Chapter 1 Suren and Yuta rescued the wounded members of the Gray Wolf Tribe, and they also learned something about the movements of the Luying Holy Judgment Legion from them.

The situation was worse than expected.

Those Luying legions had been here for a month or two, and their progress in developing the ruins was very fast.

Moreover, they seemed to have some special information about the ruins. They could always use targeted methods to break through many tricky cursed spaces. To this end, they also hired a large number of slave hunting groups, and almost wiped out the large and small Dalu tribes in the northern Silent Forest, capturing tens of thousands of people. All of this was to sacrifice and refine an evil alchemical object, which was used to break the largest cursed space.

Suren felt bad when he heard those words.

They were really well-prepared, and might really be able to destroy the Tree Realm Seal.

He also guessed that the thing those people were sacrificing was probably the [Sealed Object] he had learned about from searching souls after killing people just now.

.......

Suren and the two didn't delay much. They bid farewell to the Gray Wolf tribe and quickly detoured around the giant tree to the north.

It was evening, and the sky had darkened.

At a distance of about a few kilometers, they found a high place to observe the brightly lit war camp in the distance.

The soldiers of the Luying Royal Holy Judgment Legion had already built a temporary war fortress at the foot of the giant tree, complete with high walls and heavy mechanical artillery. Three steam-powered mechanical airships floated in the sky above the camp. Lights scanned everywhere, and elite guards in armor patrolled around the periphery of the camp.

With sentries in the open and hidden, and griffins flying in the sky, the military camp's defenses were very tight, and there was no way for any outsiders to get close.

Suren looked at the densely packed soldiers in the military camp, his gaze slightly solemn.

Just looking at the ranks, he knew there were many experts.

Not to mention him, a third-tier, even if seven or eight tiers of professionals came, a strong attack would not necessarily be advantageous.

The reconnaissance squad he killed before had at least second-tier professionals, and their colonial equipment and job-change materials started at silver level. They were also proficient in military joint attack formations, and the legion's combat power was very high. This was not comparable to any enemy encountered before.

However, what caught the attention of Suren and Yuta even more was a huge blood pool in the military camp.

Beside the blood pool stood a griffin-patterned flag fluttering in the wind.

A flash of light flashed in Suren's left eye, and he identified the flag's information. It was the sealed object.

[Nergal's Death Banner]

Quality: Legendary

Description: Sacrifice blood to the flag, and be invincible.

Curse Characteristics: Sacrificing the blood and souls of living beings, the soldiers contracted to this military flag gain a group aura buff; group morale is boosted, immunity or reduction to fear, deterrence, wailing, plague, chaos, curses, whispers... and other corresponding negative states; the effect is limited by the number of sacrificed creatures, currently 23354 sacrificed souls;

Details: A military flag refined by an ancient civilization for war. After being sacrificed with blood, it gains a small permanent increase and a large temporary increase.

Suren frowned as he looked at the battle flag.

No wonder he didn't see any living "slaves." They had all been killed to sacrifice to the flag.

Next to the blood pool, there were several eight-sided corpse towers built up of human heads. Heads covered in blood were piled up more than ten meters high, surrounded by obelisks engraved with alchemical arrays. Blood energy was continuously gathering on the battle flag through the array.

The Dalu tribe didn't have many people to begin with. It was estimated that there were only a few hundred thousand in the entire Silent Forest, and tens of thousands had been killed here...

A cold light flashed in Suren's eyes.

Yuta, who was beside him, looked even more unsightly, her face barely suppressing the anger and killing intent, and her silver teeth were biting her lips so hard that they were almost bleeding.

Suren also understood why she insisted on following him to venture into the ruins. If the inheritance continued to be cut off, the Dalu tribe would really be wiped out.

The two carefully observed the layout of the military camp again, but found no opportunity to take advantage of.

These Luying royal elites had enough war experience and were not comparable to those disorganized pirates.

He felt that he could only wait for Mr. Jing to arrive before there was any chance of stopping those guys.

While watching, Yuta sniffed, suddenly frowned and said, "We seem to have been discovered. There's a bloody smell coming this way!"

Now they already knew that every Luying soldier would wrap blood-stained strips of cloth around themselves. Yuta, as a member of the Snow Wolf Tribe, could smell that bloody smell from a long distance.

As soon as Suren heard this, he immediately guessed that they must have been discovered by the sentries, and said without hesitation: "Let's go!"

The two left without any hesitation and disappeared into the dense vines.

Not long after, several reconnaissance-type professionals dressed as assassins appeared at the location where Suren and Yuta had been before.

The hounds they were holding sniffed around on the spot, and barked wildly in one direction a few times.

