CHAPTER 554 HEADING FOR THE THREE-HALL CITY

Knowing that Soar had already made up his mind to leave, Ricky just gave him a smile even though he

knew that Soar took the matter seriously.

"Then what are you waiting for, bro? Get yourself ready. We should waste no time. We need to get to

the Three-hall City to save your princess," Ricky urged in a cheerful voice.

However, Soar's determination quickly vanished. He became hesitant now that Ricky had offered his

help to go with him. "Well, I can go there alone. I think it would be best if you stay in the Oriental

College. Don't worry, I can manage," he said in a mild and confident tone.

"I guess you're quite afraid that I might be caught by the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce, right?"

Ricky asked with all honesty after thinking about the situation for a while.

"Yes, you're right about that. I mean, you really don't have to take the risk for me," Soar nodded with a

frown on his face. At that point, he was really worried about Ricky's safety.

"We are sworn brothers, and this is no secret already. Everyone knows that. So it's just fair to say that if

they discover you, it would also mean that they have already discovered me, too. Even if we don't act

together, they would still find the clues that link us together. After all, do you think I would stand by and

do nothing if you got into some trouble? Come on, I know you would do the same thing for me. So why

not take this one together, starting from the beginning? It will eventually save a lot of troubles I'm sure,"

Ricky said as he tried to persuade Soar into letting him go with him.

"I see. You make a fair point. I guess, you should get ready then. Let's go," Soar replied as he saw the

sincerity in Ricky's eyes. With that, he didn't insist on leaving him behind anymore.

He knew that Ricky was telling the truth about their situation. Deep in his heart, Soar also knew that

Ricky would do anything to help and save him if ever he was caught by the hostile forces. If that were

the case, but hopefully not, then it was justifiable that they went together, so that each of them had

back up. After all, if they were that unfortunate as being caught and discovered, they still had a trick up

their sleeve—the Chaotic Fire Zone. They could easily hide inside the zone which would then reduce

the risk of getting caught in the first place.

"But I think we should still prepare for some other things before we can go," Ricky said with a smile on

his excited face.

Afterwards, Soar went with Ricky to the Weapon Casting Department to meet Cameron. Soar was out

of words as he heard what Ricky asked from Cameron—three masks made of human skin. But then

Soar realized what Ricky wanted to do with them. Out of all the casting masters, Ricky was sure that he

had put his trust on the right hands as he knew that Cameron could make them. This genius idea was

for their disguise. Any warrior below a demi-spiritual emperor wouldn't be able to detect the real faces

behind them if they wore those masks.

Upon hearing his request, Cameron already knew that Ricky wanted to go out and practice. Although

he did not want to let Ricky leave the college gates and act alone, he still did what he was asked to do.

Cameron, realizing Ricky's need for a disguise, knew that it was impossible for the young man to make

fast progress if he were only confined inside the walls of the college yard.

With this, Cameron didn't refuse the request, nor did he ask more about what it was for. In fact, he had

even asked the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor to come and help him with the casting with the

use of his ruling power.

And in no time, three human-skinned masks were successfully made by the casting master, which

would not be possible without the help from the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor. These masks

were real enough to deceive and trick any demi-spiritual warrior who would not be keen with inspection,

which was what Ricky had exactly wanted to achieve.

"Thank you so much, sirs!" Ricky said as he bowed to the two warriors out of respect and gratitude.

The masks were very well and professionally made. Ricky could not be thankful enough for the

generosity of the two warriors who were really nice to him for granting his request. And for that, he had

nothing but utmost gratitude for them.

"Oh, and by the way, be careful on your journey. Better not go to places where forces full of demi-

spiritual emperors that might be lurking around. And one more thing, don't forget that the Land of

Legacy in the Eastern Realm of Wildness will start to appear in four months. Make sure that you get

there by then, and seize this opportunity to make quick progress," the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual

Emperor kindly reminded them before they set off.

"Thanks. I will keep that in mind," Ricky replied, nodding.

As soon as they had prepared everything, Ricky went to find Jasper and Terrence to tell them about his

temporary disappearance right before his actual leave from the Oriental College with Soar and Tina.

And of course, even though the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor and Cameron already knew

about his plans about leaving, they didn't have the slightest idea how they managed to leave the

college under their noses. Both Cameron and the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor already knew

about their plan, but of course they still kept quiet about it. Next morning came and just like that, three

young warriors had just disappeared from the college without a trace. This incident, however, took two

seniors by surprise.

"How were they able to pull that off? They might have used some spiritual space tool for their escape to

work," asked Cameron, his face scrunching up from all the thinking.

"Good point. They might have activated one in the middle of the night and then escaped. I commend

them for their idea though," said the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor as he nodded his head in

amusement. "If so, we could expect that they will be safe for now."

"But I must say that you don't seem to be worried at all from the beginning, or have you done anything

secretly to protect them? Just yesterday, I remember you asking where they were off to," Cameron

asked as he gave the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor an inquiring look. To him, it just seemed

odd that someone who liked Ricky so much didn't take on any worried expression.

"Haha, I won't let the cat out of the bag," the Heavenly Ape Demi-spiritual Emperor answered jokingly.

He didn't deny it, but he surely didn't tell more about it, either.

