From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

Chapter 403 The Tragedy of the Bone Dragon
Realizing that Albert was just cannon fodder, Lu Heng immediately became wary.

On the way back to Kolos City, Lu Heng caught up with Fiona's dragon eagle and asked, "Where is Elder Tyrese now?"

“It should be in the Four Winds Plains, which was once the habitat of giant mammoths and has many mammoth skeletons. Based on your reminder, Elder Tyrese has gone to the Four Winds Plains to prevent the giant mammoth skeletons from reviving,” Fiona replied.

"So, in other words, only the Queen is guarding Kolos City now?" Lu Heng immediately realized what the problem was.

Originally, with his team of four, plus Fiona, Queen Orianna, and the Queen's Guard, defending Kolos City before the skeletal army appeared would not have been a problem.

However, now that Fiona has gone out with an elite group of dragonhawk knights, and her own team of four has also come out, this has created a temporary vulnerability in the defenses of Kolos City.

Thinking about it this way, Albert's escape seems more like a diversionary tactic.

The Abyss faction didn't even try to rescue Albert; no Abyss Conquerors appeared, and the Frost Bone Dragon only took the Crimson Scythe without offering any assistance to Albert.

Thinking of this, Lu Heng reminded him, "I suspect that the opponent's target is the statue of the Elf King."

Fiona understood what she meant and laughed: "You think that we fell into a trap by leaving Kolos City, and that Kolos City is now poorly defended, giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of us."

Seeing that she remained calm and did not rush back, Lu Heng immediately understood what was going on: "Does the Queen have other plans?"

Fiona calmly smiled and said, "The defenses of Kolos City will never be weak. Since I dared to chase after them, I am confident enough."

That's when.

A beam of light shot into the sky from the direction of Kolos City, as if piercing the night sky.

Fiona saw the arrow of light in the sky, waved her hand and said, "Klos City is under attack. Dragonhawk Knights, come with me to its aid."

She shouted for reinforcements, and the team sped up its flight, but the formation remained neat and orderly, showing no signs of panic.

As they sped back, Fiona turned around and said, "You guessed right, there was indeed an enemy attack on Kolos City, but it wasn't the Skeleton Lord."

Clearly, she had just communicated magically with the city of Kolos and obtained information about the city.

Lu Heng frowned and asked, "Who is it?"

“He’s human.” Fiona said this while looking into Lu Heng’s eyes, her gaze somewhat complicated.

Lu Heng paused for a moment, but didn't seem too surprised.

After all, it was already suspected that a team of recruiters was hiding their whereabouts, and if they were hiding their whereabouts, then there must be something wrong with this team.

Fiona continued, "Moreover, this team, like yours, wasn't drafted all at once."

Lu Heng was stunned again, then immediately realized which team it was: "Is it that raiding team?"

Fiona nodded and said, "That's right, it's the raiding party of the human recruiters who appeared even earlier than you. This also explains why this party hid its whereabouts from the beginning. Because if they showed themselves, their identities would be exposed, and they would be unable to gain the trust of any elf."

Lu Heng pressed further, "What is this raiding party's target?"

Fiona replied, "They wanted to break into the palace area, and their target wasn't just the Elf King statue, but also the spatial corridor. Unfortunately, they were overthinking it, and the Queen has already stopped them."

Lu Heng was also a little surprised after hearing this, thinking that this raiding team was indeed very ambitious, actually wanting to break into the spatial corridor.

What is the spatial corridor of the palace district in Kolos?
That's the passage to the Moon Well space. As long as you break into the space corridor, you can enter the Moon Well, which contains abundant magical spring water resources.

For the entire Elven race, the amount of water from the Moonwell is already scarce, but for a conscripted party, the water from a single Moonwell is more than they can use.

In other words, if this raiding party successfully enters the Moon Well space, it means they will gain a huge boost in combat power.

All skills will be upgraded, class abilities will be enhanced, and source energy levels will skyrocket to the limits of the body's endurance.

Such a huge improvement would tempt anyone.

However, this Moon Well is the last lifeline of the Elven race, and its destruction will lead to their rapid decline.

Su Muyu listened from the side and said, "No wonder there are so few people recruited this time. It turns out that the Creator Organization's team has also come in."

This conscript team, which once wreaked havoc in the Elf World, is naturally the same team from the Creator Organization.

The raiding team consisted of five people, all wearing different versions of V for Vendetta masks.

The leader of them was called "Pharaoh," and he wore a golden mask.

