Chapter 585: Chapter 585: The Eye of Secret Prying

The Duke's massive Dark Race hand pressed directly on the charred center of the residual formation, no longer pursuing precise control, but rather in the most brutal manner, flooding his own boundless Magic Power and Spiritual Power into the ritual nodes that were about to collapse like a dam burst. A strong spatial tug came, the distorted surrounding images, the ear-piercing whispers, the disintegrating spatial cracks. all rapidly receded, blurred, and disappeared like a retreating tide. In the next instant, the feeling of solid ground came, and the air was filled with a familiar musty and dusty scent. The Duke opened his eyes. He had returned to the stone chamber in the basement of the Wizard Plane. Beneath his feet, the residual formation had lost all its luster, becoming an ordinary charred mark with no energy reaction, as if the passage had never existed. All around was silence. Only his own breathing and the faint sound of the butler Ossen anxiously pacing back and forth outside the door. Those maddening whispers, distorted spaces, endless dust. all had disappeared. The familiar atmosphere of the Wizard Plane enveloped him, bringing an indescribable sense of security. This was the feeling one got only after visiting another Plane and then immediately returning to the Wizard Plane. People who had long been in the Wizard Plane found it difficult to have this experience; they didn't know how comfortable it was to be in the Wizard Plane. The Duke quickly dismissed the Dark Form, returning to his usual appearance. Though his face was slightly pale and his Spiritual Power greatly depleted, he had managed, perilously, to return before the ritual completely failed. He calmed the slightly turbulent breath within him caused by forcibly activating the ritual and resisting the whispers, tidied up his Wizard Robe, and then opened the heavy old wooden door. The butler Ossen was anxiously stationed outside the door; seeing him emerge, he quickly approached: "Wizard Sir, are you. are you alright?" Even though he hadn't heard any noise, he instinctively felt some unease, the source of which came from behind the door, where the Duke was. Seeing the Duke come out now seemed to ease his unease somewhat, and he breathed a sigh of relief.