Chapter 91
With her beasts by her side, Michelle stood in front of the invisible barrier between the Land of Exile and the lower realm, on the Land of Exile’s side. She couldn’t see the barrier, but she could feel the force blocking her from taking another step forward. "Nyx, Cold Flame, how do I get to the other side?" she asked with a slight frown. She knew that since she had already reached the threshold of the Spirit rank, she should be able to walk through the barrier, but it seems she needed to do something special if she wanted to pass. And she didn’t know what that was.
Cold Flame stared at the barrier, and with a simple flap of his wings, he flew to the other side of it. Seeing that, Michelle frowned and tried to push her hand through, but she felt her palm press against a solid wall. Something was keeping her out. "What is the meaning of this?" she asked with narrowed eyes.
"Michelle, you’re being hated!" Snow sneered as she walked through the barrier effortlessly.
Forming an ice spear in her hand, Michelle threw it at Snow, expecting it to be stopped by the barrier, but instead, it flew through, flying straight toward Snow.
Not expecting that, Snow barely dodged the ice spear and turned to look at Michelle, who was equally shocked as she was.
Seeing all that, Nyxaroth arched a brow, a thought appearing in his mind. The more he stared at the ice spear stabbed in the ground behind Snow, who continued provoking Michelle, the more sure he was about his theory.
Just as Michelle was about to throw another ice spear at Snow, Nyxaroth nodded at Mare, and she grabbed Michelle’s wrist, stopping her. At the same time, Cold Flame took on his human form and grabbed Snow’s wrist, forcing her hands behind her.
Michelle didn’t protest, since she understood that Nyxaroth probably thought of something, but Snow wasn’t really compliant. She tried to struggle against Cold Flame, but unfortunately for her, after stepping through the barrier, the power he had inherited after maturing was partly set free, since he was no longer restrained by being in the Land of Exile, so he was much stronger than Snow, even though she was trained by the Archduke so she could rival people from the middle realm.
In the end, the difference between the lower and middle realms was just one rank. People in the lower realm could at most reach the Paragon level of the Divine rank, and in the middle realm, they could reach the Paragon level of the Monarch rank. Also, to go from the lower to the middle realm, one only needed to be a Spirit Saint, so the middle realm was filled with Spirit and Divine rankers, and Monarch rankers were few; most of them only reaching the power of Monarch Warrior, which was just the third of ten levels.