Chapter 708: Could

Chapter 708: Could



[Quicktime Event Cleared]

[Enemy of Earth - Completed] [Winner: Sylas Grimblade] [Top Dog Reward Received]

[Against All Odds Reward Received]

[Merit Reward Received]

[Quicktime Event Cleared]

[Fork in the Road has become a single path. You cannot harm Vesta Fembroise's life for <30> days]

[Merit Reward Received]

Sylas was taken aback.

He had been almost certain that the system wouldn't give him such a good deal. He hadn't been able to use the Madness Key to ask questions while he was frozen in time like that, but he was quite confident in his assessment.

At least he had been...

Sylas exhaled a breath, realizing that maybe he had been in such a wound-up state of mind that his base assumption had just been to prepare for the worst, but in the end, the system hadn't decided to screw him over in the worst possible way.

Still, there were still several other issues with this problem, like how he was going to get the weak Vesta out of here, and that problem reared its ugly head immediately.

Vesta's Aether skin was already rapidly deteriorating. In another few seconds, she would probably be charred to ash by the heat in the surroundings.

It couldn't be forgotten that they were in an active volcano, and since the last time Sylas had come to this place, the heat was even more potent as Earth matured. It was just that his defenses right now were insane.

Because he wore the Scorpion Warlord Armor, his base Defense not including his Constitution was 1500. That meant that someone needed an Attack of at least that much before they could even do Damage to him.

But the best part was that his Scorpion Warlord Armor, after reaching Breath Mastery, so long as the Runes weren't entirely destroyed, could self-replenish with Mature Aether.

Because of all of that, Sylas hadn't thought about his Defense a single time since he entered this volcano, while by comparison Vesta had previously been protected by the system's barrier which replenished faster than the magma could harm it.

Sylas' eyes flashed and the Beast Totem appeared once more. He felt a pang in his head as his lacking Wisdom began to rear its ugly head again, but he took deep breaths, circulating in full

force.

With his focused attention, Sylas found his mind recovering much faster than before and the pain slowly receded.

Over 10 minutes later, he opened his eyes.

Now that the Quicktime Event was over, he could escape.

The obvious choice was to run into this volcanic Territory, but Sylas couldn't do this for

several reasons.

For one, he didn't know where this place was. It wasn't among the Portal maps that the Grimblades had given him. He couldn't find himself stranded in another country so soon after he had just returned. Castle Main's situation was perilous and they needed him. Second... he couldn't allow the Snail Queen to keep living when it had grown so much since the last time he had seen it. Not when it had an Overlord Quest for his head. Something also told Sylas that this Overlord Quest was a huge deal. If he was careless, who knew if others had abilities like his Madness Key to "steal Destiny." At that point, would something even more dangerous than the Snail Queen be coming after him?

No. He needed to end these matters today.

But first, he would need to disappear, and all of this trouble the magma had just given him likewise gave him the best way to do so.

"Let's go." Sylas said.

With a stomp of his foot, he pierced through the sea of red and gold beneath his feet, diving

into the magma.

When everyone above thought that he had already vanished or escaped into the Territory, he would return when they least expected it, from the location they least expected.

And while he was doing it... he wouldn't mind gathering up large amounts of what was now

the most valuable ore on Earth.

As much Metarock as they had managed to gather in the underground space, Sylas' rudimentary geomancer knowledge, gained from the booklet, told him that there was most definitely far more hidden in locations others couldn't easily get to.

But he could.