Ch. 1931..1940
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In mere moments, Cheryl received the video that her female colleague sent over.
After clicking into it… She felt as if she was watching a sci-fi movie. However, as someone who carried the legacy of the Immortal Doctor, she wasn’t doubtful towards such things. Moreover, Alex would always encounter situations like these as well.
With this, she knew that Alex was the one who was yelling in the skies of Japan.
When they were still calling, Cheryl’s grandparents were right next to her. The two saw the video and heard Carol’s voice as well.
They lifted their gaze and stared at Cheryl in utter disbelief as if everything they knew was a lie. “Cherry, she… She’s calling out to Alex? As in, the Alex we know?”
Cheryl clicked away from the video and immediately dialed Alex’s number. She initially wondered if she should delete his number and become strangers, but she didn’t have the heart to do so. She was the one who chased after him after all.
She was attracted to him on so many levels.
‘Can I blame him for all this?’
‘Of course, I can!’
‘He has so many women flocking to him too. What a sinful man.’
‘But he’s married, and his wife yelled at me too…’
‘I was the shameless one!’
“Sorry, the number you have dialed is unavailable, please try again later!” a monotone voice came from her phone.
“I tried calling Alex’s number too, but it didn’t go through,” James said.
Cheryl got up from her seat abruptly. She wanted to check out the Rockefeller manor.
Grandma Coney spoke up. “Oh, what is it with you two? Do you actually believe such a ridiculous video? People floating in mid- air… I think it’s just CGI. They can make whatever they want in movies these days, but they’re still no match for the classics like Titanic.”
A male voice suddenly chimed into the conversation. “Miss, I’m worried about the young master.”
Grandma Coney jumped. “Ah! Who… Who said that?”
James was looking around anxiously as well. “I heard that too. Cherry, did you?”
Cheryl turned to her old grandparents. “Grandpa, Grandma, I have something that I’ve been keeping from you two.”
Grandma Coney was shocked. “Cherry, is a man hiding in your room?”
“Did you break up with Alex?” James chimed in.
Cheryl placed her palm on her forehead. “Elder, you can come out now!”
With this, Guilherme showed up in front of the three.
“Oh, god!” Grandma Coney immediately grabbed onto James and shrieked. It was fortunate that James took good care of his health, else he might’ve been pushed to the ground.
James, on the other hand, didn’t seem as shocked. As the descendant of the Immortal Doctor, he had heard of many weird incidents back when he was still a disciple. However, he was shocked to see Guilherme appear in front of his eyes. “The… The Immortal Doctor, G… Guilherme Extraordinaire?” he exclaimed in disbelief.
Guilherme smiled. “That’s right. It’s the old man himself.”
According to how long his spirit has been around this realm, Guilherme was old enough to be James’ great-grandfather. So calling himself an old man was no problem.
With this, James was exhilarated. ‘It’s my great-grandmaster!’
He turned to Cheryl. “Cherry, this… What‘s going on here?”
Cheryl then explained what happened and how they were looking for the legacy of the Immortal Doctor in Canyonland. She also explained that this was Guilherme’s immortal soul, but he managed to look like a living, breathing person because Alex cast the Paper Doll Curse of Three Realms on him.
Upon hearing this, James let go of his wife and tidied himself up. He bowed to Guilherme with the utmost respect. “Greetings, Master Guilherme. I am James Coney, a disciple of the 27th generation of Ganoderma! I welcome thee!”
Guilherme said, “You can get up. I’ve known about you for quite a while now.”
Still quite worried about Alex. However, he urged Cheryl to head to the Rockefeller manor immediately. Cheryl nodded and informed her grandparents, rushing out along with Guilherme.
James and Grandma Coney were the only people left in the house. They looked at each other in disbelief, feeling as if they were dreaming.
***
At that moment, several figures were speeding across Mount Fuji in Japan.
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Swish!
Swish, swish…
The group had reached the mountain range in just a few seconds. It was Alex, Martiny, Fairy Doctor, and Drake.
“Sister, could Izanami Shrine be located within Mount Fuji?” Fairy Doctor asked in surprise.
Since Martiny was Hilbert’s wife, and Dawn was Hilbert’s sworn sister, calling Martiny her sister was technically correct as well.
Martiny nodded. “That’s right.”
