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Chapter 885 - 430: The Finishing Touch on the Dragon

Chapter 885: Chapter 430: The Finishing Touch on the Dragon

["The Ezomal Empire has no intention of making an enemy of the Fool. Please leave the desert now and ensure you no longer interfere with the affairs of the desert!" The armor-clad Evans looked at you sternly, issuing you a formal warning. You choose to...]

[Leave the desert rather than suffer a disadvantage] or [Break through the encirclement, your plans will not be halted by the interference of others].

Mu You naturally chose the latter.

The Divine Pen was something he had to find, not to mention there was an ice-blue creature trapped in Caesar’s territory; leaving the desert was absolutely impossible for him now.

["Then, we will be forced to expel you from our territory." Seeing you shake your head in refusal, Evans’s expression turned cold, and he swung his Broad Sword: "Take him down!"]

[The surrounding soldiers instantly formed ranks and surged towards you...]

[You switched to the skin of the Vampire Marquis.]

[You released ’Dark World’; the environment around you automatically entered midnight, yet in the eternally daylit desert, the sun still hung high in the sky even at midnight.]

[Under the scorching sun, the ’Scorching Sun’ curse took effect, your blood turned ice cold, as if countless fine needles were constantly piercing every part of your body.]

[The ’Daydreaming’ curse took effect, you became extremely drowsy, unable to muster any strength or spirit.]

Indeed, Dark World was unusable in the eternal daylight of the desert because the very concept of night didn’t exist here; even at midnight, the sun remained high in the sky.

Similarly, there was the Moon Scepter; even if it summoned the night of the full moon, the spectacle of the sun and the full moon coexisting in the sky would still occur.

The principle behind both these methods was to temporarily adjust the local celestial moment to the corresponding time point, but if that time point wasn’t nighttime itself, changing it would be futile.

Of course, Mu You wasn’t switching to the Vampire skin for combat now, but to use the skin’s talent to escape.

[You activated ’Godspeed’, and the actions of everyone around you appeared extremely slow in your eyes.]

[You weaved through the crowd, easily breaking through the encirclement to arrive at an open space in the distance.]

[You set up a Dark Teleportation Array on the ground...]

Having set up the Teleportation Array in a secure place, Mu You didn’t rush to leave but canceled Godspeed at his current location.

[As the flow of time resumed, a wave of soldiers’ attacks missed their mark, and they immediately looked around, confused, trying to find where you had gone.]

[Until one Soldier spotted you, already far from the crowd, and shouted out your position, attracting everyone’s gaze towards you.]

[Evans also stepped out of the crowd, but instead of issuing another futile order to his men, he watched you calmly from a distance, seemingly unsurprised by this outcome.]

["Evans, I just have one question for you, is Caesar really the Lamp God?" you shouted at Evans.]

["No." Evans answered without hesitation.]

[Receiving a clear response, you nodded at him and stepped into the Teleportation Array.]

[After a bout of dizziness, you appeared inside the underground palace of Caesar’s religious sect...]

Caesar is not the Lamp God!

Evans was unlikely to lie about such a matter.

Mu You breathed a sigh of relief; with that clarified, things would be much easier to handle.

The Bard had previously stated that the Scorplion’s Nest was hidden in the Gobi Plateau in the northern part of the Crimson Desert.

Mu You immediately gathered his followers to start searching for the Scorplion Nest in the wilderness.

No matter how the situation would evolve, getting the Miracle God Lamp first was definitely the right move to take the initiative.

Earlier, the followers who returned had already informed the other members of the sect about Caesar’s appearance, and the whole sect rejoiced, even more festive than the New Year.

At the same time, Mu You’s status as Caesar’s spokesperson was accepted by everyone; now that he had given the orders, there was no dissent among them, and they hurriedly carried out his commands.

However, not long after the tasks were assigned, a string of bad news came one after another.

It turned out that right after he left, Evans led his troops into the northern part of the Crimson Desert, surrounded the Gobi Plateau directly, and expelled all unrelated bystanders, preventing the followers from getting anywhere close, let alone finding the Scorplion Nest.

Mu You was helpless against this; numbers truly held power.

Mu You guessed that Evans was afraid he would release Caesar and thus intended to find the Divine Lamp before him, then destroy it directly, ensuring that Caesar would remain sealed forever.

But with this, the action of the Bard became somewhat strange: if his intention was to incite him to defeat the Scorplion, obtain the Divine Lamp, and release Caesar, why did he specifically inform the Ezomal Empire and Evans? Surely, knowing Evans’s stance, he would do everything possible to destroy the Divine Lamp. Wouldn’t these actions create obstacles to releasing Caesar instead?

Unless, the other party’s aim was to make both sides fight each other, and then profit from their rivalry?

Mu You furrowed his brow, unable to be certain for the moment.

In any case, the situation was bizarre: former allied nations had become adversaries, and the religious sect of Caesar, which they were supposed to unite against, had ironically become his loyal followers.

However, with only about a thousand people in the sect, it was naturally impossible to confront Evans’s vast army of over a hundred thousand. Now, he needed to find some other form of assistance.

After some thought, Mu You took out the ’Eye of the Divine Beast’ from the game.

A round, rolling eye appeared in his hand.