[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

"Alex, I believe you must have brought the key to the mage's tower?" Tony murmured, staring at the flame monsters flying on the flames.

"Yes, but do you remember what time we opened the Mage Tower yesterday?" Alex also stared at the flames, his eyes flickering, and Harry felt that she was making a difficult decision.

"..." Tony looked down at his watch. Yesterday afternoon he went into the mage's tower to get some small things and came out. According to the calculation of "start counting after leaving", the cooling time is 24 hours, that is to say, until today's 14: 39 to be able to open the Mage Tower again.

It is now 14:00.

"Can this island last for four or ten minutes?"

"As likely as Sirius putting out the fire."

"..."

Frowning and thinking for a while, Alex looked at Sirius who was reciting the curse.

The devil flames cannot be extinguished by ordinary water, so even if there is an entire lake of water here, those terrible flames are still burning, and even directly entered the second stage-beginning to transform into flame monsters.

Above the sea of ​​fire, fire snakes, fire dragons, chimeras and other monsters with bodies made of flames were running and flying. If the space inside the cave was not large enough, the entire reef mountain might have been ignited by now.

It spread too fast, and when Sirius arrived, he began to read the cracking spell, and it was too late to extinguish the flames-the cracking spell of the devil's flame could kill it, but there was a limited area, and this sea of ​​flames was growing too fast It is no longer a wizard's cracking spell that can be destroyed.

Normally, the spreading speed of the devil flame should not be so fast...

She thought about what she knew about the wizarding world's research on the devil's flame. This part is mentioned in some books in the library. It can turn everything into its own fuel, but the fuel is good and bad Bad ones, bad ones burn slower, good ones burn faster...

Sirius gritted his teeth and threw out a breaking curse, the flame that was about to spread ashore just now was pushed back to the surface of the water again.

A flame that flew up and was about to turn into a monster met the breaking spell in mid-air, like a sharp knife slashing through, cutting off its connection with the sea of ​​flames, the originally menacing flame suddenly turned into wisps and dissipated in the air .

Sirius glanced at it, made sure that it was safe here, and immediately threw the next breaking spell in another direction. The entire island was surrounded by seas of fire, but he was the only one who could use the breaking spell, and he was almost non-stop. He released the curse in all directions, so he didn't notice that in the air, a thin thread of flame seemed to be drawn by something, flickering, and wrapped around his thin and slender fingers.

It was like a strand of red hair tangled between his fingers.

Alex tightened his five fingers slightly, and the strand of hair disappeared into nothingness as if it had never appeared before.

...It turned out to be something like this.

No wonder, ordinary water cannot extinguish it.

But the cracking curse can actually destroy this thing... Because he is at odds with the Holy See and cannot rely on the power of the Holy Light, so he researched the cracking spell by himself?

Alex frowned and thought about it, but he didn't recall anything related to the Holy See from the books that recorded the devil's flame.

Now is not the time to think about this.

Concentrating on watching Sirius protect this area temporarily, she took out the military dagger she carried with her and began to draw a magic circle on the ground.

"Alex?" Staring at the watch won't let it move at double speed, Tony focused on the surroundings, so he immediately spotted the girl who was moving, "What are you drawing?"

He vaguely saw that it seemed to be a pentagram array, but he didn't know whether it was because of the angle or other reasons. From his point of view, the sharp corner of the pentagram facing Alex was facing downward.

According to the common sense (not sure if it is correct) that he has found in various books recently, the sharp point of the pentagram is upward, which means protection, life and health, and it means blessing.

But pointing down...

That's the inverse pentagram, which represents hell and the devil Satan!

"Almost, after all, what I want to summon is also a kind of demon." Alex said, and Tony noticed that he had spoken out what he was thinking.

"—Although to be precise, it should be summoning and transformation." The silver-haired girl added.

After she finished speaking, she didn't explain anymore, but put her left hand on the center of the inverse pentagram with one knee on the ground, and her five fingers pointed to the five corners of the inverse pentagram.

While the blue-purple eyes were filled with bright light spots, making those who watched it feel as if they were facing the deep and moving vast starry sky, the edge of the inverted pentagram that was originally carved on the hard rocky ground with a military dagger , together with the outer circle that is usually regarded as protecting the magician itself, exudes a shining black light with silvery white light.

