Mystical Journey

"People once said that the sky was originally red mixed with black instead of blue."

"Red mixed with black? Do you think that’s possible?"

"Perhaps. There are things that exist even if we don’t believe it."

Noah, who was in a wooden chair, gently placed down a copper yellow watch as he smiled.

It was dead silent inside the small house and only a faint chirp could be heard from outside as the black rain poured nonstop outside.

"The dance stage has been all set." He looked at the sky through the window as his body became more and more transparent.

"Serena… I really wish I can see you one more time."

A gentle wind blew and only a robe was left onto the table and no one knew where he went.

At the same time, in the sky of the whole Eastern Continent.

Three silver meteors flew towards the Monolith City at great speed. The three meteors pulled out a long tail as they flew from three different directions. The sound of the shockwave deafened the sky.

The black clouds were moving about and no one could make out if it was day or night.

In the middle of the black cloud, the huge white door was giving off a pure white light, which pierced through the clouds as if it was the only Door to Heaven in hell.

Three meteors landed onto the ground, forming a standard equilateral triangle.

As the silver light shone, a deep explosion could be heard as it immediately cleared off the empowered totems from the Obscuro Society within the vicinity.

"Ten Jedi!!" A huge green sword appeared and cut the black clouds into half in an instant.

The sharp sword was like a green lightning as it went after Hellgate in the air.

Clank!!

Hellgate moved his left hand and an after image appeared in front and blocked the attack directly.

His hand and the sword collided together and countless of green sparks appeared and spread around him and locked him in place.

Pew pew pew pew!!!

In an instant, a series of green sword kept attacking Hellgate with great precision.

Nine greatswords landed onto Hellgate as fast as lightning.

Clank! Clank! Clank! Clank clank clank! …

As they collided against each other, Hellgate who was flying towards the Door to Heaven was pushed back down.

"Sun God King…" He turned his head as he looked at the origin of the green blade.

The silver light dimmed down as the Divine Gone Palace Master’s green robe appeared. He was holding an exquisite green great longbow which spanned at least ten meters long, which was larger than him. There were two sharp blades at the edge of the longbow and it’s a weapon that could be even used during melee combat.

Sizzle Sizzle…

The silver light from the other two ends dimmed down as well, revealing two figures in the middle of the sky.

The Cthulhu King and Garen was floating quietly as the three of them surrounded Hellgate.

"Sun God King, the Cthulhu King, Black Swamp Palace Master, and the instant teleportation via the Earth Flower from the Terraflor Society’s master. Looks like this is the gathering of the strongest in this world." Hellgate didn’t seem anxious at all as if he was just having a chat after a meal.

"Is this Noah’s final formation?"

The Cthulhu King’s expression was heavy. He, who was in a red robe, held the magic mirror tightly in his hand as a pale face kept floating within the mirror.

He gently jolted the magic mirror.

Pew!

A stream of black light instantly soared to the sky, engulfing him in the process. The light soared up the sky and started to change its shape as it formed into a big black minotaur figure. It was constructed with countless of shades, forming into a humanoid figure. The upper body was of a human and the lower body was of a fish’s tail and had a black harpoon which was about ten meters in one of its hand.

The horned humanoid gently tapped its tail.

The Hellgate’s body jolted as if there was a great force exerting onto his body.

The fish tail moved once again.

Hellgate’s vision turned muddy as everything became out of focus. As he was covered in the shadow, his body had become 2 times denser than before.

The fish tail moved the third time.

Hellgate’s lower body twisted and, pew!

The shadow’s left shoulder was suddenly split opened. At the same time, the same thing happened to Hellgate as well.

"Heh…"

Hellgate suddenly smirked as he gently moved his body.

Boom!

A circle of black light was released from his body and spread in all direction.

"Sun God King, you’ve finally created your own Living Secret Technique…" He glanced at the other two and immediately paid attention to the Divine God Palace Master as if the other two weren’t even worth his attention and only the Divine God Palace Master was the only threat.

Garen retreated slightly as he smiled. A black cross sword slowly appeared in his hand and grew longer over time from about one meter in length to three meters. It was filled with concentrated black smoke and slowly forming into a great halberd. At the tip of the halberd, a cold blue light could be seen.

