Mechanical Alchemist

Su Lun and Uta rescued the injured members of the Gray Wolf tribe, and learned about the movements of the Luying Holy Judgment Corps from them.

The situation is worse than expected.

Those Luying legions have been here for a month or two, and the development of the ruins is progressing very quickly.

Moreover, they seem to have some special information about the ruins, and they can always use targeted methods to break through many difficult cursed spaces. For this reason, they also hired a large number of slave hunters, and almost wiped out all the large and small Daru tribes in the northern part of the Silent Forest, and captured tens of thousands of people. The purpose is to sacrifice an evil alchemy item to break the largest cursed space.

When Su Lun heard those words, he immediately felt that something was wrong.

If you really come prepared, maybe you can really break the seal of the tree world.

He also guessed that the things that those people sacrificed and refined may be the [Forbidden Object] that was known by the murder and soul search just now.

Without much delay, Su Lun and the others bid farewell to a few gray wolves, and quickly walked around the giant tree to the north.

By evening, the sky had already darkened.

After a distance of about a few kilometers, they found a high place to observe the brightly lit war camp in the distance.

The sergeants of the Luying Royal Holy Judgment Legion have built a temporary war fortress at the foot of the giant tree. There are high walls and heavy mechanical artillery, and there are three steam mechanical airships floating above the camp. The lights searched everywhere, and elite guards in armor were patrolling around the perimeter of the camp.

Minggang, dark sentry, and griffins flying in the sky, the barracks are very well-defended, and no outsiders will be given a chance to approach.

Su Lun looked at the intensively active sergeants in the barracks, his eyes slightly dignified.

Just by looking at the military rank, you can tell that there are many masters.

Not to mention that he is a third-level professional, even if he is a professional of the seventh or eighth level, he may not necessarily be able to take advantage of the strong attack.

The scouting team he killed before had the lowest level of second-tier professionals, and the breeding equipment and inauguration materials also started with silver. He is also proficient in the army's joint attack battle formation, and the army's combat power is very high. This is not comparable to any enemy encountered before.

However, what caught Su Lun and Youta's attention even more was the huge pool of blood in the barracks.

Beside the pool of blood stood a banner with a griffin pattern waving in the wind.

With a flash of light in Su Lun's left eye, he identified the information of the flag, and it was the forbidden item.

【Death Banner of Nergal】

Quality: legendary

Description: Banner of Blood Sacrifice, Invincible

Curse feature: Sacrifice the blood and soul of the living beings, the contracted sergeants of the flag will gain the group aura increase, the group's morale will be boosted, and the corresponding negative states such as fear, shock, wail, plague, chaos, curse, whisper, etc. will be exempted or reduced; the effect will be affected by the number of sacrificed souls Limit, the current number of sacrificed souls is 23354;

Detailed Explanation: A military flag refined by an ancient civilization for war, after the blood sacrifice, it will get a small permanent increase in the military flag, and a large temporary increase.

Su Lun frowned as he looked at the battle flag.

No wonder the living "slaves" that I didn't see were all killed to sacrifice the flag.

Beside the blood pool, there are several eight-faced corpse towers with tired heads. Blood-stained human heads piled up more than ten meters high, surrounded by obelisks engraved with alchemy formations, and blood energy was continuously gathering on the battle flag through the formations.

Originally, the number of the Dalu tribe was small, and it is estimated that the entire Silent Forest is only a few hundred thousand, and tens of thousands were killed here.

Su Lun's eyes flashed strangely.

On the side, Youta looked even more ugly, with resentment and murderous intent suppressed on his face, and the lip biting his silver teeth was about to ooze blood.

Su Lun also understands why she must follow the risk of the ruins. If the inheritance continues to be broken, the Dalu tribe will really be wiped out.

The two carefully observed the layout of the barracks, but did not find any opportunities to take advantage of.

These Lu Ying royal elites have enough war experience, but they are not comparable to those ragtag pirates.

He felt that probably only by waiting for Mr. Jing to come would it be possible to stop those guys.

Looking at it, Yuta sniffed his nose, frowned suddenly and said: "We seem to have been discovered. There is a smell of blood coming!"

Now they already know that every Luying sergeant here will wear a blood-stained cloth belt, and the smell of blood can be smelled by Yuta, who is a snow wolf clan, from far away.

When Su Lun heard it, he immediately guessed that he must have been discovered by the secret whistle, and said without hesitation: "Let's go!"

Without any hesitation, the two retreated directly and disappeared among the dense vines.

It didn't take long for a few detectives dressed as assassins to appear in front of Su Lun and the others.

The hound they were leading sniffed in place, then barked a few times in one direction.

The leader seemed to understand the meaning of the hound's barking, and muttered in his mouth: "Hey, was it discovered in advance? It seems that the means of spying on people are not weak."

