Chapter 295 Step Aside, I Shall Take It from Here (1/2)

This was a world filled with scorched earth.

The sky was gray with soot everywhere. The sun was only a dot of yellow light, high up beyond the layer of soot. The forests burned and the hills and grass, turned to ash and dust. Bodies and remains of humans and beasts are scattered all over the ground. In the blurry layer of haze, seven huge portals stood at the peak of a mountain in the distance. Red lights were seen from the seven portals, making all seven of them appearing just like seven dimmed suns.

On the other side of the portal, the sky was bloody red and there was a red lava lake. Many bastions built from black bones and black irons were everywhere. There were also countless demons with wings flying around the place as they shrieked in a way that sends chills down the spine.

That was the view of the [Dark Abyss] floor that is located nearest to the Mycroft Continent. The scene looked just like the molten sea of h ell. Those wretchedly looking bastions were the campsite of the Demon Army.

Joshua's will was levitating in mid-air. He stared at the scene. His red eyes reflecting the flames that were scorching the earth. The warrior remained silent. Besides the crackling of the burning forests, the entire place was silent.

The silence lasted until another wave of will emerged.

”I did not expect that you too can actually see the activation of the door to the Dark Abyss…” the voice came from nowhere. It sounded sacred and like a choir of people talking. The voice was a little surprised. ”Have you experienced this era before as well? Or have you seen the future?”

”Who are you?”

Joshua did not turn his head around, neither did he answer the questions that were thrown at him. He just stared at the seven gigantic portals. Then he asked in a calm tone, ”What is it that you seek by showing me this illusionary realm?”

”The Sage's Successor—this is not an illusionary realm.”

The voice explained slowly, ”This is what you've experienced before in your past, or perhaps it is just a scene that you've seen before in your past. I simply gave you an 'empty' scene. However, it seemed that your memories have awakened as it presented you with this scenery.”

”... Anyway, what is it that you seek then? What is your purpose? Speak your mind.”

Since the other party did not show any malicious intention, Joshua was able to communicate patiently with the voice. However, there was also a limit to his patience. The warrior turned his body to the side as his eyes darted towards the direction where the voice came from. Then he impatiently said, ”My comrades and my friends are waiting for me to wake up. Now is not the time to take things slowly.”

Through his own will, Joshua could also see what was happening on the other side of the realm. A gigantic black dragon charged forward at its top speed. It leaped across the hills, the canyons, the forests and the ruins long the way. There were many stone giants and aerial golems tailing it. Roland frowned as he sat on the back of that draconic beast. He was using every single idea he had in attempt to wake the warrior up. Ying and Ling were also trying to reach the warrior through their spiritual links that they have with the warrior when they made the pacts with Joshua. However, none of their efforts were effective.

His body has fully recovered under the power of the azure orb. The benefit of destroying the Thunderous Mountain is tremendously great as the Azurite has absorbed a tremendous amount of the Chaos energy to be used as fuel to generate healing life force for the warrior to heal himself. Even if he was fatally wounded to the point where he is on the brink of death, he would still be able to recover fully to his former state. So the true reason that he could not wake up from his coma was completely because his soul was trapped in this realm.

From the direction of the ethereal voice, there was a mass of green light. It was completely different from the human body of Joshua in the reality. That mass of green light gleamed with countless human faces. They either looked dignified or compassionate. In the face of that light mass, the warrior narrowed both his eyes as he spoke in a calm but cold tone, ”If you did not speak when I was retreating from the Thunderous Mountain, I would not have been distracted and gotten myself heavily injured.”

”That was regrettably an unfortunate accident, warrior. I did not know that you were in a dire situation. You will certainly wake up from your coma, but now is not the time.”

The voice did not seem to have detected the threat in Joshua's voice. Instead, it spoke slowly just like it did before, ”The place where your comrades and friends are going is perfectly safe. There is not even a single sign of the existence of daemons in that direction. That is the one and only location that can turn the situation around… As for now, warrior… don't you want to know what is really going on with this world?”

”… It seems that you're quite clear about the current situation of this world.”

Staying silent for a brief moment, Joshua then furrowed his brows and smiled with interest, ”Alright, speak.”

”I'm coincidentally also very confused by the current situation.”

The Illgner World, above the great plains in the wilderness.

In order to avoid being attacked by the golems and the stone giants, Black sprinted as it carried everyone on its back. However, it seems that the enemies were able to sense their presence. So the draconic horse was not able to shake the golems off of its tail. Instead, more and more golems joined the pursuit. Many more different types of golems emerged right behind Black.

The amount of aerial golems were so large that they covered the entire sky.

The speed of Black was faster than the speed of the ordinary golems. So the stone giants that were moving even slower than the ordinary golems were left far behind. However, the speed of the aerial golems was bizarrely fast. Not to mention that the draconic horse has to occasionally get around obstacles on the ground along the way. And because of that, the golems managed to catch up with Black.

”Black, can't you go any faster?”

Right on the back of Black, Ling looked at the aerial golems as he urged the draconic horse to go faster. ”The golems are about to catch up with us!”

Black let out a long howl as its golden core right on its chest began to flash—it was not because it did not want to go faster… If it went any faster, it would not be able to maintain the balance. When that happens, everyone on its back would be thrown off.

At this point, there was no other better ways to do it. As time passed, the aerial golems that filled the sky were about to catch up with the draconic horse which was already running as fast as it could. There were also several giant figures in the clouds that were attempting to launch their surprise attacks on their targets. Their appearance resembled gargoyles. Each of them possessed a pair of bat-like wings. Such golems evolved from ordinary aerial golems. They shrieked at the draconic horse as they launched thunderous light beam attacks, one after another from their mouths in an attempt to blast Black and everyone on its back into pieces.

”To the right! Evade to the right!”

”Speed up! Now!”

As Black could not see the light beam attacks behind it, it had to rely on Ying and Ling as they were on a look out, notifying Black on where to move in order to avoid getting hit by the attacks. The two divine armaments and the draconic horse worked together as one. Under the instructions given by the two divine armaments, Black evaded most of the attacks as they continued moving towards their destination. Most of the missed attacks struck the ground, blowing up dust and sand. The scene was chaotic.

However, a curved light came through from a strange angle. It was already too late for Ying or Ling to warn Black. It carried along a deafening buzz as it struck the draconic horse right in the stomach. With a flash of blinding light from the spot where Black was hit, it roared painfully.