Capítulo 53: Shattered Darkness Canopy
Editor: Atlas Studios
Liu Ming soon found the Darkness Canopy's core array formation.
Liu Ming saw the huge Magic Array in front of him, which was made up of endless mageweaves. Two Undead Generals stood in front of the Magic Array, who were dressed similarly to Berris.
After testing his abilities on Berris, Liu Ming charged towards the two Undead Generals without hesitation.
Although the two Undead Generals were amused by the human in front of them that 'thought too highly of himself,' they nonetheless raised their weapons and tried to kill Liu Ming.
However, the two Undead Generals did not know that the human—whom they thought was thinking too highly of himself—was actually an existence strong enough to defeat them both.
Unless they had immediately run after seeing Liu Ming, finding out this truth would not change the outcome of the battle anyway.
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Liu Ming soon slashed and killed the two Undead Generals.
After casually picking up the two Undead Generals' drops, Liu Ming finally shifted his gaze back onto his ultimate target, the Darkness Canopy's core Magic Array.
The entire Magic Array was composed of mageweaves that glowed with black and red light. Coupled with the gloomy surroundings, the Magic Array looked absolutely extraordinary.
The Darkness Canopy's core array formation had low Durability—a mere 50 points, which was only a quarter of the Teleportation Arrays in the previous burial ground.
However, this actually benefited Liu Ming more. If the array had a Durability of a few thousand points, Liu Ming would definitely be caught off-guard and defeated by the Darkness Camp's high-level NPCs.
A Durability value of 50 points gave Liu Ming enough time to escape. Hence, almost without hesitation, Liu Ming raised his sword and swung it at the Magic Array.
At this moment, all of the Darkness Camp's senior executives' eyes were on the Brilliance Camp players who had barged in. They did not notice that their Magic Array had already been infiltrated and attacked at all.
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Fifty points of Durability could be depleted with just 50 normal attacks. When the Darkness Camp's senior executives finally discovered something amiss, the Darkness Canopy in the sky above Cara City had already vanished.
The dazzling rays of sunlight shone on the ground, getting rid of all the gloominess in Cara City. However, the pure sunlight was not a good thing for the Darkness Camp's members.
Other than a few of the Darkness Camp's senior executives—who were not undead creatures—all the other NPCs of the Darkness Camp, including Marshal Morri, were greatly weakened to various extents by the sunlight.
Some low-level undead creatures, which had mutated from the corpses of the casualties in Cara City, were completely purified by the sunlight.
In the end, the Darkness Camp's senior executives had no choice but to abandon most of the low-level undead creatures and hide in buildings with some Elite undead creatures so as to reduce the sunlight's impact on them.
However, due to the fact that the undead creatures' siege had always been a direct push, there were not many buildings in the entire Cara City that could provide shelter for many undead creatures.
Although a Darkness Canopy was relatively easy to build, it would still take at least a day or two to rebuild it. A day or two may not be a huge problem for the high-level undead creatures, but it was enough time for all the low-level and mid-level undead creatures in Cara City to be purified.
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In Cara City's Magic Tower, Marshal Morri gritted his teeth and said, "Darned Floating Cloud! Once I get my hands on you, I'll definitely turn you into a corpse-eating ghost, the lowliest of creatures."
Since Marshal Morri could hold an important position, he naturally was not a completely reckless person. He quickly understood that the Darkness Canopy's malfunction was caused by Liu Ming.
After all, the only one who could quickly kill his two right-hand men and whose superficial strength was coincidentally unknown to them was Liu Ming, whose whereabouts were unknown.
At this moment, an elder, dressed like a priest of a cult, mocked Morri with a look of contempt. "Morri, stop making excuses for your stupidity."
As soon as the elder said those words, a demon immediately laughed and chimed in. "Yeah, you let an Elite-level imp destroy such an important location. You're too incompetent for an Undead Marshal."
The two of them supported each other, making Marshal Morri feel incredibly infuriated. However, Marshal Morri was also at a loss for words and could only glower at the two of them in anger.
After all, although the duo's words sounded a little exaggerated, it was true that Liu Ming managed to take advantage of the situation because the guards Marshal Morri had sent were too incompetent.
Upon seeing Marshal Morri glaring at them, the elder and the demon looked at each other with one accord.
In the end, a man, dressed like a nobleman, spoke to break the awkward tension in the air. "It's not the time to pin the blame on anyone or hold anyone accountable. We should capture that Adventurer, Floating Cloud as soon as possible and block all news regarding the destruction of Cara City's Darkness Canopy to avoid letting it leak."
The nobleman's words immediately made the three of them, including Marshal Morri, sober up.
Indeed, now that the Darkness Canopy had been destroyed, the Brilliance Camp would probably arrive with their troops to invade if they heard of the news.
All of the existences present at the moment had all crossed paths with the Light Alliance's people for a long time. Before his death, Marshal Morri was a noble among the humans. Thus, he was well aware of how the nobles, who belonged to the Light Alliance, thought.
However, if they were to reveal that they had occupied the Cara City and had the Darkness Canopy over their heads, the nobles who had ill intentions would, at most, send some miscellaneous troops to deal with it.
Going toe-to-toe against an Undead Calamity was not a wise move. To any of the Brilliance Camp's nobles, destroying a small group of high-level undead creatures would be considered a huge success.
Now that the group of high-level undead creatures had lost the Darkness Canopy's protection, they were just free credit in the eyes of the Light Alliance's people.
'What? You mean there are also high-level demons and a Cultist High Priest here? Since they're just insignificant small fries, I'll kill them together and get credit.'
In the face of the great crisis, the Darkness Camp's senior executives put down their previous prejudices and began deploying their combat forces to search Cara City.
However, the bunch of miscellaneous troops could not find Liu Ming. Most of them were also already crippled now. The people from the Darkness Camp could no longer find him.
Anyway, the incident had caused a huge commotion in Cara City, causing the news of Liu Ming destroying the Darkness Canopy to be leaked.
Even the players—who had accepted the relevant Cara City reconnaissance quest—had stopped reconnoitering and returned to their main city with news of the Darkness Canopy's destruction.
Liu Ming's mission also changed to staying alive and waiting for the troops' aid or escaping Cara City safely.
Of course, even if Liu Ming were captured and killed by the Darkness Camp's senior executives now, he would not be punished for failing the mission. His reward for the previous mission he completed might not get reduced either.
After all, Liu Ming had already completed the reconnaissance mission before destroying the Darkness Canopy.
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