332 Naga (1/2)

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The heavy doors slammed close as soon as Raven stepped foot inside the Sunken Ivory Castle.

He then saw a wide clearing and a stone path leading straight towards the main entrance to the Castle Interior. All the vegetation that he saw were already dried or rotting, the trees looked like they will crumble with a single touch. The air carried a foul smell of corpses and a slight hint of rust.

Raven the felt a strange energy fluctuation arriving towards him, he immediately summoned the Archaic Thousand Arms Hammer and didn't move a single inch from where he stood.

He allowed the foreign energy fluctuation to go past him since there's no way that he could've avoided it in the first place. After he felt the energy fluctuation go past his body, he then felt several restrictions being placed on him. He didn't fight the sensation and allowed it to happen.

The said restrictions didn't affect his movement nor his sanity, the restriction targeted his cultivation base and all manner of storage capabilities he has.

Sealing his cultivation base took many things away from Raven's arsenal. Although he thought he would somehow evade the restriction due to him following a different path, it would seem that he was wrong. His Chaos Force is completely sealed, he couldn't summon even a drop of it.

Without his Chaos Force, he couldn't activate his Crystal Sky Eye, which means that his surveillance methods took a great hit. And since his nimbleness came from his ability to control his Chaos Force according to how he likes, sealing it means that his agility dropped too. To top this all off, even his Destruction Laws are sealed.

With his storage capabilities sealed, this means that all of his spatial rings are sealed. He can't even take out the Spatial Abode that he placed on his core. From this point onward, he had to rely on his physical strength and his combat experiences to surmount the challenges on this place.

This is a rule on this castle, thankfully Raven took out his hammer before the energy swept past him or else he would've had to fight bare handed as well.

After all of that, he then resumed walking towards the main hub of the castle in order to search for the ingredient that he needed here.

As he followed the stone path, he came across a water fountain who's water had completely gone still and bad, the fountain itself is covered dark colored moss that crept up to the sides. There is also a foul smell coming from it. Raven could tell that something died in that fountain, but he's not inclined to investigate.

He continued walking forward and allowed the eerie atmosphere in the field to surround him. He eventually arrived closer to the main entrance to the castle, all he had to do was to push the doors open and he would've gotten in. However, instead of doing that, Raven gripped hammer tightly and immediately went alert.

*Woosh!*

The enemy's body faltered from Raven's attack, the latter then took advantage of this and kicked its chest to send if flying towards the nearest pillar.

As soon as Raven regained his balance, he then saw the appearance of his assailant.

It was a hybrid creature with an upper body of human and a lower body of a serpent. It has three sets of wine colored eyes with amphibian pupils, messy hair, two sets of arms that held two spears and it has countless of scars all over his body. Its serpentine body is brown in color and had several patches of white rings all over.

”Just like I thought.” Raven muttered, ”Nagas are still here. This will be troublesome.”

A solemn expression appeared on Raven's face as he thought about this.