Chapter 349: dark sun Blockade
“You can choose not to eat it, Lily,” Grace-Eva said.
As Grace-Eva swallowed the white worm, her body, which had been hot from the high fever, quickly cooled down, and even the dark sun contamination hidden deep within her soul receded.
“Cough, cough!!”
With a violent fit of coughing, a putrid-smelling chunk of flesh was directly spat out from Grace-Eva’s mouth.
“Thank you, Mary.”
“You’re welcome—I just hope I’m always around when you try to be a hero.”
Looking at Grace-Eva, whose complexion had returned to normal, Mary-Margaret also stood up and said sarcastically.
“How are the remaining mercenaries in Duling City?”
Grace-Eva, who had also stood up, completely ignored Mary-Margaret’s sarcasm and asked about another matter on her own.
“Don’t worry, they’ve all been taken into my Candy House—as long as I don’t die, they won’t die.”
To lure out the “Evil God Container,” Grace-Eva came up with a particularly ruthless plan: she preemptively posted a mission at the Mercenary Guild, having mercenaries with extraordinary abilities act as bait.
This was also why Harry and the others did not follow the residents of Duling City’s South District to White Coral Academy for refuge.
After all, as a group constantly walking on a tightrope, many mercenary teams, upon seeing the “high bounty” mission posted by Grace-Eva, still resolutely chose to stay and “gamble their lives.”
Fortunately, because “Nina” was not the true Evil God Container, a large-scale blood sacrifice did not occur.
Unfortunately, the two half-elf siblings of the Blackthorn Squad became sacrifices in this “bait plan,” losing their lives in vain.
Not only that, but due to Grace-Eva’s misjudgment, it was highly probable that the true “Evil God Container” had already left Duling City.
“It seems the Dark Sun Church’s scheme is far greater than we imagined.”
Looking at the endless darkness shrouding the sky, Grace-Eva’s eyes couldn’t help but flash with a few obscure and difficult-to-understand emotions.
“The top priority now is to quickly break through the dark sun blockade—and the key to breaking through lies with that living corpse imbued with divine power.”
Splash—
—Waves surged, and white bones stood tall.
Listening to the fierce fighting still raging within the bone wall, Grace-Eva and the others quickly exchanged glances, then flew into the encirclement of the bone wall, joining the battle together—
Meanwhile, at White Coral Academy.
After several hours of busy work, the residents of Duling’s South District were finally settled. However, looking at the dense crowd before her, Jia Na’s heart was always shrouded in a sense of oppressive gloom, as if covered by dark clouds.
“Master, the result of your divination this time is ‘No.’”
Jia Na, holding the silver suler tightly in her hand, heard the Qimeng Butterfly’s divination result, and her expression couldn’t help but become even more solemn.
“Still not out of danger?”
Jia Na had just asked the Qimeng Butterfly to divine: Will I pass today safely?
And the Qimeng Butterfly’s divination result made Jia Na realize that even though she had hidden herself within White Coral Academy, the ever-present danger had not disappeared.
“Could it be that the situation in Duling City is very bad? Even if the Formal Wizards from the three major academies join forces, they cannot stop the God Descent Ritual?”
As an insider, Jia Na indeed understood the situation better than others.
The reason why the three major Wizard Academies went to such great lengths to transfer the population of Duling City was to disrupt the Dark Sun Church’s God Descent Ritual.
According to the clues already obtained, this time, the Dark Sun Church’s method of “God Descent” was not like the last time, where they directly sacrificed Wizard Apprentices and took over their bodies to descend. Instead, they adopted a more secretive and less easily discoverable method to complete the descent—
“Who would have thought that the baby about to be born in Ilianna’s womb would actually be the vessel for the Evil God’s descent?”
Nine months of pregnancy, nine months of planning.
If Jia Na hadn’t stumbled upon this during her last mission, relying on the Qimeng Butterfly’s precognitive ability, the Formal Wizards in the Turin Wizard Gathering Place might have remained in the dark, completely unaware, until the Evil God truly descended.
After all, before the 【God Descent Ritual】 officially began, even if a Formal Wizard were to investigate the baby in Ilianna’s womb, they would not be able to discover any abnormalities—unless it was a Formal Wizard whose sensory abilities were significantly different from ordinary people.
Thinking of this, the first person that came to Jia Na’s mind was Anthony-Black Sparrow.
With just one glance, Anthony-Black Sparrow was able to immediately discern that Jia Na possessed a 【Law Fragment】, and he even gifted her a 【white bone badge】 on the spot for self-defense.
Jia Na believed that if Anthony-Black Sparrow hadn’t been injured, his mere super-strong sensory ability would definitely have allowed him to discover Ilianna’s abnormality in the early stages of the Duling plague. “The time Anthony’s injury occurred and the time the Duling plague broke out surprisingly coincide.”
As if a sudden flash of insight, Jia Na, who had thought of a certain possibility, involuntarily widened her ink-black pupils to their fullest.
“Could it be that Blood Red Warlock’s initial target wasn’t me, but Senior Anthony?”
“Jia Na—”
Just as Jia Na was reviewing the situation, a voice directly interrupted her thoughts.
“What is it, Senior Hugh?”
Seeing that the person who came was Hugh-Stone, Jia Na turned and asked.
“The apprentices responsible for the back mountain said that since just now, many people have been experiencing high fever and shock due to the plague.”
“High fever and shock? Just now?”
“Yes, and they are all sudden—Professor Uta has also rushed over.”
Hearing Hugh-Stone’s description, the oppressive feeling in Jia Na’s heart grew stronger and stronger. It was as if lake water had risen to her chest, making Jia Na’s breathing heavier.
“What did Professor Uta say then? Does he need me to go there now to conduct a rescue?”
“No—he told us to immediately seal off the back mountain and cooperate with him in casting a sealing barrier to prevent the plague from spreading.”
“Seal—the back mountain?”
After listening to Hugh-Stone’s words, the first thought that popped into Jia Na’s mind was not to isolate the patients... but that Professor Uta had likely discovered some unknown danger in the back mountain.
“Could it be that Ilianna also entered White Coral Academy with the crowd—but this is not realistic.”
As the central hub of the Magic Tower Barrier in the Turin Wizard Gathering Place, the three major Wizard Academies have an absolute overwhelming suppressive effect on dark sun power.
Not to mention the law of repulsion within the Magic Tower Barrier, the terrifying magic power contained within the Magic Tower alone is something that an Evil God, who has completed the descent of a clone through a God Descent Ritual, cannot resist—
