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In Jessica’s eyes, Marvin was an extremely mysterious guy.
When he had helped fight off Clarke’s invasion, his strength hadn’t been nearly as impressive. He had still yet to become a Legend at the time.
However, by relying on a specialized spear, he was able to kill Clarke. This was enough for Jessica to feel some respect for him. And the strange actions of her younger sister Lorie made Jessica increasingly more curious. She knew Lorie very well. Her Wisdom power gave her great intelligence, and the ability to recognize those who would be very outstanding. For Lorie to take a fancy to a man, there definitely had to be something very different about him.
Later on, this was shown to be correct as Marvin’s rate of growth was outrageously fast, becoming a Legend in a short time, establishing a Sanctuary, killing a God…
From a certain point of view, Jessica felt that Marvin was more of a “Child of the Plane” than she was!
There was no doubt that there was a huge secret behind his rise.
Lorie surely understood something about it, but she didn’t say anything. Jessica didn’t understand it, but she chose to believe in her younger sister.
And choosing to believe in her meant also choosing to believe in Marvin.
This bond of trust was very valuable, so with regards to the information, Jessica just mentioned it casually and didn’t go any deeper.
Marvin felt torn. He could see Jessica’s show of trust in him, but he couldn’t say that he was someone who had transmigrated from another world, could he?
He thought about it and decided that he could only attribute the information to the Pearl Tower.
After all, the Three Sisters knew that he had a good relationship with the Pearl Tower. Although he hadn’t visited Mark 47 for a long time, he had headed to the Pearl Tower after helping fight off Clarke and had gained the ability to enter the tower on a whim.
The Pearl Tower held all kinds of secrets about Feinan, so if Marvin’s information came from Pearl Tower, then everything made sense.
Jessica easily accepted this explanation, and Marvin waved his hand a bit guiltily, gesturing that he would lead the way.
The two sped up, one behind the other.
The tunnel soon began to narrow, and the air temperature was behaving erratically.
It was alternating between being hot and cold, and they were seeing fewer and fewer creatures around. This all meant that they were getting closer to the core of the world.
Marvin explored the path meticulously as they continued to proceed deeper down.
The Deep River could be found from almost any corner of the Underdark. All that one needed to do to reach it was keep going downward. Most of the areas that the Underdark’s Races lived in would have warning signs along the paths that led deeper.
Marvin only needed to find these warning signs and follow the path rather than heed their advice.
…
“This should be the last warning sign.” Marvin pointed at a sign written in Duergar Language not too far away that meant –Danger Area–.
He and Jessica had fought side by side this whole time. Though the girl was shorter by half a head, she was a lot more domineering than Marvin was.
Her eyes darted around, looking everywhere.
Right now, they were in front of a suspension bridge.
The bridge was very old, and they could see that the planks on it were basically already rotten. They would likely shatter upon contact.
The Duergar warning sign was just a stone in front of the suspension bridge with the words carved upon it.
On the other side of the suspension bridge, Marvin could see a narrow cave.
It was different from most of the other caves that they had travelled through in the Underdark because it clearly had been formed naturally rather than being man-made.
The two of them looked into the depths of the cave, and the darkness within seemed quite chilly for some reason.
But ironically, the temperature of their surroundings was extremely high.
Because magma was flowing under the suspension bridge.
An extremely magnificent blue flower was blooming in between cracks in some hardened magma. It looked so lofty and affected people.
“[Fiend Whisper], a rare and precious flower. In all of Feinan, only a few of them grow, and only in the Underdark.”
Marvin felt pleasantly surprised.
But he didn’t make a move, instead looking around while continuing to explain, “Usually, there would be a few Lava Monsters around…”
Jessica understood what Marvin was hinting at.
“You pick the flower, if there are monsters, I’ll deal with them,” she firmly suggested.
She was full of confidence.
Marvin didn’t argue. Fiend Whisper was very useful because it was the bane of all lifeforms with Divine Source!
He didn’t expect to be fortunate enough to find such a rare treasure here.
With this in hand, dealing with the Crypt Monster would be a lot easier.
Without further words, he jumped down into the precipice!
His movements were incredibly graceful as he glided through the air before gently reaching for the gorgeous flower.
At that time, some things suddenly burst out of the magma causing some of it to spray into the air, and a few huge shadows pounced at Marvin!
Marvin was unperturbed, his movements not influenced at all.
The Alchemy Box appeared in his hands while he had his feet planted against the wall of the precipice, keeping him firmly in place.
[Low Flight].
The ability from the Dense Blood Nucleus was being put to good use here.
Marvin was standing perpendicular against the wall as he manipulated the Alchemy Box to take out a delicate pair of scissors.
“Snap!”
The rhizome of the beautiful flower was cut, and soon, the flower’s petals started withering.
