The sea winds howled along the southern polar belt. This place was an endless ice field, and the low temperatures here would freeze ordinary powerhouses solid in an instant. Anyone below the Transcendent level found it unbearable.
The Devil Girl, Melvie, and Yero Ilya were shivering violently from the cold. Both sniffed at the same time, then looked toward the Demon Scythe, Aina. Aina scratched her short blue hair and stared suspiciously at the dark teleportation array beneath her feet.
"It shouldn't be."
Demon Scythe Aina still refused to admit that her teleportation skills were rather unreliable.
Why had the three of them come here? The reason was that, according to Yero Ilya's fated perception, they needed to go to the headquarters of the Underworld God Temple—the Eternal City, Or. More precisely, they had to reach District 035 of the Eternal City.
Upon hearing this, Melvie and Aina had flatly refused. Were they tired of living? That place was the headquarters of an Ancient God.
However, Yero Ilya's next words made them waver. In the secret underground treasury of an abandoned manor there were 428 "Soul Crystals."
Among the three sisters of destiny, whether it was Demon Scythe Aina, the Devil Girl Melvie, or Yero Ilya, "Soul Crystals" were their most vital resource for becoming stronger. The Demon Scythe, devil transformation, and causal witchcraft systems all required "Soul Crystals" more than ten times as much as other systems.
This was especially true for the Demon Scythe. In the late stages, her core skills did not need many "Primal Cores." They required far more "Soul Crystals" instead.
Of the three, Demon Scythe Aina was the strongest. If they succeeded, she should have taken the biggest share. However, Yero Ilya had proposed a distribution of 4:3:3, with Aina taking four-tenths and her