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Artoria just conveniently eliminated the person behind it all, so everything's fine now. Good riddance.

With a series of cracking sounds, lines spread across the crown of the British Empire. After reaching its limit, the crown suddenly exploded, turning into countless points of light.

This light spread throughout the entire nation of John Bull, falling upon every citizen. Those who had been baptized by the shattered crown would be more able to perceive the increasingly vibrant energy.

"It seems that it believes the people are more entitled to it than you are."

Artoria sheathed her holy sword and looked at her accomplice below, who was completely stunned, and spoke.

Just then, Zhao Ling'er suddenly received a message.

"Ling'er, the cover has disappeared. Lin Zhengying and the others have found out who was behind it. It's an organization called Hydra."

"I've already sent the message to everyone. If you see it when you come back, remember to take them out while you're at it."

Li Xiaoyao's voice rang out beside Zhao Ling'er.

Without any cover, Artoria, the Knights of the Round Table, and Merlin all clearly heard this message.

Hydra?

Ha, Hydra!

Every member of the Mystic faction present remembered this name. Congratulations to player Hydra for unlocking the highest difficulty dungeon!

Chapter 121 The Ultimate Dungeon

Congratulations to player Hydra for accepting the mission "Conquer the Earth"!

[World Channel] Clock Tower: It's probably expanded to be bigger than the moon...

[World Channel] Huaxia-Heavenly Court: Hurry up, don't bother me. I'm busy lately and don't have time.

[World Channel] Knights of the Round Table: Do we look like pushovers? So many of us are going to target us first?

[World Channel] Shurima: zzzz~ (Sleeping, please do not disturb)

[World Channel] China: Dongfeng Express, mission accomplished!

[World Channel] Russia: Vodka! Hurrah!

[World Channel] France: It seems the white flag won't be needed this time...

[World Channel] Eagle: Our Hydra agents are all undercover agents, they're our own people, don't let them get away with it!

[World Channel] S.H.I.E.L.D.: ... (I'm not, I'm not...)

[World Channel] Hydra: Damn it! Don't open the dungeon! I didn't accept the mission! It's an inside man! An inside man!

[World Channel] Hydra: Huh? Why can't this mission be canceled?

[System Message] The instance has been loaded successfully, the quest settings have been completed, and the player has been successfully loaded.

Mission Objective 1: Destroy S.H.I.E.L.D.

Mission Objective Two: Eliminate the Mystic Side (Note: Please prepare a faster-than-light spaceship. The location of the important mission objective has been marked: Oort Cloud at the edge of the solar system.)

Mission Objective 3: Defeat the five permanent members of the UN Security Council

The five mission points are: 1. Raging Seas; 2. The Great Wall of Steel; 3. Frigid Winter; 4. The Iron Tower Still Stands; 5. Orphans of the Fog City.

[World Channel] Hydra: Can you give me a guaranteed reward for completing Mission 1?

[World Channel] S.H.I.E.L.D.: West!

"Why...why...that's mine...why did you destroy it..."

Raine stood up from the ruins, clutching his head. He was dizzy and could only remember one image: Artoria slashing at the crown of the sunless kingdom with a curry stick.

Also, don't get me wrong, Raine survived not because he was particularly strong or had awakened any superpowers, but simply because a ring of blue arcane runes around him saved his life.

With a series of cracking sounds, Xerath emerged from the ruins and stood before Renn, all obstacles in his path shattered by the lightning surrounding him.

"You...you've come to save me?" Renn looked at Xerath with a hint of surprise; this was something he had never even dared to dream of.

Xerath stopped in front of Renn. Thanks to the energy extracted from the magic ore and the unexpected joy of Artoria shattering the crown, Xerath's size had returned to normal, and he was a head taller than Renn when he floated up.

“No.” Just as the smile on Renn’s face was about to freeze, Xerath coldly uttered a single word.

Then Xerath lifted the utterly desperate Renn up with one hand, saying, "I'm just used to killing my enemies."

Zizizi!

A crackling arc of electricity spread from Xerath's arm to Renn's body, instantly giving Renn a burnt smell, and spiderweb-like patterns appeared on his body.

After struggling in agony for more than ten seconds, Renn finally stopped breathing. Xerath squeezed hard, and with a bang, Renn's body exploded into a pile of ashes.

“Useless.” Xerath said coldly. Renn had delayed for too short a time. He had not yet recovered to his full strength and it was not advisable for him to clash with the mysterious forces on this side.

Furthermore, Xerath felt he should find a slightly more reliable ally, as going it alone was no longer fashionable in this era.

The current trend in the mystical world is that if you can beat someone, they'll fight you one-on-one; if you can't, you'll fight side-by-side!

Furthermore, the painful death of Raine shouldn't be too resentful, as there were Hydra agents with far higher positions who died at the same time as him.

In a military base in the United States, after a series of gunshots, the base commander, shot in the back, collapsed onto a table, his face still showing disbelief and shock as he fell.

The person who took action was his personal guard, who was also an undercover agent sent to the base by Hydra.

The door opened with a sizzle, and General Ross walked in, nodding with satisfaction as he looked at the dead base commander.

"General! Mission accomplished!"

The guard saluted and said, "That's right. He was actually an undercover agent sent by the military to Hydra, but he was sent here by Hydra instead."

"Hmm, well done." General Ross patted the man on the shoulder and then walked past him.

The guard stood ramrod straight, his eyes fixed ahead, wondering what kind of official position he would be promoted to upon his return.

