Chapter 378: Eavesdropping (1/2)

”Your Excellency, the whole thing happened so fast. In just a day, the Portal closed, everyone stationed there died and was scorched to ash. The siege that should've kept the Whiteshade Division occupied collapsed and news about the four overseers was silent.” The kneeling Transcendent continued.

However, the descendent couldn't hear more grave news. I watched him as he stomped his feet on the palanquin carrying him and the beast and humans beneath it started moving away.

”Let's follow him,” I whispered to Irja.

If he's acting even in front of his subordinates then he will have to show his true colors when he's alone. Who knows?

Yuko already informed me that they're on the way. Once Raiden and Old Man Reol finished, we could then start the plan to entrap these remaining Transcendents here. If I have to use my Ultimate Skill then I will do so for us to finish in this world.

With my Avatar at the World of Elements, I could put that behind World of Meta.

Although the larger reason is that I missed my wife, Nysia. The situation in that world is somewhat the same as here.

Sofiel and Fleur could keep the descendant in their world in check. There's also Yumiko and Jayna there and many other Transcendents such as the two Heroes, Arland and the Luxian Transcendents. The elites of the three races were also continuing their training along with Ezyn and Yse. It's also only a matter of time before new Transcendents appeared in that world.

Meanwhile, Nysia is the strongest in her world. She had just started her Transcendent Pathway so she's still a few breakthroughs away from Rank 2 Transcendent. If the new batch of Transcendents from the Dark World arrives, they'll be more disadvantaged. That's why before that happens, I need to wrap this up and go back there.

When the palanquin reached the vicinity of the biggest tent in this enemy camp, the descendant got off and entered it, reliving the beasts and humans alike from the burden of carrying him stably.

Before he created his Energy Screen, Irja and I entered the tent.

It's surprisingly clean. However, there's a huge stench of blood filling up our noses. It's like it was only cleaned of dead bodies recently.

After a while, the descendent sat on his bed and took out a crystal. It appears different than the communication crystals we had. It's a bit bigger and the shine in it seemed to be more luxurious.

When he injected it with his Dark Energy, the crystal floated and a screen appeared in front of him.

It was surprisingly a video call crystal, huh?

From the screen, a face of a middle-aged man appeared.

Based on his face and demeanor, he's related to this descendant but he feels a ways off from a Great One.

Once the screen became completely conjured, the middle-aged man wrinkled his forehead as if he's waiting for the descendant to speak first.

”Greetings, Father. Can you ask grandfather to open up another Portal here? It was closed! There's no way I can go back. Not when you told me how far this world is from our world. There are a lot of erratic oddities wading through this backwater World Zone.”

I see. So he's a direct descendent but a 3rd Generation. Perhaps he's just one of the many grandchildren of Onimbus, that is if he vigorously expanded his lineage. Perhaps that father of his is a Monarch or a Tribal Sovereign.

In any case, what caught my interest are the 'erratic oddities' and the 'World Zone'. It's the first time I heard about the two. Perhaps Irja knows about it just that, there's no chance for me to tell about it since we're using Portals to travel from world to world.

Just like with the World of Meta and the World of Anzeans, one can also traverse the endless space to reach another world.

Upon hearing his request, his father rebuked him before calmly explaining something. ”As if it's that easy to meet your grandfather! Anyway, something happened, son. Someone outside the nineteen tribes attacked the Portal Camp to that world and killed everyone to silence any witness. Are there new Transcendents in there? The chance of them being from one of the 11 tribes is high. Or they're just pawns of those tribes to disrupt Great One Zaraya, Rhellor and your grandfather's plan.”

What kind of plan do they have, I wonder?

In any case, it seems that Alwyn managed to erase every piece of evidence before leaving that place. That's one thing out of my mind. I will contact her later.

”Yes! Someone new appeared! However, he seems to be a native. His Pathway is the same as every native in here. I don't know how someone under the radar became that strong or which hole he emerged from. Right! There's a Rank 2 Transcendent woman beside him. I haven't gotten close to check yet but there's a high chance that she's the one who descended and closed the Portal.”

Well, if he knew I already visited his world, he'll be more than surprised if I showed him that I also have Dark Energy.

”Then that explains it. If you can conquer that world, I will personally ask your grandfather to open another Portal there. By then, you only needed 3 years to wait before you could come back. Don't let me down and make sure you'll bring honor to me!”

And I was right. Even if they opened a Portal it will still take a long time for Transcendents to pass through it.

”I understand, father.”