The open gray-blue gate, the stone stairs leading down, the sea with golden rays of light, and the omnipresent light once again caught the eyes of Silver City residents such as Liaval and Candice.
As members of the previous exploration team, this was not the first time they had seen this scene, but their souls were still deeply shaken and they subconsciously held their breath.
Derrick, holding the giant hammer "Thor's Roar", stood at the front. He was two meters tall, with broad shoulders, and remained silent.
After nearly a minute, Liaval tentatively said:
"Elder Berg, when are we going out?"
He is a Sequence 5 "Guardian", nearly two meters and a half tall, with slightly abnormal proportions of his hands and feet.
Derrick stared at the golden sea for several seconds before saying:
"Wait a moment."
It had been several days since he opened the door. He led the exploration team and brought back the ashes, characteristics, and seals of the Chief and Elder Lovia to Silver City. He also used that secret to gain the trust of the current Chief of the "Six-Man Council", Waite Hillmon.
This time, Derrick will lead twenty Silver City Beyonders as pathfinders to find a safe passage and confirm the situation outside.
In this matter, he rejected Mr. World's proposal to use the "Star Staff" to directly move the entire Silver City out of the God-Forsaken Land. He wanted to measure the road of hope step by step with his own feet, and remember what the "dawn" that Silver City finally found after more than two thousand years of perseverance and sacrifice looked like.
After hearing Elder Derrick's answer, Liaval, Candice and other members of the exploration team did not say much. They each took a step back and continued to enjoy the beautiful scenery.
They still had some distrust of Derrick Berg. After all, he had close ties with outsiders, and the Chief and Elder Lovia had died in the previous exploration. Only this "No Dark One" and the outsider survived. If the "Six-Man Council" had not chosen to believe in Derrick, they would definitely be more hostile and resistant than vigilant at this time.
After an unknown amount of time, the sea that was shining with golden light was suddenly shrouded in darkness.
Deep in the darkness, a faint mist can be vaguely seen. In the mist, there is a black church with a spire and various buildings, giving people a feeling that it is both real and illusory.
Derrick and the others were no strangers to darkness. They instinctively started to light their own lights or light their own candles, busy but not chaotic.
When the team of twenty-one people were protected by the light, they looked at the foggy town and the shadowy pedestrians in confusion, unable to understand what was going on.
This was not the darkness they were familiar with.
At this moment, Derrick, who naturally radiated pure light, raised his left hand and said in a low voice:
"Set off."
Without waiting for the team members to respond, he took the lead, passed through the gate, and walked along the stone stairs outside, step by step deeper into the darkness.
Liaval, Candice and the others looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and followed the new elder of the "Six-Man Council", Derrick Berg, out of the Giant King's residence.
In the thick darkness, they walked up the stairs, and suddenly their eyes lit up, and they saw orange light and a monastery-like black building.
"Is this the outside world?" Candice looked around with caution and curiosity, and found that she and others had unknowingly walked to the opposite side of the "Giant King's Court", separated from their original location by a sea of orange-red clouds.
“No.” Derrick compared the current environment with the descriptions of Mr. World and Ms. Hermit, and nodded slightly. “We need to wait here for a while. You can find a place to rest.”
This "One Without Darkness" who no longer has any sense of youthfulness arranged everything calmly.
Liaval looked at the closed door of the black monastery and asked with a little doubt:
"Don't you need to explore here and find an exit?"
“No need.” Derrick shook his head.
The members of the Pathfinder team did not ask any more questions and did not rest. They continued to stand where they were and waited patiently.
As time passed, blinding rays of sunlight suddenly shone into the world, making everything turn bright white, then faded and disappeared.
Derrick, Candice and the others subconsciously looked around and saw the golden ocean again, feeling the terrifying aura that they dared not look directly at.
However, unlike before, they were now on an island, with huge clusters of strange golden plants with smiling faces behind them. The absence of any sense of decadence and distortion made every member of the Silver City Pathfinder Team sincerely experience the joy that life brought.
It really came out... It really is a different world... Liaval, Candice and others couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.
They immediately confirmed a fact:
Elder Derrick did not betray the City of Silver. His cooperation with the outsiders was really to lead everyone away from the cursed land.
"Elder Berg..." Candice stammered for a while and said, "Thank you."
Derrick nodded slightly, his back straight.
Liaval did not express her inner apology like Candice did. She looked around and asked:
"Elder Berg, how do we get out of here? Build a ship?"
"Shipbuilding" is a word that only appears in their history books, so it sounds particularly awkward to say it at this time.
"There seems to be no shipbuilding materials here..." Candice and others immediately examined this small island and found no trees or other plants.
Derrick shook his head again:
"No, wait a moment..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw a dark shadow appear at the junction of the sea and the sky.
The black shadow grew bigger and bigger, and quickly approached this side along the safe channel between the golden spots of light.
Not long after, the black shadow revealed its outline. It was a hybrid ship with smoke puffing out and sails spread out, with a blue sea serpent flag hanging above the ship.
