Mount & Blade War Chronicles
Chapter 369

Holy Light That Destroyed the World

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Lion City's west door is open.

Outside the city gate is a dark sea of undead.

Behind him are the brothers with complicated expressions.

"Don't leave the city!"

Li Ang is not like those heroes in the legend who sacrifice their lives for justice, posing and shouting a few high-sounding slogans before rushing out to die...

Don't have that time...

He only gave the last order, and then rode Comet Horse directly into the sea of the dead.

Just like Vendathir did when Kewen Village charged into the battle, he unleashed all his abilities and cut a bloody path through the seemingly endless walking dead.

But Li Ang is not as powerful as Vendathir. He cannot walk in a straight line. He can only rely on his strong perception ability to find a way to the distance through the gaps between the undead.

When they first rushed out of the city gate, Silver Hand and Noldo Guard protected the flanks of Li Ang and pressed out of the city gate. The Silver Mist Rangers on the city wall were also firing arrows with all their strength.

The brothers are trying their best to provide cover for Li Ang, clearing away the undead near the city gate, and creating a temporary space for Li Ang that can allow the horse to pick up speed.

No one talks nonsense and no one is pretentious.

Even though Wendy had tears in her eyes, she just followed Li Ang's horse silently, trying to keep up with Li Ang's footsteps.

But the cover the brothers can provide is limited to the range of Lion City.

There were too many undead. Although a small gap could be temporarily cleared to allow Li Ang to increase its speed, the walking dead quickly surrounded Lion City again, making it difficult for the brothers to break out.

The undead outside the city are all corrupted corpses, and they are not warriors. They cannot capture Lion City, but they can trap most of the warriors in Lion City inside the city - Comet Horse is just such a horse, and it is impossible to break out on an ordinary horse.

Comet Horse is a very rare heterogeneous horse. It is bred basically by luck. It is an extremely fast horse. It does not have good endurance, but its explosive power is so strong that no one can keep up with it after running.

Only by relying on the explosive power and flexibility of Comet Horse, coupled with the powerful perception of Li Ang, can we pick up speed before the undead gather again, and find a gap in the sea of undead that we can rush out of.

Wendy rode Alice from Li Ang, and after only a hundred meters behind Li Ang, he lost speed and the undead surrounded him again.

She could only lead the guards back to Lion City with the support of Kloze, and ran up the city wall, watching Li Ang's back go away with tears.

Li Ang had already pulled Comet Horse to the highest speed, ran out of the shooting range of the city wall, and headed straight west with the broken limbs along the way.

The further to the periphery, the more space there is for movement and the speed becomes faster and faster.

Not long after, Li Ang's figure gradually disappeared into the night.

Only the red light emitted by Az Dahaka was still conspicuous, guiding everyone's gaze - it was originally golden light, but it was dyed red by the blood on its body.

The red light kept going west until it was several miles away.

Soon afterwards, in the wilderness to the west, the red light became brighter and brighter, gradually glowing with orange and gold...

Finally, the golden light became blazing white and expanded instantly, filling the entire world...

"Hide under the wall!"

Wendy shouted, turned around and jumped from the city wall into the city.

To be honest, Li Ang really doesn't want to do this kind of thing, carrying explosive packs.

But the problem is that there is no other way now... This thing is always counting down, and it has to rely on its own blood to last...

If you use the fastest horse to throw Aziz Dahaka out, you might still have a chance of survival.

Li Ang did not intend to carry Aziz Dahaka until the explosion. He wanted to find an opportunity to jump off the horse in a place where there were not many undead after rushing out of the sea of the dead, and let Comet Horse carry Az-Dahaka to continue running.

--Holding the explosive bag does not necessarily mean it will explode with the explosive bag. What if there is a chance to survive...

He knew that the person controlling those undead must be nearby, maybe Kavala himself, definitely behind the sea of undead, and most likely to appear to the west of Lion City - Kavala had gone to the bridgehead in the west before.

It's best to let Comet Horse run into Kavala's army and return this explosive pack to him...

If not, at least let Comet Horse take Aziz Dahaka away, as far away from you and Lion City as possible.

