287 There Was No Sky (2/2)
Baron Grant was taken aback by Leon's comment, before he corrected, ”Vengeful spirits only exist in Extreme Misty Forest, Your Highness. Surely, you jest.”
When Leon heard this, he paused his steps with a deeper frown and turned to Baron Grant with an inquisitive look. ”You're telling me you have never encountered the vengeful spirit that lurks in this place? Have you not heard of the stories about this place?”
”So, this place had a story behind it, after all.” Baron Grant mumbled before he said, ”Not at all, Your Highness. Despite living in the Capital for so long, I have never encountered anyone mentioning this place. It was like this place never existed, which in turn, provided us the perfect place to hide. For fear of arousing a topic of discussion and attention to this place, I have never asked anyone about it.”
Leon was a bit speechless. Aren't you people a bit too careful? However, if they had never encountered the vengeful spirit, then where was it hiding? Or has it long left this place? Shaking his head, Leon waved his hand. ”Continue leading the way.”
”Yes, Your Highness. This way, please.”
Baron Grant led Leon into the darkness. Leon's brows were furrowed along the way as he detected traces of dark miasma amidst the cold yin energy in the area. Before he could ponder deeper, they had already arrived before an abandoned bar.
The Baron made some rhythmic knocks on the door, but no one answered after they waited. Baron Grant frowned and repeated the knocking pattern. Still, no one answered the door after they waited a bit longer.
”Stop fooling around and open the door! It's me!” Baron Grant snappily said.
”The door is not locked…” Leon stated.
He reached out for the door handle with his shaky hand and gave it a slight twist, but the entire door crumbled into pieces, leaving him with only the door handle in his hand.
”Hmm, this door is quite worn out…”
Baron Grant gave him a look but said nothing.
They soon entered the bar and searched the place, including the underground chamber, but no one was found.
”Something's wrong, Your Highness. Please believe me when I say I am not trying to fool you. Everyone should have been waiting for me here, but now there is no one around! Their items are still here.”
”I understand. I can see that.”
Leon frowned.
The Baron did not have a reason to lie. He began to worry about his adoptive parents.
The moment he stepped into Lost Isle Alley, he had been feeling nothing but unease. There was something seriously off about this whole place.
”Do you ever use any of the other places here?”
”None. We only ever use this abandoned bar to lower the risk of being found.”
”Let's head back out first,” Leon suggested.
Having no reason to reject, Baron Grant agreed.
Once they were outside, Leon had the chance to study the place on a deeper level. He sent out his divine sense, but surprisingly, before they try to enter the ground and sky, they were bounced back. There was a hidden force interfering with his divine sense.
”As I thought, this place is not simple,” Leon commented.
”Your people never noticed anything wrong with this place during the time they hid here?”
”It's not that we have never noticed anything wrong with this place, it's that even if there was, we had no choice but to use it as sometimes the most dangerous place is also the safest.”
Leon wanted to ask why they did not escape to the Wildlands or deeper into the Perilous Lands instead, but he ultimately refrained himself. There was still a difference between dangerous and plain suicide.
”So, what have you noticed?”
”Well, for instance, there is a big problem with the sky.”
”There is no sky.” Leon casually said after a quick look above.
However, he immediately realized the problem and became alert like he had just been doused in cold water.
There was no sky!
In an open space, utterly unobstructed by any ceiling, the stars and moonlight of the night could not be seen.
The sky above Lost Isle Alley was covered in complete darkness!