Chapter 384: Chapter 384: The Third Treasure — The Sealed Scroll

Rainn took a deep breath. Her gaze moved past the top-tier equipment scattered across the floor and finally locked onto the stone platform at the very center.

There, the third treasure floated quietly in the air. It was also the most eye-catching supreme treasure in the entire underground palace.

It was an ancient scroll, dark gold from end to end.

Its surface was covered with countless blood-red sealing runes.

The runes wrapped around it layer after layer, crossing over each other like chains. They gave off a heavy, terrifying pressure that made the soul tremble.

It felt as if what was sealed inside was not a treasure at all, but some forbidden horror powerful enough to overturn the world.

Rainn’s face became serious. She slowly reached out her fair right hand toward the air.

But just as her fingertips were about to touch the edge of the scroll—

Boom!

An invisible wave of force suddenly erupted. It was extremely violent and filled with a destructive power that rejected everything.

"Ugh!"

Rainn let out a low, suppressed groan. Even though she was a level 90 Venerable, she was forced three steps back by the backlash.

"Sister!" Cheryl’s face changed in shock. She immediately tightened her grip on her ice crystal staff and was about to step forward.

Rainn raised her hand and stopped her sister. Her uncertain gaze stayed fixed on the dark-gold scroll.

"No. There is an extremely terrifying restriction placed on this scroll."

Rainn frowned deeply. The Eye of Origin on her forehead flashed with a deep, dark light. Her voice was very serious.

"This is definitely not a sealing method from our Miko clan. This aura... belongs to humans!"

"A human seal?"

Aiden narrowed his eyes slightly and slowly stepped forward from behind.

His deep, cold eyes were like two peerless blades as they slowly swept over the blood-red runes moving wildly across the surface of the scroll.

A moment later, a cold and proud smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

He recognized several of the extremely hidden ancient characters.

"This is a forbidden art of the Great Shaw Empire."

Aiden’s voice was calm, but it carried a sharpness that seemed to see through everything.

"It is the Celestial Seal Art, recorded in the Great Shaw Empire’s royal top-secret ancient texts. It is an absolute secret that The Oracle House never passes on to outsiders."

"A seal from The Oracle House? Could it be related to that WraithJack?"

A hidden thought flashed through Aiden’s mind, but he did not think deeper about it for now.

"Step back."

Aiden spoke only two words, but his tone carried an authority that could not be questioned.

Rainn and Cheryl immediately moved to both sides without hesitation.

Aiden slowly raised his right hand.

Boom!

A ball of Divine Golden Sunflame exploded in his palm, so bright it seemed able to burn away all false things in the world.

The dazzling and powerful golden divine fire instantly lit up the dark, cold underground palace as bright as day.

Aiden flicked his finger, and the sacred golden flame roared forward, striking the outer barrier around the dark-gold scroll.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!

Along with a burning sound that made the scalp go numb, the once unbreakable runes began to twist and loosen the moment they touched the Golden Sunfire.

"My fire can burn through every false seal and restriction in this world."

Aiden stood tall and straight, golden flames swirling around him. He looked like a supreme god who controlled all fire.

Then he turned his head slightly, his sharp gaze piercing toward Rainn.

"Rainn, work with me!"

"I’ll use the Golden Sunfire to burn through the Celestial Seal from the outside. You use the Strength of the Primordial Miko to break down the core restriction from the inside!"

Hearing Aiden’s order, a determined light flashed in Rainn’s eyes.

"Understood!"

She took one step forward. The Eye of Origin on her forehead suddenly burst out with pure, holy white light.

At the same time, the two of them unleashed terrifying power that shook the entire underground palace.

On one side was the Divine Golden Sunflame, fierce and unstoppable, as if it could burn the sky and destroy the earth.

On the other side was the Primordial Miko’s holy light, pure and flawless, reaching straight to the source of all things.

One golden, one white.

The two extremely powerful forces clashed in midair and turned into two roaring dragons that seemed to reach the heavens.

The two dragons wrapped tightly around the dark-gold scroll. They opened their huge Abyss-like mouths and tore at the layers of blood-red seals, ripping them away one by one.

Inside the underground palace, space itself was twisted and shattered by the collision of these terrifying divine powers.

This intense process took a huge amount of focus and energy. It lasted for a full hour.

At last, the final strand of blood-red Celestial rune was burned into ashes by the golden flame.

Crack!

A sharp breaking sound, loud as thunder, suddenly echoed through the entire hall.

The dark-gold scroll, sealed away for countless years, had finally broken free from all its chains.

The scroll slowly opened in the air, stretching several meters long.

The next second, countless blinding dark-gold runes surged out from the scroll like a boiling sea of gold.

These ancient and mysterious words quickly wove together in midair, arranging themselves into a grand and sacred text that seemed large enough to cover the sky.

Rainn suddenly raised her head. The Eye of Origin on her forehead trembled wildly as she stared hard at the words floating in the air.

As more and more of the message was decoded, Rainn’s breathing grew faster than ever.

Her beautiful eyes widened more and more, and deep in her pupils, a storm of shock seemed to rise.

"This... how is this possible..."

