Everyone froze and stared blankly at everything in front of them. Who could believe that this was actually the resting place of the dead? Even though they knew that the High Elves loved luxury, and had excavated many relics of the High Elves, they had never seen anything as luxurious as Osric's mausoleum.
However, right at this moment, before everyone could recover from their shock, a wave of hurried and clear sounds of horse hooves suddenly resounded in their ears. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a team of knights clad in armor charging towards them aggressively.
Although this team of knights was riding on Nightmares like the Death Knights, they were wearing shiny silver full-body armor and exuded a massive and pure sacred aura, as though they were the most devout believers of the Brilliance Shrine.
"Damn it, that bastard Rosario, when did he collude with the Highlord? How dare he send Paladins to guard this guy's tomb!" Andoine cursed angrily as soon as he saw the silver-armored knights.
The silver-armored knights did not stop, and instead raised their spears and charged towards the crowd. In an instant, they collided with the crowd. The Elemental Shield of the mages that could withstand the Magical Crystal Cannons for more than 10 seconds actually began to crack under the charge of the silver-armored knights. It seemed as if it would shatter at any time.
Although the mages had decent strength, they obviously could not compete with the silver-armored knights. Lin Li and the other Legendary powerhouses had no choice but to attack again, and each of them held back a few silver-armored knights so that they could not form a team to attack again.
Although there were only 20 silver-armored knights, which seemed a little small compared to Lin Li and the rest of the invaders, their average strength was around level-22, which made their combat power definitely terrifying. In particular, the pure Holy aura on their bodies made them quite resistant to all kinds of elemental magic attacks.
Andoine said that the knights were sent by Rosario, which sounded like a joke to the others, but no one could find a reason to refute him. In Anril, no one else could have that pure Holy aura other than the fanatics of the Brilliance Shrine. In the face of the silver-armored knight's charge and the strong Holy aura, everyone was suspicious. Could it be that the Brilliance Shrine had colluded with Highlord Osric?
In order to prevent the mages from suffering too many losses here, several Legendary powerhouses had no choice but to take action and block a few silver-armored knights to disrupt the charging formation of the silver-armored knights. However, Lin Li, Andoine, and the others couldn't help but look at each other. They found that although the attacks of the silver-armored knights contained a holy aura, the way they used it was very different from that of the holy knights.
True Holy Knights, although not like Priests or Bishops who completely used Light Divine Spells, would often use Divine Spells like Holy Strike in their attacks. However, these silver-armored knights had pure Divine Aura, but they didn't know how to use Divine Spells at all. They simply added Divine Power to their attacks or defenses. This kind of attack naturally made people think of a kind of existence, a strange kind of undead creature, the Death Knight!
But was this possible? Although Death Knights were different from other Undead creatures, no matter how special they were, they couldn't change the fact that they were Undead creatures. The purification of Divine Power for Undead creatures was a basic rule of Anril that no one could change.
"What a joke, did that bastard Osric really become a god!?" Andoine waved the staff in his hand, and the level-22 Legendary magic Space Rend instantly blasted on a silver-armored knight opposite him. There was no explosion, but the crack on the silver-armored knight's upper body gradually became bigger, and gradually revealed the body that was covered by the armor.
At this moment, everyone was stunned. This was simply too unbelievable. Under that silver full body armor, there was actually a skeleton that was emitting golden light!
"What did that lunatic Osric do!?" Andoine swallowed his saliva with difficulty. Everything in front of him was too beyond his imagination. Could these silver-armored knights really be Death Knights that could manipulate Divine Power? Such a thing that was completely against the rules of Anril was probably something that even the gods couldn't do.
Andoine wasn't the only one who was shocked. Rosen, Aldwin, and all the mages were all in disbelief at this moment. Although none of the mages had reached the Legendary-realm, and had yet to begin to understand and comprehend the nomological power of this world, they knew how unbelievable everything in front of them was.
However, after the same shock, a look of realization gradually appeared in Lin Li's eyes. It's the Eternal Furnace. Only the Eternal Furnace that was built by that lunatic Osric could do something that violated the rules of Anril!
No matter how different the Death Knights were among the Undead creatures, they were still the same as other Undead creatures. Their soul fire was the root of their existence. Divine Power had a strong purification ability, and the soul fire of the Undead creatures would be irresistibly purified under Divine Power. Hence, even the lowest-level Holy Light Spell would cause harm to Undead creatures. Undead creatures without soul fire were just like humans without souls. Only death awaited them.
If it had been before the exploration of the Sky Castle, Lin Li would never have believed that the Eternal Furnace could create such a heaven-defying existence like the silver-armored knights, even though he had already obtained the Eternal Furnace. However, in the Sky Castle, although the Immortal King's laboratory had been almost emptied by Osric, he had also left behind plenty of experimental data, which included complicated alchemy formulas and magical alchemy techniques. However, most of them were the Immortal King's experimental records.
Although most of the experimental records were incomplete, Lin Li could also judge that 99% of those experiments were incomplete, and the degree of madness made him break out in cold sweat. It was no wonder that Highlord Osric could become the Immortal King's disciple. They were simply two lunatics who were constantly trying to enter the realm of the gods. There was no craziest thing that they did, only crazier.
In those experimental records, Lin Li had once seen the Immortal King's experimental theory of the Undead creatures adapting to and using Divine Power. The specific experimental process was no longer complete, and Lin Li did not have the time to derive it. However, at the end of the record, there was a paragraph left behind by the Immortal King that seemed to be an idea.
