Fortunately, she did not expect these things to be easy to deal with. She knew that she had to race against time. The next moment her body was bounced away, she pulled out "Changxia" from her dream, aimed at the gap in the middle of the iron gate and slashed vertically!
With a "swish", all the entangled vines were cut off with one knife.
After passing the checkpoint in two or three steps, Darent, who was following behind, was shocked to find that the environment outside had changed?
Before he came in, it should have been pitch black outside. But now, large tracts of city scenery began to appear in the night fog, and he saw many mysterious buildings of unknown style. They seemed to be made of mirrors, and many sides were reflecting strong light.
Wait... this isn't an art style that humans can currently understand, right?
Darent's thoughts were a little stuck for a moment, and the Blood Crystal Crow flapped its wings behind his head: "Why are you standing there like an idiot? Are you following her!?"
When he looked again, the disloyal Chief Yingshi was already more than ten meters ahead of him.
She is so heartless!
Cursing inwardly, Darent hurried after her. The two of them were running all the way through the foggy jungle on the hillside at night, at such a fast speed that Darent didn't even have time to talk, such as asking her "Are you sure we can get out of here at this speed?"
Xia Yibing was also nervous at first, but as she rushed into the Night Fog Forest, she had a premonition - I can definitely get out of here.
It was as if there was a feeling beyond reality that was telling her where to take each step, telling her what was an illusion or a dream, and which direction to go to get closer to reality.
...Is it the spirit of Aisuen?
She marveled inwardly.
Or... the mother tree?
There was no time to sigh or think, she ran faster and faster, completely choosing to give her body and mind to that premonition, no matter what kind of illusion was in front of her... walls, vines, mirrors... nothing could stop her from leaving!
Finally - she stepped on empty air, and the night fog in front of her eyes suddenly disappeared, returning to the pitch-black night again.
Before she fell, she looked carefully and made sure there were scattered lights in the night. Then she breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of her heart, staggered a few steps, and regained her balance with her excellent body balance.
With a whoosh, it was Darent who ran out with the Blood Crystal Crow. They must have gone straight through a bush to make such a loud noise. After confirming that they were out of danger, the wooden man wanted to complain: "You just left us there..."
Suddenly—he felt something wrapped around his ankle.
A huge force lifted him up into the air, and he reacted very quickly and immediately stuck his walking stick into the soil for support, but it was obvious that his strength was too small compared to the thing behind him... The walking stick was immediately pulled backwards in the ground, and because the speed was too fast, the sinking soil splashed everywhere - the fixation turned into plowing.
Mapus!
Xia Yibing turned around and saw this scene: it was a huge vine as thick as an ordinary person's thigh. It seemed to have chased out from the flower mist world, wanting to bring back the prey it had set its eyes on!
How can I let you succeed?
The woman fired a shot into the mist and immediately dropped the gun. She then rushed forward quickly with a knife in both hands, dodging two thin vines that were stretched out from the flower mist and shot towards her. She then flashed behind the wooden man and cut the thick vine with one knife!
Eeyoo~~~~~!
A sharp hoofbeat sound came from the flower mist, and the thick vine twitched and retreated, with large streams of sticky green juice gushing out from the broken ends, covering Darent's face with it.
He had temporarily lost his ability to move... At least if we calculated it in seconds, he would have to spend at least 1 second to wipe the liquid off his face, and then 1-2 seconds to blink his eyes to regain his vision. If he was rational enough, he could try to get up and run away while doing this - this was what Xia Yibing had expected.
But they might not even have these three or four seconds - the next moment the thick vines retracted, a huge face made up entirely of countless vines and branches emerged from the fog and suddenly opened its mouth to bite her!
What kind of weird and distorted face is this?
Xia Yibing was good at martial arts and swordsmanship. People like her usually had better dynamic vision. She quickly saw clearly... Even when it was flying towards her and biting her at a high speed, the vines on that face were constantly wriggling and entwining, as disgusting as the endlessly twisting maggots on a human face!
