536 Abyss 2 (1/2)

Chapter 536: Abyss 2

He knew that this place would not be able to withstand one of the strongest Totem Users anymore. However, his continuous acts of vengeance caused serious losses towards Obscuro Society. Within the span of a year, most of Obscuro Society’s Silver Totems had destroyed the blood pool in order to save Hellgate. They charged forward without caring about their own safety..

Both sides suffered numerous casualties during the battle with the Nest Leaders, forming the red plains and sea of countless corpses.

The absence of proper leadership resulted in the stalling of their forces by the Eternal Night Palace, causing Obscuro Society to suffer extremely difficult setbacks. Without powerful battle forces on either side, the Nest Leaders were able to obtain great advantages.

This was the first step of the complicated plan that Divine God Palace Master had drafted out after he had obtained sufficient Living Secret Techniques.

The King of Ender cooperated and tempted him personally, hastening the creation of the blood pool. After Hellgate had entered the inner world, he could control and interfere with his exit and entry points freely. However, these complicated plans involved too many people.

They would only be able to obstruct Hellgate in the inner world, making it impossible for him to return temporarily. Meanwhile, it would only last for a year.

An outcome like this…

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Kovitan Kingdom

This place had changed completely after a year.

While Garen sealed himself at the bottom of the sea, Ivycius and Skyharp guarded the area, leaving the tasks of the Black Swamp Palace to be handled and discussed by the Elders, allowing Demon Phoenix and the other Elders that had just entered the palace to pass their time comfortably.

The White Knight tribesman and princess that Garen had saved in the field formed a new force after entering Black Swamp Palace. The leader of the White Knights from the White Wind Tribe progressed quickly, and obtained the necessary Appraisal to practice the Black Water True Technique. Once he had coordinated and refined it to his Secret Technique, his powers broke through to Form 4 suddenly, leading him to form the White Knights of the Wind that were unwaveringly loyal to Garen. They were in stark contrast in comparison to the Black Knights of the Four Directions Sky Warriors. Once they had obtained power, their initial plan was to return to their village for vengeance. Unfortunately, their enemies had left their original locations for good and were nowhere to be seen.

Demon Phoenix and the others spent their days enjoying themselves in a comfortable environment that most people could only dream of experiencing. Occasionally, they would travel to the North Sea to check on Garen’s condition. After Garen took them out of their rural homes, they became inseparable from the new dazzling world that they had stepped into. However, their reveration for him remained deeply rooted in their hearts. They would never dare to have other intentions even if they were enticed by others.

Within Black Swamp Palace, only Demon Phoenix and a few others were the clearest about the exact details surrounding Garen’s existence. During the past year, she had restored herself to middle-level Form 5 completely. However, an exhausted feeling still lingered whenever she faced Garen.

While Black Swamp Palace held their troops back and recuperated, the other forces in the Kingdom, including the other three Gargantuans, gathered crowds of Totem Users and civilians that were seeking refuge, before beginning to build two cities outside the protection areas.

The Princess’ constructions were finally revealed. They were called ‘Dawn Towers’, and the five towers that she had built within her domain were able to gather Totem Powers and shoot them across distances of more than a thousand meters. They also possessed the ability to amplify powers, allowing the Totem Users within her domain to experience power upgrades of up to ten percent.

This was a frightening enhancement. Moreover, it also meant that the Princess had first-rate master Totem Forgers among her subordinates. She would definitely have Grand Duke Benoc’s support behind her as well.

Meanwhile, Grand Duke Cody concentrated all of his efforts in the new city, and gathered a large group of regular Forgers to build a superweapon called the Kars Cannon outside the city walls.

This weapon used the Totem Light of fifty Totem Users to cause terrifying explosions within seconds. It was rumored to be the invention of a young prodigy Forger that had fled to Kovitan, thus giving the cannon its name.

On the other hand, internal disputes of interest occurred after the heads of the guild alliances took in Totem Users from the outside, causing numerous large-scale forces to fall apart during the war. This led to changes in the political regime, causing everyone to become weaker in the end, while the Four Gargantuans were also threatened to be removed from their seats.

Through Demon Phoenix, Garen was not completely cut off from the outside world during this period. Instead, he knew the changes and developments of the current situation clearly.

As for the other forces in the Kingdom, Garen was unconcerned about them. This information only reached him because of the close distance between them and Black Swamp Palace. Although the palace did not participate in their affairs and remained detached, they were still aware of certain happenings.

In comparison to the incidents that were ongoing in Daniela, everything else was unimportant. Out of the countless messages and news that he had received, the thing that shocked him most was not the news of Phiroth’s death in battle. Instead, it came from the largest civilian assembly fort in the world that had been built in Daniela — Heart of Life.

A large-scale, widespread epidemic had appeared within the Heart of Life, and before the news reached him, more than a hundred thousand people had already died from being infected there! In the beginning, the spread of this epidemic was quarantined within the fort, but once it reached this stage, they were unable to suppress it anymore, causing the situation to reach an extremely dangerous degree.

The scariest part of this epidemic was not its hundred percent mortality rate, but the fact that it would turn the dead into zombie-like monsters. These monsters hunted the living as food and roamed about. Moreover, they would still be able to live for a few days even if their heads or hearts were destroyed fully.

This made Garen faintly think of the living corpses that he had encountered the first time he entered the mysterious Ghost City. The surroundings of the capital of that little country were filled with the strange zombies that were described earlier.

Vaguely, he could feel that it was highly likely that this epidemic was connected to Ghost City.

The occurrences in Ghost City were caused by the black copper phenomena, of which the root cause was black copper, and the source of the black copper phenomena was very likely to be Hellgate.

Since the situation had reached this degree, it had left the original timeline completely.

Hellgate had disappeared temporarily, and another person had similarly disappeared without any news was Divine God Palace Master.