Chapter 2258 Rain Tanuki <TOC> Chapter 2260 Concerns and Limitations
Translator: SumTLMan
Sanders looked at Angel for a long time without speaking.
After a while, he sighed and said, “Let’s find a place to sit down and talk.”
On the second floor of the Butterfly Red Tea Shop in the New City.
Sitting opposite each other in front of a large floor-to-ceiling window, Angel and Sanders were bathed in the soft, warm sunlight pouring in from outside, which immediately made the atmosphere more relaxed.
A young waiter, dressed in a white shirt and black suspenders, came over with a delicate tea tray.
“Lord Phantom, Lord Phantom Master, Super…” The waiter’s hands trembled, and his speech stuttered.
“Alright, put it down,” Sanders waved his hand.
The waiter, relieved, nodded and then placed the tea tray down, presenting the gold-rimmed tea set and arranging the milk, tea bags, and sugar on the table.
“Do you need any tea snacks? We have some in the store,” the waiter, though no longer stuttering, had sweat on his forehead, revealing his inner nervousness.
“Tea snacks?” Angel took the dessert menu, flipping through it, finding quite a variety.
“How did you get the ingredients for these?” Angel remembered that when he left, he had arranged a lot of supplies for the New City, but food was not among them.
The waiter respectfully bowed his head: “The ingredients for the snacks come from the breadfruit tree. The milk and sugar substitute are produced through a trick known as ‘milk alchemy,’ the specifics of which I’m not aware.”
Milk alchemy? Angel recalled that this seemed to be one of the basic tricks in the gourmet arts, similar to magic bread. After a gourmet wizard performs milk alchemy, they can stir water with their finger and turn it into fragrant milk.
There were no gourmet wizards in the Savage Grottoes, and as for cross-discipline practice… Angel could smell the fragrant aroma of milk in the air, indicating that a wizard practicing cross-discipline gourmet tricks might not be able to produce such fragrant milk.
“Was it Gloria who made it?” Angel didn’t ask the waiter but looked towards Sanders. After all, Sanders had brought him to this shop.
Sanders nodded: “Yes, this shop is also owned by Gloria.”
Sanders explained that initially, Liana invited Gloria to open a gourmet shop in preparation for future tea parties. Gloria was reluctant at first but agreed upon learning that Iron Armor Granny enjoyed drinking tea. Thus, she opened the Butterfly Red Tea Shop here and even hired a few apprentices as shop assistants.
“Gloria and Iron Armor Granny?”
Sanders: “Gloria’s mentor has some connection with Iron Armor Granny.”
Angel understood and didn’t pursue further questions, as it was unnecessary and inappropriate… Angel turned to the waiter with his ears perked up: “You can leave us now. There’s nothing for you here.”
“What about the snacks?”
Angel shook his head: “No need.”
The waiter left with a look of regret, having thought he might overhear some secrets from the big shots…
“Do you really not want any snacks? I heard from Liana that the milk and honey cake here is quite good,” Sanders said, his voice rising at the end, a mischievous glint in his dark eyes.
“I’ve long lost interest in such snacks,” Angel protested.
Sanders: “Then what are you drinking now?”
“Milk,” Angel lifted his head, his mouth rimmed with a white milk mustache, seemingly not yet realizing.
“Milk is supposed to be added to the tea,” Sanders raised an eyebrow.
Angel’s eyes flickered: “I don’t like mixing milk with my tea. It’s a waste to leave it here, so I might as well drink it.”
Sanders looked deeply into Angel’s eyes and said, “Alright, I accept that reason.”
Sanders didn’t give Angel a hard time; he knew Angel too well, understanding that Angel didn’t care much about other things but was surprisingly shy about whether he drank milk or not.
“Let’s just chat for now,” Sanders said, taking out a teaspoon and stirring his tea. “Earlier, Rhine mentioned an art exhibition. What’s that about?”
Sanders hadn’t ventured into the Wilderness of Dreams for several days and was hearing about the art exhibition for the first time. A simple art exhibition was one thing, but Rhine’s mention of Totoro’s prophecy piqued Sanders’s curiosity.
Angel briefly explained the situation with the art exhibition.
“All the works of the Magic Painter?” Sanders asked.
“Yes, a collection of paintings I stumbled upon. My appreciation for art isn’t refined enough to discern if there’s anything hidden within them. So, I decided to exhibit them to see what other wizards think,” Angel explained.
After listening, Sanders pondered for a moment, “Do those two elemental creatures you came up with have anything to do with the Magic Painter?”
