Chapter 944 Another Nine Gods

At that very moment, in the skies above North Island…

“Hmm?” Feng Bujue, still ascending in the air, sensed something and his expression changed instantly.

“What is it?” Honghu asked, noticing the abnormality in Jue-ge’s expression.

“I don’t know why… but the energy of that guy who came out of the light column has suddenly disappeared again,” Feng Bujue replied.

“Could it be… that it returned to another universe through the light column?” Snow immediately offered a conjecture.

“That’s possible,” Feng Bujue mused. “Of course… it could also be…”

“It could also be…” Honghu picked up his thought, “that the one who came was like Westin… instantly killed by some more powerful existence.”

As the three of them were talking, Niesilu, who was at the highest point, spoke, “Everyone… prepare to descend.” As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed Mad Eye.

Almost as soon as he had a firm grip on Mad Eye, the “weightless” feeling on everyone vanished abruptly. Immediately afterward, the eight people in the air stopped ascending and instead plunged rapidly towards the ground.

“Hey, hey… are we supposed to figure out how to land ourselves?” Everyone else was fine, but Snow had no means of falling from this height of several hundred meters unscathed.

Fortunately, Feng Bujue had anticipated this. The moment the descent began, he performed Moonstep, moving behind Snow.

Before Snow could finish his sentence, Jue-ge had already grabbed his arm.

With Feng Bujue’s help, Snow naturally wouldn’t fall to his death… and so, a dozen seconds later, Blackbeard’s four subordinates, the three players, and Mad Eye landed safely, each using their own methods.

When they landed, the previously somewhat open space was now littered with the corpses of Wanglong.

At this moment, Blackbeard stood upon a "corpse hill" piled up from dragon corpses. The Triton’s Sword in his hand was stained with the filthy blood of the evil dragons, but his own body and clothes… were completely free of bloodstains.

This alone showed that, like most super-high-ranking NPCs, he possessed some kind of passive, extremely powerful, and reliable "protective aura."

"Heh… Captain, you’ve worked hard," Feng Bujue said with a smile as soon as he landed.

"This level… is barely a warm-up," Blackbeard replied casually and immediately asked, "By the way, what happened to the south just now?"

"I'm not quite sure," Feng Bujue replied. "It seems another 'Nine Gods' was summoned from another world, and then suddenly disappeared."

“Seems?” Blackbeard’s face showed doubt, and he repeated the word, then asked, "You can't scout the specific situation over there?"

"Yeah…" Feng Bujue said, "My perception range doesn't cover that far."

"Wait…" Snow interjected again, "Then how do you know that the light column was 'a certain Nine Gods' appearing and disappearing?"

"Although that light column isn’t within my 'perception range', it has entered my 'field of vision'," Feng Bujue said. "What I directly 'see', I can naturally say something about."

This was the truth, not a fabrication.

Because that purple light column was summoned by a "sacrificial ritual," its energy source had a very close connection with Iful, so when Feng Bujue observed the light column through his data perspective, he could capture Iful's data stream from it.

However, at the moment Iful was killed in twenty-three seconds, that part of his data abruptly disappeared from the light column, which was also why Jue-ge felt puzzled earlier.

“Hmm… another Nine Gods…” Blackbeard thought for a moment, then looked at the collapsed altar nearby and murmured, "Judging from the current situation, these Illusion Demon Church small fries undoubtedly have mastered the method of summoning the Nine Gods back from another world, and… have already put it into action."

"In that case…" Mr. Vogue chimed in, "Besides Westin, of the five Nine Gods who escaped to another world, there are four… who might already be on this Root of Tongue Island."

“Uh…” In that instant, Feng Bujue said in a rather strange but confident tone, “Let me correct that, it can't be four, at most there are only three left.”

“Hmm?” Blackbeard heard something in his tone and asked, “What makes you say that?”

"I don't know about the other gods…" Feng Bujue said, "But at least that 'Wandering God Vokul'… bit the dust when I last came to Root of Tongue Island."

“Oh?” Blackbeard raised an eyebrow and asked, “You killed him?”

“Hmm…” Feng Bujue pondered for a second, “It was a joint effort between me and a few others…” As he said that, he pointed to Honghu, “This Tezuka-bucho (部长, club president) also participated.”

“If you have to play the game, just call me Uryu.” Honghu was already too lazy to complain about Jue-ge’s address for him.

“Are you sure he’s dead?” At this moment, Mad Eye, standing behind them, interjected, “Vokul is a grandmaster-level ranger… disguise, stealth, and feigning death are his signature skills.”

“We roasted him and ate him,” Feng Bujue added a second later.

“Hmm…” Mad Eye nodded. “Never mind that I asked.”

“In other words…” Blackbeard said, summarizing, “We have to face at most three more Nine Gods-level opponents.”

"Perhaps," Feng Bujue responded, then laughed. "Heh… but judging from how easily you, Captain, took down Westin, even fighting three at once would be no problem, right?"

"That was just an exception," Blackbeard replied in a deep voice. "During the years Westin was imprisoned in Clock City, the Time Lord must have been quietly stealing his 'time', and Westin himself didn't notice this at all, so… until I chopped off his head, he didn't realize his power was already close to 'exhaustion'."

"But… the other Nine Gods won't be so easy to deal with, will they?" Snow asked, following his line of thought.

Blackbeard didn't answer immediately, but slowly raised his head and looked at the sky.

As he was silent, a strange whistling sound faintly came from the distant night sky.

“We… will soon know,” Blackbeard finally spoke as the sound grew closer, murmuring to himself.

At this moment, the expressions of the players, Mr. Vogue, Niesilu, the Mark brothers, and Mad Eye all changed.

Because they all noticed… three figures were flying directly from the southern sky.