Chapter 277: The Arrival of Demons
Dozens of Ancient War Trees moved frantically across the Sandro Highland, shaking the earth as they went. Wherever they passed, large gaggles of birds were startled and numerous wild animals fled in fear.
At the same time, magical beasts that were hiding in the Sandro Highland were crouching in their hiding places, not daring to roar or even attempt to drive out the mysterious new invaders. The Ancient War Trees were so powerful and intimidating that even an adult dragon would be scared of them!
At the moment, they were carrying a large number of elf wizards and human wizards with them as they headed for the Silver Moon Forest. When they were approaching the Silver Moon Forest, they stopped in a valley.
The Ancient War Trees filled the narrow valley, while all of the wizards, who stood on the trees' sturdy trunks, looked up at the sky. Wendy had a look of horror on her face, as she saw that dark clouds had just moved in, completely obscuring the sun and covering the entire sky!
To make matters worse, a large number of demons hovered beneath the dark clouds! They attacked Taman City in the Silver Moon Forest, and the tremendous Tree of Life emitted a light to counteract their attacks.
As Jonathan had followed Marina here, he also saw the flying demons in the sky. Although he had never met a real demon in person, since alchemists often dealt with devil kin, he was very clear about what a devil looked like, especially the Stikua devil species, which were the devils that were behind the Church of True God. Hence, Jonathan recognized them immediately.
"How can the Stikua devil species be here? How did these demons leave the abyss and come to our world??" someone asked.
Marina pointed to the sky, where there was a huge red flesh ball that was floating among the dark clouds. At the moment, it was being guarded by numerous demons. As they continued watching it, they could see a large number of demons continuing to come out of it before laying siege upon the Moonlight Elves and the Tree of Life.
"That's the thing that opened the route to the abyss! Heckfoss, the faceless man of the Church of True God, must be here!" Marina said.
At this very moment, in Taman, plants and vines started to grow rapidly. The huge green vines spread on the ground and climbed up buildings. They then intertwined with each other, forming a wall to resist the demon invasion.
Elves shot arrows into the sky, while rows of archers shot special triangular arrows, which penetrated the demons' heads and wings. Above the ground, a large number of elves, wielding steel swords, charged at the demons. When the devil fire inside the demons was destroyed, these demons vanished into a cloud of black smoke.
The harvest goddess used divine incantations to kill numerous demons, causing seeds to grow within demons, then devour their bodies. Then, under the goddess' control, all kinds of plants started to attack the demons. At the same time, priests on the scene used Group Healing methods, which constantly provided support and rejuvenation to the wounded elves.
"Help me!"
"Help me, Bernice! The harvest goddess!"
Countless elves pleaded for help from the goddess of harvest. They fought against the demons at the spires and corridors, shouted the name of their goddess as they were dying.
At the moment, besides forming a wall of plants to stop the demons from invading, Bernice was also trying to destroy the flesh ball, which was the demons' mode of entry into this world. By this time, Heckfoss had transformed into a demon warlock, who had then turned into a huge flesh-winged monster that was hovering over the sky with a large number of fellow demons, guarding the door of the abyss.
Olanca, who was now under the Tree of Life, had almost gone mad by this point. His red eyes were bloodshot, and as he waved his wand, he guided the other priests to resist the demon invasion.
The gem at the top of his wand emitted rays that froze the devils, stopping them from moving forward. Then, the priests behind him used witchcraft to kill the frozen demons.
However, a large number of elves still died during the demons' attack. As a result, the Moonlight Elves' land was covered with blood. Even their previous battles with magical beasts had not reached such a tragic level, as now, the Moonlight Elves were close to becoming extinct!
"Divine Thorns!" In a fury, Olanca used a forbidden divine incantation.
As he stabbed the wand directly into his chest and blood spurt everywhere, his eyes showed a fierce look of determination.
Immediately, countless thorny vines spread out from under his robe, instantly covering the surrounding area. These vines seemed to grow right from his body, and as the vines rose as they spread, he also rose. Once he was high above the ground, the vines unfolded at his back, like a pair of angel wings.
Demon cries were heard as the vines continued to attack the demons that were close to the Tree of Life, killing them and devouring them instantly. These vines then continued to spread and attack until they had killed all of the demons within a one-mile radius.
These vines had deified thorns, which radiated an extraordinary power that could devour the flesh and blood of all of the demons. At the moment, Olanca looked very tired. It seemed that, as well as borrowing power from the vines, he was also being swallowed up by that same power!
The entire city was now surrounded by blood and fire. The elves were crying and screaming, and there were scenes of fighting and killing everywhere. For more than a thousand years, the peaceful elves had never witnessed such a scene!
"Guard the tree! Guard Bernice! Never give up!" one of the determined elves roared.
At this time, Bernice, the harvest goddess, saw that the Moonlight Elves were on the verge of collapse. The number of demons here had far exceeded her expectation.
She knew that she must quickly destroy the gate of the abyss, as there would be more and more demons coming from the abyss if she failed to do so. These evil and dirty things from the side of the door were just waiting to invade her world!
Bernice left the Tree of Life, her huge demigod's body forming into a huge light shadow and heading toward the sky. Soon, her Divine Shadow occupied the whole sky. Even when standing outside of the Silver Moon Forest, one could still see her tall Divine Shadow, facing the center of the dark clouds in the sky, which housed the door of the abyss that was guarded by the demons.
At this moment, all the elves and demons seemed to stop moving at the same time. They were shocked to see the huge shadow of the goddess penetrate the clouds, then bombarded the sky with flowing green light.
In a single moment, the entire dark world was illuminated. Innumerable petals fell from the sky, while more and more demons began to grow petals on their bodies before they were gradually devoured by the power of the plants. A flower rain had fallen upon them!
After the harvest goddess had penetrated the demons' defense, she went directly towards Heckfoss, who was in the center. At this moment, flower petals started to grow on Heckfoss as well, devouring all of his flesh and depleting all of his strength. He couldn't escape.
"How can this be possible? Even the power of the Abyss Gate cannot prevail against a demigod?" Heckfoss roared wildly, while his arms and legs started to melt, little by little.
"I won't die! I can't die!" Heckfoss roared wildly upon seeing the the Divine Shadow had reached the Abyss Gate.
Bernice, the harvest goddess, was raging at the moment. Her face was blurred and her eyes opened widely as she glared at the Abyss Gate and Heckfoss.
At this moment, the Abyss Gate wriggled. Suddenly, a crack appeared, and a huge arm that came out from the other end of the abyss seized Bernice!
Then, an evil whisper came from the other end of the Abyss Gate. It was not a voice that could be heard, but was actually an eerie sound that could be sensed only by one's mental awareness.
"Got you!" the voice transmitted.