Initially, when Angel had gone through the ordeal in the Abyss, he hadn’t detailed everything about Feng but had mentioned that Feng had set a trap in the Abyss, and Angel was the one to face and break that trap.
Sanders had a feeling that Angel, on his solo journey this time, might stir up something big again.
The big event in the Abyss was related to Feng. Now that Feng appeared again, Sanders felt somewhat uneasy.
If it was going to be something as significant as the Abyss incident, he was a bit worried whether he, as his mentor, could continue to support Angel.
Faced with Sanders’s inquiry, Angel hesitated for a moment but then nodded, “It does relate a bit. The reason I encountered these elemental creatures is because of some information left by Feng.”
“What information? Can you share it?”
Angel thought for a moment and then nodded, “Yes.”
At the moment Angel nodded, Sanders’s expression remained calm, but his heart began to stir. He had a premonition that what Angel was about to say would unsettle him.
However, Sanders never got to hear Angel’s words directly because Angel proceeded to conjure an illusion.
By manipulating the Celestial Cycle and using the power of illusion, Angel constructed an object on the table.
A rolled-up, frayed-edged scroll.
Sanders extended a finger, gently unfastened the scroll’s seal, and under the force of inertia, it smoothly unrolled.
“The kinetic simulation of the object is well done,” Sanders complimented before examining the contents of the scroll.
After a careful look, Sanders realized that the scroll seemed to depict a map.
The outline of the map resembled both a blooming flower and a spreading dove’s wings.
“This pattern looks somewhat familiar,” Sanders felt as if he had seen this shape somewhere before.
Sanders pondered for a moment, opening the memory boxes in his mind one by one. His past experiences flashed by like a slideshow.
Soon, Sanders captured a memory.
It was when he was only thirty years old, preparing to explore ruins on an island in the Devil’s Sea with a group of companions. Before entering the Devil’s Sea, they had stopped at the Savage Grottoes base in White Bay City for preparations.
At a stairway corner of the White Bay City base, he had once seen a nautical chart.
The map begins along the southeastern coast of the Vast Continent, extending southward, with the names of various continents, islands, and seas clearly marked. Places like the Feran Continent, Revelation Continent, Magic Eaves Corridor, and Spirit Illusion Continent… can all be found on this map.
Sanders had memorized this map for an expedition to the Devil’s Sea Area.
On this map, there’s an outline of a continent that looks like a blooming flower or a spreading white dove.
This continent is Edge Island, also known as… the Old Land Continent.
At the time, Sanders hadn’t planned on going to the Old Land Continent, so he didn’t pay much attention to its appearance. But now, recalling it, he realizes something is amiss.
The Old Land Continent is an irregular oval-shaped landmass surrounded by scattered islands. It’s definitely not a blooming flower.
Where did the discrepancy arise?
Sanders didn’t dwell on the past but looked at the map in his hands. Those doubts would find their answers; first, to see if there was any residual information on this map.
Upon closer inspection, Sanders found the map’s craftsmanship lacking. The scale was haphazard, and the terrain markings were arbitrarily placed.
The map was divided into many sections, each seemingly representing different tribes or nations.
However, what puzzled Sanders were the very simplistic drawings on each section: monkeys, snakes, feathered creatures…
“Different ecological territories?” Sanders wondered momentarily.
After a few more minutes of examination, Sanders found no further insights. The map offered scant information beyond a general outline of the terrain and the various creatures depicted in each section.
Looking up, Sanders asked Angel, “What is this map? Does it have any special significance?”
Angel replied, “At first glance, this map seems ordinary. But if one observes it through the Eye of Nalda, hidden feedback from the map becomes apparent.”
“The Eye of Nalda, you mean the Alchemist’s Eye? Is this map intended for alchemists?” Sanders inquired.
“Perhaps it’s not for alchemists, but… for me,” Angel sighed deeply, waving his hand again as Sanders looked on, puzzled.
Text slowly emerged beside the map.
“These words are the feedback from the Eye of Nalda,” Angel explained.
Sanders quickly scanned the text, and before even digesting the overall message, a name that struck him as glaringly conspicuous caught his eye.
——Creator: Mirafael. Von.
This map was left by Feng, and the hidden information could only be seen through the Alchemist’s Eye. He began to understand why Angel said the map’s information might be intended for him.
Had Feng set another stage? And was Angel the intended player?
Sanders composed himself and continued to review the remaining information.
Title: —Map of the Tidal Realm (Abridged)—.
