Chapter 77: The Reason Behind All of This
Just before the arrow struck the ground, Aldrian pulled the people from the city lord’s manor, making them float near him. When the arrow hit, the western peak trembled violently, and cracks spread throughout the mountain. Aldrian watched as the mountain peak disintegrated and collapsed.
But it didn’t stop there. The arrow continued deep into the mountain, its power seemingly undiminished even after the impact. The entire mountain shook heavily, and moments later, it began collapsing from the top down, crumbling inward. The towering peak, which pierced the clouds and reached the sky, was now crumbling before everyone’s eyes. Earlier people who had been fleeing when they saw the giant beast stopped in their tracks as they witnessed golden light fall from the sky, causing the western peak to crumble.
The earthquake from the mountain’s collapse shook the entire city, far stronger than the tremor caused by the Black Rock Snake’s appearance. A mountain that had stood for countless years, with all its history and glory—one that gave the city its name—was falling. Rocks and debris started flying everywhere, but the spatial crack caused by the attack sucked the mountain inward, pulling it into the void.
The arrow finally stopped, buried 300 meters below the ground. A mountain more than 15 kilometers tall had now been reduced to a heap of dirt and rock. Aldrian watched all of this with calm eyes, but inside, his heart trembled.
"What a powerful attack! The combination of my domain and the divine artifact truly makes for a weapon of mass destruction. I need to be careful using this in the future—it can be a double-edged sword," he thought.
He surveyed the aftermath and began controlling the spatial storm by sealing the spatial cracks that had formed along the arrow’s path. Fortunately, the spatial storm had helped, sucking the debris and dust into the void, preventing the collapse from spreading to the surrounding area. This spared Aldrian from having to hold up the entire mountain to prevent casualties.
He spread his senses below and finally located the devil Agrin Livan. He was lying between rocks and debris, half his body missing, but Aldrian could sense he was still alive, though barely. Agrin had reverted to his original form, his devil transformation canceled when he lost all his devil energy and half his body.
Aldrian observed him for a moment before deciding to take him as proof. He then recalled the arrow from deep within the ground, now buried under tons of rock. When the arrow finally returned to his hand, he inspected it and, to his surprise, found that it had withstood the immense power without a single crack. Even the information displayed showed no signs of broken.
"Well, it’s not called a divine artifact for nothing, especially one made from the roots of the World Tree."