Chapter 304: The Undersea City

While pondering, Lei Kedun's figure, leaning on the armchair, suddenly faded away.

A moment later, his silhouette reappeared from the other side of the room, still holding the materials required for the ritual.

Having skillfully set up a summoning messenger ritual, he gently rubbed his fingers, and a flame instantly leapt up on the arranged candle; he stepped back and whispered:

"I, in my name, summon: the spirit that roams the Upper Realm, an absolutely friendly being, the contract partner of Feinikesi Aiges."

As soon as the words fell, he felt something burst out of the spirit realm and, following the sensation, looked upward.

Pale white bones surged from the ceiling like a bone waterfall, quickly forming a towering humanoid; at the place of its eyes, ghostly green flames flickered intermittently.

The tall bone messenger silently stared at Lei Kedun, not knowing whether it was mute or had sensed the danger on him and thus dared not speak.

Lei Kedun chuckled lightly, then walked to the desk beside him, picked up a fountain pen, and swiftly wrote a line of words in his notebook:

"Luo Si De Qun Dao, Bai Ya Mu, Red Maple Leaf Bar."

Sizzle~

He casually tore the paper from the notebook and handed it to the waiting tall bone messenger.

The tall bone messenger took the paper, bowed slightly, and its figure instantly collapsed, turning into individual bones that sank into the floor, vanishing from the real world.

Watching the bone messenger depart, he was about to sit back on the armchair by the window when inspiration struck, and a pale yellow sheet drifted down from the air.

"What a day for receiving letters!"

Lei Kedun let out a slight sigh, raised his hand to catch the falling paper, and the lines of words caught his eye:

"The Golden Dream is stationed in the Luo Si De Sea, beside an island located 800 nautical miles from the Luo Si De Archipelago."

"Through secret arts, I confirmed that the Golden Dream's base in Bai Ya Mu has been discovered; last night, that sea area saw sunlight, lightning and a storm—what happened?"

After reading Ai Dewenna's letter, Lei Kedun tossed the letter back into the spirit realm, then picked up his breakfast from the nearby table—a cup of hot drink and a wrap.

He then stepped forward quickly into the spirit realm, where the surrounding colors suddenly intensified, layered blocks of hue appearing in succession like a colorful abstract painting, the blocks racing backward.

A moment later, he furrowed his brow as the surrounding pale blue and ghostly green hues suddenly deepened, and he could even sense the lingering sea scent.

Lei Kedun halted his wandering in the spirit realm, glanced around with slight puzzlement, and turned his gaze toward the real world.

What met his eyes was a city ruin overgrown with seaweed, occasionally traversed by oddly shaped fish—a vast ruin that now resembled an amusement park for marine creatures.

Various strange marine creatures gathered here, their forms bizarre—truly mutated and polluted.

"Lost Undersea City?" Lei Kedun furrowed his brow and whispered uncertainly.

But he had no intention of leaving the spirit realm to explore; this is the deep sea, and he is not an extraordinary one of the Tyrant Path—simply resisting the deep‑sea pressure is already a huge challenge for him.

Moreover, his gaze extended deeper, focusing on the center of this undersea city, where a fiercely brutal, profound aura gave off a Tyrant Path feeling and also a Hanged Man Path sense of decadence.

As his sight lingered, the unknown entity hidden at the city's core also noticed Lei Kedun's gaze.

The previously calm spirit realm suddenly erupted into a storm, carrying a salty, damp sea odor.

Lei Kedun furrowed his brow as a layer of brilliant starlight spread around him, linking together like tangible strands that enveloped his body.

Roar~ A massive bellow echoed, even causing an acoustic blast in the spirit realm.

The surrounding dense color blocks continuously shattered and re‑coalesced, gradually cloaked in shadows as they merged and twisted.

Eventually, a sea‑serpent silhouette so massive it exceeded the field of view formed, coiling its body to seal off this portion of the spirit realm.

Lei Kedun narrowed his eyes slightly, awaiting the opponent's next move, while the surrounding brilliant starlight grew a bit denser.

Several scarlet, blood‑red glints lit up like dim lanterns, faintly illuminating the surroundings and revealing three somewhat ferocious heads.

