Chapter 453 Just a little more to go!
Kyle sensed a few people coming towards the place he was hiding, and he vanished in a different direction. He wandered among the collapsed structures and avoided every person he encountered on the way.
The gloomy sky above his head began to darken as the dark clouds concealed the faint light that barely made it through.
Kyle stopped beside a lake and pulled the hoodie down from his head.
However, he didn't dare to get close because he saw many skeletons scattered around. Plus, the lake had started to dry up, and the remaining water inside was too dark to be called water. He released a sigh and settled behind a boulder to spend the night there since he did not sense anyone nearby, at least not in close proximity.
"I should try using my flames to break through the layer of energy... maybe it will work? Just a small opening would be enough for me, because once I leave this planet, I can easily escape."
He closed his eyes but snapped them open a minute later when he sensed someone approaching from the distance.
"Darn it! Don't they need to sleep or have a home where their parents are waiting for them? It's so late, and they are still searching for me..."
"It's only my first day on this planet, and I'm already frustrated from running around just to find a quiet and safe spot."
Kyle vanished in another direction, but he screeched to a halt in mid-air when he saw a majestic castle amidst the barren land, surrounded by many stone houses.
His nose twitched as he used his scent perception skill, despite the discomfort, and sensed many powerful treasures inside the grand castle adorned with towering stone walls. He hasn't smelled a single treasure on this planet since he arrived here, and now he sensed so many in a single place... almost as if someone dumped the whole planet's treasures inside the castle.
Kyle glanced at the dark aura surrounding the castle and, without a second thought, he turned around and fled in another direction.
"No way am I going inside when this place could very well be where the shadow general is staying."
"I can fight a divine rank individual right now, but I'm sure the strength beyond that would be too much for me to handle."
In that exact moment, inside the castle, Onicuss opened one of his eyes and his gaze traveled before he fixed his eye on the floating silver-haired human. His lips trickled upward into a smile as he whispered under his breath.
"So, the human has another strong skill besides the teleportation skill?"
He glanced at his feet that had stepped on a fleeting transparent energy, a energy that shouldn't have been visible to him because it was just someone else's perception. However, he sensed it immediately the moment it entered his range.
"A powerful skill that allows its user to smell everything in their surroundings."
Onicuss let out a chuckle. It's the first time he was glad the twin demons successfully extracted the transcendent rank awareness skill from the strongest demi-human body he killed. Now he could naturally sense everything as long as it was in his surroundings.
He lifted his feet and the thing beneath dissipated into thin air.
"How strange... I wouldn't have sensed it because just as his senses were about to reach me, he suddenly withdrew as if he knew my exact location. But I still felt it... It's a shame that even though I was trying to sleep, I couldn't."
He mused with interest and closed his eyes. But then he opened them again and rose from the throne. The tight-fitting grey attire on his body stretched as he started stepping toward the exit of the hall.
Onicuss's pointy ears twitched as a few individuals from the dark race, stationed outside the hall, greeted him with their heads bowed to the ground.
They dared not look up and even held their breath in his presence. But his attention was captured by the silver-haired human who had already run far away from his castle in just a few seconds.
Onicuss beckoned one of the individuals kneeling in front of him, and the woman freaked out when she saw a smirk on his face. It was a smile that only appeared on the shadow general's face when he found something interesting that he wanted to play around with.
"Just contact the twin demons and ask them to follow my presence. I think I found the human those idiots have been searching for so long."
The woman heard his every word, but before she could nod, the shadow general had already vanished from her sight. She let out a relieved sigh and quickly left with the others to inform the twin demons.
Onicuss appeared outside the castle in mid-air. He narrowed his dark eyes and spotted the human in a far away place.
The latter had tucked his silver hair inside the hoodie, probably to stay as invisible as possible in the dark night. Onicuss rubbed his chin and floated towards the human slowly.
"His presence is hidden from everyone below the pseudo divine rank for some reason... Oh, it's because of the earring he's wearing. It's an artifact."
He watched as Kyle started moving towards the layer of energy he created.
"Don't tell me he's trying to break it? Haha, it's not possible. Even a transcendent rank individual can't break it, let alone a weak human who hasn't even entered the true divine rank yet."
Onicuss chuckled and watched as the human punched the layer of energy again and again, only to fail in the end. At that exact moment, he sensed two individuals behind him as he floated toward the human, but he ignored the duo because he knew they were the twin demons.
He yawned and shook his head at the human's effortless struggle before asking the twin demons behind him to go and quickly grab the human because it was getting boring.
"I did say he can't break it-!"
Onicuss halted mid-sentence when bright blue flames reflected in his dark eyes. The flames surged all around the human's body before quickly traveling toward the layer of energy with lightning-fast speed.
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A while back, Kyle looked around to make sure nobody was nearby. Then, in the next second, he used his divine energy to create the blue flames that surrounded him and quickly approached the layer of energy.
He clenched his fist and punched the layer as the flames covered the area he hit. Kyle's ears twitched when he heard a faint crack, and his eyes lit up.
'It's working!'
He punched the layer again with even more strength, using his divine energy to coat his fist. Under his eyes, the icy flames started to seep into the layer of energy, and ice started to form on its surface.
'Just a little more to go!'
Kyle punched the same spot again as the flames covered his fist and the layer of energy in front of him. But then, a deep voice sounded beside him.
"Oho, you are weak, but it seems you will be able to break it..."
"Of course-!"
Kyle's eyes widened as he realized his mistake. He was supposed to be alone! So, who on earth asked him the question?!
He vanished from his spot and appeared in the distance before he fixed his gaze onto the source of the voice.
The first thing that caught his attention were the pair of dark eyes, and then he noticed the wide smile on the face of the elven man floating opposite him.
Kyle clenched his fist and furrowed his brows. He failed to sense the man, even though the latter had come so close to him. Doesn't that mean the person opposite him was very strong?
'But he looks quite ordinary...'
Nevertheless, he moved back further and quickly sniffed the air.
But just as Kyle suspected, he couldn't detect anything from the man dressed in gray across from him, as if the man's presence was merely an illusion.
In the next second, Kyle moved his eyes toward the two individuals flying toward him from the distance.
He wrinkled his nose as a disgusting stench of blood and flesh emanated from the duo, whose bodies were covered in dark robes and entered his nostrils.
'Ugh...'
Kyle pinched his nose before he emptied the contents of his stomach. He quickly made up his mind to disappear in another direction but paused when the two individuals in dark robes started chuckling, albeit faintly.
The twin demons stopped a little further away from Kyle because of the shadow general who had his eyes fixed on the human. However, the human ignored him and kept his eyes on the two demons who were whispering to each other.
"Brother... we found the human, now he can't escape! Hehe."
"No, it wasn't us who found him, it was our master!"
Kyle's face turned rigid when he heard the duo's faint conversation.
He didn't even dare to look at the smiling elven man who had been boring holes into his body with his intense gaze.
'Don't tell me this ordinary-looking elven man is the shadow general? But he doesn't have any visible dark petals engraved on his body, and I can't sense any dark energy from him!?'