Chapter 232 Trouble?
Chapter 232 Trouble?
"So, what game are we playing to decide this?" Rias asked.
Ruan blinked and smiled with squinted eyes as she said, "I know a game."
After a few minutes…
Enorin, Rias, Yueha, Mei, Ruan, and Liang stood in a row facing one of the Zords—Zepheremal, the Fleeting Fatality Fangs.
The scary metallic bird floated a kilometer away from them with six glowing black blades made from its energy.
Each blade had a number inside it, but the girls didn't know which blade had which number.
The game was simple.
Zepheremal will shoot the blades high up in the sky, and the girls will pick one stick each, all at once.
"We are ready, Zephy. Release them," Ruan said as she rubbed her palms while smiling.
Zepheremal shot the six blades upward, and the girls' eyes shone as they used their soul energy to create spiritual hands to grab the blades.
Each of them grabbed a blade shortly as they floated before them.
Zephereal arrived in miniature form and revealed the numbers.
Mei—1st.
Enorin—2nd.
Yueha—3rd.
Rias—4th.
Liang—5th.
Ruan—6th.
"Nooooo! I am last!"
"Yes," Mei clenched her fist as one of her rare smiles bloomed.
"Congratulations, cutie," Yueha chuckled and rubbed her head. "Take care of Master."
"Well, it's decided then," Enorin smiled.
"You are the second number, so your turn will be soon, Eno," Rias wryly smiled. "Well, let's just get as powerful as we can before our turn comes up."
"Yep," Liang waved her handfan as she faintly smiled. "Now then, we shall resume our competition of who will reach 2nd level in our Concept first."
…
Aleron, Shelby, Luna, and Kira left the Desolate City.
"Master, should I turn into my beast form and fly there? We should reach there soon," Shelby suggested.
"Nah, no need," Aleron shook his head. "The distance to our destination is 1189 kilometers. We'll take our time and see if we encounter a Chaotic Phenomenon on the way so we can add a new member while we are in there."
Waving his hand, Aleron created a Midworld portal and summoned one of the Chaotic Beasts he had summoned.
"This will be our mount. Welcome, buddy."
Starforged Dreambloom Stag—Unbound-rank.
This was a big and beautiful Stag with a crystal-metal light gray body and dreamy patterns of blue, light green, and such that entirely changed the appearance of the stag, making it look otherworldly beautiful.
It was 500 meters tall and 700 meters long, with majestic antlers on its head.
Aleron created a comfortable living room on the back of the Dreambloom Stag with couches and a table as their first adventure in the first region of Chaosverse began.
After crossing a desert land of a hundred kilometers, they arrived in an area of trees hundreds of kilometers tall with thick trunks, giant branches, and massive leaves.
"Master, Shelby detects a horde of Paragon-rank Chaotic Beasts living in that tree," Shelby notified as she sensed their presence from a tree two kilometers away.
"Ignore," Aleron waved his hand. "There's no need to attack them unless they attack us. If there's any resources you sense, we'll acquire it, so look out for that."
"Understood."
Shelby sent hundreds of tiny, ethereal, dreamy blue, fiery birds with a wave of her hand as they flew in all directions. "Oh, you can get coverage of things outside your usual soul sense range with this, I guess?" Aleron asked as he blinked, getting an idea.
"Indeed, Master," Shelby smiled. "Nice, I gotta create a Mystic skill like that," Aleron grinned and closed his eyes.
"That is indeed good, I should also train to manifest a Mystic Skill like that," Luna smiled and nodded. "Fortunately, the trait I awakened called Moon Vision a day ago will aid me in this."
"I will try too," Kira clenched her fist with determination and closed her eyes.
While the trio began meditation, Shelby swiftly searched through all the trees they passed by to see if any valuable resource had grown somewhere.
This area of gigantic trees spanned over a hundred kilometers, and the Stag was moving at the slow speed of 150 kilometers per hour on Aleron's command.
Forty-eight minutes later, as they were about to exit the zone, Shelby suddenly detected a unique energy-rich spot, "Master, we got one."
"Let's go," Aleron grinned, his eyes gleaming as tiny wormholes formed above him, from which hundreds of ethereal vertical eyes emerged before vanishing.
This was his new Mystic Skill: Cosmic Eye.
And this was actually a super powerful skill, even better than Shelby's skill.
"Aleron, this is going to be a big weapon for us if you can make it such that others can't detect your eyes," Luna said with a hint of thrill. "I'm sure you'll be able to do that later."
"Yep," Aleron laughed and said, "These eyes, no matter where they are, no matter how far they go, I can still remain connected due to spatial connectivity, and not only that, I can even create a portal at the eye's location so we can directly go there."
"But you need to make sure it's not detectable," Shelby nodded and smiled, "Shelby can be a subject in this regard. As long as you can make it undetectable from me, It should work."
"Alright, I'll make sure to complete this task as soon as possible. The strongest powerhouse in this region is Transcendent-rank, so as long as I complete this skill, we can spy on Proper Path Alliance's exchange and get information from here."
As he finished speaking, the Stag stopped as they arrived on a tree's branch forty kilometers high on the tree, pointed by Shelby.
"It is inside the trunk in this area," Shelby said as she flew towards the giant trunk and touched it.
"Woah…the area ahead is going to be dangerous," Kira said as she looked at the sea of colorful clouds crackling with lightning while the strange ocean floated above the clouds as if defying gravity and physiques.
"That's one of the famous areas with a higher chance of manifesting Chaotic Phenomenon," Aleron smiled. "It's also the dangerous one, but that's perfect for us."
"So what is inside this trunk?" Luna asked as she arrived beside Shelby and sent her soul sense inside the trunk.
"It's pretty resistant to soul power," Aleron raised his eyebrows as his soul sense also went in, but the tree trunk had a natural resistance to it, forcing them to use soul energy to empower their sense.
But suddenly, all of them felt killing intent from behind them while a booming voice rang.
"Found them!"
A big airship one kilometer long was flying towards them flying at Mach 5 speed, but slowed down quickly while several powerful presences of Unbound-rank, and a couple of Transcendent-rank auras emerged.