Chapter 89 - Escaping from Burial Grounds (XX)
Editor: Kitty
The young G.o.d hung in the midair, supported by his tree roots and vines. He took a look at Ah Lan, who was carrying Duan Li while flying at a height that was not too high in the distance, at Specter, who was carrying a rocket launcher while destroying everything, and further away at Luo Jian, who was hugging a stalker as a life-saving straw.
There was not much expression on the G.o.d’s face. He thought for a while and waved again. It seemed that he had given his tree vines some orders again. Everyone was shocked to find that the crazy tree vines had changed again.
As the G.o.d had said before, in this tomb, this huge tree with its trunk, roots, and vines spread through the whole tomb. In every corner, there were traces of these roots and vines. They were either deeply buried in the soil or curled on hard rocks or even crawling in the groundwater deep underground, and they could control almost all the mechanisms and props in the tomb.
It was no exaggeration to say that this tree was the main valve and switch in this huge tomb! The man who controlled the switch was the fake G.o.d, who had been sleeping in the tomb for nearly a thousand years.
“This is my domain,” the G.o.d murmured to himself, looking at the people struggling bravely in the sea of roots and vines. He seemed to be a little excited, but in a very calm tone, he preached, “This is my G.o.d’s domain. Everything in this tomb is under my control. As long as I am alive, none of you can ever think of escaping from here!”
The wildly flying and dancing vines seemed to be inspired by the power behind the G.o.d’s words and shockingly started to morph. They gathered, vine by vine, to entangle with each other, and it could be obviously seen as the vines started to germinate. Young buds emerged from the vines and grew at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye. During this period…… some strong buds had grown into a kind of structure similar to cannibalistic flowers, and these flowers devoured the weaker buds.
In this way, the dense vines no longer used tentacles or spikes to attack Specter and others, but instead they started to devour themselves and grow rapidly. The buds that grew rapidly and matured would eventually become huge flower-bud-like things. These huge flower buds almost covered the G.o.d’s whole tomb! In Specter and company’s sight, this kind of flower bud grew in almost every standing s.p.a.ce.
“What strange thing is this?” Ah Lan had exhausted his energy by carrying Duan Li as they flew. He found a gap and landed slowly with Duan Li. All around them were huge flower buds.
After the flower buds grew out, the vines that had originally flourished and danced around seemed to have been drained of all their strength. They began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye, and at last, they scattered in pieces on the ground, motionless.
However, the new buds merely maintained the appearance of the buds, standing quietly in their positions, and also remained motionless, but they were huge in numbers and individually appeared very spectacular. A single flower bud was nearly two meters high, as round as an ellipse, and had a dark green hue. However, it seemed that there was something wrapped within the flower bud, and the thing would occasionally twitch twice in the flower bud. It could be clearly seen that, as the thing inside struggled, the surface of the flower bud had traces of it moving as well.
Surrounded by the many weird flower buds and adding on that these flower buds seemed to be wrapped around something terrible, the sight of this obviously made people uneasy. Ah Lan brought Duan Li to land on the ground, and Duan Li cut a huge flower in two!
A small, strange thing crawled out of the flower bud that had been broken into two.
It was mystifying that such a big flower bud had such a small thing in it. No matter how one looked at it, it still appeared to be a little thing about the size of a baby.
This little thing gave out a sharp cry, similar to a baby’s voice, but if one listened carefully, one would feel that the voice was somehow weird. It was very penetrating, and one would even feel gooseb.u.mps all over.
And the appearance of this thingk2026;k2026; It appeared to have the body of a cat. It trembled on the ground with sharp claws and a curled tail. What was terrible was that such a body was matched with a human face. It had a very twisted human face with long and thin eyes, a flat nose, and a mouth appearing like a crack on the face. It was as if its mouth was a tear that could split its face open, and it revealed the sharp fangs inside.
Seeing such a terrible little monster, Ah Lan could not summon up courage to take a second glimpse after seeing it the first time. He immediately shrunk to Duan Li’s back. However, after they thought of the countless flower buds all over that all contained this little thing, they felt extremely disgusted.
