I was a knight in the Middle Ages

Chapter 420: Uncrowned Ring, All Beings Are Equal

The cave was filled with sweet and fishy mist, and Alpha's shouts echoed back and forth between the stone walls. Everyone clenched their torches tightly, and the dancing flames cast shadows on the cave walls. The distorted outlines overlapped with the slowly crawling slime monsters, as if the demons of hell were awakening.

"Hiss—" the slime monsters made a sound that made people's teeth ache. Their translucent bodies were covered with dark purple lines, and they glowed with a strange luster under the illumination of the torches. Someone poked the torches at the monsters, but the flames gradually dimmed as if they were stuck in a quagmire. The monsters' bodies only twisted slightly, and then continued to wriggle slowly, as if the burning flames were just a gentle caress that had no effect at all.

"What should we do? These monsters are not afraid of fire!" The voice of a young elf trembled, and the torch in his hand shook violently, reflecting fear on his pale face. If even this last method doesn't work, how can they break the deadlock.

"Don't panic, everyone!" Alpha's voice rang out like a loud bell, inspiring everyone's spirits. "Gather the torches, increase the temperature and brightness, and never let them get close!" His eyes flashed with determination, and the top of the staff in his hand lit up with a bright light, illuminating his tense face and the sweat beads oozing from his forehead.

Everyone woke up as if from a dream, and brought their torches closer, the blazing flames gathered into a wall of fire. However, the slime monster's body was like melted jelly, ordinary weapons would sink deep into it and be difficult to withdraw. Only when the flames burned would they let out painful hisses, and bursts of white smoke would appear on the surface of their bodies.

Evelyn's emerald green eyes suddenly lit up, and she suddenly pulled open the magic charm around her neck, and her slender fingers drew mysterious runes in the air. "Pyroblast!" She shouted, and a basketball-sized fireball rose from her palm, flying towards the monster with a whistling sound. The fireball exploded on the monster, and the flying sparks were as gorgeous as fireworks. The monster screamed miserably, and its body shrank rapidly.

"It works!" Evelyn shouted excitedly, her cheeks flushed with excitement, her hair flying wildly in the firelight. Seeing this, others followed suit, casting magic spells one after another, and the cave suddenly became brightly lit, with tongues of fire rolling, burning the slime monster with a sizzling sound.

However, before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, a huge slime as big as a hill fell from the top of the cave. Its body was covered with dense tentacles, like countless twisting pythons. Alpha immediately stepped forward, and the gem on the top of the staff burst into a dazzling light, and started a fierce confrontation with the slime.

At this moment, the monkey came stumbling over, his hair disheveled and his eyes full of fear. "Lord Alpha, it's bad! Something's happening behind us. Those knights and wild boars are coming again. They've found a way and are using firewood to burn us from behind!"

Alpha's pupils suddenly contracted. He looked back at the raging fire behind him, then looked at the huge slime in front of him, and gave a decisive order: "Retreat!" Everyone followed him without hesitation, and the sound of their footsteps echoed in the cave like rapid drumbeats.

As soon as they evacuated, the imperial knights rode into the cave on armored wild boars. The knights were wearing heavy armor, with the imperial emblem engraved on their shields, and the flamethrowers in their hands spewed out long tongues of fire, burning the remaining slime monsters to ashes.

"The Sword of the Empire is not here, chase them!" The leading knight swung his sword, his voice full of coldness and determination. In their eyes, the elves were enemies that must be wiped out, and the missing Sword of the Empire was a symbol of glory that they had to retrieve at all costs.

The monkey followed Alpha closely, looking at the caves that stretched in all directions, and was full of doubts: "Master Alpha, where are we going? It feels like there are more and more roads, just like walking into a beehive."

Alpha carefully observed the traces of corrosion on the cave wall with a solemn expression: "This should be the birthplace of slime slimes. Their ability is corrosion. The corrosion rate for living organisms is extremely fast, and the corrosion rate for non-living organisms is relatively slow. They seem to be destroying this area, and there may be some terrifying existence underneath." His voice was low and serious, which made everyone shudder.

Suddenly, the alarm sounded again: "Lord Alpha, the enemy is coming!" At the same time, the clanging of metal collision and the squealing of wild boars came from behind, and the pursuers were getting closer and closer.

