Chapter 2022 Companions Appear <TOC> Chapter 2024 Emerald Green Mushroom
Translator: SumTLMan
At the moment when the hands that passed through the wall embraced him and then leaned back, Angel felt as if he had bid farewell to the light and plummeted into a lightless deep sea.
Surrounding him was a realm of darkness and silence.
Everything in the world fell silent, and only his body, like a whale descending, kept falling to the ocean floor.
Moreover, in this dark world, there existed a pressure similar to the deep sea, rendering Angel’s body uncontrollable, his mental power restricted, and even the strength to turn his head to see who was embracing him from behind was gone.
He could only allow himself to continue falling, guided by an unseen force.
This feeling of being uncontrollable in the dark should have been terrible in Angel’s expectation. Surprisingly, however, there wasn’t much negativity in Angel’s heart; instead, it became very calm.
Even the urgency he felt when he was attacked at the entrance of the corridor was smoothed out in this boundless darkness, becoming tranquil and serene.
Perhaps because his emotions had become calm, Angel’s perception of the details around him began to sharpen and magnify.
The first thing he noticed was the hands that were embracing him from behind. Although he couldn’t see who was holding him, Angel could feel that the grip was very light, even describable as ‘gentle.’
However, what puzzled Angel was that throughout the embrace, the person alternated between loosening and tightening their grip.
Angel could sense the changing emotions from behind him with the varying intensity of the embrace. Sometimes they were exuberant, sometimes restrained, sometimes worried, and sometimes hesitant.
Due to the vast fluctuation of emotions, Angel couldn’t decipher the clear meaning behind them, but this speed of change was possibly the fastest he had encountered among all the creatures of the Nightmare Plane.
Yes, Angel was certain that the other party was definitely a creature from the Nightmare Plane. This was not good news, as the rapid fluctuation in mood also meant that the other was certainly not a low-intelligence being.
Facing a highly intelligent creature from the Nightmare Plane, Angel was unsure if he could bluff his way through.
As he pondered in his mind about how he would use his words to obfuscate when he truly faced the other, suddenly, a bright light emanated from beneath his feet.
The emergence of light signified the fall of darkness and perhaps the nearing of the end.
The next moment, he felt as if he had passed through a membrane-like ripple of water. Upon entering, the rich aura of the Nightmare Plane instantly enveloped him.
He was still descending, probably not yet reaching the ground. But unlike before, where his body felt trapped in mire, he now regained the ability to move independently.
As the shackles disappeared, Angel turned his head immediately, wanting to see who was holding him from behind.
However, the creature from the Nightmare Plane seemed to be playing a game of hide-and-seek with him; when he turned left, it hid to the right, and when he turned right, it hid to the left.
Angel suddenly realized that his mental power was no longer restricted and decided to directly control it to look behind.
However, just as Angel’s mental power emerged, the “person” behind him let out a shrill scream and, as if turning into a wisp of blue smoke, sped away into the distance.
Angel only managed to catch a glimpse of a figure in a dress in the far distance before it disappeared from sight.
With the departure of that person, Angel rapidly fell from mid-air without their support.
When he finally stood firm on the ground, Angel used his mental power to sense behind him. He still didn’t know who had been holding him earlier and wanted to see if the other left any pheromones or clues.
However, there was nothing behind him, completely clean of any trace.
He himself had no issues whatsoever, as if the other party’s only action was to simply bring him to this strange little garden.
Even, he hadn’t seen the other party’s appearance, only knowing that the other might be a woman… since there are few humans in the Nightmare Plane, perhaps it’s better described as female?
Regardless of the other party’s gender, Angel now only felt a head full of question marks.
These questions, for now, certainly couldn’t be answered by anyone; Angel could only sigh and decide to put other things aside temporarily and first take a look at his surroundings.
At the least, to confirm whether he was safe or not.
The ground was damp fertile soil, and all around, layer upon layer, were tall mushrooms, looking like a fairytale mushroom forest. However, when Angel fell from the sky earlier, he briefly saw the surrounding environment. Rather than a mushroom forest, it seemed more like a dome-covered small garden. The “flowers” here, naturally, were mushrooms of various colors.
A garden completely devoid of other plants, full of mushrooms of all sizes.
If Angel had encountered this in the outside world, he probably would have been surprised and studied it for a while. But this place counts as the territory of Nightmare Plane creatures, and the appearance of a mushroom forest or garden isn’t something too astonishing.
At least, Angel wasn’t too surprised by the all-mushroom environment. He even thought to himself if the Achillea Comprehensive College’s Witch Regina, who had a fondness for mushrooms, knew of such a Mushroom Garden, would she voluntarily enter the ruins? After all, as far as Angel could see, many of the mushrooms were very unfamiliar, having strayed from the known range.
Besides the tree-like large mushrooms, there were also clusters and bunches of small mushrooms by various stones; Angel hadn’t seen any other plants.
As for danger, his mental perception hadn’t sensed any, but the specific situation was hard to define.
Aside from sizing up the specific environment, Angel was also sensing the aura of the Nightmare Plane in the air. Upon entering this place earlier, he felt the overwhelmingly dense aura of the Nightmare Plane. Now being in it, the feeling was even more intense.
Even with a single breath, Angel absorbed a large amount of the Nightmare Plane aura, which, through mysterious forces, rapidly induced changes in the magic source vortex.
Angel believed that if one were to cultivate in such a place, the speed would surely be as fast as it was when he was near the passage in Hippocrates.
However, Angel certainly couldn’t stay here to cultivate now.
His primary goal at the moment was to leave the ruins and return to reality first before anything else.
As for how to leave, the first method Angel thought of was using the Gateway of Fantasy.
However, while the Gateway of Fantasy could be opened, it couldn’t be located back to the previous passage.
“Judging from the concentration of the Nightmare Plane aura, coupled with the inability to leave through the Gateway of Fantasy, there’s no doubt that this place is definitely within a half-plane.” Angel pondered. The Gateway of Fantasy can only traverse within the same world. Half-planes have barriers between worlds, hence it’s impossible to cross through with the Gateway of Fantasy.
In other words, he was now inside the ruins and to leave, he had to make his way out of the ruins himself.
However, not to mention whether he could make it out of the ruins, he didn’t even know his current location within the ruins, so how could he leave?
Chapter 2022 Companions Appear <TOC> Chapter 2024 Emerald Green Mushroom