At present, Li Ang has left Lion City for several miles. Comet Horse is already breathing heavily, and the horse's neck is beginning to sweat.

Li Ang struck himself with a sword again and smeared blood on Az-Dahaka's body indiscriminately.

He himself began to gasp for breath - he was bleeding all the way, he lost too much blood and was a little short of oxygen.

At this time, he noticed that there seemed to be an army about two miles ahead?

Is that Kavala?

No matter who he is... anyway, the people appearing here are definitely not friendly forces!

Moreover, I couldn't run anymore, otherwise I would lose too much blood and die. My eyes were starting to turn black, and I really couldn't bear it anymore.

That's it...

"Sorry..."

Seeing that there were not many undead around, Li Ang adjusted his direction, patted the horse's neck and apologized to Comet Horse, then stabbed the horse's butt with a sword and flew off the horse at the same time.

The horse was in pain, neighed, picked up speed again, and ran away quickly.

After Li Ang landed, it rolled over for twenty or thirty meters holding its head, and finally stopped after hitting a tree.

Comet Horse's speed was too fast. Li Ang jumped off the horse while he was galloping, and he jumped off when he lost too much blood and was short of oxygen. Of course, he couldn't escape unscathed.

Although he was well prepared and rolled over while protecting his vitals after landing, trying to reduce the damage, he was still thrown half to death.

It's probably a fracture, since I can't lift my left hand anyway.

My head also hurts and I feel dizzy. It should be due to excessive blood loss and concussion...

Li Ang pushed himself up and leaned his back against the big tree. He looked back and watched Comet Horse gradually run away, and also watched the light on Aziz Dahaka's body getting brighter and brighter.

In fact, he could detect the direction of Comet Horse without looking. Generally speaking, he was indeed running towards the army two miles away.

At this moment, Li Ang felt a strange and powerful chill piercing his forehead.

He quickly retracted his head - it was probably Aziz Dahaka who had been detonated!

Now the horse is only eight hundred meters away from me at most. This distance is probably not safe enough...

It seems that I may be in bad luck...

Li Ang's feeling was very accurate. The distance was indeed not enough. He only had time to do the final mental construction for himself and huddled up behind the big tree as much as possible.

Comet Horse is still galloping, and Aziz Dahaka on horseback has completely turned into a blazing white mass.

The actual color of the white light should still be golden, but it is too intense and looks white.

Then, the golden light bloomed and spread to several miles away in an instant, turning the whole world into a vast expanse of white.

At the same time as the blazing light lit up, Li Ang's vision went dark and he lost consciousness.

People who are targeted by gods are generally very unlucky.

For example Li Ang.

From being chased by humans, to being chased by ghosts, to being struck by lightning, now I have to personally try what it feels like to be blasted by the magic weapon that once destroyed the continent...

The days of peace only lasted for a few days, but the days of life and death continued.

Li Ang's comrade-in-arms and friend Sir Roland are also a miserable person.

As Paladin, who is carrying Oracle, he has never enjoyed any benefits in his life. Instead, he has been hunted down and fought against all kinds of evil things throughout his life.

From bandits and bandits, to heretics, to demons of the abyss, now you have to fight to the death with a large number of undead.

But usually, such people are also the most determined.

If my faith and will were just a little bit worse, I might not be able to withstand the hardships of this life.

But now, as one of the witnesses who witnessed the detonation of Az Dahaka in Lion City, Sir Roland has a different perspective on gods and Divine Art for the first time in his life.

When Az-Dahaka detonated, there was no earth-shaking movement or violent sound, only blazing light swept across the earth, illuminating the night like day.

And Sir Roland has seen that golden light several times - whether in reality or in dreams.

That is the color commonly used in the Goddess of Justice Temple, and it is also what it looks like after the sun shines on the Goddess of Justice Temple.

At the same time, Roland clearly remembers that when Goddess talks to himself in dreams, there is always such a light on his body.

Roland can even see the actual function of this light from the undead outside the city - most of the undead outside the city are in a state of decay, but after being swept by this golden light, their originally rotten bodies become alive!

Those rotten, rotten meat covered with maggots turned into fresh meat under this light!

Those withered bones have become white and moist again...

These undead souls who have been dead for a long time look like they have come back to life!

