Chapter 227: Seven of Them?

As the impact of the Destruction ability travelled towards the passage that had emerged from the hole, the entire passage began to tremble.

After seeing it with his own eyes, James could understand much more clearly why the ability called destruction was so dangerous.

The gate that the ability had hit began to tremble completely. It was as if the passage had started to break in reality. The whole passage was covered with cracks, no creatures could come out of the passage anymore, but strangely, creatures behind the passage could be seen.

James seemed to have unknowingly managed to lock the portal.

His whole body was covered in black flames, which was going to be the biggest reason for him to hold on at the moment.

Suddenly he lunged forward and attacked to prevent the monsters from getting out of the town.

With each step he took, the poison fumes clinging to the ground dissipated. Black flames began to burn unquenchably wherever he stepped.

James suddenly leapt towards the almost five-metre white tiger in front of him and then leapt into the air, shouting, 'Pierce!' With incredible speed and determination, he pierced right through the big tiger's door.

When the tiger's body fell to the ground, James was already attacking another monster.

He began to slaughter the monsters one by one, and it was annoying that each monster did not die directly. Even though he was using 8 Sacred Fire, he had the problem that really powerful monsters were coming out of the passage.

If there were six more of these gateways in other settlements, it meant that a great danger was connected to the empire.

The real question was why two Fallen Gods and seven artefacts were covered with black magic and spread throughout this empire.

If a war was to be started, it had to start from the lower levels. The closer they got to the 75th Floor, the more their power would increase, but at the same time, the power of those who could oppose them would also increase.

After all, there were indeed a few people with greater power than James currently possessed. Even if they were not like the Nyx James had chosen, some were under the supervision of very powerful gods or goddesses.

Odin's warrior Ali, Zeus' Alshain, Osiris' Adam, and many others still existed below the 75th floor.

Maybe they didn't have enough power to kill the Fallen Gods. After all, no matter how weak the Fallen Gods were, they were still gods, and to kill them you had to have the status of Holiness, which is the symbol of godhood, and the only reason James was able to kill the Fallen God on the 9th floor was that Nemesis, who had that status, was next to him.

Yet all these climbers and many more were strong enough to push the Fallen Gods to the point of withdrawing the attack.

Which begs the question:

Why were the Fallen Gods and the seven artefacts covered in dark magic and spread throughout the empire?

James was filled with all these thoughts, it was a very stupid situation indeed.

Even if he couldn't kill every monster he attacked with every move, he could at least manage to get the monsters into a near-kill state.

It was at that moment that he realised that a few voices were beginning to rise behind him.

Suddenly he saw with his own eyes the Asgardian warriors who had passed him and were attacking, all the hairs on his body stood on end, these warriors were too perfect.

Each and every one of them knew that James wouldn't even need their help, after all the only reason James had brought them here was so that they could protect the people in case of need.

Nevertheless, James admired these warriors.

He suddenly deactivated 8 Sacred Fire and then used his dark step ability, this time taking care to be more detailed in his steps.

James normally took care not to fully utilise the ability by taking a few fairly straightforward but simple steps, as this worked better with his own fighting style rather than the style of the ability.

Nevertheless, the power of the ability was unleashed when the 12 steps were completed.

With each step, he began to follow the step patterns that the talent had shown him almost in front of his eyes.

With each step, he began to kill the monsters that he had just attacked twice, one by one, in one fell swoop. He was incredibly fast, it was obvious to the naked eye how much he had mastered the skill.

He seemed to dance across the battlefield, and Nyx and the others would have been incredibly proud of him.

James transferred his mana back into his leg before he took the final step, this time a 3-5% mana rating flowed into his leg, and as he took the final step, the 60% decisive attack of his dark step ability was activated.

As soon as the Destruction ability worked again, a not-very-large attack moved towards the gate.

The attack chance from the dark step ability made the destruction ability much stronger. James's attack moved forward again like an earthquake, and as soon as it hit the gate, the gate was now shattered into pieces.

A very high level of energy poured out of the hole from which the gate had emerged.

The poisonous cloud covering the floor of the town began to disappear, albeit slowly.

It was as if the curse that had spread over the town had been exhausted.

James had done something very difficult to do. He had become one of the few people who could dismantle a gate without a god.

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James stepped back as if he had managed to recover himself after the use of the skill and then realised that there were no more monsters around. Perhaps the number of monsters, which exceeded four hundred, was now reduced to zero.

As James realised what had happened, he turned to the Asgardian warriors and said, "Thank you." This thank you was not because of the help he received, he didn't need any help anyway. It was because the Asgardian warriors were so brave.

After taking a deep breath, James entered each house in the town one by one and checked the mana in his body by scanning the traces outside and realised that there was indeed no problem.

Immediately after that, he checked the townspeople and saw that they did not have any problems either.

"Do any of you know who stuck this sword in there?" asked James.

After this question, a boy, perhaps 13 or 14 years old, came out of the townspeople and then raised his hand, saying, "I saw it, sir."

James was about to ask the boy what was going on when the leader of the town stepped forward and said, "Sir...This little one...you know..." and turned his finger in a circle on the right side of his head.

In short, the leader of the town was labelling the boy as crazy.

Still, James needed every clue he could get. When he signalled the boy to speak, the boy began to speak without waiting.

"Sir, it was around two o'clock at night, I keep waking up because I have sleep problems. I saw a person with a black liquid flowing around him, his deep blue eyes were shining in the night. When I left the house to check what happened, I heard a few words, and then that person stabbed the sword into the ground and left the town instantly."

"Do you remember the words that were spoken?" James asked inquisitively, and the boy nodded his head and said, "Word for word, sir."

When James again signalled to the boy that he needed to speak, his eyes widened from what he heard:

"If I remember correctly, it was like this; Slave of darkness, sucker of light, extreme of magic and sick of hell. I bestow this artefact upon you and ask you for the opposite."

After these words, James stood where he was for a few seconds with his eyes wide open and realised that this was the truth.

He realised that here he had encountered one of the spells he had read about in the Imperial library and used by black mages. This black magic could be cast by someone with at least twelve magic rings. It was a very complicated spell and would require such a huge amount of mana.

James then turned to Yorhun standing next to him and said, "I want you to reach as many Asgardian warriors as you can, we are facing a master black mage. We need to quarantine all the towns, every one of them must be surrounded. Send word to Eve, at least ten thousand of the imperial soldiers should surround the towns with you guys, be quick."

Yorhun saw the worry on James' face when he said these words. James was not afraid, after all, even if twelve magic rings were quite gigantic, they were not worth one Fallen God. The problem was that there was a possibility that there were at least seven of these mages.

Such a complicated chain of spells could not be set up in seven different places at seven different times, you would only have five, maybe ten minutes maximum to link the spells.

That's how complicated the spell was.

One or two wizards of this level could be dealt with, but seven of them could perhaps make a Fallen God. With Eve asleep 70 per cent of the little girl Miracle's magic went into her magic shields, and the female Fallen God was on the run, on top of that, seven wizards with twelve magic rings on top of that would be a huge threat indeed.

Things were starting to heat up.