114 The Horror of Seara Island Part 1 (1/2)

”What the hell was that?!” Asked Edmund right after teleporting next to Daniel.

Daniel was still visibly shocked. Only he was able to understand how grim and dangerous the situation really was.

After shaking the tension off his back, he turned to look at Edmund and said ”That.. was an unlucky encounter.”

Bohn and Vael arrived the very next moment.

”Did you feel the world freeze as well?” Asked Vael, still shaken by the experience.

Bohn turned to look at him, and said ”Yes! So it wasn't just me..” He then looked at Daniel, and continued ”Was everything causedby your breakthrough?”

The two of them weren't as fast as Edmund, as they had to run or fly in order to get back on top of the mountains, and have a good look of what was happening in the dead valley.

”Just the vortex.. Not the rest” Responded Daniel with an uncomfortable expression.

After they finished talking, they went back into the pocket dimension.

Daniel hadn't explained too much of what had really happened to the others.

Who that human-like dragon was, or the information he had received from him. So, they were all slightly confused about what they had witnessed.

The ruckus in the dead valley had caused many nearby powers to approach the site, but unfortunately, they found nothing but a destroyed valley, and the previously quiet mountains that had now turned into active volcanoes.

The situation in the rest of the cultivation world was much more chaotic.

Everyone had been frozen in place for various seconds without knowing why, causing rumors and hysteria to spread.

Some said that a god had descended, some said that a new expert capable of ascending to a higher plane of existence had been born.. And some said that there was something wrong with the time essence all around the world.

The people who were the most worried, were the experts of time essence.

Even before this last freezing of time, space, and other essences, they had felt the time rewind by eighty seconds.

These cultivators were still trying to understand why time had rewinded by four seconds three years ago, and yet, they had felt a similar event happen once again. If it wasn't enough, it was paired with a global mana blockade.

Many people in the world started to go crazy. Some formed cults that preached about the end of the world, while others decided to give up their human feelings of empathy and compassion, and embraced a life of greediness.. Taking everything they wanted whenever they wanted. This was all due to the false belief that humanity was coming to an end.

This, had started a new era of chaos and panic all around the world.

After the events at the death valley, Daniel and the rest had resumed their travel towards the Nestreia continent.

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Seara Island, one year later.

Daniel, Edmund and a few others, were sitting at a table situated in the hall of a castle in ruins.

On the other side of the table, sat a few men and women in tattered clothes, and similar to these people, hundreds more filled the room.

”How many?..” Asked Daniel with a dead serious expression.

”T-two hundred.. For the last three years..” Responded the oldest looking woman that sat on the other side of the table.

”So many..” muttered Daniel in response.

During their year of travels, Daniel and the rest had helped people whenever they found a chance to, and now, their city had grown exponentially. Its inhabitants now counted three hundred thousands, and from being a small settlement, it had become a large and flourishing city.

Thanks to Daniel's advancement to the late eight rank of cultivation, the pocket dimension had reached an area large enough to allow the increased amount of people to live comfortably.

The pocket dimension was in fact, so large, that many of the unranked citizens had moved out of the main city, and had created villages around it. Around these villages, the inhabitants would cultivate crop, and breed livestock for materials and food.

At first, due to the increased number of citizens, Daniel had quickly found a huge problem with having an isolated city. That problem was, of course, food.

Most of the people that joined him would bring large amounts of food with them, and they could buy some from every city they visited, but this food would always finish fast.

It was after only a couple of months that Daniel had understood the importance of auto sufficiency.

Minerals, water, wood, and light. Daniel's pocket dimension had all it needed to have a perfectly fertile soil, plus, the composition of the various bodies of water could be changed so that the largest bodies of water would have salty water, while the smaller ones would have fresh water.

This had not only allowed people to have a source of drinkable water, but also a place in which they could add different types of fishes, that after breeded to a stable number, could word as an additional source of food.

Houses, schools, schools of martial arts, and even sects had moved into Daniel's pocket dimension, and were all regulated by a sort of government under the guidance of Daniel's group.

The members of Daniel's group now numbered in the thousands, and each and every member was constantly busy solving problems for the citizens, and allowing the group's karma to quickly increase.

After a year of travels, Daniel and the rest had ended up in an unmarked island.

This island was called Seara Island, and was situated in the middle of one of the oceans that Daniel's group would have to cross on their way to the Nestreia continent.