Chapter 198: Chapter 194: Ding! Invincible Experience Card Recharged (Requesting Monthly Pass) Chapter 198: Chapter 194: Ding! Invincible Experience Card Recharged (Requesting Monthly Pass) Outside the ancient castle,
tens, even hundreds of kilometers away, elite teams were trekking through mountains and valleys.
Some came from neighboring countries, some from multinational consortia of Oulu Continent, and some were agents of the White-headed Eagle Federation stationed in Oulu Continent.
They were mostly Awakeners.
Agents without Awakened Abilities had already fainted during that recent overwhelming terror.
Those remaining were the elite among Awakeners. They climbed over mountains and advanced step by step at a pace that was not fast—in fact, it was quite slow.
They dared not be fast!
That terrifying fear that seemed to clutch at the heart had subsided, but who knew what other dangers lurked? In all likelihood, there were some.
In the eyes of agents from various countries, the darkness in the distance was a devil’s lair, an absolutely deadly ground.
If it weren’t for the ironclad command from above to explore and uncover its secrets, they would not have wanted to go. Even so, the agents didn’t move quickly.
Fear still lingered heavily in their minds.
Their bodies were still shivering, still trembling; how could they possibly move fast?
Moreover, there were Mysterious Evils scattered all along the route.
It would be good enough if they didn’t go on strike!
The team of Awakeners from Clockwork Nation, which had been the fastest up to this point and was now the closest, struggled to slay a large Mysterious Evil and were catching their breath.
“I feel like we might get killed by Mysterious Evils before we even reach our destination.”
“We get no support from above yet they want us to figure out the secrets. This is just bullshit!”
“It’s not that we’re slacking off on purpose, it’s just that this route is too dangerous.”
“Yeah, I’ve got a feeling that Mysterious Evils are getting more numerous, and they seem to be coming from ahead.”
The small town in the distance had fallen into complete darkness, like a gaping maw waiting to devour the prey delivering themselves to its door.
The team from Clockwork Nation rested for a brief moment, then slowly and carefully resumed their journey.
The Mysterious Evils they encountered along the way gradually thinned out.
They breathed a slight sigh of relief, quickening their pace a bit when suddenly, an immense terror rose from the distance, as if a Deity Demon were awakening, with an invisible oppressive force rolling towards them like a hurricane.
In an instant, the team from Clockwork Nation’s breathing seized, and their pupils dilated.
They lasted less than two seconds before their knees buckled, and they collapsed to the ground.
Their consciousness began to blur.
Only one thought remained:
Damn it! They shouldn’t have ventured into this devil’s lair!
…
“Leader! There’s another situation!”
Alarm bells rang in Area 51.
They had been constantly monitoring through reconnaissance satellites, but it was night, and there were no light sources in the vicinity. Furthermore, interference from strong magnetic field energy flows made the satellite imagery unclear.
They were waiting, waiting for the chaotic energy to gradually subside.
Dozens of eyes were glued to the screens, but in the next moment, the stormy clouds arose again, and on the satellite cloud images, air currents howled, forming a massive white vortex.
An energy cloud covering more than half the Oulu Continent!
At the center of the cloud vortex, it seemed as if a dark red light flickered momentarily.
Those like Luo Xi located below the cloud mass could see more clearly—the entire sky was covered with dark, spreading clouds reaching the horizon. The huge vortex at the center of the cloud seemed like a black hole leading to another world, with dark red Thunderbolts flickering inside, filled with a terrifying energy of destruction.
Occasionally, a strand of dark red Thunderbolt struck the ground, obliterating large areas around it, turning everything into the purest and smallest particles.
Luo Xi’s eyelids twitched again.
He looked towards the towering statues in the distance, his strong intuition warning him to stay away! Far away! To get as far away as possible!
Black Blade rushed forward and drew out a forty-meter long Crimson Blade Light, slashing fiercely at the statues.
Boom—
The world buzzed as the ground shattered violently, opening a crack tens of meters long.
Stones flew up only to be pulverized mid-air.
The violent energy storm spread outwards.
However, Luo Xi saw that the forty-meter long Crimson Blade Light burst apart, its fragments disappearing into the void. The blade had hit the blood-red statue dead center, but…
It didn’t even sway.
Luo Xi clenched his teeth, “To hell with this!”
Gathering all his strength, he rushed in front of the statue and released a Cannon Punch. The Burst Awakened Ability exploded upon the statue from the punch.
Another explosion!
Another storm swept through!
Yet, it still did nothing more than stir the surrounding energy flow around the blood-colored statue, which became denser, the rising aura more terrifying.
And it began to lift from the ground, inch by inch, into the air.
Yiluo Xi stamped her foot!
She wasn’t going to be outdone!
“Let me try!”
“I should do it instead.”
An Jianyou extended her hand in front of her forehead, walking forward against the strong wind blowing from afar, looking at the blood-colored statue with fear in her eyes but no hesitation.
Just as she was about to summon a Mysterious Evil beast, a ‘ding-dong’ mission prompt sounded in her mind.
Luo Xi, Yiluo Xi, and the others heard it too.
‘Evacuate’!
This was the urgent mission they received, to immediately evacuate the danger zone and take with them other comrades who were unable to evacuate quickly.
Yiluo Xi hesitated for a moment.
Black Blade spoke up, “Let’s go!”
An Jianyou looked up at the dark red Thunderbolts falling from above and also spoke, “This place is too dangerous, we must first take the others away.”
Luo Xi had been waiting for those words.
With a dash, he sped hundreds of meters away, but looking at the comrades who lay collapsed or half-kneeling on the ground, he was at a loss.
He had only two hands; at most, he could carry one on each shoulder, and he couldn’t possibly carry so many people!