Chapter 279: Chapter 238: The Faceless Statue, The Dark Lord (4/6)
“Do you think Uncle Kevin can save Miss Vale? Not only that quicksand surrounded that area, but also several monsters.”
A young man said with mixed feelings as he watched the undead dragon fly away in the sky.
The expressions of the older civilians changed slightly. They looked up at the skeleton blood dragon that still hovered above their heads.
“Shut up! That powerful lord could definitely save Miss Vale and the others!
The other party immediately lowered his head and did not dare to say anything more.
The weak could do nothing but pray in this situation.
Richard had heard more details about the broken temple.
However, a giant mountain wolf bit Kevin’s thigh. Kevin was not clear about the exact situation and could not explain the main point.
He didn’t ask for any more valuable clues.
They flew full speed. Their speed was very fast.
Twenty minutes later, Kevin pointed at the desert area ahead and shouted.
“My Lord, this is the broken temple. My companions are trapped inside!!”
Richard looked over.
The desert in front of him was calm, and nothing was special about it.
At the end of his line of sight, he could vaguely see a building the size of a thumb in the central area.
“The desert below is quicksand. There are many monsters below the surface…”
As he spoke, his eyes were filled with hatred. It was obvious that he had suffered a great loss.
Richard lowered his head to take a look, but didn’t say anything.
Quicksand was a special terrain in the desert. After one has stepped into it, one would gradually sink into the sand until completely submerged and suffocated to death.
However, he didn’t have to walk on the ground.
He drove Alves to fly towards the building.
When they entered the land of quicksand Kevin had mentioned, the sand below began to flow.
The monster below sensed an unfamiliar aura, but it did not reveal itself.
The area wasn’t very long, with a radius of about 10 kilometers.
It flapped its wings a few times and flew to the central area.
The temple ruins appeared in front of Richard, a hundred meters in diameter. More than two hundred people were squeezed in the upper left corner of the ruins.
On the sand around the temple, dozens of ferocious-looking monsters swam.
These monsters were seven to eight meters long and had huge mouths. Dozens of tentacles wriggled on their bodies, which looked extremely disgusting.
Long-bearded sandworm, level 9, Rare 3-stars potential.
However, there seemed to be something special about this broken temple that made those monsters not dare to approach.
When they saw outsiders coming from the sky, the long-bearded sandworms around them let out a series of roars, then sank into the sand and disappeared without a trace.
However, Richard could sense they were hiding under the sand. If there was any movement from above, they would immediately attack.
When the civilians on the ground saw the monsters around them had disappeared, they did not show any joy on their faces. Fear showed instead.
They trembled as they looked at the giant dragon that burned in the sky.
When Kevin saw that his companions were still on the dragon’s back, he couldn’t help but wave and shout excitedly.
“I’m here to pick you up!”
When they heard this familiar voice, the residents raised their heads one by one. When they saw Kevin, they were immediately delighted and surprised.
“Uncle Kevin?”
“It’s Kevin!”
“He was the one who brought these undead wyverns…”
Richard paid no attention to the excited residents below. His eyes were fixed on the broken temple.
In such a large area, only the statue in the center was intact.
The statue held its hands in front of its chest, and in its palms was a gray stone that looked unremarkable.
What made his heart palpitate was that the statue had no facial features, so he couldn’t see what god it was.
A faceless statue.
Coupled with the surrounding broken environment, it gave people a strong psychological impact.
As Richard pondered, he had Alves land at the edge of the temple.
Kevin also came down from the back of the skeleton blood dragon. When he saw the fellow with blood that oozed out of his thigh, he excitedly rushed forward to hug his companions before he walked up.
“What did you guys touch inside?”
As Richard approached, he seemed to have silenced the excited crowd.
All looked at him in fear.
To enslave such a powerful undead dragon, it was obvious that it was not an existence to be trifled with.
When Kevin heard this, he subconsciously looked to the back of the crowd.
Then, the crowd parted to the left and right, and a thin figure appeared, brushed past the shoulders of the crowd.
The man walked up to Richard.
After the figure bowed, it stood up and said in a clear voice, “My lord, the stone ball in the statue’s hand is actually a crystal. There is a desert inside the crystal.”
Richard looked at the girl in front of him. She was no more than 17 or 18 years old, and the words enlivened his curiosity.
“There’s a desert inside the crystal?”
“That’s right.” The other party’s tone did not fluctuate much.
“Our companion wanted to take the crystal from the other party’s hand, but as soon as he touched the crystal, the surrounding desert turned into quicksand, and several monsters appeared underground…”
Richard turned to look at the faceless statue.
His heart suddenly skipped a beat as he felt a strong sense of danger.
It was as if it wasn’t a god statue, but a ferocious giant beast.
It was full of pressure.
As his thoughts turned, he slowly said.
“Kevin, get everyone to board the skeleton blood dragon and leave this area.”
Kevin heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that.
Gratitude shrouded his eyes.
“Thank you for your kindness, My Lord.”
