Chapter 408: The True Mastermind!

"What? Asura?"

The name blurted out by the Nightmare Guardian shocked all the three great national-level players present.

Everyone's gaze focused on Zhang Yue.

"Zero… is Asura?"

"How's that possible! Are you dumb? The Asura God died a hundred years ago during a battle against a Tier 9 beast tide. How could he still be alive?"

Zhang Yue had originally only been suspicious.

But seeing the opponent recognize his true identity, he immediately confirmed his guess.

However, upon guessing the other party's identity, Zhang Yue felt a bit incredulous, 'How could it be… But who else could it be other than it?'

Just as Zhang Yue was thinking this, the Nightmare Guardian's backward step with its left foot alerted Zhang Yue.

His first reaction was, it wanted to flee.

SWOOSH!

Zhang Yue quickly raised his staff to cast a spell, preparing to attack the Nightmare Guardian.

In the next second, the Nightmare Guardian let out a chilling laugh, "Until we meet again, Asura, we will meet once more!"

"Next time, I will personally kill you!"

After speaking, two vortexes materialized beside the Nightmare Guardian.

From those vortexes, two werewolf warriors burst out, each clad in iron armor, eyes glowing green, and wielding curved blades.

[Blood Wolf: Tianya]

[Blood Wolf: Yasha]

Both were level 100 god-tier bosses.

Seeing these two god-tier bosses, Zhang Yue suddenly recalled the god-tier boss he had encountered last time in the World 17: Blood Wolf Uno.

Bosses of the same race.

Only now did Zhang Yue realize: he had already been targeted by this guy long ago.

Back when he killed Blood Wolf Uno, Zhang Yue was already a little suspicious: Why would a god-tier boss appear out of nowhere and target him, even following him persistently?

But at that time, Zhang Yue didn't connect the dots. The one truly watching him was someone else, and Blood Wolf Uno was merely used to divert his suspicion

And the true mastermind, was this guy right in front of him.

Zhang Yue looked toward the Nightmare Guardian and was about to pursue, but was ambushed by the two god-tier Blood Wolves summoned by the opponent.

Zhang Yue unleashed his full firepower, teaming up with the Armageddon Black Dragon, Phantom Predator, and Cherry, almost instantly killing those two god-tier Blood Wolves.

But by the time the two Blood Wolves were dealt with, the Nightmare Guardian had already fled far away.

Along the way, it even casually killed over a dozen Thracian national players who tried to block it.

Before their eyes, it transformed into a mass of black mist and disappeared into the deep sea ahead.

In Zhang Yue's eyes, a trace of worry faintly emerged.

At this moment, Dragon Tamer Axe came up to Zhang Yue and said thoughtfully, "This Nightmare Guardian seems a little different from ordinary Nightmare Guardians."

"You recognize it?"

Beside him, [My God Asura] was a bit excited, "Why did it call you 'Asura'?"

That line couldn't help but be confusing.

But seeing this Thracian bro's ID, My God Asura, it no longer felt strange.

Seeing that Zhang Yue didn't seem to want to answer either question, Athena spoke up: "Let's finish the dungeon first. We won't be running into the Seven Nations for now. Don't let them beat us to clearing the dungeon."

So everyone gradually calmed down, as if nothing had happened, and resumed hunting sea beasts.

Only Zhang Yue, after encountering this "Nightmare Guardian," felt unease begin to grow in his heart.

His thoughts were pulled back to the previous world…

After a while, Zhang Yue finally composed himself and resumed hunting sea beasts.

It had to be said: as a once-in-a-century nightmare-tier dungeon, the value of this Deep Sea Maze was simply immeasurable.

As long as one didn't die after entering, a trip through this dungeon could basically guarantee a full load of riches.

During the frenzied sea beast hunt and rapid reward collection, Zhang Yue's level also steadily approached level 100.

He was about to exit the newbie protection phase and step into the threshold of the New World.

Unknowingly, Zhang Yue and his team had already cleared a section of the Deep Sea Maze.

Once again, they were faced with three diverging paths.

As always, they stuck together and chose the middle path.

But after entering this path, everyone discovered, this road had already been taken. All the resources inside had been completely harvested.

Only the corpses of sea beasts like water pythons and giant sharks remained, scattered all over the ground.

"This road's already been taken," Axe kicked the corpse of a deep-sea giant shark at his feet and said gloomily, "Let's backtrack and take another path. There's nothing good left on a path others already cleared."

Even though it made sense, they saw Zhang Yue, who was leading at the front, showing no intention of stopping. Instead, he sped up.

"What's Zero doing? Why not change paths? We just got here. Backtracking a bit to switch roads wouldn't waste much time."

Athena said, "The only people who entered this dungeon before us were from the Seven Nations."

"So the ones who walked this path must be people from one of the Seven Nationss. If we follow this route, we can find them."

Axe suddenly realized: "So that's it! Why didn't I think of that!"

"Once we find those from the Seven Nationss, I'll personally take down that Cold Nation group of sticks!"

As they spoke, the group passed through the tunnel and arrived at a spacious area.

Everyone was stunned.

All they saw was, on the ground ahead, countless pieces of equipment, potions, gold coins, and other loot were scattered everywhere.

Clearly, a fierce battle had taken place here recently, and an entire professional team had been wiped out.

Athena's first reaction was to snap to full alert, "Full alert! The enemy might still be nearby!"

Everyone present was tense and ready.

All around, complete silence.

At this time, Ouyang Linger stepped forward to examine the dropped loot carefully, then said to Zhang Yue, "Guild Leader, confirmed. These are death drops from players of Batan, one of the Seven Nations!"

On the other side, Wu Haotian, who was also inspecting equipment, asked curiously, "Aren't equipment from different nations all the same? How can you tell?"

"Some people like to carve their national flag's emblem on their gear to show their patriotism," Ouyang Linger held up a red armor and said, "This has Batan's national emblem on it."

"Ninth strongest nation in the world, Batan!", My God Asura looked around at the equipment on the ground, loot from the simultaneous deaths of at least several hundred people, and said in disbelief, "Even they were wiped out? Just what kind of enemy did they run into?"

Axe questioned, "Could it be that those nations fought each other due to uneven loot distribution?"

"Probably not," Ouyang Linger examined more equipment nearby and said, "All of this gear is from Batan, no other nation's."

"And if it were infighting, why wouldn't they take the equipment after killing? Why leave such valuable loot lying around?"

"They must've been killed by monsters in the dungeon."

Glory Firmament said, "Most likely, they encountered the Nightmare Guardian."

"But with the strength of Batan, the world's ninth strongest nation, even if they ran into a god-tier boss like the Nightmare Guardian, shouldn't they still avoid total annihilation?"

While everyone on the field remained puzzled, Zhang Yue had already realized the problem.

"It… hasn't left yet."

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