Chapter 469 Cooperation
"Cohen, please step down."
A female voice came from behind the ghost soldier. Hearing this voice, the ghost soldier immediately nodded and took a step back to disappear.
However, Alka could still clearly feel that he was still guarding the entrance of the mine.
The person who came was Lumina, who came to their camp a few nights ago and told them about the situation here.
"Arka, right? You haven't left yet. Do you still want to peek at this treasure?" Lumina frowned and looked at Arka with some confusion.
Alka is indeed a saint of the Church of Our Lady. To be a saint of the Church of Our Lady, he should not be a fool.
Moreover, under such circumstances, if he forcibly took away this treasure, not to mention them, the Holy Mother Church would never let him go.
This really made her a little confused.
Or is this treasure very important to him?
Hearing this, Alka shook his head and said, “No, the reason why we are still here is to solve the problems here.
So I need to have a deeper understanding of some of the issues here.”
“Solve? Over the years, many people have come here to try to solve the problems here.
But you also see that we are still here, and those evil spirits are still here."
Lumina pointed around and said without hesitation.
It seems that the female ghost in front of him has lost most of her hope.
The reason why it still stays here may be to prevent any accidents from happening to the guardian's treasure, causing bigger problems.
Thinking of this, Alka looked at her and suddenly said, "Where are the souls of those demons?"
Hearing this.
Lumina frowned, thought for a while and then said, "They are right around the treasure. They are actually the last line of defense for the treasure."
Hearing this, Alka couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Really interesting.
But he still expressed his meaning: "How about this, I completely destroy the soul of this demon first?"
"Do you have a way to completely destroy the souls of these demons?" Lumina frowned and stared at Alka with some disbelief.
If it was somewhere else, she would have believed it.
After all, these demons have turned into the state of souls, rather than the state they once were in, which can allow the soul to return to the abyss.
But the problem is that this is the world scar, and not far away, there is a huge crack leading to the abyss.
The breath of the abyss infects .
It is extremely difficult to try to completely destroy the demon's soul in a place like this and prevent it from returning to the abyss and resurrecting.
"Don't be surprised. Before coming here, I had already caused some demons to return to death forever."
Lumina looked at Alka.
After thinking for a while, he turned to look at Cohen behind him.
"Cohen, go in and tell Hengus to help bind the weakest demon soul and bring it outside."
Hearing Lumina's words, Cohen nodded and walked into the cave entrance.
Alka just stood outside and waited.
About half an hour later, Alka heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the mine.
Riding a horse in a mine? I can only say that it is worthy of being a soul.
Henges, riding on a ghost horse, came out.
In addition to him, there were two ghost soldiers wearing heavy armor following behind him.
In the hands of two soldiers was a small demon bound by some kind of soul-like chains.
Alka looks at the demon.
It is a micro-terrorist demon that has reached the third stage of strength. It is a demon that is the size of a child but extremely fast, similar to an assassin.
Even though he was bound by chains, he continued to roar.
"What's wrong? Are you damned humans finally giving up?"
Even when he was tied up with chains and dragged outside, he kept shouting.
Then he started to curse non-stop.
Looking at the demon, Lumina waved her hand slightly, and a soul-like mist wrapped around the demon's mouth, leaving him only able to hum without making any sound.
"Come on, show us your strength so we can trust you."
Hearing this.
Like a mirror of mercury, it emerged from under Alka's feet and flowed past.
Looking at the mirror-like liquid covering them, the ghosts in front of them did not dodge.
Until the mirror turned everyone's feet into mirror surfaces.
The mirror flipped, and everyone entered the reverse space in the mirror.
Lumina looked at the surrounding environment, quickly reacted and asked:
“Is this the world inside the mirror?”
Alka nodded without further explanation.
The surrounding environment began to distort, and some light and shadows appeared, as if reality began to fall into a dream.
Alka is gradually perfecting his abilities.
As I fell, the surroundings gradually began to transform into a dream.
Lumina is indeed a scholar of the Spell Council of the Saralan Empire.
It was clear from her expression that she recognized the source of the change in her surroundings.
"Dream?"
Following such a doubtful voice.
The surroundings have completely entered into a dream environment.
The mirror world broke open and a misty creature emerged.
This is a mist-like creature that looks like an ordinary cloud.
A completely harmless-looking face was printed on the clouds.
Lumina stared at this scene with wide eyes. This was a legendary creature that could only be seen in books and existed only in dreams.
"His Majesty."
Alka nodded, then pointed to the demon that was trapped by two ghost soldiers holding chains.
