Chapter 366: The Holy Light of Destruction
The west gate of Sarleon opened.
Outside the city gate was a dark sea of undead souls.
Behind him were the brothers with complicated expressions.
"Don't leave the city!"
Li Ang was not like those legendary heroes who sacrificed their lives for justice, posing and shouting some high-sounding slogans before rushing out to die...
There is no time...
He only gave one last order, then rode his comet horse directly into the Sea of the Dead.
Just like when Vendatil charged into Kwen Village, he unleashed all his abilities and cut a bloody path through the seemingly endless stream of zombies.
But Leon didn't have as much strength as Vendatil, so he couldn't walk in a straight line. He could only rely on his powerful perception to find a way to the distance through the gaps among the undead.
Just as they rushed out of the city gate, the Silver Hand and the Noldor Guards protected Leon's flank and pressed out of the city gate together, and the Silver Mist Rangers on the city wall were also shooting arrows with all their might.
The brothers were trying their best to provide cover for Leon, clearing out the undead near the city gate and creating a temporary space for Leon to increase the speed of his horse.
No one talked nonsense, and no one was pretentious.
Even though Wendy had tears in her eyes, she just followed Li Ang's horse silently, trying to keep up with his pace.
But the cover the brothers can provide is limited to the range of Sarleon City.
There were too many undead. Although they could temporarily clear a small gap to allow Leon to increase his speed, the walking corpses soon surrounded the Fierce Lion City again, making it difficult for the brothers to break out.
The undead outside the city were all rotten corpses, and none of them were warriors. They couldn't possibly capture Sarleon, but they could trap most of the warriors inside the city - there was only one Comet Horse, and ordinary horses couldn't rush out.
Comet horses are very rare exotic horses, bred basically entirely by luck. They are extremely fast racehorses that do not have good endurance but have great explosive power. Once they start running, no one can keep up with them.
Only by relying on the explosive power and flexibility of the Comet Horse, coupled with Leon's strong perception ability, can he increase his speed before the undead gather again and find a gap in the sea of undead to rush out.
Wendy rode on Leon's Alice and followed Leon for only a hundred meters before she lost speed and the undead surrounded her again.
She could only lead her guards back to Sarleon City with the help of Klose, and ran up to the city wall, watching Leon's back as he walked away with tears in her eyes.
Leon had already pulled the Comet Horse to its maximum speed, out of the range of the city wall, and headed straight west with a trail of broken limbs and arms.
The further you go to the periphery, the more room you have for movement and the faster you go.
Soon, Li Ang's figure gradually disappeared into the night.
Only the red light emitted from Aziz Dahaka was still conspicuous, guiding everyone's attention - it was originally golden light, but was dyed red by the blood on its body.
The red light continued to move westward until it was several miles away.
Soon after, in the wilderness to the west, the red light became brighter and brighter, gradually emitting orange and gold...
Finally, the golden light turned blazing white and instantly expanded, filling the entire world...
"Hide under the city wall!"
Wendy shouted, turned around and jumped into the city from the city wall.
…
To be honest, Li Ang really didn't want to do something like charging into the enemy line carrying a bag of explosives.
But the problem is that there is no other way now... This thing is always counting down, and I have to rely on my own blood to sustain it...
If we use the fastest horse to throw Aziz Dahaka out, there might be a glimmer of hope.
Leon did not intend to carry Azi Dahaka until the explosion. He wanted to find a chance to jump off the horse in a place where there were not many undead after rushing out of the Sea of Undead, and let the Comet Horse carry Azi Dahaka to continue running.
——Holding a bomb doesn’t necessarily mean you will explode with it. What if there’s a chance you can survive…
He knew that the person controlling the undead must be nearby, maybe it was Kavala himself, and he must be behind the Sea of Undead. The most likely person to appear was to the west of Sarleon City - Kavala had gone to the western bridgehead before.
It would be best if Comet Horse could run into Kavala's troops and return the explosive pack to him...
If that wasn't possible, at least he would have to let Comet take Aziz Dahaka away, as far away from himself and Sarleon City as possible.
