Chapter 7

Mysterious Key

Avery was able to make something appear out of nowhere.

The reason was that Avery had a spatial storage-type supernatural treasure. This type of treasure was very rare and uncommon.

Everyone’s gaze shifted toward this exquisite black thorn wooden box.

Gurney wondered about the “special key” that Avery was referring to.

“A special item?” Black Dill who rarely spoke took the initiative to ask.

“Yes, but not really,” Avery answered in a low tone. “Two months ago, through my connections, I met with the lucky sole survivor of an adventurer group. This group had a real Transcendent in it, but even then, almost all of them had died near Howling Canyon.”

Howling Canyon.

Everyone heard this with a grim expression.

The supernatural wilderness was not a place where anyone could step into.

Not only were those areas dangerous, just the supernatural insects or beasts with various special abilities, or even those supernatural spirits that only specific methods could exorcise, would be enough to kill a normal person in three days with no corpse remaining if they foolishly wandered into the supernatural wilderness.

And within Alto Mountain Range, on top of the dangerous land, there were also the remnants of the Gnome Ruins Civilization.

These civilizations and ancient ruins were all located in supernatural areas.

Among which, Howling Canyon was a special place with supernatural power in it; it was also the ruins of one of the four great ancient civilizations.

Supposedly, many adventurer groups went deep into Howling Canyon and went missing without a trace in the end.

Howling Canyon was a highly dangerous territory. It was said that deep within Howling Canyon, there was a mysterious house called Howling House. It would appear at unimaginable places, opening its mouth and waiting for adventurers to enter. Once an unlucky adventurer went inside, it would shut its mouth.

When it opened its mouth again, the adventurer would be completely gone. In his place, a new accessory or furniture would appear in the Howling House; it could be a painting, flower, or even a new towel.

These completely unfathomable and strange “special entities” existed in these supernatural areas.

It was not a place where a typical supernatural team could enter. Even they did not dare to enter, not to mention Gurney’s group, which was made up of apprentices.

“The guy who managed to escape with his life has lost all his guts. He no longer dares to get close to Howling Canyon. Thus, he sold this special key to me. It is their group’s only gain in Howling Canyon. We went through an official transaction document. He signed it with his own blood. This key is real and not a counterfeit.”

Hearing Avery’s words, everyone’s expression turned to shock as they looked at each other.

Adventure and exploration, but that did not mean they were seeking death. Even though the few of them were adventurous and had a desire to explore mysterious lands, they were still clear about their incapability to explore places that were extremely dangerous or threatening to their lives.

At this moment, even Gurney was slightly shocked.

Towards the north of Sugar Ruins City, the huge area of mountains and plains was part of the supernatural wilderness. When the group went on explorations, they would avoid those truly dangerous supernatural areas.

Even so, when they explored ordinary supernatural wilderness areas, they still met with a lot of danger. They had experiences of escaping with heavy injuries.

Even an ordinary wilderness area was like this…

Now, they were trying to head to a supernatural area that had an extremely high probability of death! This was simply asking for a one way trip to the afterlife!

Everyone was silent; the atmosphere was quite tense and gloomy.

As his gaze swept past everyone’s faces, Avery, who had a tight expression, suddenly smiled.

“There is no need to worry,” the smiling Avery said. “I am clear about our group’s strength. Why would I be so foolish as to enter a supernatural area?” The young but mature Avery had a good grasp of reality; he was not a foolish youngster with unrealistic dreams.

“You guys know this too. The periphery of Howling Canyon is no different from those ordinary supernatural wilderness areas, and this special key points to an area that is at the outer edges of Howling Canyon. Even though it is still dangerous, our group is not weak either. In fact, we are not any weaker than a supernatural team. We will also have the key’s guidance for directions. I believe that the danger of this exploration is not high. Even if it is, we can still retreat in time. Also…”

Avery paused before softly speaking again, “We all know that even with our families supporting us, those supernatural tokens are still very few in number… Even if our families possess those supernatural tokens capable of allowing us to walk on the supernatural path, we are still not the priority. They will be used on the most capable inheritors.

“Our goal in taking the risk to explore the wilderness plains was to find these supernatural tokens and equipment, or those special items that are even more valuable than tokens. This is a very good opportunity that is also quite promising for us.

“How about it?” Saying so, Avery looked around.

After some silence, Yulair answered first, “If it is only the periphery, we can go and explore it. If we need to enter deeper than that, I will disagree.”

“I hold the same thought,” Pavel added.

“Same,” Gurney said succinctly.

Everyone else also pointed out their opinion.

Everyone wanted to get their supernatural token. Even if the likelihood was not high, they had to try their luck first.

“Hmm, since everyone agrees, we will go on this exploration! Next week, we will be having the wilderness plain practical lesson that lasts a week. As usual, I will be requesting for our group to take independent action. At that time, we will explore the mysterious land that this special key points to.”

Half an hour later, after the details were explained, everyone got up and ended this group meeting.

By the time they left Dolan Club, it was already late at night.

The yellow and red gas streetlights on the side of the road illuminated the surrounding area in a slightly distorted way, but it was still bright enough for people to see what was going on around them.

Avery, who wore noble clothing, got onto his family’s horse carriage. Along with the sounds of wheels grinding against the stone floor, he quickly left everyone’s sight.

Under the shade of a nearby lamp, Gurney who watched the entire scene rubbed his temples.

“I feel like something is wrong, but I cannot say for certain what it is,” Gurney muttered.

A gust of wind blew in this night sky filled with darkness and mist. Gurney felt a slight chill. He pulled up the collar of his shirt.

“I need to make more backup plans. There is no harm in being prepared against any situation.”

“There are only ten days until the wilderness plain practical lesson. It will be enough time for my Knight Breathing Style to raise my physique to a certain level.

“Over at Teacher Ourock’s side, I have almost enough points now. Even though that method to develop the origin pool is not the true cultivation way to expand it, it will be sufficient to allow my body to store up more origin-force energy. After all, my body is extraordinarily strong. Once I have enough spell origin force…”

Gurney’s lips curled up into a smile.

“Have you ever seen… a human turret?”