She then turned to Drake. “Uncle Drake, you’ve used up too much of your energy, and it’ll take quite some time for you to rejuvenate. So you shouldn’t go in with us, I’ve brought the Exorcism Bell, so it wouldn’t be much of a problem there.”
Drake bowed to her. “Yes miss!”
It was currently snowing heavily in Mount Fuji, but such frigid temperatures didn’t bother them one bit.
“Follow me!” Martiny walked to a pond.
At the time, the surface had completely frozen over and was even covered in snow as well. If it weren’t for Martiny leading the way, they couldn’t have possibly found this place.
The entire place looked the same as everywhere else since it was entirely covered by snow.
“It’s underneath this?” Alex asked.
“That’s right!” Martiny turned to the two. “This frozen pond is the only way to get under this mountain, and that’s where Izanami Shrine is. From what we’ve collected the past few days, there must be an underground city here. This might be where the Blood Cult’s headquarters are.”
“Are there any enemies here?” asked Fairy Doctor.
Martiny shook her head. “We didn’t see any.”
“How did you get so badly injured then?”
“There’s a big snake underneath the pond, you’ll see when we get there.”
After that, Martiny smashed the frozen surface open with her palm.
Crack… crack!
Crash!!!
The surface instantly smashed into pieces.
Back when she first escaped, Maternity had actually smashed the surface open already. However, the weather was way too cold and the lake froze up again.
Martiny asked. “Are you guys ready? That beast might lunge at us as soon as we go down there.”
Alex took out the Sword of Universe, then decided to take out the Seven Blades of Death as well.
Dawn, on the other hand, took out the Demon Tower Prison.
“Let’s go!”
Martiny took the lead and jumped in first, followed by Fairy Doctor.
Using his Chi to protect his body, Alex jumped right in as well.
The water was icy, but the trio’s clothes remained dry. Following Martiny all the way, they weren’t sure how long they had to swim down. However, they moved rather swiftly, as if they were fishes that lived in the ocean.
Alex felt as if they had swum for tens of thousands of meters. Although he could still handle the water pressure, he was beginning to get quite uncomfortable, especially his eardrums. His ears were ringing to the point that he had to use his Chi to further protect his eardrums.
Just as he was about to ask Martiny when they’d be able to reach their destination, he felt a very strong flow of sinister Chi, along with some demonic Chi.
“Something’s coming!” Martiny halted. “It’s that beast, just look”
Alex and Fairy Doctor looked toward where she pointed, there seemed to be a large black ball of things wriggling around. They initially thought that it was some stone wall, only to realize that it was an eight-headed snake as large as a mountain.
Fairy Doctor shrieked.
“Sister, is this the mythical Orochi of Japan?!”
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Martiny shook her head. “This is no legend or myth, it’s right in front of you. ”
Alex gulped. “It’s massive!”
Suddenly, all eight heads of the gigantic snake turned to look at them with their green, glowing eyes. Each head had a pair of eyes; hence sixteen of these glowing lights were watching them viciously.
Swoosh!
The water gushed in mayhem as if a giant blender had been switched on. Alex and the others felt like they couldn’t hold their bodies together.
Martiny grasped onto her Exorcism Bell and stared at the snake that was rushing towards them like a meteorite. “We have to separate! I’ll take it from the front, and you two take it from the side.”
“Alright!”
Alex and the Fairy Doctor glanced at each other and split up. Next, Martiny shook her bell. The ringing made the snake feel as if it was facing a strong opponent, and it froze in fear.
“Attack!”
Martiny lunged on it first.
An illusion of an astonishing Ancestor Dragon appeared behind her. She held a twenty meter long sword in one hand as if she was an invincible galaxy warlord.
Boom!
The woman and snake started their clash.
Alex and Fairy Doctor didn’t dare to waste any time as well. They started attacking the snake alongside Martiny.
Shiiing!
Alex enlarged the Sword of Universe and swung it towards one of the heads to see how it’d react. Unexpectedly, the snakehead dodged it immediately, as if scared of even contacting the sword.
Alex then remembered that he had absorbed a great amount of the Ancestor Dragon’s essence back in the Spiritual Realm of Dragons and stored it into his golden core.
The Sword of Universe itself was made of dragon bones anyway. Hence, his sword was naturally filled with Ancestor Dragon Chi. His attacks could suppress the snake.
