Chapter 520: World 2
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"Nine-headed Snake?" The green figure that was leaning against the wall this whole time was now slightly surprised.
"This is our first time meeting each other, right? Divine God Pce Master." Garen’s bright gold hair reflected blinding golden light under the sun, and his vision was focused urately on the position of the green male figure.
His opponent looked agile and tranquil, as if he had be one with the forest. At first nce he resembled a regr forest ranger, and did not fit the title of Divine God Pce Master. He was once assumed to be an impressive force, an iparably terrifying dictator-like character, but now, there was actually a huge difference between his true image and the one that had been visualized.
"Wasn’t the original n to get Phiroth?" Divine God Pce Master raised his eyebrows slightly while looking at Cthulhu King.
"Are you saying I’m not qualified?" A cold smile appeared on Garen’s face behind his mask. Suddenly, both of his eyes seemed as if they had been dyed ck by ink,pletely turning into two pitch-ck demon’s eyes. Dark red mist drifted out from his body silently.
He took long strides and walked towards Divine God Pce Master, and every time he raised his feet, fragrant ck smoke wafted out of the footprints that he left behind. The stones and tree branches on his footprints would melt into sticky ck liquid in less than a second.
Every step he took would leave a ck smoke footprint on the ground, and poisonous fumes would waft out of it slowly, like burning smoke.
"Enough." Divine God Pce Master narrowed his eyes and waved his right hand gently, before a green seed shot out,nding beside Garen’s feet urately. The seed seemed as if it had fallen into water, as it formed green ripples on the floor where itnded, before disappearingpletely.
Garen was slightly shocked and turned his head, before noticing that his own poisonous footprints had suddenly disappearedpletely, while the tree branches and stones that melted earlier had returned to their original states as well.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, as his mind had started to gain more knowledge about Divine God Pce Master’s power. When he voluntarily released his poisons earlier, he was merely testing the waters, and did not expect that his opponent’s previously unconcerned reaction would lead to him disying a part of his powers.
Garen nced at Cthulhu King who stood beside the stone carvings, before both of them exchanged nces quickly.
Cthulhu King was unable to defeat Divine God Pce Master, and thus he wanted him to form an alliance with him. He even let go of his grudge against Garen that spanned over ten thousand kilometers because of this. It was clear that Divine God Pce Master had left a deep impression on him.
"Alright, prepare to enter." Divine God Pce Master stood up immediately, and turned to walk towards the front of the stone door.
He stretched his hand out and pushed gently.
Ka-ka...
The stone door was pushed inwards easily, exposing a dark passage inside, while dust and a strong moldy smell wafted out.
Divine God Pce Master walked in without any hesitation, before his figure disappeared quickly.
Cthulhu King followed behind quickly, while Garen turned his head and scanned his surroundings, as thest person to walk into the stone door.
Behind the door was a dark, ck hall. It was square, and there was a deep square pit in the middle of it, with by a seven-or-eight meter tall ashen stone sculpture inside.
The stone sculpture depicted a beautiful girl in chiffon garments, with loose long hair, posing with both her hands carrying something, but the strangest part, was that an extra eye had been carved on her forehead.
White mist wafted inside the hall, mixing with the dust, and making everything blurry.
The three people entered the ruins together, before the stone door closed itself behind them slowly.
Standing in front of therge stone sculpture, Divine God Pce Master turned around to face both of the others.
"ording to the previous exploration, the Living Secret Technique should be located at the bottom of the third level of the ruins. However, we weren’t able to find the right method to enter the second levelst time."
"Why can’t we just use force to break through and enter the ruins?" Garen interrupted and asked.
"This ce imprisons all forms of extraordinary force. But you can try," replied Cthulhu King simply.
Garen’s expression darkened slightly, as he reached his hand out,id his palm t, before the ck Water True Technique’s water vapor mobilization ability started flowing suddenly.
But his palm did not move at all.
"No wonder this ce was well preserved..." He could not help butugh softly, and did not question any further.
Divine God Pce Master remained indifferent, and continued speaking. "The way to enter the second level is to secure all three stone switches at the same time, not allowing any of them to close up again. The three of us will concentrate on one switch each, as the switches require sufficient amounts of fused Form 5 powers."
He stopped speaking and looked at Cthulhu King.
Thetter nodded, removed a ck fibrous paper scroll from his arms, opening it slowly, exposing a pitch-ck sheetpletely devoid of anything else. But as it was opened, white coordinate dots floated up and slowly appeared on the paper. These coordinates began to move, clearly forming multiple white lines, before aplete map was quickly drawn on the paper.
Cthulhu King waited until the coordinates had almost disappeared once they had finished drawing before passing the map to Garen, while thetter nced across it carefully, then passing it to Divine God Pce Master.
"The terrain here changes on its own every time, but this map originated from this ce, thus it is able to sense the changes and form a corresponding map automatically every time it enters. Therefore, we need to remember the new map everytime we enter," exined Cthulhu King.
"There are three roads, and because the terrain here is extremely vast, ording to my estimations, the entire first level of the ruins probably has an area of over ten thousand square kilometers, moreover we can only enter the ruins through the entrance, and if we were to dig underground from the outside, it would be impossible for us to find the existence of the underground pce." Cthulhu King had obviously done a sufficient amount of investigative work. "Therefore each of the three roads will require a certain amount of time, in order to avoid any risks."
