Chapter 2297 Close Friends Night Talk <TOC> Chapter 2299 Invitation
Translator: SumTLMan
Upon emerging from the passage, Angel immediately felt the terrifying oppressive pressure assaulting him once again.
Fortunately, he was prepared in advance and was still barely able to withstand it.
He glanced back, only to see the passage to the world within the painting beginning to dissipate. As the passage vanished, the painting stored in the treasure chest, as if having fulfilled all its purposes, also started to disintegrate into particles of light, eventually fading into nothingness.
After witnessing the disappearance of both the painting and the passage, Angel then turned his attention to his surroundings.
It was still the same circular stone platform suspended in the void, with the ceiling still adorned with floating bioluminescent algae resembling stars.
Everything remained unchanged, yet Angel felt as if the oppressive pressure surrounding him had somehow become stronger.
While pondering this, Angel suddenly felt his shoulders sink slightly… Was this an indication that the oppressive pressure’s impact on the physical realm was intensifying?
Why would this be happening?
According to what Feng had mentioned earlier, as long as the Initial Right Ritual of Thaend was maintained, the oppressive pressure on the stone platform should remain relatively constant.
Feeling the oppressive pressure growing stronger, Angel speculated: Could it be that there was a problem with the Initial Right Ritual?
Hesitantly, Angel turned his head to look back at the path of light he had come from.
He then noticed that at the end of the path of light, the conditions maintaining the existence of the ritual——the Void Light Algae, had started to dim.
It was as if streetlights were being extinguished.
Moreover, it wasn’t just one or two streetlights going out; starting from the end of the path of light, a large number of them had been extinguished. And the extinguishing trend hadn’t stopped; it was rapidly spreading towards him.
As one light after another went out, the oppressive pressure Angel was enduring increased dramatically.
“It seems the problem indeed originated from the Initial Right Ritual,” Angel immediately realized, reflecting on the situation where the oppressive pressure began to increase with the disappearance of the painting.
It’s highly likely that the painting inside the chest was also a part of the Initial Right Ritual.
Moreover, the disappearance of the painting not only caused issues with the entire Initial Right Ritual, indicating that the painting was not just an optional element but likely a crucial offering in the ritual.
When the Initial Right Ritual started to collapse, the originally stable range of oppressive pressure naturally began to increase. Eventually, even Angel’s physical body could not survive under the oppressive pressure.
Initially, Angel had many options, but now, under these circumstances, only two remained.
Either to leave quickly.
Or to immediately connect with a strand of will from the Tidal Realm, as obtaining the Divine Right would naturally exempt one from the threat of the oppressive pressure.
Without any hesitation, Angel chose the latter option, seeing as a better path was laid out before him, there was no need to choose the inferior one.
After making his decision, Angel’s gaze turned towards the stone platform above, where a massive sphere of light, hidden behind numerous Void Light Algae, was the projection of a strand of will summoned by the Initial Right Ritual from the Tidal Realm.
Originally, this sphere was in a stable state, but due to the rapid collapse of the Initial Right Ritual, it also became somewhat distorted, as if it could disperse at any moment.
Angel understood that he could not delay any longer. Without even the time to think, he extended his mental tendrils, as previously instructed by Feng, directly towards the sphere of light in the sky.
Compared to his physical body, the mental tendrils felt the oppressive pressure more acutely. The higher he went, the more terrifying the oppressive pressure became.
In the end, Angel even saw signs of his mental tendrils dissipating.
Angel quickly activated the green rune in his right eye, transmitting the vibrant green rune that represented the “domain” through the mental tendrils, directly supporting it high in the sky.
Protected by the domain, the oppressive pressure began to diminish, and the mental tendrils started to reach higher once again.
As the mental tendrils were about to touch the sphere of light, the effect of the domain began to weaken, but they were already very close to the endpoint.
After pondering for a moment, Angel once again applied a surge of energy to the mental tendrils. With this influx of energy, the tendrils were catapulted out of the domain, exposed to the terrifying oppressive pressure.
The oppressive pressure, transmitted through the mental tendrils, entered Angel’s sea of consciousness, causing him to immediately feel a wave of dizziness.
However, even so, Angel did not sever the mental tendrils; instead, he used the momentum of the catapulting force to rush towards the sphere of light.
Just as the mental tendrils were about to reach their limit, they finally entered the sphere of light.