The other four are:
Redbeard: A power-type superhuman.

Destiny Mark: Skilled in swordsmanship.

Blue-blooded people: Individuals with dual abilities in perception and mental manipulation.

Dark Star: An assassin-type ability user, skilled in stealth and assassination.

Xie Shi'en had mentioned this information before. He was once a member of the Creator Organization, so he knew more about it, but he had never seen the true faces of these five people.

The Creator organized this raiding party, which had been recruited to the Elf World before Lu Heng and his companions, and then carried out unscrupulous raids on the Elf race.

They even took away the life vines from the ancient knowledge tree space.

Unexpectedly, this team was recruited again.

This shows that the draft rules are indeed devoid of wisdom, but are a set of cold, hard rules.

The conscription rules cannot distinguish the conscript's intentions, and there is no punishment mechanism for the raiding party.

Whatever the Creator organized this raiding party to do to the Elves, it doesn't prevent them from being conscripted again.

In other words.

This time, two of the most powerful teams in human civilization have entered the Abyss Battlefield, which explains why the recruitment scale is so small.

……

the other side.

A magical shield has been erected over the city of Kolos.

Queen Aureanna is currently in the palace district, directing the Queen's Guard in their siege of the Pharaoh's army.

Even though Fiona took an elite force of dragonhawk knights out and Tyrese was not in the city, the city's defenses remained strong.

The Pharaoh's party originally wanted to infiltrate the palace district, but they were stopped at the gate. They then tried to force their way in, but were blocked in the city by the Queen's Guard who quickly surrounded them.

Queen Orianna took out her arcane staff, twirled it in her hand to release arcane energy, and rose into the air, unleashing a wave of arcane energy to attack the Pharaoh.

The Pharaoh was overwhelmed by arcane energy and under immense pressure, so he immediately ordered a retreat.

Queen Orianna raised her staff, connecting arcane energy to the magical barrier of the city walls, thus sealing the Pharaoh's ability to teleport.

One reason why Pharaoh's team could appear and disappear without a trace was that Pharaoh possessed the ability to open a portal and teleport the entire team through space.

Lu Heng had witnessed this ability of the Pharaoh during the Sykes civilization.

However, this ability no longer works. Queen Orianna's arcane energy, combined with the magical barrier of Kolos City, has sealed off the space.

If this continues, this team organized by the Creator will perish here.

Queen Aureanna, accompanied by her personal guards, was more than capable of suppressing the five-man raiding party.

Just as the raiding party was in danger, a colossal dragon roar that shook the heavens and the earth resounded from the sky, and the Frost Bone Dragon appeared.

The Frost Bone Dragon swooped down from the sky, spewing frost at the magical barrier of Kolos City.

Roar!
The frost breath rolled down, freezing the outer layer, and the surging frost energy blasted a crack in the city wall's magical barrier.

When Queen Orianna saw the Frost Bone Dragon appear, she raised an eyebrow, quickly weighed the situation in her mind, and immediately released the raiding party. She then rushed into the sky, released arcane energy to form chains, and bound the Frost Bone Dragon.

Before the Abyss Battlefield opened, Lu Heng had given the Elven race intelligence, which included information about the Frost Bone Dragon.

Tyrese had seen this Frostbone Dragon in the Ice Rift and knew that this dead dragon was still powerful.

This frost bone dragon, when it spreads its wings, is two hundred meters wide.

In the human world, this size would be larger than a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier.

Such a gigantic creature was incredibly powerful in life, and even after death, its skeleton remained powerful despite being enslaved.

Therefore, this frost bone dragon is a huge threat to the city of Kolos.

Queen Orianna decisively abandoned suppressing the Pharaoh and chose to attack the Frost Bone Dragon instead.

As arcane energy was released, the magic circles in the city began to operate, shooting out streams of arcane energy from various watchtowers and magic circle eyes. These streams of arcane energy followed the Queen's arcane magic and shot towards the Frost Bone Dragon, forming thousands of chains that bound the giant bone dragon.

Roar!
The frost dragon roared incessantly, spewing out frost breath that bombarded the magical barrier.

The magical barrier of Kolos City cracked under the bombardment of the frost breath, but a single frost bone dragon was not enough to break through Kolos City's defenses.

Instead, it was the arcane chains shot out from the magical barrier that bound the Frost Bone Dragon, pulling it continuously toward the ground.

