Hao Ren's mind was flashing with thoughts after reading the message on the door . A sense of incomprehensibility rose in him . He reached out his hand and ran across the inscription; the characters were not very neat .
They did not seem to be the 'official inscriptions' left by the builders of the door to decorate or warn those who were to come but someone passing by in a hurry . Since the Calamity Cloister was used by the ancients to seal the Shades of Chaos in thousands of years ago, no one unauthorized personnel would have wandered into this place . Someone, who might have witnessed what happened, left these words here .
"Kasandzor . . . " Vivian looked thoughtfully at the inscription . "It sounds rather familiar, but I couldn't recall who it is . We might have been active together back then . "
"I have a terrible feeling of this door," Hasse said, his brows knit together and he looked serious on his face . "Even when I was on the battlefield of the ancient gods, I had never felt this heavy . There seems to be irrational malice behind the door . "
"We didn't encounter any shadows on the way in though," Vivian said, looking at the door . "Maybe they are all behind this door . "
Hao Ren took a deep breath and then, together with Y'zaks, placed their hands on the massive stone door . "Everyone be on alert . We're going to open the door!"
As soon as their voices trailed off, he and Y'zaks used all their might to push the door .
The door gave way right away under pressure .
The ancient stone door ground open with a panicky sound . As the sound reverberated in the space, there seemed to be some other sounds mixed in the echoes: mourning, screaming, roaring, and the taunting sound of many creatures . The fog swelled and spread into all directions when the door opened as if something had stirred it though there was no wind at the moment . As the door fully opened, a gust of horrible air rushed out from the inside .
It was as if there were millions of mourning bells ringing and hundreds of millions of souls screaming, and a mass of chaos was rolling violently in the passageway behind the door . Focusing his vision into the passageway, Hao Ren could only see darkness . The turmoil and screams were just an illusion, perhaps a result of overstretched senses . Suddenly, some indescribable negative forces hit him on his face . He felt it as if the entire shadowy maze was collapsing towards him . He almost tumbled end over end before he regained his footing and instinctively leaned against the stone door as if he was on a boat holding on to the mast in the raging sea .
"What the heck?" Hao Ren struggled to talk . "What exactly is this?"
Hasse and Y'zaks had also experienced the same shock . Magic on the senior demon hunter responded with a faint light under his windbreaker, and flames rose on the Letta rune card in his hands, forming a protective circle around him . Hasse bent over under the attack, his teeth quivering . "Be focused! Don't get crushed by your fear!"
Y'zaks was not affected though . Perhaps because he came from the otherworld, or it was his brute strength that enabled him to face the force head-on, save for his face which now looked miserable . "I feel anger, an indiscriminate hostility . Perhaps we shouldn't have opened the door . "
All of them except Vivian had felt the devastating force . Standing in front of the door feeling as if nothing was happening, Vivian looked at the three of them inexplicably . "Something has come out? I still can see nothing . "
She did not even feel it .
"You're built of special materials . " Hao Ren poked fun at the bat demon despite the dire situation . "Y'zaks, try move forward," he said .
Dark-green demonic runes started to glow on his body . Going against the raging forces, Y'zaks stepped forwards . Less than ten meters into the passageway behind the door, his face twitched, and he flinched and came back out . "I can't! There is a mighty mind-corroding force inside; I almost fell prey to it!"
Hao Ren was shocked . A demon king like Y'zaks could only make less than ten meters before getting beaten by the strange force .
That made him wonder what was behind the door!
Whatever behind it, the situation could only become worse . Everyone was feeling so except Vivian .
Hao Ren had activated his Steel Membrane Shield, but it was ineffective for the situation . The force was non-physical, the solid shield had a little to no reaction at all . He could rely on the divinity to resist the mind-corroding force .
It was the little divinity Raven 12345 had shared with him as a talisman, but it seemed that it was not enough for this occasion .
Hasse's expression was getting terrible . Compared to Y'zaks and Hao Ren who had some special protections, he could only rely on his magic and physical resistance . "What should I do now? Judging from the situation right now, we may not be able to reach the location of the Solar Roulette . We can't even hold up in front of the door for ten more minutes!"
Hao Ren looked at Vivian, who was the only one unaffected . He gave up the idea of letting Vivian go to investigate the situation inside . There were too many unknowns and dangers . Vivian was only immune to the forces in the maze, but might be susceptible to other threats around the Solar Roulette .
"There must be a way . . . " Hao Ren bit his lips as his mind was racing, trying to think what magic weapons he still had at his disposal . The riotous forces coming out from the door had been very disruptive, he was unable to concentrate . He found his thinking ability rapidly weakened .
He instinctively looked into the other end of the passageway, seeing the smoothly black stonewall squirming, a door seemed to appear . He was shocked . His sanity was declining, the hidden paths and traps in the Calamity Cloister had begun to affect him .
Hao Ren instinctively took out his gun and a few Graviton Grenades from the dimensional pocket . He thought whether he should blow up the passageway and it would make a difference . Before he carried out the idea, a sudden burst of coolness came from his side, it wakened him a bit, and the phobia inside him gradually faded .
Vivian grabbed his wrist . "Hao Ren, something is not right . Let's go back to the passageway outside . "
"We can't do that . The forces are spreading," Y'zaks said . "I'm afraid that the entire Calamity Cloister has been infested . The entrance is closed; there is no going back . "
Suddenly, Hao Ren felt something under his cloak . He immediately pulled out the MDT . "Don't pretend to be dead, be something of help . "
"Like a machine, I could only think of one effective solution, which is to call in the artillery to shelter this place . The drawback is, the real world will be up in fire as well . South America will be devastated . "
"Damn you . It'd be better for you not to say anything . " Hao Ren yanked the MDT away . Then, something crossed his mind .
Strictly speaking, he suddenly remembered who he was, which he always so conveniently forgot .
"I've got an idea!" Hao Ren clapped, scaring Vivian out of her skin . "What idea?"
"I am a pope!" Hao Ren said, holding his head high before a chest before feeling a pain in the ass . "I don't want to use this trick though…"
Vivian and Y'zaks asked in unison, "Which trick?"
Hao Ren put his hand on his chest, took a deep breath, and slowly said, "Devine Intervention . I'm going to call on the name of Raven 12345 . "
It was the best he could think of at the moment, aside from letting the MDT open the entrance by force and evacuate . Considering that forced evacuation meant mission failure, he had no other options .
He wanted to use himself as a medium to direct some of the power of the Goddess against malicious forces .
Chapter end
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