MTLNOVEL Chapter 275: Upcoming Future
"You're too strong, you shouldn't be on this floor," the ancient demon said, his right arm severed and unrecoverable, clearly terrified of Chao, who was standing in front of him.
Chao, on the other hand, didn't care about anything. He could see the city behind him burning in different coloured flames. He didn't know that his head and mind shouldn't have gone there. He had fought against the ancient demon for almost seven hours straight.
It was quite understandable that the end of the battle was coming. Unlike the ancient demon, Chao's body wasn't fatigued and could continue fighting for a very long time.
On the other hand, the ancient demon had enormous fatigue and the fact that he had been fighting for a long time and did not yet have all his strength had brought him to the brink of death.
He knew he was going to die.
Chao suddenly leapt forward and began to swing his claws harder and faster at the ancient demon before him. With each thrust, the ancient demon became closer to death. The blood blooms coming out of its body had formed a small lake on the earth, it was a horrible sight.
The ancient demon had been careless for a moment, and the next thing he saw was Chao's claw entering his chest. In short, the ancient demon had simply lost the battle.
Yet, as Chao realised, something was wrong. Something didn't seem right.
The ancient demon's face suddenly showed that horrible expression, and with it, with litres of blood flowing out of his mouth, his voice came out:
"The last seal is gone, this floor will no longer exist, hahaha! Good luck, fools."
As soon as he uttered those words, the sky became darker than normal, Chao suddenly let go of the ancient demon, and with that, the ancient demon's body was burnt to ashes and disappeared.
When Chao immediately left and came to James, he saw that what had just happened to the ancient demon had happened to all the demon beast corpses, and when James looked at him with a puzzled look, he said, 'I think we have brought our end.'
As James raised his eyes to the sky, dozens of message windows instantly began to open in front of him:
[LEAVE NOW!!!]
[RUN!!!]
[DON'T LOOK BACK FOR A SECOND!!!]
[GET EVERYONE OUT OF THERE!!!]
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[LEAVE!!! LEAVE THE CITY NOW!!!]
[DON'T JUST STAND THERE, MOVE!!!]
James suddenly started to close the message windows that had formed in front of his eyes and turned around and shouted "RUN NOW!!!".
At that moment, Chao embraced Ariel and James and tore the teleportation scroll in his hand, pointing at Bai Fang.
The teleportation scroll didn't work, the scroll seemed to be blocked by something. At that moment, the message windows to James went silent, and one by one, everything was being blocked.
As soon as Chao saw that nothing was working, he started running. He instantly transformed into his Gryphon form and began to fly, carrying James and Ariel.
All the vampires were following James, and soon the city was deserted and everyone who looked at it was left where they were.
Just above the city, the sky was torn to pieces, something... someone was looking at them. Several arms broke through the sky and pressed down on the earth, and after a short time, a monster appeared, maybe a hundred metres above the ground.
The monster looked like a machine. Its legs were fixed to the earth and its arms were going into the fractures in the sky.
James and the others felt as if they were looking into eternity itself.
James knew they could not defeat such a monster, they needed help but...was there anything that could help?
"We're leaving...WE'RE LEAVING HERE!!!" shouted James and with that Chao and every single one of James' subordinates began to leave the perimeter of the city as fast as they could.
At that very moment, a voice rose from the monster itself:
"SWOOOOSH..."
It was as if the sound of a gasp echoed in the sky. James, who was on Chao's back in the form of a gryphon, turned round and looked up at the beast that stretched up to the sky, and saw that the place where the beast's eye had been glowed with a yellow light.
As soon as the sound of breathing stopped, everyone could hear their heartbeats, each of them with their eyes wide open, of them at that moment, each of them accelerated even faster and started to sprint with the adrenaline in their bodies to protect their own lives.
At that very moment, the sound came:
"ZWOOOOOOOOMMM!!!"
With the sound of that sound, a yellow beam with an electrifying effect emerged from that gigantic eye, which was perhaps ten metres in size, and moved at hyper speed directly towards the Crow City, one of the largest cities in the empire and the entire floor.
A ten-metre laser streaked straight through the city, and in just ten seconds the expected happened:
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!"
The sound of the attack was so colossal that there was no way to fully describe it. The closest way to describe it would be as if an atomic bomb had been dropped on a city.
The impact of the attack was so great, so overwhelming, that several of the vampires and even James himself realised that their eardrums were close to bursting.
The only reason Ariel was able to withstand the impact was because she had used the last shred of aura she had left in her body to use her Lord's Knight ability, just in case.
Once Chao was out of the impact's range, everyone managed to calm down, but nothing had changed, the monster had crushed the city, even if only a tenth of the city was damaged, it was still a huge level, and the impact that came with this attack had already managed to destroy all the buildings in the city.
Even if there was anything alive in the city, there was no way for it to survive.
Without stopping, Chao and the others had somehow managed to reach the imperial capital in just one day.
Even if those who saw them in this state could not understand what had happened, all the nobles and the group who had managed to get to the throne room had managed to see Selene.
Selene's face was white, I mean... she always had a skin tone close to white, but right now it was as if all the blood had been drained from her body.
"You know what's going on don't you?" James asked with great stress.
"I've lost contact with the outer floors, the floor is locked down again, and I'm fighting alone, can you keep them safe?" Selene asked, not even bothering to answer James' question.
James shook his head awkwardly and then replied, 'I can try...we can try.'
After these words, Selene got up from the throne and then went to the nearest window, went to the balcony and then left the palace.
James knew how dangerous it was, in fact, everyone in the hall now realised how dangerous it was.
The higher a climber climbed, the more his strength was limited when he came down. Selene was one of the goddesses who climbed to the 150th floor with incredible strength. The power of this woman in white could cut through space and even floors if she gained enough elemental power at certain times.
While Selene was so strong, she had lost more than 90 per cent of her power with the fact that she had pushed down to the lower floors and even almost 120 floors.
If something wasn't done, Selene would have suffered great harm, really great harm. There was no way Selene could die, it was out of the question, but James realised very clearly...the future he had seen before was now possible.
The woman who was supposed to protect them had to leave, they were standing in the imperial palace and every single person he had seen in his vision was now inside the hall.
It was a very awful situation.
James looked around as if he didn't know what to do and saw eyes looking at him with concern and hope. He instantly turned to the vampires and then said, 'Kriss, whatever you do, try not to die, but....please slaughter all the demon monsters that come your way, even if your bodies collapse...there are millions of children under the palace, at least they should live.'
These words of James deeply affected everyone and Kriss and the other vampires left the palace in accordance with James' orders, even if they nodded their heads and did not become that emotional.
Then, seeing Theseus and the others who had already returned to the palace, James shook his head and Theseus and those around him left the palace without even needing to give orders.
Caught in Cordelia's gaze, James shook his head and began to walk as if he did not know what to do, soon approaching the stairs leading to the throne, he sat on a step and finally began to breathe on rest.
Soon the voices in the throne room disappeared and darkness descended. James recognised the image from somewhere, but he hadn't even tried to come to this place.
What exactly was going on?