Chapter 946 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

“Calling you?” Hao Ren’s brow ticked as he heard what Vivian said. “A voice?”

“Not sure,” Vivian’s sight hovered around the massive hulk of metal. “It was a flash of a moment thing, like someone reminding me that I need to look there… but there’s nothing now.”

A thought had appeared just in a flash in one’s mind, that got Hao Ren thinking. “The divine artifact, it seems like there’s some truth to it.”

There were not many things that could give Vivian such an odd reaction, and something that the Goddess of Creation had left behind would probably do the trick. The denizens of the ark have a legend about a divine artifact protecting the world, and now Vivian had this unusual sensation while standing beside the Furnace of the Ancestors, it was natural to link this two incidents together. It does seem like the exiled arks had been given some sort of protection… and it came from the Goddess herself?!

Willy did not understand what the two were on about and asked out of curiosity. “What’s wrong?”

“You’re a local, do you know how to enter the Furnace of the Ancestors?” Hao Ren went straight to the point.

“A local? I’m not a local. I’m from Hearthfire…” Willy just responded to the first half of the question by reflex before recovering. “The Furnace of the Ancestors? You want to go into it?”

“We can’t?” Nangong Sanba’s eyebrow rose. “Aren’t we here to fix that problem?”

Willy’s expression turned from confused to horrified. He had a lot of guesses abou this group of outlanders, but he never thought that they would actually want to enter the Furnace itself to investigate. “That’s inconceivable! The Furnace is a place where only the dead could step into. I’ve never heard of any living person going into that place! A person steeping into the Furnace will be cursed by the power of the dead, and his body will go ablaze, skin will be flayed and his internals bleed before being turned into ash. And you want to go in there?!”

Hao Ren was rather surprised by what he heard. He never expected that reactor core to be that dangerous and he did not know it was a problem stemming from the legend itself, or the energy reactor itself have some sort of safety mechanism to ward off intruders. But he must go in there. “Are there no other ways?”

Willy shook his head wildly. “No way, no way! That’s suicide. Even the flallegants would not be able to break into the Furnace. There are Blood Wardens guarding the place. These soldiers have the right to even ignore the words of the kings. They only follow their orders and calling. What sort of madness is this that you want to go in there?”

The young lad was totally horrified by Hao Ren’s plans and after trying to talk Hao Ren out of it a suspicious look started appearing on his face as he looked at the seemingly calm Lily and Vivian. The boy suddenly remembered that this group knew ‘sorcery’ and some chilling legends of yore. Willy started shivering in fear. “Wha…What are you all planning to do?”

“Relax, boy.” A red glow shone from Vivian’s eye and through the use of blood magic she forced the body to calm down. Her voice was slow, and had a magical property to it. “Don’t you want to stop the coming of winter? Have a look at the Furnace yourself… it’s damaged, very badly damaged. And we know how to fix it. That’s what we are here for.”

There was a couple of spells within Vivian’s blood magic repetoire that could be used against the human psyche, but Willy was someone who had no idea what magic was, and his will was weak, thus he fell under the calming effects without resistance. His eyes darkened a split moment. “But you cannot enter the Furnace of the Ancesotrs, it has the power of the dead there, the Blood Wardens will also not…”