Chapter 368: Prototype S16ir112... Part-4.

Chapter 368: Prototype S16ir112... Part-4.



"I literally have no idea why he would come to this place... He must have taken that token to copy it or something..."

While walking through the garden, Liam kept complaining to Rio with an annoyed look on his face.

"Sigh, if Principal Raji had arrived on time, I wouldn't have agreed to give that token to him at all; I was already feeling it that he was up to no good..."

While walking beside Liam, Rio couldn't think of anything to say.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Liam was letting out his frustrations, and there was no point in talking to him at the moment, so Rio was just lending his ears to listen to those complaints.

'If even Liam doesn't know what he could be aiming for... then what might Neo be planning?'

Rio has read through the whole novel, and Neo was always a mysterious type of character who kept supporting Fade for no apparent reason from time to time and never really showed his face in public much.

'An SS-ranker with evil schemes in mind can definitely do a lot of harm for the entire world...' As the plot has nearly completely deviated from its original path, Rio has no idea what Neo is trying to accomplish by illegally trespassing into the dragon valley.

Illegal trespassing is a crime in every country, and if SS-rankers trespass into your nation, then it can basically be considered that the other party is declaring war on you.

After all, SS-rankers are a country's trump cards; if they illegally enter a country, that literally means that the other nation has declared war and you need to respond accordingly.

The only relief is that the dragon race is not part of the world alliance, so they can't accuse the whole human empire of illegally letting their SS-rankers enter the dragon valley.

Still, this is no small matter; if this isn't solved properly, the dragon king has the right to put them all in jail.

Then this matter will turn into an international matter, and things will keep escalating.

And once Ashtel Rex leaves seclusion, he will obviously come over to rescue his son.

That would create friction between the world's two strongest people, and that's not good news for the whole world.

Just the mistakes of one SS- ranker are enough to cause massive chaos in the world; that's why there are so many restrictions placed on them by the world alliance.

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"Yo! We met again, Rio!"

When the group arrived at the garden, Fenix was already waiting there while leaning his back against a tree.

He was chewing on the apple he plucked from the apple tree.

Seeing Rio arrive, he patted him on the shoulder and gave a big smile to the rest of the group.

Link and the others rolled their eyes at the sight of Rio being so friendly to a random SS- rankers who popped out of nowhere.

In the first place, it's already very rare for Rio to make friends, so the group was quite surprised to see him being so friendly towards Rio.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to say it, but I would love to drink some more of your handmade tea if there's a chance for it in the future..."

"Also, I found an old artifact I liked to use in my younger days; you can have it; I don't have much use of it now, but it might come in handy for you..."

Fenix handed over a wooden mask to Rio.

The mask seemed very ordinary, and it didn't even have a mana stone embedded in it to show that it's a magical artifact.

It seemed more like a randomly made mask created out of wood by a novice craftsman.

"No wonder Neo came to this place... It turns out, the divine prototype is located in this

place!"

Rio and the others had no idea what this so-called divine prototype actually is and why it's so important. Not even Fenix knew about it, and it seems the only person who knows about it in the whole dragon valley is Idri himself.

Seeing the confused look on the group's faces, Idri explained things in short.

"Once upon a time, my father told me about a legend... He said that when Mana first descended to this world... a strange building also appeared in the world out of nowhere..."

"Whoever entered that building and came back told stories that it was made up of extremely rare materials and it was named 'Prototype' of some sort..."

"My father said that this building used to exist in the Akurla River Basin area at that time, and

it disappeared eventually..."

"Even I had considered this to be just a mere rumor, but who could have thought that all this

was actually true..."

If not for the fact that Neo found this place by some means, even Idri could have never found

it, as even the mana detection of an SS ranker wasn't able to detect this hidden underground

building.

"It's as if this building is completely immune to detection type skills. I have been to this region many times before, and I never noticed this place before..."

No one knows the dragon valley more than the dragon king himself, and if even he doesn't

know about something that's hidden in the dragon valley, then there's no way others will

know about it.

Which brings up the question: how in the world did Neo manage to find this place without even being a dragon and not even knowing about the local legends.

"Forget it... Let's not waste time here; we should head inside..."

The whole building is buried underground, but this teleportation circle that is located on the rooftop of the building can be used to teleport inside the highest floor of the hidden tower.

The whole group stood on the magic circle, and Idri embedded his mana into it to activate the magic circle.

The whole group got teleported instantly as the circle lit up brightly.

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Author's Notes.

Yo! It's your beloved author here!

Question of the day.

What do you think this hidden underground tower is hiding?

(Tell me your thoughts in the comments)

By the way, don't forget to use those power stones!!