Steampunk: Sixth Era Epic

Chapter 699: 699 Shard's Sin

Chapter 699: Chapter 699 Shard’s Sin

Having crossed the barrier gate, he was officially inside the Relic.

The concentration of the Whisper element on the inside versus the outside of the barrier gate was extraordinarily vast. It wasn’t unbearably uncomfortable like the Fishbone Pirate Ship, but the area of influence unique to site-specific Relics still made Shard feel quite unwell.

It wasn’t intense headaches or nausea, nor was it the constant harassment of incoherent low whispers. He felt a sort of… desire, and his scattered thoughts seemed to emerge with unusual ease here. In fact, Shard even thought about pulling out, and such a need to flee was an absolute impossibility for him.

“Oh, I need to focus my mind a bit more.”

With his back to the barrier gate behind him, Shard closed his eyes and patted his head a few times. Pleasant memories and thoughts could dispel those scattered ones, but the problem was that happy recollections also stirred up more inappropriate thoughts. For instance, when he thought of Mia Cat, he thought about being cautious and turning to leave, and when he thought of Luviya, in addition to the sweetness of affection, there was also…

As Shard became aware of these chaotic thoughts being out of the ordinary, standing inside the barrier gate, he could vaguely feel the daylight around him dimming. Dark clouds enshrouded the woodland clearing, followed by a pitch-black flash of lightning streaking across the sky, with the rolling thunder heard several seconds later.

The architecture that appeared clean and pristine under the autumn sun grew sinister as the light dimmed. Large swaths of shadow wrapped around the exterior walls like crawling monsters, with ghostly figures emerging in the glass windows. Inside the courtyard of the barrier gate, golden leaves decayed into muck, and the tree with a swing shed its leaves in two seconds, its trunk and branches appearing to have lost all life force instantly, their withered state resembling grey, colossal hands stretching out from deep underground.

Behind him came rustling sounds, and turning around, he saw the black iron of the barrier gate intertwine like snakes, locking up the entrance completely, resembling a spider’s web. A common characteristic of site-specific Relics is that one can’t leave without meeting certain conditions, a point proven by Shard’s experience on the Fishbone Pirate Ship.

Dim lighting, cool winds reeking of rot brushed against Shard, everything around him in ruins. Now that the Relic fully displayed its interior, Shard finally felt a headache and a strong sensation of discomfort. The Whisper Element affects all entities and non-entities; it is the enemy of civilization.

“Although it’s very uncomfortable, I can still tolerate it, which means my sins aren’t particularly severe.”

Shard frowned and pressed at his head, feeling as though he had taken deep breaths in an alley filled with trash and excrement, then spun around in the same spot twenty times.

Aside from the discomfort, he also felt a surge in his strength. Every living being entering the Sin Mansion would gain a power boost in proportion to their sins, which could be considered a unique “site effect” of this site-specific Relic.

“Feeling like this, it’s no less than wearing Witch’s Jewelry. Do I really have so many sins?”

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