The Era of Gods

Chapter 515: Chapter 515 Shocking News of the True-Body Descend of the Children of Nightmare

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Tarah Broken Floating Land, Tarah Ruins, Children of Nightmare Fortress.

From a distance, everyone could see the thick pillar of light rising from the giant fortress that stopped abruptly when it reached thousands of kilometers high, cut off by the broken space.

The Super Nightmare Child was standing behind the fortress’s rebuilt walls; its massive body could not be concealed by the walls, and numerous slender tentacles fluttered slowly. The sight gave Lin Xiao a strong sense of déjà vu, but after thinking hard, he could not quite pinpoint which monster he had seen before that resembled this creature.

As they attacked the fortresses of the Children of Nightmare, many of the Children of Nightmare arrived here simultaneously, with some abandoning their own fortresses to defend this place even before the others had entered.

The main reason for this was that the teleportation gate connecting to the heartland of the Nightmare Children was located inside this fortress; they had to defend it at all costs.

But due to the different distances, only less than thirty Nightmare Children could make it here in time. Coupled with the losses from a previous great battle, their overall strength was merely a quarter of what it had been, a huge disparity.

Everyone felt relaxed and sent people to carefully observe the fortress.

Biggs was here this time and after walking around the fortress, exclaimed,

“So a fortress can also be built this way. When I get back, I’ll relocate my fortress and remodel that dungeon.”

Instantly, more than a dozen people looked over with peculiar expressions, with someone saying,

“If you take that dungeon, how can we pass through it afterward?”

Biggs laughed,

“Don’t worry about it. I will open the fortress to everyone, so anyone can enter and use the teleportation array.”

“You wish. Whether the fortress is open or not is just a matter of your command. Plus, if you take that place, all players will have to go through your area first. Are you trying to establish a main city? I disagree.”

“Cough, I also disagree.”

Lonely City cleared his throat and looked towards Wu Zhonglin and Lin Xiao, saying,

“What do you two big shots think?”

Wu Zhonglin just smiled and said nothing, all eyes turned to Lin Xiao. He smiled at Biggs and said,

“Personally, I don’t really care about these things, but it’s clear that everyone else disagrees, so you might want to think carefully about whether or not this decision is appropriate.”Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Essentially, that was just empty talk. With so many people disagreeing, Biggs’s plan to relocate the fortress certainly could not be realized.

This topic quickly passed, and after observation, they began to deploy troops in preparation for the attack on the fortress.

With everyone’s support, they arrived at the base of the walls. Lin Xiao called out to the Super Nightmare Child on top of the wall,

“I remember you saying that the next time we met would be the time of my death. Now that we’ve met again, I wonder how you plan to fulfill your boast.”

The Super Nightmare Child looked down at Lin Xiao with a gaze filled with powerful psychic force, its deep and hoarse voice echoed in everyone’s ears,

“The seer Ricks has seen your death!”

His voice contained a strange power that made people feel a sense of melancholy, but the experienced players quickly recovered from this mood. Someone laughed and said,

“If that’s all you’ve got, then you cannot avoid today’s defeat. We sit at four times your strength, along with two who are your equals in power. You are surely doomed!”

“The seer Ricks has always been waiting for your death!”

“What an old prophet!”

Bloodthirsty Keller said to Lin Xiao,

“Mr. Lin Xiao, attack, let’s show them some action.”

Lin Xiao did not respond; unlike the others, he indeed sensed something amiss.

It wasn’t that he had spotted something specific; it was his powerful intuitive sense that made him feel unease, but upon close observation and thought, nothing seemed amiss.

“Perhaps they have reinforcements?”

He immediately dismissed the idea; surely it couldn’t be that reinforcements had been arranged so quickly from the rear.

“Could they have some sort of trump card?”

Like summoning a Void Dragon as a trump card?

But if they had such a card, why hadn’t they used it earlier?

Or could it only be used here?

At that moment, Lin Xiao ran through more than a dozen possibilities in his mind, only to knock each one down.

He shook his head; at this moment, their only option was to attack. They couldn’t retreat because of a mere hunch of danger.

He waved his hand and ordered,

“Prepare, attack!”

The first wave of cannon fodder moved towards the fortress gate, while other teams slowly dispersed to stand by.

The cannon fodder team continuously charged towards the fortress gate, swords slashing, revealing the durability of the gate, but no counterattack came from above the walls.

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Lin Xiao immediately turned his head and shouted,

“Your Excellency Dragon Emperor, please move forward and observe.”

Wu Zhonglin had already reacted, flapping his wings to approach above the fortress walls, only to be blocked by a layer of light. However, he now had a view of the huge altar in the center of the fortress, with a massive Array on it. He observed for a moment but couldn’t determine whether it was the Children of Nightmare’s Teleportation Array or something else.

The shape of the Array was very similar to the Teleportation Array in the pit on Biggs’s side, but at this moment, the Array was drenched in blood, with batch after batch of the NPC minions of the Children of Nightmare being killed on it.

At this moment, the bodies piled up like mountains, blood flowed freely, filling the grooves of the Array to the brim, as bright red blood rose up – the scene of a cult sacrifice.

