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Before Noah reopened his eyes, his sharp senses had already detected that something was wrong.
At that moment, everything within the range of Noah's perception seemed to have lost its vitality, filled with an aura of deathly grayness.
Noah opened his eyes.
What entered his sight was an enormous, exceedingly vast city.
It was no ordinary city, but an ancient capital marked by the passage of time, as though it had been abandoned for ages.
The sky was a blackish-gray devoid of any light.
All around stood buildings constructed from massive stones, resembling sacrificial halls.
Rubble and broken stones lay piled up like mountains.
The ground looked weathered, covered in cracks.
This ruined capital stood amid a forest sea filled with bizarrely shaped trees. It seemed to have existed since the birth of the world itself, and an ancient aura permeated every corner.
Yet within that aura, there was not the slightest trace of life.
In the Elemental Spirit World, spirits should have been everywhere, existing in all sorts of environments.
However, Noah could not sense the presence of a single spirit in this ruined capital.
"No wonder this place is called a ruined capital. Have even the spirits given up living here?"
It was an incredibly strange matter.
After all, no matter how desolate a place might be, spirits should still exist there.
For example, toxic-attribute spirits liked to dwell in swamps.
Likewise, fire-attribute spirits and spirits that favored dry, scorching environments would live in uninhabited deserts.
There were countless types of spirits in the Elemental Spirit World, spread across nearly every location.
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