Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 585 The Final Fight

"I'm really a normal person." Rhodes, who was wearing a straitjacket, said to the doctor in front of him while sitting in the office.

"That's what you told me last month." The doctor picked up the thermos cup from the table, opened the lid and blew into it, and then said: "But you got sick again after a while, don't forget, before You have hurtful behavior for a few days."

"Do you have any tests here? Let me do it to prove that I have no mental problems." Rhodes asked.

The doctor shook his head: "You have intermittent schizophrenia and paranoia. You can communicate with me well now, but you won't be able to tell after a while."

"Don't worry too much, as long as you actively treat and take medicine on time, your family will take you home after a while.

Well, I have other things to do, you better go back quickly. "While the doctor was speaking, two security guards came up and led Rhodes to the door of the office.

"I'm really a normal person." Rhodes said standing at the door of the office.

"Remember to take your medicine on time when you go back." The doctor smiled and nodded, closing the door.

On the way back to the ward, Rhode tried hard to recall the past, but he couldn't remember anything.

From time to time, some pictures that made him feel very familiar flashed through his mind, but he couldn't name any of the people in the pictures.

Rhodes turned around, and the two security guards with batons looked at him nervously.

"Don't be nervous, I just want to go to the bathroom." Rhodes smiled.

"You can deal with it yourself after you return to your room." One of the security guards said.

"Okay." Rhodes nodded, and followed the security back to his ward.

boom!
The iron gate was closed, and the two security guards heaved a sigh of relief, turned and left.

Rhodes is the only one in this room, because he injured his roommate some time ago, the mental patient who always thought he was a doctor.

That night Rhodes fell asleep feeling someone touching his chest, only to wake up to find his roommate listening to his heartbeat with a stethoscope he had stolen from somewhere.

Rhodes slapped him casually, but he didn't expect to break the man's hand. Even he himself didn't expect that he would have such great strength. In the end, he was assigned to this separate room.

There is only a bed, a table, a toilet, and a sink in the room. There are neither windows nor mirrors, so that patients can prevent patients from hurting others or self-harm with glass shards.

Although staying alone for a long time will feel very depressing, but in any case, the deluxe single room is still more comfortable than the previous cozy double room.

At present, the memories that Rhodes can recall can only be traced back to the morning when his roommate pretending to be a doctor was captured on the spot.

He stood in front of one wall and knocked regularly, and it wasn't long before someone on the other side of the wall knocked a few times in response.

"My memory is wrong, it's this side." Rhode walked to the other wall.

This is the only wall that doesn't respond in any way. If nothing else happens, this wall should be the outer wall of the entire building.

If he could break this wall, he would have a chance to escape from this place, and he didn't want to stay in this place for even a second.

How about trying it now?
Rhodes took a deep breath and punched him with all his strength.

boom!
A hole big enough for him to pass through appeared on the wall in front of him. Through this hole, Rhodes could see tall buildings in the distance.

He turned and walked to the table, opened the drawer and took out his diary.

I heard from the doctor that this diary was written by him while talking nonsense when he was ill. Rhodes has read this diary completely in the past few days. It talks about what "he" experienced after time travel. It's clearly written, but then it gets blurred and skips straight to the ending, where "he" returns to a previous world and finds himself in a mental institution.

Rhodes heard from his former roommate that he used to tell everyone that what happened in the diary was really his own experience.

He took the diary and walked up to the big hole, hesitantly looking down. It was at least ten meters above the ground, and if he jumped down, he might fall to his death.

If you don't run quickly for such a big commotion just now, you will definitely be discovered.

Rhodes tied the sheet to the table leg, grabbed the sheet through the big hole, and then jumped down.

The table was relatively wide and couldn't pass through the big hole. After the bed sheet was fully stretched, Rhodes hesitated for a long time and finally let go of the hand holding the bed sheet and fell down.

When he was about to fall to the ground, he rolled skillfully in a circle to remove part of the impact force.

