“No… This is the Ethereal Jar…”
“You are a Witch!” the Wilderness God’s avatar bellowed.
All the cyan ivy gathered back around the flaming flower, apparently wanting to protect it.
But it was already too late.
Marvin had been hiding in the Shadow Plane for so long waiting for the right moment. With Hathaway as a distraction, he would definitely achieve his goal.
He rushed back and forth among the ivy, using the distortion ability of his Night Boundary.
He arrived in front of the flaming petals in a blink.
The previously ruthless flower became extremely dispirited when facing Marvin and the Ethereal Jar.
Marvin’s hand deftly bypassed the ivy and snatched a petal from the flower. He stuffed it into the Ethereal Jar.
“Wuwuwu…”
The Ethereal Jar let out a low sound. Under the oppressive sound, the blazing petals weakened.
“I won’t allow you!”
The Wilderness God’s avatar struggled in vain.
It gave up on everything else and pulled all the cyan ivy back, ruthlessly pouncing on Marvin!
“Careful!” Hathaway shouted.
She didn’t expect that despite being suppressed by her Witchcraft, the ivy could still rush back so quickly.
In a few seconds, Marvin would be surrounded by the Life-Severing Ivies!
The others actually took advantage of the reprieve to adjust themselves and escape.
The temple started shaking like it was about to collapse!
“This place is very dangerous, we have to find a way to leave!” one of the powerhouses among them yelled loudly. “Minsk, do you have a way?”
They seemed to be old acquaintances.
Minsk pointed at the ivy and coldly said, “If it doesn’t die, we won’t be able to leave.”
They all became silent.
They had a deep impression of the tenacity of these Life-Severing Ivies. Completely killing them… wasn’t that easier said than done? There seemed to be an endless amount of them. They would never finish cutting them all down!
“That kid is in danger,” someone said worriedly. The others also had similar expressions.
But no one went to help. With such a large, writhing mass of Life-Severing Ivies, who would rashly approach?
The chant coming from Hathaway’s mouth became sharper.
The powerful Witchcraft power formed into a wave, permeating through the whole area and redoubling their suppression on the ivy.
Marvin took a quick glance back and knew that the matter couldn’t be delayed, so he pushed his speed to the limits!
His silhouette was like lightning, frantically flickering among the cyan ivy, plucking the flaming petals one after the other and squeezing them into the Ethereal Jar.
As Marvin plucked the final petal, all the ivy shuddered, and the ceiling started crumbling, sending a large amount of stone falling down!
An angry roar echoed through the space and completely pushed back the influence of Hathaway’s Witchcraft chant!
“Leave quick!”
Hathaway’s voice echoed in Marvin’s mind.
Marvin smiled. His hand shook and a shadow passed through all the ivy, flying toward Hathaway’s hand.
The Ethereal Jar!
The Anzed Witches’ Artifact, and also one of the symbols of the Witch Queen.
Hathaway froze. Marvin’s action was beyond her expectations as it was completely different from what she had previously arranged.
Her plan was to leave after getting her hands on the flaming petals.
Unlike the others, Hathaway had the ability to come and go as she pleased due to her power as the Witch Queen.
But she didn’t expect that Marvin wouldn’t escape after accomplishing her mission.
His silhouette sank into the layers of cyan ivy.
In the depths of the hall, the roar kept echoing, louder and louder. The pillars were shaking, slowly falling apart.
Everyone kept running away, but they discovered with shock that the boundary was continuously shrinking.
With all the ivy at the center, the temple’s space kept shrinking, collapsing!
“Guys look!” A voice burst from one of the survivors. “There is a door here.”
The others looked over, and sure enough, there was a faintly flickering door in the darkness. Everyone charged over, grasping onto their last hope.
Only a few people managed to stay calm, including Minsk.
He looked at Hathaway and asked, “You are able to kill it, so why aren’t you doing so?”
Hathaway coldly replied, “What do those people have to do with me? I only came to reclaim my power.”
As she said this, a red glow came out from the Ethereal Jar.
The lid of the Ethereal Jar opened on its own, a complete petal slowly floating out.
Hathaway gently opened her hand and the red petal fell into her palm.
Just before it landed, a five-colored flower blossomed from her palm, and the red petal fell onto it, perfectly cleaving to it.
She nimbly waved her wrist and the six-colored flower disappeared without a trace.
Meanwhile, most of the Legends were rushing toward the door.
But what they met was only a bloody sky!
“These fools actually went into its stomach.”
Hathaway looked disdainfully at those people, before looking back at the place where Marvin had disappeared in that mass of ivy.
She hesitated briefly, but then opened her hand, making a gesture to cast a Witchcraft.
But suddenly, a loud cry came out from the pile of cyan ivy!
Golden light burst all round as a majestic Griffin frantically flapped his wings, fighting his way out of the writhing thicket!
Using two claws, he was holding a green object that looked similar to a heart!
Chapter 534: Collapse
Chapter 534: Collapse
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“You are more reckless than I thought!”
Hathaway’s nervous expression eased immediately as she looked at the golden form of the Griffin. She paused for a bit before adding, “But you are also braver than I thought.”