‘Then what am I waiting for?’
In an instant, he took out every sword he could call for within the Dragon’s Bane of Thirty-Six. He held the Sword of Universe in one hand and the Seven Blades of Death in the other, then turned the Breaking Point into a flying sword, forming a sword formation to attack the beast
Swish, swish, swish!
Since the beast was way oversized, it would still have restricted mobility no matter how powerful it was. Using this to his advantage, Alex was able to land attacks with ease.
However, he then realized that the snake seemed to have been possessed by the Blood Shura, emitting the Blood Chi of a Shura.
Its body also seemed to be protected by a blood-red shield, so it was harder to slay it. When Alex swung his sword at it, the attack seemed sluggish as it reached the shield, as if slicing a thick layer of jelly, which significantly decreased power.
‘Looks like I have to use my trump card.’
He gathered his swords on his left hand and started forming a talisman with his right, chanting a sutra. “Namo Myoho Renge Kyo!”
“Ksitigarbha’s Ten Wheels Earth Incantation, Seal of Noble Light!”
“Ksitigarbha’s Ten Wheels Earth Incantation, Mahayana Righteous Seal!”
Boom! Boom!
Two incantation circles formed under the head of the snake. A hole with a two meter radius formed on the blood shield.
“Now, the Seven Blades of Death!”
“Breaking Point!”
Alex had also planted an ancient talisman into the two great swords, increasing their power immensely.
Just then, the snake felt a sharp stinging pain on its chin, realizing that it was in danger. It blew out a cloud of poisonous black smoke, completely obscuring their view.
Alex jumped back, worried that he might get poisoned. Yet, the two swords were still able to stab the snake’s chin with great accuracy.
“Die!” Alex controlled the swords with his mind and churned them into the monster’s skin.
Rrroooarr!
The snake’s heads let out a frightening roar.
Martiny and Fairy Doctor were relieved when they noticed that Alex was alright. However, Martiny continued to stare at Alex’s sword in awe.
She had the blood of the Guardian of the Ancestor Dragon, a very ancient bloodline closely connected to Ancestor Dragons.
She was able to sense the Chi of Ancestor Dragons from Alex’s swords.
‘This is great!’
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Martiny rang her bell gently, forcing the snakehead to back away from her before it immediately rushed toward Alex.
“Alex, let me give you a hand!”
Dragon God Edict, Exorcist Lightning Sword Formation, slay all evil and possess this sword!”
She then cut her fingertip and let the sword absorb her blood. In a second, the sword immediately glowed radiantly, filled with concentrated dragon Chi. It had now turned into a legendary sword with immense power.
“Aunt Martiny, this is…”
“I’ll explain it to you later, but let’s finish off one of the heads first. I’ll hold it while you attack!”
Just then, the Ancestor Dragon behind Martiny roared as she formed a talisman with both hands.
“May all those who preside over warriors be my vanguard!”
“Nine Dragons Ghost Binding Curse, set!”
“Alex… Attack now!”
Alex had concentrated the Chi within his golden core and aligned it with the Ancient Forbidden Spell of the Twelve Runes. He felt his sword grow even more powerful in his hands.
It was thirsting for blood, and the snakehead that Martiny was holding back was the perfect prey.
“Die!” Martiny didn’t dare slack off and continued attacking even with Alex’s help. Her sword glistened with crystal blue light, forming a hundred meter ray in her hand.
Roar!
The snake cried in pain again.
A large wound that was dozens of meters deep broke into the monster’s skin, causing it to bleed profusely. As a result, when Martiny attacked the back of the snake’s neck, it increased its defense, limiting the power of her attacks.
“Wooooooo…”
“Watch out!” Fairy Doctor warned loudly.
Six heads that looked like small mountains lunged towards Alex and Martiny, whereas the injured one backed away immediately. Even worse was that the horrifying wound was healing at a rapid pace.
“Exorcism Bell, Ring!”
Ding-ding-ding, ding-ding-ding!
This mystical object mainly affected the mental state of enemies, stunning them in place. However, it could also suppress the enemies and activate dragon Chi, but only members of the Exorcist Dragons could use this power. Basically, this mystical tool was made for them.