In other words, they look like they just died - they have not really come back to life, nor have they become conscious. They are still undead, but they are much 'fresher', and some of the open wounds on their bodies have even been closed.

This kind of magic, or Divine Art, was supposed to be used to save lives and heal the wounded!

Roland is the only person here who knows that Kavala has become a god. He knows that Kavala is the controller of Snake Worship Cult, and he also knows that Snake Worship Cult is making Aziz Dahaka.

But Roland never expected that such an ugly thing as Aziz Dahaka could make even rotten flesh fresh, and even rotten bones be moisturized again...

If it were not made into a world-destroying weapon, then this Divine Art would definitely be able to restore any injured person... or even bring him back to life!

If it were in the past, Roland would probably think that this was the Holy Light - the kind of Divine Art that Goddess of Justice mastered in the legend to save lives and heal the wounded.

But such Divine Art was caused by Aziz Dahaka, and it appeared in a world-destroying manner.

The places swept by the golden light were all different.

In other words, everything is the opposite of what it was before.

The originally slow-moving undead all became alive and kicking, and their combat effectiveness increased several times.

There was no longer any sound of birds or animals outside the city.

In Lion City, everyone who came into direct contact with the golden light fell down without exception.

Their bodies were intact, without any scars, and even their original injuries had healed, but they... were dead.

He died silently.

Fortunately, Wendy reminded me that most people were sheltered by the city wall and escaped the light that swept across everything.

In Lion City, most people survived.

But outside the city... nothing can block the light that sweeps across everything, not even the biggest tree.

Moreover, although the trees outside the city look greener than before, Roland can feel that those trees are probably dead too...

It can heal everything, even revive rotten flesh and dead wood, but it will also take away the souls of all living things...

Is this the world-destroying Divine Art?

To revive the dead and let the living die?

The ultimate in life is death?

Roland Don't know.

But now he at least knows that there is no distinction between good and evil in Divine Art itself, only humans are good and evil.

This extremely decent 'healing technique' can destroy the world if used to the extreme.

Moreover, the person who uses it, that is, Kavala, probably never thought of using it to heal injuries and save people.

If Kavala is allowed to continue like this, how many killings will he cause? How many people will be left on the earth?

Why are they all thinking about how to destroy?

Even Astaria always lets himself eliminate evil and create killings.

On the contrary, it was only after meeting Li Ang that I realized that I should bring hope to people's lives and let them have hope in their hearts. Only then will justice remain in their hearts.

But can Li Ang survive?

Roland looked up into the distance and murmured, "Li Ang, are you still alive?"

Wendy is not as sentimental as Roland. She just wants to get Li Ang back quickly - whether dead or alive.

Li Ang was struck by lightning, but came back again. Wendy felt that Li Ang might be saved.

But the problem is that now the undead outside the city have become very energetic, and their combat power has at least increased several times. No one in Lion City can leave the city.

"Is he still alive?"

At the place where Li Ang fell, a big man wearing heavy armor asked.

He looked at Li Ang, who was completely unscathed but still unresponsive like a dead person, and helped him up from under the tree. "He looks very abnormal..."

"Of course it's not normal... He was hit by 'Holy Light Illumination'... He has lost his soul."

A woman riding on a horse said calmly.

That horse looks like Noldo Elven Horse.

But this woman is not Noldo Elves.

"Then why are our souls still there?"

The big man asked again.

He brought a group of big guys with him, and they all seemed to be Mettenheim people.

"Have you not realized yet... Under the holy light, the living will die and the dead will live... This is the ultimate weapon used to reverse the situation of the war!"

She said to the big guys behind her.

"We... yeah... we were already dead... I keep forgetting that."

The big man muttered.

"Let's go... let's get out of here."

The woman said something and drove her horse to leave.

"Maltis, aren't you going to find Aziz Dahaka?"

The Mettenheim man wearing heavy armor asked.

"We have found it... that was Aziz Dahaka just now. Commander Heinrich, from now on you are free, you can go wherever you want."

Maltis glanced at Li Ang on the ground and turned to leave, but suddenly turned back and took another look. "That's not right... Give him to me, he does look abnormal."

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