On the other side, the Cthulhu King who had transformed into a mermaid had countless green jellyfish behind him.

Each and every green jellyfish pulsed as they illuminated a faint green color as their numbers kept increasing. In an instance, half of the sky was filled with them as if it was highly contagious.

"Attack!!"

In an instance, three people disappeared.

The jellyfish, black halberd and green blade lit up at the same time.

With a roar, the Divine God Palace Master grew a pair of red butterfly wings and had a pair of eyes textured onto it. The wings fluttered, creating a gush of strong wind which went towards the Hellgate. He then moved his giant longbow to produce a huge, solid green blade which pierced through the air, forming a stroke of green line.

The Cthulhu King, who had transformed into a mermaid, rushed towards Hellgate with countless of jellyfish following him tightly from behind. He then increased his speed and the jellyfish looked like a series of green meteor showers.

Garen took out the great halberd and held it with both of his hands.

The black great halberd instantaneously increased its length to tens of meters and in an instance was swung towards Hellgate.

Three of them attacked at almost the same time.

Three of them managed to hit Hellgate and cut off countless of dark red hands in the process.

Boom boom boom!

Three consecutive explosions could be heard and countless of jellyfish were melted, the green blade was shattered to pieces as it was caught by Hellgate. The shattered pieces caught fire as they fell into the sea of blood but the fire did not distinguish.

Garen’s great halberd was caught by Hellgate with one hand as well and a great spark could be seen. However, as the tip was in contact with Hellgate’s hand, it fired out countless of black metal spikes towards his eyes and ears.

Hmpf!

Hellgate scowled as he raised up his other hand and a transparent crystal wall appeared and blocked off all the spikes.

The black metal spikes were all nailed onto the crystal wall.

However, in that instance, the green blade pierced through his armpit and the black harpoon hit him fiercely from the top.

The Divine God Palace Master, Cthulhu King and Garen took this opportunity to get close to him. The green longbow blade hybrid, black harpoon and the great halberd. These three weapons once again went after the Hellgate in the center.

With the teamwork among the peak of form five, a mysterious vortex was formed with the four of them as the epicenter. The black clouds from the surrounding gathered together, forming a horrifying whirlpool.

Buzz!!

Suddenly, it was as if Hellgate had an additional pair of hands as afterimages of his hand could be seen and interacted with the weapons that was about to landed onto him.

Hundreds of metals colliding against each other could be heard, trembling the sky.

The horrifying shockwave spread out from the four of them towards the empty land.

Cracks formed on the ground as the earth quaked!

Shockwaves came from the sky one after the other, hitting the ground and towards the totem teams who had yet evacuated.

There were cries of pain, agony, explosion, craziness and hopelessness.

Countless of emotions and voices were mixed together.

The formations created by the totem users were shattered by the shockwave as if they were all legoes. They were shattered by just a gentle touch. Those totem users and totem creatures in the sky exploded as they couldn’t withstand the shockwave.

"Is.. Is that Garen…?!"

Among a team which was moving, Goth raised his head as he looked at the horrifying figure battling in the sky.

"The King of Ender separated his wealth into three portions and gave it to these three as they’re the last hope of this world." Earnest muttered as she was being carried by the Green Dragon Swordsman.

She raised her head and looked at the horrifying battle in the sky. "Those three are the last resistance from this world…"

Huh!

The Divine God Palace Master pulled his longbow and the tips of the longbow were lighted in red, forming two arcs.

The Cthulhu’s mermaid form shrunk and condensed as if it was turning into an ancient fish creature. The contour of his black muscles could be clearly seen as well.

The halberd in Garen’s hand would occasionally turned into a sword, dagger and countless of other weapons. The transformation was smooth and natural.

The combination attacks from those three had no flaw and with the countless of afterimages of Hellgate’s hand, the situation had reached a stalemate.

The sky was agitated as the earth cried.

The walls of the Monolith City couldn’t withstand it and start to crumble.

This millennium old city started to disintegrate as these four fought.

Suddenly a green light landed.

Boom!

Following tightly was another two black light landing onto the ground, causing the dusts and dirts to filled the air.

