A row of shields formed by flashes of light lined up in a row, as knights in full armor steadily advanced toward the plaza.
After leaving the last crystal figure stretching its arms behind them, the tactical lights illuminated a vast crystal ocean refracting rainbow lights.
Countless crystallized figures bowed down, reverently worshipping the shadow at the center of the plaza.
The lights from all gun barrels immediately converged towards that spot.
The light revealed a middle-aged man with tightly shut eyes.
Upon seeing the only figure with a human form, Canis had no intention of communicating and shouted without hesitation, "Kill him!!"
Deafening gunfire instantly connected into one, as Knights of Valor’s heavy machine guns spewed fire tongues, dense like a metal-formed storm net.
However, when the fierce bullets reached meters from the target, they stirred air ripples, collided with the suddenly appearing dazzling crystals, and exploded into fragments.
The figure being shot at had already opened his eyes, with rainbow-like light floating in his crystallized pupils.
Overlapping magical sounds shrieked from his mouth, almost overshadowing the machine gun array’s roar, making the knights dizzy.
Several colorful rays instantly shot over, hitting the steel shields, numbing the knights’ left arms.
At the same time, a dense cracking sound suddenly echoed through the hall, as the surrounding crystallized beings seemed to regain vitality, got up, and some nearby rushed towards the central wizard, trying to block the knights’ gunfire with their bodies stacked like human pyramids.
Strange chanting resonated from the wizard buried under the pile of crystal beings.
More crystal beings rose and charged at the invading Holy War Knights.
The knights immediately redirected their gunfire, sweeping those unusual crystal figures blocking the line of fire, blasting them into pieces, yet tens of thousands of crystal beings still surged like waves.
Canis and a few knights discarded their firearms, summoned their spirit-laden long weapons, roared furious shouts as they swept away a group of obstructing enemies, resolutely launched a charge from both sides.
Others focused their firepower to open a path for their comrades.
Under the leadership of the Wolf Family Young Master, the knights rushed through the crystal beings’ blockade like a gale, and a knight roared while wielding a long spear, smashing apart the body pile surrounding the wizard with one strike.
Canis thrust his long spear fiercely into the gap split open by his comrades, deeply penetrating the wizard’s body hidden within, instantly halting the booming chant echoing through the plaza.
The knight shouted fiercely, with frightening brute force he stirred the riding spear, shaking off the crystal bodies on top, and swung the wizard skewered on the spear blade violently towards his comrades.
The nearly torn-apart body rolled horizontally then flew out, but upon landing, let out a series of terrifying laughter.
Knights with raised shields bashed away the rushing enemies from all directions, while their gun barrels continually aimed at the body on the ground.
A series of fire tongues instantly shattered it into a sky full of flying, unrecognizable limb fragments.
Yet, the laughter from this barely shaped rotten flesh did not stop.
"...I’ve found him...it’s me who found him first...my supreme master..."
A bright dazzling light suddenly burst out from the twitching rotten flesh, with a twisted energy emitting a dark purple crack.
The knights took a few steps back, lowered their gun barrels to fire, attempting to destroy this purposefully mysterious witchcraft on the ground.
Yet, the bullets shot towards the crack silently vanished, as if swallowed by something, disappearing instantaneously upon touching it.
The crack grew longer and longer, as the knights eliminated nearby enemies and slowly retreated, until the laughing voice of the wizard’s resentful spirit abruptly stopped, and a deep purple slit burst open at the center of the eerie purple light. This update is available on novel-fire.net
As the slit widened in an instant, Canis felt like everything before his eyes lost its color...
Feeling the overwhelming surge of magic power flooding towards him, Leon abruptly lifted his head, looking towards the pitch-black base tunnel.
Realizing the trap’s mechanism, it was already too late.
A visible space-time dividing line rapidly swept through the surroundings, erasing the colors of the world in the blink of an eye.
He raised his gaze to see that the overcast sky had vanished, replaced by a kaleidoscopic warped chaotic sky.
The Holy War Army outside the base raised their weapons in succession.
This bizarrely changed environment ahead was all too familiar to them; it was precisely the Cursed Domain they experienced during their last battle in life.
The Church Soldiers beside Sasha appeared much more frantic, as the warriors looked around at the bizarre surroundings in panic, unsure of what to do.
Leon cursed quietly, speculating that the real target of the enemy was likely not someone else, but him himself.
If this situation was not an accident, then the struggling Dawn Sect trying to survive in despair posed no threat either to the Blood Clan nor the Demons, and could indeed be left to its own devices without the need for elaborate schemes.
As the Blood Demon had previously managed to pull him into this plane, he must possess some value for use.
No matter who the enemy setting traps was, it surely knew he was with the Dawn Sect.
Leon gazed towards the gray and dreary distance.
From examining this spiritual field which could only form due to uncontrollable chaos magic power, it’s highly likely that the sanctuary lost connection due to uncontrollable Spirit Realm Mages, and hence, those tens of thousands of survivors likely faced dire situations.
Turning back to glance at the tunnel, he did not know whether Canis and the others had encountered the core of the rift causing this spiritual field.