Chapter 423 Gathering <TOC> Chapter 425 Leaving Black Castle
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“I will go.” Sanders didn’t answer whether Angel would go or not, but simply stated that he himself would go.
Flora sighed: “Perhaps he’s already dead.”
Sanders didn’t respond, but Liana, who stood next to Flora, leaned in and asked: “Angel is dead?”
“Just missing,” Sanders looked at Liana.
Flora interjected: “Indeed, he’s missing. He fell into an unknown dimensional passage, oh, and he doesn’t have any spatial coordinates.”
Hearing that Angel had fallen into a dimensional passage, Liana clicked her tongue: “I remember he just joined the Savage Grottoes last year, right? According to the timeline, he should only be a first-level apprentice now.”
A first-level apprentice, trapped in an unknown dimensional passage without spatial coordinates, basically had only one path to death.
Liana smiled at Sanders: “Now I feel that accepting your request to teach your apprentice alchemy for hundreds of hours is a good choice.”
Since he was already dead, it was certainly a good choice.
However, Sanders coldly replied to Liana’s words: “It’s fine if you accept it willingly; at least I don’t need to take the initiative.”
“Teaching a dead person alchemy, not to mention a hundred hours, even a thousand hours would be fine,” Liana said nonchalantly.
“I’ll remember your words,” Sanders paused: “Also, he’s just missing.”
Liana didn’t argue with Sanders any further. Instead, Flora asked: “Is mentor so sure that Angel is still alive?”
“If he’s dead, he’s not worthy of being my apprentice.”
Sanders’ logic was touching, probably only Flora could understand his sudden train of thought.
Flora nodded: “I understand.”
Sanders looked at her: “You don’t seem to want to see him alive?”
Flora shook her head and said softly: “No, I’m also looking forward to Angel coming back soon. I heard that his alchemy is quite good, and our faction is really in need of an alchemist. I’d also like to ask him to craft some things for me…”
Sanders quietly watched her, and after a long while, the corner of his mouth curled up. He didn’t say anything and ended the conversation.
Liana leaned closer to Flora, wanting to say something. But before she could speak, a ripple suddenly appeared in the Mirrow World’s sky. Accompanied by a sharp laughter that resonated with the nasal cavity, a sexy woman wearing a crystal blue long dress slowly appeared before everyone.
Liana wisely closed her mouth, or rather, even if she didn’t, she wouldn’t be able to speak at this moment. Rhine Mute’s aura was fully unleashed, and the atmosphere of silence spread throughout the entire square. Apart from a few wizards, everyone was suppressed by this aura, unable to move or speak.
“Samantha…” Rhine’s face showed a hint of suppressed excitement: “It’s been a century since we last met, and I didn’t expect you to have taken this step.”
Samantha swayed her body, her black waterfall hair cascading over her chest, her crystal blue cracked lips and long blue dress making her appear both cold and enchanting.
Samantha glanced at Rhine and snorted coldly: “Phantom Master is my role model; since he has taken this step, I naturally cannot lag too far behind.”
“However, compared to my transformation, dear father, your change is even greater. You have aged quite a bit since the time you abandoned me.” Samantha’s cold gaze and slightly mocking tone were like sharp, cold knives stabbing into Rhine’s chest.
“With your strength, maintaining your appearance shouldn’t be a problem, right?” Samantha moved gracefully, circling Rhine for two steps before stopping in front of Sanders, gently poking his chest with her crystal blue fingernail: “Could it be that you’ve also learned from this stinking man Sanders, allowing time to erode your face? Or is it because you abandoned me last time, and…”
Before Samantha could finish her charade, Sanders pushed her away, expressionless: “I’m not interested in broken glass.”
Samantha stumbled, turned her head to look at Sanders, and her eyes flashed maliciously.
Sanders’ push had completely shattered the atmosphere she had created. She originally intended to seize the initiative in front of her former father, but she miscalculated one troublemaker.
“Is this how you treat an old friend you haven’t seen for a long time?” Samantha flicked her black hair, her face gloomy.
“Disgusting as always.” Sanders pressed down his hat, looking at Rhine Mute in front of him: “Rhine, let’s get down to business. I have things to do and must leave.”
Rhine Mute sighed, knowing Sanders’ temperament. His willingness to give face by attending was already the biggest concession. He looked at Samantha with a hint of apology: “Let’s begin then.”
In response to her “former” father’s apologetic gaze, Samantha remained expressionless and coldly jabbed: “Just pretending.”
Having said that, Samantha turned to Sanders: “Mentor has been waiting for your Gravity Garden for a long time. If you keep delaying, it will make my mentor very angry. This time, you must leave with me no matter what!”
Sanders glanced at her indifferently: “Mengke is already fully prepared and not in a hurry. Besides, I’m just going to sell some exotic creatures; it’s not a big deal.”
