Chapter 1211 What Lies Below

Chapter 1211 What Lies Below

It took several hours of excruciating rounds of hide and seek with various close shaves with death, as the remaining four Ascendants dodged the forests of tentacles until the opportunity for escape came once more.

In the months they had stayed in this maze of darkness they had learned to adapt their movements and reaction to this place, throwing out everything they knew about Calamity gods and relearning how to survive.

This was a terrifying concept because, after millions of years of endless battle, the capabilities of Calamity were documented and understood, nothing in all of history could explain this number and the weird nature of this darkness that had imprisoned them, plus the clear sign of intelligence that had lured the Ascendants into this place.

They needed to escape, this was bigger than them all, and if the Ascendants were not warned of what was coming, they would not understand that the world was already lost.

Ascendant Verana took the risk and whispered to the three Ascendants beside him, "We are at the final stretch of this journey, and we shall make it out alive. Everyone needs to understand that this war has changed. Be steadfast and aim for the light, none of us would have made it to this point without each other, and we shall make it out of here together."

The tired bodies of the last three Ascendants straightened, they had sacrificed a lot to reach this point, many of them giving their lives so the Ascendant Verana their leader could survive as long as possible because they believed in his leadership and visions, and in times like this, there was no better option to give them faith.

Now that Ascendant Verana was watching for it, he was the first to observe the changes, and without hesitation, he manifested three more arms, drew a rune on the other three Ascendants, and injected it with three percent of his Core Aura, with their frayed nerves the three Ascendants discovered his actions a little too late and their bodies were unwittingly launched to three different directions while burning with intense light and repulsive force.

Their cries of rage and despair were swallowed by the excited shrieks of the Calamity gods and Verana used the opportunity to disperse the last of his Aura around himself and launched himself towards where he thought his salvation lay using only his physical abilities.

He tried not to consider the fact that if that was the truth, then he was the best candidate to create that diversion, since he was the strongest but not necessarily the fastest, and he could have become the bait and allowed the Ascendants three chances to make it out of here alive.

Ascendant Verana looked back once more and then opened both palms as he summoned the last of his Natal Treasures, a pair of gloves, the darkness made no distinction in what it ate, and Natal Treasures degraded extremely quickly inside this place until it was destroyed, which was one of the major reasons the Ascendants lost their lives so quickly.

At the third Dan, even losing his Natal Treasure was not a crippling blow since he could reach across Memory and retrieve them again, but the cost was so high that he could not do that while inside this crater that devoured energy.

In the distance, the last of the Ascendants he had betrayed had fallen, their lights vanquished, and not wasting any more time, the green gloves lit up like a star, and ignoring the surprised shrieks from the Calamity gods, he slapped both palms above him into the barrier.

The shockwave that resulted nearly pushed him back, but he gathered his resolve, burned his Core Aura, and pushed back, his body blazing with so much energy that it pushed back tens of thousands of tentacles reaching for him, and although the darkness gleefully collected all this power he was giving out, the barrier before him had a crack that slowly grew until it reached a few inches across, for Verana, this was enough.

Shrinking his Ascendant body and keeping back his last Natal Treasures that seemed on the edge of collapse as they appeared extremely worn, he slipped into the healing crack, and he saw sunlight...

Ascendant Verana almost burst out laughing with glee, but then his eyes widened when the light he saw began to increase, from one to a thousand then ten thousand...

"By the light, what is this?" mouth agape, Ascendant Verana realizes that he had not made it out of the crater into the heavens, instead he had gone below the earth, from the place where the Calamity gods were emerging from.

There had always been curiosity about what lies underneath the calamity gods, but the backlash from harming any of these creatures by the World's Will was so terrifying that no one could come up with that answer.

Ascendant Verana in his final moments wished he had never known this answer as he was covered by the lights.