"Take him into the furnace."
Yunwu looked at the demon and shook his body.
Henggus looked at the situation and waved his hand, and the two ghost soldiers silently released the chains.
The demon obviously had some knowledge and seemed to recognize the environment in the dream and the misty creature in front of it.
The moment the chains were released, he began to dodge in the mirror space of the dream and try to escape.
But his mouth was still bound.
Finally, he broke free from the restraints on his mouth, and the cloud-like dream creature instantly turned into a rope-like existence, tightly binding the devil.
"Damn human, what do you want to do? No! You can't take me into the dream! Let me go! The abyss will curse you!"
It was obvious that the demon in front of them was not as reckless and bloodthirsty as most of their kind.
He rarely showed the fearful and cowardly side of the devil.
And looking at his frightened expression, it can be known that the demon in front of him seems to know something about the situation in the dream of this world.
It was once said that the World Crucible had long ago melted demons into the essence of the world.
This is why most demons choose to give up invading the dream world, unless, like the Devouring Mouth, their target is the gods hidden in the dream world.
Otherwise, most demons will choose to avoid it.
This is a bloody lesson.
Looking at this situation, the ghosts in front of them could already see it.
Alka seems to really have the ability to completely destroy the devil, causing the devil's soul to howl constantly.
They are so rare that they are even afraid of seeing a demon for the first time in their life...well, in their life after death.
The cloud-like mist creature bound the demon and sealed his mouth again, dragging the soul through the gap and returning to the real dream world.
Alka gently stroked in front of him.
The dream before him was peeled back like a picture, revealing the scene of the world's melting pot.
In front of Lumina and the others, the full picture of the World Crucible appeared before them.
And so they watched as the cloud of mist that bound the demon dragged it to the edge of the furnace.
The current World Crucible already has a group of dedicated maintainers and users.
Among the new mist creatures that had joined them in the past few months were some experienced users.
Looking at the demon that was brought over, a giant-like mist-like creature grabbed it in its hand and then threw it directly into the molten fire.
The demon's soul was instantly burned into a long streak of smoke that then floated upwards, and was filtered through the top of the smelting tower and turned into pure energy.
It seems that new mist-like creatures will be born.
Alka didn't cancel the picture until the scene disappeared.
He turned to look at Lumina.
"How? I have proven my ability."
Lumina was a little surprised and looked at Alka in disbelief and asked, "Are you a dream king?"
There was still uncertainty in her voice.
It seems that she is very knowledgeable. Through the scene just now, she saw some characteristics that may be the dreamland.
Then, through the honorific title given by the mist-like creature just now, he knew the identity of Alka in front of him.
Alka nodded.
"But...how is this possible? You are a human being, not a creature in a dream. You still have a body in reality."
Obviously, this was inconsistent with what she had learned and understood.
“The world is big, and there are always many exceptions that cannot be replicated.”
Hearing Alka's words, Lumina's soul made a movement as if taking a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.
"Yes, you did it. Now tell us your idea. If it is indeed feasible, we will naturally assist you with all our strength."
The identity of Our Lady Saint Erkaa has gained their trust. In addition, the fact that he is a dream king and his recent actions have completely gained their trust.
Such a being would covet a scepter-level treasure, even at the cost of offending the god he believed in.
This is obviously totally wrong, it's just stupid.
Because Alka had never even seen the scepter itself.
Hearing Lumina's words, Alka nodded, and the world in the mirror flipped. In an instant, they left the reverse mirror world and returned to reality.
"The first question is, are those evil spirits unable to leave this mountain range because of the anchoring of the treasure and the ritual range covering the surrounding area?"
"You're right. It's not that they can't leave the mountains, but they can't leave a certain range. This is the core area of the entire mountain range. A very rare mineral was once mined here.
So even the farthest they can reach is within the mountains. They won’t spread out any further.”
Lumina explained.
Hearing this, Alka nodded, just like what Lucelia said.
"Second question, the Cloud Staff is the core of the ritual. These evil spirits seem to be able to revive again. Is it because of the ritual?"
Lumina nodded, “Yes, the Cloud Staff accounts for almost 80% of the ritual’s power.
The reason why we can destroy those demons here is because of the immortality of the soul after being anchored by this treasure.
If it weren't for the treasure, such a thing would be impossible, not to mention that this is a scepter-level treasure that raises the height of the ceremony to a level that does not belong to it.
The price was that the power of the ritual would always be maintained. Fortunately, the treasure, the Cloud Staff, was strong enough at the time, and it was very easy to maintain the power of the ritual.
