Chapter 181 The Abnormality of Black Moon

"the safest?"

Brent and the others were puzzled when they heard the Ranger Captain's answer.

According to their estimation, the direction of the Holy Mountain of Elements should be the most dangerous, so how come it became the safest?

With doubts, they looked at the arrangements in the other three directions.

Needless to say, the deep forest is where the city lord lives, so there will definitely be no black beasts coming there.

As for the outskirts of the forest, a large number of lantern trees were planted there. Even if a black beast rushed in, it would probably be detonated by the living bombs of the lantern trees halfway, so the threat would not be great.

The remaining direction shrouded in fog is said to be very strange, with no black beasts, but ordinary people can easily get lost if they go in.

Before, one of their people accidentally broke in. When he came out the next day, he was so hungry that his eyes were dizzy, as if he had been in there for several days.

Since then.

No one dared to approach there easily anymore.

In other words, they only need to focus on defending against the black beasts that run out of the druid's nest.

The moment they came to this conclusion, many people couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. As long as they were not facing a large number of black beasts, they should be able to survive with their current numbers.

"Watch out! It's getting dark!"

Suddenly, a reminder came, interrupting their discussion.

Everyone was shocked and looked up at the sky.

The sky, which originally had a hint of light, had turned completely dark, like a bottomless abyss that wanted to completely swallow up the earth below.

When a familiar black full moon gradually appeared, the atmosphere on the entire black soil began to become wildly agitated.

"Roar!!!"

"Ow!!!"

The roars and growls of the black beasts echoed all over the black land.

Immediately afterwards, there was a rumbling sound of footsteps approaching them rapidly, making people everywhere feel the ground shaking.

"Here they come! Those black beasts are here as expected!"

"Everyone be on alert and prepare for battle!"

"Take up your weapons!"

The shouts continued.

No matter they were men or women, young or old, or those with injuries, they all picked up their weapons and prepared to confront the black beast head-on.

Brent and others were very nervous. As it was their first battle after moving here, they had to defend it with all their might.

"Honey, what's wrong with you?!"

Unexpectedly.

At this moment, a shout suddenly came from the crowd.

A man who had just been pointing the magic cannon at the residents outside suddenly went mad and started rushing around wildly in the crowd.

"No, don't kill me... Get away from me! You monsters!"

The man's eyes widened and he looked around with fear on his face. He even raised the magic cannon in his hand and aimed it at them. A burst of energy quickly gathered on it.

"Damn it!"

Brent's face changed, and he quickly flashed in front of the man, snatched his weapon, and had several people pin him to the ground.

Available in the next second.

Several people in the team not far away went crazy and attacked their companions. For a moment, the whole scene fell into chaos.

"what happened?"

Upon hearing the news, Augula hurried over.

After seeing those crazy people, the ranger captain beside him seemed to think of something and suddenly looked up at Black Moon.

Then, a strange mental wave enveloped him, causing everything around him to become distorted, as if his soul had been sucked away.

Fortunately, he reacted in time and retracted his gaze. The things in front of him slowly returned to normal, and the strange aura also dissipated.

"It's Black Moon!"

"Everyone be careful not to look at the Black Moon!"

A shout instantly spread throughout the crowd.

The crowd, who were still confused, were shocked and finally found the source of their companion's madness.

But even so, there were still several people who subconsciously looked up at the sky and stared at the black moon in the sky.

Then, as expected, they also went crazy and started attacking their companions without distinguishing between friend or foe.

Some of them knelt on the ground, crying and shouting the names of their loved ones, or saw something that frightened them and screamed while trying to run outside.

If others hadn't reacted in time and held them down, there would probably have been another big mess.

"Strange, shouldn't the Black Moon be getting weaker?"

Augla was so confused that even the fifth-level ranger captain almost got hit, so he didn't even dare to look up.

And his questions are also the questions of all the survivors on the black soil at this moment.

Compared to the Druid Forest, the situation in other gathering places is much worse.

Especially in the Crescent Canyon, nearly 20% of the people were hit one after another. They attacked people everywhere like mad beasts, or fled in fear. The whole scene was in chaos.

This forced the forces that had just taken control of the canyon to allocate additional manpower to suppress the rebellion and desperately try to maintain order in the canyon.

But at this time.

Roars sounded one after another.

Countless black beasts rushed over from afar, forming a black mass, which was much more terrifying than last time.

"Keep it! You must keep it!"

"Everyone get on the city wall!"

"Hurry and activate the barrier!"

"Don't look up, everyone!"

Panic sounds echoed in every corner.

Faced with the tide of black beasts, even the high-level professionals from Liberty City did not dare to be careless and ran up to the city wall to start fighting.

And at this time.

Augla and his friends finally guessed the reason for the changes in the Black Moon.

"It's a nightmare! Their reactions are just like those of people who are suffering from nightmares!"

The ranger captain recovered from the strange atmosphere and said in great shock.

He had only heard about the nightmare, but he didn't expect to see it here with his own eyes.

Could it be that the reason why those people who entered the Dream Forest recently were troubled by nightmares was the black moon in the sky?
"No, I have to go back and inform Lord Rhodes. Augla will be left to you."

