Chapter 900: Horrifying Region (1/2)
The shadow beast form clone immediately sensed something amiss as it looked at its wing, noticing that a bump had formed on it. It was strange since it didn't notice the bump's appearance before. Only after it felt some oddity did it notice its existence.
The shadow bump was sentient, squirming in the wing as it seemed bound to it. Moreover, it was struggling, stretching whatever shadow that bound it taut as it moved out, making the scene look like what one would see from a horror movie.
The clone immediately ripped it off from its wing and threw it away. Though, after flying for some distance, the shadow bump dissolved into specks of shadow and vanished. A second later, the bump reappeared on the wing, startling the clone.
Moreover, this time, a string of words resounded in its mind. With that, using their shared thoughts, it resounded in the minds of all the clones, including Krune.
”Give us more land.”
”Give us more power.”
”Increase our numbers.”
”Give me an heir.”
”Help us.”
”Please protect us.”
”Become our land's guardian.”
As the voices echoed in their minds, all the clones were unable to concentrate as the voices started to become a cacophony, resounding all at the time same time, proceeding on about in a loop.
The clone immediately unleashed its Mental Energy, forming a barrier around the bump, heaving a sigh of relief once the voices in its head disappeared. It then felt relieved at the fact its Mental Energy was useful in this situation.
As Mental Energy was related to the mind and the soul, it proved of help here. With that, building upon that line of thought, the clone used Mental Energy to eradicate the bump. Unfortunately, the Mental Energy just passed through the shadow bump without affecting it in the slightest.
Sighing, the clone continued to fly, intending to first find a safe place to bank upon. In the meantime, the remaining four clones had also arrived at the scene. They too changed into the shadow beast form and took off to the air, unaffected by the shadow environment now that their forms were suitable to the habitat.
Among them, one of the clones flew straight, intending to reach the other side of the shadow area. The remaining clones each headed to one of the floating islands. Their objective hadn't changed yet, intending to find a place either rich in mineral deposits or a place with an abundance of Godly Energy that could be drawn upon.
The clone with a shadow bump on its wing had been flying for a considerable duration, now having reached the deepest part of the shadow region. The shadow region seemed to be the stretch dividing two or more continents.
This created a natural chasm that prevented the populace from the continents from interacting with the others. On top of that, the sole functioning paths seemed to have been under the control of the Empires of the respective continent that barred entry to outsiders.
This way, they fully monopolized their respective continents to their use and ruled over them for tens of thousands of years. Without any visitors, the mentality of the people in each continent was dictated by the rulers.
In such a manner, they were ruling their respective continent without any threat. Moreover, the borders were too powerful for anyone below the level of an immortal to even dare try and pass through.
'How did Cultivator and the other strong people arrive in Zamuria Continent in the first place?' Krune wondered as the clones continued to fly.
The clone with the shadow bump on its wings soon approached the biggest floating island of the entire region. It was massive, spanning a radius of 30 kilometers.
It was a massive piece of land that was floating in the region of the shadow. Also, unlike most of the floating islands the clones had come across, this place was rich with Godly Energy. Moreover, the number of indigenous people on the land was also the highest here.
They also seemed to have been considerably developed to the extent there were even a couple of cultivators in the Nascent God Realm. On top of that, unlike the other natives, the ones living on this island seemed to have integrated with the shadows the most.
Albeit their eyes, the remainder of their bodies were fully composed of the shadows. This shadow seemed free, like fluid as they were able to change their forms as they pleased.
Another strange fact to take note of was how they didn't prostrate on the ground the moment they witnessed the clone. Rather, they just looked at it with calm, eerily so. More and more of them came out of their homes to stand outside.