BXBX NOVEL Chapter 331: Burst Out
The runes surrounding Vesa vanished as she flew back toward the group.
"It\'s been 2 years, 3 months, 24 days, 15 hours, and 17 minutes since the planet fractured, Mother Queen. There is some good news, though. I detected another portal like this."
"If Edward is safe, he probably escaped through this other portal. Do you know the location, Vesa?"
"Only the direction. Finding the specific location is too hard with the many dimensional fissures here."
Vesa then pointed in the northwest direction. The path there was blocked by a floating ground, making it look like a mountain.
The area was desolate, but MingYue could feel some life presence coming from that area.
"We will need to prepare for a fight. I detect some life from that area, and they are not weak."
"How strong?" Alaric asked.
"Stronger than that dragon-like monster we fought before," MingYue replied.
Based on her measurement, the transformed Dragari they fought should be at the late Core Stage or early Mystic Stage in her world.
Even though she had never fought real beasts of that rank, she could compare it with QingWa Xian, a celestial beast that almost reached the divine rank.
Alaric frowned. "In that case, it would be better if Jake and I stayed guard here. Going forward, we will just become a burden."
Even though they had strong abilities, both of them were still human. Their bodies might be strengthened as Awakeners, but even that wouldn\'t be enough to face the area\'s strange anomalies.
With the naked eye, he could see that gravity seemed to change every time they left a patch of land. The nonstop green lightning bolts also didn\'t look normal at all.
Without the mask, Alaric speculated they wouldn\'t survive long.
As for Luca and the group, they had the rune carved by Alex, making them almost immortal as long as there was lifeforce energy.
Even though Alaric didn\'t know about this, he speculated since he could feel similar energy coming from Luca.
He also saw that Luca didn\'t wear any mask and had no problem breathing.
Luca replied with a nod. She understood where Alaric was coming from.
They started walking through the desolate land. Luca walked side by side with MingYue while Emily, Olivia, and Quartz walked in the middle.
At the back, Zold walked, his eyes darting around, making sure there would be no ambush.
Jumping through a huge crack in the ground, the group could feel the atmosphere change.
The gravity was lighter here, making them need to control their steps; otherwise, they would float around.
For MingYue and the others, it was not a problem as they were cultivators. But for Luca, she could not fly.
She had some artifacts to do that, but it would consume her mana. Luca wanted to manage her mana usage, ensuring she had enough in case something happened.
"Aunt, since Alex already carved that rune for you, you should be able to use the life force to enhance your strength. That will help save your mana." MingYue said as she looked at Luca\'s distressed expression.
"Why do you think I need to maintain my mana?" Luca asked, as she never told MingYue about this.
"It\'s just a guess. I am sorry, but Alex told me about your abilities. I think this should use a lot of mana."
"It does use a lot of mana…" Luca replied, then changed the topic. "Say, how did you meet my son? Emily didn\'t tell me anything about it."
Remembering what happened, MingYue\'s lips curled into a smile. She found it funny thinking how she didn\'t trust Alex and Vesa at that time despite their fate already being intertwined.
"At that time, I was almost dead. I was pushed into a place like those dimensional fissures, falling into the void, almost shredded to pieces. The next thing I knew, I found myself in another world."
"You fell into my world?"
"No, I met Alex in Vesa\'s inner world," MingYue replied.
Meanwhile, at the back, Emily was still sulking. "Aunt Quartz, tell me you don\'t know about this."
"About what?" Quartz asked back while thinking about what Emily meant.
"Oh, you mean how your mother knew your father was still alive?"
Emily nodded.
"You should really let it go; it\'s not worth it, Emily. You know why your mother did that.
Getting angry at her at this point will change nothing other than making your relationship bad again."
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"Quartz is right, Emily. Don\'t hurt your bond for no reason.
Sometimes, since you always have it, you don\'t feel it\'s precious. But when you lose it, you will realize it\'s the most important thing in your life.
It\'s just because it\'s always beside you that you forget its existence is not permanent." Olivia replied with a sad tone while her eyes looked at the road ahead.
Emily\'s eyebrows creased together as she tried to process what Olivia meant. "Don\'t tell me you really love my brother."
"Emily," Quartz called out, reminding her it was a sensitive topic and better not said here.
With their distance, Luca and MingYue would hear everything, and she didn\'t want any unnecessary drama.
Realizing what she had just said, Emily quickly clarified, "Forget it, Sister Olivia, it\'s my bad. I was just kidding around."
But Olivia was already in a bad mood, her pent-up emotion and frustration looking for any opportunity to come out.
Without realizing it, her lips opened. "Joke? What joke? At this point, is there any use hiding it?
Isn\'t it clear enough? I do love him, and it\'s something I just realized after meeting him again.
I know it\'s my fault, but what can I do? Can you control your own emotion!?"
Olivia didn\'t look at anyone while saying this; it was more like she was berating herself.