However, when his spirit power reached a certain level, he suddenly sensed danger.
Out of instinct, he pulled back his spirit power. Even so, a small part of his spirit power was still left outside. The intense pain made him feel dizzy.
When he recovered slightly, he realized that the outside world was filled with violent and chaotic energy. Something happened when his spirit power came into contact with this energy.
It was similar to the chaotic energy he saw when Fafnir and Komodo were fighting, but this one was even more violent.
"Maybe Fafnir and Komodo are fighting for real, so the energy is going crazy too?" Angor wondered.
He didn't know why, but it seemed he couldn't leave using this method for now. He had to give up on the idea for now.
What he was more worried about now was that with the collapse of the underground tunnel, he could not be sure if the pervasive energy would seep into the ground.
If it seeped into the ground, then he really had no way out.
Angor looked at the piles of sand and rocks in front of him. He didn't dare to move recklessly. He sighed and shook his head.
Angor turned around and planned to check the door again. He couldn't stay here forever.
When he looked back, he felt something was wrong.
However, he couldn't pinpoint exactly what was wrong at the moment. He felt that he had overlooked a certain detail.
He walked to the end of the tunnel step by step. His steps were light and slow. Even so, he still stirred up some dust on the ground.
The dust floated up and down in the clear light.
"Qinghui …" Angor frowned. "Light! Something's wrong with the light!"
Angor put the fluorite in his bracelet. Without any light source, this place should be in absolute darkness.
But it wasn't.
A very faint light came from a crack on one side of the wall.
Although the light was very weak, it was like a lighthouse in the pitch-black underground tunnel, and its presence was very strong.
He was holding a fluorite in his hand, and the light from the fluorite completely suppressed the light. That was why he did not notice it at first. Later, when he reached the entrance of the tunnel and looked back, he couldn't see the door at the end of the tunnel due to the fluorite in his hand. That was when he realized something was wrong.
If there was a light source, as long as it wasn't a glowing substance, it meant that there was a way out.
He approached the source of the light and observed carefully.
Although the place where he was now had not collapsed, the collapse of the underground tunnel had still affected this place. For example, the long crack on the ceiling and the cracks here.
After careful observation, he was sure that there was no "luminous substance" around the crack.
There was only one possibility left. There was a light source behind the wall!
In addition, the wall was relatively weak and had cracks, so the light from behind the wall could penetrate through.
Angor's expression became complicated. If there was a light source behind the wall, it meant there was a tunnel or a room behind it.
The crack was also very close to the door. Perhaps the room behind the door was behind the wall.
He didn't plan to break through the wall because the wall was extremely tough. But now that the wall was cracked, it would be much easier to break it open.
Angor hesitated and decided that staying here was not a good idea. After some consideration, he reached out his hand and pushed at the wall.
With a rustling sound, the earth and rocks rolled down. A hole appeared in the middle of the cracked wall.
At the same time, dim yellow light shone from the other side of the hole.
…
There was a very large hall on the other side of the hole.
It was beautifully built, but it looked empty. The ground was covered with broken stones. The only thing special about the hall was a giant statue in the center.
However, the statue was facing away from Angor, so he couldn't see its face clearly.
Angor cautiously stepped into the hall. He hadn't moved yet, but he already noticed something unusual about the hall.
For example, the wall.
At first, he thought the wall here was weak, which was why the tunnel collapsed and allowed light to penetrate through the crack. But when he came here, he realized that the wall was incredibly thick, and the material used was not easy to break.
The reason why the wall was so thin and translucent wasn't because of the wall itself, but because there was a huge hole in the wall.
It looked like someone smashed the wall, and it was a one-off attack.
Claw marks and pinch marks on the edge of the wall suggested that someone had fought here. One of them was smashed into the wall by a powerful attack, which created a deep hole. That was why the wall was so weak.
Angor's eyes glowed.