Why am I so proficient?
Did I often fall from heights before?
Rhodes stood up, patted the dust off his body, and walked towards the courtyard wall not far away. He first threw the diary to the other side of the courtyard wall, and then turned over the courtyard wall deftly.

On the other side of the courtyard wall is a pedestrian street. There are no people on the pedestrian street now, so Rhodes picked a random direction and walked quickly.

"Isn't this person sneaking out from the mental hospital next door?" An old couple walking around pointed to Rhodes who was wearing a loose hospital gown and slippers on his feet.

"This is the most popular pajamas in the fashion industry right now." Rhodes explained loudly while tugging at his hospital gown.

After passing through the pedestrian street, Rhode came to a busy street.

Walking on the street, watching people coming and going and the tall buildings next to him, Rhodes felt a little confused, not knowing what he should do next.

After walking a few steps forward, Rhode's eyes blurred, and he felt as if his head was about to explode. A strong sense of dizziness surged up and made him unable to stand still.

It's over, I forgot to take the medicine last night, I should have taken the medicine just now before being discharged from the hospital...

"Let me help you." Rhode lost his balance and stretched out his hand to grab it to the side.

"What are you doing?" A man's voice suddenly sounded from the side.

Rhodes felt his hand being thrown aside, but just as he was about to fall, he was still supported by an outstretched arm.

After a few minutes, Rhodes regained his strength.

I seem to remember something...

"Thank you." Rhode raised his head and said thanks, but found that there was no one in front of him. People passing by all looked at him with strange eyes, and then hurried away.

He shook his head and continued walking aimlessly on the street.

"It seems that what is recorded in the diary is really what I have experienced." Rhodes muttered to himself while recalling. He recovered the memory before the time travel, and he could remember more and more things.

I don't know how long I walked, but it was completely dark, and Rhodes stopped.

has it been so longWhy don't I even feel hungry at all?

Just now, when he was sorting out his memory, he accidentally walked into a park.

Not far ahead, a group of elderly people were practicing Tai Chi. Although their practice was somewhat different from what Rhodes had practiced before, they were still very similar in general, which gave Rhodes a very familiar feeling.

Rhodes stood aside and imitated. He thought that maybe this would allow him to retrieve some memories.

At first, he tried his best to imitate these movements, after a while he closed his eyes, followed the feeling of his body, and practiced Tai Chi indiscriminately.

For Taijiquan, the moves are not important, but the "Tao" contained in it is the most important.

Accompanied by the music played by the surrounding square dance aunts, Rhodes entered a special state, with Yin and Yang flowing around him, forming the most primitive Tai Chi diagram.

Rhodes didn't use any internal force at this time, because he hadn't thought of how to use the internal force yet.

At this moment, a vision appeared in the sky. The sun, which had not set for a long time, rose again, and set again after a while.

Rhodes didn't notice this, and still closed his eyes to appreciate the "Tao" contained in Tai Chi.

After an unknown amount of time, an indistinct shadow came out of the darkness behind Rhodes. It walked towards Rhodes and then disappeared into his shadow.

A feeling of dizziness came, and Rhodes opened his eyes.

With the white ceiling in front of him, he immediately sat up and found himself lying on a hospital bed, the bright sunlight coming in from the window just hit his pillow.

"You're awake, do you have any stories to tell today?" A middle-aged doctor wearing glasses and a white coat walked over with a smile.

The scene in front of him made Rhodes feel extremely familiar.

Didn't I escape?
And wasn't this guy's hand broken by me?

Thinking of this, Rhodes had a splitting headache.

Was everything before that a dream?

Those memories about before and after my time travel were only produced by my paranoia?
But why do I feel like I've seen this scene before me countless times?

Rhodes opened the drawer next to the bed and rummaged through it.

At this moment, the door of the ward was pushed open, and a group of people walked in. They took Rhode's roommate out after saying something.

Where is my diary?Why can't I find it?

Rhodes tore the table into pieces with his bare hands and poured out all the contents, but still did not find his diary.

He rushed to the window next to him, tore off the protective net on the window, and jumped directly.

