CHAPTER 768: CHAPTER 768: THE BROKEN ARRAY

Noah turned to leave.

As he stepped away, he flicked his fingers once—and the air around the ape shimmered. Everything in the area turned blurry and strange.

He had set up a hidden Illusion Array, strong enough to hide the ape and its rising aura from any enemies nearby.

But after walking for a while, Noah paused. He looked around.

The forest all looked the same. No signs, no paths. He was lost.

He didn’t panic.

Instead, he closed his eyes. Noah had a universal solution for all of his problems. Especially ones the limits of his physical body prevented him from accomplishing.

Lost somewhere? Need a map? No problem, there is a simple solution. Release the soul sense!

And he did.

Woosh!

Like an invisible ripple spreading through the air, the soul sense surged from the depths of his soul realm and covered the entire island almost instantly.

A surge of information barged into Noah’s mind. Every detail he could see, hear, feel, and smell entered his brain like an info dump.

Fortunately, Noah had a strong enough mind to handle this amount of information, or he would have become brain dead just from the sheer strings of information.

This was also the reason Noah did not absorb all the information Elysia had given him directly. He only took the bits of information that his brain could store while keeping the rest stored away in his soul realm.

Noah sensed every tree, every rock, and every creature crawling through the underbrush. The island’s layout formed clearly in his mind like a living map.

Then, something unusual caught his attention.

Near the northern part of the island, beyond a forest ridge—there was something different.

As if something was not meant to be in a nature-filled place like this.

His eyes opened slowly, a slight curve forming on his lips. He turned in that direction without hesitation.

As he walked, the forest came alive around him.

Some spirit beasts watched from a distance, eyes glowing with curiosity or caution. A few came forward—clumsy, overconfident—and attacked without thought.

A horned serpent lunged from under a root.

A tiger-sized boar charged from behind a tree.

With a single flick of his fingers, Noah sent them all flying—or simply knocked them out cold. He didn’t even stop walking.

Others were more respectful.

A bird dropped a rare fruit at his feet and flew away.

A giant tortoise lumbered out of a bush and gently rolled a strange glowing stone toward him.

The only beasts that really attacked him were the ones who had not even awakened a sense of awareness of the world and still had to rely on their instincts to survive in this jungle.

Finally, after going through the sea of beasts and trees, Noah arrived at the place of the oddity.

It was clearing in the middle of nowhere.

There were no hidden dangers or beasts in this area, and the only thing that there was...

There was a circular stone platform in the middle of the clearing, cracked and overgrown with vines. The markings etched into its surface were faded—but still recognizable to someone who knew what they were looking at.

Noah stepped onto the platform and brushed the moss aside.

"An array formation." He muttered, recognizing the thing at one glance, "Most likely a teleportation array."

The structure was complex, ancient, and powerful. He could tell just from the design—it wasn’t meant for short distances.

A Tier 8 Long-Distance Teleportation Array.

Only a few people in the world were capable of creating something like this. It would take years of study, resources, and an incredibly deep understanding of both space and spirit formations.

But it had been destroyed.

Not by time, but by purpose. Someone had gone out of their way to make sure this array couldn’t be used again.

His eyes narrowed, and a golden glow flickered within them.

His Dragon Eyes awakened.

In an instant, the world shifted. Spiritual traces that were invisible to the naked eye suddenly became clear—thin, glowing threads of leftover energy still floating above the formation like smoke.

He followed the energy lines, tracing their paths.

After one glance, Noah closed his dragonic eyes and looked around once more. His eyes suddenly turned in the direction of a clearing before he started walking towards it.

Noah stood quietly before the waterfall, the sound of rushing water filling the air around him. Mist rose from the cascading stream, cool against his skin.

Behind the falling curtain of water, he could feel something—an enclosed space that radiated a strange silence, like it had not been disturbed in years.

He didn’t rush in.

Instead, he extended his soul sense carefully through the waterfall. What he found on the other side made him raise an eyebrow.

It was a space extended beyond it like another teleportation array, but something different.

’It is an enclosed space made within the cave with another broken array underneath it all that induced illusions of space, atmosphere, and surroundings.’ Noah instantly caught another detail before his soul sense continued to spread around slowly.

At the far end of the cave stood the crumbling remains of a castle.

The interior was dark and damp, but Noah’s soul sense was immune to darkness.

The first thing he spotted was a makeshift garden with arrays of statues and figures placed all around the area that looked more like a maze.

Noticing they were all elven statues that showed expressions of despair and fear, Noah felt surprised. They were still a week away from the Elven Empire, and now they had already encountered a place that held signs of their species.

For some reason, Noah felt that all of these statues looked vaguely familiar to him, but he could not pinpoint where he had seen them before.

But this familiarity was so distant and vague that he let it go without thinking much and proceeded further towards the majestic castle in the distance.

Noah’s soul sense took a corporal form of himself as it slowly walked deeper into the cave.