Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 209 Facing Reality

Chapter 209: Chapter 209 Facing Reality

On the violently rocking ship, Anvis quickly opened the two metal boxes, revealing two halves of beautiful metal spheres emitting a faint blue glow.

The demon-repelling metal boxes were somewhat large and inconvenient to carry. Anvis took out the two metal hemispheres, placing one on each side inside the cloak, in the pockets originally meant for storing casting materials.

Though outwardly ordinary, the Olivendi Family’s Traveler’s Cloak always had certain distinctions from a truly ordinary one.

The seemingly mundane pockets had actually undergone a special Secret Technique treatment, enough to completely isolate all negative forces of the two metal hemispheres.

Moreover, as his physical condition recovered to a Seventh Rank, the ’Curse Power’ of the metal spheres could no longer pose a threat to him.

In fact, Anvis had long wanted to find a site where he could freely test the power of Magic Nuclear Weapons without risking the leakage of information.

Though dangerous, this location seemed to accidentally meet the criteria.

The Divine Power of the moonlight that could even keep a full-strength Duke at bay, would presumably also block external probes.

The only problem was that currently, he could not leave the testing ground himself.

Meanwhile, Anvis was also quickly picking up some items on the ground, looking for useful things to take along.

Apart from the storage ring that held the statue alone, he tossed all the items from the other two rings filled with miscellaneous items onto the deck.

At that moment, something caught his peripheral vision.

It was half of an eggshell made of extremely pale Crystal Stone.

A somewhat bold idea suddenly arose in his mind.

Evan’s reaction was slightly slower than Anvis’s, but upon seeing Anvis’s actions, he also realized and opened his rings before entering the Barrier, temporarily picking a sword and a beautifully Inscribed Armor for protection.

At this moment, Jom had already liberated himself from the Great Sacrificial Rite’s spiritual assault, but due to the presence of the Anti-magic Field, he was unable to use his control over the Magic Field to manipulate the ship, and could only watch helplessly as the ancient city ruins grew larger in his field of view.

Behind the ship, the huge pillar of moonlight infused with Divine Power was now close at hand.

Anvis could clearly see the ruins bathed in the range of the moonlight, along with the strange corals, seaweed, and marine life of unknown kinds attached to them.

The Curse Power also affected this area, causing mutations in the marine life.

Moreover, as the pillar of light continued to pour down, the city beneath mysteriously began to brighten more and more, as if it were a cup holding the Moonlight spilling from the sky.

At the same time, in the center of that city, the giant temple’s massive Stone Gate, several tens of meters tall and thick, suddenly opened a crack with a deep, thunderous rumble.

Behind the Gate, there was an unfathomable pitch-black space.

It was a place unreachable by any Dream Realm, where despite the abundance of light outside, not even a hint of it could illuminate even a speck of the ground inside, as if hiding an endless abyss.

When the gates opened, a sound akin to huge drumbeats, hollow and monotonous, gradually began to echo through this space.

Initially, the sound was very slow and deep, barely resounding in the surroundings.

But as the ancient city was saturated with moonlight, the previously vague drumbeats gradually became clear and forceful.

Like a heartbeat—

Under the cover of this ’heartbeat’, Evan’s posture became slightly distorted as he clutched his head, a flicker of confusion and madness sweeping across his eyes.

Without Jom’s protection, Evan, the weakest among the three, suddenly seemed somewhat unable to hold out in the midst of these abominable sound waves infused with alien power.

Even Jom started to lean on his sword with one hand, squinting his eyes and exerting all his strength to suppress the various negative states that arose from the depths of his heart due to the envelopment of this sound.

Indeed, Jom had his own sword, but Anvis had never seen him use it throughout their journey.

Moving his gaze away from the two, Anvis ungracefully plonked down on the side of the ship, pulling down his hood to cover his expression.

His current state was completely unchanged; the Ancient Secret Scripture was unaffected by the Anti-magic Field, and it still functioned to absorb the fluctuations of alien power.

This was for everyone else to see, after all, from his appearance, he was just a harmless ’Third Rank Professional.’

There was a Sixth Rank and an Eighth Rank beside him, both exhibiting various degrees of negative states; he should not appear as if unaffected by anything.

The influence of the Anti-magic Field treated everyone equally; even the initiator of the field could not use spiritual power within the field.

Thus, Anvis was not worried that his true situation would be sensed.

Meanwhile, the Black Ship being rapidly dragged backwards, finally submerged entirely into the range of the Moonlight Pillar.

Anvis could feel it; in an instant, a denser alien power swiftly enveloped his entire body, and the Ancient Secret Scripture hidden beneath his thick cloak also began to emit a strong light.

It was absorbing the surrounding alien power corrosion, and at the same time reminding him of the immense danger in the environment.

Jom had already half-kneeled on the ground leaning on his sword, and Evan had once again laid down, eyes tightly closed, struggling to resist the eroding power of the environment.

"Do you feel it? The Gate has been opened, and the truth is about to return!"

In mid-air, the raspy voice of the Great Sacrificial Rite once again came through.

"Fear! Oh ignorant ones, you should feel fear! For the truth will return with doomsday and claim everything for itself!"

"In the Domain of the Gods, you have long had no escape—"

"But worry not, once you merge with the truth, you will soon see, the whole world will return to darkness under the footsteps of the truth."

Finally casting a last glance at the three on the ship who seemed about to give up, and the Black Ship speeding towards the temple, he calmly raised the Scepter towards the vast Purple Moon in the sky.

"And when the moment of truth’s descent comes, the Primitive Moon will take us home."

Saying this, he raised his Scepter for the third time, and the void paused.

Then, the Purple Moon hanging in the infinite sky suddenly began to slowly grow larger, its surface also becoming clearer and clearer.

From the initial size of almost a horse-drawn carriage, it expanded to nearly the size of an Alchemy Airship, and finally it seemed like a floating round mountain.

The giant Purple Moon in the sky suddenly began to descend upon the city!

As the Purple Moon descended, the crack in the center of the ancient Stone Gate of the temple gradually began to widen again.

Underneath the hood, Anvis’s eyes stared at the darkness within that gap, a terrifying oppressive feeling surged in his heart, making him resolute once more to prevent it from fully opening.

However, it seemed that the descent of the Purple Moon in the sky was slow and somewhat intermittent, possibly related to his confrontation with the Duke’s power.