"To find out the truth, we must delve deeper." [Thanks for supporting the novel]
Pope Ernst sighed and took the lead into the depths.
The Orc Clan and powerful figures grew serious. Everyone could sense that the [ Land of Exile ], which had been relatively peaceful despite its harsh environment, was now beginning to descend into chaos.
Sun Fei switched back to [ Druid Mode ], activated [ Werebear ] to kill the constantly appearing Dread Beast, and even used Druid skills to Summon a brown Grizzly to accompany him in battle.
This scene once again surprised the powerful orcs.
Just like the legendary awakening, Beast God Rexxar worshipped by the Behemoth Beastmen, also possesses a brown Grizzly Summon beast named Misha.
Is it merely a coincidence?
Or is this the beginning of a new cycle?
Because Sun Fei had just instantly killed several thousand high-level humanoid Dread Beast, the number of Dread Beast on the road ahead had been greatly reduced.
After traveling approximately ten kilometers, the foreign object was discovered.
An ancient, blood-red altar appeared before everyone's eyes.
The altar was in the shape of a six-pointed star, with only one layer, about half a meter high and about fifty meters in diameter. It was entirely blood red, like a huge lump of blood, with faint traces of blood still flowing. On its surface, there were intricate grooves about the thickness of a wrist, but unfortunately, most of it was destroyed, so it was impossible to discern any clues or deduce what type of magical altar it was.
Sun Fei observed for a long time but couldn't come to any conclusion; he only had a feeling of déjà vu.
As for the orcs, needless to say.
Most of them were proficient in Dou Qi and totems, but knew nothing about magic, so naturally they couldn't figure it out.
"Although we don't know the purpose or age of this crimson altar, one thing is certain," Ernst said to Sun Fei, "Based on our understanding, at least a month ago, this location didn't have such an altar, nor did it have so many high-level Dread Beast."
Sun Fei was greatly surprised. "Your Majesty means that it only appeared recently? And, most likely, it's related to the previous ambush?"
"I can't think of any other explanation," Ernst sighed. "Hopefully nothing else goes wrong. We need to keep going; another two thousand kilometers or so is the Evil Water Swamp. Hopefully, we'll find something there."
Three hours later.
The group was once again attacked by an endless stream of high-level humanoid Dread Beast.
"Ah..." A furious roar erupted, and blood spurted out.
In the chaos of battle, O'Neal the Grizzly was caught off guard and his arm was slashed by the crimson quicksand greatsword of a high-level humanoid Dread Beast. Blood gushed out, revealing the white bone fragments. [ ]
Even more terrifying, the giant blade formed from blood-red quicksand collapsed instantly, and grains of sand, like bloodthirsty, crazed ants, burrowed into O'Neal's body through the severed opening in his arm.
In the blink of an eye, the giant's shoulder-length arm, which was over ten meters tall, shriveled up like a cucumber that had been dehydrated instantly.
" Savage Bear!" The Minotaur Clan Nowitzki exclaimed in alarm and rushed over to help him up.
"Don't come any closer!" O'Neal used his remaining good arm to shove Nowitzki away.
Magic is an extremely terrifying thing for orcs, especially the bloodthirsty evil magic wielded by high-level humanoid Dread Beast. Once it manipulates sand grains to burrow into an orc's body, it will spread like a plague, draining a living person into a dried-up corpse in an instant. Even the Extreme Dao experts would avoid it like the plague.
This is precisely what makes the Dread Beast so terrifying.
Otherwise, with Behemoth Beastmen, they would have already wiped out the Dread Beast in the Metal Shamo.
Someone like O'Neal, with so many blood-red sand particles burrowing into his body, is basically crippled.
He didn't want to implicate others, so he shook Nowitzki away.
Pope Ernst chanted War Song, attempting to use the Totem Power to help O'Neal suppress his injuries, but to little avail. The Totem Power, a third kind of power, possessed many mysteries, yet it could not suppress or heal the injuries caused by this evil blood magic.
"I'll take care of it." Sun Fei appeared beside O'Neal in a flash.
Before he could resist, Sun Fei switched to [ Paladin Mode ], and a surge of Holy Power was injected into the Grizzly's body. In the instant golden flames flashed, Bill Clan's withered arm, under the incredulous gaze of the orcs, miraculously regenerated as if it had been inflated.