But…… such a small monster did not seem to have much combat power.
“This kind of thing…… I’ve heard of it.” Duan Li seemed to know the origin of this little monster, so he explained to Ah Lan, “I have seen it in some ancient literature, and later I received similar information from other players.”
“What is it?” Ah Lan asked with a kind of mentality that he did not want to know yet felt like knowing.
“In the old legend, there is a tree growing in the dark abyss, at the boundary between h.e.l.l and the human realm.”
Duan Li raised his head to look at the huge tree that was so tall that he could not see the top of it. There was a very weak fake G.o.d hanging on the vines. The young G.o.d seemed to notice Duan Li’s line of sight landing onto him, turned his head to look at Duan Li, and showed a ferocious smile.
Duan Li frowned a little, though no one could see the expression under the mask.
He continued: “The tree grows on a land full of corpses, absorbs the blood and resentment of human beings, and gradually becomes a demon.
“However, the tree demon had absorbed too many people’s grievances, obsessions, vices, and even beliefs. The tree demon could not absorb and digest such a huge amount of these things, so he decided to let them all blossom and bear fruit.”
Hearing this, Ah Lan seemed to understand something and said, “What do you mean…?”
“Yes, these grievances, obsessions, evils, beliefs…… The tree demons let them all materialize in front of everyone with such an appearance. These things were gestated within flowers, cultivated with blood, and finally, became living monsters.”
After Duan Li spoke, the little monster lying on the ground suddenly screamed sharply. The decibel of the scream was so high that it broke through the skies. The sound was so harsh that Ah Lan could not completely block the terrifying sharpness of it by covering his ears.
Duan Li carried out a comparatively more direct action; he stepped forward, cut the little monster down, and finally ended its life. Following that, the shrill scream stopped abruptly, but Duan Li did not dare to be careless. He turned back and said to Ah Lan, “Try to block your ears. The voices of these monsters are suggestive. They are good at implanting their countless evil thoughts into your brain. Be careful not to be controlled by their illusions.”
Ah Lan was very obedient, but he did not know how to use such a primitive thing like an earplug. He chanted out a short spell that could get rid of noise. It usually allowed one’s eardrum to filter out the voice one did not want to hear. No doubt, in this case, the spell was particularly useful.
At the same time, Ah Lan applied the spell to Duan Li before more monsters crawled out of those terrible flower buds.
Later, they quickly found that the monsters climbing out of the flowers were of all sizes and shapes. Some of them were similar to birds, with strong wings and sharp claws. However, this thing also had a human face on its head, and even the position of where its mouth should have been had a bird’s beak!
There were not only birds, but also tigers, snakes, deer, horses…… In other words, all kinds of strange creatures with animal bodies had human heads!
“What the h.e.l.l are these weird things?!” Ah Lan looked at the strange demonic monsters crawling out of the flower buds around him. He could not help but find it frightening, especially since each thing looked more bizarre than the next. Finally, they could hardly tell where some of these things ended, and some of them were merely wriggling lumps of meat that had human heads!
“Don’t leave me!” Duan Li was also aware of the danger they were in. The current situation was very unfavourable for them, and the situation was even more dire than facing a large group of spiky vines wiggling around!
These strange monsters had crawled out from the flower buds moments ago, and their bodies were covered with disgusting mucus from the flower buds. Wet and dripping, they crawled out of the flower buds. Like beasts smelling fresh and dripping blood, all of them turned their lines of sight to where Duan Li and Feng YuLan were standing.
Duan Li and Ah Lan could only stand back-to-back with each other and choose to launch a deadly attack, surrounded by such a huge group of monsters.
However, with the huge number of opponents, the battle did not start on equal terms.