“Woosh!”
Marvin dismissed the effects of his Royal Griffin Shapechange and regained his Human shape.
He was still holding that green heart in his hand.
At that time, the entire space was trembling crazily.
Those who had rushed through the door were all torn to pieces, and the temple itself also started collapsing.
The roars in the dark hall became louder and louder.
But it seemed to Marvin that the roars, which had started with anger and hunger, had gradually become filled with fright!
“I grabbed his heart,” Marvin softly said. “Didn’t you say that unless we killed him, no one could leave?”
Hathaway nodded, before grimly pointing out, “But that was for ordinary people, I have ways for you and me.”
Marvin shrugged.
Although he had guessed that, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to kill the Wilderness God’s avatar.
From Hathaway’s previous explanation, Marvin was pretty sure that the Wilderness God’s avatar had been at his weakest just now.
He was already used to having the [Source of Fire] and bound the Legend powerhouses using that power.
After losing it, he was still the Wilderness God’s avatar, but the meaning had changed.
He had already lost his Divine Law and was just a powerful Legend level monster.
This meant that he could be killed.
When Marvin was caught in that predicament, he perceived the heart’s rhythmical beating. It was exactly as Hathaway told him before.
As long as he could grab it, the Wilderness God’s attack wouldn’t mean much.
Thus, he decided to make his move.
An ordinary body naturally couldn’t wit
hstand the siege of so many Life-Severing Ivies.
But the Royal Griffin’s body was different.
“Woosh!”
A few rays of light flashed and the green heart was shredded into pieces!
A mass of green liquid bubbled up crazily as an anguished howl echoed from the darkness.
The edge of the space began to brighten while the temple continued collapsing, and after the ceiling fell apart, it revealed a crimson sky!
The trapped Legends were all shocked as they saw the changes in the surroundings.
Finally, their sight gathered on what was left of the heart in Marvin’s hand.
Gasps echoed one after the other.
After the last pillar collapsed, the shrine was completely destroyed.
Naturally, this wouldn’t cause much threat to those Legends.
If the Wilderness God’s avatar died, this space would merge with the Crimson Wilderness, with the eastern part of Holy Light City.
They were now standing in the midst of the ruins. The distant snowy mountains in the north and south could be seen on both sides.
For a long time, cheers rang across the ruins!
“You saved everyone,” a clear voice echoed behind Marvin. “You are a hero.”
Marvin’s heart moved, and he immediately turned around.
Surprisingly, behind him was Half-God Minsk, who he had spent all this time looking for!
…
The matter of the Wilderness Hall had not yet concluded, but for the Legends who had been captured there, the nightmare was over for now.
There were no more than thirty survivors.
This included the powerhouses who had been trapped over the years, such as Minsk.
He explained that he had been attracted by a Nature aura and mistakenly entered the Wilderness Hall.
He didn’t know there would be such danger before entering it.
This was all a huge conspiracy, with Lich Bandel as the one behind the scheme. He had been controlling the Wilderness Hall for so many years as he carefully chose strong Legend powerhouses as offerings.
Everything he had done before was to pave the way for today’s event.
Fortunately, Minsk was quite sharp. After discovering that something wrong, he hid his own identity.
He even temporarily relinquished his Nature Power, giving up his connection with the Green Sea Paradise in order to trick Bandel and appear to be an ordinary Legend. He remained trapped on the ceiling, enduring the vitality absorption of the cyan ivy for all this time.
Fortunately, although he was only a Half-God, he was also the child of an Ancient God. This resulted in him having a huge amount of lifeforce, which allowed him to last till now.
Although this didn’t seem to be a good time for it, Marvin still quickly finished his own mission, telling Minsk what he knew about the Migratory Bird Council and the Ancient Nature God’s matter.
After listening to Marvin’s explanations, Minsk didn’t seem very worried.
“It is indeed a very terrifying matter for the Nature Power to be withering, but I believe in my father. He only slumbers, he didn’t fall.” Minsk muttered on, “Moreover, this isn’t urgent compared to what is about to happen on the Crimson Wasteland. It’s something we can deal with later.”
Marvin’s eyes widened as he asked, “You want to help with the ensuing events?”
Minsk looked at Marvin and Hathaway with a smile. “I’m sorry, I heard too much.”
“Those who were there are very grateful to you because you saved their lives, but they will definitely leave this damned place. They won’t help with what’s coming.”
“As for you, it didn’t sound like you plan to leave. I heard the Anzed legend, did you come to represent the Anzed for the debt?”
Hathaway snorted coldly. She seemed quite on guard toward that Half-God.
“In any case, I can’t leave now,” Minsk continued with a smile. “My friend over there can leave to tell a nearby town about the news of the possible resurrection of the Wilderness God. I don’t know if it’ll have much meaning since after all, the Crimson Wasteland was originally intended to be a land of slaughter, but being able to save a few lives should be considered quite laudable.”
“As for me, I do want to follow you back to Feinan. But we have to stop the Lich’s crazy plan now.”
