Chapter 1 This is Troublesome

　　Suren listened to the horn that seemed to pierce the soul, his face becoming subtly troubled, muttering, "This is going to be a problem."

　　Because he had harvested too many fragments of mages' memories, these guys in the Celestial Plane were basically playing with their cards face up for Suren. He had already deduced the odds of winning this battle before it began.

　　He had calculated that the enemy's last trump card would be nothing more than summoning divine power.

　　After roughly estimating the situation, Suren still thought the Dawn Mercenary Group had a chance.

　　After all, this was a shattered alchemy plane, and the divine will that an eighth-tier archmage could bear probably wouldn't be overwhelmingly powerful. Even if they couldn't win, stalling wouldn't be too much of a problem.

　　But now, the [Gjallar's Doomsday Horn] was an unexpected situation.

　　This artifact projection was a "secret weapon," and even the branch leaders of the mages didn't know of its existence.

　　Moreover, what made it even more troublesome was that it was a summoning artifact.

　　Suren glanced around, his mind also thinking of some other, seemingly critical information: "These guys can actually summon Titan heroic spirits... It seems that the Titans in that battle back then had a great relationship with the Celestial Plane."

　　He himself was proficient in various necromantic rituals, so he knew that to summon the blessings of deceased heroic spirits, one usually needed a necessary related item, as well as enough piety, or to be a descendant of their bloodline. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to summon heroic spirits and monsters of too high a level.

　　But thinking about this now didn't seem to be of much use.

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　　The moment the horn sounded, the surrounding sea immediately began to churn.

　　Tani had detected the anomaly in advance, and an urgent warning came from the communicator: "Mr. Suren, this is bad, the fish in the sea say that many terrifying deep-sea monsters have appeared. You guys need to be careful, they seem to be heading towards Coco Rosi Island!"

　　Suren stood in the air, glancing into the distance, his scalp tingling as he saw those huge objects surfacing on the sea.

　　Titan Nine-headed Eel, Titan Golden Horseshoe Crab, Titan Human-footed Serpent, Leviathan Sea Monster...

　　Almost all monsters with Titan bloodlines had been awakened by the sound of the horn. These overlord behemoths, originally hidden in the deep sea, were now being driven by a mysterious force, surging towards Coco Rosi Island.

　　And it wasn't just these sea monsters, the distant Hell Volcano also rumbled and exploded, spewing out thick Hellish energy.

　　The sound of the horn seemed to penetrate the plane rift, summoning the undead from Hell.

　　The black clouds in the sky covered the sun, and lightning flashed as if it were the end of the world.

　　Looking over, one could see giant ghostly monsters, hundreds of meters tall, walking out of the crater.

　　"Titan heroic spirits..."

　　Seeing this, Suren's eyes were filled with gravity.

　　He decisively issued instructions through the communicator: "Prepare to execute the plan… Be careful, try to avoid the core battlefield, and provide fire support from the periphery."

　　"Yes!"

　　A response came from the communicator.

　t need to worry too much about the Nightless, which was also located away from the battlefield.

　　These Titan monsters were summoned to the battlefield by the horn.

　　It seemed that they were only coming for the Gorgon Temple. With the old Sword God Bartolo and the high-ranking members of the Dawn Mercenary Group, the effect of containment on the periphery would be even better.

　　On the contrary, Suren's situation seemed very bad.

　　He glanced at the temple, which was still without any movement, and said to himself, "Your Majesty, I can only try my best to delay..."

　　The moment he identified the attributes of the artifact projection, he had already determined that this was not a situation that could be fought head-on.

　　Although he had a deep alliance with the Medusa Queen.

　　But the current situation was something that a small Dawn Mercenary Group could not stop.

　　All Suren could do was to help her delay for as long as possible.

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　　Obviously, the enemy also saw that Suren had the intention to retreat.

　　But since they had used their trump card, they had no intention of letting Suren go.

　　In Augustus's eyes, this organization called Dawn was an even greater threat than the Medusa Queen in the future!

　　Just as Suren finished communicating with the Nightless, the crow in the sky suddenly cawed.

　　He knew that a crisis was coming.

