Chapter 659: Moving Natural Disaster
"Boom!"
The branches of the ice crystal tree stretched for thousands of miles and slammed heavily on a spherical barrier of white light outside the church.
Although the attack failed to break the defense, You Huan was not in a hurry.
If the church's headquarters could be knocked down in one fell swoop, there would be no need to fight this war.
"Chichi!"
The ice dust bugs looked very angry.
Controlling the ice crystal tree to move forward slowly was already making them anxious, not to mention that the attack failed.
They climbed up to the surface of the ice crystal tree one by one, and the cooling ability was activated in conjunction with the branches.
Where the branches touched the white light barrier, a layer of ice crystals gushed out like a waterfall, freezing directly on the surface of the barrier, gluing the barrier to the branches!
As the ice crystals began to spread, white flames also ignited on the white light barrier, constantly blocking the spread of freezing.
The two sides were in a stalemate.
You Huan didn't care. With another order, the main body of the ice crystal tree moved, constantly shortening the distance to the church.
More branches of the ice crystal tree came out, directly imitating the original state of standing still, and one branch after another extended out.
The shadows of the branches slowly swept across the earth, accompanied by the beautiful rainbow light refracted by sunlight penetrating through the ice crystals.
This beautiful light moved to the human village near the church.
"So beautiful…"
These places were directly protected by the church and were well preserved during the birth of the Black Monument, so several children opened their eyes wide and raised their faces to feel the rainbow light dancing on their bodies.
"Don't look, come back quickly!"
But their parents have a completely different attitude.
They grabbed the children's arms and brought them into the house, hiding in the dark unlit area, looking at the light dancing outside the house with fear and horror.
In their eyes, such a brilliant light looked like a god of death, representing a huge monster passing over their heads!
"May God bless us, protect us from being trampled by the enemy, and may the church be invincible...!"
"Boom boom!"
The villagers, who were wearing ragged clothes and were thin, were praying in low voices when a violent earthquake suddenly came!
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The violent and rapid knocking sounds seemed to resonate with the whole world.
There was even a dilapidated building in the village that collapsed on the spot, but the villagers at this time had no intention of caring about the house. Instead, they poked their heads out of the dim houses with ecstasy on their faces.
——In the direction of Ikaros Church, a silver-white wave is coming! It is a dense army of white knights!
The villagers prayed in an ecstatic tone: "Praise God! Praise our first and only Creator! The pure white knight will come with your glory, carry out your will, and trample the flesh and blood of the enemy with his iron hoof!"
"... Blasphemers, blasphemers, will never be a match for God!"
Unfortunately, amid the praises, the first thing they welcomed was not the army of white knights sent by the church, but another "army"!
"Lord, this is Village 031, near the east side of Ikaros Church."
The wind and snow suddenly came howling, obscuring the villagers' vision.
In the endless cold and fear, they vaguely heard a steady female voice.
"They themselves... have done nothing wrong, Lord. Will you kill them?"
The snow dust worms were transforming into a natural disaster, wreaking havoc in front of him and advancing all the way towards the church.
You Huan did not immediately answer Li's words, but stood on a branch of an ice crystal tree, overlooking the village below.
The flat ground can be described as "bare", with almost no grass except for a few low shrubs.
Only at a slightly higher level can you see a few fields and some ordinary animals being raised.
The crops were yellow and thin, and even the livestock looked listless, showing no reaction to the approaching snowstorm.
The whole village can be described in one word - poor.
This is the case even in places close to the church headquarters. One can imagine how life is like for people in other places under the protection of the church.
However, this cannot be entirely blamed on the church.
In this end times, most people are barely getting by.
At least under the protection of the church, people are rarely invaded by the Black Dust - except for the part that the church deliberately leaked.
Deliberately creating some black dust invasion incidents is not only to test one's own black dust, but also to use the occurrence of disasters to further strengthen faith.
A ray of light in the darkness is what people long for.
However... in You Huan's opinion, these people who live like zombies are essentially no different from those captive people living on the ranch.
The only difference is whose "livestock" it is.
He also noticed that there were fewer people in the village and the houses were empty - it seemed that when the light broke out a few days ago, even they, who were under the close "protection" of the church, had to offer a large number of sacrifices to the gods they believed in.
Li also noticed this situation and frowned slightly, revealing a look of disgust.
At this time, the lord above her finally spoke: "Your parents were originally villagers of this place, right?"
"...Yes." Li looked dazed for a moment, recalling the short and happy time before the end of the world.
"But in order to cut off the connection between this precious specimen of mine and the outside world, they were already... killed by the church under the pretext of blasphemy."
Looking down at Li, You Huan said calmly,
"...Don't worry, I won't hurt innocent people."
After saying that, he spun around and turned into snowflakes, merging into the snowstorm.
