On the sea outside the ruins.
Rescue teams from various countries were conducting intense rescue operations.
Archbishop Andrew sat on a chair on the airship's deck.
He looked at the three team mbers who had miraculously survived, though barely clinging to life.
He asked calmly,
"What exactly happened in the ruins?"
After receiving ergency Holy Light treatnt from a healer, one of the team mbers finally regained so color in his face.
He panted heavily, his eyes filled with the terror of having narrowly escaped death.
"Report... Report, Archbishop."
"We were preparing to rendezvous with Thor, the God of Thunder."
"But... but as soon as we entered, we were attacked by several terrifying undercurrents!"
As he spoke, his body trembled uncontrollably.
"In those undercurrents, we couldn't use any skills at all, and our bodies were completely out of control."
"That power... it was too terrifying, like it wanted to tear our bodies apart!"
"We... we watched our companions being swept away, powerless to do anything."
Another water-elent Professional struggled to add,
"Those weren't ordinary undercurrents! It was too terrifying. My water elent power was like a stream crashing into the ocean in front of that force; it was instantly swallowed!"
"We only managed to escape by risking our lives during a brief weakening of that undercurrent."
"As for Thor, the God of Thunder..."
The survivor shook his head.
"We didn't see him. We... we don't know if he's alive or dead now."
Andrew simply humd faintly after listening.
He turned to look at the hawkish-nosed middle-aged man who had been silent behind him.
"Marcus, when you scouted the ruins before, did you encounter such terrifying undercurrents?"
The middle-aged man nad Marcus pondered for a mont, then shook his head.
"Reporting to the Archbishop, we did encounter undercurrents in the deep sea of the ruins."
"But they were nowhere near as terrifying as he described."
Andrew fell into a brief silence.
"It's not a natural phenonon."
"Then it's man-made."
"It's highly likely that soone released a large-scale water-elent skill at the entrance to the ruins."
"Attempting to obstruct, or even eliminate, all who followed."
However, the survivor shook his head again, refuting this guess.
"Archbishop, that... that shouldn't be possible."
"The range of that undercurrent was too vast, its duration very long, and it ca in waves."
"Its power was also terrifying."
"I don't believe any SS-Class Professional could unleash such a world-destroying skill by himself."
"This is more like... so powerful ruin chanism was triggered."
Andrew nodded at his words.
This explanation seed more reasonable.
"In that case."
"Then send another team in."
Marcus was stunned for a mont.
"But Archbishop, the rules..."
"The rules only state that each country sends a ten-person team."
Andrew interrupted him, his tone brooking no argunt.
"But the rules didn't say that personnel couldn't be replenished after suffering losses."
"Imdiately reorganize a team, find Thor, the God of Thunder as quickly as possible, and find out what exactly happened inside!"
Marcus's expression tightened, and he imdiately bowed in acknowledgnt.
"Yes! I understand!"
...anwhile.
On the Great Xia Country's ship.
Zhang Cheng had just flown back from the Great Bear Country's [N O V E L I G H T] ship in the distance, a strange expression on his face.
He quickly walked to Lin Zhu's side and reported in a low voice.
"Principal Lin, I just went to inquire."
"The situation is a bit strange."
"The injured teams that followed don't seem to have been attacked by Thor, the God of Thunder."
"They all said that as soon as they entered the ruins, they encountered an extrely terrifying underwater turbulent flow."
"Polina from the Great Bear Country was very astute; she realized sothing was wrong and imdiately led her people out, so they were unhard."
"However, Sakura Country and the Free Federation suffered several deaths and many injuries."
"Underwater turbulent flow?"
Upon hearing these four words, a subtle ripple, hard to detect, flashed in Lin Zhu's calm eyes.
Why, of all tis, would an underwater turbulent flow appear at the entrance to the ruins now?
To call it a coincidence?
She didn't believe a word of it.
But at that ti, the first to enter the ruins, besides the arrogant Thor, the God of Thunder, was only Gandalf.
Speaking of Gandalf... she seed to recall Zhang Donglai ntioning sothing.
The new forbidden spell that boy comprehended at level 40 seed to be water-attributed.
Thinking of this, a rare smile actually appeared on Lin Zhu's usually frosty old face.
This little fellow, she hadn't expected him to possess such terrifying thods.
Ruthless enough, and decisive enough.
Her side had just suffered a loss, and he imdiately retaliated tenfold, even a hundredfold, in an even more ruthless manner.
This was completely beyond her expectations.
After all, Gandalf had been staying in her villa for so ti now.
She had also observed this rising star of the Great Xia Country, on whom the military placed high hopes, more than once in secret.
To be honest, before this, she hadn't thought much of Gandalf.
Because she couldn't feel any of the vigor or emotions a young person should have in him.
His daily life was like a precise machine with a set program.
He was either tornting himself in the Tempering Tower or frantically grinding monsters in the Instance Tower.
Although his strength was unbelievably powerful, he seed extrely dull, even sowhat lifeless.
Even if such a person achieved sothing in the future, at most he could only beco a fierce general.
But he wouldn't beco a strategist who could plan effectively.
Now it seed her judgnt had been sowhat flawed.
This little fellow was far smarter than she had imagined.
A mont later.
The injured team mbers from various countries recovered their condition after ergency treatnt.
Although their previous encounter had left them with lingering fear, the allure of the Divine Artifact ultimately triumphed over that fear.
Simple setbacks could not shake their determination to explore the ruins.
Soon, reorganized teams once again dove down towards the blue light curtain at the bottom of the sea... Inside the ruins.
Zhou Huai, controlling Gandalf, was standing on a surfboard made of converging water currents, rapidly traversing the boundless sea.
The sea breeze ruffled a corner of his robes.
Above was blue sky and white clouds, and below was crystal-clear seawater.
Occasionally, he could even see so strangely shaped fish swiftly darting beneath the "surfboard."
If it weren't for the ancient and wild Qi that constantly lingered in the air, Zhou Huai would almost have the illusion that he hadn't entered the ruins, but was on vacation on so tropical island.
It was just that this ruin was simply too vast.
Unbelievably huge.
He had been traversing this sea at top speed for nearly an hour.
As far as the eye could see, it was still ocean.
Besides the ocean, there was still the ocean.
He hadn't even seen an island the size of his palm.
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