Chapter 2309 Prohibition <TOC> Chapter 2311 Unusual Development
Translator: SumTLMan
Overlooking the Scene, Angel couldn’t help but smile.
Unexpectedly, in the end, it wasn’t Gloria who sought out the tree man; instead, it took the initiative to find her.
Could this be considered a kind of fate?
“Should I remind Gloria?” Angel pondered in silence.
Ultimately, Angel chose not to remind Gloria. She was currently immersed in the joy of creation, and her pace was accelerating, clearly entering a period of inspiration explosion.
Angel didn’t want to interrupt her flow of inspiration. In fact, if the tree man approached too quickly, he was even prepared to subtly hinder it.
With Gloria temporarily safe, Angel shifted his attention back to Initial Heart City.
Initial Heart City remained peaceful, the only difference from before being that the city gates had begun to open conditionally. A portion of the residents, granted special permission, started to cultivate vegetables and establish the first literal farms and orchards around Initial Heart City.
The gifts from the Dream Plant Fairies were rapidly changing the traditional structure of Initial Heart City. Fresh vegetables and fruits had become a daily luxury for the residents of the Dream Realm.
Angel believed that, in the future, as the Layer of Rhythmic Beat gave birth to more creatures of the Dream Realm, even meat might become a staple on their dining tables.
Angel’s gaze slowly moved from outside the city to its interior.
Perhaps due to the infusion of real-world powers, the bodies of the Dream Realm’s residents were no longer as invulnerable to injury and illness as before. By piercing this layer of unreality, the utopian dream world, too, became unpredictable due to the sudden intrusion of worldly human nature.
From what Angel observed, small cliques, disputes, brawls, and resistance had already begun to emerge. Although these were only a minority, the seeds of realism were already showing.
However, this was also within Angel’s expectations. The closer one gets to reality, the more realistic it becomes.
Human nature is not so easily manipulated.
Unless from the beginning, they had brainwashed and guided the residents of Initial Heart City, embedding anti-intellectualism deeply into their thought processes, then they might have maintained a superficial utopia.
But this was not what Angel desired. Keeping these residents served both as an experiment and as a hope for Jon to integrate into normal life.
The current situation actually aligned more closely with Angel’s vision of the real world.
Of course, before a complete class division and opposition emerged, this place, in the eyes of outsiders, still seemed very much like “paradise.”
Although occasional flaws were visible, they were minor issues that could be ignored as long as they were out of sight. With the governance of city lord Marilyn, the overall atmosphere remained quite positive.
Thinking this, Angel continued to survey the landscape within the city.
In Ocean Theatre, Alda was on stage, passionately playing the piano piece —Ode to the Fountain—, without Jon by his side. Yet, Alda’s performance was even more fervent than when Jon was present. The reason for this was the gaze of several children from below the stage, looking up at Alda with eyes filled with longing and admiration.
Stimulated by the awe-inspiring gazes of his peers, Alda’s performance astonishingly surpassed his previous levels.
Behind the theater, there was a small house where several Dream Plant Fairies were peering through the window into the room. At first glance, the room seemed empty, but upon closer inspection, one could discern several tiny people, not much larger than a finger, standing on a desk, passionately discussing.
These tiny individuals were Kudou and his companions, engaged in discussions about the internal affairs of the Tree Group development team.
They were deliberating on which features to include in the update from version 0.8 to version 1.0 of the Tree Group.
Minor updates, such as patching some previous bugs, were indicated by decimal version numbers. In contrast, whole number updates required the introduction of innovative features. At this moment, they were deciding which features to incorporate into version 1.0.
Since they were mostly exchanging brief codes, Angel found it somewhat confusing to follow, but was nonetheless satisfied to witness this proactive aspect.
Skipping over Ocean Theatre, Angel continued to wander through the city.
The Treehouse Bar, due to the establishment of a food supply system, decided to open a restaurant and was closed for renovation and expansion; Raphaella was practicing singing in the square, attracting a considerable audience; the patrol guards, clad in knightly armor, marched over the cobblestone roads, their steps echoing with a clank…
At least on the surface, everything seemed orderly, except for a grumbling old man with gray hair, who disrupted the harmonious atmosphere.
This gray-haired old man was Nisi, retreating from the library.
