Chapter 1169 1169. Negotiations

Noah neared the corner of the southeastern coast slowly, but his instincts soon reassured him. He didn't feel any fear when landing on that prairie. The region appeared harmless.

The magical beasts living there maintained their unusual behavior even after King Elbas had disappeared for years. Still, Noah didn't sense the effects of formations when he neared the entrance of the palace at the center of the region.

There was something active underground, but it didn't seem aimed at Noah. King Elbas had created training areas, but he didn't waste time building defensive formations.

Noah felt some danger when entering the palace. The inscriptions there applied pressure on his mental sphere. Yet, they didn't aim at him.

They expressed part of King Elbas' might, but their purpose wasn't to protect the area. Noah guessed that they gathered energy to fuel the training areas underground.

Of course, there was a chance that many defenses had become inactive after they spent many years without their creator.

Noah didn't care about the specifics of that region. His target was somewhere inside the palace, and he felt free to enter it when his instincts didn't sense anything.

The palace's insides were as luxurious as Noah had recalled, but he didn't spend time investigating every room that he found. Many areas contained valuable resources, but they had barriers dividing them from the rest of the structure.

Noah could break those barriers if he decided to invest time and resources in the effort, but his target was elsewhere. He had felt it since he had entered the palace. He had to go underground to find it.

The palace had many corridors, but Noah only needed to listen to his instincts to find his target. He walked past many halls radiating a breathtaking aura and descended stairs with multiple branches until he reached a large room.

There were barriers there too. It seemed that King Elbas had deployed defenses only when he had to protect specific resources, and one of them could be vital to the alliance.

Noah arrived in front of a small door that had multiple shining lines on its edges. A peak solid stage aura covered those walls, but he didn't need to think of a way to break them just yet.

He kept his eyes fixed on the quasi-rank 7 magical beast restrained by a golden sphere inside the room. His best h