Chapter 1343

After naming Sapphire, I opened my map to find a completely unmapped area. It was more than that though. My mana wasn’t able to penetrate far, even straight down the corridor. My mana distance was similar to when I first unlocked the Map skill a long time before. At the time, I hadn’t known Map used some kind of 6th sense, as I hadn’t developed my mana sense yet, but my draw distance would have been similar. It felt blinding to the current me, especially given how dangerous this place supposedly was.

“This is the abyss, huh?”

Sapphire nodded silently, her hand tightening on the back of my shirt. I put her into a party with me, and then I cast light. Just like the Map, the light distance seemed to be smaller. It was like the darkness was pushing against the aura of light around me. If it wasn’t for this odd atmosphere, I would have said this place was no different than the rest of the Deep, but as was, I could feel the danger.

“King Diorite said that you would know the way?”Th.ê most uptodate novels are published on n(0)velbj)n(.)co/m

I kept walking, but I felt my shirt being pulled. Sapphire had stopped in her place. I looked back at her. She looked reluctant, but after a long moment of silence, her mouth opened.

“Darkness.”

I waited for her to continue, but she pushed my shirt again, and I finally started walking once again. That seemed like all I was getting out of her. Terra and Garnet had said something about the darkness in that video. The king had also said something that I could recall. He had said my mind was lost to darkness. The farther we walked, did the darkness seem to be closing in? I swore the light distance had shrunk a bit since we had started. It was almost like the darkness was weighing down on us... like it wasted to consume us.

Of course, I was just letting my imagination get the better of me. I let out a soft chuckle, but unlike in the hallways before, there was no echo. The darkness swallowed all noise.