The spirit guardian Knight was quite far away from Bruce, so it wasn't affected by the 'faith' aura. This made their attacks very weak.
At the same time, because the hell Knight was a long-range caster, its close combat ability wasn't strong either. This caused the spirit guardian knight and the hell knight to attack each other with their swords, resulting in a stalemate.
On average, there were two spirit guardian knights against one hell knight, but they could only delay the hell knight.
However, Abel was already very satisfied with this. The hell knight's long-range casting was just too strong. If it wasn't for the spirit guardian knight's delay, he wouldn't have been able to cast spells so easily.
He casually added an 'aging' curse on Hephasta's body, and then used his power of the will to command the eleven spirit guardian wizards to help attack the hell knight.
With the help of the spirit guardian knight, the hell knight's situation was already tilting towards Abel's side.
The next step was to kill Hephasta. After losing the underlings and the many hell creatures, Hephasta's fate was already sealed.
With the 'aging' curse, the 'faith' aura aura weakening Hephasta, and the grey bear and Bruce's close combat attacks, as well as Bruce's various powerful Knight techniques, Hephasta's life force was rapidly decreasing.
Abel and Frankenstein were on the side, concentrating on casting all kinds of spells.
In ten minutes, the five hell Knights were all killed, and the eleven spirit guardian knights and spirit guardian wizards joined in the siege.
Hephaestus let out a miserable howl as it fell to the ground. Beside its corpse, a dark golden hammer fell to the ground.
Abel's attention was attracted by the dark gold hammer. He didn't even notice the soul and the golden energy ball that flew out of Hephasta's corpse.
He reached out and picked up the dark gold hammer, softly saying its name, "Hellfire Furnace Hammer!"
This' hellfire furnace hammer 'was a dark gold item that came with the hellfire furnace. In his memory, this hammer would automatically shatter after being used once.
Abel took out the 'Mephisto's soul crystal from his holy portal bag. Just when he was about to put it into the groove on the altar, he suddenly had an idea.
He looked at the summons beside him, Frankenstein, Bruce, and Black Wind. He wondered if he should summon the rest of his summons to see if it could affect the number of runes sacrificed in the end.
He summoned Johnson, Jason, Flying Flame, and Doff as well. They formed a team of eight that was recognized by the Dark World.
As for the summons, no matter how many summons he had, the Dark World wouldn't recognize them as a team.
However, he was still a little bit greedy. If he could sacrifice, he would be able to get a lot of runes, he would be able to get a lot of them.
He wouldn't do it if it was too difficult, but the Dark World was no longer as lifeless as it used to be.
There were at least 500 elite elves living near the oak tree in Blood Moor, and this number was constantly increasing.
On one hand, the oak tree would produce new acorns, from which the high elves would be born. On the other hand, the high elves themselves would fuse and give birth to new high elves.
Abel thought for a while and used the 'city teleportation scroll' to return to the Pandemonium Fort. Then, he went through the Pandemonium Fort and arrived at Rogge's camp.
In the Blood Moor outside the Rogue's Encampment, he ordered the high elves to form a team. Apart from leaving some high elves to look after the herb garden and the newborn high elves, he brought a total of 500 high elves to the Pandemonium Fort through the small teleportation station.
Abel had always forbidden the elite elves from using the small teleportation station. Even outside of Blood Moor, the elite elves were forbidden from entering.
The reason was that there were too few of them, and they couldn't afford to sacrifice themselves.
A few hundred elite elves seemed like a lot, but it was not enough for an entire race.
If it weren't for the Oak Tree that kept increasing their numbers, the high elves would have been able to reproduce themselves and give birth to new high elves. Then, based on the number of high elves, the race would have grown extremely slowly.
If something unexpected happened, the elite elves would go extinct.
The reason for this was that these lifeforms, which were like nature's favored children, had a very low fertility rate due to their high level of life.
In an environment like the Dark World where time was accelerated, there were only a few newborn elite elves even after a few decades.
For the survival of the elite elves, Abel had planted a large number of fruit trees in Blood Moor so that they wouldn't have to worry about food.
Under such circumstances, if the high elves were allowed to explore an unfamiliar land and there were casualties, one could imagine the consequences.
Therefore, when Abel brought the 500 elite elves to the Pandemonium Fort, he was very careful. He didn't want anything to go wrong.
Abel used the "instantaneous movement" to return to the inferno furnace. He then ignited the "city teleportation scroll," and opened a blue portal door.
The elite elves quickly flew into the portal door that appeared in the Pandemonium Fort and appeared one by one in the inferno furnace.
Abel used 10 city teleportation scrolls to bring all the elite elves to the inferno furnace.
By this time, the inferno furnace was already bustling with activity. Although the elite elves were curious about their surroundings, they didn't dare to be careless because of Abel's presence. They carefully carried out Abel's orders.
Abel was the god of all the elite elves. In their hearts, they all lived for Abel.
The inferno furnace's high temperature had no effect on the elite elves. These elite elves, who could control many elements, easily covered themselves with ice elemental armor to resist the surrounding heat.
The elite elves looked at Abel with reverence. At this time, Abel placed the "Mephistopheles' soul stone" in the groove of the altar, put away the "spirit" sword and "spirit" shield in his hands, and replaced them with the "inferno furnace hammer."
