Chapter 141: CH 141: Restoration of the Situation
"Who said I wanted to trap you here in the first place!" Rios’s energy-made face smiled, then he advanced toward the ruins of the palace, specifically the place where the core of the array had been... Then he stood directly where the core had been and tried to fuse his roots with the roots of the array’s core!
Anar frowned upon seeing Rios’s actions, but moments later, an ugly smile appeared on his face and he laughed crazily. "Hahahahaha, are you trying to become the core of the array? What an idiot. Do you think you’re a user of a primordial law or something?"
Rios paid no attention to Anar’s mockery and focused solely on fusing his roots with the roots of the array, immediately activating the three cosmic laws he had mastered — Derivation, Life, and Formation — consuming most of his energy in the process.
But he did not know that there was someone else inside him helping him!
At this moment, the strange entity inside Rios was activating the strange colorless symbols to help Rios merge with the defensive array!
After several minutes of intense energy consumption, and after Rios had almost completely exhausted all his energy, the defensive array finally began to flicker and returned to operation!
If Titan Anar had eyes at this moment, they would have widened to a degree they had never widened before.
As the Lord’s puppet, he ultimately possessed a small portion of the Lord’s memories, and within those memories, there was no possible way for someone to become the core of an array unless they possessed a primordial law, allowing them to force all the laws that formed the array to submit to them and operate under their commands!
And he knew very well that Rios was not a user of primordial laws.
Titan Anar frowned deeply and gritted his teeth, then formed a bone spear and pointed it toward Rios!
"I don’t know how you did this, but since you’ve revealed this much, don’t expect me to let you live any longer!"
Titan Anar gripped the spear tightly and shot toward the Abyss Tomb’s domain at the speed of light, determined to sever Rios’s connection with the defensive array!
But when he approached the defensive array...
Bumm!
Chaaak!
A muffled impact sounded, followed by a sharp sound like swords clashing against each other, and Titan Anar was sent flying backward like a missile!
Anar stopped hundreds of meters away in the air and looked toward his upper right arm, where he found a deep wound several centimeters deep. Then he looked back toward the Abyss Tomb’s domain...
There, above the domain, Anar found a Centaur holding a giant sword in his right hand and a giant shield in his left hand.
Anar’s expression turned ugly upon seeing this Centaur. He already had a suspicion, and Rios confirmed it with his next words...
"When I was told that whenever someone advances to Level Four, they suffer a tribulation meant to stop them, I already had my doubts. But I later discovered that this matter only applied to this continent.
But then I discovered that everyone could use a portion of the first degree of laws after comprehending them, which was equivalent to Level Four, without even being at Level Four.
So I thought it was related to the power level, but after I created the second Soul Gate, which was equivalent to Level Five in power, and was able to use its power, I became certain that the tribulation was related only to reaching the fourth level of laws!" Rios looked at Titan Anar with a smile and said confidently,
"Tell me, you filthy Abomination, you either have something to do with all of this or know someone who does. Why don’t you tell me who it is, and I won’t make your death painful, at least."
Rios’s suspicions had not come out of nowhere. The moment he connected to the array, he saw how the enemies suddenly appeared near the city.
It was true that the enemies had not appeared inside the city but outside it, but because of the Law of Life integrated into it, the array immediately detected signs of life that had suddenly appeared nearby.
It could not explain what those signs of life were, but the sheer number of them, their strength, and their sudden appearance all at once were enough to explain many things to Rios!
He had been able to transport himself and his army directly from nearly half a day’s journey away to the City of Light because of the spatial teleportation arrays he had purchased from The Eternal Night Heaven.
But what about these people!
How had all of them been transported directly to the City of Light when their kingdoms were weeks of flight away from the City of Light!
"Do you think a mere Level Five spirit can stop me!" Anar smiled angrily as six axes appeared in his six hands.
"If one Level Five spirit isn’t enough, then what about two more?" Rios smiled mockingly and took two more spirits out of the Soul Incubators, and they were also in the form of Centaurs.
The first spirit possessed the power of two thousand Spirit Essences, while the other two each possessed the power of one thousand five hundred Spirit Essences.
Titan Anar frowned upon seeing this change in events, but in the end, he smiled confidently and began attacking the three Level Five spirits with his six axes!
Rios sighed when he saw the situation finally stabilize and thought to himself, Now that I’ve become the equivalent of the core of the array, I won’t have to worry about running out of energy, and I can also recharge my Spirit Essences again within minutes using the Spirit Shards that the array draws from the dead!
Chaaak!
While Rios was thinking to himself, a huge crack appeared across his trunk!
Hehehehehe, just as I expected. My body won’t be able to withstand this much power for long. Rios mocked his deteriorating condition, then smiled crazily and looked toward Titan Anar. Until one of us falls, let’s see who can hold out until the end!
Immediately after saying this, Rios had already recharged more than one thousand Spirit Essences, then opened a Soul Gate and brought out the fourth Level Five Centaur, ordering him to attack Titan Anar. But then...
Chaaak!
Another crack appeared across his trunk!
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In the city, after Rios restored the array, the undead appeared once again and began attacking the enemies, and the balance was quickly restored, stopping the enemy army from killing the civilians hiding in the Noble District.
In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the balance was slowly and gradually tipping in favor of the City of Light, especially after the Sky Legion and the seven youngsters entered the battle, killing dozens every minute.
Rios had specifically protected the Sky Legion by using the spirits of the dead to prevent the Falcon Race and Silent Crow Race from interfering with them!
"Strange?" The Falcon King held his jaw as he thought and looked toward the Noble District!
"What is strange?" The Silent Queen frowned as she flew through the air beside the Falcon King and looked toward where he was looking. "Aside from the undead returning to action, I don’t see anything else strange."
"No, that’s not what I mean. What I mean is that if you look closely at the area where the civilians are hiding, you’ll find that most of them are women, the elderly, and adults. But where are the children and the younger ones?" The Falcon King frowned as he searched everywhere. "I know that the City of Light is facing a shortage in numbers, but not to this extent!
"Especially the proportion of children. There should be far more of them than this. But since the beginning of the war, aside from those wearing armor and possessing the strength to be warriors, I have seen very few young people and children!"
When she heard this, the Silent Queen frowned even more and finally noticed the problem. "Could it be that they..."
Before the Silent Queen could finish her words, six arrows made of light shot toward them, targeting the heads of both her and the Falcon King!
Silence!
The moment she saw these arrows, the Silent Queen used her power and her understanding of the major Law of Silence, quickly stopping the arrows of light in place. But that stoppage did not last long, and the arrows of light soon began moving again. By then, however, it was already too late, because the Falcon King and the Silent Queen had already seized their chance to escape!
"This!" The Silent Queen’s eyes trembled upon seeing this scene and realizing just how quickly the arrows of light had escaped her ability. Then she turned her gaze toward the one who had fired those arrows!
"Oh, my apologies for my lack of respect. I should have introduced myself before targeting your heads." Leonor smiled calmly and bowed politely. "My name is Leonor White, a member of the royal family of the City of Light."
Then her gaze turned cold as she said in a voice filled with hatred, "And the last person you will ever see in your filthy lives!"