Chapter 1549: Divine Region (part 3) (1/2)

Eleven of the goddess’s followers broke through at the edge of the Purgatory Desert. They were veterans, and they knew the enemy’s power was not something they were capable of measuring.

That assassin had killed the most powerful mage in their midst, who was also the only one with the most powerful healing and support skills. Agares’ Snakerun dagger robbed them of any hope.

If they were to continue fighting, Agares would have been able to take them out one after another.

None of them was capable of seeing through Agares’ stealth skills, and they had no idea how to defend against his attacks either. If they had been able to discover the enemy prior, then Agares’ combat prowess would have been comparable to theirs. But quite a few powerful professionals were keeping a close eye on them, preventing them from focusing on tracking that assassin.

Saleen hired Agares and the assassin caused the situation to lighten up. Every profession had its strengths. Agares was definitely incapable of standing against the forces of the goddess. However, in the current situation where the goddess’s Nature Legion was tangling with Saleen’s forces, the assassin was like a fish in the water.

“You want to run now? Too late.” Lex chuckled and flickered, arriving right before one of the followers of the goddess. Mages did not need to attack enemies at such a close distance. She was only doing so to cast an extremely small territory.

The territory shrouded the tall warrior, preventing the other followers from providing aid.

The warrior discovered in terror that the enemy’s world powers were far more powerful than a common level 17 mage’s. The only drawback to it being of a very small area. It was due precisely to such a small area that the power of the world ended up being enhanced by several levels.

The follower was armed with a chain, which was about ten meters long. The weapon fell limply, like a dead snake, when the power of the world activated by Lex was at work. The warrior never expected something like that to happen. The weapon they wielded was considered a godly item, and its weapon spirit was mostly restored. It had only been yet to reach the pinnacle state.

The goddess spent a lot of effort resurrecting and restoring them. She would have long been able to tame everything in the plane otherwise, and Saleen would not have ever gotten the chance to advance to where he was.

The chain whimpered on the ground for a bit. The warrior intended to activate his power as forcemaster but quickly found his powers being held back. Lex flashed a smirk at the warrior.

“Don’t bother struggling. The power of the Grukos is an antithesis to the likes of you, after all.” Lex tangled a fire dragon and a water snake together, sending the amalgamation of creatures into the warrior’s body.

Grukos…

The warrior did not understand what the name meant. When the emperor of Qin established his empire all those years ago, the warrior was still hibernating in the tablet. There was no way they would have known that there would have been a type of secret art that worked specifically against warriors.

If they had been given time to look into it, they would have developed ways to do something about it. However, given that that was the first time they encountered such a skill, the level 16 forcemaster had no way to resist the powers and ended up being killed by Lex with a single hit.

Yet another one of the followers bit the dust. The followers of the goddess turned around and formed a circle, facing outward. The Nature Legion’s rate at restoration had gotten increasingly slow, and the followers did not have any backup. The only way out was to give their all to fight.

“Who should be the one that gets out?” The remaining ten discussed among themselves. There was no way for all of them to escape. They only hoped to be able to send one of them to tell the goddess what had happened there.

Every single one that acted against them was to be branded with a Mark of Hatred to enable the goddess to take revenge for them.

The circle was no longer perfect, given that there were two of them missing. But their enemy was not of level 18, and the ten had been laying out the formation just to find an opportunity to send one of them away.

Lex shattered the body of the warrior. When the power of the Source of the warrior was destroyed, a spatial fissure appeared in the middle of the remaining followers. Van Gogh appeared inside the circle of the ten followers, before disappearing again.

He was of an inadequate level, as he was only a level 15 fallen holy master. However, he was still formidable enough that the followers dared not take him lightly.

Sika charged during the momentary lapse of their attention, leaping high into the air and bringing down the metal totem pole in her hand hard. A mage cast a huge fire dragon, which was destroyed by Sika’s metal totem pole in midair.

The weight of the metal totem pole was brought to bear as Sika let it fall to the ground.

At that moment, the entire world within the metal totem pole was falling.

Sika’s people sealed their ears away using skills, before wrapping themselves in three layers of magic shielding.

The heavy impact caused the ground to tremble. All of the goddess’ followers, including the Nature Legion, was sent flying from the ground. A triangular piece of bone shot to the air, emitting shrilled noises.

The heads of a mage and a warrior were split open. Their souls absorbed into that piece of bone.