Chapter 3004

That purple-black light did not condense into a beam and shoot toward the team, but formed ripples that swept across from the front of the stone bridge. Where the ripples passed, even the air turned purple-black, and the Diviners who realized what this was used the same miracle almost simultaneously:

"Miracle - Anti-Death Barrier!"

A translucent shield enveloped everyone just before the purple-black ripples arrived. And when the ripples spreading from the front touched the shield, wails like the final curse of a dying person immediately appeared in everyone's ears, but listening carefully, those wails clearly seemed to form a chilling song.

In the void, it seemed as if countless undead with smoke-like lower bodies were constantly scratching outside the shield. Although the shield rippled, fortunately, it held up in the end.

"This is the ancient elf secret technique - Undead Overture, commonly found in elf tombs or hidden holy places of the Third Era and earlier. If exposed to the range of this secret technique without protection, one must undergo a death judgment every six seconds, and each judgment becomes more difficult. Theoretically, no one below the Thirteen-Ring can last until the seventh round. We haven't done anything yet; this is someone activating the ruin's defenses from the inside, but the interior of the ruin is certainly unaffected."

Miss Oulannuode's voice sounded from the center of the crowd, and Xia De asked without looking back:

"How long can the Anti-Death Barrier last?"

The two Diviners sent by the Diviner Society were an elderly gentleman with white hair and beard who was an Eleven-Ringer, and a middle-aged woman with a black flower tucked behind her ear, the latter being only a Ten-Ringer. Therefore, although the three cast the spell together, clearly the Twelve-Tier Fate Great Witch was the main force:

"Five minutes should be no problem, but we still need to enter the interior of the ruin as soon as possible."

Xia De then raised the 【Angel's Right Arm】 to the front, Mr. Gerald Delong let the five metal spheres floating beside him disperse and transform into slender needles, and Mr. Eldron also drew the sword hanging from his waist.

As the three standing at the very front of the team stepped forward together amidst the elf funeral song, those enemies hiding in the darkness finally all appeared.

The construct puppets guarding the ruin poured out from the ruin gate, surging toward the group along the stone bridge; on the cliff wall high above, thousands of pairs of red eyes opened, and then the inferior bat demons mixed with the bloodlines of unknown creatures lent by the 【Crow Club】 swarmed down; beneath the stone bridge, groups of ghouls raised by the 【Tyranny Club】 climbed onto the bridge deck in large numbers; and in the darkness on both sides of the stone bridge, the time remnants of near-ghosts summoned by the 【Tree Hole Society】 using secret methods floated toward the bridge, howling.

These enemies could all resist the death effect, surging toward the group in the transparent shield from all directions in the purple-black air.

And the three charging at the very front had already engaged with the group of ghouls climbing from the bottom of the bridge. The silver moonlight illuminated the scene that followed; the ghoul group was like encountering a meat grinder, and as broken limbs and remains fell from both sides of the stone bridge, the team plunged into these undead.

Miracles of various colors bombarded the bat demons with purgatory bloodlines, spells to dispel the undead were also effective against the ghosts of time remnants, and when the construct puppets of the ancient elves squeezed into the tide of ghouls and were less than twenty meters away from the team, the thirteen puppets raised their hands together, and twenty-six lightning chains struck the team from the fingers of those ancient puppets.

Most attack spells of the "Lightning Chain" type would form a bounce effect on more targets around once they hit the target, so it was a very good killing choice for a team gathered in a pile. However, Xia De, who was in the front row of the team, immediately took off and turned in the air, and the dense electric light was immediately returned in full.

The ghoul group that had completely covered the bridge deck blocked the returning electric light, and the increasingly loud hissing sounds echoed in the hollow underground darkness. The scorched and paralyzed ghouls were soon pushed into the abyss as the team advanced.

And those construct puppets cast from unknown ancient alloys did not choose to engage in close combat with the team's front-line vanguard. As the elf runes on their bodies lit up, they each transformed into different pure elemental forms. As the advancing team moved forward in the ghoul tide, the construct puppets retreated, and always maintained a distance of twenty meters to cast different elemental radiation abilities, which were then successively blocked by Xia De's Heaton Seal.

In an instant, those surging enemies had already submerged the team, but amidst the roar of explosions, countless monsters fell into the abyss beneath the bridge. The moonlight illuminated the people in the Anti-Death Barrier, while long-range attacks were blocked by the moonlight shield of Miss Oulannuode, who was in the center of the team.

