Chapter 527 - Last Moment
Falca did attempt to attack Loki earlier, but Loki still decided to explain Falca’s question. In fact, he didn’t hate Falca at all.
The nature of a naughty kid.
Also, despite Falca’s rebellious dressing style, he was only around the age of 15, which was not much older than Loki. There were very few apprentices around such young ages here, and Loki would like to be friendly to all of them.
Falca felt puzzled upon receiving Loki’s “friendliness”, yet he chose to listen to the boy’s advice. He was the one asking that question after all.
He spread his spirit feelers around his gray Meraid’s Sword. Previously, this wouldn’t yield any results, but Falca was surprised that he actually sensed something strange this time.
He saw the Altar of Demise from above in a bird’s-eye view, which helped him notice that the area was divided into five zones.
The central zone was giving out a dim light and was where the embodiment of the purification law was located. Starting from there and going outward, there was the golden zone, silver zone, white zone, and at last, the gray zone at the edge. The golden zone was the smallest one while the gray one was several hundred times larger.
Falca quickly took a guess. “So, the colors of our swords determine which zone we can enter?”
His legs trembled again when he thought about that terrible woman.
[Time remaining: 1 minute]
Alan shook his head as he gave up on waiting for Angor. He always trusted Angor’s strength, but it seemed his faith was forsaken.
“The promotion ceremony is soon. Let’s find a spot in the white zone,” Alan sighed and said to Loki.
“Hermes already helped us clean out some space, let’s head there.” Loki nodded and beckoned Falca.
Since Hermes just taught him a painful lesson not long ago, Falca felt really embarrassed about receiving Loki’s help. However, he still complied since he only had a gray sword.
Sinehowze shook her head as she murmured, “Angor failed… I was looking for a chance to sign a Spirit Contract with him so that he can help me craft stuff. Well, I should forget about it.”
Jebra checked the ticking number in the sky and felt his mood eased a lot.
That woman’s dead! Nobody will know about my weakness, and one less enemy for me!
…
Outside the barrier and away from everyone’s view, a bolt of black lightning was approaching the barrier with great speed.
Ten, nine, eight…
When the number reached “1”, the protective magic array around the Altar of Demise that stopped anyone without a Meraid’s Sword from entering slowly changed its color from transparent to milk-white.
When the barrier completely sealed up, the last phase of the blood sacrifice would begin.
When that happened, the entire Sea of Purification, including everything that called it home as well as apprentices who had not entered the barrier, would become fertilizers that would facilitate the growth of the purification garden.
Before the barrier became completely white and shut off everything outside, the black lightning barged inside and caused a violent air current to go off.
“We made it?!”
“Yes, we did!!”
“Gods bless us!”
As several strange voices celebrated to their hearts’ content, those that arrived at the Altar of Demise earlier, as well as the observing wizards outside the purification garden, widened their eyes in shock.
Whatever is that thing?!