the last king of darkness

Chapter 352 The Battle of the Source
The commanders looked at each other in blank dismay. They originally wanted Armando to use the authority of the First Elder to ask Wangcheng for support again.

The situation in Stormcastle has deteriorated to such an extent that it is impossible to reverse the situation with only one or two high-level combatants. Either an organized group of high-level combatants, special-level combatants, or the main army will be sent to help.

In their imagination, only these three ways can save Storm Castle.

But I didn't expect His Excellency the First Elder to make such an unimaginable proposal.

Tai Luo of Cloud Village is indeed one of the most dazzling new stars in recent years. After graduating from Jinworth Academy, he has been fighting in various places. He has never failed in hundreds of battles. He has killed tens of thousands of monsters. Countless crises, during the Kuroshio period, guarding the Great Bell Tower of the Great Wall of the North alone, blocking the impact of countless ghouls, until the Kuroshio is over.

Since then, Taro has been officially awarded the title of "Great Sword", and many people call him "Little Alan", hoping that he can grow into the second Alan of Trorian in the future.

However, he is currently only a quasi-secondary combatant.

It is impossible to complete the task of eradicating the source of disaster in the Black Forest under such a dangerous situation.

It is even more impossible for His Excellency Armando to personally support him.

Without his power, Stormcastle couldn't hold back so many giant horrors.

Once the remaining psychic cannons are destroyed, there is no choice but to abandon the castle.

As for Rhodes' words, they pretended not to hear them.

Iron Xu shouted: "Your Excellency First Elder, you can't do this! Let's ask for help, the situation is beyond our imagination."

Armando shook his head slightly: "There is no assistance."

"Why not?" Ironbeard glanced at Rhodes: "The crisis in the Trident River area has been resolved."

"Other areas need assistance even more." Armando said calmly: "Our combat power is still very tight, and there is not enough room to provide a third support to the same area."

"Yes, but..."

Iron Beard was sweating profusely from anxiety, and Fang Fang's face was flushed red.

"As soon as you leave, the giant horror will overwhelm us."

Armando said lightly: "With Rhodes and Xingge here, and more than 1000 elite fighters in the castle, it's not that easy."

Iron Beard's entire face was wrinkled into a ball.

"Xing Ge is still young, and her fire is far less powerful than Lord Qingyu and Lord Jon. Although Rhodes has many abilities and has a promising future, his current absolute spiritual power is not strong enough to kill giant terror alone... ..."

Rhodes hurriedly said: "That's right, let me go, Your Excellency the First Elder will stay and guard the Storm Castle."

"No!" Ironbeard resolutely said: "None of you can leave! The giant terror can only be easily killed with your cooperation. Now recall Tai Luo, we will stick to the Storm Castle, and maybe we can last until the King City is free. Rescue us."

A captain shouted: "Yes, this is the safest solution!"

"We don't take any risks."

"Wangcheng will not ignore us!"

"To shut up!"

Armando slapped with one hand, and an air wave shocked the audience, suppressing all voices.

"I really want to open your minds and see what's going on inside. Do you think me, Psionic Cannon, Taro, and Rhodes are machines that never wear out? There are tens of thousands of giant horrors outside, There are more in the forest, they will never end if we don't eliminate the source, how many can we eliminate? How long can we last?"

His cloudy eyes looked around.

Everyone lowered their eyes one after another, and no one dared to look at him.

"Trollian's oldest dogma tells us that we should never engage in a limited war of attrition against endless monsters. We don't know when Wangcheng will be able to spare us. If we stick to it here, we will die."

"It's not the safest option, it's the least secure option."

The first elder's words completely shattered the luck of the commander and the captains.

They are fundamentally afraid of the Black Forest, and they dare not venture into the Black Forest, let alone try to eliminate the unknown source of darkness in the Black Forest. They just want to stay in the fire and wait for the person who can solve all problems to come.

Iron Beard's face was flushed red, shame and fear came out at the same time, he said in a whisper: "Yes, but if you leave, we will soon be unable to hold on."

Rhodes said for the third time: "I'll go!"

Ironbeard glared at him: "You go? How do you kill the giant horror when you go? Are we going to fight and spray shit all over the floor again?"

Rhodes coughed: "You don't have to kill, you just need to delay enough time...Your Excellency Armando can do this very well, the most important thing is, I have a kindling that I can send to Open the portal where I have been."

"The portal is two-way. If we are in danger, I can open the portal and teleport me and the Taylor team back."

"If we find the source of the disaster, we can also open the portal and let His Excellency Armando come to support us."

Everyone present widened their eyes.

Tiexu asked in disbelief: "You still have this ability?"

Rhodes smiled and said, "Of course, isn't it written in my information?"

Armando glanced at him, and said lightly: "It seems that you need to conduct a comprehensive inspection again. Many places in your information are vague, and your name as a kind of fire is also very strange. The white turbidity... I can't see it." It has nothing to do with spatial ability."

Rhodes didn't argue that its name was [Spirit Boat], he was used to it.

The portal is an ability obtained after [Spirit Boat] has been quantified, and it can only be used once a month.

