After taking out the key that had dropped from the Night Witch's body, Guhan and the others opened the door to the room. It was another dark and narrow passageway, but the end of the passageway wasn't far. They could see a clear light from there.
After walking for less than a minute, they left the passageway and entered another room. This room was smaller than the Night Witch's room. Apart from the passageway that Guhan had taken, there were three other passageway entrances that led to this room.
[System prompt: Quest 5: Underground Labyrinth completed. Your team has arrived at the Dimensional Altar. Quest progress: 40%.
Main Quest updated.
[System prompt: Quest 6: Save King Arthur. King Arthur Artoria Pendragon has been bound by magic. Please break the magic binding and save the controlled King Arthur.]
This was the room where King Arthur was being held.
Guhan could see a young girl in a snow-white wedding gown in the center of the room. She was bound to a high platform.
This young girl had long blonde hair and a single strand of hair on her head.
She was wearing a snow-white wedding dress and a pair of translucent white stockings. She was supposed to be a beautiful bride, but her hands were tied by a scarlet rope of light, and her feet were fixed in a position far away from her hands.
Because her feet were too far away from her bound hands, her body was twisted into a graceful V shape.
Her beautiful, smooth, and perky buttocks were sent in front of Gu Han as if she was welcoming a guest. The young girl's snow-white buttocks, coupled with the pure white stockings, made Gu Han, who had always been a man of few desires, suddenly feel a surge of heat, a heat that made him want to have this woman …
"Bah!" Guhan bit his tongue to save himself from the inexplicable delusion.
Steel Centipede, who had entered the altar after Guhan, excitedly ran to the exit of another passageway. "Captain, we should have come from this passageway last time, right?"
This exit was the tunnel that they often used in previous dungeons. They entered the basement from the northeast entrance and exited after completing the quest.
In other words, Wondrous Brush and the others had entered the altar through that passageway. This was the first time they had entered through this passageway.
Forget it, this wasn't something worth paying attention to. What was truly worth paying attention to was the girl who was tied up in the middle of the platform.
Everyone should be able to tell that she was one of the ten kings of the Martyr's Palace that Gu Han and the others needed to rescue, King Arthur Artoria Pendragon.
Newbies who entered the dungeon for the first time might rush up to the high platform in an attempt to save Artoria.
Magic Brush and the others had done this the first time, but the chaotic dimensional turbulence around the altar had shattered their shields. If they hadn't retreated in time, someone would have died on the platform.
"Grab your Sword Ladies and get ready to break the formation."
Wondrous Brush gave the order. It was very difficult to pass this stage. Just getting close to King Arthur Artoria on the altar was a huge problem. The invisible chaotic dimensional turbulence floating around her would tear everything that came into contact with it into pieces.
Getting close to Artoria was only the first step. The more difficult part was still to come. Once they got close to Artoria, a new and powerful enemy would appear. They wanted to defeat this new enemy.
This enemy was very powerful. To deal with such an opponent, the team needed to cooperate flawlessly. Wondrous Brush wasn't sure. As a newbie, Guhan might be strong enough, but it would be a huge problem if everyone cooperated well.
This stage had stuck Wondrous Brush and the others for seven to eight days. Later, Wondrous Brush found some Magic Masters in the real world and found a way to break the dimensional turbulence by studying the screenshots of the veined patterns on the altar.
"Military Governor, stand here and don't move!
Hongyu, take over the position of Guardian and listen to my commands! "
Wondrous Brush's method of breaking the formation required the five of them to act strictly according to his instructions without any mistakes.
Originally, Hongyu wasn't among the five of them. The other five were very familiar with this method and didn't need Hongyu to join them.
However, Guardian Planet had already left. Wondrous Brush was naturally worried about the newbie Guhan, so he could only let Hongyu take over the position of Guardian Planet. After all, Hongyu had seen the five of them break the formation so many times.
"Siyu, old rules. You enter the altar first. Take three steps forward and destroy the rune in front of you!"
You Siyu strictly followed Wondrous Brush's instructions and stepped onto the high platform from the designated place. Then, she took three steps forward and destroyed the rune under her feet with the Double Sword Duck.
