NOVEL NEXT Chapter 2577 Interception
Chapter 2577 Interception
Fang Heng quickly made his way back through the underground maze passage to the Great Hall of the death knights.
This was bad!
At the entrance, the team formed by Collete and Karsa had already occupied the entire entrance to the Great Hall. It looked like they had just arrived.
Fang Heng immediately concealed his aura and hid at the periphery of the entrance to observe.
Collete and Karsa were concentrating on the final entrance leading to Empress Persephone's mausoleum, both showing signs of doubt.
Something seemed off.
In the past, whenever they reached this place, the guards of the Empress's mausoleum would be activated, and they would be intercepted by the death knights resurrected within the Great Hall.
Yet today, they only saw four stone statues of death knights and an overwhelming mass of vines.
The vines and roots almost completely covered the entire Great Hall.
But strangely, the death knights had not been resurrected.
Even more bizarre was that they noticed a giant-sized magic array positioned near the central area of the hall.
The magic array was activated and was surrounded by a dense network of vine roots.
It looked like a summoning magic array.
All the vines in the mausoleum seemed to be spreading out from here.
The vines continued to extend outward, attempting to launch an attack on the team.
However, due to the influence of Collete's corrosion domain, the vines that approached the team quickly lost their vitality and could no longer grow.
What was going on?
This magic array...
Was it a trap?
Collete and Karsa exchanged glances.
"Let's investigate carefully."
For safety's sake, the two decided to temporarily stay inside the Great Hall with their team, cautiously examining the surroundings.
Fang Heng watched their movements from a distance, feeling a heavy weight in his heart.
This was serious.
If the two of them destroyed the Abe Akaya magic array, he would lose his safe passage out of the death realm.
The undead council had informed him that the mausoleum had a defense mechanism; if it was breached, it would explode completely.
If that happened, he would be buried alongside it.
Should he leave now... or...
Fang Heng couldn't help but glance deeper into the Empress's mausoleum.
D*mn it!
Since he had come this far, he might as well take a chance!
He decided to go in and take a look!
Empress Persephone had suffered immense trauma in life, her soul and will severely damaged, unable to fully coalesce. Most of her spiritual essence was lost, and her former loyalists had expended great effort to find only twelve fragments.
Fang Heng estimated that absorbing just one fragment would amount to roughly one percent of the Empress's full power during her prime.
He figured he could manage it with the demonic seed inside him!
Most importantly, this fragment of will had very little awareness!
Absorbing it would be relatively easy.
Even if he couldn't fully handle it, he could find a way to deal with the remaining portion later.
But if he ran away now, these people would definitely ruin the entire mausoleum!
The Empress's will was nowhere to be found.
If that happened, it would be a total loss!
If he didn't seize this opportunity, he'd lose sleep for years!
He had to go for it!
Fang Heng felt a surge of determination as he quickly stepped into the secondary space projection, racing toward the mausoleum entrance ahead.
Collete and Karsa were investigating when they suddenly looked up at the tangled vines and roots before them.
Crack, crack, crack!
From behind the hidden vines and roots, the entrance to the Great Hall of Empress Persephone emitted a rasping sound.
"Crack, crack, crack..."
The great doors of the Great Hall began to slowly open.
What?
In the next moment, both sensed a spatial fluctuation and immediately turned their gazes toward the source of the ripple.
They could distinctly perceive Fang Heng's presence within the secondary space projection, and he swiftly passed by them, entering the Empress's Great Hall. However, they couldn't visually capture Fang Heng's figure, and their attacks proved ineffective.
Concerned that it might be a trap, neither of them pursued.
Karsa stared at the open doorway and asked, "Collete, is that the guy you encountered earlier?"
"Yes, it's him. I don't know what tricks he's up to."
"He had plenty of opportunities to enter the Great Hall before, but he's only doing it now...," Karsa pondered. "It's highly likely a trap."
Collete nodded in agreement, "For now, let's deal with that troublesome magic array, dispel the external vines, and destroy the death knight statues."
"Alright then."
As Collete spoke, he gathered an imprint with his hands in front of him.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!"
The corrosion domain coalesced in front of Collete and gradually spread forward.
"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!"
The vines near the central magic array reacted violently, emitting sizzling sounds upon encountering the corrosion domain.
Collete frowned slightly.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!!!"
In the next moment, more than twenty Lickers burst out from the dense foliage, lunging toward them.
"You keep going; I'll handle the rest!"
Karsa shouted, brandishing his dagger as he led his subordinates to face the incoming horde of Lickers!
"Whoosh!!"
Karsa moved swiftly, his dagger slicing through the air to carve three elegant arcs.
The Licker that was in mid-air was instantly dismembered and scattered into pieces of flesh and blood.
Karsa's special ability allowed him to reveal the enemy's weak points when he attacked with his dagger.
If he struck all the weak points within five seconds, he could achieve an instant kill!
Of course, the stronger the enemy, the more weak points there were.
Wait, what?
Karsa's pupils constricted.
What was that?!
The flesh of the Licker's broken limbs quickly rotted on the ground, forming a black powder.
Chi chi, chi...
The black powder, like ashes, quickly gathered together, and the Licker revived at a visibly fast pace!
Karsa watched as the Licker, which had just been killed, revived at an astonishing speed and lunged at him again, disbelief filling his eyes.
Revival ability!?
He had never seen such a bizarre power!
Moreover, these creatures fundamentally lacked souls! They belonged to a completely summoned type of being!
The Dark Clan members following Karsa also recognized this fact.
The Lickers that appeared in the death knight's Great Hall were different from those they had encountered before!
They were covered with a layer of dark brown substance, which enhanced both their defensive capabilities and attack strength.
But the most terrifying aspect was their rapid revival ability after death!
They had no way to counter such an ability!
Faced with a group of enemies that couldn't be killed, Collete's progress in dismantling the magic array was immediately hindered.
Meanwhile, Fang Heng quickly returned to the main hall of the Empress's mausoleum.
The Lickers he left in the Great Hall of the death knights were specially modified original devouring bodies.
The most notable feature of the original devouring body was its ability to resurrect after death!
Currently, none of the known methods to eliminate the original devouring body were available in the death realm.
It should buy them some time.