But now, what was a good thing at the time has become an intractable problem.”
If the ritual is cancelled, the evil spirits will immediately leave this place and scatter everywhere.
Even Lumina and the others had no idea of the number of evil spirits.
In that case, they didn't know exactly how many civilians there were here.
Because even they knew that there were tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who had turned into evil spirits.
In the battle with the demons, under the influence of the abyss, the strength of these evil spirits is no longer what they once imagined.
"It's impossible that the alliance on the front line didn't know about the problems here. How did they solve them and how did they think about it?"
Alka asked.
"The simplest method is to send enough troops to surround the exit of the mountain. At the moment of suspected liberation, clear out the demons that pour out.
As long as most of the evil spirits are eliminated, the remaining ones will not cause too much problem.
However, the problem is that too many troops are needed, and the front line always needs troops to defend. And the demons can't give up this serious flaw so easily. Not only us demons also know the situation here clearly. "
Hearing this, Alka nodded. As expected, there was also consideration of the devil.
There is no way these demons will not take advantage of the problems in this area.
Fortunately, these demons will not come here, because these evil spirits are gradually turned into evil spirits by going crazy in the battle with demons, and they will only have stronger special attacks against demons.
After thinking for a while, Alka looked at them and said, "If I can bring the ceremony and the area where the ceremony is held to another space in a very short time, can I solve the problem?"
"What do you mean?" Lumina didn't react at all. She came over and frowned and asked.
"This area is the scope of the ceremony, right?"
Alka pointed around and said, of course he meant somewhere further away.
The area where this ritual formation is located is quite large.
Lumina understood what he meant and nodded.
"What I mean is that I dig out this entire area and bring it to a closed space. Can it solve this problem?"
Hearing this explanation, Lumina couldn't help but ponder.
Seeing this situation, Alka did not disturb and waited quietly.
After a long while, Lumina nodded .
"If you took the whole thing away, including the Cloud Staff, then the ritual would still be there. It would still be intact. It wouldn't be a threat to the place."
"Are you sure?" Alka looked at him and asked seriously.
Lumina nodded. "If you can make sure that you can dig out a whole piece without affecting the operation of the Cloud Staff. And it is a closed space."
"very good."
Then the main problem is solved.
Alka simply spread out his palm, and the Heart of Vasteva emerged from his palm.
"This is a scepter-level treasure of mine. It contains a small world, and I have strong control over this small world."
Then the Earth Card emerged from his side: "And this treasure that can control the earth element can help us complete this task."
Before they could speak, Alka spoke again: "But there is a question. After they are dug out, the evil spirits will also be free, right?"
Lumina nodded. That was the question she was going to ask.
"So the main problem now is to gather all these evil spirits back. Do you have any solution?"
Hearing this, Lumina thought for a long time before shaking her head: "Maybe, but I can't think of it right away. I need to think about it carefully."
Alka nodded and said, “My companions will also think about it, so please ask you and those who have the knowledge and ability in this area to think about it together.
More people can come up with better ideas.”
Lumina nodded and agreed to the request because she did see hope.
Just a glimmer of hope is enough.
After confirming the connection between the two parties, Alka left immediately.
After Alka left, Henges and the others stayed where they were.
"Is it possible?"
After hearing what Henggus said, Lumina just stared blankly ahead.
"No, what else can we do? We don't have any choice, right? Maybe... we shouldn't have made this choice at the time."
As she spoke, Lumina looked around, seeing evil spirits lingering out from every corner from time to time.
She could call out the names of each of these evil spirits.
These brave soldiers and civilians who accompanied them to the end are still here.
They were all her former companions, comrades-in-arms, friends, and even relatives.
However, during her fierce battles with demons under her rituals, her souls were extinguished , and she endured pain that should not have been there.
He could not rest in peace even after destroying the demon, and was transformed into such a terrifying appearance by the abyss breath when fighting the demon.
The aura of the abyss is maintained in this area, and it will never be able to return to the state that a normal soul should be.
It became... the monster that we once fought against.
"He is a believer of the Virgin Mary, and I can feel the Virgin Mary's gaze on him. Let's pray that he can bring us true peace this time."
Henggus dismounted and patted Lumina on the shoulder.
Lumina nodded.
Then the figures of several ghosts disappeared from the spot.
Alka also went all the way back to the camp where the stone house was located and discussed the communication matters he had confirmed with Xia Daiti and others.
Then I started to prepare.
Prepare to communicate and think with each other, as well as the final response to this matter.
