"The earth! The ground is moving!"
"They are alive! Lucia, these are definitely not heroic spirits!"
Uriel heard the yelling of the two mercenaries, and his feet were unsteady, as if the whole world was shaking.
"Careful!" York warned.
Who is he talking to? Uriel's ears were ringing, his head suddenly hurt, and he almost wanted to roll to the ground. Who is speaking? who is it?
Suddenly, he received an elbow on his chest, and he fell backwards due to an unsteady center of gravity. A sharp stone pillar stabbed at him diagonally, brushed against his shoulder and then retracted. The apprentice only saw a black light passing by. The pain was diluted by fear, Uriel screamed and tried to get up, but it was too late, the enemy was much more agile than him.
The danger comes from the sharp rocks, from under their feet!
Just when his mind was blank, he felt a sudden tightening on the back of his neck, and then his whole body left the ground. Joey cut off the stone with one sword, and grabbed Uriel with his other hand and lifted into the air.
The mercenaries screamed loudly, but they didn't panic much. They are used to making noises and don't like to behave themselves in battle. Uriel looked down worriedly and immediately regretted that he wasted his feelings.
York slashed the dagger flat against the bottom, and the stone pillar immediately turned into a stone bench; while the dwarf turned the disobedient stones into stone powder with his hammer, as if forging iron. They had a tacit understanding as comrades for many years, and for a while they were so beaten that the sharp stone array group couldn't stand up.
The danger to the apprentices was not enough for York and Painter. The two were experienced and well prepared. The sharp rocks breaking the ground mostly surprised them.
"These rocks are too hard!" Big Nose shouted to them.
"Steel Rock." Joey explained to him while mobilizing his magic power. Suddenly the ground was covered with ice and the spring water froze.
Finally, the stones calmed down, and Uriel touched the ground again. As soon as he hit the ground, he hugged his head tightly and felt a dagger stirring inside.
"What happened to him?" York asked worriedly.
"Make noise," the messenger replied. "His degree of mystery is not high enough, and he has to bear the cost of using the Scroll of Oath. The mystery in the valley is oppressing his fire."
Joey hit the ground with the hilt of his sword, making a crisp sound, and the mercenaries followed suit. However, this could only ease Uriel's pain slightly, so York helped him up and walked quickly towards the exit.
But before he had gone very far, the ground began to shake again. The messenger suddenly raised his head and his eyes fell on the dead tree trunk. The coldness in the mountain gap was blazing.
"What's wrong with this damn valley?" The dwarf saw cracks looming on the ice. "There's something underneath the ground - it's a big guy!"
Before he could finish his words, there was a crackling sound, and a giant hand reached out.
Joey didn't care much, "Steel Rock Guards, the soldiers of the cave people."
"A soldier taller than a bell tower?"
York looked at the gradually rising shadow in front of his eyes and felt his heart twitching.
The ice surface was completely broken, but no stone pillars poked out from the ground. It was replaced by another thing, with limbs and a head, all of which were made of stone; armor that was darker than night covered the torso, making it almost impossible to tell whether it was metal or rock. Because the surface is smooth and delicate, and it is also engraved with abstract animal horns and vertical pupils.
"The symbol of semi-underground creatures, the blood of beasts. That is the totem of the cave people." Sauron wrote it to himself, regardless of whether anyone saw it or not. It seemed excited.
The two mercenaries stared dumbly at the behemoth in front of them. Together, they were not even thicker than one of the other's fingers.
The stone giant shook his arm, and the shadow suddenly enlarged.
"Is this our enemy?" York avoided the blow in disgrace, and the hard soil splashed everywhere like foam. He screamed in disbelief. "Is this the secret of the valley?!"
"Goddess! I finally understand why no one can pass through this damn Valley of Sleep!"
The Steel Rock Guard punched again. Its movements were not fast, but its coverage was extremely wide, forcing the two mercenaries to dodge - neither of them wanted to get hit. The end would not be better than beans in a stone mill. . Occasionally there would be one or two flashes of magic in the gaps, but they were of no use to the monsters.
Only then did they realize something was wrong. “The mystery is fading!”
In the past, the magic drawn by fire can form magic, which is directly proportional to the strength of the soul flame. But now the fire has not changed, and the mystery displayed has dropped to another level. This is simply fatal on a critical battlefield.
"What the hell is this place!" The dwarf picked up the hammer to block the spreading vibration waves. The scene seemed a bit comical as he was pushed straight out and lost his voice.
Suddenly York rushed over and knocked him away in the air, and the two of them rolled to the edge of the spring. Big Nose pushed the light element aside and was about to ask angrily when he saw the shadow suddenly expand——
Another stone giant.
In the chaotic situation, the two of them were unable to take care of Uriel. Joey took the apprentice into the air and pressed the ring Sauron to his forehead.
Uriel immediately woke up with a start.
"Can you fight?"
"My head doesn't hurt anymore." He was very surprised. "What do you want me to do?"
