Chapter 297
llway and was unable to stop looking at it.
He could sense something familiar from that area.
‘Right, it is the same feeling I got when the signet awoke!’ Angele finally found the answer.
‘I don’t know if the weakened signet can still help me enter Nightmare Realm again. This is perhaps my chance.’ He stared at the hallway and thought of this.
‘Zero, check the energy waves and do a simulation for me.’
‘Task created, a.n.a.lyzing…’ Zero reported back right away.
Angele pushed the door open and walked to the hallway as blue light dots flashed in front of his eyes.
Several seconds later, a bitter smile appeared on his face.
‘Well, it seems I really have to pay it a visit.’
Vivian would definitely not allow him to enter the restricted area once she returned and he a.s.sumed that the mysterious energy wave would only be released if he was alone at this place. After all, nothing had happened when he walked past the room while he was with Vivian.
Nightmare Realm was overall dangerous but there were just too many great opportunities. He wanted to enter the realm without losing the signet.
He checked his equipment right after he decided to go. Angele wanted to make sure he could draw the cursed scimitar at the fastest.
He walked straight through the hallway, but nothing happened.
However, the mysterious energy wave was increasingly becoming intense as he continued to approach the door.
As Angele stood right in front of the door, the golden patterns on its surface started to move slowly.
Countless golden runes and strings gathered in the center of the door like a small flowing stream of water.
Angele silently looked at the golden liquid, then he raised his right hand and carefully tapped on the surface of the liquid with his index finger.
*BOOM*
The golden liquid formed into a small fireball and exploded, causing flame sparks to spread everywhere.
Headquarters of Elemental Hand.
Inside a s.p.a.cious large white hall.
Its floor was as smooth as a mirror and the chandelier it had was luxurious. A large stone table with a shape of an egg noiselessly sat at the center of the hall.
Five wizards sat far from each other around the table.
Vivian’s long dark blonde hair draped over her shoulders and the long red robe she was wearing fitted her perfectly. She was sitting on the right side of the table where she had her chin rested on her palm.
"… We survived this time, but our organization is gradually weakening. Everyone knows that." A white-haired and white-bearded old man was reading from a speech script. "We have followed the three orders given by the council and we need to complete our next five goals in the future. We must make sure that the organization will still be attractive enough to recruit new members and we must…"
Due to the speech being way too boring, one middle-aged man among the other meeting partic.i.p.ants yawned from boredom.
The old man cleared his throat and looked at the middle-aged man. "Quiet! The meeting is still ongoing."
"Sure, sure…" The middle-aged man nodded.
"Come on, Rocky. You are…" Vivian chuckled but her countenance suddenly changed before she could finish speaking.
"Apologies, Elder Master. Something unfortunate has happened to my laboratory. I must leave now." She immediately stood up and pushed the chair away, graveness apparent on her face.
"How bad is it?" the old man asked in a deep tone.
"Extremely bad."
"Alright, you can leave now."
"Much appreciated." Vivian nodded and turned around. Her body turned into a large ball of fire and vanished into the air.
Angele nervously looked at the golden fireball in front of him.
It had been formed right after the explosion of the first fireball. At present, it continued to silently float in the air.
Right after he tried to open the door using the illusion signet he possessed, strange runes were transmitted into his brain through his energy waves. However, the door was being guarded by the dangerous golden fireball.
‘What the h.e.l.l is this…?’ Angele knew he should have proceeded with caution. He made a mistake by directly touching the liquid.
"Ha…"
Suddenly, he heard someone laughing inside the flame.
Angele immediately retreated several steps.
The fireball immediately flew toward him bringing waves of intense heat.
Angele’s fire resistance should already be high, but his skin was being burnt.
*WOO*
The fireball began shrinking and the process repeated multiple times.
"You need to leave now! It is going to explode!" Vivian appeared in front of Angele. "I have told you not to enter the hallway, right? Why didn’t you listen to me?!" she shouted in anger.
"Leave now! You are too weak to fight this thing! d.a.m.n it!"
Angele did not think that Vivian would come back for him.
"I…" He wanted to explain but doing so would reveal his secret. Angele himself knew how dangerous the fireball was and that it was about to explode, but he thought the flame would not inflict any damage to him. The illusion signet on his left palm was answering the call of the golden fireball. Moreover, he also had the intention of directly touching the flame.
"Leave now!" Vivian shouted and raised her hands to conjure a long flame chain between her palms.
Angele knew he had no time to explain so he began running toward the door of the room.
He heard something explode from behind him as soon as he left the hallway. Golden flame and red flame were clas.h.i.+ng against each other. The strange laugh coming from the golden fireball was echoing throughout the whole area.
Angele was blown away by the strong impact of the explosion. He flew away and rolled several times on the floor smas.h.i.+ng into the stone wall outside the door.
He soon heard the noises produced by the collapsing walls and his vision became blurry due to the dust.
Angele saw the room where the world stone was in and several other facilities being swallowed by the thick dust.
The explosion must have destroyed multiple rooms.
"I made a mistake." Shaking his head, he sighed as he leaned against the wall.