I reign supreme in the Western fantasy world for eternity.

Tyrol banished the absurd thought from her mind.

The kingdom's succession system has always been moderate; once the crown prince is established, other heirs no longer have the legal right to compete for the throne.

In the nearly thousand-year history of the royal family, there has only been one truly successful usurpation, which was only achieved by taking advantage of the special period when the old king died suddenly and the crown prince was young.

Subsequently, successive royal families continuously improved the succession law, minimizing the possibility of usurpation.

Moreover, the hero's reputation is widely recognized.

The holy sword bestowed by the church, the merits sung by the common people, and the character circulating among the noble circles all determined that the hero could not possibly do such a heinous thing as helping the princess seize the throne.

Even if Sonia actually asked, the hero would probably refuse outright.

Tyrol realized that her earlier speculation was indeed untenable, so she stopped thinking about it and focused on following at the back of the group.

There are more and more monsters on the road.

The grayish-white lumps on the wall multiplied from one to three, and from three to seven.

The dark liquid seeping from the ceiling dripped more frequently, and the writhing monsters on the ground gathered in swarms, their figures appearing everywhere—at the end of the corridor, around the corner, and above the door frames.

Shirley walked to the front.

"Master, let me do these, you can rest for a while."

As she spoke, she sidestepped the tentacles that popped out from the right wall and punched the crack in the wall.

As the fist landed, the monster at the crack exploded, sending grayish-white fragments flying outwards, turning into dust before they even hit the ground!

Sherry was really bored. She thought it would be a scary adventure, but she hadn't done anything along the way, and she was really itching to do something.

As they fought their way forward, a slightly jarring sound drifted from afar.

"Old Wu! Old Wu! Old Wu..."

One call after another, growing more and more urgent.

In everyone's magical vision, at the end of the fork in the road, a tiny white dot of light was pulsating violently.

"Master, there's a cat over there."

Ji Tian had already sensed it; the cat was crouching in the corner at the end of the side path, its fur bristling like a hedgehog, its back arched and its breath coming in gasps.

But in the direction of its breath, deeper into the side passage, there was nothing in the Magic Element Vision.

A pure, all-consuming darkness.

Even the outline of the flowing magic essence disappeared; the entire scene was abruptly cut off as it approached that location.

Darkness is slowly spreading outwards.

The magic element at the edge was pulled in bit by bit, at a speed too fast for the naked eye to see, but the boundary line under the magic element's vision was as clear as if it had been cut by a knife. For every inch the darkness advanced, the light spot at the boundary disappeared an inch.

When it sensed someone approaching, the cat was startled and briefly broke through the limitations of the underlying code, leaping away and running off into the distance.

With a smile and a shake of her head, Sonia casually took out a bottle of holy water from her spatial ring and threw it into the darkness.

The bottle flew into the darkness and disappeared without a sound of collision or shattering.

Sonia pulled out two more bottles, this time using even more force.

The bottle spun and flew into the depths of darkness, but there was still no response.

"Is the dosage still insufficient?"

"Don't waste any more time, leave the rest to me."

Ji Tian walked to the edge of darkness and placed his right hand on the hilt of the holy sword at his waist.

Draw your sword.

The moment the holy sword was drawn, golden light broke through the restrictions of the Well of Eternal Night, bursting forth in a visible manner, eventually forming a solid, visible golden pillar of light.

The pillar of light was about three feet long, and its entire surface was covered with fine golden runes.

As the light shone on the corridor walls, the grayish-white tumors began to shrink, disintegrate, and turn to ash the moment the light touched them.

Darkness receded from the edge of light, like tides being evaporated by the blazing sun.

Tyrol instinctively covered her eyes with her hand.

Within her magical vision, Ji Tian's magical energy was expanding outward in a way she couldn't comprehend.

The blazing white humanoid figure expanded several times its original size within a few breaths, with countless fine golden threads extending from its edges, like roots penetrating the walls, floor, and ceiling of the corridor.

Wherever those threads passed, the magic element was re-anchored.

The surrounding darkness began to crack, spreading outwards from the center of the light.

Then, he slashed down with his sword!

……

In the depths of darkness, a black mirror suspended in mid-air is expanding outwards.

Inside the mirror was a deep darkness, with dark liquid dripping from its edges and congealing into writhing chunks of flesh on the ground.

In front of the mirror, a figure is kneeling on one knee.

The figure was dressed in the robes of a grand mage, and his face was exactly the same as that of the grand mage who had left the royal treasury earlier.

But its face would shimmer slightly in the darkness, with occasional dark gray light seeping out from the gaps in its fabric.

A fist-sized black stone floated in front of it, its surface covered with dense runes, its light flickering.

"Great master, I have made quite a commotion in the palace as you instructed, but unfortunately the actual killing range of the [Well of Eternal Night] is too small. At present, it can only maintain darkness within the palace area and cannot spread outwards."

Layers of sounds emanated from the black stone, as if dozens of people were speaking at the same time.

"It's alright, just make a big scene. And as long as you're within the influence of this item, and as long as this place is dark, you won't die. Now go..."

Before he could finish speaking, a powerful golden light slashed down from the other end of the corridor.

The golden light tore through the entire dark sky, and wherever it passed, spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface of the mirror. Dark liquid gushed out from the cracks and quickly evaporated in the golden light.

The darkness was torn apart from the middle.

Golden light poured out from the crack, like a flood bursting through a dam.

The darkness was completely disintegrated in the golden light, without even a chance to revert to magic essence, and simply vanished into the air.

"What?! How is this possible?! It's impossible for anyone to emit light under the suppression of the [Well of Eternal Night]!"

The shadow clone resembling a Grand Magus suddenly stood up, its face twisting and peeling away in the golden light to reveal a dark gray, faceless humanoid underneath.

It tried to retreat, but the golden light was much faster than it could react.

A beam of light pierced through its body.

The dark gray humanoid figure began to disintegrate from its chest, with cracks spreading to its limbs, and the fragments turned to ashes in the golden light.

It opened its mouth but could not make a sound, and disappeared into the corridor in a few breaths.

The black stone fell from mid-air, and the runes on its surface extinguished one by one in the golden light.

A hand reached out from the golden light and grabbed the black stone.

Ji Tian stood at the end of the corridor, the Holy Sword resting on his shoulder, while in his other hand, the black stone was slowly shattering.

He watched the dissipating runes and finally identified his opponent, then held the black stone up in front of him.

"From this moment on, I have taken over this capital city."

The last rune on the surface of the black stone went out.

Shattered.