At the top of a high mountain stood a dilapidated temple. time didn't leave its walls alone, its bricks varied from broken to cracked ones to ones covered in dust and moss.
From how everything looked, it was clear that the temple was abandoned ages ago, Within the abandoned temple, specifically in its centre was a large circular altar rising from the ground, engraved with mysterious runes, lit by the rays of light that sneaked through the not-so-small cracks on the roof.
Suddenly, the fabric of space cracked followed by two figures shooting out of a spatial crack like bullets.
Boom!
The two figures rammed into the old altar, surprisingly the time-beaten altar did not break nor move, however, from the sounds of it, a faint but suspiciously similar sound to the breaking of bone could have been heard at that moment.
The two figures stayed on the ground motionless and unconscious,
a short while later, a grunt of pain disturbed the short silence, followed by one of the two figures waking up and then getting into a sitting position.
Charlotte opened her eyes, immediately the first thing she did was to search for Al, once her gaze landed on his figure, she took a breath, her soul was in somewhat of a chaotic state, with difficulty she used her soul sense to scan his body for injuries, to her relive Arthur was merely unconscious due to sever overexertion, which could have been worse judging from the situation, on the other hand the external injuries were not to be feared as they would heal with time.
After relaxing, Charlotte's tense mind finally registered the waves of pain from all over her body, baring the pain, she sat in a meditative position and closed her eyes to start healing, but not before she arranged some protective measures.
Around 30 minutes later.
Al opened his eyes, feeling drowsy and exhausted, finding himself on the ground, he set his hand to help him push himself to stand up, however, a sharp pain came from his left arm and shoulder.
Eyes wide, Al took a sharp breath in shock, as he looked at his left arm,
He actually didn't notice it until he tried moving it but it was a bit swollen, the skin was edging to purple.
The only reason it didn't hurt earlier was a simple stream of spirit energy that kept healing it slowly.
Noticing the energy stream, Al looked around while shakily changing to a sitting position, soon his gaze fell on Charlotte who was in a healing meditation.
After looking around for a moment, then he started healing himself,
However, in a sudden but expected way, Al could feel no spiritual Origin energy in his dantian or meridians, after a while of investigating, a helpless sigh came out of Al,
" Haah, as expected, although I didn't lose my cultivation I'm as good as someone who just started cultivation".
" Well, it's enough of a miracle that I didn't suffer from broken meridians or any crippling injuries. ".
Sensing the sparse spiritual energy in his surroundings, Al started absorbing it hungrily,
a few hours later.
" Sigh, I have to admit! The feeling of energy in my veins is exhilarating! "
After his short cultivation session, Arthur's cultivation was at the peak of the 1st order - Mortal realm.
Basically, he was as good as someone fresh to cultivation, However with his mental concentration and the meridian of someone at the Minor Origin realm, he was unimaginably stronger than anyone in the same realm!
With their experience and prowess, Arthur could easily wipe the floor with someone a whole realm above.
After the cultivation drop, Arthur didn't wallow in despair but rather thought of re-establishing a stronger foundation. than his original.
...
Opening his eyes, Al looked at his left arm which was no longer purple, and the swelling had decreased, as long as he did not move it, it no longer hurt, however with the pitiful amount of energy a Mortal realm cultivator had, healing from a broken bone would take a couple of days and sometimes a week.
After judging so, Al's gaze fell on the obsidian ring he wore on his finger, a moment later, objects started coming out of the ring with the will of its master.
A number of weapons, along with light armour and a mysterious box, were positioned on one side, while on the other side were several outfits to change to and multiple bags of camping equipment. and some spirit stones to cultivate with.
From the camping bags, Al took out a map that looked to be made out of a special type of paper, runes and mysterious marks filled the paper,
Spreading out the paper map, he thought to himself " Now, for now, I should know where we are! "
" ..... ",
" ..... ",
" ..... ",
" Bruh! "
" Now that's weird. " Al said with little to no confidence.
" AHAHA, I'm dead "
" Let alone the Myriad Dao world, this thing should be able to locate our location as long as we are in the Myriad Dao Realm. "
By now, with a face so gloomy it would rain water, " But, ...But..., it's not even working! ".
" If we are outside the Myriad Dao realm, then I don't even need to try communicating with others, since the communication device's range spans only one world "
....
At the same time.
Myriad Dao Realm, Myriad Dao world
A man covered in lightning floated below the stormy clouds, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, in his hand was a crystalline tablet, at the moment, of the many runes saved in this communication device, a certain rune was enlarged and taking the majority of the tablet's screen.
Yet, no matter how the man tried, he couldn't connect to the other party, the rune that should have been glowing was now lifelessly dull,
With a piercing gaze, the man looked at the run as if to drill a hole in it and see what's happening on the other side.
Suddenly the man spoke!
" Blades!, Knights! " he said.
swoosh!
the air split and two figures appeared behind that man.
Without turning his head the man spoke,
" Blades! against those who over-stepped the line. let blood run rivers."
" Knights! Arthur is not in the Myriad Dao realm, as you have done always, find and protect, and increase the number of hidden guards with Elijah,"
" Affirmative, my lord! " the two figures said then one transformed into two beams of sword lights and flew into the distance.