Chapter 2176 Old King <TOC> Chapter 2178 Kalomaches
Translator: SumTLMan
Angel’s figure flashed, arriving at the stone engraved with the image of the old king.
Once he stood firm, he quickly tore off a rune scroll and set up a barrier in the vicinity for energy defense.
Although this place had seemingly become the only safe zone amidst the raging battle, it was still difficult to remain completely unaffected by the explosions. Moreover, fire element crystals kept dripping from the sky, each touch potentially igniting a new artistic spectacle.
Thus, to prevent any issues with the stone and involve the mini-passage, Angel added a barrier for protection.
However, Angel’s actions were interpreted differently in the eyes of Dangros.
It had just finished discussing the greatness of Flame Ruler Herodia with Angel, and seeing Angel rush to protect the old king’s image from potential explosions, it perceived this as a mark of respect.
“He… He is showing his respect for the old king!”
After reaching this conclusion, the anger Dangros previously held towards Angel subsided somewhat. However, not wanting to admit its mistake in possibly mistaking Angel’s identity, it remained silent. It planned to wait until the battle of the new king concluded and when capturing these “suspected spies,” it would intervene to spare them from death.
Dangros was lost in thought and chose not to speak; however, Angel remembered something and wanted answers from Dangros.
While secretly releasing illusion nodes in preparation, Angel steered the conversation towards the painting on the stone.
Since he was already on the stone, Angel seized this opportunity to find out if the fire creatures here knew the way to the outside world.
Perhaps because of Angel’s apparent respect for the old king, Dangros wasn’t aloof this time and answered a few questions.
Angel didn’t understand why Dangros suddenly changed its attitude but took advantage of its cooperation to steer the conversation towards his real question.
“…This earring looks quite similar to the new king’s nose ring.”
Angel appeared to point at the earring, but a closer look would reveal that he was actually pointing at the location of the mini-passage.
Dangros glanced at it and replied indifferently, “That nose ring was given to the new king by the old king.”
Angel observed Dangros’ eyes carefully and noticed it didn’t look at the mini-passage. Angel then understood that Dangros probably didn’t know about the existence of this passage.
Did the other elemental creatures know about it?
While Angel was pondering, Dangros seemed to recall something and spoke up: “I once secretly asked Mentor Magu about the origin of the old king’s earring. Mentor Magu said it was a gift from a savior from beyond the sky to the old king, a long time ago.”
A Savior from Beyond the Sky?!
Angel’s pupils contracted. Could this be referring to Feng?
He just wanted to confirm whether the mini-passage was discovered by the elemental creatures but didn’t expect to gain such crucial information.
It’s just like Feng’s style!
“Beyond the sky? Savior?” Angel feigned ignorance and looked at Dangros.
“You don’t even know this?” Dangros gave Angel a look that said, “How can you be so ignorant?” Then it explained, “Beyond the sky refers to the world outside ours. Mentor Magu said there are other worlds beyond our world. I’ve never been there, but I’ve heard they have amazing civilizations, different from the world we live in.”
“As for the Savior, you must surely know this. Long, long ago, an elemental world upheaval swept through our realm, shattering the origins of all beings in the continent who had reached the Monarch level or above. The old king, fortunately only a half-step Monarch at the time, was spared from this catastrophe… This disaster was eventually ended by a visitor from beyond the heavens. He brought with him a massive influx of elemental energy from beyond, calming the world’s calamity. He is whom we refer to as the Savior.”
Angel: “Does this Savior have a name?”
After pondering, Dangros shook his head: “Probably, but I do not know. Maybe Mentor Magu knows.”
Angel inquired about Mentor Magu’s identity. Although Dangros was cautious in asking why Angel was inquiring about the name of a sage, he was still tricked into revealing the answer.
Mentor Magu is a fire elemental creature from the same era as Flame Ruler Herodia. It is the final destination of the countless ‘sprouts’ in the lava lake, the sage of the land of fire, and also Dangros’ mentor.
Angel initially thought that if Mentor Magu, like Dangros, was small in stature, he might sneakily abduct him… But now, knowing that Mentor Magu is so colossal that he occupies the entire lava lake and is even immobile, he abandoned this thought.
As for personally meeting Mentor Magu to inquire about the past, that was even more unrealistic… After all, they were currently in complete opposition.
Angel sighed, temporarily shelving his thoughts about Mentor Magu, and his thoughts returned to the ‘world disaster’ and ‘otherworldly savior’ mentioned by Dangros earlier.