Simultaneously, Angel felt a tremor in his sea of consciousness, the drastic change in his sea of consciousness causing him to feel dizzy and eventually collapse to the ground.
In the boundless darkness, Angel had a dream.
He seemed to have become a raindrop, falling into the ocean, and under the push of the surging water energy, he transformed into a giant whale. The moment the whale leaped from the sea’s surface, its form rapidly shrank, turning into a flying fish made of azure wind, leaping directly onto the clouds and flying towards the continent…
Water life, wind life, lightning life… In this dream journey called “evolution,” he transformed into elemental lives of different attributes, appreciating the beauty of the Tidal Realm from various perspectives. In the end, he arrived at an unknown land, where, apart from vast clouds and mist, there was only a long, winding rainbow river.
The river, overflowing with flowing light, contained elements of various types.
They seemed to follow some pattern, sometimes slow, sometimes gentle, and at times, still.
In the outside world, Angel would not have given a second glance at the flow of a river. But here, the more Angel observed, the more fascinated he became. It seemed not so much that the river was flowing, but rather that a magical power was imparting a special rhythm to the water.
This rhythm signified something far more profound.
Angel watched the rhythm, unaware of how much time had passed. Suddenly, at a certain moment, a surge arose.
In a certain section of the rainbow river, a huge whirlpool appeared, drawing in a great volume of water. Looking down from above into the center of the whirlpool, Angel could see the largest piece of land within the Tidal Realm.
At this moment, this land, inhabited by countless elemental beings, was undergoing an elemental baptism due to the backflow of the rainbow river.
Could this be… an Elemental Tide?
Angel stared dumbfounded at the whirlpool, finding it increasingly familiar. The Angel in the dream, with his subjective consciousness fading, couldn’t help but draw closer for a better look.
As he approached, the whirlpool, impartial to all, also sucked Angel in, plunging his vision once again into darkness.
“Angel?”
A familiar voice sounded in his ear.
Angel slowly opened his eyes, then saw a verdant figure before him.
Angel was stunned for a long while before regaining some of his thoughts: “Highness Nemeti?”
Nemeti: “It seems you have awakened? Can you tell me what happened here?”
Hearing Nemeti’s question, Angel took a moment to respond, then suddenly thought of something, abruptly sitting up and looking around.
He found himself still on the stone platform, but the path of light in the distance had vanished, and above him was darkness, with both the Void Light Algae and the projection of the Tidal Realm’s will gone.
“What’s going on?” Angel asked blankly.
Nemeti looked puzzled: “I was about to ask you the same thing. The void storm outside suddenly disappeared. After waiting for a long time without seeing the void storm reappear, I flew over here.”
When Nemeti arrived, she saw Angel lying on the stone platform like a corpse.
She thought something had happened to Angel and hurried over to check on him, only to find that Angel seemed to have just fallen asleep.
“Was everything already gone when you arrived?” Angel asked, puzzled.
Nemeti’s serpent head nodded slightly, her vertical pupils shifting towards the chest behind Angel: “If you’re referring to the contents of the chest, it was already gone when I arrived. Could it be that you were attacked and then robbed of the treasures in the chest?”
Angel knew that Nemeti had misunderstood him: “I’m not talking about the treasure. I mean the oppressive pressure around us and those spheres of light above.”
“Oppressive pressure? Spheres of light?” Nemeti looked up, but the space above was completely dark, void of any spheres of light, “When I arrived, there was no oppressive pressure here, nor was there any light.”
Hearing this, Angel roughly understood that everything had already ended by the time Nemeti arrived.
Tracing back, he had passed out after his mental tendril touched the sphere of light and then had a bizarre dream, leading up to the present.
It seems that the Initial Right Ritual had completely collapsed, even the projection of the Tidal Realm’s will had disappeared.
With the disappearance of the Tidal Realm’s will, the oppressive pressure naturally vanished, and the void storm that had persisted outside for over four hundred years also stopped.
Angel was somewhat puzzled… What was the outcome of the Divine Right?
Did he receive the Divine Right?
He should have, right? Otherwise, according to outcome, before the will of the Tidal Realm left, his body should have been crushed by the oppressive pressure.
But why didn’t he feel anything? He sensed his body internally, everything was intact, neither injured nor strengthened.
His mental space also remained unchanged, as for his sea of consciousness, it was the same as before.
Angel thought about it, according to Feng, the Divine Right is not a power that can affect the material world, but rather an operation akin to “making the World Will recognize you.”
So, the current situation seems normal?
