vncnus Chapter 296 You are the Challengers
Chapter 296 You are the Challengers
Chapter 296 You are the Challengers
The amber-colored crystal flew out of the bag and was caught and thrown by Xiang Yang with one hand.
A huge black shadow covered Modi's entire body. He stared at the meteorite-like crystal, his expression gradually changing from calm to strange.
"You kidnapped so many people, and this is what you created?"
At first glance, Modi knew this guy was a madman.
Using so many lives to build up the equivalent of a bomb, and still trying to carry out a suicide attack, what is this if not madness?
"May I take this as a compliment?"
Xiang Yang smiled and, before the radiance could get close, he suddenly activated his spell, detonating the meteor.
The amber crystal suddenly shattered, triggering a chain reaction within it. The released energy quickly reached a critical point, even overwhelming the oncoming solar radiation.
In an instant, the rising black sphere suddenly expanded, spreading insatiably like a glutton, swallowing everything around it, and then producing an even more terrifying annihilation of matter.
Some Chosen Ones who couldn't escape in time were swept into the Annihilation Void and didn't even last a second before their entire bodies were evaporated, fueling the ferocity of the Annihilation.
"Xiangyang, are you trying to kill us all together!?"
The old man, who had barely escaped, looked grim. He was just a hair's breadth away from being swept into the annihilation void and becoming fuel for its growth.
He couldn't help but suspect that Xiang Yang had premeditated this, intending to drag him into the mess as well, so he could also deal with other enemies from other realms.
"I'm sorry." Xiang Yang, who had escaped in a disheveled state, smiled apologetically. Above his head hung a small banner covered in cracks, its spiritual light dimmed, clearly indicating that it had suffered severe damage in the annihilation just now.
"This is also my first time creating this kind of art. I didn't control the amount well and I'm sorry to have startled you all."
Even so, the apology on his face didn't last long before it turned into joy.
He watched with great interest as the void continued to expand. Although he could not see through the darkness of annihilation, he was certain of one thing.
The alien chosen one who posed the greatest threat to them must be struggling in annihilation right now.
"Perhaps he has already been evaporated in the annihilation, becoming fuel for the annihilation."
"It's not over yet," the evil girl suddenly appeared, looking at the annihilated void, a trace of fear lingering on her delicate face. "That was just an avatar; we still have the altar to deal with."
It's obvious without even thinking that the true form of that enemy must be sitting at the altar; that's the biggest enemy they'll be facing.
"Don't worry, we have enough bombs, but we can only move after this annihilation is over."
Xiang Yang gave her a thumbs up, his smile bright and cheerful.
The mere existence of the annihilation void causes significant disruption to the surrounding physical constants, rendering most spatial teleportation methods ineffective and affecting various communication methods due to noise.
A forced jump would only result in an irregular phase, leading to Anderson's tragic end, or more likely, an even worse situation.
The waiting time was not short; the annihilation void expanded for a full half minute before it began to collapse, shrinking back to its origin.
Fortunately, due to the astonishing power of annihilation, most people were too busy escaping to pay any attention to Xiang Yang and the others.
"While the cavity is collapsing, we need to quickly traverse the Annihilation Corridor and reach our target location before they can react."
Just as Xiang Yang gave the warning, the two people next to him transformed into streaks of light and rushed towards the void.
They maintained the same speed as the cavity collapsed, always keeping a certain distance from it.
"The residual interference is still quite severe. Be careful not to fall into the cracks and turbulence caused by the collapse," the old man warned.
"After the annihilation fades, there shouldn't be anything left inside the void, right?"
The evil girl suddenly spoke, and Xiang Yang, who had some insight into this, replied, "Theoretically, that's how it is; any substance will be annihilated and evaporate instantly."
"If that's the case... then what is it?"
Upon hearing this, the two looked up simultaneously.
The shadows cast from the sky obscured most of their faces.
"What is that?"
"A lump of...flesh and blood?"
The three had a bad feeling, and the next moment, their premonition came true.
Initially, it was only half the size of a human, but after the annihilation cavity collapsed, it broke out of its dormant state, its size rapidly expanded, and many non-human limbs appeared on its surface.
In a short while, the flesh and blood swelled to a size no less than that of the crystals from before, and its outline became increasingly ferocious and clear, no longer as indescribable as it had been at the beginning.
"I must say, the Chosen Ones are truly a wondrous bunch of creatures." Mordy, in the form of a white dragon, looked down at the three below, his two pairs of dragon wings, one large and one small, unfurled, bringing down a bone-chilling cold wave.
