Chapter 388: Chapter 366: Earth-Shattering (4,000 words wishing a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day!)
Encountering such an enigmatic situation.
Frightened, Aiven immediately commanded the other Seagulls to fly high, only probing lightly even if used for reconnaissance. He had already decided to identify things personally and slowly, to avoid uncovering any secrets best left unknown.
However.
If he wanted to get out of here, he had to open a path in the city; playing house in what seems like nothing but a ruinous city wasn’t Aiven’s desire.
A dual approach.
The Seagull embodying his consciousness flapped its wings, soaring into the air to diligently discern the various architectural conditions in other directions.
Aiven’s own entity also stepped out for the first time from beneath the canopy of the "Life Tree."
Step.. step.. step..
Crisp footsteps echoed in the seemingly deserted plaza, making the area feel even more void and deathly silent.
Even the Seagull that embodied his consciousness, in essence, was still just a Seagull, possessing only a Seagull’s own power, requiring his entity to solve any encountered issues.
Hoping to orchestrate affairs from a safe zone like executing tasks in the Material World, at least for now, he didn’t have that Capital.
Aside from more than a dozen towering humanoid statues, the topmost plaza area was empty, yet it gave Aiven a rough impression of the city’s former masters.
They were a group of giants, generally about three meters tall, with a third eye on their foreheads, capable of wielding Thunderbolt!
Whether or not corresponding species also existed in the Material World was, however, hard to say.
Even if the outskirts of the Spirit Realm were very closely connected with the Material World or human consciousness.
But everything in this Spiritual World, apart from the "Spirit Realm Sun" and the "Spirit Realm Sea," had its external appearance already processed by the world rules, collectively shaped by the synesthetic residues of the Spirit Realm’s energy and the Material World’s collective unconscious.
The Origin of this city might possibly arise from real history, or could simply be the fantasy of some individuals, or even just a thought from some powerful entity; of course, they might also be indigenous to the Spirit Realm with no intrinsic connection to the Material World.
Nevertheless, regardless of where the Origin lay, Aiven knew that the hidden Extraordinary Power and knowledge in it were genuinely real and substantial benefits available for Spirit Realm Exploration!
In this place where even the wind seemed to have ceased flowing.
Carefully and warily moving forward, he unknowingly left the plaza’s range, halting finally in front of a completely collapsed building near the outskirts of this strata of the city.
From just the glimpses of gold leaf and exquisite decoration on the broken walls, one could sense the past splendor and opulence of this place.
Rumble... rumble...
With just a light wave of his hand, "Activated Spiritual Light" had already autonomously spread out, causing the shattered ruins and fragmented debris to automatically roll aside to both sides.
There were gilded marble columns, giant white bones with an extra cavity on the forehead compared to normal humans, oxidized blackened unknown textiles, gold vessels, and so on, revealing secrets that had been concealed within for unknown years.
In the purely Spiritual World, the "Activated Spiritual Light," originally magical but not very intense, had already gained several-fold augmentation without needing rituals.
Naturally, capable of modifying the rigorously rule-bound Material World, the loosely ruled Spiritual World was certainly no challenge; both intensity and scope couldn’t be compared to its effect in the Material World.
Especially after Aiven’s enhanced training, now capable of Spell-Free Casting, everything within a ten-meter radius around him was at his whimsy to manipulate with ease.
Comparatively, a series of targeted Witchcraft that were completely sealed, due to the absence of physical existence, like "Blood Backflow," "Frenzy," and so on, could also be considered a kind of reciprocal compensation.
After the debris was moved aside, a gentle and vivid green light instantly shone upon Aiven’s face.
"Is this... a huge Emerald!!!"
Beneath the collapsed ruins appeared a massive Emerald lying on a hexagonal altar, completely shattered. Even the smallest fragment was fist-sized, a sight unimaginable even in the Material World.
Snap—!
After a snap of the fingers, the "Activated Spiritual Light" showcased its might once more.
Just as if Time had reversed, the shattered gemstone reassembled and fused back together, with cracks automatically aligning and healing, restoring back to a whole within a blink of an eye.
It was a pure emerald hexagonal pillar, about two meters tall, inscribed with golden writing!
For the "Activated Spiritual Light," repairing such a non-Extraordinary gemstone was no different from fixing an ordinary stone.
Its inherent value to Aiven was just the same.
If he saw such a gemstone in the Material World, he might have already leaped with joy. Yet in the Spirit Realm, the least valued things are precious metals and various gemstones since they cannot be carried out, and value-wise they’re hardly any different from stones.
"Hercules’ Pillar? Is this a citizen code?"
Preemptively applying a "Mechanical Mind" on himself to enter an absolutely calm State, he viewed the written text from a completely bystander’s perspective. As long as he didn’t get involved, his Status was unlikely to be affected by the Idealism effect.
Once bitten by a snake, he naturally became more cautious; although currently no Spirit Realm creatures had been found, such power to kill invisibly was even more terrifying than monsters!