"That isn't the entrance of this heaven's corresponding abyss, right?"
Eve was as surprised as Ace and replied with uncertainty, "I don't think so. It is nigh impossible to cross between two places so simply. I have no memories of this. Maybe when I become more powerful, I might awaken those memories. But I can't be sure now still since this is a trial; I don't think it would be connected to the abyss."
Ace frowned a little, but he knew Eva's knowledge was limited despite her bloodline of the abyss so that he couldn't blame her. He then glanced at the fate map, and his eyes narrowed.
Although the fate map didn't show the terrains, it could still show the danger this place posed to Ace. Until now, the area was gray, even the black forest, yet that abyss was dyed black in the fate map.
'It might be the entrance to the true trial or some dangerous trap... I investigate it from the borders, and if found something amiss, I'll retreat immediately.'
After making up his mind, he slowed down, approached the abyss's entrance, and landed a few hundred meters from where the black forest ended.
Eva was also fully alert as she closely followed Ace. She could sense the dense aura of abyss from the darkness up ahead, and it was becoming denser the closer they got.
Ace also sensed that the law of darkness here was extremely apparent, and his stagnate Darkness Comprehension suddenly began to increase, which greatly shocked him. Not only that, but the laws corroded by the darkness also begin to make progress.
'This place has many laws related to darkness. Not only are the ones I have comprehended but there are some new ones that I don't know. But the heaviest presence is the laws of sin. If I stay here, I might be able to make huge progress in comprehension of darkness.
'I might be able to make the corruption of darkness reach 100%. Although I don't know what might happen when it reaches 100%, it has to be something good since the system is behind this...'
While Ace was mulling over this place, they finally reached the edge of the mouth of the abyss.
Only now could they gaze at the endless darkness, and there seemed no end to its depth.
Ace could barely peer around a hundred-meter-deep, and his thief sense also seemed restricted up to a mile radius, which was shocking. Ace then tried using the heavenly sense ability to see if he could find something.
As Ace released the heavenly sense, he could 'see' the depth of the abyss, but he was just a mile deeper when his heavenly sense suddenly stopped and wouldn't move forward no matter what, as if there was some invisible wall blocking it, just like his thief sense.
But it wasn't like Ace had discovered anything, not only his fortune sense was pointing below, with his heavenly sense he discovered something unusual.
"There is an escarpment around 900 meters deep with the wall of this abyss." He said to Eva while she was also using her soul sense to probe the depths, but she was even more miserable than Ace.
"What's wrong?" Ace finally looked at her and noticed that she was using her cultivation and was a little pale.
"Nothing, it's just some pressure from this place that is affecting me. I'm fine." Eva replied by suppressing her trembling body.
"No, you are not fine. Retreat in my space first and recover. This place might have some effect on your abyssal bloodline. Don't worry. After you recover, you can come back, or I'll summon you once I reach the end. So, being stubborn will do us no good." Ace solemnly stated.
Eva gritted her teeth before she asked Flaggy, instead of replying to Ace, "Hey, can you do something about this?"
Flaggy replied, "This place is very strange as it is filled with strange laws even I had never seen before. Even more powerful abyssal beings would have a hard time if they came here. It is as if this was deliberately done to make things difficult for abyssal beings and abyssal treasures alike.
"Although I can help you avert some of this pressure, it would also worsen my condition, and I might fall into deep slumber if I use my power too much. So, you can decide whether you want to use me here or not.
"But this boy made me truly shocked; he's still fine despite all these restrictions as if they don't apply to him. But it shouldn't be possible. If I hadn't witnessed it with my eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. Just what is his background?"
Eva frowned as she wasn't expecting this sort of reply, and she coldly scoffed, "You're really useless, aren't you? Not to mention shameless for inquiring about him after belittling him all this time!"
Eva then looked at Ace and nodded in agreement.
Since Flaggy was useless and, as it said, this place seemed to have some strange restriction towards abyssal beings, she was becoming a burden to Ace this way.
Although she could still handle this, her Qi would soon run out, so there was no point in continuing. Not to mention, using Flaggy for this was not worth it since Ace was still fine.
But she didn't know that Flaggy's assessment of the restrictions was wrong, and if it had been someone other than Eva, they would've never even been able to make it 500 meters deep before dying here.
Ace was only fine because of his affinity with darkness and authority, these laws restrictions were even helping him to gasp more profundities of darkness. But how could they both see through this? In fact, no one can!
Afterward, Ace didn't hesitate and sent her to his thief's space, inside her house, so that she could recover. He then continued slowly while he was comprehending the darkness.
After an unknown amount of time passed, Ace's steady footsteps suddenly came to a halt because, in the steep pathway, there was an opening within the dark wall!