Chapter 370: The Palace
Chapter 370 The Palace
There was still a dozen meters or so between Sol and the two consciousnesses that were not covered in glitter dust, and when Sol was about to take out the last of the glitter dust scrolls and then dash the rest of the way on his own, he saw Agu’s hand draw an arc in the air.
A 2nd rank sorcery flash dust suddenly appeared in the middle of the two sides.
He was taking the initiative to open up a passageway.
With the hint of Sol and Agu using flash dust, An raised his hand and violently ripped off his right ear, “Flash dust consumes too much magic, it’s better for me to open the way!”
She extended her palm forward and aimed it in Sol’s direction. The blood-stained ear instantly dissolved into plasma.
A single strand of blood poked out from the plasma, spreading like a hairline and quickly reaching out to Saul’s direction.
As soon as Saul raised his head, he saw an overwhelming number of blood-colored filaments coming towards him.
He didn’t move a muscle and allowed himself to be wrapped in the bloody filaments.
The blood filaments did not harm him, but gently curled around his waist and lifted him into the air, surrounded by other blood filaments all over, guarding him from the side.
Immediately afterward, the blood filaments contracted quickly and Thor was brought to Anne and Agu.
“The glitter dust won’t last long, let’s go now!”
Although the appearance of those pale humanoids was always interrupted by the flash dust, the flash dust could only buy time and could not completely solve the problem.
Agu immediately said, “I remember that the woods over there started to thin out before, it should be about to come out of the woods.”
These pale humanoids originally had trees, vines, or larger shrubs in their original locations, so if they could get out of the woods, or find the kind of large clearing that Mark had taken him to hide in earlier, they should be able to get rid of the pale humanoids.
Flash Dust is not considered to be of much value in the 2nd Order Sorcery Scrolls, and for auxiliary Sorcery Scrolls like this, Saul put whatever he could buy into his compressed traveling bag, so as to avoid all sorts of situations that he couldn’t cope with in the Elven Valley.
This was also a lavish behavior that he could only make after officially becoming a Golza apprentice, with his wallet only going in and out, and his financial strength significantly increased.
But now he only had one Glitter Dust Scroll left, and in order to keep a backup, the next thing was for An to open the road with Blood Silk.
They ran in the direction Agu pointed for about ten minutes before tall greenery began to reappear around them, and the crunching sound of the pale humanoid’s bare feet on the grass finally ceased behind them.
“Hoo…… hoo……” Several people found a clearing with trees spaced far apart and stopped.
None of the three were looking particularly good.
“How is your mental bodies doing? Any signs of recovery?” Saul wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and asked the other two.
“No,” Agu didn’t look too good either, “the mental body is so shaken that I can cast two more 2nd rank sorceries at most, any more and I’ll explode in place.”
Consciousness bodies were hiding in containers, and it wasn’t too obvious on the outside how bad their mental body state was. If their faces had all turned ugly, it meant that they had already suffered a great deal of damage on the inside.
Saul’s face was grave as he looked towards An, “How are you doing? Tell me immediately if you can’t hold on, I’ll send you back.”
An staggered and finally simply sat down on the ground, “No need …… I’ll take a breather and still be able to hold on. If I go back now, until you leave the valley, I won’t be able to help at all.”
Ann tilted her head and looked at Sol, trying to squeeze out a pretty smile, “Master, please drain me of my last ounce of magic power~”
Seeing that Ann couldn’t even stand up steadily, Saul was a little worried and didn’t care about Ann’s little bit of caution, he directly bent down and picked up the person.
Although his mental body had also been vibrating, Saul could work hard to make this vibration regular.
Regular vibrations would be good to adapt to, just as if he was on a swing, or bouncing forward on springy shoes, so that Saul would be less uncomfortable.
“The long range attacks those humanoids used when they first appeared haven’t been used since, maybe there’s a cooldown on those kinds of attacks.” Saul hugged Anne and continued to look for a way out of the forest with Agu, who was still able to move.
“If you meet that many humanoids again, don’t fight and run immediately.”
The two consciousness bodies nodded their heads.
The enemy was like cheating, and they didn’t want to engage again.
