Chapter 650: Upside Down and the Divine Temple

In the Starfall Association, atop the Supreme Spire, within the Starry Dome Chamber.

The image on the massive stone platform, surrounded by the Return Prophets, was a blur, completely indistinguishable in content.

Of the six seats, three were vacant.

Now only the committee chair with the longest seniority, Elris; the sole female committee member, Halia; and Wickes, who was at odds with the Maze Restorer Motas, remained.

Orion and Garzak cared little for this trial; seeing the image on the stone platform glitch, they left their seats and departed.

Most, as the direct person in charge of this restoration, was entering the maze to attempt fixing the image.

Wickes spread his hand.

He knocked twice heavily on the massive stone platform with his knuckles, causing the stardust powder on the surface to jump violently.

"I told you long ago this thing is a scam. Five million Jin Along? I really don't know how much water Motas that guy skimmed off."

He had always been at odds with Motas.

At the slightest opportunity, he would inevitably launch an attack in front of Committee Chair Elris.

The female committee member Halia was worldly-wise, always projecting the image of a caring older sister.

She smiled and said, "Perhaps it is the maze's fault. Garzak checked it, didn't he? The Stardust Stone Platform has no issues."

The image on the stone platform began to blur after Rod defeated the Blue Dragon.

They knew absolutely nothing about the situation inside.

Two hours had now passed, with only two eliminators appearing; for the usual intensity of trials, this was somewhat too few.

Moreover, those two eliminators could be said to have been eliminated almost immediately upon entry, so the information they knew was limited.

The six Return Prophets in the Starry Dome Chamber were indeed worried about the situation inside the maze.

But actively asking the personnel inside the maze would mean the matter had exceeded their control.

Hindered by the face of being high-level officials, they had no thought of activating the Contact Magic Stone, and thus did not know the Contact Magic Stone had failed.

Negligence was natural.

However, this maze had been controlled by us Star Spirits for too long; while the environmental rules were somewhat strange, the intensity was quite ordinary.

The long-standing contempt was difficult to change.

Wickes snorted, not speaking rashly to Halia.

"That guy Motas had better fix the maze situation quickly. The strength of this batch of trialists is not bad; if something goes wrong, when will the glory of us Star Spirits be restored?"

"The Magic Web Sky Curtain, making mana flow from spiritual creation to the current spiritual symbiosis; it is normal for the maze to have some influence. I say, you two should reconcile soon; how long have you been fighting?"

Wickes was about to speak when he suddenly paused; a Yi Mei Mo Fa in his hand trembled.

It was Motas's contact stone.

He activated it with an annoyed expression and put it on speaker: "Am I that close to you? Why contact me?"

Halia, standing aside, fell silent with a laugh; these two really fought when they fought, but their daily contacts were certainly numerous.

Motas's voice came out from the magic stone.

【Do you think I wanted to contact you? Wasn't I afraid of disturbing Young Lady Halia? Committee Chair Elris, Young Lady Halia, I am going in, but the fluctuations inside are strange; the Contact Magic Stone will be difficult to use. You can pay attention to the Memory Transmission Stone I left behind; it will occasionally transmit the scenes within my field of vision back to you.】

Halia smiled and said, "Understood, be careful with everything."

【Rest assured, it's all small problems. Young Lady Halia, when I return, I'll treat you to a meal.】

"Fine, fine, fine."

The communication cut off.

Halia shook her head with a smile.

They waited a short while.

Motas's Memory Transmission Stone transmitted the first image.

— A massive meteor crater surrounded by a seven-ring concentric circle stone array.

"The position of the central altar... why did he go there?"

Wickes rarely entered that maze and did not know much about the situation.

Halia explained, "【Chaos】 Rule: only there is the maze's single certain position, so we arrange almost all our rituals there. Eh? Where is the altar?"

Interspersed with Motas's panicked off-screen voice: "Damn it."

The image moved upward.

A pale moon hung down a bundle of 'ropes' intertwined by desolate black tree vines.

It wrapped around the ruined altar base of a white obelisk, causing the altar to hang upside down, with the obelisk's tip four or five meters off the ground.

Where the altar originally stood, only a deep impression remained.

In the impression, a buried, dried, gray-white heart could be vaguely seen.

The surface of the obelisk was covered with blood-red vein-like patterns, continuously dripping blood to irrigate the gray-white heart above.

In the Starry Dome Chamber, Committee Chair Elris, who had not spoken until now, suddenly changed color.

He lost his composure, jumped up, and shouted inappropriately: "Immediately have Motas return!!!"

"But communication is failed."

It was all too late.

As Motas cast a spell in the image, mana touched the altar; the ripples in the blood pool within the impression paused, then exploded with a boom.

Amidst the exploding blood flowers, a black shadow collided into Motas's embrace at extreme speed; screams instantly filled the entire Starry Dome Chamber.

The image rapidly exploded backward and then abruptly ceased.

Inside the room, everyone stood dumbfounded.

Only the blurry image formed by stardust powder on the stone platform emitted a buzzing sound of magical friction.

Wickes felt a chill run down his spine; he looked at Elris with a stiff face.

"Chairman, that is..."

Elris's face turned iron-green, looking extremely grim.

"The Fallen Temple of the Moon Goddess?"

Rod twisted his head to dodge a short knife wrapped in fluorescent green energy.

The War Dance Spirit originally appeared as a void entity wrapped entirely in metal armor, its true form invisible, wielding a whirling scythe-claw, with various weapons spinning and dancing around it.

These weapons were enveloped in fluorescent green supernatural energy, able to move through thin air and kill enemies.

Now, the War Dance Spirit was filled with deep blue, translucent jelly-like substance within the gaps of its full-body armor.

This not only did not affect its speed in the slightest, but instead gave it considerable spellcasting ability.

【Burning Hands】 crackled and exploded, sending sparks flying; Rod did not move from his spot, raising his hand to unleash a full-power 【Repulsion Spell】.

Boom!!!

A powerful repulsive force spread out in an umbrella shape; visible to the naked eye, white qi mixed with ice blades directly shattered an entire 【Burning Hands】.

The War Dance Spirit leaped forcefully, but was also caught in the blast, its left lower leg suddenly crushed into mush.

"Yes, among the Star Scholars of the Star Association, research manuscripts on the Pale Corridor indicate through fragmented inscriptions in three relic structures that this is a temple built by an ancient lizardman tribe in the First Era, worshipping the Moon God."

Haley's wand flickered with light.

Rotating rock spikes on the ground burst from the earth, instantly driving back the Dragon-Beast Fusion Beast that intended to ambush Rod.

This Dragon-Beast was a quadrupedal creature named for its head resembling a great dragon, not a true dragon species.

After fusing with its master, the Dragon-Beast grew a Star Spirit head on its rear, able to move quickly both front and back, extremely bizarre and disgusting.

The Star Spirit head suddenly turned toward Haley, roaring with saliva flying everywhere.

It was about to charge.

Rod's gravity spell 【Gravity Wave】 pulled it back and violently slammed it against the wall of the Moon-Gazing Hall.

(End of this chapter)