The leader seemed to understand the meaning of the hound's barking, and muttered, "Oh, we were discovered in advance... it seems the spy's methods are not weak."

They didn't chase deeper, but reported the situation to the camp.

.......

At the same time, in the command tent of the military camp.

The commander of the Holy Judgment Legion, "Beast" Alek Barrett, was sitting in the main seat. Not knowing what news he had heard, the middle-aged officer, who was usually imposing, looked terrifyingly cold.

Beside him were two deputy generals wearing golden griffin armor, their faces also looking unpleasant.

Opposite the three of them, a middle-aged man wearing a khaki trench coat, whose attire didn't look like a member of the military, was saying something.

The atmosphere of the negotiation was not good, and the two sides argued after only a few words.

When Legion Commander Barrett heard the order, he interrupted in fury: "Damn it! Yeager, do you know what you are talking about? Do the people in your intelligence department not consider the actual situation when bringing orders? Judging from the current situation, this super-large ancient ruin probably involves very dangerous things. I even suspect that rashly breaking open the ruins will cause a disaster. Shouldn't we be more cautious in dealing with it the more it is like this? You actually notified us to break the cursed space within three days?"

The man in the trench coat shrugged and said helplessly: "Sorry, Commander Barrett, I know this task is not easy. But you know, I am also acting on orders."

Barrett sneered: "Did the think tank in your intelligence department grow up eating shit? Do they know how stupid this order is?!"

"No..."

The man in the trench coat shook his head, sighed slightly, and corrected: "It's not an order from our Intelligence Headquarters. It's a secret order from Her Majesty the Queen."

"But..."

Hearing that it was the Queen's order, a complex look flashed in Barrett's eyes, and the words were swallowed back.

After pondering for a long time, he just said the difficulty: "The Legion's battle flag has not yet been sacrificed to the expected degree. To have a certain guarantee in that cursed space, we need at least two more Wan slaves! Before, for the damn progress you demanded, my Judgment Corps has already lost a deputy corps commander and three hundred elites!"

After a pause, he almost gritted his teeth and said: "Three days...not to mention three days, even if you give me three more months, I may not be able to complete the exploration! This Silent Forest is so remote, why is there such a hurry to excavate the ruins?"

The man in the trench coat said blankly: "I don't know the specific situation. But this is top-secret information from the Imperial Capital Intelligence Department. As for why it is three days, perhaps it is divination, or perhaps it is for other reasons... this is not something that a small Spade team member like me can inquire about."

As he spoke, the man in the trench coat's tone suddenly became very cold: "The order from above is: At all costs, the seal in these ruins must be broken within three days."

"..."

Barrett's eyes narrowed.

Not long after, the man in the trench coat left the tent.

The two deputy generals of the Judgment Corps saw that their legion commander's face was gloomy, and also knew that the order was very tricky.

The atmosphere was very dull, and one could hear a pin drop.

Finally, a deputy general asked: "Commander, what should we do?"

Gu</span> The haze in Barrett's eyes did not dissipate, but his tone was very decisive, "Execute the order! Tomorrow morning, the entire army will attack."

Hearing this, the deputy general looked embarrassed: "But...the situation in that cursed space is unknown, and rashly entering it may... Commander, why don't I take someone in to take a look first?"

Barrett shook his head: "No, it's meaningless. If we want to investigate clearly within three days, we have to take risks."

After speaking, he muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear: "Why is Her Majesty so eager for these ruins..."

.......

Suren and Yuta avoided the patrolling soldiers.

The two didn't dare to rashly go up the tree trunk again. The higher they went, the stronger the aura of death became. Countless terrifying monsters were hidden in the dense canopy.

Fortunately, the monsters near these roots seemed to have been cleaned up by the Judgment Corps, and they didn't encounter any danger.

The sky had completely darkened, and Suren and the two found a tree hole to rest.

After checking the situation of the Luying Royal Legion's military camp, the Dalu people who had been captured had all been killed, and there was nothing to save. The tight defenses of the military camp also left no chance for infiltration.

His original plan was to rest, recuperate, and see what the "cursed space" looked like the next day. Then, after Mr. Jing arrived three days later, there would be room for maneuvering.

But unexpectedly, as soon as it dawned the next day, and the morning sunlight just shone in from the gaps in the leaves, they heard the movement of a large army marching.

The sounds of gunfire and fighting were moving away towards the top of the giant tree's trunk, and were very intense.

Suren and Yuta didn't dare to delay, and immediately left the tree hole to check the situation.

Then, from a distance, they discovered the Judgment Corps marching towards the top of the tree trunk with the entire army.

.......

In a dense bush, Suren and Yuta were hiding there, using binoculars to observe the legion several kilometers away.

