Chapter 2021 Change of the Wall <TOC> Chapter 2023 Mushroom Garden
Translator: SumTLMan
The fragmented Void Traveler appeared like they had transformed into numerous gelatinous, viscous substances, distributed around the narrow passage.
“Alas,” Iron Armor Granny sighed, “Void Travelers aren’t that easy to encounter. Having caught it alive, it could have been used for research.”
Previously, when Rhine entered this passage, he had encountered Void Travelers. Their ability to escape under Rhine’s watch demonstrated their strong fleeing capability. Such a strange void creature, rarely caught alive, it’s a pity that Sanders crushed it.
Moreover, Sanders characterized the Void Travelers as “sources of the trouble,” which was somewhat inaccurate. Aside from their ability to flee, these creatures are very weak and wouldn’t cause harm even to an apprentice, let alone Angel.
Ultimately, the creature behind the wall took Angel away. As for this Void Traveler, whether it was directed or just passing by is hard to say, and it’s also difficult to assign blame as the source of trouble.
“Apart from running, this guy has no redeeming qualities. Dead is dead,” Sanders’s expression was very grim. “Granny, can you sense the aura of the creature that took Angel before?”
Sanders clearly understood that the Void Traveler wasn’t the actual culprit. His killing of the Void Traveler was purely out of venting frustration. After releasing his anger, he shifted his focus back to the wall.
Iron Armor Granny reached out to touch the stone wall, closing her eyes quietly as if sensing something.
After a while, Iron Armor Granny opened her eyes: “The wall’s other side is insensible, likely a characteristic of the ruins. The only aura remaining nearby is Angel’s, no other.”
“Do you mean there’s no living creature’s aura?” Sanders had also sensed earlier and indeed found no other aura, but there were slight energy fluctuations. This situation was similar to the feeling some ghost give off. However, the chilly, negative sensation typical of the ghost was also absent here. This was why Sanders sought Iron Armor Granny’s advice.
“Perhaps, but it’s also possible that the opponent is of some special race, or maybe possesses a unique ability…”
“Special race or unique ability?” Sanders was about to inquire further when he suddenly noticed that Iron Armor Granny’s gaze had frozen, looking towards the opposite side.
Sanders quickly turned his head to look, and while nothing unusual was visible to the naked eye, in his mental vision, he discovered that the Void Traveler he had previously crushed had somehow reassembled itself. The sporadic colloidal substance had now gathered into three lumps of sticky matter and was continuously squirming, seemingly about to reassemble.
“It’s not dead?” This was Sanders’s first time encountering a Void Traveler so closely, and he hadn’t expected that it could revive after being torn to pieces.
Raising an eyebrow, Sanders extended a finger, and a light of Nightmare Illusion began to converge. Clearly, he intended to completely annihilate the Void Traveler.
However, just as Sanders was gathering energy, the three lumps of the quietly attempting to merge Void Traveler ‘corpses’ seemed to sense it, speeding up their merging process, trying to quickly reassemble and escape.
Unfortunately for them, Sanders was faster than their merging speed.
As a burst of explosive aura enveloped the body of the Void Traveler, its fate seemed sealed.
However, after casting the spell, Sanders’s brow furrowed.
Because in his perception, he hadn’t hit anything.
When the smoke cleared, the scene that revealed itself caused both Sanders and Iron Armor Granny to show a hint of surprise in their eyes.
The three lumps of the Void Traveler’s corpse had not merged, but now there were three transparent Void Travelers in the passage. They seemed like companions of the previous Void Traveler, each with a lump of ‘flesh’ on their heads, standing in three different directions of the passage.
Without a doubt, Sanders’s spell failed to hit the Void Traveler, probably because these three newcomers saved it.
As they looked at each other in confusion, Iron Armor Granny suddenly moved.
The moment Iron Armor Granny moved, Sanders also started to act. Although he didn’t know why there were suddenly a few more Void Travelers, it was crucial to capture them now.
The previous Void Traveler was ‘dismembered,’ hence it couldn’t use its ability to flee, but these three newcomers were intact. Therefore, to capture them, one must take them by surprise.
However, both Iron Armor Granny and Sanders were exceedingly fast, and they acted entirely by surprise, but the speed of the Void Travelers far exceeded their imagination.
Just when they thought they could capture them, the three Void Travelers suddenly disappeared from in front of their eyes. Looking back, they saw each Void Traveler carrying a lump of flesh, rushing into the walls, and finally disappearing completely.
“They escaped,” Sanders said calmly, but his tone betrayed a hint of concealed anger.
“Let it be. Void Travelers, these extreme creatures of the void, are too hard to capture. I was surprised you caught one before.”
“That one ran into Angel and probably got stunned.” That’s why Sanders was able to easily bind it with his mental power.
“Since they’ve escaped, so be it. But speaking of which, why are there so many Void Travelers here?” Iron Armor Granny’s eyes flickered with confusion. Rhine had encountered a Void Traveler last time he entered, so why were there more this time?
Void Travelers are extremely rare creatures. Moreover, because they are weak, they don’t interact with other creatures and will flee as soon as they sense the presence of living beings.
For this reason, records about Void Travelers in the Wizarding World are very scarce.
In the special supplement of —Magical Creatures and Where to Find Them—, there’s a brief mention of Void Travelers, and most of these mentions use language of uncertainty, showing how little the Wizarding World understands about Void Travelers.
Why do these usually scarce Void Travelers suddenly appear in droves in these ruins?
Iron Armor Granny couldn’t help but look towards Sanders: “Can you discern the origins of these Void Travelers? Are they perhaps from the Nightmare Plane?”
If these Void Travelers are creatures from the Nightmare Plane, then their sudden appearance in droves might have a reasonable explanation.
The so-called “reasonable” is that everything in the Nightmare Plane is completely illogical. If the Void Travelers come from a world that is completely unreasonable, then their gathering in droves becomes reasonable.
Sanders didn’t immediately respond but recalled carefully the feeling when he previously held one of the Void Travelers.
After a while, Sanders frowned and shook his head: “There’s hardly a trace of the Nightmare Plane’s aura on them.”
“Does that mean they are not creatures from the Nightmare Plane?” Iron Armor Granny was startled, as she thought she had guessed the truth, but now it seems the truth took a sharp turn.
“Probably not.” Sanders wasn’t sure, but all the Nightmare Plane creatures he had encountered, even those existing in the real world like the flying skulls and the demon eater flowers… would inevitably carry the aura of the Nightmare Plane. Whether there are exceptions, Sanders couldn’t be certain, but those few Void Travelers indeed didn’t have any Nightmare Plane aura, making it highly likely they aren’t from there.
“If they are not from the Nightmare Plane, their gathering here becomes quite strange. Or is there something here, attracting them?”
Moreover, after concluding that they are not from the Nightmare Plane, it’s likely they are not controlled by creatures of the Nightmare Plane, and the previous collision with Angel was probably just an accident…
Chapter 2021 Change of the Wall <TOC> Chapter 2023 Mushroom Garden