Volume 3: The Utopia of the Demonic City Chapter 24: Demons, goblins, evil spirits and demons! (Part 1)
"You can't come here...you can't destroy this temple..."
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"Run away... the sooner the better... He is coming... He is coming... Everything you do is meaningless... The only thing left is to kill him..."
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Very strong.
Countless warriors who had gathered from the cities of the Demon Realm looked at the space in front of them that had sunk out of thin air, swallowed their saliva, and felt a gap in status.
Unable to see, unspeakable, unfathomable. The world before my eyes was distorted and deformed, and what came into view was nothing more than the daily street scene of the demon world city, but I could feel a creepy terror. It was as if I was on the brink of life and death.
Some daring people have already walked in, but the bones lying on the edge are their bodies. The moment you step into that street, life and death will be reversed, the living will turn into dead things, and the dead will turn into the living. The seemingly bustling street has actually long been a hell , with no living people wandering in it, and the only thing left is an inexplicable obsession.
A terrifying will to protect the temple at all costs.
"This is just a precursor and something like this has appeared... What level of monster is that big demon..."
Looking at the white bones lying on the edge, someone in the crowd sighed , and everyone nodded subconsciously.
From the outside, it looked like a normal life. If it weren't for the fact that the monsters summoned inside still had some residual consciousness, they wouldn't even realize that there was such a great barrier of life and death before their eyes. Unfortunately, there were always those who didn't believe in it and insisted on going there, and ended up becoming a pile of bones.
There was even a referee-level figure among them. The strong who could easily destroy a city block had their flesh and organs stripped off the moment they stepped into the barrier, turning into white bones at the edge of the street and then scattered all over the ground. The monsters inside the barrier looked at the nervous warriors outside and showed expressions of pity, making moves to expel them, indicating that they should not come in and die in vain.
But how is that possible? If this temple is not destroyed, the real master behind these monsters will descend to the earth.
By then there really will be no one left.
However, the strange creatures within the barrier are still tirelessly persuading these gathered warriors, hoping that they can turn back from their mistakes.
"You have no way of defeating these two... They are pure monsters without hearts and actions... Beasts that act only on their own whims... Your actions are all meaningless... Give up this place... and leave this city..."
"How can I leave? I have my legacy in this city! My memories! My whole life!"
"But your lives are precious... don't waste them here..."
Facing the scolding outside the barrier, the inexplicable will inside sighed, as if lamenting the fate that was destined to come to itself and others.
"You don't know what terrible things happened... You don't know what the warp is like... That man and his terrible servants are just a natural disaster... Just like an earthquake... You are just innocent people who were caught in the natural disaster... So run away... Run as fast as you can... Don't let the disaster catch up with you..."
"Otherwise you will be like me... bound forever in this fantasy... repeating endless hell forever... giving the final advice to those who come after me... I am already Him... I am already Him..."
"Leave quickly... before the ceremony is completed... it's already the third session... you can still leave..."
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A guardian with self-awareness?
It's really strange. I've never heard of such a thing. Even those so-called old demons have never spent so much effort on the guardian. And it seems that there is still a considerable degree of rationality and memory left? What's going on?
Lazarus, the undead who had already arrived nearby, frowned deeply at the strange scene on the street. Such a strange scene had never happened in his long life. A guardian of the temple seemed to have self-awareness, and stopped others from attacking, but persuaded others earnestly not to do these things?
Since when did a demon become so easy to talk to? Why did he go to such great lengths to come up with this trick of consciousness descending?
Something is wrong.
This big demon exudes a weird feeling no matter from which angle you look at it.
The first temple was very strange at the beginning, and the second temple was a maze that no one was supposed to get out of. Later, I found the elf and used her special sensing ability to find the core and then I was able to remove the inexplicable illusion.
None of them looked like so-called guards, but rather some kind of, some kind of seal? It was easy to break from the outside, and looking at the positions and directions of these things, Lazarus even felt that, compared to fighting against external attacks, these people looked more like they were dealing with something unspeakable coming out of the inside.
The guardian of the temple is going to fight against the temple itself? What kind of strange operation is this?
"Well, that's what it says. Should our knowledgeable old undead gentleman give some advice?"
She stepped on the edge of the building, not caring at all that her skirt had been exposed to the group of strange monsters downstairs. The female elf smiled coquettishly and threw a wink at Lazarus.
"Just like he said, although it's difficult, we still have time to run away now. Anyway, my boyfriends will try their best to save me outside. If I really run away, maybe I will take you guys with me. Do you want to enjoy a wonderful life with me outside? There are always some more wonderful things than saving the world, right?"
"…No, this is a trap."
After thinking for a while, Lazarus completely ignored the good intentions of the female elf, stared at the creatures in the barrier, and whispered:
"There have been similar scenes before. A sealed demon took advantage of people's luck and ignorance. He used this method to take advantage of the fear and vulgarity of mortals to remove his seals layer by layer. But because of this, I am sure that the demon will not be too strong after the temple is destroyed."
"?Why?"
"Because he has already used such a trick, hasn't he?"
Let me explain.
Looking at the somewhat agitated crowd below, Lazarus jumped straight down from the building, hitting the street with a dull bang.
The people who were discussing were suddenly startled, and they all drew their weapons and aimed at the big hole that Lazarus had created. When they saw the man with gold-rimmed glasses coming out, they all looked at each other in surprise, not knowing what this guy was up to.
"Undead brothers, now is the time to use your abilities."
Pushing up his glasses, Lazarus walked to the edge of the barrier with a calm expression, looking at the illusion inside that seemed to be the same as reality.
"This is no longer the time to pursue the boundary between life and death. We don't have much time to waste. The guardian of this temple has begun to use words to confuse our minds. Doesn't this mean that we are only a few steps away from victory? Do you want to believe what the enemy says instead of your own judgment?"
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Okay, that seems to be the case.
The people on the street looked at each other, and their originally uncertain mentality suddenly calmed down.
