"What? Why would you choose to enter this cursed sinkhole? The non-magic tolerance environment of this place is not very ideal for your body." said Sky, rather concerned and anxious.
"Don't worry, after you destroy that statue, the magic press of this place had been weakened a bit. Well, despite the fact that the magic pressing effect here is still stronger compared with the magic pressing effect in Null Dimension, but at least we are able to use basic to average level of magic in here right now." said Chris.
"Ah... So, it actually works..." Sky mumbled.
"Yes, which is why I decided to take the risk and enter this sinkhole." said Chris.
"I see... Hold on! How about the others? Did they follow you as well?" said Sky as he forced himself up to look at the surroundings more clearly.
And to his surprise, he only sees Chris, Junior, and the two siblings that somehow got tied up at the corner.
"Well, as you can see, it's only Junior and me. I am not that reckless to risk everyone else's life. Junior insisted to follow me here as he still think that it was his fault for the error in the aircraft's autopilot route. As for those two ladies, Jimmy insisted they are bad people and wanted me to tie them up, and so resulting what you see right now." said Chris, in a casual tone.
"Uh-huh... They might not be the best kind of people but it seems like we have some serious misunderstanding here..." said Sky with an awkward smile...
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After Sky explained the whole situation to Chris, Chris released Tata but still keep Lili tied up firmly since Jimmy is furiously stopping them from doing so.
"There you have it, I was planning to release both of them but Jimmy doesn't allow me to, just like how he insisted to get both of them tied up." said Chris, who is obviously throwing the ball to Jimmy.
In fact, Chris didn't even plan to release Lili since the beginning as he realized what Lili had done to Sky, or rather, he almost killed Lili if it's not Tata the one that begged for mercy once again.
After Chris briefly explained their current situation to Sky, they started exchanging the information they got about that cursed sinkhole. Sky told him about everything the spirit lady told him, while Chris showed his geographical analysis results of the sinkhole in the form of a detailed geological map.
"Oh my! You actually made this in such a short time frame? What an amazing efficiency!" Sky exclaimed.
"Well, Junior helped a lot too. Anyway, based on what you said just now, we will need to find all the hidden statues in order to break through the magic press and get out of this place, right?" said Chris, rather thoughtful.
"Yes, but the problem is, aside from the four publicly known statues which are already a hard task to find, there are an unknown number of undisclosed statues hidden all over the place, which are totally impossible to detect." said Sky.
"Let's just look for the remaining three of the disclosed statue. I believe with such an obvious weakened effect by only destroying one of the four, these four are actually the main magic block and give the most of the magic pressing effect. By destroying those four, it will be sufficient enough to balance out the magic force around this place, thus breaking this so-called 'curse'." said Chris, explained everything in detail.
Sky nodded, agreeing with Chris's point of view while amazed by his analysis and observation ability.
"And now we need to find out why they chose that spot as the execution spot and put up that statue on there." said Chris as he studied the map in detail.
"Eh? There was a special reason for that? I thought it was just because it's the town center." said Tata, sounds a bit blunt and naive.
"My dear lady, I seriously don't think that spot was originally the town center, like who the hell will put up the execution spot at the town center." said Chris, while emphasizing 'my dear lady' in a sarcastic tone.
"I wondered if there is anything to do with the geological structure? After all, I have a feeling that the unknown religion preach did that magic block on purpose, they probably planned to sink this place since the beginning, although I definitely don't know why they chose to do so." said Sky.
Chris nodded, agreeing with Sky's words.
"Mmm... I was thinking about that as well. Let's see... if I am not mistaken, this is the spot where we found the first statue..." said Chris as he marked a spot on the map.
"Hmm... I probably should leave this for you, it's your specialty after all." said Chris as he passed the map to Sky.
Sky accepted the map and proceed to study the map in detail. After studying for a short while, Sky marked three other spots that surrounded the first spot in a triangular formation.
"Surprisingly, there aren't any specific characteristics for the spot where I found the first goddess statue, thus I assumed that as a center of a triangle. Which actually quite makes sense since the sheer force from four angles isn't strong enough to disturb the balance of such a huge area as it's distributed so widely thus depriving the magic block effect. This triangle formation, however, despite having a smaller coverage area, it is more focused thus stronger." said Sky as he pointed at the map...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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