The six snakeheads retreated upon hearing the noise and saved the injured head as well. Moreover, they started squirting large amounts of venom, forcing Alex and Martiny to back away.
“This is way too hard to kill!”
“It can rejuvenate this fast!” Alex complained.
The Fairy Doctor rushed towards them as well. Although she was more than able to handle one of the heads, she still couldn’t slay any of them.
She frowned. “Looks like we still don’t have enough teammates. This beast has way too many heads, and all of them are as strong as Spirit Severing cultivators. More importantly, they’re big, have thick scales, and rejuvenate fast.”
Martiny smiled. “The Orochi is the guardian of Mount Fuji, and it has been on this Earth for a very long time. So it’s naturally hard to beat! Now that it has been corrupted by some demonic Chi, it has become even more bloodthirsty than before. And we don’t really have to kill it off. It knows just how powerful we are now, so I don’t think it’d do anything rash. Our main goal is to save everyone.”
“Follow me!” Martiny held onto her bell and swam forward.
Alex and Fairy Doctor followed and saw the snake hesitating to attack them again. In the end, it slowly backed away from a large underwater cave.
‘So the guy was guarding this cave.’
“Let’s go!” Martiny communicated to them telepathically and entered the cave in a flash.
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After entering the cave, everything turned bright all of a sudden. They were out of the water as well. This place looked like a palace made from ice, filled with large and glittering crystals. Alex and Fairy Doctor were absolutely shocked to see their surroundings since it was the first time they came here.
“Where is this place? And what… Are these rocks?” asked Fairy Doctor asked as she touched the crystal wall at the side. It was… Abnormally cold.
“Gosh, it’s freezing!” she flinched.
Alex touched it as well. It was indeed freezing cold. He could even sense a tiny bit of frosty Chi in it.
He then expressed his shock. “It’s because these are spiritual ice stones. They’re a pretty good training material for anyone training in martial arts that consist of ice or frost. Since there’s so many here, those martial artists would have greatly improved their power if they were to sit and meditate here.”
Martiny was surprised. “Alex, you know about these? I didn’t even recognize them the first time.”
Alex nodded. “Too bad it’s here in Japan.”
‘If this were America, I would’ve considered building a house nearby so we could move in.’
‘This place is ideal for both Mom and Maya’s training.’
However, since he couldn’t take the stones either, he decided not to think any further.
Martiny said, “We would be within the range of the formation circle further ahead. Nora and the others are currently stuck in there, so they probably won’t be getting out within the next day.”
“Are they trapped in the formation?” asked Alex.
Martiny replied, “You’ll know once we get there… But I’m not all that familiar with formations either. Back then, I had to use my dragon Chi to break through as well, but it seems that the formation here automatically switches positions from time to time. So we’ll have to combine powers and see if we can make a larger entrance. I’ll be able to save the first person once we’re five meters in! Don’t worry, just follow my steps.”
Fairy Doctor fell silent and looked towards Alex.
Alex looked around, saying, “Oh, this is an Elemental trap. It’s pretty easy to solve.”
“Uh..?” Martiny stopped in her tracks upon hearing this. “What did you just say?”
“Aunt Martiny, please come back here first. That’s not the right position. It’ll be very draining. We have to enter from here,” Alex said.
He then turned toward the left and walked into the formation.
Then… Nothing happened. Everything was fine.
Martiny froze in place, watching him in disbelief. Last time, she had to force into this formation using all of her might, even having to waste some of her dragon Chi for this. She nearly fainted from fatigue, yet Alex walked right in with such ease.
‘Ugh, it’s so annoying comparing myself to others!’
Alex could sense what was happening within the formation as soon as he entered.
Nora and the others were indeed trapped within, but they were in a bad state. All of them had become blocks of ice as if they were ice sculptures, frozen in unnatural positions.
Fairy Doctor shrieked in horror.
“Why are they like this? Are they all dead?”
Alex said, “Don’t worry, they’re still alive.”
He could sense their Chi, hence it was safe to say that they were merely stuck. With the nearest ice statue to them being Nora, he chuckled lightly and said, “Now this is getting fun. Nora Stewart is now Nora Frostart.”
Upon saying this, he noticed Nora’s eyes twitching slightly, despite being frozen.
