Chapter 646: Battle in Progress

Chapter 646: Chapter 644: Battle in Progress

Earlier, out of caution, Rose did not choose to infiltrate the Array when entering the core area of the formation.

Since the Golden Apple Stone Forest incident, after learning that these things might be arranged by the Divine King, Rose has become more cautious in his actions.

Now he has become the super big boss in the eyes of the Divine King. What Zeus is doing now is no different from what he did when he played games in the past, all in preparation for facing the final boss.

The difference is, back then, Rose knew the limits of the Twelve Main Gods and knew they hadn’t increased their power.

Now, while the Divine King is looking for an unknown path to further increase his strength, Rose is also improving, and even in a limitless manner.

This is the advantage of starting with the [Star God Curse]!

With a -1000 favor with the Pantheon and the inability to encounter female characters, attribute caps are unlocked.

No techniques, just pure stats.

Of course, even though Rose is currently in the Sealed Land monitoring Hilia, he is still cultivating. His various passive meditation skills and magic allow him to continuously stack his combat power.

“Before figuring out what exactly the Divine King is up to or what trump cards he may have, it’s safer not to reveal any actions that could influence the Starfall Continent… Hmm, no, with all the things I’ve done, that guy should have already noticed, so why hasn’t there been any sign?”

Rose fell into contemplation.

Golden Apple Stone Forest, as a large pollution containment area, was not well understood by Rose at first, so he chose to have Hilia banish all its pollution to the Abyss.

This process, or rather, from the moment he came into contact with Hilia, had actually exposed many traces, even though these traces could not prove his presence. After all, he could ensure no one noticed if he wanted, unless a Main God personally appeared; but for a Main God to come, there was no way Rose wouldn’t detect it, as this is relative. Rose could even discover them before they found him.

Before realizing the Divine King’s deployments, Rose didn’t really care what kind of problems Hilia’s actions might cause or what suspicions they might arouse—he believed he could solve everything with stats.

Now that he understood the Divine King’s actions, the hidden traces seemed a bit deliberate, so it would be better to act according to the original strategy.

“If this thing is Haroldias’ heart, and Haroldias was dismembered by the Divine King… perhaps I can do something about it.”

Thinking about how Haroldias’ loyal followers were working hard to revive him, a simple plan began to form in his mind.

“Since I’m already here, it would be a shame not to infiltrate the Array a little.”

Rose shook his head and turned to look towards Hilia and Elina’s direction.

At this moment, the two were resisting demons. They had originally fought together before, and although they were a bit rusty due to not having fought together for a long time, the previous nodes allowed them to get a little familiar, and now they were starting to coordinate.

The high walls of ice and nature rose on both sides of them, redirecting the demons naturally towards the front, reducing the number of directions they had to defend against, making it not difficult to handle.

After a brief assessment, certain the two could at least hold out for a whole day, Rose extended a thread of spiritual power, quietly linking it with the underground Array.

This time he proceeded very slowly, not advancing quickly, and aimed to understand everything about the Array rather than control it.

Time slowly passed.

About an hour later, Elina, slightly gasping for breath, looked at Hilia beside her, “Are we going to keep clearing the demons here?”

Hilia said, “Hang on, I’m manipulating a magic puppet to investigate the monsters behind us.”

“Huh?”

Elina paused, turned to look behind, and only then saw Hilia’s magic puppet dazing quietly under a giant monster, seemingly studying it.

In fact, the magic puppet was just dazing, merely providing a magic puppet’s heart boost for Hilia, doing nothing else.

Rose did not use the magic puppet to contact the monster, instead opting to use spiritual power to try to sense the Array. Utilizing a trace of divine power to sense was much faster than using the magic puppet.

Elina glanced around but didn’t think much of it. Even though she heard the frantic ‘heartbeat’ of the monster behind her, it made her a bit uncomfortable but did not affect her fighting.

As a large number of demons surged from all directions, they cautiously approached due to fear of the giant monster, becoming less frenzied. When they surged towards Hilia and the other, they were frozen and harvested by the pervasive vines and ice mist.

Time quietly passed by.

Fatigue slowly appeared on Elina’s face.

Unlike Hilia, who seemed to possess an almost bottomless reservoir of magic power and had no divine guidance to temper spiritual power, the continuous battle began to tire her out.

Noticing her condition, Hilia asked with concern, “Are you alright? If not, take a break, it’s okay, I can manage alone.”

“Alone… No, I can still fight!”

Elina pulled herself together again.

Hilia was about to say something when her expression suddenly changed.

“Elina.”

“What’s up?” Elina turned her head, unable to hide her fatigue on her face.

Because they had been fighting for five hours by then.

She was already more enduring than many mages.

But seeing Hilia only slightly tired, she felt she could still hold on, using the abundant life elements underground to maintain her battle mode, she didn’t think she was much worse than Hilia.

Seeing her like this, Hilia thought for a moment but decided not to tell her what Rose had just informed her, about an elven investigation group coming nearby, hearing the commotion here and coming over.

At such moments, whether to say or not made little difference; it wouldn’t affect her if she didn’t know.

As for discovering when the investigation group arrived… well, she would deal with it then.

Even Hilia herself didn’t notice she was beginning to smile slightly.

…

“Based on my judgement, this path should be the safest. The commotion over there makes me a bit uneasy, let’s go check it out, confirm it, and then return.”

Far from the core node of the battle, Aiman had just ended a demon-clearing operation and allowed the platoon to rest for a while.

Hai Wei’er stroked the cave wall beside her, carefully feeling it before saying uncertainly, “It seems to be the tremors of a battle? Captain, there seems to be a large scale battle happening over there.”

Aiman raised an eyebrow, “Are you sure?”

Hai Wei’er nodded, “I’m not unfamiliar with this kind of situation, I used this method to judge during the Beast Tide siege led by Miss Xi.”

A team member laughed, “Do you think this time it could be Miss Xi clearing the demons again?”

Everyone burst into laughter.

“Hahaha, don’t say it, but there’s a really good chance of that.”