Chapter 498: Chapter 256: Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array! (Five in One)_6 Seeing this, Chen Mo immediately stepped onto the Teleportation Array and tried to activate it. He discovered these people had cleverly designed the Array to require multiple professionals for activation. He, alone, was naturally unable to activate it. Chen Mo wasn’t bothered by this in the slightest. He directly destroyed the Teleportation Array beneath his feet and was about to do the same to the annoying Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array. However, just as he was about to act, Chen Mo suddenly froze. Something felt off. Did they sacrifice the entire city’s population just to activate this Array, all so I would enter the darkness and face the attacks of those ten men? Although those ten individuals all used Instant Kill Attacks, and it might have been worth planning this just to ensure their attacks landed, it still felt like overkill. This Array absorbed so many lives just for an effect that blinds someone? An effect that even god-grade perception couldn’t penetrate. Chen Mo suspected they had deliberately left this Array for him to destroy. If I destroy it, who knows what might emerge? However, their scheme was an open plot. If I don’t destroy it, my Invincible State will wear off, the Array will reactivate, and I’ll be plunged back into eternal darkness. It wasn’t just him; even his Skeleton Monsters were affected. This Array’s ability was perverse. When Chen Mo entered the Invincible State, becoming immune to the Array’s influence, he immediately tried to sense his surrounding Skeleton Monsters. He found that all his Skeleton Monsters had fallen into an endless darkness, unable to distinguish their surroundings. This showed that the darkness invoked by this Array wasn’t a simple dark magic technique. After all, the darkness from Essien’s Dark Night Ultimate Formation hadn’t affected Chen Mo’s Skeleton Monsters. Of course, the deployment costs of the two Formations were different from the outset, so they weren’t comparable. The Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array set up by the Yongming Star System required sacrificing 66 individuals with combat power equivalent to fourth-transition experts to be cast. Normally, activating this Array required 66 individuals at the fourth-transition attribute level to die on the spot. Then, a large quantity of rare curse materials had to be used in conjunction for it to be successfully deployed. Moreover, those who committed suicide within this Array couldn’t be resurrected. These people were purely exploiting a loophole with their curse demonization status. They didn’t need to sacrifice 66 fourth-transition individuals; after dying, they could reincarnate into a Demon Cocoon. It merely consumed some curse materials. It was a prime example of low cost for extremely high returns. With such a disgusting Array as their backup plan, Chen Mo instantly understood why those people had all fled back into the city when he charged at them earlier. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶 But to go through all the trouble of activating this Array, only to leave it here to be destroyed, seemed strange no matter how he considered it. As Chen Mo pondered this, a cold aura suddenly erupted from Grand Marshal Erice; it seemed she was enraged and about to attack indiscriminately. I almost forgot about her. Seeing this, Chen Mo immediately dragged Grand Marshal Erice in front of the Array. Destroying it myself might bring trouble. Why not let Grand Marshal Erice do it? This idea isn’t very honorable, but it’s effective. Chen Mo pulled Erice into the range of the Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array. Just then, the icy Energy within Erice’s body suddenly exploded, freezing and shattering the surroundings. The core of the Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array was also completely destroyed. With a crisp sound, the core of the Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array shattered into pieces. The next moment, Chen Mo sensed a sinister and terrifying Energy burst forth from the Array’s center and swiftly burrow into Erice’s body. At this moment, Chen Mo checked Erice’s attributes again and found she had fallen into a powerful cursed state! A dark, malevolent force enveloped her, causing her body to tremble uncontrollably and her expression to contort in unbearable pain. Chen Mo realized the impact of this curse was far from mild; Erice was enduring immense pain and pressure. He quickly examined the curse’s details. [Ten Thousand Evils Soul-Devouring Curse: SSS-level Curse]: The afflicted unit will descend into endless, incurable soul-torturing agony. Under this curse’s influence, the unit is plunged into permanent darkness, permanently losing all perception ability of their surroundings. All Attributes will drop to 1%, and all damage received will amplify existing pain ten thousand times! "Those damn Yongming Star System bastards! They really set a trap for me!" Chen Mo felt a chill after reading the curse description; he could have been the one affected. The people from the Yongming Star System had truly gone to great lengths to deal with him, even resorting to such a sinister method. It’s a good thing I was smart enough not to destroy it directly. Looking at Erice—originally the main BOSS of the instance, now tormented by this vicious curse—Chen Mo could see just how depraved the Yongming Star System’s curse truly was! Meanwhile, the members of the Yongming Star System, who had already teleported to a pre-set location, were silently awaiting news of their plan’s success. Once they plunged that monstrous talent from the Solar System into a state of permanent darkness, unable to perceive his surroundings, then no matter how strong he was, they could slowly find a way to exploit his weaknesses. Just as this group was eagerly awaiting good news, they suddenly realized Chen Mo was charging straight for them. "He actually ignored the Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array and is charging directly at us during his invincibility period?" "Impossible! His invincibility can’t last that long. If his invincibility ends and the core of the Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array isn’t destroyed, he’ll be plunged into eternal night again." "How much time has passed?" "According to the information Senior Rangu sent back, his Invincible Lotus lasts at most six seconds. That time has long passed." "Then he should have fallen back into the Eternal Night state by now." As the one who set up the Formation, Randy suddenly spoke, "I received a notification from The Heavenly Path’s Hint: the Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array has been destroyed. He should have fallen under the Ten Thousand Evils Soul-Devouring Curse by now." "Impossible! Someone in the Eternal Night state should be completely unable to perceive anything. Even with shared coordinates, he can’t even see a map, so it’s useless. How did he discover we were in this direction?" The members of the Yongming Star System stared in disbelief as Chen Mo rapidly approached, surrounded by a dense swarm of Skeleton Monsters. They were utterly baffled!