Martiny brought out a hammer, which shocked Alex. It wasn’t some mystical tool or treasure but a good old regular hammer. So he couldn’t understand why she would bring along something like this.
Now, she was about to swing it towards Nora.
“Hey, hey, hey! Don’t break it like that. You should never break it like that!”
Alex stopped her immediately. “She’s still alive. If you hit her with that, she could actually die.”
“What?”
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“What should we do then?”
Alex replied. “It’s as brittle as anything frozen, so we can’t use force.”
He looked around and found the source of all this. It was a three foot tall crystal known as the Ice Crystal Marrow. Alex was overjoyed to see it. This was a material way more potent than regular spiritual ice stones.
Those stones may help martial artists with ice elementals in their training, but this marrow would be able to help them go over the tipping point with ease. Brittany and Maya, who were training in Silver Frost, would most definitely improve drastically after absorbing this marrow.
‘This is some real good stuff!’
‘I can’t believe they’re being used as a central formation stone. This is no way to treat such treasure. I wonder who placed this formation? How wasteful!’
The only reason why Nora and the others had become ice statues were because of this crystal marrow. As long as someone took it away, they would be freed from its effects.
“Come to me!” Alex slammed his palm onto the marrow without hesitation. The ice crystal marrow flew right into his ring.
Ten minutes later, the frozen people were slowly regaining body heat, and they showed signs of spiritual power within them.
Then, with the sound of cracking ice, everyone survived. Nora was the first to jump out. “Oh my god! It’s cold as heck! Alex, warm me up right now! I can’t take it anymore!”
The woman ran boldly toward Alex, reaching her hands into his clothes.
Alex furrowed his eyebrows. “Ugh… Think I’m your husband or something?”
Nora giggled. “I don’t mind if you don’t!”
Alex insulted, “Why would I want something whose only purpose is useless decoration?”
Nora whispered into his ears. “I have no issues if you want to use the back.”
“Uhm..?”
This time, Alex was flustered by her flirting, and he pushed her off.
Just then, Snow bowed and greeted Alex respectfully. “Master!”
Everyone was confused. They were not expecting Snow to refer to Alex as Master, let alone bow to him. This also meant that Alex could take anything that belonged to Snow, including her body.
However, nobody was sure how they’d react if they found out that a man’s soul was possessing her body right now.
“It must’ve been hard,” Alex said.
Snow bowed again and pointed to the front. “That’s the true Izanami Shrine, but we didn’t find Carol Rockefeller. And as for Blood Witch, we heard that she’s dead!”
“What?” Alex froze.
It took him quite some time to discover that the Blood Witch was their only hope of saving Hayley. Nonetheless, she was dead.
‘Looks like lifting the Blood Curse is nearly impossible now.’
Fairy Doctor asked, “What’s inside the shrine then?”
They then discovered that the shrine was a large spiritual ice palace filled with many Shura demonic objects. All of them looked the same and were extremely unsettling, especially with tens of thousands of them placed all together…
Despite this, they had only just entered the outermost area of the huge palace with several levels. Each level had an abundance of these objects.
Not only that, but these objects seemed alive, breathing slowly as their chests rose and fell.
“These are…” Nora started speaking, but Alex immediately covered her mouth.
Using telepathy, he said, “Stop talking. You might wake these things. We’ll be dead meat if they notice us.”
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They quietly looked around but didn’t dare venture any further into the place. After that, they retreated without making a single noise.
Each of them held their breaths in suspense, not daring to breathe too loudly, afraid that they might wake those creatures. For them, these were all just too shocking.
After retreating to where the formation circle was, they let out a deep sigh of relief.
One of the female ex-Flying Eagles said, “What were those?”
Going by the name of Stella Soo, her nickname was Bunty, mainly because her skin was as fair as a little lamb’s fur.
In actual fact, she was indeed mixed, with her grandmother being a Korean. She was quite powerful as well, having achieved the first level of Spirit Severing.
“The Japanese have always been quite ambitious. So I’m guessing that this is their secret base, and they’re preparing to wage war against us Americans. I wonder how powerful those things are? If I knew, I would’ve killed all of them just for fun,” chuckled a burly man.
Although Stella rolled her eyes at him, her expression gave away that she was in love since the two were actually dating.
This was Yohan Jacobson, nicknamed Butcher in the Flying Eagles. He was second to Jade in matters of power as if he were a strong meat grinder.