But because everything was without a trace, Angel couldn’t be completely sure that he definitely received the Divine Right. After all, at the last moment, he passed out.
How to confirm the possession of the Divine Right?
Angel tried to get an answer from Eremy, but Eremy knew nothing. It only knew that Angel had been asleep for about four or five hours, then Nemeti came, and it knew nothing else.
It seems that there is no way to confirm whether the Divine Right was obtained or not.
Angel sighed silently in his heart, let’s talk about this matter later. After all, the current situation is still good, and among the humans that the elemental creatures of the Tidal Realm have come into contact with, he is the only one. Even without the Divine Right, he believes that with the foundation of the Savage Grottoes, he can occupy an absolute position in the future trend.
Thinking of this, Angel also saw the bright side. Overall, the gains from this time were significant, and the Divine Right was just an extra.
If he got it, great; if not, it didn’t matter.
“What are you thinking about?” Nemeti’s voice came again.
“Nothing, just wondering what happened after I fell asleep.” Angel stood up and looked at the empty treasure chest beside him: “The contents of the treasure chest haven’t been stolen by others, I have already obtained the so-called treasure.”
Hearing this, Nemeti slightly relaxed. Although Feng did not explicitly say it, having Nemeti guard the treasure for over six hundred years, she had already placed herself in the position of a guardian. If the treasure was lost in the end, she would also feel guilty.
“Since you got the treasure, why were you unconscious here?” Nemeti did not inquire about the contents of the treasure, since Feng had not told her, there was no need to ask now.
Angel smiled bitterly: “I encountered a bit of an accident, but now that the void storm has disappeared, it indicates that everything has returned to normal.”
Angel didn’t know whether to mention the Divine Right or not, after all, Nemeti is a native of the Tidal Realm. Whether he received the Divine Right or not, if Nemeti heard that an outsider coveted the Divine Right, would she feel repulsed?
Therefore, Angel chose to conceal it for the time being.
Seeing Nemeti still looking puzzled, Angel thought for a moment and took out a seed emitting a faint green light from his bracelet space.
When Nemeti saw this seed, her expression changed immediately: “This is…”
Angel was somewhat surprised, from Nemeti’s expression, it could be seen that she was not unfamiliar with this seed? But thinking about it, it made sense, after all, Nemeti had lived with Feng for so many years.
“This was given to me by Mr. Feng, it contains a message he left for Highness Nemeti,” Angel said. “I haven’t opened it, so I don’t know what Mr. Feng said.”
Angel handed the seed to Nemeti, who was still in a daze.
It took Nemeti a while to recover, then she looked up and said, “You… you saw Mr. Feng this time?”
Angel did not hide this fact.
“Sort of,” Angel pointed to the empty treasure chest and said, “This chest originally contained a painting, and I met Mr. Feng in the painting. However, it was just a strand of consciousness from Mr. Feng within the painting, which disappeared along with the void storm, along with the painting and the consciousness Mr. Feng left behind.”
“I see, just a strand of consciousness in the painting?” Nemeti’s expression was slightly disappointed, she had thought Mr. Feng had returned here.
“Aren’t you going to see what’s inside the seed?” Seeing Nemeti holding the seed but not opening it, Angel asked.
Nemeti softly said, “I’ll look at it after leaving the void.”
Angel nodded, this was left for Nemeti, and it was up to her when to look at it.
“Shall we leave here then?” Although there was no longer any oppressive pressure here, Angel still felt somewhat uneasy thinking about the void storms that had appeared around them, and thought it best to return to the Tidal Realm first.
Nemeti did not refuse. Before Angel woke up, she had already explored the surroundings, which were empty and meaningless to stay.
Before leaving, Angel suddenly remembered something.
“Right, what about that group of Void Travelers?”
Nemeti looked back in a certain direction: “Over there.”
Following her gaze, Angel saw, through energy vision, a large group of transparent snot monsters, gathering together while looking this way. However, they were all very timid, none dared to come close.
But not quite, there was one that was slightly closer, just outside the stone platform.
Angel glanced at it and recognized the aura of this Void Traveler; it was the one Woof Woof had prepared to leave him as a “messenger.”
It seemed that Woof Woof had already trained it before, as it was noticeably braver than the other Void Travelers.
Angel did not call out to this Void Traveler but took Woof Woof out of the bracelet space first.
Chapter 2297 Close Friends Night Talk <TOC> Chapter 2299 Invitation