"It hurts so much, who can save us?"
"What do you want to do to us?!"
"Please don't lock us up here-Ah!"
How many people were there? A thousand? Ten thousand? A million?
Their wails, their pleas for mercy, their screams, and finally their gradually fading gasps.
So many voices have been lingering in Knight Whitley's ears and in his nightmares.
He knew that all White Knights suffered from this, that nightmares were the price they had to pay for their power.
He didn't know who those people were at first, but later, as he heard another voice and saw another world, he gradually understood.
——Every one of those voices that haunt the nightmare is an innocent human who sacrificed his life to create the White Knight!
"…They sacrificed their lives to save humanity. Knight, look forward and stop listening to the voices of those insignificant people."
Suddenly, a new voice sounded from the front.
Whitley looked up and suddenly realized that he was in the lake. In the rippling waves, countless bright lights were rising in front of him just like the sun.
When he saw this extremely bright existence, his anger instantly surpassed his reverence, causing him to clench his fists involuntarily.
"God, I believed in you so much...!"
"Awake..."
"Wake up, Whitley!"
A series of rapid calls made Whitley suddenly open his eyes and jump up from the bed.
He suddenly looked down at himself.
After taking off his armor, one could clearly see that his arms were almost transparent, as if they would disappear in the next moment.
"Many zombies and corpse beasts are attacking together. We need you, knight!" Li's anxious call beside him brought him back to his senses.
He put down his arm, and the arm that was about to dissipate quickly solidified.
He stood up and followed Li out quickly, asking, "How long did I sleep this time? What's the situation outside?"
Li frowned and replied:
"You slept for ten full days. I thought you wouldn't be able to come back this time. Fortunately... the first line of defense of the base has been breached, but everyone has retreated to the third line of defense in time."
"There are so many enemies... If you don't wake up, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for much longer—"
As they were talking, the two walked out of the isolation area.
Facing the daylight, Witley saw the outside world clearly and his pupils shrank slightly.
The densely packed zombie heads were like a raging torrent pressing outside the base's second line of defense!
Occasionally, corpse beasts would appear among them, roaring at the soldiers in the base who were shooting at them.
All the monsters looked excited and anxious, as if... there was something very attractive in the base!
During the few seconds that Whitley was observing in a serious manner, he heard Li sighing, "The tendency of the black dust to gather is becoming more and more obvious."
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"You Huan, one of the black giants you asked me to monitor has made a move. Its mode of movement is short-distance teleportation, and I can't observe the interval between its movements."
"From the direction of its movement, it is heading towards our territory. In addition, half of the Spark Base has been captured by monsters, and those who are trapped in hallucinations are attracting monsters."
Xiao Pu's usual emotionless voice came to my ears.
You Huan narrowed his eyes slightly: "It really is like a house leaking when it rains all night... Keep observing, and don't reveal our true strength until it's an emergency."
Then he raised his eyes, and in his vision which was slightly shaking due to the ingestion of strange energy toxins, he saw figures appearing one after another.
A funny black-haired man's mask, a stupid blonde woman's mask, a white cloth mask that looked like a bad ghost, a rabbit mask that looked like something out of a pirated cartoon park...
Figures wearing strange masks or hoods appeared from all directions.
This feature allows people to tell their origins at a glance -
"Will the scholars of the Holy Seekers Association also break their neutrality and take action at will?"
The surrounded corpse beast raised its head and asked calmly.
The zombie wearing a funny and rough black-haired man's fake mask and big-toed leather shoes walked to the front of the corpse beast that looked a little weak.
After bowing slightly, he said in a smiling voice:
"My Lord, you are hostile to the Church and do not care about the Sisters. You only care about yourself. So we want to capture you only out of our own will, not to disrupt the situation between any two parties."
"Are you right? The new No. 18?"
When You Huan heard that the association wanted to capture him, he didn't feel much. His attention was on the last sentence.
As expected, I was promoted to No.18, which was almost the same as I had predicted before.
He raised his claws to scratch his aching head, stared at the tall and thin zombie in front of him, and continued to ask questions: "How did you develop this energy toxin that targets me?"
It was able to make him completely unaware of anything wrong before he was hit, and it was able to have a drastic impact on his body after being absorbed... He didn't believe that this was not something the association had developed specifically for him.
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Sure enough, the masked man answered him enthusiastically: "This, this is a weapon specially made by our association to deal with you after studying your body sample."
As he spoke, he took another step closer, looking through the holes in the hood and carefully observing the situation of the corpse in front of him.
He confirmed that this uniquely beautiful corpse beast was indeed poisoned and was in a weak state.
He waved his hand behind him, signaling his companions to prepare for the attack, and slowly approached, ready to capture him.
When he spoke again, his tone was filled with the excitement of catching his desired prey:
"No. 18, the strongest ability you rely on has been completely banned by the association's 'weapons'. How about both of us be decent and volunteer to let us study it for a while?"
However, the corpse beast in front of him just stared at him coldly: "What? Is your association studying the characteristics of the second generation of corpse beasts?"
The masked man paused for a moment. "As expected, he is the most talented of the second generation corpse beasts we have observed so far. He is really sharp."
You Huan noticed that he said "most talented" instead of "most powerful".
He stopped talking and watched indifferently as the people in the association revealed their monster forms or took out their weapons and approached him.
Seeing how calm he was, the man in the mask began to have a bad feeling.
However, the corpse beast's cooling ability could no longer be used because it was surrounded by energy toxins, and its strong physical fitness was also weakened a lot due to the poisoning.
Their association had made every possible preparation to capture it, so how could there be any mistakes?
Unless... unless this corpse beast had the ability to break the original situation in a place that their association's eyes could not see -
As if in response to the thoughts in his mind, he saw the snow-white and handsome beast suddenly flicked its tail and slightly raised its head.
The two pairs of coral-colored horns that dazzled and attracted countless scholars from the association, like the most perfect creation of the gods, suddenly emitted a ripple-like halo.
"…"
The funny black-haired man raised his hood, and his stiff smile was instantly drowned in a white flame, like the ashes of fireworks left after a grand event.
Within a radius of 500 meters, everything accelerated to the extreme in an instant, then broke itself apart and was completely destroyed!
Even though the scholars of the association had ghostly speed and movement, none of the scholars within the range escaped the fate of annihilation.
Destruction takes only a moment.
When the remaining scholars 500 meters away came to their senses, the scholars who had gone to capture the target had all been killed, leaving only their "prey" standing there!
The long white fur rustled in the cold wind.
The light red eyes suddenly looked over and then narrowed.
From behind it, a blizzard suddenly rolled up, and with an almost inaudible cheerful "chi chi" sound, it rushed towards these stunned scholars!
You Huan quietly watched the scholars of the association retreat, some were submerged by the wind and snow.
Even though the cooling physique and physical fitness were temporarily weakened...
The [Melting Light] that can be cast using the energy already stored, and the Snow Dust Bug that can guide the snowstorm, are still there! (End of this chapter)