Taking advantage of the duration of the Dark World, the three of them launched various long-range attacks against the emperor.

Judging from the emperor's previous performance, he should not be able to see the darkness outside the spiritual circle. The enemy is in darkness and we are in the dark, so we can only defend passively.

"Obstacle!"

At this time, the emperor stayed in place, relying on the transparent barrier before to resist all attacks around him.

All magic will automatically fail the moment it touches the barrier. It can be called an absolute defense. However, the price is that the emperor's magic power is declining rapidly. It is obvious that maintaining this absolute defense consumes a lot of money.

In less than half a minute, half of the emperor's nearly 10,000 magic points have evaporated. His realm of speech and spirit is very powerful. If used properly, it can have a life-changing effect, but "reasonable use" here definitely does not include

Be a sandbag unable to fight back like you are now.

Now the emperor had to change his strategy and gave up this no-dead-end defense method. He chose to withstand some normal attacks and only resisted those magic attacks that caused too much damage. He also began to try to move in the direction of Muyou and the others, preparing to counterattack.

As a result, the consumption of magic power has indeed slowed down, but the wounds on the emperor's body are also increasing rapidly.

"Healing!"

After the injuries had accumulated for a while, the emperor used Yanling again, and all the injuries on his body were healed instantly.

But at this moment, a sharp sword light struck at his side suddenly. The emperor's perception in the field was different from ordinary people. He immediately noticed this and knew that this was the woman with the sickle just now. Remember the URL

However, he did not rely on his spirit to dodge this attack. The purpose of his coming here was not to fight to the death with the opponent, but to detect intelligence. It was very necessary to experience the strength of the opponent's attack in person.
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The emperor relied on his physical attributes to move aside. Although he could not completely dodge, he also avoided the vital point.

The sickle scraped across his shoulder, leaving an undetectable line of blood.

Lin Xue maintained the fighting habit of retreating with one strike, and immediately exited the range of the word spirit after being hit.

The emperor didn't care, thinking it was just an ordinary attack and defense.

But immediately after, he suddenly noticed that a skull-shaped mark appeared on his shoulder where he had just been attacked.

The mark itself did not bring any substantial negative effects to him, but the moment he saw the mark, the emperor felt a kind of instinctive disgust and fear.

The emperor didn't know what it was, but he had a feeling: If he didn't get rid of this thing from his body as soon as possible, it might bring consequences that he couldn't bear...

Almost as a subconscious reaction, the emperor immediately used the spirit of speech to remove the mark: "Remove!"

After giving the order, the mark slowly faded away.

However, the mark was successfully removed, but the consumption surprised the emperor.

The remaining half of the magic power in his body disappeared in an instant as if it disappeared out of thin air!

A simple 'explanation' word language actually consumed more than 4,000 points of his magic power?

While the emperor was distracted, Mu You's attack from afar would not stop.

The emperor, whose magic power was at the bottom, temporarily lost the opportunity to use the word spirit again. As a result, he was instantly struck by several wind blades, causing blood to surge all over his body and his life to drop sharply.

However, just when Mu You was about to beat the drowned dog and continue the attack, he heard the emperor lying on the ground in the distance, and clearly uttered two words.

"Self-destruction."

The next moment, the place was suddenly covered by a large ball of fire, and in the explosion, the emperor's body directly turned into powder and disappeared from the place.

"It's self-destruction again..."

The emperor's self-destruction did not hurt anyone, but Mu You could only watch the emperor disappear, unable to do anything.

Word Spirit Barrier self-destructs and teleports, no wonder the other party dares to come alone, this combination is too shameless.

Shaking his head, Mu You stepped forward and picked up the fragment of the map on the ground where the emperor disappeared.

When the Emperor died, it happened to be within the half-hour scheduled time for the Phantom Thief to steal. During this period, the fragments would definitely explode after death, which saved Mu You from following the schedule.

After the battle, Lin Xue and Xiaoya watched Mu You pick up the fragments, and they all came to watch.

"What's the date?" Lin Xue asked.

"No. 1..."

Mu You looked at the number on the fragment and sighed secretly.

In fact, he had already expected this result.

The result of the emperor's action is to give Mu You a fragment for nothing. If it is a fragment of relatively high value, even if it is marked, the other party may not be willing to give it away.

As for Fragment No. 1, only one-third of the content depicts the map of Sky City, and the rest is annotations of the external environment and entrances.

In other words, the No. 1 fragment is extremely valuable before entering the city, but once it finds the entrance and enters the Sky City, the value of this fragment will depreciate sharply, and its importance is far less than that of the No. 3 and No. 6 fragments.

