Chapter 413


    Chapter 413 Blood–Stained Stairway to Enlightenment


    Nixon and Gilbert couldn’t catch up to Caspian at all.


    Caspian stood still at the peak with his bodypletely drenched in sweat.


    He felt as if he had just been baptized by his own sweat, blood, and tears.


    Climbing up the Stairway to Enlightenment was akin to going through a difficult test.


    Only th


    m


    man standing at its peak could be dered the strongest!


    At the same time, the immense pressure was finally lifted from Caspian’s body.


    Caspian seemed like a king as he proudly looked at the crowd below from the top.


    “Impossible!”


    “How could he possibly reach the top before us?”


    Both Gilbert and Nixon were agonizing over their loss.


    They had lost to Caspian despite using all their might.


    The two of them were seething with anger.


    “Seems like I’m the winner!” said Caspian as he picked up all three valuable herbs off the floor.


    Both Nixon and Gilbert were so furious by the oue that they collectively spat out a mouthful of bloo


    d.


    They both considered themselves strong and yet they both lost to Caspian fair and


    The humiliation Caspian dealt them finally pushed them past the edge.


    “Listen to me, my TMAA brothers! Kill them all!”


    “Shadow Gate, attack!”


    Both Nixon and Gilbert issued theirmands at once.


    square.


    The abnormal pressure emanating from the Stairway to Enlightenment gradually died down ever since


    Caspian reached the peak.


    Both of them took the opportunity to w up to the peak.


    “Protect Caspian! He’s finally reached the top!” shouted Sylvia.


    Hundreds of armored soldiers rushed over to sh against their enemies.


    “Shit! Caspian’s men areing!”


    “We gotta lurry up or Can’s going to get his hands on the Eldorian Scroll fragment!”


    Everyone spring into action as Sylvia and the armored battalion began their move.


    Caspian looked down at the crowd below from the peak, and it reminded him of ants going to


    The enemy forces were truly mere ants that didn’t require his attention.


    “Kill them all, my armored battalion!” ordered Campian.


    “Kill them!” roared his armored soldiers as they charged into battle without any hesitation.


    The Stairway to Enlightenment was soon painted red with blood, resembling a hellscape as corpses litt


    ered the floor.


    Gilbert and Nixon felt as if their hearts were stabbed by daggers as they could only watch their subordi


    nates get massacred without any chance of fighting back.


    The only thing they could do now was to reach the top and snatch the Eldorian Scroll fragment from Ca


    spian


    Every so long as they could obtain the scroll


    until this point would be worth i


    The battle waspletely one–sided as the armored battalion was nearly invincible.


    “Hurry and get up here, Sylvia!” shouted Caspian.


    “So long, losers.”


    Sylvia waved at Horace and his men before rushing up the stone stairway.


    30 minutester, Sylvia and her men finally reached the top as well.


    The pressure emanating from the stone stairway had mostly dissipated.


    But even then, everyone still spent a lot of their strength to make the climb.


    Xandros, however, seemed to be at ease after the climbpared to the others. He didn’t resemble th


    e hundred–year–old senior that he was.


    Caspian waved his hands and said, “Mr. Stewart Senior, let’s go in already!”


    Now that the Eldorian Scroll fragment was just one step away, he wanted to secure it before thinking ab


    out anything else.


    As for Nixon, Gilbert, and their men, he could always deal with themter.


    Both of them let out a sigh of relief as they watched Casn lead the charge into the tomb.


    Although they wanted to go in as well, they had no choice but to wait for reinforcements to


    It would be a futile effort if they went inside alone.


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    Around an hourter, Fabian, Horace, and the rest of the fighters finally reached the peak.


    All of them were drenched in sweat. They had already used up all their energy.


    “A bunch of losers!” said Nixon.


    He realized his own subordinates were truly useless.


    The TMAA currently had only a thousand men left.


    While Shadow Gate had only around five hundred remaining.


    They had been through heavy losses by the time they reached the peak.


    Horace stepped up to Nixon and asked, “Head elder, are you okay?”


    Nixon immediately pped him and scolded, “You bastard! Who told you to fight Caspian’s men?”


    Nixon had brought five thousand men with him when he departed from Dhord City.


    And now, one thousand was all that was left.


    He felt extremely bad about the unjustified losses.


    Horace remained quiet as he held onto his burning cheek.


    He could tell that Nixon may just kill him right then and there if he tried to say anything.


    Nixon snorted at him and felt much better after looking at his miserable face.


    “Mr. Shane, what should we do now? We’ve already lost too many of our men. I don’t think we can surv


    ive going into the tomb,” asked Nixon.


    Gilbert realized what Nixon was implying right away.


    They would need to join forces and deal with theirmon enemy if they wanted to


    retrieve. the Eldorian Scroll fragment.


    Gilbert suddenlyughed out loud as he turned to face the thousands of unaffiliated expert


    martial artists.


    They had simrly arrived at the peak of the Stairway to Enlightenment with no energy left to spare whil


    e drenched in sweat.


    They trembled at the sight of Gilbertughing maliciously.


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    “Surrender all your resources to us!” dered Gilbert.


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    The unaffiliated expert martial artists were left dumbfounded, “What? You can’t do this to us!”


    They couldn’t believe that the TMAA and Shadow Gate would stoop so low as to rob them of their herbs


    “Surrender your herbs willingly and you may still have a chance to live!” dered Nixon.


    “Fuck! Who do they think we are? Their treasure vaults?”


    “We won’t just do as you say, Come, my friends! We’ll show them who’s boss!”


    The unaffiliated expert martial artists had disliked both the TMAA and Shadow Gate since the very start


    The rest of the maffiliated fighters weren’t pushovers either, and they wouldn’t go down without a fight.


    They deemed it necessary to fight against the TMAA and Shadow Gate, as they couldn’t afford to lose th


    The next moment, another battle broke out on the stone stairway as blood–curdling screams


    rose and fell.


    The unaffiliated expert martial artists never stood a chance against both the TMAA and


    Shadow Gate.


    The stone stairway was painted red within ten minutes as hundreds of bodiesy across the


    floor.


    The remaining one thousand


    fear.


    f the unaffiliated expert martial artists had all frozen up from


    They decided to surrender and willingly gave away the herbs they had brought along.


    They didn’t dare to continue the fight as the TMAA and Shadow Gate’s forces would stop at nothing in o


    The weak should fear the strong, after all.


    The unaffiliated expert martial artists didn’t want to die just like this after all they had through to attain the


    Hone


    Gilbert and Nixon nodded their heads with satisfaction as they brought their men inside the


    tomb.


    The remaining men who had been robbed clean followed behind the group and entered the


    tomb as well.


    They had no other option but to proceed now that they had alreadye so far.


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    The Stairway to Enlightenment soon fell silent, with only corpses decorating the stairways.


    Suddenly, a huge crowd appeared before the stone stairway.