A hundred meters later, a similar barrier appeared in front of him. This time, Dagmar didn't even hesitate to destroy the seemingly gorgeous but weak defensive barrier. He then charged straight into the heart of the mountain.
Just like Dagmar, Dhaka and Asser also encountered the same barrier and chose the same method as Dagmar to go deeper.
Within the belly of the three mountains, barriers kept appearing to block their path. They were torn apart by Dhaka, Dagmar, and Asser as they barged their way into the heart of the mountain.
"Eh?" Outside the valley, one of Dhaka's subordinates exclaimed as he looked at the strange runes carved on the three mountains.
Those oddly-shaped runes with unknown meanings lit up one after another. Wisps of colorful smoke slowly seeped out of the runes and gathered in the black fog that lingered in the valley, causing the stench in the valley to become stronger and stronger.
Dhaka, Asser, and Asser entered the belly of the mountain. As a precaution, Tanai left his men to keep an eye on the outside of the valley to prevent anyone from sneaking in and doing anything despicable.
Seeing the changes happening to the three mountains, Dhaka, Asser, and Asser's subordinates' expressions turned solemn. Their eyes darted around, paying attention to the slightest change in their surroundings.
"Something's not right!" One of Asser's subordinates frowned and took a deep breath. "Tanai seems to have gained some sort of strange power. Even the strange runes on the mountain seem to have some sort of special power affecting this place. Is there a problem?"
"I'll go in and report it to the lord right away!" Another of Asser's men acted immediately, rushing into the cave Asser had entered without hesitation.
Crack crack crack! Crack crack crack!
At this time, a strange sound came from the top of the three mountain peaks. The earth also shook violently, and a bottomless ravine was suddenly torn open under their feet. A strange power filled the valley and the three mountain peaks around it, and the runes on the three mountain peaks burst out with a dazzling radiance in an instant!
"There's a change!" Dhaka's subordinates cried out in panic. "You guys, go and report to the Lord Commander about the abnormality outside!"
It was the same for the people Dagmar left behind. They could sense that there was some sort of power slowly being released from the bottom of the three peaks. Not only was it affecting the valley, but it was also causing changes to the peaks.
Before Dagmar's men could enter the belly of the mountain, an earth-shattering explosion resounded from the depths of the earth. Turbid air from the earth's core gushed out of the ravines and converged into the black mist in the valley …
At the same time, the three mountains began to sway unsteadily amidst the violent tremors. The mountain Dagmar was on was swaying left and right, its tilt increasing as if it was a drunken giant.
"What's going on?!" Dagmar, Dhaka, and Asser shouted at the same time from the center of the three mountains.
"It's dangerous! Everyone retreat!" In the belly of another mountain, Asser howled, and the sound waves exploded like thunder in the mountain tunnel, spreading in all directions.
At the center of the mountain, they felt the changes even more deeply than Dagmar. There seemed to be a terrifying energy core at the center of the mountain that they had yet to reach. It was constantly pouring energy crystals into the mountain. As the mountain trembled and tilted, the boulders on the walls of the mountain bounced and crashed down from the top of their heads.
These powerful godhunters wouldn't have to worry about their lives if it were an ordinary boulder falling from the mountain. However, as the mountain began to sway and the terrifying energy crystals at the center of the mountain began to spread, an unknown amount of bizarre energy permeated the entire mountain. Every single boulder that fell from the mountain contained extremely terrifying energy.
Not only did that force weigh more than five million kilograms, but it also increased the speed at which the boulders rolled down the mountain. As the mountain was narrow and the godhunters were in great numbers, there was no way for them to avoid the impact of the boulders. Many of them were violently smashed into.
Under the impact of the strange energy permeating the rocks, the godhunters, whose bodies weren't much stronger than ordinary humans, immediately fell to the ground with blood flowing out of their orifices. Those godhunters who were facing the falling rocks hurriedly formed energy barriers above their heads, hoping to avoid being struck by the strange rocks.
Unfortunately, the boulders that had been imbued with a lot of power were extremely fast and terrifying. When a boulder fell on the barrier of power, it distorted the barrier. When a few large boulders fell together, the barrier that they had set up was as fragile as an eggshell, and it suddenly shattered into pieces!
Within the belly of the mountain, rocks tumbled down and rolled back and forth along the slope of the mountain, causing great damage to the godhunters inside.
