Curse the Mainframe! 432 Nine-Storied Pagoda Part 3

There were more and more people entering the ruins, and the occasional person would pass by the nine-storied pagoda. They didn't give it a second glance.

That was because none of them realized that it was there in the first place.

To Alec and the rest of his group, it just appeared like the nine-storied pagoda was there in plain sight. Alec even thought that the people behind it were deliberately allowing people to find it.

In actual fact, however, that so-called 'hiding in plain sight' really wasn't there to most people at all.

If they were not fated with the pagoda, then they would never be able to get in.

It was only because the group of four each qualified to enter the pagoda, meaning that none of them realized how extraordinary it was.

A few days passed, but none of them felt any hunger or thirst at all, and they were each engrossed in their own cultivation.

Their training pace and cultivation was deepening at a frightening pace – it would have startled those outside if they ever realized, but since they were the only ones in this place, it was never revealed to the public.

Very soon, Katherine broke through to the Meister realm without doing much of anything at all.

She had been wholly concentrated in her art, and she didn't even feel any joy when she broke through like she would have normally.

Instead, she remained wholly engrossed, kicking harder, punching faster. It seemed like a blissful experience, and she couldn't extract herself from it.

With her breakthrough to Meister, she found so many more flaws, and she kept working on them without realizing how time passed.

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Le Xuan, on the other hand, walked without rest. She witnessed, and viewed all manners of things, and her eyes unknowingly deepened. She felt like she had opened a whole new world to herself – a world that she had wilfully ignored before.

She felt like she was tempering herself in the vicissitudes of life.

Each step she took was like another world, another illusion, and while part of her mind was aware that this was only an illusion, she could wholly experience the various things inside the illusion world, tempering her mind and mental fortitude.

Unknowingly, the girl's analytical skills had developed to an extremely profound degree, and she remained in a half-illusory state, keeping her separate while allowing herself to experience things there.

As she witnessed various people going about their paths, she experienced what they were experiencing with their crafts.

Her realm deepened unknowingly…

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Ye Sha quietly closed his eyes as he thought over the things that Alec had been teaching him.

He'd fallen into a state of quiet and frantic comprehension like the other two girls. He could have extracted himself from this state at any time, yet he remained inside it as he took on the challenges that the pagoda was throwing at him inside the illusions.

He'd already determined that inside here, nothing would harm them beyond what they could bear.

In that case, he would be a fool not to throw himself into his training as well.

After all, the reason why he so desired a body was to help Alec out, and he could not help much at his current level.

He didn't like falling behind Alec. He didn't want to be delegated to just support while Alec was the vanguard, charging head on.

Therefore, he grasped this opportunity – though it may have come from the enemy, but there were still rules that the pagoda followed.

This was a place of opportunity, while outside held many dangers.

Because of him, they'd managed to 'cheese' their way to the pagoda without much danger, which most likely had not been in the enemy's expectations.

The thought of it made him smirk lightly, even in his state of comprehension.

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Alec's eyes sparkled as he wrote down whatever inspiration in his notebook, writing frantically.

There were so many flashes of inspiration that it was practically overflowing. He had never reached this state before, where the inspiration was like a gushing waterfall that never stopped.

Between the four of them who were wholly engrossed in furthering themselves, Alec had his mind completely awake.

While it would be much easier for him to completely sink into it and let whatever mysterious force in this pagoda guide him, he didn't like it.

He liked thinking and confirming that what he was inspired to do was true on the spot, not just think about it.

There were various sheets of paper on the ground, almost littering the entire pathway.

The place was not quiet at all, but instead, he heard various harmonies in the air as the runes sang to him in a way that they never had before.

Previously, Alec had only been a spectator, but now, he was like an honoured guest.

He'd taken a step that he'd always been stuck at, and if Annalise saw him now, she would have been shocked, because just seeing how he reacted to the runes alone already told her that Alec had surpassed her.

And in such a short time, too.

It was clear that this pagoda was a guiding treasure left behind as a reward to those who had the opportunity or fortune to see it.

The 'sweetness' after facing 'bitterness'.

Slowly, Alec's pen slowed to a stop as he silently sat down on the ground.

He looked over his notes again and again, and crossed out various points before filling others in.

He maintained his rationality and didn't immerse himself blindly in the world that the pagoda kept trying to craft around him.

It was not on purpose, but rather, the way his mind worked was inclined to do so rather than obediently follow.

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At this moment, while the four of them were the only ones inside the pagoda, the outside had more and more people that came in from outside.

They had already discovered that this territory seemed to be a safe haven from those assassin-type monsters and creatures outside which would ambush you suddenly and cause you to lose your life.

They discovered that this place held no monsters, and that none of them dared to intrude.

At first, they were wary that this place held an even worse monster or creature that was an overlord in here, but when a few people survived inside without anything happening to them, more and more people flocked here.

Yet, none of them could see the nine-storied pagoda that was in the middle of the territory.

At least… no one until a certain young girl looked at it curiously.

"What's that?" she said, pointing to the pagoda. "Why isn't anyone going in?"

Chapter end

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