Marvin moved quickly and placed the flower into the Alchemy Box!
The Alchemy Box could conserve medicinal herbs and was especially useful for keeping rare and uncommon reagents while preventing them from losing their medicinal properties.
After completing this, Marvin raised his head.
He noticed Jessica still standing in the same place, with the corpses of many Lava Monsters near her.
He laughed because it gave such a surreal feeling.
After putting away the Alchemy Box, he used the Flight Witchcraft and floated back up, returning to Jessica’s side.
“All settled?” Jessica casually asked.
Marvin nodded. “Let’s go. After crossing that tunnel, the Deep River shouldn’t be much further.”
Jessica nodded in acquiescence.
The two looked like long-time partners that worked together perfectly as they proceeded toward the depths of the Underdark.
On the way, they met several more powerful monsters, but with their powerful coordination, none of these monsters were able to resist!
The Fate Sorceress and the Ruler of the Night simply swept through everything!
Marvin had paired up with many people in the game for different objectives, but he had never felt so comfortable with it before.
Jessica was simply his most perfect partner. They had a tacit understanding of everything that felt so natural. She didn’t say much and her actions were very firm. Regardless of what monster they encountered, she would go fight it directly while Marvin would roam around, observe, and then strike a critical blow on it.
Their strengths and weaknesses complemented each other perfectly. And as they fought together more, their cooperation was becoming more and more seamless.
In this trip to the Underdark, having such a perfect partner was the warmest encouragement for both of them.
…
In the endless darkness, devoid of all light.
The deadly and silent river that was flowing
slowly nearby as a lonely silhouette stood on the shore.
He walked to one side while muttering, ‘I really didn’t expect it to go that way… The Divine Prophecy is spot-on, as expected.’
‘The Ruler of the Night and Fate Sorceress duo is indeed problematic. A sleeping Crypt Monster definitely won’t be able to block their path.’
‘But what if it’s an awakened and crazy Crypt Monster?’
‘Traitors… Being silenced in the darkness is the most lenient judgement for you…’
Chapter 616: Darkness
Chapter 616: Darkness
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The dark river water seemed as black as ink, perfectly melding with the rest of the always-dark Underdark.
Although the other rivers in the Underdark also tended to be quite dark, there would usually be some bioluminescent aquatic plants that would serve to brighten the area to some extent.
But here, everything seemed to have been swallowed up.
The true power of Darksight could only be displayed in this kind of location.
Marvin was like a fish in water as they travelled along the dark river. They were steering a small boat, following the current.
Jessica was a Fate Sorceress, so she could naturally adjust her perception and use various other methods see and otherwise know about her surroundings. But because of the unusual qualities of the Deep River, she definitely wasn’t equal to Marvin here when it came to how well they could see.
At the same time, they had a sort of unfathomable feeling.
It made Jessica feel rather depressed. In fact, anybody that reached this place would have this same oppressive feeling.
It came from pressure.
This was the lowest place in the plane, and it was filled with an indescribable pressure. An ordinary person simply couldn’t have reached such a deep location on their own power. The most likely result for any who tried would be to faint on the way there.
Although this kind of pressure couldn’t injure Legend powerhouses, it would still make them uneasy and impatient.
That place was too quiet, after all.
Besides the constant sound of running water, it felt as if all other sounds had been unfathomably swallowed by a monster.
Time seemed to have lost its meaning. They could only feel the river and the air, while all else was nothing more than darkness.
Fortunately, both of them had extremely high Willpower, otherwise, in this situation, it would be very easy to fall prey to an illusion.
This was already the second day of their trip through the Deep River.
With Marvin taking the lead, the two smoothly made it through the Underdark and reached one of the extremes of the Plane, the Deep River.
The Deep River flowed very fast. By Marvin’s estimate, they would reach the Crypt Monster’s area in at most half a day.
As long as they managed to cross that area, the Andes Snow Mountains would be within reach.
During their first day of travel, Marvin and Jessica only communicated intermittently, while most of the time was spent in silence.
Even so, they were still very composed.
Marvin sat at the front of the small boat, coldly looking into the distant darkness.
His mind felt extremely clear. In this uninhabited and forsaken place, there shouldn’t be any threat they couldn’t take care of together.
But somehow, he had a faint feeling, an ominous feeling.
Like a throbbing little beast continuously irritating his ears.
This was a dangerous premonition.
‘Danger is normal, but what’s up with this feeling?’
Marvin’s Wisdom Gift made his thoughts become unprecedentedly clear. It also made him have a faint feeling of being able to see things to come, like Divination.
He faintly noticed that this danger was something outside his realm of knowledge.
This idea confused him. Outside his knowledge? This place still had something more frightening than the Crypt Monster?
In theory, this was almost impossible.
But Marvin didn’t just carelessly dismiss the possibility.