Hathaway indifferently said, “I have no interest in the Lich’s plan, I only wanted to get my things back.”
Minsk nodded before turning to Marvin. “What about you?”
Marvin looked at some information flashing on his interface before gripping his daggers. “Bandel caught my friend. I have to save her.”
“Moreover… he shouldn’t treat a little girl like that.”
Killing intent flashed in Marvin’s eyes.
Although they had fought together only once, he still had a deep impression of the Paladin, Griffin.
Sometimes, there were people that you could find worthy of trust after just a short time.
That follower of the Truth God was clearly one of those.
Marvin would be lying if he said that he didn’t feel like avenging him.
Moreover, Isabelle was still in that bastard’s hands.
“Good. Seems like we agree,” Minsk muttered. “I can try to communicate with the lifeforms in the surroundings to try to find out where that filthy skeleton went.”
“No need.” Surprising Minsk, Marvin actually pointed toward the southwest and asserted, “He is definitely there.”
…
South of Holy Light City, in the Black Forest, three people were rushing forward at high speed.
Marvin’s speed was something obvious, based on his Godly Dexterity. Minsk was the son of the Nature God and was an outstanding Ranger. He was extremely familiar with forests and even forests contaminated with magic couldn’t restrict him.
As for Hathaway, she was moving through the air in a strange way, apparently using some type of Witchcraft.
Her body was leaning slightly forward, floating and flying at high speed through the forest.
Marvin kept looking at Hathaway’s flying posture and couldn’t help but remark, “I thought Witches all rode on brooms.”
Hathaway rolled her eyes at Marvin, apparently losing patience with him. But she still said, “Earlier on, and by that I mean during the ancient times, in the era of the old Witch Queen, the Anzed Witches had to ride a broom. This was our trademark.”
Minsk nodded, apparently familiar with that era.
“Then you… ” Marvin wanted to say something, but hesitated.
Hathaway coldly snorted, “I changed that rule. I have the power to do so as the new Witch Queen.”
“Why?” Marvin asked curiously.
“I think riding a broom is stupid!” Hathaway snapped. “Are you satisfied with that answer?”
Marvin laughed and didn’t say anything else. He was already very happy to be able to meet Hathaway again.
This was a wonderful feeling.
Even if she was much different from before, he could still see the traces of the old Hathaway.
He believed that her memories would come back with the passage of time.
“Are you sure it’s this way?” Hathaway frowned. “The magic pollution here is too serious. Many Mana Wraiths are howling in my ears, I can’t stand them.”
Marvin nodded. With a solemn expression, he assured, “I’m certain. This matter is definitely related to the Regis Ruins.”
“Bandel had once been a caster of the Regis Ruins. He was a disciple of the Wilderness God and became infatuated with Miss Silvermoon. Coincidentally, I discovered Miss Silvermoon’s body in the Regis Ruins. I think this can explain many things.”
Minsk’s voice echoed behind him, “This… Perhaps the one Bandel is planning on resurrecting isn’t his teacher.”
They reached the entrance of the Regis Ruins while they were talking.
Marvin waved his hand. “It’s here, please be ready. Maybe
we’ll find that the Wilderness God has already been resurrected when we go in.”
“That wouldn’t be funny at all,” Hathaway said as she took the lead. “Even if he has been resurrected, he still owes me.”
She then went through the entrance.
Chapter 535: Evolution! False Divine Vessel!
Chapter 535: Evolution! False Divine Vessel!
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The three quickly made their way through the dark passage.
All three were peak experts. Even if Minsk’s strength had somewhat suffered over the years, he could still keep up.
Unlike the last time he tracked the Jade Banshee, this time Marvin felt an indescribable pressure.
He could faintly hear a beating heart.
This definitely wasn’t the Dungeon Core’s heartbeats.
Everything felt old.
He was a bit nervous.
He calmed down after glancing at the new information on his interface.
He had already become a lot more powerful.
Even if the Wilderness God did resurrect, he wouldn’t be completely unable to retaliate.
…
Because the previous event had wrapped up so suddenly, and because Marvin was rushing from the Wilderness Hall to the Regis Ruins, he could only check his gains on the road.
The results were very surprising. He hadn’t expected that killing an Ancient God’s avatar that had already been nearly unconscious would increase his strength so substantially.
This wasn’t reflected in just the hundred-plus thousand experience points, or the 12 Comprehension points, but also most significantly in Marvin’s advanced False Divine Vessel having a formidable evolution!
The advanced False Divine Vessel had been given to Marvin by the Fairy guarding the Chromatic Dragon God’s Divine Source.
In order to get it, he’d had to put that hot potato in his storage.
Despite the Fairy guaranteeing that Dragon God Hartson, who had been playing dead, wouldn’t be able to locate that thing, that was on the assumption that Marvin didn’t provoke him. But that thing had always been a time bomb. Dragon God Hartson wasn’t only on the level of someone like Dark Phoenix; he was one of the peak powerhouses in the Universe.
After Marvin left the Elemental Plane of Water under Louise’s cover, he checked for a bit before confirming that this thing wouldn’t trigger a disaster, which slightly reassured him.
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