Versatile: Alternate World

1010  Guardians of Excalibur

I continue to cruise around the ruined Agartha with the monsters behind me currently following and chasing me. They are not a big threat as I occasionally blast them with the cannon and they would die before they can even become a real nuisance. The ones that are left chasing me are those remnants of the group that are behind those that were blasted earlier and just managed to move to the front after most of the junk monsters have been killed, allowing them to get into space.

"I can sense an intense power northwest here. Although I am not sure if that is the place we are going to head, it seems that is one of the places that has a high concentration of power." the shadow dragon alerted me.

"So there are other concentrations of power like this one you just detected?" I asked.

"Indeed but they are far from our location so I didn't add them to the locations that are possible for us to reach. This one I detected is much closer."

Northwest huh? That is also where fewer monsters appear on the road, meaning there is indeed something over there that we have not seen. This also means there is a high chance that the place we are heading is either the location of the Excalibur, the location of the item that we will need to revive everyone, or maybe even the Rhongomyniad.

Now that the Junk denizens have lessened significantly after shooting cannonballs at them every chance I get, I can now safely go Northwest where the location of the high power concentration is currently gathering.

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As I arrived there, I was surprised to see a big cathedral. It wasn't a futuristic cathedral or anything. It still resembles the same cathedral seen in the Vatican or even in some places where they have a big church. I will just say that it does look much bigger than the ones I saw in the pictures of the Vatican's cathedrals.

"The energy is up ahead, wielder. It's quite strong and I don't think we can reach it by using your vehicle to get inside."

Like the shadow dragon said, the energy does start to pick up in strength. It wasn't bad in the distance but the power indeed picked up after getting close.

As for the junk denizens that were on my tail earlier, they started to flee once I got close to this place which also means even though they are not that intelligent and they move based on their instincts, they still know to steer clear in this place.

Parking the trike into the side, I read the Devourer and we continue onwards to the cathedral.

"This place has pure mana revolving around the place. I have not felt this kind of pureness of mana ever since the Primordial times ended. You won't find this pure mana anymore on the surface."

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Pure mana...I heard before that Earth also had pure mana but since it was underutilized, it didn't make any big changes on Earth, and only those who developed the sensitivity of mana that people managed to use the latent mana present on Earth.

I continue to head inside and am soon greeted by the place littered with armor stands of various knights. I recognize some of them as they are some of the armors used by some Paladins and Holy Knights. Heck, some swordsman armor are also present there. They are even completely armed as well with spears and swords along with some that carries a mace and shield.

At first, I didn't pay much attention to them as they are too common and thought they were just mere decorations of the place, but as soon as I started to get to enter the place fully, the door that was open before suddenly shut close, trapping me inside.

"It's a trap!" The shadow dragon exclaimed as I look at the armors started moving from their posts and moving erratically with weapons they carry in their hands.

"No wonder there are so many armor stands here. These f*ckers move on their own."

I don't sense any sort of thread that makes them move on their own via puppeteer skills, nor they are being controlled by a monster inside their armor. They are just pure armor and weapon equipped together and are moving like a real person.

To stop them from moving, destroying them fully is the only way as we don't think there are any sort of ways to kill them.

Changing the Devourer's form into a hammer, I entered into battle with the enemies. Despite being made of armor, they are quite agile and adept at their powers. They even block my attacks as I try to hit them. But for the armor to fully block a big hammer's attack with a sword, they needed an equal force to counter mine and parry my attack. Sadly, their powers are not as strong as the strike of my hammer and even though they attempt to block the attacks of the Devourer, they are not that capable of doing so .

Clang Clang Clang!

As soon as their bodies got hit by the hammer they immediately break to pieces. They don't disintegrate but their armor pieces just scatter to pieces.

"Hey, wanna eat those parts? I can let you devour them."

"Ugh, no thank you. You can have it. I know I like to eat weapons and such, but these guys are disgusting. I might be greedy and gluttonous, but I also have some things I don't want to eat and one of them are these weapons and armor pieces."

"Huh, that's actually new. Didn't know you would be disgusted by it."

"I have some likes and dislikes as well. Just go and destroy them to get rid of them properly. You don't want them rising back from the dead, ya know."

Instead of moving to the next target, I continue to smash the broken pieces of armor on the ground per the instruction of the Shadow Dragon. Flattening them and breaking them to pieces causes the armor that I have destroyed to disintegrate and disappear.

As one holding a sword approaches, I immediately kicked to the direction of the living armor but the living armor immediately blocked the my kick, grab the leg that was about to kick and attempted top slice my leg.

"As if you would get a leg from me." With a quick twist, I immediately freed myself from the living armor which then allowed me to follow up with a swing with the hammer and breaking the attacking armor to pieces.

Just like the Junk denizens, these things are also easy to break to pieces, making them not so annoying to deal with. They tried to be unpredictable but the hammer was so effective that they don't even get to perform being unpredictable.

It didn't take long for me to dispose all of them and breaking them to pieces.

"These guys are pretty annoying like those junk monsters" the shadow dragon voiced his annoyance to the living armor.

"They are like protecting something," I frowned as I noticed their movement that they seemed to be stopping my attempt to head to the next area."

"They surely does. Since they are living armor, it is clear as day that they are the replacements for human guards. Living Armor can guard this place alone from any invaders which means there is something in here deep inside. We should hurry and head there as fast as we can."

I nodded in agreement and we started to make our way to the hallways and to the next floor. Just like what we expected, they are all littered all over the place, making them waste our time. They are easy to deal with but they are annoying as hell so I am pissed as I clear them one by one.

After an hour or maybe two, we soon arrived to the top place of this cathedral and what welcomed us there is a very big round table, chairs encircling the table with every chair being occupied with a living armor.

But at the center of that table is a display stand where a golden sword is floating at the top of it. I may have not seen him wield the sword personally, but seeing that weapon before allowed me to immediately recognize it. I am not mistaken about it, that is indeed the Excalibur.

But there is something different from the Excalibur I saw and this Excalibur. The fact that it glows brightly like the sun, yet exudes the power of latent darkness in it, it was like both of them are coexisting in one place.

As we are getting near the round table, the living armors that are sitting on the chairs stood up and pulled out their respective weapons. What makes me shocked is that all of them are holding weapons that can be considered the weapons used by the knights of the Round Table.

"I see now. These living armors are the recreation to the real knights of the Round Table. Maybe even the weapons they are holding are their real deal weapons as well. They might be guarding that weapon from intruders. Which means, we are not going to get the Excalibur as easily as we thought."

I entered combat stance and held the Devourer tightly in my hands as I face the incoming Living Armors.

"It doesn't matter. They are not gonna stop us here."

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