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Chapter 197 - 169: The Purpose of the Ten Precepts Association_1

Chapter 197: Chapter 169: The Purpose of the Ten Precepts Association_1

"Can this... can this really work?" Old Liu was visibly frightened.

It’s not like he didn’t want it, but the thought of receiving such a valuable item made him feel undeserving. He’d done nothing to warrant it...

"Why not? This item is of no use in my hands. What I need now is experience, and this is a golden opportunity to grind for experience. If you feel it’s too much, then help me out by grinding together with me," Mu You laughed.

"Come on, Old Liu, stop declining. Take it. We are colleagues after all. If your strength increases, you can support Mu You in the future..." Zhang Yang also persuaded at this time.

If Mu You himself didn’t mind, he’d not object to such allocation. Because by doing so, two advanced players would emerge from their branch office. Would this not put them ahead of most of the other branches nationally?

"Fine, then I’ll take it..."

Old Liu didn’t turn it down anymore. He nodded in agreement. The thought of soon surpassing many senior players and touching new realms ignited an excitement in him.

Having received such valuable help, Old Liu was determined to assist Mu You with full strength and help him gain as much experience as possible.

"Captain Zhang, you’re biased. What about ours?"

Watching the trio deciding the ownership of the evolution elixir in a few words, other members couldn’t help but protest out of envy.

"Ha ha ha, everyone, perform well. In the future, everyone will have one, everyone will..." Zhang Yang said.

There will be one in the future, that’s for sure. Whether it was one year later or ten years later, it’s referred to as the future. As for how much ’future’, it can’t be certain.

However, everyone didn’t mind. It was joking banter after all. They wouldn’t be naive to think a few words could secure an evolution elixir.

Mu You glanced at the panel. Although he was already considered an advanced player, the experience needed for leveling up increased drastically.

Simply leveling from level 10 to 11 required 2560 points of experience. Even with the horrifying monster-slaying efficiency earlier, they might not be able to accumulate it in a day, let alone the fact that the experience requirements for every subsequent level would double...

Now, Mu You could finally relate to the difficulties of leveling up for those godlike players above level 15.

Thinking about it, he swept his gaze around the several defensive areas and immediately noticed a problem: Where had all the godlike players gone?

At the moment, the battlefields of the neighboring defense lines didn’t have a single player above level 15, let alone players above level 10 were relatively few.

Each area typically had only one or two advanced players at level 11 or 12 acting as the anchors, the rest were all average players.

Without mentioning the other two powers, even the Chinese Dragon Squad, representing the country’s force with a total of 17 godlike players, was very abnormal without a single appearance at this critical juncture.

Regarding this issue, Mu You had already thought of a possibility.

Just then, seizing the opportunity during the break, someone in the team noticed this problem and asked Zhang Yang about it.

"The whereabouts of those godlike players?"

Zhang Yang, hearing this question, gave a profound shake of the head, "How do you think this crisis will eventually be resolved? Do you think it’ll be by just us forever exterminating, till all the magical beasts from the other world have been killed?"

"That... doesn’t seem feasible..."

Everyone shook their heads at the sound. The total number of marine magical beasts in the Star Spirit World was akin to the number of fishes in Earth’s ocean, inexhaustible no matter how much was consumed. How could they possibly be exterminated?

"So, to solve this crisis, we have to address its root, which is of course on the other side of the ’gate’..." Zhang Yang said.

"So, all the godlike players have run to the other side of the gate to slay beasts?" Old Liu was astounded.

"Not just for slaying beasts."

Zhang Yang shook his head, "You should have noticed that these merfolk launch a collective charge after a certain period of time. Normal merfolk wouldn’t behave like this. Such beings with low intelligence would simply charge blindly."

"Moreover, over this day, the total number of monster kills summed up from all our defensive lines, even if it doesn’t exceed hundreds of thousands, should at least amount to tens of thousands, right? Even if there exists an open gate in the other world, it’s impossible for a sizable number of monsters to notice it in under a day, and all at once pass through the gate to Earth..."

"All these anomalies point to one thing -- this is a premeditated event!"

"The ’gate’ was deliberately opened underwater, and it’s highly possible that someone on the other side of the gate is continuously gathering these monsters. And they can even control the monsters’ movements to some extent..." Zhang Yang said gravely.

"This..." The others were taken aback at his words.

How powerful must the mastermind behind this be if they can control such a vast group of merfolk?

