Journey Of A Legend

Chapter 197: Obtaining The Key

"Just who the hell are you?", asked Carter and with a fast spin with his sword, he jumped away from Greg.

Greg, who was standing calmly away from Carter lowered his staff and said, "I am just a no-one who had been asked to examine this place. However, now that you have tried to kill me, it seems things became quite complicated."

"Complicated?", asked Carter with a slight frown.

However, Greg instead of answering pointed toward the cube and asked, "Why does the Voodoo Family want that cube?"

Greg asked this question because he wanted to know just how much did the Voodoo Family and Carter knew about the legend. 

If they already have knowledge about the keys and even the place which Kuragari had found, then things could become extremely dire and complicated not only for him but for the whole Federation.

Naturally, he knew that as time went on, more and more people would find clues about the keys and the mysterious place and more people would like to find them, but he didn't think it would be this soon.

Knowing human greed, Greg knew exactly what will happen if more and more people and experts would try and join the 'treasure hunt' and he didn't really want that outcome.

Just the thought as the Soul Association and the 5 Great Families start a war against each other made Greg feel insanely anxious. If humanity starts to fight against each other, then they will have no power at all to fight against those Higher Beings from the unknown when the time came.

"Of course, if they already knew about the legend and the existence of the keys, I cannot really do anything about it. The only thing I can do against this situation is to kill him, but I don't think I have the power to kill him even though we are inside here. He is still on the God rank and only with my physical strength alone I won't be able to kill him."

While Greg thought about a way how to annihilate his enemy, Carter smiled slightly and said, "We don't need the cube, but the key inside it. Not long ago, we got the news that a place which was associated with an ancient legend had been found and the only way to enter it is through keys."

As he said this he looked around the place and continued, "First, we didn't believe it, but then this Earth Temple appeared. At first, we thought it was just a simple Dimensional Zone outbreak, but when we saw that there were not a single creature in the vicinity, we started to think what if it is associated with the legend."

After he said that, he took out a small thin scroll, and waving it around he said with a smile, "And just as we thought, it really was. We found another ancient scroll in a very old ruin that was related to the legend. It has told us about the six temples holding the six keys, describing each temple as detailed as it could."

Putting the scroll away, Carter pointed at the cube above the statue's palm and said, "But unfortunately even with so much information in that scroll, it did not tell us where we could find the keys inside the temple or how we could pass the traps, so because of that we needed help from other."

Glancing at Greg, Carter smiled slightly and said, "And maybe not as I have expected, but someone who could lead me right through the carvings all the way to the key truly came. And now that I am here, I will take that cube and you have no power to stop me."

Instantly as he said that God rank presence broke out from Carter's body, making the air to turn suffocating instantly.

Greg seeing this happening thought for a while and sighed, "I see."

With that, he unsummoned his staff and stepped to the side.

"There. As I said, you can take the cube. I won't stop you."

"!?"

When Carter heard this, he was quite surprised, because he thought Greg will act arrogantly and try to fight against him. However, this didn't happen to him at all but he just simply stepped away, letting him to obtain the key freely.

Frowning slightly, Carter didn't lower his guard at all and said, "I don't know what you are trying to plan, but I won't fall for it. If you want to leave this place in one piece, then do as I say and take that cube down or prepare to die."

When Greg heard this he started thinking for a while and after balancing at the cube above him he nodded and said, "I will, but why do you want me to take it down? Don't you have arms too? You could take it down if you want, you know that right?"

When Carter heard this, his expression darkened instantly, and in a calm tone, he said to Greg, "Don't act so smart brat. I know exactly what I am doing. So now do as I said or die!"

Immediately as he said that Carter raised his sword, pointing its tip toward Greg, ready to attack him at any given moment if he didn't start to move soon.

Greg naturally knew why Carter didn't want to personally take the cube down, but he couldn't blame him. If it were him he would have done the same, because in this place who knew what kind of power that cube was fused with.

Maybe after a single touch, it could kill people just as the carvings in the middle of the hall, so Greg could clearly understand why Carter asked him to take the cube down. 

Glancing at the cube above him Greg thought for a while, but suddenly his eyes brightened. However, this happened only for a second and almost instantly his expression turned back to normal, and nodded.

"Sure. I will. But as a compensation I n-"

"Do you truly believe that you are in a position to bargain?", asked Carter calmly, cutting into Greg's sentence harshly.

When Greg heard this he sighed and said quietly, "No..."

With that said, he summoned the demon mask onto his face and with a powerful jump he hopped onto the statue's palm, right before the cube.

Examining the cube and seeing that the key was right in there, gently floating, Greg moved his hand and grabbed the cube.

However, the moment his fingers touched its sides, suddenly a shocking sight occurred. Instantly, the moment he tried to raise the cube up, the whole arm of the statue started to form huge cracks one after another, and under a single second it turned to dust, making Greg's figure to fall down immediately.

*BAM!*

With a heavy fall, Greg with the cube in hand fell onto the ground directly among the broken debris below, creating a huge dust cloud around him and all over the hall.

When Carter saw this, he thought Greg wanted to use this opportunity to escape, see he was ready to attack him, but just before he could have acted, suddenly Greg walked out of the dust cloud while waving the dust away from his face.

"Cough... Cough... Well... That was unexpected.", said Greg with a frown and walked before Carter.

"Here. It's safe."

Seeing that Greg was handing the I've over to him, Carter looked confused, but the moment he noticed the key inside it he instantly took it away.

Seeing that the key was truly inside the cube, Carter looked at Greg with a slightly raised eyebrow and wanted to say something, but suddenly the whole temple started to tremble like crazy.

*TREMBLE!!*

"We need to get out of here now!", said Greg and without waiting even for a second for Carter, he started to run toward the exit, while ignoring the carving on the ground, not caring if they were active or not.

Carter seeing Greg act like that clenched his teeth and after tightening his hold around the cube he started to follow him.

*TREMBLE!!!*

***

Outside the temple, the three experts were calmly waiting for Greg and Carter to come out when suddenly the whole building started to shake like crazy.

*TREMBLE!!*

Huge and deep cracks forming one after another all around the surface of the temple, the three stepped back a few steps instantly and looked at this sight with widened eyes.

"What happened?", asked Cloud with a deep frown, trying to figure out the cause behind the sudden changes.

Eliana hearing the question instead of answering, she activated her power, making her eyes to turn golden with silver lines in them, and looked toward the temple.

And instantly as she did, she smiled and said, "I can finally see what is happening."

"What can you see?", asked Zane calmly as she stepped closer to Eliana.

Eliana wanted to answer Zane, but suddenly her eyes widened because of shock, making her unable to reply.

Mistress of Fortune was famous for her ability to predict thousands of outcomes with only her power of luck. And she did the exact same right now.

Right now, she was using her power exactly in such a way to see Greg and his outcomes. In her eyes, she could see the full interior of the temple while she could also see as Greg arrived at the middle of the hall where carvings could be seen everywhere on the ground.

However, this was the exact moment when the shocking scene occurred, leaving Eliana completely speechless.

"This... How is this possible?", mumbled Eliana with widened eyes, not believing what she was seeing right at the moment.