He was holding a stack of thick documents and had a gray cloth bag tied around his waist, containing hard stone tablets.
“How come the magic around here suddenly vanished? I had barely managed to establish an energy network, and it’s ruined again. I was so close to replenishing another node!”
“It must be Sanders’ doing! Damn it, he can’t stand to see me make a breakthrough!”
“Fortunately, Liana said there’s still magic on their side.”
“What was that term Jon mentioned in the Tree Group…? Let me think, headline! Yes, I’m going to make headline news!”
“Hehe, once I find the node in the Qwest World, the headline will definitely be mine. Then, the entire Wizarding World’s attention will be on me, surely making that old geezer jealous.”
Despite Nisi’s seemingly mad ranting and loud cursing, due to his status, the nearby patrol guards didn’t intervene but simply watched him as he continued his tirade towards Azure Tower.
Atop the tower, he boarded an airship with the Sin Hunter Team and left Initial Heart City.
Angel glanced in the direction of their departure, presumably towards the New City.
It was understandable; with the complete absence of virtual magic near Initial Heart City, Nisi’s research couldn’t proceed, forcing him to move to the New City.
This isn’t bad at all; mortals should return to the mortal realm, and wizards are better off living in their own cities.
Due to Nisi’s influence, Angel also visited the library, expecting Jon to be there organizing books as usual, but the outcome was slightly unexpected.
Jon was indeed in the library, but he wasn’t organizing books. Instead, he was in the garden, holding a homemade magnifying glass, studying a plant.
Muttering to himself, his notebook was filled with a plethora of Chinese characters, English symbols, and some annotations of his own.
Clearly, Jon was researching plants.
Watching this scene, Angel felt as if he was seeing a younger Jon studying plants in the small garden outside the stilt house.
The appearance of the Dream Plant Fairy allowed Jon, once a botanist, to finally return to his original profession.
This was also a good thing.
Without disturbing Jon, Angel shifted his gaze to the outskirts of Initial Heart City.
This place was more than a thousand kilometers away from Initial Heart City. Unlike the calm and harmony of Initial Heart City, there was a solemn atmosphere here.
In a temporary camp, nearly a hundred people were gathered in a meeting room, listening to a man with two heads speak.
“These Sinful Monsters have entered the early stages of their development, and the frequency of mosquito-type beasts is increasing. To contain them, we need more demon hunters with the ability to fly.”
“Currently, in the laboratory, we have three Sinful Monsters with the ability to fly that can be integrated freely: the Tentacle Butterfly, the Suction Cup Serpent Eagle, and the Chrysanthemum Stone Star Chain. Is there anyone willing to try?”
After a moment of silence, dozens of people stood up.
The man with two heads had a flash of relief in his eyes and silently praised: “For Initial Heart. You all are brave.”
At that moment, outside the meeting room, a man fully covered in knight armor, along with a team of ten, walked in. Their bodies were stained with a large amount of pink blood and many still-moving pieces of flesh.
These were remnants of the Sinful Monsters from the nearby pink nest.
The leading knight in armor took off his helmet, revealing a face familiar to everyone.
“Knight Sabel!”
After a murmur, the two-headed man approached: “Captain, what’s the situation outside now?”
Knight Sabel sighed deeply, without saying a word, but everyone already understood the urgency of the situation.
Seeing everyone’s faces tinged with despondency, Knight Sabel pondered for a moment before offering words of comfort, “Don’t worry, I’ve just received news that Young Master Tyson is on his way here.”
“Really?” “That’s great, with Young Master Tyson here, we can surely suppress the Sinful Monsters in this area!”
The previous gloom was dispelled with a single sentence.
Only Knight Sabel quietly masked the worry in his eyes. Young Master Tyson was indeed coming, but… from what he could discern from Young Master Tyson’s words, there was an implication of something more.
The last incident with the Sin Fog was controlled with the intervention of a certain entity, who even established a laboratory for the research of Sinful Monsters.
But this time, it seemed that entity had not intervened.
Was it a test of the demon hunters’ capabilities?
Could Young Master Tyson alone truly withstand the overwhelming Sinful Monsters outside?
“Alright, quiet down. Young Master Tyson is coming, and if he sees you all in such uproar, he’ll surely scold you for lacking discipline. Silence!”
