Chapter 398 Explosion
That afternoon, Ryan came to the Sword Bearer headquarters again.
"Lord Ryan, your airship is ready and can depart at any time. Claire and Beyonce are already waiting for you at the airship berth at the headquarters."
Olena walked out of the office quickly and reported to Ryan.
"Okay, Lord Olena, thank you for your hard work." Ryan nodded and smiled.
The Sword Bearer headquarters has its own airship berth, which is very convenient.
Especially like this time, his Hellfire Golem weighing more than ten tons is very convenient for long-distance transportation. It can be placed directly in the bottom cabin of the airship.
If it is transported by carriage, it will take at least half a month to reach the vicinity of the Blade Volcano in Moselle Province.
The efficiency is simply a world of difference!
"It is my honor to serve you, Lord Ryan." Olena covered her mouth and chuckled.
Soon, the two arrived at the airship berth on the north side of the headquarters training ground.
"Captain!" Claire, who was wearing a blue wizard robe, was delighted when she saw Ryan, and immediately saluted.
"Captain Ryan!" Beyoncé, another hot woman in leather armor beside her, saw Ryan, her eyes lit up, and she bowed respectfully.
As a quasi-legendary ranger, Beyoncé's strength was even better than Claire's.
Therefore, she could clearly feel the aura of her own captain Ryan, which was stronger than before.
It's been less than a month!
The strength of her own captain Ryan seems to have improved significantly.
Is this the growth rate of the top talents in the empire?
It's really terrible.
"Claire, Beyoncé, hello." Ryan smiled and nodded.
"Hey, Claire, you seem to be about to break through?"
Ryan looked at the two of them, but found that Claire, who was originally at the peak of the first-level wizard, had a more harmonious mental power, as if she was about to break through to the second-level liquefied level.
"Hehe, Captain, you really have a keen eye."
"After I come back from this mission with you, I think I should try to break through." Claire said with a smile.
"Well, if you are not sure, you can come to me." Ryan nodded.
"Thank you, Captain! Captain, shall we set off now?" Claire said naturally.
"Wait, something is coming soon, it's already here." Ryan looked straight ahead and smiled.
"Huh?" The two women looked around first, but did not see anyone coming towards them. For a moment, they looked at each other in surprise.
"In the sky." Ryan said with a smile.
"Huh? This seems to be the airship of the wizard school!" Claire heard what Ryan said, and then she reacted and looked up immediately.
Not far away, there was indeed an airship flying towards the Sword Bearer headquarters.
It's no wonder they ignored it.
After all, this is Tamriel, and the sky can be said to be in a bustling state at any time.
There are at least a dozen airships floating in the sky at almost every moment, including the large airship berthing points in the southeast, northwest, and special agencies and top families.
It is easy to overlook a certain airship in the sky.
However, this also makes the two women more curious.
After all, what needs to be transported by airship?
Soon, as the college airship landed, Olena stepped forward quickly and communicated and coordinated quickly.
I saw a huge thing covered with cloth, which was carried by more than 20 strong guards and sent to the airship of the Sword Bearer Headquarters that was about to depart.
"Is this a puppet?" Claire said with her beautiful eyes wide open through the outline and the vaguely exposed parts.
Beyonce was also quite surprised to see the scene in front of her.
After all, in her opinion, the strength of her captain was already strong enough.
But this time, he actually brought a metal puppet that was obviously very powerful.
I remember that I was not so careful when I went to carry out the task of killing the venom dragon last time.
"Then let's go, Lord Olena, goodbye."
"Lord Ryan, goodbye to both of you." Olena bowed slightly and smiled.
Ryan chose this time to set off, and he would arrive at Blade County in Moselle Province around eight or nine o'clock the next morning.
The time arrangement can be said to be just right.
And after Ryan set off for almost three hours.
In a valley manor located in the suburbs of the imperial capital Tamriel, adjacent to the town of Luwad.
Several middle-aged men in robes looked anxious.
"It's almost evening, why hasn't Lord Staven finished yet?"
"Yes, sir, if it drags on like this, I'm afraid it will be too late!" Another middle-aged man looked at the old man in the middle of the room and frowned.
"Should we go and urge him?"
"No!" The old wizard in charge of this place thought for a moment and shook his head.
"What we need is someone who can complete the task smoothly and give him enough time."
"As for other difficulties, we will find a way."
Hearing the old man's words, several people were stunned for a moment, but then nodded.
That's the truth.
But if we miss the planned ambush point, the subsequent coordination and preparation will be troublesome.
The ambush point cannot be arranged near the imperial capital Tamriel. In addition, once the airship accelerates, it will be extremely difficult to intercept it in the air.
Therefore, this time, the ambush point they arranged was located at the foot of the Blade Volcano in Mosel Province.
