I Ascend to the Divine Throne through Arcane Means Chapter 1401: 793: Underground City and Magic Beasts

Chapter 1401: Chapter 793: Underground City and Magic Beasts

In the early morning, when the first ray of dawn pierced through the forest mist, the slumbering mountain woods gradually awoke.

The sun, like a diligent painter, lightly brushed every leaf with its golden strokes, transforming the night dew into curling light smoke, slowly rising and eventually dissipating into the azure sky.

This tranquil and peaceful scene heralded the beginning of a new day, but for the villages surrounding Gray Stone City, today held an unusual significance.

Today was the monthly market day in Gray Stone City, the busiest ti.

This was the best day for buying and selling, with caravans and circuses from other regions coming to Gray Stone City, adding a different atmosphere.

Villagers erged from their wooden houses, setting off early with their prepared goods towards Gray Stone City.

People from the sa village generally set out together, with their wares loaded onto carts, looking out for one another.

The adults carried the recent harvest from the mountains, perhaps a few plump wild rabbits, boars, and animal skins, or clusters of ripe berries, fresh mushrooms, and herbs, all precious resources for exchanging essential goods.

A few children also joined the villagers’ group, looking forward to the more prosperous Gray Stone City compared to their village.

That well-known Gray Stone City was a trade center nestled at the foot of the mountains.

For these villagers who lived off the land, Gray Stone City was not only a place to sell mountain goods and exchange for copper coins but also an important link to the outside world and a source of essential supplies.

Whenever market day arrived, the city was always bustling with voices, lively and exuberant, with various goods dazzling in a dizzying array.

And today, they set out even earlier, calculating in their hearts how to use the fruits of their hard work to exchange for the black bread at ho, which, though a bit stiff, could fill the stomach.

Perhaps, they might even indulge in bringing back so sweet malt sugar for the children as a reward for their little efforts.

Thinking of this, everyone unconsciously quickened their pace, as if arriving just a step earlier could earn a bit more hope and add a asure of happiness.

However, as they finally approached Gray Stone City, and the familiar silhouette gradually appeared, an ominous premonition quietly arose in their hearts.

In the past, although Gray Stone City’s walls were not tall, they were solid.

Especially on market days, the city gates were always bustling with traffic and people.

Yet at this mont, the scene before them left them astonished.

The city, once vibrant, now appeared like a dead city, shrouded in a heavy gloom.

The low city walls were mostly damaged, as if heavily struck by so great force, with stones scattered all over, so even flung several yards away, exposing the bluish-grey stones of the wall’s interior.

The city guards that should have been on duty had long disappeared without a trace, leaving only a desolate emptiness.

Even more shocking was the pervasive, intense sll of blood in the air, causing people to involuntarily cover their mouths and noses.

A closer look revealed mottled bloodstains on the city walls, so dried and dark red, others still fresh, slowly trickling down, forming shocking pools of blood on the ground.

These bloodstains silently recounted the fierce battles that once occurred here, forcing one to imagine what kind of massacre could have ravaged this once bustling city beyond recognition.

So bold villagers ventured into the city only to find the situation even more harrowing and unbearable.

The once lively city had been reduced to a dead silent ruin.

Entering this devastated city, all they could see was decay and desolation.

The buildings within looked as though rampaged by wild beasts, with nothing intact.

Walls cracked, bricks scattered, roofs collapsed, and doors and windows barely hanging on, looking as if a re breeze could topple them entirely.

Every building seed like an old man groaning in pain, silently narrating its unbearable agony.

The air was filled with a nauseating stench of blood, thick and pungent, making it seem as though it could smoke out all one’s internal organs.

This sll bore the scent of death, a testant to the bloody disaster this city once endured.

Looking around, the entire city showed no sign of human life.

Streets that were once bustling were now empty, leaving only an eerie silence.

Blood stread over the ground like rivers, pooling into bloody lakes that glimred with an eerie light under the faint sunlight.

Fragnts of corpses scattered everywhere added to the horror of the scene.

Those incomplete limbs seed to have been gnawed ruthlessly by ferocious beasts, shattered and ghastly to behold.

Every bone shard, every drop of blood, told of the life this city once had and its current destruction.

Seeing this scene, the villagers were terrified beyond asure, with no thought of exploring further into Gray Stone City.

Shouting, they ran out without a care for their children or their goods, urgently fleeing back.

…

Kane Floating City,

“A temporary eting?”

Lis looked at the ssage on the Magic Screen in front of him, sowhat surprised.

What is happening?

Clearly, the scheduled decision eting of the Legendary Council was only held a few days ago, what urgent matter required a temporary eting of the Legendary Council?