Chapter 1399 - The Lost Dimension (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The entrance to the cave leading to the alien dimension was located in the quarry. In the rock perpendicular to the mountain, the hard granite wall had cracked open. It was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top much like a triangle. The opening was a dozen meters tall. Three people could walk side-by-side in the broadest part. Broken rocks and mud were strewn around the stone wall while damaged machinery and equipment were scattered in the open space. It was the aftermath of the small-scale collapse.

“The management of this place is going south,” Hessiana said, looking at the aftermath and shaking her head. “The Hessianite Family may be influential, but the law is far away, and these little Napoleons are taking matters into their own hands. Supervising them is difficult. The supervisor was initially a trustworthy guy. I gave him some of the Blood Clan’s strength to extend his life span for nearly a century. But the guy has been slacking off ever since.”

Two young vampires followed Hessiana. The woman asked, “Matriarch, should we replace the supervisor?”

“No, not for the time being. Piero is loyal. From the perspective of this accident, the blame should be on the quarry’s foreman. There are no major lapses in Piero’s follow-up action. Just that he hasn’t chosen the right people and he’s been poor in his supervision. You may remind him, and I believe the guy will know what to do,” Hessiana said while shaking her head. “But if he still makes the same mistakes after that, then I will have no choice but to replace him.”

There was no light in the cave, and the sunlight coming in from the entrance was quickly left behind them with only darkness greeting them in front. Since the accident, no humans had entered the cave, and those who came to investigate were the vampires of the Hessianite Family. They did not need any illumination in the dark. The cave remained dark.

Hao Ren and his men had problem maneuvering in the dark. But they could miss some details in the darkness. So Lily had summoned her Flamejoy as a torch to illuminate the path ahead.

“We are still in the natural crack of mountains up until here,” Vivian said as she carefully observed the nearby rocks. “It is dry here. No traces of flora and fauna. The rock textures match each other. It is the same body of mountains that has cracked.”

“It requires massive energy to create this crevice, by no means the result of a ‘small scale collapse,’” Lorissa said. “I have just used magic to measure the strength of the rock, and from what I have observed, the situation on the outside is not that bad. So the source of the energy that caused the body of the mountain to crack open should be deep inside the mountains. The energy was concentrated. It erupted instantaneously.”

“So the overlapping borders between the alien dimension and the real world are inside the mountain. The impact caused by the dimensional tremor is enough to create this effect,” Vivian said.

Hao Ren took out the MDT. It was going to perform a high-precision scan of the environment. The MDT floated in the air, sweeping a blue light beam on the surrounding rocks and gravel. But still, it did not detect any signs of dimensional distortion.

But it detected an abnormal change in the gravitational reading ahead.

“It is a typical ‘continuous dimensional distortion,’” the MDT said. “There is no obvious space crack in the cave. Instead, the boundaries between the alien dimension and the main material world are gradually blurred as it gets deeper inside the cave. Everyone, keep your eyes open. Take out whatever protective spells you have. We should be partially in the alien dimension now.”

The cave in the rocky mountain was not very deep, and it was almost a straight path. Soon, everyone reached the end of the cave. Here, Hao Ren realized that the surrounding space had actually been separated from the primary material world to a large extent.

At the end of the cave was an open cavern of tens of meters high and one hundred meters wide. The ground was flat, covered in a layer of fine yellow sand. It felt like walking on the dry and hot desert. There was sand rolled up by hot wind in the air, which was utterly different from the fresh air in the previous section of the cave.

This cavern was not a natural formation of mountain cracks. There was only one explanation for its existence: an alien dimension.

Very quickly, Hao Ren found the entrance to the lost city. It was situated deep inside the cavern, behind the crack in the shape of an arch. Murky light with a strange ‘texture’ diffused out from the crack.

Hao Ren checked his Steel Membrane Shield, came to the crack and poked his head to take a peek of the inside.

He stopped breathing.

There was indeed a vast alien dimension on the other side of the wall.

Endless chaos wrapped the dimension in behind the rock wall, and swirling yellow sand shrouded the boundary of the dimension, forming countless of whirlpools. Inside this chaotic boundary, it was a magnificent ancient city, built of granite, temples, palaces, and houses in the same earthy yellow.

Most of the buildings in the ancient city were in the shape of a square prism of different sizes. There were sculptures and columns of religious totems at the top of some more expensive-looking buildings. The most important building in the city seemed to be the temple, or rather the palace, in the center. It appeared like a combination of several pyramids, some in Egyptian style but was very different from the Egyptian pyramids in the real world.

Hao Ren’s gaze moved slowly on this lost city trying to capture as many details as possible. As Hessiana said, the town was built on the skull of a colossal creature.

The skull was located below the city and carried all the granite buildings above. It should be roughly ellipsoidal when it was intact. But now, most parts of the skull had crumbled. What remained was just a large piece of curved bone with three deep hollows in front of the bone, and a few bone joints that connected the spine in the back of the skull. Hao Ren was unable to determine what kind of creature it was. He was totally awestruck.

It was definitely not a species found on Earth, or even a carbon-based life form—carbon-based life form could not support such a vast body. Unless it had some supernatural ability to support its weight.

Also very quickly, Hao Ren had confirmed the other situation that Hessiana had mentioned.