Free Web NovelChapter 2448: Chapter 2449: Actions Taken Separately
Glancing at Veronia, Feng Yuan said irritably,
"What invincible defense? It’s just a crowd-limited setup. To break this, you need more than 20 people striking simultaneously to penetrate the time barrier."
Just one look and Feng Yuan saw what this endlessly cycling ultimate move was about—it’s a rule-restricted barrier, a type of defense barrier that’s hard to judge as good or bad.
Like the barrier blocking them from attacking the rune now, it’s a special rule-restricted barrier. Only when more than 20 people attack at the same time will the excess beyond the limit randomly unleash to break through the barrier.
Other than that, only Feng Yuan can forcefully break it with the world-annihilating rule. Otherwise, even Eclipse and Xilnais have to act within the rule restrictions.
"A rule-restricted defense? Quite a distinctive method."
Veronia was stunned, waved to cancel the attack, and the crystal luminance stone torrent, caught in a time loop, instantly disappeared. Of course, she knew what rule-restricted defenses were, a power surpassing the authority of the Divine Beasts. Despite its strength, it’s very inflexible.
If, as Feng Yuan said, it requires more than 20 people to break, then this defense surely requires more than 20 people attacking and it will definitely break the defense.
This is also the flaw of rule-based defenses: no matter what kind, they must leave a possibility for breakthrough, which is why, despite being strong, they aren’t difficult to crack.
"Go back to gather people?"
Looking at Feng Yuan, Veronia asked, shrugging, Feng Yuan said helplessly,
"Otherwise? Even if it requires more than 20 people to break, we should still try to pick stronger ones."
After all, this rule defense nullifies the attacks of 20 people at once. If they casually pull people to make up numbers, and the attacks breaking through the limit are too weak to damage the rune, it’s useless.
"It really is troublesome, isn’t it? Even if we’re cautious, we can’t just gather more than 20 Divine Beasts to help at once."
Veronia thought of something and said, rolling her eyes Feng Yuan responded irritably,
"Come on, even if the total number of Divine Beasts isn’t low, suddenly deploying 20 will surely create serious defense gaps... Could this be their goal?"
As he spoke, Feng Yuan was stunned, not having considered this before. The alliance side is a mess right now, and relying solely on the number of Divine Beasts gathered by the Divine Beast Hall isn’t particularly large. At most, they can defend the Main World. As for launching an assault on The Imperial Timeline, that’s not feasible yet.
If their goal is to force them to mobilize a large number of Divine Beasts, leading to gaps in the defense line, then what exactly do they want?
"Perhaps so, such a shame they haven’t decided yet. Foolish indeed."
With a light snort, Veronia said disdainfully, those Divine Beasts close to the Alliance aside, they can’t say much at a time like this, yet those unrelated to humans are watching the show, which makes her look down on them. Do they think The Imperial Timeline would spare the territory they protect?
"Who knows what their goal is, hopefully it’s not to cause trouble in the Netherworld."
Sighing, Feng Yuan said helplessly, Veronia sneered and said,
"The Netherworld Divine Beasts have already taken collective action. Compared to those still wrangling in the real world, the Netherworld Divine Beasts are quite clever."
"Hmm, the Netherworld is already on guard? That’s good."
Glancing at the rune behind him, Feng Yuan chose to return with Veronia. Although the environment around them had drastically changed due to the internal Time Storm, finding the target wasn’t too difficult for Feng Yuan.
Seeing the sudden appearance of Tamur, Qi Chen asked puzzledly,
"Tamur, what’s up?"
"The Anomaly Point requires the collaboration of more than 20 Legendary Beastmasters."
"More than 20 Legendary Beastmasters?!"
Hearing Tamur’s words, everyone looked at each other, they didn’t even have a Legendary Level Beastmaster here, let alone such numbers. Maomu City itself might not be able to find so many Legendary Beastmasters in a short time.
"Why require so many Legendary Beastmasters? Is the Anomaly Point that hard to handle?"
