"Ugh! The poison is acting up again." Queen Dryad grunted, vomiting out black blood. Then, just a step backward, she was already standing in the middle of scorched black soil, and she started morphing back into her tree form. Rooting deep inside the black earth, the oak tree continued to grow into a mature tree with half of its branches and trunk black and the other half returned to normal.
Seeing the difference from earlier, Bobby wondered, 'Must be something to do with me sucking some of that dark fluid from her body.'
"Hey, as much as I like to bring you along, I can't possibly bring a giant oak tree on my back, right?" Bobby said with a cynical smile.
"Lord Damien, I see you have some of those ancient Spatial Beasts' eyes. I would appreciate it if you would put me alongside this black soil." The Oak Tree spoke in the earlier female tone.
"Fine, but it's gonna consume a lot of Origin Chi to bring along all of them," Bobby muttered softly and then he started infusing his Internal Origin Lightning Chi into the Purple Spatial Beast Eye and made a waving motion toward the tree, and magically the Oak Tree along with those dark soil vanished mysteriously, leaving behind a deep hollow the size of a big lake.
"Thank you, Lord Damien!" The Tree-Goddess's voice came out from the purple Beast's Eye and she continued, "Now, I bring you to the Hell Blood Waterfall." In a sweet Katakara Tongue melody, she sang, and all the trees and even the grasses swayed to the melodies. Soon, the island shook and gradually raised up in the air and turned into a small wooden boat.
"Huh, so the entire island is always under your control!" Bobby exclaimed in surprise.
"Hee-hee-hee, what did you expect? When I said that you were trespassing on my territory earlier, it was because you flew off my island and it was really annoying to have someone just go over my head." Queen Dryad responded, chuckling, and then under her control, the small boat started sailing toward the far east in the air.
Indeed, just as she said, Bobby saw some overwhelmingly powerful beasts from deep inside the ocean. Soon, the small boat reached the land and after sailing in a godly for hours, passing several mountain ranges, the wooden boat stopped in front of a waterfall with red blood.
Bobby took out the black medallion compass and saw that both the dot points on the map almost coincide at that place. "You brought me to the right place, Queen Dryad. So what no?"
"Lord Damien, now you have walked through that waterfall on the ground. There is a wormhole leading to the mini-realm through it." Queen Dryad continued, "Having said that, I want to caution you the real danger begins from there on. But fret not, I have always been going in and out of that place countless times. So I know every inch of that place."
"Cool!" Bobby jumped down onto the ground.
Suddenly, the small boat floating in the air turned into a really tiny boat, zooming into the Purple Spatial Beast's eye as he heard mantra chants.
Bobby then walked toward the falling waterfall, and just after he passed by the mighty stream of blood cascading, he was sucked into a gigantic whirlpool hidden behind it all along.
The falling continued for a few minutes and he found himself inside a colossus hall.
Looking around he saw that there were multiple black marble stone statues of some strange beasts with fangs protruding out of their mouths, and a pair of purple-gray horns grown over their forehead just next to their fluffy ears.
His eyes glinted golden as he activated the Devil's Eyes Ocular Technique. Further using the X-ray vision and started scanning inside the room as the darkroom was becoming clearer than a sunny day in his eyes.
Within each of those earlier black marble stone statues, he saw small rounded white balls. The first thing that crossed his mind was, 'Ancient Puppetry!'
He then looked around to see that the three walls were also filled with the drawing and designs of people in them; some looked grotesque, and others were mostly written in the Ancient Katakara Manuscripts. Thankfully, this was not the first time Bobby was deciphering those words.
"This is the Sojourn of Ancient Katakara!" Queen Dryad spoke to him telepathically and she continued, "Lord Damien, in this place there are three other chambers, meaning you'll go through four tests exactly to get your hand on the Archaic God Artifact! And in this place, everything laying inside is a piece of a puzzle and you need to place where they should be kept or remove those pieces that were not meant to be. And last but apparently least, your tips to crack this puzzle is everything on the three walls."
"Oh, a puzzle from ancient times. I very much like to crack it." Bobby said with excitement. Then he asked, "So, have you tried solving this puzzle before?"
"Hahaha, that's a stupid question. Yep, even we gods need to take the test if we wish to have that God Artifact that was kept inside the fourth chamber. But every time, the puzzle inside this place changed all the time but not the clues on those three walls." Queen Dryad responded with a clamorous tone. Her excitement can be clearly heard in her voice and Bobby thought, 'Hmm! Those days must have left good memoirs for my Tree Goddess.'
Then with no further wasting time, he started memorizing all the letters, drawings, and even multiple dents on the wall that might be left there intentionally or not. Then next, he started observing inside the hall and then started mapping the clues written on the walls with these while Billions of his brain neurons were activated at the same time. And within a few seconds, he finally figured out the puzzle, he walked toward those black stone statues and started breaking them with just a punch of his and took out those glaring white balls, and then he started inserting those balls into multiple slots of those pillars, walls, and even floor. When he put it in the last 235th slot, the room started humming and a strange spider web-like white dazzling light moved over the pillars, walls, and the floor linking those slots, and a giant sigil appeared. And the next thing he realized he was already in another hall… (please, stay tuned!)
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