<h4>Chapter 374: Prison</h4>
As the portal shrunk, the surrounding lightning arcs, and the dark clouds entered the me ball at an unimaginable speed!
Moreover, the hiding Unicorn also got pulled into the ck Inferno spell by some mysterious force!
A secondter, a loud neigh came from its mouth before it gotpletely sucked into the me ball and burned into ashes.
What''s more shocking was that the eerie me ball continued to erge more than 30 meters in diameter and then started releasing ck lightning arcs!
Within seconds, the ck lighting arcs broke the frozen ices pieces before and melted everything. On the other hand, the dark clouds also sucked into the me ball madly.
If Charles were there, he would''ve noticed that the spell had once again upgraded into a more powerful one.
Once the expanded me ball reached a specific size, it descended slowly and soon touched the water surface.
The next instant, the millions of ck streaksbined, and soon the whole eerie reddish-ck me ball started to shrink.
But the temperature around the surrounding started to rise drastically.
100°c… 200°c… 300°c and soon it reached 1000°c!
Simultaneously, the seawater boiled frighteningly and evaporated while covering the whole area in the mist!
The Gold Demon ship also burned like a raging storm and soon sunk into the deep water.
By the time the reddish-ck me ball turned into the size of a pebble, the whole sea turned into a boiling pot while releasing countless bubbles.
Dead fishes, sharks, and even some Magical Beasts started to float in the water.
Meanwhile, the pebble-sized me ball soon released a single ray of ckish lightning deep into the seawater and then exploded.
But unlike the usual explosion, this me ball''s explosion was so swift, intense, and terrifying!
In a second, the small me ball started to erge into a size of 500 meters in diameter and then exploded while sending eerie fire streaks in all directions!
Moreover, the explosion caused the whole sea, nearby ind, and even the sky to tremble!
The sky split was into two while the Endless Sea roared before sending waves in all directions.
Even though Charles and others appeared more than 10 km away from this mini-sun, they werepletely caught off guard due to the fire streaks!
Charles and Destiny Lady cast their Rank-4 Defensive spell continuously and started blocking the fire streaks.
While they were struggling, something extraordinary urred within the deepest part of the sea.
The eerie ck lightning released from the earlier me ball entered deeper and soon reached the sea''s floor.
What''s more shocking was that the seawater didn''t affect the strange ck lightning''s movement at all!
But the power hid in the eerie ck lightning even scared some of the Rank-5 Magical Beasts!
Soon, the ck lightning struck the mysterious dome-shaped temple building and directly passed into it.
In truth, this was a temple that belonged to an ancient marine race called Syreni!
Before the Era of New Time, Edhen World was once ruled by three races.
The first one was Humans, the second one was a particr Elf race called Wood Elves, and finally, thest one was a marine race called Syreni.
Unlike Humans and Elves who lived in thend with unity and harmony, those Syrenis ruled the sea using evil means.
Not only that, but they have also imed themselves as the direct descendants of Blood Demon Goddess and caused destruction and chaos whenever they moved!
Although most of these Syrenis disappeared after the appearance of Twelve Lawful Gods, a few chose to remain in this Temple and still were guarding something!
As for what they were guarding, even Destiny Goddess Sasha knew nothing about it!
But she knew that the World''s Will was aiming for that thing within the deepest part of this Temple!
Nine years ago, when her incarnation checked Destiny Lady''s fate strings, she noticed an unbelievable thing in her body.
Divinity!
Destiny Lady had that thing that could even change her Destiny!
When she decided to dig deeper, she found out that this Destiny Lady had some connection with the World''s Will!
Moreover, she also found out more about the World Will''s scheme against Charles and decided to y along.
First, Sasha manipted Destiny Lady''s mind and showed a little bit of her Destiny in the form of a vision.
Then, she also decided to add Charles''s image and waited for the things to y out.
Although Charles managed to spoil many of her ns, he couldn''t do anything about the true Destiny!
Meanwhile, World''s Will used Charles to ce Rhea on the Iron Throne and then form a n to eliminate him.
But even World''s Will knew that eliminating an Irregr was not an easy thing.
So, it broke countless people''s fate strings and recreated a different Destiny for Charles!
That''s why he started sensing the feeling of his death!
In truth, the clone Charles''s earlier ident was also due to one of the World Will''s alterations!
As the ck lighting arc entered the building, it formed into a shape of a snake and slithered into the building.
Within two seconds, the lighting snake deep into the Temple through the metal pipes and other poles and reached an underground prison-like ce.
The hall was so vast, and the surrounding walls and ceiling were decorated with portraits of strange sea creatures, Syreni creatures, humans, and even elves!
What''s more shocking was that the whole underground hall was filled with air!
The ck lightning snake soon coiled into a metallic pipe and moved towards the farther end.
Meanwhile, two humanoid creatures with blue skin and w-like jaws tried to stop the strange lightning but got electrocuted in return.
On the other hand, the eerie ck lightning arcs soon passed the nearby prison rooms and disintegrated all the prison cells.
Following that, it moved further, arrived in front of a statue of a woman, and then shed with the mysterious power that was protecting it.
The woman in the statue appears more like a human, had demonic ck wings, sharp teeth with an elongated lower jaw, a pointed tail, and around 2 to three meters tall.
Even though it was a mere statue, its eyes moved to and forth and seemed to be watching the snake''s movement from a faraway ce!
The sh between the lightning snake and the mysterious force continued for a while, and soon the lightning snake broke past the force field before destroying the woman statue!
After that, the lightning snake turned into minute lightning arcs and disappeared from there!
A strange silence appeared in the underground prison hall, followed by a coughing sound.
Soon, a single humanoid figure walked out of one of the broken prison cells and looked at the broken statue with a confused look on his face.
The humanoid figure was a young man in his 30s and appeared skinny. He wore a torn brown cloth and held a ck rod in his hand.
He had long, messy brown hair, oceanic eyes, an oval face, and thin eyebrows.
He was none other than Joel!