The huge building stood quietly in the frozen dusk. There was no sound around it, as though it was an oil painting.
While traversing through such an environment, Derrick Berg was even more tense than when exploring the depths of the darkness. The hair on his back stood on end.
After entering the area enveloped in dusk, the entire expedition team, including Chief Colin Iliad and Shepherd Elder Lovia, inevitably showed signs of exhaustion and decline. They felt as though they were nearing the end of their lives. And as they proceeded forward, the rotting giants that wandered the roads or rushed out of different buildings increased in number and strength.
With one side weakened and the other strengthened, it became difficult to advance. After a few intense battles, the City of Silver's expedition team finally broke through the monsters' "blockade" and "obstruction." They arrived at an extremely quiet area without any sound. It left their scalps tingling.
With regards to this, Demon Hunter Colin Iliad had no choice but to break the silence and remind them, "This means that we have truly entered the Giant King's Court and are about to approach the core.
"This means that we have truly entered the Giant King's Court and are about to approach the core. The danger level will only increase and not decrease."
Upon hearing this, a small number of members of the expedition team wavered due to the influence of dusk. From their point of view, although they didn't dare to stay most of the time in the earlier stages, afraid that they would be surrounded by the rotting giants, there was still a situation where they could rest and adjust themselves after clearing out all the monsters in a small area. They had obtained quite a number of Beyonder characteristics, mystical ingredients, and potion formulas. It could be said that they had gained enough from this exploration, and there was no need to continue venturing deeper. What they needed to do now was to find a suitable building and set up an advance base in preparation for the second exploration.
Faced with such a suggestion, Colin Iliad didn't say anything else. He only emphasized that the goal of this exploration was to figure out the general situation of the Giant King's Court as much as possible, so as to accumulate enough information for the subsequent operations.
Then, he got a team member named Antiona to "pacify" those who had wavered.
As Shepherd Elder Lovia also supported the Chief, the small number of members of the expedition team quickly adjusted their mentality and followed the Chief quietly.
After a while, they saw a huge stone staircase. It was grayish-white in color, but it was dyed with an orange-yellow glow. It was both gorgeous and silent.
Each level of the staircase was relatively high. If it were an ordinary human, it would definitely be very strenuous for them to walk. Fortunately, the shortest member of the expedition team, Elder Lovia, was close to 1.9 meters tall and could control strong winds.
Above the huge staircase was a majestic city wall that one had to look up to see the top. There were many burn marks on it, and some places were pierced by arrows that were as thick as ordinary trees and several meters long, causing some of the stones to collapse.
In the middle of the city wall was a pair of double doors that were dozens of meters tall. The color of the door was more grayish blue, and there were many golden nails embedded in it. Two guards stood outside the door, giving off a strong sense of oppression just by looking at them.
They were about five to six meters tall and wore exquisite and sturdy silver full-body armor. One of them held a greatsword, while the other held a giant axe to the ground. Behind their visors, there was an orange-red light that looked like a single eye.
"Silver Knight …" Demon Hunter Colin raised his right hand and held his sword horizontally, stopping the members of the expedition team behind him.
He had already unsheathed the two swords on his back and smeared them with different drugs.
Silver Knight … Derrick Berg's eyelids twitched as his heart palpitated.
He had recently come into contact with some information that only the upper echelons knew from the Chief. He knew that the Giant pathway's Sequence 3 was called Silver Knight, and he also knew that the City of Silver lacked the correct potion formula, but they had the corresponding Beyonder characteristics.
What surprised and horrified Derrick was that the gatekeepers at the core of the Giant King's Court were two Sequence 3 demigods. This was a level higher than the strongest combat power of the City of Silver!
And this was only the area of the King's Court's entrance. If he could go deeper, it was unknown what he would encounter.
After his horror, Derrick couldn't help but feel a certain sense of anticipation.
Perhaps, in the Giant King's Court, he could find the potion formula for the Giant pathway after Sequence 4.
That way, the Chief might become a Silver Knight, greatly increasing the strength of the City of Silver. When the time came, he would be able to explore the Giant King's Court further, find more potion formulas, hunt more monsters, and obtain more high-level Beyonder characteristics and mystical ingredients.
Subconsciously, Derrick looked around and realized that Joshua, Haim, Antiona, and the other members of the expedition team had the same reaction as him. They were nervous and fearful, but also a little hopeful.
At this moment, Shepherd Elder Lovia took two steps forward and stood beside Colin Iliad. She looked up at the grayish-blue door and the two Silver Knights who were in an unknown state.
"If there's only one, we have a chance of dealing with it."
What she really meant was that with two Silver Knights, even if they were willing to suffer massive casualties, there was no way for them to wipe out the enemy. After all, even if the Chief could control his Mythical Creature form and could normally fight a Sequence 3, the environment here didn't allow him to make such an attempt. The shroud of dusk brought about decay, and what could originally be withstood might not be withstood.
