There were only a few minutes left until the end of the three days of exploration within the realm of flas. At this mont, all five clans were in a frenzied madness, digging and searching for anything that could be useful.
However, all wore twisted and tense faces; this opening of the realm was a disaster for them. They all lost half of their numbers as soon as they entered, and the vast majority of the dead were young cultivators. The two smaller clans were the most affected, losing even important advisors. All the clans had much less gain than usual due to this incident.
Obviously, they were not idiots; all the advisors saw the whale and its group heading straight to the central area. Added to all the abnormalities in the two smaller demon clans. Surely, he had a hand in this.
While the clans gave their best, up to the last possible seconds, the advisors felt a great approach on the outskirts of the realm of flas. It was the thousands of half-demons and half-wyverns.
They ca from the central area, preparing to leave without risking being blocked by beasts at the crucial mont. The advisors of the major clans turned to them with red eyes, but swallowed that frustration. Now, they had another priority, and surely soon, their clans would demand accountability, and they would relieve that frustration in a bloody way.
BOOM!!!!!!!!
An earth-shattering explosion made the entire realm of flas violently tremble. Suddenly, all the volcanoes in the realm of flas erupted. It was not a common eruption; it was as if all the magma and fire possible were being released at once into the sky.
The high advisors looked at the gigantic central volcano in astonishnt; they were certain that the epicenter ca from there. However, in two seconds, muffled cries of agony reverberated, startling them.
The entire place, even being the outermost area and closest to the exit, was covered in fire runes, as if a sea of fire were falling upon their heads.
The advisors from all five clans felt their bodies lting, then turned and ran in despair. Without looking back, they ran, spitting blood, not because they were injured. But because they had no chance to defend, only to run, and soon, all the young cultivators were lost. And that was an irreparable wound for all the clans.
No one stayed to watch, but Calirer and Runula jumped in front and activated the demon diagrams. Imdiately, a barrier protected both clans, and their diagrams seed to fervently engulf everything.
The hearts of the two pounded like drums. They believed that, after leaving the realm of flas and using all the treasures they collected, their diagrams would beco as powerful as the top 10 clans. But now... even before feeding the diagram, both were directly absorbing everything, and they felt an incalculable amount of power accumulating in them.
A little distance away, the trio fighting in a deadly training ran for their lives. Almin ran with Loeus by his side, and there was no unburnt part on their bodies. Langrum was on Almin’s shoulder, unconscious, while he forcibly stuffed all the most powerful pills he had into her mouth, with a contorted face.
The whale sent a ssage through the array to Almin a few seconds ago, the ssage was: ’Seems like no one died. Great, now I’m going to level up the training. Maybe multiply it a few tis. Start running and fight to co back alive.’
ROAR!!
Ahead of them, countless golems and other creatures erged from the lava as if they were in a frenzied madness. Tears stread down the eyes of Almin and Loeus, concentrated drops of despair.
"LIVE OR DIE!" Almin roared, withdrawing his spear and swallowing all available pills.
Loeus cradled Langrum in his arms. Then, he sighed heavily, looking at her face as if those were his last monts, and he wanted to morize every milliter of her face. His eyes closed... then his Yang power exploded... and in his blood, a sacred heritage unknown to him ignited together.
He ran with all he had, holding her in his arms, and didn’t see Langrum’s lips curve slightly into a smile.
Far away, atop the volcano, the whale used every spatial ring he had to store all those abyss crystals. Ruri was tightly clinging to his back, asleep, and the spatial inventory was already packed to the brim, prompting them to decide to prioritize increasing its size to the maximum after they returned.
’We used everything we had to attack with the bone club and destroy everything. Now, we have ten tis more than we had when we entered the abyss. Finally, real gains.’ Alm said, laughing.
Then, amidst those thousands of crystal fragnts, they saw a two-ter grayish sphere. The whale’s pupils dilated with excitent. Using their souls, they analyzed the entire volcano without caring about the cost and confird everything.
Before they destroyed the crystal block, they already considered it certain that the entire realm of flas would collapse. Now, they clearly saw the underground rivers below the central volcano; that was the center of all the firepower in the place.
The whale approached, touching the surface of the grayish sphere. ’This is the source of everything, and it’s not sothing natural. It’s an elental rune from the divine realm. It’s practically extinguished and sealed, but just a minimal remnant of this rune fueled the entire realm of flas.’ Alm murmured coldly.