Martiny shook her head. “This probably wasn’t the work of the Japanese. They wouldn’t be able to breed these in the first place. With all the demonic Chi in there, I still think it’s the work of the Blood Cult.”
“These are Forerunners!” Alex suddenly spoke in a serious tone.
Everyone looked at him as Bunty exclaimed, “You know what these are, Alex?”
“Y’all still remember the Blood Shura we encountered in the Kala temple? The Blood Cult is most likely the forerunners of the Shura Army that came to this realm.”
“We just killed Carol Rockefeller back in the Higurashi Shrine, so there are still ten lords left. These people have all been possessed by Blood Shuras, and the end goal of the Shura Army is to conquer this realm and turn us, humans, into livestock.”
“Uhm…” Everyone was stunned.
Butcher smiled. “Hey Alex, you’re just making this up, right? That’s just… Too unreal.”
Fairy Doctor said, “It’s true. I even locked one up in my Demon Tower Prison. It’s Shura Spiderwoman.”
Butcher was surprised. “What’s that?”
“It’s the amalgamation of a human and a spider.”
“This thing… Actually exists? How can a human and a spider even… Do that? Is it a demon spider?”
Bunty spoke up, “Oh shut up, you silly Butcher. Let Alex continue.”
Butcher stared back at her lovingly and actually kept his mouth shut.
Alex said, “It’s not made up. Shura Spiderwoman said it hers elf! And I saw a sealed memory back in the temple too. Three thousand years ago, a large group of enemies attacked the temple, causing a terrible war. Over 30 thousand monks died, and even Ksitigarbha was badly injured. And the enemies were both the Shuras and the Undying Clan. They teamed up.”
Initially, Alex didn’t want to tell them this secret, but the situation appeared to be worsening by the minute. Unable to handle it alone anymore, he had to reveal this secret They would only be able to discuss a way to defeat them if they combined their powers… This wasn’t something one or two people could handle. This was a matter that would affect all of humanity.
Everyone was shocked to their core.
“What else do you know?” Martiny asked.
Alex replied, “I also know a place called the Spiritual Valley Dungeon, where many of the Undying Clan live. They’re indeed undead, that’s for sure. No matter how many times I tried to kill them, they’d instantly revive!”
“The same thing happened to that dungeon 3000 years ago too. Spiritual Valley City is now nothing but ruins. And I managed to catch a glimpse of their history as well.”
Bunty was curious. “Do tell, do tell.”
“Dwarves had used to live in that very city,” replied Alex. “And when billions of undying attacked, a goddess from the League of Cultivators brought along an army to assist the dwarves. However, they were still utterly defeated in the end.”
“A goddess? Who is that? How powerful is she?” Snow asked.
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“Divinity, I think!” replied Alex.
Everyone gasped in fear. It was already quite difficult to get to the Immortalization stage, and Divinity now only existed within ancient records.
Many didn’t even believe that Divinity existed in the first place. It was simply an unimaginable concept.
Fairy Doctor was smart and connected some of the dots. “So you’re saying the Undying Clan and the Shura teamed up to attack our realm, forming the ancient boundary, and the defense border that the Supremes set during the Stone Ages was to protect us, mortals?”
Alex nodded. “That’s what I thought too.”
Fairy Doctor continued, “So not only do demons live in the boundary, the Shura and the Undying Clan are there too?”
“I’m not quite sure about that.” Alex shook his head. He then pointed towards the shrine. “Inside are the Forerunners, demonic objects the Shura Army made. They’re mainly used for invasion, and they have the power to infect normal humans with viruses that will turn them into a Shura death army.”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s face turned pale.
‘Oh god, this is scary! How many Forerunners are in there? If they wake up and rush out of the shrine, would humanity even survive?’
Butcher stared at him with a stern expression. “Are you sure everything you just said is true?”
Alex nodded.
“I’ve encountered some of the people who have been infected with that virus. And they look like… What’s he called again… Oh, Voldemort. They’re so weird and ugly, but they’re actually university students from Long Beach,” said Martiny.
Alex added, “And quite a few cases are going around in Long Beach too. All of them would lose control of their minds as if they turned into beasts. These people have also been poisoned with the same venom we found in my master’s body.”
