Chapter 857 (1/2)

Hearing those words, Roland could not help but tremble

Why would there be Battle of Divine Will in the Dream World too?

He looked at Garcia but her expression didn't change at all as if she already knew or she didn't care about it

Roland could only keep his doubts to hihts, followed the croards the square

Reaching there, he noticed that there wererock walls like the structure inside a honeyco between the aisles, people had to take elevators on the rails Now that the square was not as bright as before and his sight got used to the darkness, he could see dozens of elevators going up and down like floating fireflies They gave off a feeling of a futuristic city

Even though this design was beautiful, it was extremely inconvenient to use If it was built in the city center as a landround like this, ould be able to see it? And in case of a fire, power outages and other eencies, it would even be hard to escape from here

Of course, building the Headquarters underground was already irrational even when considering the aspect of preventing others to infiltrate or the necessity of keeping it a secret

There must have been another reason to do that unless the Martialist association had too much money to spare

As they entered the aisle nu on was actually a

Adopting such a design in an underground structure was actually quite shocking

As if realizing his doubts, Garcia shrugged her shoulders ”There used to be a mine here, and we used the abandoned mine tunnels to built all the elevator aisles you see on the walls—but of course, part of them were newly excavated This depends on the speed of the Erosion

”The Erosion happened in the mine?”

”Not exactly but for now you can think of it as such”

”So the reason for building the Headquarters underground is to prevent the Erosion fro?”

Garcia looked at him with a weird expression, ”No, it's not to prevent the Erosion froainst Awakened ones with an ulterior motive”

When she saw that he wanted to ask more, she shook her head and said, ”You'll soon understand”

The passage soon led them into another hall, which looked a lot like a lecture hall, with descending levels, for a podium at the bottom The defensive measures here were obviouslythe sa expressionless on either side of the hall and staring indifferently at the newcoestures

”Aren't warriors supposed to be straightforward and passionate? With an attitude like that towards the neakened ones, no wonder people weren't willing to join theht

Once everyone has sat down, the Chief Disciple Lan stood up on the podium

Without saying anything, she opened a curtain on stage, exposing the bottolass chest

Roland couldn't help but frown

A dark red ”crystal” was placed inside the chest It seehtless as it floated ic core But the Force of Nature in the Dreaic power Additionally, this crystal did not seem to be realistic It actually looked like a bad sa Lan's serious expression, it didn't look like she was joking

”This is…”

”Erosion,” Garcia said with a deep voice, ”or actually a 'loophole'”

”What?” Roland was stunned

”The one on stage is just a s riddled with holes That's the essence of Erosion”

”I think soazed through the audience and said word by word ”An evil force has entered our world It allows the Fallen evil toa serious threat to the safety of the awakened ones But as far as I am concerned, this notion is incorrect It was never an evil force, but rather an overlay from another world ”

The audience suddenly uproared

”What do you mean? Can you elaborate?”

”What's this other world?”