Chapter 494: Elemental Gate

Chapter 494: Elemental Gate

As the battle concluded, Leena rushed to Sein’s side.

The Iron-Backed Black Ape had succumbed to their attacks.

The sporadic twitching of its limbs was nothing more than the last reactions of its dying neurons.

Leena, also detecting the activities to the west, turned to look in that direction alongside Sein.

“Should we check it out?” she asked.

Over the past three years, Sein and Leena had gone through a great deal.

Their experiences ranged from fierce battles to internal conflicts among knights and mages of the same rank, as well as the witnessing of rare phenomena within the secret realm.

Their journey to the Knight Continent was intended to hone their skills and broaden their knowledge.

Thus, when Sein detected a peculiar elemental disturbance in the western jungle, his first instinct was to explore further.

Driven by a thirst for the unknown, curiosity was a wellspring of growth for mages in the Magus World.

“Let’s take care of this black ape first, then we’ll check it out," Sein suggested with a nod to Leena.

Together, the two mages quickly processed the massive Iron-Backed Black Ape into valuable magical components.

This Rank One creature was likely more valuable than the Noctowl Stag Sein had previously hunted with Guinness and others. Visitt novelbin(.)co/m for the latest updates

Its larger size and greater yield of materials was one of the many advantages.

After extracting the crystal core from the Iron-Backed Black Ape, Sein was astonished to find the creature’s heart still beating.

“This heart is an exceptional material for synthesizing undead chimeras, particularly prized by the black mages of Blackhaven. It could fetch between two hundred to three hundred thousand units of souls there,” Leena remarked.

Blackhaven suffered from a notable scarcity of tangible resources, energy crystals and magicoins were seldom circulated there.

As a result, souls became the primary medium of exchange.

The souls Leena referred to were specifically those harvested from lower-tier beings below Rank One.

In the Astral Realm, souls also served as a common currency.

Some powerful black mages, capable of trading with distant otherworldly beings through magic, mostly used souls in these transactions.

These black mages predominantly sourced their souls from ordinary humans in the Magus World.

Sein and Leena were not the first to arrive. By the time they reached the gate, about a dozen knights and mages had already gathered around it.

Among the crowd, Sein noticed a creature with a blue fishtail and a crab.

Though similar in appearance to a mermaid, the fishtailed creature was actually a “sharkfolk”.

During his travels along the southern coast, Sein had come across the “Half-Sharkfolks”—hybrids of humans and lesser sharkfolks.

The blue-tailed sharkfolk before him, however, was clearly from a more noble lineage.

This marked Sein’s first encounter with aquatic races within the Knight Continent’s trial zone.

The moment Sein and Leena arrived, they immediately drew the attention of the gathered knights and mages.

Having freshly emerged from a battle, their unsettled powers radiated an intense elemental aura, broadcasting to all their formidable presence.

That caused the blue-tailed sharkfolk and crab to shift uneasily outside the elemental gate.

After another glance at the elemental gate before them, the two aquatic beings chose to depart silently.

Their departure stirred no reaction among those gathered around the elemental gate.

As the dominant races in the Magus World, both knights and mages harbored an innate aversion to aquatic races, viewing them as foreign and alien.

Despite this cold reception, no overt hostility was displayed toward these aquatic beings.

Having joined the Magus Alliance, the aquatic races were recognized members of the Magus World and thus deserved a basic level of respect.

The gate before them was not opened yet, so Sein and Leena waited patiently along with the other knights and mages.

While waiting, Sein and Leena activated their Aura Restraint spells, suppressing their previously intense and conspicuous auras.

This shift did not go unnoticed; rather than reducing the scrutiny from the surrounding knights and mages, it intensified their fears instead!

Leena had learned the Aura Restraint spell from Sein.

This ability, inspired by Tourmaline’s unique aura restraint technique, effectively concealed their auras, rendering their true strength almost imperceptible to the untrained eye.

As they waited, the crowd continued to grow with the arrival of more knights and mages.

Among the newcomers, Sein recognized a familiar face.

“Hey, Angreas!” he called out to the Rank One Kermoine Serpent Warlock who had just arrived.