Chapter 476: Prophet of Life

Equinox, Levin Cloud and Anastacia are still trapped in the collapsing pocket dimension. They have been trapped for about one hour. With each hour, Adrian could feel that the pocket dimension is becoming narrower.

The natural laws started to become weirder and stranger the more time that they stay in the collapsing pocket dimension. A lot of smaller islands started to form as the land became twisted. Each floating island had different orientations. The orientations are tilted, upside down or just straight up floating.

Adrian wanted to fly to make things faster, but he would suddenly get pushed by the shifting gravity of the area. He could not even find monsters that he had encountered her as if they perished. The trees on each island could have been monsters but he did not check. He needed to find the Prophet of Life fast as the dimension is collapsing.

The three of them were actually flung to three different corners of the collapsing dimension. The area that Adrian is in is not full of monsters, but he was flung the farthest of the three from the current location of the prophet. Despite his apparent impatience, he took the sight of the collapsing dimension to heart as his curiosity flared up.

He decided to take note of everything happening around him as he can be caught off guard. Some plots of land that he stepped on either rose in the air or just crumbled into the abyss. The sun did not shine but the whole area is illuminated by some sort of light source.

The thing that Adrian is worried about the is black hole in the distance that seems to be eating away the dimension. The black hole did not seem to have the same properties as the black hole generated by his Vortex skill. The pieces of land and water were al heading towards the black hole though.

Adrian also realized that the only way forward is actually going closer to the black hole. He is trying to sense the type of energies inside the collapsing dimension, but he could not pinpoint the location of life energy. Adrian became more sensitive in perceiving energy but even the energies inside the pocket dimension are all over the place.

He wanted to pinpoint the location of the Prophet of Life since she radiates a vast amount of life energy but that is impossible to do given the situation. He just picked up his pace despite his stamina dropping faster. It seems that the collapsing dimension also has an effect to increase stamina consumption.

"I must hurry and find the prophet! She might be in danger. Who knows who started the collapse of this dimension?!" Adrian thought as he used Polymorph on Saena to make her smaller. He then carried her in his arms as he ran through towards the black hole.

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The area that Levin Cloud is flung to is closer to the area where the Prophet of Life is located but it is crawling with monsters. Fortunately for him, he had Charon and Kanlaon with him as back up. The monsters in the grove are either ents or large insect type monsters which are very weak against Kanlaon.

Also, the levels of the monsters are lower than they imagine so Kanlaon would sometimes one shot them. The only thing that made them slow in progressing is the fact that the area they are in is constantly changing. Small plots of land would sometimes move in different direction and send them to a different island.

Due to the shifting plots of land, Levin Cloud had to ask Kanlaon for a ride across. He did not know whether his instinct is correct because they are heading towards the black hole in the distance. He could feel a source of life energy in that direction which made him deduce that the Prophet of Life is there.

"I do not know where those two are, but I hope that they are heading where I am heading." Levin Cloud told himself as he moved with Adrian's soulbound towards the black hole.

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The area that Anastacia is sent to is close to the Prophet of Life, but she is still father than Levin Cloud. Every ten minutes, she would ask Adrian's soulbounds if they could sense their master, but they would just shake their heads. 

The soulbounds, Sirius and Dodu, could still feel their connection to their master but they could not pinpoint his location. This is one of the reasons that they are not unsummoned. Anastacia is even glad that Equinox has yet to resummon his soulbounds to his location.

It is not that Adrian did not choose to resummon his other soulbounds but it is because he cannot. The connection is alive, but he cannot recall them to his side. It seems that the collapsing pocket dimension is considered as both a small area and a large area at the same time.

She is quite lucky that the area she is in is rather stable but even she feared the black hole that she sees in the distance. She has no idea what direction she should be heading towards, but she also observed the peculiarities of the black hole in the distance.

She had a hunch that the Prophet of Life should not be in the borders of the pocket dimension but at the heart of it. Anastacia has keen observational skills when it comes to the smallest details and even great deduction skills that make her terrifying as a leader. If she became evil, then her ingenious brain would make her the best scammer ever.

"We should head towards that direction. I think even the others are doing the same. We cannot turn back now so can you please help me on the way?" Anastacia stated as she directed her questions to the soulbounds.

She herself has no attack power but she has great healing magic. She knew that Equinox' wolf soulbound has great speed and attack and the slime soulbound is a great physical tanker that even mitigates damage towards it.

Anastacia felt assured that she is not traversing this collapsing pocket dimension alone. Sirius even offered her to ride him because of his excitement to regroup with his master. Dodu made itself smaller like a basketball and let Anastacia carry it.

"It is surprisingly soft!" Anastacia thought as they blitz through the area.

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The Prophet of Life, Vitae, is now running for her life with the hep of the elven sentinels that were meant to guard the elder 'protecting' her. The elder protecting her suddenly started acting strange about a month ago.

The elder no longer cared for the lessons or about her in general as the elder started to develop odd mannerisms. The elder would often look at the mirror for six hours straight without even blinking. Vitae even managed to catch the elder talking to the mirror or rather his reflection.

A few days after that, the elder would often just twitch involuntarily. Even the elven sentinels guarding them started to feel this eerie vibe that the elder is generating. They thought that stress is getting to the old elf because of living inside a pocket dimension for a couple of years.

Even the elven sentinels wanted to get out of the pocket dimension to visit their loved ones, but they cannot. They could only send one person to return every month as per regulation since entering the pocket dimension is an arduous task.

It was at that time that the last scout should have returned made them worry about the outside world. The scout did not return for a week which led them to believe that he fled but that should not be the case. They were under an oath whenever they get outside.

They would die if they do not get back at the appointed time because guarding the Prophet of Life with their life is not an understatement. They also sent the scout to send a team to find the twin brother of the prophet, but no news has reached them. It was supposed to be the last scout that delivered the message, but he did not return.

They wanted to go outside desperately which is why the elven sentinels begged the elder, but he vehemently refused. They did not raise much of a fuss because even the elder seemed to also wants to go outside but the prophet needs to mature before she could venture out in the dangerous world.

The elven sentinels thought that the elder is stressed but that is not the case. The elder in fact is starting to get tired of his or rather its façade. When the elder opened the portal for a brief moment, it felt the energy of its real god present in the main world.

The elder wanted to rush out and glorify its 'real' god but it is told to wait for the moment. It was ordered to kill the prophet, but it found it difficult with the elven sentinels always protecting the prophet. It is then granted a chance when its 'real god' ordered it to utilize the 'item' it was given.

As soon as Vitae entered the learning venue with the elven sentinels, they saw the real face or identity of the elder. The elder that they were with is none other than a faceless one holding a dark cube. The faceless one immediately threw the dark cube on the floor as soon as its real form is discovered.

The dark cube activated and exploded which made the pocket dimension suddenly started collapsing. The faceless one then charged towards Vitae, but the elven sentinels managed to take her and run. Five of the twenty elven sentinels died as they tried to stop the faceless one pursuing the prophet.

Vitae used all her might to send a message to her brother that she is in grave danger.