Chapter 2329 Overlook the Glass Surface <TOC> Chapter 2331 Laws of Reflection
Translator: SumTLMan
Upon witnessing the scene outside the window, Little Seim couldn’t help but let out a wry smile.
Indeed, it was too good to be true.
The ghost of the farm owner had deliberately left him aside, undoubtedly having a backup plan in place, making the notion of an easy escape virtually impossible.
Even with the knowledge that escape was a difficult feat, Little Seim found it unthinkable to just sit back and await his doom.
After some thought, Little Seim dipped his finger in his own blood and drew an ‘o’ on the table next to him, then he limped towards another room.
He had been in this room before. The layout of the new room was identical to the previous one, even the damaged areas were exactly the same, only mirrored. Eagerly, Little Seim looked at the table and saw a fresh, red ‘o’.
The blood was still wet, exactly as he had drawn earlier.
He had drawn it in the adjacent room, so why was the symbol present in this new room?
Was it an illusion created by the Ghostly Obfuscation? Could illusions Synchronize?
How could he break this spell?
Little Seim furrowed his brows, unable to think of a solution.
While pondering, he began to hear faint sounds, as if someone was speaking or the muffled grunts of combat. Little Seim tried to trace the origin of these sounds but found it impossible.
The whispers were directly in his ear, incessant yet without a source.
After listening carefully for a while, Little Seim decided to ignore them. The ethereal voices offered no help to his current predicament. At the moment, finding a way to leave was of utmost importance.
Ignoring external distractions, Little Seim continued to observe the two rooms, which were mirror images of each other.
He refrained from jumping out the window to other rooms, feeling that the real room must be among the two he was in. Until concrete evidence suggested there was no way out, he preferred to search these two rooms first.
After several experiments between the two rooms, he concluded that aside from the mirror reversal, any interaction with objects would synchronously affect the physical world. For instance, the ‘o’ he had drawn, or when he moved a chair in the left room, the chair in the right room would levitate and move to the corresponding coordinates. Moving a lamp in the right room would cause the lamp in the left room to move as well.
This began to confuse him about the orientation of space.
Initially, he thought the room on the left was real and the mirrored room on the right was false. However, as he moved back and forth between the rooms, the spatial vectors of up, down, left, and right continuously bewildered his brain, to the point where he could no longer distinguish between the left and right rooms. Especially when any interaction in either room resulted in simultaneous changes, this spatial confusion intensified.
When Little Seim started to doubt his own sense of direction and spatial awareness, he realized he couldn’t continue like this any longer.
Little Seim paused at the junction of two rooms, beginning to contemplate a strategy.
He no longer pondered which room was real and which was fake. Instead, he thought about how to break this stalemate.
As time ticked away, after what seemed like an eternity, Little Seim opened his eyes, having thought of a plan, yet he hesitated to implement it.
After all, it was a do-or-die decision.
While Little Seim was hesitating, suddenly, footsteps sounded in his ears.
He didn’t know whose footsteps they were, nor from where they came, only that they were getting closer, as if they would arrive by his side at any moment.
He understood he could wait no longer.
Little Seim’s gaze became resolute. He looked around, unable to distinguish a sense of space or direction anymore, and arbitrarily chose a room to enter.
Reaching the bookshelf, Little Seim stretched his hand upwards, touching a lit oil lamp hanging above the bookshelf.
Then, he opened the lampshade.
Swallowing, Little Seim took a deep breath and poured the lamp oil over the bookshelf in front of him. The moment the burning wick touched the moistened paper, a small flame instantly ignited.
The entire wall was filled with bookshelves, packed with bound volumes of pulp paper. They acted as natural accelerants, and the flames spread rapidly. In the blink of an eye, the room was engulfed in a roaring fire…
This was his do-or-die choice. Since the physical touch affected both rooms simultaneously, what kind of change would this alteration in the energy realm bring about?
After igniting the fire, Little Seim stepped back a few paces, looking towards the other room, curious to see if it too had caught fire.
Then, he saw a glimmer of orange-red light.
The flames were indeed reflected in the room opposite, but strangely, the fire there seemed a bit brighter.
As Little Seim observed the flames burning in the opposite room, he felt a “whooshing” sound behind him and turned around abruptly.
Somehow, the ghost of the farm owner had appeared behind him, looking somewhat frantic, with blood-red eyes fiercely staring at Little Seim.
In that instant Little Seim turned, the ghost of the farm owner lunged at him like a madman.
With Little Seim’s injuries not yet healed, he was completely unable to dodge the attack, only able to watch as the sharp, pitch-black claws reached for his throat.
Just as Little Seim felt the chill piercing his throat, a sudden force from behind yanked him away forcefully.
After a moment of dizziness, Little Seim lifted his head to see, only to find that not just one, but six figures had appeared before him… They were clad in wizard robes emblazoned with the emblem of the Silver Heron Royal Family.
Their identities were unmistakable; they were members of the Silver Heron Royal Wizard Group.
“We’ve finally caught you…”
“In our presence, think not of harming another!”
