The blood-red Teleportation Magic circle slowly rotated beneath their feet, giving off an ominous red glow that pulsed like a beating heart.
At the sight, Cui Ciyou felt a faint sense of playing a game.
It really was like a game: red meant danger and crisis.
When a character's health was about to hit zero, their health bar turned a glaring red;
the maps for beginner areas were usually peaceful blue or green;
and high-level danger zones teeming with powerful monsters, where players could barely take a step, were invariably marked in an unsettling red.
"The Hydra should be down below."
Roxy and Elinalise grew solemn at his words.
The two exchanged a glance.
Then, together with Cui Ciyou, they stepped onto the blood-red Magic Circle.
The dizziness of shifting through space was stronger than on any previous occasion.
When the three once again set foot on solid ground, the view opened up before them, revealing an immense, magnificent space.
It was an enormous rectangular hall resembling an ancient temple, large enough to hold thousands of people and roughly the size of a baseball field from his previous life.
Several stone pillars, each so thick that it would take several people to encircle it, stood in the corners of the hall, supporting a seemingly endless ceiling so high that they had to tilt their heads all the way back just to make out the vault.
Huge, tilelike stone slabs covered the floor, each carved with intricate, ancient reliefs.
If he had to describe it in a single sentence, it was utterly solemn and majestic.
Rather than a monster's lair, this seemed more like an abandoned palace belonging to an ancient god.
"Oh...!" Elinalise couldn't hold back an exclamation of surprise.
And in the deepest part of this gray palace,