Reaper of the Martial World

Book 8: Chapter 57: Preparations (3)

Though Zaire and Lyla were stunned by what just happened, they were also intelligent. They recognized the presence of Dyon’s soul, so they knew that this necklace was something he went through a great deal of trouble to get to them.

They grasped the necklace before it fell through the void of space.

At this moment, they were in what the martial world called The Void. This was the name for an odd space between reality and fiction that acted as the barrier between universes. In fact, what separated quadrant divisions from universe divisions was the thickness of The Void. Universes in a cluster had thinner Voids between each other while quadrants had thicker, much larger Voids.

It was The Void that made travel between universes so difficult. Even after 5 years, Zaire, Lyla, and Amphorae were only just about to enter Star Clan territory, and that was after they used the Kong Clan as a proxy because they happened to be the universe closest to Star Clan territory.

Zaire blinked as he looked at the silver chain in his hand.

“Do you know how to use this?”

Lyla shook her head. “Maybe it’s something for Big Sister Amphorae?”

Zaire frowned. “Big brother wouldn’t do this if it wasn’t important, but is it safe to wake up Big Sis like this?”

Though they had been with Amphorae for half a decade, they didn’t really understand this odd constitution of hers. In fact, they didn’t know if it was a constitution either. Maybe it was a sickness. Though, the fact it helped her grow stronger made them think it was more likely that it was the former that was true.

“Big Sister Amphorae said that she’d wake up again once we entered Star Clan territory. We’re only three days away. Maybe it would be safer if we waited for her to wake up naturally.”

In truth, this wasn’t just about Amphorae’s safety. It seemed that no matter what they did, she would never wake up until she felt it was her time to wake up. It was incredibly odd.

There was one time the trajectory of the golden dragon beneath them – the passive ability of Amphorae’s Dragon Lyre – would have entered a dangerous black hole. As though she had a danger detection of sort, Amphorae sleepwalked them out of danger before falling back to a peaceful slumber.

Dyon would be lying if he said he wasn’t apprehensive during these three days. Despite the calmness of his gaze, there was a deep seeded worry he couldn’t shake off.

After sending the necklace away, he had completely collapsed for over a day and a half. But, when he woke up, Ri told him that she still hadn’t gotten any word back from Amphorae.

Seeing that there was nothing else he could do, Dyon instead focused on the task at hand. He had to make sure that nothing happened to Jafari Clan treasure until it finished, and he also had to make sure that whoever dared to enter Dark Ocean would die!

This sort of task was bordering on impossible. Dyon was certain that dao experts would be on the way and killing such individuals was no simple task. However, Dyon had a few things to rely on.

The first and most important part was that his battlefield was the ocean. Here, the beasts he procured from Earth’s oceans would be of great benefit. Since he hid the Jafari Clan treasure underwater, his enemies had no choice but to come to him.

The second point was that Dyon had vast oceans of resources here. According to Ri, there were over a million energy stone mines. Unfortunately, Dyon simply didn’t have the time to draw any large-scale formations. However, he didn’t need to draw ones as exaggerated as he had for Low Gold City.

Back then, he was forced to make them stretch over hundreds of miles. But here, a radius of a few kilometers was enough. Since the battlefield would be decided by him, this was his advantage.

Dyon once again chose the [Infinite Heart] Formation. However, this time, he concentrated around a small circle of nine dao stone mines and placed the Jafari Clan treasure at the very center.

Dyon couldn’t choose [Gaia’s Will] since earth was the antithesis of water. If he built a earth based formation in the depths of the ocean, he would be asking to get embarrassed. Luckily, Water had many defensive formations as well, some which didn’t lose out to earth. In fact, their effects would be even stronger than [Gaia’s Will] due to the environment.

Dyon chose [Water Maiden’s Harmony]. Scaling to quantity of water, this formation was able to absorb and dissipate force. The only unfortunate part was that quantity of water was decided by the formation’s surface area and not the amount of water it was submerged under. If it was the latter, no one in existence could shatter it under Dark Ocean.

Dyon didn’t have much time to increase the formation’s surface area, but he did his absolute best.

By his calculations, the nine dao stone mines would be able to sustain ten higher dao puppets for 5 minutes. As for the [Water Maiden’s Harmony], it would be able to withstand three blows from a Higher Dao Expert once it was completed. That was the best he could do give the time constraints.

On the fourth day, when Dyon was in the middle of laying the formations with Ri by his side, a familiar beautiful face appeared before him, her long red-gold hair contrasting the deep, dark blues of the ocean.

Amphorae had awoken.