“For the initial heart.” The crowd chanted the slogan.
Seeing the crowd quiet down, the two-headed man approached Knight Sabel, “Captain, did anyone get hurt during your outing this time?”
At this, a clear concern flashed in Knight Sabel’s eyes, “Yes, Ollie, she…”
“Ollie is in trouble?” Urgency flickered in the two-headed man’s eyes.
Before Sabel could reply, the conference room door was pushed open, and a petite woman walked in, casting an annoyed glance at the two-headed man, “I’m fine, don’t jinx me.”
“Ollie!” The two-headed man sighed in relief upon seeing her unharmed.
Knight Sabel looked at Ollie with confusion. When they had sent Ollie to the medical area, she had a large hole in her stomach. How did she appear unscathed so shortly after?
“Ollie, are you really alright?” Sabel asked with some concern.
Ollie nodded, giving Sabel a puzzled look, “I’m fine. The medical area was surprisingly efficient today.”
Although Sabel was puzzled, seeing Ollie indeed looked fine, he didn’t inquire further, deciding to check the medical area after the meeting to understand the situation.
Meanwhile, in the medical area, a person dressed in a doctor’s white coat and mask, covering most of their face, smiled slightly towards the direction of the conference room. Their professional robe disappeared in an instant, revealing a tall figure.
It was Angel.
Naturally, it was Angel who had healed Ollie’s injuries.
Despite everything, Ollie hailed from the Pat Estate and was once his personal maid. Angel, though intent on using the newly emerged Sin Fog to train the Sin Hunter Team’s abilities, wasn’t heartless enough to ignore Ollie’s severe injuries.
The need for the Sin Hunter Team to train was real, but so were his feelings for Ollie; these two aspects were not in conflict.
However, even though he saved Ollie, he had no plans to reveal himself.
Ollie had joined the Sin Hunter Team without telling Angel, and he didn’t want to make the situation awkward by appearing. Nevertheless, purely from the perspective of Ollie’s choice, Angel was definitely supportive of her.
After leaving the medical area, Angel glanced at the distant mountains shrouded in pink fog, then vanished from sight.
…
When Angel reappeared, he was in a dense forest beside a shallow stream.
At first glance, there seemed to be no life around, but the ground was trembling slightly, with a frequency that grew stronger and stronger.
It was as if a giant was stepping towards his location.
The reality was somewhat similar, but it wasn’t a giant; it was a tree man who had come from near the Mother Tree, bearing golden fruits.
This tree man usually stayed close to the Mother Tree, and this was its first time venturing out.
Angel had thought, based on usual circumstances, that tree man was generally slow and wouldn’t disturb Gloria’s creations. However, to his surprise, this tree man moved faster than he had imagined.
In a short time, it had crossed hundreds of kilometers.
From near the Mother Tree, it had come to this forest. Now, it was only a dozen kilometers away from Gloria’s location.
To prevent it from disturbing Gloria, Angel had no choice but to intercept it here first.
However, Angel had no intention of appearing in person.
Instead, he closed his eyes and connected his consciousness to the Power Tree, manipulating the Layer of Rhythmic Beat. Through the method of “autopilot,” leveraging the innate instincts of the native will, he began to frenetically birth various creatures of the Dream Realm.
Fungi, mayflies, floating jellyfish, gnawing little maggots…
They kept appearing around Angel, and upon their arrival, Angel did not restrict them, allowing them to either dive into the water, burrow into the earth, or float in the air.
When a large number of Dream Realm creatures appeared nearby, the silent forest visibly quickened its pace towards liveliness.
The tree man’s original target was the insects near Gloria’s location.
But due to the sudden appearance of these strange creatures, it finally slowed its steps.
As the tree man began to study these Dream Realm creatures, Angel also breathed a sigh of relief. However, Angel’s relief was short-lived when he noticed a slight hiccup on Gloria’s end.
Gloria, who had been busily creating bizarre insects, suddenly lifted her head.
She sniffed in the direction of the tree man.
Her previously dim eyes instantly brightened, as if shooting out beams of golden light.
Gloria stood up from the ground, intoxicatedly sniffing the air and charging towards the direction of the tree man.
Chapter 2309 Prohibition <TOC> Chapter 2311 Unusual Development