Chapter 273 (1/2)

Chapter 273

Chapter 273: Being of Aether

I had grown accusto the unexpected As brash and cliche as that sounded, in an unfamiliar area that didn’t abide by the conventions of either of the worlds I had lived in, it was all I could do in order to stay above the crippling anxiety lurking within me

Yet, the scene that unfolded in front of me as the innumerous crystals of black and purple parted was oddly…farandiose like the hall of elaborate statues or ht within a cosmic void of purple

No It just seemed like the laboratory of a person even e but felt crahout the room, each ‘decorated’ with an array of beakers and test tubes Lining the walls in this hexagonal roolass shelves filled with various nicknacks and containers—some empty, some not

Only one wall remained different and that was because it had a portal Unlike hts, this portal looked lass screen Clearly shown on the other side were guards clad in plated armor of black in an otherwise empty room

“Huh You’d think with an entrance like that, it would lead to soan before his eyes fell on the portal as well “At least we’ll finally be out of here”

“Wait” My eyes scoured the lab “The voice inof Aether and Flesh’”

“There has to be so more to this place than this,” I said as uessing it wouldn’t have let is narrowed his sharp eyes “Is that why you didn’t want to go back with the other ascenders? You expected so like this to happen?”

“Soh the aisles of metal tables “There are tooCaera’s brother in the forest zone with the aetheric millipede But what’s certain is that my presence has an influence on all of these zones, so it’s reasonable to assus inclined toward aether to get this far”

“Then what about all of the past cases where Alacryans were able to bring relics of the past to the Vritra?” Regis pried “It’s been li for aradation, though The Relictoh to keep asuras out, but there’s nothing that can last forever, especially so as intricate as this place”

“Anyway, this roo as simple as an easy way out” I turned toward my companion “Do you knohat these relics look like?”

“Aside from the massive a, from a book, to an artifact, to a bone But I know that the simulets that Miss Booty—Daria hts fro up “Do you think we can find artifacts in this roo odd about this room in that it looked like a nor this lab to Gideon’s, what filled his lab even more so than the beakers, molds, and contraptions were books

Whether they were textbooks or journals for recordkeeping, there was always an abundance of bound paper There wasn’t anything like that here

As Regis continued to search through the lab, hoping to find some sort of clue as to where ere, I took a different approach

But even withmade of aether here aside from the portal

Did I think too deeply into it? Like Regis had said, was this place siet out of the Relictois waited iround, when the words the voice had said echoed inof aether’, so h

With nothing to lose, I unleashed an aetheric aura, bathing the roois stiffened, confused byAs if everything that I saw, smelled and felt within this roo away…including the floor

I began to fall, and then just stopped It felt like I had jerked awake fro dream as my feet suddenly found themselves firo

I heard Regis let out a startled gasp, but my eyes were focused on the construct in front of h with aetheric runes carved around it Four revolving halos of glowing stones with the sayrated without ever touching one another

Floating just above the pedestal in the center of the halos of stone was a sht and, while it appeared rather valuable, the amount of the aether it e in this roois, although his perception toward aether wasn’t nearly as sensitive asaround as well for the first time, I realized the deteriorated state of this room Unlike the illusion of the lab we had fallen from, the stone rune-filled walls were cracked and chipped There were even a few round and in the walls with rubble still littering the floor

What made me tense and almost fearful was the fact that this source of aether wasn’t just co and while I could feel it, it was the first time I couldn’t see it

“Who’s there!” I roared, ation of aether

Suddenly, I could feel it rapidly approaching froe this invisible force was, I shroudedpunch forward

What was strange was that the strength behind h and hit the air, hit so, or injure my own hand and ars happened

My fist had definitely hit so solid, but it felt like the force behind my attack had been co in front of ure that stood at about six feet

“So you can sense me,” it said with an expression of pure shock

I pulled is appeared beside ure was an opaque purple in color with short cropped hair of the sa runes running over almost the entire surface of his body It even ran up to his cheeks and forehead, leaving only his eyes, nose,studied“You have an aether core, yet no spellforms to protect your body”

“Spellforis

Its eyes narroith intrigue “I see A huon no less What an unprecedented ano on ReadNovelFullonlinecois, who flinched froaze An expression of shock resurfaced once more on its face “You carry an edict for destruction, yet the knowledge remains in the asuran human’swithinti even I didn’t knoas possible” The being waved its ar surrounded by a doht in front of one