Chương 24: Underground Palace

Both creatures stood motionlessly on the side while their forehead slowly formed sweat from nervousness.

Meanwhile, the creature called Lord Amael glanced around the room that was filled with junk and signs of card games, sneered, and asking, "Report. Now!"

"Yes, Sir! Right away!" the creature whose face looked annoyed just a second ago stepped forward and waved his hand.

Swish!

"So far we have searched 2734 planets, including ones that were recorded as desolated planets, but so far we acquired no results." the creature explained with a nonchalant face as he showed several data on a hologram.

However, this answer seemed unsatisfactory for Lord Amael as his body quickly started to leak killing intent, which immediately caused both creatures to tremble in fear and almost piss themselves right on the spot!

They knew, right now a single bad word could cause their demise, no question about it!

Silence with a heavy atmosphere was the only thing that resided in the room for a long while before Lord Amael hastily calmed himself down and said, "Go back to work and continue your search! Until you don't find her, none of you will leave this room or I will personally sever your heads off your bodies!"

"We dare not to, Lord Amael!" both creatures kneeled onto the floor with lowered heads, their bodies shaking like leaves in a cold autumn night.

"Hmph! Also, you have one week to get results or I will make sure you won't see daylight ever again!"

"Yes, my Lord!"

Once Lord Amael finished with his talk and walked away with his men, both creatures stood up with cold sweat still covering their bodies and immediately started to work with thrice as much energy as previously!

On the green planet that was now engulfed in abyss darkness thanks to the black sun that appeared out of nowhere, Erys quickly moved among the woods while Nash followed her closely from behind.

"How far are we from the entrance?" Nash asked Erys while running around the trees, but to his surprise, exactly as he asked his question they arrived before a huge cave which entrance was inside a small hill's side.

It looked rather average as its width was three meters while its height was a bit more than four meters.

"This way," Erys told Nash and quickly walked forward.

Nash, on the other hand, took a glance at the strings attached to his fingers, but as they seemed perfectly fine he sighed with relief. It seemed his doubt was indeed right, and except for that Evolved Beast that was killed, no other creatures lurked outside.

"Just make sure to find the little girl and when you do, bring her back to me." Nash talked into thin air, but for some strange reason, he felt as a power traveled through the strings, delivering his desire to his Souls without a problem.

After he said that, he followed Erys into the cave, quickly vanishing into the darkness.

"It's pretty dark in here. Do you have anything we can use as a source of light?" Nash asked Erys who nodded and took out an item from her spatial ring.

It was a small, almost a fist-sized orb, with a yellow color. Once it was in her grasp, Erys shook it with a gentle motion which as a result made it float up into the air and became bright almost like a miniature sun!

"What item is that? I have never seen it before." Nash asked curiously as he found this item rather useful.

If he would have had this item during his mining time where he spent his days inside dark caves with almost no source of light, with this little orb on his side he could have been more proficient and wouldn't have starved for days for no reason!

"It is called Sun Crystal, a World Grade Treasure that is on the 5th Class." Erys answered and quickly added, "It can only illuminate the surroundings with its light, so it is pretty useless except for using as a torch."

"I wouldn't call that as useless, but whatever." Nash shook his head, and proceeded on following Erys in silence.

Both walked deeper into the unknown without talking, and soon the scene before them expanded as they have arrived at this insanely enormous open space which was big enough to fit their spaceship in whole!

However, they couldn't care about something so insignificant like that, as the sight inside this massive space shocked them to speechlessness instead!

"T-This? Didn't Revio tell us this planet was desolated? Then how come this is here?" Nash asked loudly, his eyes wide as saucers and his jaw slightly loose thanks to shock.

Before him and Erys, an entire building that looked like a palace stood in its full glory before them, while high above this obvious man-made palace several orange crystals shone brightly, glowing with bright orange light!

Though, what startled Nash the most was not this, but the fact that the building was perfectly in fine condition without any cracks or damaged parts on its well-built and decorated exterior. Even green grass, trees, and bushes grew around the palace, which was in perfect shape as if they were just cut by a professional gardener about a day ago!

Even Erys seemed to be at a loss of words upon seeing this, she too unable to find the words she wanted to say.

BOOM!

"!?"

While the two were mesmerized by the sight before them, suddenly a loud explosion occurred from somewhere inside the palace, shaking the entire cave with a slight tremor!

"What happened?" Nash quickly asked Erys who stared at the palace with narrowed eyes and a serious face.

After a while, she tightened her grip around her sword and said, "This place... is much more dangerous than I have first thought."

Nash looked confused, but as he saw Erys' serious face that looked rather anxious, he knew things were indeed dire.

Anything that could make Erys, a being on the Warmaster Rank, must be extremely terrifying without a question! Just the thought of what could reside in there made Nash swallow nervously!

After thinking, Nash decided not to ponder any longer and ask, "What did you see? What was that explosion just a moment ago?"

Erys wanted to remain silent and observe the palace for a little bit longer, but because of Nash's power, she couldn't do a thing but answer obediently.

"This place is not only full of creatures that are on the top of the Infant Rank, but there are even a few that have reached the Warrior Rank."

Nash raised a brow when he heard this as he didn't understand why this was such a big deal or shocking, as for Erys, they were only mere ants.

However, he shortly understood her worry as she quickly continued to talk.

"Though, the most troubling aspect about all this is not those, but that sole 'thing' in the center of this palace. I can't quite make it out what kind of creature it is, but guessing just from its presence alone it must be on the Warmaster Rank if not above it!"

Nash remained silent as he stared at Erys with a nonchalant look, but soon his mouth opened and the only thing that came out of it was...

"...Say what?"