Chapter 765: Energy Blast (2/2)

All of that took some time to explain, but no more than three seconds had passed. Fortunately, three seconds was the limit of the energy blast's threat. As soon as those endless three seconds were over, Krune's shields got the upper hand as the energy outside began to dissipate. Eventually, the shockwave lost most of its power before disappearing completely.

Krune then released his cage skill and was greeted with an empty space. All the decrepit buildings in an area thousands of kilometers around them turned into dust or rubble as they flew further back. In front of them, nothing remained at all.

Krune, Feifei, and Lucio finally sighed in relief.

”No wonder we had a black karma thread connected to these ruins. If not for Joty's warning, we wouldn't have been this ready for this attack. Besides, Master wouldn't be here to give support either.”

Feifei nodded.

”Indeed. We wouldn't even see it before the energy blast turned the two of us into dust. But now I can also understand why our karma threads chanced into gray instead of going back to normal. There was still a good chance that we might have died.”

Lucio agreed with the two.

”True. We definitely almost died just a second ago. It's too bad that Joty isn't here. Otherwise, I would ask him to see if your threads had gone back to normal. At least, I do think this event just now was enough to be a gray thread.”

As mentioned in the past, those with Joty's bloodline worked with the Divine Path Sect. Naturally, as the Sect Master, Lucio was well aware of Joty and his master's power.

”Still, why did it happen? Was it because we touched the barrier?”

Krune nodded.

”It has to be. Also, it's probably something directed at us.”

Feifei and Lucio understood what Krune meant.

”Indeed. If it had happened recently, we would have heard something from the other groups we found on the way here. Still, none of them knew anything about it. Then again, why would it target just us?”

Krune pondered for a bit and took two items out of his Spatial Ring.

”I can only think about these two things.”

One of them was the small bottle with the Black Water. At the moment, Krune still didn't know that it was the same as his and Lucio's Fused Elemental Energy.

The second item was the piece of metal Krune got from the chamber. He wanted to make a new set of shields with it. However, he refrained from doing so since he wanted to increase his Blacksmith Level. Making Peak Divinity Stars Shields with them would be too much of a waste.

Krune then looked at the barrier far ahead and noticed that it was very dim. Almost all the energy that it had was used in the last blast. Even though it was thousands of kilometers away, it wasn't anything hard to look through with his cultivation as long as nothing was blocking his vision. With the previous event, the entire way ahead was clean.

Krune then separated a drop of Black Water and put it in another bottle. Soon after, he threw it at the barrier in the distance. Space laws gathered around it as it broke through the fabric of space and appeared in front of the dim wall in a flash.

However, the moment it touched the barrier, not only did another explosion not happen, but the bottle broke apart as the barrier absorbed the Black Water instead.

”It seems like this barrier has something to do with the Black Water as well.”

Krune narrowed his eyes but didn't pay too much attention to it for now. He then cut a tiny piece of the Chamber Metal and threw it at the barrier as well.

*Boom!*

Sure enough, the moment the metal touched the barrier, it reacted and released all its energy once again. It's just that the barrier had almost nothing left after the last blast, so the explosion it released wasn't anything dangerous, even if Krune's group was near it.

”So that's what happened. Because the metal was inside my Spatial Ring before, the barrier took a few moments to notice the metal's presence. However, now that I threw the metal directly at it, the explosion immediately took place.”

Lucio then added.

”You said that the chamber holding the black water was made with this metal of yours. It seems like the one who made the chamber and the one who made the black water are two different existences. Not only that, but it doesn't seem they like each other that much.”

Until now, Krune thought that the chamber was made to protect the black water. However, now he was more inclined to believe that it was made to seal the thing instead.

”Anyway, let's go. The barrier's energy is too small for its counterattack to pose a threat to us. We can enter it unscathed even if it explodes right on our faces.”

Lucio and Feifei nodded as they immediately departed for the Core Region of the Soren Ruins.