After going into the sea, I met the witch lady

Chapter 323 No matter how you punish me, I am willing to bear it

"I'm sorry, this is the only way I can think of to restrain a strong man like you..."

In the city lord's tower, deep underground, the city lord Alora lowered her head slightly: "In this world of black fog and glimmering light, trusting others is tantamount to seeking death."

"The curse of the Sun God Clan is just an insurance policy. You..."

Ryan carried Alora on his back and said calmly, "Aren't you afraid that I will kill all of you?"

"Mr. Zifeng." Allura sighed, "I know you are powerful, but in Torch City, with the blessing of the torch, even if I cannot defeat you, I can still protect myself."

"Oh?" Ryan turned his head and looked at Alora: "Are you sure?"

Seeing Ryan's face, Allura's pale golden pupils shrank sharply.

The curse of the Sun God that should have been branded into Ryan's soul was now like a pool of flowing blood-gold droplets, wriggling and struggling in front of his brows, but was fixed in place by an invisible force, unable to advance an inch.

The curse of the Sun God Clan is ineffective? !
How can it be!

You know, although this curse flowed from the bodies of the second generation of the Sun God Clan, its essence is the extremely scorching sun hanging high in the sky.

To be able to forcibly resist the curse of the Sun God Clan, either Zi Feng possesses unparalleled means of purification, or his own status is equal to the extremely scorching flames...

Zi Feng was carrying a large sword, and judging from his appearance, he must be a swordsman, which meant that he...

Alola's heart was shaken, but before she could think of anything else, an indifferent voice sounded beside her ear.

"In that case, let's give it a try."

A fist shadow rapidly enlarged in front of Allura's eyes.

The indescribable and indescribable terrible life-and-death crisis made Allura's true spirit tremble.

Without any hesitation, an ancient mask quickly appeared on her face.

Compared to the mask held by Alola 005, this mask looks much more refined. Obviously, it is the authentic one.

Red-gold flames flowed from the edge of the mask and instantly ignited Allura's body, turning her into a red-gold humanoid Hokage.

Layers of red-gold flames intertwined and entangled, forming nearly a hundred layers of flame shields between her and the fist shadow.

"Crack!"

The sound of the first outermost flame shield shattering and the sound of the last flame shield shattering sounded almost simultaneously.

Then, the fist landed on the mask on Allura's face.

"Boom--!"

In the air, where the fist landed, countless fine red-gold chains fixed the mask in an attempt to resist.

The essence of these chains is actually a super-giant protective magic circle centered on the torch of the city lord's tower and covering the entire huge city area.

In other words, in order to destroy the mask, one would need to unleash a power at once that is enough to destroy a giant city with hundreds of thousands of people living in it.

With the help of the torch, as long as the upper limit of a single attack cannot break through the protection, the mask will be restored instantly.

This is also the reason why Alora said that she has the confidence to protect herself in front of Ryan.

however.

There was one thing that Allura had miscalculated from the beginning to the end.

Like Mebalo, she was also unable to sense Ryan's specific aura. According to her estimation, this human named "Zifeng" was at most at the eighth level.

Compared to a senior rank 8th, she was certainly very powerful, but when she stood in Torch City, even at the limit of rank 8th, she could not break the protective formation of Torch City.

As for the possibility that Zi Feng was a ninth-level being, it had never appeared in Allura's mind from the very beginning.

After the arrival of the icy black fog and the scorching flames, it is almost impossible for beings of the same level to come to this world without any benefit.

During the years that the City of Sanctuary has existed, hundreds or even thousands of travelers from other worlds have visited, and the strongest of them is only at the eighth level.

And now, Allura knew that she was wrong, and very wrong.

This guy who calls himself "Zi Feng" actually...

"boom!"

A crisp cracking sound was heard, and the red-gold chains fixed on the edge of the mask broke into pieces, and then the mask also broke into pieces.

The fist stopped a few centimeters away from Allura's face, and changed into a palm. The five fingers grabbed Allura's little face and lifted it up from the ground.

