Chapter 695: Wicker Man

Wicker Man, scientific name [Furnace Golem]

It gets its name from the folk custom that its appearance resembles the wicker man, but in fact this thing is mostly made of iron bars, which is why its appearance is similar to the wicker man.

Its body is designed to be a blazing brazier, with a mask imitating the fire god hanging on the brazier as its face. Its limbs are also forged from iron bars. From the appearance alone, there is no sense of gentleness, only naked malice.

Just as the name of the "burning furnace" suggests, it is burning with flames all over its body.

And inside its body, serving as firewood, are countless corpses.

They still retained the painful postures of their death, their blackened, smoked bones twisted and sticking out of the gaps between the iron bars, indicating that they had wanted to escape from here at all costs when they were alive.

The wicker man is a human sacrifice ritual in Celtic culture. The person being sacrificed would be placed inside a wicker man and burned alive in order to pray for good weather in the coming year.

With such a cult classic as its prototype, the Furnace Golem naturally has a very scary feel.

This thing is in line with Gong Qiying's personal aesthetic. He feels that it is more oppressive than the big eyeballs of the fire giant.

If the Golem Guard looks like a common elite monster in the fantasy world, then the Furnace Golem adds a deeper sense of horror on this basis. In addition, its huge height and "inverted triangle" body, which is much taller than the Golem Guard, all speak of the strength of this thing.

There is a setting that is inconsistent with its appearance. The actual position of the Furnace Golem is also a tool of war, which is almost the same as the Golem Guard. Scrapped Furnace Golems can be seen everywhere in the Shadow Land.

But in terms of visual perception, this thing looks much scarier than the golem guard.

Moreover, its intensity will also make the intensity party climax on the spot.

The moment the eight furnace golems appeared, they didn't stop but jumped up in unison.

Their jumping movements are very stiff, with their legs bent and then jumping straight up. Their stupid appearance fits the image of them as unintelligent war tools.

I guess they jumped up just to use their weight to hit people?

Right?

"Yiga?"

The unbelievers who were praying around the cross suddenly made doubtful sounds, and their bodies suddenly trembled without any warning.

If one wants to offer faith, one must first possess wisdom. During this short period of time, they were endowed with wisdom by the cross, and thus things like the premonition of danger were born.

The moment the Furnace Golem appeared, the unbelievers felt a great threat, and when the other party jumped up stiffly.

This feeling of fear reached its peak.

It can even be said that the ominous feeling exceeds the limit, to the point of having a sense of ascension and redemption.

The area where the seals can move is not large, which is to limit their movements and population size, so that they can be surrounded by the city lord's coalition forces just now.

And now, the eight furnace golems just surrounded the eight directions, and the cross was wrapped in the middle. Even with a large number of faithless guards, it seemed a little

Weak and pitiful?

"boom!"

The furnace golems jumped and landed at the same time, making a loud noise on the ground.

The faithless ones, whose speed had been enhanced, had already run away from the range where they would be hit. Who would be killed by such slow movements?

But before they could use this temporary wisdom to laugh at Yi Bo's moment.

The surging heat waves came from all directions!

There was no blind spot. A wave of flames suddenly exploded above the field, surrounding it and forming a 360-degree circle at the outermost edge!

Not all the Faithless developed resistance to fire as they did in the battle with the fire elemental creatures. More of them were instantly swept up by the flames, and when they rushed out again, their bodies were burning with flames and they screamed and fled. Those who escaped were the lucky ones, because those Faithless who were in the center of the explosion were burned to charcoal in the blink of an eye!

The non-believers gathered at the outermost edge were cleared out in an instant!

The cross vibrated violently, absorbing the waves of faith that continued to spread outward, but to no avail. The unbelievers howled in panic.

Where did the flame come from? Where did it come from?

Looking again, it was erupting from under the feet of the furnace golems.

The moment they landed, the flames in their bodies spread in all directions in the blink of an eye along with the shock wave, covering an area of ​​hundreds of meters around them in an instant, and wherever they passed, an eternal flame was ignited.

Irines suddenly crawled darkly to the front where she could overlook the battlefield. The shadow on her body trembled violently as if boiling, and she uttered nonsense words like "Ah wow wow wow."

"She was saying, 'Something this big must cost a lot of money. I hate rich people. I hate them. I hate them.'"

Chiya used simultaneous interpretation, how on earth did he translate this nonsense!?

Ilineth didn't seem to be wealthy, but Gong Qiying took note of this detail.

"Oh wow, what a violent flame!" Yanhuo stared at Gong Qiying with a scorching gaze and said, "Are you really not going to trade? I'll trade you two, no, three elites!"

"Holy, holy light can also achieve this effect." The follower said stubbornly and turned his head away, but Gong Qiying heard him mutter to himself again:

"Sure enough, fire is the best way to purify heretics. Why do those little brats in the church who have become arrogant after gaining a little power insist on abolishing the punishment by burning at the stake?"

Burning at the stake? The Holy Light Church has abolished this for decades, and now uses the more merciful light punishment.

Simply put, it is to use strong light to continuously illuminate the heretic sinner in 360 degrees without blind spots until the other party dies. Because it is not as difficult to deal with as burning at the stake, it is unanimously praised by executioners.

The followers seemed to realize that the large-scale release of monsters they had just released had affected Gong Qiying's performance.

Regardless of the city lords' current reactions, Gong Qiying continued to command the furnace golems.

The Faithless, who reacted quickly, howled and rushed towards the Furnace Golems, trying to destroy them before they could cause more damage.

