Chapter 96: Bamboo Demons
Jayden sneaked inside the second elder’s house and then found the secret door by using his Void Eye skill. It wasn’t hard for him to search for the secret mechanism that could open the secret door.
*Creaaaaak*
Jayden pressed a button that was well hidden in a crevice behind the bed, and soon after a door opened with a creak. Stepping inside, Jayden came across absolute darkness, despite it being day, there was only darkness inside the hidden room.
Using his void eye skill, Jayden walked forward and soon found a big box, that was completely locked. He had found out about this secret room from Han’s memory and knew something very important was being kept here.
Walking forward, Jayden stretches his hands towards the iron locks, but soon finds out that there are many arrays placed around the box, he halts his movements and observes the arrays.
” So, these are motion-sensitive arrays, now this is a bit of a challenge. ” Jayden muttered to himself.
He first began to work on the sound-related arrays, so that it won’t be able to alarm anyone. After working for 50 minutes carefully, he removed over 10 alarming arrays.
Then he began to remove the offensive arrays, this was a difficult task, as one mistake could blow up the entire secret room. After working for over 3 hours, he was able to remove all of the remaining arrays.
” Since they don’t want to make it obvious, they haven’t placed any men outside the secret room but focused on securing it using arrays. I wonder what’s inside. ” Jayden then began to melt the locks with his Nether Fire.
After removing all the locks, he opened the box and found a small wooden box placed safely in the centre of the big box. Carefully, he took out the wooden box and placed it inside his storage ring, and then hid his presence.
Jayden scanned the house again and after making sure that the second elder hadn’t returned yet, he started to make his way outside.
After leaving the house, Jayden turned into mist and flowed in the direction of his house again. Entering his house, he returned back to his normal form and took out the wooden box.
*Click*
After opening it, he came across a small pure white crystal, which was half the size of a finger. Jayden stared at the crystal for a few minutes and then tried to sense any kind of energy fluctuations from it, but even after ten minutes he couldn’t find anything.
” Anna, what is it? ” Jayden asks.
” It is called Energy Accumulator and just as the name suggests, you could store energy inside it. They’re quite rare, I wonder how this small Kingdom got their hands on something like this. ” Anna spoke, intrigued by the small crystal.
” So, is it like a battery? If so then it could solve the problem of not being able to provide a constant amount of energy, I found from the memories of those vampires, that even witches failed to do something like that. Then this is a great treasure ” Jayden held the crystal more carefully.
” Yeah, it’s certainly a treasure, You need to hide it properly, or it could bring danger to you. Though most people won’t be able to recognise it. ” Anna warns him.
” I understand. ” Jayden nodded and then changed Andrea’s form slightly and then placed the crystal in his bracelet.
As he was thinking about his next course of action, a thought occurred to him, and he began to channel energy into the crystal, but he wasn’t directly sending the energy in it’s normal form instead he changed its form slightly.
After turning Andrea back into a mask, Jayden left the house, Now in his mask a small white crystal could be seen on his forehead. Then he took out the map he got from Bao and began to run towards the Golden Bamboo forest.
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Jayden used the Infernal Steps technique and reached the edge of the mountain within a single minute. He observed the forest from there, for some reason his senses were being restricted, and he wasn’t able to use Void Eye further than 30 to 40 metres away.
The forest contained a lot of bamboo, which were coloured differently, some were green, some were red, some black and many other colours. From Su Gang’s, the youngest elder’s, memories Jayden found that different coloured bamboo behaved differently.
He cautiously stepped inside the forest, and just after taking a few steps, he found himself surrounded by a red mist of blood. He looked back and saw that he could no longer see the forest’s exit.
With a bad feeling in his heart, Jayden began to move forward, constantly observing his surroundings. On the outer perimeter of the forest, there were only white-coloured bamboo and according to Jayden’s memory, they weren’t harmful.
‘ Anna, isn’t this such a lovely forest, why don’t we go on a date in this forest? ‘ Jayden joked, trying to remove the bad feeling.
” There’s something wrong with these bamboos, be careful. ” Anna said in a serious tone.
Jayden instantly became more alert, and used his Void skill at its maximum capacity, to scan the surroundings. And just as Anna had warned, Jayden felt a strong surge of energy coming from the bamboo.
‘ Anna, do you have any idea what kind of energy is that? ‘ Jayden asked, as he felt a bluish energy, coming out of all the white bamboos, ‘ So much for being harmless.’ He thought.
” I don’t remember exactly when I came across it, but yeah, I do remember something about it. Give me a second. ” Anna replied, She started to go through her memories.
‘ It’d be great if you could find out as soon- ‘ Jayden talked to Anna while slowly and cautiously moving forward.
Anna interrupted him and spoke in a hurried tone: ” I remember now, these white bamboos contain a large amount of life energy, and when they mature, the Life Sucking Demons often reside inside them. So, the moral of the story is, ‘RUN’. ” Anna shouted.
If even a single demon sensed a life force outside the bamboo, they would all Chase that life form, until it was sucked dry. And Jayden life force was quite strong, so it’d be impossible to hide it from them.
‘ Holy Hell ‘ Jayden cursed in his mind, as he increased his speed, but to his dismay, even the Infernal Steps technique’s speed was restricted by more than half.
*Buzzzzzzzz*
*CRACK *CRACK*
Just as Jayden covered a quarter of the distance into the white bamboo territory, he heard a buzzing sound and then the sound of something breaking. Jayden looked to the side and saw a 15 cm long black beetle-like insect, coming out of a bamboo.
On closure inspection, Jayden saw that it had a face that looked similar to humans, but a lot more ominous.
” Don’t stop, they have already sensed you, run as fast as you can. ” Anna shouted, bringing Jayden out of his trance.
Without looking around, Jayden used the Infernal Steps again and sped off to cross the white bamboo territory.
*CRACK* *CRACK*
*CRACK* *CRACK*
*CRACK* *CRACK*
*Buzzzzzzzz* *Buzzzzzzzz*
*Buzzzzzzzz* *Buzzzzzzzz*
Jayden ran with all his might, trying not to look back, he heard several crackling sounds and then the sound of those human-faced insects.
Somewhat curious he turned his head a little to look back, his scalp tingled and a cold chill rang out through his body as he saw hundreds and thousands of insects coming out of the bamboos and chasing him.
Even the bamboos that were in front of him began to crack, he ran in a jig-jag way, trying not to get closer to any bamboo which were about to crack.
‘ That fucking youngest elder, Su Gang, in his memories these were the most beautiful bamboos and nothing about these little demons was there. ‘ Jayden cried out in his mind, he made a note to beat the shit out of that narcissistic bastard.
*Buuzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*
Jayden heard a loud buzzing sound, loud enough to make his ears hurt. And just as the sound ended, all the bamboo began to crack at the same time.
” Jayden you’re truly fucked, how could your luck be so bad? There is even a king here, the King of the Life-sucking Demons, and he had noticed you. What you just heard was his call to all his subjects, alerting them that ‘The Hunt Begins’. ”
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