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Chapter 499 - 294 The Location of the City of Dawn is Actually..._2

Chapter 499: Chapter 294 The Location of the City of Dawn is Actually..._2

Finally, Mu You managed to utter a word, just as the demon was kicked away, bleeding profusely. The demon’s health was depleted in mid-air, and an object burst from its body. Swift as lightning, Mu You collected the object and immediately turned around, leading his followers to run away.

On the other side, the demon quickly resurrected at the end of the corridor.

The moment it revived, the Son of Heaven and others rushed towards it, surrounding it quickly.

"Where is he?" Son of Heaven asked.

"He... got away... huh, he is fast," the demon looked at the empty corridor on the other side with a cold smirk on his face.

"How are you?" Son of Heaven asked.

"I’m fine, just died once." The demon seemed indifferent. In such a unique environment, the enemy didn’t dare to confront his large troop directly.

"What about the fragment? It didn’t burst out, did it?" someone asked with a smile.

"Don’t worry, it definitely didn’t..."

The demon confidently started speaking, while subconsciously opening his ring to confirm.

But his next view made his vision blacken.

"Fuck!" The demon blurted out a curse.

"What happened? You didn’t actually burst out a fragment, did you?" The smiling person next to him guessed what might have happened based on the demon’s reaction. He was surprised as well.

He knew that the demon always carried hundreds of miscellaneous items to dilute the chance for the fragment to burst out, but out of a hundred possibilities, why did the enemy get the exact one? This was baffling if it was all about luck.

"Does this person have an ability to always produce certain items?" The one who was smiling couldn’t help but speculate.

"If that’s the case, it’s terrifying—no one can die from now on!" The demon said grimly.

The Son of Heaven next to them didn’t say a word. He did believe that the opponent had an ability making a certain item burst out every time they killed, because he just received a thief’s appointment letter. According to the information on the card, upon his next death, the marked fragment would certainly burst out.

By conjecturing this ability, it was possible that the demon had received something similar just now. However, he didn’t have a chance to notice because he had already been killed...

"What should we do? Should we pursue?" The demon asked reluctantly.

"No..." Son of Heaven shook his head quietly. It was not wise to provoke the enemy actively without knowing their ability.

Moreover, the fragment that the demon burst out was not too important for them. They could accept losing it to the enemy...

What the Son of Heaven and the others didn’t know was that at this moment, Mu You, who was withdrawing, was also cursing incessantly.

"Damn idiot, stuffing themselves with all that rubbish..."

He didn’t expect the demon to carry hundreds of useless items with him to dilute the fragment burst rate.

Despite the fact that no matter how much the demon diluted the fragment, it couldn’t escape its fate of bursting out, this operation had still greatly increased Mu You’s workload. Just now, he had to kill the demon more than five hundred times in a continuous cycle before he finally managed to make the fragment burst out!

"How many fragments did you get?" Lin Xue asked beside him.

"Nine..."

Mu You took out the map fragment he just obtained, his expression somewhat helpless.

The action of randomly selecting someone to burst out a fragment was indeed somewhat of a gamble.

To say that they were unlucky would be an exaggeration since they did manage to burst out an effective fragment. However, to say they were lucky, the fragment that burst out happened to be number nine, a portal that put him in a predicament.

If he chose to enter from portal number nine, he had to give up the use of the number two fragment. At the same time, there would be no one to hinder the Son of Heaven’s team from entering the city.

"What should we do? Should we continue to kill?" Lin Xue was well aware that the number nine fragment was not their desired outcome.

"Let’s first piece together the map and see..." Mu You didn’t rush to make a decision. After all, he had marked the Son of Heaven’s group with his appointment letter, so he didn’t need to worry about them getting away.

Mu You let Lin Xue and Little Ya go back to the Melt Cave Space first, while he went to rescue the chubby from his cell.

After bringing the chubby back to the Melt Cave, Mu You immediately used the Teleportation Array to the Foggy Mountain to retrieve the fragment stored there.

With that, the three fragments were all collected in his hands.

Once back in the Melt Cave, Mu You immediately assembled the fragments.

