Endless Journey: Infinite Realms

Chapter 356 Please, please, stop it!

When the true form of the Mountain of Enlightenment was revealed, all the TimeMasters were rendered surprised and wary by it, which led to CEO Smith’s hasty decision.

As for the mortals, they only could only watch the floating mountain in wonder, as they have no idea on what could happened next.

As for the Immortals, they all started to look at the Mountain of Enlightenment with looks of hopes in their eyes, as they all felt a sense of worship on it.

The reactions of these groups of people showed the whole impact of the appearance of the Mountain of Enlightenment, which in a sense, was just acceptable, as this was the first time since thousands of years that a Peak Order 6 Treasure has shown itself to the world.

While everyone was forming their own actions and plans with the appearance of this mountain, the rebels, who were the ringleader of the surprising event today, were also starting to implement all of their plans.

"Fuh.... so the ritual is about to start already. Annie, you should prepare yourself now. You have no choice but to accept it." The one who said these words was Amon, who was Annie’s biological uncle.

He was wearing his trademark demon mask, which was paired by a blood-red robe that was covering his whole body.

Amon’s whole demeanor was that of a calm person, with none of his anger and smugness present. He was currently tranquil, which made him look somewhat unfathomable to Annie.

Annie, who was still confined in her own room, only scrunched her eyes as she glared at her uncle.

"Just like what I told you before, I will never allow myself to be placed in your ritual, whatever that ritual could be." Annie hotly said as she crossed her arms. "Whatever offers you gave me, I will never, ever allow you to have your way!"

After saying these words, Annie continued glaring at Amon intently, as if she was trying to make sure that her point was accepted by him.

"Sigh... Annie, you are really stubborn, just like your father." Amon seemed to smile upon hearing Annie’s reply, as if he already had expected her to say this. "I like that trait of yours, but right now, that won’t be of any use to you."

"Hmph, you’re trying to make it sound like you can do something against me." Annie replied condescendingly as she crossed her arms. "If I did not give you my consent, do you think that you can really use your ritual to harm me? Do you really think that I will allow that to happen?"

"Hah? And who told you that we intend to harm you?" Amon said as he started leering at Annie(Under his mask of course). A mocking smile appeared on his face, which seemed to be directed at Annie. "Did I ever say that I will harm you in our ritual?"

"What? But you-"

"I just said that we want to place you in a ritual, nothing more nothing less." Amon leisurely said as he shook his head. "I did not say that we will torture you with our ritual, or that we will kill you using it. I just said that we will put you in a ritual..."

After saying these words, Amon’s leery smile at Annie widened as he started to approach her.

His calm demeanor from earlier has now disappeared, as it was now replaced by an intensely greedy one. And unfortunately for Annie, all of these greed were all concentrated on her alone.

"Hey! Don’t come near me!" As she realized that something has changed with her uncle, Annie started to back away from Amon, with her vigilant eyes concentrated on his masked face. "You can’t hurt me!"

"Yes, I can’t hurt you. But I never wanted to hurt you at all." Amon slowly said as he grabbed Annie’s hand. "Come Annie. You have a ritual to attend."

"J-just like what I said earlier, I will not accept your ritual!" Annie shouted as she used all of her remaining power to shake off her uncle’s grip. "So stop forcing me to accept it!"

"Annie, I’m sorry to say this, but your refusal of our ritual won’t make you exempted from it." Amon said these words with intense passion in his voice, which managed to increase Annie’s panic. "The truth is, we don’t need your consent to use the ritual on you. If we could have wanted it, we could have done the ritual on your already..."

"Lies! You are lying!" Annie immediately replied as she tried to suppress her panic. "If you want to harm me using a ritual, you must obtain my consent first! If you don’t get my consent, you can never use your rituals to harm me! That is the law in this world!"

"..."

Annie’s words, in the context of this world, were both logical and sane. There’s nothing that can refute these words, as this has been the truth since the beginning of time.

But even with this, Amon seemed to take no note of its logic as he just shook his head.

"Annie, didn’t I just tell you earlier that our ritual won’t harm you?" Amon said as he continued shaking his head. "We don’t have any intention on dong that, as it will just be futile..."