Qi Chen questioned further, tethered by doubts from Tamur’s words, Dou Zhengrong speculated,
"The power of each individual is hard to quantify precisely. If the number of people is specific, is the Anomaly Point a challenge that needs more than 20 people to attempt?"
"Though several mechanisms could create similar situations, analyzing the current scenario leads to one possibility: the device needs so many people to disperse and disable it. If it requires Legendary Level Beastmasters, it indicates strong self-protection capabilities."
"Besides, there could be special rules or undying qualities involved."
Dou Zhengrong quickly neared the truth, and Tamur wasn’t interested in keeping suspense, gently swaying its body as it said,
"A rule barrier, requiring more than 20 people for a random effective attack."
"That’s good news."
Upon getting the answer, Dou Zhengrong relaxed. If the hard requirement was for Legendary strength, that would be a problem. Maomu City might struggle to pull 20 Legendary Beastmasters given the surprise attack, as Legendary Beastmasters wouldn’t just abandon the city to deal with an incident affecting a few.
"The current challenge is how to protect them. Even if we have the strength to unleash a Legendary Level strike, we still don’t have 20."
Dou Zhengrong looked at Tamur, intuition telling him the other had a plan.
"I’ll temporarily grant you Mythical Transformation to safeguard this place, but you need to look out for your own safety."
"He will guide you to the Anomaly Point."
Tamur stated. With full Mythical Transformation, a Legendary Level strike isn’t an issue. It was mentioned because the consideration was necessary. Tamur couldn’t accompany them, so their best bet was for the breakthrough attack to shatter the rune in one blow.
And the Legendary Level is the limit to which Mythical Transformation can elevate. Sacred Beast Level goes beyond what’s easily reached with Mythical Transformation.
"Mythical Transformation?"
"Let’s go as well! We’ve used Mythical Transformation before. I believe we can unleash a Legendary Level strike, right?"
Dou Yanlan spoke up before Zhanzheng Qichan could, looking at Dou Yanlan, remembering that vanishing figure, Zhanzheng Qichan sighed,
"Tamur can assess the situation. We only have one chance to strike, so bring as many people as possible."
Dou Zhengrong glanced at Dou Yanlan, wanting to say something, but seeing the determined look on the other’s face, he relented. Even if he tried to persuade them, it would be futile. His only option was to protect them as well as he could on their way.
Ultimately, they gathered nearly forty people to head to the Anomaly Point. Tamur bestowed Mythical Transformation upon them; based on Qi Chen’s experience, if it isn’t activated, Mythical Transformation can be sustained for over a day. The large number was for this reason.
They were unfamiliar with the void, and in case of unexpected events, they might need to leverage Mythical Transformation for protection. They even discussed having some members hold back from using Mythical Transformation at the Anomaly Point.
If one strike doesn’t achieve the goal, they at least have a chance to withdraw and attempt again.
If there’s even the slightest chance, nobody would choose a desperate fight to the death. Moreover, Zhanzheng Qichan’s probing attack had shown him that Elite Level strength allows free movement in the void, although without some techniques, they might get lost there.
For Zhanzheng Qichan, it’s difficult to protect so many people at once, which is why they arranged for a few to retain Mythical Transformation.
Just as Qi Chen and the others were preparing to launch an attack on the rune, Agunas tore open the temporal storm and finally received Veronia’s message.
Though the temporal storms weren’t interlinked, anything within a time storm shares a Divine Beast intelligence network. Correspondingly, only those within the time storm could access this network.
After reading Veronia’s message, Agunas’s expression changed dramatically. The forbidden records might not mean much to Veronia, but as a Divine Beast overseeing archival records, Agunas knew the significance of the forbidden archives.
Such archives are special records that even it couldn’t casually peruse. Anything documented within holds complex challenges.
Even if their initial assessment suggested the Twisted Bemod hadn’t appeared, it still left Agunas on high alert.
If not for Veronia’s later note that the enemy might be performing a diversion, aligning with its suspicion, Agunas might have sought the assistance of many Divine Beasts.
Nonetheless, Agunas realized that the situation here has somewhat exceeded control.
