Chapter 349
At the entrance to the Abyssal Court Pavilion, a seven-person team stood poised to breach the doors. Yet no one moved. They waited.
Yuanhe held the vanguard. His mind-spirit had long since subjugated the surrounding guards, and with their combined strength, even Blood Ancestors would have been helpless as toddlers before them.
Empowered by their array, the only force in the Royal City capable of contending with them was the imperial family—but the royals were nowhere to be found. The three great families administering the capital seemed wholly indifferent, turning a blind eye to their presence.
"It made sense before," Yuanhe said, peering down into the cavernous subterranean tunnel. "Our disguises explained how we passed unseen. But we're standing right at the entrance, and still no one has come."
"They knew we were coming," Xia Si sneered from behind him. "They feel completely secure."
"Then there's no reason to hide." The largest among them, Copper God of the Divine Alliance, glanced at the pedestrians drifting past. Not a single one looked their way; all seven of them might as well have been invisible.
"We go straight in," Yuanhe agreed with a nod. "Copper God, I'll trouble you to take the lead."
"Leave it to me." Standing over five meters tall, Copper God possessed the strongest defensive capabilities of anyone present.
His Divine Blood talent, Absolute Barrier, was an exceedingly rare ability. Once per hour, he could deploy an impenetrable shield for precisely one second, blocking all incoming damage. The barrier originated from a high-strength extraterrestrial substance he had accidentally fused into his body—impervious to water and fire, invulnerable to blade and spear, and nearly immune to physical force. Energy attacks dealt only a tenth of their normal damage, and the barrier could self-repair. He was a natural vanguard. Having witnessed Copper God's might firsthand, even Xia Si and Su Yaping had abandoned any thought of competing for the position.