The Martial Saint Mountain was located within St. Petersburg. Looking from afar, it looked like a blossoming lotus. There were in total 11 mountain peaks; 10 lower peaks circled around one sword-like peak that soared into the clouds. Although there were many peaks, the mountain didn't occupy too much space; its horizontal dissection area only occupied less than five square kilometers.
As if these 11 peaks grew from the ground, they looked very abrupt as there were no other mountains besides them. The 10 peaks on the outside were all very steep as a few mountains were even tilted to one side, and they were all covered with white rocks.
A famous traveling poet made a metaphor and said that the Martial Saint Mountain of Zenit looked like a pair of God's hand that carefully held a sharp sword.
This metaphor accurately reflected the direct impression that the citizens of St. Petersburg had about the Martial Saint Mountain.
A bunch of people including Fei was led to the third peak on the south by the royal guards. This third peak on the south was about 600 meters tall, and it was tilting outwards a little. When people were on the edge of the peak, they would feel like the mountain was about to fall and collapse. Despite that, this peak was still one of the flatter peaks compared to the other nine.
Due to the long-term blockage of the sunlight, it was very humid under this peak. There were a ton of mosses, a lot of grey vines, and numerous poisonous bugs and snakes. This area was usually restricted by the Royal Family of Zenit, and it was very quiet.
At the bottom of this peak, there was a dark and narrow path. It was heard that it formed naturally, and it was refined later artificially. Now, this path led directly to the top of this peak, and all the lucky people who could spectate this Martial Saint Battle all went on this peak through this path.
Before the masters from the affiliated kingdoms came, there were already seven groups of people who walked on this path.
This order represented the difference in status. Fei and the people around him were only masters from affiliated kingdoms, and their statuses were a lot lower than the envoys of the other empires, the Regional Church, and the nobles in the Capital. However, since they were lucky enough to view the battle, there was nothing to complain about.
At the bottom of this peak, Fei and other masters were tightly inspected by a team of royal guards and royal mages again. Only after they reconfirmed the identities of these people and took away everyone's storage rings, they allowed this group of people to proceed forward.
This inspection was really tight.
At the entrance of the path, Fei saw a royal guard holding a purple circular item. This item sent out dashes of purple lights as it scanned everyone. Somehow, the purple light brightened a lot when it landed on one master from an affiliated kingdom, and he was instantly tackled onto the ground and put into handcuffs.
Before they made onto the Martial Saint Mountain, one out of the 25 masters was already gone.
The path inside the peak was a lot drier compared to the bottom of the peak, and there were orange-yellow magic lights that were sound activated every five meters apart. As they walked by, the lights would light up and show the path; after they walked past the area, the lights would turn off themselves.
The path itself had many turns. After passing by a few, it was hard to tell the direction. However, they all knew that they were moving up as the path was on an incline. In fact, some parts of the path were connected with iron chains horizontally, and people had no other ways to get past them except climbing.
Fortunately, the weakest person in the group was a Four-Star Warrior, and path like this wasn't difficult to get by.
With the lead of three royal guards, Fei's group finally saw some natural lights and heard wind whistling sounds after 30 minutes. After a few more minutes, they visions broadened as they saw a circular open field that was about 100 meters in diameter.
There were more than a dozen mid-aged men in brown robes standing in the field. Also, they had long swords and wooden shields on their backs.
After the three royal guards who were emotionless talked to the eldest man, they turned around and left; it was clear that they finished their tasks as guides.
Fei sensed the importance Zenit placed on this Martial Saint Battle.
The three royal guards were all top-tier Four-Star Warriors, and the dozen mid-aged men on the field were all Five-Star Warriors. Their movements were steadily but firm, and it felt like they had earth-elemental warrior energies. The way these people dressed were very different as well; they didn't look like soldiers nor royal guards. If Fei wasn't wrong, these people were masters from the Martial Saint Mountain.
