Chapter 50 - It Was Just a Joke. (2/2)
”We screwed up!”
The rest looked at him with puzzled expressions.
”Can't you see it? Doesn't matter if there was cultivators inside this city before back then or not, there is no way that the spiritual energy could have not changed even a bit after walking for so long, let alone a secret realm that needs spiritual energy from the outside world to be constantly absorbed for it to exists, there is only one way for that to happen, and that is if we haven't left the same place at all!”
Ao and the others expressions finally changed.
”We are walking in circles!”
Yusa then asked
”But how is that possible? If we really were walking in the same place all this time, we should have been able to recognize some of the places that we passed before.”
Shinja shook her head.
”This is only the case if the place we are trapped is a small one, but what if this formation that is trapping us inside is enormous? It simply happens that we haven't walked into a place that we recognize yet.”
Krune nodded.
”In that case we will need to find the core of this illusion formation and destroy it, otherwise there is no way we can ever move forward.”
Ao didn't have too big of an expectative.
”We are talking about a supreme expert here, someone with a cultivation that you won't be able to find in the Makui planet, what are the chances of being able to find it with our strength? And even if we find, can we destroy it?”
They looked at each other and felt helpless, it was then that Krunes eyes suddenly lit up, he looked at Yusa and Shinja and then asked.
”What if we just cut off the spiritual energy that is feeding the illusion formation, would we be able to find it easier due to the lack of spiritual energy?”
Yusa and Shinja looked at each other and then nodded.
”It should be possible, if the main source of spiritual energy is barred, the core will try to gather spiritual energy from the surroundings, a formation this big will definitely cause some ripples on the spiritual energy inside it since the spiritual energy will charge to the core, we should be able to pin point the location of the core with that.”
They continued
”But if we knew where it is, it would be better to use the spiritual energy from it to find the core of the formation first, it's better than wait for the energy outside to move to it, in fact, it should be much easier.”
Krune nodded
”That's even better, so we just need the source first.”
They looked at Krune, it seems like he had an idea.
”But how are you going to find the main source of spiritual energy that feeds the formation?”
Krune suddenly laughed out loud and said.
”Find it? Why should I? We all know very well where it is!”
Only then did the three of them understand the crux of the situation.
”Right! The gate to the outside world! Now I understand why there was no trap and why it was hidden deep underground, it was the source of the core, not only that, since the gate is the source, the core is bound to be close!”
But then Yusa asked
”But how are we going to find our way back? As far as I know even our communicator's markers won't work inside of this formation. Even if we follow the place showed in screen we won't ever arrive there, formations have evolved to cover such flaws a long time ago.”
Krune laughed out loud once again.
”That's where you are wrong! Does this city look like a place where technology was developed before?”
”Ah!”
Everyone eyes suddenly lit up!
”Correct, this is a formation from far too long ago, obviously before technology took its place in our world, there is no way that the expert who created it would have counted for the fact that our technological devices exist, chances are he died even before technology itself was invented.”
That being said, they immediately moved out, they moved in the direct showed on their map screens and were even more surprised with this illusion formation, they were sure that they hadn't passed through some of those buildings before, they even felt like they were in fact walking in circles when they were in fact moving straight forward, but the technological world did not disappoint them, ten hours later they were back to the entrance of the cave, since they knew the way, they moved at full speed back, it took much less than the day they took to move back then.
They descended into the gate cave and sure enough, the gate was still open, or better, it would always be open, the core of the formation can't do without it!
It didn't take long for them to find the core of the formation after following the flow of spiritual energy coming from the gate.
Yusa looked at it and sighed.
”There is a barrier around the core, if we want to destroy it we will need to stop the flow of spiritual energy first anyway.”
Shinja nodded
”There is no other way, it's not something we can breakthrough with only our strength, let's go back to the gate first.”
Back at the gate, Ao asked.
”How are we going to stop the spiritual energy from passing through?”
While everyone were thinking about a way, Krune looked at the gate and his eyes lit up.
”Should we destroy it?”
The other three hearts almost stopped, they looked at Krune like they were looking at someone beyond salvation.
Krune noticed their eyes and felt a little embarrassed.
”Cough, cough, it was just a joke.”
Ao and the others felt a chill behind their backs, they are absolutely sure, Krune was being 100% serious just now.