Chapter 212
Everything disappears in a flash of blinding light and I can feel my skin melting. We’ve got to be fifty kilometers away, did I miscalculate something? It was only supposed to blow up the Sect Compound.
As my eyes heal I can see the mushroom cloud racing into the upper atmosphere, and everything in front of me is perfectly level. It’s all destroyed, almost to the horizon. Even the trees behind me have been knocked over by the force of the blast. The Dragons look a little rough, so I go feed them a Regeneration pill right away, before giving them to all the other Lycans, except Beta John who is already healed.
"Moon Goddess, what was that? What exactly came next in this brilliant plan of yours, the Sect we were going to investigate no longer exists." John breathes.
"That’s easy, I’ve got the relic piece here, it’ll lead me to the other piece and we can just pick it up out of the rubble. The storage rings should have survived, they did last time." I nod my head and shake the tingles of healing flesh from my arms before walking towards the epicenter of the blast.
The shard is still leading me towards this location, so the relic piece should have survived. Eventually the feeling begins to pull down and I realize it’s below me, in an underground room. I look around for assistancein my search, but everyone else is still standing where they were, just staring at me.
"Found it. Right here, but under my feet somewhere." I call, waving then over. The original form of the rubble is hard to discern and some of the rock is melted, but I find the entry to the basement easily enough. This must have been the vault, some of the defensive barriers are still in effect. Not enough to keep me out, but enough that the room didn’t collapse.
The piece we’re looking for is on a dias in the back of the room, and I pull it into my ring for safekeeping before looking through the rest of the contents. They’ve got some really good stuff in here.
There’s a very injured cultivator in the corner, fumbling for a pill bottle.
"Are you the Sect Master here?" I ask, walking over to him and throwing a Regeneration pill in his mouth.