Reborn as an Extra

Chapter 459: To Create a ’Path’ of ’Hope’... Part-1.

Rio and Alverto both refused to back off; both of them had their reasons to not take a single step back, and thus a clash was inevitable.

Alverto glanced at Riya and spoke in a calm tone.

”Continue with the ritual; I will stall for time myself...”

He sighed deeply and walked down the giant altar with slow yet steady steps.

”I am surprised that you haven’t already attacked the altar and tried to destroy it...”

Alverto looked into Rio’s dark black eyes; his words carried surprise and doubt in them.

”It’s not that I don’t want to... I have already spread minute amounts of sword intent in this entire place... I can sense that the altar is inside a powerful barrier...”

”I am more surprised by the fact that you willingly walked out of it and didn’t stay inside it...”

Alverto shook his head and replied calmly,

”That altar is the core of the entire ’Spire of Ascension.’ Now that my control over the spire of ascension has weakened, I am using the entirety of the spire’s power to strengthen that barrier...”

Rio smirked at those words and spoke in a mocking tone.

”No, that’s not the whole of it... you are only talking half-truths; I can sense that the power is not only supplying the barrier, it’s also making massive network of connection with the upper floors...”

”I see... you are using this altar and that barrier as a link to all the memory fragments... you are using those memory fragments as anchor for your ’Soul’...”

An irritated look appeared on Alverto’s face after hearing those words.

”Tch, your perception is extremely precise. how are you even able to guess this much by just looking at something once...”

Alverto shook his head and waved his hand a bit in empty air.

With the wave of his hand, a table and two chairs appeared from the ground.

Alverto walked over to one of the chairs and sat down with a calm look on his face.

Then he used the space ring on his finger to summon a glass of wine and started sipping the wine quietly.

Rio didn’t stand on ceremony; he also walked over and sat down on the other chair.

He brought out a tea set and started making tea for himself on the spot.

With his skillful control and abilities, he easily completed the process in just a matter of seconds before throwing all the items beside the teacup back into the space ring.

Alverto didn’t mind Rio’s actions either; he leaned on the back of the chair in a carefree manner while staring above.

The giant hall didn’t seem to have any ceiling at all; looking up, Alverto could see the endless stars in shining in the dark sky.

While staring at those twinkling diamonds in the sky, Alverto asked in a calm tone,

”I have been meaning to ask for a long while now...”

Alverto stopped staring at the stars at that moment and looked straight into Rio’s eyes before asking,

”What exactly are you?”

Rio wasn’t intimidated by Alverto staring at him; he sipped his tea in a calm manner before speaking in a tone filled with doubt.

”Even I myself don’t know, to be honest... sometimes I feel like I do not belong to this reality; sometimes I doubt this reality...”

”I don’t have an answer to your question... but one thing is for sure, right now, I am still ’Human’...”

Alverto wasn’t offended by that vague answer, as if he had expected this from the beginning.

He sighed and started staring at the sky again.

”You have already seen my memories and has survived despite seeing something that shouldn’t be seen...”

”You definitely aren’t just an ordinary human... No, I seriously doubt whether you even are human...”

Alverto placed a palm on his face as if he was contemplating something.

He stayed silent for a while before speaking again.

”You know that I have ’soul resonance,’ right?... That’s the pinnacle-level technique when it comes to all types of soul-related abilities...”

Before Alverto could finish his words, Rio spoke up.

”You noticed that my soul is different back in Oaklum when you first laid your eyes on me, didn’t you?”

Alverto nodded his head at Rio’s words.

”Yes, your soul was much stronger than your body... it was as if an extremely powerful soul was thrust in a weaker body...”

”Moreover, your soul has signs of Cosmic poisoning in it...”

’Cosmic Poisoning’ is a severe condition; when an individual travels into ’Absolute Null’ or goes outside the boundaries of the ’World Barrier,’ they get affected by the condition called ’Cosmic Poisoning.’