"Actually, by the time we descended, our superiors had already confirmed the location of the ’door.’ Godlike players from the Dragon group and several other allied powers, a total of 29 people, had already infiltrated the door to investigate the cause of this incident," said Zhang Yang.

"Aren’t you afraid that it’s a trap?" Mu You asked, frowning at this point.

He knew a little more than the others and could almost confirm that this incident was orchestrated by these two groups - the Ten Commandments and the Illuminati.

But what was their purpose in doing so?

Was it just to let a group of magical beasts in to create chaos domestically?

Mu You didn’t think these two groups could be so trivial, the current chaos might be a little disordered, but if the nation truly paid enough attention and initiated a national mobilization, the impact caused by a mere door could still be quickly suppressed.

Not to mention the appearance of these magical beasts actually provided domestic players with a large amount of experience and resources, which was actually good news for ordinary players.

It was only after hearing Zhang Yang mention the whereabouts of the godlike players that he realized that this was very likely the real purpose of the other party: setting a trap on the opposite side and then luring high-end players into it.

"Of course we’re afraid," Zhang Yang laughed bitterly at Mu You’s words, "but we have no choice, this is an overt operation. If we were to ignore it, players might have the power to fend for themselves, but ordinary people would suffer. That’s why the godlike players had no choice, even if they knew there was danger, they had to go and investigate."

Mu You nodded, not asking anything more.

Even if the people from the Ten Precepts Association were strong, the other godlike players were not to be trifled with. Moreover, being as seasoned as they were, if they dared to make such a decision, they most certainly wouldn’t do so without any backing.

As an ordinary player, all he could do now was watch and wait for the situation to develop.

Mu You didn’t have time to dwell for too long. Soon, a new wave of merfolk surged in again.

The number of merfolk in this charge was less than before, but the quality had rapidly improved.

For the first time in the merfolk community, a turtle-like magical beast appeared, a giant sea turtle nearly three to four meters high, climbed onto land ahead of the merfolk. These creatures, with their solid shells and hardened skin, had immense defensive power and terrifying HP, normal magic couldn’t penetrate their shells.

The other merfolk, both in level and size, were also much larger and smarter, hiding behind the sea turtles, using these huge turtles as meat shields to cover them as they approached the front line.

Some voices of surprise already started rising from the surrounding defenses.

As Zhang Yang said, the intensity of the invading creatures was increasing. The appearance of sea turtles of this size indicated that the size of the ’door’ had expanded to at least four to five meters. If left unchecked, more powerful creatures would emerge.

If it was before, at this point, Zhang Yang and the others would have definitely called for reinforcements. It would be impossible for Mu You to eliminate creatures with such high defense and HP, even if he exhausted all his magic power.

Fortunately, after Mu You’s evolution, all his damage was doubled, making it easier to deal with these creatures.

In combination with Liu Chen’s strategy, after another wave of attacks, they successfully eliminated most of the merfolk.

The remaining few merfolk and those difficult to defeat sea turtles were dealt with by placing a man-eating flower seed, catalyzed by Rapid Growth, a few dozen meters ahead of the defense line. This plant, at a high level of eleven, had a large range of defense. It couldn’t swallow the turtles, but it could certainly swallow one common merfolk at a time.

The appearance of the man-eating flower greatly eased the pressure of defense. As for the sea turtles...the cost of their high defense was their low attack power, they basically posed no threat, so they were slowly grinded down.

After some effort, this wave of the monster attack was also consumed with a sense of relief, no apparent danger. Everyone sighed deeply with relief.

However, the other defensive lines were not so comfortable and they found themselves in mortal danger throughout the wave.

Luckily, with an increasing number of reinforcements and the addition of new forces, the battle situation stabilized again. After some casualties, they finally managed to successfully withstand the assault.

After the battle, everyone lacked the energy to joke. The obvious increase in monster strength was something anyone could feel. Everyone was currently busy rejuvenating their magic power and stamina.

However, the time they were given to rest this time was extremely short.

Barely twenty minutes later, a new group of merfolk charged forward.

And this time, in addition to the sea turtle meat shield, there was another type of creature walking upright, holding curved wooden sticks, a merfolk mage, behind the army of merfolk.

These merfolk mages were obviously highly intelligent, they did not rush ahead blindly like the common merfolk, but instead, stopped at a distance of about 150 meters, and started to wield their magic wands to cast spells.

Mu You, seeing the newly emerging creatures, scanned their properties from afar, but the result that came back left him greatly shocked.