In fact, Hao Ren had a bigger question about the young demon hunter named Claude.
Why would he, the attendant and herald of the first sage, appear on the battlefield?
It was an orc shaman who had captured Claude. This shaman had been with the mad demon king since the early days of Y 'zaks's rebellion. He was loyal and powerful. Y 'zaks summoned the shaman to his side to ask about the situation at the frontline. He also asked about Claude. The old orc was very impressed with the young warrior he had captured. "He charged with the others and was a warrior in battle. At first, we didn't notice anything different about him. It wasn't until several powerful paladins were seriously injured by him that we realized that he was probably a commander."
Y 'zaks frowned. "You said that he charged at the front line like an ordinary soldier? Did he have any extra guards or attendants with him at that time? "
"No," the old orc shook his head, the shaman's pendant jingling. "If his characteristics were more obvious, we would have noticed it from the beginning."
"Well … Anyway, you have caught a very important guy. You should be credited," Y 'zaks said, waving his hand to dismiss the old orc. He then turned to the others and asked, "What do you think?"
"It doesn't look like he's out of his mind to charge on the battlefield," Hao Ren said, smacking his lips. "Tsk, what do you think the sages are up to?"
"At present, the front line of the legion has advanced to the edge of the Netherrealm Clock Tower." Lanina looked at the floating sand table in the center of the room. The palace models floating in the air had basically carried the mark of the demon king's legion. From bottom to top, they had fallen under the legion's control as if swallowed by a shadow. Now, only a few palaces on the upper level of Coldpath and the strange Netherrealm Clock Tower were left in the stronghold. Hao Ren and the others were now at the front line. The place where Claude was captured was the nearest floating square. The battle there had just ended ten minutes ago. "The Council of Elders has not many available soldiers. Their stubborn resistance in this situation is not very strategic. It's basically a chaotic fight. Claude probably ran out to die a heroic death. "
"Maybe …" Hao Ren did not comment on Lanina's statement. Although the Council of Elders could not turn the situation around, it was still suspicious that the attendant of the first sage had abandoned her master and rushed out to fight just because the situation was hopeless. "What's the change in the Netherrealm Clock Tower?"
"There's no change. It's still shrouded in a layer of shadow, and since early this morning, I haven't seen anyone coming out of the tower." Lanina's voice was a little confused. "Now I can't see any connection between it and the outside world, and because of the defense network, the scouts can't get too close."
Y 'zaks and Hao Ren looked at each other and nodded. "Then continue to attack the energy nodes around."
Under the command of the Demon King, the Allied Forces, whose morale had reached its peak, launched an unprecedented final attack on the last line of defense of the Council of Elders.
The remaining forces of the Council of Elders had all gathered around the Netherrealm Clock Tower. Although they were in a strange state, they still lived up to their name as elites. In the face of the onslaught of the Demon King's army, the demon hunters of the Council of Elders put up an extremely tenacious resistance. The elder and master-level demon hunters had caused a lot of trouble for the generals under Y 'zaks. Y' zaks had to pay several times the number of troops to maintain the advantage of suppressing the last few temples and energy nodes.
But in any case, the outcome of the battle had been determined. The resistance of the demon hunters was only delaying the collapse of the entire front line.
When the army in the front line rushed to the last stronghold of the Council of Elders, Hao Ren and White Flame led a small team of elites to a place very close to the Netherrealm Clock Tower through a newly opened secret route.
They landed on a rock platform that floated in the void. The platform was empty. There were no palaces or high walls. Only the broken and messy stone bricks on the ground indicated that this might be the remnant of a plaza. All the ruins in Coldpath had an independent gravity of unknown origin, but the gravity on this platform was very weak and tilted in the direction of the Netherrealm Clock Tower. When standing on the platform, one would always have the illusion of falling and slipping into the void.
Hao Ren stood on the edge of the platform, took out a graviton bomb from his dimensional pocket, and threw it into the distance.
