Chapter 625 – Black Cradle

Chapter 625 – Black Cradle

Wrath told Nick where he had to go, and finally, Nick found out where he was.

He was in the western part of the Grand Continent. More specifically, he was between two very big bodies of water, which were around the same size. If he walked a couple hundred kilometers to the southwest, he would be entering the northeastern parts of the War Continent.

Nick knew the continents and what the world looked like, and with this information, he could finally go back to Aegis.

He just needed to fly towards the west for a couple thousand kilometers.

Even more, Nick wouldn't even need to be afraid of Wrath.

On his way to his mission, Nick could just fly to the west, and he would arrive at Aegis' headquarters before Wrath even realized that Nick had betrayed him.

His path home was open.

However, Nick decided against returning to Aegis for now.

The opportunity he had received by being "forced" into servitude was too good to pass up.

If Nick could keep working under Wrath for a couple of years, he could help humanity a lot.

His job was to get rid of the influence of other Corruptors in cities and give control over to Wrath's servants.

Of course, in the short term, this just meant exchanging one monster for another.

If Nick did a good job, Wrath's territory would expand greatly.

And then, as soon as Nick returned to Aegis, everything would crumble in an instant, freeing all the cities Nick had given Wrath.

'I can do a lot of good by working under Wrath,' Nick thought. 'I can help thousands of people. Maybe even tens of thousands.'

Before Nick left for his first task, the CZE of the Priesthood gave Nick some basic information that he should know.

After all, Nick was now part of Wrath's side.

The Seven Corruptors, except for Greed, had their own territories.

The reason why Greed didn't have any territories was that having a territory would mean being bound to a place, which would make it easier for some of the Adversaries to track him down and kill him.

When Nick heard that essentially the entire world was already divided between the Corruptors, he grew surprised.

He knew that their influence reached far, but he hadn't thought that the entire world was already divided among them.

When Nick asked about the other Fallen, the CZE just said that they didn't matter.

After some talking, Nick found out that the Corruptors' territories could essentially be viewed as empires and the Fallen territories as city states.

Fallen generally didn't mess with any of the servants of the Corruptors.

While the Corruptors were not immediately dangerous, most of the time, their superiors, the Trio of Destruction, were.

Messing with the Corruptors meant messing with the Trio of Destruction.

Only very few Fallen, like Greed, could get away with doing something like that.

While the Specters seemed to be united under Death's banner, things were obviously not that peaceful beneath the surface.

It seemed like War was launching an attack on Famine while Pestilence just watched.

Of course, the actual Trio of Destruction were not actively fighting each other since Death didn't allow them to.

It was just their servants doing the fighting, and the Trio was simply not stopping them from fighting.

After Nick had received his target, he left Cross Mark City and traveled towards the north.

He flew past a couple of cities and reached the mountain range between the two big seas again.

This time, he flew past the mountain range towards the northwest.

Nick followed along the northern border of the big sea until he arrived at a peninsula.

This was where Nick's target was.

The southern border of the peninsula, which bordered the big sea, was covered with tall mountains.

The peninsula itself was around 100 kilometers across, and there was one city controlling this peninsula.

The middle of the island was quite hot due to the magma vein beneath it, and humans couldn't possibly live there.

The name of the peninsula was Black Cradle due to the magma vein beneath its surface.

However, some incredible ruins were in the south of the Black Cradle.

One of the mountains had been practically hollowed out.

Aegis believed that the hollowed-out mountain was made during the era of the Suffering Ones, which meant that it had been made relatively recently since the era of the Suffering Ones was the era preceding the current one.

The Suffering Ones were known for being very isolated from each other, and almost half of the underground ruins were made in their era.

The city that controlled the Black Cradle was inside this ruin, and it was called Black Mine City.

The entirety of Black Mine City was inside the mountain, and it distributed the sunlight via expensive materials that could transfer and distribute sunlight.

Big parts of the outside of the mountain were covered in silver plates, which absorbed the sunlight and funneled it into the mountain.

When Nick arrived at the Black Cradle, he could tell that the ground was very different from the usual, beige piles of dirt he could see everywhere else.

Of course, due to his extensive knowledge of human history, Nick knew why.

After looking at the Black Cradle for a while, he turned towards the south, towards one of the biggest mountains.

'This is where my target is.'

'Black Mine City.'

Nick could see the silver sheets of metal all over the mountain, and he saw a couple of big gates at its base.

Black Mine City was one of the most secure cities when it came to defending against Specters.

After all, one needed to enter through one of the entrances to get inside.

At least, normal Specters needed to do that.

Nick just turned into mist and flew towards the mountain.