Chapter 231

"No way, are the casualties really this heavy?" Chu Danqing looked at the wailing and howling on the public communication channel, while the number of people was also dropping.

Some Apostles encountered the Death Messengers of the Death Kingdom first; once they engaged in battle, their win rate in one-on-one situations was terrifyingly low.

However, it wasn't all bad news; the number of enemies was around twenty-five.

The initial number of Dimension Apostles who descended was three hundred twenty-one, and now there were two hundred eighty-two left; about thirty people had died at the hands of the Death Messengers.

As for the rest, they all died during missions.

"That makes sense; I had to reach the top one thousand in the arena before anyone could kill Da Bao."

"If it were other factions, they probably wouldn't be this useless." Chu Danqing felt things were getting troublesome.

Someone might have exposed the meeting point.

One had to know that it wasn't just their Dimension Paradise that had a public communication channel; the Death Kingdom had one too.

When the time came, a notification would lead to twenty-five people surrounding two hundred eighty.

Chu Danqing was confident in winning one-on-one or even one-on-two against the opponent, but to ask him to take on twenty-five, he didn't have that ability.

He wouldn't even have time to run away.

As for asking Guo Ming to help, he suspected the opposing faction definitely had similar over-spec means.

【Elemental Tower Peak · Frost Question: The meeting point has been exposed, everyone must not go!】

Sure enough, just as Chu Danqing finished thinking, an Apostle from the Elemental Tower Peak faction issued a warning on the public channel.

Chu Danqing had never heard of this faction; after all, he had little contact with Apostles.

However, from the name and code name, some intelligence could be gleaned.

"Done for, looks like we're really going to be wiped out." Chu Danqing knew that there were no major factions like the Long Hu Alliance or Tiance Prefecture in this trial dungeon.

Elemental Tower Peak was likely already considered a major faction; after all, this faction had been connecting the solo players from start to finish.

The reason the other side knew about this change was probably because they had already engaged with the Death Messengers.

Those who died were likely members of Elemental Tower Peak.

"Da Bao, can you sense anything?" Chu Danqing asked.

Da Bao's perception was bolstered by talents and skills, so it was the number one in the team regarding perception.

Hearing Chu Danqing's inquiry, Da Bao stopped and sensed carefully.

It wanted to sense some abnormalities through hearing.

"Over there, possibly, heard wrong." Da Bao pointed in a direction.

The distance was simply too far, and it wasn't sure if what it heard belonged to the sounds of battle.

Chu Danqing compared it with the map on the public channel.

"Let's go!" Chu Danqing didn't intend to go to the meeting point; since it had already been exposed, wouldn't going there be walking right into a trap?

The plan to push through after gathering had collapsed halfway, so Chu Danqing could only think of another way.

As for his previous grand ambitions? Gone.

He still had a clear view of his side's strength.

The others were killed out of high-pressure missions and terrifying worlds, while his side was no different from flowers in a greenhouse.

A ten-to-one ratio wouldn't even work.

Following the direction Da Bao pointed, Chu Danqing hurried over with all speed.

"Frost Demon Breath!"

When Chu Danqing got close, he felt the activity of cold, and then after hearing a chant, an icy aura emerged and swept across the entire field in an instant.

Yue Lan Wu Ying blocked the spreading icy aura, and only then did Chu Danqing's gaze look toward the center.

A young man wearing white robes and holding a deep blue staff was surrounded by a shield constructed of frost.

Sitting on his shoulder was a female sprite only ten centimeters tall, whose wings were ice crystal-like; clearly, it was also of the ice attribute.

And in front of the young man, a massive ice element was fighting a heavy-armored skeleton warrior of similar size.

The enemy was a black-robed person covered entirely in black robes, with only two gloomy soul fires flickering in the hood.

Clearly a Necromancer, whose spells were also extremely swift; bone spears and nether fire were driving his side's personnel into a steady retreat.

If it weren't for the assistance of the ice element and the ice sprite, this young man would surely die.

Chu Danqing recognized the young man; it was Frost Question, the one from Elemental Tower Peak who had issued a warning to everyone.

"Still too young." Chu Danqing said, giving Yue Lan Wu Ying and Da Bao a look.

They immediately understood Chu Danqing's meaning and headed toward the battlefield at once.

At the same time, Chu Danqing used the Spirit Sight Art of the Spirit Sight Necklace to check the Death Messenger.

The result was just as he expected: all question marks.

Excellent-tier equipment could handle middle-to-low levels in Rank One, but it was basically ineffective against such powerhouses.

To obtain the opponent's information, it had to be Exemplary-tier.

Yue Lan Wu Ying charged straight at the Death Messenger; the opponent was caught off guard but reacted immediately.

In an instant, it added a bone shield to itself while using nether fire to cast an effect similar to a Repulsion Fire Ring, forcibly pushing away the approaching Yue Lan Wu Ying.

Yue Lan Wu Ying was stained with nether fire, not only losing a large chunk of HP but also suffering continuous damage.

Fortunately, Bai He's reaction was fast; one snake head released Spirit Art · Spirit Healing to perform single-target healing and cleanse the nether fire, while the other snake head released Spirit Art · Evil Curse, inflicting the Death Messenger with both Weakness and Poison states.