Creator: Mirafael. Von
Content: A rough distribution map of representative creatures of the Tidal Realm.
Note: “Ah, I’m not good at drawing maps, so please bear with it.”
The map didn’t contain much information, but after reading it, Sanders was stunned. He had thought the map depicted some hidden continent, but now he realized it referred to——the Tidal Realm.
Named “Realm,” this is a world hidden and undiscovered by anyone!
Sanders’s heart suddenly accelerated.
He understood all too well what an undiscovered world meant!
Moreover, associating it with the mystery of the disappearance of elements in the Old Land Continent, and the two elemental creatures Angel brought into the Wilderness of Dreams this time, he already had a bold guess… No, not a bold guess, but a real inference.
Sanders suppressed the successive flights of fancy and calmly asked Angel two questions.
“Is the Tidal Realm a world?”
“Yes.”
“The Tidal Realm… is it a subsidiary world of the Wizarding World?”
“Yes.”
Sanders had already guessed because if the Tidal Realm were an independent world, Angel would not have been able to cross the void into the Wilderness of Dreams.
The only possibility left was that the Tidal Realm is a subsidiary world of the Wizarding World, which allowed Angel to enter the Wilderness of Dreams from the Tidal Realm!
Although he had guessed it, when Angel actually confirmed it, Sanders was still shocked.
An undiscovered world, its value was already terrifying.
An undiscovered world, and also a subsidiary world of the Wizarding World, its value would be tenfold, a hundredfold more!
Of course, it’s not right to measure it purely in terms of value.
But the value Sanders spoke of was not just money, but also many more subsidiary benefits.
If this world also has unique favorable outputs, then it’s not just about the value itself, but also represents the right to speak of strength.
And Sanders had already vaguely guessed that this world might really have unique favorable aspects…
After a moment of silence, he asked somewhat difficultly: “Is the Tidal Realm related to the mystery of the disappearance of elements in the Old Land Continent?”
Angel: “Yes.”
Sanders closed his eyes and took a deep breath: “Are there elemental creatures in the Tidal Realm?”
Angel: “Yes.”
Sanders did not continue to ask how many elemental creatures there were in the Tidal Realm. Because many answers were gradually surfacing.
Rain Tanuki once said it was born in the rain.
Previously, Sanders was wondering where rain could give birth to elemental creatures, but now thinking back, if a world is filled with unparalleled elemental energy, the rain it brings down could indeed give birth to water elemental creatures.
And in a world with such rich elemental energy, would there be a shortage of elemental creatures?
The answer was already very clear, so Sanders did not ask.
Moreover, Sanders did not want to ask at this moment; he just wanted to be quiet.
He had already guessed that Angel might cause a big stir, but this time, the stir was somewhat overwhelming for him.
After the Tidal Realm was confirmed, it definitely wasn’t something he could handle alone. This matter, to resolve the aftermath, must leverage the entire power of the Savage Grottoes.
Sanders took a deep breath and said, “Tell me, are you safe now? In the Tidal Realm, is there anything that could threaten you?”
Angel, thinking Sanders was worried about him getting into trouble, felt a warmth in his heart: “I’m very safe. Currently, there’s nothing that can threaten me. Moreover, with Eremy by my side, even if we do encounter danger, it won’t be a problem.”
“That’s good to hear,” Sanders said, his expression unchanged. “Let’s move on to the next topic, about Sumesh.”
“Huh?” Angel asked, puzzled. “Aren’t we going to continue talking about the Tidal Realm?”
Since Angel had already materialized the map of the Tidal Realm, it was clear he was prepared to share everything, possibly even getting Sanders to help plan.
“There’s no need,” Sanders calmly said. “Knowing you’re safe is enough. As for the rest, I’ll make a plan when I get back.”
Angel suddenly understood. It wasn’t that Sanders wasn’t curious; he just wanted to prepare other contingencies first.
“Alright then.”
Sanders knew Angel too well, understanding his thoughts just by looking at the changes in his eyes. But this time, Angel had misunderstood; Sanders wasn’t planning any contingencies. He was simply stunned by the Bombshell Angel had dropped and needed time to process it.
Let’s not think about the Tidal Realm for now.
And, he couldn’t afford to lose his composure in front of Angel.
So, it was better to change the subject. Although, he really wasn’t in the mood to talk anymore. Compared to the bombshell Angel had dropped, Sumesh’s matter seemed trivial…
Chapter 2258 Rain Tanuki <TOC> Chapter 2260 Concerns and Limitations