Chapter 133 - Chapter 133: Chapter 127: Bloodline Awakening (2/2)
In Byrne’s heart, Erik was also considered his child, holding a position akin to that of a foster son.
In the past few years, Erik’s mental illness had finally improved significantly. Although he did not talk more than before, his demeanor had become much more normal.
Byrne said to Chris, “Chris, you should come with us to the Spirit Realm, because after passing through the Gate of Calamity, we will surely encounter danger. With the two of us, it will be much safer.”
Chris nodded, and then everyone took the dreaming potion in turn and entered the Spirit Realm together once more.
The Spirit Realm remained as magnificent and grand as ever, leaving Darren, who was there for the first time, utterly dumbfounded and deeply shocked.
“Is this the Spirit Realm?”
He suddenly saw a black cross shining in the high sky and instantly lowered his head in shock, trembling all over.
Irene shook her head, knelt on the ground, closed her eyes, and said calmly, “Great Lord of the Lost, please bless us with a smooth journey through the Spirit Realm.”
Following the guidance of the Lord of the Lost, they came to the front of the Spiritual Gateway on an island of Spirituality, and this time they encountered no danger along the way.
Several members of the Fischer family looked up, and in the midst of the air, two completely different Spiritual Gateways appeared out of thin air.
The “Gate of Revelation” was a vortex that constantly changed between red and purple, emitting twinkling starlight like that of the Milky Way, and faint voices of women, old men, and children murmuring could be heard from within.
The other Spiritual Gateway was the “Gate of Conquest,” a wholly blood-red vortex that radiated heat so intense it seemed as if touching it would burn one to a crisp.
Byrne took a deep breath and said, “We’ve arrived. Let’s enter the Gate of Revelation together.”
Without hesitation, they passed through the “Gate of Revelation” and arrived at another new island of Spirituality, where each of them quickly glimpsed a segment of the “future.”
This was not some illusory fantasy; it was a tangible future. However, the “future” revealed by the “Gate of Revelation” was only a possibility and not guaranteed to happen.
After passing through the “Gate of Revelation,” Byrne suddenly saw a snowfield materialize before his eyes, with the aged Viscount Bast walking beside him.
He seemed very old, at least seventy years old, but his expression was one of great joy.
“Byrne, thank you!”
The future Viscount Bast seemed to have grown much closer to him than before. The old man kept waving his hands as if he were sketching something with Byrne.
After watching the future segment, Byrne’s view returned to normal, as if the momentary glimpse had been an illusion.
He sighed with relief; at least in the years to come, there was still the possibility that he and Viscount Bast could remain close friends.
Perhaps Viscount Bast’s vigorous support of the Fischer family was indeed calculating, but such scheming might not necessarily harm Byrne.
Despite this, deep down, Byrne’s sense of vigilance and unease did not dissipate.
He always feared what the unclarified “usefulness” Viscount Bast spoke of really entailed.
Byrne shook his head. Seeing that Chris and Erik showed no particular emotion, perhaps the futures they saw were insignificant fleeting moments.
And Irene was calmly smiling, seemingly not having seen anything bad.
But to Byrne’s surprise, his son Darren had become red-faced, his little eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
He could not help but ask, “Darren, what did you see?”
Darren turned pale and blurted out, “I can’t say it! Father, don’t ask! It was just something trivial!”
He absolutely could not mention that he had seen an older sister who wanted to kiss him…
Darren shook his head frantically, and as everyone exchanged looks of confusion about what the little fellow could have seen, they noticed his bowed head, the redness of his cheeks and neck, and inwardly guessed the nature of his vision, so they tacitly refrained from asking further.
After a moment of thought, Byrne still said to everyone:
“Let’s not dwell too much on the segments we saw. The Gate of Revelation only reveals one possibility of the future, so don’t believe that it will definitely happen.”
The members of the Fischer family all nodded, not allowing the future glimpses from the Gate of Revelation to shake their resolve.
Next, everyone began to search continuously for the Gate of Calamity.
And to pass through the Gate of Calamity meant surely facing a terrifying misfortune.
The Fischer family had, in the past, refrained from performing the “Blood Awakening Ceremony” because they knew that even in the outermost layer of the Spirit Realm, such a misfortune required at least a Transmutation Level Extraordinary Exponent to solve, and to ensure there were no casualties, it was necessary for two Transmutation Level Extraordinary Exponents to act together to be safe.
Many Extraordinary Exponents unfamiliar with the Spiritual Gateways, while exploring the Spirit Realm, would accidentally enter the Gate of Calamity, and lacking the strength to withstand the misfortune, they would die—a common fate for those in the early stages of roaming the Spirit Realm.
After a long search in the Spirit Realm, the members of the Fischer family finally found the desolate Gate of Calamity, suspended in midair, symbolizing destruction and madness.
It was a huge vortex made of many distorted gray residues, and those things kept emitting wails and screams. Merely gazing at the Gate of Calamity filled them with a very real sense of fear and despair.