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My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 608 - 536: Old Royal Capital
Chapter 608: Chapter 536: Old Royal Capital
Duke Mansion, a pile of ruins.
Almost all of the towering buildings had vanished, replaced instead by countless pits of varying sizes, with only at the edge of one’s vision the silhouettes of some structures visible.
—Those were the buildings of other nobles’ mansions, beyond the dark veil.
Even though the Duke Mansion spanned an area several times larger than the Marquis Mansion, the level of damage far exceeded it.
The Duke Mansion had reached a moment when a complete changeover was due.
How could they not when all previous encounters were completely overwhelming, while this fight had dragged on for dozens of minutes?
His vitality drained, his face one of utter dejection, and his body bound by specially-made ropes into a tight bundle, with most of his powers sealed by a Sealing Spell, Duke Morton wished for death.
How can this be scientific?
He had the upper hand at the start! If it weren’t for the sudden disappearance of the power boosted by the World Tree Array, they would have had a not-so-small chance of victory!
Duke Morton still couldn’t figure out how such a vast domain could just vanish all of a sudden.
In the final moment, the domain seemed extremely unstable.
Could it be that the Array Masters responsible for maintaining it hadn’t been working diligently, leading to this problem?
It’s confirmed!
Duke Morton dearly wanted to drag those people out for a sacrificial ritual.
But then he pondered, those Array Masters might have already been GG’d in the aftermath of the earlier fighting.
Including the many guards within the mansion, who sought refuge in the underground facilities—during the battle, there were instances of several hundred meters of earth being penetrated.
That was earth reinforced by runes!
Duke Morton dared to choose his mansion for the battlefield partly because of the deep reserves of power accumulated over thousands of years, making them strongest here; on the other hand, all structures within the mansion were made from advanced materials and reinforced by runes. Add to that the Arrays scattered throughout, designed to absorb stray energies... unless a Transcendent deliberately destroyed them, there wouldn’t be major damage.
However, now,
The Arrays designed to absorb energy had burst.
The rune-reinforced buildings, also, under the repeated onslaught of shockwaves, had completely collapsed.
Besides the many treasures plundered from the vault, other losses were also immeasurable.
At this moment,
Duke Morton heard a faint noise not far away.
Glancing over, he saw many Transcendents like himself, severely injured and their vitality waning, similarly restrained physically and magically, completely unable to move.
He shivered.
He felt the hostility in the gazes of those Transcendents.
The treasures carried away weren’t just from their Duke Mansion; many were precious items from other nobles stored here as bait.
In the just-concluded battle, there were not a few Transcendents who had fallen!
The reason Duke Morton was able to summon dozens of Transcendents was because, although the Black Robe Organization was strong, there had been no cases of them making fatal strikes.
The nobles from other factions, believing they would not die anyway, had to give face to the Duke.
Who would have guessed that today’s Black Robe Organization would be so vicious, with countless dead Transcendents... Each Transcendent was a pillar of a great noble family, and now some families, having lost many of their own and with their strength greatly weakened, wanted to chop Duke Morton to pieces!
Damn his grandma!
If they knew that the opponents at the Duke Mansion were too strong this time to be merciful, and too apathetic to hold back which led to some Transcendents dying, who knows what their thoughts would be.
...
At this time, Tang Yu and his team, having emptied the Duke Mansion, had already returned to the base in the suburbs.
World Tree branches of various sizes and thicknesses were laid out in a row, with the mild force of the world seeping out, causing the entire space of the secret chamber to warp as if it had become detached from the real world.
"The World Tree truly is a treasure; even just a branch is no less powerful than a Transcendent Divine Weapon."
Tang Yu held the World Tree Scepter in his hand.
It was made from a branch close to the trunk of the World Tree, its level comparable to a Second Tier Transcendent Divine Weapon.
In terms of function... it could only be used in conjunction with the World Tree Array.
At other times, it could only serve as a decoration.
"It’s too weak; this level is unacceptable."
Aside from the world force contained within, this branch alone could be used to craft Second or Third Tier Transcendent Divine Weapons, but now it was simply being used as a domain controller.
