Chapter 383 - Door of Apocalypse. Demonic Invasion (1/2)
In the strange, unknown world…
The originally thick and disorderly volcanic ash that had spread through the skies was stirred up by a massive force, and scattered to the sides.
Endless numbers of densely packed strange creatures were gathered under the purplish-red sky. Their numbers were simply uncountable.
The strange pattern in the sky above the platform grew bigger and bigger up on the peak of the tall mountain. In the end, it started absorbing the aura emitted from the bodies of the massive horde.
Gradually, the smaller black vortexes packed together like honeycombs grew stronger. In the end, they turned into huge black tunnels in the space, connected to a distant world.
Seeing the black tunnels gradually stabilizing, the creatures around them grew frenzied and roared out one after another, the noise enveloping the heavens and earth.
As the black tunnels in the space stabilized, the countless petals of the gigantic demonic flower in the middle of the platform started dancing again. A massive wave of energy spread from inside the demonic flower, entering the countless black tunnels in the surroundings and fully stabilizing them.
After completing all this, the demonic flower seemed to have exhausted its energy. The petals quickly closed in and became a huge flower bud. It lost its ability to float in the air, and it slowly drifted to the ground in the center of the platform.
In a circle around the demonic flower, several dozen of those powerful strange creatures cried out sadly one after another. Afterwards, a frenzied look showed in their eyes again, and they suddenly opened their mouths, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood essence. The blood came together, forming a mass of incredibly pure energy, and sprinkled over the flower bud. The flower, which had dimmed in color after exhausting its energy, looked a little livelier.
The humans that acted as nodes in the energy network suddenly exploded simultaneously. A wave of energy that originated from deep in their bodies erupted, turning into countless dots of light, and flew into the black tunnels around them.
The doors of the black tunnels started opening!
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On Mercury, ripples spread out in space at many remote lands. Afterwards, the cracks with those little strange patterns at the center appeared in the spaces quickly expanded, and finally solidified.
Large black doors suddenly appeared at where the space failed to resist them.
At that moment on Mercury, a tremendously powerful force suddenly enveloped the planet. Energy waves more fluid than water instantly swept across the bodies of every beastmaster, drawing out a tiny hint of an unknown energy.
The energies gathered together and turned into many complicated and profound talismanic runes.
The profound runes were invisible to the eye, and undetectable by the senses. They instantly fell into the newly appeared black doors.
In the strange world, as the black spatial tunnel doors opened, the countless strange creatures in the surroundings quickly gathered into neat formations, pouring into every black door like flows of water.
At this moment, however, a powerful restriction suddenly appeared in the tunnels, keeping those strange creatures that were above a certain threshold in strength outside. Only those who were weaker than the imposed limit could enter through the tunnel and head towards the other end.
On the platform atop the huge mountain, the several dozen most terrifyingly powerful strange creatures let out furious roars one after another when they felt the restriction in the tunnels. Waves of devastating energy powerful erupted from their bodies, slamming into the tunnels.
Even so, the restriction in the tunnels only shone for a moment, before returning to calm.
The several dozen powerful creatures could only let out furious roars filled with unwillingness, unable to do anything about it. They shifted their gazes back onto the huge flower bud at the center of the platform. However, the flower bud had already fallen into slumber, and showed no reaction.
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In Mercury, at the desert to the west of Qin Zhou, Hua Xia…
Just as the crowd was starting to discuss about the spectacular battle, guessing what kind of terrifying weapon that little golden bell in Zhen Liu’s hand was, and why the scarlet light that shot out from Zhang Che’s brow was so powerful, an invisible ripple swept across every beastmaster. Although it was weak, their sharp senses took notice of it.
The whole area immediately fell silent. An inexplicable look of shock painted their faces, not knowing what exactly had just happened.
Zhang Che had naturally felt that inexplicable change, too, and it was likely that with the golden vortex, what he felt was more obvious than the others. It felt like a certain mysterious energy was peeled off him as the ripple swept through him.
-Exactly what just happened?- Zhang Che was shocked. He swept his gaze around. When he saw everyone else had the same look on them, he no longer hesitated and directly recalled the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise, then flew back to the hill where the Huang family’s camp was located, riding the Winged Dragon Wind God.
Throughout the desert, no one cared about the duel. Instead, they gathered into small groups with the people they knew and summoned their subdued beasts, forming a defensive perimeter, ready to face whatever changes that might appear.
“Xiaoche, are you alright?” Huang Juyun asked worriedly when Zhang Che came back.
Although Zhang Che had flipped the tables on Zhen Liu and killed him swiftly, he had indeed fallen unconscious momentarily from Zhen Liu’s attack earlier. It would be bad news if there were any hidden injuries left behind.
That faint ripple from the heavens and earth didn’t represent any good news, either. Heavens knew what was going to happen next!
“I’m fine, Uncle Huang. Don’t worry.”