Chapter 103: Nano (4)
Barbosa stared blankly at the Tower Master and asked, “What do you mean by that?”
He couldn’t understand what the Tower Master was saying. Like the Tower Master, Barbosa had intended to gather information about the enemy first and then think of the best way to respond against Nano. Never did he imagine that everything would be resolved in just a single day.
Yet, the strange force of the Demon Realm, which had completely replaced all creation in the Lutein Kingdom, was apparently taken care of in mere hours. That was something Barbosa had never expected. He wore a baffled expression, and the Tower Master wiggled his fingers as if he understood Barbosa’s confusion.
“It’s easier if I just show you,” the Tower Master said.
All at once, the space around them warped. Ketal, Barbosa, Elene, and Aron instantly found themselves at the site where Lutein’s royal palace had once stood. Barbosa looked around and was startled by the changed landscape.
“What is this place?” Barbosa asked. Everything was in ruins, crumbling and broken. The ground was fractured into jagged pieces, as though it could collapse any second. “Why did you bring us to such a wasteland?”
“You still can’t see it at a glance, can you?” the Tower Master remarked with a quiet laugh. “This is where the royal palace of Lutein stood.”
“What?” Elene asked, her voice trembling. “H-here?”
No matter how hard she looked, she could only see rubble and fractured earth on the verge of crumbling.
The Tower Master explained further, “Those creatures had replaced the palace entirely. When Nano was defeated, the palace vanished along with it. The damage to the land is just the aftermath of the battle.”
“So this really was the palace...,” Barbosa murmured, struggling to believe it.
The Tower Master nodded. “It’s over. There is no longer any trace of Demon Realm’s Anomaly in this world.”