　　On the battlefield, it was either you die or I die, and Suren was not surprised that the enemy had murderous intentions towards him.

　　His gaze fell on the white-bearded archmage not far away, and he hardened his heart. "Since I can't solve the problem, then I'll solve the person who created the problem first!"

　　Judging from the current situation, he couldn't stop those Titan monsters from attacking at all.

　　Then the only thing he could do, and what might be effective, was to kill the commander-in-chief!

　　Even though Suren knew that a fatal crisis was coming, he still decisively chose to teleport towards Augustus.

　　This time, he had to gamble!

　　Only if the other party truly had murderous intentions would he have a real chance to counterattack.

　　Sure enough, seeing Suren teleport again, a look of triumph flashed across Augustus's aged eyes.

　　Deliberately revealing a flaw was to wait for him to teleport over!

　　In that split second, Suren's figure dissipated in place.

　　A spatial fluctuation flashed, and he had already appeared behind Augustus, the black umbrella wrapped in phosphorescent fire stabbing towards the enemy's back of the heart.

　　However, at the same instant, a ruthless look flashed in the archmage's eyes, and he crushed a magic scroll hidden in his robe, a spatial fluctuation instantly exploding.

　　As Suren raised his hand to point out the black umbrella, he saw a gorgon with a beautiful appearance but a head full of hideous snakes appearing in the spatial rift before him.

　　Moreover, not only was this gorgon's soul fluctuation very strong, but there were actually two golden snake hairs among the snakes on her head.

　　Seeing this sudden appearance, Suren was not surprised at all, but instead his heart tensed. "Finally showing your face."

　　An exposed enemy was much less of a threat than a hidden one.

　　The Medusa Queen had said before that there were a total of three eighth-tiers in their Gorgon clan.

　　Besides Helen, who chose to undergo tribulation, the other two were her good sisters who had betrayed her.

　　One was killed outside the capital of the Silver Dragon Kingdom, Ekronessa, and the other was this one in front of him.

　　The mastermind behind the two "Serpent Sea Calamities" before and now was this one!

　　Knowing how powerful she was, how could Suren not be on guard?

　　He knew very well that even if he had smeared himself with [Medusa Queen's Blood of Redemption], he couldn't completely ignore the petrification curse of an eighth-tier gorgon.

　　And at the moment when the two of them walked out of the spatial rift and looked at each other, the snakes on the gorgon's head suddenly opened their eyes, and a large-scale petrification light had already covered Suren's whole body.

　　The enemy's premeditated plan was naturally without any mistakes.

　　Suren's whole body was shrouded in gray light, and he couldn't avoid it at all.

　　And the moment he met the amber vertical pupils of the gorgon, a paralyzing sensation ten times stronger than when he was hit before instantly spread throughout his body. Suren immediately felt that time seemed to slow down ten times, his body fell into a strange state of stiffness, and even his thoughts seemed to freeze.

　　Not far away, commander Augustus was overjoyed to see this scene.

　　He had also prepared in advance, and the vertical pupil shadow in the center of his eyebrows suddenly shone brightly, and a beam of disintegration shot towards Suren, who was in a stiff state.

　　Two top masters joining forces didn't give anyone any chance to escape.

　　Even if Suren was two major ranks higher, he still wouldn't be able to escape this situation.

　　It seemed that this was already a situation where death was inevitable.

　　However, at this critical moment, a scene that Augustus and the gorgon never expected appeared.

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　　The petrification light of the gorgon clan was a high-level earth law, which had varying degrees of petrifying effects on almost all energy and matter.

　　Moreover, gorgons were mythical races.

　　In the entire plane, the only ones who could steadily resist the eighth-tier gorgon's curse in front of them were probably existences whose law level was above the ninth-tier.

　　And the Dawn Mercenary Group happened to have one.

　　That was the ghost lady, Pestoa! At the moment when Suren fell into a stiff state, a ghost floated out of the runic black umbrella in his hand.

　　Her spiritual body also burned with the same green phosphorescent fire as Suren, directly ignoring the petrification beam and rushing straight towards the gorgon.

　　The eighth-tier gorgon obviously didn't expect such a change to occur.