Tink! Tink! Tink! Tink! Tink!
A series of rapid and quick metal-colliding noises sounded, and the crowd looked around. They realized that they were at the top of the third peak on the south, and there were 20-meter tall statues of the God of War who was raising the sword and the shield all around the field. Behind these statues, it was the cliff that was more than 600 meters tall. Clouds blocked a lot of people's vision, and the strong wind made it hard for people to hear each other.
The metal-colliding noises sounded from all the black iron chains that were on the edge of the field.
Numerous black iron chains were connected to one side of the field where a statue of the God of War stood, and the other end of the iron chains were extended into the clouds. While the wind blew by, these metal chains hit each other and made the noise.
"Please follow me." The leading mid-aged man who had a short beard nodded at the crowd and said. He walked to the edge of the field and jumped on the moving iron chains. With a smooth and firm footwork, he dashed towards the clouds as he stepped on the chains.
Everyone was surprised.
The peak was high, and the wind was strong. If something happened and a person fell off, he or she would be killed.
"Does everyone have to go through the chains? Where do these chains lead to?"
Many people hesitated.
After a moment of silence, [Silver Armored Vicious Sword] placed his hands on his waist and mocked, "You guys are chickens. Let me show you."
After he said that, he instantly jumped onto the chains and disappeared into the clouds like a flash of lightning.
Since someone took the lead, the others followed suit.
This time, Princess Cindy was envied by others. After a short chant, a pair of green translucent magic wings appeared on her back, and she disappeared into the clouds after a few flutters. It seemed like mages had advantages here.
Soon, there were only a few masters here; most of them they were the weakest ones in the group. After they looked at each other in unison, they couldn't resist the desire of wanting to spectate the Martial Saint Battle and all jumped onto the chains while gritting their teeth.
Fei was the last person who jumped on the chains; he only moved after everyone else disappeared into the clouds.
He was thinking about something. After he saw those mid-aged men with the swords and shields, he had a very strange feeling; it felt familiar yet different. Fei had an ominous feeling since he woke up, and he felt like something bad was going to happen. NOw, that feeling was stronger.
However, this was no place to think about that.
He jumped onto the chains and moved fast; these chain bridges weren't a challenge for him.
At this moment, a scream sounded.
...
There was stone square on the other end of the iron chains. It was bigger than the field on the third peak on the south, and it was located in between the clouds. Its actual distance was less than 1,000 meters away from the third peak on the south, and it only took the masters a few minutes to get here. Soon, only a few people were missing.
But since one of the missing people was the king of Chambord, it was a little strange.
Just as everyone was curious, fluttering noises sounded as the king of Chambord appeared with one person in each of his hands.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty, thank you for saving my life!"
As soon as those two people landed, they quickly bowed and thanked Fei. It turned out that these two people almost fell into the cliff when the strong wind blew by, and they were saved by the king of Chambord. These two people were very grateful for the help.
The only thing was that the path the group needed to take next was still iron chains, so these two people didn't dare to continue anymore. They had to stay at the first peak on the east for now, and people would help them to get down.
After six more iron chain bridges, the group finally arrived at the halfway point on the central sword peak.
The terrain at the Martial Saint Mountain was too dangerous, and it was even hard for Four-Star Warriors to get up here; it was impossible for normal troops or normal people to conquer the Martial Saint Mountain.
It was fortunate that there was a path inside the central sword peak from the halfway point on, and it was a lot safer.
After one hour of walking in the curly and long path, natural lights appeared just as everyone was about to get impatient. Everyone rushed forward and exited the tunnel.
They were all surprised when they walked out.
There were hills, green grasses, blossoming flowers, tall trees, light breezes, flowing rivers, smart animals... it was supposed to be the cold winter in the Zenit, but it felt like the spring here.
It felt like this place was isolated from all the noises and conflicts in the outside world, and even just breathing the air in here made the people feel like they had already forgotten all about the worries and troubles they had before.