"Why don't you continue to hold on?" Ryan said calmly, "I haven't drawn my sword yet. With your defense just now, you won't collapse at the first blow."

“…In front of a powerful person like you, it’s meaningless for me to continue holding on.” Allura, who was grabbed by the face and lifted up, had a vague voice, but the meaning of her words was very clear.

“Heh…” Ryan chuckled and threw Allura out.

"Your protection comes from the magic circle, and the energy supply of the magic circle comes from the torch."

"If you had continued to insist, the torch would have been broken. Without the torch, hundreds of thousands of residents in the City of Refuge would have been corroded by the black fog and would have died."

"If it weren't for the fact that you care about the people, your true spirit would have been annihilated and completely disappeared from this world."

Allura's petite body slid down the wall weakly and she coughed up some blood.

Ryan's control over his strength was exquisite to the extreme. This throw just caused Alola to suffer a not-too-serious but not-too-light injury, but did not affect anything other than her.

Alora stood up with some difficulty. On her fair and beautiful face, there were still light red five-finger prints. She bowed deeply to Ryan: "Thank you for your forgiveness."

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me. I never said that I have forgiven you."

Ryan shook his head, sat down on a luxurious armchair not far away, and crossed his hands in front of him: "Tell me, where did you get this second-generation Sun God corpse?"

"This thing's strength should be between the peak main god and the ultimate main god when it was alive. It is not something you can deal with."

"Also, what is that mask?"

The mask that had just been shattered by Ryan's punch was now repaired and appeared in Allura's hand, but there were still cracks on the surface.

Hearing Ryan's question, Allura pursed her lips and lowered her head: "...Master Zifeng, I will answer all your questions one by one."

"But before that, could you please tell me whether you are a human or another race?"

"Is there a difference?" Ryan raised his head and looked at the city lord's daughter who was a "prisoner" but still had no self-awareness: "Just because I am a human does not mean I will be friendly to you. Similarly, even if I am not a human, I am willing to protect you, which is much better than a human who is full of malice towards you."

"Please answer my question." Allura's eyes were stubborn: "You can kill me. I have already prepared for this before bringing you here today." "Only the human race can truly protect the human race!"

"And some secrets can only be known by humans."

"Heh..." Ryan chuckled: "Then just treat me as a human."

"..." Allura was silent for a moment, lowered her head, and said, "The body of this second-generation elder of the God Clan was secretly taken away from the battlefield by the previous Lord of Sanctuary City using tricks and at a huge cost."

"The blood power of the Sun God Clan is extremely poisonous to humans, so they created the 'Sun Mask' as a transit object so that the power of the sun can be used by humans."

"The material of the Sun Mask is the scattered fragments when the 'Cold Black Mist' first descended a thousand years ago. They were collected by our ancestors and passed down to this day."

"Is that so?" Ryan nodded and asked in confusion: "Why do you want to steal the power of the Sun God Clan? Don't the human race in your world have their own extraordinary system inheritance?"

"Yes, how could there not be?" Allura laughed bitterly: "The system we practice is called 'Druid'. It is to draw strength from all things in nature through human bodies."

"The Druid Way is not about taking, but about harmonious development."

"But since the arrival of the 'Ice Cold Black Mist', where is the power of all things that can be absorbed in this world?"

"Outside Torch City, everything in sight is stained by black fog."

"In this case, what should I do?"

Ryan shook his head.

This is the original sin of weakness.

So he has been working hard to become stronger.

"Tell me about the situation of the two camps, 'Icy Black Mist' and 'Scorching Sun'."

Allura whispered, "The 'Ice Black Mist' and the 'Scorching Flame' have been confronting each other for hundreds of years. In most cases, the battles are fought between the Black Mist Clan and the Sun God Clan under their respective command."

"The Black Mist Clan is in the shape of a pyramid. At the top is the 'Ice Black Mist'. Below him are the three chairmen. They all have the strength of the eighth level. If they are in the black mist, they can exert strength beyond the eighth level."

"Below the three chairmen are twelve ordinary councillors, whose strengths range from senior level eight to peak level eight."