He looked at the "Mephistopheles' soul stone" on the altar and felt a strong energy wave. The energy contained in the altar was beyond his imagination.
He was a little hesitant. He felt that the altar was like a volcano that was about to erupt under the guidance of the "Mephistopheles' soul stone."
However, his intuition didn't sense any danger. He turned to look at Bruce and asked him with his power of the Will if there was any danger.
Bruce was a fanatical Knight. He had received formal Knight training for many years, and his intuition was very strong. If there was any danger, he should be able to sense it.
Bruce shook his head at Abel, which made Abel feel relieved.
It wasn't that he was being too careful, but that there were 500 elite elves here. If anything happened, the elite elves would be finished.
He raised the "inferno furnace hammer" high and smashed it down heavily on the "Mephistopheles' soul stone."
Just as the "inferno furnace hammer" made contact with the "Mephistopheles' soul stone," it emitted a blinding light. Then Abel felt his hand loosen, and the "inferno furnace hammer" in his hand shattered into pieces.
The "Mephistopheles' soul stone" seemed to have a vent, and countless streams of energy spewed out from it.
"Retreat!" Abel realized that the energy was too strong and hurriedly shouted.
His power of the Will enveloped all his summons and contracted creatures, and his figure flashed hundreds of meters away.
The "elite elves" were even more relaxed. They just flew up and dodged the impact of the energy.
Abel could barely see clearly now. His eyes were full of scattered light.
"How much energy has been accumulated!" he exclaimed.
It made sense. No one had come here for tens of thousands of years. This "inferno furnace" was specially built to absorb the energy in the magma.
It had been absorbing without releasing it. It was easy to imagine how much energy had been accumulated in the past tens of thousands of years.
Abel's power of the Will sensed that items were flying out of the altar. It wasn't just one or two, but a pile of items.
His power of the Will was affected by the strong energy spewing out, and he couldn't sense what it was clearly. However, it was enough to make him smile.
This was far more than the total number of runes and gems he imagined an eight-man team could get. It felt like there was a sea of items coming out this time.
After ten minutes, the eruption finally stopped. As the energy light disappeared, his eyes regained their vision. He saw the mountain of runes and gems on the ground.
"We're rich!" He laughed and flashed to the mountain of runes and gems. He began to collect the treasures.
He didn't care about the gems. They were valuable in the Dark World, but he had the Hradik Cube. With the resources of the other world, he could synthesize an endless amount of perfect gems.
He only cared about the runes. He searched through the gems one by one.
It was a little troublesome, but with the help of the "elite elves," he easily found all the runes.
As for the gems, he gave them all to the "elite elves" to thank them for coming.
With great gratitude, the "elite elves" left the River of Flame through the portal and returned to Blood Moor with the gems in their hands.
Abel took out the runes one by one. There were a total of 508 runes. This was the number of non-summon creatures he arranged for this inferno furnace.
Originally, the inferno furnace altar could only sacrifice 8 runes at most, and that required 8 people to be there at the same time.
But this time was different. The accumulation of tens of thousands of years was simply too great. This caused the Hellfire Crucible's altar to erupt with energy during the sacrificial ceremony. The eruption of energy affected the operation of the spell formation that restricted the eruption of energy. Because of this, the sacrificial ceremony was carried out according to the order of 508 people.
Abel thought it was just a flash of inspiration. He thought the possibility of this happening was very low, but he didn't expect it to actually work.
His heart was filled with regret. If he had known this would happen, he would have made the sacrifice a little later. At the current rate, the number of 'high elves' in the Central Continent would multiply in a few years. By then, he would have gotten even more runes from the sacrifice.
However, he quickly shook his head with a smile. He was too greedy.
508 runes, all starting from "15 #"
"Hel" all the way to "25 #"
"Gul" runes, "21 #"
"Pul" runes made up most of the runes.
Looking at these runes, he thought back to the rune language formulas in his memory.
Although these runes couldn't be used to create true top-level rune languages, they could definitely be used to create mid-level runes.
He put the runes in his divine portal bag and looked at the inferno furnace again. This altar was the best place for blacksmiths to work.
What he didn't know was that this was originally a place for blacksmiths to work. Back then, a grandmaster blacksmith found a large piece of strange metal in the lava and used the metal's characteristics to build this anvil above the lava river.
But after hell invaded, everything changed. This place was also taken over by hell and turned into an altar.
It was used to create runes and gems for the trial takers of heaven and hell to increase their strength.
Abel wrapped his power of the will around the altar. He had a feeling that the altar was slowly absorbing the energy in the lava, waiting for the next activation.
"Too bad!" Abel was frustrated. Both the "Mephisto's soul stone" and the "inferno furnace hammer" were one-time use items. He didn't know where he could find them the next time he wanted to activate this altar.
Ever since he entered the Dark World, he knew how precious runes were. He had been using all kinds of methods to get more runes.
Since tens of thousands of years had passed, most of the items in the Dark World had disappeared with time.
The probability of finding a rune in the Dark World was so low that it made one's hair stand on end.
At least Abel didn't think that he could find a rune in the Dark World. After so many years of fighting, he had found many boxes and barrels, but not many items.
He did think of a way to mass produce runes. He would use the technology of another world and the mana environment of the Dark World to raise the lowest level spiritual beast blue howling rabbits on a large scale. Then, he would use the crystal cores of the blue howling rabbits to synthesize them.
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