Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1103 - 1104: Entering the Sewers

"Just as I expected."

Feng Yuan said this without surprise as he looked at the iron lock hanging on the door. He had already guessed that an entrance like this would certainly be locked. Glancing at the deserted street behind him, Feng Yuan shook his head and said,

"Agunas, it’s your turn. Just destroy the door along with it."

He could tell that what sealed the place was not the lock on the door, or rather, that lock was just a mechanism. There was a complete barrier hidden inside the door, which if he wasn’t wrong, should be directly connected to the City Defense System’s Subsidiary Energy System. Any attempt to attack it would trigger the City Defense System. Although there was no one around at the moment, Feng Yuan did not want to be bombarded with the grating sound of alarms later on.

Agunas floated forward to inspect the door. With a flick of its paw, white gravel wafted towards the door and instantly robbed the door of its existence, turning it into ash. As the door disintegrated, Feng Yuan subconsciously raised his hand to shield his face, and, as he thought of something, he turned to Xiao Ji behind him and said,

"Turn back into your Eggshell Chicken form and squat on my head."

The eagle-shaped Xiao Ji looked at Feng Yuan, shook its head, and let out a clear, loud eagle cry. Agunas glanced at Feng Yuan and said,

"Why would it agree to hide behind you? What do you think it’s pursuing those powers for?"

"But the environment in the underground waterway is probably the kind you hate the most."

Feng Yuan said with some concern to Xiao Ji, knowing that no underground waterway is free from foul smells or from being dark and damp. Given Xiao Ji’s aversion to water, he feared that environment would be the least likable to it.

Xiao Ji shook its head firmly and stood beside Feng Yuan. Touching Xiao Ji’s head, Feng Yuan said somewhat helplessly,

"Alright then, let’s go down together, but be careful. Better not to use your ultimate move recklessly."

Although Xiao Ji’s Fire-element ultimate moves are all special flames like the Nether Flame, they can still ignite flammable materials. Feng Yuan couldn’t be certain that there weren’t any dangerous flammable or explosive gases in the underground waterways. If Xiao Ji rashly unleashed its ultimate moves, they might be in trouble.

"Not use fire-related ultimate moves?"

Veronia glanced at Feng Yuan and put away her parasol, saying, "I wouldn’t be crazy enough to hold a parasol in that kind of environment in the underground waterway." As for turning back to its original shape? It thought the human form was far more interesting.

"I can help you."

"Eh? Lorna?"

Turning his head and seeing Lorna, Feng Yuan said with some surprise, as she was not on his list of exemptions. By rights, she should have been moved into the World’s Shadow by now. How could she have appeared here? Knowing that to prevent lives transferred into the World’s Shadow from accidentally leaving due to unforeseen circumstances, he specially strengthened the barrier’s robustness.

Those floating steles in the sky were created for this purpose, otherwise, he wouldn’t have made those steles. But Lorna...

"Not welcome?"

Seeing Feng Yuan’s seemingly unhappy expression, Lorna asked with some concern. Looking at Lorna, Feng Yuan chuckled and said,

"How could that be? I’m just surprised that you could break through the barriers I’ve set up. Come here."

Extending his hand, Feng Yuan directly lifted Lorna and placed her on top of his head. Xiao Ji beside him looked dissatisfiedly at Lorna, and although it itself didn’t wish to hide on Feng Yuan’s head, Lorna’s presence was quite annoying. Touching Xiao Ji’s head with amusement, Feng Yuan said,

"Alright now, Lorna can’t fly, and did you not see the pure white Ritual Robe she’s wearing? What if she dirties it walking in the underground waterway?"

Similar to Lorna, Veronia is also not naturally capable of flying; however, it can use its ultimate move to make itself float, such as the commonly used Rainbow Bubbles or, like now, directly transforming into human form, which also allows it to be unfazed by relatively filthy environments.

Xiao Ji glanced at its paws, seemingly discontented, yet at this time, Feng Yuan and the others had all entered the entrance to the underground sewer. Seeing this, Xiao Ji hurriedly followed. The winding staircase began to change as they progressed, transforming from cement to bluestone steps, and the surrounding walls became wet and slick. Before reaching the bottom, a peculiar stench had already wafted up.