Each head was shrouded in shadow; from left to right, a youthful, a mature, and an aged one, each bearing an intangible constraint that manifested as strange patterns on the shadow‑formed body.

Three‑Headed Sanctum, this sea serpent at least blends the Hanged Man and Storm Path traits. Lei Kedun muttered to himself.

"I have been sealed here for an unknown number of years; you are the first demigod who happened to pass by by chance."

A hoarse, ancient voice rasped from its rightmost, aged head.

"Chance."

Lei Kedun repeated the word, saying nothing.

In this mysterious world, he believed even more in the saying: all coincidences are a form of inevitability!

"This lost undersea city holds many treasures, be it wealth or the so‑called attributes."

A steady, weighty voice came from its middle head.

Immediately after, a somewhat youthful voice sounded:

"We can make a deal; everything here can be yours."

Lei Kedun ignored the proposal outright, then, in a serious tone,

"Do you know what time it is now?"

The three‑headed sea serpent, sidetracked, did not get angry and naturally answered Lei Kedun's question:

"Not exactly."

"I have been sealed here far too long; although I can create some influence through the spirit realm, it is limited to a certain scope."

"Based on information brought by marine creatures that arrived here by chance, I roughly know that over a thousand years have passed."

Each of the massive shadow sea serpent's three heads answered in turn.

Lei Kedun, keeping his expression and tone unchanged, said:

"It is now the Fifth Era, year 1350, and the Apocalypse is roughly 18 years away."

"The Apocalypse?"

"I am aware of that notion."

"Does the so‑called Apocalypse truly exist?"

The massive shadow sea serpent's three heads each replied, their voices indifferent, seemingly unconcerned about the Apocalypse.

It has likely been sealed here since early times; its state appears to surpass the usual third rank yet not reach the second, and from the serpent's answers and his own observations, Lei Kedun drew a conclusion.

After a brief contemplation, Lei Kedun continued:

"Huangguang Venitan once made a prophecy: gazes shall come from the starry sky, the earth shall be torn asunder, and everything in the world shall cease to exist."

"The major churches of the outside world have also confirmed the existence of the apocalypse, and even the time of its arrival is very clear."

The three heads of the giant shadow sea serpent looked at each other for a moment, as if conferring.

"The starry sky?"

"I am the lord of the ocean; before this, I never paid any attention to the starry sky."

"But I can sense that everything you say is the truth."

It still has the characteristics of the Spectator pathway? A thought flashed through Rekton's mind; he quickly steadied his spirit—the Spectator's influence on the mind was something one had to guard against carefully.

The three heads of the giant shadow sea serpent bobbed up and down as if swaying in seawater, carrying a rhythm that was hard to articulate.

A moment later, its three heads spoke again in turn:

"I was sealed by the Black Emperor."

"The rules here are somewhat distorted; I cannot use too many of my abilities. Being able to faintly sense your thoughts is already the limit."

"The characteristics on me originally belonged to a Saint I was herding. In order to break through the seal, I risked taking them all in, but still failed to break through a seal left by a Sequence 0."

"Solomon?" Rekton murmured aloud, then asked with some curiosity:

"Why were you sealed?"

"I herded a Frantic Magus."

"He was a certain collateral descendant of the Black Emperor."

"That characteristic was taken back by him, and I was sealed here as well."

The three heads of the sea serpent each spoke a sentence, their tone impossible to read.

Your Hanged Man characteristics aren't pure, are they? How are you charging in like a Wrathful Citizen… Solomon at that time should have been in the middle of the War of the Four Emperors, with no time to deal with this sea serpent, or perhaps leaving it for some other use, so he chose to seal it. As a result, He died in the war and was never able to resurrect again.

If it had been during the period of Solomon's First Empire, He would have had ample time to deal with this reckless sea serpent after His resurrection.

He did not think for too long—after all, this was a sea serpent that had fused with the characteristics of the Spectator pathway. Though it claimed it could not use any extraordinary abilities, its current posture made that statement not the least bit credible.

A moment later, Rekton weighed his words and said:

"I am only Sequence Four; I should be powerless against a seal left by a true god."

The three heads of the giant sea serpent each replied with a sentence:

"I trust my intuition."

"Your coming here cannot be a simple coincidence."

"You could also seek out the faction behind you."

(End of this chapter)