At this moment, Leon was already several miles away from Sarleon City. The Comet Horse was already panting heavily, and sweat began to drip from its neck .
Leon injured himself with his sword again and smeared the blood on Azdahaka.
He also began to gasp for breath - he had been bleeding all the way, lost too much blood, and was a little short of oxygen.
At this time, he noticed that there seemed to be a troop about two miles ahead?
Is that Kavala?
No matter who he is...anyway, the people who appear here are definitely not friendly forces!
Moreover, I couldn't run anymore. If I ran any further I would die from excessive blood loss. Everything started to go dark before my eyes. I really couldn't take it any longer.
Here it is...
"Feel sorry……"
Seeing that there were not many undead around, Leon adjusted his direction, patted the horse's neck to apologize to Comet Horse, then stabbed the horse's butt with a sword and jumped off the horse's back.
The horse felt pain, neighed, picked up speed again, and ran away quickly.
After Li Ang landed, he held his head and rolled for twenty or thirty meters before finally stopping after hitting a tree.
The Comet Horse was running too fast. Leon jumped off the horse while it was galloping. Moreover, he had lost too much blood and was short of oxygen. Of course, it was impossible for him to be unscathed.
Although he was prepared and rolled over actively to protect his vital parts after landing in an attempt to reduce the damage, he was still half killed.
It's probably a broken bone, anyway I can't lift my left hand anymore.
My head hurts, and I feel dizzy. It should be due to excessive blood loss and concussion...
Leon propped himself up and leaned his back against the tree. He looked back at the Comet Horse running away, and also at the light on Az Dahaka becoming brighter and brighter.
In fact, he could sense the direction of the Comet Horse without even looking. It was indeed running towards the troop two miles away.
At this moment, Leon felt a strange and powerful chill piercing his forehead.
He quickly retracted his head - most likely Aziz Dahaka was detonated!
The horse was only 800 meters away from him at most, and this distance was probably not safe enough...
It looks like I might be in danger...
Li Ang's feeling was very accurate. The distance was indeed not enough. He only had time to prepare himself mentally and curl up his body behind the tree as much as possible.
The Comet Horse was still galloping, but Aziz Dahaka on its back had completely turned into a blazing white ball.
The actual color of white light should still be golden, but it is too intense and looks whitish.
Then, golden light burst out and spread to several miles away in an instant, and the whole world turned into a vast expanse of white.
As the blazing light came on, Li Ang's eyes went dark and he lost consciousness.
…
People who are targeted by God are usually very unlucky.
For example, Li Ang.
From being chased by people, to being chased by ghosts, to being struck by lightning, now I have to experience what it feels like to be blown up by a magical weapon that once destroyed the continent...
The peaceful days did not last for many days, and the days of life and death continued.
Leon 's comrade-in-arms and good friend Sir Roland is also a tragic man.
As a paladin carrying the oracle, he has never enjoyed any benefits in his life. Instead, he has been hunted and fought against all kinds of evil creatures all his life.
From mountain bandits, to heretical cults, to abyss demons, now he has to fight a large number of undead to death.
But usually, such people are also the most determined.
If one's faith and willpower were a little weaker, one would probably not be able to withstand the hardships of this life.
But now, as one of the witnesses who saw Aziz Dahaka being detonated in Sarleon City, Sir Roland had a different view of gods and divine arts for the first time in his life.
When Azdahaka exploded, there was no earth-shaking movement or violent sound, only a blazing light sweeping across the earth, illuminating the night as if it were day.
Sir Roland had seen that golden light several times - both in reality and in his dreams.
That is the color commonly used in the Temple of Justice, and it is also the appearance of the Temple of Justice when the sun shines on it.
At the same time, Roland clearly remembered that when the goddess spoke to him in his dreams, there was always such a light on her body.
Roland could even see the actual function of this light from the undead outside the city - most of the undead outside the city were rotten, but after being swept by this golden light, their originally rotten bodies actually became alive!
The rotten meat full of maggots turned into fresh meat under this light!
Those withered and rotten bones also became white and smooth again...
These souls who had been dead for a long time now looked like they had come back to life!
