Chapter 1108 - The Direction of Order
Finding clues left by Erin wasn’t easy. Due to the influence of the Dark Dragon’s soul protection and Erin’s powerful strength, not even Alice could accurately pinpoint the specific location. As for the exact place where Erin engaged in a battle, Alice had no clue at all. Of course, there was also a crucial point apart from that. According to Alice, the strength of Chaos was also wreaking havoc. Even though it wasn’t that obvious, Alice was sure about it. This was the other reason that this matter raised some concerns in Rhode. In fact, one couldn’t normally realize when Chaos was up to no good. But no one could stop Alice’s ‘historical’ skills as though she were an overpowering ‘bug’.
During this period, the most important task for both sides was to find traces of Erin’s battle. If they could find anything that belonged to her, it would be for the best. But it was a pity that it wasn’t that simple. If it weren’t for the fact that items carried by someone as powerful as Erin more or less possessed the presence of its holder and the formidable beings present were sensitive to them, perhaps no one would be interested in searching for traces of clues in this large wasteland.
“What is that?”
As soon as Rhode’s group arrived at the northern wasteland under Gaya’s lead, he saw a burnt gorge that had as though been bombarded. Rhode recognized immediately that it was caused by a powerful impact. But what caught his attention was the erected, crystallized black pole at the end of the gorge that seemed like a wreckage of something. For some unknown reason, Rhode felt irritated the instant he witnessed it. It was as though his instinctive behavior whenever he saw something filthy and unbearable.
Just like Chaos… no. That’s not it… this isn’t only Chaos…
Gazing at the black pole, Rhode knitted his brows. He had a strange feeling about the pole. If he insisted on describing the feeling, it was as though abstracts were suddenly added to a realistic painting. Using a popular phrase known to Rhode on the internet, it would be ‘Teacher, his art style is different from ours’. In fact, even though the black pole seemed ordinary, its presence felt peculiar in Rhode’s eyes as though ‘the art style was entirely different’ and it didn’t belong to this world at all.
“I’m not too sure either, Your Majesty Rhode.”
Sizing up the black pole curiously, Lydia said.
“I was trying to search for Her Highness Erin’s aura, but didn’t expect to find this… how strange. Even though it feels like Chaos, it is nonetheless a product of Order. What exactly is going on?”
Upon hearing Lydia’s words, Rhode nodded in agreement. Logically speaking, 99 percent of things that seemed out of place to beings in the Dragon Soul Continent were products of Chaos. After all, this was their natural instinct just like how humans could never produce similar consciousness as a piece of stone. However, not only did this black pole not give them a fuzzy, unsettling feeling unique as Chaos did, but it also gave them a precise feeling like it was produced after being enhanced by Order. For this to be felt in a product of Chaos was… truly rare.
Rhode hesitated no more. He hurried to the black pole in large strides, sized it up, and extended his arm to hold it.
“———!”
The instant he clutched the pole, his vision blurred and a string of data emerged before him constantly as though searching for something. However, the entire image was constantly twisting and trembling like it was disrupted. Shortly after, the string of data flashed across and disappeared.
“I see…”
His younger sister’s voice rang in his head again. But this time, she sounded rather uncertain.
“Big Brother, I figured out how Miss Erin went missing. There is a device in this black pole that can activate the plane channel for a short time. According to what we just witnessed, it seems like the enemies ambushed Miss Erin, but her strength was far more powerful than they had imagined. That was why the last survivor had no choice but to activate the plane channel. Miss Erin apparently didn’t anticipate it, so she was dragged into it by the enemy.”
“Doesn’t that mean we don’t have a way to rescue her?”
Rhode shrugged, at the same time observing three seconds of silence in tribute to Erin. He knew what the plane channel was; it was like a small-scale teleportation door. Even though he didn’t experience it personally, he clearly knew that its ultimate destination was random. Who knew where Erin had been brought to?
“No…”
But this time, his younger sister’s voice was filled with more doubt.
“… Big Brother, according to my observation, the destination of this plane teleportation is fixed! It is connected to a specific point in the outer plane, so it won’t transport her to a random location. But… I’ve never seen this function before. Besides, the method of activation on this black pole isn’t one that we’re familiar with. As of now, the only thing I found out is that the black pole stores energy and is able to activate the skill automatically, which links to the plane channel. Not only that…”
His younger sister hesitated, before continuing.
“… but the data that disrupted Canary’s and Bubble’s power seems to also be from there.”