The Ark of the Dead was easy to spot. Before Ash even saw its main body, he could see the Forsaken Legion from afar, as well as the dazzling light and sound waves caused by their bombardment. Even though they were several kilometers away, Ash had to open up the sanctuary to isolate the shockwaves caused by the battle of gods.
The air was filled with distorted electromagnetic radiation, sound and light pollution, and even space cracks from time to time. Ordinary creatures could not survive here for even a second, and even the legendary sanctuary could only survive on the edge. What was even more terrifying was that the closer you got to the Ark of the Dead, the more violent the elemental turbulence in the air became. It was like a confined space filled with flour and gasoline, and a spark could cause an explosion.
This is the tip of the iceberg of the war between gods: in order to achieve better spellcasting effects, demigods often change the environment while fighting, not only will the terrain and celestial phenomena change, but the air will also be filled with high concentrations of elements. This is the demigods' spellcasting assistance and battle ripples, but for mortals, it is a curse storm that is even worse than toxic radiation.
When the distance was only one kilometer, Ash could clearly see the Ark of the Dead - it was more like a water fortress like a ship than an ark.
The Ark of the Dead was shrouded in a soft veil. Even though it was besieged by thousands of Forsaken, it remained serene and tranquil, like a cemetery illuminated by moonlight, and the Forsaken were like noisy vultures circling above dead vines and old trees.
"What an amazing defensive wonder." Ash hid in the shadows, looking at the unbreakable curtain, his mind wandering: "If I can get this wonder--"
"Impossible, this is the only wonder of the Dead Ark, the 'Death Curtain'." Death Maniac said, "You are not the first person to have the idea of using the Death Curtain. Before you, all the gods who have been to Hell have tried it, and even we have thought about it, but no one has even succeeded in moving it, let alone replicating this wonder."
"Why?"
"Because the main body of the "Death Curtain" is the Ark of the Dead, and the Ark of the Dead is closely related to the Black Hell. You can understand that the Ark of the Dead is already a part of the Black Hell, but the Black Hell is a part of the Six Hells, so..." Death Maniac shook off the ashes and said leisurely: "If you want to monopolize the "Death Curtain", you have to stuff the Six Hells into your own kingdom. But if you can monopolize the Six Hells, do you still need the "Death Curtain" to protect yourself?"
There is a kind of black humor that "the way to make 5 million yuan for free is to deposit 100 million yuan"... Ash asked: "Then how do we get on the Ark of the Dead?"
"It's not us, it's you." The Death Maniac bit his cigarette holder and said, "If you rush over directly, the Forsaken will immediately change their target and eliminate you first. You can only survive one round of concentrated fire at most. If the Ark of the Dead refuses to open the door for you..."
"Then I can only give you a quarter." Ash smiled.
The dead maniac immediately shut up and looked at Ash with a sidelong glance. His eyes were cold and his expression was gloomy. He was like an active volcano about to erupt, which made Ash's back cold.
He quickly said, "I'll try to get in touch with the people inside and see if they're willing to open the door."
"What do you mean?" Death Maniac said, "The Black Council has a list of all demigods. You can't impersonate them."
"Let's just say I'm a lone wolf who came to Black Falls Hell a while ago. I've been hiding for a long time and finally can't hide any longer. I hope they can open a gap for me to get in and avoid the flood." Ash put on his hood and pulled up his high collar to cover his mouth and nose. "Anyway, I only need to stay for a few minutes. As long as they don't recognize me as Ash Seath... Can't you let me leave Hell directly?"
"We didn't let you in." Death Maniac said, "You collected the "secret poison" of Igula and Harvey, and then we helped you locate it in the stomach of Ouroboros, and then the secret poison automatically teleported you to the Sixth Hell."
"You can't leave hell before the secret poison is exhausted." She lowered her eyelids and said calmly: "If you hadn't found Igula's secret poison from the beginning, you couldn't enter hell and couldn't see us. It might be easier for you to enjoy the last moments with your girls..."
