Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 341 - 116: An Unexpected End

Chapter 341: Chapter 116: An Unexpected End

Seeing the light of the exit, those who were frantically escaping resembled drowning people clutching desperately at a lifeline, their eyes suddenly filled with intense hope, and their speed of escape unwittingly quickened.

Soon, before the darkness behind them could catch up, all the students who could still run had burst out of the corridor.

Luckily, the darkness in the corridor behind them did not surge out, but instead, after engulfing the entire corridor, it stopped advancing.

It was as if an invisible wall had blocked it, leaving a blurred circular dark patch on the stone wall behind them.

"Is everyone alright?"

Having just steadied their nerves from the calming darkness behind, Alisa let out a breath of relief and began to check on the condition of her teammates.

"We’re okay... Just a bit drained of magic power."

Mondolo, Roche, Matt, and the others responded one after another, but the squad’s numbers had decreased by three from their arrival, now down to just six.

After observing for a while and confirming they were truly out of danger, everyone finally had the leisure to survey their surroundings.

They were currently in a vast underground hall, unlike the artificially carved marks on the surface of the ruins, this place more closely resembled a natural, colossal cavern.

The surroundings were unbelievably quiet, with the air carrying a strange smell akin to moist soil. The cavern’s ceiling emitted a faint bluish glow, seemingly from a kind of unusual luminescent moss.

The door behind them, contrary to what everyone had imagined, was not set into a wall on one side of the hall, but rather opened onto the surface of an incredibly large, dark stone pillar.

The stone pillar resembled a stalagmite, only hundreds of times larger in size. The round door they had come through was four or five meters high but did not seem crowded on the pillar’s surface.

Looking around, there were hundreds of similarly sized pillars in this ’hall’!

Some of the pillars had broken, and at their fractured surfaces lingered a trace of terrifying magic aura and the signs of being torn by the claws of giant Magic Beasts.

Clearly, during the previous onslaught of the Dark Beast Tide, this hidden place must have been entered by many powerful Magic Beasts.

Now, at the base of other pillars, including Clare and Anvis, some scattered students also appeared.

When they saw each other, everyone was first surprised, and then more or less a little disappointed.

They had thought that only they had discovered this secret path, only to find out that there was more than one passage leading to their final destination.

It was like hearing from a beloved boyfriend/girlfriend, "You are my only one." But then you find out that the so-called ’only one’ is actually the name of a group.

However, soon everyone’s attention was drawn to the center of the hall, where a structure that seemed like an altar, and with a diameter of several hundred meters, loomed large.

The material of the altar was similar to the cavern walls, also of dark-colored rock, but with a slight Obsidian-like glassy sheen.

At the top of the altar, a huge, ancient, black stone bell with a rough, uneven surface lay on its side, as if it were a toy carelessly discarded by a Giant.

Neither the altar nor the stone bell emitted any magic fluctuations.

At this moment, under the gaze of everyone, the vice president of the college overseeing the contest, Hughes, was standing on top of the altar, facing the stone bell.

In fact, there were more than one Ninth Rank present in the cave, all of whom had concealed their presence and had not been discovered by the many students.

The exit of that passage leads to here?

Slightly frowning, the group of Ninth Ranks surveyed the stone bell, all of them somewhat puzzled.

Although the location of this large hall was indeed very secretive, it was not a real secret chamber, but rather there was a main passage that led to other parts of the ruins.

Those dark creatures had surged into this gigantic hall through that passageway.

Their final traces also disappeared here. However, those traces did not rush towards the Altar, but instead seemed to evaporate directly within this cave.

The numerous Ninth Rank Professionals exchanged glances, all showing a hint of indecision. Afterward, it was the Deputy Dean of the Academy who spoke up, informing the many students in the hall of the current situation.

"Dear students, you have stumbled into an unexpected location.

Previously, those passages had not been discovered by Explorers, and the traps within were in an untriggered state, greatly increasing the danger of the exploration. It grieves me to see that some of you have fallen.

As a compensation and reward for reaching this place, each team’s score will be increased by five hundred points—"

After uttering words that uplifted everyone’s spirits, the Deputy Dean lightly raised his Magic Wand, and a Light Ball immediately formed, floating towards one side of the cave.

"You now have two choices: first, to leave this place through the main passageway indicated by that Light Ball; second, to explore here first, which may entail dangers, but any discoveries will still belong to the finders." _{free.w e bn.ov(e)l(.)com}

As his words fell, the many students quickly made their choices through their actions.

To explore the cave—

With a Ninth Rank Deputy Dean watching over them, it would be an unforgivable waste not to take this opportunity to explore this cave seemingly connected to wonders!

Soon, everyone dispersed and began searching various parts of the cave.

Of course, the conspicuously extraordinary giant Altar at the center attracted the most attention.

Many students climbed onto the Altar at the first opportunity, hoping to chance upon triggering something unexpected.

However, Claire and Anvis did not choose to investigate the Altar but instead began examining the nearby environment to see if there was information related to this Rock hall.

Just now in the corridor, an unknown entity attempted to Attack Anvis but was repelled by the faint aura of the Ancient Secret Scripture emanating from him.

On the contrary, the Ancient Secret Scripture seemed interested in that kind of entity. However, since its main body was not present here, the aura of the Secret Scripture futilely pulsed for a moment before settling back down reluctantly.

Nevertheless, Anvis felt that it appeared to have taken note of the aura of the entity from just now.

While observing the cave’s environment, Anvis was also taking note of the myriad of students in the cave.

It must be said that as the Empire’s top-tier Professional College, the quality of Pamir’s students was unmatched by any other academy within the Empire.

Just as the Children of Destiny, there were five or six gathered here.

Glancing around, Anvis even spotted the figure of a certain silver-haired girl [Xia Ye Yinghuo],

Though she claimed not to want it, her body had honestly made its way in, it seems.

While observing the people inside the cave, Anvis’s gaze gradually locked onto a golden-haired green-eyed boy.

That was none other than Rein, the Child of Destiny who had triggered the secrets of this place in his previous life.

As if it was destined, decades earlier than in his former life, he had still arrived at this location.

After a brief sensing, Anvis immediately assessed Rein’s current strength.

His true strength was only around the Second Rank, and the only two teammates he had were males.