It was precisely because Mu You's previous appointment letter was coincidentally marked with the No. 1 fragment that the emperor was willing to use it as bait, on the one hand to lure Mu You away, and on the other hand to explore some information.

Using an almost useless fragment in exchange for some important information is obviously a cost-effective deal in the eyes of the other party.

"No matter what, with the map, at least I won't get lost in area No. 1..."

Mu You took out the previous fragments and put them together. The contents of the No. 1 fragment were immediately displayed, and the path out was clearly marked.

Now that he holds fragment No. 125, more than half of the way to the city center is smooth.

As for the missing three and six, Mu You estimated that there was little chance of snatching them away. Tianzi and others had suffered a loss before, so they would definitely not give him another chance to kill and explode. Most of the two fragments had been transferred in advance.

In other words, for areas three and six, he could only think of other ways.

"Take a step and see..."

Mu You shook his head, picked up map No. 1 and read it, preparing to write down the map content first.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt a sound breaking through the air behind him, and subconsciously moved to the side to avoid it.

"Be careful!"

Lin Xue's voice sounded half a beat slower. At the same time, she rushed forward with her sickle in hand, slashed with the blade, and easily cut a soft-bodied creature in half in mid-air.

"Octopus?"

Mu You couldn't help but be startled when he looked at the severed creature on the ground. It turned out to be an octopus the size of a palm.

"How could there be an octopus in a place like this?" Mu You looked strange. There were no living creatures in this ruined city, not even insects or plants. It was a completely dead city. At this time, a living octopus suddenly appeared.

It’s so strange...

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the octopus that had been cut in half on the ground squirming. The broken body, like a slime, actually fused together again to form a complete octopus. It screamed and jumped towards Muyou.

Come on, spit out a mouthful of acid in mid-air.

This little octopus was only at level 4 or 5, and its attack power was very weak. Mu You let the venom pass at will, and with a few blows from his electric arc sword, he cut it into eight pieces.

But what is surprising is that under such damage, the minced meat on the ground is still trying hard to squirm, as if it wants to get back together.

Mu You simply raised his wand, pointed the tip downward, flames spurted out, and grilled a pile of minced octopus meat on the ground.

As a result, the imagined scene where the minced meat turned directly into charcoal-grilled octopus did not happen. The minced meat seemed to have a high flame resistance and still squirmed and gathered in the flames.

"An unkillable octopus?" Mu You was a little interested. The survivability of this thing is too abnormal.

Just when he was about to continue his research, Xiaoya's exclamation suddenly sounded from behind him: "Boss, look!"

Mu You and Lin Xue looked in the direction she pointed, but the scene they saw made them shiver at the same time.

On the street not far away, countless small octopuses with exactly the same appearance emerged from various buildings and climbed toward them.

The walls, streets, stone carvings, and doors are all covered with dense octopuses. This overwhelming scene is definitely a nightmare for all trypophobia patients!

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Mu You looked confused, what the hell is this?

The next moment, the octopuses seemed to have rioted collectively. They quickly piled up in layers in front of them, and finally formed an oversized octopus foot.

An eye and a mouth were opened on the surface of the octopus foot. When he saw Mu You below, he roared as if he had seen an enemy. Then the huge octopus foot twitched and rolled towards the three of them.

The three of them jumped away in a hurry, causing the octopus to fly into the air. The ground shook three times, forming a huge ravine on the spot.

Before the three of them could take a breath, the octopus legs instantly transformed into countless small octopuses, scrambling to climb out of the ravine and continue to chase the three of them.

Now the three of them can only continue to run away. As for turning back to fight? They can't even think about it. This number, coupled with the survivability of this small octopus, is simply not something that can be dealt with by ordinary means. Once they are overwhelmed by a swarm of octopuses,

, almost certain death, now the only option is to run away.

"You two come in and I'll run!"

Mu You took the time to take out an empty backpack, opened the entrance, and let Lin Xue and Xiaoya in.

This place can be regarded as a world of its own. The backpack where the chocobo was previously placed cannot be opened here, and the mount cannot be used. At this time, it can only run on two legs.

After the two of them got into the backpack, Mu You collected the package, hurriedly started to run away. Halfway through, he looked back and saw that the octopuses were still chasing him desperately, as if they had spotted him.

"Not at all, how much hatred..." Mu You muttered secretly.

When the huge octopus foot appeared just now, the familiar pressure emanating from it made Mu You confirm the identity of this thing: Octopus King!

Mu You doesn't know how the Octopus King got here due to a bug, but this thing is much weaker than the Octopus King in the outside world, and it only has about one-tenth of its strength.

But even so, this thing is still a creature that is infinitely close to the legendary level, and it is definitely not something he can fight against now.

Just as Muyou was running like crazy in Area 1.
To be continued...