They did not chase in the depths, but reported the situation to the camp.

At the same time, the commander of the barracks was in the tent.

Alek Barrett, the Legion Commander of the Holy Judgment Legion "The Beast", was sitting on the main seat. He didn't know what news he heard, but the face of this middle-aged officer who was not angry and pretentious was frighteningly cold.

Beside him were two lieutenants wearing golden griffin armor, their faces were equally ugly.

On the opposite side of the three of them, a middle-aged man in a khaki windbreaker who didn't look like a military man was talking about something.

The atmosphere of the negotiation was not very good, and the two sides started arguing without saying a few words.

When Army Commander Barrett heard the order, he angrily interrupted: "Damn it! Yeager, do you know what you're talking about? Don't you people from the Military Intelligence Department take orders without considering the actual situation? Just Judging from the current situation, this super-large ancient ruin may involve something very dangerous. I even suspect that breaking open the ruins rashly may cause disaster. The more this is the case, shouldn't we be more cautious in handling it? You actually informed us three days later Break that cursed space inside?"

The man in the windbreaker shrugged his shoulders, and said in a helpless tone: "Sorry, Commander Barrett, I know this task is not easy. But you know, I am also following orders."

Barrett sneered: "Did the think tanks of your military intelligence department grow up eating shit, don't you know how stupid this order is?!"

"No"

The man in the windbreaker shook his head, sighed slightly, and corrected: "It's not an order from our Military Intelligence Headquarters. It's a secret order issued by Her Majesty the Empress herself."

"My Lady Queen?"

Hearing that it was the Queen's order, Barrett's eyes flashed complicated, and he swallowed the words again.

After pondering for a long while, he just said the difficulty: "The battle flag of the legion has not been sacrificed to the expected level. If you want to have a certain guarantee in that cursed space, you need at least 20,000 more slaves to sacrifice the flag! It was for you The damned progress required, my adjudication team has already lost a deputy army leader and three hundred elites!"

After a pause, he almost gritted his teeth and said, "Three days, don't say three days, give it another three months, it may not be possible to complete the exploration! Also, this silent forest is so remote, do you need to be in such a hurry to find the ruins?"

The man in the windbreaker spread his hands and said expressionlessly: "I don't know the specifics. But it's the top-secret information from the Imperial Capital Intelligence Office. As for why it is three days, it may be divination, or it may be other reasons. This is not something that a member of the spade team like me can interfere with."

As he said that, the man in the windbreaker suddenly became very indifferent: "The original order from above is: at all costs, the seal in this ruin must be broken within three days."

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Barrett narrowed his eyes.

Not long after, the man in the windbreaker left the tent.

The two lieutenants of the Judgment Legion looked at the gloomy face of their own legion leader, and knew that the order was very difficult.

The atmosphere was dull, and needles could be heard in the tent.

Finally, a lieutenant general asked, "Commander, what should we do?"

The haze in Barrett's eyes persisted, but his tone was decisive, "Execute the order! The whole army will attack early tomorrow morning."

Hearing this, the deputy general looked embarrassed: "But. The situation of the cursed space is unknown, so if you go in rashly, you may meet the head of the regiment. Or, I will take someone in to have a look first?"

Barrett shook his head: "No, it's meaningless. If you want to investigate clearly within three days, you can only take risks."

After finishing speaking, he could only hear it with himself, and said to himself in a helpless and puzzled voice: "Why is Her Lady Empress so urgent about this ruin?"

Su Lun and Uta avoided the patrolling scouts, and they didn't dare to go up the tree trunk rashly. The higher you go, the more intense the spirit of death will be. There are countless terrifying monsters hidden in the dense canopy.

Fortunately, most of the monsters near Beimiangen have been almost wiped out by the Judgment Legion, and there is no danger.

It was completely dark, so Su Lun and the others found a tree hole to rest.

I checked the situation of the Luying Royal Legion barracks before, and all the Daru people who were arrested were killed, and there was nothing to save.

The barracks was strictly guarded, and there was no chance of sneaking in.

He originally planned to take a rest, recharge his batteries, and wait until tomorrow to see what's going on in that "cursed space".

Then, after three days, Mr. Jing arrived, and there was more room for maneuvering.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the next day dawned and the morning sun shone in through the gaps in the leaves, they heard the sound of a large army marching.

The sound of guns and battles did not move far above the trunk of the giant tree, it was very intense.

Su Lun and Uta didn't dare to delay, and immediately went out of the tree hole to check the situation.

Then, after a long distance, they found the Judgment Legion marching towards the top of the tree trunk.

In a dense bush, Su Lun and Uta were hiding there, using binoculars to observe the legion several kilometers away.

Those sergeants in armor, with heavy machinery and equipment, rode griffins and swept up all the way.

The movement of the legion's march could not be concealed, which naturally attracted the deformed monsters hiding in the canopy of the giant tree.

