Chapter 644: Return(3)


    “You can go ahead,” The parasite told Be.


    For a moment, Be froze while standing as she misunderstood the context. She thought that the creature wanted her to leave from here and it was a threat, not focusing on the word ‘go’ instead of ‘leave’.


    The next moment, she started turning around to leave as the creature gave her an undefeatable feeling as if it was an elephant, while she was nothing but an ant, but without its sharp stings.


    The parasite knew what Aakesh wanted from the girl since she had seen Aakesh selecting her.


    The next moment, an invisible force pulled the girl toward the altar rather than away from it.


    ***


    As soon as Aakesh’s right footnded on the first step of the ny-nine steps on the circr altar, Aakesh found the view in front of him changing.


    As Aakesh looked around, he found himself in a garden that looked eerily simr to what Aakesh had crossed earlier, but this time, it was small and only had a few valuable nts.


    The value of the nts here was of no match to the nts in that garden since these were the most basic herbs, but Aakesh found it to be more valuable than the nts in the garden. His reason was the invisible and mighty energy nurturing these nts.


    Aakesh knew that it was the faith energy stored in the altar since he could feel how tiny he was inparison only to the minuscule amount of faith nurturing the nts.


    Even though Aakesh found the nt valuable, he didn’t find it to an extent where he would waste his time taking them out, so Aakesh continued ahead without stopping.


    As Aakesh crossed the first nt, an inner voice appeared in Aakesh’s head, urging him not to leave the nt. Aakesh ignored it since his mental willpower was even more powerful than his physical strength. In no time, Aakesh reached the end of the garden, ignoring the inner voice that became powerful after crossing every other nt.


    As Aakesh reached the end of the garden, it weed another visitor. Since it was only a few hundred meters in size, Aakesh also sensed Be’s entry into the garden.


    “Until and unless you found something very valuable, don’t take anything out from here.”


    The next moment, an unfamiliar voice rang in Be’s head. At the same time, a new piece of memory rted to different kinds of nts and items appeared in her head. There was also a timer in her head, which was of exact five hours, signifying that Be would forget the memory after the timer turned to zero.


    Be couldn’t help but get shocked as she unraveled the new piece of memory in her head. The more she read, the more shocked she became.


    Her eyes then fell on the different kinds of herbs nted in the garden. Earlier, she would have recognized at most a single nt, but now she had every information rted to the nt in her mind.


    She then looked at the end of the garden where the blue-skinned adventurer was when she appeared here, but there she found nothing but an empty ce.


    She then consciously looked at the timer, only to get surprised as more than an hour had already passed, so she now only had around four hours left.


    Be then took a deep breath and took a step forward since time was of the essence.


    ‘It can help you evolve to a Mythical-grade lifeform. Why don’t you take it with us?’


    As Be passed the first nt, her inner voice rang in her heart, urging her to take the first nt out.


    Be’s breathing turned rough since evolving into a Mythical-grade lifeform was no easy task. She decided to go ahead with the inner voice and take the nt out, but at the same time, that expressionless voice rang in Be’s head. She couldn’t help but stop and take a deep breath. She then started thinking of the words, and a few secondster, there was no greed for the nt left in her heart.


    ***


    Aakesh nodded in appreciation, seeing that Be got over her inner voice and didn’t take the nt out. Since Aakesh’s skill wasn’t prohibited here, Aakesh had been watching over Be for the past hour as he continued traveling ahead.


    Aakesh currently was on the sixty-eighth step. He hadn’t faced any challenge up to this point but had onlye across different types of treasures nurtured by the faith energy reserved for the now deceased Emperor Anu.


    More time flew by.


    It has been around two hours since Aakesh stepped on the altar. After traveling for this long, Aakesh finally reached the nieth step. Until this point, Aakesh hadn’te across any situation that could turn dangerous for him, but only the length he had to travel with every step grew several folds, resulting in time wasting.


    As Aakesh stepped on the nieth step, he found himself in a familiar environment.


    It was the same garden, but several lightyearsrger, and at that, there was only one nt nted in the vast area.


    Aakesh couldn’t help but get disappointed as it would be nothing but another meaningless travel. If Aakesh were at the power he had in the Primal dimension in Panagea, it would have only taken a moment for him to reach the end. But since he was weaker here, it would take some time.


    Aakesh wanted to end all of this before the sun rose in Visteerna, so Aakesh decided not to waste even a single moment and rushed toward the end.


    “Roar!”


    As Aakesh passed the nt, a roar filled with anger rang in the area, bringing Aakesh’s travel to a stop.


    The next moment, the ground started shaking as the nt ripped itself out from the ground and charged at Aakesh.


    It didn’t take long for Aakesh toe out as the victor since the nt didn’t know any kind of skill. Despite its overwhelming physical strength, it couldn’t match Aakesh’s power.


    Time flew by.


    After the nieth step, Aakesh had to face a battle on each step, with his opponent getting stronger. It had been around three-and-half hours since Aakesh entered the altar before he finally stepped onto the top step.