Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon-Chapter 218 - 217 Proof of the Heavenly Fire
Chapter 218: Chapter 217: Proof of the Heavenly Fire
Chapter 218 -217: Proof of the Heavenly Fire
The tour guide coughed twice, “So you see, having someone to explain things along the way is quite essential. You all got tired of listening and didn’t let me speak, and now this gentleman has misunderstood, hasn’t he? If you want to see the mist wall now, you’ll have to go to the Durey Ring.”
Farrelan thought back and then realized—
Could it be that the “restricted area difficult for ordinary people to enter” the other person mentioned was referring to the misty zone!?
“How did this mist… disappear?”
“Don’t know, some say it was blown away by a huge explosion, while others claim it had vanished before the explosion. Anyway, the moment the mining site took off, the entirety of Magnificent Castle became perfectly visible.”
None of the drinking buddies at the tavern had ever mentioned this!
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Farrelan was dumbstruck— he had originally thought that it was the exceptionally large Moonlight Stone Columns of the city that caused the mist to retreat, but it turned out to be the complete opposite.
The disappearance of the mist was definitely revolutionary news, of the sort even bigger than a rebellion in Magnificent Castle! Magnificent Castle was just a fortress city in the New World, and the New World… that was a vast expanse of land!
If all the mist from this land were to be cleared, how much territory could the Kingdom gain?
“Didn’t the Paradise Sect mention this point?”
“Buddy, if they had mentioned it, would I still be saying I don’t know?” The passenger opposite him nodded toward the west, “Look, those are people from the Paradise Sect.”
Farrelan looked in the direction suggested and saw dozens of strange figures scattered across the gray-brown wilderness. They seemed to be wearing a set of pure white apparel covering their bodies, arms, and legs, with their heads adorned in full-coverage glass masks—as if the air was full of deadly toxins. These people were moving around the field, occasionally squatting to dig up the soil and putting it into bags beside them, looking quite odd.
“What are they doing?”
“Maybe it’s some kind of ritual to communicate with the divinities? I mean, they’re pretty mysterious themselves, so if even they don’t reveal something, no one in the entire city would be clear on it.”
The tour guide chimed in, “However, I’ve heard this place is going to be turned into new farmland, a very large acreage at that. The community center has already started hiring.”
Ha… Are they even recruiting farmers now?
Farrelan muttered to himself, wondering if this was some variant of the sharecropping system.
These days, working in a factory was much easier than being a farmer. If you didn’t get any land, who would bother working for a landlord?
“Oh, wasn’t this in the newspapers?” However, the next sentence from the passenger beside Farrelan left him dumbfounded once again, “It’s said the wages are quite high, a good thirty percent higher than working in factories, but they only need five hundred people for the first batch, so you have to compete for the positions.”
He prided himself on his broad knowledge, but upon arriving at Magnificent Castle, he found the place to be riddled with oddities everywhere.
About half an hour later, the coachman pulled the horses to a halt, “Ladies and gents, we’ve arrived at the mining site.”
“Thank you!” Two passengers paid and hopped off the carriage, heading towards the wilderness.
Farrelan was still looking around, “Where is the mining site?”
“Walk another two hundred meters ahead and climb that small hill; you’ll be able to see it from there.” The tour guide rubbed his hands and smiled, “There’s a guard there, and we’re likely to get caught if we go, so we can only drop you off here. But don’t worry, as long as you don’t enter the mining area, they won’t bother you.”
Farrelan was skeptical, but he didn’t have a better plan at the moment. “What should I do to get back?”
“There’s a train at five, you can take that one,” the guide waved him off. “So… enjoy your sightseeing!”
Seeing the carriage turn back, he could only walk alone towards the small hill slope not far away.
The journey didn’t take too much effort.
Five minutes later, Farrelan had reached the top of the slope, and it was at this moment that he was struck by the majestic scene before his eyes.
Below the hill slope was a massive pit, with a width of several kilometers; it kept extending downward, and the bottom was almost pitch-black, making it difficult to discern its true depth with a single glance.
On the sides of this enormous hole, one could see over a hundred fractured mines and rails, clearly, these dense mines were once whole before the formation of this great pit. Scattered around the pit were many massive stones, one of which was nearly a hundred meters tall, making a person standing before it seem like an ant! Such gigantic stones were obviously not carved by human hands, and their distribution was so abrupt as if someone had held them up in the air before carelessly tossing them down!
“The power of the Evil God lifted the mine into the sky, turning the earth red…”
“The Paradise Master summoned the newborn sun, shattering the floating mountain into dust…”
“Magnificent Castle was illuminated like a snowy field, the shockwave shattered windows and doors, bricks and tiles flew chaotically…”
The patrons’ disjointed words from the tavern once again resurfaced in his ears.
When he first heard them, he couldn’t imagine such a scene at all.
But now, those exaggerated descriptions suddenly came to life; some became rubble, some became deep pits, some became floating islands… A flying mine large enough to eclipse the sun emerged in Farrelan’s mind, then it shattered in dazzling firelight, fell, until it became what it was now.
He felt goosebumps rise all over.
That’s right… the firelight!
If the explosion at that time was as hot as the sun, then there should be scorch marks nearby—
Farrelan looked down, and quickly noticed an unusual sign. The side of the hill slope facing the pit showed a brownish-black hue, with hardly any plant remains visible, whereas the other side still had a fair amount of weeds surviving. More direct evidence was on the pit’s edge, where he saw a spot shining faintly in the sunlight, as if a mirror had been embedded in the soil, and his knowledge told him it was the crystal formed by melted sand, which requires a temperature of over one to two thousand degrees, even in a specialized glass furnace.
—The tales told by those in the tavern were actually true!
This conclusion gave Farrelan an indescribable sense of palpitation.
Could it be that the divinities had truly descended upon this land and personally stopped the Evil God’s invasion?
There were also members of the Paradise Sect in white robes here.
They had erected a wire fence around the pit, seemingly not wanting anyone to approach this area. Besides, there was a group of Seaguardians mining the Glowing Stone attached to the fractured massive rocks. Compared to the previous deep underground mining, these precious ores had now turned into open-pit veins, and one only needed to set up a scaffold platform to knock them down and gather them up.
However, what seemed odd to Farrelan was that on top of a huge rock, he saw two dramatically different colored Glowing Stone Veins; the deep blue ones embedded deep in the stone were most likely the minerals that were abundantly produced by the Magnificent Castle. In contrast, others were dark red, almost black, like bloodstains, with some resembling waves and others like splashing water droplets. But when the miners’ pickaxes struck these red crystals, the clear ringing sound confirmed they indeed were a type of hard mineral.
Everyone knows that Glowing Stone Mines are quite rare, and finding just one type is fortunate, let alone dual-colored cortaderas; Farrelan had not only never seen such a thing before, but he hadn’t even heard of them.
Just as he was about to find a way to slide down the hill slope to get a closer look at the edge of the pit, urgent footsteps suddenly sounded from behind.
Farrelan had just turned around when he saw the barrel of a firearm pointed at his forehead.