After he placed the fragments according to the order ’two-five-nine’, a map appeared on the front of the fragments.

Mu You and Lin Xue both quickly looked at it.

Nothing could be said about two and five, for they were maps of the inner city and didn’t reveal the city’s location.

Both of their gazes instinctively moved towards map nine.

In the lower right corner of the map, besides a small part of the city, the remaining part showed some coordinates related to the area around the city.

Mu You quickly found a location marked with a clear place name in the center of fragment nine: Luoweng Island!

"Luoweng Island?"

Mu You paused, the name sounded familiar to him. He quickly pulled up the map of the Evil Spirit Sea Area he had studied before, and soon, in the lower right corner, he noticed an island named ’Luoweng Island’.

It was a long, rectangular island, about the same size as Turtle Island. Placed in the entirety of the Evil Spirit Sea area, it was just another ordinary island.

"So, does this mean the City of Dawn fell near Luoweng Island?" Mu You muttered.

"Perhaps... not..." Lin Xue, standing at his side, seemed to have noticed something and her expression changed.

"What’s wrong?" Mu You looked at her curiously.

"Look at this location..."

Lin Xue pointed to a portion of Fragment Five’s map, then pointed again at an unnamed island on the Evil Spirit Sea Area map.

"Isn’t the outline very similar to this?"

Mu You looked at it.

The fragment showed a central part of Dawn City, while Lin Xue pointed towards a massive structure in the city center.

If only comparing the outlines, it indeed seemed somewhat similar to the small island on the Evil Spirit Sea Area map, but only slightly. The actual shapes were considerably different — after all, one was architecture, the other an island.

"And also here... and here..."

Lin Xue pointed at two more places, with similar-looking island and building outlines.

If there had been only one, Mu You wouldn’t have thought much of it. With hundreds of islands of various shapes, occasionally finding coincidental similarities in shape would be normal.

But three continuous coincidences got Mu You’s attention.

More importantly: the relative positions of these three islands matched perfectly with the layout of the three structures on Fragment Five!

"Are you implying...." Mu You looked at Lin Xue incredulously.

He seemed to have grasped Lin Xue’s meaning but was somewhat reluctant to believe it. It was too mind-boggling!

Lin Xue silently nodded. She picked up the three map fragments and placed them over the map of the Evil Spirit Sea Area. The positioning followed the layout of a three by three grid: two, five, nine.

The result was that the positioning of Luoweng Island on both maps precisely overlapped, and all other details and outlines also seamlessly blended into one another without any inconsistencies!

Mu You was too shocked to speak.

This development meant: the full map of the City of Dawn was, in fact, the map of the Evil Spirit Sea Area!

He had previously assumed that the so-called city in the sky was at most the size of one or several islands.

But now, it appeared that he had drastically underestimated the City of Dawn.

He had never imagined that the real City of the Sky could be as large as the entire Evil Spirit Sea Area!!

This wasn’t a city; it was a continent!

However, if the full map was laid out this way, once the location of the ninth gateway was determined, the location of the first gateway would also be apparent...

...

Meanwhile, in the fourth layer of the Underwater Prison, within the Son of Heaven’s team:

Just when everyone was still immersed in the sorrow of losing a fragment, a clear message suddenly appeared in the minds of all the shard holders.

"Attention: All fragments of the City of Dawn map have been gathered. The entrance to the City of Dawn is now opening. The first fool to touch the Legacy Crystal in the city center will become Dawn City’s first City Lord!"

"What?"

The Son of Heaven, the Smiling One, and another fragment holder were taken aback. They glanced at each other, relief flashing in their eyes.

"What happened?" The devil and the others hadn’t received the message, but they noticed the changes in their expressions.

"The fragments have been gathered!" The Smiling One said.

"What?"

The others were also surprised and delighted upon hearing this.

They had initially assumed that they wouldn’t be able to complete their mission today, but at the very last moment before retreating from the prison, they had narrowly gathered all the fragments.

Now, there was no need for them to stay any longer. The city gates had opened, and securing the city became everyone’s top priority! They needed to reach the first gateway as quickly as possible.