Although generally speaking, the ambush would be arranged when the other party had completed the task, was injured or was relatively tired, but Staven requested that the ambush be arranged when the other party had just arrived and was in the best mental state.
"Sir Staven."
Suddenly, the old man's eyes lit up, stood up and looked at the door, exclaiming.
"We can set off." Staven nodded with a calm face.
Suddenly, everyone was overjoyed!
Soon, Staven took his large number of undeads and boarded a specially modified airship.
"Sir Staven, this airship is called 'Swift'. It is equipped with new technology from the Federation. It is particularly powerful and 50% faster than ordinary airships."
"For now, you should be able to arrive at the designated location about two hours earlier than the target." The old man introduced.
"Okay, I understand."
Soon, the airship quickly disappeared into the distant sky.
The next morning, Ryan's airship arrived at the airship berthing point in Blade City on time.
At this time, at the anchorage, several teams of fully armed guards and a diamond-level team belonging to the Sword Bearers Division of the Mosel Province were already waiting.
The team leader was a peak knight holding a sword and shield.
When he saw Ryan and his three companions walking down the gangway, he hurried forward, bowed slightly, and said, "Lord Ryan, two Excellencies, welcome to the Mosel Province."
"My name is Dick, and I am very honored to have the opportunity to accompany you to the Blade Volcano."
"Lord Dick, thank you for your hard work." Ryan smiled and nodded.
"There is another puppet in the cargo hold at the bottom of the airship. I need you to arrange someone to move it."
"Of course, don't worry, I have prepared a reinforced cart." Dick pointed to a huge cart pulled by four horses and said.
He also took the opportunity to quickly look at the three adults who came from the Imperial Capital Headquarters.
Except for the young woman in the blue wizard robe, whose strength he could vaguely sense, he could not even sense the upper limit of the strength of the hot leather-armored woman.
Not to mention the one in the middle, the well-known captain of the adamantium-level sword-bearer, Mr. Ryan, in the Imperial Sword-bearer System.
To be honest, he was not optimistic about the result of the mission if it was any other adamantium-level sword-bearer captain, because the lava dragon 'Hemados' was not so easy to deal with.
But for the one in front of him, that was another matter.
Soon, Ryan and the other two followed Dick into a luxurious carriage with double doors, and the Hellfire Golem covered with cloth was also moved onto a cart by dozens of guards.
A group of dozens of people left the city gate and headed towards the Blade Volcano.
"Sir Dick, how is the situation in Moselle Province recently?"
"Alas! Lord Ryan, recently all kinds of cults have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and some strange things have popped up from time to time in various places. Our Sword Bearers Branch in Moselle Province has been overwhelmed."
Speaking of this, Dick couldn't help but sigh and said.
After a chat, the carriage returned to calm.
About two hours later, a huge active volcano that was still emitting bursts of black smoke appeared in front of everyone.
The volcano looked quite magnificent and steep. In the plain area, there was such a towering volcano abruptly, like a sword blade. No wonder it was named the Sword Blade Volcano.
At this time, Ryan suddenly opened his eyes and said to the two women beside him:
"Claire, Beyonce, pay attention to be alert later. If you can't, tear open the defense scroll and ensure your own safety first."
Ryan's words immediately made the two women feel a chill in their hearts.
"Captain, what do you mean?" Beyonce couldn't help but look serious and said.
You know, the legendary "sculptor" Harold died at the hands of his own captain. How dare someone launch another attack?
Not really?
"Be careful." Ryan didn't say it clearly.
Just now, he had a faint sense of threat in his heart, which flashed away.
When he mobilized the blood feathers in the sky to observe, he didn't find anything, as if the other party was hiding very well.
"Okay, Captain (Captain Ryan)!" The two women looked at each other, their faces solemn, and said.
Dick on the side thought that Ryan was reminding the two teammates for the next battle with the lava dragon.
That's right.
If I were Lord Ryan, I would naturally take good care of such a young, beautiful and unique beauty.
At this time, the team marched a few hundred meters, and Ryan suddenly smiled.
There was indeed a problem ahead.
"Sir Dick, it seems that we have guests." While Ryan said this, he was also secretly observing the micro-expression of the captain of the sword bearer of the Mosel Province in front of him.
"What?!" Dick's pupils shrank. He glanced at Ryan's expression and knew that the other party was not joking.
"Everyone, be alert!" Dick jumped off the carriage quickly.
"Captain, this Dick..." Claire was quite cautious after experiencing the incident with Mia last time. She looked at Dick who got off the carriage and hesitated to speak.
"It shouldn't be the enemy's accomplice." Ryan shook his head and said.
With his perception close to the peak of the second-level liquefied wizard, Ryan could make auxiliary judgments from the other party's blood flow rate, heartbeat and other aspects that ordinary people could not see.
