However, it was completely slashed apart and was no longer functioning like it used to. All the chains had been cut off. The miniature Flame Burrow had been completely destroyed.
"This… Was this a huge seal array?"
As Grimm mumbled in shock, he stored a string of the metallic chain as a specimen for future studies. He was searching for something within the collapsed miniature Flame Burrow that spanned a hundred meters wide.
After some time, it was Claudia who picked up on something.
She found an azure crystal that had high purity. It had the energy of half a high-level magic stone.
After observing the crystal underneath the Mask of Truth, Grimm said in a low voice, "It would seem that the source of the ice flame in this area originated from this ice-element crystal. Yet, the construction of this seal is too shoddy for a large-scaled array like this. It doesn't look like a sealing array worthy of a World Lord."
Claudia put the azure crystal away.
"Indeed, it looks like this huge sealing array had other uses. There is a high probability that the Level-3 sorcerers have summoned Millie and Solumn to destroy the magical array and complete a hidden honor-badge mission."
Grimm nodded and gave up searching the rubble.
"Let's go. Though we won't be fighting with the Level 3 sorcerers for the honor badge any time soon, in order to support the operation of this massive sealing array it would require a huge amount of energy in the main operating hub. Coincidentally, my research requires a huge amount of energy."
As Grimm was about to fly away, he was startled.
Hmm?
Grimm pulled out a mysterious leather-bound book from his sorcerer's robe. Instantly, a dark energy ripple converged towards Grimm as if he was locked on by the whole sealing area.
This book was obtained by Grimm after he had slain the young Acraepoid due to Claudia's panicked reaction. It was a practice manual known as Vulkshy's Infernal Curse.
"Grimm, you…"
As if she had seen something shocking, Claudia was clearly startled as she looked at Grimm. At the same time, she flew away swiftly.
By the power of the natural forces, Grimm could sense that the endless darkness was swarming towards him as if he were about to be consumed. Somehow, he had become the center of the dark vortex.
"What's going on!?"
Under the suppression of the mysteriously powerful darkness energy, each of Grimm's movements took tremendous effort to perform. His finger was twisting slightly as he tried to throw the Vulkshy's Infernal Curse away to no avail.
'Damn it!'
So there really is a deeper secret within the item that had been left behind by the World Lord!
While Grimm was worried, he did not escape using the spacetime coordinated access spell that he shared with Little Myna. Logic was telling Grimm that a hidden secret left behind by the World Lord's practicing manual should not pose any danger.
Perhaps… it could even be some kind of unimaginable opportunity?
After taking a deep breath, Grimm clenched his teeth tightly beneath the Mask of Truth. He looked at Claudia who was slowly retreating and shouted with the last ounce of his breath, "Get away from here, go look for Millie and Solumn!"
At the next moment, Grimm could only feel a pull that had torn apart the spacetime. His body was twisted in a spiral like a string of yarn. A soul ripple emerged from the Vulkshy Infernal Curse, guiding the Darkness Pool to perfectly preserve Grimm's body.
And so, Grimm felt relieved.
It seemed like Grimm had stumbled upon a huge secret by chance.
And this secret, according to Claudia's theory of luck, supposedly belonged to the young Acraepoid?
Perhaps there really is so-called 'luck' in this world that worked like the rest of Grimm's senses. Claudia's sense of luck was just a tiny fraction of all the senses in the endless world.
However, Claudia had relied too much on this sense of luck, so much so that she had started to ignore the foundational pursuit of truth and knowledge. Her foundations had always been lacking.
How could there be a protagonist in this world?
Everyone was a protagonist in their own story. That was why every living being in every world had to go through endless fights.
It was the elusiveness of fate and the impermanence nature of the endless world that had given rise to the colorful stories of each living being!
While heaving heavily, and trying to calm his mind at the same time, Grimm could feel that the Darkness Pool that had enveloped him had transported him to a strange dimension. Huff! Azure colored ice flowers filled his sight. Grimm's sorcerer's barrier began to produce a banging noise.
On top of an ancient throne at the center of an altar was the body of an Acraepoid sealed perfectly in ice.
Chapter end
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