209: Chapter 209 Facing Reality 209: Chapter 209 Facing Reality On the violently rocking ship, Anvis quickly opened the two tal boxes, revealing two halves of beautiful tal spheres emitting a faint blue glow.
The demon-repelling tal boxes were sowhat large and inconvenient to carry.
Anvis took out the two tal hemispheres, placing one on each side inside the cloak, in the pockets originally ant for storing casting materials.
Though outwardly ordinary, the Olivendi Family’s Traveler’s Cloak always had certain distinctions from a truly ordinary one.
The seemingly mundane pockets had actually undergone a special Secret Technique treatnt, enough to completely isolate all negative forces of the two tal hemispheres.
Moreover, as his physical condition recovered to a Seventh Rank, the ‘Curse Power’ of the tal spheres could no longer pose a threat to him.
In fact, Anvis had long wanted to find a site where he could freely test the power of Magic Nuclear Weapons without risking the leakage of information.
Though dangerous, this location seed to accidentally et the criteria.
The Divine Power of the moonlight that could even keep a full-strength Duke at bay, would presumably also block external probes.
The only problem was that currently, he could not leave the testing ground himself.
anwhile, Anvis was also quickly picking up so items on the ground, looking for useful things to take along.
Apart from the storage ring that held the statue alone, he tossed all the items from the other two rings filled with miscellaneous items onto the deck.
At that mont, sothing caught his peripheral vision.
It was half of an eggshell made of extrely pale Crystal Stone.
A sowhat bold idea suddenly arose in his mind.
Evan’s reaction was slightly slower than Anvis’s, but upon seeing Anvis’s actions, he also realized and opened his rings before entering the Barrier, temporarily picking a sword and a beautifully Inscribed Armor for protection.
At this mont, Jom had already liberated himself from the Great Sacrificial Rite’s spiritual assault, but due to the presence of the Anti-magic Field, he was unable to use his control over the Magic Field to manipulate the ship, and could only watch helplessly as the ancient city ruins grew larger in his field of view.
Behind the ship, the huge pillar of moonlight infused with Divine Power was now close at hand.
Anvis could clearly see the ruins bathed in the range of the moonlight, along with the strange corals, seaweed, and marine life of unknown kinds attached to them.
The Curse Power also affected this area, causing mutations in the marine life.
Moreover, as the pillar of light continued to pour down, the city beneath mysteriously began to brighten more and more, as if it were a cup holding the Moonlight spilling from the sky.
At the sa ti, in the center of that city, the giant temple’s massive Stone Gate, several tens of ters tall and thick, suddenly opened a crack with a deep, thunderous rumble.
Behind the Gate, there was an unfathomable pitch-black space.
It was a place unreachable by any Dream Realm, where despite the abundance of light outside, not even a hint of it could illuminate even a speck of the ground inside, as if hiding an endless abyss.
When the gates opened, a sound akin to huge drumbeats, hollow and monotonous, gradually began to echo through this space.
Initially, the sound was very slow and deep, barely resounding in the surroundings.
But as the ancient city was saturated with moonlight, the previously vague drumbeats gradually beca clear and forceful.
Like a heartbeat—
Under the cover of this ‘heartbeat’, Evan’s posture beca slightly distorted as he clutched his head, a flicker of confusion and madness sweeping across his eyes.
Without Jom’s protection, Evan, the weakest among the three, suddenly seed sowhat unable to hold out in the midst of these abominable sound waves infused with alien power.
Even Jom started to lean on his sword with one hand, squinting his eyes and exerting all his strength to suppress the various negative states that arose from the depths of his heart due to the envelopnt of this sound.
Indeed, Jom had his own sword, but Anvis had never seen him use it throughout their journey.
Moving his gaze away from the two, Anvis ungracefully plonked down on the side of the ship, pulling down his hood to cover his expression.
His current state was completely unchanged; the Ancient Secret Scripture was unaffected by the Anti-magic Field, and it still functioned to absorb the fluctuations of alien power.
This was for everyone else to see, after all, from his appearance, he was just a harmless ‘Third Rank Professional.’
There was a Sixth Rank and an Eighth Rank beside him, both exhibiting various degrees of negative states; he should not appear as if unaffected by anything.
The influence of the Anti-magic Field treated everyone equally; even the initiator of the field could not use spiritual power within the field.
Thus, Anvis was not worried that his true situation would be sensed.
anwhile, the Black Ship being rapidly dragged backwards, finally subrged entirely into the range of the Moonlight Pillar.
Anvis could feel it; in an instant, a denser alien power swiftly enveloped his entire body, and the Ancient Secret Scripture hidden beneath his thick cloak also began to emit a strong light.
It was absorbing the surrounding alien power corrosion, and at the sa ti reminding him of the imnse danger in the environnt.
Jom had already half-kneeled on the ground leaning on his sword, and Evan had once again laid down, eyes tightly closed, struggling to resist the eroding power of the environnt.
“Do you feel it?
The Gate has been opened, and the truth is about to return!”
In mid-air, the raspy voice of the Great Sacrificial Rite once again ca through.
“Fear!
Oh ignorant ones, you should feel fear!
For the truth will return with doomsday and claim everything for itself!”
“In the Domain of the Gods, you have long had no escape—”
“But worry not, once you rge with the truth, you will soon see, the whole world will return to darkness under the footsteps of the truth.”
Finally casting a last glance at the three on the ship who seed about to give up, and the Black Ship speeding towards the temple, he calmly raised the Scepter towards the vast Purple Moon in the sky.
“And when the mont of truth’s descent cos, the Primitive Moon will take us ho.”
Saying this, he raised his Scepter for the third ti, and the void paused.
Then, the Purple Moon hanging in the infinite sky suddenly began to slowly grow larger, its surface also becoming clearer and clearer.
From the initial size of almost a horse-drawn carriage, it expanded to nearly the size of an Alchemy Airship, and finally it seed like a floating round mountain.
The giant Purple Moon in the sky suddenly began to descend upon the city!
As the Purple Moon descended, the crack in the center of the ancient Stone Gate of the temple gradually began to widen again.
Underneath the hood, Anvis’s eyes stared at the darkness within that gap, a terrifying oppressive feeling surged in his heart, making him resolute once more to prevent it from fully opening.
However, it seed that the descent of the Purple Moon in the sky was slow and sowhat intermittent, possibly related to his confrontation with the Duke’s power.
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