The Elf Journey In The Western Fantasy World-Chapter 146: Layers of Light, Layers of Lies

The magic puppet’s positioning was actually quite clever.

It hadn’t stepped too deep into the Cold Pool entrance zone—it remained in the "outer edge" area.

So wasn’t it completely reasonable that it hadn’t been heavily affected by the attack?

With that realization, Ke’Oth hunkered down and diligently carried out his "craft."

Only after the Cold Pool’s entrance had been blasted beyond recognition did he finally ease up.

By then, the Cold Pool’s entrance area no longer resembled anything close to its original state.

The craters were scattered here and there, with rocks of all sizes strewn across the surroundings.

Fortunately, there hadn’t been any plants in the area—just barren soil.

Then again, calling it barren land now no longer seemed accurate, since this small patch had been reduced to something resembling a beehive.

Ke’Oth fell silent as he stared at the scene he had created. Had he... maybe... overdone it?

Hmm... it kind of looked that way.

Dear heavens, please let the Demon King spare him, considering it was all because he was working too hard.

Boohoo... his little vault couldn’t handle another round of fines for "land destruction."

His funds were already hanging by a thread.

The loud booms began right when Eoryun had closed his eyes.

The sounds varied in intensity, some loud, some soft, some sounding distant, others frighteningly close.

The ones nearby seemed to erupt right in front of him, while the distant ones felt like they were happening leagues away—none of it felt like something occurring right around him.

It was all very strange.

Yet, he had no desire to open his eyes and look.

Out of sheer boredom, he started counting how many explosions had gone off.

Time passed quickly with his mental sheep-counting, and the roaring noises gradually died down.

Even after they stopped, Eoryun patiently waited a bit longer.

Only after a few more moments did he open his eyes to see what had actually happened.

And when he did...

He was struck silent by the scene before him.

This...

Good thing he’d sent the magic puppet in to test the area first.

If he had stepped directly into that area without any defenses just now, he probably would’ve been blasted into smithereens.

Fortunately, the magic puppet he had created merely ended up battered and ragged but didn’t completely dissipate.

What incredible luck.

Wait a minute—how did the magic puppet not get obliterated under such intense firepower?!

Only now did Eoryun belatedly realize that something was off.

He had definitely heard a lot of explosions just now.

And the once-normal ground was now filled with numerous craters of varying sizes.

A delicate, fragile magic puppet like that shouldn’t have been able to survive under such overwhelming firepower!

Could it be that the attacking magical array had some sort of auto-recognition feature?

At that thought, Eoryun’s gaze sharpened and the mental alarm bells in his head started ringing again.

From that point on, anything he looked at was tinted with suspicion.

He couldn’t shake the feeling that something was wrong—even if, on the surface, nothing seemed out of place.

Carrying that doubt, Eoryun decided he couldn’t just make a hasty judgment. freēnovelkiss.com

He started carefully re-examining his surroundings.

And upon closer inspection, he finally spotted something unusual.

It wasn’t that the magic puppet hadn’t been affected—it was that it had been barely affected.

The reason?

The magic puppet had been fortunate enough not to step deeply into the Cold Pool entrance zone—it had simply stood at the very edge.

Because of this positioning, Eoryun also noticed something else: on the surface, the craters seemed to result from wild, excessive firepower—but in truth, they were laid out in a very orderly pattern.

Taking into account the magic puppet’s location and the surrounding environment—

He got it.

A sudden moment of clarity struck him.

So there was a method behind all of this!

Now all he needed to do was walk through the areas with minimal destruction, and as long as he added a few dozen layers of defensive magic arrays on himself, he could safely enter the Cold Pool unscathed.

No time to waste—he moved straight into action.

Eoryun gathered his courage and began casting defensive buffs on himself.

Waves of white light flashed and pulsed around him.

Before long, his entire body was enveloped in a milky-white glow, making his features indistinguishable.

Once all preparations were complete, Eoryun bravely took his first step forward.

At the same time, the firepower rained down again, but every blast landed exactly where he had predicted—far from him—and any damage he took was merely from scattered debris that grazed past his body.

But he had cast over a hundred layers of defensive arrays on himself—those little pebbles weren’t going to hurt him!

Hehe. This is what it means to fully max out the defense stat.

I really am one clever guy.

Not far away, Sebastian watched Eoryun—now hidden beneath a veil of white light—and felt deeply conflicted.

His expression twisted into something indescribably strange.

"No wonder every time the God of Light descends to perform a ’miracle,’ he’s always shrouded in white light. Turns out, it’s just him casting a boatload of defensive arrays on himself to make sure he doesn’t get hurt."

"So the God of Light’s been playing it safe all along?"

Sebastian: After learning the truth... he really didn’t know how to feel.

Without considering how complicated Sebastian’s emotions were at the moment, the surrounding spectators were visibly stunned by what they had just heard from his muttering.

First, they were baffled as to why Sebastian would suddenly bring up a god who had long since vanished from the continent—specifically, the highest-ranking god among the righteous deities.

Second, it was the content of what he said that shocked them even more.

What did he mean by: "The God of Light was just trying to stay alive all along"?

They didn’t understand. They were shocked.

But none of them chose to open their mouths and ask for clarification.

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