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Halfway up the valley, Shi Feng dodged the Silver Giant Dragon's attacks while scanning the surrounding terrain.
The Dark Power might last a long time, but it would eventually run out.
Without the boost from the Dark Power, relying solely on the Sacred Breath of the Heavenly Dragon still wouldn't be enough to escape the Silver Giant Dragon's pursuit.
"Hmm, so that's where it was!" Shi Feng quickly spotted the place where the Silver Giant Dragon had appeared earlier and immediately changed direction, charging straight toward it.
It was a ruined temple site, but with the Silver Giant Dragon's arrival, the entire temple had long since been reduced to rubble. All that remained was an enormous crater, with fragments of the ruins scattered all around.
This only reinforced what Shi Feng had been thinking.
You Baiye and the others had come here almost certainly because of a quest. The Silver Giant Dragon's appearance had been completely unexpected, and right after it showed up, a fifth-rank forbidden spell — the Gloomy Sacred Domain — was also deployed. That meant this magic had definitely been set up to prevent something from escaping.
If there was magic to block escape, there should naturally also be magic to re-seal — just like the Obelisk Tower that had appeared back in Stone Forest Town.
The crater was bottomless.
Shi Feng dove straight in. The Silver Giant Dragon eyed the crater warily, but Shi Feng had stolen its power, leaving it in an extremely weakened state. It could recover, but only after a long period of rest. There was no way it could let go of its grudge without taking Shi Feng down first, so it dove in after him.
As the Silver Giant Dragon vanished from midair, You Baiye and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief in the distance.
Without the Silver Giant Dragon breathing down their necks, they at least stood a chance of dealing with these aberrations. If the dragon had joined the fight, they wouldn't have had even the slightest hope of completing the quest.
"Who the hell is that guy? He actually went head-to-head with a dragon for that long — that's insane!" The members of Xiao, witnessing the scene, were absolutely stunned.
A dragon was still a dragon. Even at its weakest, it wasn't something mere insects could challenge.
They had seen it clearly — the Silver Giant Dragon, despite being in a weakened state, still displayed the power of a level-55 fourth-rank boss. Crushing them would have been effortless; they wouldn't have even been able to fight back.
"Alright, the dragon's gone. Let's clear out these aberrations quickly — deploy the magic array to suppress them right away. We can't afford to hold back anymore." You Baiye was impressed by Shi Feng's performance, but the Silver Giant Dragon was still a looming threat. He didn't believe Shi Feng could keep it occupied for long. They had to pick up the pace.
After You Baiye finished speaking, the fifteen spellcasters in the team pulled out magic scrolls and a bottle of blue intermediate mana recovery potion.
They downed the potions in one gulp. Their mana had been sitting at less than ten percent, but in an instant it jumped back up by thirty percent. On top of that, their mana recovery speed was boosted by 100% for thirty seconds.
The fifteen of them then deployed the magic array.
A massive magic formation instantly enveloped all the aberrations. The Flash Freeze Domain had already slowed the aberrations' reactions considerably, but under the magic barrier they slowed even further, their stats instantly suppressed by about thirty percent.
The aberrations were still stronger in raw stats, but these weren't ordinary players either — in any major guild, they would have been top-tier experts. Originally, one of them could hold down a regular aberration affected by the Flash Freeze Domain, and some could even handle elite-grade ones. Now that the aberrations' reaction speed had dropped even further and their base stats had been cut by roughly thirty percent, dealing with them became far easier, and cutting them down was no longer such a difficult task.