster's attack was far faster and more violent than he had imagined.

When the two walked to the depths of the tower cave, what they saw was an existence that they had never imagined—a palm-sized bug with a naked flesh-colored body, a human head, a distorted and ferocious face, and a beating With bat-like wings, it screamed and jumped at them.

Brian stood in front of Kaladna, the sharp sword in his hand flashed coldly, and these terrifying monsters fell to the ground one after another to die.

Their hideous bodies fell to the ground like rotting grease before quickly turning into a meaningless, foul-smelling black water.

"I see."

Brian held the trembling worm that was slowly rotting and melting in his hand. It had six claws, and it looked quite like a human hand whose skin had been peeled off. Only muscles and blood vessels remained. In the center of the 'palm', a thin The long cracks opened and closed, inside which were countless earthworm-like tentacles moving around.

"If this kind of bug encounters a living human being, it will rush up and hug their face, and then stuff these things into the nose and mouth to suck the brain, so that they will lay eggs in the empty brain, see It looks a bit like the method of an abyssal parasite."

After Brian finished speaking, he threw the body that was about to melt in his hand onto the ground.

After listening to Brian's kind and detailed introduction, the female sorceress on the side had a pale face and subconsciously wanted to keep a distance from him.

Soon, the two finally came to the end along the cave inside the tower.

What appeared in their line of sight was a black pit emitting a rotten smell, and the viscous black water inside was entangled and rolled like snakes.

A dozen or so figures with swords and staffs formed a circle around the altar next to the deep pit below, praying devoutly.

The altar was covered with thick red, like dried blood, and the silver symbols and runes formed a circle with a diameter of 2 meters on the altar, gradually rising into the dark void.

"For the glory of the Lost Lady..."

The hoarse voice was only slightly higher than the whisper, but it was still very obvious in this silent night.

The work of the priestesses seemed to be successfully completed, and blood clots burst out from the altar.

In this rain of blood, black tentacles burst out like an explosion.

These black tentacles rose higher and higher, grew bigger and bigger, and grew into towering giant trees.

At this time, Brian, who was hiding in the dark, saw another creature made of pure shadows floating in the center of the altar.

It's a huge, fat, bloated body.

It looked human, or he had been human, but now there was only a disgusting corpse left.

Under its skin it swelled like a water-filled balloon, and its huge head was lodged between its shoulders, its neck not visible at all.

The fat on his face was so squeezed that he couldn't even find where his eyes were - not to mention that the fat was still moving from time to time.

"It really is an abyss parasite!"

Brian's performance was as calm as ever, and from his calm voice, there was hardly any emotional fluctuation.

(End of this chapter)