The low, inhuman voice uttered from Alex's slightly parted lips. It was obviously an extremely low syllable, but mixed with the immature voice of a girl who hadn't changed, it gave the listener an ethereal feeling. sound.

The sound waves travel back and forth in the spacious space, overlapping one after another. The previous wave has not yet dissipated, and the subsequent wave has been connected, just like a wave of the ocean, overlapping and reciprocating. When it reaches the human ear, it becomes a strange and unrecognizable sound tone.

Tony tried his best to listen. Although he is not the kind of multilingual talent, at least he knows the pronunciation rules of several mainstream languages, but he can't recognize what language she is speaking.

Even, is this really the range of tones that the human vocal cords can achieve?

——This is natural, because this is a language of hell that does not exist in the human world, and it is extremely difficult to learn. Generally speaking, except for knowledgeable mages and summoners who specialize in summoning demons, not many professions will bother to understand this language. .

Alex paused, and Tony looked at the unchanged inverted pentagram, and then at the sea of ​​flames still raging around him: "Failed?" He didn't know exactly what Alex was doing, but he probably guessed I know: At this time, most of them are trying to find a way to put out the flames.

The silver-haired girl shook her head. Under the light of the fire, even her silver hair was covered with a layer of red fluorescent light, and her fair skin in the past took on a color like a cloud of fire: "No, I'm looking for a suitable one. It's just a platform for the soul."

To put it bluntly, it was a bit like a signal station. She emitted her "voice" through the "signal station", spreading the sound that only the surrounding souls could hear to a range of several hundred meters.

Tony tilted his head to look at the inverse pentagram under her hand: "Isn't this used to summon demons—couldn't the religious books I read be wrong?"

Alex recalled the contents of the books Tony read recently, and immediately didn't know how to answer this question: If you want to be right... there must be many things that are wrong, but if you want to say wrong... it seems that there are also things that are right...

"The reverse pentagram has the right effect." She thought for a while and said.

The role of the inverse pentagram...

Summon demons.

"...don't tell me you're summoning a demon."

Tony thought he would not get the answer, because after a long time, he heard a very soft sigh - so light that he thought it was just his illusion:

"That's not a demon."

Alex said softly.

Even with a demonic appearance, it is not a demon.

Alex is intent on finding a soul who can answer her request.

It wasn't easy, the conditions she set were not very harsh - but that was also for Clemmons.

She needs a necromancer.

Able to accommodate the darkness, plunge into the darkness, but know what it means to protect;

Possess a strong will and be able to endure the unbearable pain of ordinary people without losing their sanity;

And, unwilling to just sleep until it dissipates.

Willing to be resurrected, a knight born of darkness and fire.

Alex was very lucky. Just when she was considering whether to expand the scope, a soul responded to her request.

What surprised her even more was that this soul and its body (if it still has a body) are not far away...

Bottom of the lake?

Alex opened her eyes, there was still a sea of ​​flames in front of her, but she passed through the sea of ​​flames where countless monsters were jumping, and saw the bottom of the water.

Among the ghost corpses that swarmed up at the bottom of the lake, even if they were burned to the ground by the devil's flames, there was no fear at all. There was one ghost corpse whose movements were different from those of the surrounding companions.

It stopped.

There is still the body, but it seems that there is no difference... The vast sea of ​​stars in Alex's eyes has not dissipated, and it is deep and magnificent.

When that corpse listened to the voice from the depths of its soul and followed that force to float up, the first thing it came into contact with was the sea of ​​fire burning on the surface of the water.

The all-burning fire from hell licks its entire body mercilessly as it does anything.

The body of the Yin corpse was quickly burned to nothing, but the soul was still struggling in the scorching flames.

The transparent spirit body was dyed with traces of flame, and the inverse pentagram array under Alex continued to glow, flickering as if breathing.

In the depths of the transparent spirit body, an inverse pentagram array exactly like Alex's was gradually formed.

The Winter Soldier immediately noticed the change in the sea of ​​flames, grabbed Sirius who was about to break the curse, and dragged him back.

Sirius' wand stopped suddenly, and he realized something was wrong: "The flame...is retreating?"

