Chapter 997
The Ape God left a mental brand every fifty years, and forty-five of them had already passed since the last gathering. Moreover, the expert claimed to have seen the Ape God, which turned the situation extremely serious instantly.
There was a chance that the scared expert had misjudged a powerful beast for a god, but Noah wasn't willing to bet his life on the weakness of those inhabiting those lands.
A series of fast thoughts surged and vanished in his mind in a matter of seconds. The truth was that no countermeasure would work against a being of such power. Even if only as a magical beast, a god was still a god.
"Stand up," Noah eventually said as he turned toward the expert. "I want to know everything about this summoning and mental brands."
The old cultivator explained everything he knew and even added his name, Winter, to the list. The Ape God spread peculiar mental waves that forced all the humans in their range to converge in its lair.
The brands forced every cultivator to respect the Kesier species' authority and prevented them from attacking any of those beasts.
Winter said that the hatred of the Ape God knew no limits. It passed down some of its emotions when it set the brands, and the cultivators could understand how intensely it loathed humans and the reason behind that.
The Ape God wanted to make those that had hunted its species pay. It forced them to a life of hiding underground, ruled by the same Kesier species that they had almost exterminated in the past.
"Why isn't anyone trying to leave?" Noah asked. It was possible to skip the summoning if he returned to the sea of lava and remained there for a few months.
The orders of the Kesier species' specimens were absolute for the branded cultivators, but some of them didn't have them. Noah didn't, but others had managed to remove it.
Winter didn't know much about that topic, but he claimed that experts roamed through those lands and prepared the ground for a revolt. Still, the issue with that piece of information was the same as the others. It came from an unreliable source.
"You can, some can, most can't," Winter replied with a helpless tone. "The Ape God only needs to brand you once to prevent you from leaving. Those who can escape the summoning have learnt secrets that they are slowly spreading through the world."
Noah couldn't understand if Winter had reached an unfixable state of delusion or if he needed to believe in those things to keep living in that world.
His knowledge came from reports left behind previous inhabitants of the underground areas that his tribe occupied after the summoning. That was the only way to communicate through tribes, which meant that they exchanged information only every fifty years!
That wasn't enough for Noah. It barely reached an acceptable level when it came to the reliability of the source of those reports. He needed far more if he wanted even to consider facing a god.
"Let me in," Noah said as his consciousness enveloped the rank 4 cultivator and seeped inside his mind. That process would typically hurt Winter, but he was allowing the inspection of the foreign force.
Noah could see the insides of Winter's sea of consciousness. Four Kesier runes floated above his half-transparent figure, but the rest of the sphere was empty. There was only a shining azure mark lingering at the top of its walls.
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