He was basically sure that Captain Dick in front of him should not be the enemy's accomplice.
"Let's go down too, they can't deal with the enemy in front of them." Ryan said as he got up and got off the carriage.
The two women naturally got off the carriage as well.
At this time, if you look down from the sky, you can clearly see that there are seven or eight gray lines in the dense forests on both sides, rushing towards the convoy he is currently in in a way that gathers from all directions.
A few seconds later, many trees in the dense forests on both sides of the convoy shook violently and fell down quickly like mowing grass, as if a cutting machine was pushing all the way.
"Shua shua shua!"
The sound of some kind of sharp blade cutting became louder and louder!
"Swoosh! Swoosh!"
Several tall gray shadows rushed out of the dense forest on both sides of the convoy at a very fast speed, and at the same time, bursts of corpse stench came.
"Be careful on both sides!" Dick shouted.
The members of his team commanded the guards to quickly deploy defenses with Ryan's carriage as the center.
"Chi!"
At this time, a warhorse in front of the convoy seemed to block the attack route of the gray shadow, and was directly disemboweled and cut into several pieces.
The other directions were not so lucky.
The guards were immediately cut into thin slices by the claws of the clawed ghouls with a length of nearly half a meter.
Even Dick could only barely resist the next one, but there were at least seven or eight clawed ghouls attacking from multiple directions.
This made everyone present look anxiously at Ryan and the other two who had just got off the carriage.
"Sharp Claw Ghoul!" The pause of the gray shadow also allowed Claire to clearly see the other party's appearance. As a knowledgeable wizard, she immediately exclaimed.
"And there are six at a time!"
This special ghoul is extremely powerful and extremely rare.
In terms of combat power, it is about the level of a peak knight.
But the problem is that if this kind of ghoul exists, it means that there is a high probability that there is a controller behind it, such as a high-level wizard who specializes in the dead spirit system.
"Captain, this is a sharp claw ghoul, and the enemy is likely to be a high-level wizard of the dead spirit system." Claire said with a serious face.
"Oh? A wizard of the dead spirit system?" Ryan raised his eyebrows and said.
Facing the hopeful eyes of everyone, Ryan did not hesitate, and saw him quickly chant the activation spell.
With a light finger, a thumb-thick khaki light column shot at the hellfire golem covered by the cloth.
A low mechanical roar came from the cloth.
And the tall hellfire golem began to stand up.
"Huh? This is a golem!" Claire was casting fire magic while hearing the movement from the cart and took a quick glance.
However, she was confused at first, but after a little thought, she was sure that the one in front of her was not an ordinary puppet, but a golem.
Because the opponent's power device was a small furnace, Claire could be sure that the behemoth in front of her must be a golem.
"Golem?" Beyonce, who was shooting, was also shocked.
Although she was not a wizard and could not quickly distinguish whether the opponent was a puppet or a golem like Claire,
she had heard of golems, which were comparable to legendary combat power. She did not expect that her captain would carry such a thing with him this time.
However, she was still a little worried whether this seemingly huge and slightly bulky thing could hit the extremely fast claw ghoul.
"Overclocking attack!" Ryan said in his heart.
The strength of the claw ghoul was not weak, so Ryan directly let the hellfire puppet start the "ultimate move"!
The left and right chests of the Hellfire Golem opened with a click, revealing two dark holes. Then, it started rapid-fire mode like a Gatling gun, with red and black lights flashing one after another.
"Bang! Bang!"
Dense red fireballs and black shadow arrows, with long tail flames, quickly attacked a claw ghoul in front of it like pouring hail.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Although a fireball can only injure a few parts of the claw ghoul's body, it can't withstand the rapid continuous shooting!
The claw ghoul resisted for three seconds, and after being hit by six fireballs and shadow arrows, it was blown in half.
"Be careful, captain, behind!"
Seeing their companions being killed, the other claw ghouls launched attacks from behind and on the left side of the Hellfire Golem, seemingly intending to use close-range attacks to destroy the Hellfire Golem in front of them.
"Hiss!"
Sparks flew!
A sharp claw ghoul's fierce claw attack only left a half-inch scratch on the Hellfire Golem's forearm covered with hardened adamantium.
"Bang!"
The opponent was immediately hit by the Hellfire Golem's heavy punch and flew into the air about four or five meters high.
Immediately, the Hellfire Golem fired a Gatling-style fireball and shadow arrows in a wave!
"Bang! Boom! Boom!"
The sharp claw ghoul, which had nowhere to hide in the air, was directly blasted to pieces.
At this time, the third clawed ghoul quickly jumped onto the head of the Hellfire Golem, but was grabbed by a big metal hand and thrown to the ground.
"Bang!"
