Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

Geoffrey took a few steps forward, carefully studying the relief sculpture on the platform.

The relief of the Snake Spirit King was extremely intricate, but something caught Geoffrey's eyes.

It seemed some parts of the carving were smelted, as though someone had tried to burn them.

Did someone climb to the top of the pillar to destroy the relief before?

The pillar was undoubtedly very solid. Geoffrey wouldn't have been able to damage it, even if he tried.

Back when he was at the foot of the pillar, he had asked Ziya to give it a try, but even Ziya couldn't leave a mark on the pillar.

Except for these strangely burnt parts, there was nothing exquisite about the relief.

Geoffrey frowned in disappointment.

It hadn't been easy for him to climb all this way, yet the journey seemed fruitless.

At the very least, he had helped the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord connect the sword to the eleventh stair.

An Other Shore Token on the eleventh stair was supposedly quite decent; however it was still connected to a red light beam like before. This meant it was surely inferior compared to the Other Shore Tokens on the last ten stairs.

'If I drill a square hole here and insert the black stone in it, will it work?"

Geoffrey's eyes flashed excitedly as he came up with this bold idea.

But he dismissed the idea just as quickly as he hatched it.

The pillar was too solid. There was no possible way he'd be able to dig a hole in it!

'What if I asked Ziya for help...'

It had taken him several months to climb to the top of the pillar, which meant it'd take several more months to go down. Thus, it would take him nearly a year to make a round trip.

As he pondered over this, he inadvertently walked to the center of the platform, where the Snake Spirit King's eyes lay.

Without even looking where he was going, Geoffrey accidentally stepped right on the Snake Spirit King's eyes. Then, the sky began to stir, as though it was unsettled.

Initially, the sky of the main world was as dark as a moonless night.

Whenever he looked up, the sky was always pitch black.

But the instant Geoffrey stepped on the Snake Spirit King's eyes, he noticed a huge courtyard floating nearby.

in the center of the

closer look, Geoffrey realized the courtyard was tethered by thick chains that glowed brightly. The

Geoffrey's mouth fell open in shock.

when he was at the foot of the pillar,

where he stood now, it

courtyard were three cone-shaped stones. It looked as though the floating, massive stones were supporting the courtyard, keeping it afloat.

bottom of the courtyard to its top. His eyes

this the real sky

the sky

the pitch blackness, the sky was now

with strange yet beautiful

floated far away, with its wheel

resembled a sphere glowed a deep red,

there were also some

seemed so far yet so huge.

he stared blankly into the

he took a step forward. Everything disappeared in an instant. Even

step backward, and the sky changed once

of the Four

little strange, Geoffrey's

to step on the Snake Spirit King's eyes, an idea flashed through his mind.

he was on by a thick chain. Geoffrey could easily cross over to the courtyard

the other three pillars, since the

was, if he stepped away from

they—the courtyard, the chains, and the sky—truly disappear? Or were they just invisible?

and left the Snake Spirit King's

brushed against something cold. It was a link in

feet wide. Although the chain was completely invisible, Geoffrey was confident he

to the courtyard was long, about half the distance between the two pillars. It was at least a ten-day climb

hundred

trembled slightly as he realized there was

from such a height, there was no possible

City, Crane Blood Province, Source World, a huge stone heart was beating slowly yet energetically.

Thearch lay on the throbbing stone, staring

body was now extremely weak.

taxing enough in itself, but the price he had to pay when she was defeated after descending

now, the