“Commander Benmore?”
“That’s right.”
Snow spoke up. “Master, we can’t leave these things here. If they wake up and rush out, they’d cause an apocalypse.”
She was talking about the Forerunners.
Alex replied, “Me too, but how are we supposed to kill them? There are so many of them here. Tens of thousands might attack us once we kill one of them.”
He then paused and asked, “How did you even get in here? Are there no other people here in this shrine? Is this weird spiritual ice stone palace the only thing here?”
Nora said, “Of course there are. We were following some people here, and we ended up battling them in the formation circle. All of them died, and two of our members were sacrificed as well.”
When the word “sacrifice” was mentioned, the members of the Flying Eagles looked quite sad. They might be used to death and sacrifice for the past few years, but they still mourned every time they witnessed death.
No one realized that the palace was slowly becoming warmer. It was no longer as cold as it was before.
When Alex retrieved the ice crystal marrow, he didn’t expect it to have any other functions besides freezing the people in the circle. It controlled the temperature within the palace too. The ice elementals within the marrow, along with the spiritual ice stones, formed a large formation circle altogether. Hence, the Forerunners within the palace were hibernating.
This was also because the Forerunners within the palace weren’t mature yet.
However, now that it was gone…
Crack!
One of the Forerunners moved its arm, dropping chipped ice to the ground.
After that, it slowly opened its blood-red eyes.
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Roaaarrrr!
Suddenly, a long, frightening scream came from inside the palace. Echoes resonated throughout the entire area, turning Alex and the others’ faces pale.
“Did you guys hear that?” Nora asked.
“Oh sh*t! Have they woken up now?” Butcher had big eyes, hence widening made them look like they were bulging out.
“Oh no!” Dawn looked towards the palace as her heart sank to the bottom of the sea.
Martiny said, “We can’t let them get out of this place. Not only would Japan be demolished, but they might also get to America, then spread around the entire world.”
Alex nodded. “Let’s get to the entrance. As long as we stand guard, we might just pull this off.”
Everyone thought it was a good idea. Guarding the entrance meant that they didn’t have to deal with that many Forerunners in one go. They took their weapons out and rushed toward the palace entrance.
Alex called out to them. “Wait, let me put a Zharvakko formation circle there, or we’ll be in trouble once we get infected by those creatures.”
He formed it with great speed, not wasting any time. He drew out a Zharvakko talisman and formed a ten meter formation circle at the door with his blood as a medium using his fingertips.
However, before he could activate the circle, one of the Forerunners noticed Alex. It looked like a jackal that walked on two feet. It had long limbs, a pointy mouth, and blood-red eyes.
It landed on the ground with a loud thud but was slightly confused after watching Alex’s rapid movements.
However, five seconds later, its instincts kicked in. It let out a long roar before lunging towards the entrance.
“It’s coming! It’s coming!”
Alex wasn’t the only one there. Everyone else knew they were facing a very formidable opponent.
Everyone’s spiritual energy was radiating, especially the ones from the Flying Eagles. Since they were all super-warriors, who had followed Jade through life and death, they’d never back down from a fight, but instead, great bloodthirst within them would be triggered.
Boom!
The demonic Chi within the Forerunner boiled.
As it was ten meters away from the entrance, it leaped from the ground and hated its sharp teeth.
“Let me have the first kill!” A chubby man rushed up to it immediately, holding two half-meter-long swords. He might be 220 pounds, but he had quite the agility. Swiftly swinging his swords, he managed to slash two deep cuts into the Forerunner’s stomach, causing its blood to splatter all over the place.
He even ended up being drenched in blood.
The Forerunner fell to the ground and was unable to get up at all. It let out a sad wail before taking its last breath.
The chubby man was Gordon Gutierrez, but he had an elegant nickname within the Flying Eagles, which was Danseur.
With just one attack, he managed to get the first kill. Danseur randomly posed in a dance position. “Hehe! That’s not that bad. It’s not even as durable as those wolf demons back in the boundary.”
Bunty joked. “Hey Danseur, you’re getting fatter again. If this goes on, you won’t be able to find a dance partner.”
Danseur kicked the Forerunner’s corpse and smiled. “Will you be my dance partner if I go on a diet?”
Bunty smiled sweetly. “You have to ask my man.”
