What did you do with the dice?

"Human mages are indeed the most troublesome creatures. What a pity! I should have eliminated you, the great mage, first."

"Rusalka" sneered and did not intend to break the magic. His body slowly rose up and hovered in the air.

Sanitta felt an unprecedented huge magical power surging in the other party's body, and quickly set up a "spell-invalidating barrier" around it. Before the explosion, Challens picked up the frightened maid at the door, jumped up quickly, grabbed her and entered Sanitta's barrier.

As the fire elements around the other party gathered, condensed, concentrated, glowed, and finally exploded, a horrific explosion occurred on the second floor of the entire villa building. The entire villa seemed to be blown in half, and the five-story building tilted and collapsed.

The servants screamed and began to run away, but at this moment the building was tilting and collapsing, and the sense of direction inside the building was completely unbalanced. Ordinary people were like hamsters in a cage, being knocked around dizzy. After opening the window, Sunita used the Feather Fall Technique to float in the air and slowly fall. Challens was even more fierce. He directly smashed the wall with a punch, and jumped directly from the second floor holding the maid, and landed steadily.

As for those upstairs, they were not so lucky. Some servants died from falling and being crushed by the ruins of the house, and those who survived were buried under the rubble and barely survived.

Wangsheng pushed away the rock pressing down on his head, pulled himself out, and took a deep breath of fresh air. He sighed, "Ahem, luckily I didn't slack off during my training, otherwise this would have killed me. What on earth is this..."

But then, after looking at the huge fireball floating in the air that exuded a terrifying aura, he only took about a few seconds to think, and he chose to immediately and silently bury himself back in the ruins - no matter what that thing in the air was, it was not something he could deal with anyway, and maybe it would be safer to hide.

Suddenly, four beams of light shot up into the sky from the four directions of the city. Rings of magic runes appeared around the beams of light and finally converged on the center of the moon. The residents of the city looked up and were shocked to find that the originally white full moon in the sky had gradually turned into a burning fireball under the influence of the beams of light, instantly dyeing the city, which was still in the silent night, a bright red.

Not only did the moon turn into a fire moon, but the flames on it also spread out, eventually forming a fire barrier that enveloped the entire city, completely isolating it from the outside world.

Three tiny golden arrows flew through the air and pierced the fireball in the air that had blown down the building.

However, the arrow melted the moment it touched the fireball barrier.

Rusalka put down her crossbow and smacked her lips. (Tsk, failed to steal the health first. Bro, what the hell is this? How come I was eating a midnight snack one second, and the next second, a building was blown up and I got a boss fight cutscene?)

Sanita was hiding behind the remaining wall, quickly preparing his spell: (Excellent answer, I don't know, the only thing I know is that the security jurisdiction in this central region is a mess, and they didn't even know there were four array points buried in the city.)

The fireball slowly dissipated, revealing the figure inside. Rusalka was surprised to find that the figure inside was the face of Grand Duke Delei.

"Unfortunately, the game time is over, human mage. If you hadn't been so smart as to see through me, I would have been happy to play a little longer."

Grand Duke Delai smiled coldly and slowly said, "That little nun really understood my characteristics very well, so when she summoned me, she even tried to use a contract to restrict my actions.

But unfortunately, she didn't understand me thoroughly enough. She thought that the six of us were enemies, so she confidently thought that I would want to get there first. However, she didn't expect that the great king had already figured out everything, so he left a huge loophole in the contract.

It's a pity she didn't come here in person, otherwise, if she saw with her own eyes that this city had become our first stronghold, and the look of shock on her face, that 'plans went astray, so she was horrified', it would have been very, very exciting to me."

Just when Rusalka felt that the guy in the sky's opening remarks were too noisy, and he also had the face of his old enemy, Grand Duke Delei, these two things combined made him want to go up and stab the other person in the face.

Just as he was about to try to provoke the boss with a universal insulting gesture, Hydra slowly came to his side, held down his arm as he was about to raise it, shook his head at Rusalka, and whispered, "This is the true form of 'Lord of Change Salinas'. The ritual of setting up the barrier is a trick of 'Lord of Blood Rezak'. This barrier will absorb the vitality of those who died in the flames and become stronger.

