While the laws may not be strictly adhered to in the old continent, the challenge locations in the seven paths are based on real existing places.
Despite the considerable distance between these challenges, theoretically, one could reach each palace from another. Eventually, the seven paths will converge, and what the novel's characters were unaware of is that in rare instances when challenges are divided within one path, they are always closely situated and easily traversable...
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Six figures soared through the stormy skies, following the edge of the vast roaring river, suddenly the rain thickened, around them. Abruptly, their eyes caught sight of a colossal, deformed creature with myriad tentacles, eyes, and twisted appendages sprawled across the scattered ruins of palaces.
The monstrous entity loomed at the river's edge, forming a foreboding wall that stretched tens of meters above, its tentacles reaching skyward like menacing spires.
