Chapter 798: Chapter 539: Divine Spirit Ruins Beneath the Unfrozen Lake

"Let’s go."

Mage Delin controlled the Starlight Shield, bringing the three of them with him as they slowly sank toward the gloomy bottom of the lake.

The Starlight Shield completely sealed out the icy water.

Standing inside the shield, Raylo could clearly see the pitch-black water outside.

Icy cold.

Utterly silent.

This was his first impression of the Unfrozen Lake.

Mage Delin’s Starlight Shield, like a tiny star falling into the abyss, carried the four of them downward at a steady pace toward the lakebed.

Sinking.

Deeper and deeper they sank.

The surrounding light grew dimmer and dimmer. Soon, aside from the soft starlight radiating from the shield itself, the world outside was a pitch-blackness where you couldn’t see your hand in front of your face.

Raylo could even feel an invisible pressure squeezing the shield from all directions.

The water pressure.

As they descended, this pressure was growing more and more terrifying.

On the shield’s surface, the runes formed from Star Power began to flow at a faster rate, emitting a low hum as they resisted the terrifying Giant Strength from the outside world.

"A lake several thousand meters deep on a mountain over ten thousand meters high... it’s just incredible."

Mage Wendel broke the silence, his brow slightly furrowed.

His voice echoed inside the shield, sounding somewhat muffled.

This lake was like a pool of stagnant water.

A massive, bottomless pool of it.

Time trickled by during the slow descent.

They must have descended several thousand meters.

Finally.

"We’re here!"

Mage Delin, who had been silent the whole time, halted their descent.

The Starlight Shield hovered quietly in the pitch-black depths.

"What is it?"

Wendel asked.

Mage Delin didn’t answer. He simply extended a gaunt finger and pointed down, tapping lightly.

A faint beam of starlight shot out from the shield, flying into the depths like an arrow released from a bowstring.

The beam of starlight fell for about a hundred meters.

Then.

A bizarre scene unfolded.

The starlight seemed to hit an invisible wall and was instantly annihilated, stirring up a visible ripple of energy that spread outward.

The ripple, like a wave in water, spread through the pitch-black lake, illuminating an area below.

Raylo’s pupils contracted suddenly.

’What is that?’

A hundred meters below them was not the silt or rock of the lakebed they had expected.

But rather... a massive, mirror-like plane that emitted a faint glow!

The plane was impossibly smooth and stretched as far as the eye could see, completely covering the entire lake floor.

The water went no further.

"Spatial Barrier..."

Mage Morpheus uttered two words.

A massive Barrier holding up the entire volume of the Unfrozen Lake!

"What a grand design!"

Mage Wendel couldn’t help but exclaim.

To support the pressure of such an immense body of water, the strength of this Barrier had to be anything but ordinary.

"It seems our target is right below this."

Mage Delin’s tone was still calm, but Raylo could sense that the Legendary Mage’s focus had sharpened to a fine point.

He controlled the Starlight Shield, hovering just over a dozen meters above the massive, membrane-like Barrier.

Only by being this close could one truly feel the vastness of the Barrier.

It was like a solidified sea of stars, with countless tiny points of light flowing slowly within, forming a complex tableau that Raylo couldn’t begin to comprehend.

"Let me give it a try."

Mage Wendel was clearly the impatient type.

He extended his hand, and a fist-sized ball of dark red molten rock condensed in his palm.

The terrifying heat made the air inside the shield grow scorching hot.

He flicked his hand sharply toward the Barrier below.

The ball of molten rock instantly flew out of the Starlight Shield, transforming into a fiery meteor that struck the glowing membrane with precision.

However.

There was no explosion.

Not even an extraneous sound.

The terrifying molten rock, hot enough to melt steel, was silently absorbed the moment it touched the glowing membrane, like a single drop of water falling into the ocean. It didn’t even cause the slightest ripple.

Mage Wendel’s expression stiffened.

"This..."

His attack had been completely "absorbed."

"Don’t waste your energy."

Mage Morpheus glanced at him.

"An ancient Barrier of this level has a self-contained, cyclical energy structure. Your little bit of Flame Energy is nothing more than fuel for it."

Mage Delin nodded in agreement. He held out his hand, and a miniature starry sky appeared in his palm.

Under his control, countless motes of Star Power formed a slender needle of light that slowly pricked at the Barrier.

He wasn’t attacking, but probing.

When the needle of light touched the Barrier, its tip flared with a dazzling brilliance, and a flood of information flowed back along the needle into Mage Delin’s mind.

A moment later, Mage Delin withdrew his hand, his brow deeply furrowed.

"Well?"

Morpheus asked.

"It’s very troublesome."

Mage Delin said in a grave voice.

"The core of this Barrier is deeply bound to the Laws of this space. To break it by force, we would have to alter the very structure of this space. But the Barrier’s primary function is to stabilize and seal this space."

"So there’s no other way?"

Wendel asked, unwilling to accept it.

"A direct assault will only allow the Barrier to absorb our Power and convert it into an even stronger defense."

Mage Delin shook his head.

"It might even trigger some kind of unknown counter-attack mechanism."

For a moment, the three Legendary Mages fell silent.

A Barrier that couldn’t be broken and couldn’t be entered.

Had they gone to all this trouble, dealt with the two "guard dogs," only to be stopped outside the main gate?

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