Tang Yu immediately returned to Green Shadow, made a trip to the research facility, had the Scepter analyzed to extract an optimized design blueprint, then whooshed over to the workshop, adding some auxiliary materials for optimization.
Soon,
A World Tree Scepter, on par with a Third Tier Divine Weapon, newly forged.
With a thought, the gentle world force emitted from the Scepter scaled down to Domain Power, under his control, sweeping across the vicinity.
Source Power circulated within his body.
Pwoah—
A massive Fireball appeared at the tip of the Scepter, whooshing towards the distance.
Boom!
A load-bearing pillar was hit, leaving behind a charred mark.
Tang Yu shuddered as he remembered the various times he had accidentally caused extensive damage to the castle.
This time was not so bad; he was just testing his skills, using a long-range attack spell he wasn’t good at... its power was only equivalent to that of a novice Transcendent’s full-force strike.
Wait!
He swooshed over to the pillar, reached out, and grasped the surrounding air. The wind pressure formed and cleaned off the charred mark on the pillar.
"... Seems like it didn’t take much damage."
"Has the castle in a Seventh Tier Territory become this resistant to attacks?"
He poked at it with his finger.
He increased the pressure and poked again.
He poked hard.
Accidentally, he used a Combat Skill to poke it.
Crack,
His finger sank into the ashen load-bearing pillar, with spiderweb-like cracks spreading outward.
Tang Yu froze.
"Did... Did I just cause destruction again?"
"Repairing load-bearing pillars is supposed to cost Source Crystals, right?"
"I got an earful from Eileen last time when I accidentally ruined the garden; this time... uh, no commotion, so it’s not a big deal, won’t be found out..."
Crack,
Crack,
Crack,
More and more cracks appeared on the pillar until the once pristine white had gathered a dense tattoo of lines. Accompanied by a thunderous boom, the pillar completely collapsed.
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Royal Capital, Outer City District.
The sky was overcast, and the rain grew heavier.
The roads were washed muddy by the rain, which also washed away some of the strange smells of the Outer City District.
Wearing a black robe and hood, Tang Yu followed the Great Sage to a certain part of the Outer City District.
They were surrounded by dilapidated buildings, overgrown with green vines.
They walked inside one of the buildings to a cracked corner of the wall.
"This unstable spatial node was discovered by me accidentally over a decade ago; it leads to the real space where the Royal Capital is located," said the Great Sage. "However, the spatial node is unpredictable, I can’t say when it will appear... But I’ve observed it before, within one day there were several spatial distortions. As long as we concentrate and observe, we can go through when the spatial node appears..."
He didn’t finish his sentence.
He saw a black-robed person behind him step forward, and with a slash of a black scythe.
Buzz—
The space before them distorted, rippling like water in waves.
The Great Sage’s eyes were wide with shock.
What, what is this? Is the spatial node being slashed open?
Continuing to inhabit the Nightmare Puppet, Tang Yu relied on the Puppet’s extremely high affinity for space. Not only could he clearly perceive the spatial node in front of him, but he could also sense the space on the opposite side... Even without a spatial node, the Nightmare Puppet could reach the opposite space with its spatial traversal ability.
The black-robed Nightmare Puppet was the first to pass through and quickly returned.
"No problem, we can return to the city instantaneously from there. Let’s go."
...
Buzz—
The space twisted, and figures in black robes emerged.
"This..." Fani looked up at the sky, her ears standing up in alarm.
The old Royal Capital was in ruins as far as the eye could see.
It was all ruins and fragments, with withered vegetation and gaping chasms in the ground, completely desolate.
The sky was as grim as the wilderness outside, heavy and oppressive. Beneath the gray clouds, however, red fog swirled, giving an uncomfortable feeling.
Below the red fog, in the direction of the center of the Royal Capital, a dark-brown pillar shot up into the Heavenly Dome.
Looking closely, it somewhat resembled a withered Giant Tree.
Most of its branches had already fallen off.
It must surely be the World Tree!
Only it looked rather pitiful; I wonder if there’s still hope for it?