Chapter 156 Uncovering an evil scheme... Part-4.

Chapter 156 Uncovering an evil scheme... Part-4.

"Uh... I think I know what this altar is for... I have seen a similar looking magic circle in one of the books in the academy's library..." (Kira)

A look of hesitation appeared on Kira's face, she said in a hesitant tone:

"T-this magic circle was used by the demons in the thousand-year war... to extract life force and artificially strengthen their soldiers..." (Kira)

Kira walked forward and pointed towards the various strange words written around the central area of the altar.

"I know this language..." (Kira)

Hearing Kira's declaration, everyone looked at her with strange looks.

They all knew that Kira was indeed a theoretical genius, but nearly everyone in the whole group had a bad relationship with Fade and Kira both, thus no one spoke or even nodded their head at her words.

Kira shook her head and explained.

"The demon army of that time seemed to have unlimited troops, but most of them were low-ranked cannon-fodder which were not capable of fighting the high-ranked individuals of other races..." (Kira)

"Thus they used artificial methods to create stronger demons... by forcefully feeding them the life force of thousands of warriors that died on the battlefield... including the life force of their own kind too..." (Kira)

All of a sudden Rio moved forward and asked in an emotionless tone:

"Just like what they tried to do in the 'Drift City massacre' seven years ago?" (Rio)

Kira was surprised for a bit at Rio's sudden question, she didn't know how Rio knew about that incident, but she nodded her head.

"Indeed, just like the Drift City incident. They established an altar and wanted to sacrifice the life force of all the people that were killed in the Drift City, but the awakeners arrived on time and destroyed the altar..." (Kira)

"The ritual was stopped midway, if they had succeeded they could have definitely created a new SS rank demon, although it would not have had the same strength as a genuine SS-ranker, but even if it was artificial it would still have been a genuine threat..." (Kira)

Rio nodded his head.

'Now things are clearing up a lot...' (Rio)

"So, what I am trying to say is, this altar is quite similar to the one that the demon race uses to create artificial demons..." (Kira)

"And these orbs are quite likely the 'fuel', or you could say the condensed life force of the dead beings, that work as the 'fuel' of this altar and helps in producing stronger demons..." (Kira)

Kira pointed towards the weird writing and said in a solemn tone:

"See, here it's written.. " (Kira)

*Any, who seeketh the strength of the demon kings, may provide a just sacrifice*

"And the conditions of the sacrifices are also mentioned here..." (Kira)

*Sacrifice to 'the Corrupted orb of soul and remnant wills', your 'soul'*

*Sacrifice to 'the molten orb of magma', your 'fear'*

*Sacrifice to 'the mesmerizing orb of time', your 'future'*

"As described here, these are the conditions and sacrifices you need to fulfill to obtain all the three orbs..." (Kira)

Hearing the three sacrifices, Liam murmured.

"It seems that Link got that 'molten orb' because he sacrificed his 'fear' and jumped into the magma without any fear...." (Liam)

"To begin with, Link doesn't fear anything anyway, so he didn't actually need to make a proper sacrifice..." (Liam)

"Haha, I am amazing of course!" (Link)

"As for the 'time orb', Mr. Damian sacrificed his own 'future', he didn't get to watch his daughters grow up and lost all the bonds he could have made in the future..." (Liam)

"Mr. Damian sacrificed his 10 year's worth of 'future' to that orb..." (Liam)

Hearing Liam's deduction, Damian who heard everything, felt quite complicated in his head.

"Sigh~ if only I hadn't touched that orb..." (Damian)

[Ding! Congratulations! You have uncovered the secrets of the 'Hidden Dungeon of Maya' successfully!]

[Ding! You have successfully conquered the dungeon!]

[Ding! You have found out about all there is to know in this dungeon!]

[Ding! The path to the Boss area is opened!]

With the sudden notifications, a huge portal appeared nearby.

[Ding! You can now challenge the boss!]

With the sudden appearance of the portal, everyone was confused and they all glanced at each other with a look of doubt on their faces.

"It seems that we are on the right track guys... we have already fulfilled the conditions to enter the boss area..." (Liam)

"Moreover, we might find more about this 'Evil Scheme' inside the boss area too... things are getting quite interesting now..." (Liam)

"Indeed" (Rio)

Everything that Kira and Liam explained went straight out of the minds of Riya, Fade, and Damian.

They didn't understand a thing, but they knew that they were about to reach the end of this dungeon.

So they also cheered up with the others.

Rio just remained expressionless as ever, but he understood everything, now he knew what was going on in this dungeon.

Now, only a few more questions remained to be uncovered.

Link and Ellie didn't put any mind into understanding it either, they were just standing there and nodding their heads, but they didn't care about most of the part either.

They only wanted to fight, anything else didn't interest them much.

Liam smiled and an excited look appeared on his face.

He pointed to the portal and said in an excited tone.

"Ellie let's go, now I want to find out everything about this dungeon! It has successfully raised my curiosity a lot!" (Liam)

Ellie nodded her head and led the way forward for Liam. (She transformed back into her human form earlier when they all landed on the altar...)

Rio tilted his head towards Lia and said:

"Now that we are already here, we should go and see it to the end..." (Rio)

Lia nodded her head and followed Rio into the portal.

"Well if Rio is going then I will too, let's go!!" (Link)

And thus, everyone entered the portal one by one due to various reasons.

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Author's Notes.

Yo! It's Your Beloved author here! I know this chapter is much longer than the other ones, but this is an important chapter guys, don't blame me if the word count is higher.

Question of the day.

Do you also think that Liam and Kira both have quite a good brain?

1.Yes

2.No

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