It is definitely impossible to rely on the army in the city. According to him, it is not difficult to ensure that the other four lords and other demons will not intervene. I didn't expect that Theresa, this little bitch, would play such a big game.

However, with your and that mage's abilities, you only need to break any of the array points near the city walls, and then use holy light or water magic to open the corresponding flame barrier and escape. So my mission for you is to take Phoenix away, and leave the rest to me."

After listening to Hydra's words, Rusalka was suddenly shocked by the scene in front of her: Black cat, how can you swear?

Uh, but it seems like the cuteness has actually increased? I'd love to have more of these attributes that Phoenix doesn't have.

He was thinking wildly in his mind, but he answered seriously: "Although I think I should apologize for my bad mouth, what I said at the dinner table before was really not a joke, Cricket Hell Lord..."

Hydra looked up at Rusalka and said word by word, "I also apologize for what I said to you before. I recognize your courage and determination to protect Phoenix, so now, I implore you to take Phoenix away."

Sanita stopped Rusalka, who was about to leave Ironhead behind: "Let's break the ritual first and save our own army. If Hydra hasn't opened her eyes, she must be relying on something. I think Theresa, knowing what she's done, wouldn't send her to die."

After listening to her brother's advice and having a full meal, Rusalka suppressed the urge to compete with Hydra, left a message "Be careful then", and turned and ran away.

Chapter 203 The Devil’s Feast (5)

Uh...I feel dizzy.

Ai Li, who was half asleep and half awake, only felt that she seemed to have had a vague dream of falling in the crater. She felt hot and dizzy. When she opened her eyes, she found that she had been buried in the ruins without knowing when.

She first used the holy light to illuminate the room, found the window and climbed out, only to find that the building she was sleeping in seemed to have collapsed.

Not only that, she looked around and found that in the distance four bright red pillars supported a burning sky, and the moon turned into a huge fireball that was hotter and brighter than the sun.

As countless spots of light flew into the four blood pillars, the burning moon seemed to have received supplies. A small fireball actually fell from it and fell into the city. Wherever the fireball fell, spots of blood light would soon fly out and feed the blood pillars again.

Ai Li felt that this doomsday-like scene was probably not a dream. After all, she was a devout believer in the God of Light. Even though dreams in the brain would reflect the evil thoughts buried deep in people's hearts, Ai Li felt that she would only have some beautiful dreams, such as her becoming a saint on Sinidi's side and eating all the delicacies in the world.

This was already the limit. This scene that simulated a cult sacrificial ritual was completely beyond her capabilities. She would not have such blasphemous thoughts.

Rusalka's voice quickly reached her ears from far away. When she reacted, she found herself being grabbed by the waist and dragged up. "Are you still asleep? Run away!"

Ai Li felt herself being held by a strong arm, and her face immediately turned red: "I, I can walk by myself!"

Rusalka felt a little sorry and put her down. "It's good that you're awake. This situation is hard to explain right now. You can think of it as a demon lord coming and setting up some kind of barrier. Anyway, let's break the barrier first and then take on the boss. That's the happy decision."

The blush on Ai Li's face had not yet faded, and she suddenly remembered those blood-red spots that made her heart palpitate. Her face turned pale and she said anxiously, "Oh no! This ritual must be terrifying. There must be many civilians in the city who didn't have time to escape. I have to go rescue and evacuate them!"

Rusalka thought it was okay, it would be better if she didn't cause trouble here.

Sanitieta knew that Rewi Alley couldn't be persuaded, and since Theresa probably wouldn't let her die anyway, he let her go: (There's no way out now, so let her take the civilians to the Pearl Tears Military Area. Saving as many as possible is better than leaving them to the enemy.)

Rusalka: "Then you lead the civilians to the Pearl Tear Military Area, and Sanitieta and I will go and break the core of the formation."

Ai Li nodded, his eyes revealing an unprecedented sense of mission.

Seeing this, Challens hesitated for a moment, then said that he also wanted to follow Ai Li. "Although I am an unworthy heir and unqualified to be the King of Sneedi, I still want to use my power to save the people who trusted me. Besides, I can also protect Miss Ai Li."

Rusalka didn't think twice. It sounded so reasonable, and he liked that kind of thing. He just waved his hand and said, "Go! Do what you want to do!"