"This... is it really healed?" O'Neal shook his arm in disbelief, circulated his Dou Qi, and found no problems. He laughed heartily and patted Sun Fei on the shoulder, "Your Majesty, I owe you a life!"
"Everyone be careful!" A halo spread out from Sun Fei's feet in all directions, activating his Paladin skill.
After being swept by the golden flames, all the orcs were enveloped in golden flames. To their surprise, they found that all their previous injuries had been healed, their depleted Dou Qi had been replenished, and they felt full of inexhaustible energy. Their agility, strength, Dou Qi, and speed had all more than doubled.
"This is... the blessing of the Beast God?" High Priest Nash of Fox murmured softly, his voice reaching the ears of the surrounding Orc Clan. [Thank you for supporting the novel]
At this moment, most of the orc powerhouses looked at Sun Fei in a completely different way.
"Keep moving forward, let's speed up and charge through!" Pope Ernst chanted the War Song loudly, and strands of golden light flowed from his mouth, transforming into huge totem patterns that enveloped the sky more than ten meters above their heads, releasing a continuous stream of power that blessed everyone.
The priest's totem and the Sun Fei's aura are actually quite similar, each with its own merits in terms of specific effects.
The group quickened their pace.
Along the way, they have discovered more than twenty strange, blood-red altars.
The force that controlled the high-level humanoid Dread Beast to ambush the group persisted relentlessly, launching a siege every half hour or so. What terrified everyone was that, eventually, these Dread Beast legions learned to cooperate and divide tasks, combining melee and ranged attacks, making them resemble a well-trained army.
"It seems like some kind of power is awakening..." Ernst closed his eyes to sense for a while, then suddenly opened them. "I feel like something incredible is about to happen, right ahead..."
Before the words were finished, a blood-red pillar of light suddenly descended from the sky about a hundred meters ahead, instantly imprinting itself on the ground. Then, a half-meter-high altar, exactly the same as the blood-red altar that everyone had discovered before, appeared in the light and flames, like Teleport. Wave after wave of high-level humanoid Dread Beast armies, like an endless tide, rushed out of the altar.
Everyone glanced at His Holiness the Pope, filled with genuine admiration. His Raven's ability to jinx someone was truly unparalleled.
"Fight! Everyone protect His Majesty Ernst! I'm going to rush to the altar to see what kind of formation it is and where it leads."
Sun Fei was the first to react. He shouted and switched to [ Druid Mode ]. With a wave of his hand, Summon more than a dozen black Giant-Winged Raven and white giant wolves. They nimbly avoided the giant Dread Beast's attention and rushed towards the altar.
Sun Fei himself also transformed, activating the [ Werewolf Transformation ] skill, becoming a half-human, half-wolf Wolf, and his figure shot towards the altar like lightning.
This time, it was the Wolf orcs' turn to be dumbfounded.
It turns out that this human King possesses supernatural powers not only from the Bill Giant Bear Clan but also from the Wolf Silver Wolf Clan. He embodies the ancestral powers of two races and can Summon brown bears, white wolves, and black crow war beasts. Isn't this exactly the same as the legendary Beast God Rexxar?
This kind of supernatural power is impossible for anyone to imitate.
Could it be that the great Beast God Rexxar has been reincarnated into a human body?
Soon, the roaring high-level humanoid Dread Beast attacked, and the orcs had no choice but to focus their attention on fighting them.
The battle lasted a full half hour before it ended.
"That's all we know for now." Sun Fei returned to the group and said slowly, "The magic circle on the altar is indeed a spatial Teleport, but unfortunately it's one-way. There's no way to Teleport back and see what kind of world it is. Fortunately, before the altar destroyed itself, I had already copied all the array's circuit patterns. Given time, I'll definitely be able to figure out how to reverse the Teleport. Perhaps then, we can unravel the mystery of the origin of the Dread Beast and the expansion of the [ Metal Shamo ]."
"Thanks to Your Majesty's quick thinking, we will have to trouble Your Majesty again next," Ernst said politely.
He and the orcs didn't understand magic runes, so the task of deciphering the altar rune copy naturally fell to their ally, Chambord City.
"Your Majesty is too kind."
Sun Fei's act was quite convincing; at least no one could tell from appearances that the two time travelers were actually wearing the same pair of pants.
