208 More Bad News (1/2)
Not long after the attack had occurred, Christina, Nam, and several earth realm fighters had gone to the sinkhole. The area around the hole had changed a lot. Every greenery had died and the ground was dried and cracked.
They had readied a crane and proceeded to go down the hole. They reached the bottom after 500 meters and found a giant wall. The material on this wall weren't anything like they had seen on Earth. It had an open crack that was about 10 meters high. They tried to shine light on it but all they saw was never-ending darkness. If they would take a guess, they believed the critters had spawned out of this wall.
Nam walked closer and tried to enter but there seemed to be an invisible wall preventing him. He tried to touch it and the bracelet in his hand again gave a message.
[Gate of the Abyss]
[Status - Open - stage 1]
He punched the invisible wall, some tried to fire their gun at it once but nothing they did was effective. It appeared to be a one-way path. So, Nam had asked the Hong Kong army with them to heavily guard the area. They had done so and placed dozens of machine guns and earth realm fighters ready to guard the entrance in case anything tries to come out.
Once again, the Doomsday Pillar seemed to have the answer regarding the Abyss Gate.
This morning, Christina revisited the Doomsday Pillars with Ma Sing in tow. And the first thing she did was to take Ma Sing to the training hall.
[Ma Sing]
[Male - 12 years]
[Mortal Realm - level 9 - Initial Stage]
Christina handed over Ma Sing to Corrie and asked her to guide him with some physical training. Christina didn't want Ma Sing to take any spirit stones at the moment because this kid was still in his adolescence and might suffer negative rebounds to his physical development. So, Christina only allowed Corrie to watch his progress step by step.
”Welcome to the Firebirds, Ma Sing. You're the first male member,” said Corrie with a big smile.
Ma Sing, however, was silent.
They had met each other before and had shown his cheerful attitude. But none of that had been shown by Ma Sing today. This once happy child had changed. Corrie didn't force it though because she had heard what he had gone through yesterday. She felt sympathy for the child.
After leaving Ma Sing at the training hall, Christina went to where Inspector Tang was.
She arrived at one section of the main hall where Nam, Jennie, Chicken and Maxine were waiting. At that place, there were several white coats still writing, recording and discussing things they had found.
”Sorry for the wait, everyone. Inspector Tang, what was it that you want to show us?” Christina asked.
Christina raised her wrist and examined it with the bracelet in her hand.
[0089 -Leather armor]
[Medium armor - Tier 1]
[Weight 4.1 kilograms]
[Leather Armor]
[Medium Armor - Tier 2]
[Weight 4.1 kilograms]
”Inspector, how'd you also get a Tier 2 item?” Christina asked, dumbfounded. Could it be that the inspector also got a reward against Alpha Fenrir?
”I'll explain it to you in a bit, first I'd like to see the difference between the two.”
Inspector Tang had an assistant come over and had him equip it to two earth realm participants that were on standby. After the two people stood in a corner, Inspector Tang whipped out a gun and shot the two participants in the chests.
He was actually conducting a test between the two armors and the test results showed that the Tier 1 armor could withstand 3 shots from a gun before the participant got pushed on the ground on the 4th shot. Meanwhile, the Tier 2 armor withstood 10 shots before the same thing happened.
From the results of this test, the scientists concluded Tier 2 armors had 3 times the defensive power against the Tier 1. And upon closer inspection, these armors' defensive capability didn't come from its material. Rather, from an invisible repulsion-repelling engraved in the armors, protecting the wearer.
”Ohh, is that like some kind of force field just like in video games?” said Chicken, rubbing his hands in excitement.
People had been used to Chicken's useless terms and references. But this time, he appeared to have the right idea.
The scientist coughed a little and explained, ”Yes. And like other objects from this pillar, it requires energy to activate it.”
”Let me guess, spirit stone,” Maxine exclaimed.
”Smaartt,” Chicken replied with a sneer.
Maxine frowned, she wanted to say something but kept to herself after seeing Jennie's gaze.