Volume 4: The Cataclysm Chapter 83 Harvest
The moment the Devil Knights appeared, Balkh was completely panicked.
Marvin did not give him enough time to prepare. After all, this demon wizard possessed legendary spellcasting abilities. He could also communicate with the abyssal blood pool. God knew what other spells he could use.
Under the leadership of Blackhand, the Devil Knights launched a resolute attack on the demon altar!
For the devils, attacking the devil's altar is all too familiar.
Every battle that took place during the Thousand Years of Bloody War will be integrated into their bones and become part of their instincts.
If these devil knights came one by one, Balkh would be able to destroy them with his magic.
However, when the twenty-four knights divided into three directions and launched an attack at the same time, the Demon Altar seemed to be stretched to its limits.
The death light from the underworld burst out crazily, and a large number of spells were thrown out like cheap magic tricks.
Under the flames and gray rays, the devil knights kept falling down.
But no one will back down.
The devil's pride would not allow them to compromise with the devil, and Marvin's orders would not allow them to retreat!
They can only charge!
Knock knock knock!
The hooves of the skeleton warhorses made soul-stirring sounds when they stepped on the void.
Marvin knew that this was not a random sound, but a sound that had a shocking effect!
The sound of horse hooves continued, even disrupting Balkh's spellcasting several times!
Even the demon wizard in the demon altar is not completely immune to the harassment of horse hooves.
After all, he is alone and weak!
The breath of destruction continued to spread, but no matter how fast Bacher's casting speed was, he was ultimately unable to stop all the devil knights!
When Blackhand Bard was the first to step onto the altar, the entire altar's defense system was declared broken.
They thrust the green spears in their hands deep into the floor of the altar!
In an instant, crisp shattering sounds erupted from under the base of the altar!
Balkh showed a look of despair.
He roared wildly: "You are all going to die!"
Crash!
Thunder Inferno!
The terrifying lightning struck indiscriminately from the sky, surrounding Balkh and blasting all the devil knights who stepped onto the altar into pieces!
However, such a brutal legendary spell also destroyed the last bit of solidity of the altar, but the knight commander Blackhand, who had the fastest reaction, found the right moment to jump out of the altar and escaped the disaster!
Crash!
The altar base completely collapsed.
The huge flag made of the Cyclops' arm bone fell down with a loud bang!
A light blue light floated out from under the pedestal.
Balkh's expression eased slightly.
In the fierce confrontation just now, almost all the Devil Knights were killed!
Only one knight, Blackhand, was left, and he had lost his mount and weapon.
As long as he gets his soul back, there's still hope of escaping.
But at this moment, a dark shadow suddenly appeared between him and his soul!
Balkh completely collapsed!
Marvin.
He did not rush towards Balkh, but instead rushed towards the light blue light.
In the light, there was a stone.
This is Balkh's soul stone.
He locked his soul inside it and bound it to the base of the altar.
In this way, the altar is more in tune with his soul. If he can continue to operate and develop here, this canyon will become a terrifying fortress.
Sadly, that day will never come.
Marvin is faster than him!
He had already made the final preparations when he ordered the Knights to charge.
I have already used up a Hell Legion Contract, I must not let Balkh escape!
Bang!
Marvin grabbed Balkh's soul stone and turned to look at the big demon.
The latter pretended to be calm, still pointing the goat-head staff in his hand at Marvin: "Give it back to me. I will give you a generous reward."
"I can tell you in advance that my soul stone is made of the strongest stone as its foundation. If you want to destroy it, it will take at least a week."
"I know you are not a pure devil, and we are not natural opponents."
Balkh began to persuade patiently.
But Marvin ignored him.
He just smiled faintly: "A week?"
The next second, the soul stone in his hand shattered with a sound!
Crash!
But two rays of light gray light burst out from Marvin's eyes and hit the soul stone.
The soul stone that Balkh claimed was extremely solid was shattered just like that!
Under the great demon's incredulous gaze, the soul stone turned into ashes.
And his own soul was also annihilated!
…
After the fierce battle, only Marvin and the Devil Knight Blackhand were left near the altar.
This serious intermediate devil did not feel any emotion due to the collective death of his men.
In fact, when signing the contract, they were ready to make sacrifices at any time.
This day will come sooner or later, it’s just a matter of time.
So he was very calm.
Marvin looked at him and asked : "Thank you for your help. But I have a question, I wonder if you can answer it for me?"
Black Hand slowly stood up and said seriously: "I will help you as much as I can, but there are some things I cannot reveal."
Marvin nodded: "Can I see Dilos?"
Black Hand hesitated and shook his head.
Marven frowned: "Why? You should know that the contract in my hand was given to me by him."
Black Hand thought for a moment, and finally said, "Lord Diros asked us to follow your orders, but as I said before, some things cannot be revealed. The only thing I can tell you is that Lord Diros is very optimistic about you. He is currently attacking a very important world and has no time to meet anyone."
"If he wants to see you, he'll be there anytime."
Marvin sighed silently in his heart.
It turned out to be true. No useful information could be obtained from the Devil Knight.
Then he asked about the Molten Bloodline and the side effects of using the Hell Legion Contract.
And Blackhand's answer was also very vague.
He was not clear about the Molten Blood System, but it was said that the only side effect of the contract was choosing a side.
Devils and demons are mortal enemies. Marvin's use of the Legion Contract means choosing one side in the life-and-death battle between the two sides.
This is probably a side effect.
Marvin didn't care much about this. He originally had devil blood and was naturally not favored by the devil. He didn't expect to work with the lunatics of the abyss. On the contrary, the devils of hell, although they were also destroyers, were at least a group of artists who knew how to destroy. Although they were cunning, they were very disciplined.
Since there was nothing more to be learned from Black Hand, Marvin simply let him leave.