　　Her eyes were full of shock and doubt.

　　However, before she could think about it, this distance was bound to hit Suren, and she herself was bound to be hit as well.

　　Pestoa had already rushed over, directly igniting her soul with the fire of the god of death on her body.

　　The trembling of her soul being burned caused the gorgon to immediately let out a heart-wrenching scream, "Ah..."

　　The petrification light also stopped instantly.

　　However, Suren's crisis was not completely resolved!

　　On the other side, Augustus's [Myriad Manifestations True Understanding] beam had already hit him.

　　But at the same time, the psychic rune that Suren had drawn on his chest before also shone brightly, and an indescribable ethereal aura suddenly protected his body.

　　Looking again, Pandora had already revealed her true form from the psychic array.

　　She was wearing a divine robe condensed from blood-colored moonlight, and hundreds of ghosts surrounded her body.

　　Because she was prepared for battle, a large amount of divine power followed her appearance, and she lightly shouted, "Tsukuyomi Tsukiyo Shinto!"

　　Looking again, her eyes were red and the phantom light was shining, like two blood moons bursting out with an overbearing and unparalleled Shinto illusion technique.

　　This blood-colored light and Augustus's disintegration light instantly collided together.

　　But obviously, the illusion-breaking attribute of [Myriad Manifestations True Understanding] was even better. After the blue light disintegrated the phantom light inch by inch, it hit Pandora's body, and then her whole body also collapsed on the spot.

　　It was she who stepped forward and directly blocked this fatal blow for Suren.

　　Moreover, the Tsukuyomi illusion technique made Augustus's expression dazed for a moment.

　　Pandora's aura suddenly dropped a lot.

　　But her collapsed body was like the moon in the water, shattered and instantly restored.

　　Pandora's current Shinto cultivation has already possessed the "undying" characteristic, as long as the host object is not destroyed, she will not die!

　　This was also the most important reason why Suren would let her block the killing move for himself.

　　A false god, a ghost lady who had condensed the fire of death, could be considered to have double divine protection. Suren's current situation was not inferior to the descent of any divine will.

　　This was also the most important reason why he was confident in tangling with this Augustus in the beginning!

　　However, this was almost his last trump card.

　　Now that it was taken out, they had to decide the outcome.

　　At the moment when Pestoa and Pandora blocked the double killing moves for him, Suren also broke free from the stiff state.

　　The close-range space teleportation had no warning at all, and he had already appeared behind Augustus.

　　This time, the runic black umbrella struck the archmage's magic shield with a staff.

　　At the moment of contact, sparks flew from the black umbrella, and sparks had already burned on this guy's soul.

　　However, Augustus was a puppet master and a demigod, and even though he was hit by the illusion technique, he woke up instantly.

　　Seeing his soul being ignited, his combat instinct made him react instantly.

　　With a "bang", the figure exploded.

　　Seeing this, Suren muttered in his heart, "Epic magic item [Crystal of Substitution], is it finally used up?"

　　This guy was the commander, and he naturally had many life-saving items on him, and this was one of the items in the information.

　　It could instantly release life-saving magic.

　　However, how could Suren let him escape again?

　　If he couldn't kill him once, then he would kill him twice!

　　Even though there was no one in sight, Suren teleported without hesitation.

　　Because at this moment, the space coordinates that Mr. Black had left on that guy with his hands before finally came in handy!

　　The surrounding scenery changed, and Suren had already appeared in a hidden cave a few kilometers away.

　　There was also a magic circle in the cave, which was now lit up.

　　Seeing this situation, he knew that this cunning old mage had prepared a refuge for himself long ago.

　　Suren didn't hesitate at all, and the runic black umbrella smashed over his face.

　　Not good!

　　Augustus's face changed drastically.

　　He didn't expect that he would just arrive and the other party would follow up.

　　But after thinking about it slightly, he immediately came back to his senses.

　　"Damn it, that black-robed warlock left a space marker!"

　　However, even if he understood it now, Suren would not give him any more chances.

　　Augustus also felt the true arrival of death for the first time.

　　It was terrifying. He did have many life-saving methods. As long as he had a chance to chant and release magic, he could survive.

