Chapter 220: Another Infiltration (1/2)

As we flew past the residential area where the weaker lots of both Dark World denizens and Noxians could be seen actively mingling together, I observed the key structure we have to pass through first.

It's a huge gate that's probably even bigger than the Door of Transcendence which stood tall to bar entry towards the central area.

This previous capital of the Noxians was divided into two parts. The outer area where the general population lived and the central area where the five main Aristocratic Families previously resided. That's how their race ran before. Most of the power was in the hands of the Aristocratic Families.

The central area can only be accessed by passing through the gate. The 20-meter tall obsidian wall surrounding it doesn't have any other entrance beside this one. Above, It has a Defensive Formation which prevents anyone from entering by flying higher than the wall. No one is allowed to fly inside except the Noxian Transcendents. Everyone else needs to pass through this gate and traverse the bridge behind it to arrive at the central area.

When the Noxians vanished and secluded themselves at almost the same as the Luxians, the Human Race and the Elementals didn't move to occupy their territories.

Now that they reappeared as an ally of the foreign invaders, the Dark World denizens gave it back to them.

At this moment, the Noxian Transcendents were the highest-ranking officer for the Dark World. Once those higher world Transcendents descended, they'll surely be degraded to a lackey.

They're most likely aware of that and like Lucas, they will probably try to pass through the Portal to convert their Source Energy inside the Dark World.

Apart from the two Noxian Transcendents, the only thing we have to be wary of were the Trap Formations set randomly. Even if we're concealed, we could still trigger it. Though it wouldn't seriously injure us, it would instantly alert them. Well, with my sensitivity to energy, it will be easy to spot.

During my 3 hours inside the Library, I got the knowledge about how Formations through the various books tackling that topic.

It's almost similar to how one will create their own spells except, it needed physical items which contained Elemental Energy such as Elemental Stones as well as a Core item such as the artifact we are going to steal.

The Elemental Stones can be found anywhere and some can be mined. The stones will become the Elemental Nodes of the Elemental Formations.

The core items can be forged or naturally formed. Just like Arland and Fleur's staff. In short, the core items are similar to the Meta Energy-powered engines of a Metagen. Using it as a base of the Spell Nucleus, the Elemental Formation can be maintained. And the higher the rate of the Core's Energy Output, the stronger the Formation can be made using it.

That Artifact is a cube-shaped ore as big as a cargo box. It was unearthed on one of the mines from the now-destroyed city of Arland's wife. It could be cut to be used for crafting weapons, however, like Arland, his wife used it as a core of a Defensive Formation she laid out in her city. When she died, the two Noxian Transcendents and the Dark World army they brought broke into the formation, destroyed the city and took that Artifact away.

”How will we pass through this?”

It only took us 3 minutes to fly from that river to arrive in front of the Gate of Paradigm.

Looking at it closely, it's seriously huge which reminded me of the front gate of a certain Assassin family in that popular manga series.

It's also a layer of doors however, unlike in that manga series, it was not being used to test someone. The number of opened layers corresponded to the importance of whoever will pass through.

Most probably if they're someone from one of the five Aristocratic Families or someone important from the Dark World, the number of layers will be high.

Currently, there were only commoners lined up to pass through the gate and each one of them was being checked thoroughly.

Now that I could see them, most of the Noxians had a weary face as they lined up to enter the gate. It's a line to enter the central area for their work.

As to what kind of work, most likely, it concerned those Aristocrats.

There's a Formation that they had to pass through and only a higher nodes Disguising Spell could fool it. The Aura of Concealment might be able to pass through it without any problem but for now, I have to make sure so I chose to look for another entrance.

The Noxian Transcendents are currently here and risking a battle at the heart of their territory sounds like a dumb move.

”There's that door. It's probably a backdoor for them.”

I pointed at the left corner of the gate where a Dark World denizen who seemed to be a Rank 4 Mortal just came out.

It's surely a backdoor for those working to manage the gate. It's a common feature of a huge gate like this. Inside that door is another passage that will lead us behind this gate

”But we can't be sure of what's inside.”

Fleur hesitated and looked at me to answer her doubt.

”This concealment aura will wear off soon, let's see first and decide after entering it.”

After saying that, I led the way and approached the door. Utilizing my sensitivity to any type of energy, I sensed that there were only two people behind that door.

The guy who left the room earlier came back and reopened the door. Using that opportunity before it closed again, I entered after him and pulled Fleur with me.

It feels like that time when I infiltrated Zerina's manor alone and also when I infiltrated the concealed area in that fortress with Jayna.