"Okay, go and come back quickly."

After that, the Ranger Captain left in a hurry, and soon returned to the Moon Goddess Altar through the forest to inform Rhode of the news.

"You mean, anyone who looks into the eyes of the black moon will go crazy?"

After hearing the situation outside, Rhode and Erin Alpha looked at each other in bewilderment, because they had no influence at all here.

It seems that it is the spiritual energy in the woods that isolates that breath outside.

"Wait, this situation sounds... so similar to what Alma encountered?"

Yilin suddenly thought of something and said.

Amar was the polluted elf they rescued before.

It was also from her that they learned some information about the fourth demigod, the Dream Weaver.

"You mean, nightmares are related to the Dream Weaver?" Alpha's face became serious.

Although he didn't want to admit it, all signs indicated that the bizarre events that had occurred recently might indeed be related to the Dream Weaver.

And these changes seemed to have started from the druids detonating the Black Moon, and there was something weird about them everywhere.

"Dream Weaver? It seems necessary to go over there and take a look."

While murmuring, Rhodes looked up at the only mysterious area he had not explored in depth, called Dreamland, which was also the most likely place for the last demigod mark to appear.

After a brief exchange of information, the ranger captain left in a hurry and took his team back to support the forest base.

Rhodes thought about it and asked Alpha to help.

Anyway, he still had the tree spirits of Irene and Augla, plus a large group of little guys who had just been promoted to the second and third levels. No matter how many black beasts there were, they would only serve to upgrade experience.

This is not.

Seeing the black beasts running over from the Holy Mountain of Elements and the Giant Forest, the little guys took the "toy guns" Rhodes made for them and ran out excitedly with the giant war trees.

There was no need for Yilin, a long-range sniper, to even show up.

"Be careful, don't rush too far ahead."

Rhodes shouted loudly towards the battle position in the distance.

"Yeah!"

"Roar!"

The little thing and Kaba responded, then rushed into the black beast group and charged forward.

Rhodes: ...

"Forget about them, just pay attention to the outside."

Rhodes held his forehead with one hand and ignored them, instead paying attention to the situation in the forest base.

After all, he wanted to build a city there, which would be used as a forest outpost and planting base, and it couldn't be destroyed by the black beast.

"With Augla and Alpha here, plus the dragons guarding that place, there shouldn't be any problems."

Yilin closed her eyes for a moment, then slowly opened them again.

As she said.

Inside the forest base at this time.

After the initial panic, they quickly reorganized their team and used the magic cannons in their hands to attack and keep away the black beasts that were rushing towards them.

"Come on, you damned monsters!"

"Take my fireball!"

"I did it! I killed a tier 2 black beast!"

"Haha, I killed two too."

"Great! It feels so good!"

On the defense lines built in various directions, residents stood behind the fences holding magic cannons and launched fierce bombardments at the black beasts that were rushing up. They were extremely excited and the sound of explosions was endless.

They never thought that resisting the attack of the black beasts would be so easy. There was not even a single casualty, which made them full of confidence in the city that was about to be built.

"Get out of the way!"

At this time, Brent led his men to push up the red crystal cannon and directly activated the magic circle on it.

In an instant, the magical light lit up.

Densely packed red magic circles appeared around the cannon, as many as fifteen of them. The scene was like a high-level wizard casting super-level magic, shocking everyone and causing them to move aside.

The terrifying flame energy gathered at the muzzle, compressed into a ball of blazing red light, and suddenly shot out towards the area where the black beasts were most concentrated in the distance.

"boom!!"

A mushroom cloud exploded among the black beasts, and the scorching air waves swept around, forcing everyone to close their eyes.

When he looked at the center of the explosion again, he found that the black beasts had been blown to pieces. Even those above level four were blown away and suffered serious injuries.

hiss--

The sound of inhaling continued.

Everyone, including Brent, looked at the smoking cannon in shock and disbelief.

“Is this the power of a cannon?”

"It can even hurt the fourth level!"

"Boss Brent, give me one too!"

"I want me too!"

"How can I not try something this good? Hey, don't push it!"

All of a sudden, the members of the escort team started scrambling around the red crystal cannon, all wanting to get the right to fire the next shot.

There's no way, this thing is so fucking cool, any man would be tempted.

Looking at the hand cannons in their hands, they are simply the softest brothers.

"That's enough! Stop it!"

Brent shouted, interrupting their scramble.

Then he came to the cannon seriously and coughed twice: "Well, now is the critical moment of defense. I will handle such an important thing. You will all go to your respective positions."

"Ah~~~"

The guards' faces instantly became long and full of contempt.

What critical moment? You just want to occupy the cannon for your own pleasure. You are so shameless.

"What? Do you have any objections?"

Brent gave them a dirty look.

Now no one dared to speak. They all returned to their positions and continued to resist the black beast, cursing in their hearts.

Brent got what he wanted and continued to operate the red crystal cannon, bombarding the black beast at regular intervals.

The defense of the entire base was carried out in an orderly manner, and there were no major setbacks until the next morning.

(End of this chapter)