Worthless Profession: Dragon Tamer

Chapter 943, The Imperial City

Translator: Silavin

Nichirin Takeshi’s expression turned grim/ Not only because two more people had just died tragically, but more importantly, the troublesome nature of this golden city wall far exceeded his imagination.

Originally, he thought that breaking through the wall would be the end of it.

He had not expected this golden city wall could actually be able to heal itself.

Now, everyone’s escape route has been completely sealed off. If there was danger ahead and everyone wanted to flee, escaping from here would be extremely difficult.

Although Nichirin Takeshi, like Mikami Saburo, outwardly proclaimed everywhere that as long as they met an Ancient God, they could obtain Immortality and gain power…

Right now, with their retreat cut off and whether they could gain an Ancient God’s favour after meeting them was still unknown.

This feeling of being stuck between advancing and retreating made him increasingly worried. However, as one of the leaders, he naturally could not voice such concerns in his heart. Therefore, even though filled with anxiety about the road ahead, he could only grit his teeth and persist.

“Get some Priests over here to heal his injuries!” Nichirin Takeshi commanded loudly, pointing at the person on the ground who had lost both legs and was wailing continuously.

Immediately, many Supporters stepped forward to treat him.

Under so many Supporters’ Skills, his injuries quickly stabilized.

There was even a Player with a Hidden Profession that could cast an extremely powerful Healing Skill, who actually made him rapidly grow new legs, making a full recovery.

Seeing that this person was now fine, many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the golden city wall before them made many share Nichirin Takeshi’s worries.

Seifu Murasaki noticed many people looking worried and proactively snorted coldly. “Enough. We are already in the Earth Tripartite. Once we meet an Ancient God, how much room for retreat do you think we have anyway? This city wall has indeed sealed our retreat. But since we’re already here, we had no retreat to begin with, isn’t that right?!”

“Let’s go. Since we’ve already reached the Imperial City, the central area of the Earth Tripartite is just ahead. Similarly, the Ancient Gods should be there as well. Put in a little more effort, and we can formally face them. At that time, we’ll be the Masters of this world besides the Ancient Gods!”

Seifu Murasaki’s words once again injected morale into everyone.

Everyone reorganized their spirits and set out again.

Further into the Imperial City, Monsters also appeared. Moreover, the Monsters appearing this time had already become Level 130 Elite Asura Guard.

These Monsters looked very similar to Asura Guards, but their bodies were embedded with many crimson gemstones.

These gemstones emitted faint light, seeming to infuse the Elite Asura Guards with even more power, making Elite Asura Guards far stronger than the Asura Guards, thus earning the additional title ‘Elite’.

Overall, Elite Asura Guards simply had stronger Attributes than Asura Guards and possessed two Additional Skills.

Their general positioning showed no difference between the two.

Therefore, dealing with Elite Asura Guards using the same methods as dealing with Asura Guards posed absolutely no problem.

When everyone first encountered the Elite Asura Guards, they were indeed somewhat flustered, but after realizing this point, everyone stabilized their formation.

The continuously appearing Elite Asura Guards could not obstruct so many people’s advancing steps and were eliminated one by one.

Afterward, Elite Asura Priests, Elite Asura Heavy Cavalries, and other High Level Monsters appeared in succession, finally making the main force gradually feel strained, with casualties appearing more and more frequently.

The original team of over two hundred had now dwindled to just over two hundred.

And this was only the result of the main force advancing through the Earth Tripartite’s Imperial City for a day and a half.

Going forward, the rate of casualties would accelerate.

Because the deeper they went, the more numerous and Higher Level the Monsters became.

At the same time, the more Players who died, the less Buffs the frontline could receive, less Damage Output, and less Healing…

Through this process of mutual decline, everyone’s advancement speed grew slower and slower.

If they continued advancing at the previous pace, the remaining people would probably be wiped out sooner or later.

Gradually, some people grew timid.

However, retreating now was already useless.

After all, everyone was already fully committed here. If they did not go forward, should they turn back?

Turning back, with the golden city wall right there, they might not be able to leave anyway.

Now, there was no retreat. Only one path remained, which was to meet the Ancient God.

Mikami Saburo, Seifu Murasaki, and Nichirin Takeshi took turns acting as motivational coaches, informing everyone that if they did not meet an Ancient God, they would all die.

Either survive and become the Ancient God’s servants, henceforth standing below one but above ten thousand. Or, just wait here to die.

Between these two paths, the choice was not difficult.

Therefore, everyone could only steel themselves and continue forward, battling with Elite Asura Guards and other Monsters that might appear at any time.

Finally, everyone spent another three days exploring.

In those three days, the number of Players had already sharply decreased to around seventy-something.

Even Lu Fan’s five-person group felt too embarrassed to slack off anymore. After all, with so few people, if they kept slacking, they would definitely be discovered.

Therefore, casualties among Players in the later period were actually somewhat fewer than before.

This left all Players somewhat puzzled, not understanding why, despite their numbers decreasing, their overall strength did not seem to have been reduced too much.

But regardless, three days later, everyone finally arrived before a palace crafted from pure gold.

Even having gone through a change in era, this golden palace showed little sense of weathering, its surface embedded with countless gemstones, appearing magnificently bejeweled.

It seemed this was the deepest part of the Earth Tripartite.

Because one could see that here stood not just one palace, but three palaces back-to-back. Their designs differed slightly, but their size and magnificence were similar.

It seemed this was the very centre of the Earth Tripartite, where the three Divine Beings had once resided in these adjacent palaces, receiving ordinary people’s offerings.

The three palaces’ backs were connected, their interiors should be interconnected.

As long as they entered the palace, they would most likely find an Ancient God.

Moreover, there should be three.

Besides this palace where Ancient Gods had once lived, everyone really could not think of anywhere else the Ancient Gods could reside.

Therefore, after confirming that through such a long time exploring, they had finally reached the very middle of the Earth Tripartite, everyone became so excited they wept.

“Finally… finally, we have arrived!” Mikami Saburo’s eyes brimmed with tears. Unable to wait, he reached out a hand, summoned a torrent of earth and mud, and pushed open the palace’s great doors.