"You guys always manage to come up with something new. I almost got completely evaporated by that annihilation."
His hoarse voice carried a hint of mischievous laughter; no one knew that he was genuinely relieved about it.
If his reaction had been even a fraction slower, the substance of this body would have been instantly vaporized.
But he still made it in time. Just before the void closed in, he wrapped his entire body in ancient dragon scales, relying on the unchanging and constant nature of ancient dragons to forcefully survive the annihilation.
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Without exchanging words, the three of them lowered their heads and acted in perfect unison.
After throwing out a crystal that was only half the size of the previous one, Xiang Yang immediately fled towards the altar, trailing behind the two by only half a body length.
"Bomb it for me..."
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The moment the spell was activated, Xiang Yang glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye and was immediately shocked.
The crystal that should have exploded immediately failed to fulfill its duty and instead dissipated into countless fragments in the wind.
"A Saint Seiya can't be defeated twice by the same move." Mordy stared with his dragon eyes, which reflected the fatal flaws of everything. "Me neither."
If the crystal is eliminated before it explodes, annihilation can be averted.
"Everyone, give us a moment!"
Xiang Yang originally intended to lure the other chosen ones from his own faction to hold off the enemy for a while, while he took the opportunity to sneak to the altar and trigger Annihilation.
Unexpectedly, the moment the team's communication was restored, they heard not a response from their comrades, but a series of evil "hehehe" laughs.
"Hehehe, this is the Soul Palace's operation. Anyone not involved, please disperse immediately!"
"Further words are useless. Just kill them and refine their souls, extract their blood and seize their spirits to refine the soul banner."
"You fools from another land, do you really think we're sincerely allied with you? You're too naive and too young."
The first to turn against them were the Chosen Ones, a group composed of evil spirits and demons.
While emitting piercing, eerie laughter, they waved some kind of black-smoking banner-shaped prop, extracting the souls and flesh of their allies.
The eerie atmosphere and sinister aura left many of the chosen ones from the alien united front bewildered, including those evil chosen ones who had not yet launched their backstabbing.
"What are you doing?!"
During their escape, the old man glared angrily at the evil girl, but saw bewilderment and shock in her eyes.
Stared at by both of them at the same time, the girl quickly protested, "I... I don't know either. This was definitely not an order I gave."
Xiangyang and the old man saw that she didn't seem to be lying and were about to continue questioning her when they were interrupted by shouts of killing coming from the communication channel.
"Evil spirits are evil spirits, and indeed cannot be trusted. Everyone, follow me to exorcise this demon and uphold justice!"
"Who will fight evil and protect the righteous path with you? When disaster strikes, everyone will flee for their own lives; preserving one's own life is more important than anything else."
"Wait, I'm here to provide support. What are you trying to do? Are you planning to rebel like those evil spirits?!"
The melee continued and intensified. Just by listening to the sounds coming from the channel, the three of them could imagine the brutality of the three-way battle.
In just a few minutes, the once unbreakable alliance crumbled, becoming a complete joke.
"We've been tricked."
The wind howled, and the old man's face turned a deep purplish-red as he took the lead in determining the nature of the matter.
Even a fool could tell that while the probability of the other two being the moles wasn't zero, it was so low as to be almost impossible.
This also means that the traitor is among the other chosen ones in the alliance, and there is more than one, and they are scattered across different factions.
The rebellion instigated by the evil chosen ones must have been orchestrated by these despicable traitors.
"No one can help us," Xiang Yang said, dodging the howling, deathly cold breath. The dissipating icy mist froze half of his body. "We have to get through the rest of the journey on our own."
"We know without you telling us."
The evil girl had barely finished responding when she was struck by a breath attack and her plane crashed.
In a daze, she seemed to hear some strange voice, and a strange dark-skinned man waved to her from the raging fire.
"You're at the same table as the jailer!"
Modi stretched out his dragon claws and crushed her body, showing no mercy whatsoever.
When he opened his hand again, ice shards fell from between his claws, proving that the girl had once existed.
"Two left."
With a cold gaze sweeping over the two remaining people, Mo Di reached out, and a dead spot appeared out of thin air between his fingers.
As if his heart were being gripped by the hand of death, the old man did not hesitate and took out and activated one of his legendary items.
"Saint's remains, transfer my calamity!"
His body dried out in the wind, becoming withered and resembling a dried corpse.