Then he climbed over the wall and ran along the route he had escaped from the hospital before, at a speed much faster than the cars on the road.

Not long after, he came to the park and found the place where he practiced boxing before. The diary was on the ground, and some people who were doing morning exercises in the park passed by, as if they couldn't see the diary.

Rhodes stepped forward, picked up the diary and opened it to check it. He felt a terrible headache while reading it, and his body twitched like an electric shock.

A blurry shadow came out from the shadow beside him, and rushed towards Rhodes who was lying on the ground twitching.

The aura emanating from it made Rhodes feel very familiar, the abyss aura.

The yin and yang two energies automatically protected the body, and a Tai Chi diagram appeared beside Rhodes, and the shadow hit the Tai Chi diagram and stopped.

Rhodes felt as if a heavy hammer had hit his head. He woke up, and immediately got up from the ground. A twisted black figure stood in front of him, baring its teeth and claws.

At this moment, Rhodes had recovered all the memories before being imprisoned in the dark cage.

"I killed the giant dragon with the sword you possessed, so that you lost the chance to erode your body, and then you intend to occupy my body?" Rhodes asked.

"All of you will eventually become my slaves." A raving voice appeared in Rhodes' mind.

Rhodes is very familiar with this voice, which is issued by the will of the abyss. It seems that part of the soul of the Lord of Radiance has been completely eroded by the abyss.

With a cold snort, he slapped the black shadow with his palm, and the three-point return to vitality attached to his palm broke it into pieces.

Afterwards, everything around it shattered like glass, leaving only boundless darkness in the end.

"Enjoy the last time of your life..." The voice of the will of the abyss echoed in Rhodes' mind.

Rhodes recovered all his memories. He stood still and recalled the previous experience, and he felt a wave of fear.

After being overwhelmed by darkness, he woke up in that hospital bed, everything around him seemed very real, and he had no supernatural power.

He can't sense the existence of internal force, can't open the system, and all kinds of martial arts don't have any power, he is exactly like other ordinary people.

At that time, Rhodes suspected that he hadn't time-traveled at all. In fact, he was suffering from paranoia and imagined that he had time-traveled.

After being depressed for a while, he actively cooperated with the treatment, took medicine on time every day, and recorded all the things he remembered in chronological order, until a shadow appeared in the darkness one night and killed Rhodes...

Self-doubt, taking drugs, and death will cause Rhodes to lose some memories.

Rhodes woke up again on the hospital bed, and lost a lot of memory, and the memory of the shadow killing him was completely erased.

He began to doubt his past experience, and then cooperated with the treatment to take the medicine on time, and was finally killed by the shadow. He repeated this experience countless times.

But that shadow is also constantly weakening, the world is gradually becoming less real, and Rhodes can use more and more power here.

In the previous last reincarnation, Rhodes had lost almost all of his memories, except for fragments of memories that occasionally flashed before his eyes.

However, the power of the black shadow gradually became extremely weak. After losing its suppression, Rhodes was in this world.Possessing a powerful power far beyond ordinary people, breaking the plot of repeated reincarnation.

It took Sombra a lot of strength to build the world outside the mental hospital, and it seemed that someone helped, giving Rhodes the opportunity to recover part of his memory and inadvertently comprehend the "Tao" contained in Tai Chi.

With a thought in Rhodes' mind, the yin and yang qi circulated around him, forming a Taiji diagram to isolate the darkness from him, and then he walked out of the cage constructed by the darkness.

During his absence, a large part of the plain was swallowed up by darkness. Fortunately, his previous position was very close to the center, otherwise he would definitely get lost if he was trapped in the darkness.

Right in front of Rhodes was the corpse of the golden dragon, with black blood flowing around it, its original golden scales turned black, and its body was cut into countless sections.

"It should be the Lord of Radiance who solved this dragon corpse controlled by the will of the abyss." Rhode looked around and walked towards the center of the battlefield.

Most of the believers and the weaker demigods have almost died, and there are very few people left on the entire plain.

An extremely huge black dragon stood in the very center of the plain, with scorching flames spouting from its mouth, and countless people were reduced to ashes in the flames.

