Chapter 973: Clumsies (III)
“No, I don’t,”
Ryuk replied, leaving Void dumbstruck as he paused his run, allowing Ryuk to leave him behind.
But quickly enough, he puffed once more, appearing by his side.
“Wait, are you being serious?” he asked, just to be sure.
“What do I have to be worried about? After all, I’ve got the Mighty Lord Void by my side.”
He said, looking at Void with a smug grin that made the Void panther swallow, scratching its chest with its paw.
“Honestly, I feel very humbled hearing that… but it unfortunately won’t get us through that gate. There are some horrifying entities around that gate. Trust me…” Void said, and Ryuk shrugged, saying,
“Then pray we find Isha quickly enough.”
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The Wingo Realm was a powerful Realm in the Peak Race Conglomeration.
One just above the Stellar Realm.
It welcomed only the most powerful and purest of winged bloodlines, ranging from humanoids to beastly to undefinable.
All races were winged, but distinguished by being the most powerful and purest of their kind.
There were four areas in the Wingo Realm.
The Northern area, known as the Dum Wingo Realm:
A place not much worth speaking of, defined as the slum of the Wingo Realm.
And at the far extreme of the Wingo Realm, its far south was the Celestial Wingo Realm:
A place home to the most powerful of the winged races.
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Ryuk and Void stepped out of the massive jungle dividing North and South, rising above the final stretch of colossal trees whose branches heaved them with every gust.
Both remained silent, eyes wide with awe as they looked forward.
It was a place quite unlike anything either had ever seen.
There was a gate at the front.
A gate so tall and mighty that its absolute tip pierced through the skies.
Its surface was etched with runes with a complexity that stung the brain on mere attempts to decipher it.
Various colors, golden, purple, blue, occasionally scorched through different areas of its glass-like frame.
From its sides, endless walls rose, reaching about 200 meters high and stretching farther than the eye could see.
But that wasn’t all.
On the walls, armored guards stood like statues, their eyes shining with arcane light as they looked down.
Void sensed their presence and was momentarily speechless.
Exignis Stage.
There were over a dozen guards on these walls, yet the lowest aura was that of the Exignis Stage.
But in Ryuk’s world, things were much different.
“Twenty-four Exignis Stage experts and five Nihility Stage experts,” he mused quietly beneath his breath, though there was no ripple at all in his eyes.
Still, even he was impressed.
This amount of power used to protect the entrance gate to the realm was not something one sees every day.
Actually, he had not even seen one before.
“Okay, Void. We’re here.”
Ryuk said, looking at Void, who shakily turned his neck to him, fur glistening from the sweat underneath.
“What did you say again?”
“Open a Void Portal. We’re sneaking in.”
He said to Void, who pointed its fat claws into the distance.
“You see that gate, Ryuk?”
“Uh-huh?”
“It blocks everything, Void, space?”
“Anything with the power to infiltrate something or nothing to pass through anything is absolutely repelled by those runes on the door.”
“There’s no way in hell even a God of Void will be getting through those gates.”
He said, but Ryuk’s expression was as deadpan as ever.
“Isha is beyond those gates, Void. Open a portal.”
“There’s no way I can open a portal to another side that I can’t even sense. It’s like trying to get through a blank void of nothing.”
“There is nothing behind these gates to my Void senses.”
“But there is something behind that gate, isn’t there?” Ryuk asked, but Void shook his head.
“You don’t understand, Ryuk.”
“I actually do,”
“Oh, really? I’m the one with Void energy within me, not your crippled ass. So rightfully, only I understand,”
Void claimed, and Ryuk snorted, his face regaining focus as he began.
“To teleport, a portal has to be opened, connected to the nodes of space. It’s similar to creating a poke in the node that allows the cultivator to step into the Node Realm.”
“And in the Node Realm, distance is very short.”
“A cultivator only needs to take a poke at a node and go through it, appearing instantly on the other side, which makes teleportation look so instant.”
“The massive gate doesn’t get rid of the second node within it. It simply hides the nodes that lead back into it.”
“So while you can open a vortex to get into the node realm, you won’t find a node space that leads in behind these gates.”
He explained to Void, who had no way to refute.
That was exactly what had happened.
“If you know that, then you should know it’s impossible, then,” Void said, but Ryuk shook his head.
“But you know there is a node there, right? The keyword is that it’s hidden. But it’s there!”
“If only you can search, Void.”
“If you can pull off that blindfold over your eyes that the gate’s runic effect does, you will see a node, and you can poke out of it.”
He shot back as Void’s brow furrowed.
His words made some sense.
“All you have to do, Void, is try and pull off the blindfold. How hard can that be for the mighty Lord Void?”
He asked, and Void thought quietly for almost five minutes straight before he sighed.
“Okay, quiet. Don’t disturb me now.”
He said, and in the next moment, Void closed its eyes.
A few minutes later, the magic began.
The magic of a beast with ever-growing potential.
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