Get out of here——
The nightmare spirit on the sword was released, and the blade, which was silent and inconspicuous a second ago, suddenly burst into a dazzling white light! A sword light that was dozens of meters long and almost connected the sky and the earth rose from the ground, cutting through the soil and the human face, and even briefly separated the flower mist!
“Eh~~~~~!”
The sound of hooves could be heard again from the depths of the flower mist, and with it came further changes: the huge human face was still moving forward after being cut open by the knife, and the vines continued to twist and wriggle, constantly combining and deforming in mid-air, and actually formed two smaller human faces, still opening their mouths to bite her!
This time, Xia Yibing did not swing the knife but retreated quickly.
It wasn't because she wasn't sure, but because she didn't want to be burned to death.
Darent was also moving to the outside while rolling and crawling under the curse of the Blood Crystal Crow - and just the next moment they had just retreated from this area, a brilliant, golden-red firework accompanied by an angry roar fell from the sky and fiercely engulfed the two giant faces!
"hold head high--!!!"
what is that……
Darent lay on the ground with his body leaning back. From this angle, illuminated by the firelight, he could vaguely see a huge shadow spreading its wings across the sky... and just as it was spitting out a tail of fire from its mouth.
"It's a fire dragon."
Xia Yibing said.
"It's actually him..."
"It seems that the White Shadow Palace doesn't expect to rely solely on us to obtain intelligence."
Is it 'him'?
'who is he?
Darent was stunned at first, then he searched for the term "fire dragon" in his memory fragments, and the case in Green Town, also known as Fairy Tale Town, was quickly recalled by him.
He was also in that case.
He, Hitzfeld and Ethan, the three of them went to Green Town to deal with it.
So he reacted immediately and called out a name: "Bar-Glarant?"
"It's him."
Xia Yibing nodded.
"Our reinforcements."
"hold head high!!!"
As if to highlight these words, the giant shadow in the sky spread its wings, revealing its general appearance thoroughly.
It was indeed a thing that could be described as a "monster"... It looked like an enlarged version of a lizard. Because its body lacked a reference point at high altitude, Darent could not tell how big it was, but he conservatively estimated that it was more than ten times the size of a poisonous fire lizard. It had strong hind limbs and a slender tail, but these were nothing compared to its forelimbs - its forelimbs were wings, which were similar to the structure of a bat. Darent could even see the strong bones protruding under the membrane, which together outlined a pair of sky-covering dragon wings. Coupled with the long face covered with scales, ordinary people would definitely regard it as a nightmare.
The fire dragon roared and flew down, its long snake-like neck tilted back, the membrane under its chest glowed orange-red, and its ribs could be vaguely seen.
Then the light moved upwards... and was spewed out from the giant mouth along with a roar, not only wrapping up the howling giant faces again, but also burning into the night fog.
"Chucky!"
“Aiya~~~~~~!”
No one knew what the night fog contained specifically, but it ignited as soon as it came into contact with the flames. Large tracts of night fog began to burn. The fire was fueled by the wind, and the wind fanned the flames. For a moment, the entire hillside was completely surrounded by raging flames. The raging flames dyed the sky red, and the onlookers heard the shrill screams coming from within again.
I didn't expect it to be so noisy...
Xia Yibing clenched the long sword in her hand.
That being said, she didn't think that was enough.
A great one is a great one. Even if it is a great one that is lingering on, she doesn't think a mimic fire dragon can deal with it.
After all, Old Baal was not originally a dragon, he was originally a human. The so-called fire dragon incarnation was nothing more than a curse of mimicry, and he might not even be able to maintain this state and fight for how long.
Sure enough - she squinted her eyes and saw a huge monster suddenly rising from the flames and smoke.
Still a human face.
It’s still a human face... a huge human face made up of countless wriggling vines!
