novellaaa Chapter 203 Breaking Through the Realm
Chapter 203 Breaking Through the Realm
Chapter 203 Breaking Through the Realm
The pent-up fighting spirit erupted suddenly!
The Forge Guards no longer held their shield walls, but instead, like tigers released from their cages, charged headlong into the Skeleton Knights, whose movements were disrupted by the energy disturbance!
Click!
Click!
This time, the sound of bones shattering was clearly audible!
A skeletal knight was knocked back by the shield and had his head smashed by the battle axe that followed, extinguishing his soul fire.
Another person had his arm severed and lost his balance.
With the pressure greatly reduced on the flank, Blake roared as he snatched the tower shield, smashing away the lance of a lancer knight, and then thrust his sword into the knight's eye socket, whereupon a deep purple soul fire exploded!
Ayra's arrows and Liana's purifying flames also took the opportunity to unleash their power, focusing their attacks on the two grey-robed wizards who had lost their energy enhancement.
Arrows pierced through the hastily erected bone shields, and pure flames scorched their protective gray mist. The two were in a sorry state, retreating repeatedly, with several wounds on their bodies and their breath becoming weak.
The skeleton wizard stared at the situation that had crumbled in an instant, his eyes filled with disbelief and overwhelming resentment.
He stared intently at the gray-robed young wizard who had caused all this, and screamed hoarsely, "You—you dare to ruin the blessing of the Temple of Souls! You—must die!"
He suddenly stabbed the broken staff in his hand into his chest!
The fragments of the staff pierced the flesh, but no blood flowed out; instead, a thick, pungent, and fishy black fumes emerged!
The flesh on his face withered away at a visible speed, but the green flames in his eye sockets suddenly blazed fiercely in a final burst of light!
"With my broken body, I call upon your true name—ancient soul lingering outside the palace—hear my command—"
The Bone Wizard's voice became unusually ethereal and eerie, carrying a kind of allure and compulsion that reached the depths of the soul.
Behind the skull arch, in that open space, the death energy, so dense it was almost overwhelming, suddenly boiled over!
A deep, ancient roar, filled with endless resentment and hunger, faintly echoed from the depths!
The ground began to shake!
The archway shook violently, and more skulls rained down!
"He's summoning something even more troublesome!" Lehman shouted sharply, enduring the sharp pain in his left shoulder and the corrosive aura of death.
"Interrupt him!"
Ella fired a barrage of arrows at the skeleton wizard, but the arrows were corroded and dissolved by the eerie black aura as they came within three feet of him.
Liana's purifying beam was blocked by the black mist and could not penetrate it.
Roland felt his mental energy was greatly depleted and his head was spinning, but seeing the skeleton wizard's resolute sacrificial summons, he knew he absolutely could not let him complete it.
Forcibly suppressing his discomfort, he raised his right hand again, silver light gathering at his fingertips.
This time, however, the skeleton wizard seemed to be using all his remaining power for protection and summoning. The black aura around him was thick and sticky, and although the light rays that broke through the disorder could continuously annihilate the black aura, it was like a mud ox sinking into the sea, unable to penetrate in a short time.
As the roar from the depths grew clearer, the death energy behind the archway began to surge like a tsunami—
Suddenly, a glint of madness flashed in Lehman's eyes, who had been maneuvering with the gray-robed wizard from the side, waiting for his chance to strike.
He stopped suppressing the death energy in his left shoulder and instead poured the remaining lightning power in his body into the curved short blade!
The lightning patterns on the short blade shone brightly, emitting a hum that seemed to strain under the weight!
He flashed forward, not rushing towards the skeleton wizard, but towards the crumbling skull archway!
"Rayman! What are you doing?!" Ella exclaimed.
Ignoring the warning, Lehman, a few meters away from the arch, suddenly hurled the overcharged, about-to-explode lightning-patterned short blade in his hand at the connection point above the arch, where the energy fluctuations were most chaotic and the structure was most vulnerable!
"burst!"
The moment the short blade struck the top of the arch, Lehman roared in fury!
Boom!
Blinding lightning and a violent shockwave exploded at the top of the archway!
Countless skulls were blown to pieces, flying like rain!
The archway structure, already unstable due to energy disturbances, finally succumbed to this final blow!
Crack—Boom!
The massive skull archway has completely collapsed at the top!
Shattered bones rained down like a storm, blocking most of the entrance and completely severing the surging energy connection between the inside and outside of the archway!
The skeleton wizard's sacrificial chant came to an abrupt halt!
The black aura around him surged and dissipated violently as if it had lost its source. He himself was struck as if by a heavy blow; his body stiffened abruptly, the green flames in his eyes went out instantly, and he fell straight backward as if all the moisture had been drained from him, without making a sound.
