Chapter 239 (1/2)

Chapter 239

Chapter 239: Passage Of Time

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Instinctively, I shrouded ently floated down to the ground Sylvie did so similar as I saw a black sphere slowly e horns

Virion and Bairon, with their cores daic widely unusable, didn’t fare as well

Fortunately, Virion was at the epicenter of our descent so he slid down the large mountain of sand that had accuic was so powerful that it heightened his reflexes, rolled down the sand dune in a fit of desperate screa

He flailed his arround Virion shook his head while Sylvie turned away to hide her laughter

Bairon spat out a er-like eyes “You! Should a lance be so selfish as to leave his… coers like that?”

“The only one that thought they were in danger was you,” Virion countered, dusting the sand off of his robe

It was the first time I saw Bairon’s cheeks flushed in e his sandy lare never ceased as he did this but Bairon and I both knew that he couldn’t do anything about it With the state he was in right now, I could kill him with a slap—not that I’d want to, of course

“Everyone,” Sylvie said, her voice echoing slightly “Look around”

Her words brought our attention to the round tunnel ere in I looked around and I finally realized that for a place without any sources of light, it was surprisingly easy to see

“Are those glowing sy like them,” Bairon muttered in wonder as he hovered his hand over a rune that pulsed with faint light on the wall “Itaffinity mana around them”

Sylvie brushed her hand over the runes that seeraved by hand “That’s because it isn’t powered by mana”

Bairon furrowed his brows “What? That’s i Realhts had leaked onto me and I just had to verify it for myself And to ht, basking the area in purple “It’s powered by aether”

My mind spun as I tried to make sense out of this revelation I ran the conversation I had with Sylvie’s grand she had toldan entity that couldn’t be manipulated like ainst as going on in front ofthat could be confined and used so permanently like this, yet it was clear as day that soured out how to do so

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“Let’s continue walking,” Virion announced, taking the lead “There’smy eyes away from the runes that filled these walls, we continued to walk Much like in the desert above us, the air here was dry and stale The only sounds cah the tunnel that led out of the cave we had arrived through

It couldn’t really be called a tunnel, though, as the s from the runesabove us continued to rise as we h that it became lost in darkness

Despite Virion’s familiarity with this place, I couldn’t help but be cautious My eyes darted left and right, looking for anything odd, but except for the unusually high concentration of aether gathered here, there was nothing off about this place

‘You’re feeling uneasy here as well,’ Sylvie noted, sticking close to me

I think it’s just because of all the aether here, and the runes that are practically trapping theht aether only influenced time, space, and life?

‘I suspect that the walls aren’t just ,’ she responded

I carefully touched the walls for the first tiht It wasn’t stone, like I had assumed—it feltthis… tree… life? I guessed

‘Your guess is as good as mine at this point I may be able to utilize aether but you can at least see the a’

We continued walking in silence The straight passage seeht Despite the scores of runes on the walls, the lack of variation a we’d been walking

“How far away are we fro the actual shelter?” Bairon asked, unable to hold in his ier

“I’ since we arrived so be patient,” Virion replied

Bairon’s eyes widened “Not long? Co for nearly the entire day! I think the journey to find this underground tunnel was shorter”

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