Chapter 99: Found and You Die!

"What are you looking at?"

Gunie's voice sounded behind them like a ghost.

The voice startled George and Sigurd greatly.

Hearing that it was Gunie's voice, they finally felt relieved.

"You bastard... why are you like a ghost? Trying to scare us to death?"

Turning around, George's eyes twitched slightly.

After scanning Gunie with his gaze, he asked again, "Are you okay?"

"If you had run a little slower earlier, you would have found that I killed that sixth-rank expert and was not lightly injured."

At Gunie's words, the two immediately smiled sheepishly.

If Gunie hadn't called them to flee together during the ambush earlier,

it would likely have been one of them trapped instead.

"Earlier, we didn't flee; we just observed from the side, and only retreated after confirming you killed that guy," George said.

"How are your injuries now?"

"Already mostly recovered."

Then Gunie's gaze fell on the distant altar.

"Are they extracting the Deep Source Anchor from the altar?" Gunie asked softly.

"Yes."

The Dragon Slayer nodded slightly.

"They want to extract the Deep Source Anchor, completely cut off the energy supply here, and make the prohibitions here like water without a source."

"That way, by slowly wearing down the prohibitions over a long time, they can break them and eventually escape, without being trapped here to die."

"That is indeed a method." Gunie nodded slightly, his expression calm as usual.

"You..." George looked at Gunie with a frown. "You don't seem worried at all."

"Worried?" Gunie smiled and spread his hands.

"Why should I worry? I opened this prohibition, and I can close it anytime."

What?

Startled, both stared at Gunie in shock.

"You... are you serious? This terrifying binding force..."

George pointed at the prohibition force around them in great surprise.

"Mm," Gunie nodded lightly.

"Earlier, I used a teleportation scroll to escape.

At the landing spot, I happened to find a place with an almost imperceptible surge of source power. If I hadn't been pressed against the rock wall and my spiritual perception happened to be strong enough, I would hardly have noticed the movement there."

"So I touched it with my magic, and coincidentally found that it seemed to be the switch for the prohibitions of the entire Dragon Grave. After some thought, I directly activated it."

"That way, I could trap the Daughter of the Evil God and the others here completely, and then eliminate them one by one."

"Otherwise, with their strength, even if they can't beat us, they still have means to escape, as you saw earlier."

"They are geniuses of the Star Sequence, outstanding even in the entire supernatural world, no weaker than us."

After Gunie's explanation, the two breathed a huge sigh of relief.

Being able to leave by opening the prohibition, no one wanted to be trapped for years before getting out.

More importantly, although supernatural beings are highly resistant to hunger and each has a considerable stock of food in their storage equipment, no one knew if they could last until then—a very real problem.

"Since leaving is no longer a problem, next,"

Sigurd, still in stealth, stared at the distant altar glowing in the darkness and said in a deep voice,

"it's time for us to launch an attack on the Daughter of the Evil God."

"Currently, they have built an energy barrier protecting the core of the altar, and the other four have hidden themselves. Once we approach, we'll likely be discovered."

"We're still at a numerical disadvantage. This battle will likely be tough."

"Tough, but not impossible."

"Earlier, the three of us joined forces to kill a mid-stage sixth-order, and then I killed another mid-stage sixth-order on my own."

"Among these five, there's only one mid-stage sixth-order expert left; the rest are fifth-order."

"George, you hold off two; Sigurd, you also hold off two—just the Daughter of the Evil God and that mid-stage sixth-order expert."

"Then I'll take one on one-on-one and quickly kill him. After that, I'll help George for a two-on-two, and we can swiftly kill them all."

"Finally, when it's three against two, victory will be in our hands." Gune said confidently.

When Gune said this, both of them felt a slight chill in their hearts.

They knew that earlier, Gune had been pulled into some strange dimension and had killed a mid-stage sixth-order expert in one-on-one combat.

Though they didn't know what method Gune had used, his strength was formidable—there was no doubt about that.

As for Gune's claim of a swift kill, they naturally believed it.

"Your plan..." Sigurd narrowed his eyes. "Isn't it a bit too rough? After all, we don't know the positions of the four transcendent beings hiding in the shadows. If we rush in, they might strike first."

"These guys are hiding tightly now, but soon they won't dare to hide so tightly." Gune said slowly and deliberately.

These words made the two of them stir slightly.

Clearly, Gune was about to play dirty again.

...

In a corner, the earth-element mage "Eck Martin" was sitting cross-legged behind a large rock, completely hidden.

Although his stealth ability was poor, everyone else was hiding at the moment.

He could only steel himself and hide behind the rock, using this unskilled basic stealth to follow the group in hiding.

Himmel had instructed everyone to keep an eye on the entrance, to prevent enemies from entering this space through it.

But Eck Martin was self-aware: with his mediocre stealth ability, if he dared to show his face, he would most likely be spotted by those with keen perception.

So he simply didn't show his face.

To avoid exposing his position and getting sniped.

He was a Star Sequence transcendent, but his Star Sequence enhanced the power of Earth's mysteries.

He could easily perform large-scale earth-element incantations with great power, giving him an advantage against large groups of enemies.

But in one-on-one combat, an earth-element mage didn't have much of an advantage.

Also, as an earth-element mage, although his shield was thick, if the enemy had armor-piercing bullets or similar arcane ammunition, there was a high chance that a terrifying arcane shot would pierce his shield and blow his head off.

His body wasn't protected by an "original womb" like Ashly's; if his head was blown off and his soul pierced, he would most likely be killed outright.

All things considered, Eck Martin, holed up in this small corner, paid no attention to the outside situation and quietly hid in the corner.

"That guy called Captain Jack, only fourth-order, but his methods are truly astonishing."

"Six-order Max and six-order Kukaron both died at his hands."

"A terrifying guy like that, even at sixth-order, probably rivals an ordinary transcendent master!"

"Even in some high-level transcendent worlds, it's hard to produce such a terrifying super-caster. How could this ordinary, mid-to-low-level transcendent world give birth to such a freak?"

Just as he was thinking, Eck Martin suddenly sensed something was wrong.

"Not good!"

Eck Martin, who was about to flee, found that his soul was wracked with intense pain.

It felt as if his soul had been pierced through by this attack.

He couldn't even move, let alone use earth escape to flee.

At the same time, Eck Martin felt that his shield had been breached.

Then, a dense mass of purple lightning swept over him like a tidal wave.

"That guy really has shield-piercing bullets..."

These were Eck Martin's last thoughts.

With a "bang!"

Eck Martin's body fell to the ground on one side, charred black.