Chapter 290 Amid The Ruins (1/2)
”I've seen Essence Ree as that one”
He cast a wary glance in the direction froh an hour's travel had put several miles between them and the monstrous creature, he still half expected to see its luure appear in the distance
”So our world has them, as well,” Karanos said in a soft voice, his expression troubled
A frown crossed Arran's face ”Before we entered this world, you said it held a warning I should see” He gestured at the ruins around theht befall our oorld?”
They had barely left the cave an hour ago, but already, Arran had seen enough to suspect that this Shadow Realm had once been a world like his own, filled with people and cities Yet soed it into darkness and inundated it with Shadow Essence
”Correct,” Karanos replied, giving a s this world, I encountered many ruined cities like this — thousands of them Once, this world must have held numerous civilizations But now, none of them remain”
”Are there any people left?” Arran asked
”None that I have h I suspect that I have only explored a small part of this world It is possible that some people still remain”
Despite the words, his tone ree with that If the rest of the world was plunged in Shadow Essence as well, he could not iainst the darkness
Soht have survived whatever happened to this world, but weaker ones would definitely have fallen
As for commoners — there was no need to even consider them In a world like this, no commoners would surviveseen the effects, Arran noondered what the cause had been The a the world seees could produce
”Do you knohat happened here?” he asked with a curious look at Karanos
”I do not,” theallowed a flood of Essence to enter this world, but what it was, I do not know It happened long before I arrived here” He paused briefly, his expression pensive Then, he added, ”And it still continues The Shadow Essence is far denser today than when I first arrived, and it grows denser still — and faster than before”
Arran spent so the reply With the difference in time between this world and his own, countless thousands of years must have passed since the first time Karanos set foot in this world
If that was the case, and the flood of Shadow Essence still continued, it could notEssence into the world Soate, and from the sound of it, it reh of that,” Karanos interrupted Arran's thoughts ”We have much to discuss, but it will have to wait I do not wish to reift I promised you, then travel to safer lands”
Arran quickly nodded in response Intriguing though the matter was, he had no desire to re around the ruins
They set off again without any further words, quietly h the crureat city
And that it had been great was certain, because they spent the next few days traveling through the ruins, with the city's re even then
Even if little res that had once filled the area, it was clear that the city had once been vast beyond comprehension For the ruins to stretch this far, millions would have had to live within the city when it still lived
But now, not a trace of life remained amid the ruins There were no people or anirowths that vaguely resee of death