Although Hellgate’s hands were filled with small wounds, he seemed to know feel anything from it as he looked up and went after the Door to Heaven as the sea of blood pushed him up.

Garen crawled out of the crater as the blue light around his body spread out.

Hehehehe…

He suddenly laughed crazily as he realized he’s in a dire state. Wasn’t this kind of life that he had been yearned for?

To bet everything that he had and enjoy the battle of life or death as he met a stronger foe.

Didn’t he want to see the world from the peak when he started practicing martial arts?

"This is it… This is it…!!" He muttered as he could feel that his blood is boiling.

A strong fusion of energy poured out from the seed of Living Secret Technique and with him as the epicenter, cold air leaked out from his and spread across a few hundred meters, freezing everything and turned the land into blue.

As the ice and metal Living Secret Technique merged together, it didn’t bring forth a stronger Living Secret Technique but a system that was more suitable to him.

Garen had finally reached the final phase of merging Secret Techniques as he relied on his past experience and the wealth given by the King of Ender.

However, this was also where countless of peak form five totem users failed.

He raised his head up and looked at Hellgate in the sky.

Garen suddenly disappeared from the ground.

As if it was their plan, the other two flew towards the Hellgate as well.

Kaboom!!

Four of them collided against each other and a spherical shockwave spread out with them as the epicenter.

This shockwave disintegrated countless of limbs and the fleshes flew up and rained down.

At that instant, the three attackers’ robe was torn into pieces and their bodies were showed towards every totem users.

The Divine God Palace Master’s left arms was completely gone and one section of his right knees had disappeared, leaving behind a messy injury.

The Cthulhu King’s head was split into half vertically and one could see the sky behind his head. His brain was almost split into half.

One of Garen’s eyes exploded, leaving behind a bloody hole. His body was filled with countless of small holes but it was frozen by the ice crystals to prevent any major loss of blood.

In that instant, the three of them threw everything they had towards Hellgate.

Two puffs of bloody mist leaked out from Hellgate’s waist as his face turned pale.

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Kovitan Kingdom, which was far away.

Hathaway held onto her mouth as she tried her best not to scream. She could feel Danielle holding her arms tightly.

"That’s.. Brother.. Garen.." Danielle muttered.

Hathaway thought that Hellgate had recognized someone wrongly as Garen was just a form four totem users in everyone’s perspective and was nowhere near the peak of form five.

She no longer had any doubt as the black robe was torn into pieces.

It was indeed Garen. Unknowingly, he had reached the peak of the world.

However, she would rather Garen to be a form four as this cruel battle was not something someone in their mid twenties should experience…

A sense of pride and complicated feelings kept conflicting against each other.

Hathaway stared closely at the water mirror in the sky and realized that the one eyed man was smiling. He was smiling!

He was enjoying such a cruel battle.

It was something that came from within. It was his deepest emotion.

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At the other corner of the Kingdom.

The princess and the remaining Gargantuans and elite totem users gathered together.

No one spoke a word as the oval shaped water mirror floating in the long table was broadcasting the horrifying battle in the Ender Kingdom.

The princess held the fan tightly in her hand as sweat had completely filled her hand. She stared closely at the water mirror and didn’t want to miss out any single detail.

As she looked at the face of this young and crazy man, she suddenly felt scared as she didn’t expect the man whom she thought she knew so very well had hidden such an incredible strength.

As she recalled the interactions with Garen in the past, she felt very conflicted.

A sense of fear and complicated feelings kept appearing inside her heart.

She looked at the remaining two Gargantuans and Grand Duke Cody was horrified.

As they’re fighting against each other to obtain power and authority, that young man had unknowingly surpassed them and obtained a very powerful strength.

He was able to fight side by side with the Nest Leader Divine God Palace Master and the strongest person in the Cthulhuism Society, Cthulhu King.

All of them had terrifying powers.

Grand Duke Benoc’s expression was calm but he was holding the arm rest tightly to the point that the metal arm rest had a mark on it.

Everyone didn’t know what to feel as they didn’t expect that the young genius who once stood side by side with them in terms of strength had far surpassed them in such a short time.