Chapter 1294 - Journey to Sanctum (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
With precise control, Lady Gloom summoned a super-large magic circle in the air. Complicated lines and runes formed a complex three-dimensional circle two meters above the ground. Since the energy nodes lit up, the three-dimensional circle gradually materialized into a weird structure, of which the top was larger than the bottom.
Hao Ren was unfamiliar with the magic circle of the world of Collow, so he could not see anything unusual about the circle. But the Sanctum monks were wide-eyed as if they saw something they had never seen before. Hao Ren went up to Calaxus. “Hey, Uncle.”
Calaxus had his attention on the magic circle and did not notice the presence of Hao Ren and Lily. Now when the senior monk turned his head around, he saw Hao Ren. “Ahh, you guys are already here. I was thinking to send my men looking for you.”
“Yeah. We saw the light,” Hao Ren said. “Is she working on a portal or something? You all look shocked.”
Calaxus turned his eyes back to the magic circle in the air. “I have no idea what she is doing. For all my knowledge, I have never heard this school of magic—she is creating something out of her spiritual power and magic energy without using any spell-casting medium or incantation. It is as if she is a magic creature herself. Who exactly is Lady Gloom?”
Calaxus’ way of response was unexpected, but Hao Ren could not answer the senior monk’s question. “I too have no idea. As you know, I’m also a foreigner. The first time I met this woman was in the palace of Rudolph III. She was the inner court knight of the Taros Royal Family. That’s all I know.”
“The Inner Court Knight? That’s not a skill an Inner Court Knight would have.” Calaxus frowned. “I have never heard of a sage-level mage being a spy.”
While saying, the magic circle, filled with energy in the air, was almost ready. It started with the flow of a blue light steams inside. It was hard to believe that this thing appeared out of thin air. Lady Gloom exhaled, lowered her hands that she had put up in the air while casting the magic, and struck the ground with the long crystal wand, planting it half a meter in the earth. Such power the strength of Lady Gloom was. Blue lines and magic runes began to spread from the wand onto the ground, forming a runic circle that echoed the three-dimensional circle in the air.
The upper part of the wand shattered into tiny crystals, which droppped to the ground to form a ring of spar nodes.
Lady Gloom took a couple of steps back and pointed at a cross line in the runic pattern on the ground. “Mr. Calaxus, please put your holy seal there. It is a fragment of Asurmen. It will serve as a road sign to guide us to Sanctum after catalyzation.”
Lady Gloom took the trouble to explain a little this time to alleviate the doubts of the senior monk.
Calaxus, casting his doubts aside, took a deep breath and put the fragment of crystal on the energy node.
Immediately, the circle burst into light.
All the light streams flew toward the crystal that Calaxus had put in the circle. The crystal let out a hum under the excitation of energy. Ripples began to form, and the light streams deflected and merged. A door, created by light, appeared in the air between the top and bottom magic circles.
A vague image began to appear in the door as, and it seemed that there was another continent on the other side of the gateway.
The image was shaky with noises of black stripes and plaques as if there was a severe interference.
Calaxus looked at the portal with surprise. He did not expect the passage that the mysterious woman said was a portal. What was more, the gateway could form despite the violent interference of the storm of Chaos.
“It’s Sanctum!” A church knight exclaimed quietly. “It’s indeed Sanctum; a mountain near Lu’an. I have been to that place.”
“The portal would last for four hours. You have plenty of time to think about it, but if you want to pack your belongings, you’d better hurry,” said Lady Gloom, whose voice appeared exhausted. It seemed that summoning the magic portal was challenging. “There is only one chance. Even if you guys don’t want to go to Sanctum, I would.”
“What more to think?” Calaxus stepped forward and then looked back at his followers. “My comrades, we have no choice but bet on it now.”
While saying, Calaxus looked at Hao Ren and Lily. “Alpha, and Mr. Landlord, we may have known each for a short while, but—”
“No worry,” Hao Ren said, interrupting Calaxus and taking Lily with him. “I’m here to help. The safety of Sanctum is too important to the survival of Collow.”
A commotion came from the outside as the Alpha’s guards were shoving themselves in and looking forward to following Lily wherever she might go.