After a brief interruption, only a handful of people remained ahead of Guding within minutes.
Guding had also learned the name of the blond woman who came with him; her name was Bren.
As he watched person after person hand over their iron plate and disappear into the cracks of the mountain rock ahead, Guding's Power of Soul reached out but was blocked by a strange energy. He instantly knew that this energy was the kind designed to keep all those above the True God Level out.
What puzzled him, however, was that this energy seemed fundamentally different from the one isolating the spore ocean. Guding had encountered spore oceans several times in this world and had tried investigating with his Power of Soul, only to have it shredded by the rule forces of space. This made Guding suspect that this region's Forbidden restrictions were not naturally formed but artificially created instead.