"Master Alpha, the ground is so slippery!" Fanxing exclaimed. Everyone realized that the originally dry ground was covered with a layer of slime and shimmered with oil. As soon as someone took a step, he slipped and fell to the ground. Then, the entire ground began to tilt, and everyone slid rapidly down the slope like a thrown stone.

Alpha immediately cast light magic, and a crystal shield formed below everyone. However, the lubricating effect of the mucus was too strong, and the shield could only slightly slow down the sliding speed. Everyone slid down quickly amid screams, and the stalactites and stalagmites on the cave wall passed by quickly, like the scythe of the god of death.

"Hold on!" Alpha shouted, his voice drowned out by the whistling wind and the screams of the crowd. A trace of determination flashed in his eyes. At this critical moment, he had to find a way to lead everyone out of danger. Deep in the cave, unknown dangers were waiting for them, and the pursuers behind them were also chasing them closely. The gears of fate began to turn faster at this moment.

The ground suddenly roared, and the entire cave seemed to be overturned by a giant hand. The ground beneath everyone's feet tilted into a 60-degree slope with a visible arc, and Evelyn's screams were torn apart by the wind. The mucus purified by light magic became a deadly lubricant at this moment, and everyone fell into the bottomless darkness like fallen leaves thrown into a torrent, screaming.

Alpha raised his fist, and the magic ring activated the light magic. A dazzling light shield bloomed below everyone, but it was distorted by the mucus like thin paper. Tiny golden sparks continued to burst out from the surface of the shield, hitting the rock wall and creating dazzling reflections. He clenched his teeth, veins on his forehead bulged, and the gem on the top of the ring made a harsh buzzing sound due to overload, but the speed of sliding down did not slow down at all.

"So you are a believer of the God of Light, but how long can you hold on?" A cold whisper suddenly exploded in Alpha's sea of ​​consciousness, as cold as a venomous snake spitting out its tongue. The dark liquid around him suddenly boiled, and the thick black energy like asphalt spread along the mucus lines. Wherever it went, the air made a sizzling sound, and even the light shield was covered with strange black spots.

Alpha's pupils suddenly contracted, and the magic power in his body surged like a flood. He forcibly mobilized the power of light in his body and condensed a holy pattern totem on the surface of the shield, but the terrifying black energy only touched it lightly, and the totem shattered like glass. The power of light was compressed into a fist-sized ball of light, which made a dying wail under the pressure of darkness.

Just between life and death, a second voice tore through the void: "Hahaha, God of Light? God of Darkness? You two traitors, you actually call yourselves gods and dream of resurrection!" This voice carried the vicissitudes of ancient times, but it struck the depths of everyone's soul like a heavy hammer. Even the dark energy that was constantly approaching froze for a moment.

"Who are you?" The roar of the Dark God exploded in Alpha's sea of ​​consciousness, with undisguised fear. This voice was like a rusty dagger, fiercely cutting open the scar deep in his memory that he was most reluctant to touch.

"How come you have forgotten even my voice? My eldest disciple, my loyal disciple." The ethereal words were filled with a mocking smile, as if they had come from countless epochs. The dark energy in the cave suddenly began to vibrate violently, transforming into thousands of tentacles that coiled around Alpha.

“Impossible! The God of Light and I have completely eliminated you back then. How could you still exist?” The voice of the God of Darkness began to tremble, and those sealed memories came flooding back like a tide - the original power in the depths of chaos that could never be completely eliminated.

"How can chaos disappear? As long as there is light and darkness in this world, I will never disappear." Alpha's pupils suddenly turned dark purple as he laughed arrogantly. The power of chaos rushed straight to his mind like a surging tide along his meridians. His consciousness seemed to be drawn into a vortex of time and space, witnessing the betrayal that changed the world.

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Thousands of years ago, the two chief disciples of the Chaos Church, Light and Dark, knelt before the Chaos Master and listened devoutly to his teachings. However, their desire for eternal power gradually devoured their loyalty.

When the Holy Lance of the God of Light and the Magic Blade of the God of Darkness pierced the Chaos Master at the same time, the world was torn into two opposing camps of light and darkness. For the next hundred years, the flames of war between the two churches spread across the continent until the God of Light dismembered the body of the God of Darkness and suppressed it in the abyss, and the battle temporarily came to an end.