Ernst thought for a moment and said, "We've basically achieved our goal of entering the Metal Shamo. The only thing we're missing is finding the mysterious force controlling the Dread Beast. Fortunately, we now know the origin of the Crimson Altar and the reason for the Shamo's expansion. We'll have to discuss our next strategy when we get back... However, since we're almost at the edge of the Evil Water Swamp Evil Water Swamp, why don't we go take a look? Hopefully, nothing bad has happened there!"
Everyone had been listening intently to His Holiness the Pope's words, but upon hearing the last sentence, they all shuddered. Damn, even the Pope's Raven words had been said; was there any chance that nothing Evil Water Swamp?
"Let's take a break. We're still 100 kilometers from the Evil Water Swamp. We'll set off in ten minutes."
Sun Fei took out some food from his storage ring and shared it with everyone.
"It's no use, Your Highness! Order a retreat!"
Amidst the deafening battle cries, old Arjen looked at the Barcelona army surging in like a tidal wave in the distance and sighed.
The Second Prince Dominguez, his eyes bloodshot, gripped the sword hilt tightly, but ultimately didn't draw it. He let out a long howl, "What a pity! All our efforts were in vain. I didn't expect the Barcelona people to even send out flying beasts and air forces. Their speed of advance is simply too fast. Is this the strength of a ninth-level empire?"
"Your Highness need not blame yourself. With less than 100,000 troops, you held off the 150,000-strong army of the Barcelona in the Southern Frontier for four whole days, buying the empire enough time to prepare for war. You have done more than enough."
Old Arjen offered words of comfort.
"Order the troops to withdraw! Tell Mr. Hasselbaink to stop fighting and leave the battlefield!" Dominguez could only bitterly order the army to retreat.
In this battle, the Zenit army in Southern Frontier, with nowhere else to retreat, was forced to fight.
Despite the elaborate schemes devised by the old strategist Arjen, the vast disparity between the two armies still resulted in the loss of more than half of his two major legions. The enemy's numbers continued to increase, and if this continued, there was a risk of total annihilation.
The earth has been stained red with blood.
Every moment, thousands of soldiers die amidst their cries of agony.
In the distance, a violent explosion echoed across the sky, as the mysterious Hasselbaink, the strongest warrior in Chambord City's army, was locked in a fierce battle with a powerful figure from Barcelona.
The duel between the two Extreme Dao experts, even thousands of meters in the air, still made the ordinary martial artists and soldiers on the ground feel an indescribable sense of oppression. The battle had lasted for more than three hours, with the two figures appearing and disappearing in turns. Their terrifying power even cracked the black night sky several times.
With the order given, the Zenit army began to skillfully withdraw from the battlefield.
Just then, an unexpected change occurred—
"Haha, found it! It's there!"
"Charge! Kill the Zenit commander!"
In the night sky, from the distant Barcelona camp, a series of thunderous shouts suddenly rang out. Four or five Dou Qi with auras of battle light soared into the sky, rushing towards Dominguez and his group at an extremely fast speed. Their auras were powerful, at least at the Moon Class Great Perfection. Wherever they passed, any Zenit warriors and soldiers who tried to stop them fell to the ground like straws under the Grim Reaper's Scythe.
"Oh no! They've discovered His Highness's location!"
Old Arjen was shocked. He had been careless and exposed the location of the army command post. He hadn't expected the enemy to have such skilled fighters who had discovered it so quickly. He shouted sharply, "Quickly, organize elite officers to intercept them! We absolutely cannot let them break through! Your Highness, leave this place immediately!"
Immediately, thirty or forty Zenit Star Class- level officers took to the air around the command post and charged fearlessly toward the enemy.
Boom boom boom!!
The overwhelming advantage of Moon Class Great Perfection expert over an ordinary Star Class martial artist was instantly revealed. Amidst the violent explosions of Dou Qi, Zenit officers fell to the ground like raindrops, either dying or being seriously injured, unable to buy even a moment's time.
In the blink of an eye, the nameless Barcelona expert at the Moon Class Great Perfection arrived before Dominguez and the others, exuding murderous intent and a ferocious laugh.
"Haha, looks like he's a Prince, Jeffrén, we're about to achieve something great!" The Barcelona powerhouse laughed, and a giant hand formed from his Dou Qi slashed down at Dominguez.
Its imposing presence was so fierce that no one could stop it.
Two things at once: my headache is better today, I'll get up early, write more, and update more often.