Chapter 225: No Longer Human, No Less Than God
A little earlier.

Jeremy, who was squatting in a restaurant in the north of the city, opened his eyes and looked towards the Kremlin anxiously.

"Perhaps, Chengbei is just a cover."

"Were you replenishing your magic power in that state of meditation just now?" Carl asked curiously while eating pizza.

Jeremy didn't want to answer this question. He seemed to know what Augustus was planning. "I have an idea."

Hearing this, Carl stuffed the pizza into his mouth, clapped his hands, picked up a square bottle of vodka and put it in his arms, then took another bottle and handed it to Jeremy, who shook his head and didn't take it.

"What are your thoughts? Any new discoveries? Let me know if you're planning on leaving."

Jeremy hesitated and nodded: "Going to the Kremlin, I feel something will happen."

"It seems that you also have the talent to be a criminal police." Karl did not ask the reason. He stood up with him, paid the bill and left the restaurant.

Then I walked up the stairs to a rooftop. It wasn’t very high, but I could see a whole city from it.

In the distance, the sun is about to sink below the horizon. The city at dusk is always noisy and quiet.

"It's too late to run over there, Carl, learn how to fly."

"what?"

Before Carl could ask more questions, lines appeared on Jeremy's palm and he gently patted Carl on the forehead.

Immediately, Carl felt dizzy and the strong urge to vomit made him dry heave a few times.

"This is awesome!"

Carl, who was about to say something, stared at his arm, which was covered with black feathers. His fingers had disappeared and he had no feeling. Looking at the world in front of him, it had become so vast without him noticing, and the gate next to him also looked huge.

Jeremy had disappeared, replaced by an owl that looked somewhat like Jeremy.

He looked back at Karl and said, “Let’s go. Don’t get lost. Follow me.”

After saying that, he jumped off the roof first, spread his arms and flapped them, and immediately soared into the sky.

What is this ability?

The little devil was also a little surprised.

"Interesting." Carl learned to flap his wings. Now he could see that he had turned into a crow. What was even more incredible was that all his clothes and belongings had changed with him. At least he could feel that the bottle of vodka was still in his arms.

Without time to investigate carefully, he jumped down, gliding and flapping his wings clumsily, chasing after the owl.

"To be honest, I'm beginning to envy you a little bit now."

“Can envy fly?”

"Yeah, that's awesome! I could fly all day long!"

"Be careful, don't get caught by the hunters."

"Alas!"

Soon, the two birds approached a green area in the Kremlin. The owl landed on a branch first, but the crow was not used to flying and had poor aim, so it crashed into the tree trunk.

"Hiss, why do I feel like my ability has disappeared? It feels like you can use this trick on your opponent, just like when I used to play games where I could turn into a sheep. In reality, there is no rule that prohibits attacking people who turn into sheep." Carl touched his head. Normally, this collision would not be a big deal for him, but now it hurts a lot.

".It can deal with ordinary people, but not the people of the Soul Assembly. They have defensive spells." When Jeremy was investigating in North America, he had fought with the Baron and Heath once each. The opponents were very strong in actual combat and had defensive spells, which were very tricky. The hidden injuries on his body were left from the fight with Heath.

Jeremy's eagle eyes kept searching the area, and soon he found the three people walking together.

".See you, Augustus."

Even if it turned into ashes, he could still recognize the special temperament in Augustus.

"Wait for me!"

Jeremy flew out in an instant, followed by Carl.

Near the Red Square, Augustus felt something, stopped and raised his head.

"What's going on?" The Baron and Heath became alert.

"Stop them." A red light flashed in Augustus' palm, covering an area of ​​several hundred meters in an instant. Jeremy felt his internal organs churning as he dived down, and he could no longer maintain his flight, falling straight to the ground.

At the same time, above the Kremlin, a helicopter exploded with a loud bang, and several fireballs flew out.

"Old man, I have to say this. I do admire your perseverance, but... this is the end." The Baron slashed at Jeremy who had just fallen to the ground with a summoned transparent sword.

