Chapter 413 -413-Layers of Defense, the Prized Flying Fish
Chapter 413: Chapter413-Layers of Defense, the Prized Flying Fish
After Daniel dealt with the second-stage Oracle-grade expert Shar, he occupied the sanctum with ten-thousandfold time flow.
This method of seizing it seemed cold and ruthless, but in the Endless Starsea, such things were simply the norm.
This was what it meant for the strong to prey upon the weak. Whoever had the harder fist had the final say.
Although Daniel had not yet reached the level of an Oracle-grade expert, the resources in his hands were practically inexhaustible. That was his confidence.
So what if the one standing opposite him was an Oracle-grade expert?
As long as he had the strength, killing him was killing him. It was nothing worth making a fuss over.
Although Shar had two brothers ruling supreme over the Ravagerfish Star System, Daniel did not take them seriously at all.
After all, the trump cards in his hands were not just for show.
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After entering the sanctum, Daniel frowned slightly.
This ten-thousandfold time flow sounded astonishing, but for living beings inside it, there was actually no noticeable difference at all.
In Daniel’s perception, nothing felt different.
Perhaps only existences at the level of high-stage Oracle-grade experts could sense the difference between the flow of time inside and outside.
"Wait!"
At that moment, Daniel suddenly realized something.
He had just flattened all the protective arrays. Surely he could not just let someone else walk straight in and deal with him later, right?
That would not be confidence. That would be stupidity.
With that thought, he simply decided to exchange for a complete set of arrays and restrictions. This was the benefit of joining a major power.
The Golden Holy Mountain had Ivahpin World, allowing him to enter and purchase supplies anytime, anywhere. Almost everything one could want could be found inside.
As long as one had points, one could make use of the countless foundations accumulated by the Golden Holy Mountain over the years.
Daniel immediately spent over a billion points and exchanged for a complete set of arrays and restrictions from the treasury.
This array set could unleash the offensive and defensive Strength of a fifth-stage Oracle-grade expert. Unless one was at the fifth stage of Oracle-grade, breaking through it was impossible.
Even if a fifth-stage Oracle-grade expert came personally, they would have to spend quite some time before they could force their way through.
As for a fourth-stage expert?
Heh...
There was no need to even mention it. Charging in by force would be courting death.
"Still, this alone doesn’t feel quite safe enough."
Daniel thought for a moment, then spent another ten billion points to exchange for several Oracle-grade treasures.
"Now this feels right. When it comes to sheer power, it has to be these things!"
Looking at the Oracle-grade treasures in his hands, he felt much more at ease.
Immediately afterward, he fused two fifth-stage Oracle-grade treasures directly into the array.
With this, even if a fifth-stage Oracle-grade expert truly came knocking, they would lose a layer of skin even if they did not die.
Only after arranging all of this properly did he finally feel reassured enough to enter seclusion.
He was just pondering how to advance to Divine Descendant when, all of a sudden, an inexplicable throb surged up from within his heart.
Swish!
He unfolded the threads of karma before him. The invisible threads wove themselves into a vast net in front of his eyes.
He probed into the details, then gave a faint smile.
"Crown’s Summit... heh."
He paid it no further attention and turned around, sinking into secluded cultivation.
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Ravagerfish Star System, Flying Fish Plane.
This was a great-world-level life world. At one end of the world stood a mountain known as Crown’s Summit.
This mountain was no ordinary peak. It was a blessed land that produced a famous kind of prized flying fish.
These flying fish were anything but simple. They were special lifeforms that lived in the sky.
They had six tails and six wings, and grew by absorbing the energy within space.
These flying fish were extremely special. If ordinary people ate them, they could even extend their lives by several hundred years.
Most importantly, the fins of these fish could be used as Divine-grade materials to craft equipment and weapons. One could imagine how rare they were.
But that was still not the key point.
Among all flying fish, there existed an even more precious variety.
The twelve-winged flying fish!