Colin Iliad nodded and glanced at Lovia and Derrick Berg. After observing the area ahead for a while, he said, "That's right.
After observing for a while, he said, "From the looks of it, as long as we don't approach the door, the two guards won't attack us."
"Perhaps we can try to lure one of the Silver Knights away and do a solo cleanup?" The female warrior named Antiona deliberated and made a suggestion.
She had medium-length burgundy hair, and her facial features weren't considered exquisite, but when combined, they were extremely imposing and beautiful.
In this expedition, her main mission was to rely on a Sealed Artifact she wielded to treat the psychological problems of her team members and resist enemies with psychic domain powers.
Antiona's actual idea was for her and the other members to lure one of the Silver Knights away and rely on the terrain and their cooperation to deal with it. Meanwhile, the Chief and Elder Lovia would join forces to deal with the remaining one, hoping to finish it off as soon as possible.
This was a textbook method of dealing with similar situations in the City of Silver.
"Even if there's only one Silver Knight, it will be very difficult. Furthermore, there's no guarantee that the Silver Knight you lure away won't directly reveal its Mythical Creature form." Demon Hunter Colin calmly rejected Antiona's suggestion.
Ignoring the fact that the Silver Knight had powerful Beyonder powers, as long as it revealed its Mythical Creature form, most of the members of the City of Silver's expedition team wouldn't be able to look at it directly. They would be affected, making it impossible for them to deal with it.
Without waiting for the other team members to speak, Colin Iliad looked back and said, "Let's take another path.
"Let's take another path.
"Derrick found some information in Afternoon Town's Reflection World. It records a passageway behind the Giant King's Court."
Shepherd Elder Lovia's gaze immediately cast at Derrick Berg. Her gaze was indifferent, calm, and emotionless.
Derrick subconsciously raised the Unshadowed Crucifix in his hand a little higher, restraining his indescribable trembling.
"Alright." Lovia agreed with Colin Iliad's suggestion.
Hence, the expedition team retreated from the huge stone staircase and circled to the left.
Before long, they saw a rugged path. On the right was a towering cliff, and on the left was a bottomless cloud that was tainted with the light of dusk.
Of course, the path was only relative to the giants. To the members of the City of Silver's expedition team, it was still relatively spacious.
As they walked forward, Derrick and company's spiritual perception was triggered at the same time as they subconsciously looked to the side.
At the edge of the cliff, grayish-blue swollen palms reached out from the orange-red clouds. They were densely packed and difficult to count.
If they were all giants, even if they were only Sequence 7 or Sequence 6 giants, this number was enough to wipe out the City of Silver's expedition team.
Colin Iliad was just about to swing the sword in his hand when Derrick suddenly had a subtle feeling. He hurriedly raised the Unshadowed Crucifix in his hand a little higher and pressed a finger on a particular thorn, causing bright red blood to seep out.
The glow of dusk emitted by the pure cross suddenly brightened, as if it had returned to the state of noon. They surged towards the edge of the cliff, enveloping the grayish-blue giants that were attempting to climb up.
These giants froze at the same time as their bodies faded inch by inch, quickly melting away.
They weren't real giants, but the wraiths and shadows left behind by the giants after their tragic deaths. Therefore, the Unshadowed Crucifix could sense them.
It was a saint-level Sealed Artifact of the Sun domain, the nemesis of wraiths, shadows, and evil spirits.
After easily finishing off these monsters, the City of Silver's expedition team continued advancing warily. After a while, they finally circled around the mountain wall and cliff and saw a dark forest.
In the forest, the trees were dozens of meters tall and extremely thick. However, their bark was peeling off, and their trunks were rotting. Their leaves and branches were withered, giving off a sense of decline.
The branches and leaves were supposed to be entangled together, forming a barrier in midair to block the light of dusk, making the interior dim. But at this moment, due to the large number of collapsed trees, the orange-red light had already scattered across most of the forest that could be seen with the naked eye.
"This is the Waning Forest where the Giant Ancestor, the parents of the Giant King, is buried." Derrick looked ahead and silently calculated how much longer he could use the Unshadowed Crucifix before speaking to the Chief and his teammates.
Colin Iliad stared at the forest for a while and said, "It's already been destroyed.
Even if there's any remaining danger, it won't be too strong. We can attempt to explore it. "
"Yes, Your Excellency," Derrick replied without hesitation. Derrick replied without hesitation, "My cross can resist the environment here. I will walk in front."
He remembered that Mr. World had warned him that there might be some kind of corruption lurking in the forest, and that the Unshadowed Crucifix could provide an effective warning.
The white-haired Colin nodded slightly.
"Be careful of your surroundings."
Derrick took a silent breath and strode towards the Waning Forest.
At the same time, he used the convenience of walking in front to softly recite Mr. Fool's honorific name.
Then, Klein, who had his vision blocked by the dusk and had been offline for a period of time, could finally see the exact situation. However, he was unable to expand his vision too far.
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