Chapter 257: Spell’s Effect
Plooop!
Suddenly, a weird pitch-black 5-meter-wide circle appeared in the middle of the battleground. Despite being this small in size, it attracted the attention of everyone present on the battlefield.
Everyone looked, but nobody could understand anything about it. The only thing they were seeing was nothing... the domain was absorbing every bit of light that touched it.
Stopping in the middle of her fight, Olivia turned to look toward the circle and exclaimed, "What is that... should we get away from it? It looks like the spell Lord Alaric would use."
"Yay! We should get away from it, it didn’t look like anything I want to be close to..." a member of her team quickly exclaimed and was about to turn around to run...
Before they could move their feet even an inch, something began to happen in the circle. From it emerged hundreds upon hundreds of tentacles, all of different widths.
Without any interference, the tentacles began to frantically attack everything around them... once again, they were touching some people. The tentacles weren’t touching any Asteries around them.
But that mercy wasn’t for monsters, as every monster they could get their hands on was being dragged toward the circle. Some powerful monsters were able to break free, but the number of tentacles was so great that it didn’t take long for them to get overwhelmed once again.
"Hey, why are you snatching my prey..." Vexer seemed angry as he found that the tentacles had begun to steal his prey as well.
Even after his expression, they continued to steal, making the demon more angry. Controlling the urge to destroy the tentacle, he forced as they dragged his prey.
In just a matter of seconds, they dragged the tier Ⅲ monster into the realm of shadow as well... and Vexar couldn’t help but watch it live. The anger on his face began to fade away as he realized the importance of the incident happening in front of him.
For the first time, he was happy even though his prey had been just stolen.
He was happy that his eldest brother had once again stepped into another power level and soon he had achieved that level as well. With a smile on his face, he watched as the scenario of the battle changed in just a minute.
Plooop!
With a ploop sound, the gate of death retreated to its own realm... leaving no other monster on the island.
After witnessing the horror of the domain, any monsters that were about to come had retreated back into the depths of the ocean. From the moment of its appearance, the gate of death had dragged 242 tier Ⅰ, 83 tier Ⅱ, and 5 tier Ⅲ into its realm.
Noticing the silence, Grec quickly removed the defense surrounding the village and sprinted toward Vexar. Before he could reach his favorite sibling... another one appeared beside him.
Even though he didn’t like his elder brother that much, this time a rare smile appeared on his face as he marveled at the presence of his elder brother. Increasing his speed to the fullest, he reached Alaric in a matter of seconds.
Looking at the exhausted face of his brother, he quickly pulled out a mana potion from the inventory and passed it to Alaric.
Seeing that his brother had begun to drink the potion, he quickly opened his mouth, "Alaric, how much did you just earn just now? If you are willing to hear, I would like to tell you about a thing I’m about to do, which needs quite some amount of coins... would you be kind enough to donate some to me."
With another mana potion in his hand, Grec quickly began to lay the foundation. He was probing this much because he had a feeling that after listening to his proposal, there was a chance for success.
Snatching the other bottle from his hand, Alaric muttered as he transformed into his human form, "Depends on your plan. But not now, there is something that needs our attention."
Slowly but surely, Alaric was trying to get used to living in the human shell of himself. He wasn’t doing it because he liked this, no... he had a different goal altogether. The goal is to know how to master the art of living like someone you aren’t.
Looking at the seriousness in Alaric’s expression, Grec silently went out of the way and began to converse with Vexar. Getting a bad feeling, he began to poach his all-time favorite investor.
Getting a bit away from the duo, he quickly connected with Lyra with the help of Mark. After seeing Grec, he had begun to experiment with the usefulness of the mark as well.
[Priestess, gather everyone in the middle of the village as soon as possible. Make a thorough search of the island and find if there is anyone who has died or is heavily injured but hasn’t been healed yet.]
After a second, a calm reply reached him, [As you wish, my lord.]
Nodding his head, Alaric dived into the shadow once again. This time his motive to enter the realm was quite different from his usual ones.
’Hmm! Some of them haven’t opened their eyes instinctively... well, it is effective for their survival but not for long...’ Alaric thought, knowing that after entering the shadow realm, there is no way to survive unless a shadow being is willing to help.
’...Sooner they will either be dead from the mental damage received from the dwellers or they will die from the corruption... Well, it will be interesting to see which one is more likely to be the case...’ Having this thought in his mind, Alaric began to observe the view in front of him.
Having seen his master doing all sorts of experiments, he had taken a liking to them as well. This love for experimentation had been proved to be successful after all the experimentation had resulted in the creation of his new spell.
While looking at then he began to think of a way to upgrade the spell...
