The lowest level was not as vast as Lin Ke had imagined; instead, the space was quite small.
However, the palace among the mountains made Lin Ke, visiting for the first time, feel an unparalleled sense of oppression.
The appearance of the palace startled Lin Ke.
It was made up of unadorned giant stones—square, cylindrical, spherical...
Various shapes of stone pieces were sloppily pieced together to form "palaces" one after another.
If one didn’t know better, Lin Ke would have thought he had arrived at Stonehenge!
This was practically a place where savages lived!
Yet, within these "palaces," countless powerful auras surged, each and every one of them at least a legend or a deity.
Outside, the laws and elements, even harder to perceive than the air, were so thick here they felt like a slurry made by crushing divine essence.
Sun, sea, stars, moon, five colors, flame, frost, slaughter, fear...
All sorts of anomalies were blatantly released, causing sky and earth to shatter easily outside. They would require immense control not to damage Naseng; but here, their anomalies couldn’t even stir a little splash.
And among them, a supreme aura suppressed everything, the ultimate black and the most brilliant white.
The sun was overshadowed, the moon was faintly visible, stars didn’t dare to twinkle, the sea was calm.
A force reigning over the era, invincible alongside Naseng.
The Insomnia Emperor!
"That Insomnia Emperor loves to show off," Garoce said, pointing to the phenomena that only professionals could perceive, curling his lip in disdain.
"My mom said the same thing," Princess Rica agreed earnestly, then unhesitatingly released her own aura.
In Lin Ke’s perception, it was like a small sprout suddenly appeared in the boundless universe with a ’pop.’
This was Rica’s aura, the bloodline of a Tree Shepherdess!
Yet this seemingly insignificant aura caused the void to tremble slightly.
"She’s back! She’s back!"
"The little princess is back! I’ve missed her, my little sister!"
"A demon, a demon is approaching! Looks like I need to go out and kill Star Beasts—yeah, until the demon leaves."
"Yo, brought a little lover?"
"Recently, I just received some feedback that requires me to meditate in seclusion for a while. Pass the word; I won’t even meet my father in person."
"Oh! My beloved little niece! Come here for a hug!"
The various legendary auras shook, causing Lin Ke and Garoce to take two steps back involuntarily.
This was both intimidation and oppression!
Some people looked at Lin Ke and Garoce with displeasure, wanting to make them suffer a small setback as a show of force!
Garoce gave a cold snort, his aura stirred, and a roaring sound of surging waves erupted behind him.
It was only a small place, after all, Garoce’s level compared to legends was like a Rabbitman compared to the mammoth race.
Yet, their essence differed not in qualities of good or bad!
"Is it ancient Azanen? Hehe, truly desolate..."
"Rumor has it Azanen resurrected a ’Crow’ Swain, but whose old friend of Azanen is he exactly?"
"Hmph, disgusting smell of the torrents."
Garoce’s aura influenced the revival of some ancient beings, including Human Race and some old entities attending the noble council.
But both Rica and Garoce could only slightly withstand the oppressive forces of those legendary anomalies, Rica was constrained by an aura in the name of love, and Garoce was suppressed by probing auras.
They never expected these people to act this way!
Every time Rica returned, it was always smooth sailing, and the last noble council Garoce attended, he was just a small Baron.
Yet now, the Great Wilderness and Azanen had made a name in Gula, and even throughout Naseng, many intelligent beings knew of the new star of the Gula Kingdom—Count Lin Ke.
In the eyes of these ancient, powerful legends, not to mention Lin Ke, even Garoce was just a newborn babe.
How could a baby make a name across the continent?
There was a need to properly test him.
So, aside from those closely related to Rica taking action to probe, many curious about Lin Ke also made their moves.
Of course, excessive actions were not viable, as that black and white aura suppressing everything was still floating above their heads!
Yet, probing within the confines of rules, or teaching out of care for a sister, was permissible.
Lin Ke saw those phenomena and thought of Teacher Ove’s phenomena.
Teacher Ove’s potential was certainly not limited to just legendary status.
Yet the teacher... among these people, surely there was the murderer!
A person capable of controlling and commanding a legendary [Great Shaman] was certainly not an obscure existence.
In Lin Ke’s perception, each of the phenomena ahead separated a strand, yet they swept through like an overwhelming tsunami, drowning him before he could discern who had good intentions and who had bad.
In a flood, Lin Ke’s consciousness seemed tossed into a meat grinder, roughly pummeled and ground to dust; what aura shield, what knight’s charge, all were like paper in flames, burned to ash.
However, amid all this, only three points of light stood firmly, like three diamonds left unscathed by fire, emitting dazzling brilliance—the greater the fire, the brighter the glow.
Struggling to stand upright, nearly being crushed, Lin Ke had blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his eyes tightly shut.
"Haha, the cowardly guy doesn’t dare open his eyes? And yet he dreams of having my little sister!"
"A mere Human Race... hmph, a mere Azanen."
"...Hmm, not as impressive as the rumors."