The eldest prince gave Rusalka a royal salute from the bottom of his heart and caught up with Ai Li.

Sanitieta originally wanted to stop it, but Rusalka had already said it, and logically he had no right to refute the decision made by Rusalka, the powerful lord.

But if Charrons died here, the Pearl Tear Territory would really lose a very important name to recruit the loyal king of Sinidi. This city of Hendalia has nothing to do with them. Why should they gamble with the life of the eldest prince to save some insignificant civilians?

The appearance of a demon lord doomed the world to devastation. During the war between the Age of Gods and demons, every expedition against a demon lord and his army required the cost of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of men to succeed—and these were just the soldiers; as for the civilians, it was impossible to count them at all.

In comparison, the sacrifice of tens of thousands of civilians in a city like Hendalia is really insignificant. Under the current situation in Sinidi, the life and death of the eldest prince Charens is compared with all the civilians in this city. According to the traditional thinking of Sinidi, the latter are not as important as the former.

Now they had no choice but to act separately. Rusalka and Sanita first found the restless Chocobo, jumped on it, and galloped on the road.

There were no pedestrians on the streets at this moment. There were only some adventurers and mercenaries fighting with weapons, as well as some guards. The others had hidden in houses and taverns. The targets they were fighting were also obvious, as there were several monster corpses lying on the ground.

I saw a flame falling from the sky onto the street. After the flames around the deep pit dissipated, a red monster with a hideous face and long claws on both arms was revealed. It roared and rushed towards the people nearby.

Sanita: "Claw Demon, the superior of the Imp, around level 5-6, very weak."

But this "very weak" guy was killing everyone in the cowering crowd at this moment, and wherever he waved his claws, a rain of blood was brought up.

Rushakatse bird flew past, swung the greatsword in his hand sideways, blocked and deflected the claws, and then slashed the opponent's waist. A dazzling white light flashed along with the wound, and the latter instantly turned into a ball of ashes and flew away.

If it weren't for showing off, Rusalka wouldn't have used the Holy Slash at all. He could definitely kill a low-level demon like this with two strikes. If he hit the vital point, killing one with one strike wouldn't be a problem.

But the surrounding mercenaries clearly didn't think so. After seeing Rusalka's heroic appearance, they were instantly encouraged. Many even recognized him and exclaimed, "Oh my God, it's the living Lord of Pearl Tears!"

People shouted Rusalka's name, trying to stop him and ask for help: "Great, we are saved! Lord Pearl Tear, there are monsters everywhere, please help us!"

Rushakana was bored: (Every time I fought with someone, I had to say my name again. Now, passers-by can know who I am. I am curious how they recognize me?)

Sanitita: (Uh, it's extremely difficult to find a second clamshell shield exactly like the one you carry on your back in Snidi. I don't think even the sea people would necessarily use this kind of shield. If there's a story about you out there, your shield's features must have been the first to be used by a bard to sing about it, and there's absolutely no way there could be a second version.)

Rushaka immediately realized that her aesthetic reputation had probably been completely ruined by this shield. Is this the legendary "ugly red"?

Sanita used his wind-attributed amplification magic and shouted at the group of people blocking the road, "Get out of the way! We're going to break this formation now. If you want to be saved, get out of our way quickly, or we'll kill you instantly for treason! But if you just want to survive, follow our lead!"

His words immediately took effect. The people around him who survived the battle followed Rusalka. Rusalka was not polite either. Whenever he saw a demon along the way, he would ride his bird forward and kill it with a knife.

Fortunately, the demon lord's attainments in formation were not very strong, or the vitality of these civilians and soldiers was not of high enough, so he could only summon some low-level demons. After killing about a dozen demons, Rusalka cleared the street leading to the military area, leaving only two or three kittens. Sanitita said that it was more than enough to hand over to the people following behind him.

Before, people fought on their own, and no one dared to face the terrifying demons in the legend alone, so they were killed and fled in disarray by these lower-level demons.

Now Rusalka set an example by killing people in all directions, which weakened the stereotyped fear of creatures like demons in people's hearts. With just one word, Sanitieta gathered all the people who still had the ability to fight behind Rusalka.

