Chapter 126 Collision

Nie Yan received news that Angel Fall's harassment of Angel Corps was becoming more frequent. There had even been a battle of tens of thousands of players, both sides fighting to the death. Nirvana Flame’s guild, Asskickers United, occasionally intervened, sending tens of thousands of troops to engage in battles with Angel Corps and the Century Financial Group.

Players from both the Greenlands and Satreen Empires sensed something unusual. It seemed Asskickers United was about to make a move against Angel Corps and the Century Financial Group. Once the two sides went to war, it would be an unprecedented conflict. Both were hegemons of their respective empires with numerous members and many branch guilds. The number of players directly involved would reach millions. Eventually, the interests of the entire Greenlands and Satreen Empires would be affected, and no one could remain neutral.

The constant, intense friction was escalating the conflict, and a heavy atmosphere of gunpowder filled the two great empires.

What puzzled the players was that although the battles had occurred within the Satreen Empire, Angel Corps had not launched a strong counterattack, maintaining a defensive posture. The higher-ups of Angel Corps rarely showed their faces and hadn't appeared in over a month. Even the players within Angel Corps didn't know the whereabouts of Angel Feather and the others.

Angel Fall was slowly advancing from several small towns, rapidly expanding the war. They had already begun operating on the edges of the fortresses and were planning an assault!

Angel Fall and Angel Corps could be called mortal enemies. Even the names of the two guilds were filled with the smell of gunpowder. There were irreconcilable contradictions between them. With Angel Fall as a powerful ally, Asskickers United had fewer things to worry about.

Nie Yan had just received news that seven top-tier classes from Angel Fall were preparing to reach the surface through underground passages. The top-tier classes of the Undead Empire had a common title: Wu. The top-tier classes of the Undead Empire were as valuable as those of the Greenlands and Satreen Empires, and far stronger than the Silverwings of the Demonkin Tribe. The entire Undead Empire only had thirteen top-tier classes in total, and Angel Fall had seven, which was quite remarkable.

Their arrival on the surface would probably give Angel Corps a headache.

While Nie Yan issued various instructions to the players of Asskickers United, ordering them to go to the Satreen Empire to harass Angel Corps, he also told the guild's promising players to level up and run dungeons to improve their levels and equipment. The war between Asskickers United and Angel Corps would be a protracted one. Only those who persevered to the end would be victorious. Therefore, having an advantage in levels and equipment was crucial. They had to continue expanding their advantage, gradually eroding Angel Corps.

Angel Corps had been maintaining a defensive posture, so Nie Yan didn't want to launch a large-scale war for the time being. After all, the Satreen Empire was the territory of Angel Corps and the Century Financial Group. They had been operating there for so long, it would not be easy to shake them. There was a saying: Even a mighty dragon cannot suppress a local snake. If he really wanted to enter the Satreen Empire, Nie Yan had to consider the consequences of defeat.

Asskickers United and its branch guilds had about three hundred thousand players active in the Satreen Empire. Moreover, the Song of Heaven guild there, under the leadership of Sanjie Buliu, was steadily developing, allowing them to slowly disintegrate the strength of Angel Corps in the Satreen Empire.

Besides these matters, nothing else of significance happened in the Satreen and Greenlands Empires. More than a month passed in a flash.

On the rocky walls of the Goring Mountains, a figure flitted across the protruding rocks, as if walking on flat ground on the steep mountain face.

This person was Nie Yan. He had been searching the Goring Mountains for an entire week. The jeweller Ophini in Flame City had told him that while transporting goods, he had encountered a gang of robbers in the Goring Mountains. All the goods were robbed, including the Abak Focus Legguards. The clues ended there. Helpless, Nie Yan could only go to the Goring Mountains to find the Focus Legguards. He had been in this mountain area for nearly a month, leveling up and searching for the Focus Legguards, but he had no news of them. On the other hand, his level had risen to about 86%, and he would level up soon.

The monsters spawning in this area of the Goring Mountains were all around Level 180, and there were many elites and lords. From time to time, huge flying creatures flew across the sky, making it extremely dangerous. Nie Yan couldn't mobilize a large number of Asskickers United players to search for him, but he did mobilize more than a hundred thieves, slowly spreading out a reconnaissance net.

At least it wasn't without clues, because the jeweller Ophini had told him that those who robbed him were a gang of robbers!

As the situation in the Greenlands Empire stabilized, the activity area of Can Ye and others became wider and wider. They began clearing some famous bosses on the map, ranging from Level 150 to Level 180. Many were even mutated or demonized lords. Because Can Ye had the Demon Diracru Shield, his defense was very high, so they didn't face too much pressure when facing those bosses. As they killed more and more lords, they obtained a large number of good equipment, and the equipment level of the entire team improved several levels.

