Staring at Cade who had a blank expression on his face and vacant eyes, Rhys immediately knew something was wrong.Glancing back at Susan, he noticed that the fair-skinned beauty also had an expression of confusion on her face as well. Turning to Bryan on his left, the dark-haired youth simply shrugged his shoulders.Pivoting his attention back to the strange proceedings, Rhys strained his senses to make a little sense of what was going on.'I just hope they aren't planning to sacrifice him or something. That would complicate a lot of things...'Looking at the strange things from afar, it was almost like he was looking at the scene of a strange ritual sacrifice taking place, and the council engaging in the occultic sacrifice...Searching around, Rhys finally allowed his eyes to settle on the ladies that surrounded the stage. He could feel immense strength radiating from every one of them. They were also abnormally gorgeous. In fact, even the slightly less than normal humans that surro

Rhys stared at the chasm with darkness brewing in his eyes.However, he wasn't granted enough time to think about what had just occurred. That was because he was suddenly attacked from all sides by a group of murderous girls."Leah! We have to apprehend this bastard fast!" Lin Lin, the girl with the raven cloak growled at the yellow-eyed girl with murder on her face."You... You better give us a good explanation. If you don't, forget angel, I'll gut you myself." Leah said with a cold measured look plastered on her features.Inwardly, a different stream of thoughts coursed through her mind..."Explain myself?" Rhys said darkly.Looking around, he realized that despite how strong he was, forget winning the fight, he would be lucky to escape with all his links still attached.Underestimating people wasn't his ideal way of going into battle. After all, none of the girls had even activated any major skills yet. Due to his spirit sense and his affinity with mana and the elements, he was abl

"You... You aren't under the enchantment?!"Rhys had an incredulously in his eyes.'This girl...'"Enchantment? What are you even saying, you bastard?!" Leah said, her bright yellow eyes flashing dangerously."Ask her. She knows what I'm talking about..." Rhys said, messaging his temples.'Ha... I don't have the patience for this...' He thought painfully as he turned around. Looking at Stan and Li who were now awake, but a little disoriented, he let out a sigh of relief."You! Don't take another step!" Leah said, her palm wreathed in bolts of lightning. Ignoring her, Rhys slowly walked toward the chasm, a deep bothered look marring his features.'Do I really have to? I just came back from that awful place. Surely, Cade is a big boy... He'll manage.' Rhys desperately thought. However, his feet shuffled forward as though they had a mind of their own, bringing him closer and closer to the rupture in reality that stretched for more than a kilometer long, and a few dozen meters wide."Don'

Rhys was unable to mourn the destruction of his dear weapon, as just moments after the clear blade shattered into fragments, the darkness enshrouded the claws of the terrifying creature raking him across the chest, and drawing blood.The wisps of darkness stuck to his flesh like maggots and devoured the flesh around the laceration, causing it to blacken and decay.Rhys 's face immediately paled...'Curses!'The situation had turned from bad to worse in mere seconds. Not only had one of his weapons been destroyed, but he was now severely injured before even getting to the aether realm.Well, he wasn't sure if the abyssal passage was a part of the aether realm or not. If it really was a passage between the two realms, why did these eldritch terrors inhabit it...Rhys had so many unanswered questions, but no one could answer them...Besides, he had more urgent matters at hand, one of them being preserving his life...Circulating his Ki even more rapidly, Rhys held his hand across his che

This world was unlike anything Rhys had ever seen...Even the otherworldly landscape of Prometheus couldn't compare to the grandeur of the world sprawled before him like a canvas filled with paintings of a mad god.The sky, or what Rhys could only think was the sky, was filled with countless floating pieces of rocks orbiting a much larger platform of solid earth. Some of them were small, empty, and barren. Others were filled with large and filled with many wonders, and dangers...Looking behind him, Rhys was able to see the rift he had left behind, as well as the two metal cocoons containing Layla and Zara . Just below him, hanging onto its last breath, was the terrifying visage of the Realm-Walker.The energy of the world seemed to work against its own, destroying the darkness that covered the creature.There was no sun or moon in the sky. Instead, the entire field of broken islands was illuminated by a large beam of light that originated from the central Island and shot through the