Chapter 857: Black Volcano!

"Here they come! Here they come!"

"Is everyone ready? If you are, we're starting!"

Visible on the screens of the gathered crowd:

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"The raid begins!"

"What is wrong with them?!" Shopkeeper Fang looked at the crowd, thoroughly bewildered.

"It's the Anton progression group," Su Tianji remarked as she walked by, ordering a cup of milk tea. "Lately, to clear this Anton raid, they've all been seeking a breakthrough. Can't talk now, this elder is off to watch their run."

With that, she strolled over to spectate, holding her cup of milk tea.

"Ah?" Shopkeeper Fang watched the crowd in the direction Su Tianji had gone. "...You guys are clearing a raid... with this much passion?"

"Oh, trash boss, what do you know," Lanyan sneered, passing by and casting a disdainful glance at him.

With that, she also hurried over to watch.

At this moment, everyone stepped foot once again into this Sea of Sky, the aura surrounding the group and the sharp gleam in their eyes completely different from before!

"Which ones are in the first team heading up the volcano?" Su Tianji asked as she spectated from behind. "Old Man Nalan and Zong Wu, I know. But who are this Avenger and this Crusader?"

Visible on the screen were an Avenger clad in a stark black military uniform and a Crusader wearing a snowy white fox head, styled in arctic fox furs.

"The Avenger is that dark-skinned fellow who was with the first champion, Senluo Zhiyu," Lanyan said. "The Crusader is Luo Piaoling, you know... the one from the West Polar Region with the golden hair and the really good temper."

"Doesn't he play a swordsman?"

"The man plays all the time, he has lots of accounts."

"Is that so?"

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As previously mentioned, after cutting off Anton's four legs, a massive energy barrier began to appear over Anton's vast, continent-like tortoise back, impervious to any attack.

Therefore, the adventurers could only infiltrate it in person, first destroying the energy supply, and then destroying its main core.

To use an analogy, it was somewhat like Sun Wukong crawling into a demon's stomach to destroy its bodily functions from the inside.

Su Tianji was currently spectating from behind Nalan Mingxue.

It could be seen on the screen that the scene was starkly different from the previous shell continent on Anton's back.

This was the inner layer of the molten carapace, reached through the joints of the four limbs.

Because of the flowing magma, the light here was not too dim.

It resembled a subterranean world filled with molten fire.

Yet at the same time, one could see thick, sinister veins and several massive, fiery red incubation eggs.

Looking down from high above, a pale blue, nearly transparent energy radiance enveloped that massive volcano.

Outside the energy shield, a thick layer of grey rock protected Anton's limbs and head like armor.

Meanwhile, the energy shield protected that dark red, blistering mountain peak and its internal core.

Deep beneath this volcano, these adventurers were advancing toward the source of this energy shield.

Locating the precise nodal veins that channeled the energy, they sought to block them, akin to striking acupuncture points to sever the meridians.

In truth, these adventurers did not need to search at all, because the surrounding area was guarded by a vast number of magical beasts, and that twin-headed monster bristling with horns and bearing a giant eye on its belly forced everyone to focus their entire attention upon it.

Perhaps because it directed all its energy toward defense, this monster's defense was terrifyingly high, dropping only when it attacked, but... not for all attacks.

The twin eyes on the monster's belly suddenly snapped open, and a piercing, wicked light turned the entire subterranean space almost stark white!

A flash of sword light fell upon it, like mud entering the vast sea, completely absorbed into its body.

"Don't look at the eyes!" In an instant, everyone, even if they were in the middle of executing a move or facing an onslaught from the monster before them, endured the blow and forcibly turned away.

Whether they looked directly at the eye or not, anyone who permitted that wicked radiance to strike their pupils would face certain death!

As the light faded, a figure swept past like a gale, arriving before the magical beast in the blink of an eye.

"Female Crusader, Apocalypse!"

Jessica was controlling a female Priest at this moment, chanting aloud as the sky seemed to split open to let a golden brilliance cascade down, her entire form ascending into midair, the golden radiance falling like a sun, the very light of the divine.

At this moment, everyone was bathed in this golden light, a terrifying divine power surging within their bodies.

Simultaneously, Nalan Mingxue happened to stand right before the beast: "Time and Space, Shatter!"

The monster's massive arms, like a pair of iron pincers, lunged savagely, but the exact moment it lunged, space shattered, and Nalan Mingxue stepped into the void with flawless timing!

"Baited! Divine Sword Technique!"

A flawless sword light flashed, and the monster's body, including the flow of energy within it, was entirely constrained!

"Fiery Hell!"

"Sword of Glory!"

"Ghost Swordsmanship: Tempest!"

"Teams three and four are almost through with the energy, team one prepare to head up the volcano!"

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After some time, that massive energy shield protecting the Black Volcano slowly faded away as its energy source vanished.

Only then could four figures be seen crossing the boundary, setting foot upon the black volcano at the very center of Anton's back.

The others guarded the perimeter of the volcano; sustained by Anton's colossal energy, these slain monsters would resurrect, and similarly, the destroyed veins would mend.

They would wait for the energy to converge again, and when these magical beasts revived, they would slay them once more, severing the energy transmission anew!

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The Black Volcano.

It was hotter here than anywhere else, filled everywhere with a pungent stench of sulfur, the scorching air seemingly capable of roasting a person alive.

On the ground, pools of accumulated magma could be seen from time to time; the physical form of heaven and earth, the power of blazing fire, the source of it all originated within the interior of this volcano.

With molten lava flowing and golden lightning tearing through the darkness, an incomparably turbulent fire power filled this space, a force so massive and terrifying that even ordinary gods, upon seeing it, would feel as though they were looking at a vast ocean.

When a figure enveloped in a shield of flashing lightning serpents hovered in midair, eyes brimming with icy killing intent as it looked upon these invaders, the final decisive battle began.

"I am the last successor of Odin, the King of the Tartans!" The figure before them roared, and Anton's incomprehensibly massive body shook the heavens and earth with a resounding echo.

Omnipotent Mateka.

The same consciousness as Anton, split across two bodies.

It could be said that he was Anton himself.

With him guarding this place, no one could pass.

The blue energy shield around his body gathered the very essence of the vast energy Anton had absorbed over countless years; no one could breach it from the outside.

Any attack will stimulate a powerful reflection of energy, and the resulting consequence is that everything around will be annihilated by this terrifying, reflective force.

There is no dodging, nor is there any person or any method capable of escaping from it!

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