At this moment, at the peak of Dead Emperor Shrine Mountain, the dark streak pillar suddenly shattered and Necro's voice filled with disbelief rang, "Impossible!"
However, before he could comprehend what happened, a brilliant purple-white light suddenly began to spread on the far horizon, and it was so bright that everyone could see it from miles away, even with the mist surrounding the Dead Faction territory.
It was like a sun had descended into the dead faction, and it wasn't the end of it at all as that light quickly began to spread and terrifying shock waves released, blasting apart all the mist, and the temperature began to rise.
"What is this sorcery!" Necro was utterly baffled.
But the true terror was still yet to arrive as that light quickly reached to the central dead continent. Those shockwaves blasted apart almost all the dead islands within the vicinity of hundreds of miles radius, and they were still becoming stronger.
The normally gloomy dead faction was like a burning sun at this moment, and amid this chaos, an earth-shattering boom like a thunderclap reverberated within thousands of miles!
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The calm ocean suddenly becomes chaotic as huge tide waves begin to stir within thousands of miles, startling almost everyone in the vicinity.
Even in faraway places like the territories of the Life Faction and Neutral Faction, some people heard a faint voice and also saw a dot of purple-white light. But it was so far that they only think of it as a shooting star.
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At this moment, within a beautiful silvery cathedral, a silver-haired hair, wizened-faced old man with a burly build was wearing white priest robes.
In front of him, a huge projection slips into five different images.
His amber color eyes were cold and filled with wisdom as he looked at the blurry imagines. This person's identity was extremely noble in the entire Unique Plains. He was the current Pontiff (Pope) of the Cardinal Spirit Temple, Sebastian Edgar.
The Cardinal Spirit Temple was one of the three powers of the Neutral Faction, and their status was very special among all the factions as they were the only one in the entire Unique Plains who could utilize Light Magic.
"The key to the Path of Legend is in the Dead Faction?" He spoke as his mild, amiable voice would give anyone the feeling of warmth, which completely betrayed his cold expression right now.
"I've even shown you guys the conversation with Necro. That arrogant corpse simply wanted to hoard all the benefits for himself. I propose we join hands and get rid of those corpses. It will be far easier to cooperate with each other." Ryan impassively proposed with a hint of killing intent in his voice.
"Hahahaha… Federation Master, do you think we are fools? You wanted to make a secret deal behind all of our backs and failed miserably, so you come running here and begin to sound trumpets of your righteousness.
"Hmph, we have been fighting with the Dead Faction for so long, and your federation has never meddled before. But now, in front of benefits, you're finally willing to fight the Dead Faction? Just be honest and stop putting your noble air. It makes me want to puke!" An extremely overbearing voice rang, filled with disdain for Ryan.
This was one of the Three Leaders of the Life Faction, Chairman Mathias of the Zodiac Warrior Alliance.
"Now, now, Chairman, you can't be so blunt. What if you hurt the Federation Master's feelings? Since he wanted to help us, we should thank him." A seductive voice sounded, but she was equally disdainful.
She was also one of the three leaders of the life faction, President Bronte of Alchemy Guild.
"How do we know you won't just give up in the middle if the Dead Faction is willing to share the Path of Legend?" Another impassive voice sounded. This was the third life faction leader and bank Manager of Universal Zodiac Bank.
Ryan replied impassively at this moment, "It's not the question of whether I back down or not. It's the question of your life faction is willing to give up on the Path of Legend. If you have your doubts about me, then you three can remain on the sidelines, and once we're done dealing with Necro, you can forget about getting any part of the path of legend."
His voice was threatening. He knew better than anyone just how important the path of legend was for everyone present in this place. Even the Life Faction, who were a mortal enemy of the Dead Faction, will do anything to acquire even if it means forming an alliance with them.
The Dead Faction was not an easy target. Even the Life Faction can only fight with them equally without getting any advantage in all these years.
As for wiping them, everyone here knows it was an impossible dream, just like the other faction. They might be able to kill each other and reduce their territories, but their organizations won't fall until someone can completely destroy every signal trace of it.
But if they were killed, there would always be someone else to take their place; it was that simple.
At this moment, the final person, the Dark Duke of the Dark City, Tomas, finally spoke, "Gentlemen, I've just received an interesting report about the Dead Territory. Do you all want to hear it, or will you wait until your men bring it to you?"
Sebastian stoically replied, "What is it? Don't tell Necro to reach out to you for an alliance after realizing how foolish his idea was?"
"Heh, his excellency sure has imagination." Tomas scoffed before he revealed, as he knew this news would soon reach them all, "Just a few moments ago, a massive explosion took place in the middle of dead faction territory, and a huge mushroom cloud thousands of miles large is seen there right now.
"From our reports, it seemed to be caused by a radioactive weapon, which is at least at the Inception Legend Rank!"