Chapter 523: A calamitous dei
WIth Ihuarah’s guidance and the group’s overall power, it was not such an arduous task to find and activate the four obelisks, even when four Ochiaran chiefs showed up together as they neared the last one, they were dealt with cleanly. These mud ghosts were simply not strong enough to push them to their limit.
After the fourth obelisk activated, the ground shook, and Sorrow’s giant palace appeared from underground, rising to the surface and toppling over large parts of the jungle.
Ihuarah had not predicted, however, that three gigantic monsters would appear with it. The group was split up as they fled. Sofia was with Ihuarah, hiding under a rotten log, while Pareth was with Everelle and Cinthia.
“How is it?” Ihuarah whispered as he saw Sofia’s eyes regain their color.
“They have it better than us. The flying serpent is busy eating the jungle’s flying monsters, so they are slowly making their way to the temple,” Sofia explained, having just observed the situation through Pareth’s eyes.
“Good. Unfortunately they will not be able to enter without one of us, but they should still be safer if they can hide near the entr-” Ihuarah stopped midway as the monster he and Sofia were hiding from had suddenly stopped moving.
No way. There’s no way it could hear it with how noisy the jungle is…
The giant monster whose bloated green feet were the only thing that one could see had stopped walking through the jungle. The trees’ canopy only reached up to its ankles, and the entire jungle shook from every step it took.
Suppressing their mana, Sofia and Ihuarah held their breath, which was easy as neither of them needed to breathe, and after a few seconds, the monster started walking again, slowly getting further from them. The issue, though, was that it was still in the path between them and the palace.