It was a small cantrip — Truesight. It allowed one to see through the surface and see the truth. A wizard-level Truesight could even rewind images.
He was going to use the cantrip to check the time mark.
When he arrived, from the extent of the dust on the ground, he could roughly determine that this pit should have appeared recently. To confirm his guess, he used Truesight to check the wall.
He found that the hole on the wall was created only about an hour ago.
Furthermore, to be able to create such a large crater without any blood seeping out, it could be deduced that the creature that was smashed had a very strong body.
In other words, there were at least two powerful creatures in the hall within an hour, and one of them had a very strong body. They fought here … No … Angor looked around and didn't see many traces of fighting. So the fight didn't actually happen?
With that in mind, he looked back at the hole on the wall and thought of a certain figure.
Iadase.
He already knew that Iyadese was in the Void Tower. He didn't know how strong Iadase's body was, but he was sure that Iadase's bone armor was very strong.
Judging from the marks on the wall, Iadase was the one who did this.
As for Iyadese's opponent, Angor could only think of one possibility within the hour — the unknown intruder.
According to Komodo, the intruder went to the bottom of the Void Tower and shut down the rune hub. This place happened to be under the Void Tower.
That can't be a coincidence, right?
Angor suddenly felt the urge to go back. This place was too dangerous for him.
But he couldn't do anything about it. At least he didn't see anything dangerous in this hall.
So he decided to explore the place first.
Before he took a step forward, he nervously swallowed his saliva. After all, this was the Void Tower, a place where even the countless demons of Rasudran could not enter. As an apprentice, if he were to wander around aimlessly, he would most likely end up dead if he were to trigger any traps.
The hall was so quiet that Angor could even hear his own heartbeat.
He took two steps around the edge of the hall and saw a door in it. There were two doors in total. One of them was the one he couldn't open, while the other one was right in front of him, facing the statue in the center. However, the door had been destroyed, and Angor could faintly see what was behind it.
"Stairs?!" Angor's eyes lit up. Did this mean he could go upstairs?
If he remembered correctly, there was a door on the first floor of the Void Tower. Maybe he could use the stairs to go upstairs and leave.
With that in mind, he decided to go to the door on the other side.
Angor walked along the wall and didn't run into any danger. There were no traps like he expected. Thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense. Traps had always been used to defend against small things, but the Void Tower itself was built by a demon god, and there had always been a Great Demon guarding it. The power of the traps could not compare to a Great Demon's thoughts. Besides, there were plenty of runes protecting this place before the main hub was destroyed, which meant the traps wouldn't work.
With that in mind, Angor picked up his pace.
When he reached the other end of the hall, he finally saw the statue's real face. It was a strange creature wrapped in a pair of wings. Since the head and body were curled up inside the wings, Angor couldn't see what the creature looked like.
There didn't seem to be anything strange about the statue. However, Angor saw a demon lying on the ground under the statue.
The demon didn't seem to be breathing at all. It was so skinny that it looked like a starving corpse.
"It's dead, right?" Angor wondered. He didn't dare to use his spirit feelers to check.
No matter what, he had to get away first.
Without looking back, Angor sprinted toward the gate. Just as he was about to reach the door, he heard a series of creaking noises behind him.
His heart skipped a beat, but he didn't look back. Instead, he ran even faster. No matter what happened behind him, he just had to run!
While running, Angor also chanted Spirit Mantra in his mind. He was going to eject his soul and use the sequence of gravity to escape.
However, before he could finish the incantation, a terrifying aura suddenly descended upon him.
It locked onto Angor's figure.
Angor staggered, rolled on the ground, and could not move anymore.
The aura was so strong that even a little bit of it caused blood to ooze out of his skin.
When the blood flowed out of his body, Angor could feel the pressure lessening.
The pressure on his body was also reduced. To a certain extent, he could move slightly.
However, he knew that doing so would be a provocation, so he didn't do anything. Instead, he slowly looked up to see what was going on.
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