Chapter 41 - Shocked and Awed!
Once the Vast Earth Lord said that, he waved his hand and caused the rubbles that was once the cave to immediately divide, creating a path for them to pass.
Then the Astra Spellcraft Lords that floated many feet above the ground, descended to the earth and walked through the wide path created by the Vast Earth Lord.
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Many minutes later, as they headed straight for the Sky Bridges Lord's room, they came across a large hole in the ground which immediately made them furrow their brows in puzzlement.
"I hope it's not what I am thinking?" The Six Apparitions Lord said.
"Be calm." The Vast Earth Lord said.
Then he said further, "We would know once we get there. But for now, please be calm."
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!...
They all jumped into the hole and walked to where the Sky Bridges Lord's room was.
Immediately they came across the room and saw that the room was forcefully broken into, since many thick wooden fragments could be seen on the ground, the calm expressions on their faces immediately changed to that of exceeding anger, as they had instantly understood what had happened.
"Who is the bastard that dared to do this?" The Vast Earth Lord said with great anger when he walked into the room and saw that the room had been emptied out.
The Six Apparitions Lord whose mind was roiling with excessive wrath, said in anger, "We have to find the Lord that dared to do this!"
"Definitely. And we would make sure that they pay heavily with their lives and with that of their friends and family members. Their towns will not be excluded from the interminable destruction that will come from us." The Vast Earth Lord said with determination in his eyes that gleamed coldly.
He then said further, "Before we left the items with Sky Bridges Lord, I placed a mark on it that will allow me to track it down, if in case it got missing or something like that."
"You know, you never can be too careful. Besides, the items are objects that we got at the expense of our lives, as we could have died back there when trying to unearth the items that belong to the Draconic Luminary Paragon in that vast tomb site filled with unimaginable dangers, even for Magical Lords at our level."
"Hmm." Another lord muttered, agreeing to what the Vast Earth Lord mentioned.
"Please, carry on." The Six Apparitions Lord said with fierceness and coldness in his tone.
"Alright." The Vast Earth Lord mentioned with the nod of his head.
Then with a cryptic monosyllabic word which was a spell leaving his mouth, his eyes immediately produced patterns that changed from one form to another. Also, on the ground around him, a large circle that glowed and had energy circulate about within it, with numerous cryptic diagrams and abstruse patterns appearing on their surfaces, suddenly materialized on the earth that he stood on.
However, after a few minutes of trying to trace the items through magical marks embedded on them, with the Vast Earth Lord becoming surprisingly exhausted, The Six Apparitions Lord who immediately understood that something had gone wrong, asked with concern in his tone, "What's wrong? Are you okay?"
The Vast Earth Lord, after canceling off the profound magical manifestations on the ground around him, heavily expelled breath from his nostrils and said with a deeply astonished expression in his face, "I couldn't trace the items personally marked by me to any location in our world. It was like the items I tried to trace, don't exist in our current time and space. It's like they existed outside of them. I just couldn't trace them to any regional location in any part of our world, or to any concealed miniature dimension in space."
"What?" The Six Apparitions Lord said with shock in his tone.
He then continued, "Is that actually possible? Can magically-marked items be hidden from the person that embedded magical marks into them for easy trackability?"
"To be sincere with you, Lord Six Apparitions, I am still utterly amazed." The Vast Earth Lord said and shook his head in both awe and marvel.
He then said further with a ponderous but awe-struck look in his middle-aged face, "The type of power required to do that, must come from a tremendously powerful, high-level spellcasting Lord. One who is well-versed in magical spells that can separate a single dimension into numerous different dimensions, and turn a single flow of time into enormously branching time streams or time flows."
"Hmm. That's some high-level spellcasting ability that is almost on par with the ability of False Astra Nexus Paragons. As only they can embed an entirely different dimension in a certain dimension, create miniature multi-dimensions in a single dimension, create layers of dimensions that can be stacked upon one another, superimpose different dimensional spaces, or fuse numerous different dimensions and time streams together to form an annihilative, chaotic time-space zone. That's next-level power that we can't imagine tapping into in numerous millennia to come." A Lord called Great Revolutionary Lord who had twelve, shining resplendent circles of terrifying fiendish power emit outward from his body every second, and had a large grey circle of light that glowed beneath his feet and caused the earth around him to seemingly wither, rupture and disintegrate, said with his brows deeply furrowed.
"So, does that mean a False Astra Nexus Paragon came to annihilate the Sky Bridges Lord and took away the items kept in his room?" The Six Apparitions Lord asked with a strongly bedazzled expression in his face.
"It's safe to assume that." The Vast Earth Lord said.
"But why?" The Six Apparitions Lord said with extreme anger in his tone. Of course if he could find the Astra Nexus Paragon that did that, he will spare nothing to exterminate his life.
"I don't know. The Sky Bridges Lord had offended many people when he was alive. Perhaps he was just unfortunate to lay hands on someone that he shouldn't have, which then caused his sad and tragic demise. It's painful. Our friend and colleague is gone, just like that. Well, that's life. We meet to part and we part to meet. We shall see again in our next life. As for the False Astra Nexus Paragon that did this, our time for retaliation will absolutely come. I assure him of that." The Vast Earth Lord said with great forlornness in his tone. But one could sense the exceedingly great determination that radiated from his voice.
He then said further when he suddenly thought of something, "My fellow Lords, let's leave here. As we can't tell if the dimension-collapsing and time-expanding Pseudo-Paragon is still somewhere around here and could appear anytime to retrieve the numerous other items that we have on us. Let's leave now and return to our various bases."
"Alright." The others said in unison.
Then very quickly, they flew out of the massive hole that led to the underground tunnel network and then straight into the sky at an enormously great speed after leaving the cave.