He immediately took out three blood red button-like things, each of which had been engraved with maggot-sized red symbols.
He distributed the little things to the other two, giving one to each of them.
"Divine God Pce Master has used this before, so I won’t say too much." He looked at Garen immediately. "This is the only tool that will not be imprisoned that I managed to find after searching for a long time in the outside world. Its functions are very simple, and there’s only one: color changing. Once you’ve reached a switch point, and you’ve opened it, please press this button five times consecutively within two seconds, so that a green road will appear automatically. A green road will also appear from our own buttons as well. Simrly, once our switches have been activated, just like before, you will be able to see our progress through this thing."
"Within ten days, if we find the switches sessfully, we should be able to enter the second level. The dangers on the first level have been clearedpletely, and should not be an obstacle," Divine God Pce Master interrupted and said. "Let’s go."
He was the first one to walk towards the only pitch-ck passage in front of the hall.
Garen and Cthulhu King followed behind him closely, and all three of their figurespletely disappeared in the darkness.
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Time passed day by day...
Due to Cthulhu King’s absence and the shrinking of the Cthulhuism Society’s forces on all fronts, the conflict between Dani’s royal family and Obscuro Society grew fiercer. The support of the Royal Alliance of Luminarists became stronger as well.
No one anticipated Obscuro Society’s fearsome tenacity that led to the formation of Totem seas, made up of many Silver Totems constantly battling against Dani’s armies, killing them.
High level individuals from both sides suffered serious injuries. These were unavoidable casualties of war, and would continue until the war was over.
On the fifth day after Garen entered the ruins.
Obscuro Society’s terrifying powers finally broke out, and Hellgate attacked personally, causing two of Dani’srgest core armies to copse immediately, while the allied forces of the three territories ughtered countless army generals before pressing forward to the Ancestral God Grounds.
All of Dani’s strength copsedpletely at once.
The War of Destinies has begun.
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On top of the tall Ancestral God Tree, Phiroth stood on thergest branch, looking at the ck shadow that floated in the sky from afar. That was Hellgate’s Secret Technique illusion. Therge, ck robed that resembled the God of Death, held a decaying red sickle in its hand that looked as if it would break any moment. It was actually a terrifying weapon of war that had destroyed countless armies, and more than ten thousand allied troops within three days.
Countless transparent bubbles flew around the Ancestral God Tree, but no one was inside anymore.
The battle between the two strongest people from each faction had already eliminated everyone else, leaving only the both of them.
The winner would live, the loser would die.
Nothing more.
The evening sky was dyed red and gold by the sunset. Countless clouds resembled waves that floated their merry way along.
Phiroth looked up at the sky.
"Really, I haven’t seen a sunset like this in so long..." Traces of a smile formed at the corners of his mouth.
"How unfortunate, just give me a little more time..."
Boom!!
The sky darkened immediately, as countless dark clouds gathered over. The sky turned from golden-red to ck, almost as ck as the dark, nighttime sky.
The countless rolling clouds soon resembled boiling water that bubbled up continuously.
Phiroth straightened his body and waved his right hand in the empty space, before a dark green, three-pronged pitchfork appeared in his hand.
All of the Ancestral God Trees on the Ancestral God Grounds lit up, as if they were stars that were suddenly illuminated.
Boom!
Green light gathered below his feet into a pir of light that shot upwards, piercing through the sky.
The rays of green light gathered and formed an iparablyrge, green human-like figure that also held a three-pronged pitchfork in its hand. Its thousand meters tall body resembled the giants from the ancient legends.
"Only one can be the strongest!"
Phiroth could not help butugh maniacally, even though fresh blood was constantly gushing out of his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
Kachak!!
A lightning bolt shed past, before the giant human figure raised its three-pronged pitchfork suddenly, piercing it towards the sky.
Kachak!
A crunching noise could be heard, and somewhere in Dani’s deep underground area, a young man fell on the ground, choking with sobs while looking at the Life Gem that had cracked open in front of him.
Singing noises could be heard floating down from the sky asionally.
"~~ Faraway dreams, when will you let me awaken. O’ king, forget all your dreams, when will you finally awaken... There was never a time, when the sky looked so pretty. There was never a time, when your eyes looked at me with such happiness..."
Within the ruins.
Garen’s body jolted suddenly. He raised his head, as if he had heard that singing noise. The senses from the Seed of the Ancestral God allowed him to see Dani’s final scene.
The Ancestral God Grounds turned into a bottomless, pitch-ck abyss-like crack.
Dani’s First Concubine was holding Phiroth’s corpse, her silk garments resembling the wings of a butterfly as she leapt into the abyss.
"Dani, gone."
Garen closed his eyes.
At the same time, the two other people inside the ruins stopped in their tracks as well. The songs that transcended everything apanied the copse of the Ancestral God’s powers, spreading out towards every corner of the entire East Continent.
Following Phiroth’s death in battle, the Ancestral God Grounds’ destruction wasplete, and the previous Ancestral Gods ceased to exist along with it. The gloomy shadows that originated from Hellgate hung like dark clouds, covering the skies of the whole world.