The vast and s.p.a.cious tomb of the G.o.d was almost full of all kinds of monsters, and there were many flower buds hatching in the distance. Apart from Duan Li and Ah Lan being in a dire situation, Specter, who was fighting by himself, was now in a bitter battle with the beasts! His weapon could be transformed into a powerful rocket launcher after modification, and the most powerful part of this weapon was that its ammunition was infinite. As long as Specter had enough physical strength, he could blow up whatever he wished!
However, the problem was that Specter was neither a G.o.d nor a man with unlimited physical strength. Every artillery attack consumed his mental and physical energy. However, under the constant bombardment, the surrounding strange monsters had not decreased at all, and they were still in full spirits as they attacked Specter.
Also, some of the monsters were very difficult to deal with. For example, some could fly in the sky. These flexible fellows could easily avoid Specter’s bombs and would hover over his head all the time. They were ready to strike at Specter at any moment. Such distractions made it so that Specter could not help but divide his attention among them.
However, compared with these enemies overhead, attacks that were launched secretly would cause him to be defenseless. That’s right, some of these monsters were very small. For example, the little monsters with the body of a mouse and a human head could climb out from dozens of flower buds and appear in waves. Can you imagine the feeling of these disgusting little creatures swarming around your feet?
It was hard to describe how Specter felt with words. He had almost screamed shrilly like a lady when he saw those monsters. He realized that a simple bombardment could not cause a large area of damage. At this time, he must carry out large-area bombardment! Now, Specter could only pray that his companions were smart enough to retreat in time because this skill did not discriminate against foe or friend.
At the other side of the tomb vault, Duan Li seemed to feel something, turned to look at the direction of Specter, and said, “That guy is being forced to do something rash. It seems that he has gotten serious.”
“What do you mean by that?” Ah Lan was busy strengthening the boundary of his barrier. This was the only spell that was useful at this point in time. Since Ah Lan found that most of these monsters seemed to be full of extremely chaotic dark energy, as long as Ah Lan used the ‘holy light’ attribute of the border boundary, he could effectively prevent them from approaching. However, the scope of the border was constantly narrowing……
However, Duan Li beside him seemed to be at ease, staying within the border and occasionally ending the lives of the monsters that would occasionally charge in.
“You should think of an idea for me!” Ah Lan was kept busy for a long time and finally could help roaring at Duan Li. Here he was, tired and exhausted to prevent the invasion of the monsters, so how could this fool act so leisurely? Take a look at how leisurely he was. It was almost as if he wanted to set up a table for tasting good wine as he watched an opera.
“If I was fighting against a sole enemy, I could show you my amazing fighting prowess, but I’m not really good at this kind of large-scale siege and battle that consumes too much of my strength.” Duan Li turned to look at Ah Lan. His tone carried hints of a smile. It was not known when he changed the mask on his face, but this time, he changed into a fox’s mask.
But Duan Li was not lying this time. He was really not good at dealing with a large number of enemies. In general, his skills could only cause damage to a single enemy. Even if he used a skill that would affect a group of enemies, he could only injure up to ten people. So—
If he alone faced ten enemies, or a hundred, or even a thousand, he would be able to come and go freely. Even if he could not knock down all the enemies in an instant, it was hard for the enemy to hurt him.
But he had Feng YuLan beside him now.
A weak, little magician.
Looking at Ah Lan’s eyes that were turning red as he flipped through his grimoire and began to recite the magic spells, Duan Li suddenly felt that he could not bear it any longer. From the beginning of the secret chamber team battle, he had almost desperately tried to suppress his true character. He tried to make himself gentle and silent and even hoped to get away from the little mage in front of him. Unfortunately, every time he wanted to do so, he would give up at that moment.
“Lovely little lamb.” Duan Li stared at Ah Lan through the mask and suddenly said something like this. Ah Lan was fully concentrating on casting magic spells, so he did not hear what Duan Li had said clearly. In fact, he did not care. At present, nothing was more important than focusing on maintaining the border.
As one knows, there were all kinds of monsters crawling outside the border. The boundary of the border was surrounded by layers and layers of monsters. Other than those disgusting monsters outside, there was nothing else there.