All enemies from the front, back, left, right, and sky were dealt with by someone, and the three at the very front of the team faced the greatest pressure, but the two genuine Thirteen-Ringers and Xia De were still able to move forward steadily against those enemies who seemed completely insane.

Xia De was very glad that all the enemies appearing now happened to be restrained by his own power; otherwise, the two people nearby could easily see what his true strength was.

The silver light blade slashed by Xia De on the left flank of the vanguard could only advance ten meters each time, and then the enemies slashed within ten meters would be submerged in the tide of their companions. While holding the sword in his right hand, his left hand continuously blasted fireballs forward. Amidst the rumbling explosions, limbs and flesh flew, but this sound perfectly blended into the elf funeral song;

The slender brass needles in the center of the vanguard made no sound when they flew past Mr. Gerald Delong's ears, but where those thin needles with exorcism runes swept past, large numbers of undead and demons fell headlong into the abyss. This gentleman himself held a brass long stick without any decoration, leading the team forward as the core of the team;

Mr. Eldron, the "Lord of the Deep Valley," had elf swordsmanship that was more simple and steady than Emilia's sword dance. The ring of an unknown angel-level relic worn on his finger gave his long sword the power of wind. The invisible wind accompanied the waving of the long sword, constantly pushing the endless enemies away from around the team, so that everyone would not face the situation of one against a hundred.

Emilia held the 【Flute of Time】 in one hand and was held by Miss Oulannuode in the other, responsible for holding the line. The Ancient Witch occasionally raised her hand to cast secret techniques to dispel enemies from above, but the little elf really didn't do anything.

She was asked to keep her spirits up to face the "Clockmaker," so she could only follow the team forward step by step. The hand held by Miss Oulannuode had become sweaty at some point, which made her very embarrassed.

Facing the situation where they were surrounded from all directions, she was not worried at all. Everyone was by her side, and she felt very secure. Moreover, when she followed the dragon maids to "purchase" ingredients all over the world in the Fifth Era, she had seen even bigger scenes.

Looking down at her feet, the ground was full of black bloodstains and traces of flesh and blood branded into the brick seams after being scorched. During the team's advance, the three leaders were very careful to push all the corpses on the road into the abyss, so the subsequent people were just walking on somewhat dirty ground rather than a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

"If it weren't for everyone, could I have reached this step by myself?"

She asked herself in her heart, and then turned to look at the 【Elf Kingship】 on her arm. It seemed that as the group approached the temple at the end of the stone bridge, the silver crown was glowing slightly.

Xia De and the two Thirteen-Ring Shushi cooperated very well. The team with the three as vanguards only took a little over a minute to reach the middle of the bridge.

Subsequently, the thirteen construct puppets from inside the ruin finally stopped maintaining a semi-elemental state for long-range attacks, but after restoring their physical form, they took out weapons from inside their bodies and rushed toward the team along with the monster tide.

These puppets made by ancient elves did not know what technology was used. Their resistance to spell and miracle attacks was extremely high, and even Xia De's "Chaos Residue" could only barely soften the metal on their surfaces.

The construct puppets engaged with the team, blocking the team's forward momentum like a dam blocking the tide. In the blink of an eye, the three leaders engaged in a melee with those puppets, and when Mr. Eldron threw one of the puppets off the bridge and the other party actually flew back, everyone knew that things were starting to get bad.

The pressure on the flanks and the rear was smaller than the vanguard because the team rushed fast enough, making it impossible for enemies not from the front to form a truly continuous tide. Among them, the pressure on the rear was the smallest, because the corpses continuously produced in the rear would cause great obstacles to the enemies following up from further behind.

But once the team stopped, the pressure on the left, right, and rear increased sharply. Xia De and the three also knew this, so even if they couldn't destroy those puppets for the time being, they were striving to lead the team forward while fighting. Xia De's idea was to find an opportunity to paralyze one or two puppets with the 【Chain of Seven Sins】, Mr. Eldron recalled how to control this kind of ancient elf puppet, and Mr. Gerald Delong tried to assimilate them with his own mechanical parts.

And seeing that the three as vanguards really couldn't defeat those construct creatures in a short time without damaging the stone bridge itself, Miss Oulannuode wanted to let go of Emilia's hand to help, but Emilia stepped out one step ahead of her.

The little elf solemnly wore the crown on her head. Her heartbeat was accelerating because she didn't know if doing this was feasible. Therefore, she could only constantly tell herself to be confident, then tried to amplify her voice, slightly activated the power of the crown on her head to change her hair color, and then scolded toward the front:

"Why do you want to block me? Are you not even willing to respect me, this Elf King? (Ancient Elf Language)"