Free Web NovelChapter 88: Chapter88-Arcane Binding Pact
John’s eyes flickered slightly. Then he asked, "Send me the coordinates."
LoranBlade did not think too much about it and casually sent over her location sharing.
...
A short while later, the air in front of her suddenly rippled with a layer of silver-white waves.
The ripples spread out like the surface of water, and a familiar figure stepped out from within.
It was John.
When LoranBlade saw his casual method of appearing, the corner of her eye twitched slightly.
She had clearly seen him use similar methods before, but every time she saw it again, she still could not help sighing inwardly.
This ability was way too unreasonable.
"You..." LoranBlade opened her mouth. "You didn’t teleport here with that ability, did you?"
John raised his brows slightly. "What else?"
LoranBlade: "..."
Fine.
As expected.
John looked around at the surrounding environment. His gaze swept over the emerald pool and the stone platform at the center, and he understood.
He did not directly ask what LoranBlade had obtained, but his tone carried a slight sense of probing.
"How was it? This trip to the Space Sever Mountain Range wasn’t wasted, right? Did you run into anything good?"
LoranBlade opened her mouth.
She had originally wanted to show off the two God-rank rewards she had just obtained, but when the words reached her lips, the world announcement from earlier echoed through her mind again.
Control authority over an entire dungeon...
She lowered her head and looked at her own panel.
Tenfold increase to all attributes, sword-type damage increased by 400%.
Normally, that would have been enough to make her happy for several days.
But compared to someone who had directly taken down an entire dungeon...
LoranBlade silently swallowed her words and casually brushed it off.
"Nothing much. I killed a few monsters and got some experience, that’s all."
John glanced at her but did not expose her.
However, with his current perception, the faint sword intent on LoranBlade’s body could not be hidden at all.
Her aura was more than one level stronger than before. Even the magical fluctuations leaking around her faintly carried a trace of sharp sword intent.
John roughly understood what had happened, but he did not continue asking.
Everyone had their own opportunities and secrets.
There was no need for him to dig to the bottom of it.
"Since you plan to continue leveling here, let’s go. I’ll follow you in and take a look."
Hearing John’s words, LoranBlade felt rather pleasantly surprised.
After all, she did not have any spatial abilities.
If John could accompany her through the Space Sever Mountain Range, then that would undoubtedly be an enormous help!
"Thank you."
She looked at John gratefully.
The latter nodded slightly.
Immediately afterward, the two continued deeper along the mountain path.
Along the way, a few blind wild beasts occasionally rushed out. Before they could get within three steps, LoranBlade casually slashed them in half with a single strike.
John looked at her clean and decisive swordsmanship. A trace of surprise flashed through his eyes, but it soon returned to calm.
"Looks like she really did obtain part of her opportunity. Her damage is clearly much higher than before."
"Speaking of which, if I want to bring LoranBlade under my command, I’ll have to find that item sooner..."
Since he had already decided to establish a guild, having only a main city would not be enough.
A city was merely the foundation.
If he truly wanted the guild to operate properly, personnel management would be the top priority.
He still remembered Overlord Guild’s betrayal of him in his previous life.
Although John had absolute confidence in his current strength, a guild was not a single-player game.
Once he recruited people, he needed sufficiently powerful means to restrain them. Otherwise, no matter how strong a team was, it would inevitably collapse from within.
And in the game, there happened to be a type of item specifically used for this purpose.
Arcane Binding Pact.
It was a contract scroll derived from the primordial pact supposedly signed jointly by the Abyss Demon Lord and the ancient gods.
Its effect was simple and brutal.
The signer had to absolutely obey the main orders of the contract master. Once they violated it, whether they were an ordinary mortal or even a being at the level of a major God-rank existence, they would suffer backlash from the Laws.
In mild cases, their Divinity would shatter.
In severe cases, they would die on the spot.
If he had possessed such an item in his previous life, he would not have been harmed so miserably.
...
Deep within the Space Sever Mountain Range, two figures moved one after another through the dense forest.
Along the way, most of the wild monsters they encountered were around level 40.
In the eyes of ordinary players, they would be decent targets for leveling. But to John, they did not even make him feel like drawing his sword.
On the contrary, LoranBlade was excited the entire way.
Whenever a wild beast pounced out from the bushes, she would always strike before John could, cutting it down cleanly and decisively without the slightest hesitation.
John walked behind her and observed for quite some time, gradually seeing some clues.
Her damage numbers were clearly much higher than when they had been in the canyon.
A casual sword slash against those level 40 wild monsters almost always produced damage numbers hovering around eighty to ninety thousand.
When she occasionally triggered a critical hit, the number could even jump close to a terrifying one hundred thousand.
Back in the canyon, one strike from her had at most been a little over twenty thousand.
John’s eyes flickered slightly.
Although LoranBlade had casually brushed it off earlier and said she had gained "nothing much," with this damage increase right in front of him, even a fool could tell that she had definitely obtained a considerable opportunity.
A roughly tenfold increase, plus that clearly higher critical rate.
At the very least, this had to be based on a full God-rank class inheritance.
John nodded inwardly.
This girl was strong and low-key.
Even after obtaining such a huge opportunity, she did not show off a single word.
That was indeed rare.
With her around, his future plans of establishing a guild and recruiting people could be considered to have a reliable starting foundation.
The two continued deeper along the mountain ridge.
The terrain ahead gradually became more rugged.
The trees became increasingly sparse, replaced by a strange type of vegetation that glowed faintly with a pale purple sheen.
"That forest ahead..."
LoranBlade’s steps paused slightly, and she looked ahead vigilantly.
It was a forest shrouded in faint purple mist. The trees were tall and twisted. From time to time, tiny silver-white lights flickered between the branches, as though some kind of insect was dancing in the air.
John swept a glance over it and understood.
LoranBlade asked, "What is this place?"
"Void Forest."
John spoke calmly. "Those butterflies inside are void creatures. They are very sensitive to spatial fluctuations. They have probably already sensed us."
The moment his voice fell, a large swarm of silver-white butterflies suddenly surged out from the thin mist ahead.
Each one was the size of a palm. The edges of their wings shimmered with faint blue spatial ripples. There were at least over a hundred of them, densely packed together, and when they flapped their wings, they produced a fine buzzing sound.
The leading few charged straight toward the two of them. The spatial ripples at the edges of their wings suddenly expanded, transforming into sharp spatial cutting lines.
LoranBlade did not panic in the slightest. freeweɓnovel.cøm
She raised the longsword in her hand horizontally, and her figure shot forward like an arrow.
"I’ll handle this!"
With a low shout, a layer of faint cyan light suddenly lit up on her sword. ƒreewebɳovel.com
The light spread along the spine of the blade all the way to the tip, sketching out fierce patterns of sword intent in the air.
