Chapter 422 - The Hidden Treasure (Part-3) (1/2)

Rows upon rows of coffins were stacked on top of one another, in the rather large circular room.

Ryuu narrowed his eyes as he spoke, ”There are about a hundred of those coffins placed in rows, and I have a bad feeling about this.”

True-Spear gripped his spear hard as he spoke, ”Me too brother, I think we should retreat.”

Ryuu simply nodded but before they could reach the ceiling on the other side of the room collapsed sealing them inside the large circular chamber.

The cover of the coffins fell one by one as its occupants woke up one by one.

”To the centre”, Ryuu bellowed to his companions as they neared the centre, Ryuu quickly kneeled as he spoke, ”Keep them off of me, while I work.”

With those words the group stood protectively making a circle around Ryuu, who quickly began to work, the first of the undead creature neared them only for it to collide with a pale green barrier, a barrier that not only stopped it but lit it up in green colour flame and soon the creature toppled over and fell on its back.

Ryuu smirked at that as he spoke, ”The array can immobilize and it would cause them to burn for some time, so feel free to take a pound their flesh as much as you would like.”

A small smile appeared on his face as he saw them dealing with the undead from the safety of the barrier.

”Ryuu what are you doing now?”

Ryuu spared a glance at Frozen Ocean, but before he could speak True-Spear beat him to it as he spoke, ”He is preparing for the next phase, I doubt this is the only trap that we might have to face here.”

And true to his words, the undead creatures that had been permanently stopped by re-killing them suddenly became bloated, it did not matter if it was reduced to only a finger it bloated and then it exploded as a putrid green gas began to spread around.

The cylindrical barrier turned into a spherical shape, with a slight golden sheen on it, Zywia was familiar with the barrier as she had seen it before, and it was the same one that Ryuu had created to save them during the massacre of the second level.

”Sorry but please stop attacking anyone from inside the barrier, it will break it.”

At his words the group stopped their assault as they watched the barrier gained a red glow if the previous barrier only paralyzed the creatures upon coming into contact, this one not only reflected their attacks set them aflame but most importantly made them paralyzed and flung them afar.

”Hmm, the fire will destroy as I have imbued it with the Dao now I think we should safely take to the sky and I hope to find a way out of this place.”

At his suggestion the group moved up and so did the barrier, as they looked down they could see the gaseous cloud now hovering underneath them completely hiding the ground.

It was a simple drop at first, and then it began to rain like crazy, for a moment it looked as if a cloud burst had taken place.

But unlike water what rained down was a blackish liquid, which upon hitting the barrier turned into black fumes while letting out a sizzling sound.

Frozen Ocean narrowed her eyes as she spoke, ”Poison?”

Ryuu nodded at that as he closed his eyes for a moment before he replied to her, ”Yes it is poison, though a c.o.c.ktail of poison would be more appropriate though.”

His eyes narrowed for a moment before he spoke with a smirk, ”Interesting one of the poisons would flare up and agitate the others upon coming into contact with KI.”

Zywia frowned at that as she spoke, ”That is dangerous, and it is because of our KI that we can suppress the effects of various poison momentarily, but if what you tell is true then this rain is incredibly dangerous.”

Ryuu smirked at her as he continued, ”There is another poison that works in reverse, the more KI is used the more it becomes inert but as KI is removed it would become more and more powerful. But the beauty of this poison lies in another part.”

Su-Min could help but deadpan at him as she spoke, ”Really 'beauty' you find poison beautiful.”

Ryuu shrugged as he spoke, ”Hey I cannot help but praise when a person can make two opposite things work without any problem, one increase the potency when more KI is applied and the other increase when is the potency when the application of KI is lowered, how can I not appreciate it.”

True-Spear whistled lowly at that before he spoke with a sigh, ”Well I can understand where you are coming from but I think it is high time for us to get out of this trap.”

”I am working on it.”, Ryuu grunted out as he closed his eyes again.

When they were standing on the ground, Ryuu had not only created a barrier but also created placed another array whose job was to map the entire room and find possible exist, and it had been running for some time now.

Ryuu's eyes snapped opened as he spoke, ”I got it, the entrance I found it.”

Frost Flames glanced at him as she spoke, ”Where is it Ryuu?”

Ryuu pointed towards one of the coffins at the middle of the topmost row as he spoke, ”That coffin is hiding the exit, and we just have to break it to enter the next room.”

Everyone raised their eyebrows as they looked at Ryuu curiously but no one said anything as they flew towards a particular coffin.

Ryuu sends a talisman towards it, which stuck to the coffin which was now glowing blue for a moment before the back of coffin slid down opening a door, while the talisman returned to Ryuu.

The barrier touched the coffin enveloping it allowing the group to leave through the hidden door before completely wrapped the coffin and preventing anyone from entering.

The passage was narrow and dark, they all decided to follow in a single line with Ryuu taking the front and True-Spear the rear.

”So is this how Ryuu helped you all to escape the second level.”

Zywia nodded at True-Spear's question as she spoke, ”Yes, it was so scary you know, I thought we would be dead for sure, it was truly a miracle that we were able to escape.”