[Ding~ Congratulations! Your team has successfully purified a Divine Guard and received: Level 2 Treasure Chest ×1!]
[Ding~ Congratulations! Your team has successfully purified a Divine Guard and received: Level 1 Treasure Chest ×1!]
[Ding~ Congratulations! Your team has successfully purified a Divine Guard and received: Level 4 Treasure Chest ×1!]
Under the combined firepower of Lin Mo and Ning Xi, it took less than half an hour to successfully purify one hundred Divine Guards and complete the prerequisite mission for [The Princess's Long-Held Wish].
At this moment...
Rumble!
Ahead of them, the door of the Princess Tomb slowly opened.
———
At the same time, not far away, a large group of players stood ready about three hundred yards from the Princess Tomb.
Leading them was a High Priest wearing a blood-red cloak.
It was Nether.
Just then, Chen Jun hurried over and reported, "Sir, everyone has gathered."
Beneath the blood-red cloak, Nether quietly watched the direction of the Princess Tomb.
He gave a single order, "Move out."
At the thought of finally being able to kill Lin Mo with his own hands, excitement hid within Chen Jun's twisted gaze.
"Yes!"
The next moment, a hundred players quietly advanced toward the Princess Tomb.
Soon, when they arrived, they were shocked to find Black Demon corpses scattered all over the ground outside the tomb.
But not a single person was in sight.
When Chen Jun saw that the tomb door was wide open, he immediately guessed, "Rulebound must already be inside."
"Brothers, keep your talents ready and come in with me. We'll catch Rulebound off guard and kill him."
As Chen Jun gave the order, dozens of players grabbed their weapons and rushed toward the Princess Tomb.
However, just as they approached—
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A storm of arrows suddenly rained down from the sky.
The group was caught completely off guard and swallowed by the attack!
-223,654 (Critical)!
-224,328 (Critical)!
-223,694 (Critical)!
Along with waves of screams, dozens of players at the front were instantly killed by the six-digit damage numbers.
They turned into streams of white light and shot into the sky.
"Damn it! It's an ambush!"
The players in the rear stopped in fear when they saw this scene.
As they looked around for the attacker and found no one, they suddenly felt magic energy gathering in the air.
The next moment, Lin Mo, Ning Xi, Ling Xiao, Qin Feng, and Xia Wanwan appeared out of nowhere at the tomb entrance.
Seeing the familiar magic effect, Chen Jun immediately remembered that when he had followed Lin Mo before, a similar magic scroll had been used.
"This is... the S-rank magic scroll, Divine Concealment!"
To be fair, Chen Jun was right, but not completely.
They could never imagine that Lin Mo's version was a higher-grade version of the S-rank Divine Concealment, SSS-rank Stealth: Completely Invisible.
The S-rank Divine Concealment could only create an invisibility field lasting sixty seconds. The field merely provided invisibility, and anyone struck by an attack would take damage and be revealed.
The SSS-rank Stealth: Completely Invisible created an invisibility field with no time limit, and players inside it could not be targeted. They would only reveal themselves if they attacked.
Each use of Stealth: Completely Invisible permanently increased the duration of all stealth-type skills by 1%.
At this moment, Zhang Long said in disbelief, "That S-rank Divine Concealment scroll of ours cost the boss a huge price to get. Rulebound is just some loser with no resources and no connections. Where did he get an S-rank scroll?"
Only Chen Jun and Zhang Long were shocked by where Lin Mo's magic scroll had come from.
Of course, even if they thought about it forever, they would never guess that Lin Mo made the SSS-rank scroll himself and could make as many as he wanted.
Only Nether immediately realized the key point, "So, you already knew I'd come looking for you."
"Not that early," Lin Mo replied casually, "Just since I started selling rank-up scrolls."
Hearing that, Chen Jun and Zhang Long were stunned.
"Wait!"
"The person selling scrolls in South City Square last night was Rulebound?"
"Then he was using those scrolls to bait us! He deliberately lured us into the Divine Tomb?"
Only then did Zhang Long realize.
"Fuck! Damn it! Brother Jun, we fell into this guy's trap!"
"This bastard is really scheming!"
Chen Jun quickly calmed down and said coldly, "So what? He's just digging his own grave."
"More than ninety percent of the players in the Divine Tomb dungeon are ours now. Every one of them has high-level talents and top-tier strength!"
"Rulebound, no matter how capable you are, you're not leaving the Divine Tomb alive today!"
However, Lin Mo had no interest whatsoever in the so-called high-level talent experts Chen Jun was talking about.
Anything below SSS-rank was beneath his notice.
Lin Mo's attention remained fixed on Nether alone.
When he confirmed that the man's identity truly was the same Nether from his previous life, the second strongest player in Dragon Nation after Empress Xiyue, one of the world's seven SSS-rank hidden class users, the Judge, Nether, a trace of disappointment passed through Lin Mo's eyes.
Although he had already suspected it, he still held onto hope that things were not as he had imagined.
That Nether was not the "boss" who had ordered the Tyrant to target him and had even gone so far as to try to kill him in the real world.
Yes, Nether, Xiyue, Shadow, Abyss, Emperor Chen, and the other top players of Dragon Nation from his previous life had been symbols of hope and faith for Lin Mo and all players of Dragon Nation.
In his previous life, Nether had never personally saved or helped Lin Mo.
But it was because people like them stood guard that Dragon Nation had a safe land in a chaotic world, allowing Lin Mo and countless citizens to survive.
And now, after personally confirming that Nether was the "boss," Lin Mo felt as if the faith he had carried from his previous life had suddenly collapsed.
Yet he still could not understand.
'Why did Nether become like this in this life?'
Just as that thought crossed his mind, Chen Jun spoke to Lin Mo.
"Rulebound!"
"Are you going to obediently stick your neck out yourself, or do I have to come cut it off?"
Clang!
Magic Knight Ling Xiao planted his spear into the ground and stood in front of Lin Mo.
Staring at Chen Jun and the others, he declared firmly, "If you want to touch my boss, get through me first!"
Qin Feng and Xia Wanwan also stepped forward without hesitation.
"And us!"
Chen Jun sneered, "You three really are loyal dogs."
"Don't worry. None of you are getting away today."
"Brothers, attack!"
With Chen Jun's order, dozens of players behind him, possessing A-rank and B-rank talents, charged toward Lin Mo's group.
A sharp light flashed through Lin Mo's eyes.
Ironblood Ruthless's talent had also been taken.
He needed to get it back for him.
And based on Lin Mo's understanding of the Judge class mechanics: whether it was the Judge himself or other players who had been granted talents by the Judge, as long as the current talent holder died, the stolen talent would return to its original owner.
Lin Mo could already guess that Ironblood Ruthless's talent was not on Nether himself but had been distributed among his subordinates.
He didn't know exactly who possessed Ironblood Ruthless's talent.
But that wasn't a problem.
"If that's the case..."
"Then kill them all."