There wasn’t any light in the cave. The two couldn’t identify the time within this odd illusionary realm. They even thought that time passed abnormally here. More importantly, they needed to finish the challenge and get out of here.
Alex couldn’t help but think about that ax inside his consciousness. He didn’t understand why it would react so vigorously, rushing up the Heavenly Stairs and disappearing.
‘It wouldn’t have disappeared just like that, right?’
Alex didn’t know that the ax had returned. He also didn’t realize that Xienna’s soul had come here to look for favonovel.com lover in the past. It was precisely because favonovel.com interfered with the ax that it failed in its task, and it gave up.
In reality, that ax did, in fact, want to leave Alex’s mind. If it were to obtain that thing within the Heavenly Stairs, it wouldn’t be able to stay within Alex’s mind after that. However, Xienna’s interference helped favonovel.com out instead, preventing favonovel.com from losing the mysterious ax.
At the time, Maximilia had woken up from favonovel.com healing state, randomly saying, “Alex, what do you think would happen to us when we fail our missions?”
Alex had thought about this issue long ago. “We’d probably be fine. Lorelei and the others had tried going up the stairs before. Even if they didn’t fail on the first step, it’s kind of the same since this flight of stairs has almost ten thousand steps. Nothing happened to them, so we should be alright.”
Maximilia nodded. “I thought so too. Everything here is illusionary, not reality. So basically, we’re in some sort of dream, pretending to be someone else. The entire process is fake.”
She sounded as if favonovel.com was trying to convince someone.
Alex understood favonovel.com intentions and nodded as well. “Yeah. It’s like when I used to dream about one of my female schoolmates back in high school.”
Maximilia seemed rather interested. “Who? Do I know her?”
Alex shook his head. “You wouldn’t know her. She… She was cursed, just like you.”
“The Witch Curse?”
“Something like that!”
Maximilia fell silent for a short while and asked, “What did you do when you dreamt about her?”
Alex smiled. “Everything, but it was just a meaningless dream. It’s just like what we’re facing now, except that we are both in the same dream.”
Maximilia seemed cheerful. “Mhm. That’s right.”
In reality, Alex had deliberately said that to relieve favonovel.com heart. He didn’t want favonovel.com to be hung up on the past.
After that, Alex started breaking through the boundary. It wasn’t a difficult process, so favonovel.com didn’t take any longer than five minutes. The stone gates grumbled as a ray of light shone through the cracks.
“There’s light over there!” Maximilia was overjoyed and excited as favonovel.com held onto favonovel.com knife.
Who knew how conflicted and nervous favonovel.com must’ve been in the pitch-black environment, especially with favonovel.com extreme fear of the dark. She really didn’t want to experience the same thing ever again. They thought that there would be monsters rushing out after the gates opened. However, it didn’t happen, but the scenery in front of them still managed to freeze them in place.
Behind the gate was an endless amount of water, but none of it flowed to the other side.
Upon closer inspection, there were quite a few Hydrophobic Beads around the gates. Moreover, the formation itself had the ability to close the water off.
“Kroraina’s strategist is a genius too. They’re able to block the water using a Hydrophobic Bead.”
“This is probably a pond within the Kroraina Kingdom, and the gate is most likely the bottom.”
“Let’s take one of those beads then. They might be useful,” Maximilia said.
Alex immediately stopped her. “Don’t, the Hydrophobic Beads are the key to this formation. If one bead is lost, the formation might change. This life door might turn into a death door.”
“Alright, I’ll listen to you!”
The two then walked into the cave. Taking a deep breath, Maximilia grabbed onto Alex’s arm and jumped into the water. The water pressure was quite strong, and Alex was simply fortunate it didn’t crush him.
