âDivinity, I think!â replied Alex.
Everyone gasped in fear. It was already quite difficult to get to the Immortalization stage, and Divinity
now only existed within ancient records.
Many didnât even believe that Divinity existed in the first place. It was simply an unimaginable concept.
Fairy Doctor was smart and connected some of the dots. âSo youâre saying the Undying Clan and the
Shura teamed up to attack our realm, forming the ancient boundary, and the defense border that the
Supremes set during the Stone Ages was to protect us, mortals?â
Alex nodded. âThatâs what I thought too.â
Fairy Doctor continued, âSo not only do demons live in the boundary, the Shura and the Undying Clan
are there too?â
âIâm not quite sure about that.â Alex shook his head. He then pointed towards the shrine. âInside are the
Forerunners, demonic objects the Shura Army made. Theyâre mainly used for invasion, and they have
the power to infect normal humans with viruses that will turn them into a Shura death army.â
Upon hearing this, everyoneâs face turned pale.
âOh god, this is scary! How many Forerunners are in there? If they wake up and rush out of the shrine,
would humanity even survive?â
Butcher stared at him with a stern expression. âAre you sure everything you just said is true?â
Alex nodded.
âIâve encountered some of the people who have been infected with that virus. And they look likeâ¦
Whatâs he called again⦠Oh, Voldemort. Theyâre so weird and ugly, but theyâre actually university
students from Long Beach,â said Martiny.
Alex added, âAnd quite a few cases are going around in Long Beach too. All of them would lose control
of their minds as if they turned into beasts. These people have also been poisoned with the same
venom we found in my masterâs body.â
âCommander Benmore?â
âThatâs right.â
Snow spoke up. âMaster, we canât leave these things here. If they wake up and rush out, theyâd cause
an apocalypse.â
She was talking about the Forerunners.
Alex replied, âMe too, but how are we supposed to kill them? There are so many of them here. Tens of
thousands might attack us once we kill one of them.â
He then paused and asked, âHow did you even get in here? Are there no other people here in this
shrine? Is this weird spiritual ice stone palace the only thing here?â
Nora said, âOf course there are. We were following some people here, and we ended up battling them
in the formation circle. All of them died, and two of our members were sacrificed as well.â
When the word âsacrificeâ was mentioned, the members of the Flying Eagles looked quite sad. They
might be used to death and sacrifice for the past few years, but they still mourned every time they
witnessed death.
No one realized that the palace was slowly becoming warmer. It was no longer as cold as it was before.
When Alex retrieved the ice crystal marrow, he didnât expect it to have any other functions besides
freezing the people in the circle. It controlled the temperature within the palace too. The ice elementals
within the marrow, along with the spiritual ice stones, formed a large formation circle altogether. Hence,
the Forerunners within the palace were hibernating.
This was also because the Forerunners within the palace werenât mature yet.
However, now that it was goneâ¦
Crack!
One of the Forerunners moved its arm, dropping chipped ice to the ground.
After that, it slowly opened its blood-red eyes.