novelonline Chapter 3525 Unicorn Knight
Chapter 3525 Unicorn Knight
Chapter 3525 Unicorn Knight
"Please rest assured, we did not make things difficult for your friend in order to invite you to visit us again."
The fake man dressed as a male servant spoke, gesturing for Shad to look inside the "House of Fake Men".
Originally, there was a foyer connecting to the corridor behind it, but now the corridor began to shorten at a visible speed, bringing the room at the end of the corridor closer and closer to the foyer. At the same time, the door at the end of the corridor opened silently, revealing a room that looked very much like the "Unicorn's Nest" in the Snow Mountain Hall.
Little Leona lay in the center of the room as if asleep. Shad blinked and saw the unicorn symbol above the little unicorn's head. That symbol was the same as the one above Ellie's head, who was beside him. It seemed little Leona was indeed alright for the time being.
"Get it out of the [House of the Pseudo-Humans] and I'll go in immediately."
Shad said, but the fake man dressed as a servant shook his head:
“I know how powerful you are. You were able to leave the core room last time, which greatly exceeded our expectations. I won’t let it leave. You need to come in and find it yourself.”
The door to the room where little Leanna was imprisoned closed, the corridor behind the foyer extended again, and the room disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The fake man didn't want to give Shad a chance to stall for time, and it said directly:
"I know you want to banish us from the material world again, so how about we play a game?"
It pointed behind it:
"Your unicorn friend is resting deep inside the [House of the Pseudo-Humans] for now, and all you need to do is find it. Finding it means you win."
Shad frowned:
"If you want me to go back to that core room, you can simply open an entrance. Or is it that you don't actually have complete control over the [House of the Pseudo-Humans]? The location of that core room can't be changed, and I have to go there myself?"
The fake man did not answer; instead, it made an inviting gesture again:
"Now you either enter here or say goodbye to your friends forever. Summoner, since the end of the Mythical Era, you are not the first guest invited into the House of the False Man, but you are the only one who has accepted our invitations twice."
Shad took a step forward with Ellie:
"I'm curious, having witnessed my power, what gives you the confidence to keep me here this time?"
The imposter then asked:
"Summoner of the gods, can you still wield the power of that departed ancient god this time?"
Its body disappeared into the shadows behind the door, and Shad led Ellie through the gate of the "House of the Pseudo-Humans." The door closed behind them, and then, various sounds from the previously quiet building began to fill the air.
The narrow corridor connecting the lobby is lined with doors on both sides. The sounds of couples arguing, children crying, cooking in the kitchen, and dogs barking all come from here and mix together, making it seem like a cheap rental apartment in a slum in the lower part of the city.
Shad flipped over and climbed back onto Ellie's back. On the way there, he had already used Moonfire to heal Ellie's injuries. The seemingly terrible wounds were actually just simple external injuries. Ellie, as an adult unicorn, had a much stronger regenerative ability than little Leona. Emilia had even said that Ellie was the unicorn with the strongest regenerative ability she had ever seen.
This is probably why it became the only successful "experiment".
“Let’s go. I don’t know where little Leona is, so you can decide where we should go.”
Shad leaned down and whispered in Ellie's ear. The intelligent sacred beast, of course, understood Shad's meaning. After countless years of being frozen in ice, it finally opened its eyes again, and after being driven from its "home" by demons for many years, it finally found its friends again and reclaimed its home. Now, its kin's offspring have been captured by the relics, and it is once again powerless to help, even needing its master to risk danger to help it. The pure white unicorn does have its own emotions, and it is clearly quite unhappy right now.
"Ang~"
It raised its head and cried out, its single horn emitting a pure white glow. After confirming that Shad was seated, Ellie lowered her head and slammed into the wall beside her, crashing through the brick wall covered with red wallpaper with a loud bang and entering the room.
This is the outer perimeter of the "House of the Fakes," and the walls appear no different from ordinary buildings. However, when Ellie crashed through the wall, Shad discovered a thin, barely perceptible, blood-red "membrane" embedded in the middle of the wall, resembling capillaries.
It would be no problem for a unicorn to smash through a wall with its strength, but when Ellie's unicorn touched the blood-red "membrane," it clearly paused for a moment. It only continued forward after the pure white light melted away the blood vessel-like membrane.
Before the dust from the collapsed wall had settled, two intersecting beams of silver moonlight cleaved the bodies of the two effigies resembling a married couple in the room. Fireballs incinerated their bodies, and Ellie cried out, trying to rush forward again, but Shad stopped her:
"Wait a mininute."
