Chapter 624 - 254: Shocking the Entire Field, the Legion Returns
Chapter 624: Chapter 254: Shocking the Entire Field, the Legion Returns
Just then, the silent Yan Che suddenly looked at Yi Jiugao. "Yi," he asked, "if I recall correctly, we assign hidden identities to some of the more promising candidates to introduce a few variables into the selection, don’t we?"
"That kid... what’s his identity?"
"Is he a Contaminator? Or a War-Maniac?"
...
"Tomb Guardian."
A rare, wry smile touched Yi Jiugao’s lips as he slowly uttered those two words.
Upon hearing this, Yan Che was stunned for a moment. Then, his expression became a sight to behold before finally settling into one of admiration.
"...You sure know how to pick them."
Sun Lie’s eyes widened. After a long pause, he managed to force out two words: "...Holy shit."
Mu Qingyin, however, simply brought a hand to her forehead, her face a picture of exasperation.
’That identity, paired with this particular guy...’
’He’s probably going to turn this entire selection on its head, all by himself.’
...
Back on the altar, Lin Ye walked across the ravaged battlefield, bending down to pick up the seven bronze fragments scattered on the ground.
Counting the ones he’d taken from Ren Qiyu and that unlucky, petrified guy, plus his own initial fragment, he now had a total of 10.
Lin Ye walked to the center of the altar, sat down cross-legged, and arranged the ten fragments in a line in front of him.
His Spiritual Power poured out like quicksilver, slowly seeping into each fragment as he carefully sensed the fluctuations of the earth’s ley lines they contained.
He soon discovered the anomaly.
The ley line fluctuations inside two of the fragments—including his own initial one—were faint yet pure and focused, like a clear stream pointing toward some hazy, distant location.
But the fluctuations within the other seven were jumbled and chaotic, like a swirl of muddied ink. Not only did they fail to offer any useful guidance, but they also emitted a faint, misleadingly chaotic aura.
These were the contaminated fragments.
Lin Ye’s brow furrowed slightly.
’These seven new fragments... are all of them contaminated?’
’The odds of that are just too high.’
His Spiritual Power delved deeper, examining the seven contaminated fragments in greater detail.
Suddenly, his pupils constricted.
The aura of contamination on three of the seven fragments was very "fresh," like ink that had just been spilled.
Deep within the core of their ley line fluctuations, he could even sense the faint, lingering traces of a pure energy that had yet to fully dissipate.
’They were originally intact!’
’Someone deliberately contaminated them afterward!’
In an instant, the pieces clicked into place for Lin Ye.
’According to the rules, the altar can purify one fragment per day.’
’Wei Hao’s team was occupying this altar. Even if they were only here for a day, there should be at least one purified, intact fragment.’
’But now, there isn’t a single one.’
’This could only mean one thing.’
"Fuck!"
"There’s a fucking mole!"
Lin Ye couldn’t help but curse under his breath.
’There must have been a "hidden identity" holder in Wei Hao’s team, just like me.’
’And the objective for that identity is most likely to contaminate other people’s fragments, sabotaging their search for the ancestral land at the source.’
’I was originally hoping that with these seven fragments, even if a few were contaminated, I could still scrape together four intact ones to activate the general directional guidance.’
’Looks like I was being too optimistic.’
After all that work, he still only had two usable fragments to show for it.
Lin Ye stood up, his gaze falling upon the massive altar carved with the likeness of an Ancestral Giant Dragon.
He walked to the front of the altar and gently placed a contaminated fragment upon it.
However, the expected purifying light did not appear.
The altar remained inert.
"Just as I thought. Today’s quota has already been used."
Lin Ye wasn’t surprised by this. He collected the fragment and turned toward the simple tents.
Some packaged rations and a few unopened bottles of drinking water were left in the camp, and he unceremoniously helped himself to them.
He glanced at the watch on his wrist. The time on the screen was already approaching midnight, Blue Star time.
This Rift Realm had no cycle of sun and moon, making it easy for one’s sense of time to become blurred.
After a moment of thought, Lin Ye made his decision.
’I’m not leaving.’
’I’ll wait right here.’
’Since the rules say the altar can perform one purification per day, that "day" is most likely based on a natural day on Blue Star.’
But Lin Ye didn’t remain idle while he waited.
He closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking into the Summoning Space that belonged to him alone.
The next moment, ripples in space materialized out of thin air on the open ground around the altar, with him at the center.
[Fungal Dominion] activated at full power!
The vast legion stationed in his Painful Labyrinth lair began to transfer to this new world on an unprecedented scale!
Countless Curse Bone Race skeletons, Rot Eye Race slime creatures, Black Nightmare Race phantoms... They appeared in dense, endless waves.
The moment these minions set foot on the soil of the Eternal Dragon Tomb, they obeyed the supreme command in their minds, becoming an immense black tide that silently melted into the surrounding forest and spread out in all directions.
They had two tasks:
One: search for other Dragon Vein Altars.
Two: track down all other human candidates.
Ah Qiang was the overall commander for this large-scale reconnaissance operation.
Carlos and his contingent of A-rank, versatile Intelligent Mechanism Race units served as elite scouts and field commanders, responsible for coordination and ensuring efficient information transfer.
Lin Ye had practically emptied half of his reserves from the Painful Labyrinth, leaving only about fifty thousand members of the Claw and Fang Legion behind as a final garrison.
The other fifty thousand troops poured out in full force!