Chapter 732 The Fourth Trail Begins[Bonus Chapter]
"The same reason why you're also still climbing and not leaving yet..." She answered him cryptically as Zeras looked at her for some time before he shrugged.
Whatever treasure Snache wished to retrieve from the higher floors, it had absolutely nothing to do with Zeras.
"Congratulations to all of you who have been able to pass the third trial and now preparing for the fourth..." The gentle voice rang out as they all raised up their heads and saw the flying Faerie buzzing with sprinkling light.
"But I have to inform you that the fourth floor has close to a 90% chance of you all dying within, as recorded through the past 10 eras of otherworlders entering through this tower. So, for those of you who want to step out now, you are free to do so. You have a minute..." She said to them and without much surprise, Zeras saw some otherworlders disappear from the space.
They might have willed their mind to go before, but after what the Faerie herself said, they felt no more will to go.
A minute passed and out of the 50 otherworlders that were still remaining, a total of 20 decided to quit, leaving only 30.
"I believe you thirty have already made up your mind to partake in the trial and nothing can change your mind.
Then I can only wish you all good luck and hope you all don't meet your end..." The Faerie said to them and in the next instant, she started drawing in the air with her strange magical wand.
But Zeras's eyes furrowed when he figured out that this time her wand, instead of her usual golden, was pitch black in color, and quickly, she drew open a vortex in the air.
It was a pitch-black vortex that screamed of madness and danger.
"Don't die, okay?" The voice rang out beside Zeras's ears as he watched Snache walk past him and she was the first to disappear into the portal.
"Just what the hell does she even want?" Zeras mused to himself but her act was enough for the others to also begin walking towards the portal and disappearing.
He also walked into it. He didn't have a choice, until he finally finds the ring.
Then, once he does it wouldn't make any more sense to keep climbing and that was when he would leave.
In the next instant, the entire world went pitch black and Zeras disappeared into the darkness, melting into it as if he was initially one with it.
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"DIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"
CRAAAAAAAACKKK
He felt his ribs crumbling within his body and a massive amount of blood gushed out of his throat as he was catapulted into the distance with horrific speed.
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP
"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!"
The roar echoed beside Zeras's ears and before he could think of his next move, a bony hand clasped onto his face and then...
BAAAAAAANG
BAAAAAANG
BAAAAAANG
BAAAAAAAAANG
BAAAAAAAAAANG
Unendingly, Zeras was forcefully smashed through entire meteorites, spurting out blood repeatedly, his gaze growing foggy and the only thing he could see was the smile of the titanic devil whose claws held onto his face, tearing through him through the meteors.
"This is not your place, weakling!" The devil whispered in his head before suddenly the ground beneath it sank in for ten meters and then it burst up with speed, disappearing out of the galaxy's atmosphere, leaving nothing but an unfathomable deep crater on the ground, with Zeras nowhere to be found. -------------
Deep within the crater, there was absolutely no light to be found, the entire world as dark as hell.
Ftom within the abysmal cracks...
The sound of an heart faintly beating it could be heard. It was low, so low it could almost be ignored but it was as clear as day that there was someone or something who lived beneath.
"Weakness!"
"Sluggishness!"
Those were the emotions Zeras could feel as he laid there within the pit struggling to hold whatever amount of life he had left within him.
But that itself seemed like an impossible task...