Chapter 406 - 214: Death Inheritance: Death Saint
This Mage’s Root Magic.
It was called Spell Rebirth. Even after a spell was cast, it could be shattered for various reasons.
For example, a Warrior might just shatter a spell with a direct strike.
But his Root Magic allowed destroyed spells to regenerate, time and time again.
Paired with An Zheng’s Root Magic, it could make spells last forever.
They created an excellent synergy.
’The only shame is that learning Root Magic takes far too long. A full day isn’t enough, let alone just a few hours.’
There were only a few hours left before he had to act.
From his preview that morning, Lu Cang had already outlined several essential tasks.
First, he had to get the major Churches to entrust their treasures to him for safekeeping. This would prevent them from being lost in the destruction of the Secret Sea, and it was an essential objective he couldn’t bypass.
’This is the very reason I’m here.’
Beyond that, the Root Mage’s Root Magic was another thing he coveted.
Lu Cang took the Key of the Inside, a red stone, from his inventory.
It was loot he’d taken from Aertemi, capable of opening a gate to the Inner World.
After that battle, Lu Cang had actually entered the Inner World to explore several times.
However, there weren’t many access points from the real world to the Inner World. There was one node near Ruijia, but every time he entered, the scenery was the same. He would fly around inside for ages without encountering anything truly interesting.
He had tried to summon a Dungeon inside but discovered they couldn’t be formed there.
So, he eventually stopped exploring it.
He treated the Inner World as little more than a good escape route.
If the outside world were to face a devastating crisis, he could always retreat into the Inner World to hide. The two worlds were isolated from each other. Even if all hell broke loose outside, the aftershocks wouldn’t reach inside, making it an excellent hiding place.
Actually, Lu Cang’s initial thought had been to let Izparut and the others fight An Zheng outside.
He would hide in the Inner World, safe from the collateral damage of their battle.
Once they were finished, he would come out and regroup with everyone.
That way, he wouldn’t have to randomly teleport elsewhere.
’But now... it seems hiding in the Inner World might not be safe, either. I don’t know if the destruction of the entire Secret Sea will affect the Inner World.’
’I’ll have to test it during the next preview on March 31st.’
After taking out the stone, Lu Cang felt a pull.
He walked towards a spatial node.
VMMMM—
As Lu Cang drew near, a red Teleportation Channel opened up right in front of him.
The channel’s crimson hue then cooled, fading to black.
He passed through the channel, arriving on the world’s inner surface.
This region was the City of Peace.
There were two entrances in total. One was located underground, beneath the City of Peace.
The City of Peace’s underground was a tangled network of countless winding paths, where Cults festered and various Sects flourished.
What was even stranger...
These evil Sects, by virtue of being located within the City of Peace, were also under the protection of the city’s Rules.
The entrance to the Inner World here was a Teleportation Gate situated somewhere in this subterranean maze.
As for the other entrance...
It was the teleportation node Lu Cang had just opened with the red stone.
VMMMM—
He stepped through the Teleportation Gate.
Lu Cang appeared in a dark alleyway.
Spreading his Perception, he could see crowds of people milling about.
Here... Cults thrived, forming a city where evil Sects congregated.
He could see evil Rituals being traded in shadowy shops and Death Spellbooks sold openly on store shelves.
There were even... Soul Shops that specialized in selling souls, and slave markets that sold living people.
This was a stark contrast to the area near Ruelun.
The Inner World near Ruelun only contained Demons, but here, a marketplace had actually formed within the Inner World.
However, the vast majority of these people had lifespans identical to those in the outside world—with only about a month left to live.
The moment of their death was perfectly synchronized, down to the millisecond.
’It seems that even staying in the Inner World won’t grant immunity from the Secret Sea’s destruction.’
As Lu Cang walked the streets, he was still marveling at it all.
’Who could have imagined that this city of Cults would perfectly mirror the location of the City of Peace on the outside?’
Lu Cang had discovered this city of Cults near the end of his preview.
A single day was hardly enough time to explore an entire continent.
By the time he discovered the city, it was already too late to do anything more.
In the end, Lu Cang had still chosen to test the Rules of the City of Peace to see just how powerful they were.
So after a hasty exploration of this city, he had gone directly to the City of Peace and casually killed two people.
Feeling the Rule disintegrate his body—an unstoppable backlash that completely broke him apart—Lu Cang had immediately ended that preview.
He had heard that the God of Peace would never harm anyone.
But any being who attacked it would pay an exceptionally heavy price.
But in the Inner World...
...one was not affected by this Rule.
Lu Cang could see slaves being traded, a Death Priest killing a slave to harvest his soul, and even dog-eat-dog conflicts in the alleys, where a Skin Taker killed an Evil Mage to claim his skin.
A city of chaos and evil.
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