Upon seeing the Frost Bone Dragon being pulled towards the ground, the Pharaoh weighed the pros and cons and, taking advantage of a crack appearing in the magical barrier, opened a spatial gate, led his troops in retreat, and abandoned the Frost Bone Dragon.

The Frostbone Dragon was bound by thousands of arcane chains and pulled into the ground, where it was besieged by elven warriors.

Without support from other Abyss faction teams, no matter how powerful the Frostbone Dragon was, it couldn't withstand the siege of the Elf Guard.

After holding out for only twenty minutes, the Frost Bone Dragon let out its final roar, crashed to the ground, and shattered into pieces of its bones.

……

When Fiona led her team back to Kolos City, the battle was nearing its end.

With the Frostbone Dragon's fall, the battle ended, and the Pharaoh's forces abandoned the Frostbone Dragon and fled.

Su Muyu released the Azure Phoenix, hoping to find traces of the Pharaoh's army, but found nothing.

In the open space outside the palace gates of Kolos City, the bones of a giant dragon were scattered everywhere.

With Queen Orianna's consent, Lu Heng took away a portion of the dragon's remains.

Dragon bones are extremely rare materials, and under normal circumstances, recruiters cannot obtain them.

Because powerful dragons like the Frost Bone Dragon, when alive, possess combat strength comparable to demigods. Even if the most elite superhumans in the human world were gathered together, they still wouldn't be able to defeat a living dragon.

Therefore, the dragon skeletons at this stage are absolutely cutting-edge materials for humankind.

Only because Lu Heng had once helped the Elf race was he able to obtain the dragon's remains.

After the battle, the elven guards cleaned up the battlefield and repaired the city walls and magic circles.

Queen Orianna returned to the Dome Hall, followed by Fiona, Lu Heng, and their group, and they discussed the matter.

“Your Highness, Lu Heng just mentioned that Albert was just bait to lure us away so they could steal the statue.” Fiona shared the analysis she had just discussed with Lu Heng.

Queen Aureanna nodded and said, "I already guessed it. This raiding party thought that since they had succeeded in raiding the Tree of Knowledge once, we couldn't do anything about it."

Lu Heng felt somewhat helpless about this, after all, the Creator Organization's raiding team came from the human world.

Although I have no connection with this raiding party, we are from the same world, which will definitely make the elves have a bad impression of humans.

Lu Heng sighed, "I didn't expect that the other human team we recruited would be this raiding team."

Queen Aureanna waved her hand and said cheerfully, "You don't need to blame yourself. This has nothing to do with you. In any civilization, there are different factions, and the differences between individuals are huge. We've seen this kind of thing many times."

Lu Heng nodded and continued, "Because we didn't know at the beginning that the other conscription team was this raiding team, some things were not quite as expected at the beginning."

"According to the Queen's description, the Frost Bone Dragon appeared at the end to help the raiding party escape."

"In other words, this raiding party has already become part of the Skeleton Lord's side."

Su Muyu pondered for a moment before asking, "Are they traitors?"

Lu Heng shook his head and said, "Possibly, but not necessarily."

"Traitor" refers to a recruit who completes an Abyss mission and receives Abyss rewards.

After becoming "traitors," these recruits are marked by the abyss. Every time they enter the abyss battlefield, they will receive abyss missions and sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.

Of course, as you get deeper into the abyss, your combat power will also increase very rapidly, since the rewards for the abyss missions are many times more generous than those for the main missions.

However, betrayers will eventually fall into the clutches of the abyss and lose their right to choose for themselves.

The Creator's organization of this raiding party, so far, does not resemble that of traitors.

Since the actions of the recruits are unrestrained, even if the recruits do not become traitors, they can still choose to assist the Abyss faction.

Yes, this is a very special choice.

In other words, the Creator's organization of this raiding party may not necessarily be traitors, but could also be another kind of "collaborator".

"Collaborators" are a type of recruit without a fixed identity. They do not carry out traitor missions themselves, but can choose to cooperate with the Abyss faction.

The Frost Bone Dragon appeared this time to assist the Pharaoh's army in their retreat.

It is very likely that the Pharaoh's forces and the Skeleton Lord reached some kind of cooperation agreement.

If handled well, the benefits of being a "collaborator" can be no less than those of being a "traitor."

It's easy to see that once Kolos City falls, this raiding party from the Creator Organization can enter the Moon Well space and obtain abundant magical spring water.

They even allowed themselves to plunder the treasures of the city of Kolos.

If they succeed, the rewards will be far greater than those of the "traitors".

(End of this chapter)