The boulders, which contained a peculiar energy within them, were so sturdy that they rendered many powerless. Even when they blocked off the tunnels, they found it difficult to break through the godhunters' attacks. Only when several godhunters joined forces would they be able to break through the boulders.
However, the moment the rocks were broken, they would explode like bombs. The shrapnels had extremely powerful penetrative force and shot everywhere in the narrow passages, causing great damage to the godhunters.
Even though they knew that it would be very troublesome to destroy the rocks by force, they had no choice but to give it their all. That was because their escape route out of the mountain was completely blocked by the rocks. If they didn't leave before the mountain exploded with even more power, they knew that they wouldn't be able to escape alive!
"Salas, look at what you've done!" Dhaka roared angrily as he smashed the rocks in his way while loudly criticizing Salas.
At this point, Dhaka knew that he had fallen for someone else's scheme and had fallen into a trap. The way he saw it, it was Salas's responsibility to bring them here. However, he didn't think that Salas would betray them.
"How could I have known that this would happen? Dhaka, did you think that I framed you?!" Salas sneered guiltily as he helped Dhaka. "What reason would I have to frame you? Brian and I have an irreconcilable grudge against each other. I'm here with you to settle the score with him! "
Dhaka didn't think too much about it. Seeing that Salas was getting agitated, he coldly said, "I don't know if you framed us or not, but if it wasn't for your suggestion, we wouldn't have ended up in this situation!"
"Don't you f * cking slander me!" Salas roared. "Dagmar was the one who made a fuss about coming in here. What does it have to do with me? Dammit, blaming others every time something goes wrong. If this goes on, I'm not going to serve you anymore!"
Salas wasn't a kind person. Back in the Fringe, his temper was even worse than Dhaka's. But after suffering at the hands of Han Shuo and his son, he had toned down a lot. However, a person's nature wasn't something that could be easily changed. Given that Salas didn't care about scheming people like Dhaka in the first place, his attitude naturally turned nasty.
Seeing that Salas was so angry, Dhaka didn't say anything else. He snorted a few times and didn't say anything else.
He understood that he still needed Salas to help him clear through the mountain obstructions. If Salas ignored him out of spite, he and Salas might be able to avoid the disaster with their strength as Overgods, but most of his subordinates would definitely be dead or injured.
Dhaka didn't waste any more time and focused on destroying the boulders blocking the way. The boulders contained a lot of special energy and were difficult for most godhunters to destroy. But with Dhaka and Salas's strength, it wasn't too much of a problem. Under their continuous bombardment, a path leading to the outside was blasted open.
"Retreat!" Dhaka yelled, but he didn't rush out first. Instead, he turned around and yelled at his subordinates.
His subordinates felt as if they had been pardoned from a great crime and hurriedly rushed towards the only way out.
* Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! *
A loud rumble came from the center of the mountain and reverberated through every path. The mountain started to shake violently again. The two of them felt that the mountain might collapse at any moment.
"Heavens, what's going on?!" Dhaka's subordinates in the center of the valley were shocked and dumbfounded.
It turned out that as the rumble came from the center of the three mountains, even larger ravines were torn open at the foot of the three mountains. The ravines were hundreds of meters long and spread out like a spider web.
The three mountain peaks trembled violently after the densely packed ravines appeared, rapidly sinking into the bottomless depths of the earth!
It was as if a giant mouth had opened up beneath the three mountains and was about to swallow them whole.
"Quick, get out of here!" Dhaka was shocked. He could already feel the mountains rapidly sinking into the earth. He couldn't imagine who could have such terrifying power to make three mountains sink into the earth in such a short period of time.
There was no longer any force that could stop the mountains from sinking. As the three mountains slowly sank into the earth, the earth began to contract and compress the mountain, causing a terrifying force to erupt from the center of the mountain.
It was as if lightning had ignited the flames of the earth. Something terrifying happened once more!
Following an earth-shattering rumble, the three mountains that were slowly sinking into the earth began to crumble. The strange runes on the mountain walls exploded one after another. The explosions seemed to have triggered some kind of energy from the mountains, causing the three mountains to crumble. The godhunters inside the mountains were either killed by the explosion or by the impact of the falling boulders.
In an instant, the three Hegemons' subordinates in the mountains suffered heavy casualties.
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