It was just bigger than the previous human face! Much, much bigger! The huge mouth alone was dozens of meters wide! ... This! Could it be that Lana had completely descended?
Staring at this face, Xia Yibing suddenly discovered that there was something mysterious about it.
Its face is made up of countless smaller human faces.
On this giant face, there are hundreds and thousands of smaller human faces squeezed together, their facial features and emotions are also outlined. Thousands of mouths open at the same time, screaming towards the night sky: "Ah——!!!!"
——! ! !
The sound died away at the end of the scream.
Time also slowed down... Xia Yibing looked up and saw the fire dragon staggering and falling from the sky. The fire dragon opened its sharp mouth and seemed to be roaring at the human face, but she could not hear any sound.
Gradually, there were sounds, but they seemed to be echoes, coming from a very far away place... She seemed to hear the sporadic collision of armor and the sound of heavy troops marching. She turned her head slightly and looked behind her, and saw hundreds of people - hundreds of armored and fully armed Flint Knights lined up and came, ready to surround this place.
She saw a surprised expression on Darent's face, and saw the Blood Crystal Crow staring at the human face, as if calling out a certain name... She felt a lot of chaotic, echoing voices drilling into her ears and bombarding her. She felt dizzy for a moment, and her body was shaking and she could hardly stand.
She wanted to remind them.
Remind them: this little bit of strength is not enough to fight against Lana.
If the universe where the Mithros live is not fundamentally different from Namiia, as Aisuen said - if the basic physical quantities are similar, then Lana's true form, when fully unfolded, would probably be enough to swallow the sun.
What a terrifyingly huge area that would be?
Even though Li Lan said that there was not much left of Lana's body after being eaten by the evil god, but with that kind of area, even if only one percent was left, if you let something like this really unfold, it wouldn't even have to do anything, it just needed to use its weight to smash down, and all of them would be crushed into meat patties.
She wanted to say it...but she found she couldn't.
Her will was stuck, and she found that the giant face began to spew thick fog into the sky. She was back in that misty environment again. Those messy illusions that should belong to the dream world of Misros began to emerge around her again, which seemed to mean that she was about to fall asleep, and would be captured back there again along with all the people nearby.
But she didn't think she was afraid.
Because a hand appeared behind her, transmitting a force that was not strong but enough to help her stand firmly, while at the same time using his body to lean on and support her.
"Do you want to disobey your controller?"
The girl's words came to my ears.
The voice was as familiar as ever, but at this moment it was filled with an incomprehensible and boundless majesty.
Xia Yibing wanted to try to turn around and see what Hitzfeld's expression was at this moment. She was very curious about what these words meant.
What is the violation...
What controller...
How did you and Lana come to have this relationship?
But she couldn't do it.
I inhaled a bit too much floral mist tonight, and this effect may not be so easy to eliminate.
She felt drowsy, so she simply closed her eyes and let the chaos be obscured by darkness.
Before she lost consciousness, she seemed to feel that the giant face was looking at her.
It seems to be afraid?
It retreated...
While retreating, I was also whispering a name with thousands of mouths.
"why you……"
"Julia..."
……
……
The long period of darkness seemed to pass in just a moment.
Trying to open her eyes, the woman felt her eyelids were heavy.
This usually only happened when she stayed up too late and didn't get enough sleep. She wasn't fully conscious yet, but she seemed to hear someone talking by her bed.
"Who gave the order to mobilize the troops?"
The voice of Asun.
"it's me."
Frick.
"You left too fast... Carlo happened to bring some people with him when he came back, and I thought you might need support, so I brought them all with me."
"Where are Marseille and the others?"
"They were stopped by the native company and should be on their way here now."
"Take those natives with you?"
"...I think so."
"What about Sheriff Dabe? Has the news been blocked?"
"This can't be locked, Hitzfeld. The fire has dyed half the sky red. The whole parish must have seen it!"
"I don't need a physical lockdown, let them guess if they want, I just want no one to know for sure what's going on."