At the same time, Da Bao also replaced the ice element, acting as the main force fighting the heavy-armored skeleton warrior.

With Chu Danqing's participation, Frost Question's pressure was reduced by more than half.

"Summoner?" The Death Messenger saw this, and its gaze fell on Chu Danqing.

It was a Necromancer, whose main path was bone and nether fire, involving a certain amount of summoning.

But not much; for example, the heavy-armored skeleton warrior was not summoned by it, but was similar to a permanent summoned object, an undead warrior it had pieced together through bones.

Pure summoning wasn't non-existent, but the weaknesses were too great.

Frost Question immediately cast Frost Arrow to ambush.

Chu Danqing didn't want to be outdone; Da Gu, held by him, began to chant Sorrowful Returning Wind.

Facing Frost Question's Ice Spike Art, the Death Messenger wasn't afraid, returning the favor with nether fire bullets.

The chant finished, and Sorrowful Returning Wind flew toward the Death Messenger at an extremely fast speed.

The Death Messenger keenly sensed the terrifying nature of Sorrowful Returning Wind.

The soul fire in its eye sockets flickered because of this, and then it immediately used a Bone Substitute to displace and escape.

The damage caused by the Ice Spike Art landing on the Bone Substitute wasn't great, but it caused it to fall into a slowed state.

However, when Sorrowful Returning Wind descended, it bypassed the Bone Substitute and headed straight for the Death Messenger who had just stood firm.

A lock-on tracking spell wasn't so easy to deceive.

Not to mention Da Gu was controlling it.

"What?!!!" The Death Messenger was also startled; at this time, its Bone Substitute had entered cooldown and could not be used a second time.

It could only bite the bullet and respond with nether fire bone dragon breath.

This skill wasn't a single skill, but was combined through multiple skills.

Bone and nether fire gathered in front of it into a Western dragon; a dragon crystal embedded in its chest shattered, and the giant dragon instantly activated.

The Western dragon opened its mouth to spit dragon breath, forcibly holding off Sorrowful Returning Wind; it could be said it used its full strength.

Dragon breath and Sorrowful Returning Wind produced a violent explosion.

The bone shield on the Death Messenger was torn apart in an instant, and the dragon breath shattered because of it.

But Da Gu's Sorrowful Returning Wind had a combo effect, which would trigger a second attack of the same level.

By the time this Death Messenger realized it, it was already too late; Sorrowful Returning Wind exploded again.

Penetration, armor breaking, base damage, soul attribute, Yang attribute, Yin attribute.

Damage as high as tens of thousands of points erupted instantly, and it died on the spot.

It didn't even manage to hold on to the subsequent area damage, dying so thoroughly that not even a scrap was left.

【You killed a Death Messenger, you obtained: Paradise Points × 10000, General Skill Points × 1】

Then, a red light emerged at the location of its corpse, and the red light split into two, sinking into the bodies of Chu Danqing and Frost Question.

Finally, it landed in the storage space, turning into a Bloody Chest.

The first reward was in hand.

As for the enemy being so strong, yet being insta-killed by Da Gu's Sorrowful Returning Wind?

Da Gu sacrificed all its glass cannon potential; 3300 base damage plus bonus damage, combined with equivalent triple soul, Yang, and Yin damage, directly soared to over ten thousand.

Even if the opponent had talents, skills, and equipment reduction, if they could withstand that, it wouldn't be their turn to deal with them.

The other side was the outrageous one; they were actually able to crush the initial Sorrowful Returning Wind; even the Son of Heaven couldn't do that.

One had to know that Da Gu's Sorrowful Returning Wind had been chanted for thirty seconds; only with many buffs did it have this effect.

However, the battle hadn't ended yet; the heavy-armored skeleton warrior didn't disappear because of the Death Messenger's death, but instead directly self-destructed.

Fortunately, with Yue Lan Wu Ying supporting from the side, it killed it immediately, which prevented the heavy-armored skeleton warrior from successfully self-destructing.

The battle ended, and Frost Question sat on the ground, somewhat exhausted.

"Thanks, otherwise I would have been dead this time." Frost Question said, panting heavily.

His elemental power had bottomed out, and those last few skills were all released at the cost of HP.

"What's the situation? Where are the people from your Elemental Tower Peak?" Chu Danqing asked.

"All dead." Frost Question said: "We met three Death Messengers, and half died in one encounter."

"I ran fast, but I was still caught up by this Necromancer."

"There was also a Death Knight and a Ghost Cultivator skilled in arrays; the three of them coordinated, and we had no way to resist." Frost Question said helplessly.

There were twelve members of Elemental Tower Peak who came to this trial world, and he was the only one still alive.

The remaining eleven had escaped, but they were all caught.

Compared to the Death Knight and the Ghost Cultivator, the Necromancer's movement speed was naturally inferior.

Frost Question drank a bottle of energy-restoring potion, and only then did he recover, asking: "What are your plans?"

He had no plans anyway; he couldn't fight, and people couldn't gather.

He could only rely on these hidden solo powerhouses.

(End of chapter)