Chapter 238

Naturally, it cannot be processed in bulk.

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【Central Zone】

The lords stared at the empty ground before them.

On the ground, only a massive crater remained.

To kill this boss, they had already caused tremendous destruction.

Yet now, inside this crater, there was nothing.

Nothing remained.

"Where's the boss?"

"Where did that huge boss go?"

"Who moved the boss?"

"Damn, I just got halfway there."

"Fuck, I didn't even touch the boss's skin."

"Not me, definitely not me."

The various Saint-class lords exchanged glances.

In fact, what they said was credible enough.

This boss had just been killed.

They had all acted at the same moment.

Logically, their speeds should have been nearly identical.

Even with space magic, it wouldn't have been that fast.

Almost all lords felt that, before they had even activated their own space abilities,

the boss had already vanished completely.

Taken away by someone.

The battlefield left only emptiness, dust—they gained not a single benefit.

"Who… stole our boss?"

"Who dares steal a boss from Saint-class lords? Do they want to die?"

"What kind of lord, ignorant of death."

"The opponent might also be Saint-class; otherwise, they couldn't have held out so long."

In that instant, their first thought was one lord.

Lu Cang.

The most famous lord during this period.

Also the lord under global attention.

Yet immediately afterward, they shook their heads.

Lu Cang? How could it be him?

Lu Cang was far away in the east.

This was already the core of the Central Zone.

Farther than even the farthest reaches of the Eastern Region.

How could Lu Cang have come here?

"No… how could the boss vanish into thin air?"

"Could it be that some being rescued him?"

"No, the Earth Tortoise had just died—it couldn't have been rescued."

"What about the Daughter of Reversed Death?"

This question silenced them all.

At this moment, they turned directly to 【Chain of Binding】

Chain of Binding was the title of the control lord responsible for restraining the Daughter of Reversed Death.

Previously, it was his troop that had kept the healer locked down.

Otherwise, no one could have killed this combo.

This troop, under the lord's gaze,

replied:

"The Daughter of Reversed Death was still alive at the time."

"But… my chains were severed, as if something had instantly killed the Daughter of Reversed Death."

After receiving permission from their own lord, this Saint-class troop respectfully answered all the lords.

"Chains… severed?"

"If your chains bind someone, even a Saint-class body shouldn't be able to break them, right?"

"Hmm... Initial Saints cannot break them, but beings at the Mortal Saint level can still snap my chains."

"Of course, those above my Gao Jie level also have a chance."

Yet he was a Mythic-tier troop.

Above him could only be Ultra-Mythic and higher.

Meeting this condition was nearly impossible.

This meant the attack's intensity had reached at least the Mortal Saint level.

"When did a new Saint-class suddenly emerge in our human world?"

"One capable of evading our detection and perception—a stealth assassin Saint-class?"

During the battle, the Lord of Meteor also continuously deployed reconnaissance units to scan the surroundings for anomalies.

Yet, under the detection of the Saint-class reconnaissance units,

no anomalies were found.

This was extremely strange.

To deceive Saint-class reconnaissance units, one would need at least equal or higher-level stealth abilities.

Or, possess an extremely high rank with exceptionally strong concealment.

Just as all Lords were puzzled,

a world announcement appeared again before every Lord.

【Event: Collapse Catastrophe】

【World Boss slain: Earth Dark Turtle—Slayer: Lord of Meteor—Lord Xing Yun, Sky Giant—Lord Aoshan…】

【World Boss slain: Reverser of Death—Slayer: Lord of Meteor—Lord Xing Yun, Sky Giant—Lord Aoshan… Flesh Catastrophe—Lu Cang】

At this moment, all Saint-class Lords present noticed:

It seemed that an unexpected name had appeared after the World Boss slaying.

【Flesh Catastrophe—Lu Cang】

This damn…

Why is it Lu Cang again?

Instantly, the faces of all Saint-class Lords fell.

They could already guess what had just happened.

Especially Lord Aoshan's expression, which grew especially dark.

He himself was the guardian of the eastern region and the Saint-class Lord ruling it.

Yet, in his own territory, his capital had been seized.

Worse, the World Boss he had fought hardest to kill had been stolen by Lu Cang.

Now, his Sky Giant's back was covered in wounds.

All of these were caused by "accidental" damage from teammates.

To heal these wounds,

would take an unknown amount of time.

These wounds were all inflicted by the hard-to-recover 【Severe Injury】 ability.

These Saint-class teammates of his.