Chapter 894 - Under the Void (1/2)
Chapter 894: Under the Void
As Christie and Alice announced, Marlene extended her arm and a metal staff appeared in her hand. Golden threads emerged from within and wrapped around the illusory spirit. Shortly after, the spirit that looked exactly like Marlene slowly shattered into bits and disappeared into the air. Then, Marlene opened her eyes and landed on her feet beside Rhode.
“Marlene?”
Rhode widened his eyes in bewilderment. Right now, Marlene wore a wide, luxurious robe with golden edges and with several embedded jewels glowing gently. Not only that, but Rhode also felt an unprecedented presence and imposing aura.
“What exactly is…”
“It’s a long story, Rhode. But don’t we have something more important to handle?”
Rhode pondered in silence and nodded firmly. No matter what, it wouldn’t be too late to talk about this later. Currently, they needed to awaken the tinder, which was the main reason why he came here. He turned around and faced the tinder, taking in a deep breath and held his hand on it.
Then, system prompts emerged before him.
[Entering the next phase]
[Begin tinder awakening]
[Detected tinder summoner bloodline]
[Tinder summoner bloodline match]
[Activate Creator Dragon Soul Third Sequence]
Good. Everything seems to be going well.
Rhode heaved a sigh of relief. But at this moment, the string of system prompts before his eyes came to an abrupt halt. At the same time, he heard a loud, ear-piercing siren.
[Detected Original Creator Dragon Soul]
[Begin tinder replacement sequence]
[Force switch from number three to zero]
[Detected Dragon Soul in unawakened state]
[Begin Dragon Soul forced awakening procedure]
What’s this…!
Rhode instinctively retracted his right hand, but it was too late. He sensed a powerful force bursting from his hand to his heart.
“Argh!”
This violent attack left him trembling as though an invisible hammer smashed on his heart. He half-knelt on the ground and Anne and Lize ran up to him to support him, only to be pushed away by that powerful force.
“Argh…”
Rhode gnashed his teeth. His five senses had been cut off completely. He could neither see the system prompts nor hear the concerned yelling from the others. At this moment, he was as though in an empty dark void and apart from his pounding heart, he could feel nothing else.
Pound… Pound…
His heart pounded faster and faster and he held his chest instinctively. His heart was pounding so fast that he thought that it was about to break out from his body. His blood flowed within him quickly, but the burning sensation in his body gradually lessened. After a short while, the comfort of tranquility and peace took over the agony. Then, he felt an ice-cold energy taking over his body and before he knew it, he felt as though his body had disappeared as the darkness consumed him completely…
The ice-cold sensation spread from his neck. Then, a dazzling radiance erupted.
“This is…”
He widened his eyes in shock, but it wasn’t the tinder he saw. Instead, his view was as though from a satellite lifting off into the atmosphere. He witnessed the underground maze, tower, and even the defenders and mercenaries struggling against the Chaos Creatures that were about to break through the final defenses and enter the tower. The defenders and mercenaries began to retreat, attempting to enter the shelter to deal with this final wave of attack. Then, Rhode looked up at the night sky and white clouds when suddenly, the blinding radiance erupted once again—the spotlessly white brilliance from the top of the tower, bursting in a radiance like the sun. In an instant, all the buildings and shadows in the world vanished as they submerged in the radiance completely.
At the next moment, Rhode regained his vision and the tinder presented itself before him.
“It has ended…”
The dim hall had become a vast starry night sky with mesmerizing, flowing galaxies. He looked at the tiny sun before him and it had turned into a light column that burst into the clouds. Spiraling around the light column were golden, circular runes that formed into magical rituals.
“Phew…”
Rhode stretched his body and shook his head. He heaved a sigh of relief after realizing that he didn’t lose an arm or leg. That strange occurrence scared him out of his wits. He had never faced this event when he awakened the tinder in the game. Perhaps no player would believe without screen shots that the tinder would switch the tinder sequence at the last second.
The so-called tinder sequence was the numbering for the dragon soul powers stored within the tinder. Number one was the Judgment & Ruling Twin Dragons, number two was the Dark Dragon, and number three was the Light Dragon. The players usually thought that the dragon soul sequences were fixed and never expected any changes. But… number zero? What was that?
“Mr. Rhode, are you okay?”
“Leader, you alright?”
Lize’s and Anne’s concerns dragged him back to his senses. He lifted his head and nodded. “No problem. Everything’s good. The tinder has awakened and the Chaos has been blocked off completely. They should be entirely gone by now.”
Rhode answered while gazing at his system interface that was bombarded with prompts jumping across the screen as though undergoing a system update. Rhode wasn’t surprised by this because after the players awakened the tinder in the game, the strength of Order would purge all Chaos within the territory, as well as remove the negative essences caused by the Chaos. After this step was over, the territory would ‘restart’ itself and display all data to the players who occupied it.
However, Rhode was still curious because in the game, the players could easily command the Order Refugees by simply circling them on the map and they would obey every order. But the Order Refugees shouldn’t be that obedient in reality despite being completely cleansed by the strength of Order. They possessed human rationale and couldn’t possibly obey Rhode’s orders just like that.
Even though Rhode was dubious, he temporarily placed this matter aside as he would get his answer after the territory finished ‘restarting’ itself. Right now, there was another issue that he had to handle. He pulled up the system interface and scanned through it. Then, he was stunned.
[Name: Rhode Alander]
[Race: Void Dragon]
[Race Reward: Rule Suppression]
[Race Characteristic: Phenomenon Void]
… Void Dragon.
Rhode’s brow twitched. Previously, he had vaguely realized that his unexplainable transmigration to this world just wasn’t this simple. Firstly, he came to this world in his physical body and not the avatar. Secondly, his bloodline turned from a human to a mixed-blood, so he didn’t feel any unbearable pressure when facing powerful figures like Lydia and Erin.
Previously, when he witnessed the activation of the dragon soul procedure in the system prompt, he was certain that he possessed the dragon soul bloodline. Although he knew a lot about the Law Dragon, he admitted that he wasn’t as capable as to become the Judgment and Ruling Twin Dragons. The Dark Dragon and Void Dragon which he slaughtered personally held the most probability. The latter was more probable as he recalled the scene of him transmigrating to this world and it seemed like his judgment was right.