The last time I used it was to steal something in Wangcheng.

Sure enough, after Rhodes mentioned the ability of the portal, his suggestion was passed without a doubt.

Ironbeard informed Tai Luo's team of the original target location and contact beacon, and gave a few blank runes of silence that could hide their breath.

Rhodes set off immediately.

Watching his figure fly out of the city, away from the flames, into the black mist, until he could no longer be seen, Armando looked away.

He instinctively felt that the biggest change in Trorian's millennium was about to occur. What happened in recent years was unprecedented, and even in the long history, it was difficult to find similarities.

This year's hundreds of days of fixed stars is one of them, and it seems to indicate some kind of ominous omen.

Past experience gradually became invalid, and Armando felt a little powerless.

The only thing that can make him feel at ease is the endless new stars emerging in recent years.

Hopefully.

Armando took a last look at the direction Rhodes was going away.

You can hold up the sky of the future of mankind.

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Under the boundless black mist, huge black shadows are walking silently, except for the faint rustling, there is no sound here.

If it was a year ago, Rhodes would have been scared to death if he saw this scene.

But now, he just walked past them silently and rushed forward.

The silent blank rune largely covered up his aura, so that the monsters around him could not find him, and the red tearstone helped him resist the erosion of the black mist and reduce the consumption of humanity.

Rhodes held the astrolabe in his hand and identified the direction according to its guidance.

Not long after, he saw the legendary Black Forest.

It was a large dark area, and the entire forest seemed to have been burned by a fire. It was pitch black, and thick black mist gathered in the forest, and countless black shadows were hidden in it, making this place look like a horror. death.

Rhodes stepped into the forest without hesitation.

The concentration of black fog here is quite high, compressing his sight range to within [-] yards.

But Rhodes speed did not slow down, shuttling between the black trees like a phantom.

There were a lot of little terrors in the forest, Rhodes didn't avoid them, he condensed a big sword out of star dust, swung wildly, and forcibly cut a path.

But if he encounters giant horrors, Rhodes will avoid them.

Not to mention the rough skin and thick flesh of this thing, the souls given are getting less and less. Killing them is a waste of time.

This is also one of the reasons why Rhodes so strongly requested to support the team in the Black Forest.

At least there is a soul here.

The complex terrain in the forest did not affect Rhodes, and the little terrors everywhere did not slow Rhodes down.

Rhode's current spiritual power has exceeded 600 thousand cuts, condensed into a dazzling sword glow on the Stardust Great Sword, breaking through the less than 100 thousand cuts of the little terror's spiritual defense, like chopping melons and vegetables.

After a while, Rhodes had already arrived at the predetermined location.

This is the origin of the black fog accumulation discovered by the observer team.

According to their original calculations, as long as they destroy this place, they can interfere with the formation of the Terror, thereby reducing the pressure on Storm Castle.

But the facts show that the Terror is not a monster generated by relying on the natural environment of the Black Forest.

Generally speaking, the dark soul is first born in the black mist, and the dark soul further condenses the black mist to form the monster itself.

The strength of its body depends entirely on the strength of its soul.

The fact that the strength of the souls of the giant horrors has decreased indicates that their bodies were made by another unknown existence. After they were created, the black mist gave birth to the dark souls in the bodies of the giant horrors.

Over time, the soul then gradually grows.

And because too many giant horrors began to attack the city, some horrors whose souls had not yet fully grown also appeared.

It also shows that this weird siege did not happen under normal circumstances.

Rhodes had some doubts in his heart, this was not the first time that something against common sense happened.

But he is not quite sure, the first thing to do now is to solve the crisis and get some souls by the way.

There was no one in the predetermined location, but there were huge signs of destruction, trees fell on the ground, and there was a big hole in the middle, which proved that they had been there.

Rhodes took out the beacon, input spiritual energy, and a light bomb dragged its long tail into the air, exploding a pattern of glowing red light.

This special light can penetrate the black fog and be seen by people far away, so it is often used for battlefield communication. Signal flares and beacons are all such products.

Rhodes waited patiently for a moment.

Sure enough, a white light also flashed in the midair in the distance.

During this period of time, Rhodes has learned the common sense of the battlefield, and he is no longer a novice who doesn't understand anything. According to the pattern of the white light, he interpreted that Taylor's team has received orders and is looking for the source of the disaster. It is not suitable to stay, they can meet further ahead.

A few more separate pieces of information.

[-]. They have not encountered monsters above the strong level so far.

Two, they have found some clues to the source and are tracking them down.

[-]. The team is in good condition.

Rhodes was certain in his heart, and accelerated to the direction they were pointing at.

Along the way, he was like a god descending to earth, killing all the horrors in the forest. The shining stardust sword cut through the darkness, bringing long-lost joy to the forest shrouded in black mist all year round. Mingguang.

The killing didn't slow down Rhode's speed, and even made him surge with spiritual energy, and the speed was even faster.

Countless black lines flew from all directions, and the numbers under the pupils began to jump rapidly again.

