There weren’t any wrong ways to go up a step. Besides, Gilbert had walked in a very standard posture.
Lorelei’s assumption was spot on. The Heavenly Stairs was, in fact, broken.
The ax within Alex’s consciousness was the thing that broke open the boundary by force. It had rushed up to the top as if summoning something from within. But, due to Xienna’s sudden appearance, favonovel.com disrupted its path, causing it to fail.
In reality, it malfunctioned when Alex and Jade were on the first step, resulting in their inability to ascend the second step.
Basically, the core of the entire Heavenly Stairs was damaged. The current Heavenly Stairs could no longer generate mental domain challenges, so it was no different than regular stairs. That’s how Alex was able to run up all nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps with ease.
‘Close!’
‘I’m getting closer!’
Alex was now able to see the end of the stairs.
There was a tall mountain floating in the air, it looked like the legendary Brightta Mountain. Yet it wasn’t. It was the Western Queen Mother’s ancient palace.
Whoosh!
Alex leaped over the last step. Suddenly, the scenery in front of favonovel.com drastically changed. He was no longer looking at the ancient palace but instead a living hell. He found himself in a plain of ruins. There were corpses everywhere, death, and concentrated amounts of negative energy reeking in the air.
Rumble!
He suddenly heard a loud noise coming from afar. A cloud of dust could be seen as if something was sprinting towards him. Alex stood there silently as favonovel.com watched on. In the end, favonovel.com saw a group of Undead.
It was an endless swarm of skeleton troops and Undead beings. Alex had fought this clan at close range before. He had even encountered some of them in several dungeons. Moreover, favonovel.com had personally entered the Undead Territory once and was hunted down by swarms.
The Undead in front of favonovel.com were the ones favonovel.com had seen in the past, the strongest kind. The entire front row alone consisted of dozens of Undead Kings.
In the middle of all these Undead Kings, a woman dressed in red armor sat on a luxurious chariot. Alex started shivering as soon as favonovel.com laid eyes on that woman. He looked at favonovel.com in disbelief because favonovel.com had seen favonovel.com in the past.
It was under the Dead Zone, within Emperor Genbu’s territory. She had once projected a phantom of herself to fight the emperor. She was the Undead Queen of the Undead clan.
‘Why would there be such strong Undead troops at the end of the stairs, including the Undead Queen?’
‘Illusion!’
‘This must be another illusion!’
‘What character am I this time?’
Alex couldn’t help but curse this place. He wanted to complain as well. The first challenge was difficult enough, and it took them a lot of effort to succeed. Not only that, Jade even sacrificed favonovel.com own mission. Hence, favonovel.com should’ve been able to receive certain rewards.
Unexpectedly, favonovel.com got nothing.
Just then, the queen pushed the Undead Kings out of favonovel.com way.
