Chaos Devourer System

Chapter 752: Leaving The Tower

“The… Mark of the Lost Shadow Guardian?” Zeras asked with a raised eyebrow as he slowly felt the strange mark that was on his back.

At the last minute, he had been attacked by the Guardian, and even though he had retaliated, it had still scorched his back and sent him flying out of the realm.

But now, it seemed that wherever the Lost Guardian was, it still had business with him, as it placed its mark on Zeras, probably in order to be able to find him.

“Without the presence of a higher power, your death is sealed.”

“You will die at the hands of the Lost Shadow Guardian as he will hunt you, even in your wildest dreams…” The Dark Shaman said to Zeras, whose eyes flashed, a trace of fear wanting to sneak into his heart, yet it was immediately thrown away by him.

“Then, by the gods you will watch me as I prevail…” he responded back before picking up the slumbering body of the man he rescued and stepping out of the door, back into the darkness.

Until Zeras completely disappeared, the Shaman looked at him throughout the entire duration, even as he became one with the abyss.

“His aura… It can’t be.”

The instant Zeras stepped out of the gate and walked into the abyss, he was expecting another endless scream and anguish in his ears.

But the instant he stepped out, he found himself back in the golden room, with Felicie’s father still on his shoulder.

Placing him down, Zeras watched as his skin started gaining a healthy color until he was whole by himself, and his eyelids fluttered open, looking at him for some time before looking around the room.

“You’re back!” The voice resounded as Zeras slowly turned his gaze up toward the Faerie, who was looking at him with quite a bit of shock, and he could understand why.

The tiny lady was probably surprised he was still alive and might have been expecting his death before.

Jokes on her though, because he lived.

“And who is he?” the Faerie asked, resulting in a shrug from Zeras, who slowly walked toward the rewards that were hanging on the ten pedestals in the 7th room.

As Zeras climbed higher and higher up, he had noticed that the quantity of the rewards in each floor seemingly decreased, but the value of each reward almost completely doubled.

Since no one in the history of time had ever reached the 7th floor, right now, Zeras essentially got himself one of the best treasures the tower has to offer.

And calmly, without any rush, he walked toward each and every pedestal, grabbing their rewards for himself.

There were a total of ten, and three of the rewards were strange ancient books holding some arts which Zeras didn’t check.

Two of them were simple cube-like boxes inscribed with thousands of runes, while the remaining five were strange vials of different colors which he slipped into his pocket.

“You can no longer ascend the higher floors any longer!” the Faerie said as Zeras hmmed.

He picked up his rewards and turned to look at the Faerie with a raised eyebrow.

“And why is that?”

“Because you brought back something living from the trial ground. It is against the rules!” The Faerie said to Zeras, its tone leaving no room for argument, but Zeras only scoffed.

He could already sense that the Faerie wasn’t happy with him going to the 7th floor in the first place, and even now, the so-called ‘rule’ was nothing but a facade.

All the rules had been mentioned when they started the trial, so why didn’t the Faerie mention it to him then?

It was clear that it didn’t want him to climb up the higher floors, and though that piqued Zeras’ curiosity about what could even be on the last two floors, he didn’t give much damn since he already knew where what he wanted was.

“Whatever…” he replied as he walked back to the man whose eyes flashed with a strange emotion, and in the next instant, he slowly got on both knees, about to bow to Zeras, only for Zeras to grab him and pull him back up to his feet.

“It’s not a help; it’s a deal…” he replied to the man whose eyes flashed with a strange light, but in the next instant, the entire world glitched as Zeras willed to disappear while holding the man’s shoulder, and in the next instant, both of them faded away into thin air, reducing the reward room to silence save for the buzzing of the Faerie, who slowly wiped out her eyebrows.

“The 7 Celestial Treasures and the 3 God Treasures have been lost to him now.”

“Thankfully, he didn’t go to the last floors, or the entire realm might once more be thrown into chaos if he was given the chance to grow with whatever he obtained from them…” The Faerie mused to herself but then her eyebrows furrowed.

“If he stopped climbing, that means he had obtained what he wanted…”

“But the ten treasures in the 7th floor didn’t seem to be what he wanted, and he actually came out once more with a man from the trials.”

“Was the man his target all along, or just what had he been risking his life for…” The Faerie asked itself question after question, but eventually gave it up.

Its only job in the tower was to open the realm doors of the various trial grounds while also informing the otherworlders of the rules in the place.

As for what the otherworlders have to say or what they took or where they go or what they witnessed, it had absolutely nothing to do with her and she couldn’t even see it through in the first place.

“Now that the test is finished. I guess it’s time to close down the tower until the next hundred years,” it said to itself when suddenly.

“That won’t be necessary. As this tower will never get opened again!” The voice resounded as the Faerie’s face paled and it frantically turned around only to be faced with a hand clasping all over its lower body and forcing every single motion it had left.

It struggled for a bit, only to fail tragically, and in the end, it could only look at the figure before it with shock in its eyes.

“It’s you! How… How did you escape your seal?”

———-

Immediately, Zeras wished to leave the tower.

The entire world rotated all around him before everything seemed to go pitch black for a long while, and then…

A cool, gentle breeze blew his hair along his shoulders as he looked around the area.

Yet his face changed in the instant when he pulled the man away from where he stood, and then…

BAAAAAAAANGGG

The body of a cultivator roughly smashed into the ground, springing about unendingly before he was eventually knocked out cold.

Zeras’s eyes flashed in shock when he finally looked around and saw the wide-scale destruction that was currently ongoing.

All over the place, there were various bodies of otherworlders, all grievously harmed, and the figure responsible was nothing short of jaw-dropping to Zeras.

It was a gigantic 10,000-meter tall rock titan that Zeras immediately found familiar, and the words resonated in his head.

—

“The Mountain Range… is alive!”

—

Yes! It was exactly what Elytrion had told him about the strange mountain range, and now he could see it for himself—that the mountain range was really alive.

It held so much power that all the other otherworlders who were battling it were being reduced to nothing, getting roughly smashed with some even getting flattened to paste by the titan.

BOOOOOOM

The ground rumbled as powerful rocks slammed on the ground beneath Zeras, and in the next instant, he kicked Feliceo’s father in his hand before storming off into the distance.

The place he decided to go to was none other than the place where he had believed they had settled when they arrived here—the small cave area.

And the sight of Felicie’s bag made him aware that she had yet to leave.

“Stay here!” That was the last thing Zeras said before a powerful blast of air blew up in Jeffrey’s face, and in the next instant, the handsome silver-haired young man was gone.

He wanted to help, but the powerful sound of the entire earth shaking made him realize there was perhaps nothing he could do, if anything, and it would even become a drag on him.

So he simply remained where he was told.

As he looked around the cave room quietly, his eyes turned to look at the bag that was placed at the corner of the hall, and he walked towards it.

—

Instantly, Zeras sprinted forth once he placed the man in the cave.

He didn’t know where Felicie was, and he doubted she was still in the tower up until now.

He should have been the last person to exit, and the sight of the strange titan fighting otherworlders around scared the hell out of him.

If Felicie just happened to be among them, then she would probably be the first to die.

But as Zeras moved around the place with speed, trying to find Felicie while avoiding the titan’s steps, he was shocked when his eyes caught something so strange.

There was a person on the shoulders of the titan.

A person with half silver and orange hair…