Chapter 435: Chapter 435: A Thousand-Year Feud
Susan sent people to explore the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm.
Soon, the people she sent to explore the Secret Realm fled in disarray.
"The Magic Beasts inside are too strong."
Susan realized that even though the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm had been opened, it couldn’t be fully explored in a short amount of time.
She had to return first and report the situation to Your Majesty.
At the same time, she also had to hurry back and report about Li Wei.
Li Wei was of great importance.
Susan left a few people to guard the entrance to the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm.
When James saw that the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm had been opened, but they weren’t being allowed inside, his face flushed with anger.
"This is outrageous!"
"Don’t you go too far!"
Susan quickly tried to placate James, saying, "Mage James, please calm down. I’m not saying you can’t enter the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm, just that you can’t enter for the time being."
"Once we’ve finished exploring Dragon Fall Slope and obtained what Your Majesty desires, the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm will still belong to the Mage Association."
James frowned. Susan was using Otz to pressure him again.
This made James extremely displeased.
Before, when Otz was still just the City Lord of Maple City.
As a Tier Three Mage of the Mage Association, he could have completely ignored Otz.
He could afford to disregard Otz in the past, partly because his own power was considered top-tier within Maple City.
And partly because the Mage Association was even more powerful than the City Lord’s Mansion.
But things were different now.
A Tier Three Mage was no longer considered a top-tier expert.
And Otz’s faction was now far more powerful than the Maple City branch of the Mage Association.
Helpless, James could only agree. He planned to go back and inform the president of the Mage Association.
He would let the president negotiate with Otz.
Both James and Susan, without prior discussion, chose to pass the problems they couldn’t handle up to their superiors.
There was no other way; this was already beyond their capabilities.
Just as they were preparing to leave.
A ray of Holy Light appeared in the sky, and a figure emerged from within it.
Everyone instinctively looked up, and a single glance filled them with a profound sense of awe.
They all lowered their heads, not daring to look directly at the newcomer.
The person exuded a unique sense of majesty.
Holy and inviolable, not to be looked at directly, not to be spoken of lightly.
James was horrified. ’Who is this person? What’s their background?’
Seeing the Holy Light, he subconsciously thought of the Light Divine Sect.
This was a supreme expert from the Light Divine Sect.
Susan felt the Cardinal’s sacred majesty and nearly buried her head in her chest.
Like an ostrich burying its head in the sand.
Bathed in the Cardinal’s Holy Light, many of the dark things in her heart couldn’t help but surface.
The Holy Light didn’t purify the past darkness and pain in her heart.
Instead, it intensified her suffering.
An idea suddenly appeared in Susan’s mind.
’Perhaps only by bathing in the Holy Light, by throwing myself completely into it, can I purify my own filth.’
Her reason suppressed the conflicting impulse in her heart.
It nearly caused her to lose control of her emotions several times.
James knew that one had to guard their mind carefully under the Holy Light to avoid being assimilated.
Susan was completely unaware of this.
She could only struggle against her own emotions and instincts.
Fortunately, Minos didn’t linger near them for long.
He had arrived in too much of a hurry.
He hadn’t considered the effect the Holy Light might have on the people and things around him.
The fluctuations from the Goddess’s Tears had completely vanished.
This meant the Goddess’s Tears were gone.
Minos was naturally frantic.
He spent a moment locking onto the last location where the aura of the Goddess’s Tears had appeared.
Then, he had used the power of the Holy Light to teleport here without stopping.
Minos looked down and saw the Space Teleportation Gate at a glance.
He could sense that the final traces of the Goddess’s Tears’ aura came from within.
Without a shred of hesitation, Minos shot directly into the Space Teleportation Gate.
His immense power already exceeded the limit the Space Teleportation Gate could withstand.
The moment he entered, the Space Teleportation Gate exploded with a BANG.
Cracks appeared.
Minos frowned. His Holy Light forcibly held the Space Teleportation Gate open, preserving its last bit of integrity.
He entered the Secret Realm.
The first time Li Wei entered the Dragon Fall Slope Secret Realm, the Mage Association had said only Professionals below Tier Three were allowed in.
The reason was that the spatial passage was unstable.
Power exceeding Tier Three would cause the spatial passage to collapse.
Minos was encountering this exact situation right now.
The spatial passage Li Wei had opened with the Space Ripping Skill was unstable to begin with.
Thus, it wasn’t subject to the usual tier restrictions.
However, if an expert as powerful as Minos tried to pass through, he would cause the unstable spatial passage to tear apart even faster.
A passage that might have lasted for several minutes could now close in just a few seconds.
Minos entered the Secret Realm and shot into the sky.
He felt the restriction of the Forbidden Sky Domain.
Holy Light burst from his body, directly shattering the no-fly restriction.
So-called restrictions were only for the weak.
The strong ignored all restrictions.
He scanned his surroundings and shot straight toward the last location of the Goddess’s Tears.
Minos hovered in mid-air, looking down at the ruins before him.
"Divine Art! Time Reversal!"
Minos used the power of a Divine Spirit to reverse time and reconstruct the ruins.
The collapsed rocks flew up rapidly, like a movie playing in reverse, returning to their original positions.
Soon, the entire cavern was restored to its original state.
Minos descended and walked into the cavern.
He saw the trace left behind after the power of the Goddess’s Tears was exhausted.
Minos picked up the shattered blue gemstone, its power gone, his expression calm.
’The Goddess’s Tears contain Divine Power. They can’t be destroyed by ordinary means. Who did this?’
Suddenly, Minos’s heart stirred. He sensed a residual aura of a power very similar to Holy Light.
After sensing it carefully, he was astonished. ’This is... Holy Power?’
As far as he knew, besides Holy Angels, the only other beings in the world who possessed Holy Power were Holy Giant Dragons.
A Holy Angel’s Holy Power contained the will of a Divine Spirit, which was completely different from this untethered Holy Power.
Minos’s eyes widened in utter disbelief.
’The Holy Giant Dragons, which disappeared a thousand years ago, have reappeared!’
Minos quickly realized that this matter was probably even more important than the destruction of the Goddess’s Tears.
The Goddess’s Tears were merely a Holy Artifact condensed from Divine Power.
By beseeching the Divine Spirit, one could obtain a new Goddess’s Tears at any time.
But Holy Giant Dragons were a different matter entirely.
The Holy Giant Dragons had vanished for a thousand years without a single trace or sound.
The most crucial point was that the last Holy Giant Dragon to disappear was the Saint Dragon King of the Dragon Race.
The whereabouts of the Saint Dragon King were incredibly important to the Light Divine Sect.
A thousand years.
For a thousand years, the Light Divine Sect had been searching for the missing Saint Dragon King.
Ever since the great schism war of the Dragon Race a thousand years ago, the Demon Dragon King had won a pyrrhic victory.
The defeated Saint Dragon King had then vanished.
The only thing that could be confirmed was that the Saint Dragon King was not yet dead.
The Saint Dragon King carried something of extreme importance.
It was a treasure the Light Divine Sect had been seeking for a thousand years.
Minos immediately reported the discovery of a Holy Giant Dragon’s trace to the Saintess.
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