The two grey-robed wizards screamed in agony, clutching their heads and rolling on the ground, black blood flowing from their seven orifices, clearly suffering a severe backlash.
The ancient roar coming from behind the archway turned into an angry and unwilling howl, but it seemed that because the passage was blocked and the energy connection was interrupted, the howl quickly weakened, faded away, and eventually disappeared.
The battlefield suddenly fell silent.
All that remained were the heavy breathing of the crowd, and the sounds of scattered bones falling to the ground and fragments rolling away.
The dust settled slowly.
Luo Lin lowered his slightly trembling right hand and exhaled a long breath of stale air carrying starlight.
That outburst just now almost drained his energy.
He leaned against the rock wall, slowly sat down, took out a mental energy recovery potion, and drank it slowly.
Ella rushed to Lehman's side.
After throwing the short blade, Lehman was thrown away by the blast wave. He was now leaning against a rock, with a grayish-white death aura spreading from his left shoulder to his chest. His face was ashen, his breathing was weak, but his eyes were still sharp, though filled with exhaustion.
"Are you crazy!" Ella's voice trembled as she frantically poured healing potions into him and treated his wounds with purifying bandages.
"Cough—if we don't blow up that door—we're all doomed—" Lehman tugged at the corner of his mouth, trying to laugh, but the movement aggravated his wound, causing him to cough violently.
Liana walked over and slowly injected the remaining power of her Purifying Flame into Rayman's body to help him suppress and dispel the death energy, but the effect was slow.
This deathly aura is of extremely high quality and is related to the Hall of the Dead, making it extremely difficult to purify.
Blake and the Forge Guards were also tending to their wounds and assessing the damage.
Five of the eight skeletal knights were destroyed, and the remaining three turned into real skeletons and scattered on the ground due to the interruption of the energy connection.
The two grey-robed wizards were on the verge of death from the backlash, and were finished off by the furnace guards.
The skeleton wizard then turned into a real dried-up body.
A fierce battle, which ended in a Pyrrhic victory.
After resting for about half an hour, the group managed to regain some of their mobility.
The archway was destroyed, and the path ahead was mostly blocked by shattered bones, but one could still vaguely see that behind it was a huge, dark cave space, from which the dense death energy, though weakened, still emanated.
"Should we go in again?" A furnace guard looked at the deep cave entrance, still feeling apprehensive.
Blake finished bandaging a deep, bone-exposing wound on his arm and looked at Rollin and Lehman: "How are you two doing?"
"What's inside—that's probably what the Pale Hand is really after."
Luo Lin closed his eyes and sensed it for a moment.
My mental strength has recovered to 30-40%, and my star power is still about half.
[Disruption of Order] Intervention of that scale cannot be used again for a short period, but conventional spells can still be cast. He nodded: "We can go in and take a look, but we must act quickly, obtain the key information or items, and then retreat."
With Liana's continued purification and the effects of the potion, Rayman's death aura was temporarily contained, but his left arm remained immobile and his face remained pale.
He struggled to his feet, his voice hoarse: "Since we're already here—I won't give up without seeing what kind of monstrosity is hidden inside."
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Ella looked at him with concern, but didn't try to persuade him further.
After quickly clearing away the broken bones at the entrance, the group, on high alert, entered the cave known as the pre-hall of the Hall of the Dead.
The cave interior was more spacious than I had imagined. The floor and walls were made of rough, black rock, covered with twisted and eerie runes and reliefs depicting scenes of death, sacrifice, and soul binding.
The air still retained a strong death energy, but it was no longer as aggressive and corrosive as before; it was more like a cold, deathly stillness that had settled over countless years.
In the center of the cave, there is a circular stone platform with a diameter of more than 20 meters.
The surface of the stone platform was also covered with runes, and in the center was a sunken pool that had dried up, leaving only a thick layer of grayish-white bone powder.
Around the stone platform, there were many empty stone coffins of different sizes, as well as some broken experimental equipment and remnants of magic arrays.
Clearly, this place was once used by the Pale Hand as an important ritual site or research base.
"Look there," Liana pointed behind the stone platform.
There was a relatively flat rock wall, on which a huge, unfinished, complex magic circle was drawn with dark red pigment that looked like blood mixed with a special material.
In the center of the magic circle, there was a blurry pattern that seemed to lead to some abyss.
Around the rift, countless struggling and wailing souls were drawn.
"This is—some kind of large-scale summoning or spatial positioning magic circle?" Ella frowned.
"What are they trying to summon? Or—open a portal to some dimension filled with death and souls?"