Chapter 139: Big Breakthrough
The High Elven Palace was evacuated outright. Every building around the palace and for miles around the massive world tree had been evacuated, and half of the capital of the elven kingdom had officially been sent to the very edge of the capital.
By the time Thalia and the rest of the royal family returned to the palace with the news, Cain was already investigating.
He had literally spread his mana throughout the palace, searching for any source of dark magic, even a trace of mana at the micro level.
The mana of death was incredibly suffocating. Even Atlas was crumbling under the pressure and trying to survive using his aura abilities.
Even though he was spreading Cain’s mana, even though he was doing it at the lowest level holistically, the fact that Atlas was suffocating from lack of air seemed to be enough to explain why the Sages were so feared beings.
Although Cain’s mana had begun to pass through the surroundings and he had ripped through the palace walls, checking every micro-particle, nothing had been found.
To put it bluntly, either the piece of portal Atlas had in mind was not black magic that left the palace, or the portal had not yet been set up in the present.
Or...Cain’s spell simply didn’t work. The existence of this possibility was even stranger since it was probably impossible for a Sage’s magic not to work.
Still, the likelihood of that was far, far less likely than if the portal hadn’t been built yet.
That’s why Atlas felt like he had to take matters into his own hands. He didn’t even know where the gate opened. The only thing he knew was that the portal opened on the world tree.
The world tree was huge. It really was huge. Atlas didn’t even know how many words were needed to describe its size.