“Fear not, with us here, he shall not have the chance to harm you again.” An elderly wizard, looking very kind, turned back and reassured Little Seim with his gaze.
However, before Little Seim could respond, another voice chimed in.
“Give it a rest, if it weren’t for Little Seim, you’d still be trapped in the mirror space, unable to escape. Now you’re acting all righteous.”
The familiar voice, laced with a hint of sarcasm, brightened Little Seim’s eyes.
He looked up to see Freud, who had appeared in the room at some unknown time, standing by the window.
After making a sarcastic remark at the Silver Heron Royal Wizard Group, Freud’s gaze then shifted to the raging fire beside him.
“Starting a fire in the house so carelessly, what folly. Aren’t you afraid of burning yourself to ashes?… However, you’ve accidentally burned the mirror-bound avatar of that entity.”
Freud slowly approached, “Alright, leave the rest to me.”
As soon as Freud finished speaking, Little Seim felt himself enveloped by a gentle force, then rushed through the raging flames towards the window.
By the time Little Seim regained his senses, he was already outside Star Lake Castle, standing beside him were Wizard Drew and…
“Lord Angel?!” Despite the pain all over his body and the dryness in his throat from the flames, Little Seim couldn’t help but exclaim at the identity of the newcomer.
Angel nodded slightly at Little Seim, with a hint of approval in his eyes.
Little Seim wanted to say more, but the Drew had already come over and squatted beside him: “You’re severely injured, don’t talk, let me help you recover.”
The Drew looked at Little Seim, who was covered in blood and with his chest caved in, murmuring with a pained expression, “Thank goodness it’s just severe injuries and not missing limbs…”
Green light, along with the rich energy of life, emanated from Drew’s hands, covering Little Seim’s entire body.
After Little Seim’s injuries had almost stabilized, Drew finally breathed a sigh of relief, “The surface wounds are almost healed. Rest for a while and recuperate slowly. You should be able to recover to your previous level in at most a month.”
Little Seim also felt much better all over. Although the injured areas were painful and itchy, this reassured him a lot because those areas had been completely numb before.
“Thank you, Grandpa Drew.”
Facing Little Seim’s sincere thanks, Drew felt somewhat uncomfortable. This time, the Silver Heron Royal Wizard Group had almost deployed in full force, yet they still failed to stop the ghost of the farm owner, and in the end, the ghost even reached the castle.
Ultimately, Little Seim was rescued not with the help of the Silver Heron Royal Wizard Group.
Even if Drew was usually thick-skinned, he felt somewhat embarrassed at this time.
Not to mention, Angel was watching from the side.
“I actually didn’t do much; you don’t need to thank me. If anyone should say sorry, it’s me,” Drew quickly said, “This time it was our negligence. Alas… you had already noticed something was wrong and asked us to inspect the house. Because we didn’t take your opinion seriously enough, it ended up like this.”
Drew expressed his apologies to Little Seim, which made Little Seim feel somewhat uncomfortable in turn.
“Regardless, Grandpa Drew treated my injuries, so I should thank you,” Little Seim said earnestly.
After a moment of silence, Little Seim looked towards the third floor of the castle.
Although he had already left there, he was still very concerned about the situation in the room at that time.
From here, it was hard to see anything clearly, only vaguely noticing smoke continuously billowing out from the windows on the third floor.
“That smoke is…”
Angel glanced at Little Seim, “The fire you set, remember?”
Little Seim’s face turned red, “No, I just… I was just trying to see if the release of energy could synchronize to different rooms…”
Before he could finish, Little Seim seemed to remember he hadn’t explained the situation at that time and quickly said, “What I mean is, there were two identical rooms at that time. Whatever I did in one room would…”
Before Little Seim could finish, Angel said, “I know, I saw it.”
Little Seim was stunned for a moment, then realized, Lord Pat was a formal wizard, how could he not know the situation in the room.
“Everything you did afterwards, I saw it all, including you drawing circles with blood in both rooms for the experiment, and… setting the fire,” Angel said, smiling slightly, “It was a good idea, but next time before you make a decision, you might want to think about an exit strategy. You set a fire but didn’t go to the window; instead, you ran inside. Weren’t you afraid of being burned to death?”
Little Seim lowered his head in embarrassment.
“Overall, you did quite well,” Angel patted Little Seim on the shoulder, “Though setting a fire was merely an experiment for you, this experiment fortuitously shattered one of the Mirror Wraith’s mirror avatars and freed several apprentices trapped within the Death Mirror Images. Even if a wizard apprentice had gone in, their performance might not have been any better than yours.”
Angel was profoundly astonished by Little Seim’s actions.
He didn’t rush to save Little Seim immediately because he was confident that Little Seim wouldn’t die. He planned to continue observing the Death Mirror Image created by the Mirror Wraith before rescuing Little Seim.
Unexpectedly, Little Seim performed even better than he had imagined.
Chapter 2329 Overlook the Glass Surface <TOC> Chapter 2331 Laws of Reflection