No, this was a scene of an evil sacrificial ritual.

Wu Zhonglin pondered for a moment, not believing they could summon anything that would change the tide of battle, but out of caution, turned around and loudy warned,

“There’s a sacrificial Array inside. They’re sacrificing their own minions, everybody be careful!”

No sooner had he finished speaking than the others could respond when they saw that the super Children of Nightmare called Prophet Ricks plucked off one of his tentacles and threw it into the blood-stained Array. Like tossing an ice cube into boiling oil, it immediately exploded, and the blood-light rapidly swelled, rising over the walls of the fortress and appearing before everyone.

In just a few seconds, the swelling blood-light twisted into a monstrous creature that bore some resemblance to Prophet Ricks.

Prophet Ricks slowly bowed toward the monstrous creature, shouting loudly,

“Your Excellency Yarji, Ricks here requests, Banish these enemies!”

The monstrous creature had now fully taken shape, resembling a base covered in tentacles, topped with a huge eyeball. Lin Xiao felt a sense of familiarity when he looked at it, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

“Wait, the Underground World!”

A lightbulb went off in his head. He remembered that the aura of this creature was very similar to the one he sensed before in the Shattrath Ruins, when he was preparing to travel through the underground passage to the other side of the mountain. The passage was deadly, leaving only the route to the Underground World open, but he hadn’t dared to go down there because of the terrifying presence he sensed, which was much like that of this creature.

All felt a hitch in their hearts as the monstrous phantom called Yarji looked out beyond the fortress, but their second reaction was that of horror. Lin Xiao forgot to run, instead staring fixedly at the creature, along with Wu Zhonglin, who both turned their heads to exchange a look, each seeing the terror in the other’s eyes,

“The True Body of the Children of Nightmare!”

“A True Body of the Children of Nightmare has actually descended to this world? How is this possible?”

Lin Xiao was even more shocked that despite possessing the Creation Rubik’s Cube, he had to slowly start ‘cheating’ only at level 70, and while he thought others who owned top-tier treasures might cheat as well, he never imagined someone could descend in their True Body.

What was this concept?

Given that everyone was recast in this world in data-formed Incarnations, it was nigh inconceivable that someone could actually manage a True-Body Descend, signifying not just absolute advantage but also…

The two Dominators had forbidden the descent of beings above Demigod; even those below Demigod could not descend, only casting a sliver of their consciousness as a Projection Descending. Such strict rules were clearly because a True-Body Descend had too great of an impact on this world, and was not permitted.

Now that a True Body of a Child of Nightmare had descended, even if it was only of Demigod and not True God Level, the impact on this world was still considerable.

At this very moment, there was only one thought in everyone’s mind: to spread the news.

As long as enough people knew, the Dominators on the side of Humanity would surely take notice, and then…

“The world is in my grasp, in the name of Yarji, be banished!”

With a declaration-like voice sounding in everyone’s ears, Lin Xiao found his senses censored, and the Void before his eyes twisted rapidly. Before he could react, he lost all sensation.

If someone were to look down from the sky, they would see the monstrous creature explode mightily, an infinite burst of blood-light sweeping across the entire fortress and the surrounding areas, spreading instantly to ten kilometers away.

Once the blood-light vanished, whether it was Children of Nightmare inside the fortress or Sons of the Human Divine Realm outside, all had vanished, leaving only an empty Children of Nightmare fortress.

“Fuck!”

The instant Lin Xiao regained his consciousness, he realized why the enemy had not killed them but merely banished them.

If they were killed, they would eventually resurrect, and the news would spread everywhere. But being banished to a remote place, it would be difficult to return.

Even if they committed suicide, they would only resurrect nearby. As long as the delay lasted until the enemy’s goals were achieved, it wouldn’t matter whether or not the news spread.

When Lin Xiao’s vision returned, he immediately felt weightlessness and severe pain. His health was dropping at a rate of a thousand per second, and he spotted a Negative BUFF in the corner of his eye. Upon closer inspection:

“Spatial Rupture: You are in the Void, suffering 2000 points of continuous damage per second, which cannot be healed, until death!”

“Fuck me!”

With less than nine thousand health points, he could barely last for about eight seconds, but several seconds passed before he realized, leaving only a few seconds to act. All he could do was shield himself, then quickly summon the Magic Airship and dive in, rescuing any of his subordinates who hadn’t yet perished nearby.

This Magic Airship was acquired in exchange for the reputation of worshiping the Shatar undead and hadn’t been used much before. He never expected it would come in handy now.

Though designed for intra-planar travel, the airship could navigate the Void, albeit at a very slow pace.

However, the question of speed was irrelevant at that moment. Survival was all that mattered.

Despite reacting quickly, only thirty-odd subordinates survived in the end.

Several leaders and Enhanced elites were alive, twenty-two elite subordinates survived, half of the elites perished, and hundreds of Cannon Fodder were wiped out.

But compared to the dire fates of others, his situation was much better.

The Void was littered with floating corpses, slowly dissolving under the erosion of Void Energy, including many players’, both Humans and Children of Nightmare.