"That won't do." A ray of sword light appeared on Ash's fingertips. "The greatest strength of us magicians is our greed. Is it enough to just spend a happy life with them? No, it's far from enough! I want to stay with them forever!"
"It's more likely that you and them will fight to the end." The death madman was both angry and amused.
The sword light flew almost close to the Golden River, passing silently under the Forsaken Legion. Arriving at the periphery of the Death Curtain, the sword light rose and flew close to the curtain, narrowly avoiding the spectacular storms again and again, and finally found an elven demigod suspected to be the commander at the bow. The sword light immediately turned into a line of text, claiming to be a triple-hell-winged demigod who had just stepped into the Black Hell, and requested the Death Ark to open the door to receive him.
Ash waited for a long time, and when he could faintly hear the flood coming up from behind, the elven demigod at the bow finally nodded. Without further ado, he used up all the source power of the triple prison wings, added a full twenty-four layers of refraction protection to himself, and crushed six source crystals to replenish source power. He quietly sneaked in the shadows for 300 meters until a Forsaken suddenly turned his head to look at him. Ash immediately spread his virtual wings, stepped on the cloud waves, and crossed the last section at supersonic speed!
He did not avoid the Forsaken, but rushed straight to the Forsaken's highest density of casting sequences! The battle-hardened Ash knew that deliberately avoiding the enemy would only make him a target, but rushing into the enemy's core would restrict the enemy's movements!
But even so, the concentrated fire of the Forsaken almost killed Ash on the spot. Space was distorted, time was slowed down, sluggish, shocked, dizzy, restrained... In a few seconds, dozens or even hundreds of strong controls came like a rainstorm, not to mention the conventional killing effects such as flames, ice, and thunder, as well as the joint efforts of at least three physical demigods to block it.
Ash activated the Heart Hunter Throne while dodging, and the twenty-four layers of refraction protection he had just prepared melted instantly, but he immediately added twelve more layers, and narrowly passed through the encirclement of the Forsaken, and successfully arrived at the Ark of the Dead!
According to the plan, the Ark of the Dead would open a gap to let him in the moment he touched the Curtain of Death, so Ash flew towards the Curtain of Death at full speed, completely ignoring the intensive attacks of the Forsaken behind him, like a fly bravely flying into a glass window.
"Upwards!" said the Death Maniac suddenly.
Ta! Ash stepped down heavily, and the air that had been compressed and stacked to the limit exploded into layers of cloud waves. The powerful impact made him change the direction of flight instantly, and he flew upwards close to the death curtain!
Without Death Maniac's explanation, Ash knew what had happened just now - the Ark of the Dead had no intention of letting him in!
Perhaps they didn't trust the Lone Wolf, perhaps they were worried that the Forsaken would take the opportunity to rush in, or perhaps they wanted to use Ash to attract the Forsaken's firepower to reduce the pressure of the Death Curtain... But no matter what, the way to survive by entering the Ark of the Dead did not exist for Ash from the beginning.
He had 15 minutes left to leave hell, but now he couldn't survive even a minute.
Seeing that the Forsaken were about to surround him from all directions, Ash took a long breath, opened the "Aurora's Master Manual" - "Operator Search", and said calmly: "Kill these Forsaken first, and then see if we can break through the Curtain of Death -"
“No!” Si Kuang grabbed his wrist fiercely, and stared at him seriously with bloodshot eyes: “We don’t need to waste a quarter of it here… I have a way! Just hold on and listen to me!”
Without hesitation, Ash chose to trust the Death Maniac, added Refraction Protection to himself, continuously consumed Source Crystals to replenish Source Power, and took the initiative to break into the surging and violent waves of war to buy some breathing time.
Death Maniac said quickly: "There are four hidden nodes above the cave. You have to destroy them all at once. This is the hidden pass of the Death Ark. Once you get it, you can freely travel through the Death Curtain."