Although Rusalka had already run away on the bird in front, they were all gathered together at this moment because of the following effect. Once people had a backbone and the advantage of numbers, they suddenly burst out with a fighting power that was earth-shaking compared to before. With the cooperation of everyone, they quickly cooperated with each other to kill all the remaining demons.

Even if more demons continued to fall from the sky, they would be powerless in front of this group of people who had tasted victory. They even began to take the initiative to attack and harvest the corpses of demons - this was a rare material that they might not encounter in their lifetime, and it must be very valuable.

However, the blood-red spots of light that continued to fly up in other directions indicated that the people in those places were not well prepared to fight the enemy. They could only hope that Ai Li and his team could play their role and save as many people as possible.

At this moment, Rusalka and Sanitita had already flown to the vicinity of the Eastern Military Region. Under Sanitita's guidance, they quickly found the location where the first pillar of light rose - a basement filled with the aroma of wine.

The basement room was gone, and the entrance was open at ground level.

Looking down, there was almost no light inside. It was like a huge mouth of the abyss, waiting to swallow the next person who entered.

When they got off the bird and prepared to go down to investigate, they saw Alice in a black cloak running out from the corner of a small street nearby, followed by many soldiers running with her.

At this moment, her body was covered in blood, and she was holding a blood-stained blood-red crystal in her hand. When she saw Sanitieta, she excitedly shouted, "Teacher Sanitieta—I'm over here! Look what I found!"

Seeing that the soldiers didn't seem to be chasing Alice, but rather "following" her, Sanita gathered nearby and saluted Rusalka. He then dispelled the urge to fire lightning bolts at the soldiers and carefully identified the object Alice was holding: "Demon's blood?"

Alice smiled and handed the crystal to Sanita. "I found it inside a monster that fell from the sky after the human soldiers killed it. They say it's very valuable. This is my trophy, and I'm giving it to you."

When the leaders of the soldiers saw Rusalka, their hands trembled with excitement, even as they held their weapons. "Lord Pearl Tear, you are the Lord Pearl Tear, right?"

Rusalka wanted to reply, "It's not me, you got the wrong person," but then she thought it would be too bad to joke around at this time, so she nodded and said, "It's me."

The leading soldier pleaded hurriedly, "Our city defense forces suffered heavy losses. Everyone was suddenly burned to death. Only a hundred or so of us are left in the eastern city defense force. If it weren't for the elven wizard, I'm afraid we would have died at the hands of those monsters that fell from the sky.

We want to escape, but the wall of fire outside will devour anyone who approaches. We have no way to leave. Even the elven wizard can't do anything about it. This must be the work of the cultists of the Seven Sins Church. You are a great noble lord. You must have a way to get us out of here, right? Lord Pearl Tear, I am willing to lead my men to gather under your command and fight alongside you! I promise not to hold you back!

Sanita asked, "How many residents are there at the gate?"

The young soldier next to him thought for a moment and replied, "There are so many people gathered at the door, trying to escape, but there's no way out. There are also many civilians following us. Can you save them?"

The leading soldier quickly shouted, "Shut up! Are you trying to teach Lord Pearly Tear how to do things? In this situation, being able to survive is good enough. As for whether or not to save those useless civilians, Lord Pearly Tear will make the final decision!"

But the soldier next to him couldn't help but retort, "But my family might be among them. If I have to live alone, I would rather die here fighting these monsters."

"Yes, if that's the case, I might as well not run away!"

"Me too! Monsters can be killed, so let's fight these bastards from the Church of the Seven Sins!"

His speech attracted the support of many soldiers. It seemed that many soldiers lived in the city with their families and did not want to abandon their families and choose to escape alone.

In other words, Sanitta felt that there shouldn't be enough demon followers to mix in with this group of soldiers, so he decided to do something to help. After all, if they died in the barrier, they would summon enemies, and it would be troublesome to ignore them all. "How about this, Alice, you take them to take the civilians and settle them in our military area."

Alice had originally thought that she could "fight side by side" with Sanita, but after hearing his instructions, she immediately showed an expression of annoyance: "Huh? Can't they go by themselves?"

Although Sanita was initially confused by the combined punches of the two elves, after learning and observing them for a long time, he now knows how to control these two elves who sometimes bargain. "After you finish this job, I will let you lead a team when I return."

