Chapter 657: This place looks familiar I
Kyle wanted to vanish, but the Celestial spirit in front of him emitted a melodious sound, unleashing a surge of pristine spiritual energy in all directions.
The shield Mia had created around the spirit shattered instantaneously, and the spirit advanced towards the silver-haired man with unbridled force, seemingly intent on enveloping him completely.
Alec and the others watching the scene from below were shocked at the sight. They immediately yelled at the silver-haired man to retreat and rushed toward him.
The noise emanating from the spirit grew louder, causing Kyle to freeze in place, his eyes fixated on the colossal, shapeless figure with wings hurtling towards him.
The spirit moved so fast that he wasn't even able to blink, let alone teleport away. But just before it could reach him, another similar voice echoed in the air. The atmosphere trembled as a massive surge of spiritual energy burst forth. This energy repelled the spirit advancing towards Kyle, and he teleported away into the distance.
"This bastard..."
Kyle's eyes narrowed at the formless creature that had just tried to swallow him, his gaze filled with anger.
He wanted to tear the spirit, but he had more pressing matters at hand.
"Where did the other voice come from, and what pushed the spirit back!?"
He extended his scent perception skill, and his eyes widened as he felt another spiritual entity swiftly approaching his location.
"Another spirit...?"
Kyle's words hadn't even faded in the air when another colossal spirit burst out from the land below him.
The spiritual energy in the air grew so intense that it rendered the air motionless, causing cracks to form all around.
"The hell!?"
He cursed loudly, and everyone who was rushing toward him froze in their spots to watch the two massive spirits that began fighting each other in the air.
The air trembled and erupted with two different melodious, soothing sounds as the spirits clashed before surging upward toward the sky, sending waves of spiritual energy everywhere.
Mia's eyes widened as she saw the spirits approaching her location.
She wanted to move, but she knew she would not be able to get away in time, so she readied herself for the impact. Her ears started bleeding as the spirits' voices grew louder and nearer, but before their formless bodies could make contact with her, her whole body was engulfed in a somewhat unstable portal that lit up before her.
Mia let out a startled gasp when she entered the portal, only to emerge from the other side. She closed her eyes when she saw her body getting dangerously close to the ground, but someone grasped her waist before she could crash into the ground.
"That was close..."
A familiar voice resonated in her ears, causing her to open her eyes in surprise. Carcel smirked when she gazed at him.
"Aren't you gonna thank me?"
He gently lowered her to the ground. The others behind him had their eyes wide open in shock. What just happened? Did Carcel just create a portal? But how? He had never studied arrays! In their group, only Susan, Kyle, and Elijah could do that!
Kyle, who also wanted to create a portal to save Mia from the spirits but stopped in his actions when he felt someone else doing it, too glanced down at the golden-haired man with a raised brow.
Carcel could feel their gaze. He hadn't started studying arrays because he knew the profesion was tough. But he at least wanted to learn to create portals. So, every time Kyle conjured a portal before him, he would carefully follow the symbols the silver-haired man employed in his mind.
Just now, witnessing Mia in danger, he felt the urgency to rescue her and instinctively tried to replicate the symbols Kyle would use to create a teleportation portal, and managed to succeed somehow.
He glanced back at the group of people staring at him as if he had something monumental and unattainable.
"What? After observing Kyle creating portals for so long, I'm confident I can at least create a basic portal, can't I?"
Mia grabbed his arm with a smile. Nine and the rest give him proud looks. Now that one of them had learned to create teleportation portals like Kyle, they were certain they would succeed soon as well!
Completely unaware that the silver-haired man's anger towards them was not over yet, but fortunately for them right now, he didn't have time to punish them.
Kyle glanced at the two massive spirits fiercely battling in the sky.
"I don't know if I should be grateful or not that they're both fighting each other to get the essence in my body..."
His eyes turned icy as he glanced at the spirits. He truly wanted to end them, but soon another would do it for him.
His bloodline had started to get restless inside his body after he arrived here.
Kyle moved back, and blue flames burst from his body, creating a barrier that would prevent the spirits from coming down. It would give the people below enough time to flee once the spirits were distracted.
Right after that, he disappeared to swiftly locate the last suitable spot to position the treasures and activate the array he had inscribed all over the ancient tomb.
Alec and the rest who wanted to inform him that the tomb was going to explode within twenty minutes... No, the remaining time was even shorter now, couldn't stop him as he
vanished.
Zron and Asher let out frustrated shouts as their hands grasped nothing but empty air when they tried to grab Kyle. The half-dragon glanced at Alec.
"What now? We don't have time! He ran away again!"
Amidst the commotion, suddenly, Bia's eyes lit up, and she shouted.
-"I can contact him! He just lifted the barrier that was preventing me from reaching out to him! I can even track his location!"
Right away, everyone huddled around the phoenix with hopeful eyes as she tried to reach out to Kyle. They were desperate for her to convey the message that the tomb was about to explode within a few minutes! It didn't matter if the silver-haired man was the one causing the explosion or not; he had to stay with them!
However, all of a sudden, the spirits fighting in the air let out loud and agonizing cries,
causing them all to cover their ears.
The flames Kyle had let out in the air to make a barrier that would prevent the spirits from descending toward the group disappeared instantly into nothingness.
Asher squeezed his eyes shut and released a pained groan as an immense pressure bore down
on his body.
"What in the world is going on now!?"
Unlike the others, he was at the supreme rank... if he was in such a state, what would the
others be going through?
The countless people who had gathered around the scene due to the loud noises and were observing while concealing themselves also fell to their knees.
All of a sudden, everything froze entirely as if time itself had come to a standstill. Even the spirits froze in their positions.
Alec and everyone around him released their ears as a dark aura permeated the surroundings, completely consuming the spiritual energy in the air.
The bright sky turned dark. There was a moment of total silence, then a cracking noise reverberated through the air.
Hearing the sound, everyone slowly looked up at the sky, only to witness a large crevice forming above the two spirits, who were the sole source of light in the darkness that had
engulfed everything.
A big obsidian eye with two purple slits blinked open from the crevice and gazed down at the
scene below.
Alec stared at the huge eye in a daze. The others around him were in a similar state. It was as if they could not move at all in the presence of the person who was peering down at them with
an empty gaze.
The eye glanced at the two spirits and vanished back into the crevice. Instantly, the people staring at the sky sighed with relief, thinking that whatever danger was about to come had
passed.
However, before they could shift their gaze, a mix of dark purple and red energy oozed from the crevice. Then, a figure shrouded in darkness stepped out from the crack.
It was a handsome young man, who appeared no older than twenty with dark hair. But the pair of purple eyes he had was entirely devoid of any hint of emotion.
He slowly glanced down at the group of people kneeling directly beneath the two spirits first. Then he looked around in every direction where he could sense the presence of living beings
"This place looks somewhat familiar...?"
A quiet voice resonated through the air as the black-haired man started contemplating why the place he had arrived felt so familiar, as if he had encountered it before. Meanwhile, Nine, Asher, and those who had seen the black-haired man previously in the ancient memory began to turn pale. But they could not even move an inch in his presence, let
alone confront him.