Just as he was lost in thought, the guard suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back and was slammed onto the table by the impact.

"For..." The guard died before he could finish a single word.

Ross wiped his hands. If he hadn't personally arranged for this undercover agent to be there, he wouldn't have bothered to take action himself.

After doing all that, Ross took out two Hydra badges from his pocket and threw them at them. These two were already affiliated with Hydra, so this wasn't too unfair to them.

In fact, there are quite a few undercover agents or undercover agents like them in the United States. It's easy to see why Hydra was able to develop steadily and even grow stronger in this era where space has been compressed to the extreme.

Besides the fact that they do possess some alien technology, the more important reason is that the United States sometimes needs someone to take the blame.

Whether it's misleading or exchanging favors to get Hydra to do something, or simply pinning blame on Hydra for wrongdoing, they're very adept at it all.

However, it is necessary to do some cleanup in advance. Ross still remembers the scene where Heimerdinger disarmed his large army by himself, and they had no power to resist the enemy.

It seems those fools in the UK are about to provoke the mystical side. Even before Li Xiaoyao's message to China reached the UK, Ross, with his keen intuition, knew that these people could no longer be allowed to live.

The relationship between the Eagle Nation and the Clock Tower, the main leader of the mystical side, is already strained. Let's hope that things don't get worse because of Hydra.

What? You're asking how Rose knew Hydra was behind it all?

He guessed correctly; he was extremely familiar with these people's style of doing things, having seen it countless times and imitated it countless times, as familiar as raisins.

Besides, even if he guessed wrong, it wouldn't matter. Who would bother him, a high-ranking military officer, if a few undercover agents died?

"Make a note of this: the two Hydra agents committed suicide out of guilt," Ross said to his subordinates who were standing some distance away after leaving the room.

"Yes, General." The subordinate, adhering to the principle of not asking too many questions and simply doing what was asked, saluted.

Chapter 122 A Substitute? It's the same as not having one no matter who you are!

Bang! In the darkness, a bullet flashed and pierced through the specially designed bulletproof helmet, exploding into a spray of blood in the air.

A fully armed Hydra agent lay on the ground, his head tilted back to the sky.

"If you had told me earlier that this mission was to deal with these Hydras, I would have accepted it for free."

Frank walked out from the side, gun in hand; he was the last Hydra member in this small base.

"If you have too many points, you can transfer them to me; I'll buy them at a high price."

Natasha emerged from the shadows beside her. The lights here had been completely turned off, which greatly enhanced Natasha's agility.

She brandished the dagger in her hand, flicking the blood droplets onto the ground.

"That's impossible. Seriously, is S.H.I.E.L.D. even of any use? So many Hydras, and you still haven't found anything?"

Frank mentioned Natasha, who was shocked when he received the news from Ouroboros. There were three Hydra bases in the small city where he was staying.

"Didn't you notice it when you were there?" Natasha retorted the whole way, as if Frank had never been to S.H.I.E.L.D. himself.

Just then, Natasha's communicator suddenly rang. After glancing down at it, Natasha's expression changed drastically, even more so than when she first learned that Hydra still existed.

"What's wrong? What has Hydra done now?" Frank asked. Under such a global surprise attack and encirclement, Hydra shouldn't have any power to resist.

“It’s not Hydra…it’s Nick Fury…” Natasha suddenly looked up. “Something’s happened at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters! Are you coming back with me?”

“No problem, but what exactly happened?” Frank didn’t hesitate. Nick Fury had been pretty good to him overall, so since something had happened to him, he had to go back and check on him.

Natasha didn't say much and handed the phone to Frank. The phone screen displayed a complex string of characters.

“This is the password to the safe house. Nick Fury once told me that when this password is activated, S.H.I.E.L.D. will be facing a life-or-death situation,” Natasha explained quickly.

Frank nodded without saying much. He thought that when Ouroboros provided a large number of Hydra agents within S.H.I.E.L.D., S.H.I.E.L.D. would be facing a life-or-death moment. He didn't expect that this was the moment.

Meanwhile, at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Nick Fury turned off his phone, stuffed it into his pocket, and then squatted down, looking at the corpse in front of him.

“A Stand, another Stand. Pierce, you have more Stands than I do,” Nick Fury muttered to himself.

He finally understood why he had sensed problems within S.H.I.E.L.D. for so long but had only managed to uncover a few minor figures: it turned out that the former director of S.H.I.E.L.D. who had promoted him was also an undercover agent!

The instant Nick Fury got up and stepped over the corpse, a bullet pierced his head through the window.

Inside the control room of a space carrier, Pierce shook his head. "Another double. Just how many people did this guy send in?"

"Sir! We've already killed thirty Nick Furys, but they were all doubles. What's the next step?" the subordinate asked.

Pierce pondered for a few seconds. "Open the launch bay of the intercontinental ballistic missile, switch to emergency manual launch mode, load all warheads with nuclear warheads, cut off the control console from the outside world, import the data from the USB drive I brought back into the system, and I'll go talk to those people."

Pierce picked up a very futuristic-looking communicator and went into the secret room behind. He wanted to talk to the president of the United States and see if he could use his connections to get the Mysterious Side to let them off the hook.

After all, they still have some nuclear weapons, which are their bargaining chips.

While Pierce sought reconciliation, or rather, conditional surrender, Natasha and Frank used the fast travel points provided by Ouroboros to fight their way back to New York.