Chapter 68 Chapter: 001 Expedition Begins (1/2)
Elijah was on his tent, meditating with a mana crystal on his hands as when he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the ray of light that emerged from the floor revealing a huge gate shaped like a skull that slowly opened. He could even hear the voice of his conscience telling him that he should not go through this gate if he treasured his life.
Although he treasured his life, he had complete faith that Shadow would help him. And more, how could he become powerful if the only thing he did was run from danger?No, the only thing he could do was fight.
A few hours later, the gate had completly open and a lingering black mist could be seen coming from inside. It seemed like there was something living there.
”Look! The gate has opened!”
”Everyone get your asses up! The the entrance is has finally open!” The noise level escalated quickly.
It was logical that the everyone he would be heated up as if they miss this window of opportunity they didn't know if there would be a next one.
The four hundred on the camp grounds stirred up chaos as they walked towards the Ruin's entrance, but their speed sorted them into distinguishable groups. At the front were the people which powers comparable with the Fourth Realm, led by Kaikai, Yail, Keith, and a red-skined girl called Ruby as they walked ahead leaving traces of black mist behind.
After them, there was the far behind cultivators on the third realm running and entering the gate in a instant. As for the rest, three hundred people could be seen passing through huge trees and scattered rocks towards the gate like a swarm of ants.
”Let's go, quickly!” Elijah and Aina recovered their senses followed the large group of ants.
”This is… ouch!” As he just walked through the entrance, he felt an burning pain on the base of his right arm. Feeling there was something wrong he asked Shadow with a scared voice: ”Master, why my arm is having this burning sensation? It hurts!”
”Wait one minute.”Hearing his question, Shadow gave quickly look at the book of the Supreme Origin Art before she could discover the reason: ”Oh, i understand now... this burning sensation you are feeling is becase you are close to breakthrough to the Supreme Refining Realm and there is registered on the book that from the Supreme Core Realm to the Supreme Refining Realm, the entire body is reconstructed and regenerated. So the pain you are feeling on your arm may be a signal from how close you are to the Supreme Refining Realm and i think the moment you breakthrough is the moment you will have your real hand back. of course, you can negate the regeneration on you arm if you want. As for the pain, you will have to live with it until the breakthrough.”
After speaking with shadow, he saw a sight that froze him in place. His eyes were wide as he stared at a huge sculpture in the form of 5 large, stone spheres that rotate around a white sphere several times larger than the stone spheres.
”I remember... So this is our Solar System, and we are at…” Elijah quietly thought to himself, he remembered about one of the books Damian had left with him but most of the pictures on the book were from Damian's home planet.
”Let's go!” Keith pated his sholder and said in a serious tone. Despite not showing, Keith was worried, but only he knew why this mission was important for him as someone's life was at stake. They followed the rest of the group behind the sculpture after they had a little pause to rest.
They had just entered and were already facing an obstacle. There were around fifty wood doors in front of them, and when the running crowd came to a stop. Everyone was worryingly wondering about which path they should take while the braver or the foolest ones quickly disappeared into different doors.