Chapter 969: The End of the Flesh Tunnel (4k)
Bellamy Artemis paused slightly and said, “Even if they were truly taken by Hermes, it doesn’t mean absolute safety. Moreover, Hermes’ motives are questionable.”
“High Priestess Artemis!” Professor Shylph said suddenly, intensifying her tone. “That’s why we need to cross this tunnel as quickly as possible and enter the [Heavenly Realm]. Only by entering the [Heavenly Realm] can we find them and confirm their situation!”
Professor Shylph’s words clearly pointed to the conditions at the end of the tunnel.
She hoped that the Elemental Race could disclose all the information they had gathered to shorten the time needed for their investigation.
Bellamy Artemis agreed with her argument and did not hesitate much in choosing to cooperate with humans on this matter.
She summoned one of the moon elves and ordered her to recount everything about the situation at the end of the tunnel.
Professor Shylph and the others listened intently, their expressions gradually becoming serious.
The Elemental Race spent less time on the Mountain of Gods, thus entering the entrance to the [Heavenly Realm] earlier.
Due to the numerous [Fog Beasts] in that mountain area, they had to remove the weaker elves from the team, sending them back to the camp outside the mountain.
The remaining elite team, however, managed to reach the top of the peak despite the relentless pursuit of the giant whale, only feeling completely safe after everyone entered the [Heavenly Realm] entrance.
Afterwards, they began advancing through the tunnel.
Many things happened during this period, but they eventually reached the end of the tunnel—if it was indeed the end!
But the real trouble began only after reaching the end of the tunnel. The young members of their team did not mysteriously disappear while crossing the tunnel; instead, they disappeared one by one upon arriving at this “end” and seeking a solution.
Four young members of the Elemental Race truly vanished. They appeared to be around twelve or thirteen years old, but were actually close to twenty years old.
If one were to carefully calculate, it would be found that the disappearance of these four elves occurred just before Quintina North.
This mutual validation revealed that their [Divine Disappearance] was shared. Since the elves arrived early, the [Divine Disappearance] phenomenon also occurred earlier. When the first elf “mysteriously disappeared,” the entire team fell into panic.
They were originally methodically studying the flesh wall blocking the tunnel’s end, but then abruptly accelerated their research speed and employed violent methods against the flesh wall.
However, even now, they have yet to clear the flesh wall. During the continuous disappearance of the young elves, the team fell into complete panic, only calming down due to the authority of High Priestess Bellamy Artemis.
The elf did not go into detail about these events.
But he analyzed the characteristics of the flesh wall very professionally.
First, the thing had “regenerative abilities.”
The elves had used powerful ultimate skills in their futile attempts to force their way through.
The outer surface of the flesh wall was indeed broken.
But within a few seconds, the broken part was filled again. As it “regenerated,” the surrounding flesh writhed madly, with blood vessels connecting the two walls of the passage, seemingly making the entire passage’s flesh move.
It was as if the entire passage’s flesh was providing nutrients to it.
According to the moon elf,
Unless the flesh in the entire passage was completely depleted, the flesh wall at the end of the passage would lose its “regenerative ability.”
But currently, the flesh supported the passage. Once all the flesh was depleted, the passage would collapse!
They would be trapped inside the passage and likely swept away by spatial turbulence, leading to their deaths.
This was something they absolutely could not endure.
Thus, for a brief moment after understanding this, the elves were truly at a loss.
Yet, the continuous disappearances continued to stimulate their nerves. They became more aggressive afterward.
They once broke through the entire flesh wall.
However, the flesh wall was merely the first barrier at the end of the tunnel. After breaking it, the true “door” lay ahead!
“Door?”
Stanley Longfellow’s ears immediately perked up; he was very sensitive to the word “door.”
Of course, Professor Shylph and Bishop Sabrina Melville were equally concerned about this “door.”
The elf teased them a bit before continuing, “It’s a door embedded throughout the entire passage. It appears to be an iron door, but it is incredibly heavy and impossible to move. An attack that could break through the flesh wall cannot harm it.”
Pure “hardness” couldn’t stop the elves’ research. They first tried to cut the door out of the flesh in the passage so they could bypass the iron door.
But they failed.
The edges of the iron door had already fused with the flesh on the passage walls! In fact, the iron door might have been transformed from the flesh itself.
Afterward, they used a special ability that could penetrate objects with a gaze to measure the thickness of the iron door and peek beyond it.
“It’s a golden door!” the moon elf said, holding his palms together. High Priestess Bellamy Artemis added, “In short, we suspect that the golden door is the true passage door. But currently, the entire passage is blocked by the flesh wall and the iron door, making it impossible to pass through!”
“Impossible to pass through?” Professor Shylph’s expression subtly exchanged glances with the other professors.
The professors from the academy knew that Principal Altair had entered the [Heavenly Realm], which meant there must be a way to pass through this tunnel and enter the [Heavenly Realm].
It was just that they had yet to uncover this secret.
“Can you show us the iron door?” Professor Shylph asked directly.
The moon elf naturally agreed.
Both parties reached an agreement to temporarily collaborate to break through the obstruction and enter the [Heavenly Realm].
Then, the professors witnessed the methods of the elves.
The two moon elves who attempted to purify the flesh connecting the walls of the passage sighed and retracted, while the grassland elf wielding a huge bow concentrated mana to the tip of his fingers.
At the moment he pulled the string, a shockingly powerful mana arrow was condensed.
The mana arrow burst forth instantly, successfully breaking through the flesh wall and revealing the circular iron door behind it.
“At this level of destruction, the flesh wall will regenerate and cover itself in about a minute,” the moon elf said. “You have only one minute to observe.”
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