Upon hearing this, Alice was overjoyed. The dream of becoming captain was every ranger's dream. So, she performed a standard elven ritual towards the Sanita Tower, flung her cloak, and held an arrow to her ear. "Team Silver Leaf, Alice, I swear to complete this mission! By the way, what shall my new team be called?"

Seeing that she was already opening a bottle of champagne at halftime, just like Rusalka who was currently discussing with Phoenix what to name their future child, Sanitta waved his hand at her and dismissed her, saying, "Finish your task first."

Alice immediately turned around with a smile, rode on her Chocobo, and commanded the soldiers who obeyed her very much to follow her and leave. She was completely unaware that she had actually become a true "captain" now, and was still dreaming of leading a team in the future.

Sanitta then sighed and called Rusalka, who was looking at him with a squinting look the whole time, to go down and explore the way first.

Rusalka, who had just been laughing at the joke but now became the laughing stock, adopted an unconvinced tone, "Why do you want me to use my face to explore the way? Don't you have a familiar? I remember you recently got a rat. This is the first time I've heard of using humans in experiments because you couldn't bear to part with the guinea pigs."

Sanitita: "But the pet will die. It will be very troublesome to sign it again after it dies. Where can I find a useful pet?"

Rusalka sighed helplessly and slowly walked down the exposed cellar stairs. "Okay, okay, okay, I'm just the robot doll from Monopoly 4. I'm disposable and then thrown away. I'll clear the way for you, Master Wizard."

The moment she stepped onto the last step of the stairs, Rusalka felt as if she had stepped into some sticky liquid.

The surrounding space twisted, and a heat wave that almost burned people's faces, and a nauseating smell of blood hit the face.

Looking down, he found himself standing in a pool of blood that was deep enough to submerge his feet.

The surrounding environment was consistent with Rusalka's imagination of a cult ritual scene. The walls were covered with all kinds of strange symbols smeared with blood. After Rusalka finished reading it, a prompt of [Immunity Successful] for the perception attribute popped up.

It is conceivable that if an ordinary person saw this, he would probably immediately become insane and fall into madness.

The demon sorceress beside Grand Duke Delei was standing upright in the center of the blood pool, facing Rusalka.

Behind her was a huge blood-colored magic circle that was absorbing the blood-colored light spots flying in from the outside, gathering energy, and inputting it into the blood-colored light column rising above it.

The moment Rusalka was teleported into the blood pool, the pool around him began to surge, and countless pieces of flesh and blood squirmed and surged out of the pool, quickly forming a series of disgusting human-shaped flesh creatures.

Not only that, after the sorceress stretched out her finger and injected some inexplicable power into these pieces of flesh and blood, these blood-red pieces of flesh let out miserable screams and an ominous black fire ignited on their bodies.

The flames burned the flesh and blood, as if to devour them completely, but the blood on the ground continuously nourished the flesh and blood, making them grow stronger.

The two maintained a balance in the constant birth and destruction, and eventually three such flesh and blood monsters that were constantly burning with ominous flames were generated, surrounding Rusalka.

Rusalka glanced at the three still-screaming humanoids and the sorceress. "Brother, I seem to have been ambushed. A team of adventurers is challenging me. They have a priest-magician dual-cultivator and three very tanky, even fully tanky, melee fighters with flame auras. The surroundings aren't great either. The ground is sticky with blood, and the high ground is considered a bad terrain. The situation is dire. I need your support, my good brothers. Over."

Sanita: (I'm outside analyzing the ritual structure of the light pillar. Once you destroy the magic circle, I can "collect" the light pillar. Come on, I believe you can do it. Over.)

Rusalka thought for a moment and replied: (Ganlin amount, over.)

The demon sorceress gave him a hideous smile.

Her mouth was very wide, and when it opened, it stretched out her entire face, like a slit-mouthed woman.

The mouth was filled with dense layers of sharp teeth and two snake-like tongues, which immediately destroyed the beautiful face. "Oh, a little bug fell in from the table. I hope you can still be as stubborn as you were before you die, so that I can torture you for a while longer."

Unfortunately, she met Rusalka, a man who had never lost in a trash-talking match with the natives. "Thank you. I also hope that your full-strength attack can break the skin on my lips."

The other party was immediately enraged, and with a whistle, it commanded the monster to rush forward.