Meanwhile, the whole Oriental College was stirred by Ricky's sudden and secret departure. All the

disciples started to throw in their guesses on how he had managed to escape, and many of them had

even thought that he must have used the spiritual space tool he had shown the other day—the Mind

Palace Model.

Sure enough, what Ricky did caused the disciples from the Luxurious Chamber of Commerce to be

enraged. They couldn't believe that they had all neglected the powerful spiritual space tool Ricky had

been carrying all this time. They could blame no one but themselves that Ricky had successfully

escaped from right under their noses.

The only one good thing about it was that since Ricky was not there anymore, they didn't have to watch

him like a hawk. From their point of view, if their alliance forces searched for Ricky out there together, it

would be a piece of cake for them to find this annoying guy, sooner than later. Therefore, it was not

such a piece of bad news for them after all.

But this was just their wishful thinking. Truth was, Ricky had gone directly to the Three-hall City with

Soar and Tina, under the cover of the Chaotic Fire Zone. It was a strategic move, in fact. This was

because even before the alliance forces could react to this news, they were already nowhere to be

found.

To the east of the Oriental Realm, the Three-hall City was located, which was considered to be one of

the largest cities in the realm. Moreover, the city was noted for three powerful forces with completed

spiritual kings—the Saber Hall, the Spear Hall, and the Sword Hall.

And Scar was the leader of the Saber Hall.

Apart from the powerful forces that led the city was the Dark Fallen Realm, which was located in a big

area to the east of the said realm. Ricky had only heard a bit about it when he was in the Oriental

College.

Among all the things in that area, there was one force that was familiar to Ricky—the Endless Shadow.

Of course, the Endless Shadow in the Dark Fallen Realm might have the same name as the

organization from the Realm of Wildness, but it was hardly ever the same.

The difference was that the organization from the Dark Fallen Realm was an emperor force, and had

up to three innate spiritual emperors to keep it running. It could be said that it was the headquarters of

this force in the whole Eastern Land.

Be that as it may, it was still not the most powerful force in the Dark Fallen Realm. There was an even

more powerful, more mysterious, and more formidable force that was feared in the area called the

Nether Manor.

Little was known about this Nether Manor except that it was really powerful and feared by the people.

Nobody knew exactly how many spiritual emperors l it had, nor how many warriors it actually owned.

But it was undoubtedly the strongest and most dangerous force across the Eastern Land that nobody

wanted to mess with. About a hundred years ago, it totally destroyed a force with two spiritual

emperors just overnight, killing off all the possibilities for it to rise again.

It was something so horrible that even the Oriental College couldn't easily live up to their legacy

nowadays. And from then on, the Nether Manor had gained such a strong foothold on the land that

people got goose bumps just from hearing its name.

Meanwhile, after travelling for a tiring five days, Ricky, Soar, and Tina had finally reached the Three-hall

City in one piece.

Upon reaching the place, Ricky glanced at the whole city from above and found it as magnificent as

legends had described it to be. It might not be as big as the Oriental City, but was huge enough to

make an impression as it housed three famous forces with completed spiritual kings, after all.

With no time to spare, Ricky controlled the Chaotic Fire Zone and changed his direction, moved into

the city, and got straight into the Saber Hall.

They went directly to the secret chamber Scar had arranged in advance, and got out from the Chaotic

Fire Zone. Having their masks on, the people who came out of the zone looked like normal warriors.

Their cover was successful and only careful and wise men would see right through them.

Meanwhile, Inside the secret chamber, Scar, Madeline, Yedda and Yolanda were already waiting for

their arrival.

It was no surprise to them when they saw three strangers turn up. For one, they had already known

that putting up disguises was a must if they wanted their plan to work. Moreover, they knew that Ricky

had used a powerful spiritual space tool to help them travel this far. So it was nothing surprising that the This is the property of Nô-velDrama.Org.

three of them would show up this way.

"What the hell happened, Madeline? So tell me which bastard's been giving you trouble and I'm going

to give him what he deserves!" Soar went up and asked Madeline straight up the moment he saw her.

He got so irritated that he just couldn't keep his voice down even for just a bit.

Ricky, Scar, and Tina all exchanged embarrassed looks when Soar had ignored all of them and made a

fuss, like he was going to beat up anyone that had offended the girl he liked.

Ricky had mixed emotions upon witnessing Soar's burst of anger. 'Oh boy, couldn't you just restrain

yourself a bit? Everyone's watching, you know!' he thought with a faint smile on his face. Nevertheless,

Ricky didn't say anything to stop Soar. He knew him very well and that was enough reason to let him

be. Honestly, he quite liked his simple, yet open and warm personality, along with the fact that his

words and deeds always matched what was inside his head.

By how things looked, it was obvious that Madeline shared Ricky's opinion, as someone more than just

a friend to Soar. Her face lit up and flushed in bright pink. Her grave expression was even gone at

Soar's determined, yet overly protective words. But if there was anything, she was quite happy about

how Soar cared about her so much. It even made her stomach flutter and her heart beat faster in her

chest. She clearly knew why Soar would act like this, as for more than one time, this guy had already

confessed his love and desire for her face to face.

"So, tell us about it, Scar. What on earth has happened to Saber Hall?"