Chapter 1785 - 1050: Why Has Magic Stopped Working?_2

In those days, fresh news constantly came from the outside world, and even staying at home every day and reading the newspaper didn’t feel boring.

After Luluwo’s big failure at Ulashiro, she challenged Manus once again and released the entire recording of this challenge for free—broadcasting it 24 hours a day on the sky screens in several cities within the Skyrim Strategy Group.

She wasn’t using Manus’s terrifying appearance to do some sort of society revenge, but rather recruiting warriors willing to go with her to defeat Manus!

I don’t know whether she finally listened to Leon’s suggestion to talk about collaboration with Elothurisi and the others, but from the current situation, those people and the dragon seem like they won’t be able to come to help anytime soon, and Luluwo is obviously impatient to fight Manus to the death.

This led to the issuance of a societal bounty against Manus.

However, judging by the influence of this series of actions...

External discussions about Ulashiro and Artorias surpassed her societal bounty.

Articles such as "How Ulashiro Gradually Fell—Lessons on National Governance," "Character Analysis of Artorias," and "Elizabeth’s Race Exploration: Mushroom or Drumstick Mushroom?"...

Every day, the newspapers featured a large number of articles beyond ordinary people’s imagination, and reading through them made one wonder what the authors’ brains looked like.

The popularity of Artorias surged once again, becoming the top topic, and the number of people supporting him individually increased.

People focused on a myriad of information flowing out from Ulashiro.

Only the news of Luluwo recruiting teammates had mediocre attention, which was giving her a headache; she thought that relying on her fame, the doors of the Skyrim Strategy Group wouldn’t just be trampled, but at least crowded.

Yet after several days, hardly anyone signed up!

It’s not that adventurers lost enthusiasm for challenging powerful boss monsters.

The problem is, this powerful boss monster is way too powerful.

Even if someone eagerly wanted to participate after seeing Luluwo’s announcement, the sight of the video in the sky discouraged most of them from fighting, joking about how can one rashly confront a master like the Master of the Abyss?

For a while, no one dared to approach, even those from the theoretically most warrior-like Warrior Country showed rare silence; if the challenge to Manus were labeled as an event as passionate as a Battle Festival, they might be more willing to join in the fun.

In addition, as Ulashiro’s topic rose, Fran Guard also garnered some attention; the number of applicants for interviews increased, surprisingly returning to the level of a few months ago.

Why the level from a few months ago? Because in recent days, the number of newcomers joining Fran Guard has been declining, and the reason lies in... Fran Guard being overly diligent.

Openly rebellious Demon Clan members have been mostly eliminated by them, and the number of Demon Clan victims dipped significantly, indirectly reducing their recruitment source.

However, everyone is quite satisfied with this result.

After consecutive failures at Ulashiro, Dal has been holed up in Sain Dungeon, grinding souls day and night to level up, with a drive to become the Ten-Mile Slope Sword God.

The powerful members of the Skyrim Strategy Group are also training hard, hoping they can contribute more in future battles against Manus.

Everyone who participated in the Manus challenge is now in training.

Who knows when the next battle against Manus will happen.

In this fervent training atmosphere, Leon’s convalescence ended.

"I am revived!"

Standing in front of the teleportation gate at Sain Dungeon, Leon raised his arms to the sky, looking radiant and in best spirit.

He’s now fully armed, with enough supplies to support four to five days of intensive combat, more than enough to deal with the Demon Prince.

Besides, this time he has a heavy weapon by his side.

"Don’t get too excited, be careful not to be caught by Monster," Japar joked while wiping his treasure sword.

Sword Saint Japar will accompany him into Sain Dungeon, heading to the meeting point to confront the Demon Prince!

This figure brings such a strong sense of security, making one feel this journey is secure.

"Boss, be careful!" Maru and others stood by for farewell.

This time, only Japar could accompany Leon, as others haven’t completed Fire Transmission, thus can’t go to Losric City.

"Come on, let’s go to the place you mentioned," Japar said, looking quite eager.

This time, Leon plans to completely replicate his past encounter, ending with falling off the big bridge.

Otherwise, he can’t think of another way to reach the gathering point.

After the two walked into the teleportation gate one after the other, they soon appeared in the darker third-generation Fire Transmission Ceremony compared to the first.

After spending some time climbing Losric City, cutting through the city, they finally arrived in front of the gate guarded by Double Dragon.

This experience felt unreal to Leon.

Because he also encountered remnants of Losric City in the gathering place, he just found a scene identical to those remnants, contrasting the dusty scene in the gathering place with the somewhat magnificent Losric now, evoking a sense of unreality.

Is the lifeless post-apocalyptic world emerging after extinguishing the fire?

Losric Knights lingering here are weaker than the branch-growing versions in the gathering place, and Feathered Knights are inferior to Harland Knights.

After high-intensity combat in the gathering place for so long, Leon found his strength improved rapidly; indeed, you should get stronger amidst life-and-death battles.

Now looking, the Double Dragon once putting him in a tough fight is just so-so.

"Roar!"

The white giant dragon leaped down from the city wall, charging at them furiously, and flames overflowed from its mouth.

Faced with such an aggressive charge, Japar didn’t immediately draw his weapon but held onto the hilt.

Only when the White Dragon was about to collide did he abruptly draw his sword, a white light flashing in an instant, followed by the sound of swords slashing against the dragon’s body hundreds of times in a moment!

This is the technique hunters in the forest region use with Tachi, surprisingly integrated by Japar into his moves!

The scales on the White Dragon’s neck were already ragged from successive slashes, seemingly about to break with a little more force.

"Indeed, the teacher has become stronger again."

Leon watched Japar single-handedly rush forward to deal with these two giant dragons, admiringly.

After solving these two giant dragons, they pushed open the door and stepped onto the bridge.

Pilgrimage Butterfly descended from the sky, manipulating the Dragon Hunter Armor to stand up.

"Teacher, jump!"

Then, Leon suddenly leaped off the side of the bridge.

"Haha, this is the first time experiencing this!"

Japar laughed heartily and followed Leon jumping down.

In mid-air, both laughed quite freely and handsomely, showing an air of confidence and coolness, clearly two masters with supreme confidence in their own strengths.

They plan to land at the gathering point with this confident demeanor and boldly confront the Demon Prince!

"Leon, haven’t we landed yet?"

But after a while, both of their faces were frozen in a smile without landing.

"No, at this time, I should have landed long ago," Leon started getting puzzled.

Finally, signs of the ground appeared before them, making him happy and prepare for a superhero landing.

However, what appeared was not the gray-covered land of the gathering place.

Why does it look like Fran Fort?

"Bang!!!"

Their fall was like dropping two missiles inside Fran Fort.

At the bonfire at Fire Transmission Ceremony.

"..."

"..."

Leon and Japar sat silently by the bonfire.

"You said jumping down would lead to the gathering point!"

"Why did this method suddenly fail..."