Chapter 829 - 415: Familiar Scent
Long Dangdang began to quicken his pace silently, weaving through the crowd of wraiths. He only had four hours to be out and about, and he didn’t know how large Calamity City really was. However, he could surmise that if his parents were imprisoned, they would definitely be in the core area of Calamity City or somewhere akin to a prison.
Now, he found himself hoping that this arranged meeting would drag on a bit longer since that would give him ample time to search for his parents.
As he moved, he used his spiritual power to sense the mental communications between the wraith entities around him to determine his direction, making adjustments accordingly. Gradually, Long Dangdang began to approach the central area of Calamity City.
The closer he got to the center, the wider the streets became, and the number of wraith entities increased. Among them, the presence of powerful beings truly startled him. He even saw a 7th Rank skeleton, its bones gleaming with a bright silver hue, and its eyes flickered with silver Soul Flames.
Long Dangdang asked himself about his own strength at this 7th Rank level, but facing this being, he felt a clear sense of danger.
After walking for nearly two hours, just as Long Dangdang was preparing to start his journey back, he suddenly turned a street corner and a colossal building ahead caught his attention.
Even at first sight, he was sure that this wasn’t an original structure from North Sea City, but rather one reconstructed here after the Wraith Kingdom had taken over.
It was a tall stone castle, perched atop a massive stone hill. Whether the hill was originally present or not was uncertain, but the stone comprising the hill was not ordinary—it emitted a faint silver glow, much like mithril ore.
Though extracting mithril from the ore yielded a very small percentage of pure mithril, it still was an extremely precious ore. Constructing such a stone hill at least 300 meters tall—how much mithril ore would be needed for that?
Atop that hill stood a castle. It looked magnificent, with its high, pointed roofs soaring into the sky, its brilliant silver radiance shining even under the cover of night. It seemed to be a castle made entirely of mithril. If it really was, then its value was immeasurable.
Long Dangdang gasped. He didn’t need to guess to know that this place was definitively where the ruler of the Wraith Kingdom resided. He genuinely hadn’t expected that in Calamity City, such a formidable fortress would be built. If it was all made of mithril, how much mithril would that be? Whether the entire human world’s reserves of mithril were even equivalent was questionable.
The Knights Temple had already been among the foremost of the 6 Great Sacred Temples, and for years, there were only 72 Mithril Cathedra knights. And with such a mithril castle, how many Mithril Cathedras could be constructed?