Even for Crown’s Summit, this was not something they could obtain whenever they wished.
Their numbers were exceedingly scarce. Among ten million six-winged, six-tailed flying fish, only one twelve-winged flying fish might possibly be born.
The crucial point was that the rarity of its fins was comparable to Sacred Artisan-grade materials.
It was said that a top dwarven master smith had once used the fins of a twelve-winged flying fish as the primary material to forge a Sacred Artisan Treasure.
That incident had once caused a great sensation, and it led countless experts to flock toward the twelve-winged flying fish with great eagerness.
A blessed land capable of continuously producing such valuable things naturally drew the envy of countless powers.
Before Crown’s Summit was established, this place had changed hands countless times.
It was only later, when the three Oracle-grade brothers joined forces and founded Crown’s Summit, that they finally occupied this place completely after countless battles.
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At this moment, inside a hall on Crown’s Summit.
Whoosh!
The attendant responsible for guarding the soul candles suddenly saw Shar’s candle go out, and his face turned deathly pale in fright.
"What... what kind of joke is this?"
"That’s Lord Shar’s soul candle. It went... it went out?"
"This is bad!"
He did not dare delay for even a moment and hurriedly reported the news up layer by layer.
Before long, the news reached the ears of the Grand Lord.
The Grand Lord was named Ceric. He was a third-stage Oracle-grade expert who guarded Crown’s Summit year-round, only sending his clones to travel through the star sea.
The Second Lord was named Lucius. Like Shar, he followed the path of close-quarters combat.
However, at the moment, he was traveling through the star sea. Thus, the entire Crown’s Summit was currently guarded only by the Grand Lord Ceric.
The moment Ceric heard the news of Shar’s fall, he shot to his feet.
Shar was dead?
How was that possible?
Hadn’t he gone to a public sacred ground to seek advancement?
Who had made a move against him?
Could it have been experts from those other powers that coveted Crown’s Summit?
Cold light flickered in Ceric’s eyes, but he soon shook his head.
The three brothers had always been famous for their unity. Back then, they had seized Crown’s Summit precisely because the three of them had supported one another with utter disregard for their lives.
Everyone knew that provoking one of them meant offending all three.
Anyone with even a little sense would not deal with Shar so openly.
From another perspective, those who were not afraid of offending the three brothers would not look twice at Crown’s Summit anyway.
Then the question was, who had killed Shar?
"Shar has always been cautious. He rarely offends other experts. Could he have provoked someone he shouldn’t have while fighting over a sanctum?"
His thoughts were in chaos.
The reason Crown’s Summit could dominate the Ravagerfish Star System was because the three Oracle-grade brothers held the fort.
Now that one of them had fallen, those powers eyeing this fat piece of meat would surely begin to stir.
"Investigate."
He gave the order coldly.
"Send people to that sacred ground. You must find out exactly who killed Lord Shar. No matter who it was, this debt must be settled."
"As you command, my lord..."
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Heh!
After Daniel finished looking through the cause and effect, he could not help but sneer.
He could not be bothered with them at all. He still had great confidence in the arrays and restrictions he had arranged.
If the two Oracle-grade experts from Crown’s Summit dared to come, then he would simply make sure they never returned.
He had plenty of trump cards in his hands. There was nothing for him to fear.
The only thing he needed to guard against was whether those high-stage Oracle-grade experts would also take an interest in this sanctum.
However, with a fifth-stage array plus fifth-stage treasures, it should be enough to handle most situations.
Thinking of this, Daniel entered Ivahpin World with considerable peace of mind.
He now enjoyed the treatment of a quasi-Oracle-grade member. As long as an Oracle-grade expert was expounding on the profound mysteries, he could go listen at any time.
Coincidentally, a high-stage Oracle-grade expert of the Golden Holy Mountain would soon be expounding on the mysteries. Daniel planned to seize this opportunity to farm another wave of divine energy.
There was nothing he could do about it.
He was far too short on divine energy!
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