Within a tranquil and fragrant room.
Lola had changed into a formal dress.
She looked at herself in the mirror in shock and asked: "Is anyone here?"
No response.
The maids were clearly standing not too far away from her just now, but they had already disappeared without a trace.
Lola raised her voice and called out again: "Is anyone here?"
Silence. Still no response.
Suddenly — —
Boom!!!
An earth-shattering explosion followed by intense tremors resounded from the other side of the palace.
A solemn voice resounded from above:
「 It has been ascertained that the Apostle had used a concealment technique to disguise several of the most terrifying monsters of the Abyss, attempting to infiltrate our Calming Soul Country 」
"Now, all the evil monsters have been killed!"
」「 Relay the Divine Decree of the four Pillar Gods, from now on, Calming Soul Country will no longer allow any outsiders to enter! 」
Lola was shocked.
She quickly took a few steps forward and arrived at the door.
As if sensing her arrival, a barrier made of runes appeared at the entrance.
The runes manifested one after another, quickly covering the entire room.
— — -this place was actually a cage!
Lola abruptly stopped.
Standing in front of the fence, she was a bit hesitant.
All of a sudden, another voice resounded from the void of space outside the palace.
— — -it was Boss's voice:
「 Detestable four Pillar Gods, this place was clearly about to fall into my pocket, yet you dared to interfere with my plans! 」
A female voice sighed and advised him: 「 Give up, Apostle, with this Water God here today, your schemes will not succeed 」
「 Die! 」 Boss roared in fury.
Blinding light shone through the gap in the window, illuminating the entire room.
The sound of explosions followed.
The battle had begun.
The sounds of battle were gradually moving deeper and deeper into the clouds, moving further and further away from the ground.
From the looks of it, both sides of the battle had left this palace.
At first, Lola was a bit surprised, but after a bit of thought, she quickly regained her composure.
She returned to her seat and silently sat there, waiting for a certain person's voice.
At another location.
The place where Gu Qing Shan's group was originally staying.
The entire room was blasted into ruins by the sudden and violent spell attack.
This was a Spell Technique that had been ingeniously compressed. Its power had been increased by several times, but it wouldn't cause too much damage. It was only concentrated in a certain space.
Therefore, the room was not completely destroyed.
A few corpses were scattered messily on the ground.
Gu Qing Shan, Ye Fei Li, Jang Young-ho, and Boss.
Their auras were completely gone, and their bodies were covered in all kinds of shocking wounds.
The corpse lay quietly on the ground without any movement.
The area near the room was shrouded in darkness.
This was most likely a spell that completely blocked off the outside world's detection.
Without the permission of the gods, no one could approach this place.
In the darkness, two shadows appeared.
They carefully examined the condition of the four corpses.
After a long time, a black shadow let out a faint sigh.
"Have you examined the apostle's corpse?"
Someone replied in a low voice: "I have, he's already dead"
"I've also examined him, it seems he really is dead" the female voice slowed down, then continued with a prideful tone: "The apostle has completely lost his powers, under the combined might of the four of us, he naturally wouldn't be able to hold on"
The voice from before asked again: "Are you sure that girl is Queen Of Thorns?"
"I'm sure, I've specifically used my portion of the war system to investigate" the female voice replied.
The voice continued: "Then that's good, the other matters have been arranged, this matter shall be concluded as such"
The female voice joyfully said: "If we can capture Queen Of Thorns, we won't have to worry about treasures anymore"
The other voice worriedly said: "The apostle has lost his powers, killing him isn't a big deal, but there's still an unidentified fellow, if he's discovered by the outside world, what should we do?"
The female voice replied: "Hmph, regardless of who's behind him, the seal of Calming Soul Country was jointly created by the Deities in the past, it definitely wouldn't be opened by a True Deity alone from the outside world — — no one would be able to send any information out from this place!"
"And so …"
"And so, if we kill him, no one will know, no one from the outside world will know that we were the ones who did it here"
The voice went silent for a while before agreeing: "Indeed, that person must be more or less related to a True Deity, it wouldn't be good if he managed to discover our identities here"
The female voice also added: "Killing him and obtaining Queen Of Thorns, this is killing two birds with one stone"
The person from before slowly calmed down and said: "I'll go take a look at them — — - they pretended to fight against the apostle, they've already gone far away"
The female voice asked: "Wait a minute, have you dealt with the matter with the king?"
The voice scoffed: "He's nothing more than that, I've already killed the people he arranged"
The Goddess was pleased: "That's good, I'll first take care of the corpses, then go watch over Queen Of Thorns and prevent her from escaping"
"Hm"
The conversation ended.
One of the figures disappeared from this ruin.
Only one figure remained.
This figure waved his hand, causing all the corpses on the ground to vanish without a trace.
The figure stood there for a while longer.
「 Hmph, a former apostle ended up like this, how laughable and pitiful 」
The figure muttered to herself, then turned around and left.
As soon as she left the darkness, her original appearance was revealed.
Water Deity!
So it was her!
She did not know why, but she stood still and paused for a while.
