Chapter 52 - Helplessness in the Void (2/2)

At the instant Aurus casted one of his two support spells, a green circle hastily expanded to a radius of 10 meters before dissipating, letting Aurus perceive everything that was 10 meters around him with a greater sense of detail.

”Hmm...” Aurus absorbed every single bit of information regarding the surroundings 10 meters around him. After a few seconds, he had a rough sketch of the place he was currently in.

”A few objects within the 10 meter radius were rock-like in shape, while the ground was covered in small stalks of what seems to be grass. As for trees, there is none. Hence...”

Aurus easily got to a conclusion. ”This is a plains. The question left is...how vast is it?”

At the next instant, Aurus had an impulse to traverse the whole terrain of the illusion world he was currently in and gauge how large the area was. But this was instantly suppressed by his rationality, since he knew that it would span 5 kilometers on each side at least.

Letting out a soft sigh of relief, Aurus conjured a floating Anima that was transformed into a Spirit Spear not long after. Aurus then recalled the location of one of the rock-like objects and shot the Spirit Spear towards it, which instantly multiplied in number not long after, turning into a barrage of Spirit Spears.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

At the next instant the massive amount of Spirit Spears collided with the rock-like object, a small glint of light appeared near the rock-like object, making Aurus' nonexistent eyes light up as he knew he was getting somewhere.

Seeing that he found a possible way to get out. Aurus did not hesitate to get closer to the rock-like object which was being bombarded by the multiple Spirit Spears. It took a few minutes for Aurus to come closer to the rock-like object, only to be gobsmacked at what was happening.

The Spirit Spears weren't colliding with the rock-like object at all. With the help of his [Spirit Detection (Wind Variant)] skill, Aurus could see that there was a strong yet invisible barrier a few millimeters apart from the rock-like object, as it deflected the tips of the Spirit Spear to hit each other instead, resulting in the sparks Aurus could see from afar.

At the place Aurus was a while ago, it would look like the light was the result of the collision of the rock-like object and the Spirit Spears, but it was only a farce, causing Aurus to gradually lose motivation on the third method.

He tried using the third offensive Spirit spells he had, in consecutive order of power, but alas to no fruition as well. Letting out a soft sigh, Aurus couldn't help but use the first method instead.

”I don't know if this will work...but it's worth a shot. If I don't escape this world, then how would I evolve to S-grade?”

Aurus casted [Gale Hover] as he gradually hovered off of the seamless black ground and started to head towards the boundary of the illusion world he was in.

A few minutes in, he felt that he was in for a long ride, considering that the only experiences he had with illusions and illusion worlds spanned for kilometers beyond end.

But this was going to be broken by the illusion world itself...

Poof!

At the 4 minute mark of his [Gale Hover] spell, Aurus felt a vortex sucking him in as his surroundings was gradually being filled with light until...

Whoosh!

With a gust of wind, Aurus appeared back within the green jade hall as he continued to hover over the green jade hall's ground. Aurus looked at his surroundings and casted [Spirit Detection (Wind Variant)] a few times to see if he was hallucinating.

He also went closer to the walls and shot a few Spirit Spears, determining its authenticity. After doing all of that, Aurus landed on the center of the green jade hall and only muttered one word.

”H-How...”