Heroes' Prison-Chapter 1239 - 1178: A Batch of New Guardians
However, there are still a few months until the annual event begins. These months will ignite a new wave of sprinting, where players from around the world will strive to achieve great feats. Until the last moment, no one dares to claim they will surely win a prize.
Upon entering the virtual world, Huang Yi appeared above the Holy Land.
Looking down from the sky, the entire sanctuary was bustling, with intense construction work everywhere as far as the eye could see. Tens of thousands of excellent architects and array masters were building the Holy Land of the Elite Dragon Race.
"Let’s not make our Holy Dragon Clan’s altar too fancy, keep it simple." At this time, Huang Yi heard a familiar voice coming from a clearing in the forest below.
He looked over and found it was the Holy Dragon Clan leader, [Young Master Luo will Lead You], whom he had just promoted yesterday.
After joining the Holy Dragon Clan, Young Master Luo underwent some changes. Originally, he had a pair of Blood Clan red fleshy wings, but now those wings had turned golden and were covered with fine dragon scales, exhibiting the characteristics of the Holy Dragon Clan.
Beside Young Master Luo stood a robust man with a full beard. This man also had a pair of golden wings, indicating he was also a player of the Holy Dragon Clan. He carried a giant sword over two meters long, exuding a formidable and furious aura.
At this moment, the two were standing beside a massive altar, discussing something with a group of architects.
Huang Yi flew down and landed beside them, smiling as he said, "Young Master Luo, still busy I see!"
Young Master Luo brightened when he saw Huang Yi and said, "Big Brother God of Slaughter, you’re here! Let me introduce you."
He pointed to the robust man with the full beard beside him and said, "This is the famous Berserker [Da Huzi], who has just joined our Elite Dragon Race. He was originally the leading Berserker of the top 500-person instance group [Français] under Pope Aifel in France. Recently, he had some irreconcilable differences with Pope Aifel regarding the nature of the [Français] team, so he left. I’ve already promoted him to a member of the Holy Dragon Clan."
Da Huzi laughed heartily and said, "God of Slaughter, I’ve long wanted to see your prowess firsthand!" With that, he extended a strong hand towards Huang Yi.
Huang Yi also extended his hand, firmly shook his hand, and then patted his shoulder, smiling, "Welcome aboard! We’ve just established the Elite Dragon Race, and we need renowned masters like you."
After releasing his hand, Huang Yi pursed his lips and asked, "Do you know what Pope Aifel has been up to lately?"
Pope Aifel is a renowned super-first-class master in Europe and became a hero even earlier than him.
In the past national war, after Huang Yi’s reincarnation ended, he relied on his level, far above others, to strike down all the super-first-class masters within the invading army, including Pope Aifel.
After the national war, he hadn’t heard any news about Pope Aifel. But he didn’t dare to underestimate him, after all, the opponent is a super-first-class master with deep foundations, who could at any time perfect his signature treasures or encounter a heaven-defying adventure, making him difficult for Huang Yi to handle if he seeks revenge.
Upon hearing Pope Aifel’s name, Da Huzi’s expression became slightly complicated, indicating his deep-seated conflict with the other party.
He sighed and spoke in a muffled voice, "Pope Aifel is currently searching for traces of the Mage God. A long time ago, he discovered the divine nation of Mage God Zelar and received part of his legacy, but he couldn’t find the Mage God’s divine artifact. Despite his prolonged efforts, he hasn’t made much progress. Recently, he wanted our Français team to help him with this task. However, our Français team is merely an instance group, and not adept at tasks involving searching for clues worldwide. It was over this issue that I had disagreements with him, and ultimately, neither could convince the other, so I had to leave."
"I see!" Huang Yi nodded thoughtfully, touching his chin, and smiled mysteriously. He said, "If one day you wish to reconcile with Pope Aifel, you can tell him I know a major clue about Mage God Zelar, and if he’s willing to pay some price, I could share the clue with him."
Mage God Zelar was a deity Huang Yi had known about since first entering the virtual world.
At that time, during his first entry into Heroes’ Prison, he completed a rare quest by slaying a level-250 Hydra Death Scales which was the mount of Mage God Zelar. He deduced that Mage God Zelar was likely imprisoned in cell 11 and was still alive.
However, so much time has passed, nobody knows if Mage God Zelar still maintains his divine strength. Many criminals have lost much of their power over the long years, experiencing some degree of decline, and Mage God’s mount Hydra Death Scales has regressed to a mere level-250 strength. Even the famed Harbinger of Doomsday, Lucifer, was once a deity but later fell to the Heavenly Domain level, becoming a false god.
