"Ah! Great!"
"It worked! I did it! Hahaha!"
Mr. Liu held two soul cores in his hand, which had completely lost their glow and turned into stones.
He danced and shouted with excitement.
At this silent moment, Mr. Liu’s antics brought everyone back to their senses.
The Goryeo leader muttered to himself.
"Damn it..."
"Knowing it’s the Abyssal Sea invasion incident, they still dared to go in...!"
He glanced at the ecstatic Mr. Liu, then spat and said, "The people from Da Xia are all insane!"
...
Inverted Sky Tower, 99th floor.
Twenty figures appeared.
[You have entered the 99th floor!]
[Current event: Abyssal Sea invasion!]
[Current reminiscence: Focus on the present]
One prompt after another appeared in front of them.
Lin Yi surveyed the surroundings.
The environment on the 99th floor looked like a grassland.
Except, like the 100th floor, it was stifling and poorly ventilated.
The scenery was surprisingly good.
"You... you...!"
"You...!"
"Why did you come in!!"
"Didn’t I say today’s plan was canceled...!"
Wang Yizhong stomped anxiously.
The next moment, everyone heard a strange ululating roar.
The salty smell of the sea thickened in the air.
The prompts in front of everyone changed again.
New information appeared.
[Monsters will spawn in 10 seconds!]
[Number of monsters on this floor: 345,508]
[Beware! During the Abyssal Sea invasion, all tower-inhabiting monster races transform into deep sea ones, and their numbers double!]
[All dropped Sea Eye Stones from monsters are doubled!]
[Clearing record point conversions are doubled!]
[To proceed to the next floor, you must clear 80% of all monsters!]
[Achieving a perfect clear (100%) increases the chances of better blessings!]
"We’re done for!"
"It’s too late to exit now!"
"Three hundred and forty thousand sea monsters, and we are only twenty people!"
"And we haven’t received any blessings yet, we’re doomed!"
The other elders who came in with Wang Yizhong looked horrified.
Normally, even if it’s an Abyssal Sea invasion event and monster numbers double for solo clearance.
The monster count required would be only around eighty.
But with a team of twenty-one.
The number skyrocketed to over three hundred thousand!
This wasn’t just a challenge; it was an impossible task to exhaustingly fight through.
They never imagined they would fall on the simplest 99th floor!
All their previous strategies and considerations were now useless.
Just as Wang Yizhong and others were about to give up.
Ten seconds passed.
The surroundings teemed with newly spawned sea monsters!
These sea monsters had slick skin and characteristics of both fish and humans.
In their hands were spears forged from unknown black rock, charging with ululation.
Salted Fish Thrust!
Salted Fish Charge!
One fishman’s skills weren’t scary.
But a charge thrust from three hundred thousand fishmen was terrifying.
Wang Yizhong wanted to say something.
Yet saw several of his elder friends shake their heads.
Saying anything now would be pointless.
Instead, they needed to calm down.
And think if there was still a ray of hope.
Of course there was a ray of hope.
Because the next moment, they heard the young black-haired man who brought them there, still with a composed expression.
He only uttered two strange syllables that they couldn’t understand.
The next moment.
The entire space of the 99th floor.
Seemed to freeze still.
Everything stopped moving.
The rushing fishmen were like soulless, cold bodies.
This scene left Wang Yizhong and the others dumbfounded.
"Wha... what’s going on?"
"Why aren’t they moving?"
Guo Yinglong and others ignored the elderly men who had never seen a real spectacle.
Only marveled.
"Last time, when the captain used this forbidden spell, we couldn’t move either."
"This time, we can move even when so close to him..."
"Incredible adaptability and magic control!"
"Using a forbidden spell so proficiently!"
When hearing those two words.
Wang Yizhong’s brain froze.
Coincidentally.
His profession was also a Mage.
As a Mage, he knew the significance of those two words.
"For... Forbidden Curse?!?!"
Guo Yinglong patted Wang Yizhong on the shoulder.
Smile: "Mr. Wang, you’re overthinking."
"Stop being so jumpy."
"If you’re so shocked now, what will happen later if he uses even more frightening forbidden spells? You might have a heart attack."
Almost as soon as Guo Yinglong finished speaking.
The scene changed drastically again!
Boom——!!
The winds rose!
The entire stuffy 99th floor suddenly whipped up a fierce gale of over ten scales!
Wang Yizhong’s face skin trembled from the gusts.
He barely heard Lin Yi’s indifferent voice from within the storm.
"Stay close to me."
"Get into the eye of the storm."
Guo Yinglong suddenly tugged, pulling the almost unconscious Wang Yizhong inside.
Outside the eye wall, the terrifying windstorm of over eighteen scales turned into a breeze or even calm within.
Wang Yizhong steadied himself.
Then saw beyond the eye wall.
A scene he might never forget in his life!
That swarm of over three hundred thousand fishmen was swept into the sky by the terrifying storm.
Countless Wind Blades shredded their flesh into mush, then blew them into ash.
Whoa!
In less than a second, the fishmen were instantly wiped out.
Black rocky pieces burst from their bodies, falling like raindrops!
These were a massive number of Sea Eye Stones.
In thirty years in the tower, Wang Yizhong had never seen so many Sea Eye Stones.
They struck gold!
Truly struck gold!
Who knows how much they could buy from the tower keepers with these!
"Is this... also a forbidden spell?!"
The continuous shocks.
Slowed Wang Yizhong’s brain down.
Asking an utterly foolish question.
None of his earlier wise scholar demeanor was left.
"What else?"
"Mr. Wang, why do you look like you’ve never seen the world today!"
"You were babbling angrily earlier, I felt embarrassed for you!"
"Can you be calm!"
Another old man, trembling all over, criticized while shivering.
Wang Yizhong rolled his eyes: "Mr. Zhao, who are you to act like a big shot?!"
"As if you’ve seen forbidden spells!"
"Before coming in, no one told me this kid Lin could use forbidden spells!"
The two oldies were still arguing.
Lin Yi’s figure vanished.
At the same time, the terrifying typhoon-level forbidden spell that surrounded them disappeared too.
The entire 99th floor was breezy and bright.
Guo Yinglong pulled Wang Yizhong and the others up again.
Urged: "Quick, quick, quick, go to the next floor."
"Keep pace with him."
"From now on, we have to speed up the level progression!"