Chapter 421 - The Hidden Treasure (Part-2) (1/2)

Although they had a bountiful harvest a good amount of the pearls were lost as there had been a split second delay which caused the plant to rot away immediately.

Su-Min stared forlornly at her harvest, they tried really hard but still, half of what was given out for her to deal with was lost, and now they others pooled from their share to make it even for them and she did not like it at all.

Ryuu looked at the surrounding as he spoke, ”Well since we have already dealt with the flowers, I believe a quick search is in order.”

”So how do we search for that something when we do not know its location, but most importantly we do not know what we are searching for?”

Ryuu looked at his surroundings for a moment before he spoke with a frown, ”The wraiths would not leave it alone and move away from it as such I believe it has to be nearby, if I were to guess their movement pattern it should be somewhere in the middle of the garden, that is for sure.”

Frost Flames bit her lips as she spoke, ”Seeing the amount of snow in the area there is a chance that it might be buried under tonnes of ice.”

True-Spear let out a groan as he spoke, ”It would take ages to dig this amount of snow.”

Only to receive a glare filled with disapproval courtesy of Frost Flames as she spoke, ”Brother we are not mere mortals so quit your whining.”

A few minutes later the snow from the entire valley had been removed, what greeted them was a large round iron door.

Ryuu reached the door as he studied it for a moment before he touched it as various array seemed to be formed over it.

'Hmm, these arrays are wrong why did they not explode upon activation, it should not be possible, but how?'

Su-Min looked at Ryuu who was floating above the door his face scrunched up with utmost concentration, but unfortunately for him, her patience was running fast as such she decided to approach him only to be stopped by both Frost Flames and Frozen Ocean.

Frozen Ocean simply shook her head as she spoke, ”Ryuu is concentrating do not disturb him, he might make some form of mistake and injure himself badly.”

Su-Min let out a tired sigh before she spoke with a frown, ”But, it is taking so long.”

Frost Flames shrugged at that as she spoke, ”The door seemed to be booby-trapped and he is trying to disarm the trap so give him some s….”

Her words were cut short as Ryuu let out a shout of elation drawing everyone's attention towards himself.

”Ryuu are you alright?”, as a concerned Frost Flames voice came to his ears, Ryuu towards her with a big smile on his face.

”This trap is so brilliant, this tiny bit of matrix added to the array had completely changed it, it scrambles the rest of the array making it discern the true purpose by those not the creator, I have seen an example of this but this is the first time I have seen a practical application.”

He would have gone on and on about the array but was stopped by Zywia, ”Ryuu can you get it off.”

Ryuu simply pouted at that as he spoke, ”Do I have to it….Okay okay, I am removing it.”

He sweated under Zywia's glare, a glare so ferocious that it seemed it could turn anyone into ash.

Ryuu used his special pain to inscribe a few small arrays which soon dismantled the larger array that was inscribed on the door, he then swung the large iron door open as he spoke with a smirk, ”Well everyone shall we venture forth.”

A small smile blossomed on everyone's face as they eagerly followed after Ryuu.

The door opened into what seemed to be a few hundred meters drop, which was nothing for the group of cultivators, except that lower group went the gravity increase exponentially not to mention at the end were sharp spike, which Ryuu could bet was coated with venom, extremely potent venom.

Su-Min gritted her teeth as she spits out in anger, ”Damn it the lower we go the pull is getting stronger and stronger.”

”Whatever you do not get even a single scratch from those spikes, I bet they will be poisoned.”

”There is nothing to bet about it Brother Ryuu, spikes like them are always coated with poison, it is a rather classic form of trap.”

”So true, Brother True-Spear, so true, though I hope that there are n….STOP!!”

At his shout, the group came to a halt as Ryuu went and inspected a part of the wall as he smirked, ”Clever clever, the array here would have scrambled our KI if we went beyond this point, and having a disruption in our KI in this situation with a gravitational pull that is increasing dramatically it is dangerous.”

Another talisman later the array was gone, while Ryuu scowled inwardly, 'How many talismans do I have to use, I am getting tired of hiding my skills with an array, if only they were not with me.'

All of a sudden an idea formed in his head, 'Wait a minute, I am waving around the talisman and activating it, if I were to fold it properly when I use it, they might be able to see that something is written but not what is written and as such I can use it again and again as much as I want to, Ryuu you are a genius.', with a slight imaginary pat on his back he pressed forward.

At the end of the drop was a long dark corridor that stretched to the unknown, suddenly the group had a small flashback about the maze, the maze that had robbed them of their concept of time, that made spend an uncounted amount of time running around through empty and long corridors with shifting walls trapping them now and then.