Chapter 1001: Awakening Of Madness (3)

Chapter 1001: Awakening Of Madness (3)



Noah Rithmast was there when the Continent of New Hope was destroyed fifty years ago. Not on the continent, a few thousand miles away from it.

As a Deific Ranked Explorer returning from the Plains of Heshkaron, he had always intended to pass by this direction on his way to the Light Alliance, to build up Merit, power, and influence. He was in a hurry because it was a rare opportunity for anyone to be able to gain all three at once.

The continent of New Hope was a new domain that was birthed along the Coast of Perdition, a stretch of land and sea that contained thirty million continents, New Hope as a newly emerged domain was one of the smallest, but there was great potential in this continent because the Calamity ravaging them was at the Glorious Rank.

Noah thought that Hope was a great name for this continent for it was indeed lucky at the hand that fate had given it, when in this Era most calamity began at the higher ranks.Cheêck out latest novels at novelhall.com

New Hope's weak calamity was not an unforeseen situation, although it was rare. If the inhabitants could crush the calamity over their continent, they would have dozens of Glorious Rank Explorers arising from the ashes, and perhaps in an incredible stroke of fate, a Heroic Rank Explorer could arise from the conflict.

Noah Rithmast was here to purge the continent of the Calamity, for a hefty price of course. He doubted if any in the Continent had surpassed Human Rank, and he could find himself the owner of a brand new continent while boosting his ranking up the Deific ladder.

Ridding the continent of its Calamity would inevitably lead to weaker inhabitants, but that could be easily fixed with a careful funneling of weaker Calamities toward the continent, and he could finally create a base of operation away from the war-torn Heshkaron Plains. Even as a Deific Explorer, he could not guarantee how long he would survive in those lands, and after fighting for so long, Noah wanted a place he could rest and call home. New Hope would be the place where he would do that.

He had been delayed on his journey here because he wanted to avoid anyone tracing him to this continent, and he had been irritated when he had to dodge three separate parties that wished to follow him to this place, but Noah had not lived for so long without understanding how to throw people off his trail.

When he had finally assured himself that he was alone, he sped towards New Hope, in the distance he could see the vibrant continents, its beautiful image was spoiled by tens of thousands of spots where flames and smoke were rising. Like all continents in this world, it was always at war. One that he would hopefully be ending soon.

New Hope was gone, replaced by.... Words failed Noah Rithmast.

Massive frozen spikes hundreds of miles tall that filled the horizon like sharp spears and numbering in their billions had sprouted from the continent.

For nearly an hour Noah was frozen with indecision, even when the rumbling emerging from the depths of the earth ceased, Noah did not move.

Another hour passed and then he began to slowly travel towards the grim location, a thousand theories abound in his head, most of them not good, but he knew that he could not be the only one to have seen this event transpire, but he was the closest.

This event did not seem like any Calamity Gate or related to a Calamity event, it was most likely something new.

It was this thought that excited Noah and finally pushed him away from his lethargy, making him move faster, his mind began working furiously.

Looking at the spikes of ice ahead, he looked to the sky and frowned in thought. If this object had fallen from the heavens then it was understandable where the chill came from.

No one has reached the heights of the heavens, even Ascended Ranked Explorers, past a level, the chill became unbearable, and could destroy anything. Either the thing that fell had survived passing through that zone of death, or it might even be a piece of the heavens itself, Noah knew that he might have come across a great opportunity.

The loss of an entire continent had been brushed to one side of his mind as the allure of an unexpected treasure filled his senses,

Getting closer to the continent he began to see the full range of devastation and the allure of treasure in his heart faded, replaced by fear. The full scale of the devastation reached his heart, and although he had seen many horrifying things in his life, a continent vanishing from the map in the blink of an eye was not one of them.

Noah did not know how long it took for him to reach the edge of the continent and saw a massive hole in the middle of the spikes that seemed to descend into the depths of the earth.