The unbelievers smashed the furnace golem with their destructive fists!

Then, the iron bars that bound the Furnace Golem's thighs bent a little bit, just a little bit.

This amount of damage is of no use to the Furnace Golem.

The unbelievers began to climb their giant bodies frantically, but they fell down after only a few steps because it was too hot and the high temperature on the iron bars could directly peel off their skin and flesh.

Their attacks had no effect on the Furnace Golem, and Gong Qiying's order came at this time.

Three, two, one.

Take off.

With a bunch of unbelievers still hanging on their bodies, the furnace golems jumped up again in unison.

"Gugu Ga Ga!!!" The panicked voices of the unbelievers gathered into an ocean.

"boom--"

The furnace golem landed on the ground with full force, and the flames erupted again without any blind spots, instantly clearing out all living things around it!

The feeling of being able to clear out a large area at once is so refreshing. Just looking at it makes people feel relaxed and relieved.

Of course, the non-believers involved only felt the psychological pressure explode.

Because they found that after the Furnace Golem landed, it seemed to have moved forward several meters compared to when it jumped before.

These guys are moving forward!

Wait, isn't that possible?!

At this moment, Gong Qiying seemed to have turned into a conductor directing the orchestra's performance. When he raised his finger, the furnace golems jumped up in unison.

When his fingers fell, the furnace golem landed on the ground and exploded into a huge flame, and moved forward several meters.

The rumbling sound of the explosion echoed in the Fanatic Dungeon, and the entire dungeon trembled unbearably.

As his fingers rose and fell, the Furnace Golems jumped together, holding hands, and joy filled the dungeon.

The encirclement kept shrinking, and the flames burned everything that approached.

The Faithless launched a desperate charge towards the Furnace Golem, but Gong Qiying timed it very well.

It was so good that every time a large number of Faithless rushed in front of him, the Furnace Golems landed at the same time.

Life lies in movement.

The Furnace Golems' poppy jumps killed the Faithless in droves.

Up, down, up, down.

Under Gong Qiying's command, the Furnace Golem turned into a zombie and did nothing but jump around.

Obviously, the Furnace Golem has many large-scale destructive skills, such as erupting meteor volcanoes from the brazier, kicking to shoot out missile-like magma blocks, and even ejecting flame vortexes with extremely large area and range from the brazier.

Gong Qiying can even make some magical modifications to it, such as directly applying the behavior pattern of the Fire Giant to the Furnace Golem, creating an ultimate dung monster that rolls away when adventurers get close to it and spews out vortexes of fire when they get a distance away.

However, it’s always fun to repeat it.

Useful skills need to be repeated over and over again to feel the joy of victory.

When eight Furnace Golems can become invincible just by slowly closing the encirclement between rising and falling, what is the point of having other skills?

He's not here to do fancy things, so just get straight to the point!

The cross clearly has self-awareness.

It's all numb now.

Even the Faithless, who have evolved resistance to fire, can't do anything to the Furnace Golem, because it not only deals fire damage, but its own weight is enough to crush anything.

The rest of the Faithless are evolving rapidly, trying to find a way to resist the Furnace Golem.

But this thing is moving too fast!

It was so fast that their evolution didn't even have a chance to take effect before they were crushed to death!

As expected, all the sealed objects were inherently weakened.

If the Faithless were in the outside world, they could just hide and evolve slowly, and they would definitely find a way to kill the Furnace Golem. This thing is not super strong, and the seal is not weak enough to be destroyed by the Furnace Golem.

But in this narrow sealed place, they could only watch helplessly as their evolution speed could not keep up with the speed at which the Furnace Golem was shrinking its encirclement.

This is desperate.

Irines, who had been furious before, became silent when she saw the Faithless charging again and again but being continuously cleared out by the Justice from Heaven. She even trembled from time to time.

Is this scared?

"Guhehe, the sealed object down there looks like trash, hehe."

Just when Gong Qiying was wondering whether his scene had scared the other party, Irines let out a dark laugh.

She smiled like a standard villain in a cartoon.

The personalities of these city lords are quite different from what I expected.

When living things gain intelligence, they will have emotions, and emotions are not necessarily all positive.

As the circle of the purifying flames grew smaller and smaller, the unbelievers began to feel "fear."

They still charged towards the Furnace Golem, but this time their goal was not to kill it, but to escape the encirclement and survive.

Escape in a panic towards the flames!

The cross was shocked and angry. A wave emanated from it, and in the blink of an eye, it took back all the wisdom of the unbelievers, and they immediately turned back into zombies.

The Cross, the mastermind, looked like it was ready to fight to the death. It unleashed a vast amount of faith, and a gigantic Faithless slowly took shape, seemingly ready to engage the Furnace Golem head-on.

Before the giant Faithless could take shape, it was knocked to the ground by an elbow from a Furnace Golem that was striding towards it.

“Crack!”

The golem that arrived later dug up the cross with one claw, leaving a deep hole in the ground.

Then, he threw the cross directly into his brazier.

The next moment, the entire body of the Crucible Golem exploded in flames, and the open-air brazier spewed a vortex of flames into the sky.

Even the city lords who were floating in the air and in an invulnerable state were enveloped in it, and the scene became quite fantastic.

The cross instantly caught fire, and there was no time to resist. It turned into ashes and debris and flew straight into the sky along the vortex.

The movements of the non-believers froze instantly.

Gong Qiying raised his finger and then dropped it.

This brought the battle to an end.

(End of this chapter)