Chapter 385 Traitor (1/2)

”This is the world of the Dark Abyss that is hidden behind Anos Abyss?”

Robzek recovered faster than anyone. He and Roland were the ones who summoned the gigantic light wheels formed from holy light in aiding the ark to crash-land on the ground. The exhaustion of that amount of power was easy for him to handle. However, the difficult part was the concentration and the control of his power.

Just like the warrior, he looked carefully around him. Obviously, he had also caught a glimpse of the entire island while they were still in the sky before they landed. So, he sighed, ”I have never seen this kind of Dark Abyss before.”

”Indeed. It looks very different.”

Joshua nodded. He had also been to the Dark Abyss many times in his pre-existence. The places he went to in the Dark Abyss looked completely different from this one.

On the ordinary terrains of the Dark Abyss, they looked almost the same as the normal worlds. However, the air in the Dark Abyss was filled with decay and destruction. Many demons survived by slaughtering each other. Other than some special environments that might occasionally appear in the Dark Abyss, there was nothing much about it. The only thing difference between the Dark Abyss and other normal worlds were the living things and the environment.

However, in this place… he could sense a strange presence. Unlike the Dark Abyss and Chaos, which felt pure and special.

No matter what Robzek and the warrior thought, the others in the ark had also recovered.

Suddenly, a thunderous rumbling echoed with the trembling of the ground beneath their feet. So powerful that even the light that was released by the blood moon appeared to be flickering.

Everyone, including Joshua, was instantly distracted by the sound. Everyone looked into the distance. Soon, they noticed that the sound came from beneath the ground.

The sound continued, cracking the ground, as something seemed to be climbing out from the ground. Everyone immediately prepared themselves for a battle. They were ready to face whatever enemy that was going to appear anytime now.

But everything was different from what they imagined it to be–nothing was breaking out of the ground. Instead, the gigantic island in the sky trembled.

As the rumbling continued, the island in the sky began moving out from its original position. It was rising higher into the sky—straight towards the dark red, blood moon.

The floating island was extremely huge. Its diameter could reach up to a few hundred kilometers. It seemed to be pushed by some sort of force, approaching the blood moon like a flying meteor. In less than half a minute, the entire island had already risen over a few thousand meters higher into the sky.

Its moving speed had exceeded a hundred meters per second. In fact, it was moving at a speed that was close to the speed of sound. The ferocious wind pressure was pressing down on the floating island from top to bottom. Right at the bottom of the canyon, violent winds gathered. No one had the time to think besides focusing on resisting the incoming shockwave that was about to hit them. Funa had even transformed into her draconic form. She squatted down to the ground as she attempted to protect Hill, who was obviously weaker than most of the people there. She also shielded the wreckage of the ark to prevent the remaining parts from being blown away by the incoming impact.

”What's the situation now?” The young elf, who just regained consciousness, inhaled and freaked out a little, ”Where are we now?”

”The Dark Abyss.” The blond holy knight answered. He knew that Hill was freaking out. A simple answer was enough to calm him down. ”We are currently being pulled towards that red moon, I suppose. God knows… That's the situation now.”

The distance between the red moon and the floating island was unexpectedly short. While everyone was walking to each other, the floating island was already approaching the surface of the blood moon. It turned 180 degrees and slowly landed on the blood moon. Because of the gravity on the moon, everyone stood on the platform without falling into the void.

Joshua frowned and looked at Robzek and Robzek looked back at the same time. The warrior then flew into the air and leaped out of the great canyon to look at the blood moon from high above.

The warrior saw an ocean of black and red.

There was no end to the ocean. There were no craters, no pits, no continent and no mountains on the blood moon. Nor was there even a single living being. Only filth filled the place as if contaminated blood gathered here and formed into a sea of black and red water. The sea released a shady light that illuminated some things on the ground.

After the black rock island landed on the blood moon, ripples began to spread across the surface of the blood sea. It slowly sunk into the water as if the blood sea was devouring it. Soon, three sources of holy lights bound together to pull the gigantic ark up from the island that was about to be devoured by the blood sea. The wrecked ark was placed onto the surface of the red sea.

The ark had lost most of its ability to float. A layer of faint light barrier covered the entire ark, preventing the presence of the Dark Abyss from affecting its internal parts.

