Affinity: Chaos

Chapter 121: Or What?

After Grey acquired the Great Void technique, he unexpectedly didn’t find any other thing. Other than clearing the path of all monsters he saw on the way, he didn’t do anything else. He soon got to the end of the path, and it was blocked!

He couldn’t help but ask Void if his senses were correct. Void first complained about being doubted before telling him he could still sense it, and the energy was coming from the other side of the wall that blocked the path.

Grey further studied the wall and found out there was a seal on it. It seems he would have to wait for it to open automatically. Having nothing to do, he couldn’t help but think of his friends.

…….

On the other side, Klaus and the other two had just arrived at the end of the ancient path they took. When they got there, there were also other geniuses looking around, trying to find the entrance to the place the final treasure was located, but to no avail.

“How come the path is blocked?”, Klaus asked with a confused expression.

“I don’t know, but I suppose this should be the end of the path. But… Where is the Great Earth Essence Liquid?”, Reynolds looked around.

After Alice recovered slightly from her injury, the trio continued the journey, and other than the technique Klaus found, they found nothing else. Had Klaus not gotten that technique, he would have thought the expert was playing tricks on them.

Since the path ahead of them was blocked with no other way to advance, it only meant one thing, they were already at the end of the path! But since they were already at the end, then where was the treasure the expert promised they’ll find after getting to the end of the path?

“There’s an opening, only, it looks like this place is sealed and we’ll have to wait for it to open”, Alice deducted after studying the wall closely

“Doesn’t this mean that acquiring the treasure would become harder?”, Reynolds counted the youths present and including them, they were ten.

Since the path is sealed, it meant there was a chance for more people to appear, this will further increase the difficulty of acquiring the treasure. There were multiple paths and others might have also reached the end of them.

It was unknown if these were the only ones who would end up at this particular path since most of the paths intersected. Amongst the other seven youths, there was one he had seen before, he was certain the person was from the Qilin empire, but he didn’t know which Academy she was from.

He nodded as a form of greeting, to which the other party responded with a smile that showed her dimples.

The young lady had an average height, she was around sixteen to seventeen years old, her pure face and appearance were particularly alluring

Seeing the exchange between the two, Klaus drew closer to Reynolds and threw his hand on his shoulder.

“Seems like someone caught your eye”, he said with a mischievous smile.

Reynolds seeing the smile on Klaus’s face couldn’t help but shake his head.

“You think everyone is like you?”, he glared at him before shifting his attention back to the wall blocking their paths.

He couldn’t be bothered with what Klaus was thinking, he didn’t even know the young lady and only recognized her because he saw her when they got to the Magical beasts forest.

“That’s why they are living an uninteresting lifestyle”, he chuckled while darting a glance at the girl once more before nodding in approval. i????????r????????????. ????૦m

‘At least your taste isn’t bad’, he thought.

With nothing left to do, they waited just like the others who got here before them.

………..

On Grey’s end.

Since there nothing he could do, he started cultivating.

Thirty minutes later, some youths started appearing and within another thirty minutes, the people gathered here including Grey were ten. And the Darkness Elementalist was surprisingly one of them. When the youths couldn’t find the passageway to where the Great Earth Essence Liquid was, they were irked.

“What is going on? We have reached the end of the path. Why is there no access to where the Great Earth Essence Liquid? Could it be that we have been tricked by the old man?”

“There’s an eighty percent chance that we have been tricked. The old man said that each of the fifty-four ancient paths contained treasures and dangers, but we have come all the way here peacefully without discovering any treasures. We didn’t even encounter any dangers. Not even a beast has emerged. It was just like a pointless wander”

“Don’t talk anymore. I’m afraid that this ancient path isn’t as simple as we had imagined. We should continue to look for the passageway once more”

Most of the people were distressed. They began to have lesser respect towards the old expert. Some started to call him old man. As a matter of fact, they had grown depressed along the journey of this ancient path. After reading the words on the stone slab, they felt that this ancient path must have rare treasures. Even if there weren’t any great treasures, there had to be at least some essence stones or some sort of elemental weapons.

Unexpectedly, they had gotten nothing even though they had reached the end of the path. This might not be the most depressing thing. The thing that depressed them the most was that they didn’t even encounter a single creature.

Where were the treasures that were mentioned?

How about the dangers?

If they weren’t being tricked, then what would it be?

Of the ten people who were here, about six of them used the same path Grey followed. So it was expected they all felt scammed. And because they didn’t find anything nor did they face any dangers, doubts started welling up in their minds.

It was like they were taking a peaceful stroll in their backyards! In fact, their backyards were more dangerous than these ancient paths.

They all felt the old man was a trickster when he was alive and even when he was close to death he didn’t spare them and set up this big ploy for them.

Listening to the complaints of these people, Grey whose eyes were closed couldn’t help but smile, because all the treasures and dangers of the path had been met by him. The only thing he didn’t acquire was the legacy, and it was because he decided to leave it for someone else.

First, he acquired the greatest treasure of the expert, then, he was transported to the castle the legacy was located, and then, he found an extremely rare space element technique.

What was luck? This was!

In truth, amongst all the geniuses here, the Darkness Elementalist was the most depressed one. Not only had he gotten nothing, but the time he finally found something he wanted, it was obtained by others. When he wanted to reclaim it, he kept on getting stopped by others. He was even almost fatally injured by Klaus.

His pride as a genius was shattered on multiple occasions by the trio. The more he thought about them, the angrier he got.

‘Hmph! After acquiring the Great Earth Essence Liquid, I’ll refine one to boost my strength. Then I’ll kill them all’, he thought coldly.

Being a proud person, when had he ever been stepped on? Never! He had never even lost before, but this time, he not only lost, but he had to run away like a dog with his tail between his legs just so he could keep his life. He had always looked down on people who ran away from battles, yet, he did the same thing. How embarrassing!

After calming himself a little, he managed to study the wall and realized there was a seal on it.

‘Hmm, it’s just like the one on the door’, he raised his brow.

He wasn’t the only one who noticed it, others also noticed it, that was why they were all waiting.

“Hmph!”, snorting coldly, the Darkness Elementalist walked closer to the door.

The others made way for him when they saw him coming, they all recognized him, and didn’t plan on offending him.

“Stand up and move five meters backward. No one is allowed to get this close to the wall”, he said coldly to Grey who had his eyes closed.

Grey slowly opened his eyes and a fierce glow shot out of them.

The Darkness Elementalist was so shocked by the fierce glow that he unconsciously took a step back.

The moment he realized what happened, waves of embarrassment surged in his heart and he instantly flared up.

“Get up now! I don’t like repeating myself!”, he yelled angrily.

The others who were watching took some steps back and started pitying Grey because he was about to be picked on by the Darkness Elementalist.

Just then, they all heard something that almost made them faint. The youth who was clearly in the First stage of the Origin Plane, and looked innocent asked a question that threw them off their feet.

“Or what?”