Butcher grinned and hugged Bunty’s waist. “I haven’t had meat in days, so I’m pretty hungry. Hey chubs, think you have too much meat for your own good?”
Attempting to suck in his tummy, Danseur said, “Show off too much, and you might off yourself earlier!”
“Oh, get lost! No one likes you, chubs!”
“…”
Alex lifted his gaze to look at them and thought that these people seemed quite interesting. Such a dull battle needed some spice, after all.
It was then that he sensed something. He took a glance at the Forerunner’s corpse and yelled. “Careful! Below your feet!”
“What’s there?” Danseur lowered his head.
The corpse jumped up out of nowhere and bit Danseur on his back.
“Oh!”
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Danseru screamed in pain.
Next to him was Butcher. He had already taken out his ax to cut the Forerunner’s body in half.
Alex then reminded them, “I remember now! You have to chop off a Forerunner’s head to kill it completely.”
Butcher lifted his ax and chopped the head off.
Shift!
Danseur took his pants off and noticed that his wound had blackened. Shocked, he exclaimed, “It’s poison. Oh sh*t, I won’t become one of the Shura’s death army, right?”
Everyone looked extremely gloomy. Alex then formed a talisman in his hand and jumped into the Zharvakko formation circle he just made.
Shing!
Rays of red light glistened as a formation circle with talismans floating around formed on the ground.
Alex said, “Don’t worry, just stand in here, and you’ll be better in a bit.”
Danseur hopped into the circle immediately.
At the same time, Alex felt as if flows of wishing power were being inserted into his body. Not just one, but ten.
That meant that everyone except Snow had given Alex some wishing power.
In just a few moments, a puff of black smoke came out of Danseur’s wound as it healed at an extremely rapid pace.
Danseur slapped the dust off his behind gently. “Oh man, it healed!”
He then laughed and gave Alex a thumbs up. “You’re amazing, bro! It’s nice to have a doctor on the team. I ain’t gonna be scared of getting hurt anymore.”
Just then, the situation in the palace escalated. That last cry that Forerunner let out seemed to be a signal. In just a few moments, heavy and rapid footsteps emerged from the depths of the palace.
There seemed to be numerous Forerunners lunging towards them from the turning point.
Butcher stood at the front and yelled, “The main dish is here! Everyone, prepare for battle! We will risk our lives to protect America!”
Bunty pouted, “We’re not part of the Flying Eagles anymore, why do we have to cheer?”
Nora said, “We may not be in the Flying Eagles, but our spirit didn’t die along with our titles! Otherwise, we would be disappointing all our brothers and sisters who died! ”
In just a few seconds…
“Wield your sword and protect America with your life!”
Those nine encouraging words filled the halls, as the enemy came closer and closer to them…
Boom!
The gory and horrific battle had begun. Within a minute, several heads of those Forerunners fell to the ground.
Dealing with one on their own, the group was able to overcome these beasts with ease. The only problem was that they had no idea how many were still in the palace. One kept coming after another as if there would still be more no matter how many they’d killed. More importantly, the Forerunners seemed to strengthen themselves through cannibalism.
Five minutes later, there were thousands of heads onthe ground.
However, their killing speed started slowing down, and there were different types of Forerunners with varying strengths. The precious ones only required one attack to chop off their head. Yet, now, they needed to swing their swords twice to do so.
“This is bad. We’re going to be exhausted!” Fairy Doctor moaned.
Not only were the others out of strength but Alex was getting drained out as well. Since he was the “weakest,” he was basically… the one they had to protect. Moreover, the entrance wasn’t big enough for the whole team, and he didn’t even get the chance to slay any of these beasts.
However, maintaining the Zharvakko talisman formation was draining him faster than everyone else. If he didn’t receive that gift from the Pindola, he would’ve fainted by now.
It was fortunate that these people could still help increase his divine power despite fighting off the enemies.
Nora said, “Would killing them accidentally produce extremely powerful Forerunners?”
Alex, on the other hand, noticed some energy flowing underneath the palace. Upon further inspection, he realized that this place was just one big formation circle.
He rushed to observe it and yelled back to the team, “I have an idea! This place is a big formation circle and the spiritual ice stones are the source of its power! This palace is a Forerunner hatchery! We can use its power to blow up both the formation and this palace itself!”