"Hopefully, we won’t have to walk in such a place for too long."

With a wave of his hand, a gray semi-translucent barrier enveloped everyone. Feng Yuan spoke with some resignation, though the stench was indeed hard to endure as anticipated.

Pushing open the sealed door, though it seemed to be designed for water-blocking purposes when necessary, it wasn’t locked at the moment, or rather, there wasn’t a need. Normal people wouldn’t come to such a place, and besides, there was already a lock hanging at the entrance, so there was no need to go to such lengths below.

"This design seems..."

Looking back at the iron door, Guo Huai spoke with an indistinct expression. Feng Yuan waved his hand, and a cold Nether Flame floated around, illuminating the underground sewer built from unknown bricks and stones. Water droplets occasionally fell from the ceiling into the central waterway, and there were paths on both sides wide enough for one person to walk through. Feng Yuan was relieved that the height of the sewer was not low, at least he didn’t need to bend over to move around.

"It’s probably to prevent the river from backflowing."

Feng Yuan looked around and remarked. In fact, the design of the sewer in Maomu City wasn’t particularly practical. After all, Maomu City’s location is both mountainous and plain, and digging such deep sewers for wastewater – where would it drain? In the end, the wastewater is likely concentrated and then sorted by using special entities like Mud Monsters to treat most of the waste before pumping it to the surface for disposal.

And Mao Mu River does flow through the city. If no precautions are taken against backflow in the sewer, Feng Yuan could imagine what would happen if an accident occurred and the river water poured into the sewer.

"We wouldn’t be so unlucky to encounter something like that, right?"

Guo Huai asked somewhat worriedly. In such a place, if backflow occurred, he couldn’t stand it. Not to mention the risk of drowning, diving in these conditions? The mere thought was revolting.

"How could that happen, and even if it did, it’s not like we couldn’t solve it. Whether it’s opening a Space Gate to block the entrance or other means, it’s not a problem."

Feng Yuan rolled his eyes and said, exasperatedly. Even if backflow occurred here, Gitalien was by their side; just one Space Gate placed on the incoming water’s passage, opening the other end toward a volcano or somewhere similar, what would backflow do then? Or what if Agunas stopped time? There were plenty of solutions. Those iron doors were simply designed for humans who couldn’t immediately resolve a backflow issue.

After all, the abilities of an Ordinary Spirit Beast do differ greatly from those of Divine Beasts. Gitalien can open a vast number of Space Gates in an instant, while a typical Space-attribute Spirit Beast would likely reach their limit with just two or three Space Gates.

"It seems... that’s true."

Scratching his head, the beaming Guo Huai spoke, having indeed forgotten that those Divine Beasts could easily handle this situation. As they walked through the sewer for a while, Feng Yuan, feeling a headache coming on, said,

"We still don’t know where those blockages are. Surely we can’t just go to the Special Duty Team to look up the information..."

The Special Duty Team should have detailed records of the blockage locations, but the thought of doing so seemed cumbersome, and Feng Yuan was not too keen on that. As for Delong Tower? It could only sense that similar entities were beneath but couldn’t pinpoint their exact location, otherwise, it would have directly mentioned the sewers instead of below.

"If it wasn’t them that blocked the sewer, knowing the location would be useless."

Guo Huai offered consolingly from the side, to which Feng Yuan glanced at Guo Huai and said,

"Do you believe that? What are the odds? Blockages occur in the sewer, those strange creatures also happen to sneak in, and they haven’t started fighting each other?"

Feng Yuan didn’t doubt that whatever blocked the sewer had combat capabilities. Don’t forget that there were quite a few Mud Monsters that attempted to destroy the blockage points but to no avail. Mud Monsters might be weak, but not that weak. If even they couldn’t destroy it, it’s unlikely to be ordinary rubbish.

Unless some bored individual decided to dump rare materials into the sewer, however, no matter how he thought about it, Feng Yuan couldn’t recall having done anything similar. As for other people? It’s doubtful they’d have that many rare materials to cause such trouble.