What should the Gate of the Abyss look like?
A hole opened out of thin air, and on the other side of the hole was another world? But looking from the other side of the hole, or from the side, there was nothing unusual?
A huge portal like a city gate, and an open wooden door connected to another world?
Or a majestic passage full of red magma-like rocks, emitting the stench of sulfur, connected to the world where fiends lived?
Before today, 100 people would imagine 100 different kinds of Gates of the Abyss. Because in the written records, the image of this gate was vague.
Now that he saw it with his own eyes, he realized that it wasn't that no one was willing to record it in detail, but that the scene in front of him was too complicated and looked irregular, making it difficult to record.
First of all, there was no hole, passage, or the like. The invasion of the Abyss was more like the superposition of two worlds, each with a part overlapping. Looking at the place, sometimes it was a forest scene, and sometimes it was the appearance of the Abyss. More often than not, the two places were like a mirage, blurred yet existing at the same time.
Staying outside the overlapping area and looking from different directions, sometimes you would see the scene of another world. There was no need to talk about the iconic features of the Abyss. The most frightening thing was the fiend army gathered not far away.
Therefore, the so-called Gate of the Abyss was more like a maze of disorder generated by the superposition of two planes. After entering this space where two worlds overlapped, the average person wouldn't be able to distinguish directions at all. In fact, in such a place, a sense of direction was meaningless. … My next step may be to appear behind me.
If your luck wasn't so good, after taking a step, your lower body would be one step away from here, while your upper body would appear in another place. In fact, this situation wouldn't bring any harm. It was just a disorder of space, but in terms of perception of your body, you were still a whole. The usual solution was to follow the original path out of the disorder of space, and then return to your original state.
But was the state of spatial disorder fixed? Could everyone really be so calm, able to remain calm in the face of such a situation and find the best way to solve it?
As a matter of fact, before the overlapping parts of the two planes were stabilized, the spatial disorder would constantly change. At the same time, if a person who was trapped in it panicked and moved around randomly, it was possible that they would face even more chaotic spaces, allowing their body to run to even more places.
And the more complicated the situation, the slimmer the hope of recovery. It was just like a person who didn't know how to play Magic Cube. They only knew how to stare at one side and stare at one color to get the same color. However, he didn't think that while he was piecing together a color on each side, he was also messing up the remaining five sides.
If he walked out of this chaotic space before he fully recovered, it meant that there would be a part of his body left in this space, which meant that the space was severed. No matter how strong the defense was, it could not stop the rules of the world from saying that a certain part of the body did not exist.
In order to prevent such a thing from happening, they had to rely on Magicians who were proficient in spatial knowledge. Other than marking the borders of the Chaos Domain, their most important duty was to stabilize the situation of the Chaos Domain. Furthermore, he was looking for the correct path from one world to another in this spatial maze.
After this period of hard work, the demonic mages not only drew the boundary of space, but also accelerated the action of the two worlds devouring each other. As long as the two planes overlapped deeply enough. There would be fewer chaotic situations in the space.
Just a while ago, there began to be frequently lost imps who crossed into the maze and were brutally killed by everyone. This was undoubtedly an important message that the war was about to begin.
And just yesterday, the Airship's abnormal cruise, coupled with the sudden and strange order to prepare for war. It was simply like a summons to the world. The group of higher-ups found out through some channel or method that the invasion of the demons was imminent.
All the exercises that wasted physical strength were stopped. Everyone and all the troops held their positions. Looking at the other world, and also at the same world, there were endless demons gathered together.
Separated by the gap between the planes, the creatures of the two worlds were curious about the other world. But they also knew that the moment the two sides came into contact, it would be the beginning of the war. It was just that before their eyes, it had not yet unfolded.
In the joint command center of the Tower of the Great Sage, a young general proposed the strategy of invading the Abyss first. Other than controlling the flames of war in the demons' territory, it was also the action of closing the Gate of the Abyss as early as possible.
It seemed to be a very strong reason, but in fact, anyone with decision-making power would not agree to such a stupid tactic. There were two reasons:
First, abandon the position in front of them that was built like an iron hoop and charge into the demon army that was waiting at ease. Any general with a little bit of common sense would not make such a choice.
Moreover, crossing different planes, it was inevitable that there would be a short period of discomfort due to the difference between the dimensions. Some people said that this was a curse given by the unfamiliar world when traveling to a different world. No matter what, such a disadvantage would be borne by the person who crossed the gap between the planes. Then, this person should be borne by 'humans' or 'demons'. The answer seemed to be self-evident.
