Chapter 249: Chapter 211: The Mysterious Darkest

Moment

“Stop staring. Let’s go.”

Aiden Winter took the lead and walked towards the Steel Fortress.

Seeing that Aiden Winter had already walked several meters away, Vincent Wolf had no other choice but to follow him.

“Grandpa Winter, are we… just walking straight over?”

“What are you afraid of? You think my reputation isn’t big enough?” Aiden Winter seemed quite smug.

However, he had the right to be; the various gun barrels and surveillance equipment on the fortress seemed to ignore the presence of Aiden Winter and Vincent Wolf, remaining motionless in their original positions.

At the entrance of the fortress, Aiden Winter waited for two seconds, and the door automatically slid open, leaving a passage just wide enough for one person to enter. They walked in one after the other.

As soon as they entered, before Vincent Wolf could get a clear look at the interior, a Mechanical Pet Beast Squad appeared in front of them. Their various weapons were aimed at Aiden Winter and Vincent Wolf, while their red eyes scanned over the duo continuously.

“Beep-beep, target level confirmed, safe, passable!”

After scanning for a second, the beasts’ red eyes changed to normal green lights. They saluted Vincent Wolf and Aiden Winter before continuing their patrol.

“Grandpa Winter, what was that?”

“Let’s go, don’t be surprised. There are many kinds of searches like this here; what you just saw was a routine check. There are many different kinds as we proceed, and you may have been checked a dozen times without even realizing it.”

Aiden Winter did not lie. As Vincent Wolf followed, he encountered frequent checks within these short ten meters, witnessing various methods of search.

After passing the last checkpoint, Aiden Winter and Vincent Wolf finally arrived in front of the Secret Realm Gate.

“Um… Grandpa Winter, where is the Secret Realm Gate you mentioned?” Vincent Wolf looked at the empty hall in front of him, not understanding.

“Look.” Aiden Winter pointed to the ground.

“On the ground?” Vincent Wolf looked down and saw a dark hole.

“Yes, the Secret Realm Gate to the Shadow Demon Domain is inside the hole.

But you need to jump in with a diving posture, not a long jump.”

“Why?”

“You’ll know in a moment.”

Aiden Winter smiled, grabbed Vincent Wolf, and jumped into the hole.

Darkness.

Endless darkness.

The darkness clung to Vincent Wolf’s head, face, chest, arms, legs, and feet like an endless shadow or unshakeable dog-skin plaster.

It was like a solid substance, like fog or seawater.

The endless darkness surged into Vincent Wolf’s body through his nostrils, ears, eyes, mouth, genitals, and every pore of his body without exception.

Vincent Wolf opened his mouth like a drowning man, struggling to breathe, but could only feel darkness flooding into his mouth.

He waved his arms, but all he could feel was the dark wherever his hand passed.

Despair washed over Vincent Wolf, his efforts proving futile.

Unable to see or speak, his senses were sealed by the eerie darkness. He could only feel terror in his heart and scream silently.

“Zzzt—”

An odd sound inexplicably rang in Vincent Wolf’s ears. In the next moment, the surrounding darkness retreated completely, and the darkness that had invaded his body melted away like snow.

Everything returned to normal.

The senses of Vincent Wolf’s body recovered, and it seemed as if the previous bizarre event had never happened.

Gasping for fresh air, Vincent Wolf looked around and cast puzzled and uncertain eyes on Aiden Winter.

Aiden Winter threw something to Vincent Wolf, who barely caught it. After steadying the object, he realized it was two small stones.

However, these two small stones were different from ordinary ones – they were emitting a blurry light, illuminating the area around Vincent Wolf and Aiden Winter.

“What is this?”

Confused, Vincent Wolf looked at the stones in his hand and then at Aiden winter, ms eyes ruli or aouot.

Instead of answering directly, Aiden Winter hinted at Vincent Wolf to look around carefully with an amused expression.

Though he was puzzled, Vincent Wolf looked around.

At that moment, he was shocked.

Within a two-meter radius around Vincent Wolf and Aiden Winter, things were visible, but beyond that, the area was still shrouded in an oppressive darkness as deep as a black hole.

Alarmed, Vincent Wolf hurriedly asked Aiden Winter, “Grandpa Winter, what’s going on?!”

Aiden Winter took out two more of the same stones from his Spatial Bag, held them in his hands, and then spoke to Vincent Wolf, “Do you know that each Secret Realm has its own unique set of rules?”

“I don’t.

“Let me explain.”

Aiden Winter continued, staring at the strange darkness in front of them: “There is a saying among Secret Realm explorers – no two Secret Realms have the same rules.”

“Each Secret Realm has its own unique rules because a Secret Realm is actually an independent small world. Each Secret Realm has its own attribute; even if there are multiple Secret Realms with the same attribute, their rules will differ from one to another..”