Jeremy fell to the ground and had no time to condense the spell. He lay on the ground in a panic and turned around to dodge. He then took the opportunity to cast the wind spell and applied a layer of acceleration.

"Boy, didn't anyone teach you to respect the elderly and love the young?!"

Just as the Baron was preparing to pursue the victory, a dark shadow appeared from mid-air, forcing him to temporarily retreat a few steps.

boom!
The concrete floor cracked, Karl stood up coolly, opened the bottle cap, raised his head and took a sip of the wine: "Leave this guy to me."

Jeremy didn't say much. Time was running out, so he chased after Augustus who had already reached the Red Square.

"It seems that you are quite confident." The Baron watched Jeremy leave without any hurry. Instead, he smiled and chatted.

"Actually, if possible, I don't like fighting. How about we just pretend and deal with it?" Carl put away half a bottle of wine and suggested with squinted eyes.

"Right on my mind."

"Hahaha"

The scene was eerily quiet for a few seconds.

Suddenly, Carl jumped away, and the next second, the place where he was standing exploded with a bang, as if he was hit by an air bomb.

"Boy, it's a bit dirty."

The two of them didn't waste any more time talking and started fighting right away. However, since Carl didn't have any special weapons, he was at a great disadvantage.

"Brother, give me some more strength."

[.Let me get some fresh air first]

"You give it first."

【***】

Augustus had already reached the end of the Red Square. He ignored the battle not far away and gently stretched out his hand. The ground in front of him rumbled. After a while, a half-man-high stone pillar slowly rose up.

The pillar has a strange shape, with three thick, wriggling blood vessel-like things attached to the main body. On the top is a stone platform that is tilted towards Augustus. In the center, there is a spherical inlay with a black and red inscription.

"Augustus!!"

Jeremy was already within a few dozen meters of Augustus, but Heath, holding a long knife, stood between them. Augustus only showed Jeremy his back and did not respond to his shouts.

"Mr. Owl, please." Heath took off his robe casually. His once broken right arm had been sewn with a strange black limb, which looked sinister.

"Heath." Jeller took a deep breath, closed his eyes and opened them again. All his fatigue disappeared. His muscles swelled and his hair began to attach to him - "Roar!"

He transformed into a bear, roared, and smashed the earth with his fists. The shattered cement and stones that were scattered around continued to gather on his body, and in a blink of an eye he transformed into an earth bear wearing rock armor and charged towards Heath.

Heath's black monster hand dyed the long sword in his hand black, and he slashed forward neatly.

With a crisp clang, the long sword left a dark fire mark on Jeremy's arm, which was attached to the armor and continued to drill into the crack tenaciously.

"A bird of a feather!"

With a sudden slap, the earth spikes exploded all the way towards Augustus behind Heath.

Heath chopped off several of them in succession, but could no longer keep up with the speed at which the spikes grew. He took a few steps back in the air, only to see that the spikes bypassed him and headed straight for Augustus.

At this moment, Augustus seemed unaware of it, and just integrated the complicated spell into the [Soul Filtering Device] in his hand. He breathed a sigh of relief and opened his palms towards the attacking spikes.

Bang! All the surging spikes hit an iron wall one meter away from him, shattered into dust, and countless smoke rose up, unable to move forward an inch.

As the spherical device was put in, black and red light beams rushed up to the sky in the distance, startling countless birds. Some small birds even stopped breathing and fell to the ground with a thud, like a rain of corpses.

The eerie red enveloped the dome, as if the blood of the gods had dyed the heaven and earth.

".I already know what you are going to do. Do you know what the price is for disturbing these sleeping souls?" Jeremy had already understood Augustus' purpose from the ritual, and his scalp was tingling.

"I don't have to bear the cost. I'm just taking some resources, just like humans extract oil and mine coal." Augustus looked at the black and red flame door that was becoming more and more solid beside him and responded calmly, "When humans were doing these things, did they ask those ancient creatures?"

"Your current behavior is no longer worthy of being called a human being!"

