Chapter 244 - Chapter 244: Chapter 234: Sealing the Valley (1/2)
Chapter 244: Chapter 234: Sealing the Valley
“It was the followers of the Stars Embrace Order; when we arrived, a melee had already erupted…”
Byrne’s tears couldn’t stop flowing down as he went on to accuse the Stars Embrace Order amidst sobs and trembling, as if he held a deep, grinding grudge against those people!
Marzo looked at Byrne beside her without changing her expression, clearly feeling that something much deeper had changed within the human male.
It was an interesting change.
In some ways, although he was quite capable before, he had never been a truly frightening person, but now there’s a very dangerous air in the deepest depths of his gaze.
Lord Aldrich stood with his hands behind his back, listening casually to the whole story, and then he nodded slightly.
“Take me to have a look.”
“Um, of course.”
Byrne’s expression was one of pain; he took a deep breath and then said, “Please come with me, Lord Aldrich.”
It didn’t take long for them to return to where the bodies of Renzo and Viscount Bast lay. Lord Aldrich squatted down twice to check the bodies thoroughly before nodding lightly, not raising any doubts.
Byrne remained in an agitated state. Lord Aldrich, unaware of their intricate conflicts of gratitude and resentment, naturally didn’t suspect anything, even with all his intelligence.
And as for Bast’s death, Lord Aldrich’s mood didn’t change much, as if the relationship between the two wasn’t that good either.
There was only one thing he wondered about.
“Why is he here, as far as I know, this one should be a genius of your family, Chris Fischer, right?”
Chris didn’t answer; Byrne slowly nodded, calmly responding, “In fact, it was Bast’s arrangement. He wanted Chris to follow behind us, not to act together with us immediately.”
“The point was just in case, to avoid anyone secretly tracking us. Unfortunately, we still let people from the Stars Embrace Order sneak in, and in the end, an oversight led to a grave mistake!”
He took a deep breath, then sighed deeply again.
The sorrowful emotions were not fake but seven parts true, leaving no clues for anyone to notice.
“I see.”
Lord Aldrich nodded and said nothing more; instead of burying the bodies right away, they continued to look for the last person and eventually found Zayne Frosac, who was still alive.
The Acting Bishop of the Tempest Church, Zayne, looked ghastly pale, severely wounded, and close to death, hiding in a concealed corner of the canyon.
“You’ve finally come, save me…”
“Don’t worry, you won’t be harmed.”
Lord Aldrich quickly used the healing power from a green ring to stabilize his injuries; though it was a top-notch rare treasure, it couldn’t heal Zayne completely, but it at least enabled him to recover.
“Thank you.”
Zayne breathed a sigh of relief, slowly transforming spiritual power into life force to heal himself, and said,
“You finally came; I thought I was going to die here. Damn, I carelessly took two slaps from a Monarch powerful expert. If I hadn’t been transported suddenly to another part of the valley, I might have really died!”
So that’s how it was.
Byrne and the others learned that Zayne indeed was an unlucky person, having encountered a Monarch powerful expert of the Stars Embrace Order right away and nearly dying from just two hits.
If it weren’t for reaching the Metamorphosis Phase and having a trump card, Zayne might have been killed on the spot.
But in a sense, he was also lucky; when he was about to be killed, he was suddenly transported elsewhere and managed to hide.
Just then, Lord Aldrich, who had been constantly looking around and up into the sky, slowly rose into the air, stepping gradually upwards until he stood aloft for a long time, seemingly observing something.
Finally, he looked increasingly grave as he descended back in front of everyone and said, “There’s some very bad news; I’ve realized something… We probably won’t be able to leave here for quite some time.”
Lord Aldrich paused for a moment, then continued,
“Because this valley has no exit, and the dome is covered by some kind of barrier. Although birds fly over, those birds are also creatures of the valley, not animals from outside.”
“This valley is now completely cut off from the outside world!”
“So, we probably won’t be able to leave here for a while, at least until we find a way out.”
Byrne and the others were stunned, finding it hard to believe.
Zayne immediately asked anxiously, “Wait a minute, when we entered this valley, it wasn’t enclosed. Why can’t we leave now? Could the entrance have disappeared?”
Lord Aldrich frowned and replied, “You’re right, the entrance has vanished. There are walls all around, and I can’t fly out.”
Everyone looked at each other, not expecting Viscount Bast to have left such a contingency.
Especially Byrne and Zayne, who were very emotionally volatile; both of them had heavy burdens to carry, and not leaving for a long time would definitely cause problems.
Zayne paced back and forth, frowning deeply until he finally couldn’t hold back and burst out cursing, “Bast! You despicable old thing! If you failed your breakthrough, did you intend for all of us to be buried with you?”
Everyone’s expressions were grim; facing a predicament with no clear resolution in sight, no one was sure when it would be solved, considering the valley was a place created by a Heavenly Enlightenment powerful expert.