Chapter 411 – Abyss City (1/2)

It was nothing but darkness and there was no sound. Only occasionally spots of light shone from unknown spaces, allowing the surroundings to be seen.

Countless floating large and small meteorites stretched over an area thousands of kilometers wide, some as big as gigantic mountains, others as small as only a few kilometers wide, while some were only gravel. These meteorites drifted around one another in silence, so oppressive that they gave people a suffocating feeling.

This was the spatial rift Fatty had entered while in Heavens Scar. After being chased by the five Demon Kings to a dead end, he had resolutely jumped into a rift and appeared here.

The two vice-marshals emerged from the Elemental Mystery Realm with heavy faces and shame in their hearts. They had followed the squad here to protect the players, but in the end, they were hunted down and had to flee without the certainty of return.

“Please don't blame yourselves, who would have imagined they’d be so shameless to go out in all five? Since this place connects all the spaces, it’ll be easy to find the way back,” Fatty comforted.

The Divine space mage vice-marshal smiled wryly. “There are countless spaces here. It’s not easy to find a way back to the Human world.”

“In any case, having a glimmer of hope is still better than being captured by the demons.” Fatty laughed.

In the ink-black space hid countless dangers. From time to time a crack would abruptly appear by them. Sometimes one would appear next to a meteorite, and after a flash of white light, a part of the meteorite would disappear soundlessly.

“Don't get caught by the rifts. Being injured is only one small thing, the real trouble is that if you don’t die, but all your body parts don’t stay in the same space,” a vice-marshal warned.

“Whaaat?! There’s such a thing?” Fatty exclaimed.

The vice-marshal nodded. “Normal people would die instantly once stranded in spatial rifts, but powerful ones would be ‘dissected’ even if they don’t die. They can feel where their body parts are, but they can’t control them. That’s the real ‘living a life worse than death.’”

While lamenting the might of spatial rifts, Fatty walked even more cautiously.

Not long after Fatty’s group left, there was a flash of light somewhere behind, introducing several figures.

“They’re still here.”

“Give chase, we must catch them.”

“Doesn’t matter if dead or alive.”

“Two Legendary artifacts, oh. With them, we can take over the Human world.”

With just some curt words of communication, the figures followed a certain guide to quickly chase after Fatty.

“Someone’s coming,” the two vice-marshals both whispered.

“It’s the demons, coming with ill intent. Let's get out of here first.” As soon as he made this decision, Fatty jumped right into a rift that had just opened.

“Oh no! Quick!” The shadows accelerated and teleported, rushing into the rift just before it closed.

Greeting their sight was an empty stretch with no sky above and no land below. The surrounding space was foggy except for the illumination from a faint light from somewhere.

The moment Fatty and the two vice-marshals stepped in, they bobbed while floating down all the way. The three all looked serious, but Fatty was more nervous in his heart. There were countless unknown spaces in the game aside from the two realms of Human and Demon, and they obviously were now in a foreign one. Not being able to find the way back wasn’t the worst thing. If even the respawning function didn’t work here, their only choice would be to cry.

“There is something down there.” The sharp-eyed Fatty spotted something like the outline of a city in the distance.

“Let’s go.” The trio flew over, heralding the fog around them like walking through water currents.

“There they are.” The shadows tailing them looked into the distance. Although they had entered the same rift, they didn’t appear in the same place.

“What a familiar place.”

“Very familiar indeed. We may have been here before.”

“Forgot which it was, but this can't be in the Demon realm.”

“Let’s catch them first.”

After a few brief exchanges, the shadows flickered through the distance until they were less than 1,000 meters away from Fatty.

“They’ve caught up!” The trio’s faces instantly changed. Fatty waved out the Elemental Skill Book before him, instantaneously casting several fire spells to light up the surrounding space.

In front of them were four black figures, all slender and wrapped in black cloth that seemed hollow inside, as if the wearers where skeletons. They stopped when they saw Fatty and immediately began that bizarre ‘kekeke’ laugh again.

“Delicious humans.”

“Kill them, eat them, and take the Legendary artifacts.”

“Die, human.”

“Humph!” The two vice-marshals attacked all at once. With exploding momentum, a long arrow drew a brilliant streak in the dark space. A mass of white light glowed, and the space around the four shadows creaked. A spatial cage suddenly emerged and imprisoned them.

Tang! The arrow shot through the space cage into a shadow, but directly flew from behind this figure without causing any harm.

“Kekeke, useless, isn’t it?”

“We are immortal. Think punies like you can kill us?”

“They are undead necromancers. We must go.” Gasping, a vice-marshal shouted before he instantly disappeared with teleportation.