Chapter 53: No More Locks

In the void of space, before a beautiful blue planet with two land masses and a tiny chain of seventy three islands.

Four inaudible bursts of worldly element energy broke the stillness of the void.

Senior Ohar, General of the Armies Nikari, His Holiness Morien and Violet Star Commander Kitanoriya arrived separately and at the same time to Ercas Mir!

Their travel within the Milky Way Plain was not by flights. They each used an oval shaped space vessel around four meters tall and with a single cockpit.

Its name is “Plains Speedster” and it relies on the passenger’s element energy as fuel. Its forte is in traversing Plains covertly and can get thousands of times faster than inside Plains, due to the strenuous resulting from their natural stability of the worldly element energies.

The Plain Speedsters’ hatches opened and out came the four Immortals.

They each took a step, and transcended the speed of light.

“This place called the Gentic Belt, at its epicenter is a training ground referred to as ‘Earthly Crater’”. They all arrived to the same place and Violet Star Commander Kitanoriya noted outloud. After all, it was all of them first visit to Ercas Mir.

“Remarkable!” Senior Ohar said marveled. “There is a ruptured sealing formation at the core of the Earthly Crater. It’s only a section of a greater formation that I cannot fully measure”.

“This Star is the tomb of the Godly Law Template’s former owner”. General of the Armies Nikari mentioned. “He or she studied the template for who knows how long. Though they are said to be dead now, their attainments should have been unfathomably deeper than ours”.

“There are two more places that are quite peculiar. One I know is named the Down Ocean. Something there can even obscure the senses of Mythical Immortals. Ohar?” His Holiness Morien inquired.

“Neonate Immortals, too”. Senior Ohar affirmed.

“The other place, then”, His Holiness Morien continued. “Is where pious Archbishop Silternjan said to be the pathway to the aboriginals’ New Earth. There is a crude seal there that’s the sole passage I can vaguely see through”.

“None of our subordinates seem present”. General of the Armies Nikari frowned. “Their ships are at standby further in the solar system. Why did they left?”

“They don’t respond to our transmissions”. Violet Star Commander Kitanoriya reminded. “Nikari, go check in person, Ohar, Morien and I will look if some of them are hidden in the Down Ocean and New Earth”. She snickered.

“Sure”, General of the Armies Nikari said coolly. “If you don’t mind me sending your troops on their way”.

He and His Holiness Morien were of opposing team, hence the frictions.

“Kitanoriya”, Senior Ohar interjected. “Follow me”. He vanished.

They all vanished.

...

“Spirits?!” Violet Star Commander Kitanoriya’s gaze sharpened.

The four of them split to their respected teams and made the Down Ocean is their first destination.

“Newborn”. Senior Ohar said.

He already learned of them from Sheldon, who since an hour ago gathered his staff in preparation to leave Ercas Mir.

“Either way, they are mellow and tamable. The water, however ... the obstruction on the Immortal Sense is still acute. I can only detect undulations that spread from numerous locations, nearby and far and wide”.

“We should take a closer examination”. Senior Ohar smiled. He spotted General of the Armies Nikari and His Holiness Morien from tens of kilometers away with his ears and eyes, the seawater could not obstruct them. “Up”. He raised a finger, and with it a third of the Down Ocean rose to the sky, gathered to a giant, murky bulb.

“Much better”. Violet Star Commander Kitanoriya commended the choice of action. “But the execution is inadequate”. She lifted her chin and with a tiniest implementation of her power, the entire Down Ocean was evaporated to steam that were forced to outer space.

As for the Spirits, they were shackled by a gravitational pull above the former most dangerous ocean of Ercas Mir. Their huge bodies, no more tranquil, struggled to no avail.

“The strange obstruction used the water as a medium. See that? It’s now confined to the ocean’ floor”. Violet Star Commander Kitanoriya said in satisfaction.

“I see ants...” Senior Ohar said.

“Kitanoriya, remember not to ruin this Star!” General of the Armies Nikari rebuked.

“I won’t do anything we cannot fix”.

General of the Armies Nikari had the icy element. Replenishing the dry oceans of a barren Star hundred times bigger than Ercas Mir was not an issue to him.

“Fiend Immortal!” A loud roar resounded as the fastest of the “ants” flew from the sky, boring a body roughly forty meters long with chrome like skin of both silver and gold.

Horn Kikon dashed from where the bulb of the Down Ocean was before it evaporated. Engulfed by a golden silvery glow that extended for several meters around his body, he shielded and dragged General Logan and their group of fourth level Martial Mortals.

They, in fact all the five powers’ representatives still in Ercas Mir, were browsing the Heavy Water Pools’ formations when suddenly the undercurrents began to shift violently, so much that even the fifth level Martial Mortal in their midst failed to resist. In a moment of crisis, Horn Kikon transformed to his Youyue’s unique fourth form and mobilized his aura to safeguard the weaker General Logan and the fourth level Martial Mortals.