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Chapter 525 - 303 Conquering Ten Meetings with One Strength_2

Chapter 525: Chapter 303 Conquering Ten Meetings with One Strength_2

Luckily, these octopuses did not continue their chase like before, they stopped after driving them a few hundred metres away and retreated.

Finally, everyone had a chance to catch their breath.

"Obviously, they’ve gained control over these octopuses..." the Son of Heaven explained.

"How is that possible?" Jack looked over incredulously, though these octopuses were not high-ranking, there were thousands of them. How much energy would it take to control so many octopuses at once?

"It has nothing to do with energy, I guess it’s because of the heart in their hands..."

"Heart?"

"Yes, that’s what he risked his life to get from the thatched temple."

Son of Heaven smiled bitterly, "we can’t be sure what heart it is yet, but obviously it has some relationship with these octopuses. Whoever gets the heart, can gain the power to control these octopuses!"

"Damn, are we doomed?" Jack was shocked.

If the enemy really could command the whole group of octopuses, there would be nothing left to fight for. With hundreds of thousands of octopuses, he would be invincible here, and he even had the map, he could get the City Lord simply by lying around!

"Now it seems to be the case, but... "

Before the Son of Heaven could finish his sentence, a message suddenly came in on the team channel.

"We may have found the city centre!"

The message came from Smiley and the others who had left earlier.

Son of Heaven’s eyebrows relaxed slightly, this was the only good news in this almost desperate situation.

"We found an open square, with an altar in the middle, but it was empty, without anything like the ’Legacy Crystal’, and there were two barriers set up on the square, one outside and one around the altar. It seems that you need to bring the map fragments to enter the outer one, and we’re not sure about the inner one."

The Son of Heaven looked at the message and felt a bit strange, "Without the Legacy Crystal, how are you so sure that’s the city centre?"

"We can’t be sure... but we ran into the Red Sickle Girl here, she’s guarding the barrier and we can’t get close." Smiley explained truthfully.

"I see."

The Son of Heaven nodded, closed the team channel, turned back and looked straight at Jack, saying only three words, "Let’s team up!"

"Huh?" Jack was taken aback.

"As you can see, the situation now is not a tripartite balance but the Ghost Captain’s overwhelming dominance. If we don’t join forces, all the efforts our two teams have made before will be wasted. Only by joining forces is there a glimmer of hope." the Son of Heaven said.

"You... are you sure joining forces will work?" Jack looked at the Son of Heaven suspiciously.

Considering the current situation, not to mention that only their two teams are present, even if there were ten more teams, it seems like they could only be beaten by the Ghost Captain.

"Actually, I have a trump card. If all goes well, there’s a chance we could ’steal’ the City Lord from them..." Son of Heaven said, vaguely.

"Damn, you’ve got a trump card up your sleeve? Just spit it out already, don’t stall!" Jack frowned.

The Son of Heaven knew this wasn’t the time for secrets, and quickly explained his plan.

"So that’s your last resort..."

After listening, Jack looked at the Son of Heaven in surprise and hesitated, "If what you say is true, then there’s indeed a glimmer of hope..."

"The contract is here, let’s join forces as soon as possible, we don’t have much time." The Son of Heaven took out a Blood Covenant scroll from his body and handed it to Jack.

Jack glanced at it, and all the terms of cooperation were clearly written on it.

"Damn, you’ve prepared this too?" Jack looked at the Son of Heaven in disbelief, could he foresee the future and anticipate this situation in advance?

"I like to be thorough when I do things. This contract was actually prepared for the Ghost Captain, to handle certain emergencies, the last resort..."

The Son of Heaven looked at Jack without expression, "only I did not expect to use it on you."

"You bloody..."

Jack was on the verge of cursing, but didn’t know whether he should or not.

The opponent’s attitude clearly demonstrated that they had not taken him seriously as a competitor from the very beginning...