Those soldiers in armor, carrying heavy mechanical equipment, riding griffins, swept all the way up.

This movement naturally attracted the mutated monsters hiding in the canopy of the giant tree.

Zombies and apes exuding blue fire, mutated snakes with three heads, centipedes with eyes all over their backs, ghost-type frost banshees...

Third-tier, fourth-tier, and even fifth-tier weird monsters emerged one after another.

These monsters, which had grown for a long time in an environment with a high concentration of death energy, were very manic. The aura of humans was like cold water dripping into hot oil, and it exploded instantly.

Suren and the two felt their scalps tingle.

They were also glad that they didn't rashly go up into the canopy last night.

On the other hand, they also saw the power of this Luying Royal Legion!

No matter what kind of monster it was, no matter how many there were, there was almost no match for this elite legion's charge.

The legion was in teams of ten and groups of one hundred. Monsters below the fourth tier were like a sharp knife touching soft mud, and they were instantly smashed to pieces.

Those monsters even found it difficult to break through their armor.

Even if there were tricky high-level monsters, there were also high-level professionals in the legion selling Hansa.

Suren even saw a fifth-tier silver monster being killed by the legion commander, who had unleashed his colonial equipment and transformed into a giant, with one punch.

With the opponent's strength, Suren and the two naturally didn't dare to show their faces.

But they were also puzzled, what were these people doing?

Suren and the two followed the legion all the way up, like climbing a mountain, and came to the waist of the giant tree.

The branches and leaves here were lush, and very little light could penetrate, making it as dark as a cave.

Suren looked at the route of this group of people, and naturally guessed that they were probably heading for the largest cursed space.

But he was also very aware of the situation in his heart.

Obviously, from the soul fragments he harvested, the Judgment Corps was not confident that they could break through the space now, so why would they suddenly launch a full-scale attack?

Then, Suren also saw the cursed space.

It was a huge vortex black hole like a bird's nest.

[Druid's God-Burial Gate]

Details: A super-large composite cursed space. The great war five hundred years ago caused the collapse of the dimensional seal that buried the corpses of super-order creatures to tear apart. High-level death aura leaked out, and the space was filled with chaotic timelines, collapsing space cracks, violent laws, powerful undead creatures, and mutated monsters; This is a cursed space without a master consciousness, relying on various chaotic energies; Only undead creatures can freely shuttle through it, and living people will forever lose themselves; If you are willing to eat that kind of rotten meat, the monsters will probably not notice you; The ancestral spirits of the Dalu tribe will bless the blood of the Dalu tribe, or humans who abide by the oath, but there are even more powerful evil beings in the space; Break the cursed space, and you will see the main body of the seal;

Suren's expression became very solemn as he looked at the information he had identified.

Under normal circumstances, cursed spaces would have a "master consciousness."

Just like in Dawn City's [Central Prison], he met his teacher, Sereia.

After the fall of those top professionals, their powerful consciousness remained, and some of their memories became the "plot" of the cursed space.

They would not be monsters, but would have their own consciousness and reason, and could communicate, so there would be a lot of controllable space.

He originally thought that a large number of Dalu ancestors had died here, and even if there was a cursed space, it was likely formed after the death of the Dalu tribe's predecessors.

Suren had even thought before that, if he was lucky enough to meet a great druid, he would ask about the problem of mental distortion.

Maybe he could also ask how to solve the current predicament of the Dalu tribe.

But unexpectedly, there was no master consciousness.

Moreover, judging from the description, the danger inside the space would be very great.

........

Suren's face became even stranger as he watched those soldiers walk in with the [Nergal's Death Banner].

"The legion commander and the deputy legion commander have all entered? Could it be that they have mastered a method to break this cursed space?"

He realized that the problem was a bit troublesome.

Although Suren felt that the "extremely dangerous" label that had been identified should not be so easy to break, he immediately started thinking when he saw the group of people rushing in without hesitation.

Before, when Mr. Jing saw the real thing, he only guessed that this was a "God-Burial Ground." Now that he had identified it as "collapsed plane fragments buried with the corpses of super-order creatures," Suren was sure that this was most likely it.

Therefore, he couldn't let those Luying troops break it open.

"Strange... what could make a sixth-tier royal legion commander put himself in danger? Could it be that the Luying royal family knows the situation of these ruins?"

The thought flashed through Suren's mind.

But even if they knew, they would still dare to mess with it?

Just as Suren was still deducing some causes and effects, those people had already walked in.

At this time, Yuta, who was beside him, also asked: "Mr. Suren, what should we do now?"

Hearing this, Suren pondered for a moment before saying lightly: "I want to go in and take a look."