Although Dangros only described a bit of detail, Angel could roughly piece together some content.
The world disaster was, most likely, a calamity resulting from planar fusion.
Once planar fusion begins, the merging planes experience a struggle of world wills. To prevent powerful beings from the subordinate planes from interfering and causing the fusion to fail, the main world’s will, in the first phase of the fusion, instigates a terrible disaster in the subordinate plane, destroying all higher-level life forms and powerful beings, leaving only lower-level life forms.
This clearly matched Dangros’ account: Elemental creatures above the Monarch level in the Tidal Realm all perished in the disaster.
As for the otherworldly savior, it was very likely Feng.
According to Dangros’ account, Feng may have done something to introduce a large amount of elemental energy from the outside world, soothing the world-ending disaster. This also led to the Old Land Continent becoming a land where elements had become extinct.
However, Angel was curious about how exactly Feng achieved this.
The disturbance of planar fusion is not insignificant. How did he manage to conceal the fluctuations of planar fusion from the Wizarding World?
“Perhaps, it’s an ability of the legendary realm?” Unable to figure it out, Angel temporarily set aside the thought.
…
Angel’s secretly arranged illusionary nodes were almost in place, waiting only for the right moment to emerge.
However, the ongoing battle in the sky was still at a stalemate. Under the elemental tide, neither side showed signs of victory or defeat.
While waiting for the opportunity, Angel continued to extract information from Dangros.
Since Dangros knew very little about the ‘otherworldly savior,’ Angel’s main focus was still around the pattern of the old king.
He wanted to know how other elemental creatures viewed this portrait of the old king.
But Dangros found this odd: “We just respect it a lot. We usually avoid this place to prevent our fire from burning the painting.”
“Haven’t you thought about protecting this painting more deeply?”
Dangros looked at Angel with even greater bewilderment: “Why should we protect it more deeply?”
Angel was left speechless by the question, as he couldn’t just reveal that there was a mini-passage leading to the outside world.
After some thought, Angel said, “After all, this is your most revered old king, isn’t it?”
“Although this portrait is indeed meaningful, the old king’s flame itself burns around us, within us, it never left…” Dangros said.
In Dangros’ heart, even in death, the flame would remain in this region, so in his view, the old king never left, just remained in a different way with his descendants.
Angel could probably understand Dangros’ logic, so he didn’t ask further.
However, from Dangros’ attitude, Angel could roughly guess that this mini-passage to the outside world had probably never been exposed. Even if someone knew about it, it would likely only be elemental creatures from the old king’s era.
After asking all the necessary questions, the conversation between Angel and Dangros was no longer so deliberate.
They casually chatted about some affairs of the Tidal Realm, with Angel hoping to learn about other regions, but unfortunately, Dangros’ knowledge and experience were limited, otherwise he wouldn’t have called them spies of Frost Iseth.
However, Angel did solve a puzzle that had been lingering in his mind from Dangros’ answers:
Why doesn’t illusion work on elemental creatures?
Actually, it’s not that illusion is ineffective. It’s just that the region is filled with fire elemental energy everywhere, so a moving area without fire elemental energy would naturally expose its location.
The solution is also simple: fill the area covered by the illusion with the corresponding elemental energy, and it will naturally hide the presence.
But this is only for hiding in a stationary state. To move and hide at the same time, one must have strong control over the elements, otherwise, when moving, if the elements in the space are unevenly distributed, it can be easily perceived by other elemental creatures.
This information was of great help to Angel.
He himself was not strong in elemental control, but Eremy was. In the future, he could completely let Eremy control the elements in the air, while he was responsible for the illusion, so they wouldn’t have to worry about being discovered.
As Angel was imagining a bright future, a fierce firelight shone on their faces.
Looking up, they saw a fireball falling from the sky, landing a hundred meters away. The moment it touched the ground, there was a huge explosion.
The explosion created a crater several tens of meters in diameter, and a large amount of magma overflowed, quickly turning the crater into a lava lake.
The aftermath of the explosion also rippled, reaching near them.
It was fortunate that Angel had set up a defensive barrier, otherwise, just the aftermath would have destroyed the rock they were standing on.
Dangros angrily shouted at the sky battlefield, expressing his dissatisfaction.
Angel’s eyes flickered, and he began to secretly connect the illusion nodes he had released earlier.
