Refining the Heavens 4 (炼天四)

Chapter 31: Dark Hall Plot (Part 1)

Purple took her sceptre and smacked it across the antique door, causing it to swing open inward.

Then she turned at the men and invited them in.

The house was vaster inside than it appeared, and gave them a creepy feeling similar to walking into mausoleum.

At the back of the place, there were nine gates, each decorated in a familiar manner to Tommy's eyes.

He said with a certainty, "These gates..."

Purple nodded, "They are the same design as the actual nine halls. However, it is merely decorative; for me to remember which one is the correct gateway. If someone steps into the wrong door, he will be sent to a strange place."

Tommy privately acknowledged the usefulness of such a contraption. If they had a transportation method like this back when they were heading out to rescue Jones, they could complete their task in a fraction of the time and at greater safety.

Purple led them through a purple gate with ribbons and flowers after tapping it violently with her sceptre. It looks exactly the same as the gate to the Dance Hall.

A rap with the sceptre unlocked the gate and caused it to swing open.

Purple beckoned them and went right in while the rest gingerly followed.

When they appeared on the other side, it seemed as though they had returned to the exact house they left.

Tommy looked around in silence. Before he could ask if the teleportation had failed, Purple said, "Follow closely. One wrong turn and who knows where you'll end up. Maybe in an Ogre's cave or right at the bottom of a poisonous mire."

All the grown men shuddered slightly when they heard her. An ogre is a creature no weaker than a full-grown Kirin, except that it has the intelligence of a drunken sloth.

Especially, Tommy who had quite an encounter with a certain poisonous mire. He dread to imagine if they took a single wrong turn, or if Purple had forgotten the right sequence.

He immediately prayed that the strange purple sceptre to continue working as intended.

After how the Purple Ghost had used it to dig up the soil and then bash everything, he couldn't help but feel worried if the runes can remain intact.

Unfortunately, after a few more turns, what he feared happened.

Purple looked at Biyo and Tommy apologetically as she tapped her sceptre on her palm.

"Uhh, don't worry, there's just some scratches. Nothing I haven't seen before. I'll get it fixed in a jiffy."

Both Biyo and Tommy's faces darkened looking at her twist and turn her sceptre while studying it.

Biyo: "....."

Tommy: "....."

Purple: "Ah, did I really knocked it too many times? It's showing its temper now isn't it? Well... If it doesn't work, there's always the traditional repair."

Saying so, she gently put the rod on the ground, then to the surprise of everyone present, she started knocking it with her knuckles.

Biyo: "....."

Tommy: "....."

Tommy would claim that he has seen plenty of runic engraving and repairs in his time besides Kairos.

But he had never once seen the Purple Ghost's 'traditional repair method'.

Despite being only seventeen, Tommy felt his gut aching from the spectacle.