The Geared Immortal

Chapter 988

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In the northeastern part of the inner kingdom, an endless sea of green trees could be seen on the horizon. A single flying ship is currently traversing its airspace and those beasts that ruled these lands felt challenged by their supremacy. Those that can fly in the air would try to chase after the ship. But they would be facing a barrage of rapid attack from the ship's gun ports.

"So this is the green forest… I wonder how Im Ao and Im Jae were able to traverse this forest at that time…" Xiamen Gong muttered while looking at the endless trees below them and into the horizon.

"Well, I think Im Ao could answer that question of yours…" Nariz Gumal said while sitting calmly with her eyes looking outside the glass window.

"So you're saying that the kid was able to defeat beasts that are of a higher level than himself?" Hua Xiao suddenly asked in curiosity.

"Well, I think if I understand their story correctly, they are using an artifact that their father gave them. It could hide their presence from the beast in this forest. And Im Ao has that weird ability of his to transform and become berserk. With that, they could sneak attack on any beast that would stand in their way or discover them." Nariz Gumal explained.

As the group listens to her, they all nodded their heads and realized how the two were able to escape the sea of forest.

With the map that their father gave them and the artifacts, they could sneakily go past those strong monsters and kill those that they deemed weak and would stand in their way.

Along the way of their trip, they encountered a large beast with the strength that could rival a Grand Magus. Of course, as a beast, they are far stronger and more resilient when it comes to damages. But as beasts, they also have that instinct to preserve themselves when hurt.

So the group would just wound those beasts to prevent spending more time dealing with them.

It did not take long before they soon reached a location showing a weird blip on the ship's radar. When Shin Jiao noticed this he immediately frowns. This is because the portal should not be showing such a strange mana fluctuation in the air.

The exit portal or the planar gate is a stable gate that could be activated through the blood of the one to exit the plane. This is also the reason why those that came to the immortal land could not activate the gate is because of their blood.

However, it is almost impossible to exit as the gate is inside the territory of large and powerful monsters which could render entering almost impossible for even a Grand Magus. Hence exiting this place would surely spell doom to those who would be foolish to try.

But due to unknown luck and circumstances, the Im siblings were able to exit this plane and enter the immortal land.

Though they suffered heavily making the whole body of Im Jae riddled with wounds and she almost died. Luckily for them, they were saved by a clan, though they still suffered afterward.

As the airship drew closer to the fluctuation Shin Jiao noticed something.

"This is not good… I think the planar gate is being forcefully opened by something." Shin Jiao said with a frown.

"What do you mean being… forcefully opened?" Nariz Gumal asked while looking at the monitor.

"The planar gate is like a doorway from one place to another. It's supposed to connect true places. But in this situation, since this world is only a Soul Trapping Dimension, the planar gate connects to the outside world. But since it uses the planar law or space law, once the gate is forcefully torn apart, then it would cause the space in this place to collapse on its own and might possibly destroy everything in this dimension…" Shin Jiao explained.

Upon hearing this, the expression of the rest of the people behind him turned pale.

"You mean every one of the people in the kingdom of Xinglo would be in danger?" Vilma Song suddenly exclaimed.

"Yeah… So we have to stop this before everything is too late. From what I could see, the thing that is forcefully opening that gate has not yet opened it successfully. However, it has caused a powerful mana ripple to appear in the area. This place is now filled with chaotic mana and raging elements…"

After Shin Jiao said that, they saw the sky slowly turning dark.

"Lightning storm…" Shin Jiao muttered with a frown.

Then without warning a bolt of lightning came crashing to the ship.

Aaah!!!

The women shouted by reflex as everyone grabs on the ship's railings.

"We have to land… Hold on, guys!" Shin Jiao said as he forcefully landed the flying troops carrier to the ground.

Upon doing so, a couple of lightning bolts came raining down on them hitting the ship a couple of times. Its engine suddenly began to emit thick smoke as fire could be seen on it.

"That lightning bolt has messed up the ship's circuitry…" Nariz Gumal began turning off a couple of panels in the ship to prevent overloading.

The airship then crashed on the ground.

Shin Jiao retrieved the airship and they continue walking towards the direction of the planar gate.

Suddenly, they noticed that a couple of monstrous dead beasts are scattered deep within the forest.

Shin Jiao then checked the condition of the carcasses to assess the situation.

"Hmm… These things have died for about a week now. Some even died two weeks ago… It seems that whoever or whatever is trying to open the planar gate has been sacrificing the mana of these beasts to forcefully overload the mana maintaining the planar gate…" Shin Jiao said while looking at the corpses.

"Then that means that enemy might be nearby?" Axle Long suddenly grabs his sword and became guarded.

Everyone also realized this and they too prepare themselves for a fight.

Shin Jiao, on the other hand, began inspecting the carcasses thoroughly and saw that they all have some weird hold in their body. It seems that the hole was done by a suction-like thing to drain the corpses of these beasts of their blood and mana.

"Hmm… Maybe… Maybe the enemy is not a beast… but…" Shin Jiao wanted to say something as it seems that he has come to a conclusion.

But before he could say anything, a long vine suddenly darted towards them like spears.

Fwoosh!!!

Everyone was already on guard so they all saw the vines and immediately activated their mana shields.

Tong! Tong! Tong!

The sound of vine hitting the mana shield sounded like a gong being hit.

Shriek!!!

Everyone's attention was immediately attracted towards the western direction. Then the ground suddenly burst open and a wood dragon-like creature came crawling out.

Its menacing appearance immediately made everyone jump into a defensive formation.

"Is… Is that Forest Dragon?!" Xiamen Gong and Axle Long exclaimed almost at the same time.

They have seen such a creature before in the immortal land. These creatures would always mind their own and would not cause any trouble with humans and they did not like approaching any human settlement.

"However, how come it ended up in the Xinglo Kingdom?" Xiamen Gong thought.

Everyone is looking at the majestic creature which is also glaring at them.

"This thing is trying to break the planar gate by using the mana it was able to steal from the beasts in the surroundings." Shin Jiao muttered.

"But it did not realize that the strength level in this dimension is being suppressed to reach only at 59. This is not even enough to reach the nascent realm…"

"Then no matter how many creatures it absorbs it would not be able to break the planar gate…"

"Hmm… Not necessarily. For example, before we arrive, I think this creature attacked the planar gate while controlling ten beasts…" Shin Jiao said while pointing at the ten beasts near the planar gate with large holes on their heads.

"Damn it! Let's just kill that thing!" shouted Axle Long as he suddenly brandishes his sword.

But Shin Jiao did not react as he just looks at the situation as he thought that something is off. Suddenly when he saw the other beasts around the forest began shaking he knew that this Forest Dragon is going to attack them using the corpses in the area.

"We have no choice but to fight then…" Shin Jiao said as he takes out his black katana.

The Forest Dragon looks at the humans below it and suddenly growled in anger at the charging person in front of it.

Without hesitation, it quickly curled its body like a snake ready to defend and attack at the same time. It now resembles a giant fleshy spring that could attack at any time.

At the same time, at this moment, the several corpses of giant beasts in the area began to stand up like zombies being revived from the dead.

Everyone in Shin Jiao's party that they are going to be in a difficult fight, but they would not fall back since the planar gate is just in front of them.