The howling cold wind blew across the bare earth, and icicles quickly formed on the houses. The villagers felt the cold approaching, hugged each other, and closed their eyes in the corners of the houses.
Then the cold wind passed.
When they opened their eyes in confusion, a natural disaster-like blizzard was already roaring and rushing into a silver-white wave!
Faced with such heavy snow, the army of white knights that set out from the church shouted in unison, and a layer of white flames rose from their bodies into the sky, forming a curtain of light.
Unfortunately, after the fourth step evolution and title amplification, the intensity of this blizzard far exceeded the limit they could block.
The cold wind only blew lightly on the light curtain, and the entire light curtain became a thin, brittle shell. With a slight touch, it broke into countless pieces!
"Chi!" With a subtle cry, a little fellow like a snowflake rushed into the knight's camp and lay on the knight's armor.
"Chichi!"
"Chichichi!"
More and more cries were heard, and snow dust insects that looked like small snowflakes densely covered the knights' bodies along with the heavy snow!
The cooling constitution is activated.
"Ji~"
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After hearing the sound of breaking coming from the inside of the people below them, the snow dust bugs chatted quietly and took off again.
The blizzard stretching for hundreds of kilometers obeyed their commands and continued to move forward.
Only a large frozen ice sculpture of the knight was left in place, covering the originally barren plain in silver-white!
"Chichichi!" Seeing their companions acting so quickly, the ice dust worms shouted anxiously and were not far behind, controlling the branches of the ice crystal tree to fall downwards.
"Boom!"
The branches covered with icy thorns hung down heavily, but instead of hitting the army of knights as expected, they were blocked by iron-gray hard branches rising from the ground.
A dazzling light lit up on the battlefield.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Thick branches emerged from the ground one after another until the trees stood up completely!
Compared to the trees I had seen before, they were giants, about eighty meters tall, with gnarled branches forming thick arms and large clusters of fruit on their heads, emitting light comparable to the sun.
"These are the Qiming Tree Guards!"
Li stood on a branch close to the main trunk of the ice crystal tree and said solemnly when he saw these glowing giants.
"They are special enlightenment trees created by the church after getting inspiration from the black giant. They are at least twice as powerful as ordinary enlightenment trees. They are controlled by a guard team, and the leader of the guard team is Bishop Aldridge, who is very powerful."
"The Enlightenment Trees are an important defense line outside the church. Their light can be connected to each other to form a defense layer, but if we can penetrate them, it means we can enter the church!"
In Li's explanation, You Huan, who blended into the wind and snow, took on a beast form in front of a Qiming tree guarding it.
He could see the guard members sitting on the Qiming Tree with their eyes closed as if they were meditating.
The moment they saw him, the guard members showed nervous expressions on their faces, and immediately controlled the light emitted from the head of the Qiming Tree to connect with each other to form a defense layer.
However, as the white light was just connected, a ray of light that was much dimmer than them cut through it like a hundred-meter-long sword.
"boom!"
The movement of energy inside the white light instantly accelerated to the extreme, and the white light defense was broken straight in the middle!
Before Qimingshu could join forces to defend again, ripples of light shot out in all directions from You Huan's two pairs of horns.
Under the dim light, those brighter Qiming trees, those Qiming trees that he had once had difficulty dealing with, quickly collapsed piece by piece
!
From behind him, the ice crystal tree waved its branches, and countless conical icicles fell from the sky, piercing a Luminous Tree Guard and a group of White Knights.
With another wave of branches, the Qiming trees that tried to surround it were blown away.
Soon after, a snowstorm hit. Two Qiming trees that were unfortunately caught in it, along with their controllers, walked a few steps in the biting cold, then slowly stopped and gradually turned into ice sculptures.
Just You Huan himself, his symbiote and the ice crystal tree can form an invincible army, a real natural disaster!
Snow dust worms and ice dust worms were flying wildly, and suddenly, a voice came from the wind and snow.
"Dust... You are not only imitating the Qiming Tree, but also imitating the White Dust of God... You are indeed the greatest blasphemer in this world!"
A figure gradually emerged from the wind and snow.
This old man, who looked like a dried corpse, was the bishop who had led the guards to attack You Huan!
He had only taken a few steps when he encountered something and stopped.
The surging snowflakes submerged everything, and the area near the church turned into a pure white hell like You Huan's territory.
A figure was looming in the middle, with only a pair of scarlet eyes shining from the white snow.
And above his head, a light curtain as bright as the aurora had stretched across the sky at some point.
Feeling his abilities being suppressed, the bishop's face changed slightly.
At the same time, behind the battlefield——
Witley stood in front of Li, his steady gaze fluctuating slightly as he looked at the figure in front of him.
"Ikaros' bell ringer..."
He slowly uttered a title.
In front of the two men, a hunchbacked old man suddenly appeared and silently pulled out two gray scimitars from the gray cloth wrapped around him.
The battle is about to begin. (End of this chapter)