Chapter 105: A Bigger Trouble
[She might be heartbroken, but you did the right thing. No need to feel sad about your decision,] the system said to Nolan, who stood before his glass window, his eyes gazing into the far distance where the Light Forest lay.
It was the place where he had first met Lorelie, and now he could no longer sense her presence.
'I need to focus on the mission. Close the rift, and get out of here. Then everything will return to normal once more...' Nolan thought to himself as he shut the glass panes tightly before heading toward his bed.
But he stopped when he felt the presence of a figure at his doorstep.
KNOCK
KNOCK
KNOCK
"Hey, Nolan!" a voice called out, and Nolan could tell it belonged to none other than Adrian.
"What?" Nolan replied as he walked toward the door and opened it, finding a fidgety Adrian at the entrance.
"Oliver is back, and we have a little problem..." Adrian said before turning on his heel and sprinting off in a certain direction.
Nolan needed no further explanation and hurriedly sprinted after him.
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"The cracks have begun spewing forth monstrous creatures, my lord and our soldiers are being overwhelmed."
"According to the reports, they would only be able to last for an hour before they are brought to absolute ruin!"
A soldier's terrified voice rang out in the room where stood none other than the five royal emissaries, the king, and nine of the godly ten.
BOOM
The door to the palace was flung open by Adrian, who stormed in, followed by Nolan, who calmly walked into the palace room after him.
"It seems it was still able to pass the order before it could be killed off..." mused King Sammodra who nodded his head as Adrian and Nolan came to stand before him.
"So, how did it go?" Adrian asked Oliver, who nodded.
"He has been killed by me. Just as predicted, it was merely an intelligent creature and lacked strength."
"He was crushed quickly, but before it could completely die, it was somehow able to send out a signal that caused the creatures in the rift to spew out, and now the Athpantean army is facing them but getting quickly overwhelmed," Oliver reported plainly.
"Now we act!" Ferris said, his golden hair brightening once more as all vestiges of playfulness and ease faded away.
The air around him brightened up in a golden light, and a gigantic sword brimming with an incredible amount of holy golden energy appeared in his hands.
"Withdraw your army from the battle right now."
"My blade sees and knows none on the battlefield."
Those were Ferris's last words before he burst forth with horrific speed towards the ceiling of the palace, smashing it open as he soared forward
BURST
In the next instant, an intense golden light flared through the entire Atlantis, seemingly reaching the farthest reaches of space as Ferris turned into a golden human bulb of energy and in the next instant.
RIPPLE
An extremely loud ripple surged forth as he shot with furious speed into the distance.
"Listen to what he says..." Gojo called out to King Samodra before he also disappeared into thin air, and the rest of the team also began rising up and disappearing into holes in the roof.
"Send the order for withdrawal!" King Samodra called out to the soldier, who immediately rose up and stormed out of the hall.
And now left alone in the room was none other than King Samodra, who raised his head and looked at the gigantic hole in the ceiling.
"The power of the Celestial Ones. It's as powerful as ever..." he mused silently to himself.
'Hopefully, they're able to resolve this quickly.'
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"WHAT THE!!!?"
They had been swimming straight with speed toward the rift for close to thirty minutes now, but what they sighted was more than enough to shock the hell out of Nolan.
Right now, in an area of a thousand meters radius before him, was an endless army.
An endless army of nightmare creatures, and far behind them, he could see the gaping hole of a vortex where the monsters constantly spewed out from.
"This... What the hell is this!!!" Nolan whispered in shock.
"That is a thousand-year-old rift, finally activated!" The answer came from Celestine.
Right now, the nightmare creatures were so many and each with so many different forms that Nolan couldn't even count them all.
Only a few were noteworthy of mention, yet Nolan saw some that he hadn't ever seen before and made his heart waver.
The nightmares he had faced before this were like small children compared to the monstrous nightmare creatures that were before him.
"Is that Ferris!!?" Nolan asked in shock as he saw a golden light figure right in the center of the nightmare creatures, his gigantic golden sword gleaming with otherworldly power.
Even though he was surrounded by literally thousands of nightmare creatures, he didn't seem to be overwhelmed or in danger at all.
His gigantic golden sword leaked out with otherworldly power, ripping entire nightmare creatures into nothing but bits, and the more he cleaved, the more the golden light he was oozing with increased even more.
"Ferris is the nightmare of nightmarish creatures because his bloodline feeds off their energy."
"He can never be overwhelmed by a rift unless he faces a creature that is so strong and manages to exhaust him until he is unable to carry his sword any longer..." Adrian said, noticing Nolan's shock.
"He will eventually be overwhelmed if he stands here and they keep attacking. We have to find a person to close up that rift, and that would mean getting past the army of nightmare creatures..."
"I am the fastest at closing the rift, so I will be closing it. All you have to do is open up a pathway for me..." Oliver called out to them the new plan.
"Got it!" they said in unison before they all immediately joined in on the battle as the entire world soon erupted into absolute chaos.
It was a group of ten facing against a thousand, yet they weren't losing!