BAMM.
Following a loud explosion, the whole castle shook, at the hall where Aldrich and the others were amidst discussion, everyone's expression changed.
Everyone anxiously readied themselves for another battle, when a slightly hesitant voice resounded, " Ummm, this sound..., please tell it is not of something collating beneath us ",
It was a formation master who said that, and his words made everyone get a really bad feeling about it.
Not long after, the ground started shaking and by the moment it increased in intensity followed by small cracks appearing in the walls.
Thomas's expression changed, as he shouted " Everyone, Gather around me! ", strong waves of spirit energy erupted from his figure and created a dome-like protective barrier.
Aldrich, Charlotte and the others moved swiftly and just as they were halfway through, the ground started collapsing.
Heavy rocks fell from the ceiling, and as the shaking increased in intensity.
" Nooooooooooo, It's CoLlapSiNgggg!, we are going to DiEEEE, C CAPTAIN SA SAVE MEEE..... " the young formation master shrieked in utter horror, as he continued his voice grew lower until he was mumbling in a low voice.
Around 5 minutes later, the shaking stopped, and everyone heaved a collective sigh, no one wanted to see it they could survive a castle collapsing over their heads! even with the protection of Thomas's spirit energy barrier,
Aldrich's tensed muscles relaxed, as he looked around, some parts of the ceiling were missing but to his and everyone's disappointment there wasn't a sky, but the view inside another room above them.
Thomas scanned the surroundings with his gaze for a while then he removed his barrier,
" Well, this has been very stimulating, after we get out let us not do it again anytime soon! " Aldrich said with a chuckle.
Charlotte chuckled in response " I believe i remember someone had a list of ancient ruins they wanted to visit ",
Just as everyone's tense nerves relaxed and Aldrich walked a few steps ahead of everyone, following a cracking sound the ground below him collapsed.
" Whaa.?! ...", Aldrich wasn't even able to comprehend why he suddenly felt weightless, before he saw everyone getting higher, or was it him falling down?
Shocked, Thomas's reaction wasn't slow a all as spirit energy condensed into a palm that shot to catch him.
Meanwhile, there was someone with a faster reaction, Charlotte had transformed into a blur as her hand was extended to catch Aldrich before he completely fell through the hole.
As the hand condensed from spirit energy and Charlotte's hand where inches away the ground below them collapsed as well, followed by a strong wave of suction energy that affected everyone.
Suddenly, with the sound of the air being split apart, two arrows targeted Charlotte and the spirit energy hand.
Startled, Charlotte managed to spin her body mid-air to avoid the arrow but it still grazed her shoulder, On the other hand, the spirit hand was hit by the arrow and destroyed, it turned into spirit energy that dispersed into the air.
At the last moment, Charlotte managed to get hold of Aldrich as the two were being pulled by the suction force.
Thomas's expression turned dark, as he formed a barrier that engulfed the remaining members and allowed the suction force to pull them below as well " Prepare for a fight, there is at least one Great Origin expert "
After being separated from the group Aldrich and Charlotte were pulled further away from the others, and landed in a further away place, vigilantly Aldrich stood up and scanned his surroundings in search of anything that could be of danger or could be used to their advantage, Just like him Charlotte was already scanning the surrounding with her sense.
Unlike the structure from above the area around them was better described as a cave that was sculpted, Just from the idea of within his senses alone Aldrich discovered numerous tunnels that he couldn't see their ends, almost all of them had signs of being used recently, And understandable echoes would come from others.
Suddenly Charlotte's expression changed as she swiftly moved and dragged Aldrich with her inside a crack within the rocky walls, and then with her spiritual energy she gathered a layer of dirt and rocks to cover them while she concealed both her and Aldrich's auras completely.
When looking at them from the side or if someone was passing by, due to Charlotte's concealment they were simply unnoticeable, Unless someone searched meticulously, Moments later and just as Aldrich opened his mouth to ask, the sound of footsteps resound as it neared the location,
Not long after, three figures in red armour passed by, 2 of them Exuded an aura at the late stage of the True Origin realm, whilst the leading figure exuded a stronger aura at the peak of the True Origin realm.
" Have you heard? The captains said that a big fish had fallen into our lap Without us even asking for it, haha " said one of them.
" Rumours say that they are related to the two villains who exiled us outside of the realm. " said the one on the right,
" How did they come here though? Did they know of our existence beforehand and came for scouting or was it a coincidence ", Spoke the soldier on the left.
" I'm not sure But I heard some of my friends in the intelligence team saying something along the lines that they shouldn't be aware of our existence here ".
" You Are right, but what about their identities? is it confirmed, can't we just ask our allies in this world to investigate them, what was he called again?? "
" It was confirmed by the Dawn knights? the team members are their subordinates, while one of them is actually the offspring of our target "
" thanks to them we also received information that made all moves harder to predict and our plans Impossible to sabotage, our win will be much easier with their help. ".
" Haha you're right this must be the blessing of the great ancestor, Long live the Blood Ancestor. ".
A few steps away, Aldrich and Charlotte were hiding while their auras were concealed, as the three soldiers were getting nearer to their position, their conversation grew clearer as they moved, the more the two of them heard the darker their expressions grew, from the three soldiers cultivations, Aldrich speculated that their position in the army Should be around upper Mid-Echelon or the lower Upper-Echelon, therefore while their information might not be exact there was definitely a credit to it, And from the conversation, there was few points that made Aldrich's face turn gloomy.
Of them was the fact they mentioned working together with the Dawn Knights.