Behind the glowing mbrane sat an extrely charming woman who resembled Nataly because she was also a rmaid Siren, but she looked more mature. Her hair was pure white, and her eyes were listless, without any irises or pupils, emitting arcane sheen. She was the most sacred being among the ocean races, the Ocean Oracle, rcy!
"Then I can rest easy. I'll start the Great Augury Formation now. As long as the Legendary Key exists within the Unique Plains, it'll belong to our Ocean Races!"
rcy smilingly stated, and just as her voice trailed off, she flapped her beautiful tale and swum into the depth of the huge hall, which was only accessible to the Ocean Oracle.
In this grand hall lit up with glowing pearls, there was a black obsidian mirror on the floor with a round antique golden fra. At the end of this hall was a high platform where stood a colossal statue of a breathtaking woman bathed in shafts of lights filtering through the water.
It was carved from a single block of translucent crystal; the light danced through her form, casting shimring rainbows across the hall.
Her upper body, a vision of feminine grace, was sculpted with flowing curves. The crystal captured the delicate details of her face – the gentle rise of her brow, the full curve of her lips, and eyes that seed to hold the wisdom of the ages. Tendrils of her hair, also carved from the crystal, flowed down her back, rippling outwards as if caught in a gentle current.
From the waist down, the statue transitioned seamlessly into a powerful fishtail. The scales on her tail were ticulously detailed, each one catching the light and refracting it into a kaleidoscope of colors.
The overall impression was one of awe-inspiring beauty and ethereal presence. The statue seed to glow from within, a beacon of serenity amidst the vibrant life of the coral reef. As light shifted and danced around her, the statue appeared to co alive, a testant to the artistry of the sculptor and the magic imbued within the crystal itself.
rcy stopped in front of the statue and prostrated herself before it, her white hair and arcane eyes contrasting her otherwise youthful beauty, "O' rmaid Goddess," she implored, "Reveal the location of the Legendary Key!"
The next mont, rcy's entire body suddenly glowed in an ethereal golden white light, and the mont this white light appeared, the statue of the rmaid Goddess that was the faith of the Siren Hymn Temple seed to pulse, resonating with the ethereal light from rcy.
"600 Years of Lifespan!" At this mont, an indistinctive voice rang in rcy's head. She was very familiar with it because it only appeared whenever she tried to seek a miracle and probe the mysteries of space and ti.
After all, everything has a price, and the ability to peer into the mysterious hidden within ti and space was taboo among taboos, so rcy had to pay with her own lifespan. The more profound the knowledge she sought, the greater the price she had to pay.
Furthermore, the rmaid Goddess statue in front of her was a legacy treasure of the Siren Hymn Temple, a Quasi Legend Rank one at that. This treasure serves as a dium that greatly reduces the backlash any oracle would receive after performing a miracle.
Or if an oracle perford a miracle without this dium, even after she paid the price with her lifespan, she would also suffer a deep scar on her psyche and would lose her mind.
However, in the long history of the Siren Hymn Temple, the Oracles have found a loophole to avoid the backlash of the lifespan as well, and that's how they were able to live their full life.
rcy, at this mont, tapped on the floor in a peculiar rhythm while she stayed in her position. The next mont, right in front of rcy, the stone floor suddenly slid open, revealing a rising platform with a sleeping young siren on it, but she was the rmaid siren; instead, she belonged to another branch of the siren race.
When the sleeping siren appeared, rcy placed her hands on it and chanted a spell. Suddenly, an array circle appeared around them, shimring with a dark, ghostly light.
At this mont, the white light suddenly shifted onto the body of the young siren from rcy. rcy didn't waste even a second before she stated, "I agree!"
The next mont, the white light on the young siren suddenly shimred brightly, and an ethereal erald fog suddenly began to rise from the young siren and start to flow into the statue.
As the ethereal fog entered the statue, the young siren started to grow older, and faint wrinkles began to appear around her youthful appearance.
Once the fog vanished, the statue's eyes suddenly lit up in golden white light, and a translucent white orb started to condense above the sleeping siren.
Thereupon, the light from the statue's eyes finally vanished, and the orb was also completed as it hovered above the sleeping siren like a star. The orb was only a pinky size and was shifting between colors,
rcy completely ignored the siren, who had now beco a middle-aged woman and quickly started to perform peculiar hand signs while muttering a spell at lightning speed.
"Great Augury Formation: Active!"
Thus, the black mirror on the floor suddenly started to stir, and glowing light dots began to appear like stars on its obsidian surface as if it were a map of the starry sky.
rcy then grabbed the small orb and threw it into the black mirror. The next mont, the entire black mirror suddenly started to shake as those light dots started to glow brilliantly, one after another.
rcy's eyes shimred with ecstasy and anticipation as an icy smile grew on her beautiful face, 'With this formation, wherever the legendary key is, it'll be permanently locked in this Augury Formation Mirror, and then no matter where it hides, or the owner of it escapes, they will never be able to escape my tracking. I've spent 100 Milligrams of Tiless Sand to buy this formation blueprint and materials; it was all worth it. Now, the legendary key belonged to m…'
However, her thoughts were suddenly disrupted when she noticed a never-before-seen anomaly; the black mirror, made with Quasi Legend Rank materials, suddenly cracked from the middle, and like a spire web, that crack spread through the entire mirror.
"I-impossible…" rcy exclaid with widened eyes.
However, this wasn't the end of it as 'crack…' she heard an extrely sharp voice like a glass suddenly being cracked from behind. When she turned her head, her body trembled with disbelief because the goddess statue was also cracking, and the siren who had paid the price for this miracle now suddenly started withering until she turned into a dry corpse before she turned into dust!
"Booommm!"
Both the mirror and the goddess statue shattered with an earsplitting explosion almost at the sa ti, releasing a powerful magic ripple that sent gobsmacked rcy flying behind like a rag doll.
rcy wouldn't have imagined that the legendary key was in a place that couldn't be divined or revealed by anything or anyone, no matter what!
She was extrely lucky to have perford that oracle by paying with soone else's lifespan and using a dium to activate that mysterious orb; otherwise, she would've been the dust in that siren's place or t with the sa fate as the statue and the mirror!
User Comments
0 comments from readers