One Step Away

Ruby Mountain. The last fifty meters of mountain road from the summit were covered in a layer of strawberry-colored glimmer. But if one drew close and looked carefully, they would see that this blood-colored glimmer was trembling unstably, countless black specks flashing through it like fleeting shadows. It was clearly only a layer of light, yet it gave the impression of being alive.

Like a swarm of flies buzzing beneath a sea of blood.

Yet Mercury Trojan Horse did not hesitate at all. She reached out, sinking her hand into the blood-colored glimmer. The glimmer writhed and spread over her palm like female flies, as if it would devour her soul in the next second, but in the end, it stopped at her wrist.

She slowly climbed through the blood-colored glimmer, bit by bit shortening this fifty-meter chasm.

This was the greatest trial within the Divine Lord's inheritance: Blood Fly Wish Light.

The curse of Blood Fly Boiling had fused with the Wish Light. Any arcanist who wanted to seize the Thousand Wishes Inheritance had to cross these fifty meters of Blood Fly Wish Light.

Holy Domain was meaningless here. Anyone who dared to open a Holy Domain would have their Spell Power drained dry by the blood-fly glimmer in an instant. Flying would not work either. Ruby Mountain's own gravity was like an abyss, like a prison; for every meter an arcanist left the ground, the gravity they suffered doubled, as if something above were pressing down on them.

Of course, if it were the true Blood Fly Boiling, then no Legendary Arcanist could pass. After all, this was a curse that had leaked out from the Thousand Wishes Heaven, a destructive heavenly calamity that even the Divine Lord could not completely eradicate and could only barely contain. How