Chapter 1016: Dumping Grounds
Without any movement or sound, Loimos opened up a rift, and from it, Grail, the whale-like disaster beast bursted out, seamlessly diving into the ocean and despite its enormous frame, it barely even caused a little splash as it landed into the yet-conquered waters.
Grail might be capable of flight, but as its appearance suggested, it was far more at ease when submerged.
Loimos led the way as he casually walked off the edge of the tower, landing atop Grail’s back.
Maliah and One soon followed, and the disaster beast began to move forward, demonstrating that its oddly silent dive from earlier was the norm for it, in spite of being utterly gigantic of probably weighting far more than a hundred tons, and yet, the water was not being disturbed by the swimming of this gargantuan beast, and it wasn’t going slowly either, the assassin’s hood was peeled off her head by the winds that were crashing into the three passengers.
The trip was a short one by undead standards, but overall, it took them five hours to get to the thing Loimos had spotted earlier, considering Grail’s speed, they were very far away from the closest border of the Empire right now, and what they stopped next to was rather curious.
There was an island here, it seemed quite large, but only had sand, and after a small portion of beach, one would once again find water that was nestled within the island, actually making up for ninety percent of its surface.
The water in here was significantly lighter and brighter in colour compared to that of the ocean just a few steps away, One squinted her eyes at it, her experience with alchemy allowed her to know with just a glance that this thing was impossible packed with salt, she tried to kick some sand into it, and indeed, the content of salt was so high, that the grains did not sink.
And indeed, upon the surface of this water, there were plenty of odd items that were suspended in place, looking at though they were stuck in frozen water instead, most of them were rather typical, there were swords of average manufacture and other common weapons, pieces of armour, what seemed to be the most common however, were corpses.
There were countless skeletal remains just floating and staying still on the surface of the water, but that was probably far from the true amount of corpses this place had occupied throughout its existence as the salt concentration was so high, that anything submerged within it seemed to be quickly be taken apart, right now, they could see with their own eyes as skeletal remains were being grinded down into what was pretty much non existence.
"Looks like a dumping ground to me" Maliah looked up to see a pulsating orb hovering just above the very center of the salty pool, this was the gateway to a realm, and indeed, her thought was quickly confirmed as the orb pulsated strongly before being following by a flash of light.