How did it get out of trouble?
Rhodes felt that the aura emanating from it was completely different from before, with the smell of being eroded by the abyss.

At this moment, Rhodes sensed a dangerous aura, and he quickly used his internal energy to assume a defensive posture.

A blurry figure suddenly appeared not far behind Rhodes, turning into an afterimage and rushing towards him very fast.

boom!
Rhodes turned around quickly and punched the man, but the other arm was cut with a hideous wound by the invisible dagger in the man's hand.

Blood slowly flowed from his arm, Rhodes took a deep breath, controlled the muscles on his arm to stop the bleeding.

Rhodes looked warily at the man wearing the bronze mask not far away, and took the opportunity to use his internal energy to repair the wound.

The mask on his face is almost completely broken, and one of the two scarlet gemstones in the eyes is missing. You can roughly see the shriveled eye with no eyeballs under the mask, and the clothes on his body are severely damaged. A wound with deep visible bone underneath was exposed.

Where his wound and mask were shattered, black smoke continued to emerge from it.

"What's wrong with you?" Rhodes asked.

The Assassin King's body began to tremble, but he didn't reply, his figure disappeared before Rhode's eyes, and suddenly appeared behind him the next moment.

Rhodes had a premonition, and at the moment the King of Assassins reappeared, he turned around and slapped him.

The King of Assassins stabbed Rhode's palm with an invisible short sword. Rhodes quickly changed his stance, changing his slap to tease, and used the power of Tai Chi to bring the sword upwards. The King of Assassins wanted to He wanted to draw the sword, but found that the dagger in his hand was firmly sucked by an inexplicable force, and he couldn't pull it out as if he was stuck in a mire.

At the same time, Rhodes took a step forward and stabbed straight with his two fingers together. The internal force from his fingertips easily pierced the heart of the King of Assassins that had stopped beating. The invisible short sword in his hand drew a semicircle and returned to the position on the chests of the two.

At this moment, several twisted tentacles emerged from the exposed eye of the Assassin King and shot at Rhodes.

Rhodes pulled the dagger in the hands of the Assassin King to cut off the tentacles, and after the tentacles were cut off, the Assassin King's body began to tremble again.

Rhodes took the opportunity to grab the dagger, and slashed at the bronze mask of the King of Assassins.

The mask was completely shattered, revealing the badly burned face below.

"I didn't expect to be able to suppress it in the end..." The King of Assassins showed a relieved look on his face. He whispered a spell in dragon language, and then his body burned ragingly: "Take my Sword to defeat it, if you can..."

The flames attached to his body burned fiercely, accompanied by the screams of countless people in pain, black smoke billowed from his body, and soon his body was reduced to a mass of ashes.

Rhodes didn't expect to win so easily, but it should be because the King of Assassins had little power left after the previous battle with the black dragon and the will of the abyss in the conscious world, leaving only a wisp of remnant soul left on his body.

His broken body couldn't show his original strength, and he was somehow controlled by the will of the abyss to fight Rhodes, so many special abilities were not used.

Rhodes walked towards the center of the plain with the invisible short sword left by the King of Assassins.

In front of him, the Lord of Radiance was fighting a demigod who exuded a breath of death. His strength was very strong, and he fought back and forth with the Lord of Radiance.

However, the number and quality of his followers are far inferior to those of the Lord of Radiance. Although there are a few very strong ones, they are still far behind those who exist in epic legends.

Even though they died for hundreds of years and thousands of years, their stories are still circulating on the mainland. The digestion of the world of the dead does not have much impact on them. On the contrary, many people now are stronger than they were before they were alive.

If the Lord of Radiance took her followers to participate in the battle that took place in Dragon Fort in another world, the winning side would definitely be human beings, and even Cyberdrim might die there.

Rhodes did not continue to approach in this direction. Currently, he and the Lord of Radiance are not enemies for the time being, but it will be uncertain after a while.

If it was true what the corrupted part of her soul said, when the world received enough sacrifices, the throne would descend from the sky, and only by ascending to the throne could one have a chance to become the only true god in this world.