"Oh? You actually know the clues about Mage God Zelar?" Da Huzi was slightly taken aback, his beard moving upwards, "As expected of God of Slaughter, knowing even about the Mage God’s matters. But I will not take the initiative to reconcile with Pope Aifel. This time, he must take the first step; if he doesn’t initiate repairing the relationship with me, I will not approach him again."
Huang Yi lightly shook his head and said, "No problem, I was just mentioning it casually, not necessarily to reach cooperation with him, besides, I’m not sure if he still remembers the hatred from the national war."
"Big Brother God of Slaughter!" At this point, Young Master Luo finally spoke, enthusiastically saying, "Our power is growing rapidly, the Hero Empire is expanding too fast, and we have territories all over the world. Now, the Elite Dragon Race must start developing tribes worldwide, but we don’t have enough guardians, how about releasing another batch?"
Huang Yi nodded, "That indeed is an issue, I’ll immediately go and release a new batch of guardians."
Huang Yi finished speaking and with a flick of his palm, he immediately took out the "Book of Heroes".
This book was tattered, but upon seeing it, both Young Master Luo will Lead You and Da Huzi looked solemn, as if gazing at a legendary Divine Object.
Huang Yi opened the cover and solemnly recited the spell on the title page: "Feared by Pantheons, Heroes’ Prison!"
As soon as the words fell, the entire Holy Land suddenly dimmed, as if it had turned night in an instant!
In every corner of the land, tens of thousands of architects halted their work in shock, gazing up at the sky.
Even the few Demigod Guardians within the Holy Land were startled, looking up at the sky!
They saw an enormous Dark Demon Dragon head appear in the sky above the Holy Land, its massive mouth open, overlooking the vast land below.
This dragon head carried an overwhelming aura of devouring the heavens and earth. Every sinew on the dragon head resembled sprawling mountain ranges, each angle like a towering peak, and its dragon eyes were bright and vivid, gazing malevolently at the world.
Inside its dragon mouth was a colossal black hole, encased by gigantic dragon teeth, filled with an unknown mystery.
Now that Huang Yi had achieved Three-Step Ascension, this dragon head was far more magnificent than during the last summoning. It was unknown how grand it would become once he ascended to the rank of Demigod.
Those Demigod Guardians, upon seeing this dragon head, involuntarily trembled. They all remembered their days inside it, a past so unbearable to recall. Compared to that, being a Guardian now was the happiest thing imaginable.
Huang Yi flapped his wings and flew into the enormous dragon mouth as if swallowed by the Dark Demon Dragon.
After entering the Stone Chamber where the keys were placed in the Heroes’ Prison, Huang Yi immediately started flapping his Wings of the Sun Chaser. These wings allowed him to reach the utmost speed, theoretically capable of catching all the keys.
However, once the speed reached a certain level, his physical movements couldn’t keep up; his agility was insufficient. Simply being fast wasn’t enough to catch the quickest keys. His strength would have to increase again, making his body stronger, and his Agility Attribute higher. Or reach the Demigod Level to directly use Divine Power to influence the keys, which was far more reliable than purely relying on speed.
At this moment, only a sparse number of over a hundred keys floated in the sky; the keys of a level lower than his had all fallen to the ground, ready for him to pick up.
Seeing that his speed had increased sufficiently, Huang Yi began to soar towards the remaining keys in the sky.
"Whoosh!" His body moved like a flash of lightning across the air, so fast the entire ceiling of the stone chamber was filled with his presence, as if hundreds or thousands of him were flying at once.
After just a minute, he stopped, with both hands full of keys, more than ten in total, all ranked within the top 100, each housing a Criminal of at least Demigod level.
Holding these keys, Huang Yi began negotiating with the prisoners in the cells one by one.
The negotiation process went very smoothly. Except for a few keys corresponding to empty cells, all the prisoners agreed to his terms, becoming Guardians of the Hero Empire.
An hour later, behind Huang Yi followed eight Demigod Guardians of various appearances and races, each rebellious and untamed.
Their demeanors were diverse, but all were Overlord-like figures, having shone brightly in their respective eras.
At this time, Huang Yi only had two keys left in his hand, numbered 35 and 29.
Based on his experience, the prisoners in these two cells were at least Void Gods!
And the prisoner ranked 29 might even have surpassed the Void God...
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