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Chapter 213 - 183 The Curse of the Altar_1

Chapter 213: Chapter 183 The Curse of the Altar_1

Not only were they dazed, but Mu You, who had created this ice wall, hadn’t expected the effect of the Ice Wall Technique to be this extraordinary!

At this moment, he had naturally already received support from others like the Virgo. Thus, he moved to the boundary of the barrier and deployed the defensive Black Magic ’Ice Wall Technique’ that came from the Virgo’s crystal.

[Ice Wall Technique: Mid-tier Ice-element Black Magic, condenses a wall of unbreakable ice in front of the user, blocking the path of units. Any creature that comes into close contact with the ice wall will fall into a frozen state. The range and height of the ice wall depend on the magic power input.]

This black magic didn’t have many laudable features. It simply creates an ice wall that blocks passage. Moreover, this wall doesn’t restrict teleportation abilities.

However, the environment they were in was rather peculiar. Due to the spatial disturbances, all teleportation spells have become ineffective. This led to the black-robed people only being able to circumvent the ice wall, entering from either side or the air.

As a result, they ran into a problem.

Mu You hadn’t anticipated that the effect of the ice wall would be this powerful. He decisively increased the magic power input, consuming nine-tenths of the magic crystals provided by the six of them.

Under such vast magical support, the ice wall instantly expanded into a long wall of more than ten kilometers in both length and height.

A few black-robed people on the opposite side had hardly taken a few steps before they were completely flabbergasted. They saw the ice wall extending at an extremely fast speed to the marsh horizon where visibility was poor. By the time they managed to get that far and then make a detour back, their window of opportunity would have long closed!

Moreover, would the pursuing players give them such an opportunity?

"Everyone, stop them at all costs!"

As the Jiu You God issued the order, everyone else had no objections. In fact, even before he spoke, everyone was already acting accordingly.

Meanwhile, within the ice wall, more than twenty supporting members were working hard to dismantle the altar.

Mu You was occupied maintaining the ice wall spell and couldn’t free himself momentarily. However, he dispatched the Battle Eagle and the Demon Child to help accelerate the progress.

This altar was more than ten meters high, and it was made of a material that was much stronger than ordinary stone, making it difficult to dismantle.

Fortunately, these elite players all had numerous trump cards. Given the urgency of the situation, they didn’t hold back and used all their useful items right then and there.

With such exhaustive efforts, they finally managed to topple the statue before the black-robed people could circumvent the ice wall.

The colossal statue fell to the ground with a resounding crash, splashing layers of mud, and quickly shattered into countless pieces of stone.

Along with the tumbling of the statue, the barrier automatically collapsed, transforming into murky energy that entered the bodies of the twenty-six players present.

The large group of Magical Beasts originally surrounding the barrier seemed to have sensed something and backed away in fear, departing from the players inside the barrier and scattering in all directions.

As for the members of the Ten Commandments, they were even more decisive. The very second before the altar was destroyed, they abandoned their struggle with the other gods, activated their Town-return Scrolls, and soon disappeared into the marsh.

Thus, a prolonged battle came to an end.

With the altar destroyed, the black-robed people on the run, and the Magical Beasts scattering, the towering ice wall that still stood also began to dissipate from top to bottom until it vanished completely.

Of course, they still had a lot of work to do.

The destruction of this altar was not over yet. The base and the pieces also need to be dismantled and taken away to prevent it from being repaired and reused in the future.

While everyone else was busy collecting stone fragments and cleaning up the remaining Magical Beasts, Sagittarius was looking all over for Mu You.

Unfortunately, she spent a lot of time looking but couldn’t find any black-robed figures.

Sagittarius couldn’t help but sigh. As expected, Aries the Great God didn’t want to make an appearance. After taking care of the issue here, he simply left.

"You in the Mist, Director Wang wants to see you." At this moment, a guild teammate suddenly ran over and called out to her.

The only Director from the Ice Emperor present was Director Wang. Sagittarius vaguely understood why he wanted to see her as she made her way towards the former altar’s location.

By this time, the crowd around had dispersed and were collecting the scattered materials of the Magical Beasts from the recent battle. Only the twenty plus godlike players and the leaders of the three support teams remained below the broken altar.

"That is all we know about our encounter with this god..." When Sagittarius got there, one of the leaders from a different team was explaining to the other godlike players about their encounter.

The others were listening quietly, not rushing to express any opinions. But during parts of the explanation, they couldn’t help but change their facial expressions.

Sitting on stone steps, Jiu You fell silent for a moment after hearing the story, then asked, "You’re saying this person killed Rode?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure?"

