Chapter 910 (2/2)

Y’zaks was walking beside Hao Ren. Running his hand across the black stones on the wall, he said, “This space is completely heterogenized. These stones were originally stone, but now they feel greasy like some creature although the underlying material has not changed. Nothing is covering the surface; it is the realm that changes and distorts the nature of these stones.”

“How long have we been going” Hasse suddenly asked.

Hao Ren took the MDT out of his pocket and checked the time. “Almost two hours. This goddamn place is vast!”

The MDT scrambled to dial down its brightness. “Damn it! You should have given me a heads-up before taking me out,” the MDT snapped.

Hasse was startled. Pointing at the MDT, he asked, “You bring this with you? Didn’t you say there were only four of us?”

“I think it shouldn’t be a problem,” Hao Ren said, scratching his hair. “The Shade of Chaos does not affect it though it is bitchy like a human. We don’t have to see it as a human; it’s just an AI,” he said.

The MDT knocked on Hao Ren’s head. “You’re the one non-human!”

Hao Ren grabbed the MDT in his hand. “Are you a human?”

“I’m not a human.”

“Then why are you complaining?”

“Oops!”

Hasse looked on with his jaw dropping on the ground.

“So my advice to you: stop being curious at the strange gadgets that Hao Ren carries,” Vivian said, looking at Hasse. “You can treat it as a robot cat, and acknowledge that it is an amazing gadget but don’t delve into its rationality.”

Hao Ren was speechless.

Anyway, despite the hoo-ha, the appearance of the MDT had somewhat calmed the depressive atmosphere. Hao Ren tucked the metal brick back into his pocket and then glanced into the long passageway. He could still feel the menacing force lurking around but was unable to gauge how close he was from the source of that force.

The place felt like an infinite dimension.

But this seemingly endless passageway had an ending point. After hours of exploration in the passageway, Hao Ren began to notice changes in the surroundings. The path started to open up, and there were fewer corners in the passageway. It seemed like they were closer to the heart of the maze.

Suddenly, a door appeared ahead. They could feel from here that there was some depression, chaos, horror, and forces of hatred and hostility that came from behind the door. They instinctively exchanged a look before running towards the door.

“Hey, there are some words here!” Completely unaffected by the atmosphere and unlike the others who had tensed up, Vivian enthusiastically examined the stone door and found some words engraved on the lower part of the door. Unexpectedly, those texts were not Tannaean but ancient Letta text.

“An eternal curse is upon us. We who exiled from the otherworld carry sins with us. We are destined to fall into an endless violent quagmire, controlled by a hatred without root and reason. Behind this door is the source of all sins and curses, but no one could dispel it or appease it, because the perpetrators and victims of this sin are dead, no one can forgive anything.”

The author of the passage is a stranger named Kasandzor, the awakened.