Richard waved his hand dismissively.
“From now on, you will be a member of Twilight City. My people will be under my protection. Go.”
The surrounding commoners were surprised to hear this.
However, when he saw that Kevin and the thin girl did not speak, he suppressed the doubts in his heart.
‘Hu!’
The monster in the quicksand sensed the skeleton blood dragon had left. It rose its head from the sand unwillingly and roared.
However, no matter how angry the ground troops were, they could not do anything to the flying troops.
It took three trips for the 200 plus people and 10 skeleton blood dragons to transport all of them.
In the end, only Richard, Kevin, and the emaciated girl were left on the field.
“Are you sure the quicksand area appeared after you touched the crystal?”
“Yes, my lord.”
The figure in front of him was neither servile nor overbearing, and his temperament was like a tenacious weed that grew on the grass, inconspicuous but full of tenacity.
Although the girl’s appearance could only be considered delicate, her special temperament left a deep impression.
Richard nodded.
“You guys get on the skeleton blood dragon and leave this area.
“Gunter, receive him from behind. Don’t come any closer.”
“Yes, Lord…”
Even though the situation seemed to be safe and sound.
Richard couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
The danger that the faceless statue brought made him maintain the highest level of vigilance.
After Gunter and the rest had left a certain range.
Alves was the only one who waited for him.
Richard didn’t hesitate any longer. He waved his hand, and a cloud of sand rose into the air. A figure appeared in front of him.
After he formed the sand golem, it slowly walked toward the faceless god statue.
Without any accidents, he arrived beside the statue.
At the same time, he felt the dim crystal in the statue.
Richard took a deep breath, and slowly controlled the sand golem to grab the unremarkable crystal.
He held it tightly and slowly picked it up.
The moment the crystal left the statue’s hands.
‘Crack!’
They could hear a crisp sound.
The faceless statue cracked like glass on the ground, and then it shattered into pieces.
The instant the faceless statue crumbled, the surrounding space was immediately sealed.
Rumble, a violent tremor rang out, and large spider web-like cracks appeared on the ground.
Then, it was like the collapse of a mountain, the ground sharply collapsed.
At this moment, an extremely terrifying pressure rose from the ground.
It was like a giant abyssal beast that could devour the world and had torn the earth apart.
Richard felt an indescribable sense of danger, and every cell in his body was on alert.
It was horrible, extremely horrible.
At this moment, he felt like the god of death stared at him.
He would die if he stayed any longer!
He forcefully resisted the terrifying aura and let out a low growl from his throat. The power in his body gushed out like lava.
The yellow sand halo instantly activated, negating the pressure that felt like a god or devil’s gaze. He controlled the sand to fly up rapidly.
At the same time, the figure that the sand formed dispersed and brought the crystal to him.
Richard was quick to react. After he kept the crystal into the system space, he got on Alves’ back and commanded the dragon to fly away.
In less than a breath’s time.
‘Boom!’ The ground within 10 kilometers of the broken temple collapsed.
The dust flew up a hundred meters high.
At the same time, a vast and boundless dark aura, like it was the nine heavenly galaxies that fell, rushed up from inside.
“I… Eternal and indestructible!
“Yellow sand monarch…”
“Hundreds of thousands of years of imprisonment… I will definitely take revenge.”
Richard, who sat on Alves’s back, looked down.
On the collapsed earth, a dark light swallowed everything which made it impossible to see the traces deep inside.
He could barely make out an indescribable, blurry figure that twisted and turned wildly in the darkness.
Suddenly, when it sensed the aura of an outsider, a giant tentacle condensed from dark energy suddenly reached out from the ground.
It directly tore through the air.
Alves flapped its wings wildly as if it had gone crazy. But mercury seemed to have filled the space around. And its speed was countless times slower than usual.
At this moment…
The dark tentacle grabbed Alves’s sharp claws.
It pulled hard after it wrapped it a few times.
‘Hu!’
The power of the tentacle grabbed this powerful undead dragon with a wingspan of 30 meters into the dark abyss like a little chick.
Alves roared in anger.
It lowered its head and spat out a dazzling scarlet energy at the tentacle.
However, the Beyond A-rank dragon’s breath that could easily melt steel could not cause damage to it.
Alves’s roaring figure completely disappeared into the darkness after a few breaths.
After the dragon hero couldn’t fight back, the strapping tentacle killed it right in front of Richard.
Richard turned around after he flew for ten miles.
His expression was unprecedentedly serious.
The dark land was like the abyss of the main plane. It imprisoned the most brutal dark king.
“What was that terrifying being?”
Countless questions arose in his heart.
At that moment, the system notification suddenly rang.
[Ding~ You have opened the dungeon where the dark monarch is sealed. It triggered a special mission–Attack the Dungeon.
[Defeat the dungeon guard and you can obtain the hero imprisoned in the dungeon–the Dark Lord.]
Richard was stunned when he heard the system notification.
The dungeon, Dark Lord?