The grating sound of "creak, creak" rang without end.
The huge wings behind the several-meter-tall gargoyle statues slowly spread open. A dazzling blood-red light flashed in their eyes, turning them as chilling as rubies. Most terrifying of all were their claws. The claws slowly extended from their fingers, reaching a full two feet in length. As those sharp claws sliced through the air, they produced piercing whooshes.
Built primarily from obsidian, sturdy and capable of holding immense quantities of dark magical power, fitted with magical cores carved from mana crystals, and covered from head to toe in magic arrays, every gargoyle possessed combat strength no weaker than that of a Saint Knight.
But Eucalyptus Forest Castle's defensive system clearly did not rely solely on these Saint Knight-level gargoyles. More than a hundred gargoyles slowly rose to their feet, black gleams flickering across their bodies. Their sturdy obsidian bodies melted and spread across the ground like lava. Vast amounts of black liquid gathered together over the earth, and gradually, three gigantic gargoyles over twenty meters tall rose from the black slurry.
The giant gargoyles had savage features, and three pairs of enormous black wings stood out behind their backs. A warped, distorted demonic pentagram rune array flickered in and out of sight on their foreheads. An immense demonic aura constantly spread from their bodies—they had actually reached demigod-level strength.
Lin Qi clapped repeatedly in astonishment. He had seen magical puppets before, but fusing the most common obsidian gargoyle puppets into overwhelmingly powerful constructs with demigod-level strength—he had never seen such a method before.
"As expected of the E Mountain Hermit Society's lair! Or rather, one of the Fallen God Temple's hidden dens!" Lin Qi sighed heavily. "I have a feeling we've poked a hornet's nest. It seems we'll have even bigger