"Boat?"
"Is this a ship?"
…
Liaval, Candice and the others were on guard and raised questions.
Derrick was an experienced person who had received common sense education in the Tarot Club and had seen pictures of various ships. He nodded slightly when he heard this and said:
"right."
As they were talking, the ship was getting closer and closer, and the figure standing on the bow gradually became clearer.
He was a man with burnt yellow eyebrows, deep blue eyes, and wearing a black cloak. He jumped onto the dragon's head and slightly opened his arms to the people of Silver City.
Seeing this scene, Derrick, who had been maintaining a serious attitude, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that everything was as expected and there were no accidents.
Danitz originally wanted to jump off the boat directly, walk up to Mr. Fool's followers, and announce to them that they had been saved, but after taking a look at the height of the people in Silver City, he silently steadied himself.
He stood at the head of the dragon, opened his arms completely, and said to Derrick and the others with a reserved smile:
"Welcome to the bright world promised by God!"
…………
Above the gray fog, inside the ancient palace.
Klein sat on the high-back chair that belonged to The Fool and watched the entire experience of the Silver City Pathfinder Team through the crimson star that symbolized the "sun." He was always ready to take action to deal with unexpected events.
When the "history" that had been sealed for thousands of years intersected with the current "era", Klein boarded the ship from the new government of the Rorsted Islands and left the most dangerous core waters of the God War Ruins. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, put down the "Star Staff" in his hand, and waved to take two items.
They are the extraordinary characteristics of the "Miracle Worker" extracted from the "curtain" and the "Star Worm" from the "Secret Saint" Butis.
After thinking for a while, Klein stretched out his left hand and grabbed a large ball of dark red liquid from the gap in history.
This is the blood of the "Dark Wolf" Kotal, a full 300 milliliters, and is the main auxiliary material for the "Miracle Master" potion.
Of course, as an auxiliary material, it has only one use, which is to reduce the negative effects brought by extraordinary characteristics and buffer the corresponding mystical influence. So it doesn’t matter whether it is a historical projection or not. Anyway, as long as it can play its role in the two links of preparing potions and taking potions, it is enough. When the time of the historical pore image reaches its limit, Klein will either fail to be promoted and collapse into a monster, or he will have become a "miracle master" and have initially mastered extraordinary characteristics and no longer need assistance.
Then, Klein took out another thing from the mist of history.
It was a "worm of time" with multiple links.
——Because of the strong psychological trauma he had with Amon, Klein chose to summon the "Worm of Time" that Pallez Zoroast had once given him this time, to avoid any accidents.
After preparing the materials, he materialized an iron pot and threw 300 milliliters of the Dark Wolf's blood into it. Then, he put in the "Time Worm" and the "Star Worm" that was shining brightly.
The dark red liquid in the iron pot gradually turned darker, the surface became transparent and clear, and a vortex was surging in the depths.
Without hesitation, Klein picked up the extraordinary characteristics of the "Miracle Master".
Its shape is like a heart, as transparent as crystal, but small bubbles emerge from it from time to time, and each bubble seems to contain an illusion.
When this extraordinary characteristic came into contact with the liquid in the iron pot, it was immediately absorbed into it, causing the darkness to condense instantly and become deep, as if countless eyes were opening at the same time.
After staring for a few seconds, Klein poured the prepared "Miracle Worker" potion into a glass bottle and brought it to the real world through the bestowal ceremony.
On an uninhabited island in the Sonia Sea, Klein, who was "teleported" directly here, looked at the potion in his hand and suddenly hesitated. Because once he became an angel, he would inevitably be affected by his Beyonder characteristics, becoming increasingly cold, cruel, and indifferent to life. He must have enough anchors to maintain his humanity.
This was not something that could be avoided by completely digesting the potion and mastering the "acting method" in the previous stage. Emperor Roselle had gone so smoothly in the first part, but he almost mutated and was close to losing control when he reached the Sequence 2 Angel level.
As for the angels that Klein knew, they all looked normal on the surface, but he had no idea what they actually looked like or what state they were in when they were hiding behind the scenes.
If one can obtain a long life at the Sequence 4 or Sequence 3 stage, and live for thousands of years, then a saint really would not have much motivation to ascend to an angel.
Combining the words that the higher the sequence, the closer it is to the original, Klein suddenly understood why the "White Witch" Katarina only advanced from Sequence 4 to Sequence 3 in more than a thousand years.
But I have no way out... After a brief silence, Klein sighed silently.
Amon and Zaratul, the impending doomsday, and the fact that he was unable to intervene in the war and could only contribute his strength through donations, all pushed him towards the angel level.
His eyes flickered for a few seconds, then quickly returned to calm. Klein picked up the bottle of potion and poured the liquid into his mouth.
PS: The author of "Entering the Immortal Cultivation" has started a new book, "Cyber Heroes", which is a hardcore martial arts story set in a cyberpunk background, a story about resisting tyrants and changing the world.