Instead, let the demons come over and use the geographical advantage of positional warfare to kill a few waves of demons first. This would reduce the number of enemies when they counterattacked the Abyss later. This idea was the mainstream opinion.
Just like that, it formed a strange scene. The two armies of humans and demons looked at each other across the gap between the planes and did not make a move.
It was not that no one tried to attack. But all their methods were blocked by the space maze in the gap between the planes, and they were lost in the endless corridors. No matter if it was magic, arrows, or even stones from the catapults, once they were launched, it would only be like a clay ox entering the sea, quietly disappearing without a trace.
A war that could be expected to be incomparably bloody and tragic. At the beginning, both sides were actually staring at each other, competing to see who had more patience.
Unfortunately, patience was never an excellent virtue of demons.
On the afternoon of the second day of the confrontation, there was obviously a considerable commotion on the demons' side. And there was a tendency for it to become more and more intense. Finally, a demon army broke away from the main army and advanced towards the door alone.
This demon army was made up of tall and sturdy fellows. One could imagine how elite this group of demons was and how confident they were in facing all enemies.
Their steady and orderly footsteps made this army not look like it was made up of demons. However, their dark brown skin color and the pair of goat horns on their heads proved their identities.
As the demon army advanced step by step, the hearts of the humans also thumped, and cold sweat broke out on their foreheads. With such elites as the opponent in the first round, the mages did not have much confidence. After all, the individual strength of demons was far higher than that of humans. And when there were enough of them, the quantitative change caused was also not something that ordinary people could resist.
The moment the goat-horned demons, who were holding double-headed swords and were naked, stepped into the gap between the planes, the only defensive equipment on their bodies, which was the golden wristguards on their left and right hands. Everyone's heart was in their mouths.
Their figures were suddenly left and right, suddenly forward and suddenly backward, changing in many ways and difficult to predict. Advancing in the gap between the planes was so illogical.
At the same time, a discordant voice spread in the human camp.
"We don't have to sacrifice our lives for the disaster caused by the greed and cruelty of the previous tower master. Especially the person who should be responsible for all of this, hiding in a safe area, but wants us to stand on the front line against the invasion of demons. This is wrong. There is no righteousness or name to speak of in this war, let those ignorant people who can't see the truth pay the price for the greed and sins of others. I am going to leave the battlefield and protect the home that I should really protect, instead of helping a group of liars to guard this broken tower! "
Guarding the north of the gap between the planes, the five hundred mages of the Society of Sorcerers' Cartier district branch at the front line withdrew from the line of defense under the watchful eyes of everyone. Any allies who blocked their retreat route would be rudely pushed away.
But if someone observed carefully, they would find that the rudely unreasonable people were the ones leading the group. Most of the people behind them were at a loss and followed blindly. They did not understand the situation and left with the officer leading the group. Because of this, the leader did not dare to go too far and kill people in order to leave, so that his own rationality would be lost.
But this move had already caused a great commotion and discussion in the human camp. It was because the Cartier district branch was originally the main force on the front line, and the position of defense could be said to be quite critical. Now that they had withdrawn, it was tantamount to exposing a large area of weakness and hinterland in front of the demon army.
The withdrawal of the mages' allied forces also affected some of the lesser lords with weak minds. Their indecisive movements disrupted the order of the northern line of defense. Some people wanted to follow, and some people rushed forward to fill the gap. As a result, chaos ensued.
And how could the demons not know how to take advantage of this unforeseen event? The demon lord who commanded this army did not hesitate to choose to press forward with the whole army. The rumbling sound was like the roar of the earth. The inhabitants of the abyss, who could not see the end, were accompanied by high morale. They roared and advanced, and advanced again and again.
At the same time, through the external monitoring equipment of the Tower of the Great Sage, the people who witnessed all this, including the presidents of the four Society of Sorcerers district branches, the students of Orange Eaton, and the people who belonged to the old president's system, were all angry and could not understand the actions of the Cartier district branch.
They all looked at the president of the Cartier district branch, Gregory Otto, who had a confused face. Judging from this person's loss of composure, he should also belong to the category of people who did not know.
But in many things, ignorance was not blameless. Now that the defensive line was torn apart, the north side of the Gate of the Abyss was in chaos. It was difficult to clean up, and even more difficult to stop the demons. In this chaos, if they were attacked by the demons, they would have to pay the price of more lives.
However, the goat-horned demons were about to walk out of the plane gap.
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