Chapter 499: Chapter 257: The Despairing Opponent!_1 Randy and the others were quite surprised to see Chen Mo completely unaffected by the curse. The cost of setting up this Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array was not insignificant. The Array’s core alone was worth a divine artifact. After all, this was an SSS-level Array. The activation cost was also substantial, requiring the direct sacrifice of 66 experts comparable to fourth-transition powerhouses, along with a large quantity of god-grade materials. The higher-ups of the Yongming Star System had truly gone to great lengths to deal with Chen Mo. With this kind of Array, whether Chen Mo destroyed it himself or through his summoned creatures, the Ten Thousand Evils Soul-Devouring Curse would directly trace back to him, leaving no way to avoid it. Although they hadn’t initially known Chen Mo’s profession type, once this Array was set up, any professional would easily fall victim to it. Many had initially speculated he was of a summoning-type profession, given his ability as a low-tier professional to contend with so many top-tier individuals. The Yongming Star System possessed three highly intelligent Life Planets. By selecting some of the most astute individuals from these, they could deduce Chen Mo’s abilities with about seventy to eighty percent accuracy. However, they couldn’t fathom aspects of his abilities that defied common sense. Still, they had made certain speculations when assessing his capabilities. They had sent these one hundred four-star individuals in this time with the faint hope of killing Chen Mo, but their primary goal was to confirm intelligence. Simultaneously, they brought restraining objects, attempting to ensnare Chen Mo a few times. Succeeding in this would be best. In their view, if they managed it, the one hundred cursed, demonized four-stars would have a chance to kill this monster from the Solar System. Even if they failed to ensnare him, they could still gather considerable intelligence. Furthermore, they had a more specialized contingency plan. This plan could incorporate the intelligence gathered this time when they later summoned five-star professionals to deal with Chen Mo. Just moments ago in the Savage Ancient Forest, when Randy and the others saw Chen Mo was a Summoner, they had actually been pleased. This was because the likelihood of Chen Mo falling for their trap would then be very high. After all, Summoners who relied on their summoned creatures for extended periods often developed a careless habit. That is, they tended to let their summoned creatures scout any dangerous situation first. Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be an issue. After all, in most cases, danger to the summoned creatures wouldn’t affect the Summoner themselves. However, if this habit were applied to the Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array, they would surely fall for the trap. This kind of SSS-level curse was a causality-type curse; one couldn’t avoid it even if their summoned creatures were the ones to destroy the Array. But now, an unexpected situation had arisen. Randy stared blankly at The Heavenly Path’s Hint. It clearly stated that the core of their Eternal Night Evil-Gathering Array had been destroyed. Yet Chen Mo charged over as if nothing was wrong, which was utterly baffling. A curse effect wasn’t like other negative effects. Once afflicted, it would remain until a specific de-cursing ritual was performed to eradicate it. Otherwise, neither death and resurrection, nor being in an Invincible State, would remove the curse. Of course, while in an Invincible State, its higher priority rendered the curse temporarily ineffective. However, the curse was a perpetual state that would resume once the Invincible State ended. But several seconds had clearly passed since the Invincible Lotus’s duration should have expired, yet Chen Mo remained unaffected. This, naturally, puzzled Randy and the others. Even if, beyond the Invincible Lotus, this monster from Earth had other invincible skills he used concurrently, he couldn’t have maintained an Invincible State for this long. Despite their confusion, the enemy was already attacking. They professionally formed their army array and prepared to counterattack. After all, before embarking on this mission, they had rehearsed responses to various types of professionals. This was done under the tutelage of numerous experts invited by the Yongming Star System’s higher-ups. In their assessment, a Summoner like Chen Mo was relatively easy to handle. After all, once a Summoner’s summoned creatures were cleared, they were like a phoenix without feathers—inferior to a chicken. Before they came, they had brought many cursed Tools capable of clearing summoned creatures. Using a cursed Tool was different from using an ordinary one, as it would curse the user. Different cursed Tools inflicted different types of curses. Some curses were brutal, potentially even fatal. Seeing the dense swarm of Skeleton Monsters forming an encirclement and preparing a range attack from the air, Randy immediately shouted, "Zapolo, Gu Siqi, Mo Lingxi! You three have the summon-reversing cursed Tools, right? Use them sequentially on my command! We’ll destroy his summoned creatures while rapidly closing in on him. A Summoner without summoned creatures is a toothless tiger; killing him won’t be difficult!" "Yes!" The three immediately nodded in acknowledgment of Randy’s command. Following Randy’s privately messaged order, Zapolo immediately threw his cursed Tool. The cursed Tool he threw was a pitch-black sphere. The instant it exploded, a ripple imbued with an unsettling aura instantly enveloped everything within a ten-kilometer radius. Zapolo himself instantly felt a hair-raising Energy surge into his body. [The Heavenly Path’s Hint]: Because you used an SSS-level cursed Tool, you are under the SSS-level curse ’Abyssal Predicament’!