Chapter 2996: Transfer
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
"How about trying to remove the seal?"
Archbishop Whiteman reminded, "The seal might also be suppressing an evil entity. Recklessly breaking it could cause the creature outside the stone pillar to fully awaken."
"This..."
"The operation of this alchemy magic array is very unique, never seen before..."
"Is there a better solution?"
"Can we try opening just half of it?"
A group of players proficient in alchemy gathered around the stone seal beside the magic array and discussed it for quite a while, but they couldn’t come up with an effective solution.
Roa was getting impatient.
"Do it. Remove the seal. If anything happens, I’ll take responsibility."
If they waited any longer, people from the other federations would arrive, and the Enlightenment treasure wouldn’t be easy to divide then.
Archbishop Whiteman sighed inwardly and nodded, "Very well. Everyone, please prepare thoroughly."
Several players skilled in alchemy gathered around the stone slab, discussed briefly, and tried to move the stone embedded in the sacrificial altar.
"Bang!!!"
The stone was extremely heavy. As it was removed from the sealed slab and dropped to the ground, it let out a loud crash.
Huh?
"Look! What is that!"
"Ka ka, ka ka ka..."
As one seal was lifted, faint sounds came from the central stone pillar. The rotting flesh on the pillar began to twist and squirm more violently, as if the decaying flesh suppressed by the pillar was struggling in pain. A ferocious face within the flesh gradually became clearer.
The players stood around the fleshy pillar, momentarily unsure of what to do.
"Ka, ka, ka ka ka ka ka..."
The sacrificial altars throughout the hall began to shake violently out of control.
"This is bad!"
The seal was being suppressed.
Roa’s expression changed.
"Boom! Boom! Boom boom!!"
The stones suppressing the sealed altars were being forcefully displaced and dropped to the floor. The decaying flesh wrapped around the central stone pillar began retreating rapidly.
Until the sealed monster within was revealed.
It was... human?
The sealed human figure appeared tall and slender. Most of its body had already decayed and was fused into a mass of rotting flesh. The remaining parts revealed white bones and sinewy muscle fibers.
"That is..."
Archbishop Whiteman stared intently at the slowly emerging figure, a chill crawling up his spine.
*Ka, ka ka...*
At some unknown point, tiny black exoskeleton bugs had begun to crawl out from every corner of the hall. They moved rapidly across the floor, clicking loudly as they scuttled toward the central decaying human figure.
"Watch out! Fall back!"
Whiteman suddenly realized the danger, shouted aloud, and, together with the priests of the Holy Court behind him, cast a defensive barrier.
Whatever that thing was, whether or not it was the Enlightenment treasure, it was dangerous!
In the next moment, the human figure within the rotting flesh slowly opened its eyes and looked at Roa’s Central Federation player group, suddenly raising its hand toward them.
"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!"
The surrounding decayed flesh suddenly launched out like explosive projectiles, engulfing the players!
"Bang! Bang bang!!"
The dense rotten flesh projectiles exploded against the holy barrier.
The decayed flesh had a powerful corrosive effect. After the explosion, the residual corruption caused secondary damage to the barrier.
"Group 2, cover!"
"Retreat! Fall back!!"
The hall was narrow and not suited for effective combat. Roa shouted and quickly directed the player team to retreat in an orderly manner.
The elite Federation players cast various spells and shattered the incoming rotten flesh, retreating in an orderly manner while protected by the holy barriers cast by Archbishop Whiteman and the holy believers.
They withdrew through the breached ice soul tunnel, leaving the cave and exiting the defensive area.
What now?
After exiting back into the outer ice crystal maze through the breach, everyone exchanged glances quickly.
It seemed they had released something terrible.
But what about the Enlightenment treasure?
Recalling the brief battle just now, the sealed rotting entity had just broken free and hadn’t fully recovered its strength, and they hadn’t found anything clearly related to the Enlightenment treasure.
Was the intel wrong?
"Maybe we have to defeat that thing to obtain the Enlightenment treasure?"
"Take it down?"
The thought of that strange rotten creature made the players shudder.
Roa turned and looked at Archbishop Whiteman, "Archbishop, do you have confidence in dealing with that mysterious creature we just saw?"
Whiteman’s expression turned heavy as he replied, "If my guess is correct, it might be Ouroboros."
Roa’s face changed instantly as he said, "What? You mean that eternal Disaster?"
"Very similar."
Whiteman couldn’t confirm it either. He said solemnly, "If it really is Ouroboros, then we’re in serious trouble. We must find a way to eliminate it completely, or this world will fall into calamity."
Roa looked back at the entrance of the ice-covered cavern, took a deep breath, and said, "Form up, establish a line, prepare to purge the creature!"
Just as the Federation elite team finished forming ranks, several of the black bugs seen earlier quickly crawled out from inside the cavern.
"Crush them!"
The backline players unleashed a coordinated wave of fire spells toward the cavern entrance. The black bugs emerging from within didn’t have strong resistance to magic and were quickly burned to ashes under the high-concentration fire attacks, crackling as they died.
"He’s coming."
Archbishop Whiteman stared at the cavern entrance, raising his scepter, fully focused on what lay beyond.
Not far from Roa’s team, in the shadows, several pairs of eyes were watching them closely.
"Master, even though Haye was suppressed for so long, his strength hasn’t diminished at all. Aren’t you worried about Fang Heng?"
"I’m not."
Xia Xi watched Roa’s Central Federation player group and said flatly, "There may be a gap in strength, but Fang Heng is not foolish. He’ll choose to build up his power and use the strength of the Titan bloodline to deal with Haye. After all, that thing is just a mindless monster now."
"But..."
The subordinate still seemed worried.
They remembered that during the last time Haye was sealed, it took the combined effort of Xia Xi, Mu Qingxin, and Su Ziyue to suppress him completely, and they had to leave behind a portion of their essence to maintain the seal until now.
"To deal with a mindless, incomplete Seed of Ouroboros—if Fang Heng dies, that only means he’s unworthy."
The subordinates fell silent, a chill rising in their hearts.
They couldn’t see through Xia Xi at all.
They had spent an enormous amount of effort cultivating Fang Heng, with Xia Xi putting everything into it.
Yet now, after successfully cultivating the seed, she had adopted a hands-off approach, only providing minimal guidance.
And now she spoke with such indifference, as if she could discard everything at any moment?
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