Then, the thick legs of the metal tower weighing several tons, driven by the small furnace, trampled it violently and turned it into meat paste!
For a time, the Hellfire Golem was unparalleled in its power.
The remaining clawed ghouls did not dare to surround and kill it again in a short period of time, but began to run around quickly.
"So strong!" Dick was shocked and blurted out.
"This is too strong!" As a wizard, Claire could better understand the exaggerated combat power displayed by his captain's golem.
Although the combat power of golems is generally comparable to that of legends, compared with real legends, golems are always inferior in flexibility, so it is just comparable, in fact, most of them are just a little bit worse.
But the frequency of witchcraft attacks and defense of his captain's golem greatly exceeded Claire's cognition.
She believed that even a general legendary warrior would not be a match for the golem of her captain.
Just when the two women breathed a sigh of relief, Ryan's eyes were fixed on one direction.
"It's coming!"
Huh?
What's coming?
Just when the two women looked puzzled, suddenly, the ground shook slightly, and the trees in the forest broke with a crackle, as if some huge beast was rushing towards them quickly.
"Be careful!"
"Oh my God! What kind of horrible monster is this!"
A monster about three and a half meters tall, with a muscular upper body as hard as a rock and a giant scorpion in the lower body, rushed towards the golem.
A powerful and violent aura filled the whole place!
"Bang!"
The opponent's speed was extremely fast, and his strength was even more terrifying. He actually knocked the more than ten-ton Hellfire Golem away.
And the next second, an even more shocking scene happened.
The thick metal arm of the Hellfire Golem was actually tightly grasped by the opponent's hands and spun around, and was pulled off!
"It seems that your golem is going to fail." At this time, a deep voice sounded, and a middle-aged wizard wearing a black wizard robe with three skulls on his chest walked out of the dense forest.
"I heard that your combat power can be greatly improved after your transformation. Perhaps, you can save your golem." Staven said with a flash of excitement in his eyes.
"Oh? That's not necessarily the case." Ryan looked at the Hellfire Golem, which was obviously at a disadvantage and had one arm torn off, and said calmly.
"Although the time for performing the test was a little shorter, it is considered to be completed."
"Huh?" Staven seemed a little confused when he heard Ryan's words.
But before he could figure it out, suddenly, his eyes widened and looked at the two behemoths that were fighting.
This kind of energy is...
I saw that the golem that had been pressed under his scorpion man suddenly magnified its energy fluctuations several times at this moment!
The next second, a dazzling green light that was ten times stronger than the sun flashed!
Immediately afterwards, a hemispherical transparent shock wave visible to the naked eye spread at an extremely fast speed.
Two seconds later, a deafening roar similar to the explosion of an arsenal was heard!
Although Dick and others were hundreds of meters away from the center of the explosion, they were still blown away by the air wave. All the surrounding trees fell like wheat. Even the sturdy carriages were mostly knocked down at this moment.
"You!" Although Staven released the third-level defense magic in an instant to resist the damage of the shock wave and sound wave, his brows were furrowed, and at this moment, it was as if a knife was inserted into his mind.
Because the Scorpion Man was the most important undead under his command, there was a kind of spiritual connection between him and the Scorpion Man.
But the sudden death of the Scorpion Man caught Staven off guard and suffered a strong backlash in his spirit for a while.
"Bang!"
A large pile of charred corpse the size of a water tank fell heavily between Ryan and Staven.
On the surface of this half-charred corpse, a dark metal breastplate with complicated patterns could still be vaguely seen.
"It seems that I don't need to transform." Ryan looked at Staven and smiled.
Although this Hellfire Golem cost Ryan a lot of rare metals, Ryan didn't feel bad for using self-destruction to kill a legendary peak-level undead.
In terms of heartache, the other party felt much more distressed than him.
"Damn it!"
"Do you know what you did!" Staven took a look at the charred corpse, and his eyes instantly turned red!
The scorpion man he placed great hopes on, plus the iron-backed undead breastplate, was directly destroyed by the self-destruction of the other golem!
In addition, it also destroyed his opportunity to become a dawn wizard through the promotion method of orthodox undead wizards!
In this case, he has no choice!
At the same time.
Under the Blade Crater dozens of miles away, in the hot magma nearly a thousand meters below, there was a huge monster, soaking in it, as if sleeping soundly.
Suddenly, the other party's huge eyes, which were originally closed, opened in an instant, and a pair of huge vertical pupils looked in the direction of the explosion.
It seemed to sense something and began to stand up.
"Ang!"
As it spread out its huge fleshy wings covered with red scales, a giant beast that looked like the red dragon that Ryan had seen let out a loud dragon roar, then suddenly flapped its huge wings, jumped out of the magma, and rushed straight towards the crater above its head!
(End of this chapter)
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