　　However, he also knew that there was no chance.

　　The enemy in front of him was so decisive in killing that he seized this moment and was enough to determine life and death.

　　With a "bang", the runic black umbrella hit Augustus's chest firmly.

　　This time, the green phosphorescent fire was like igniting cotton, and it instantly burned violently.

　　Augustus was a demigod archmage, and his mental power far exceeded that of ordinary people. As a result, at the last moment of his life, he could clearly perceive the passing of his life.

　　However, he really couldn't figure out why the foolproof plan had failed.

　　Although the false god was much stronger than in the information, it was still within the acceptable range.

　　But what was the situation with the ghost who ignored the petrification curse?

　　He didn't understand all of this, and his consciousness had dissipated.

　　Suren knew that this person was completely dead when he saw that the soul had left the body.

　　He took advantage of the fact that it hadn't been completely burned and quickly harvested it.

　　Unfortunately, most of it had been burned, and the memory he got was only some sporadic fragments.

　　But Suren had always had a good attitude.

　　It was already good to have something to gain.

　　Moreover, those fragments were high enough, and they were very useful to him.

　　After killing this powerful enemy, Suren breathed a sigh of relief.

　　He had finally solved a big trouble.

　　But after asking about the situation outside, it was still not optimistic.

　　Those monsters that were attracted by the sound of the horn were still gathering towards Coco Rosi Island.

　　The crisis had not been resolved.

　　Suren didn't dare to stay any longer, he looked at the corpse on the ground.

　　The guy's legendary staff was still there, but the artifact projection [Immaculate Shield] had disappeared.

　　Suren then felt a little regret.

　　A 100% magic-immune artifact, if this thing fell into his hands, he would really not be able to die.

　　However, even if he got it, he couldn't use it without divine power of faith.

　t go to think about it too much.

　　He put the corpse into the small void realm, and by the way, poured out everything in this guy's super large storage ring, and there was a special person to count it.

　　Augustus was the commander of the Celestial Plane to the Dragon Kingdom sea area, so he was naturally extremely rich.

　　The various high-level magic materials, magic crystals, scrolls, and so on in this storage ring made Suren dazzled.

　　The spoils of killing this one person alone were probably worth several ten-thousand-person magic groups.

　　Moreover, Suren saw two familiar things at a glance.

　　[Cadmus's Dragon-hunting Spear] and [Gleipnir's Entangler].

　　These two treasures were the magic items that these mages used when they ambushed the eighth-tier Silver Dragon, the guardian of the Silver Dragon Kingdom's capital, Ekronessa.

　　The spear could pierce the dragon scales, and the rope could make the eighth-tier dragon's terrifying power unable to break free.

　　These were all rare treasures.

　t have time to ponder over the clearing of the harvest.

　　Suren teleported and reappeared in front of the Gorgon Temple.

　　………

　　At this moment, a tall gorgon corpse had fallen to the ground, and this was the eighth-tier gorgon who had plotted against Suren just now.

　　Its soul had been burned by Pestoa, leaving only the body.

　　Also because of the death of this eighth-tier gorgon, the serpent sea disaster that surrounded the temple instantly lost its driver, and the endless snakes that had been like a tide had receded, leaving only corpses all over the ground.

　　Suren glanced at the ghost lady beside the corpse, "Thank you."

　　Pestoa grinned and showed her white teeth, looking radiant and happy, "How is it? I told you I was very powerful!"

　　"Yes. Super powerful."

　　Suren nodded affirmatively and gently patted her head.

　　The fire of death that Pestoa had just cast was indeed sharp, and this must be the result of real hard work.

　　Suren was not polite and directly took away the corpses of the gorgon.

　　At this time, Pandora, who was full of immortal energy, also fell from the sky, "Yo~ no one even said thank you to me."

　　Suren smiled slightly and said sincerely, "Thank you, Miss Pandora, for your help."

　　If it weren't for these two just now, he would have lost his life to counter-kill the enemy.

　　Pandora smiled charmingly and didn't say anything.

　　Just as the three of them chatted for a few words, a sword light flashed not far away, and a road was cut open from the mountain of corpses, and Chitiao, who was covered in blood, walked out slowly with a sword.

