The Record of Unusual Creature

Hao Ren turned his head awkwardly and found that the entrance to the different dimension was already open—it was right behind him. This unlucky entrance was actually stuck in such a place, which almost overlapped with the main entrance of the real Parthenon. The direction of entry was simply the opposite…

In fact, earlier on, Hessiana had mentioned that the entrance to ruins overlapped with the entrance of the temple but, Hao Ren was not paying attention.

“So, this is the entrance?” Lily was the first one to jump towards the entrance and observe it curiously. The entrance was a twisted, translucent film of light; it had no fixed shape, like a projection of water floating in the air. It had a width of about three or four metres with a height that corresponded with the temple’s beam. They could see a vague view of the different dimension from the light film. There seemed to be a different view of mountains and rivers on the other side. Lily curiously went to the back of the light film and found that there was nothing behind it—even the film itself had disappeared and she could see the people directly behind the light film.

Vivian threw a small bat into the light, nodded at Hao Ren and said, “Well, it’s a stable dimension and it looks very spacious.”

“Let’s go!” Hao Ren rolled up his sleeves and took the lead, walking into the light film, which did not really look reliable. Lily did the same and jumped into the light, followed by Vivian, Nangong Wuyue and Becky. Y’zaks stood at the back of the team and allowed Hessiana as well as Zeon Lucas to go first. “You go first, I’ll be the last one to go in. What about the altar outside…”

“These people will take care of it,” Hessiana said and pointed to several mages, who were maintaining the ritual as well as a circle of master guards, who were standing around them. “They’re the best fighters in the Blood Clan. They’ll take good care of the situation here.”

Zeon Lucas smiled and glanced at Y’zaks without saying anything. He then lifted his leg and walked towards the layer of translucent light film.

At the other side of the light, Hao Ren was staring blankly at the incredible scenery before him.

He stood at the top of a towering hill and beneath him lay a stretch of open ground with broken slabstones. He did not expect to see a clear and bright sky as well as a sea of clouds in this strange space. It was totally different from the chaotic and dim space he had imagined in his head. He saw layers of clouds surging in front of his eyes, which were almost as high as the mountaintop. It felt as if he would fall into the sky if he took only a few steps forward. In this endless sea of clouds, Hao Ren could see huge rocks floating in the air—the rocks seemed to be broken pieces of the mountain, with different sizes and shapes floating amid the clouds like there was no gravity. Something even more amazing was floating farther in the sky: it was an ancient Greek building—smilar to a temple with a white as well as stately colour and form; it was much larger than the Parthenon. The building was already not intact and one could clearly see the jagged stubble on one of its side. This was because, half of the structure had been abruptly torn away from the complex. Meanwhile, the rest of the building floated in the sky above the sea of clouds as weightless as any other mountain fragment. It was slightly tilted and a small part of it was hidden by the clouds.

The boundless sea of clouds, the broken rocks floating in the sky, and a sky palace slanted in the clouds, this was the scene that Hao Ren saw; shocking, and very challenging to the original cognition of the world.

But there was no much impact on him, his cognition of the world was already so twisted anyway.

“That’s the energy zone?” Nangong Wuyue looked up at the sky and found colourful ribbons of light floating in the more distant clear, blue sky. These light streams were breezing throughout the entire sky, like a river of light constantly flowing and twisting. She could feel the disturbing power of the light: powerful, but distorted, seemingly completely uncontrollable.

Becky looked up at the sky curiously as well. She came from the Plane of Dreams, but she also felt strange to the bizarre scene in the sky. “What is that? The people in your world… in this place have even developed techniques of colouring the clouds? How free are the people here?”

“There is absolutely no such thing in the Plane of Dreams…” Hao Ren muttered while looked up at the sky. The MDT was testing the energy readings around and at the same time kept warning in Hao Ren’s head, “Warning, mixed-type radiation exceeding the standard, harmful to humans, but harmless to you all, warning, mixed radiation exceeding the standard, harmful to humans, but harmless to you all…”

Hao Ren took the MDT out, shook it vigorously and scolded it, “Then, why are you sounding the alarm for? Can you just stay quiet?”

“Oh, I just wanted to show a sense of existence. I’ve been quiet this whole time and I thought maybe you guys had already forgotten about me…”

Zeon and Hessiana also jumped in through the light film the moment Hao Ren kept the MDT. Zeon looked at Lily with a weird expression on his face as she ran around crazily. Hessiana looked at Vivian with pride and said, “Lady Vivian, how is it? Is this place powerful? Do you feel the primitive energy around you? If the energy could be turned into magic power then we no longer have to worry about demon hunters!”

Vivian frowned and said, “Not… Not this kind of energy… These things are dangerous, it’s better not to touch them!”

“What does it mean?” Zeon’s attention suddenly shifted away from Lily, and he looked at Vivian with a startled face.

“Haven’t you let other senior elders see the situation here?” Vivian stared at Zeon and asked.

Zeon opened his mouth, a little hesitated and said, “Err… We did invite Grandalr and Hesperides, but they were not interested in it. We have yet to invite other people… we just discovered the relic, I want to wait until we ascertain the structure of this place and then…”

“This is not the Mythological Era…” Vivian looked around, raised her finger and pointed at the most striking hall in the distance. “Well, it indeed belonged to the Olympians, but there’s something wrong with the atmosphere here, and the raw energy in the air is not a product of the Mythological Era, they are arcane energy that is more primitive and uncontrollable… I feel uncomfortable, some… a certain trait of these energies makes me sick, and it’s no good messing with them.”

Hessiana and Zeon were shocked at the same time. “You said this is not the power of the Mythological Era?”

Vivian said firmly, “No, even at the peak of the Mythological Era, there was no such energy in the air, and the environment didn’t look like this at that time.”

The greatest expectation of the unusual creatures regarding the Day of Return was to find the source of power in the Mythological Era and restored their power. Therefore, Hessiana and Zeon were overjoyed after they discovered the energy that filled the space. They almost thought it was one of the ‘remnants of the ancient kingdom’ that collapsed and sealed off at the end of the Mythological Era, but now they were disappointed after they heard Vivian’s judgment. Zeon began to ponder silently, and Hessiana asked with a little hope, “Well, there’s energy everywhere, right? Although this is not the form of energy in the Mythological Era… it looks very powerful! It’s definitely good to make use of it, and probably this could be as strong as the real primitive power.”

“The power of the unknown source is never a good thing!” For some reason, Vivian looked more and more furious and her tone became very mean as if she was scolding Hessiana. “You’ll get killed for touching it sooner or later! No more studying of the things here… You’re absolutely not allowed to extract any energy from here and infuse it into your body!”

Hessiana was shocked by Vivian’s sudden rebuke. Hao Ren patted Vivian on the shoulder and said, “Umm, calm down, please. You’re scaring her.”

Vivian paused for a few seconds and then slowly went back to her usual gentle expression and explained, “Oh… Oh… You’re right, I was too harsh. But Hessiana, it’s for your own good. I feel the energy here is very dangerous… Although I can’t remember when I encountered it, it must have been a bad one. Maybe… Forget it, I can’t remember.”

Then Zeon suddenly asked, “Lady Vivian, have you calmed down? Are we going to continue to look around the relic?”

Vivian seemed to be a little confused. She blinked a few times and nodded as though she had just awakened from a dream. She cast an inquiring look at Hao Ren because at that moment, Hao Ren was the nearest to her. After Hao Ren confirmed that Vivian was fine, he nodded and said, “Let’s continue. I want to look around here—you can rest assured, I promise I won’t touch ‘your’ things. I’ll just look at them.”