”What the hell is going now?”

Everyone looked towards the thunderous rumble. Far away in the red sea of blood, viscous waves rolled as if something gigantic was moving underneath the surface of the blood water. It seemed that it was about to break the surface of the sea. Ten seconds later, an enormous Chaos rune appeared from the black and red sea water and floated upward.

That rune was so huge that everyone could see every detail on it—the rune was formed from the bloody sea water and special crystal lines. There were foul presences flowing across the lines, constantly flowing and changing. However, it also gave people the strange sense that it was actually still.

As it rose, the rune began to fade as if it was moving into another dimension in another world. No one could sit and do nothing as it faded—Joshua and Robzek were not stupid. They instantly recalled the Chaos runes that suddenly appeared in the sky above the Anos Abyss one after another a while ago. They had connected it to the current rune that just appeared from the blood sea and they immediately knew where all those Chaos runes came from.

There was something using the materials in the world of the Dark Abyss to create the giant Chaos runes and projecting them in the Mycroft Continent, turning it into a world like the Dark Abyss.

The Ocean Bladed Dragon, which had transformed into her primary form, instantly launched her attack. A lightning flashed across Funa's green draconic eyes. With lightning magic energy gathering onto the top of her horn, a greenish blue ball of lightning appeared on the tip of her draconic horn. Layers of electrical energy moved along the layers of magnetic fields. The greenish-blue ball of lightning was charged to its maximum power and was shot out at a high speed. Instantly, the ball of lightning struck the Chaos rune.

That was the ultimate skill of the Ocean Bladed Dragon. If the ball of lightning hit the target, even an entire mountain would crumble. That was the power of the pinnacle of Gold-tier, it could instantly wipe out a small-scale city with its impact that was enough to create a tsunami.

However, that was if the attack hit the target.

Just a millisecond before the ball of lightning hit the Chaos rune, a layer of translucent shield with grid-like pattern suddenly emerged. The shield looked indestructible when it resisted the incoming of the destructive ball of lightning. A few seconds later, the lightning energy dispersed into hundreds of cyan plasma balls, releasing an electrical discharge into the atmosphere.

The Chaos rune had also vanished without a trace. It seemed to have moved to the other world. Because of that, holy light and the red combat aura struck through nothing but thin air. In other words, they missed.

”It's truly unexpected that you people can actually make it here into this realm.”

Right after the rune vanished, an old and weak voice suddenly echoed in the Dark Abyss and across the blood sea. ”The arrangements that I prepared in the outer realm seem to have failed in stopping you people from getting in. This is admirable.”

The voice spoke in the language of the dragon. The tone and the pronunciation were complex and special. The human vocal organs would never be able to speak in that tone. However, everyone was able to understand every single word. That voice was not only echoing across the material world but in the spiritual world as well.

”Sea monsters, the huge waves, the storms.”

The voice spoke with vague emotions. It sounded cold. ”Evil dragon, daemons, the great whirlpool.”

”An expedition party sent forth by the Church of the Seven Gods is actually capable of breaking through so many obstacles. You deserve the title of the most powerful and influential party across the great continent indeed…”

”It is stalling for time.”

Joshua did not bother about what the voice said. He interrupted with his own thought. He had already noticed another floating island that was swiftly approaching the blood moon. The warrior spoke coldly, ”That should be the thirteenth rune. The ritual is already half completed. We need to find the true form of our enemy as soon as we can!”

Although the current situation was confusing, stopping the ritual was the most important task they had to do. Destroying the abyssal rift came second now. Everyone who was present there was an elite. After being reminded by Joshua, they immediately searched through the blood sea to find their target.

Funa seemed frustrated and was sulking. She sneered at the voice and said, ”That method of stalling time is old, no one uses it anymore!”

The energy waves of nature divine spells, holy light, and the draconic language detector spells began to spread across the blood sea. Every single inch was scouted by the meticulous scouting spells over and over again. They did not want to miss out anything.

However, nothing was found other than the affected blood sea. None of them was even able to trace the source of the voice.

However, Saya was the only one who had found something. She could see through the energy veins that were invisible to most of the people. She could even see through people's emotions and souls, and also other unique things. Saya furrowed her eyebrows as she seemed to have grasped the tail of the enemy through a piece of information and that cold and indifferent voice.