BXBX NOVEL Chapter 92: Moving Forth To The Centre
He closed his eyes, and in the next instant, his gaze snapped to the side as he pointed.
"It is incredibly far away, but we will reach it if we keep going in that direction," Ferris said, and Oliver nodded.
"The plan is to first close up the rift. So irrespective of anything that happens along the way, we focus on closing up that rift first."
"After that is done, we can deal with the rest of the Nightmarish creatures in this place."
"Is that clear?"
"Yes."
"Good. Now we move," Oliver said.
In the next instant, the water crazily rippled, and they all instantly shot forward with speed.
Nolan watched with furrowed eyebrows as the various divine essences on their bodies morphed into strange shapes, resembling something akin to sharp-ended tails at their heads.
With this, they used it to propel themselves forward.
It was an incredibly clever way of using their divine essence—one that Nolan couldn\'t replicate.
Trying to swim seemed like a good idea, except for the fact that Nolan didn\'t know how to swim.
So in the end, he could only resort to one thing.
Immediately, he forced himself downwards, feeling the solid ground beneath his feet. Then, Nolan got into a running position.
[3... 2... 1... GO!]
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The system counted down, and Nolan silently shot forward with horrific speed, becoming a phantom as he rapidly gained on the godly ten.
Without the ability to swim and lacking divine essence, all Nolan could do was run with the power of his physical body.
And as expected, it didn\'t fail him at all, as he soon arrived below the Godly Ten, who all turned to look down at him with grins on their faces.
"You\'re pretty smart!" Adrian called out from above as the others laughed.
Of course, they knew Nolan didn\'t have divine essence, and it had piqued their curiosity as to how he would even move forward.
He could choose to swim, but he would never match their speed as they were employing divine essence.
Who would have thought he would simply move down to the ground and start running after them?
It seemed \'barbaric,\' but it was definitely working as Nolan soon arrived below them.
"I wonder how long you can keep up that speed without possessing divine essence," Oliver mused with an unimpressed expression.
[Exactly 10 days!] The system helped him reply, but Nolan simply grinned and kept running at his current speed.
He might not possess divine essence, but he had also trained his body to the stage where it wouldn\'t pale in comparison to divine essence. It didn\'t render him any less effective than those with divine essence.
Quickly, the group kept up with their run for the next ten hours straight before they finally saw a vestige of light in the far distance, just about seven more hours run away.
\'All this while, we should have been running on the outer edges of Atlantis. I\'m guessing that should be the main city...\' Oliver thought to himself as they continued moving forward towards the light, and quickly another seven hours passed before all of them skidded to a stop.
Before them was a city, incredibly large with almost no end in sight. But what caught their attention was the singular, ginormous entity that stood alone at the center of the city.
A breathtaking marvel of architecture and artistry, made of shimmering, iridescent materials that catch and refract light. The palace glows with an ethereal blue hue. Towers spiraled elegantly towards the surface, adorned with intricate carvings of mermaids and otherworldly sea creatures that he had no idea of.
At the front of the palace stood an extra-gigantic statue of a masculine figure, holding a golden trident in his hands.
It was a statue that Nolan recognized from his past life—the image of a Greek god known as Poseidon.
And with the palace behind it, he could faintly guess just what the palace was.
"The Atlantis Palace..." Oliver called out with widened eyes.
All they had walked in the past 17 hours were nothing but collapsed buildings and dead corpses, but now before them, large gigantic fishes pulled carriages filled with mermaids and human-looking figures with scales adorning their bodies.
There were various noises, and it seemed no different from any other city life, if not even a little louder and more bustling than the one in their memories.
Right now, they were all standing before a large tree plant in the sea, and its shrubs protected them from sight.
"Can you still sense it, Ferris?" Oliver asked, shaking away the surprise in his eyes to focus back on the mission.
"Yes. It\'s just a few more meters away, at the back of the palace..." Ferris called out. He seemed to have an ability that enabled him to track Terror Flux.
"Good. Then we simply continue on our way," Oliver said, preparing to take off.
"Wait. Wait." Ferris suddenly called out as they all paused and turned to look at him, watching as his golden hair lighted up with powerful golden energy that illuminated everywhere and almost ruined their hiding spot.
But before the Atlanteans could discover them, they all disappeared, taken away by Gojo and reappearing a few meters away.
"What is it?" Oliver called out with furrowed eyebrows.
"I can sense something. Something even more worse..." Ferris called out with closed eyes, but soon he snapped them open, revealing a pair of dark blue eyes that turned to look straight into the Atlantis Palace.
"There\'s something in the palace with an incredible amount of Terror Flux!"
"In...In the palace!!" The thoughts rang through the mind of every one of them looking at the distance.