They stored it quickly; there was no ti to waste. Then, they turned towards the gigantic black rune, and belatedly, realized sothing.
’Change of plans! If this rune is the source of everything, then we need to leave!’ Bruno said suddenly. And quickly sent a ssage through the clan mark and the array to Calirer and Almin.
Soon, they turned back to the black rune and focused on it. Seconds passed, and they sighed, already confirming what was expected.
Alm comnted, ’With our shallow cultivation, penetrating our spiritual intelligence into it and analyzing its use and effect is impossible.’
They then used the soul, but that was different from spiritual intelligence; the soul served only to see its internal structure as if it were eyes. And that didn’t activate the rune, preventing them from studying it. So they only realized that this rune was 90% different from their collecting rune.
’I feel that even if we had a complete understanding of the second level of the collecting technique, we still wouldn’t be able to comprehend this. Maybe only in the higher levels... we won’t gain anything from it now.’ Bruno said lightly.
Alm squinted his eyes, reluctant to accept that, and then began to think deeply. He rembered sothing that intrigued them from the mont they stepped into the abyss.
’Our bloodline, along with all the laws of the earth in our body and the abyss, is being suppressed to the maximum. These five realms and everything within the abyss must be connected to this fact,’ Alm comnted seriously. ’I think we can test sothing. Let’s use the minimal amount of bloodline we have left.’
Bruno frowned. ’If we burn this, we won’t be able to activate Ruri’s hero rune. We were saving it for an ergency... but I’m always in favor of risks.’
’If it’s as I imagined, this rune will absorb our bloodline directly. Let’s put our sense with our soul, so we’ll feel internally what will happen.’ Alm added and closed the whale’s eyes.
In the whale’s hand, a brown aura, the color of the earth, slowly erged, illuminating the entire environnt. A second passed, and then the space suddenly trembled. The gigantic black rune vibrated fervently.
An infinite pressure fell upon the whale’s body, as if focusing entirely on it. They imdiately activated the physical cultivation. But still, the body seed on the verge of collapsing. It all lasted a second.
Whooosh!
All the aura in their hand vanished as if it had been sucked into the void, and all the pressure evaporated along with it. At that mont, Alm and Bruno were completely focused on feeling everything.
One minute... two... three... Then the whale opened its eyes; the connection was severed.
’All five realms and the demon diagrams are connected, the center of all this is the Realm of Ashes.’ Bruno spoke with conviction.
Alm then analyzed, ’According to the entire structure and the reaction with our lineage, all of this is a massive sealing formation. It’s specifically sealing the bloodline and the laws of the earth. Perhaps the entire abyss is just a part of it. After all, there are other similar places on this planet. And for the queen to do this, it must be sothing big. Great, let’s fuck with her plan.’
Bruno then beca serious, recalling everything they had read in the Soul Eater clan records. All four realms are focused on a basic elent. The one they are in is fire, but there are also realms of lightning, wind, and water. The last one should be Earth, but it is known as the Realm of Ashes.
’Within the four other realms, there must be four identical runes. In the center, in the Realm of Ashes, is where everything converges,’ Alm thought, a bit confused, and found a good analogy. ’The demon diagrams of the clans are like the veins of the body that transport blood. The black runes in the realms are the hearts that receive the blood and pump. The center, the Realm of Ashes, is the brain; it receives the blood and commands everything.’
’There was no reaction from the rune when we removed the source of the fire laws from this place... so that was added later and is not part of the original formation,’ Bruno thought calmly. ’This elental power from the divine realm must have been created to serve as an environnt where demons can feed and nurture the diagrams. Even those weak ones who can’t collect treasures end up contributing with their lives and souls.’
Alm added, ’The demon clans are like herbs, planted and nurtured to feed the diagram. But it wasn’t ant to be like this originally. We know it was the so-called demon emperor who distributed the diagrams. But there’s still a lot of missing information.’
’Well, we’re still too weak to figure out what’s being imprisoned and deal with it now. But if the source of these realms are runes from the divine realm and they are not connected to the formation, in that case... Let’s steal... I an, let’s save the demons and end this.’ Bruno said strangely.
Alm responded excitedly, ’Let’s suck up everything we can. All these realms are full of things for us to take. This demon emperor has beco our biggest sponsor.’
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