Noah jumped on top of a building, Jas right behind him. He had eliminated the three middle staged experts which was a few hours ago.
During the period, he and Jas had managed to eliminate five other participants, which wasn't much, and when he checked how many people were left he saw there still remained a bit over 120.
Currently they were sowhere in the west side of the city, which had two magical beasts present though they were widely spread apart from each other.
Noah's curiosity had gotten the best of him. Causing him to go near the position of one of the eleven beasts.
"Noah. Are you sure about this?. You are strong and all, but tier 3 beasts are on a different level," Jas said with a clearly worried expression. After all he was a re lower stage cultivator.
"I know, I know. It's just, we can't miss this opportunity. I know we'll eventually get to see them once we get stronger, but co on....tier 3 beasts!." Noah pointed at a big building. Which was where the map indicated the tier 3 beast was.
Jas frowned, but his curiosity also got the best of him, so he couldn't complain. Noah waited in silence, his gaze fully on Jas. He wasn't going to go if his partner didn't want to.
A heavy sigh escaped Jas mouth, "Let's get this over with." he said with a defeated expression which imdiately changed to excitent.
Noah's face brightened up, "I'll make sure nothing happens to us," Noah reassured Jas while unfolding his consciousness.
The two jumped down the building they were currently on, and began to walk towards the do-shaped building across the street.
Noah inspected the buildings with his consciousness, but he couldn't get much.
The building looked normal in all ways, it even looked old, and coupled with the fact that he couldn't sense the tier 3 beast, the danger inside the building was basically hiding in plain sight.
Walking around the building, they found a big tal door. Which they imdiately tried to open. The door was heavy to open but Noah pulled it off after a few minutes of pushing.
Upon entering the building, a massive square cage entered their sight. The cage spanned for a few tens of ters in height and width.
Around the cages' base and top were multiple red glowing Inscriptions which constantly rotated.
After that inspection Noah's eyes fell on the figure inside.
A large lion the size of school bus appeared in his sight. Its mane tail and a few spots of its body had orange flas dancing on their edges. The lions colour was deep orange-brown, which looked like that of normal lions. The beast was currently lying on its paws, but when it sensed their presence it arose.
Its bright yellow eyes imdiately fell on his figure, Noah instinctively taking a step back at its gaze. It began to growl at them while it's mane beca more of flas than hair.
Noah saw tallic black claws erging out of its paws, as it pounced on the cage. A powerful roar escaping its mouth.
Noah and Jas were sent flying from the sheer force the roar carried, the whole building seed to shake, but the cage stood strong after multiple other attempts to destroy it.
After a few seconds of trying to break the cage Noah understood that it couldn't escape.
The lion seed to understand that Noah had gotten to that conclusion since it lay down on its paws, only its vicious gaze following their movents.
Noah couldn't help but smile at that point, 'Powerful,' he thought while inspecting the beast.
[Fla Lion]
[Tier: 3]
[Level: ???]
[Chances of death: 100%]
Noah shook his head at the result. He was definitely strong but he currently couldn't jump tiers, even though he was at the peak of tier 2.
They stayed for a while, Jas eventually lost his fear for the beast, as the two walked around the cage, the lion growling at them baring it's powerful looking teeth at them.
Noah ignored all this, for it seed as long as the Inscriptions were on the cage the beast would remain caged.
"Do you know how to make such Inscriptions?," Noah eventually asked Jas who nodded.
"I can but it would only be able to hold sothing at my level, and would probably be able to last a few tens of attacks," Jas explained.
"But I wonder where the core of the Inscription is," Jas said his gaze still on the cage.
"Uh..What do you an by core?," Noah asked genuinely curious.
"More like power source." Jas replied, "It's needed to keep every Inscription running, and if damaged the Inscription will shut down. I am sure you rember that sir Augustus needed a body full of energy to activate the Inscription that repelled the beasts,"Jas added.
Noah kept a ntal note of what he learnt. He understood what Jas ant. "Where should it be in a normal situation?," Noah asked as he himself got curious.
"It's supposed to be in the center of the Inscription," Jas replied with a thoughtful expression. "At least that's what I know."
Noah also pondered on the matter himself, then an idea pooped up, and he didn't hesitate to share it.
"Wait. If what you say is true, then there should be a core powering all the Inscriptions currently. How do people get teleported out of here?," Noah said as potential answers kept forming in his mind. Jas also seed to understand, as he took Noah's words out of his mouth.
"Inscriptions light up on the ground, and they get teleported!-," Jas said as he shot a wide eyed gaze at Noah, both opening the map.
Now that Noah checked again, the eleven fla like lights surrounded the city in a perfect circle, and at the center of the circle was the green circle.
""The city is on top of an Inscription,""" They said in unison, bursting into laughter an instant later.
"So that green light should be where the core is," Jas said after they were done laughing.
"How hard is it to pull sothing like that off?," Noah asked staring at the cage and its inscriptions
"As far as I know, soone at our level or even tier 3, shouldn't be able to pull it off. The amount of power in that core should also be incredible. Teleportation isn't an easy thing, coupled with keeping the beasts caged," Jas explained, while Noah nodded.
A few minutes of silence passed, the two thinking their own thoughts. "We should get going. I have an idea of what could happen if ten people aren't left by the end of the stage, and it's a bad one." Noah eventually said, while he began to walk towards the exit of the building.
During that period a question popped up Noah's mind, he couldn't help but voice it out. "So what happens if the power source gets damaged?," He said pushing the big door open, while also ignoring the roars of the lion.
"Obviously the whole thing would shutdown, we won't be able to teleport out of this place, and the cages of the beast will mostly be broken by them, since the inscriptions keeping the cages strong were gone" Jas explained, "Why do you ask?," he added walking out of the building.
"No reason," Noah shrugged, "Though how exactly can it be damaged," Noah said stopping and glancing at the silent street.
"Well if soone so much as touches it, or uses from its power without the creator giving it that function, the thing would explode. Though it would only be a small explosion. Only that the energy inside of the core would quickly disperse," Jas explained.
"I see..." Noah muttered still standing outside the building. "What are the odds of that happening?," Noah asked again, as Jas couldn't help but raise an eyebrow in curiosity.
"Well I am not sure anyone is dumb enough to touch a ball palpitating with raw energy, that is clearly above them in terms of quality. So I'd say zero." Jas laughed a bit.
"What if they were dumb enough?,", Noah glanced at Jas with a light smile
"If they were that would be very bad--."
Jas could complete his words since an explosion of light suddenly shot up into the sky. Everyone in the city being able to witness it.
Noah and Jas themselves imdiately wore serious expressions. As the sound of a familiar massive cage falling apart resounded in their ears.
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