This rune was the rune that caused the dimensional turbulence in a certain space on the altar. As long as this rune was destroyed, that space would return to peace.
And this space was the space that You Sicong was about to step onto next.
"Sicong, the altar in front of you has already calmed down. Get on the altar, take four steps forward and destroy the rune."
"Steel Centipede, it's your turn. Take five steps forward and destroy the rune."
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The You siblings, Steel Centipede, Hongyu, Wondrous Brush, and the others went up the altar one after another. They took turns. Each person took a few steps in a certain direction and destroyed the rune under their feet, clearing the dimensional turbulence in the path of another person.
Then, the next person would repeat the steps of the previous person until all the runes were destroyed. Then, the space of the altar would completely return to normal.
This was a very precise and meticulous process that didn't tolerate a single mistake. Once someone took an extra step into the range of the dimensional turbulence or destroyed the wrong rune, they would be destroyed.
Originally, after more than 100 times of practice and more than 10 actual battles, the team formed by Wondrous Pen, Guardian Planet, and the others could complete this step perfectly. However, with the addition of Hong Yu, this "perfectly" became a "tiny" difference.
It wasn't that Hong Yu wasn't capable enough. It was her first time participating in this competition and she was already considered an amazing genius to be able to make such a small mistake. Unfortunately, it was her first time after all. If she hadn't practiced it before, she would have missed by just a little bit. That little bit would have been enough to kill everyone on the stage.
When it was Hongyu's turn to destroy the rune for the fifth time, Wondrous Brush, who had a premonition that there would be trouble, kept a close eye on Hongyu's movements and warned her if he found anything wrong.
However, Wondrous Brush's eyesight wasn't as good as he thought. When Hongyu destroyed the complicated rune, she accidentally destroyed a small symbol of another rune next to it!
Almost instantly, a powerful dimensional turbulence swept across the altar. This was the result of the altar's anti-destruction mechanism being triggered.
The rune on the altar had already sensed that someone was destroying it. It immediately activated all the remaining runes and set off a violent dimensional turbulence.
"Retreat!
Immediately, the altar! "Wondrous Brush's expression changed, and he immediately ordered his teammates to retreat from the altar.
However, it was too late. The speed of the dimensional turbulence was much faster than the speed of retreat.
The first to be hit was Steel Centipede. The destructive dimensional turbulence was the first to hit him.
"Shield!!!"
Steel Centipede placed Alondate in front of him and used Alondate's advanced skill, Shield Raise. This was a defensive skill that could reduce a large amount of damage!
As long as the Sword Lady was in the form of a sword, any sword wielder would be able to use the Sword Lady's skill.
In other words, anyone could be a Sword Master. The only difference was whether you had the exquisite swordsmanship of the Sword Lady.
In other words, it could be said that it surpassed the Sword Lady's swordsmanship, just like Guhan.
It had to be said that Arondate's defense was one of the best among the Famed Sword-grade Swordmaidens. Iron Centipede had relied on his shield and Arondate's Sword Dao characteristics to persevere in the dimensional turbulence, even though his personal shield had less than 4% energy left.
After Steel Centipede, the siblings You Sicong and You Siyu faced the dimensional turbulence. Fortunately, in the process of moving and destroying the runes, the You siblings were very lucky to be very close.
If either of the You siblings faced the dimensional turbulence alone, only death would await them.
However, it was a different story when the siblings were together.
"Dual Sword Mandarin Duck … Dual Sword Mandarin Duck … Fusion!"
This was a unique ability of dual swords. It could fuse the personal shields of both sides together, allowing the two sword wielders to share a double shield.
At the same time, their attack and defense would increase by 50%. This was the reason why the You siblings were able to rank second on the List of Famous Swords – Virtual List. After their fusion, their attack and personal shields had reached an abnormal level. Even when facing some Spiritual Sword Ladies, they were not inferior.
Coupled with their invincible ultimate move, they were an existence that struck fear into the hearts of Famous Sword Rank powerhouses.
With the help of the Fusion Shield, the You siblings also resisted the dimensional turbulence. What was left was Magic Pen and Hongyu.
These two did not have methods to strengthen their defense like Steel Centipede and the You siblings. In the face of the dimensional turbulence, they could only wait for death.