"Although collaborating with you disgusts me, there’s no other choice at this point... If I were to give up now, I’d be too frustrated." Unable to help himself, Jack muttered under his breath, grudgingly signing his name on the covenant.

The covenant was successfully formed. From this point, the two parties stood on the same front.

"President, he’s on the move!" An underling responsible for spy duties reported in: the Ghost Captain had begun to move.

"Follow him quickly!"

Everyone hurried to set off, hanging back at a distance.

The opponent had gained control of the swarm of octopuses, increasing his strength. However, this also ensured that whenever he moved, there would always be a large number of octopuses bustling around him, making his movements very conspicuous. It was difficult to lose track of him.

Of course, with the opponent’s current strength, there was no longer any need to hide.

Any cunning strategies or tactics were only necessary when one was at a disadvantage. Once the advantage was big enough, you could just directly and openly bulldoze your way through!

As the swarm of octopuses expanded throughout the city, a group of people sneakily trailed behind.

After following them for about half an hour, they finally arrived at their destination.

It was a vast stone plaza, starkly empty with no buildings in sight. Only in the very center, there was a highly noticeable altar surrounded by hundreds of steps.

Near the altar, two layers of visible barriers were distributed. A small-size barrier was directly covering the body of the internal altar, while the other one stretched outward for about a hundred meters, forming a bowl-like shape, protecting the vicinity of the altar tightly.

When Mu You arrived, only Lin Xue was on the scene, standing in front of the plaza’s barrier with a sickle in her hand, blocking anyone who wanted to approach.

Prior to entering Sector Six, Mu You had let Lin Xue out of the backpack and handed the fifth fragment to her.

As Mu You followed the Son of Heaven and others through Sector Six, she followed from a distance with the help of the indicator on the fragment, until entering Sector Five, where she changed direction.

Mu You led the group to find the Octopus King, while Lin Xue rushed directly to the city center.

In the previous secret technique conference, Virgo had given a piece of intel: the Fool’s city rises at dawn and sets in the night without light.

After analysis, Mu You speculated that each Sky City likely had a time limit for its activation. As for the City of Dawn, it necessarily had to be activated at dawn.

Usually, the dawn period is referred to as the time slot between four and six in the morning.

In other words, even if they arrived at the city center earlier, they likely wouldn’t be able to touch the Legacy Crystal, instead, they would risk exposing the location of the city center.

Of course, Mu You couldn’t be sure whether Virgo’s intel was accurate. That’s why, while they went to find the Octopus King, he had Lin Xue rush to the city center with the map to verify it.

The intel turned out to be correct. The current time was 3:48, and there was still no crystal appearing on the altar in the center of the plaza.

However, it won’t be long before the crystal manifests.

Upon arriving at the scene, Mu You immediately had the octopuses surround the exterior of the barrier, three layers inside and three layers outside, so it was completely sealed off.

Then, he alone passed through the octopus crowd and stepped inside the barrier.

Entering the outer layer of the barrier required verification of being the Fool and the owner of the map, and it was very strict.

The entrant needed to carry at least three map fragments and the relic initially possessed by all. Furthermore, one couldn’t carry any kind of backpack equipment. The barrier would only let them pass after meeting these conditions.

That is to say, if anyone accidentally lost their initial relic, even if they found all the fragments afterward, they would still be directly excluded, losing their qualifications to compete for the title of City Lord.

Mu You encountered no problems in fulfilling these two conditions.

He had always carried the pocket watch, and he now had as many as four fragments, which was sufficient for admission.

Mu You left his backpack with Lin Xue and entered the barrier alone. He headed straight for the internal altar at the center, reaching out to touch the small-size barrier in front.

As expected, he was rebuffed instantly, and at the same time, a message appeared in his brain.

[City of Dawn Altar, opens daily at 4:00, remaining time: 10 minutes and 32 seconds.]

"So it really is four o’clock..."

Mu You turned back to look outside the barrier. That meant, as long as he could hold out here for the next ten minutes, everything would be settled.