This fireball falling from the sky seemed accidental, but in fact, it was a signal from Eremy. At the moment of the explosion, Angel had already grasped his intention.
Eremy was preparing to break the stalemate and create chaos.
Once the chaos formed, it would be their best opportunity to retreat!
The precursor to the opportunity had appeared. Angel appeared calm, but his mind was already tense.
In the sky, as the two shadows of flame separated again after another explosion, Eremy did not continue to charge, but hovered in mid-air. The blue lantern flower gently swayed, and the flames on his body underwent a strange change.
From clear and bright, the firelight dimmed, as if a dark counterflow had been injected into the flames.
Looking at Eremy’s change, Magic Fire Midir flashed a glint in his eyes, “Interesting… Is this your new ability?”
Eremy, without answering, lightly stepped into the void, and the fire of darkness erupted instantly.
A large number of fire elemental crystals were involved in the explosion, but what followed was not pungent smoke, but a dense fog.
Almost instantly, the sky turned dark.
For fire elemental creatures, their vision doesn’t rely solely on their eyes; as long as there’s fire elemental energy around, they can observe their surroundings.
Magic Fire Midir initially thought the same, but when it actually tried to perceive, it found that despite the presence of fire elemental energy, everything around was pitch black.
As if covered in dust.
“This is not pure flame…” Magic Fire Midir hesitated: “It seems to be mixed with the power of Fallen Earth Cerny?”
The interweaving of fire and earth elements created this dim dark fog.
Magic Fire Midir couldn’t help but sigh, initially, it was the power of frost, then the power of flame appeared, and now the power of earth, no wonder Dangros the fool thought they were spies.
Now that the power of the earth appeared, it indicated that the opponent’s energy had begun to recover. They no longer had to rely solely on flames to fight, which was not good news for it.
Although it didn’t really consider them as spies, since they had intruded into its territory, it wanted to extract the truth from them by defeating them.
It seemed that it was time to get serious.
Magic Fire Midir took a deep breath, its Magic Fire rose again, and the horns on its head, which were already materializing, now seemed to turn into two twisting columns of fire shooting into the sky.
Its figure grew from three meters to ten meters. The wings of flame fluttered rapidly, blowing away all the black fire dust in the violent fiery wind.
Soon, the surrounding darkness was either blown away or burned to ashes, fluttering to the ground.
A light of excitement flashed in Magic Fire Midir’s elongated eyes: Now, it was time for the real decisive battle——
Magic Fire Midir looked at Eremy hovering opposite and slowly opened its mouth.
A dark purple breath of Magic Fire, capable of burning even space, burst out from its mouth, rushing towards Eremy.
However, Eremy easily dodged it with a flicker.
Magic Fire Midir understood that defeating such an opponent with a single breath of Magic Fire was impossible. But what if the attack was not just once, but hundreds of times?
Magic Fire Midir was prefixed with “Magic Fire” because of its breath of Magic Fire!
In the past, it dared not waste so much, but now in the elemental tide, it didn’t fear running out of energy!
Thinking this, terrifying breaths of Magic Fire rushed towards Eremy.
However…
Eremy dodged them all, unscathed.
Magic Fire Midir hesitated for a moment, then launched a hundred more attacks.
Eremy’s dodges were somewhat awkward, but still found the only way out amidst the dense attacks.
Magic Fire Midir began to sense something wrong. According to Eremy’s previous speed and ability, it shouldn’t reach this level.
Most importantly, why wasn’t Eremy counterattacking?
Magic Fire Midir hesitated, and gently released a small flame, igniting the nearby “fire rain.”
The explosion of the fire rain had no effect on Eremy, which had turned into flames.
But Eremy was still dodging, and it was extremely difficult.
Magic Fire Midir extended its perception around.
——It hadn’t dared to do this during the previous fight, but now something was clearly wrong, it prepared to touch Eremy with its perception.
However, there was no Eremy in its perception, just air and some strange energy.
Magic Fire Midir was stunned for a moment, then immediately looked down, only to find that Angel, who had been standing on a rock, had also disappeared.
By now, Magic Fire Midir understood that the Eremy in front of it was not the real Eremy, just an illusion.
The real Eremy had already run away during the darkness earlier!
It had been fooled!
Magic Fire Midir knew it was probably too late to look for them now, but it had to try.
Ignoring the illusion opposite, it landed on the ground, ready to search for traces of Angel and Eremy.
However, at that moment, a violent firelight suddenly erupted in a distant direction.