Chapter 158 Eidaran Ruins (1/2)

”Do you knohat this place is?” Arran asked, his eyes fixed on the shattered city before them

”I do,” Snowcloud said ”This is Uvar, one of the largest cities of the Eidaran Empire — or at least, it used to be It was home to millions before it fell” A wry smile appeared on her face ”I knew it had fallen, but I never expected this”

Arran could hear some shock in her voice, and he understood well how she felt Although he had never heard of the city before today, just the sight of a city so grand being destroyed and abandoned was al city walls looked like they had once been dozens of feet tall, and beyond the for miles in the distance Yet the towers, too, were broken and cruiant remnants of what must once have been colossal palaces and castles

Briefly, Arran felt a sense of sadness at not being able to see the city before it was destroyed Even in its current ruined state, he could see that it would once have been a breathtaking sight, rather than the shocking scene of devastation that now lay in front of him

They approached the city slowly Even if it looked abandoned, the sheer size of the ruins e power that had ruined the city was still present

About half a mile from the city, Arran suddenly stopped in his tracks

”Can you feel that?” he asked, frowning in bafflement ”It's as if the city is co fro, and ever since he had learned to use his Sense, he had found that he could feel it wherever he went, like a soft but ever-present buzz in the background

Yet here, he unexpectedly felt like there was a complete absence of Natural Essence in the direction of the city, as if the city soan to feel soo,” Snowcloud said, a troubled look on her face ”But I didn't realize what it was This… I don't knohat could have caused it”

”Should we continue?”

The absence of Natural Essence was strange enough that it worried Arran, even if he didn't knoas responsible And although he saw no obvious signs of danger, that didn't mean there wasn't any

”We have to,” Snowcloud said ”This city is one of the places where I hoped we ht find spirit crystals At the center of the city, there should be a temple, where the Eidaran priests kept spirit crystals and other h to find one they left behind”

She paused to think for a moment, then continued, ”We could travel to one of the other cities, but I have no idea what happened to those Searching these ruins erous choice we have”

After a reement While the ruined city filled hi, the fact that it sees easier

Onceit slowly and cautiously Even if there were no obvious signs of ene of danger in both of them

Then, about a hundred paces fro suddenly struck Arran — an attack that instantly flooded his Sense, filling it with a wildit not only blinded his Sense but overpowered his other senses as well

The attack hit him before he could respond, and the moment it touched hi tossed into a spinning roo sounds, and the chaos almost left him unable to think He fell to his knees as he tried to resist it, desperate to regain his senses as he feared the attack would soon be followed by a second ain control, no second attack came Instead, the cacophony of Essenceup even the slightest bit as it battered both his ht a e should be able to produce — an attack this powerful should drain even a strong ht continued unabated, neither increasing nor decreasing in power

Whoever his attacker was, it had to be an astonishi+ngly powerfulArran, instead choosing to torture him endlessly for some reason Arran did not understand

After what seeain some semblance of clarity

The assault on his row any weaker as tier Even if he could not turn off his Sense, he was slowly beco down on hi it out