The Primordial Record novel Chapter 1002

Chapter 1002: Awakening Of Madness (4)

Noah Rithmast knew that he should turn back. Everything that was happening pointed to powers that were greater than what he could fathom at his level.

The danger here was palpable, and up close he would have sworn that this hole was the mouth of a gigantic beast, and the icy spikes were its teeth. He did not feel like he was looking down into the earth but into the gullet of a beast.

He shuddered but decided to move forward, no matter what happened he was an Explorer at the Deific Rank, and that meant something. He was someone who would delve into the unknown reaches of the void and seek truth within.

The continents in this world were endless, and it was the calling of every Explorer to search for the mysteries of creation, uncover great secrets, and battle Calamities. He would flee from this place if he saw dangers that he could not handle, but he would be a poor excuse for an Explorer if he never attempted to solve this mystery and the descent of whatever just ended an entire Continent.

The excitement in his heart at the discovery of something new was tempered by the solemn realization that new things in a world like theirs were often dangerous.

He began to fly upwards until he cleared the outer layers of the icy spikes, there were numerous bent spikes within that he had to carefully maneuver himself across so he could reach the gaping hole in the middle.

Noah Rithmast quickly noticed after he lost a hand that the Icy spikes surrounding the hole that led to the depths of the earth did not emanate any chill, even when you were a few feet away from them, but crossing a certain point, even by a millimeter would set off an ungodly chill that nearly killed him a Deific Ranked Explorer.

Only his danger intuition had saved him in time, and he sliced off his right hand when he noticed that the chill would have traveled down his body and froze him to death when only a millimeter of his right forefinger had crossed into the space surrounding one of the Ice Spikes. Noah's breathing became unsteady, this was one of the most dangerous places he had ever ventured into, and a single mistake would lead to his death. His green skin darkened to a shade of black and he rapidly regenerated his missing hand before descending into the hole. Even though he hoped this would be the last time he was going to heal himself from the verge of instant demise, he knew that such a thing was not possible.

Noah hated it when he turned out to be correct, especially in situations like these.

This was the first of the dangers he experienced and the weakest of them by far, he could easily avoid the spikes, and drop lower into the earth where he noticed at the bottom was a fading blue glow.

Then the winds came next, equally powerful and erratic, he had to be focused at all times or one unexpected gust could blow him against the spikes and end his life in an instant, the only problem being that every gust of wind was unexpected, but the wind was nothing next to the roving frost bolts.

As always the discovery of this new danger was frightening and almost killed him. An errant frost bolt had shot at him from out of nowhere as the space in this crater generated them out of thin air randomly.