Curse the Mainframe! 433 Nine-Storied Pagoda Part 4

"What do you mean? Go into what?" her brother said, next to her, puzzled.

The sister looked at her brother, doubly confused.

"Uh… that giant nine-storied pagoda in the middle of the region?" She pointed directly at the red pagoda, not comprehending why everyone was avoiding that place.

The people all seemed to flock towards the other buildings, going in and out, as if they would find something of note. Yet, they all avoided that giant red pagoda in the middle of the region? That made no sense at all.

"What?" The brother looked harder, but he saw nothing there. He was deeply confused. "Sis, are you sick? Do you have a fever?" He touched her forehead.

She slapped away his arm in annoyance. "No, I'm not sick! There's a pagoda there! Don't tell me you don't see it? It's the tallest building!"

The male looked at the place. He really didn't see anything. There was nothing there even when she pointed it out.

A nearby man heard what she said. He had also been looking at the blank space in the middle of the small city, and he'd been confused.

Were they just ignoring that space without trying it out? For all they knew, it could be hidden in plain sight.

After all, why was there a giant blank space there?

But when the people walked over, they could indeed walk over it like there was nothing there.

Some of them had thought that it was some opportunity that they had not activated yet, but this girl said that she saw a nine-storied pagoda there?

It was likely that her words were not false.

Then, if they weren't false, and she could truly see it… there was indeed fortune there!

The man hurriedly made his way to the blank space and felt around, but his hands met nothing. There was only air. He looked like a crazy person to the people around him, but he didn't care.

He even traversed the entire space before he concluded that there was nothing.

He headed back to the siblings, who were still arguing with each other.

"I'm telling you, I'm not crazy! There really is a pagoda there!"

The man stepped in. "Is there really?"

The girl whirled around, crossing her arms. "Yes!"

The brother tugged her and gave the man an apologetic look. "I'm sorry. I think she's sick… she's been sick for the past few days."

The sister rolled her eyes so hard that she saw stars. "I'm not sick! I've already recovered! Look, I'll prove it to you, alright?"

Before the brother could stop her, she strode forward with a look of anger on her face. She couldn't stand being doubted by her brother of all people, and especially not in front of a stranger who was seemingly doubting her as well.

Her brother hurriedly chased after her with the man in tow.

But, to their bafflement, the girl disappeared after coming into contact with the empty space in front of them.

The brother let out a shout that drew attention.

"Where did she go?" he asked, visibly distraught.

The man was likewise surprised and walked around again, but there was no one there.

A person had disappeared in plain sight.

He went back and patted the brother on the back. "Relax. She should have met some good fortune. Too bad for us, we can't meet anything."

The man's voice wasn't loud, but it wasn't particularly soft either.

Soon, people from everywhere swarmed the place, but they nothing happened to them.

They asked the brother, "What happened? What did she see?"

By now, the brother had already visibly kept his worry, and was rather calm. He just smiled but didn't answer their questions, causing some of them to look at him with less than friendly intentions.

The brother just shrugged and walked away, looking at the place where his sister disappeared one last time before leaving. Anyway, they were not able to find his sister for the time being, so he should go and temper himself.

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Alec quietly closed his eyes. He finally finished studying all the arrays and runes that were inside the pagoda, and he felt like he'd reached a whole new level.

The world of arrays seemed to have opened up to him, and there were so many more possibilities that he had previously ignored – or had simply no way around it.

Now, it was like his eyes had been opened.

He knew that he'd been a frog in the well previously.

Alec opened his eyes, in a good mood. He could tell that he'd taken a leap forward in battle prowess, and he quietly condensed a seal with nothing but his magic.

The seal formed in a split second, and he flicked it, causing it to fly towards the wall and stick there, activating.

The pagoda quickly snuffed it out, and he smiled genuinely.

At this moment, the doors of the pagoda opened once again, and Alec quietly looked down, surprised.

There were other people who reached this place already?

What Alec didn't know was that information had gotten out, and people all rushed towards this territory that was like a safe haven.

A teenager rushed in, an angry look on her face, and she looked backwards smugly, like saying 'see, I'm right', only to be startled when there was no one outside.

She looked blankly.

Where were all the people? Her brother?

Alec kept his gaze and looked upward.

He'd been walking up and down the staircases, and even into the other rooms.

He'd thoroughly explored the place already. The only place he had not yet gone was the last room.

Now, it was about time for him to go there.

The other three of them were still deep in cultivation.

"Hello?" the girl shouted, her voice echoing. "Is anyone inside?"

Alec heard her, but she wasn't able to see anything from the entrance, and though he was standing there in plain sight, she couldn't see him due to the arrays.

The girl heard no answer, so she just looked around curiously.

She walked around the barren first floor before turning her attention to the obvious stairs.

Before she stepped on it, Alec had already started to casually walk upwards towards the top, casually avoiding the various illusions and pitfalls that could have befallen him.

The light got brighter at the top, and he finally reached the end, where there was light shining in from the various windows at the top.

It bathed the last door in an almost holy gleam, lighting it up.

The other doors were still illuminated, but not as brightly, nor were they as big.

It was the main reason why Alec had delayed so long until he finished everything.

On the off chance that he was booted out before he managed to finish studying all the arrays, Alec would possibly die with deep regret.

Those arrays were the source of everything and his main source of strength when he fought.

Arrays did a lot of things, and seals even more.

Now that he was able to create seals on the fly, it was going to be a very large addition to his fighting strength.

Chapter end

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