Chapter 396 – The True God Destroyer Crossbow (1/2)

No one could have expected the Demon Emperor would employ such an extreme method, going so far as to detonate a mystery codex. As Prince Bader said, in order to make such a book, it required a Legendary mage of the same element, enormous Divine energy, and even more manpower to collect all kinds of magic spells and record them in the book.

A mystery codex could exhaust the life of a Legendary mage, and they might still not be able to produce it. Therefore, there were only nine mystery codices for nine magic elements. No one would spend so much energy to make an identical one except the first people to make them so as to leave something for later generations, because when one had that ability, they could just directly go rob a mystery codex with their Legendary-tier strength.

Upon hearing about Prince Bader’s plan to explode the Earth Mystery Codex to cause space chaos, and then the Demon race would at the same time open a passage larger than all other cross-realm teleportation routes to let the Demon army completely into the Xuanhuang Ancient Country, Fatty shuddered in shock.

At present, most of the Central Dynasty’s attention was on the Demon troops that had already appeared in the Human world, plus those that were aggressively attacking Heavens Scar, where all strategic materials were streaming to. If the Demon race successfully implemented their plan here, the unsuspecting Xuanhuang Ancient Country would definitely suffer a lot of losses and might even lose some main cities.

Aside from the Imperial Capital and the four main cities, Xuanhuang Ancient Country’s vast domain had many more small cities, either player guild bases or system-controlled, housing hundreds of thousands to millions of NPCs and players. A sudden raid of demons and these places would inevitably suffer a disaster.

Most crucially, if Prince Bader exploded the Earth Mystery Codex, where would Fatty find another to upgrade his Elemental Skill Book to Legendary?

When Prince Bader said it was not yet time to detonate the codex, Fatty quietly left the Demon camp and flew back to the nearest city with a Recall Scroll, and then quickly transported to the Imperial Capital.

“What? Blow up the Earth Mystery Codex? “ Sallip trembled as the dagger in his hand narrowly flew past Fatty’s head and lodged at the doorpost.

Sallip quickly reported the news to the higher-ups, and then an order from above was issued that Fatty was to deal with this matter.

“Me?” Fatty pointed to his nose. Seeing Sallip nod heavily. he crossed his arms in an ‘x.’ “I’m not going.”

“Why not?” Sallip didn’t understand. According to Fatty's character, he would desperately charge in immediately wherever there were benefits, but this time he actually refused. The rogue mentor wondered if the sun was rising from the West today.

“If that Prince Bader is a real prince and sent on this kind of mission, his strength certainly can’t be weak. He is at least Divine-tier, no? You want to make me, a little rogue who hasn’t even reached the Saint tier, deal with a Divine expert. Isn’t that just suicidal? I’m not going unless you find a Divine expert to help me.” Fatty pouted, refusing to comply no matter what.

“South, south… South is Vermilion Bird City. Go to the lord of Vermilion Bird City.” Sallip came up with an idea for Fatty.

Fatty hurried to Vermilion Bird city. Hearing that the lord of Sky City was paying a visit, the Vermilion Bird City Lord was very eager to welcome him in. However, hearing about going to deal with the Demon race, this beautiful city lord sighed.

“Not that I don't want to go, but I can't leave Vermilion Bird City at the moment. The Demon troops at Heavens Scar are attacking very aggressively. More than 100,000 soldiers are dying every day, so a large number of experts are transferred there. I have to guard the city and be ready to awaken Lord Vermilion Bird to deal with our enemy at any time. I really can’t leave.”

Seeing Fatty’s unwilling expression, the lord of Vermilion Bird City smiled. “I think the situation in the other three main cities would be similar to mine. Majority of the experts from our four main cities have been deployed to Heavens Scar, and even many experts from the Imperial City too. Otherwise, a few Divine experts can easily destroy them and conveniently gain a Divine artifact like the Earth Mystery Codex, who would refuse that chance?”

Without the help of Divine experts, Fatty dared not charge in there to die alone. When he came back to Sky City in a gloomy mood, even the wily Reck didn’t know what to do upon learning the news.

“Your Elemental Sword Diagram has ranked up to Divine. Can't you trap him?” Reck was also unwilling to leave alone a mystery codex right in front of their eyes without doing anything. He brainstormed hard for a workable plan.

“What's the use of trapping him but still unable to kill him? I’m not Wu Junxiao who can imprison a Divine expert and take him flying around, or else I would just trap him and fly to Vermilion Bird City. Besides, if we force him into a corner and he disregards everything to explode the codex, we are all doomed,” said Fatty.

“Makes sense.” Reck nodded, then sighed. “Unfortunately, I haven't been able to develop the poison that can kill Divine experts. Otherwise, how can this Earth Magic Book escape our grasp?”

Just then, a thunderclap resounded out of the blue, and a huge pillar of lightning over ten meters wide slowly formed above Sky City.

“Who is doing such evil things to be struck by lightning?!” Fatty exclaimed in fright.

A miserable scream echoed. Fatty opened the city lord’s monitor function to see Karl flailing his limbs while cursing and looking up at the sky.

“Fatty, come help! Master Karl has created a true God Destroyer Crossbow. When a Divine artifact is born, it’s detested by Heaven. If it fails to withstand the Heavenly Tribulation, not only will the crossbow be destroyed, but even Master Karl will suffer.” Lucas appeared in a flash, grabbed Fatty and Reck, then teleported beside Karl.

“Oh? The city lord is here. Hurry and open the Thunderstorm Formation, or this baby will be lost forever from us.” Seeing Fatty appear, Karl rushed over and hugged Fatty tightly like he’d met his savior.

Thunder rumbled in the sky as more and more lightning emerged and merged into the pillar. Gradually, the lightning pillar became so bright it seemed ready to strike at any moment and smash Sky City together with the crossbow.

Everyone in Sky City shouted in shock. Architect Lin came running in a hurry and asked loudly what had happened. Some guild players stationed in the city started to evacuate after being notified by Fatty.