Chapter 1402 - The Statues Came to Life (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Lily hunched a little and looked into the corridor, her sharp ears sticking up and turning in all directions. She was on full alert and had been warning them for a few seconds. Even though the enemy had yet to appear, she was still growling.
“Watch out!” Hao Ren drew out his lance, trying to find the enemy who could hit from every corner. Then, his eyes fell on the decorative ancient statues.
A question suddenly arose: why were all the statues still intact when the whole city had been destroyed by wind, sand and time? Not one of the most weather-beaten statues outside the temple had collapsed!
Almost as soon as his doubt became a warning, he heard the wind blow overhead. He moved aside at once, turning his lance in the direction of the wind!
There was a sense of tingling in his hands, and the sound of stones being rent apart by heat and force came from behind him. After Hao Ren landed, he turned around and saw a colossus with a lion’s head step down from the niche in the wall!
“These statues are coming to life!” Y’lisabet sat on Y’zaks’ shoulder, screaming loudly, then swung a green Demonic Flare the size of a wheel at the statue. “And all the statues outside are coming to life!”
A clatter of crumbling stone came from all directions. One by one, the weird guardian statues of humans and animals in the corridor came back to life. Thousands of years of dust had fallen from their rocky bodies, creating clouds of dust in the corridors, and the sound of the statues’ heavy feet shaking the ground as they descended from the platform. Soon, the entire corridor was completely blocked by the living statues. They paused for a moment, then strode this way.
Looking at all kinds of weapons in their hands, Hao Ren knew that these stone statues were not here to discuss socialist spiritual civilization.
The first stone statue attacking them was smashed by Y’lisabet’s huge fireball, flying sideways for more than ten meters away and smashing through a wall in the temple, but seconds later it was struggling to crawl out of a pile of rubble. One of its arms had been severed by Hao Ren’s plasma lance. The whole right half of its body was riddled with cracks after hitting by the Demonic Flare. Pieces of yellowish stone clattered down from the statue, revealing the dark, metallic body. All kinds of runes and lines gleamed across the dark, metallic body.
“What is that? Obsidian?” Y’lisabet was taken aback by the statue’s tenacity. It was the first time she had seen a ‘rock’ that her Demonic Flare could not break at such close range.
“It’s something with a metallic component. Obsidian isn’t that hard.” The data terminal, which had scanned some of the fragments in a flash, said hurriedly, “Look out, more statues are coming to life! The stone guards outside the temple are also moving. We are in danger of being trapped!”
Hao Ren dodged the blade of one stone statue and cut off the right leg of the other statue with the plasma lance. Then he pointed to the direction of the exit and yelled, “Get out of here first!”
Everyone there, except Rollie, were experienced combatants. Even Lorrisa, a year and a half old, had a great deal of practical combating memory inherited from the mage-emperor. Therefore, they could clearly judge that once the exits were all blocked by these heavy statues, they would be in a terrible passive position. Therefore, before Hao Ren finished talking, they had started to rush towards the direction of the exit. Hao Ren looked back in the direction of the murals and asked, “Data terminal, have these murals been scanned and saved?”
“Of course!” shouted the data terminal as it whizzed past him.
A data terminal ran even faster than him!
Everything happened in a flash. The statue, whose leg Hao Ren had severed with the plasma lance, had only just staggered back as the crowd raced toward the exit. Due to its heavy weight and perhaps limited intelligence, the statue struggled for a long time after losing a leg but was still unable to get up. However, as the intruders were about to run down the paved path, the statue’s eyes suddenly glowed red and then raising its arms toward the retreating intruders.
After a loud bang, the arm of the statue burst and split open in the middle. Its huge rocky fist, like a rocket, was propelled down the paved path by a white light, so fast that the air around it twisted.
Instinctively aware of the danger behind her, Lily turned sharply around, cracking the stone floor beneath her feet. And now the stone fist was flying close to her eyes.
Lily raised her hand to smash it without thinking.
They heard a loud bang. The carved stone fist splintered in the earth-shattering explosion. The shock waves spread out and even created a visible cloud of air in the air. Lily punched the rock and then ran away without looking at it, leaving the explosion far behind, shaking her arm and screamed, “Awooo it hurts…”
More and more statues appeared in front.
All the guards were awoken. The sleeping statues were clearly guardians of the ancient temple. Hao Ren and his party’s intrusion seriously angered the loyal guards and even the stone statues outside the temple came down from the platform and walked with heavy steps towards the pyramid. In fact, it wasn’t just the temple’s guards who woke up.