"Birth, aging, sickness and death, short-sightedness, so what if such weak humans are not worthy. From now on, my goal is no longer to be a human, but to be no less than a god."

Augustus looked at the increasingly dense soul matter on the device with a dazed look in his eyes.

Finally, he witnessed the existence of the soul with his own eyes, and the many experiments he designed for this purpose finally had the capital to start.

The immortality of the soul no longer seems to be an unattainable legend.

"Supreme One, am I still a tiny ant in your eyes?"

Unfortunately, Augustus was destined not to get an answer.

Heath attacked Jeremy again, breaking through the armor defense on his back and leaving a burning black flame scar.

Jeremy took the blow head-on, then clamped down on Heath who wanted to continue attacking, and turned his head to look at Augustus with a sad face: "They left more than just sin to this land."

"Good and evil are of no use to me. The difference is that good does not need a carrier, but evil must have a carrier. Let's go, professor. What happens next is not something you can interfere with." Augustus' words were filled with a trace of mercy.

"Your technique is not perfect, don't forget that." Jeremy shook Heath away, staggered back, and looked at the huge crimson door that was gradually pushed open, "Who brought you in?"

After saying that, he didn't bother with them anymore and turned around and ran to the other side of the Red Square.

Augustus watched him leave without stopping him.

The door to the ancient evil spirit has been opened, and no one can stop it. Faint black air seeps out from it, the temperature drops rapidly at a speed noticeable by the body, and black snow begins to fall from the sky without anyone noticing.

The door was completely open, revealing an impenetrable deep and thick darkness that greedily devoured any glimmer of light that dared to approach. There was no sound at all, only deathly silence.

"Jeremy!" Carl got rid of the Baron and caught up with Jeremy, who looked weak. "So what's the situation now?"

"I already know his technique. Its purpose is to extract the souls buried in this land. Sin is just a byproduct. However, this land is not only filled with sin. The good he abandoned may be able to provide us with other help."

"Now, I will try to use his current technique to create a semi-finished product that condenses good thoughts to stop him, Carl. From now on, protect me, for this city, for the dead, and for the living." Jeremy took a deep breath, sat down directly at the other end of the Red Square, and closed his eyes.

".I'll try my best." The army was on its way, and Carl didn't know if they would allow him and Jeremy to stay where they were.

There was a faint roar coming from the sky. Carl looked over and saw ripples on the blood-red curtain.

Perhaps the launched missiles could not penetrate the blood mist barrier. Now we can only pray that President Vichi has arranged enough troops inside.

In the darkness, a ray of light flashed and rushed towards the dark interior of the gate like a meteor, and was immediately completely swallowed up without leaving any trace.

Ye Jie landed slowly, put away his light bow, and gasped for air.

"I feel like I can't breathe." Jennifer touched her chest and came to her side and said.

"Our blood was used as a mark. The power in this area was restricted." Ye Jie looked at the healed wound. The power from the prayers did not weaken. Only their physical strength weakened.

"That Door"

"The Demon Lord is behind the door. I can feel that his power is constantly increasing. We must not let him continue like this."

During the conversation, the army had already launched an attack on the gate, but all the artillery fire was like duds; as long as it hit near the gate, it disappeared silently.

"Set up a defense line!"

A force of more than 10,000 people guarded the gate in layers and set up a series of defense lines. Beyond that, a steady stream of troops were on the way.

Karl, who was on the other side of the Red Square, was originally worried that he would be targeted, but he found that the two of them seemed to be ignored and no one paid attention to them.

"You should have told me earlier that you had a backup plan." Carl simply sat down and kept watch on Jeremy's surroundings.

Of course, what he was most concerned about was Ju Men's movements.

After several rounds of artillery bombardment, the battlefield commander called a halt to this waste of ammunition, and countless pairs of eyes stared at the gate.

I saw that the deep darkness began to ripple slightly, and slowly, a skull with black flames popped out from it.

Soon, the second and third black fire skeletons came out from the gate, holding simple weapons, and looking sinisterly at the living people in front of them.