"I’m sure! Because the God Player came over wearing Rode’s skin, looking exactly like Rode, even the people who were assaulting us at the time got it wrong..." the team leader player said.

"Uh..."

Jiu You nodded.

The other God Players looked at each other, their surprise clearly written on their faces.

Rode is a Level 19 player, to be able to thoroughly kill him in a one-on-one battle, even if some cunning methods were used, this person’s strength must have reached the level of top-tier players.

More importantly, they all saw his performance afterwards. He led his team into the battlefield at the most critical moment, and the terrifying ice wall he summoned afterwards directly blocked the ten black-robed people from the Ten Commandments, leaving them no way to retaliate.

It could be said that he alone had wrestled enough time for the backup troops to destroy the tower, reversing the direction of the entire battle!

This made all the god players present feel inferior because they were ready to give up the mission and retreat at that time...

"Jiu You God Player, this is Misty Vision who is acquainted with the mysterious God Player." At this time, Director Wang led Sagittarius to the crowd.

"Oh?"

Immediately, more than twenty pairs of eyes were cast on Sagittarius, which made her a little nervous as these were all top-tier domestic players watching her...

"Sis, don’t be nervous..."

’Dream Fallen’, a female god player from the Ice Department, walked over and gave her a gentle smile: "We just want to ask you if you happen to have this god player’s contact information?"

"Um, no..."

Sagittarius shook her head in embarrassment. She did have his contact information, but she could only meet Aries the Great God once a week at the Sorcerer’s meeting, and she couldn’t divulge this, after all, she didn’t want to expose her Sorcerer identity to outsiders, so she could only shake her head.

Dream Fallen wanted to say something else, but at this time, Jiu You stood up and handed her a business card: "No problem, if this god player contacts you in the future, I hope you can pass along a message for us. We hope that when he has time, he can contact us. For the upcoming tower push, we hope we can cooperate with him again. The remuneration can be openly discussed."

Sagittarius nodded at Jiu You, taking the business card: "Okay."

At this time, she gradually realized something: perhaps Aries the Great God had intentionally pushed her into the limelight? Maybe Aries the Great God wanted her to act as an intermediary between the Sorcerer Association and external forces...

She couldn’t be sure whether this was the case or not, but she was certain of one thing: With the aura of the ’mysterious god acquaintance’, her position within the guild was definitely on the rise!

...

While Sagittarius was struck in contemplation, Mu You himself had already teleported a few hundred miles away and was on his way back to Earth.

He didn’t want to come into close contact with so many God Players as it would raise suspicions, so after shattering the altar, he used the noise of the collapsing ice wall as a cover and left the scene invisibly.

Originally, Mu You planned to spend as much time in the swamp as possible to gain experience before heading back.

However, after leaving the altar, he found he had a new buff on him.

[Altar’s Curse: Since you participated in the destruction of the ancient swamp altar, you have been tainted by the aura of the swamp god. From now on, all monsters in the Poisonous Swamp will avoid you.]

This seemed to be a permanent buff, and it didn’t work on the skins, but on him personally. No matter which set of skin he used, it would passively take effect.

As for the effect, Mu You couldn’t tell if it was good or bad.

Even though it was a curse, it allowed him free passage in the Poisonous Swamp. However, if it was a beneficial buff, he wouldn’t be able to farm monsters in this swamp as all monsters would avoid him, which seemed rather inconvenient...

He assumed this buff wasn’t exclusive to him as all those who participated in the destruction of the altar should have received this curse.

Since he couldn’t farm experience, Mu You didn’t linger in the swamp and returned to the vicinity of the ’gate’ first.

Due to the influence of the Altar’s Curse, as soon as he approached, the swamp creatures that had been wandering around the gate fled as if they sensed something terrifying.

Mu You suddenly realized the biggest use of this curse was to guard this ’gate’!

Originally, after this ’gate’ was destroyed, the Marsh Monsters would continue to invade Earth. How to deal with these magical beasts would be a troublesome matter. The state couldn’t possibly station troops here day and night, could it? Even if humans could withstand it, the state’s financial resources couldn’t afford such expenditure.

But now, all they needed was to arrange for these twenty or so people who acquired the Altar’s Curse to take turns guarding the front or back of the gate. This would effortlessly prevent any swamp creatures from approaching!

He believed that as long as the country was willing to provide adequate compensation, even the elite players would scramble to take on this task.

Of course, this had nothing to do with him. Mu You couldn’t expose his ability to have this buff, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to explain it clearly. Moreover, he didn’t plan to waste his time here.

Mu You let Vivian out of his bag, then took out the kidnapped Illuminati member. Afterwards, he dragged this still unconscious person straight into the lake and went through the gate back to Earth.