Chapter 466: Chapter 274: Majestic Door_2
From here, one could sense the terrifying power of the divine might. Judging by the impact, the Life-saving Hammer could easily demolish a mountain peak. Its speed was also extremely fast, like supersonic speed breaking through a sound barrier, leaving behind an umbrella-shaped trace, the tip of the umbrella heading straight for Ange.
Ange only had time to block the hammer with the Hand of Locke, but the tremendous force still sent him flying backwards, shooting upward like a water jet and eventually crashing up to the sea surface, still continuing to fly, diagonally upwards into the sky.
Ange resisted the hammerhead with the Hand of Locke, reaching out with the Boundary-crossing Hand to grab the hammer handle and give it a forceful twist.
The Life-saving Hammer flipped instantly – the hammerhead behind and the handle in front causing the force of trajectory to be disrupted, making it spin abruptly.
Ange gripped the hammer tightly with both hands, being spun around several times before gradually coming to a halt.
Remembering Negris’s warning, Ange did not use his Ultimate Transformation. Thus, he was now countering the Life-saving Hammer with his own strength. Fortunately, he had the Boundary-crossing Hand and the Hand of Locke, otherwise his hand bones would have shattered long ago.
Despite the struggle, he ultimately did not transform, neutralizing the power of the Divine Artifact with his own strength.
Once he stabilized himself, Ange shoved the hammer into Resting Camp and plunged back into the ocean.
However, all he could see were streams of bubbles; the Goddess of Redemption was nowhere to be found.
Ange followed the trail of bubbles and arrived at the entrance of the underwater cave inside the reef — the boulder he used to block the cave had fallen aside.
Since there were no gurgling air jets in the cave now, it was filled with water. Ange swam in, swam for about ten kilometers and suddenly felt something was wrong. He had originally been swimming downward, but now he was suddenly swimming upwards — the direction of gravity had changed.
Ange was well-experienced in this change in gravity. Whenever he rode the dragon to and from the Resting Abyss and the Holy Kingdom, there would be a gravity line. Whenever he crossed it, the direction of gravity would change.
Now that the direction of gravity has changed, it means the end of the passage must lead to a huge world, huge enough to change gravity.
Ange did not proceed further, but returned to the reef, used the boulder to stop the hole again, and then came out, walking on the reef.
While walking on the reef, he continuously cast the Soil Loosening Technique into the reef, followed by the explosive Forming Technique. The whole reef crumbled and crashed down, firmly burying the big hole and the rock ball together.
Having destroyed Alice’s home, how should he compensate?
On his way back, Ange was thinking about this issue. When he got back to the sandbank, however, he found out that the Sea People were gone.
Bits of frown lines appeared on Shamara’s face as she muttered, “How can I feel that? I can’t even predict anything about Lord Ange...”
Beings beyond her power were impossible for her to foresee, but she could foresee her own fate. She had a premonition that coming here would bring about good fortune. But now it seemed that the ‘good fortune’ had not yet occurred.
“How about...we go over and take a look?” Negris suggested hesitantly.
Ange reluctantly crowded everyone into his space, then set off alone. Although he very much wanted to continue his planting, under Negris’s persuasion, he had no choice but to go back the way they had come.
“I should’ve known better than to step on it.” Looking at the collapsed reef, Ange murmured in annoyance for the first time.
It was as easy to collapse it as it was difficult to dig it out now. At the seabed, none were as nimble as he; they could do nothing and Ange had to do it himself.
He dug out one piece, two pieces, three pieces... His continuous efforts of tossing away the shattered reef consumed the better part of a day before a tunnel leading to the cave was formed. He ended up staring at the spherical stone with frustration.
It was universally known that pushing a ball into a hole was easy, but pulling it back out was hard. And he had stuffed it in particularly tightly this time.
In the end, he had to smash the cave destructively to remove the stone ball. Having ruined the cavern to remove it this time, the stone might not fit as tightly next time.
Ange swam more than one hundred kilometers through the tunnel before crawling out of a well.
This was a big well, with a diameter of seven to eight meters. The water level was more than ten meters below the well’s opening, where a Minotaur aunty was drawing water. Set of stairs were spiralling around the well.
Each time she filled a bucket, she would pull the rope with great force, indicating the people above to hoist the bucket up. “Hurry up, hurry up, get moving faster, it will be evening soon. The wind is going to rise. If we are not swift enough in storing water, no one will have water to drink at night, except their pee.”
“Huh, why are there Minotaurs here? No water at night? Does that mean because of the wind at night, the water from the well will be sprayed elsewhere, leading to a water shortage? Could it be that this is the only well for water?” Negris had been projected on to Ange all this while, conjecturing upon hearing the words.
Ange sprang out of the water.
The Minotaur aunty screamed, picked up the hem of her dress, and fled up the spiral staircase of the well. All the while, she yelled, “Water monster! Water monster! Ah, water monster, help, run!”
All the buckets above the well fell down. The heads of those who had been gathered around the well disappeared all at once. Only echoes of the Minotaur aunty’s cries were left to reverberate through the empty well space.
Ange ascended into the air as if stepping on airflow. Before the Minotaur aunty even left the well, he had already flown out.
Coming out of the well, Ange saw an imposing gateway and a building that he was utterly familiar with.