NOVEL NEXT Chapter 2749 Surrounded
Chapter 2749 Surrounded
The Lickers quickly surrounded the remaining guards, frantically slashing with their claws.
After falling to the ground, High Priest Castor still relied on the strained holy shield to try and resist.
However, there were too many Lickers around him.
The attacks poured down on the shield, causing it to crack, and its energy points rapidly dropped. Castor had exhausted all his strength just to defend, unable to muster any energy for a counterattack.
"I need to finish this quickly."
Seeing the situation, Fang Heng didn't hesitate. He projected his form from the spatial projection behind and swung his great holy sword forward!
Castor, seeing Fang Heng materialize in front of him, felt a surge of fear in his eyes.
"Boom!!"
The shield shattered once again, and Castor spat out a mouthful of blood as he was blasted backward!
This time, while Castor was still mid-air, a swarm of Lickers descended on him, tearing into him with frenzied bites and attacks.
[Hint: The player has killed High Priest Castor of the Holy Realm. The player's relationship with the Holy Realm has significantly decreased...]
[Hint: The player has obliterated Castor's soul and will.]
The game prompts slowly appeared.
Fang Heng glanced around.
With Castor's death, the remaining Holy Court guards and ordinary priests could no longer hold out and soon fell silent under the relentless onslaught of the Lickers.
"Chi, chi, chi..."
The Licker swarm finished the battle, quickly forming flesh cocoons again and returning to their vine zombie form, swinging back up to the ceiling with the vines.
Continue!
As though it were a trivial task, Fang Heng formed an imprint with his hands in front of him and resumed absorbing the holy power.
"Buzz...!"
The scattered holy light once again enveloped the Temple of Zeus.
Under the frantic absorption of the zombie clones, the divine energy gathered and surged more intensely, causing the Starry Cosmos to accelerate its rotation!
...
Sub-God Pillar.
Temple.
High Priestess Lucille's face darkened with concentration.
The intense ripples began once again!
The rapid consumption of the power of faith stored within the Holy Court's temple had accelerated, influenced by the Temple of Zeus. What was going on?
After noticing the anomaly earlier, she had sent Priest Castor personally to investigate the Temple of Zeus. Subsequently, the consumption rate of the faith power had noticeably slowed, and Lucille thought Castor had resolved the issue.
But now, barely ten minutes after it had stabilized, the violent ripples had returned.
Lucille furrowed her brows, unable to understand where the problem lay.
Castor was strong, having even participated in the construction of the Temple of Zeus. With his abilities, he should have been able to solve any issues.
Perhaps it was just a brief fluctuation during maintenance, she thought.
Yet another ten minutes passed, and still, the rate of faith power consumption showed no signs of slowing down.
In fact, it was increasing!
Something was wrong.
Even if Castor had encountered something beyond his ability to fix, he would have sent word back by now.
Unable to wait any longer, Lucille stood up and issued a command to the nearby priests of the Holy Court, "Immediately inform Commander Fan En of the temple's guardian knights. Tell him that the Temple of Zeus may be in trouble and order him to join me there at once."
"To the rest, leave only the necessary temple guards behind. Everyone else, follow me!"
"Yes!"
After giving her orders, Lucille hurriedly led the group away from the main hall and towards the Temple of Zeus.
It took a little more time on the way, and another five minutes passed before Lucille and her group arrived at the Temple of Zeus.
Huh?
Where were the guards?
As soon as Lucille arrived at the outer perimeter of the Temple of Zeus, she noticed something was wrong.
Recently, the King of Gods' pillar encountered a major issue, and a large number of guards had been temporarily deployed there for reinforcement. However, there shouldn't be a situation where not a single guard was present here, should there?
What had happened?
Could it be related to the recent anomaly ripple from the Temple of Zeus?
Lucille's face hardened as she carefully observed her surroundings, taking cautious steps toward the temple's main entrance.
At least from the outside, there were no obvious signs of battle.
Lucille silently signaled the accompanying priests of the Holy Court to remain on alert. She approached the entrance of the Temple of Zeus, gently placing her hand on the door.
"Ka ka ka ka..."
With a surge of mental energy, the massive door of the temple slowly creaked open.
The priests who followed behind Lucille also peeked their heads out, casting searching glances into the Great Hall.
At first glance, the Great Hall seemed eerily calm. They could see several figures facing away from them, standing deep inside the hall.
Lucille carefully stepped into the Temple of Zeus.
What?
She immediately sensed something was wrong with these figures.
They weren't human!
They were zombie creatures!
"Be careful!" Lucille immediately shouted.
Whoosh!
In the next moment, an intense spatial aura suddenly emanated from the right side of Lucille's body.
Whoosh!
Fang Heng stepped out of the secondary space projection, his great holy sword swinging down toward Lucille.
"Boom!!!"
A golden light flared around Lucille as a shield appeared.
The shield absorbed most of the damage from the great sword, but it couldn't fully mitigate the force of the impact. Lucille felt a fierce force pushing against her, forcing her to stagger backward several steps before she could stabilize herself.
She looked up again, and Fang Heng was already approaching, holding the great holy sword high once more.
"Whoosh!!!"!
A scorching holy light flashed across her vision.
Lucille's eyes widened in disbelief.
Where did that guy come from?!
And that sword...
The great holy sword!
Why was the legendary weapon, forged by the Great Sage to seal the death realm's crevice, in his hands?!
"You..."
Lucille began to speak, but before she could finish, Fang Heng closed the distance once more. His great sword vanished and transformed into a dark ray of light!
Fang Heng had switched into his necromancy form, and the weapon in his hand had now changed into the Empress' scepter!
The scepter cut through the air with a sharp whoosh!
"Whoosh!!!"
What?!
"Bang!!!"
With the boost from his God-level necromancy, the holy barrier shattered as the scepter struck. Lucille coughed up blood and was thrown back, crashing hard onto the ground.
Necromancy and holy magic, when reached high levels, had a natural countering relationship. A strike like this would have devastating effects.
However, within the Holy Realm, Fang Heng too faced suppression from the environment.
Everything happened so fast that it wasn't until then that the surrounding Holy Realm priests reacted, casting spells in unison toward Fang Heng.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!!"
Dozens of Holy Punishment skills locked onto Fang Heng, speeding toward him.
Fang Heng quickly sidestepped to avoid the attacks.
But after evading, the Holy Punishments spun rapidly in the air, changing direction and coming after him from behind.
"Humph!"
Fang Heng let out a heavy grunt.
Boom!!
A blood-red long sword exploded behind him!
The lifeblood barrier formed from his energy blocked the holy attacks, causing bursts of blood mist to erupt as the spells collided with the barrier.
Just the scattered remnants of the Holy Court.
Not worth paying attention to.
Fang Heng's gaze remained fixed on Lucille, and he charged toward her with unrelenting speed!