Nobilis of War novel Chapter 1279

Darren felt his heartbeat quicken as the blood red claw approached him. He was certain that he would be blown up once it managed to touch any part of his body.

He let out a cry and raised his speed to the maximum.

In the blink of an eye, the blood red claw was about to touch his robe.

Darren dove forward and into the cave with all his strength.

However, his timing was off and the claw managed to clutch onto his leg.

"Humph!" Darren turned around and clasped his palm into a blade. Without a moment's hesitation, he lopped off his own thigh.

"Howl!"

A terrifying roar burst out from outside the cave.

Darren rushed deeper into the cave in case that the claw decided to chase him.

But the claw stopped right in front of the cave and didn't come in. It dared not to march forward for some reason that Darren didn't know.

"Oh."

Darren breathed a heavy sigh of relief. For now, at least, he was safe.

He then gathered his god's power to heal his severed leg.

Once his wound had fully recovered, he went back into the depths of the cave.

"I need to break through this!"

Darren continued to work on the stone wall. He focused all of his strength on his fist and gave it a heavy blast.

Stones fell on the ground as the ground rumbled. With only a single punch, he managed to make a big hole on the stone wall.

He kept punching until his fists were broken and bloody, and then he focused on healing his hands. Once he'd healed them, he began another round of blasts.

He didn't notice how much time had passed when he finally cleared over one thousand feet into the stone wall.

Since it was nothing but stone ahead, he had no choice but to press on.

Darren kept on without a stop until one day, the stone wall suddenly fell down.

Past the wall was a mysterious space.

"I've broken through six kilometers of stone!" he exclaimed.

He then looked at his hands, and he couldn't remember how many times they had been broken and mended during the process.

Darren quickly kicked away the stones in front of him and stepped into the space. Deep in his heart, he was expecting that this passage would lead him to the hell.

However, a few moments later, he was gravely disappointed.

This was not the exit of the cave. He only found himself inside a stone chamber.

Darren was a little irritated, but on a second thought, he decided it didn't matter too much to him. It seemed that there was no danger and he didn't need to worry about time. As long as he was patient and went on working on the stone wall, he knew he'd manage to find an exit.

He calmed down and analyzed his surroundings. The stone chamber wasn't that big, but there were delicate carvings all over its walls.

It covered and contained everything under the sun, from various beast patterns, vivid pictures of immortal herbs to vigorous and forceful ancient words.

At the center of the stone chamber lay a chair, and behind it stood two statues that looked as if they were made of black iron. They were two warriors in armor.

Darren gazed at the statues. At a mere glance of them, he felt an awe deep in his soul.

"Wow, whose statutes are they? How powerful their auras are!"

Darren estimated that these warriors in armor were at least at the Superior God Realm.

He didn't waste any more time on the statues. He had to focus his mind back on escaping the cave.

Before continuing his search for the exit, Darren walked up to the two statues, cupped his hands and said, "Please forgive my rudeness."

Then he reached out his hands to move the two statues away.

However, Darren, whose physical strength was now at the low-level of the Celestial God Realm, found himself unable to move them. The statutes didn't budge an inch no matter how he tried.

"What are these two statutes made of?" he complained as he kept trying to pull them out of the way. It was weird that the two statutes were even heavier than a star.

"No, I must've moved them the wrong way," he murmured. Darren didn't believe that the two statues could be that heavy. After all, they were just as high as him.

"I guess there may be a passage behind them," he concluded. He checked the two statutes again and again and finally believed that there was a passage behind.

Bang!

Without warning, Darren threw a punch at one of the statues.

"Ouch!"

He felt a sharp pain on his fist that shot up his arm. It was ten thousand times more painful to hit this statue than to hit the stone wall.