"Where will we find him? Could he have survived this disaster in the first place?" Novius asked Alion, wondering if the guy was dead as well.
"If anyone could survive this disaster, it is that guy. Even Karyk couldn't find him when he destroyed the Temple of Time. I am sure that guy will be alive!" Alion stated in full seriousness.
"How will we find him then? If even Karyk couldn't find him when the world was intact, how can we find him now after all this?!" Cylix wondered. It appeared quite unlikely for him that they could find that guy.
That was the question which was bugging Alion as well. The only thing he could be assured of was that the guy had escaped before the world was destroyed. And there were multiple places he could escape to.
The most likely option was the Upper Realm, or the other Lower Realms where he could've escaped. However, when he thought clearly, he realized that the guy couldn't do that.
When Caen was here, if that guy had opened the passage to the Upper Realm, he would've been detected and killed. And going to another lower realm was just as hard, which left only one place, for where one didn't need to open any portal.
"I think we will find him in the Nether Realm... The Realm which was connected to this world with a passage that was always open. If he wanted to escape undetected, what better place than the Nether Realm?!" Alion exclaimed.
He had a feeling that the Lord of Temple of Time wasn't the only one who escaped to the Nether Realm either.
Cylix and Nyx didn't have the memories from the time when their soul was constantly being tortured in the Nether Realm.
However, despite that, they felt a chill run down their spine as they heard that name. They didn't understand why, but it was as if there was an innate fear, deeply carved on their souls.
"Even if the world is destroyed, the Passage of the Nether Realm should still be open in this space! We just need to find it! Through the Nether Realm, we would even be able to get to the Upper Realm," Alion further stated. "In any case, we can't stay here. Sooner or later, you'll be exhausted and won't be able to maintain that barrier!"
He told Nyx to open a small space in the barrier, allowing him to leave to search for the portal. Amongst the people here, only Alion, a Demigod, could fly through this space, without being hurt.
Nyx did as he was asked, letting Alion leave the barrier.
Alion appeared on the other side of the black sphere. Through the endlessly rubble, he started his award to locate the spatial entrance to the Nether Realm. Unfortunately, he had no idea where exactly it was, since in the destroyed space, he couldn't even know his own location.
He searched thousands of kilometers, without stopping, searching every spot carefully. It was as if he had circled an entire world in search of the portal.
Fortunately, in the dark space, he did find what appeared like a spatial distortion. As he got close to the area of spatial disturbance, he finally found a spatial portal, buried in the middle of spatial debris.
He pushed aside the debris to clear the portal. As he had been to the Nether Realm with Karyk before, he was convinced that he was in the right place.
After making sure that this was the right passage, he went back to the Dark Sphere. He informed Nyx and Cylix that he found the spatial portal. The only problem was how they were going to get to the portal.
Alion solved that problem himself as he pushed the spherical barrier in the direction of the spatial Portal.
He brought the spherical barrier right at the edge of the spatial portal before entering the barrier.
He picked up Zena in his arms. Holding Zena firmly in his hand, he passed through the barrier and entered the spatial portal without letting the space around them interact with them. Cylix and Novius did the same as they abandoned the Black Spherical Barrier.
After Nyx passed through the spatial portal, his connection with the sphere was cut and the barrier finally disappeared.
Nyx came out from the other side of the portal, appearing in the Nether Realm, only to find Cylix standing with his hands in the air.
Even Alion had a grim expression on his face as he stared at the guards of the Nether Realm in the distance.
It was as if half the forces of the Nether Realm were assigned to the portal to keep an eye on it.
"If it isn't the person who infiltrated our city last time..." The Captain of the Guards laughed, glaring at Alion.
At the moment, other than Karyk, Alion was the most known Criminal since everyone knew he had infiltrated the Royal City last time, and that he worked with Karyk.
Almost everyone had seen Alion's portrait.
Alion stood stoically, his eyes fixed on the Captain of the Guards. He could sense the hostility emanating from the guards, but he remained calm and composed.
"I'm not here to fight. I'm willing to follow you to your King," he finally said, breaking the tense silence that had settled between them.
At the moment, he didn't think that he could fight all these people. In the Nether Realm, most of his advantages were taken from him since the surroundings were void of any elemental aura for him to recover his strength with.
If he fought, it was only going to get worse for him as the fight went on longer. Moreover, protecting Zena was his biggest priority for now.
The Captain of the Guards were slightly surprised to see Alion surrender without a battle. However, since Alion surrendered, he couldn't do much either.
He simply placed specially made shackles on Alion's hands. Cylix and Nyx went through the same. Even though Zena was unconscious, the same was done for her.
