Book 1: Chapter 208

Book 1: Chapter 208

I was convinced by Fatty's words, so I helped him get the paragliders sail ready. When he took that leap of faith, I thought I would see an angel with folded wings flying to the opposite side crookedly, but what I really saw was a weight falling straight down with a flag streaming behind it.

Fatty screamed and instantly fell into darkness. I cursed in my heart, that idiot fell to his death. As the glow from his flashlight disappeared, the sail finally opened and plunged him into the darkness.

We all looked at each other.

Black Glasses shined his flashlight at the place where Fattys light had disappeared into the darkness. Visually, the distance was very far. We had originally thought that the place Fatty was aiming for should be the ground, but Fatty's trajectory just now was obviously headed for more empty space below.

We were silent for a while until we heard Fatty's quiet call from below, "One of my teeth got knocked out and the opposite side is full of leather figurines. I kicked one down, so does that make me a Maitreya (1)?"

We all breathed a sigh of relief and I called back to him, "Can you be more reliable? If you fall and die here, we can't collect your ashes."

Fattys only reply was, "Hurry up! Let's fight back here."Updated from novelbIn.(c)om

When we shined our flashlights down, we couldn't see Fatty at all. Poker-Face frowned and I immediately knew that it was bad. He obviously didnt realize that this place was so deep.

I now knew whether Poker-Face had control over the surrounding situation just by looking at the slightest change in his expression. It was completely different from the past when he had to push me to run away before I even realized that I was going to die. I had been relatively calm the whole way here, thinking that he wasnt particularly nervous about the surrounding situation. But at this time, I found that his facial expression seemed a bit off.

"What did the plaque on this floor say?" I asked, looking past Poker-Face at the abyss below.

"Tranquil Calamity (2)," Black Glasses answered.

All I could do was turn it off immediately, while cursing in my heart. Great, just great. Where's Poker-Face?

There was a bang from above, and then a flare flew down and exploded at a point slightly above our position. Indeed, they really are well-equipped.

Under the huge bright light, I was able to get a full view of the opposite wall for the first time. I saw countless leather figurines stacked up layer by layer. Their skin was covered in sulfur husks and had blackened to such an extent that almost all of the colors had been worn away. There were also various kinds of musical instruments on these leather figurines. Even through the decay, it looked like most of the figurines were placed in one position.

This was a concert hall.

When I looked behind the leather figurines, I saw a huge mountain crevice that extended from above like a lightning strike. It was full of those bronze, scale-like reeds.

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TN Notes:

(1) Maitreya is a bodhisattva who will appear on Earth in the future, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma. According to scriptures, Maitreya will be a successor to the present Buddha, Gautama Buddha (also known as kyamuni Buddha). More info here.

(2) Remember that god-awful chapter 191? Tranquil Calamity is 10-21. In English, its basically a sextillionth (aka a really freaking tiny number).

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Count yourselves lucky. I was so close to posting an unedited chapter as an April Fool's joke, but thought that would be too mean/confusing for some people lol.