"Have you found the Focus Legguards yet? If you haven't found them yet, we might as well go and kill the Lava Giant," Can Ye sent a message to Nie Yan, asking. Nie Yan wanted to collect the Focus Legguards before going to kill the Lava Giant, but it had been almost a month, and the Focus Legguards were still nowhere to be found. The team members couldn't wait any longer. If it hadn't been for a few accidents, they would have formed a team to kill the Lava Giant long ago. They wouldn't have dragged it out until now.

"Okay, let's collect the Abak Focus Legguards some other time," Nie Yan sighed and said. Since there had been no news for so long, he could only wait until later. Maybe he could get some new clues in a while.

"Okay, I'll have them prepare," Can Ye said, and went to make arrangements.

Just as Nie Yan was about to give up, a thief from the thief squad sent Nie Yan a message saying that he had discovered a temple occupied by robbers on the top of a mountain called Moradus in the northern part of the Goring Mountains.

After receiving this news, Nie Yan's heart skipped a beat. There was hope! Because the jeweller Ophini had told him that those who robbed the Focus Legguards were a gang of robbers!

Nie Yan quickly sent a message to Can Ye and the others, telling them to wait a little longer. He would go to the temple and see!

Nie Yan activated Gale Steps, quickly flying over the rugged mountain road.

The speed of traveling on the mountain road was less than one-fifth of the usual speed. After Nie Yan ran wildly for about fifteen or sixteen minutes, he finally entered the northern area of the Goring Mountains. This mountain range stretched across the southern and eastern areas of the Greenlands Empire, and its range was indeed a bit large.

Entering the vicinity of Mount Moradus, Nie Yan met with the team members below, a dozen thief players from the thief squad.

"Nirvana Flame, you're here," the team members were very excited.

"Have you explored the temple?" Nie Yan asked.

The thieves looked at each other. One of them said with some shame, "Nirvana Flame, we're useless. Sixteen people entered the temple, and none of them came out alive. They were resurrected in the nearby cemetery."

"Oh?" Nie Yan was a little surprised. He knew the skills of these team members, and their combat effectiveness was very good. Under normal circumstances, even if they encountered danger, a thief had so many escape skills, it wouldn't be a problem to run out. It shouldn't be that sixteen people went in and no one came out. "What's the situation inside?"

"We were only in the outer hall. The monsters that spawn there are all Level 180 mutated lords. There are all kinds of robbers, humans, elves, orcs, and even giants, hundreds of them. As for what's inside, we haven't been there yet," one of the thieves replied.

They were all Level 180 mutated lords, no wonder. The outer hall was already this level of lord. What was in the inner hall was even more unclear.

"What kind of temple is this?" Nie Yan asked.

The thieves shook their heads and said, "That temple is an abandoned ruin. We didn't receive a system prompt when we entered."

Nie Yan asked a few more questions, but they hadn't gone deep into the temple. It could be said that they knew nothing about it. It seemed that he couldn't get any information from them. He could only go in and see for himself.

"You can go back. Everyone who entered the temple today will get 10,000 contribution points," Nie Yan waved his hand and said.

"Thank you, Nirvana Flame," the thieves said one after another. Ten thousand contribution points was enough for them to exchange for a good piece of equipment.

Just then, one of the thieves hesitated.

"Say what you want to say," Nie Yan said, looking at the thief.

"When I was in the outer hall, I saw a library through the window. There was a symbol on the stone pillars of the library like this." The thief spread out his hand, drawing a strange symbol with his right hand. A few strokes in a circle outlined a tree. "I just checked the information and found out that this is the symbol of the Goddess of Life. So I guess this temple may be the Temple of the Goddess of Life. It is said that the Goddess of Life died in battle, and her godhood was shattered. This temple should have been abandoned after the Goddess of Life died."

He looked at Nie Yan. Seeing Nie Yan's pensive expression, he didn't dare to interrupt.

"Do you have any other discoveries?" Nie Yan asked.

"I haven't found anything else, but I was wandering around the library before, and I saw a sentence in a book: 'Possessing a complete godhood can sense the power of the gods, which is the threshold to the legendary realm.' I don't know if it has anything to do with this temple?" The thief looked a little timid. In front of a legendary figure like Nie Yan, he felt great pressure.

Nie Yan's heart trembled. The threshold to the legendary realm, what did this mean? He thought of the three godhood fragments in his backpack. Could these godhood fragments be combined into a complete godhood?