Chapter 518: Deepening

"In that case... let this Non-human Grade relic be my gift to the Shelter."

The scene fell into silence.

After a long while, Aaron's soft chuckle rang out.

"This... how could I accept this?"

Aifa was actually already very tempted.

Obtaining this characteristic, even if it couldn't be used to cultivate an Immortal, would be quite good if crafted into a Non-human Level Magical Item.

"What we should be discussing now is not the issue of dividing the spoils."

"The 'King of Shadows' is quite powerful; he was a Crown long ago... After an Extraordinary loses control, their power often becomes even greater because they no longer need to suppress their madness," Aifa warned.

The light in the horse lantern suddenly vanished, and the surroundings were plunged back into darkness.

"Your time is running out..."

But Aaron's expression was icy cold: "Tell me... why did the 'Mother of Night' go mad?"

Aaron extended his right hand, activated Thought Alchemy, and pulled a horse lantern from the void.

Aaron arrived at the end of the cave and looked down at the massive underground karst cave.

Aaron responded calmly.

As a 'Perfect Person', he possessed Dark Vision and would not lose his field of view due to the darkness.

Of course, if someone were to betray him, that would be another matter.

But Aaron immediately gave her a reassuring look, and his figure vanished into the void.

Aifa could only sigh; she found it increasingly difficult to understand this young, handsome, yet unfathomable lord.

"In the name of the 'Spirit of Falsehood'!"

To Aaron, it felt like a slime monster made of a pool of ink.

The mask writhed for a moment, its expression suddenly turning calm, then longing, as it emitted a human voice: "Give me... more..."

The reason he had brought a horse lantern was entirely as bait!

The writhing pitch-blackness retreated like a tide, constantly emitting terrified shrieks.

After walking forward for a distance, Aaron saw a cave entrance.

Hmm, in this world, humanity still had not produced a 'Worldly Immortal'.

Inside the karst cave, there had originally been a bed and some daily necessities.

And now, the 'King of Shadows' had taken the initiative to attack him.

But at this moment, they had all been swept aside, and countless tattered book pages danced about like paper scraps.

And at the top of the monster, there was still a pale human face mask.

"Give me..." the pale mask still struggled, but dared not cross the white line of fire.

Another Shelter member's face filled with worry: "The 'King of Shadows' has four Captains under his command; Lamajie died here, so they certainly won't let us off."

A sharp glint flashed through Aaron's purple eyes.

It was like the struggle of a drowning person, the final craving of someone on the verge of death.

In reality, as a 'Crowned One', he was in his strongest state!

As he chanted the ancient Spirit World Incantation, infinite Spirituality was drawn from the Spirit World, descending upon this karst cave with ancient majesty!

Light!

Pure white, dazzling light!

His shadow seemed as if it were melting, actively merging into this darkness.

A pure white illusory sun rose directly from within the cave, dispelling the darkness.

Not only that, but upon the traces of the receding darkness, there were fat insects twisting, struggling, and writhing under the light... eventually dying!

A scream suddenly erupted from the karst cave at the end of the tunnel.

A point of dim yellow light moved slowly within the cave.

Outside of it, there was the power of a Ritual guarding and concealing it.

Unaccountably, a conjecture surfaced in Aifa's heart, followed by a bitter smile.

Standing in the center of the karst cave was, shockingly, a patch of flowing shadow!

The mask resembled a middle-aged man, his expression struggling and pained!

No! It wasn't just one mask!

As the pitch-black slime writhed, one could see four smaller masks on its body, each representing a different human face, displaying various complex expressions.

Enide muttered to herself: "Plus Void Creation, Mystical Sealing, and Mind Splitting... exactly how many Extraordinary Abilities has he mastered? This must be the power of a Magical Item!"

Then, even more terrifying gibberish followed.

This place seemed to connect to a massive underground karst cave, and from within the cave came weird gasping sounds.

Pure white flames ignited all over Aaron's body, wisps of fire passing through the void to form a ring of fire directly around the slime monster.

Otherwise, an ordinary Extraordinary, even a Crown, could not be so comprehensive!

"I watched from beginning to end; Lord Aaron did not use any Magical Item..."

Facing an Extraordinary of 'Shadow' and 'Darkness', Aaron did not transform into any other profession.

It was composed entirely of shadows and darkness, standing over five meters tall, with countless flowing, evil patterns on its body surface.

Inside the cave.

Even in the darkness, subtle sounds arose, as if countless insects were writhing and crawling toward Aaron...

The void rippled faintly, and Aaron's figure stepped out.

He directly activated 'Spirit World Teleportation', ignored the countless traps at the cave entrance, and arrived deep within the cave.

"After being provoked by me like this, even if there was still a bit of sanity left before, it will definitely lose control now."

Moreover, a large group of mutated creatures wanders the hills nearby, which is extremely dangerous even for an Extraordinary.

A secret cave.

When Aaron arrived here carrying the Horse Lantern, he suddenly felt the panting sound ahead stop.

The writhing darkness, like a living thing, surged along the cave walls, devouring the light.

"It should be a question of whether I will let them go."

"Light!"

He raised his hand, letting a sliver of Purification and Redemption Light fall upon the largest middle-aged pale mask.

At this time, he was still wearing a brand-new hunter's outfit, with the 'Sword in the Stone' hanging at his waist, looking handsome and dashing.

"Spirit World Teleportation?"

The walls inside the cave were very dry, with no presence of moss or other Plants.

If... at the time of the apocalypse, the other party had not been lost in the Spirit World, but had been in the Mortal World, perhaps everything could have been different?

It was as if—this radiance was their mortal enemy!

"It seems it really has lost control. Is this the power of 'Law'?"

When the apocalypse descends, let alone one extra Crown, even if there were a few more 'Worldly Immortal's, I fear it would still be difficult to escape the fate of destruction!

—'King of Shadows'!

This Crown, who is already half-mad, might be in an even worse state than described, having long since alienated into a monster!

The entire cave appeared very quiet, without a single glimmer of light.

Therefore, almost no one could discover this place.

Therefore, she felt that no matter how strong Aaron was, he was only at the level of the Sixth Primordial Substance, similar to the 'King of Shadows', and could not help but feel a little worried.

Aaron waited quietly, stating a fact.

He needed to explore the truth of the world's apocalypse back then from the mouths of more High-Level Extraordinarys!

The second update will be later.

(End of this chapter)