"Is that.....Yup, It's a flock of birds... Haha..." Adam tightly hugs the neck of the crow, Upon seeing that a lot of griffins were approaching them, As he bitterly laughs.* Why do birds keep coming on to me!*
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"Say your last words king Acheron! This might be also! Your last day to see your precious loved one" While still raising the blood cane. A small dark red orb was beginning to take shape on top of it.
"NO!!! What did yo-...Damm*t!! General! Leave your squad! And find-" Mouthful of blood spurt from the mouth of king Acheron without him realizing. Dizziness came and that's when he saw the blood cane pierced on his stomach as he fell.* I can't die yet...*
Then adam crashed at the place where the dying king Acheron is.
"Wooo! That was...that was horrible!! You f*cking chicken! Don't you know how to fly?! Wait, You can fly earlier...But! why didn't you used your stup*d chicken wings to safely land! You almost got me killed!" Adam was so busy lecturing a big crow that was laying flat on the ground as he was standing on it that he didn't know he's in the midst of a battle.
"Senior, Who might you be?" When adam came crashing, Elder ma almost wet his robe that a person he didn't know suddenly showed up without him sensing.* It's a mortal!! No wait, Mortals cannot survive that fall and his beast... It can hide its cultivation!! Beast of that caliber must be a sovereign grade or higher!!*
So he politely asked adam who he mistook for a senior of a well-known sect that supporting the Kingdom of Acheron who he didn't know.
"Who might you be old man... What is the kingdom's name! Wow!" Adam heard someone's calling as he finally noticed what was happening in his surrounding.
"Ma Elliot of the Empire Of Zulim, Senior. A GrandElder 1st stage Qi and just a lowly king of a 3rd rate kingdom" Respectfully answered by elder ma together with a two fist bumps bow.
"Oh...You are the king here then?"
"Uh..."
Feeling curious adam jumps down in front and looking closely at elder ma from head to toe.
"Ah no, Judging from your get-up..."
(Swoosh) Then he got sweep by the crow upward flying in the sky.
The shocked Elder Ma continued to looking at adam who's silhouette was getting further and further away. *(Sigh) I almost get my head chop off.*
*If it wasn't for my quick-witted personality my head would be rolling by now. Who knows that senior can also hide his strength and his beast companion is by no means weaker i can't see their cultivation....black flames...bla- Nirvana!!! It cant be!!*
(Choooop!!!)
Elder ma's head came flying and started rolling onto the ground literally, Behind him was a man holding a spear standing with tattered armor and few black flames still igniting all over his body without burning his skin or armor.
Touching his stomach that was pierced by a cane before, Was now fully healed and his organs are working properly like nothing even happened. *That senior helped me heal my wounds and even gave me a chance to breaking through from the ruby realm, I can feel its energy qi expanding all over my body!.... My daughter!*
"GUARD-"
"Your Majesty! Someone has seen princess Leila along with Neil opening the castle's underground temple going to seek some help from outside"
"WHAT?!!" Then where are they now?!!"
"I believe they took the route to the forbidden passage of the elves! Your Majesty!"
The general solemnly reported while still maintaining his general aura.
"Support them immediately!!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
*If I'm not mistaken they must have a spy who can use a mind signal ability that can track the princess! Just waiting to ambush!! I swear! If something were to happen to my daughter!! I'll pulverize your entire empire bit by bit!!* The spear that the King Acheron was holding formed a crack from anger*
(Underground Temple)-Below the Castle of Acheron-
The castle's underground has three paths leading to somewhere and one of them is the forbidden passage of the elves. Ever since the clash of the gods this temple stood for a million years and just accidentally be found by the first King of the Acheron naming it an underground temple.
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(Ruins Of The Elves)
Meanwhile below the surface of the ruins, A large maze passage, There was a young woman with a compass-like hologram that has words floating in it that only she can see that keeps on blurring.
"Princess, Are you sure this is the right path? I think we've been going on circles" Neil asked worriedly who was protecting the princess in the side since he found her among the people which were evacuating in the kingdom.
"Yes, I'm sure!" Princess smiled reassuringly.
*I'm certain the trigram won't lie! Even when i was still in my mother's womb they told me that my mother was constantly guiding me how to use this trigram through her innate qi that was flowing onto me, Though many accuse me of the death of my mother. I know for a fact that although she passed away giving birth to me, I know that she was living inside the trigram leading me until now! So i will continue to follow what the 'Fortune Of The Trigrams' tells me!*
"(Sigh) Suppose your right princess..." Neil pondered inwardly. *I've been having this eerie feeling ever since we took this path!.... It's like there's a pair of eyes constantly observing us from above.....Hope the princess is right*
"Look! Neil, We're nearly there!" Upon seeing a small light glimmer in her sight the excited princess walked faster to it.
"WAIT, PRINCESS!!!"
(Shieek!!)(Shiieek!!)
Princess Leila suddenly stopped when she heard the strange sound. The light she saw earlier was now replaced by a greenish human-like monster holding a torch with pointy ears, a small squatting body with bloodshot eyes, and a drooling gape mouth that was gazing at princess Leila and Neil as its food.
"A goblin!! But how? would it appear here? And at the passage of the elves of all else!... Summoning magic!! It's not the only one!!" Neil got frightened as he took the hand of the also scared princess and they ran off.
Then light after light after light keeps emerging behind the goblin and more of them came out. But the princess isn't scared of the goblins but what was behind the goblins, A pair of snake eyes appeared looking at them as they continued running further and further away.