The graviton bomb flew in a straight line into the distant darkness after leaving the gravity of the platform. But before it could explode, it suddenly disappeared into thin air. Upon closer inspection, one would find that it did not really 'disappear'. Instead, when it flew more than a hundred meters away from the platform, it seemed to hit something and was torn into countless pieces. Then the pieces were torn into pieces again and again until they could not be seen with the naked eye before they were swallowed by the darkness.
This was one of the layers of defense network in the Coldpath dimension.
The surroundings of the Netherrealm Clock Tower seemed empty, and the floating temples seemed to be unobstructed. But in fact, the temples and energy nodes were entangled with each other. There were hundreds of layers of strange spatial turbulence between them. If a demon hunter were to break into the darkness, even the most powerful demon hunter would be silently torn to pieces.
It was not until the demon king's coalition army destroyed 70% of the energy node connections in Coldpath that these invisible, distorted dimensional defense systems finally showed some loopholes, allowing Hao Ren and his team the opportunity to get close to the Netherrealm Clock Tower.
Now, the demon army was storming the last energy node on the defense line of the Council of Elders. Hao Ren and his team were waiting for the moment when these defense systems would shut down.
"We can see the Netherrealm Clock Tower from here. That's it," Master Teuton, standing next to Hao Ren, raised his hand and pointed to a shadow in the darkness in the distance.
Hao Ren looked up and saw a strange tower between the gaps of the starlight. It was as strange as the sand table model, with no regular shape and structure at all. It looked like a child putting together a building with a variety of geometrical objects stacked together to form the shape of the tower. The tower floated silently in the depths of the darkness. There were only a few lights on the tower, and the rest of the structure almost blended into the shadows. It was gloomy and silent like an uninhabited ruin.
"There's no movement?" Hao Ren was a little puzzled.
"We find it strange too. It's too quiet," Teuton said slowly. "Usually, there are more lights around it, but now most of the lights have gone out, and there are no guards outside the tower. I don't know what the sages are doing inside."
"According to Lanina's report, the Netherrealm Clock Tower has been in this state for nearly a day," Y 'zaks said in a deep voice. "Now the demon hunters on the defense line of the Council of Elders are fighting almost independently. Although they are fighting fiercely, they obviously lack a unified command. Thinking back to that Claude we caught earlier, I suspect that something has happened in the clocktower. "
Hao Ren looked back. As the Nangong family of four did not have enough combat power, they stayed behind to take care of the wounded. Vivian, Y 'zaks, his daughter, and Lily came with him. In addition, White Flame and Teuton also brought dozens of master demon hunters. This small team, with a total of less than 100 people, was the most powerful group at present. When the defense outside the Netherrealm Clock Tower was lifted, this team would be the first to rush in and open a gap.
After seeing the strange state of the Netherrealm Clock Tower, the master demon hunters looked worried. Although no one said anything, the worry was quite obvious. Obviously, even though they had broken off with the Council of Elders, they were still worried about the situation in the sacred land.
Y 'zaks silently crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked in another direction in the darkness. There was a tower floating independently in the void like a torch. Explosions could be seen around the tower. Apparently, the front line was in a fierce battle. He silently looked at the flashes coming from the direction of the battlefield, sensing the state of his demon army and calculating the time to act. Suddenly, he whispered, "It's almost time."
Almost as soon as his voice trailed off, the torch-like energy node suddenly burst into a strong light. The node's defense was overloaded, and the control runestones detonated. The last line of defense of the Council of Elders had collapsed.
The ancient defense system of Coldpath was indestructible, but it was activated by a series of control devices set up by the demon hunters later. When the runestones exploded, the ancient defense would immediately shut down. Hao Ren saw something transparent like a water curtain twisting in the dark space around the Netherrealm Clock Tower. He knew that the time had come. "Let's go!"
The elite assault team quickly left the platform and flew silently toward the Netherrealm Clock Tower in the distance. They did not encounter any obstacles and soon arrived in front of the strange tower.
However, after seeing the situation of the Netherrealm Clock Tower up close, Hao Ren could not help but be stunned. "Is this normal?"
The Netherrealm Clock Tower appeared to be eroded by darkness!
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