stonecrandall Chapter 169 The Glory of the Past That Was Devoured
Chapter 169 The Glory of the Past That Was Devoured
Beneath the Cathedral of St. Mary, on the giant monitoring screen, the red light emanating from the fragments of the Hun Tian Ling illuminated Mars Lee's face as deathly pale.
"It's too late..."
His voice was trembling uncontrollably.
"The Sanctuary Guard... has been activated."
Before he could finish speaking...
The thick alloy walls of the shelter sizzled as they were burned by the high temperature, and a huge cross-shaped brand emerged from the outside in, quickly turning bright red.
"He's here!"
Marsley scrambled backward and fell flat on his backside.
"Knight Saint Laurent was the closest S-class peak powerhouse to the divine realm in Europe during his lifetime."
"Now, he is an immortal guardian of the Holy Temple, dedicated to eliminating... heretics like us."
Boom!
A loud bang.
The red-hot wall exploded open, and molten steel mixed with gravel splashed inward.
A tall figure clad in tattered heavy armor and wielding a two-handed greatsword slowly emerged from the hole.
His armor was covered with black patterns, like a dried-up blood vessel, exuding an eerie aura that was a mixture of decay and holiness.
Two crimson flames of the soul flickered in the gaps of the helmet.
"Purify...the blasphemers..."
A dry, metallic sound squeezed out of his throat.
The next moment, he moved.
Its massive body unleashed a speed completely disproportionate to its size, whipping up a gust of wind. It raised its two greatswords high, slashing straight down at Zhao Leiguang, who was standing at the front, with a sharp whistling sound as it tore through the air.
This sword strike is powerful enough to cleave mountains in two.
Zhao Leiguang grinned, neither dodging nor avoiding.
"Well done!"
He roared, and the Earth Pulse Shield crossed in front of him, a thick, earthy yellow light shone, and an indestructible wall of earth instantly took shape.
Marsley closed his eyes in despair.
He could almost see the bloody scene of that reckless Chinese heavy armored warrior, along with his shield, being cleaved in two by Saint Laurent's sword.
However, the earth-shattering collision that was expected did not occur.
Inside the shelter, a desolate and eerie silence descended once more.
Marsley opened one eye tremblingly.
Saint Laurent's greatsword stopped.
The sword's edge was only an inch away from Zhao Leiguang's shield, but it seemed to have hit an invisible wall and could not advance any further.
The air around the giant sword rippled with transparent waves.
"What?"
Marsley's eyes almost popped out of their sockets.
He saw that next to Lu Yan, a young man with an ordinary face whom he hadn't paid much attention to from beginning to end was making a strange hand seal with one hand.
It was this unassuming array master who had laid out a "magic shielding" array in front of the defensive line in advance, which was imperceptible to the naked eye.
Zhao Leiguang looked at the sword blade so close to him and curled his lip.
"this one?"
Lu Yan's voice broke the silence.
"A swift and decisive victory."
The words fell.
Xiao Qianyu's figure disappeared from the spot.
A golden light flashed, and she appeared behind Saint Laurent, like a ghost.
The tip of the Dragon King's Halberd drew a perfect arc in the air, silently piercing towards the back of Saint Laurent's neck.
At the same time, Lin Chuxue took a step forward and opened her arms.
A raging crimson flame erupted from her body, completely ignoring Saint Laurent's heavy armor, attaching itself to his soul and beginning to burn it wildly.
Saint Laurent's actions remained deadlocked.
He let out a painful roar and tried to turn around, but found that he was in excruciating pain in his joints.
Wen Yue had already knelt down in the distance, and the bowstring of the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow vibrated continuously.
Several powerful crossbow bolts pierced the gaps in his joints.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of impact sounds occurred inside his body.
A perfect coordination happened in the blink of an eye.
It was so fast that Marsley's brain simply couldn't process it.
Just a moment ago, the Holy Guardian was invincible and was hailed as immortal. But now, he was like a dismantled toy, being beaten back step by step, his heavy armor crumbling piece by piece.
"roar--!"
Saint Laurent roared to the sky, his body enveloped in a surge of black energy as he attempted to repair his body and dispel the blood flames from his soul.
But all of that was in vain.
The black aura surrounding him dissipated at a visible speed under the combined attack of Xiao Qianyu, Lin Chuxue, and Wen Yue.
The crimson flames of the soul began to dim.
Just before he was about to completely collapse.
The black aura around Saint Laurent suddenly dissipated, revealing a face beneath his armor that was once handsome but now filled with pain and regret.
The fire of his soul regained its clarity for a moment.
He looked down at his hands, stained with filthy power, and let out his last roar.
"Lord...you have devoured my glory..."
The voice contained only the sorrow of betrayal.
As soon as he finished speaking, his body could no longer hold on and completely disintegrated into countless points of light.
Only a fist-sized black heart, pulsating with a filthy light, remained, suspended in mid-air.
As Marth Lee witnessed this scene and listened to Saint Laurent's last words, all his psychological defenses were completely shattered and collapsed at that moment.
He thought of Gawain, he thought of Merlin, and he thought of all his colleagues who had been sacrificed.
So this is the end for all believers.
Even the strongest knight commander, codenamed Arthur, could not escape having his glory devoured, being possessed, and ultimately being dismantled into a mangled body.
His legs went weak, and he collapsed to his knees, as if all his energy had been drained away.
Lu Yan walked forward expressionlessly.
A disk of nothingness emerged from his palm and began to rotate slowly.
A black lotus phantom flashed by, swallowing the filthy heart whole, and began rapidly analyzing the energy composition and rules contained within it.
He turned around, looked at the completely submissive Mars Lee, and spoke calmly.
"Now, tell me the exact locations of the Hun Tian Ling and the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Sword."
"Also... we need to understand all the information you have about 'the Lord'."
Mars Lee held nothing back anymore.
He grasped at the last straw, frantically climbing to the control panel, his hands trembling as he pulled up all the top-secret intelligence and revealed it all.
"They're all here! They're all here!"
He pointed to an encrypted file on the screen.
"The energy fluctuations from both divine artifacts ultimately point to the same place!"
Lu Yan opened the file.
It was an old parchment map, on which was marked the underground structure of the European capital.
At the end of the map, a line of small characters written in dark red bloodstains pierced everyone's eyes.
"To obtain divine objects, one must first pass the trials of the Seven Deadly Sins."
"The gatekeeper is the former... saintess."