Chapter 634: The Strange Book...

Chapter 634: The Strange Book...

Chapter 634: The Strange Book...

Zeras’s vow was as cold and chilling as ice as Val felt a cold chill run down his spine, and his eyes flashed a bloodthirsty light as he looked fiercely at Zeras’s back.

“You underestimate yourself too much...” Val said as Zeras shrugged before he continued searching for the Nine Star Fist book that he wanted.

“You don’t want to use your sister’s life to bet on it, do you?” Zeras replied calmly, his eyes flashing when he finally found what he was looking for. He saw the Nine Star Fist manual, and a big smile appeared on his face as he kept it in his spatial ring before he rose up and continued his walk down the shelves, under the two siblings’ shock.

“Brother, who is that?” Alice asked as she looked at her brother, who had a wet patch behind his shirt. It only confirmed to her her brother’s fear and horror, something she had never witnessed up until now...

“Don’t worry about it, Alice. We leave now though...” Val said as he picked up his sister and walked away from the hall, with Val’s heart still pumping within his chest.

“Quite the strange duo...” Zeras mused as he skidded to a stop, turning the side of his head to look at Val, who slowly walked away from the hall, with the girl sitting on his neck as they disappeared from sight.

From both of them, he sensed a very strange and incredibly strong bond around their bodies, almost like a person divided into two, or like a clone and the real person.

“He made quite the good choice, too...” Zeras thought, thinking back to his threat to the young man.

Of course, he wouldn’t rip off someone’s sister’s head.

He said it to test the strange bond that he had sensed around both figures, and contrary to what he said, the young man, who was definitely a prideful figure, had chosen to retreat for the sake of his sister. It was the first time his adversary had retreated from a simple threat from him...

Still, it was nothing but fleeting amusement for Zeras as he focused back on the mission at hand and turned to look at the end of the east side of the room where he was instructed to look. Just as the old man said, there it was...

An extra-large book, placed within a glass cube and placed on a pulpit in the sharp east corner of the room.

“Hmmmm,” arriving before the pulpit, Zeras looked at the glass and the rusty old book with narrowed eyes, trying to find some sort of abnormality with it.

Yet, save for the fact that it was kept on a pulpit and placed in a glass box at the far east side of the room, there was no visible difference to it compared to any other book around.

“You don’t look special to me at all. But why are you kept away from the rest of the books like some sort of treasure...” Zeras asked as he slowly stretched both hands forward, trying to take off the glass stand.

Yet when his hands touched the glass box, golden runes flickered on its surface, crisscrossing and moving around almost like multitudes of gear wheels rapidly spinning.

Instead of jerking away from it, Zeras simply stood there, staring at the hundreds of rapidly twisting wheels. Soon, he felt a burning sensation in both arms as blood poured out of his burnt skin, staining the glass, which quickly absorbed the blood from his palms. In the next instant...

“Could it be they are all stuck in a different dimension, even though visibly surrounding the castle...” Zeras thought, and his heart calmed down a little, knowing well the creatures, though visibly close, were definitely far away.

Then he was able to turn his attention back to the base of the tower, where stood an entrance—a grand archway flanked by colossal statues of two warrior guardians, both standing at either end of the gigantic tower, their spears propping them up as they stared into the far distance.

“I touched the book that the old fogey said no one has ever been able to take away, and now I find myself before the grandest tower ever.

This could only mean one thing. This tower is a trial tower, and to take the book for myself, I will have to pass the test present within...” Zeras affirmed to himself as he slowly rose up from his knees and walked forward towards the magnificent tower...

Every one of his steps caused the smooth stones beneath his feet to ripple out continuous golden energy waves into the far distance, almost like he was walking on a water surface.

Steeling his heart and nerve, he walked forward, his left hand holding the katana he placed by his waist, and quickly he arrived before the gigantic golden door...

“Huuuu...”

Slowly, stretching his hands forward, they met with the golden gate, a ripple also appearing on its surface. Zeras gathered his strength and pushed, yet the door wouldn’t budge at all, not even a little.

“It’s more than heavy...” Zeras thought to himself, and without wasting a single more second...

“Activate Angered Star Ring...”

**WRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING**

Immediately, a horrifyingly powerful genetic aura burst throughout the entire world as thousands of silvery runic lines appeared all over Zeras’s hands, brimming with an exceedingly chaotic aura...

Clenching his teeth hard, he pushed forward with all his strength...

**DRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM**

Slowly, the sound of the gigantic gate being pushed open rang out as horrific veins and muscles bulged all over Zeras’s hands.

After five minutes of exerting all his strength, the door was finally opened enough to make him pass through a tiny hole.

With a single step, Zeras burst forward with speed, quickly entering the door before it shut closed with a powerful bang that would have no doubt reduced him to nothing...

“WELCOME WEAKLING TO THE TOWER OF GOD!”