Death Maniac flew close to him, and the two of them were like petrels in a storm, dodging and weaving in the Forsaken's earth-shaking magic storm. "But even if you go in, you will be attacked by the Black Demigod, so after you go in, you must immediately reveal that you are Ash Hiss, and let everyone know that you are the man that Fanxing wants. This way, they will at least lose their judgment due to greed and let you live for more than 15 minutes!"
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? Thank you!" Ash was overjoyed. Following the instructions of the Death Maniac, he looked at the four hidden nodes hidden on the upper wall of the cave. Four sword lights were fired at the same time, blasting all the nodes in an instant!
After finishing, he immediately dived vertically towards the death curtain, ready to expose his identity and sell himself to survive——
"The energy node has been destroyed!"
"The curtain is about to break, everyone pay attention!"
"How is it possible——"
As the Black Demigod was furious and shocked, the death curtain covering the Death Ark finally seemed to be unable to hold on at this moment, and suddenly burst like a bubble. The Death Ark was exposed to the eyes of the Forsaken like a naked Lala Fat. The Forsaken who were originally besieging Ash immediately turned their firepower to indiscriminately cover the Demigod magicians on the Death Ark!
Thunder roared, flames exploded, water vapor boiled, time and space twisted, the war reached the peak in an instant, the violent elemental turbulence submerged everyone before the great flood, the Ark of the Dead creaked under the heavy burden, and countless demigods wailed one after another!
At the cost of twenty source crystals, Ash barely managed to stay safe in this wave. He looked at the completely defeated Black Demigod, and he didn't know what happened - those four nodes were not passes at all, but energy nodes supporting the Death Curtain! The Death Curtain was able to withstand the attack of the Forsaken for so long, and it was definitely impossible to rely on source crystals or magicians to provide energy. It must have taken advantage of the location of Black Hell, just like the "Guiming Sea Current" of the Guiming Palace relied on the sea water of the Deep Blue Hell.
Ash didn't believe that the four nodes he destroyed were all the nodes, but these four nodes were definitely the last straw that broke the camel's back for the Death Curtain - after being bombarded by thousands of Forsaken for days or even dozens of days, the Death Curtain had probably never been subjected to such a high-intensity test since its construction.
Now Ash can indeed enter the Ark of Death, but the price is that the Black Demigods have lost the protection of the Death Curtain. In an instant, ten demigods have died in the storm baptism of the Forgotten Legion. At least, he is no longer the only target of the Forgotten, and the Black Demigods who want to use him have also paid a very painful price.
"You're welcome."
The dead maniac's response came belatedly, gracefully and calmly. Ash turned his head to look at her, opened his mouth, but in the end he said nothing and sighed helplessly.
At the same time, the battlefield situation entered a critical turning point. More than thirteen Black Demigods triggered the calamity at the same time, tearing open the portal to the fourth level of hell!
"Let's go, you have ten seconds." The leading elven demigod said only one sentence, and immediately entered the portal and left. However, his portal did not disappear, but teleported to another place in the Ark of the Dead, and it seemed that it could continue to be used!
"You have ten seconds!" Death Maniac said quickly, "These portals will teleport continuously, and everyone can use them within ten seconds - don't go in yet, go grab the wonder on the Ark!"
Ash dived vertically, and no one in the chaotic battlefield had the time to pay attention to him, the culprit. When he put the spinning spherical wonder into the spiritual heaven, two demigods passed by him and hit his shoulders hard, knocking Ash's hood open.
Ash subconsciously turned his head to look over, and the other person also looked back at him, with his golden hair flying.
"Igula, why did you stop...?"
The black curly-haired man noticed that his companion had stopped and turned to look at him, then he also stopped immediately.
The necromancer, the fraudster, the cult leader, they meet again in a situation where they have no control over their lives and their lives hang in the balance.
Just like the broken lake of old.