These monsters that have grown up in a high-concentration environment of necromancy for a long time are very manic. The human breath is like cold water dripping into boiling oil, and it explodes in an instant.

Zombie orangutans with blue flames all over their bodies, deformed snakes with three heads, centipedes with eyes all over their backs, and wind and frost banshees of ghost species.

Monsters of the third, fourth, and even fifth ranks emerge in endlessly.

Seeing Su Lun's scalp numb.

I'm also glad that they didn't rush to the canopy last night.

On the other hand, they also saw the strength of this Luying Royal Army!

Weakness is the only way to be careful.

With strength, you can push everything horizontally.

No matter what kind of monsters, no matter how many, under the charge of this elite army, there is almost no single enemy.

The legion is made up of ten people, and a hundred people form a group. Touching a monster group is like touching soft mud with a sharp knife, and it will be smashed to pieces in an instant.

Those monsters are even hard to break through their armor.

Even if there are tricky high-level monsters, there are high-level professionals in the legion who will kill them.

Just after observing for a while, Su Lun even saw a fifth-tier silver rushing strangely from the canopy. Before he had time to act fiercely, he was killed with a single punch by the legion leader who took off his cloak and turned into a giant.

With the strength of the other party, Su Lun and the others naturally did not dare to take the lead.

But they are also very puzzled, what are these people doing?

Su Lun and the others followed the legion all the way up, like climbing a mountain, and came to the waist of the giant tree.

The foliage here is luxuriant, little light can pass through, and it is as dim as a crypt.

Su Lun looked at the route of the pedestrians, and naturally guessed that they might be heading for the largest cursed space.

But he also has a problem in his heart.

Among the soul fragments that were clearly harvested, the Legion of Judgment was not sure of breaking the space, so why did the whole army suddenly attack?

Then, Su Lun also saw the cursed space.

It was a huge swirling black hole like a bird's nest.

[Druid's Burial Gate]

Detailed Explanation: Super large compound cursed space, the great battle five hundred years ago led to the collapse of the plane seal that buried the corpses of super-order creatures, the aura of high-level necromancers leaked, and the space was filled with chaotic timelines and collapsed spaces Cracks, violent laws, powerful undead creatures and aberrations; this is a cursed space formed by various chaotic energies without main consciousness; only undead creatures can travel freely, and the living will lose themselves forever; if You are willing to eat that kind of carrion, covered with corpse gas, the monsters will probably not notice you; the ghosts of the ancestors of the Daru tribe will bless the blood of the Daru tribe, or the human beings who follow the oath, but there are more in the space A powerful evil exists; break through the cursed space, and you will see the body of the seal;

Seeing the identified information, Su Lun's face became serious.

This is not the same as he thought.

Under normal circumstances, the cursed space will have a "main consciousness".

Just like the [Central Prison] in Dawn City before, he met his teacher Sereya.

After the fall of the top professional, the strong consciousness remains, and some memories of life become the "story" of cursing the space.

They are not necessarily monsters, but have their own consciousness and sanity.

You can communicate, so there is a lot of room for manipulation.

Su Lun originally thought that a large number of ancestors of the Daru tribe had been killed here. Even if there was a curse space, there was a high probability that it was formed after the death of the ancestors of the Daru tribe.

He also thought before that if he was lucky enough to meet a certain archdruid, he could still ask about mental distortion.

Maybe they can also find an opportunity to solve the current predicament of the Dalu people.

This is why Uta followed.

Unexpectedly, this cursed space has no main consciousness!

Moreover, looking at the words used to describe it, the danger in this space, which is also the law of chaos and space cracks, will be very great.

Su Lun watched the sergeants walk in with the [Nergal's Battle Flag of Death], and his expression became even weirder.

"The head of the legion and the deputy head of the legion have both gone in. Could it be that they have mastered the method to break through this cursed space?"

He realized that something was wrong.

Although Su Lun felt that the words "extremely dangerous" identified should not be so easy to decipher, but seeing the group of people rushing in without hesitation, his thoughts immediately turned.

Before Mr. Jing saw the real thing, he only guessed that it was the "place of burial".

Now that the words "collapsed plane fragments that buried the corpses of super-order creatures" are identified, Su Lun is sure, and this is probably the case.

Therefore, it is even more impossible to let those Lu Ying's troops break through.

"It's strange that a sixth-rank head of the royal army can put himself in danger. Could it be that someone in the upper echelons of the Luying royal family knows about the ruins?"

A thought flashed through Su Lun's mind.

But you know, they still dare to mess around?

While Su Lun was still speculating about some causal relationship, those people had already walked in.

At this time, Yuta beside him also asked, "Mr. Su Lun, what are we going to do now?"

Hearing this, Su Lun pondered for a moment, and then said lightly: "I want to follow in and have a look."