1375 Carriers of the Underworld (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
Zhao Manyan was still wondering if he had seen it wrong when he landed in the hands of the soldiers. When they tossed him back up into the air, he activated his golden wings and stopped up there.
Zhao Manyan beat his wings to soar higher into the sky. He swiftly reached a height of a hundred meters and stared in the same direction to get a better look.
The dust that was drifting in the wind gradually cleared up. The enormous silhouette that left Zhao Manyan in great astonishment was still there...
”Is that a person's face?” Zhao Manyan stared into the dust-shrouded distance, trying hard to get a closer look.
Amid the dust was an enormous human face, hanging at the same height that Zhao Manyan was at. It was more than a hundred meters in the air!
A giant face over a hundred meters up?
Zhao Manyan only knew of the Tyrant Titans possibly being that huge. However, he was confused, as he could not see its body.
The dust in the distance did not clear up entirely. Zhao Manyan could only see a face hanging in the sky. The enormous silhouette was something that Zhao Manyan had imagined subjectively. The truth was, he could not see the creature's outline, as if its body was hidden behind the dust.
”What is it?” Commander Ye Hong asked. He had shown up on his Lightning Swordbird.
The commander could easily see that Zhao Manyan was behaving strangely. He was worried that the fortress was still being threatened.
”Can you see it? The human face?” Zhao Manyan pointed into the distance.
Commander Ye Hong followed Zhao Manyan's finger. He shook his head after a while. ”I see nothing!”
Zhao Manyan was a little confused. He soon guessed that the Blessing of the God's Seal had made his eyesight better than others.
As a matter of fact, Zhao Manyan was feeling some fear, especially when the face was looking at him. He could feel himself freezing in place, barely able to move his finger. It was a natural fear when a living thing was facing a greatly superior existence!
Zhao Manyan gathered his courage to look at the face again, but it had vanished into the dust.
The dust slowly faded away, returning to them a clear view of the vast land. Zhao Manyan was now able to see a great distance, yet there was no sign of the human face.
Its disappearance left Zhao Manyan extremely worried!
”Was it something terrifying?” Commander Ye Hong asked in a serious voice.
”The word 'terrifying' wasn't enough to describe it,” Zhao Manyan replied softly.
Zhao Manyan had seen the Black Totem Snake, and had even lived close to a Supreme Ruler like Baxia. The fear that the face floating in the dusty sky gave him was no weaker than them, which meant it was something that was countless times stronger than the Underworld Monarch Frog!
The Commander-level had different levels. Using Mo Fan's strength as a standard, he could kill weaker Commander-level creatures instantly with his lightning. However, he would have to work with Mu Ningxue to barely handle a strong Commander-level creature. As for some Supreme Commanders, similar to Little Flame Belle's current level, even Mo Fan would not stand a chance against them...
The same thing applied to Ruler-level creatures. The difference between strong Ruler-level creatures and weak Ruler-level creatures was extremely huge. The Underworld Monarch Frog was clearly at the bottom of the Ruler-level, while the Black Totem Snake and Baxia were both among the strongest existences among the Ruler-level creatures. Normally, Ruler-level creatures comparable to the Black Totem Snake and Baxia were extremely rare in this world; the mysterious human face of an unknown creature was such an existence, and it was only ten kilometers away from the Northguard Fortress!
It did not approach the Northguard Fortress. It was like an emperor casually observing the work of its men. It could not care less about their deaths, since they were nothing but its lackeys.
Zhao Manyan was struggling to identify if he was afraid of the unknown and was imagining things in his mind, or he was actually terrified from the pressure that the creature had put him under. He was extremely cautious even when he was breathing.
”What exactly happened?” Commander Ye Hong asked solemnly.
”We only thought those things were from Egypt...” Zhao Manyan replied.
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Fenna finally obtained the information Lingling had asked for. She e-mailed everything she found to Lingling.
The information was all very mixed-up. Lingling had to filter the information according to the situation that had occurred at the Northguard Fortress. Many were ancient legends in Egypt. Some of them were real, from undisclosed records. Some were just stories that the locals came up with after seeing some natural phenomena, thus only some part of the stories were true. It was necessary to filter out irrelevant information.
The majority of the history was speculation. As a result, historical records and artifacts were extremely meaningful, as they were the only evidence to prove what was right!