Nobilis of War novel Chapter 272

The Raksa Sea was a relic of an ancient time. If one wished to go there, aside from having great strength, he would also need seven grand warriors' blood essence. The blood essence was crucial to the activation of the altar that transferred the people to the Raksa Sea. Apart from that, entering of the Raksa Sea had an age-restriction⁠ and only those who were under the age of thirty were allowed to enter. For that reason, grand warriors often employed the help of superior talents.

Like Chad had mentioned, the Raksa Sea did not only hold Primitive Stones, it also held a great abundance of other treasures. Every superior talent aspired to be able to go there someday—and that day was now.

Over seventy of the current superior talents from the Earth Chart of the Talent Roll were summoned by the grand warriors to enter the Raksa Sea.

Seven grand warriors stood in front of the black altar, their long robes fluttering in the howling wind. The superior talents that were standing behind them felt incredibly intimidated by the domineering aura that they were emitting.

"May I have everyone's attention, please. When a crack opens from the altar, you are to immediately enter it. Do not waste any second. Do you understand?" one of the grand warriors told them, his booming voice reverberating in the air.

"Yes, sir!" the superior talents responded in unison.

All the superior talents then fixed their eyes on the altar, holding their breath as they waited for the crack to open. The altar would only be open for a very short amount of time, so they had to dash towards it with their full speed once the crack appeared.

At that moment, the seven grand warriors' strengths had reached the top level, so they then began transferring their power. Soon, the blood essence spilled out from their chests and flowed towards the altar.

Everyone's attention was focused on the altar, and thus no one noticed the several gloomy shadows that were floating in the air, intently watching the scene.

"Distinguished Grand Blood Refiner, look at that lad. He's the one who came out of the Ancient Void Battlefield. I suspect that he still has Primitive Stones," a figure from the shadows said. He had been following Darren for several days.

"Is it because you want to wait for him to collect more Primitive Stones from the Raksa Sea and take all those treasures once you've killed him?"

The four shadows floating in the air turned their heads to look at the direction of a man. He was dressed in black shirt and wore a bamboo hat.

That man took off his hat, revealing his frightening face. Half of it was exposed skull and the other half was rotting flesh.

"No. This time, I will go to the Raksa Sea myself," the man replied in a rough harsh voice. Aside from his unfavorable appearance, he was also wafting with a horrible stench. If someone were to come close to the man, they would definitely smell the foul scent of blood and decay emitting from him.

"Sir, have you already completely grasped the Avatar Blood Refining Skill? That's great!

Congratulations, sir!"

the four young men exclaimed while keeping their voices low. However, they all wore looks of sheer terror on their faces as something suddenly occurred to them.

"After hundreds of years, I have finally grasped the Avatar Blood Refining Skill. I can finally go to the Raksa Sea myself!" The man's hoarse voice grew louder and raspier, making the four young men tremble in fear.

"Humph!" The man snorted at the trembling young men. He slightly raised his rotten hands in the air and a bloody aura emitted from his body. In a split second, the four men were tightly enveloped inside his power.

Blood suddenly flowed violently out from their foreheads. Before they even had the chance to cry out, they dropped dead and lifeless onto the ground. The man's body then divided into four and each went straight for the corpses of the young men. A few moments later, the young men regained their consciousness. The coppery smell of blood instantly pervaded and wafted in the air as their eyes opened.

They began to slowly walk towards the rest of the talents and sat among them.

One of them approached Darren.

"Huh?" Darren suddenly felt a slight chill in the air.

He jerked his head around and found nothing out of the ordinary.

Boom!

In that moment, a deep crack appeared at the black altar. An ancient aura suddenly spread towards them.

"It is open!"

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

All the superior talents dashed into the crack at full speed.

Darren shrugged off the strange chill he felt and followed Chad's disciples into the black crack.

Inside the endless darkness, Darren felt as if he was being enveloped by a continuous blast of strong howling winds. The tremendous power of the winds slapped against his skin. It felt as if it was tearing him apart.

Although Darren's body was strong, he still had not reached the Wonder Realm. Most of the superior talents who entered the Raksa Sea, on the other hand, had reached the advanced stage of the Wonder Realm and were therefore faring much better against the powerful wind than Darren was.

"It looks like Darren is experiencing some difficulties. Everybody, come and help him." Tom was the first one who noticed that Darren was struggling.

They were all superior talents who were recruited by Chad. After spending time with these twelve talents for a month, Darren came to know that they were all nice people.

They enveloped Darren with their power, instantly relieving the pressure off him.

In actuality, if Darren had used his demonic transformation skill, enduring the pressure would have been a piece of cake for him. However, he wanted to avoid using it as much as possible, so he decided not to use it.

"Thank you so much, everyone," Darren said, giving every single one of the talents a grateful nod.

"You're a friend of Tom, and we are a team. It's only natural that we helped you," one of them replied.

"That's right. Even after we enter the Raksa Sea, we should still help each other."

Everyone nodded in agreement. An atmosphere of harmony emanated inside the black crack.

Quite a long while later, everyone started to get tired of waiting. They had no idea when they would be able to get out of there. Then suddenly, a bright ray of light hit everyone's eyes and the tremendous power pressing against their bodies immediately disappeared. They could heard the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Just as they were starting to rejoice, an ominous feeling suddenly washed over them.

As Darren and the others dashed out of the black crack, a powerful force dragged them down. All thirteen of them fell hard on the stone ground.

"Shit! What happened? What was that powerful pull?"

They were all starting to panic. The heavy pull was making it difficult for them to fly off into the sky.

What was more, they fell extremely hard on the stone ground, hard enough that it would cause any other ground to crack. However, they found it peculiar that there weren't any signs of cracks on the stone ground. Given that fact, it was apparent that the stone ground was extremely hard, probably even indestructible.

"We fell on some kind of strange island!" one exclaimed.

They scanned their surroundings and found that they were on an expansive island that was filled with bare gray stones. Numerous stones could be seen for a radius of over ten kilometers. When they walked further, they saw that there was a vast ocean in the distance.

Bang!

Several other people fell out of the black crack. They were the superior talents who belonged to the other two grand warriors' teams.

As for the other four grand warriors' superior talents, they might fall from the black crack too. It was also possible that they already fell and probably landed somewhere that Darren's group could not see.

...

Back at the altar outside of the black crack, the seven grand warriors had begun to rest. Using up a large quantity of blood essence and power to open the altar had left them extremely exhausted.

However, they all smiled contentedly, seeing that all the superior talents had successfully entered the black crack. They were all looking forward to the talents' success in retrieving a great deal of treasures.

"Ann, did you feel something strange? I can't but feel a little uneasy," a grand warrior said.

"You felt that too?" Ann pursed her lips, worry starting to creep into her.

As soon as the two mentioned it, an unsettling feeling washed over all the other grand warriors. They furrowed their eyebrows in thought.

"Now that you've mentioned it, I did feel a strange aura as well. But we were in a critical moment at the time, so I didn't give much thought about it."

As masters who reached the Grand Realm, they all had acute senses. Even the slightest of movements would not be able to escape their attention. It was frightening to think that several grand warriors all sensed the same unsettling disturbance.

"Baron, you should check on it." Chad turned to the grand warrior beside him.

Baron was regarded as the one who had the strongest spiritual sense. If he wanted to investigate an aura, even if it was left by a bird that passed by ten years ago, he would be able to find it.

Baron nodded in agreement. He immediately used his special spiritual sense to examine everything around them.

After searching for a while, Baron's eyes suddenly widened in shock. "It's him! I'm afraid that those superior talents may be in grave danger. They might die in the black crack."