In the dawn's glow, the system's daily settlement announcement once again echoed in everyone's ears.
But Su Xiao paid no mind to the uninspired settlement prompt, for Chen Luo's voice also sounded in her mind:
"Su Xiao, take these. I have a tough battle ahead!"
Along with Chen Luo's words, countless Zhuzhao items flooded into Su Xiao's sea of consciousness.
As Chen Luo's chief secretary, Su Xiao reacted swiftly. Without a shred of doubt regarding Chen Luo's intentions, she turned her gaze towards the towering, bone-white giant tower.
The Land of Death had been rapidly shrinking and dissipating since the death of the Mourning Knight Commander. The darkness that had covered the entire central district had now vanished by ninety-nine percent.
The next moment, Su Xiao's pupils contracted.
The last trace of darkness in the Land of Death was now concentrated within a hundred-meter radius of the bone-white giant tower.
And once it had shrunk to this range, the darkness stopped dissipating!
Su Xiao's gray eyes fixed intently on the bone-white tower. Within this tower, she could no longer sense any malevolent aura.
But why had this final sliver of the Land of Death's power stabilized there?
Amidst the cheering crowd, coupled with Chen Luo's words, Su Xiao felt a chill.
What else was inside?
Following the pattern of increasingly powerful monsters appearing, what would Chen Luo face next?
Just as Su Xiao was about to speak,
Chen Luo's voice sounded in her mind again:
"In a moment, I will teleport all of you back! Once you're back, absolutely do not step outside Starfire City's protective perimeter!"
*Crack!*
A crisp sound echoed from afar.
The cheering crowd, as if drawn by some force, suddenly fell silent.
At the very center of Donghai City's central district, the hundred-meter radius of dark Land of Death surrounded the ten-thousand-meter-tall bone-white giant tower.
This tower, clearly not built by human hands, beneath the dawn's light, as its gate sealed shut, a massive crack abruptly appeared on its clean, smooth surface!
If it were merely a crack, the crowd should have rejoiced. The enemy's stronghold shattering on its own seemed to prove their victory.
But from that crack, a tangible dark aura suddenly erupted!
The darkness surged out of the crack like mist. The moment people saw the black mist, they automatically heard endless wails.
It was as if this black mist contained the accumulated pain, fear, and despair of countless beings!
*Crack!!*
The crack suddenly expanded and enlarged!!
On the ten-thousand-meter-tall, massive bone-white tower, cracks appeared one after another. The once imposing and colossal tower now resembled a porcelain vase on the verge of shattering!
*Puff!!!*
The cracks rapidly connected, and through the shattered gaps, black mist was squeezed out by a powerful force, surging outwards madly!
This black mist seemed endless. As the cracks widened, the outpouring of black mist intensified.
The dark ground began to spread rapidly, and more black mist surged towards the sky.
What should have been dawn was now plunged back into darkness by this black mist.
The dark ground spread with incredible speed. In mere seconds, it had rapidly enveloped the entire central district.
This was already the full extent of the previous Land of Death!
But this expansion was extremely unusual! As the darkness reached the former boundary, Chen Luo's expression changed. Through mental fluctuations, he rapidly shouted into everyone's minds:
"Return, everyone, follow Su Xiao's command!"
Before anyone could react, Chen Luo instantly canceled his Legion Descent state. All summoned soldiers instantly vanished into light.
And within Starfire City, far to the east, the soldiers who had fought for days looked at the unfamiliar yet familiar city, momentarily stunned.
"Did... didn't we win?"
"What's going on? Why did the boss send us all back?"
"Big Sister! What's the situation with the boss?"
Amidst the confused crowd, hearing Chen Luo's words, everyone turned to Su Xiao.
Facing the panicked crowd, Su Xiao remained silent for a moment. Then, the light and shadow before her flickered, and a small mountain made of Zhuzhao items suddenly appeared on the open ground beside her.
Initially, the crowd did not understand why Su Xiao had produced so many Zhuzhao items, nor what the anomaly of the bone-white tower signified.
But some quick-witted individuals had already guessed something.
Their faces suddenly turned pale. The battle was not over, and this time, they didn't even have the right to spectate?
...
In Donghai City's central district, sensing the people being sent back behind him, Chen Luo felt a slight sense of relief.
He could clearly see that the spreading dark ground was a "Land of Death" on an ultra-large scale!
Under the current Legion Descent, it was impossible to revive fallen soldiers from an SSS-class "Land of Death"!
*Whoosh!*
The dark Land of Death, with unstoppable momentum, rapidly surpassed the previous limits of the land of the dead and continued to spread outwards!
As the dark Land of Death swept past Chen Luo's body, an unbearable sense of oppression returned.
Having lost the buff from his Legion power, Chen Luo's body was inevitably suppressed by the Land of Death.
Chen Luo heard the wails of countless beings. This dark Land of Death, though seemingly flat and silent, contained immense fear and pain within it.
*Thump!*
The dark Netherbone Staff struck the ground fiercely. His dark gold dragon eyes stared at the white tower in the distance, from which black mist was gushing.
Scorching mental power surged around Chen Luo's body. Even though he had temporarily lost his buffs,
Chen Luo, who had acquired a brand-new SS-class skill, was not weak!
The surging mental power continuously resisted the indiscriminate suppression from the Land of Death. For a moment, the detrimental effect of the "Land of Death" on his strength was rendered ineffective!
Chen Luo could use his own power to resist the erosion of the "Land of Death," but other areas lacked this ability.
The dark land spread endlessly in all directions with ferocious speed.
On all the land covered by the darkness, towering buildings were rapidly eroded by the power of the dark.
Amidst the roaring sounds, buildings slowly sank into the dark ground.
If one were to look down from the highest point of Donghai City at this moment, they would see a drop of black ink, originating from the central district, rapidly dyeing the entire city black.
The blackness, like a tide, smoothed over everything in its path, transforming it into a desolate, black plain.
Traces of human existence were rapidly vanishing. In an instant, a quarter of the city had been dyed black!
This was the true appearance of the SSS-class rare skill, "Land of Death"!
Apart from the central district, all other lands in Donghai City had been marked by Chen Luo using "Landmark" items.
But at this moment, system prompts about the destruction of Landmark items kept ringing in Chen Luo's mind.
The terrifying black tide, like a tsunami, was about to completely flatten the entire Donghai City!
And the mastermind behind this surging tide had not even truly revealed itself yet!