Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 253 Can you see it?

"This girl clearly is a psycho, just like those that I have faced before..." That was the first thing that Alex thought as he started at the kimono woman’s wagging tongue. "Ugh, why does my opponents have to be people like them? Will I even get someone decent?"

Of course Alex knew that he should not be getting worried about things like this right now, but still, he could not help but have mixed feelings as he looked at the clearly unhinged woman above him.

"Queen Mother... how long do we still need to wait?" Alex hurriedly asked the tree woman as the intensity of the attacks of the Celestials started to increase. "We don’t have much time to wait here..."

"Give me a minute more!" Queen Mother replied as Professor Frances started spilling out chemicals out from her massive tank. "I just have to adjust the parasite’s temperature sensitivity!

"A minute? Hmm... I think we can manage to last that long." Alex muttered to himself as he observed the effect of the attacks of the Celestials. "With the way that they are attacking now, our defensive shield, which we continuously fed to get stronger, will surely block all these attacks until the time limit!"

This assumption might sound good, but Alex had to throw it away of the window when the kimono woman suddenly gave a command out of her mouth.

"My cute Celestials, go and use the toys that we procured from the Yellow Moon! Let’s test their might here!"

"As you wish, Lady Gabriella!" All the Celestials shouted in excitement after hearing what the kimono woman said. They then hefted their weapons on their hands, as if they were about to start using it.

"Uh oh, now this doesn’t sound good at all." Alex thought to himself as he narrowed his eyes. "This is making me somewhat worried..."

Of course Alex was worried, but aside from being worried, Alex was also feeling curious right now, especially on what these weapons could do.

With his danger sense, Alex could not feel any hint of danger coming from the weapons, not even a slightest whiff of it.

Even though the weapons look extremely dangerous, in Alex’s danger sense, they only feel like useless lumps of metal.

Naturally, Alex was intrigued by this feeling.

"Are these weapons immune to my danger sense, or do they still have to do something before I can feel danger from them?" Alex thought to himself as he sped up the fortification of their defensive shield. "Tsk, now this is making me feel unsettled!"

"Hahaha! Filthy Symbolists, let’s see how long you will last under these weapons!" One of the Celestials said in mirth as all of them pointed their weapons at the defensive shield.

"Hong~" Out of nowhere, the weapons held by the Celestials started to glow white, as if something was triggered inside them.

"Boom!"

Just a second later, and all these weapons shot out yellow balls of light..

"!!!" At that moment, Alex’s danger sense started to activate, making Alex feel wary about these yellow light balls.

As these yellow light balls hurtled forward, Alex could see the space around the yellow balls being warped considerably.

Beside him, Alina could be seen letting out a light gasp as she also saw the space warping phenomenon.

"Ali-" Before Alex could ask Alina what she discovered, he had to stop talking as he felt the yellow light balls starting to collide with the defensive shield.

"Crack..." Alex definitely heard this light sound, even amongst the chaos of the battle.

"!!!" This sound might be just miniscule, but this sound made Alex sure of one thing.

And that is that the shield is being affected by the blasts!

At the moment that the yellow light balls hit the shield, Alex saw countless holes appearing at the collision site, with each hole causing slight damage on the shield.

Right now, Alex saw that the combination of all the damages resulted on small cracks appearing on the shield!

A millisecond later, and these cracks disappeared, as the defensive shield started to heal on its own.

"..." This healing factor might have allowed their shield to stay stable, but Alex knew that the damage have been already done.

With what had just happened now, their opponent’s special weapons were shown to be capable of emitting some heavy damage!

For Alex, this was hard to believe, as the current power of their shield was enough to stop 30% of the Grand Symbolist’s full forced attack!

"Since all of these weapons were able to make a dent, then does that mean, that we are facing a legion that are capable of dishing out a combined attack that was as powerful as 30% of the Grand Celestial’s power? Tsk, this is not good!" Alex thought to himself as their enemies continued on bombarding their shield, with this time using their special weapons.

"Everyone, don’t falter against their attacks! Just hold your lines!" Alex shouted to the Symbolists as he stood up, brushing off the dust on his clothes. "Their attacks might have gotten stronger, but don’t worry we also have a way to attack them! Just trust in me!"

"..." The Symbolists, even with their long time with Alex during the Calamity, still did not fully trust him, but with their current situation, they have no choice but to follow what he said.

Seeing that nobody among the Symbolists questioned him, Alex only gave them a grateful nod before he looked at Alina.

"So Alina, did you recognize what those weapons are?" Alex immediately asked Alina, as he knew that her reaction earlier was because of those weapons.