"Then what-"

"Annie, our ritual is meant to help you, not harm you." Amon said in a cheerful tone. "Trust me, what we will do to you will be of great benefit to you!"

"!!!" Annie’s breath started to hitch up, as she began to realize that her uncle and his allies were planning to do to her.

"Annie, that is the reason why you cannot resist our ritual. It’s because it was not meant to harm you. Our ritual for you is intended to help you..." Amon muttered as he started patting Annie’s small head. "You can only resist against our harmful actions. But as for actions that will benefit you? You can’t guard against it!"

"..."

Seeing that Annie was still rendered silent by his words, Amon snickered a little as he continued talking.

"Annie, do you know where we are right now? We are inside the Mountain of Enlightenment, which is our group’s only Peak Order 6 Treasure!" Even with his face covered by a mask, there was no doubt that Amon was wearing an extremely smug look right now. "Annie, this treasure will be the one that will be used to fix you!"

After saying these words, Amon started to drag Annie with him as he slowly walked towards the room’s only exit door.

He took no note of Annie’s suddenly petrified state as he thought that Annie was just too happy to speak right now.

"Annie, now that our Elders have activated the power of the Mountain of Enlightenment, there is no escape for you anymore." Amon said to Annie as he stopped walking. "For the next hour, the Mountain of Enlightenment will gather all of the soul and mental power of every Immortal Cultivators living in this world. All of this gathered soul and mental power will then be used to fuel the World Awakening Ritual!"

It was only at this point that Annie started to show a reaction on her uncle’s words. Her reaction however, can be said to be that of a crazed person.

"No!!!" Annie let out this blood-curdling shout as she started bucking against her uncle’s tight grip.

She did not care on how tight she was held by her uncle as she just continued on yanking her arm desperately.

Her eyes turned bloodshot, with all of her hair suddenly frazzling out of her body.

Sharp, ear-splitting shrieks continued to come out of her throat as she glared at Amon with a murderous intent.

"Don’t you dare fix me! I don’t need any of your help!" Annie, whose wrists are now bloodied due to her jerky movements from earlier, shouted this reply angrily towards her uncle. "If you dare do this, I will never ever forgive your group!"

"Annie, why don’t you want to be healed? Aren’t you damaged right now?" Although Amon was rattled by the manic change by Annie, he held his ground as he did his best to keep her restrained. "Our group just wants to do our best to heal you!"

"Argh! Don’t do it!"

"Sorry Annie, but the Mountain of Enlightenment has started gathering the needed soul and mental power. No matter what you do right now, there’s no way that you can avoid getting healed by us." Amon said, which led to increase Annie’s hysterics.

"No! Please stop your ritual! I don’t want to get healed!" This time, tears started to pour from Annie’s red eyes. These tears dripped along with her blood on the floor, making her appear more miserable than ever. "Please, stop it. I don’t want to get healed..."

"Hmph, you just don’t want to forget your mother." Amon said with disgust as he wiped some of the tears that fell on his arms. "Annie, that b**ch was the reason that we had to heal you! Instead of loving her, you should be hating her right now! So, just accept our help! That will be much better for you!"

"No! I love Mommy! I will never hate her!" Annie shouted back as she attempted to bite Amon. "She always did the best for me!"

"Oh really?" Amon said aloud as he dodged Annie’s attack. "Then what about your current state? Is that also the ’best’ that your Mommy did for you?"

"Ugh... W-w-what happened to me before was just an accident! She never meant to do that to me!" Annie said as she continued her futile attacks on Amon. "Please! I don’t want to be separated from Mommy again! Please stop the ritual..."

Annie’s current state looked to be extremely pitiful, and anyone with a soft heart will surely be moved by her tear-stricken face and bloodied body.

Amon however, was not a soft-hearted person.

"Stop the ritual? And let that b**ch maintain her control on us? Hell no!" Amon shouted as he grabbed Annie by her neck. He then removed his demon mask, revealing his face, which was full of pulsing wounds.

He pulled Annie’s face closer to his, with his crooked teeth only inches away from her eyes.

"Little girl, you are the most important piece in our campaign against the TImeMasters." Amon said, as his foul breath washed over the restrained Annie. "Now that we have you with us, we will never let you off. So, don’t expect us to be sentimental with your mother!"

"No!!!"