Chapter 595: Janga [Bonus]

Chapter 595: Janga [Bonus]



The world spun around Sylas and he found himself standing on a black ice mirror. In fact, all around him were broken, fragmented reflections of himself and the world. It was hard to see if he would run headfirst into a wall with a step or fall into an endless abyss.

Sylas had thought he might run into a lot of things when he stepped into the portal, but this was the last thing he expected. He thought he might find some clues on the other side, but instead he found more confusion.

He looked around to find that Alex was a distance away. It wasn't far, only three meters or so. But in a world like this one, it might as well have been a world.

Neither of them dared to move without first understanding the situation. But then the world began to shift around them.

Silvery lights bounced around endlessly, changing the geometrical shapes of the fragmented black ice. They became more rapid until Sylas' eyes had a hard time keeping up.

He realized that if the changes to these shapes were also related to the shifts in danger, they might not have a choice of whether they ran into problems or not.

Alex's body suddenly flickered and became a shadow that appeared by Sylas' side just as the latter felt the world spin around him once again.

...

Sylas found his feet landing on smooth limestone. He didn't bother to wear shoes these days because they would only get destroyed, and he couldn't wear Treasures, so he felt the difference even before his vision cleared.

He thought that he was back in the pyramid, only to find that the world around him was nothing like what he might expect.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

It looked like he had been thrown into the middle of a floating, Jenga-like maze of thick limestones.

Sylas ducked as one of the pieces almost took his head off, and his heart skipped a beat as the reverberating clash of two in the distance echoed like a bomb through the space.

The heft of these floating stones was easily in the several tons. Even with his current Strength, he couldn't lift one of these over his head. But now they were floating around erratically.

Sylas jumped up, grabbed one by its ledge, and pulled himself up.

BOOM!

BOOM!

The limestones continuously crashed. Sylas had only rammed the limestone beneath his feet against one of the others, and yet it had resulted in a cascading effect where they all continuously rammed into one another until...

An opening.

The two men shot forward at the same time, scaling through the limestones and soaring out of the Jenga palace. They felt like they were falling through darkness and might have made a mistake until, once again, they suddenly felt the ground form beneath their feet.

Sylas looked back to find a spherical blob of floating Jenga-piece limestones in the far-off distance. It bobbed slowly through the air, moving without much speed, and yet it was a steady mass.

He looked away and forward.

There was a perfect straight stone path ahead that bulged out to form a circular pattern around an altar before continuing ahead in its usual straight form. No matter how far ahead he tried to look, it seemed like the path was endless. Either that, or his eyes simply couldn't see that far ahead.

Sylas walked toward the altar, observing it for a moment. But it didn't have anything special other than a bowl filled with nothing at all.

'Hm?'

Sylas reached forward and touched it. Right then, he felt his Aether being sapped away before a light flashed and then vanished.

It wasn't much Aether at all, maybe the equivalent of a prick of the finger. But the result was

intriguing.

'Ancient Ithkuil. Just one symbol?'

[Author's Note Below!]