Suddenly, she shook her head, seemingly feeling that she was being ridiculous, then turned around and left.
Everything returned to silence.
Not too long later. A voice suddenly called out.
"Gongzi, what are you doing …"
This was Shannu's doubtful voice.
Gu Qing Shan's voice followed:
"This is called a human pyramid, haven't you seen it before?"
"But why do we have to do this?"
"Lola's flower umbrella is only this big. We have to stack it up and let her stand on top of it. Only then can it cover all of us."
Lola's voice suddenly came: "Gu Qing Shan, you're mistaken, my [Shelter of Infinite Worlds] doesn't require one to be under the umbrella, as long as they touch the umbrella, they'll receive the effects of [Shelter of Infinite Worlds]"
"Ah, why didn't you say so earlier"
"I thought you were standing like that for some sort of special formation, who would've thought you were just trying to hide your tracks"
Right after that, Lola suddenly appeared in the air.
She lightly landed on the ground.
The scene in the air appeared.
Ye Fei Li was standing still, Jang Young-ho was standing on his shoulder, Boss was standing on Jang Young-ho's shoulder, and Gu Qing Shan was standing on Boss's shoulder.
Originally, Lola was standing on Gu Qing Shan's shoulder.
— — Lola was holding her umbrella, using [Shelter of Infinite Worlds] to ensure that no one was discovered.
Before Lola officially received [Shelter of Infinite Worlds], she was already able to use this ability to avoid Triste's frenzied attempts to capture her.
In history, there was even a Bramble Bird King who used this ability to enter the Unending Abyss of broken worlds without dying, and even brought back the Armor of the Old Gods.
That's why using this ability to deceive everyone couldn't be more suitable.
Lola stood on the ground and opened her umbrella.
She disappeared without a trace, making it impossible for anyone to sense her.
"Alright, everyone come and touch the umbrella, that way you won't be discovered"
Her voice resounded from the void of space.
Everyone reached their hands out and touched the void of space.
They all disappeared one after another.
Boss's voice sounded a bit prideful: "How convenient, if I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have played that human pyramid thing"
Ye Fei Li's voice also resounded: "I know right, you guys are too heavy, I'm at the bottom"
"You're already complaining about how heavy we are? You know, I've only used 70% of my strength to disguise myself as a corpse "Jang Young-ho complained.
Ye Fei Li explained: "It's not anything else, I'm just afraid that I'll be too high, it won't be easy to go out"
At this point, Shannu's voice stopped their complaints: "Gongzi, didn't you tell me to wait there, why did you summon me back?"
"Because there's no need, I think I know what they want to tell you" Gu Qing Shan replied.
"But as soon as I return, they'll notice that Lola is gone"
"Hm, that makes sense, let's go!"
"Where to?"
"I have a map here, there shouldn't be any problems …"
Their voices slowly went away, leaving this ruin.
All of a sudden.
An angry voice resounded across the entire palace.
"Immediately seal this place off, don't let anyone in or out!"
Water God.
She gave the order again.
At this point, Gu Qing Shan's group had already gone through several secret paths, passed through several hidden mechanisms, and arrived at a secret underground passage of the palace.
Gu Qing Shan was holding a piece of paper, looking at the simple map on it as she walked at the very front of the group.
Shannu was at the very back.
"Gu Qing Shan, aren't you afraid that the contents of this piece of paper are a lie?" Lola asked.
Gu Qing Shan replied: "If they wanted to kill us, what they did just now was more than enough, this piece of paper is nothing more than an unnecessary move, so we're only here to observe the situation before we decide what to do next"
Boss raised his hand: "I'll say this first, if you run into a battle, I'm afraid I won't be able to help much"
Jang Young-ho added: "Me too, I've already used up 70% of my strength, I can only snipe a bit"
Ye Fei Li hesitantly spoke: "I — — I'll try my best, but everyone here is too strong, I'm not a match for them at all"
Gu Qing Shan looked at them, then at Lola.
Lola consoled her: "Gu Qing Shan, don't worry, although I can't fight, I'm very good at hiding, I won't be a burden to you like they are"
Gu Qing Shan replied without changing her expression: "I don't feel relieved at all"
They reached the end of the secret passage.
A corpse was lying there.
As they looked closer, they saw that it was the maid from before.
The maid who brought Gu Qing Shan pastries.
She was already dead.
It's clear that she originally wanted to stay here to receive everyone.
Gu Qing Shan sighed dejectedly.
The voice that spoke to Water God before said that they had dealt with the king's arrangements, most likely referring to this woman.
Everyone else also went silent.
"What do we do now?" Boss asked.
Gu Qing Shan replied: "We can't stay here for too long, Fei Li"
"Hm"
Ye Fei Li replied, then walked forward to observe the corpse.
"She hasn't been dead for too long, her soul is still here"
Ye Fei Li muttered.
He drew the Forgetting River Soul Flaying Hook, lightly touched the maid's corpse, then abruptly pulled it back.
From the corpse, a translucent silhouette of a woman was pulled out by the long hook.
This was the woman's soul.
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