"The Sun God Clan has a similar composition, but the Sun God Clan is headed by five 'first generation elders' and assisted by eighteen 'second generation elders'."

"The City of Refuge is under the protection of the Red Queen, a generation elder of the Sun God Clan."

"And the one who stood up to the Red Queen was the Black Mist Speaker - the Cruel Beast Master."

Ryan said with interest: "From the perspective of numbers, the number of strong men on the Black Mist Clan's side is less than that of the Sun God Clan. In other words, in the confrontation between the two sides, the Sun God Clan has the upper hand?"

“No.” Allura shook her head. “To be precise, at the beginning, the Sun God Clan did have a slight advantage, but in terms of individual strength, the Black Mist Clan was a little stronger, so the Sun God Clan could not gain a decisive advantage.”

“But later, as the Black Mist Clan summoned the Ancient God, the occupation began to develop in an unpredictable direction.”

"The ancient gods come from another world. Compared to the Black Mist Clan who enslaved the human race and even all other races to provide services for them, wherever the ancient gods go, all living things are infected by them and turned into death."

"Only the warriors of the human race, with their tenacious souls and will, can resist the infection of the ancient gods to a certain extent. This is why the so-called 'protection' of the Sun God Clan came later."

"The Sun Gods 'bestowed' the torch and built six Torch Cities. Essentially, they wanted to use them as 'incubation bases' to train a steady stream of powerful human warriors to seal or destroy the ancient gods."

"The powerful ancient gods are immortal and can only be sealed. The weak ancient gods, that is, the ancient gods below the eighth level, can be used as the outer fuel of the torch to consume the souls of the strong human beings."

"That's roughly what you want to know."

After briefly explaining the situation of the "Ice-cold Black Mist" and the "Scorching Sun", Allura lowered her head and fell silent: "Knowing this, I'm sure you also know that if humans want to survive in such a world, they must rely on their own strength and must seek out powerful power."

"The stolen solar power, or the alien solar power, is the only way that I and several generations of Sanctuary City Lords can find."

"We follow the path of Druids and draw strength from all things. So why can't we draw strength from the Sun God Clan and the Black Mist Clan?"

"It's an interesting idea." Ryan smiled: "However, according to your current progress, not to mention the Black Mist power of the Black Mist Clan, it will take a long time to truly master the power of the alien sun, right?"

"..." Allura was silent for a few seconds: "This corpse of the second-generation Protoss elder that we finally got has a lot of trouble. The divine blood in his body is already filthy, and the research process is very difficult."

"Indeed." Ryan nodded in agreement: "In order to do a good experiment, in addition to the correct guiding ideology, good experimental materials are also indispensable."

He stood up and walked towards the ladder: "Let's go, let's get the materials."

Ok?
Allura was stunned for a moment, unable to react to what Lord Zifeng meant by this.

"What are you doing there? Lead the way."

"Lord Zifeng, where are you going?" Allura asked as her body instinctively followed.

"You just said that the City of Sanctuary is within the territory of the Red Queen and the Cruel Beastmaster, right?"

"That's right." Allura nodded.

"In that case, wouldn't it be rude not to pay a visit? Besides, the fresher the experimental materials are, the better. What can we research from a broken corpse that has been dead for who knows how many years?" Ryan smiled.

And hearing this, Allura's eyes gradually widened.

No matter how stupid she was, she understood the meaning.

She trembled and said, "Master Zifeng, why... are you helping me?"

"Help you? No, no, no." Ryan shook his head: "I will repay a favor and pay back a grudge."

"No matter what, you must be punished for attacking me earlier."

"but not now."

"You must atone for your sins first, and then I will decide the punishment based on your remaining sins."

"As for why I would do this?"

Ryan certainly wouldn't say it, because humans are the main intelligent race recognized by this world and are closely related to his [World in the Palm].

"I can't stand seeing the suffering of the world."

"Now, lead the way!"

“Yes!” Allura said with a trembling voice, “No matter how you punish me, I am willing to bear it.”

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(End of this chapter)