"Alex, I am not sure what those weapons are, but with my power, I can feel that their effects are related to spatial manipulation." Alina hurriedly replied as she gritted her teeth. "Those yellow balls of light that you saw earlier? They had been configured in some way so that when they hit another object, their collision will cause some kind of chain reaction to punch holes through space!"

As Alina gave this answer, Alex could not help but widen his eyes as he started to look surprised.

"Those things created holes through space? No wonder they were able to make that kind of damage." Alex thought to himself idly as he stared at the bombardment above him.

Right now, the efforts of their enemies have doubled, with the frequency of their attacks increasing every second.

This increase in effort naturally had caused the cracks on the shield to increase, eliciting panic on the Symbolists below.

"..." Alex naturally saw this, but he seemed to be not on a rush right now. He did not even look like he was panicking, which was abnormal, since he was slightly flustered earlier.

"..." Alina naturally saw this, which made her worried for Alex again.

But this time around, Alex’s lack of panic was not because of his weird circumstances.

Instead, Alex’s current calmness was caused by something else.

Right now, Alex’s face held an enlightened expression, as he seemed to have realized something important.

This enlightenment was further explained when Alex started to talk.

"These guys... they are just testing us." Alex suddenly said as he let out a shaky laugh. "Damn, why did I not recognize this quickly? These enemies that we have right now? They are just conning us big time!"

"Alex... what do you mean by that?" Alina replied as a confused expression appeared on her face. "You think all of this is just a con?"

Because of the bombardment right now, Alina was prepared to attack their enemy already. But she was forced to stop as he heard what Alex just said.

"Con? Yes, these people are just conning us.’ Alex replied quickly as he shook his head. "And do you know what made me realize this? It’s the words that you uttered earlier!"

"You mean, the one where I said that the people above us were both real and fake?" Alina said as she gave Alex a blank stare.

"Yes, that one." Alex said as he nodded his head. His face right now both looked relieved and angry, although the anger portion was more prominent.

"Even if the Celestial Faction did their best to suppress information about the capabilities of the Traveler Team that was with them, our spies still managed to bring some small info back to us." Alex suddenly said as he stared at the kimono woman above them. "One of those info was about a special ability that one of them possesses. Alina, you remember what that was, right?"

"Yes, I remember." Alina said as he nodded her head. "According to one of our spies, there was one occasion where that Traveler Team was invited by some Celestial officials to eat at a high-end restaurant. At that restaurant, one of the members of that Traveler Team let out a complaint, saying that one of the courses served to them was too little. The one who let out that complaint was the little boy. After giving that complain, that boy did the unthinkable. He touched the food that was in front of him, and a second later, the food that he touched became three! That boy then touched the glass in front of him, and at the instant that he touched the glass, it became three too! The boy proceeded to do the same thing on the other stuff inside the restaurant, making the Celestials who joined them extremely shocked."

"That’s the exact story that our spies had told us." Alex said as he gave Alina a nod. "From this info that they got, we can basically say that the little boy has the ability to triplicate an object."

"Duplicating an object will make that object double, while triplicating an object will make that object triple." Alina muttered behind Alex as she nodded her head. "Okay, we already knew that someone amongst that Traveler Team has the triplication ability. But how could that be related here?"

"Well Alina, have you ever thought that maybe, this little boy’s triplication does not only affect non-living things? What if he can triplicate living objects too?"

"Triplicate living objects? That’s possible..." Alina replied as she cupped her chin. "But in that case, the copies of those living objects will be real, but also not real, since they were just the copies of the original living object. That means- oh."

"Exactly." Alex replied as he let out a grin. "What your eyes saw earlier had basically reinforced my theory right now."

"This little boy... he triplicated the Celestials that are with them, and maybe that triplication includes his Traveler Team too!" Alina almost shouted out as her eyes went wide. "That’s just..."

"Preposterous." Alex helpfully said as he let out a rueful smile. "And if my suspicions were right, that triplication created three batches of similar people. The first batch must have been sent to the Green Moon, while the second batch were sent to deal with us. As for the third batch, they must have been staying at the Yellow Moon, just to defend that place. Tsk, tsk, tsk, these guys are actually this powerful... No wonder they are so confident that they can deal with us."

"But Alex... if what you said is really right, then why are you relieved now?" Alina replied as she gazed at Alex. "Shouldn’t you be more worried already?"

"Oh Alina, you seemed to have forgotten something important." Alex replied as he pointed his fingers at their enemies. "There... can you see it?"

"Alex, my eyes can see much better than you, but I still can’t get what you are pertaining to."

"...There, do you see it now?"

"Alex, I still can’t."

"..."