In other words, they looked like they had just died - they were not truly alive, nor had they become conscious, they were still undead, just a lot 'fresher', and some of the open wounds on their bodies had even closed up.
This kind of magic, or divine arts, should be used to save lives and heal the wounded!
Roland is the only one here who knows that Kavala has become a god. He knows that Kavala is the controller of the Snake Cult and that the Snake Cult is creating Az Dahaka.
But Roland didn't expect that something as ugly as Aziz Dahaka could make even rotten meat fresh and even rotten bones moisturized again...
If it had not been made into a weapon of world destruction, then this divine art would surely be able to heal any injured person... and even bring the dead back to life!
If it were in the past, Roland would probably have thought that this was holy light - the kind of divine power that the legendary goddess of justice possessed to save lives and heal the wounded.
But this kind of divine magic was triggered by Aziz Dahaka, and appeared in a destructive posture.
Wherever the golden light passed, everything was completely different.
In other words, everything is the opposite of what it was before.
The originally slow-moving undead all became lively and their combat effectiveness increased several times.
There were no more sounds of birds or animals outside the city.
In the Fierce Lion City, anyone who came into direct contact with the golden light fell down without exception.
Their bodies were intact, without any scars, and even the injuries they had suffered had healed, but they... were dead.
Died silently.
Fortunately, Wendy reminded them that most people were able to avoid the light that swept across everything under the cover of the city walls.
In Sarleon City, most people survived.
But outside the city... nothing can block the light that sweeps across everything, not even the biggest tree.
Moreover, although the trees outside the city looked greener than before, Roland could feel that those trees were probably dead...
It can heal everything, even revive rotten flesh and dead wood, but it will also take away the souls of all living things...
Is this the divine art that can destroy the world?
Resurrect the dead and let the living die?
The ultimate of life is death?
Roland didn't know.
But now he at least knows that there is no distinction between good and evil in divine arts themselves, it is people who have good and evil.
This extremely righteous "healing technique" can destroy the world if used to the extreme.
Moreover, the person who used it, Kavala, probably never thought of using it to heal the wounded and save lives.
If Kavala continues like this, how much bloodshed will he cause? How many people will be left on earth?
Why are all of them thinking only of destruction?
Even Astalia always makes herself eliminate evil and create killings.
It was only after meeting Li Ang that I realized that I should bring hope to people's lives and let them have aspirations in their hearts, so that justice will remain in their hearts.
But can Leon survive?
Roland looked up into the distance and murmured, "Leon, are you still alive?"
Wendy was not as sentimental as Roland. She just wanted to find Leon as soon as possible - dead or alive.
Li Ang was struck by lightning, but he came back to life. Wendy thought that Li Ang might still be saved.
But the problem is that the undead outside the city have become very energetic, and their fighting power has increased several times. No one in the entire Sarleon City can leave the city.
…
"Is he still alive?"
A big man in heavy armor asked where Leon fell.
He looked at Li Ang, who was unharmed but still looked like a dead man, and helped him up from under the tree: "He looks abnormal..."
"Of course it's not normal... He has been hit by the 'Holy Light'... He has lost his soul."
A woman riding on a horse said lightly.
That horse looks like a Noldor elf horse.
But this woman was not a Noldor elf.
"Then why do our souls still exist?"
The big man asked again.
He was accompanied by a group of large men, all of whom appeared to be from Mettenheim.
"Don't you realize it yet... Under the Holy Light, the living will die and the dead will come back to life... This is the ultimate weapon to reverse the situation!"
She said to the big guys behind her.
"We... yes... we were already dead... I keep forgetting this."
The big guy muttered.
"Let's go... let's get out of here."
The woman said something and rode her horse to leave.
"Martis, aren't you going to look for Aziz Dahaka?"
the heavily armored Mettenheimer asked.
"We have found it... that was Azi Dahaka. Captain Heinrich, you are free from now on. You can go wherever you want."
Maltis glanced at Leon lying on the ground, turned around and was about to leave, but suddenly turned back and took another look: "That's not right... Give him to me, he does look abnormal."