The horrors are almost endless, they can jump out from any corner, and it seems that they can never finish killing.

Rhodes almost wanted to live here. In a way, this is the perfect place to settle down.

Half an hour later, Rhodes had already entered the depths of the forest, and when he was hesitating whether to stop and take out the beacon, the Book of Knowledge suddenly yelled out in his mind.

"There is divinity, there is divinity!"

Rhodes was startled, and immediately realized that the source of the disaster was nearby, and asked anxiously, "Which side?"

The Book of Knowledge said angrily: "How do I know which side? The Star Square shows that this possibility is only possible in the future!"

Rhodes hurriedly looked around, but didn't see anything unusual.

I searched twice more, but found nothing suspicious.

When he was at a loss, he suddenly thought of the skill he used when he was in the Trident River to find the hidden king ants - the spiritual tracking of the Terrace of Light.

It can distinguish subtle differences in psychic powers, looking for similar psychic powers nearby.

If the Terrors were indeed made by some being, then they must have some similarities and could potentially be tracked down.

Without further ado, Rhode moved as soon as he said he would, and with a backhand sword, he nailed a Terror to the ground.

Before it died, spread five fingers, aimed at it, and used "psychic tracking".

In an instant, countless blurred halos appeared in front of his eyes, and each halo represented a psionic entity.

Most of them are identical, indicating that they are all Terrors.

Some are particularly large, the giant horrors.

Rhodes looked around, and the halo became one, blurred, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

How to tell the difference?

While he was in a hurry, suddenly, he noticed a shadow flickering in the far distance, like a dark cloud covering the halo.

No, there is something else here!

Rhodes rushed in that direction immediately.

The shadow flew towards the depths of the forest, and Rhodes followed closely behind.
He exerted his speed to the extreme, and the powerful force brought by the 600-kilogram spiritual energy cracked the ground, and the bone boots further strengthened the impact of his footsteps, pushing Rhode's body like lightning into the depths of the forest. go.

The horrors on the road couldn't hinder him at all. With a wave of the big sword, they were cut into two pieces like a stream of light.

I don't know how long after chasing, Rhodes suddenly found that the halo around him was much less, and the shadow suddenly disappeared.

what happened?

Did you get lost?

Rhode immediately turned off the spiritual tracking and opened the eyes of the soul.

Seeing through the black mist, he found that this was a very wide open space, even the trees had disappeared.

A vague soul walked towards him, its soul body was lifeless, and its soul core was pure black.

There is no doubt that this is a monster.

But the strange thing is that Rhodes couldn't see its soul ripples clearly, and couldn't tell its strength, while its psionic energy was restrained and barely visible, just like the lowest level of battlefield dust.

Rhodes mentioned psionic energy and walked towards it carefully.

Soon, he saw its shape clearly.

This is a knight in full armor, wearing silver armor, but the exterior of the armor is covered with black rust, only the long sword in his hand is still shining.

Is this... an ancient fallen one?

Rhodes held the great sword tightly in his right hand, and pointed the tip of his left index finger at the knight.

brush!
A star shuttle shot out like lightning, hitting the knight's heart.

But in the next second, Rhodes found that it was just an afterimage.

brush!
A shining long sword slashed at his neck quickly from behind, and the instant burst of spiritual energy washed Rhode's perception, making all the hair on his body stand on end.

Tenth level psionic ability!

This is a powerful monster!

Rhodes hurriedly turned sideways, moved, raised his sword to block, and his spiritual energy instantly reached its maximum.

when!
The long sword with tenth-level psychic power cut off the great sword with level-[-] psychic power in an instant, broke through Rhode's urgently condensed stardust shield, penetrated his psychic defense, and slashed his neck.

Click.

The sword edge slid out along Rhodes' neck, and he was not injured at all.

"Soul Defense": Resist an injury that should have been fatal.

Rhodes put his hands in front of the knight's mask.

Star Shuttle!
Hurry up!
Bang!
The ten Star Shuttles exploded directly on the knight's face, blowing its knight's helmet away, revealing the face of a living corpse below.

The living corpse was not injured by the explosion, and the second sword slashed at Rhodes again.

Rhodes didn't dodge, all his fingers were gathering the Star Shuttle, and he turned and rushed straight up.

brush!
The blade that condensed the tenth level of psionic energy slid past Rhode's body again, and the ten star shuttles in full state also hit the living corpse's face again - exactly at the moment it shot.

boom!
The huge explosion submerged the living corpses, and the scattered starlight illuminated the surroundings.

The living corpse fell to its knees on the spot, the long sword fell to the ground, its psychic energy stagnated and became disordered, and a big hole appeared in its soul.

really!

The Fallen's use of psionic energy is similar to that of humans. When psionic energy is used to attack, the defense will be very weak.

Thoughts flashed by, Rhodes didn't hesitate for half a second, he took a step forward like lightning, his translucent right hand slammed into the hollow of its soul, holding the string of its soul.

Bang.

As if there was an explosion from the void, the body of the living corpse fell to the ground like a puppet with a broken thread.

【Soul of the Starry Knight】

(End of this chapter)