He turned on Ellie's back and looked behind him. The walls were emitting a faint bloody glow, attempting to heal, but the white light left on the walls by Ellie's unicorn horn was preventing the glow from working. The information provided by Miss Cohens, the witcher from the early Fifth Age, was correct; the unicorn horn did indeed counteract the walls of the [False Man's House].
Inside the relic, Ellie's power not only breaks through the walls, but also allows the breach in the walls to remain for a period of time.
"Moonfire".
Shad threw the pure silver flames toward the gap, and then the power of Moonfire and Ellie merged perfectly, clinging together to the edge of the gap, constantly dissolving the forces trying to heal the wall.
This allows the gap to exist for a longer period of time, and because the power of the relic is greatly suppressed due to the presence of Moonfire, the position of that wall cannot be easily changed.
"Then let's move forward, there's no need to stop anymore. You just need to keep pushing forward, I'll take care of the rest."
"Ang~"
The pure white sacred beast cried out again, lowered its head, took a step back, and then slammed into the wall in front of it.
It practically carried Shad into a white blur, lowering its head and crashing straight into whatever lay ahead. Layer after layer of walls were smashed through by Ellie's horn, as if her power was gradually being released.
At first, when it hit the wall, Shad would feel a jolt, giving him the opportunity to release Moonfire and leave it at the edge of the gap in the wall. But soon, the wall became like butter to Ellie, easily splitting apart at its mere touch. If Shad hadn't had incredible reflexes, he wouldn't have even had a chance to release Moonfire.
After being fed apples and Emilia's exclusive nutritional meals for more than half a month, Ellie's physical condition had actually recovered to its peak. Beneath her seemingly frail body, her muscles were fully bulging. When she charged forward in a rage, the bricks of the walls, the furniture in the room, and even the fake figures blocking her way all turned to fragments in front of the sacred beast.
As Ellie moved at high speed, the moonlight and fireballs that Shad kept shooting out eliminated all the fake people he could see along the way.
Rumbling sounds echoed continuously inside the "House of the Pseudo-Humans." Due to their extremely fast speed, Shad and Ellie successfully broke through the outer perimeter and entered a deeper part of the "House of the Pseudo-Humans" within three minutes of entering.
At this moment, a faint blood-red light appeared in the surrounding space, constantly eroding the pure white light emanating from Ellie. The exterior of the wall was no longer just simple bricks and stones; fleshy tissue resembling lichen and moss began to appear on the wall, and as Ellie crashed through the wall, the thin membrane of flesh interspersed within the wall became even thicker.
If it initially resembles capillaries, then that thin membrane of flesh and blood already resembles fascia.
Looking back, the wall that had been breached in the past three minutes had not yet been repaired, so Shad could even pass through the holes covered with silver flames and see where they had started.
The two stage-two pseudo-humans with fly wings in the corner of the room had already been burned to ashes, and Ellie stopped at this moment. Shad originally thought it was tired, or that the surrounding environment was beginning to affect it, but the unicorn only made a sniffing motion—a gesture that reminded Shad of Mia—and then turned around and rammed into the corner on the right again.
After the wall was breached, they entered a completely new corridor, and Ellie continued to hurtle forward in the same direction. The surrounding crimson color grew increasingly intense as she sped forward, and in addition to her own strength, the advantages of being a "registered unicorn of the Witch Council" also came into play.
As the crimson light dissolved the white light surrounding it, almost touching its body, Ellie, charging forward, cried out again. Then, the witch's power familiar to Shad erupted from Ellie, the chaotic colors distorting the surrounding crimson light. Then, a holy white light reappeared, and as Ellie opened her mouth and spat out, the pure white light blasted through the wall.
"Huh? Ellie can breathe energy?"
While Shad was still in surprise, Ellie sniffed around again, then adjusted her direction and passed through the wall that had just been blasted open.
They entered a corridor that Shad recognized very well. The corridor floor was covered with a red carpet, but there were no doors on either side of the walls. At the end of this corridor, which was about twenty meters long, was a bend to the right.
Ellie seemed to be trying to rush forward down the corridor, but at that moment, a rumbling sound of water came from around the corner, followed by a torrent of blood gushing out from the bend at the end of the corridor ahead and rushing towards them.
Last time, because he didn't know what was inside the "House of the Pseudo-Humans," Shad hid in another room to avoid the blood, but this time he wouldn't be so easily forced back:
"Freezing Ray!"