ATPnovel Chapter 682 - 677: Divine Throne Massacre
Chapter 682 - 677: Divine Throne Massacre
"Howling Wind Highlands, have the Sea Race been discovered?"
Wu Mingyue, who was nearby, said, "Your speculation is correct, the Sea Race has also set their eyes on the Ancient Relic."
"Is the Sea Race targeting Gangxin?" Wu Qingyun suggested a possibility.
"I need information on the top-level Source of Magical Power for both the Wind Element and the Fire Element. Besides our core team, only the team leaders know about it."
Bai Pu slowly said, "However, I collected these two Sources of Magical Power to maintain the imbalance in my inner Magic Core, and this reason wasn’t disclosed."
After a pause, Bai Pu gave instructions, "Inform Wenjiu to fight with confidence, support is guaranteed to come."
This statement, which Bai Pu had previously said, was emphasized again to reassure Wenjiu and others.
This Spirit Realm war is extremely perilous, with several top experts already dead, and even though Wenjiu is the current Power King, he can’t help but feel fear.
Rooster was about to send a report when Bai Pu suddenly patted her on the shoulder.
"Share this support information only with Wenjiu, Soul Capture, and Circular Flow. Tell the three not to pass it on. We have another team going to the Pale Earth Palace, and we can’t let the enemy figure out our distribution of strength."
Rooster nodded in agreement.
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Three more days have passed.
Pale Earth Palace.
This grand underworld is adorned with countless glowing spores that decorate the marble underground palace.
The pale and weak spore plants cast this underground palace in a ghostly, cavernous light. The name Pale Earth Palace is derived from this characteristic.
Dozens of Awakened experts of the Futu Team have engaged in the native conflicts of the Pale Earth Palace.
They joined an Earth Spirit Tribe.
Earth Spirits are classified as "Demon Beasts" due to their lack of intelligence.
However, the Earth Spirits in the Pale Earth Palace, having consumed Fantasy Spores over a long period, have developed wisdom, able to communicate with the outside world, thus forming a small faction.
So-called "small" faction compared to the overarching themes of the Twin Star Continent, where Demon God Salajael versus the two Grand Academies is the main storyline.
In the eyes of pinnacle Awakened like Divine Throne Futu and others, they are seen as a small faction, but for ordinary Awakened who match this world, the Earth Spirit Tribe’s prestige is quite high—
The tribe leader is a Lord, commanding an army of Enhanced Warriors.
Correspondingly, the Cave Dweller Tribe also has a Lord Level existence, guarding the tribe’s inherited Holy Artifact—the Wind God Gem, which is what brings air flow to the underworld.
Ordinary Awakened, with average levels at Elite and Enhanced Elite Level, must act cautiously when facing such forces, advancing step by step to strategically gain minor benefits.
Of course, the Huaxia Battle Group led by Divine Throne Futu, Hero Gang Bai Feng, and Candidate Wuding, cannot be compared to ordinary Awakened.
This team of Huaxia Battle Group experts together is formidable enough to counter any faction force of either Cave Dwellers or Earth Spirit Tribes.
Despite being smaller in number, they are undeniably the "third pole" in terms of high-end power.
With no trace of the Sea Race, Futu and others confidently infiltrated the two major factions of Pale Earth Palace.
Futu, personally leading War God Palace experts, after some preliminary tasks, finally received the mission to "seize the Wind God Gem" and, with the aid of Earth Spirit Mage "Mantle Shaper," infiltrated the treasury where the Wind God Gem was kept.
The treasury was naturally heavily guarded, but the defense strength had already been fully disclosed to Futu by the Huaxia Battle Group’s insider—Hero Gang Bai Feng and others who joined the Cave Dweller faction.
With super high Reputation Value accumulated during preliminary tasks, Bai Feng himself was trustfully assigned by the King of Cave Dwellers to guard the treasury.
The outcome was, as expected, under outside and inside collaboration, the Cave Dweller Guards of the treasury could not mount effective resistance and were slaughtered by War God Palace’s crush and Hero Gang’s backstab.
"Got it!"
Futu gazed at the Wind God Gem.
The large pale-colored gem, the size of a soccer ball, was filled with peculiar holes. At its core, there seemed to be a storm vortex spinning rapidly.
As the core storm vortex spins rapidly, the holes around the Wind God Gem emitted eerie wailing sounds, and numerous azure air streams shot out like arrows around it.
The wind force constantly emitted by the Wind God Gem is a part of the test and won’t be easily acquired by Awakened.
Within a radius of three zhàng from the gem, the power of the Wind Arrows is strongest, each hit causes 1000 points of Wind Attribute elemental damage, immune to Magic Resistance, Awakened’s Enhanced Gear Level, or Skill Reduction.
It is equivalent to true damage and can only be absorbed by Shields.
Moreover, around the Wind God Gem, there are residual Divine Force fluctuations similar to the "Town Domain," preventing the use of space teleportation and acceleration skills.
Even once obtaining the gem, one must endure a ten-second test before it can be stored in the Storage Space.
Ordinary Awakened find it difficult to even approach the Wind God Gem, let alone endure the ten-second test—being peppered through in just a few seconds.
Fortunately, Futu, owning the pinnacle title of "Divine Throne," is incredibly powerful. He released his mount, the Thick-Scaled Sword-Winged Dragon.
The thick scales on the Thick-Scaled Sword-Winged Dragon’s body would explode outward, forming small protective barriers to absorb attacks on impacted areas before being hit by Wind Arrows.
Under the protection of the Thick-Scaled Sword-Winged Dragon, Futu arrived before the Wind God Gem. He reached out to grab the Wind God Gem and simultaneously activated the active effect of his "Divine Throne" title:
Within 240 seconds, he can freely allocate a single attribute point between himself and his mount!
Futu’s Endurance Attribute is 166 points, and the endurance of the Thick-Scaled Sword-Winged Dragon is 180 points.
Futu activated the Divine Throne active effect, allocating 120 points from the Thick-Scaled Sword-Winged Dragon’s Endurance Attribute to himself!
In this way, Futu’s Endurance Attribute reached 286 points, and his Life Value also soared to 12,368 points.
Of course, there are downsides to this attribute allocation. Having 120 Endurance points taken away, the Thick-Scaled Sword-Winged Dragon was left with only 60 points, making it extremely fragile, even significantly weakening the effect of its Talent Skill [Thick Scale].
Moreover, regardless of adjustments, the Thick-Scaled Sword-Winged Dragon’s Endurance Attribute cannot drop below its minimum Spirit Attribute of 60 points.
As it was Futu undergoing the test, naturally, he needed to be fully armed to the teeth, increasing his toughness to the extreme. He also activated the accompanying Mystical Arts skill [Thick Earth Scale], which absorbs 500 points of damage per second.
Though the [Thick Earth Scale] shield absorbs less than Bai Pu’s [Mountain and Sea Appearance] shield, it has better durability.
Even when the shield is breached, the skill effect remains. If the shield is pierced in one second, it will regenerate the next, continuing to absorb 500 points of damage!
"10, 9, 8, 7..."
Amidst the Wind Arrows’ barrage, ten seconds felt endlessly long.
However, at the last three seconds, just as victory was in sight, a chilly Thought Sensation Fluctuation abruptly swept across the scene:
"Put down the Wind God Gem, you inferior natives!"