His expression was a little confused, those flames that were about to come ashore without breaking the curse, but they were retreating at this moment? !

"No!" He woke up suddenly, "The sea of ​​fire is shrinking! There is something in the middle!"

The sea of ​​fire didn't disappear, it was shrinking!

It's like giving birth to something!

The flames that spread almost throughout the cave all contracted around a certain point. Wherever they passed, the pitch-black lake surface appeared again, but this time, the ghost corpses that kept emerging were gone.

—— Rank suppression.

Something that belongs to the dark camp like the corpses, but is far higher than them, is about to be born.

The oppressive atmosphere made even the Infernal Corpse, who only had instincts, feel fear. Even if it was driven away by a spell, they did not dare to come up, but chose to stay motionless at the bottom of the lake.

——Or, rather, it is because only instinct is left, so it is more sensitive to things like rank and breath, so it is easier to detect.

Those flame monsters that once soared above the sea of ​​flames flew back into the sea of ​​flames one after another. The flames leaped high, churning endlessly, and became more active—as if they were trying to break free from the shackles of something?

Tony was taken aback, why did he feel that the sea of ​​flames had a consciousness of its own just now?Unwilling to be controlled by something, trying to get out?

Without waiting for him to think about this idea carefully, the "what" that was conceived in the center of the soaring flame finally revealed a little bit:

A pitch-black, scorched arm suddenly protruded from the flames. At that moment, all the red flames turned into pitch black, flew away and dissipated.

At the same time, the inverse pentagram array under Alex's palm shrunk rapidly, as if it was not engraved on the rock, but just suspended there. When it shrank to the size of a coin, it Floating from the ground, submerged into the palm of Alex's left hand.

It was as if a peerless famous soldier was taken out of the furnace, the high temperature was dissipated, and the flames were suppressed. Finally, standing on the surface of the dark lake was a tall humanoid demon.

Its head has curved demon horns, like ram's horns, black and threaded; its body should not wear anything that can be called clothes, but its body surface is covered with different sizes and shapes Different hard scales and cuticles serve well as the function and appearance of the armor; the right hand has devil-like sharp claws, and the long, sharp, slightly curved nails are pitch black in line with the body tone; there is no left hand, to be precise It does not have a normal left hand. Its left hand turned into a gun, and the arrow on it shone with a cold light, which made people deeply realize that it was by no means a toy...

The breath of flames has not dissipated from it, and this creature that fully fits all human imaginations of demons has come to the shore from the dark water without a trace of ripple.

Almost as fast as teleportation - Tony thought.

Sirius was pretty much what he thought, except that teleportation would be replaced by "apparition".

The Winter Soldier's eyes fell on the gun, and it was difficult for him to see the power of the gun from this unpretentious weapon—the only thing that could be confirmed was that it would never be comparable to the guns he had used.

Alex raised his eyebrows slightly, the starlight in his eyes dissipated.

Inherited the power of the original bloodline?

She knew very well that the movement just now was by no means the ultra-high-speed movement commonly possessed by demon hunters, but the one she was very familiar with, apparition.

——There is no doubt that this transformed demon hunter inherited the talent of his life, and at the same time inherited the power that belonged to the demon hunter.

The aura belonging to the high-level demons subsided, and the instinctive corpses below began to move again. Seeing this, Alex directly ordered: "Destroy all the corpses here."

"Watcher - Arcturus!"

The knight from hell responded in a low voice, and when he turned around, the gun in his left hand was already loaded with more than a dozen arrows.

The flames reappeared.

The one-sided massacre began.

"...It absorbed the devil's flame!?" Sirius finally came to his senses, and his expression was no more surprised than seeing Voldemort resurrected.

"When a demon hunter was born, he would absorb the flame when he was born, and use it as a weapon to form his own defensive armor and weapons." Alex's words solved Sirius' doubts, but added more Many questions.

"This is not a place for chatting, let's leave first." Alex signaled everyone to get on the broomstick: Now that the devil flames are under the control of the demon hunters, there is no need to worry about attacking them, and they can pass through the air.

"Tony, you sit on Sirius' side, Harry and Uncle Bucky are with me - Harry, what are you holding in your hand?"

The girl's words made everyone's eyes focus on the green-eyed boy's hands.

On the locket with the gold chain.