“Kong Sha and the others have been here for half a year, and unless they’ve been running and haven’t gotten caught in the kind of siege I just encountered, there’s no way their mental bodies could have lasted until now without any problems.”
Sol tightened his hands, “There must be a way to recover from the shock, they just didn’t tell me!”
He wasn’t much angered, long before he entered the valley he had already thought it through, not everyone could be as clear-headed as Senior Byron and understand that unity was strong.
More people would still be struggling with the idea of “as long as you run faster than you, you can live longer than you”.
“Master, look!” As Saul was pondering, Agu on the side suddenly pointed in a direction and shouted.
Saul immediately looked over, if patches of pale silhouettes appeared again, they would have no choice but to scatter and run. However, when he immediately turned his head, he saw the not too sparse trees suddenly disappear a dozen meters away, and the ground changed from green to black-brown.
It was like a transparent barrier that divided the world into two halves.
Beyond the barrier, the ground was dry, cracked and scorched, and not a single flower, plant or tree could be seen.
The earth was a chaotic black color.
Although the sunlight could be projected onto the ground with impunity, it was absorbed and no reflection could be seen.
The wind, too, came to an abrupt halt at the edge of the woods, turned a corner at the last large tree, and blew back again.
“Is that the dead season over there?” Sol took two more steps toward the black earth.
“Master be careful, it’s best not to rush into that side now.” Agu hurriedly reminded from behind.
Sol, however, said, “But we have to go and take a look as well, right now, the place where the Kongsha few are better than us is in the poor information, we can’t do nothing and wait for the danger to come before taking a risk.”
Agu nodded, then quickened his pace, shifting from behind Sol to flank him.
This was his way of scouting the way for Sol.
When they came to the edge of the forest, Saul looked forward following the clear demarcation line between the green forest and the black land, and found that a few kilometers ahead stood a palace.
“Is that the palace Mark mentioned?” The opposite side was silent and did not show any abnormal behavior, Saul directly asked Diary in his mind, “Is the reason you wanted me to come in that palace?”
The diary does not let out a sound.
“Okay, then I’ll change the question. If I don’t enter that palace, will I die?”
Diary stays quiet.
“Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with this most suspicious palace?” Thor’s brain races as he lets the diary turn to the last page with the words, “They were attacked suddenly after entering the palace, and none of them seemed to be dead before that.”
“The twist in everything happened at the palace. But the diary gave no warning when I wasn’t going to enter the palace?”
Saul looked at the words in the diary and repeated them again.
“Madness extended an invitation to me …… Did that crucial node fall on top of madness?”
The craziest person here was none other than Kongsa.
She had already seen the horror of the Four Seasons Forest the first time around, and she even dared to gather people to enter the Four Seasons Forest for the second time.
Not to mention the thing that Kong Sha was now holding on her neck!
“Although I don’t know why Kong Sha’s face turned into a full face. But I suspect it’s most likely related to the elf’s lost treasure!” Agu was also helping Sol analyze it at this time, “But that palace is very dangerous, and it’s not appropriate for us to enter in our current state.”
The face was alive and well, the muscular skin functioning with incomparable sensitivity, if not for Saul remembering that Kong Sha did not look like this, I’m afraid he would not have been able to recognize the face as a fake.
“Is that a head, or a piece of headgear? Should I rescue Konsa, or snatch something from her? Should I snatch that weird and beautiful head?”
It would actually be best if I could enter the palace first, find out what was lost there, solve the chase, and then wait for the power blocking the valley to be lifted, and just take Kong Sha and that head out together.
But in the meantime, all the pursuits had started due to the palace’s lost treasures, and if they entered the palace again, they would probably be wolves entering a tiger’s den.
Even if they could run out, they would still be covered in scars.
Right at this moment, An in her arms suddenly tensed her body.
“Master, look behind you!”
Ann, who had been princess-carried by Saul, had been forcibly resisting dizziness to alert the surrounding area, and she patted Saul’s chest and pointed behind her.
Saul felt bad and immediately turned back, then he realized that the pale human form had unexpectedly appeared in the distance again.
Those sparse trees are being transformed from far and near, little by little into bizarre human figures.
Sol narrowed his eyes and ordered without hesitation, “Let’s enter the Dead Season first!”
Dead Season, no trees!
(End of chapter)