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Chapter 1552 - Chapter 1552 Chapter 1553 Breaking the Formation

Chapter 1552: Chapter 1553: Breaking the Formation Chapter 1552: Chapter 1553: Breaking the Formation Searching for the Divine Fall Land, or rather the entrance to the ruins, had reached a deadlock. Basford, although he kept saying that he would never give up, was clearly running out of patience after a month of fruitless effort.

As for the search around the City of Hope, the focus had shifted to the areas surrounding the city. It should be noted that the territory around the City of Hope is also vast, and many small and medium-sized copies have been found, but not a single large copy, which is somewhat odd for a level-five city.

The higher the level of the city, the more copies nearby, and the higher their levels. For example, the City of Sin, a level-five city, has thirty to forty low-level copies, and over a dozen medium-sized copies, as well as five large forty-person copies.

Around the City of Hope, only a dozen or so small copies have been found, and even medium-sized copies number only three, which doesn’t quite match the city’s level.

“Perhaps it’s because the City of Hope has not been a level-five city for very long, but the lack of a single large copy is indeed strange!” Song Jian thought to himself.

The development of a city not only requires financial strength but also many other types of resources, among which copies are one of the most important. They can attract a large number of players and NPC professionals.

One day, Wang Qi suddenly came to the City Lord Mansion in high spirits, and upon seeing Song Jian, he immediately said with a face full of surprise, “City Lord, we found a strange altar in a valley outside the city, there is a strange fluctuation there. As soon as one approaches, they fall into an illusion…”

“Let’s go, take a look!” said Song Jian, getting up at once.

Just as Song Jian and a group of people were leaving the city, Basford, somehow, had inexplicably joined the team.

Song Jian only glanced at him and said nothing, the group of people quickly headed towards the valley.

Soon, the group arrived at a small valley only a dozen kilometers from the City of Hope. This was a level thirty training area with many level thirty-something magical beasts frequenting it, and occasionally, there would be some low-level herbs. Many players who had just started the game chose to level up here.

But today, this valley was nearly empty of people, with the beasts nowhere to be seen. The aura emitted by these “big shots” around level one hundred drove away the level thirty-something beasts long ago. Only a group of “onlookers” watched from a distance as Song Jian and his group headed deeper into the valley.

“It’s just ahead. This altar wasn’t here a few days ago. It seems to have appeared suddenly in the past few days, which is very strange!” Wang Qi said.

Song Jian nodded, unable to make any judgment until he saw the altar.

They quickly reached the depths of the valley. The trees here, due to lack of sunlight for a long time, appeared somewhat withered, their branches nearly all drooping, and the air was filled with a gloomy feeling.

“There’s the scent of a magic formation…” Song Jian suddenly said.

A faint trace of the Power of Law lingered in the air. Song Jian looked around, walking and trying his best to sense the peculiarities in the surroundings.

Soon, the group saw the altar that Wang Qi had mentioned.

This was not an ordinary altar. The altar, about five or six meters high, was entirely made of brick and stone. There was no statue of any god on the altar, only a semi-circular structure, resembling an archway.

“There’s a protective formation here, but perhaps due to time, it has been damaged; otherwise, you wouldn’t have been able to find this place,” Basford suddenly spoke up, with an uncontrollable look of surprise on his face.

“I originally thought it was in the City of Hope, but to think it would be in a valley outside the City of Hope…” Basford mumbled to himself.

“If we keep going, an illusion will appear…” Wang Qi stopped in his tracks.

Basford glanced at him but didn’t care, nor did he stop walking. He continued forward, seemingly unaffected by the already damaged magic array.

But before long, Basford suddenly stood still, motionless. After a while, as if he had seen something terrifying, he let out a scream and flew backward, crashing through several large trees before heavily falling to the ground.

“This is what happens to those who force their way in, though he has gone the farthest of anyone,” Wang Qi said softly.

Song Jian nodded. He could feel that, although the array was broken, the remaining power still carried traces of the Power of Law. Clearly, if the array had been intact, it would have targeted those of the Demi-God Level, and even gods, who possessed the Power of Law.

“I, I saw the gods falling…” Basford’s face was filled with terror as he trembled all over.

Although he seemed strong just a moment ago, Basford’s body had hardly suffered any damage; it was his psyche that may have taken a hit.

“The gods falling?” Song Jian was startled, then shook his head and said, “It must be an illusion. This kind of illusory array can lure out the things you fear the most…”

“No, no, it’s the future; I saw the future!” Basford shook his head, looking intently at Song Jian. “I saw that I had become a god-level powerhouse, even possessing the divine position of the God of Flames, but, but in the end, I still fell, just like the other gods…”

Song Jian frowned and quickly asked, “What exactly did you see? Who could make the gods fall?”

Basford suddenly clamped his mouth shut, shook his head, and said no more, his body still shaking uncontrollably. It seemed he was utterly convinced of what he had seen before.

“You all wait here for a while, I will break this array…” Song Jian said.

If it were a complete grand array, Song Jian wouldn’t have the confidence to find and break it, but now, as time had passed, its energy was nearly exhausted, and the array had been damaged with clear signs of wear. Song Jian just needed some time to trace the lines of the array to locate the array’s core to break it.

Song Jian slowly walked forward, spreading his perception like mercury pouring to the ground, sensing the array’s pattern, searching for the location of the array’s core.

Basford watched Song Jian’s figure slowly disappear into the array, a look of inexplicable wariness in his eyes.

Moments later, cracks started to appear in the surrounding space, webbing out like a spider’s network right before everyone, causing them all to instinctively back away.

“He actually managed to break it. I never imagined his skill in array formation was this profound…” Basford thought to himself.

Bang~

A crisp sound exploded in the air, like the shattering of transparent glass, and the space around the altar completely fell apart. However, when everyone looked forward again, the space around the altar appeared unchanged, as if the scene of it shattering had been an illusion.

At this moment, Song Jian had a ball of pale golden energy in his hand, his face full of surprise.

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