Super Righteous Player
Chapter 738 - 279: Curse Ability_1

Chapter 738: Chapter 279: Curse Ability_1

Upon hearing this, Jacob was suddenly shocked.

"Broad Area Perception" normally wouldn’t scan beyond five hundred meters. To surpass this limit, one must either combine it with self-amplification spells of the Idol School or ingest special potions.

Therefore, it is usually used for defense and counter-attack.

Wanting to use the Prophet’s spell "Broad Area Perception" to perform a scan... one must have a rough idea of the target’s location in advance.

In other words.

Someone must have known in advance that they would appear near here—

"—Your Majesty, it wasn’t me!"

He hastily defended himself, "I remember this place was indeed a safe point... how could it..."

"I know it wasn’t you."

Annan frowned and said irritably, "Keep quiet if you’ve caused trouble!"

He could see clearly that Jacob didn’t have the red glow of a traitor on him. This meant he indeed wasn’t doing this deliberately.

That left only one possibility—he had been used by someone.

...I see.

Annan quickly realized something.

There must be sages in the north.

They probably discovered the teleportation point Jacob had set up a while ago but didn’t startle the snake—instead, right at the designated time, before Annan was teleported to the specified location, they immediately started surveilling the teleportation point.

"Breach the ground, we’re going out from here!"

Annan immediately ordered the roaming child.

"Drill a hole directly upwards from here?"

The roaming child clenched the ring, asking, "Or at an angle?"

"Straight up is fine, do it quickly."

Zorgen replied in a low voice, "I can take you up."

He had already opened those silver-grey eyes, lifting his head to look up at the dimly lit sewer.

Meanwhile, between the fingers of his right hand, his index and middle, he held a small red ball.

As the child turned the wheel in his hand,

The ground directly above him instantly melted and collapsed—as if it was hit by the Shaping School’s "Turn Stone to Mud" spell.

The moss-covered bricks and stones became like mashed tofu dregs, crushed by an invisible force, gathered into the corner, and fell down, to avoid falling on their heads.

In just three seconds... a hazy light seeped in from the top.

At that moment,

Zorgen suddenly threw the red pellet upwards.

It pierced through the light with remarkable precision—

Then, it exploded with a bang!

In the instant the light from the explosion appeared, clear shadows floated beneath each of the seven people.

At that moment, hands of shadow took form—unlike Kafney’s technique which required continuous maintenance of the shadows. Seven slender and ferocious shadow hands, each one different, emerged from their shadows.

These hands of shadow grabbed the collars of their clothes from behind and then spread quickly upwards.

—The seven of them were thrown out through the blasted opening.

Zoya was the first to fly out.

Her eyes were still tightly closed, reflecting the marks of clocks within them.

She hadn’t yet disengaged from the "Prophet’s Vision" state; with her eyes closed, she could perceive five seconds into the future in advance.

Although she couldn’t immediately deploy "Broad Area Perception" due to being in motion, she could already judge that it was temporarily safe above.

Annan also came up with his eyes closed.

It wasn’t for fear of being blinded by the sudden brightness—once Annan achieved a 100% awakening of the "Radiance" element, he was no longer vulnerable to "Light" in any form.

Mainly, Annan possessed transcendental perception. He could "see" the obstacles around him without vision... when he temporarily closed his eyes and blocked his sight, the range of his perception would temporarily increase, and it became even clearer.

He could distinctly sense that there was nobody waiting above at the respawn point...

——"You guys aren’t being professional here, brothers."

"If I had been guarding above, the moment I saw a hole appear, I would have had the player strike indiscriminately inside."

Though bombing the sewers sounds a bit unseemly, it feels like there’s a similar kind of cleverness to bombing a toilet...

...Of course, it’s also possible that they emerged too quickly.

Because Zoya had sensed the detection beforehand—she detected the other prophets’ "Broad Area Perception" at the edge of her own, five seconds in advance.

The moment they were actually detected, they had already started to dig upwards—the treasure against the wall, "Wandering Child" only needed three seconds to bore straight up to the surface. In just a little over a second, Zolgen had them flying vertically out of the sewer and onto the ground.

The prophet wizard responsible for perception probably hadn’t even finished reporting the situation at that time...

——But when Annan opened his eyes, he realized that the situation was completely wrong.

There was no army, nor the horde of demons he had anticipated.

They were right in the center of a huge barrier—a large square with a diameter of about five to six hundred meters, where everything inside had been cleared out.

Locked in with them was a white-haired old man with a gentle smile and single-lens glasses. A blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl stood in front of him.

In the remaining three corners of the circle, which was divided by ninety degrees, stood a black-haired, blue-eyed mature woman, a black-haired, blue-eyed middle-aged man, and a bald, muscular man with dark skin and white pupils.

These four people all had an unusually hollow aura of death about them, yet they were able to exert a very clear sense of oppression on Annan. On their faces hung the same amiable smiles as the old man.

...It was exactly like the smile on Viscount Dorgoruki’s face.

And the five people within the barrier all shared one thing in common in their dress.

Behind them, each carried a strange device—about the size of a backpack, with a transparent chamber made of yellow crystal at the center. It was filled with a container of golden gel, and on the left, three small bottles the size of a Wahaha drink were attached.

It was a pale, almost transparent liquid. It continuously radiated a hazy, shimmering light, giving off a strange sense of "breaking free from bondage."

Annan always felt that thing was strangely familiar to him.

To the right of the device was a conduit.

Extending from the main chamber, it covered the face like a breathing mask.

...What is that?

"——I’ve been waiting for you, Your Majesty,"

the five people said simultaneously.

Their voices mingled together, made low and blurry due to the masks.

One glance was enough——these were the users of the Worm ritual.

And the old man was Earl Yury.

"...I see."

Annan raised his eyebrows, carrying a serene expression as he slammed the tri-color scepter onto the ground: "From the very beginning, you never trusted Jacob."

"Exactly."

The quintuple voices rose together: "He can modify the ritual, and naturally, so can we.

"No matter where he teleports you, in the end, you will be brought here."

"That’s impossible!"

Jacob said without hesitation: "You haven’t even seen my Ritual Plate——"

"It’s entirely possible."

Only the old man spoke this time.

He opened his eyes, his voice calm: "Because with cursed energy, nothing is impossible."

He didn’t say another word, nor did he explain further.

Instead, he unhesitatingly pulled on a rope on his left side. A spring plate set between the attachment bottles and the main chamber snapped off.

The first bottle of transparent liquid immediately seeped into the golden gel. The moment it came into contact with the transparent liquid, the golden gel bubbled up vigorously, emitting a pale golden mist that surged through the conduit into the breathing masks.

In that instant, Annan had a definitive perception—he felt his heart tremble.

He recognized the origin of those two substances.

For he had come into contact with them before.

——It was the sanctified relic effusion of the "Heart of Justice" and the inert cursed energy extracted from the "Curse Cellar," not yet activated.

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