The soldiers swallowed their saliva. The low temperature made it difficult for them to bend their fingers. Every breath of cold air they inhaled seemed to lower their core temperature.

After the skeleton soldiers came the skeleton heavy cavalry. They rode war horses wrapped in large pieces of bones, and their bodies were also wrapped tightly with bones as armor.

"Open fire. For Mocheng!"

Contact with his superiors became extremely difficult under the influence of the blood mist, and he could not wait any longer.

Bang, bang, bang, bang!
Tanks roared, machine guns roared, and the storm of bullets was like a bone-crushing line, tearing large numbers of skeleton soldiers into pieces.

But before people had time to rejoice, the Skeleton Knight had already raised his heavy bone shield and drove his bone horse to charge.

The ground shook violently as if there was an earthquake. Countless skeleton heavy cavalrymen mixed with some skeleton soldiers were like a chisel, easily and instantly tearing apart the army's front line of defense and opening a festering wound.

Hot weapons were actually at a disadvantage in the face of such unreasonable cold weapons.

No matter how tenacious the soldiers were, it was difficult to prevent their flesh and blood from being broken into pieces and the tank's iron sheets from becoming cans.

"Brother, are you ready? If not, we'll just break up." Carl muttered and urged, looking at the chaotic battlefield ahead and the increasingly approaching bone cavalry. He picked up a rifle from the ground and fired a few rounds, but only a few sparks splashed on the surface of the heavily armored skeletons.

"Okay." Jeremy opened his eyes with a complicated look, "Now, there's only one thing missing."

"What do you want? Tell me, and I'll die for you!" Carl asked, turning around.

"No need. I am enough. Please help me and open the door."

"Open the door?" Carl was stunned.

Jeremy sighed deeply, stood up, and strange lines appeared on his body. Then his whole body slowly deformed, and in Carl's shocked eyes, it gradually expanded and expanded. In a moment, another huge door slowly rose on the other side of the Red Square before the defense line completely collapsed.

From then on, a huge gate stood on each side of the Red Square, one in the northwest and the other in the southeast.

The difference is that one is black with a hint of red, while the other is pure and bright red.

"How the hell do I open this door?! Does it open inward or outward?!" Carl rarely gets speechless like this, but he really can't hold it back now.

Fortunately, maybe this was just a joke from Jeremy. This door didn't need Carl's help to open it. It opened automatically from the inside out just like the other door.

Behind the gate was a blindingly bright red, like a teleportation portal, and walking out of it were skeleton soldiers. Carl stared at them in a daze. They did not have the majesty of the Skeleton Knights, nor the ferocity of the Skeleton Soldiers. Many of the skeletons even had incomplete limbs. But when they were grouped together, their momentum was so high, as if nothing could completely knock them down.

"You are" Carl already had the answer in his mind.

The leading skeleton nodded at him and looked towards the huge black gate on the other side of Red Square. The red light swaying in his empty eye sockets surprisingly made his expression complicated.

The defense line collapsed. A soldier ran to the rear crying. His team was torn apart in an instant. His teammates couldn't even find a intact head. At this moment, he had no fighting spirit and just wanted to get away from these monsters completely. It didn't matter where he could escape to. But where could he escape to? After all,
When he was at a loss, a hand grabbed his shoulder. He could see clearly that it was a skeleton's hand. But for some reason, he did not feel any resistance or fear. He only stared blankly at the person who held him.

"Comrade, we have nowhere to retreat. The land beneath your feet is Mo City."

There were red flames in the skeleton's eyes. He gently patted the soldier's shoulder and raised the gun made of bones in his hand high towards the oncoming skeleton cavalry.

"Ula!"

"Ula!!"

"Let our remaining bodies build another iron wall for our motherland!"

Outside the red gate, countless red fire skeletons rushed out, charging with loud shouts, and withstanding the attacks of the Bone Knights with their broken bodies. They combined into bone giants, picked up the bone knights and smashed them or threw them to the opposite side, and launched a massive counterattack on top of the piles of bones.

(End of this chapter)