Rhodes stood not far from the center of the plain, watching them kill each other while thinking.

What is the function of ascending to the throne of the gods, temporarily acting as the will of the world, holding the authority to control the entire world?
Also, there should be many worlds like this. He just traveled from another world, and he has also been to a world that is almost exactly the same as this world.

Rhode reached out and touched the space ring on his hand. Who is its forger?
Why can it bring itself and Natalya to another world?
If a demigod escapes to another world, can he escape the fate of being digested by the world?

Rhodes turned around and glanced at the darkness that was about to swallow the entire plain. After experiencing so many things, he probably knew what the abyss was.

After creatures with a certain amount of intelligence die, their souls will enter the world of the dead and be slowly digested by the world, but the derivatives of the soul, human nature is very difficult to digest, if directly digested and absorbed, the world will definitely be affected by these human natures.

It takes a very long time to digest human nature, and these undigested human natures gather and precipitate to form an abyss. Countless years have passed, and an independent will has also been born in the abyss.

For a long time, the breath from the abyss has been constantly polluting the world of the dead, which has resulted in fewer parts of each soul that can be reabsorbed by the world, and the abyss can get more humanity that is not needed by the world.

Before Rhodes entered the plain, the darkness below and beside the spiraling staircase was the abyss, and so is the darkness that is now swallowing the plain.

The abyss should belong to the deepest illusory world like the origin of the world he is in now, but it should have spread to the conscious world closest to reality, otherwise the king of assassins and the black dragon would not be eroded by the abyss.

Rhodes was once soaked in the silt of human nature in the abyss, so the darkness behind him did not have any negative impact on him, but ordinary believers of demigods would feel inexplicable despair and fear.

Some of the distorted monsters on the previous battlefield were ordinary believers with mental breakdowns.

At this moment, the whole world suddenly began to shake violently, and a huge crack suddenly opened near the center of the plain. A few people were unlucky and fell into the crack.

The crack became bigger and bigger, and the shaking became more and more intense. It didn't take long for a small mountain to emerge from the crack, and the shaking stopped abruptly.

On the top of the hill was a stone throne with scorched marks. Looking at this throne, Rhodes felt his body become extremely excited, with a desire to ascend to the throne.

Is this the throne that can become the only true god?

But why is it coming out of the ground?Shouldn't it have fallen from the sky?
While thinking about this, Rhodes involuntarily approached the throne.

"No." He stopped immediately after recovering.

If according to Rhodes' previous conjecture, the bottom of this plain is part of the abyss, even if this throne is really the throne that can make people the only true god in this world, it is still polluted by the abyss.

Even if someone ascends to this throne, he has no chance to become the only true god in this world, and will only become a slave under the control of the will of the abyss.

At this moment, the nearest demigod had already rushed in front of the throne, he turned around and wanted to sit down, but suddenly a raging fire ignited on his body, he struggled in pain for a few seconds before turning into a For a cloud of ashes.

Looks like the world hasn't gotten enough sacrifices yet...

Except for Rhodes, everyone on the plain rushed to the throne while fighting each other. Countless people fell down on the road, and countless people were burned to ashes in the flames after approaching the throne, but this still could not be reduced in the slightest. Their feverish desire to ascend to the throne.

Rhodes is also slowly walking towards the throne. His soul does not belong to this world, only his body does, so his desire to ascend to the throne is not as strong as others.

That black dragon has completely died. Like the Assassin King, it was eroded by the will of the abyss in the conscious world before, unable to exert its original strength, and was besieged by countless people. Even it can only usher in the fate of death .

Its corpse was horrible, and its soul was divided and absorbed by the demigods.

Those demigods who absorbed its soul went mad without exception, and some even became distorted in their bodies, growing some strange tissues.

They crazily killed the people around them, even their original believers, and some of their believers also underwent the same changes, turning into distorted monsters.

At this moment, the black dragon's body suddenly exploded like a punctured balloon, and countless black mud-like things gradually spread around it.

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