A crown woven from thorns appeared on his head, and holes appeared in his hands and feet, but no blood seeped out.
"A legendary item, the remains of a saint?"
Modi opened his hand but did not find any fragments left after the dead point was crushed. The strange feeling he had just felt told him that the dead point had slipped away.
"A crown of thorns, holes in its hands and feet... Could this prop correspond to that one?"
After a moment of silence, Mo Di's murderous intent surged.
He discovered that since that item appeared, his luck, which had already been quantified, had dropped significantly, to the point where even drinking cold water would cause him to have problems.
Transferring calamity might just be one of the item's abilities.
"Old man, you're too dangerous. I have to get rid of you."
A massive ice-lightning spear, as large as an iceberg, descended from the sky and plunged into the seabed. The giant tsunami it created was frozen by the cold wave released by the ice-lightning spear before it could go far.
The old man with the dried corpse narrowly avoided the iceberg and just barely avoided the splashing ice lightning. Apart from being covered in cold air, he was not in much of a mess.
Compared to him, Xiang Yang seemed much more miserable.
Ice and lightning surged up his body, gnawing at every piece of his flesh, like a venomous snake injecting a poison called Frostbite into his body.
Having finally escaped the area enveloped by the ice and lightning, he threw out an amber crystal while cursing at the old man with the dried corpse, "Old man, did you transfer your calamity onto me?"
"No, I didn't!" the old man replied in a moment, his eyes reflecting the increasingly clear outline of the altar. "We're almost there, hurry up and get everything ready."
"Do you even need to tell me?"
Xiangyang reached into the cloth bag and groped around for a while.
The two were like slippery eels, narrowly avoiding all sorts of deadly moves each time, which made Mo Di slightly annoyed.
"Are you guys some kind of super-resistant killers? How come you're still alive?"
He had used the full strength of this body, leaving no stone unturned, whether it was a fatal blow or a deathly chill.
However, the fatal blow was nullified by the saint's remains, and if other methods were used, the two could always seize various opportunities to escape.
A sense of destiny welled up inside him, and at this moment, he probably understood Audurian's helplessness in the face of him and Elena.
According to the immortal cultivation system, this is a "calamity," the tribulation he faces before ascending to immortality.
No one's ascension is always smooth sailing. Malice from the world, the void, and many other unknown realms often give rise to calamities at critical junctures.
It could be a punishment from the world or the will of Heaven, a backlash from fate, or a powerful enemy from the future gently manipulating the timeline to launch an attack from the future into the past.
All of the above are sources of calamity.
"It's just a minor calamity; you are the real challengers."
The white dragon flaps its wings, and the hunt continues.
On the altar, Modi was shrouded in shadow, making it impossible to see his expression.
The Darklight Ritual has begun. If he can activate the Death Ray and have it kill the ancient dragon, he will be able to devour the ancient dragon's remains with a sea of blood, and there is a high probability that he will be promoted to an immortal, just like Aldurian in his prime.
Around the altar, the Dark Light Councilors were shrouded in black robes, symbolizing that they were in the shadow cast by the God of Light, with only their eyes radiating an indifferent, dazzling light.
This is also the only visible part of their entire body.
Silent and unnoticed, this ritual of darkness requires no special actions; simply remaining silent and in the shadows suffices.
The right venue, the proper rituals, and the special status of everyone present—all these factors combined to successfully awaken an ancient law that had long been dormant in all realms.
This law once shone brightly in all realms along with the glory of its creator, when the sunlight was more intense and the stars more violent.
An ancient black sun rises slowly. It is not a star in the normal sense, but a projection left in a distant era, which reappears on the other side of the Beach of the Underworld due to the summoning of the Dark Light Ritual.
As it ascended, the light in the area illuminated by the sun dimmed and distorted, as if it were being attracted and swallowed by some supermassive celestial body. In the blink of an eye, the Beach darkened.
"The black sun, the reflection left by the god of light, is, according to ancient texts, a symbol of His darkness and His last remaining mercy."
Modi lowered his head slightly, his face showing neither joy nor sorrow.
"The Black Sun is about to reach its peak, but those two haven't arrived yet. In other words, they are not the whole calamity, but only a part of it."
"Therefore, there is only one option left that is qualified to be my main calamity."
He suddenly looked up and stared straight ahead at the horizon, where the Beach of the Dead lay, a symbol of the concept of death.
Something is reviving on the other side of the sea.
"That's Gu Long."