novelraw Chapter 535: 53 Threat
Chapter 535: 53 Threat
Chapter 535: Chapter 53 Threat
The interior space of the first floor of the Tower of Oblivion closely resembles the architectural style of the exterior and is exceptionally spacious.
Behind the gigantic stone gate that stretches over ten meters high, there lies a cavernous hall big enough to accommodate a football field. The hall’s main structure is composed of blackish-gray gneiss, and the murals on all four walls have also become blurred over the long passage of time.
Among the numerous stone columns carved with cloud and thunder reliefs, an exceptionally large stone throne is placed, obviously tailored for a race with an unusually large stature.
“Be careful, this place is after all the core of the city’s ruins, the legendary residence. Even though most of the magic defenses have failed, do not let your guard down,”
At the entrance of the hall, Lanno turned around, his expression serious as he cautioned everyone, especially the remaining three companions with him.
The young prince felt particularly unlucky. The five people he had brought in were talents he had set his eyes on, but inexplicably, two were already gone on the very first day.
Even though he knew that Radiant Secret Realm was not safe, this rate of death was too fast. If too many died, it would be difficult to explain once they got out.
Following Lanno’s reminder, his three companions activated the strongest defense mode of their mechanical armors.
Xia Ye Yinghuo and Anvis, the Last Dragon Descendant, instinctively looked at Anvis, and upon seeing him nod slightly, likewise activated the maximum power of their alchemy armor.
This mode consumes a severe amount of energy from the Demon Crystal, and except in critical moments, it is basically never activated.
Of course, in Anvis’s view, this action was more about comforting themselves.
In this tower, if they truly encountered a crisis, it simply was not something that the gear they carried could defend against.
Once prepared, under Lanno’s lead, the group did not head towards the giant passage behind the throne that seemed to lead upstairs but instead approached the center stone throne.
Anvis held a ‘Key’ in his hand while Lanno used his spiritual power to attach to his fingertips, sketching a strange symbol in mid-air.
Upon completion of the symbol, the Mithril Sphere in Anvis’s hand trembled slightly, and the intricate Magic Circuit on its surface suddenly emitted a soft silver radiance.
As the Key transformed, the huge sculpted throne also trembled and, amidst a rustling vibration, slowly moved to the side, revealing a seemingly bottomless spiral staircase beneath it.
“This must be the ‘Eternal Spiral to the Divine Country’ recorded in the legends. Through it, we can reach the true summit of this tower.”
Having closely observed the appearance of the spiral staircase, Prince Lanno concluded.
But just as everyone was about to step onto the staircase, Anvis’s body suddenly halted unnaturally.
Familiar with the sensation of impending danger, and this time, the sensation was much more intense than before.
Some sort of danger was progressively approaching, and it seemed it would soon affect him.
Taking out that Destiny Coin, under the somewhat puzzled gaze of everyone, Anvis flipped the coin and it landed in a corner of the hall.
“What are you doing?”
Lanno instinctively asked, accustomed to the mental and strategic duels with his brothers, he was very sensitive to these details.
“Nothing much, just a precaution. I’m worried that enemies might follow us in here. After all, you know their ability to conceal themselves; being cautious doesn’t hurt.”
Anvis shrugged his shoulders, offering a simple explanation.
He could guarantee that the enemies had already started gathering here, they just hadn’t arrived yet.
.….….
“It’s close, the direction the pointer indicates seems to be right there…”
At this moment, within the Gobi desert outside the mountains surrounding the city ruins, a girl clad in bright silver Holy Knight armor, with icy blue eyes and long hair, is swiftly running towards the ruins.
As she advances, she uses a talisman in her possession to carefully sense her surroundings and sporadically alters her route slightly, as if to avoid something.
The girl is none other than Anvis’s elder sister, the leader of the Frostwind Knight Order, a Seventh Rank Frostwind Knight, Yalanis Olivendi.
As a scion of the Olivendi Family, she too possesses a similar positioning mysterious object. She had always been with Evan, but they also suffered a surprise attack by an assailant of unknown identity.
At that time, an Eighth Rank Spellcaster arranged by their family for their protection suddenly attacked without warning, piercing the unsuspecting Evan with his arm.
Shocked, Yalanis tried to save him but quickly realized that the enemy’s power was beyond her own ability to contend with.
With the precious few moments that Evan desperately bought for her, Yalanis used the secret techniques of her Secret Sword Skill and her high-ranked Secret Magic Tool to forcefully carve out a path of survival.
After escaping far away, the young girl quickly assessed the situation. Immediately, she decided to find Anvis, inform him about the invasion of the Radiant Secret Realm by unknown enemies and ensure his safety out of the realm.
After Evan’s ‘misfortune,’ the strongest member left in the realm from the Olivendi Family was herself.
Although her younger brother was very talented, he was still too young, and she had to ensure his safety.
In her heart, since Evan had already ‘fallen,’ she could not let anything happen to Anvis.
On her way to meet Anvis, Yalanis also noticed some other anomalies.
The number of other travelers she encountered on the road seemed too frequent.
Given the vastness and complexity of the Radiant Secret Realm, it’s normal for hundreds of professionals thrown in without a positioning mysterious object to not encounter another person for days.
Yet, on her way to the city ruins, she had already come across no less than three parties.
This situation could only be explained by the fact that the majority of people were gathering in the same direction.
Concerned that there might be hidden enemies among these groups, she generally chose to detour far around them upon sight, which helped her avoid danger but also left her completely unaware of the shrinking situation of the realm’s skies.
While, hundreds of miles away from the girl rushing towards the ruins, dozens of professionals, including princes, princesses, and members of the other three major families, were gathering unprecedentedly.
Those who had the entries were truly scions of major nobles. Some had experienced special adventures, which even allowed them to retaliate against those formidable, otherworldly beings.
After getting out of danger, these people also realized that there were issues within the secret realm itself, and could only keep moving away from the sky and take cover.
On their journey, they too encountered other individuals who had been attacked. After exchanging information, these people roughly identified the specific identity of their enemy.
The existence of those ancient Alien God Sect was hardly a secret to them.
Currently, they have temporarily formed an alliance led by the Third Princess, the strongest among them who had successfully repelled an enemy attack, preparing to collectively fend off those suspected evil entities.
But what they don’t know at the moment is that some of their companions, who they consider to have ‘fallen’ to the enemy, have secretly regrouped within the city ruins and have begun laying out Ritual Secret Patterns secretly all over the ruins.
In the plan, because the edges of the ruins are continuously contracting, the remaining survivors will inevitably gather within the city.