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At this moment, Alpha was suspended in the void of consciousness, watching the three gods confront each other across time and space, and endless sadness surged in his heart. He was like an ant in a storm, being manipulated at will by a more powerful force.

The Chaos Cult Master's pressure was like the sky collapsing and the earth collapsing. The slightest leak would cause fine cracks to appear on his body, as if he would be crushed into dust in the next second. In this power game beyond imagination, he didn't even have the qualifications to struggle, and could only watch himself become a pawn in the game of gods...

"Chaos, you are nothing but a useless person who is occupying the toilet without doing anything!" The roar of the Dark God shook the cave walls and the stalactites corroded by the slime fell like raindrops. The black mist surging around him suddenly condensed into hideous ghost faces, each of which was twisted with mockery, "Even if you are resurrected, what can you do? In the end, you will still be ruthlessly crushed by me!"

Chaotic laughter burst out from Alpha's body, making everyone's eardrums hurt: "Boy, you have the power to defeat him - activate it!" Before the words fell, a dark golden light shot up into the sky from Alpha's arms, and the space was twisted into a vortex in this light.

"Impossible! Uncrowned Ring? How could it be here?" The Dark God's voice suddenly became sharp, and the originally arrogant black fog trembled violently, as if it was stirred by an invisible giant hand. The ring suspended in the air was flowing with strange patterns, and each ravine seemed to be a crack leading to another dimension.

"Don't listen to his nonsense!" The Dark God suddenly warned urgently, "Once you put on that thing, it will suck all your vitality and even your soul will be crushed!" There was unprecedented fear in his voice, and the ghost faces formed by the black mist dissipated one after another.

Chaos' voice became more and more bewitching: "You have no choice." The shadows of his companions suddenly appeared on the ground under Alpha's feet - Evelyn was entangled by dark tentacles, and the monkey was knocked away to protect the stars, and blood drew a scarlet arc in the air. "Either watch them turn to ashes, or fall into the abyss alone."

Alpha's nails dug deep into his palm, and blood dripped onto the surface of the ring, which was instantly absorbed. Memories came flooding back: the night when he and Evelyn practiced magic under the moonlight, the wild fruits handed to him by the monkey, the trusting look in Fanxing's eyes when she was injured... Those warm fragments overlapped with the desperate situation before him, piercing his heart.

"I've made up my mind!" Alpha grabbed the ring fiercely, and the dark golden light instantly enveloped him. Power surged into his body like a flood, his bones made a crisp sound under the heavy load, and veins bulged under his skin. His consciousness seemed to be torn into countless pieces, shuttling wildly between memory and reality.

The Dark God felt the pressure of that power and roared unwillingly: "How is it possible! This power should not belong to you!" The black mist he condensed melted like ice and snow in the light, but Alpha also felt his vitality being madly drained away at this moment. His skin quickly turned pale, his hair began to turn white, and every breath seemed to consume the last of his vitality.

"Hahaha! Leave everything to me!" Chaos' voice was filled with ecstasy, "Your body, soul, flesh and blood will all become the nourishment for my rebirth!"

At this moment, the voice of the Dark God suddenly sounded: "There is still a chance! Use our power to suppress him! As long as you can do it before you are sucked dry..."

"The true meaning of the Uncrowned Ring is that all beings are equal." Chaos' voice suddenly turned cold, and a strange realm appeared in front of Alpha's eyes - the power of all gods was suppressed at this moment, like a sealed prisoner, "If you give up using it, darkness will swallow everything again; if you continue... are you sure you want to be the enemy of God?"

Alpha regained consciousness amidst the severe pain. He remembered his companions' loyalty when he was being hunted, and his oath to protect this land. "No!" He suddenly roared, and an unprecedented light burst out from his body, "My destiny is determined by myself!"

The light of the ring suddenly surged, and the Dark God looked at Alpha in horror as the Bloodthirsty Spear of the Light God appeared in his hand. Chaos' laughter also stopped abruptly. "Absorb everything!" Alpha's voice was full of determination, and the light swallowed up the entire cave. All the darkness and light became sacrifices to his power at this moment.