According to the Immortal King's idea, it was impossible to make Undead creatures possess Divine Power under the rules of Anril. The only way was to build a miniature world that was completely under his control and had all the rules of the world. In this miniature world, there would be all the elements of Anril, including the seven basic elements of earth, fire, water, wind, light, darkness, and chaos, as well as the various laws of time, space, justice, and evil.
With all the elements, theoretically, anyone who had control of this miniature world could become the god of this miniature world. All the rules would be reformulated by him, and creation and destruction would only take a single thought. The combination of Divine Power and Undead creatures, which was completely against the rules of Anril, was no longer so difficult to achieve in this miniature world. It was just like how God said that there should be light, so there would be light in the world. If God said that Undead creatures could possess Divine Power, nothing would be impossible.
This was no longer a Magical Domain, but a real world, just like how the gods created their own Divine Kingdom. In their own Divine Kingdom, the gods could set the rules at will and create all kinds of things that could not exist. They could even create the people of the Divine Kingdom who believed in them.
Lin Li did not see too many clues about this miniature world in the Immortal King's notes, but after a conversation with Connoris, he had some speculations that the Eternal Furnace that Osric had built was probably not just for the sake of replicating a Sky Castle. Be it Lin Li or Connoris, they both thought that the Eternal Furnace was probably related to the miniature world that the Immortal King had envisioned.
Now, facing the team of silver-armored Death Knights that possessed Divine Power, Lin Li was even more certain about his conjecture. Even though everything was beyond everyone's imagination, it was still enough to drive the people of the Brilliance Shrine crazy. The Death Knights who controlled Divine Power proved their existence with their powerful and incisive attacks.
If they were ordinary Death Knights, their level-22 power would already be enough for them to be called the terrifying Retribution Knights. However, the 20 silver-armored Death Knights not only possessed great power, but also pure Divine aura. They almost did not have the weaknesses that the Death Knights should have. Such a force might not be invincible in Anril, but it was enough to wipe out a powerful kingdom.
Even though Lin Li's team had three level-23 Legendary-mages and more than 200 Archmages, it would not be possible to destroy the 20 silver-armored Death Knights in a short period of time. Besides, they would definitely have to pay a considerable price for it.
After just a moment of battle, the lifelike green crystal tree statues around the square, which were all considered priceless treasures in Anril, were destroyed mercilessly in the aftermath of the battle. The peerlessly flat ground that was paved with beautiful artwork was now a complete mess under the bombardment of all sorts of powerful attacks. Any artist who saw what happened here would probably go crazy and reprimand these art killers without any scruples.
However, in the intense battle, only two Death Knights that controlled Divine Power were destroyed, while more than 10 mages had already been injured.
All of a sudden, Rosen stopped attacking, and after forming a large Elemental Shield, he slowly took out a strange-looking staff while withstanding the fierce attacks of the three Death Knights. The top of the staff was like a double-headed snake with two forks, each of which was inlaid with a large magical gem that was constantly emitting a dazzling light and suffocating magical wave.
Sensing the strange magical wave around him, Lin Li, who had only restrained one silver-armored Death Knight, looked at Rosen leisurely. The strange staff in Rosen's hand reminded him of the slingshot that he played with when he was young. However, he did not know what kind of power the gem-embedded "slingshot" had.
Next, Rosen did not care about the cracks that were continuously appearing on the Elemental Shield, and slowly chanted a magic spell. With the chanting of the magic spell, the gemstone at the top of the double-headed staff in his hand began to become more and more dazzling until it enveloped his entire body. The massive magical aura was like a tidal wave that continuously swept in all directions.
With a loud roar, Rosen's Elemental Shield finally collapsed under the fierce attack of the three Death Knights. However, facing Rosen who no longer had an Elemental Shield, the three Death Knights did not launch further attacks. Instead, they stopped and even took a few steps back, as if they felt an irrepressible fear.
With the end of the spell, the ball of light that enveloped Rosen suddenly exploded, and everyone's eyes were filled with dazzling white light. Even Lin Li couldn't close his eyes in time, and when he regained his vision, he found that the sky above everyone's heads had been blocked by two large shadows.
The two shadows quickly enlarged in everyone's line of sight. Soon, everyone saw the true appearance of the two shadows. They were actually two huge dragons. One was a golden dragon, and the other was a silver dragon. The color of the two wyrms was enough to show their identity. They were definitely not the mixed-blood descendants of the current Anril, but ancient wyrms with a pure bloodline.
Besides, Lin Li also knew that even among the ancient wyrms, the golden and silver wyrms had always been the most powerful warriors. Although tens of millions of years had passed since the prehistoric times, Lin Li had once witnessed the evolution of Anril in the Sky Castle. In the battle between the ancient wyrms and the Titan Wyrms, the figures of the golden and silver wyrms had left a deep impression on him.
The golden wyrms had super strong defensive power, and could even resist the destructive lightning of the Titan Dragon Spear. Their massive bodies brought about power that was far beyond that of other ancient wyrms, and a casual wave of their tails could flatten a mountain. Besides, their sharp claws could easily tear apart the bodies of Titans, and they were truly indestructible. The gorgeous golden dragon's breath that they spat out had the power to melt everything. Even the incomparably sturdy Titan Dragon Spear would be melted by that dragon's breath until nothing was left.
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