Rainn’s delicate body trembled violently. Even her voice became sharp and hoarse from extreme shock.

She suddenly turned her head and looked at Aiden, who stood within the golden flames. Her eyes were filled with disbelief.

"Aiden, what’s written here..."

"It is the real truth behind the complete merging of the Abyss and Earth, and the outbreak of the myriad races rank war!"

...

Ancient dark-gold runes filled the sky, floating beneath the ceiling of the underground palace like a shining river of stars.

Their bright divine light drove away the endless darkness around them.

The golden words flowing across the scroll silently told a forbidden history that had been buried by time.

Rainn stared fixedly into the air and swallowed with a dry throat.

Using the authority of the Primordial Miko, she began to translate the difficult ancient words line by line in a trembling voice.

"After the last Great Destruction ended, the Abyss completely turned into a hell. The myriad races rank could only struggle to survive on the edge of death."

"And humanity, as the final winner of that disaster, took Earth for itself."

"Because Earth... is the true center of the entire universe. It is the only ultimate pure land in the endless dimensions that can resist the erosion of the Great Destruction."

When she read this part, Rainn’s breathing stopped for a brief moment.

Because the words that followed carried a tragic feeling, as if they were written in mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

"But the price of victory was almost the extinction of humanity."

"Of the divine powerhouses humanity was so proud of, fewer than one in ten survived. Divine blood stained the whole starry sky red."

"And the Golden Great Wall, which stood between Earth and the Abyss, was left full of holes under the mad attacks of the allied armies of the myriad races rank. It was on the verge of collapse."

Cheryl gripped her ice-crystal staff tightly, her knuckles turning slightly white from the force.

At that desperate moment, when humanity was about to be completely wiped out, a name appeared on the scroll.

Rainn’s eyes widened, as if she had just seen an impossible miracle.

"The one who led humanity out of the endless Abyss, cutting open a bloody path toward final victory..."

"Was a man named Yves!"

"Yves..." Aiden narrowed his eyes slightly. A dangerous gleam flashed deep within them.

Rainn’s voice grew louder, filled with shock she could not hide.

"His class was the forbidden existence ranked number one on the Mythic Rank class list—Bane of All Races!"

"His unique core ability was called [Hunter’s Echo]!"

"Every time he personally killed a top powerhouse from an Abyss race, he could perfectly take and copy that race’s supreme talent and core ability!"

The underground palace instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Cheryl sucked in a cold breath. Her beautiful face was filled with disbelief.

"That’s way too broken!"

"Doesn’t that mean he alone was equal to the entire Abyss myriad races rank?"

Rainn nodded heavily, her gaze trembling as she continued to read.

"With this heaven-defying law ability, Yves shattered the path of the gods and became the most powerful god in human history!"

"By himself, with a single sword, he suppressed the Imperial-rank Heavenly Demon Clan of the upper Abyss!"

"With one raise of his hand, he overturned the heavens and sealed the so-called immortal mechanical divine race forever inside the chaotic void!"

"And it was also he who personally reforged the unbreakable Golden Great Wall, protecting Earth and giving it a thousand years of peace!"

As Aiden listened to these world-shaking deeds, he still stood with his hands behind his back, his expression calm on the surface.

But under his sleeves, his long, slender hands slowly clenched into fists.

In his mind, the ancient mural he had seen outside the Temple of Origin appeared again.

On that mural, an invincible man stood proudly on top of the Golden Great Wall, with the bones of the myriad races rank beneath his feet.

In that man’s hand was a world-destroying sword, burning with bright golden divine flames.

"Yves’s fire... was golden too?"

Aiden gave a cold smile in his heart. Deep within his soul, the seed of the Golden Sunfire let out a joyful hum, as if it had felt something familiar.

Things seemed to be getting more and more interesting.

However, Rainn’s voice suddenly dropped at that moment.

The excitement in her voice was instantly replaced by a deep heaviness.

"But Yves knew very clearly that this tragic victory was only a short moment of survival."

"That terrifying [Great Destruction] had not truly disappeared. It was only hiding and growing stronger in the Abyss of the universe."

"When the myriad races rank of the Abyss are pushed to the edge of madness by the despair of survival, the death bell of destruction will ring again!"

Rainn’s voice suddenly stopped, as if someone had grabbed her throat.

Her once rosy face had now turned as pale as paper, without the slightest trace of blood.

The Eye of Origin between her brows pulsed wildly, as if it had seen some great horror that could shatter the soul.

"Sister! What’s wrong?" Cheryl cried out in panic. She rushed forward and held Rainn, who looked like she was about to fall.

"He... with the help of The Oracle House Sacred Artifact, he saw the future..."

Rainn trembled all over, staring fixedly at the last few lines of blood-red words on the scroll.

Cheryl’s eyes turned red with worry, and even her voice was shaking.

"What exactly did he see?!"

Rainn took a deep breath of the freezing air inside the underground palace. Her eyes were filled with bone-deep fear.

"The next Great Destruction... will be an ultimate disaster like nothing ever seen before."

"All things will fall into ruin. It will be the twilight of the gods."

"Everything... will be completely erased and destroyed!!!"