Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2628

Jet studied the wall of subtly rippling air in front of them and the pristine streets beyond it, then rested her scythe on her shoulders in a relaxed pose. "Well, that explains why nothing has attacked us yet."

She approached the barrier created by the Serpent King, stopping only a few centimeters away from it, then took a few steps along its nearly invisible surface.

"Seems like he was really wary of what hides inside this city, huh?"

Sunny shrugged.

"I guess."

Jet remained silent for a few moments, then asked in a calm tone:

"More importantly, if this barrier prevents things from escaping the Eternal City... wouldn't we get trapped if we pass through it, as well?"

'That was what Sunny was thinking about, too.

He frowned.

"Nightwalker escaped it before, so there must be a way. Or maybe a condition sorting those who can leave, and those who can't."

He sighed and shook his head.

"It does not matter, anyway. Anything that Daeron created, I can destroy. It might take some time, though, if we do need to destroy this barrier in order to escape... not to mention that I would not feel right getting rid of it before whatever he was wary of is dealt with, or at least contained in some way." Jet looked at him with dark amusement.

"Oh? What makes you so confident in your ability?"

Sunny simply shrugged. "The fact that destroying something is always easier than creating it."

Both Daeron and Sunny were Supreme, and both were powerful sorcerers. So, with all other things being equal, he was confident in his ability to dismantle the runic array Daeron had created — given time.

Jet looked back at the invisible barrier.

guess we are going inside, then."

sunny grimaced.

"Well, yes. But first, we might want to... w-wait, what are you doing?!" Before he could even finish the sentence, Jet took a step forward and passed through the barrier. Then, she turned around and looked at him with a smile. "What?"

Sunny stared at her, aghast.

"What do you mean, what?! How could you just go and enter a mysterious magic barrier designed to trap living beings for all eternity?!"

She shrugged.

"Didn't you say that you can easily destroy it?"

Sunny suppressed the impulse to grab his head.

"I say a lot of things!"

She laughed.

"That you do."

She fell silent, studied the surrounding buildings for a few moments, then sighed and took a step back. Sunny tensed, but Jet seemed to pass through the barrier and return to the bridge with no issue. Still resting her arms on the shaft of the scythe, she rolled her shoulders and shook her head.

"My guess would be that the Serpent King was unwilling to let the immortals who had populated the Eternal City escape into the Twilight Sea. After all, there is no worse combination than immortality and Corruption. So, this barrier probably prevents anything that died and was restored by the city from leaving its boundary."

Sunny took a few deep breaths.

"I ..What if your theory turned out to be wrong?"

Jet shrugged.

"Then I would have asked you to get me out. Better yet, I'd ask Naeve to aim those scary cannons you so graciously crafted for me at the runes carved into the foundation of this place and blast a few dozen of them off the face of the earth. I am pretty sure that would have dealt with this runic array, too."

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