There was still some powder of the Balkh Soul Stone in his hands.
He looked at the powder and carefully checked his data panel.
"This ability is indeed 100% lethal to soul carriers. Even if they are not pure soul carriers, they will suffer terrible damage!"
Marvin silently looked at the data on the Soul Orb.
After killing Demon No. 29, the value of the Soul Orb becomes [200/200].
After the magic ball is fully charged, a new soul skill - [Harvest] will automatically emerge.
[Harvest: Soul shock; 100% destruction of unprotected soul carriers; severe damage to the soul]
This is a very simple and crude skill.
Similar to the [Soul Flying] in legendary witchcraft!
Of course, it is weaker in strength.
After all, a spell like Soul Scattering goes beyond the scope of instant death spells, and there is no way to resist it even with an immunity. One can only hope for a low-probability event like the spell failing to occur.
As for Harvesting, it is a very powerful skill for things like Soul Stones and Liches' Life Boxes.
Even in an ordinary battle, throwing out a [Harvest] unexpectedly is equivalent to a very powerful soul shock skill that can disrupt the opponent's nerves, reactions, thoughts and even the brain.
And in the ever-changing battle, harvesting is still very useful.
The only troublesome thing is that this skill requires soul accumulation.
Only through a large number of killings can the subsequent data values be accumulated.
Marvin noticed that after he used Harvest once, the Soul Orb column became [0/200] again.
He is not a murderer, so it will take some time for him to accumulate 200 soul points.
It seems that this skill will be kept as a trump card in the future.
…
After killing Balkh, Marvin gained a lot.
Naturally, I won't say much about experience points. At this stage, I already have an outrageous amount of experience points, but they are of little use.
What is really useful are the 5 points of perception!
This brought Marvin one step closer to becoming a Level 2 Lord of the Night.
Each level of the Lord of Darkness will master new skills. The first-level Lord of Darkness, Marvin, chose the ability of Eternal Night Seal. Once he successfully upgrades, he will gain the second legendary skill.
The legendary skills of the Lord of Darkness are all very terrifying!
In addition, the material gains are also quite rich.
Because Balkh and the mana dragon live and die together, his mana dragon also becomes his storage pocket.
After Balkh died, the mana dragon also exploded, but not everything disappeared.
He left behind a lot of blood stones on the ground. Marvin took a quick look and saw that there were at least two hundred of them. It seemed that Balkh had stolen them from people nearby.
But what really concerned Marvin was a magic wand!
Anyone who can survive the mana dragon's self-explosion must be no ordinary creature!
Marvin took a closer look and found that it was an emerald green staff. Compared with the traditional staff, it looked thinner and shorter, more like the magic wand wielded by little angels.
However, this magic wand exudes a powerful natural aura. Although Marvin cannot identify it immediately, he knows that this thing is definitely not an ordinary thing.
It might be a natural staff, which druids would use. The reason why Balkh himself didn't use it was probably because demons naturally rejected the power of nature.
In addition, there was a silver funnel and a huge black gem. Marvin didn't know the origin of these things, and they needed to be identified by a professional appraiser. But just by looking at the appearance, he knew they were not ordinary items.
All in all, the Bloodstone and the staff alone were a great profit. Marvin didn't bother to pick up the other scattered items near the altar and started preparing for the aftermath.
After all, he is not the only one in this Devil's Canyon.
…
In the pile of broken stones, Marvin kicked away all the stones.
The man was still alive, he was still breathing.
However, what made Marvin a little afraid was that this guy actually had the same aura as the demon who had just attacked him.
"You... killed him?"
Unexpectedly, the man was not only alive, but also witnessed Marvin killing Balkh with his own eyes.
He struggled to crawl out from the pile of rocks. The left half of his face was charred black, and so was his left hand!
Obviously, he had just been hit by Balkh's crazy [Thunder Purgatory].
Yet he did not die.
This terrifying vitality is simply incredible.
"Who are you?" Marvin did not let his guard down.
The man was silent for a while. He looked at his hands, raised his head and looked at Marven. After a while, he said in a particularly lost tone:
“I don’t even know who I am anymore.”
…
Deep in the canyon, in rows of cages, humans huddled inside.
“They are all my compatriots.”
The man said to Marvin in a sad tone: "But they have all been controlled by the devil's mind and have completely lost their dignity as human beings."
"I am an exception. He was attracted by my background. In our world, I was once a general."
"Our world is very old, and there have always been rumors of demons, but no one takes them seriously. To be honest, when the great prophet issued a warning that day, I didn't take it seriously. We think those so-called ancient rumors are myths. How can there be any gods or demons?"
"But...disaster struck suddenly. The demon army swept through our world, committing all kinds of evil, and our world was destroyed."
"I wandered all the way and finally fell into the hands of this demon. He performed some... unforgivable experiments on me."
"Honestly, if you kill me with a knife, I won't resist."
“I felt a huge change in my body. I became very powerful. But I couldn’t do anything.”
At the end of his speech, the man fell to his knees and cried bitterly.
In the cage in front of him was a woman and a child.
That's his wife and children.
They did not survive the first round of experiments in Balkh and died long ago, and their bodies have now begun to stink.
But the man named Barrow recognized them at a glance.
Marvin stood aside and shook his head silently.
Although he had long known that many secondary planes were ravaged by demons, when this scene appeared before him, he still felt a sense of anger for no reason.
The people in the secondary plane are actually the same as Fenan’s people.
They just want to live peacefully on their own land.
There are always some unexpected disasters.
"Give them a good beating."
Barrow pointed at the dazed humans in the cage and said through gritted teeth, "Give me a quick death, too."
"I have nothing left to cling to."
Ma Wen gently pulled out the green leaf and walked over silently.
