Chapter 159: The Crown in Hand

"Hahaha..."

Gunie, having killed another person, leaped back while bearing the damage, laughing loudly.

The laughter made the remaining three burst-Power-of-God experts from the evil god faction look even more grim.

While retreating, Gunie said loudly, "Your divine power can't last much longer either!"

"Once your divine power runs out, killing you will be easy."

"Hmph! Your forbidden spell shield can't hold out much longer either!"

The dark elementalist among the three burst-Power-of-God experts sneered.

This dark manipulator's various dark attack methods were extremely powerful and very eerie. Now in the state of divine power burst, his techniques were even more unpredictable.

Moreover, a trace of dark essence was magnified to the extreme under the effect of divine power.

Every bit of it contained a terrifying destructive might that made one's heart tremble.

Most of the energy Gunie's forbidden spell shield had lost was due to attacks from this dark spellcaster.

"Holding out until I kill all of you shouldn't be a problem," Gunie said with a faint smile.

Under the continuous strikes, the energy of Gunie's forbidden spell shield had indeed dropped below two-thirds.

But as Gunie said, holding out until he killed the three of them was still no big problem.

While retreating, Gunie continuously cast spells to attack the three.

These three burst-Power-of-God experts also dodged and blocked while entangled with Gunie.

During the battle,

Gunie's demonic secondary soul, while rapidly casting the blood escape technique, also secretly kept an eye on the adventure system page.

Although the most perfect plan was to kill all these people,

then Nigel would get one divine crown, and Gunie would get one divine crown, ending this trip to the Elemental Forbidden Ground.

But not everything would go as Gunie had anticipated.

For example, the enemy might have special means like elemental clones, shadow clones, source power clones, or other bizarre techniques.

When Senior Nigel left, these special clones might also leave, and they could also find those divine crowns.

One must plan for good situations and also for bad ones.

If the enemy really got a divine crown first,

then Gunie's plan would have to change.

At this moment, using the adventure system's function, Gunie could clearly know the status of the crowns.

Once Senior Nigel obtained a divine crown, one of the three divine crown adventures would dim.

And if the enemy got a divine crown, one would disappear.

Now the three enemies were fighting Gunie; if they left, Gunie would know immediately.

Gunie could fully grasp the entire situation.

After Gunie retreated again and tangled with the three for two or three minutes,

just as Gunie was looking for an opportunity to kill another burst-Power-of-God expert,

the dark elementalist's expression suddenly changed, and a smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

Then the dark elementalist lightly waved his staff, and a chain of destructive dark orbs infused with dense divine power bombarded toward Gunie.

These destructive dark orbs had a certain locking function, so Gunie dared not take them head-on.

He immediately used the blood escape technique to flash over two hundred meters away.

As Gunie landed from the blood escape,

the other two burst-Power-of-God transcendents successively used long-range teleportation techniques to quickly leave the battlefield.

This scene made Gunie's expression tighten.

"Damn it," Gunie thought to himself.

"Hahaha..." The dark elementalist, radiating scorching divine power, suddenly burst into laughter.

"Fool, did you really think we were just trying to kill you? We were only tying you down."

"The divine crown is now within my reach, hahaha..."

"Die!"

Gunie wasted no words.

The Great Thunder Flame Spell erupted wildly at this moment.

When outnumbered, Gunie had to constantly evade.

But one-on-one, Gunie hardly needed to evade; it was the opponent who needed to dodge.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle sizzle...

Dense black lightning bolts crazily struck toward the dark elementalist.

The dark elementalist immediately felt the crisis of death.

One-on-one, even with his divine power burst, he was no match for this Gunie.

Even with continuous dodging, in just one breath,

Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!

Four terrifying thunderbolts had already struck him.

Fortunately, he had divine power protecting his body; otherwise, those four black thunderbolts would have killed him.

Feeling immense pressure, the dark elementalist had stayed behind only to cover the retreat and then escape, not to fight Gunie to the death.

After all, once his elemental clone held the divine crown, he could leave this place.

He could leave at any time, and Gunie couldn't stop him.

"Go!"

With a thought, his elemental clone had already touched the divine crown.

"Buzz!"

A white light flashed on his body, and after enduring two more Great Thunder Flame Spells from Gunie, he vanished.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle...

The subsequent black thunderbolts pierced through but found no trace of him; obviously, by obtaining the divine crown, he had been teleported away.

The two who had fled earlier were also nowhere to be seen.

"In the end, they still got one crown." Gunie narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists.

Now was not the time for lamentation.

That dark elementalist had obtained a divine crown and left; the other two who had fled might also get a crown.

Gunie immediately looked at the adventure system.

One look, and Gunie's mind stirred.

He saw that two of the three crowns in the adventure system had disappeared, leaving only the last one.

After confirming the location of the last crown, Gunie immediately leaped and rushed toward it at top speed.

"The direction those two fled was toward the first crown, while this location is different from my retreat position and Senior Nigel's escape route."

"That dark elementalist probably got the first crown."

"The second crown is in the same general direction as Senior Nigel's departure; it's likely that Nigel took it."

"The third crown, the last one and also the most powerful, is the farthest away and is still there."

"Continuing to chase them would be pointless, and I don't know if they have similar clone techniques."

"If they do, my pursuit would only give them time to search for the third crown; losing the third crown is not acceptable."

"Getting this third crown myself and ending this Elemental Forbidden Ground trip is the most important."

"After all, the crowns Nigel and I got are the more valuable top-tier ones, while that dark elementalist only got the weakest crown."

"Moreover..." Gunie narrowed his eyes.

"Even if those evil gods and the Southern Church get a divine crown, so what?"

"Even with faith, becoming a god takes some time."

"Give me a few years or even a dozen years, and I might not be unable to become a god," Gunie thought to himself.

At each intersection, Gunie slowed down, paying attention to whether there were traces of others, and also surveyed the terrain.

Then he quickly moved along the nearest route.

If he rushed straight there, it would surely arouse suspicion in the secretly observing Old Man Guihai.

Fortunately, this location was far enough, so Gunie wasn't worried that the two who fled in the opposite direction would arrive before him.

After about three or four minutes,

in a grand hall,

Gunie saw the divine crown that had completely concealed its aura.

Even though it had concealed its aura, it was placed on a round table in the center of the grand hall, with light gathering around it.

Anyone who came here would know it was the divine crown.

What met the eye was a seemingly ordinary royal crown.

But as he approached, Gunie could feel the vast aura within that made him feel insignificant.

Though facing only this crown, Gunie felt as if he were confronting a towering peak piercing the clouds.

Stepping forward, Gunie directly took the most precious of the three divine crowns into his hand.

As he obtained the divine crown, a milky white light bloomed on Gunie's body, and the power of teleportation gathered.

Since he had obtained the last divine crown, the competition in this Elemental Forbidden Ground entered its final stage.