Book 7: Chapter 15 – The Pavilion Vs. The Rest

  Ba the third floor, Amira, Ace, and Leona calmly stood in the tre of the third floor, staring at a spot just above the door Maria had entered where a white orb could be seen pulsatily with a soft white glow.

  Acc to Tarosse, only one person could enter each Deathgod Golem test at a time, and whilst ihe usually colourless orb would pulsate, signifying that particur room was in use. If one successfully passed the test aered the floor, the orb would fsh green, but if the individual failed, the orb would either show a red light saying they failed and lost their life, or the door would reopen with said individual having to flee back to the resting floor.

  After losing to Maria once, Amira had long since wanted a ce to return the favour. Unfortunately, she had never got the til now, and it appeared that she would have to tio wait.

  “Damnit!” Amira cursed as she noticed the orb’s light turn green. “Looks like she gets to live a little while longer!”

  “No point waiting here any longer,” Ace said as he led Amira and Leona to three of the ten doors leading up to the floor. “I’m sure you’ll get your ce if we hurry up to the floor.”

  Ad the others had just approached the door when they heard a familiar-sounding voice. “It’s been a while, Ace.”

  Turning around, Ace saw a white-haired young man slowly flying towards them.

  “Fancy seeing you here, Sis,” Ace replied with a calm smile.

  The young man was Cesar’s grand disciple, Sis. The same prince of killers that Ace had barely mao defeat a few years ago, back when they were trying to rescue Alissa from the clutches of Sabre.

  With the new and improved retionship between the Pavilion and Sabre, Ace had seen Sis a few times over the st few years. The st of which was when Sis had ventured over to their Gol Kingdom to challenge Wukong.

  Of course, Sis had been quickly trounced, but that was to be expected – Wukong was a freak not much less talehan the likes of Ad Amira. Still, it had to be said Sis was a truly enting genius.

  Back at the time, he was still a ninth-rank warrior, but because of Cesar’s newly gained knowledge, he was forced to focus on his prehension and mage cultivation. Even though he wasn’t a match for Wukong, he would have been hard-pressed to find an oppo amongst experts at the early stages of the saint realm. And from the looks of things, his strength had seen a giant improvement, with him having broken through to the middle stages of the saint realm as both a warrior and a mage.

  “What are you doing waiting here ohird floor?” Ace asked, knowing full well that with Sis’ ability, there was no way a mere mid-staged saint-level Deathgod Golem could hold his steps.

  “I’m still too weak to move around freely on the fifth floor,” Sis admitted helplessly. “I’m gonna stay here until my prehension takes aep forward before heading up. What about you? Are you guys gonna head straight up?” Sis asked.

  He had long since given up paring himself to the true freaks of the Pavilion, with even the like of Amira being able to fight him to a standstill before entering the Necropolis. There was no ce they would be willing to sit around and waste time here ohird floor.

  “Mmh,” Aodded. “We wasted enough time on the sed floor. By the way, have you seen Kong or any of the others from roup, have you?”

  “Not personally,” Sis shook his head as a weird expression appeared on his face. “But from what I heard, they should all be fine.”

  “What’s with that expression?” Ace asked with a raised eyebrow.

  “You should’ve seen Tulily’s body on the floor before ing up here,” Sis replied as the ers of his mouth twitched helplessly. “Apparently, that was done by Wukong.”

  Ace’s eyes widened momentarily with a hint of surprise. The st time he saw Wukong, Kong had been about as strong as he is now – faintly approag the power of a Prime Saint.

  Although he had never seen Tulily in a, he had heard the rumours. Not including those from the Pavilion, Tulily, also known as the War Saint, was the Prime Saint with the most devastating offensive power among the humans, being a Prime Saint of the Edict of Destru.

  Still, Ace had only been surprised for the briefest of moments. Wukong had deyed breaking through to the saint realm, wanting to prehend at least one plete profound mystery before doing so.

  Between the dense elemental essend the never-ending supply of oppos here in the Necropolis of the Gods, Ace would have been more surprised if Wukong hadn’t made a breakthrough in that time.

  “I’m guessing Kong finally broke through to the saint realm?” Ace smiled happily.

  “Probably,” Sis sighed.

  “Probably?” Amira asked curiously. “You mean…”

  “Yeah,” Sis nodded, a helpless smile on his face as he uood the gap between him and Wukong was only widening. “Apparently, he mao defeat Tulily as a ninth-rank mortal.”

  “Looks like he finally prehended Lightning’s Profound Mystery of Movement,” Ace chortled. “I’m guessing the litter of bodies down there was Kong’s work?”

  “In part,” Sis nodded. “Apparently, after defeating the three Fme Tyrants, Wukong, Lazerim, and Kimika had been surrounded by the saints of the New Yun Empire, plus a few reedy for the treasures dropped.

  I holy don’t know what they feed you guys over there at the Pavilion, but in that battle, both Lazerim and Kimika dispyed the power of a Prime Saint as well.

  Still, with Fain, Tulily, and so many other saints encirg your seniors, things were pretty grim. Luckily, Linley and Bebe both arrived just in time to provide them with support. And even though her of them had the power of a prime saint, both of them had grown to the point where they could be sidered experts even among peak saints.

  But as you imagine, with such a small group being able to hold so many experts off on their own, many others joined hands to suppress them, feeling threatened. Probably thinking that Wukong and the others would go on to monopolise the best treasures.

  Whether it was humans ical beasts, their enemies seemed endless. Even that Desri fellow and his group of saints joined in.”

  Despite knowing that none of their group had died in that battle, Ace, Amira, and Leona’s eyes narrowed, wishing they could have beeo support them iime of need.

  “It was then, though, that Wukong apparently made his breakthrough. Acc to the rumours, although his realm hadn’t improved, his prehension, like yours, had officially broken through to the deity realm.” Sis sighed, not b to hide his envy. “After breaking through, Wukong’s power had apparently faintly surpassed that of a normal human Prime Saint, allowing him to dominate and kill Tulily.

  After that, none of their enemies dared to stay any longer, fearing they would be .”

  “Those bastards better hope they don’t run into me!” Leona growled, a dangerous light flickering in her fiery eyes.

  “They should hope they don’t run into Kong,” Ace ughed.

  “You’re probably right,” Amira added. “With how petty Kong is, something tells me he’s gonna treat the fifth floor as a hunting ground.”

  “Haha, if we go now, we might still be able to catch part of the show,” Ace smiled before turning back to Sis. “Thanks for the info; we’ll see you around.”

  Watg them leave, the ers of Sis’ mouth arced up. He could imagihat Wukong was creating quite the ruckus on the fifth flht now, but he also khat things were going to get several times more chaotic with Ace heading up.

  Part of him wao stop his training and head up now, even if for no other reason than to watch the show. Thankfully, he wasn’t an impulsive person. He knew he still wasn’t quite strong enough.

  Sis had allowed his thoughts to distract him for no more than five seds when he heard the gasps of the other saints in the distance who hadn’t dared to approach them.

  Looking up just above the three doors that had just been used, another helpless smile appeared on his face.

  It took almost five minutes for Maria to pass the Deathgod Golem and head up to the floor, yet Ace, Mira, and Leona – three mortals – all passed within a few seds of entering.

  “Maria, you better pray you don’t run into those little monsters,” Sis muttered to himself before sitting down and closing his eyes, determio use every moment of the nine and a half years to increase his power.

  He may be weaker than the freaks of the pavilion, but he was still ae-level genius who still had his pride.

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