Chapter 2668: Steles

"It is such a regret that I could not take advantage of this first energy fully," I said with a sigh and felt the first energy around me before I began to walk.

This is a place from the High-Grandmasters dream; one could rarely come across such dense first energy, and despite having it, I could not even enjoy it. Though I have asked my clone to meditate on it, I will not lose this opportunity, even when I cannot properly enjoy it.

I do not have any idea about this place, but I know it is a final place, and now, I have to reach the center of it.

These steles are placed in a concentric circle fas.h.i.+on, and with the direction, they are facing, it is clear that there is something in the center, likely a thing that had produced the signal. There is a high chance I am right, but I could be wrong either.

Hun!

A minute pa.s.sed when suddenly I stopped with a frown on my face; it seemed like the suppression was increasing. The speed at which it is increasing is not much, but it is increasing without a doubt, and that is going to make things difficult.

I resumed walking while my soul sense moved around, looking for a hint of Grimm aura or any trap these b.a.s.t.a.r.ds might have set.

I did not find any, and it did not surprise me; the Grimms had the hours of lead over me, and I would not find them easily.

I could ask the help of Ashlyn and Nero, but I decided to keep them inside me, at least for now.

A few minutes pa.s.sed, and I felt the suppression on me had increased even further, but it did not affect my speed. I am moving fast but cautiously, looking at everything that might be a trap or a danger.

Hun!

I stopped suddenly as I had finally sensed the slight whiff of Grimm's aura; it was extremly faint and might have been released when the Grimm activated some ability, and I could only discover it before it entered the concentrated field of my soul sense around me.

Sensing the Grimms aura, my steps became even more cautious; I did not dare to be careless even slightly.

Half an hour pa.s.sed, and I had crossed more than half a distance from this place and sensed the Grimm aura a couple of times. It is clear the Grimms have moved in a similar direction as I, which enforced my decision to go to the center than move around its edge.

In the half-hour, the suppression has increased tremendously; now, I have a strength of Master, and it is reducing at a fast speed as I moved closer to the center.

Seeing such preparations, I am now even more certain that there is something in the certain. This supression, the powerful steles and the runes that contain the power to call even the first energy of the world.

I am quite curious about the thing that I will find in the center, and I am sure without a doubt that there will be a thing. I have enough experience and knowledge to know that is something in the center, and I hope the Grimms haven't gotten them yet.

'I have reached it,' I said as I reached the center. There is now only the last layer of steles before a large open ground opens and in the center of it has a huge white statue. So, huge that even Grimm seemed to be tiny in front of it.

The statue is majestic and seemed to have a mysterious aura, which made me bow slightly before I realized what was happening and stopped myself. It had shocked me, as Grimm's majestic bloodline phantom had not made me bowled, but this statue did.

This compulsion immediately put me on guard; I knew things wouldn't be simple at the center but did not expect this.

Experiencing what happened, I immediately activated all my defenses and began to circulate the soul cleansing method at full speed before looking at the blurry statue; when once again, the compulsion had hit me that I was barely able to stop myself from bowing.

Speaking of Grimms, I have finally found them; there are two of them; they are very close to the blurry statue and frozen with their heads down.

I do not think they are frozen; I think they are just stopped by the suppression; currently, the suppression of the place I am is so huge that I am barely able to display the strength of the Tyrant.

They have not noticed me yet, but they will soon when I enter the open s.p.a.ce; there is one layer of steles in front of me before there is a huge open s.p.a.ce; in its center is the statue.

A minute pa.s.sed, and I walked out of the shadow of floating steles into the open s.p.a.ce where suppression had suddenly climbed.

Taking me to Emperor cla.s.s from the Tyrant cla.s.s in an instant.

It had been a while since I had become this weak; when I burned my essence in the huge battle of the last month, I still had the strength of the Grandmaster, but now I am being suppressed that I could only project the power of the Emperor.

I did not stop and continued walking toward the statue without slowing down; I did not use any method to hide from Grimms. They are useless in such suppression, and even if I could, I wouldn't have; the conflict is unavoidable, and I do not fear them.

If there hadn't been suppression, I would have used my strongest stealth method, but this suppression offers a unique advantage, as I was able to find out.

I walked a few kilometers, and my power had reached the King stage when finally, the Grimms sensed me as I saw they slowly craned their necks toward me.

I put the biggest smile on my face to greet them, as this would be fun.