He knew that his own arrival had already greatly changed this world!
The Eternal Frozen Spring had burst ahead of time… Then perhaps, the Crypt Monster recovering ahead of time wasn’t out of the question either.
But there wouldn’t be any issues as long as they made sufficient preparations.
…
In the pitch-black darkness, Jessica’s voice faintly floated over. “I hate darkness.”
Marvin involuntarily chuckled, “Most people do.”
“The night snatched our parents,” Jessica calmly explained, “so I dislike the darkness more than most people.”
Marvin’s mood sank.
This was the first time he’d ever heard Jessica talk about that story.
Among the Three Fate Sisters, Jessica was definitely the most powerful one.
Although she was outstandingly beautiful, very few people would look at her as a woman.
When a mighty figure’s strength reached a certain stage, they would become a symbol or a halo in others’ eyes, no longer just a person.
They respected her, maybe revered her, or possibly loathed her, but no one understood the real her.
After all, counting carefully, Jessica should only be a young woman that was twenty years of age.
It was such a young woman that supported the southwestern corner of the continent primarily by herself. Even Marvin felt some reverence for Jessica.
But when she said those words, that feeling suddenly changed.
It was replaced by a difficult-to-express pity.
Marvin searched through his memory all his experiences in the Feinan Continent game but surprisingly didn’t come up with anything that concerned the lives of the Three Fate Sisters before the events of the game!
Those three seemed to have suddenly emerged from Rocky Mountain, so elegant and refined that they shouldn’t have even been from there.
It was as if the word “parents” didn’t exist for them.
Many people were convinced of this. For Fate Sorceresses… If you had to name their parents, shouldn’t it be the Plane?
This was the conclusion that most people came to.
But it wasn’t so.
…
“Lorie had just been born when they passed away. That was a year filled with disasters, and Kate was almost secretly killed by someone near the river shore…”
Jessica’s voice sounded very calm, as if the story was unrelated to her.
But Marvin could hear the sadness and frustration in her tone.
Such a strong young woman was still a young woman, after all.
Thus, he gently placed his hand on the back of her hand.
Ice cold.
This was abnormal!
Marvin was startled.
But before he could react, Jessica suddenly raised her head, staring at Marvin, “Do you know?”
“My parents died on a pitch-black night…”
Marvin frowned.
As the atmosphere became heavy, he suddenly said, “First of all…”
But Jessica fiercely interrupted, “You want to know how they died?”
Marvin’s mind felt a bit sluggish at her unexpected question as he stared at her curiously.
In the darkness, Jessica’s eyes were like bright pearls.
Jessica looked straight at Marvin and murmured, “I killed them.”
The atmosphere instantly froze. Marvin shook, his mind coming to a standstill for an instant!
At that same moment, Jessica grabbed the side of the boat with one hand and shoved Marvin away with the other!
The entire boat capsized, and water flew in all directions!
Jessica’s movement was too quick for Marvin to react in his surprised state!
Marvin came to a standstill in mid-air, squinting to see through the spray!
If not for Jessica, Marvin might not have noticed it.
Marvin’s expression became rather unsightly.
‘What is that thing?’
Chapter 617: An Enigmatic Foe
Chapter 617: An Enigmatic Foe
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Jessica’s attack was extremely fierce. Just as that shadow appeared, she was already slashing down viciously with her right hand shaped into a karate chop!
But the shadow suddenly turned its head behind its back.
Marvin’s head tingled. This was a faceless person!
Jessica remained unmoved, continuing her attacks. With the support of her Fate Power, her attack speed was extremely high!
That strange person simply couldn’t escape the onslaught of attacks from the Fate Sorceress!
“Crash!”
On the ice-cold water, the sturdy boat and the strange person were cut into pieces by the torrent of Fate Power.
Waves formed on the river from the soundwave, and a low cry could faintly be heard in the darkness.
As Jessica and Marvin watched in surprise, the shadow suddenly turned into a multitude of droplets.
Each water drop turned into a silver fish, and they all fell into the water one after the other, swimming toward the depths of the Deep River!
This time, it was Jessica’s turn to be stunned.
Although she had been able to the lifeform underneath, she didn’t think it would bring about such a strange scene.
This was the first time her Fate Power didn’t kill her enemy despite landing such a clean hit!
Her eyes were instantly glued to those fish.
…
“Not a monster! It’s a person.”
But while Jessica was hesitating, Marvin reacted.
This was a kind of Divine Spell. It had originated from a God making their own version of Major Shapechanging. Later on, because the effect was too outstanding, many Gods started copying it.
This person was at least at the level of a Divine Servant.
Marvin fiercely jumped out from the darkness, and after somersaulting in the air, a Royal Griffin appeared above the Deep River!
The aura of this powerful Legendary creature blanketed the area.
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