Chapter 515 - Summer Palace
Instead of swimming back to Tulip Palace, Angor asked everyone to go to the surface of the sea where he took out his Gondola.
Once everyone was seated, Angor activated the engine power that allowed the boat to bolt toward the distance while leaving a long trail of split water waves behind.
It was the first time Shan saw Angor’s vehicle, and she was really curious about it. But she wasn’t in the mood to examine it since the deadly countdown was still haunting her mind, so she only sat at a corner and fiddled with her own fingers anxiously.
Gondola could move ten times faster than the fastest swimmer among them but was still slower than Angor’s gravity-enhanced speed. Keely was pretty surprised by this since she was expecting Angor to drag everyone in the same way.
“Are we… going to make it?” Keely was about to offer a pessimistic opinion, but she decided not to when she saw Shan’s mental condition.
Shan also looked at Angor in uncertainty.
“Don’t worry, stay focused,” Angor said as he tried to comfort them.
Truth was, he wasn’t confident enough either. He was planning to use the teleportation array to travel to the other seven underwater palaces, but he didn’t know which one could help them reach the goal faster, or if there was even one that could.
Or he could just use Fear to achieve his goal, as long as he didn’t break the Duon’s sanity.
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A moment later, Keely executed the trapped Duon after learning what they needed.
“Summer Palace it is. The actual distance of the route from Crystal Palace to Altar of Demise is 3,000 kilometers, while we only have to move for 1,000 kilometers from Summer Palace.”
Angor sighed in relief. If they weren’t lucky enough to find this Duon here or if Keely accidentally killed it, they might have gone to Crystal Palace and missed their final chance due to the unreachable distance.
He did a quick mind-calculation to make sure that his Gondola could take them to the destination in time. There was still the possibility of running into powerful monsters or other apprentices who wanted their swords, and there was probably a lot of desperate raiders who lay in wait in front of the final exit so that they could fight for their chances.
Angor revealed his thoughts so that everyone would stay cautious.
Their team almost had no other rivals in terms of raw strength, but there were always people with secret skills or items that might catch them off guard.
Gank finally reached the secret chamber. Everyone stepped onto the teleportation array while Angor selected their destination.
Their visions went blurry, and in a matter of seconds, they reappeared in a chamber that looked just like the last one, but without the hole in the ceiling.
Again, Gank punched an exit, which allowed them to go outside. They checked the entrance of the palace and were glad the see a name written above the door in Duon language—Summer Palace.
Also, the location indicated by their Meraid’s Swords had changed from southeast to due south.
“Shouldn’t be far now. Let’s move!”
Once again, Angor led the group to the surface so that they could ride Gondola.
At full speed, Gondola could cover the remaining distance in about an hour. Ever since the countdown had begun, they had only spent 30 minutes doing the previous tasks. This meant that they had more than enough time to reach their destination!