At the same time, Uriel lowered his head, the steel giant was still destroying everywhere, and the valley was in a mess. He also discovered abnormalities in the fluctuations of magic power.
"As you can see, the effects of magic are suppressed."
But the messenger didn't leave him any time: "With the Scroll of Oath, the mystery of the item will not be affected."
"I restrain them?"
“Break the silence—sound, let the whole valley be filled with sound.”
The young man took him back to the ground, right in front of the dead tree. There was something wrong with the magic here, Uriel sensed. They could all feel it, and the stone giant couldn't even pay attention.
"It should have something to do with the cavemen. The Steel Guard is their masterpiece."
Uriel guessed. Then he saw Joey cutting off the tree trunk with his sword. "Wait!" But it was a step too late.
The dead trees were shattered, the wet wood chips were washed away by the thawing water, and the apprentice saw an exposed white bone. He felt uncomfortable all over as he watched Joey pick out the bones with his sword. It was a deformed hand bone with three fingers and markings, and it was in a state of decay.
Suddenly the stone giant raised his head, and cracks spread across his face. It growled silently, turned and charged towards the messenger and Uriel.
The apprentice retreated involuntarily. He could not remain indifferent in front of such a behemoth rushing toward him with such force. Even though he knew that whether it was dodge or defense, the envoy could easily control it.
There is no loud noise, the vibration is like a game. Joey pointed at the steel guard with his sword-carrying arm, and an ice barrier rose out of thin air. The stone giant hit it with a huge force, and the ground that touched the ice curtain exploded layer by layer; the magic runes flashed, resisting the force. The narrow channel washed out by the spring water over the years was directly filled in, and the raw material came from the collapsed mountain wall. Because the uprooted trees can no longer hold the soil in place.
"...!!"
Uriel relied on the remains of the dead tree to maintain his balance. He was so shocked that he could hardly speak in front of such a brutal collision of magic powers.
He suddenly realized that it might not be difficult for Joey to level this valley.
"This is the last skeleton of the cave dweller." The young man supported the stone giant with one hand and hit it crazily, while saying to the apprentice. "Thousands of years have given it an extraordinary mystery. Only mysterious objects that also last for a long time can destroy it."
"Are those stone giants protecting this corpse?"
"maybe."
"If I destroy the bones, will those stone giants disappear?"
"The elements will dissipate automatically if they lose control. They may be puppets controlled by the undead." Joey answered. "I'm not sure they will disappear. The bones maintain the mystery of the entire valley."
At this time, the second stone giant also strode over and smashed into the ice wall. But York and Painter finally couldn't stand the mud and air waves anymore. They exited the valley and looked here from a distance.
Uriel forced himself to forget the story behind the word cave dweller. He unfolded the parchment and felt a lump in his throat, but he still read out his oath loudly.
The voice echoed in the valley, and the lingering sound was endless——
The night wind blew by, turning the bones into ashes.
The Valley of Sleep collapsed, and the stone monsters raised their heads and roared, but there was no sound. They can't speak.
Countless dark steel rocks protruded from the ground, waving twistedly in the air.
"Is it over?" the apprentice asked.
"The magic has regained its effectiveness." The messenger focused on the steel rock guard. Uriel realized that he had to deal with these stone monsters.
The young man raised his butcher knife.
A severe headache almost destroyed his consciousness. Uriel clutched the ring: "Sauron?"
"Abnormal magic power detected, low mystery"
"...Low?!" Are your standards based on Kongjing!
"Abnormal sound waves, the line of law is disturbed"
"Sound... wave." He couldn't help but become afraid. Where did the sound waves come from? Who can interfere with the law?
Joey easily slashed through the stone giant's armor, breaking it in two with one sword strike. He set his sights on another stone monster.
The stone monster did not turn around and run away, not even towards the messenger. The cracks on its face opened and closed, facing Uriel, and seemed to be speaking silently.
Or to the ashes at his feet.
The apprentice felt that something was wrong. He felt that the behavior of the Steel Rock Guards was strange, but he could not tell what was strange because he did not understand. York was waving to him from outside the valley. Uriel wanted to endure the headache and turn away, but there was always a force restraining him.
At this time, the last stone monster was also torn into pieces by Joey, and the powder of steel rock was scattered on the ground, mixed with the soil.
The parchment rolls shine.
"No, it's not right, it shouldn't be like this." Even though the headache suddenly disappeared, he still felt extremely painful.
"What's wrong with you?" Joey came closer and asked.
Uriel kept backing up, moving his body away from the messenger as if from a demon. In his real vision, the bone wings protruded from Joey's back and the peak of his head, and the chill all over his body gradually turned into a fire that smelled of sulfur.
"Sauron! Sauron!" The apprentice was frightened.
"Careful!" Joey warned.
Uriel felt a sharp pain in his chest. He lowered his head and found that the valley had been covered with sharp stone thorns at some point. The steel giant is slain, but the elemental is not destroyed.
The world begins to collapse——
