Chapter 81 - Meeting Him

Narukami in the Furasa clan's main house frowned when sensing this. The feeling was not only incorporeal but somehow familiar, it was as though meeting an old friend's back and until you see their face, you wouldn't know if that person was your friend.

Anyway, the inner region had a few gardens. It was simply a huge house with many corridors which extended to the mountain.

The structure of the inner region was, without a doubt, rather weird and confusing. Sometimes Narukami felt like he was in a labyrinth.

Thankfully, with a navigation system (Furasa), he managed to reach the fifth floor. However, even Furasa was confused about where to reach the sixth floor.

"Furasa, how long will it take to reach your brother's room?" Narukami asked.

Furasa replies quickly, "about seven hours."

"What?!" Narukami began to doubt his ears.

Seven hours! That's enough for ordinary people to sleep through the night!

"Wouldn't it be troublesome for you guys if you want to buy something from the outside? Or if you want to get out of the house."

Let alone step your foot into the outside, one couldn't even walk that long without a break! So adding the break, it would probably increase to around ten hours!

Furasa giggled sweetly which caused Narukami to be dragged from his thoughts.

"What's wrong? Did I say anything wrong?"

Furasa stopped and said with a smile, "seven hours is for ordinary intruders. They are slowed down because of the protective ruins and talismans around the region; in consideration of many corridors which are purposely built for intruders to make them confused, I say seven hours are needed for them to reach the core region."

Narukami was somewhat stupefied and said inwardly, they go this far just to fight against intruders? Isn't modern security technology like fingerprints, laser, eye scanners enough?

Indeed, in many houses where important people live. They didn't bother to make their house so complicated like a maze.

As it was a waste of money.

Unless their residence hid a quite precious treasure. Something more valuable than any diamonds, Narukami smiled but soon his smile vanished as the shadow came closer into the mysterious library.

He felt a sense of urgency as he kept getting closer. However, he didn't know what that urgency was, it was extremely vague.

But one thing for sure, it was something bad, something dangerous.

Narukami had to finish the matter here before going into that mysterious library and check what was going on.

*How long will it take for me to reach your brother?" He asked calmly.

"At this speed, probably around thirty minutes."

"Then a change of plans, we are going to teleport to your brother's room," Narukami said hurriedly as he halted his pace.

"Do you have some kind of map of this place? Without a certain set point, I couldn't teleport,* Narukami explained.

After a few breaths of pondering, Furasa replied, " there is but that map is in the core region, we need an hour to reach there."

Narukami pinched his chin and thought of his next move for a few seconds. 

After a few moments of racking his brain, he got something.

"Could you see the core region from the sky?" He asked with a frown.

"You probably could," she replied with uncertainty.

Narukami didn't say anything any further and crouched down before his body shot upward like a spring. He crashed through a few floors before seeing the blue, bright dome of the sky but he didn't stop there.

His body kept flying upwards. Reaching the peak of Level 8, flying was as easy as walking.

When his instinct told him to stop, he followed it and cast his gaze downwards.

"So this is the inner region?"

From the big house and walls around it which separated the outer and inner region to the entrance of the core region, there were many corridors on the foot of the mountain and after a few distances, it connected to a large house.

This large house then connected to another large house. The latter was located slightly higher than the last one. So on and so forth until they reach the peak of the mountain, where the core region was.

By the way, the corridors were like tunnels, whoever inside couldn't see outside. At this point, with all the corridors looking exactly the same, people inside weren't aware that they were in truth heading to the next large house instead of staying at the house that separated outer and inner.

He knew this was a good thing but if they kept advancing without knowing getting closer to the core region, without preparing to be exact, their deaths would come before they realize it.

Perhaps there were many vicious and ruthless traps in the last large house.

"Where's your elder brother lives?" Narukami asked after brief sightseeing. He lifted his head to the peak of the mountain and still saw corridors extended upwards to the next large house.

In this aspect, it looked like gigantic stairs with the landing ply as the large houses whereas the corridors were the stairs.

"Senior, it is at the peak of the mountain," Furasa replied.

Then Narukami was able to imagine a scene in his mind. A person with long hair fluttered in the wind, his face was so handsome that it could let any lady do anything for him. His gaze looked down at the world in disdain, viewing everything as nothing but ants.

He was like a sinister and evil immortal who had woken up from his slumber, ready to cause destruction and ruin the order.

Of course, this was only Narukami's imagination of what Furasa's elder brother looked like. Until he met him, he wouldn't know.

"Okay," Narukami nodded, and soon afterward, a black bud swallowed him whole.

Before this, however, Furasa was confused as to why Narukami was suddenly in a hurry but she didn't ask, for she was afraid of getting on his nerves.

Narukami, on the other hand, felt unwilling to let a treasure that was hidden somewhere in this place escape from his grasp just like that but he had no choice, he must know when to control greed.

Successfully teleported to the peak of the mountain, Narukami looked around as his line of vision gradually got used to the brightness.

Engulfed by the black bud was akin to being trapped in a completely dark place where you couldn't even see your own skin.

"The runes and talismans didn't activate?" Furasa blurted out a question with a frown.

"My teleportation can go through everything. These ruins and talismans are made by experts amongst experts but as long as it wasn't created by gods, before me it doesn't matter," he explained calmly.

After saying this, Narukami remembered the seal around Aya's house. It was definitely something created by a certain god.

What is sealed that a god itself handles it? Narukami thought to himself and temporarily put the thought at the back of his mind.

As Narukami was thinking, Furasa secretly admired Narukami even more. He basically could do everything and anything appeared useless before him.

To think such a guy was the one who helped her, she was more than happy. Who wouldn't admire a guy like Narukami?

"Senior, thank you." Her eyes flickered with warmth.

Narukami who teleported in the air softly landed and was slightly surprised that she suddenly said thank you but managed to figure out what she meant.

"It's not the time to be grateful just yet. Until we meet your brother, everything can happen," he warned her solemnly but instead of listening to it attentively, she sweetly chuckled.

Narukami couldn't help but raise one of his brows.

"What's wrong?"

Furasa shook her head as she said, "No, I just think it's funny. Despite the fact you're powerful, you never brag in front of anyone and always be humble. Different from how most Sorcerers always brag about their powers but in truth are as weak as ants."

Narukami smiled.

He had thought of this before but didn't think about it that seriously but now that Furasa had said it, it was rather true.

Although most of Narukami's recent fights didn't encounter these Sorcerers. He knew sooner or later these fools would appear.

"It's an honor to be praised by a beautiful lady," he joked as he bowed gracefully as though in front of him was a noble lady.

Furasa chuckled and then, her expression turned as her smile disappeared.

"Senior, I'm very pleased that you let me handle my brother alone, this may sound ungrateful of me but will you hear my request, senior?"

Narukami hesitated and said, "go ahead."

Furasa nodded, "senior, could you leave my brother and me alone? I understand you've come this far to hear his explanation before dying in my hands but I need some time alone with him."

"Can I still explain his explanation?"

"But of course! However, after that, this little one humbly requests you to leave us alone," she requested politely.

After a short pause, he calmly answered, "very well, but if you're in danger, just say."

Furasa heaved a sigh of relief and said as she bowed to the point of her forehead reaching the floor, "this little one owes you a favor."

Narukami smiled warmly, "Raise your head, this request of yours isn't too much."

Furasa lifted her torso and went back to her original position as she nodded.

"Prepare yourself, I'm going to let you out from the space shadow."