　　One of her arms was exposed outside the sword robe, and her chest rose and fell violently, and she looked very exhausted.

　　Suren saw that she was seriously injured and said with concern, "Sister Chitiao, how are you?"

　　With a clang, Chitiao sheathed her sword and responded faintly, "I'm poisoned. But I've already injected the antidote, and it's not a big problem."

　　Suren's brows loosened when he heard this.

　　Although Mr. Black was seriously injured and Chitiao was also seriously injured... But in the end, they had killed the powerful enemy without any danger.

　　At this time, Chitiao looked at the Titan heroic spirit army coming from the direction of the Hell Volcano and asked, "What do we do now?"

　　Suren's expression immediately became serious again when he heard this.

　　He glanced at the temple, and it seemed that the Medusa Queen's inheritance had not ended at all.

　　He looked at the distance again.

　　After pondering for a moment, Suren said seriously, "The horn that summoned those monsters is not controlled by the commander-in-chief before, it should be a group of five hundred ascetics. But I don't know where those people are hiding. If we don't get rid of them, we can't deal with these monsters."

　　After a pause, he said again, "Sister Chitiao, you should rest in the small void realm first."

　　The implication of this was that he was going to prepare a plan to evacuate.

　　"Okay."

　　Chitiao's expression was calm.

　　She didn't think so much, it was enough for Suren to consider the decision.

　　She was only responsible for fighting.

　　Suren's palm lit up with a void vortex, and he put Chitiao into the small void realm.

　　Pandora had just used her true form to block a fatal blow for him, and her divine power was greatly damaged, so she also went to the small void realm to rest.

　　Suren was sitting alone on the stone carving outside the temple.

　　Pestoa also sat next to him, imitating his appearance.

　　Neither of them spoke.

　　The sound of monsters landing on the island became louder and louder, and even with the artillery containment of the Nightless, the Titan monsters attracted by the [Gjallar's Doomsday Horn] still stubbornly gathered towards Coco Rosi Island.

　　Suren planned to hold on until the last moment.

　　It was only after there was really no way to leave that it could be considered that he had done his best.

　　In the communicator, the Nightless was still reporting the situation observed at all times, "Mr. Suren, be careful, we can't lead those monsters away, they're coming for you..."

　　Suren was silent when he heard this, and his mind was spinning, still wanting to find the last glimmer of hope to turn the tables.

　　But no matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn't think of any chance of winning.

　　In the face of absolute disparity, everything seemed so pale and powerless.

　　But looking at the monster tide in front of him, he muttered in his heart: "This situation is very similar to the situation in the Atlantis ruins before... The war horn sounds, and the monster tide goes out under the summons."

　　Unfortunately, there was no will of the cursed space to help this time.

　　While he was thinking, several flying Titan bloodline monsters had already arrived at the temple first, and Suren raised his hand and slashed them down with a few swift strikes of the black scythe.

　　But as time went on, more and more giant monsters landed on the island.

　　After Suren alone killed more than a dozen waves of monsters, he already felt that the situation was over.

　　There were already ninth-tier monsters appearing at the end of the line of sight, and he knew that he could not hold on for much longer.

　　However, just when he thought the situation was irreversible, something that everyone did not expect happened.

　　In the communicator, the outer observation post of the Nightless discovered something and sent an urgent message, "Mr. Suren, this is bad, a group of dragons has appeared in the northwest direction! A lot of dragons!"

　　A group of dragons!

　　Suren's expression changed when he heard this.

　　His first reaction was that the dragon was one of the waves of monsters attracted by the sound of the horn.

　　But the trouble was already big enough, and he didn't think that adding more dragons would make any difference.

　　But after thinking about it, something was wrong!

　　Back then, it was the Dragon Clan and the Titan God Clan who fought a war, so how could these dragons be with the Titan heroic spirits?

　　Moreover, when he identified the [Gjallar's Doomsday Horn] before, it didn't have the effect of summoning dragons.

　　At the moment when he figured out this key point, Suren's expression suddenly lit up.

　　His intuition told him that the turning point of the situation had come!