Samantha fell silent for a while: “Then you tell me, where are you going and when are you planning to come to the Abyss? Otherwise, if I can’t find you, I won’t be able to report to my mentor.”
Sanders replied: “Sky Mechanical City. As for when I’ll go to the Abyss, I can’t say for sure.”
Samantha wanted to say something else, but Rhine suddenly said: “The Living Soul Garden is open, Samantha, come in.”
In the center of the Tree Spirit Plaza, a crack appeared, and from within, the sound of birdsong and the fragrance of flowers seemed to emerge.
Samantha glared at Sanders before stepping into the place she was not unfamiliar with but hadn’t visited in a hundred years… the Living Soul Garden.
As Samantha entered, Rhine followed. Before entering, Rhine turned to the others and said: “Sanders, come with me. The rest of you, guard the important areas of the garden.”
Sanders nodded and followed Rhine into the crack.
As the three figures disappeared, the silent atmosphere surrounding everyone slowly dissipated. Liana stretched lazily, her head resting on Flora’s fragrant shoulder, and said in a soft voice: “You see, your mentor is like a stubborn rock that won’t open up. Clearly, Samantha was already trying to show goodwill to him, but he had no response at all… I remember a hundred years ago when Samantha was still in the Savage Grottoes, their relationship was quite good. I thought they would end up together, but they drifted apart.”
“But their personal experiences were different. Samantha followed Mengke, and now she has advanced to a second-level wizard and entered the path of true knowledge. Her future is limitless.”
After listening to Liana’s words, Flora let out her signature mysterious laugh: “You’re wrong. He’s not clueless; he sees more clearly than anyone.”
“However, they pursue different things. Even if he wants a partner, he will choose someone who can keep up with him and make progress together on the path of truth… Samantha is not yet qualified.”
While they were chatting, high above Tree Spirit Court, on the edge of a leaf of the Eternal Tree, a white-robed youth watched the crack in the center of the plaza from a distance, his eyes filled with irrepressible excitement.
“Finally, it has begun.” His voice trailed off with a strange upward inflection, as if there were countless unspoken words swallowed down.
The white-robed youth closed his eyes, and a series of figures flashed through his mind.
When he opened his eyes again, a trail of bloody tears had fallen. He clenched a long object with a faint bloody aura in his hand, then silently turned and walked toward Tree Spirit Hall…
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The scene returns to the Wizarding World.
In the Ice Cavern on the fifth floor underground of Black Castle in the Inner World.
Angel spent a day listing all the forward-looking plans, calculated data, and exterior designs.
He ultimately chose to craft a feather-shaped earring.
He only planned to inscribe defensive runes on the earring and arrange the illusion nodes inside through microscopic illusions. The activation source would be the user’s magic.
In theory, this should be an easy crafting process, and the final product would barely qualify as entry-level.
But when Angel actually started crafting, he found that the difficulty was far from what he had imagined. It was even more challenging than when he crafted the “Gondola”!
If it were simply an illusion, he estimated he would have already crafted it, and even crafting multiple ones would not be a problem. However, Gloria’s request added “touch and perception,” meaning he had to integrate the nightmare illusions into the alchemy.
When he crafted “Journey to the Heavens,” it was more about the illusion, and although he could make the illusion more infectious by manipulating emotions and attaching memories, the clouds were not real clouds, and the floating lands in the sky were not real lands.
What he needed to do now was to go even further than when crafting the “Journey to the Heavens.” Not only did he need to imbue the item with infectious properties, but he also needed to add a tangible quality.
Angel tried many experiments but was unable to truly incorporate the illusion into his alchemy.
Perhaps it was the nature of the illusion that it couldn’t be integrated into alchemy? Angel pondered this for a long time but could never find the answer. There were no related records in —Mystery of the Nightmare Domain—, as both Sanders and Flora lacked alchemical talent and could not provide the corresponding data.
Angel felt that his brain was completely tied in knots. It was not difficult to create an illusory environment with the corresponding aura of nightmare, and even providing magic for an extended period could maintain the illusion for a long time, just like the one set up for Hana.
However, it was impossible to truly solidify it into an item, readily available for use and activation at any time.
He had tried to let the nightmare aura hover around the crafted feather earrings.
The first time the illusion was activated, it could indeed achieve a tactile sensation, and as long as magic was continuously supplied, the illusion could last for a long time, even years without any problem.
However, once the illusion was closed, the nightmare aura would completely disappear when trying to activate it for the second time. Toby in the illusion could only be seen, not touched.
Regardless of whether Angel increased the quantity of the nightmare aura or modified the illusionary nodes, he ultimately could not find a perfect solution.
As time passed day by day, Angel made no progress and eventually had to temporarily give up integrating the nightmare aura.
Chapter 423 Gathering <TOC> Chapter 425 Leaving Black Castle